The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, October 12, 1927, Image 2

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    THE BATTALION
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J. W. PAYNE
Optometrist and
Optician.
Eyes Examined
Glasses Fitted
Masonic Bldg.
BRYAN, TEXAS
Phone 35
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The
New York Cafe
solicits the patronage of old and
new students.
BRYAN, TEXAS
Phone 460
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AGGIELAND SHOE SHOP
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❖ W. B. CLINE, M. D. *
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! HOLMES BROS. I
Bryan’s Popular
CONFECTIONERY
STORE
Where the Boys Get the
Best Malted Milks on Earth
Come to See Us
Agency for King’s and
Whitman’s Candies
A Full Line of
Drugs, Magazines, Candy
PLATE LUNCHES
and Cold Drinks
REED & POWERS
Confectionery and Drugs
WHY ROOM-MATES GO CRAZY
How many times have you been
called from an enthralling pursuit of
the coulomb or from perfect concen
tration on a letter to that girl by
weird and uncouth noises from the
roomit’s side of your home? In turn,
how many times have you dashed in
and, finding him humped over his
slide-rule or his bugology, thumped
him on the back until he was ready
to get up and give battle?
Everyone has m«re or less compas
sion for dumb animals—why not let
it extend to the roomit? Believe it
or not, there is a case on record here
at A. & M. of a man who intercepted
a letter from his roommate’s sweet
heart then watched him grow grey
with worry and grind his teeth away
to the gums before he finally waked
him up one morning before reveille
and gave him the letter. Feature
that if you can—trying to appreciate
the romance of your one and only in
the cold grey dawn, with a dark green
taste in your mouth!
What this student body needs is a
“Be Kind To Room-mates Week.”
When, instead of refusing to speak
to your old lady for mixing up the
tooth brushes, you’d compliment him
on his taste. Can you imagine such
a state? All the little homes in Ag-
gieland would be brimming over with
loving consideration. There would be
no more arguments about who bought
the last bar of soap or who is wear
ing whose clothes.
Can you imagine it? Well neither
can we, but it’s a beautiful thought
all the same!
THE INSTRUCTOR
You fellows here at college are so
used to your advantages that they
(the advantages) are sometimes lost
sight of. Just to promote a general
sense of thankfulness and gratitude
on your part and gWe expression to
our gratitude in general I am going
to show one particular blessing that
I believe so far has escaped notice
by the students if not by the blessees
themselves.
In some schools there is a tendency
for the students and the professors to
become widely separated into classes
that have nothing whatever to do
with each other. It is almost a rigid
caste system. So rigid in fact that
there is no possibility of a former
student becoming an instructor un
less he has served an apprenticeship
at some other sschool after gradua
tion. The instructors avoid all un
necessary intercourse with the stu
dents and will “bust” a student quick
er for familiarity than anything else.
They also regard the students as their
game, that is that the student was
sent there for the express purpose
of being molded according to the
morals and customs of the particular
pedant that he is under. There is no
feeling of comradeship in the better
ing of the school’s scholastic stand
ing but they prefer to regard each
student as having come there with
the malicious intent to wreck the
scholastic standing both by action
and example.
The instructor serves also as a kind
of petty spy that keeps the authori
ties that do not come in daily con
tact with them, informed as to what
the students are doing that they may
be reprimanded for.
Therefore I want to say that you
here at A. & M. should be particu
larly thankful that you have no in
structors; of that kind here.
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FOR THE FRIENDS FAR AWAY, FOR THE FOLKS
BACK AT HOME—
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Ask us about it.
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Exchange Bldg.
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burning the
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smoke
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Bryan, Texas
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Welcomes all Old Boys Back to Aggieland and Extends the f
Freshmen a Cordial Welcome
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