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THE BATTALION
THE BZHTALIOM
Published every Wednesday night by the Students’ Association of the Agricultural and
Mechanical College of Texas.
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his father’s farm and three because' of financial conditions.
This may or may not add to the statement that it pays to attend Sunday
School.
There seems to be a general trend toward more religious activity on the
part of The students this year. It is here for us, we should make the most
of it. B. D. MUZZY, Jr.
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Contrary to the usual custom this article) is not on our conduct at the
picture show, the food we get m the mess hall, or cumpulsory chapel but
about something of more vital importance at the present to the Longhorn
Staff. Why do we wait until the last minute before we go ahead and do
that which must be done anyway? It is just as easy to have our pictures
made now as later on becase we are certainly not likely to get any better
looking by waiting or to improve with age as wine does. Are you afraid
to face the facts? There’s one consolation—you have to look at it only
when you choose the proofs and others have to look at it all the time; but
maybe they want to, so don’t deny them that privilege and I don’t know of
anyone who would rather see them than Bradford, the Editor of the Long
horn.
The Longhorn is a big job and takes lots of time and work, so it is as little
as we can do to help them out by attending to this at once. Let’s don’t let
the Editor and Business Manager be going around here with long faces and
worried looks thereby spoiling a perfectly good disposition. What more can
you want ? Gerdes has offered to lend anyone the money to have the picture
made with and it can be paid back when you get it. Break down and go face
the camera, it isn’t so bad. Ask Leo if it is.
BUSINESS STAFF
L. N. BOURLAND Business Manager
M. E. DIETERT Assistant Business Manager
J. E. FONTAINE Circulation Manager
CULTURE TO THE ENGINEER
A. & M. College is an engineering institution, made so by those who saw
the need for such an institution in this and other states. As students here,
we must necessarily be more attentive to the engineering subjects than any
others. We are required, by each department that we are under to work al
most whole-heartedly in the interest of our course. To be sure, the situation
demands that most of our time be spent in the interest of the branch of
study that we may specialize in, but by no means requires all of our time.
Some attitudes seem to he that we are acquiring technical knowledge and
training and nothing more.
Anyone who is familiar with the general habits and customs here will ad
mit this to be true. Only a very small percentage of the student body takes
the time to develop the cultural side of their lives. It is usually conceded as
unnecessary. What use is a cultural education to an engineer? That can
be acquired after graduation. And thus it goes from year to year, each man
promising himself that he will start reading and being refined as soon as
he graduates.
The fallacy in this sort of reasoning is obvious. In no place has anyone
a better opportunity to spend idle hours to a better advantage than here.
In the library are all types of books for all types of readers and by most
of the authors of any repute. Surely, in all of the books in the library there
are some that are interesting to everybody. Time after time we hear men
stress the importance of cultivating that part of the education outside of the
purely technical class. Old men, who have been out of here several years have
realized their mistakes, and have urged us in every possible way and on
every possible occasion to take advantage of our opportunity along these
lines. If we will just get a book occasionally and substitute reading it in
place of a few otherwise wasted hours, it is certain that we will derive some
benefit from it, and while this will not in itself make us cultured, it will
assist materially in doing so.
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RELIGION ON THE A. AND M. COLLEGE CAMPUS
“Man by nature is a religious animal.” This is true in every place where
man is found. He may have one God or many gods but he always has some
form of religious worship. We at A. and M. College are not in any way
different from other men concerning religion.
Let us consider some of the progress that has been made in religious ac
tivity on our campus.
About eight years ago the religious work on the campus was lacking in
enthusiasm and vitality. A small union Sunday School was being held in
Guion Hall each Sunday morning before the chapel service. About this time
the different denominations began to see an opening to a field which was
fertile, and began placing student pastors in charge of their respective
flocks. Today you are able to find a normal church service in most any de
nomination meeting from Sunday to Sunday on or near the campus. One
denomination has built a beautiful little chapel building just north of the
campus, and several others own property and intend to construct church
buildings in the near future.
The writer was interested in two items that appeared in a recent issue of
the Battalion and he believes that they will bear repeating. One from Wil
liam E. Gladstone, “The Sunday School is the world’s greatest institution
for popularizing the world’s greatest book”, the other from the late John
Wanamaker, “I know of no other work that begins to compare in results
with that attained by the Sunday School.” The latter statement may be
brought closer home according to some recent statistics compiled from the
records of one of the denominations represented on the campus. Last year
eighty-eight members of this denomination resigned from the college. Only
five of this number were regular attendants at Sunday School. Out of the
five, one resigned on account of bad health, one was called home to care for
Mrs. Snapper: “Every time you
see a pretty girl you forget you’re
married.”
Mr. Snapper: “You’re wrong, dear.
Nothing brings home the fact with
so much force.”
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Ben: The race is not always to the
swift.
Hen: Yes, but it goes to them so
often that it makes it mighty discour
aging to the slow fellows.
* * *
She—And you can get girl figures
in any shape?
College Cartoonist—Sure.
She—On paper?
C. C.—Well—that is more difficult.
* * *
“Marie and I agreed that after
we were married I should decide all
major questions, and she would de
cide the minor ones.”
“How has it worked out?”
“We have been married three years,
and I am grateful to say there hav*
been no major questions.”
* * *
Professor: “Can you give me an
example of wasted energy?”
Freshman: “Yes!—telling a bald-
headed man a hair-raising story.”
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