THE BATTALION
THE B7ITTALIOM
ELIMINATION
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EDITORIAL STAFF
W. C. MORRIS Editor-in-Chief
Editor
Editor
R. R. PEEPLES Managing
L. J. FRANKE Associate
P. C. FARRIS Associate Editor
W. L. KENNEDY Associate Editor
T. A. PILKEY Sports Editor
O. O MOUNT Associate Sports Editor
J. M. HOLMES Assistant Sports Editor
E. L. ANDREWS News Editor
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R. H. SHUFFLER ; . Assistant News Editor
H. D. MAPLES Assistant News Editor
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L. N. BOURLAND Business Manager
M. E. DIETERT < Assistant Business Manager
J. E. FONTAINE , Circulation Manager
Listen seniors! Do you remember when we were/ fish and it was the cus
tom for fish and sophomores to hollow their lungs out at every girl that
visited the campus. Don’t you notice the difference now, and aren’t you proud
that the old student body is becoming a little civilized. You know that any
man that cannot hold himself when he sees a lady, who is our guest, walk
down the street, is not a true Aggie. He is disrespectful to the mother, sister
and sweetheart of a fellow Aggie. Lets talk it up and keep things going
right during the next week.
The people that visit the campus today know nothing of the past but
they have their own way of judging our conduct. What do you think their
impression is when they go in the mess hall and see the cadet corps pounding
the table with knives, forks, cups, beating platters with anything they get
hold of, and hollowing like mad Indians. I know that it is just after football
games when such is the case but it is on the same occasion that most of
our visitors are here. If you were taught these bad habits at home, most of
your college education should be learning a few table manners. It has got
to stop and it is going to stop. You have your choice of pulling with us and
keep everything going smooth or pulling against us and catching hell.
From the way the fish gang up around the staff tables you would think
they were starving to death. When we leave the table they make it very ir
ritable for us by their rushing and grabbing. Fish, if you don’t get enough
to eat let your company commander know about it and provisions will be
made. If the upperclassmen are sending these fish up to watch us eat, I
want to tell you that you have made an ass of us long enough.
There is just one more thing that I want to call your attention to. Im
agine yourself coming home after you have had a full day on. You want to
get a little rest before retreat but about every five minutes a fish comes
in asking about this or that, when he could find out for himself with a little
effort on his part. You know just how you would feel. Don’t you expect the
commandant feels about the same way when two-thirds of the corps goes
trailing down to his home to get passes O. K.-ed. Please let this soak in and
try to get your permission in on time from here on and turn your passes
in to your top kick. These first sergeants are trustworthy, they won’t lose
your pass.
L. N. BOURLAND.
FAILURE.
The dregs of failure are never so bitter as when they are drunk before
the eyes of loved ones. Yet many men at A. and M. are courting the chance
to stand before their mothers and fathers to admit that they have failed.
Failed—not because of any unsurmountable obstacle, but merely because
they are too lazy to study.
Although it may be difficult to pass all the number of hours required
in some courses, it is easy for anyone having enough intelligence to pass
the entrance requirements at A. and M. to pass ten hours of the work on
his schedule. All of the men who were failing to pass that number of hours
at November 1 can bring their grades up to scratch in the next three weeks.
Although transformations from D’s to grade points may not be made in
that time, enough can be done to pass ten hours. The recipie for it is noth
ing more than real concentrated and wholehearted study. Not study of the
superficial, skimming kind, but honest, laborous digging.
This type of study will be more than hard for a man who has wasted
his time since September 15, but with perseverence it can be mastered. It
is a poor sort of man who will not display enough perseverence to keep
his parents from the shame and disappointment of seeing him sent home
from college.
She: “May I ask you how you got
such a well developed pair of arms?”
He: “Boxing—and may I ask you
if you ever went out for track?”
Have you heard the heart-rending
story of the fellow who studied until
two o’clock for an exam and then
slept thru it ?
Girls when they went out to swim
Once dressed like Mother Hubbard,
But now ‘we’re sad to say these bim
Boes dress more like her cupboard.
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You can chew with falsq teeth or
walk with a wooden leg, but you
can’t see with a glass eye.
* * *
Tom: “Let us review our anatomy,
Clara.”
Clara: “I will not! I lost a garter
while we were studying last night.”
* * *
“My dear people,” said the temper
ance lecturer, “just consider the num
ber of houses whisky has wrecked.”
“Just consider,” came a voice from the
rear of the hall, “the number of ships
water has wrecked.”
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