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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Nov. 16, 1927)
THE BATTALION 5 ■ Progress through co-ordinati o11 Getting out a college paper and making telephones have one point in common. Careful planning, per sistent search for men and material, whole-hearted cooperation among the entire staff—that’s the spirit that means better editing and more skilful tele phone making. This spirit is characteristic of every phase of tele phone production at Western Electric. In the lab oratory work, in machine design, in the cable plant and in every other department of the great factory— men are working together to set up new standards and to devise more exact methods of attaining those standards. The result is the inevitable improvement which marks this great industry. SINCE 1 8 8 2 MANUFACTURERS FOR THE BELL SYSTEM WEEK’S NEWS (Continued from Page 1) prerogative was to enforce them. The parleying with faculty heads, how ever, resulted in revision of the stu dents’ demands to a mild semblence of their original form. The petition now asks for discrimi nation between upper and lower class- men in the rule governing dates, and revision of the rules regarding the maintenance of motor cars by stu dents. * * * It is rumored that not a single hat less sheik is to be found among the forty men comprising the current season’s football squad of the New York University, a team that is bat tling its way to high honors among the football teams of the east. An iron-clad rule—“Keep your hats on!” —has been issued by Chick Meehan, who as coach for the N. Y. U. men, has been largely responsible for the remarkable football history made by that organization. It seems that some of the football men, having observed other collegiate lads appearing on the street with nothing on the head but a slick hair- comb, had thoughtlessly done like wise. The result was an epidemic of coughs and sneezes, and some of the best men on the team were confined to bed. At the next football meeting the bomb was exploded. Said Chick, “Any sane and adult person, who wants to keep his health, ought to know enough to wear a hat out of doors. If these other lads want to plaster themselves with bear’s grease and look like comic-strip sheiks, we can’t stop them. But you can’t do it and stay on this team!” Chick meant it, too, and now any man appearing at training quarters without a hat “catches hell.” * * * Is Love a Mental Paralysis? “To be in love is to be mentally paralyzed,” Dr. J. U. Yarborough of Southern Methodist University de clared in his address at T. C. U. last Thursday night. “A man on trial for murder pleads that he acted in the heat of passion, and is granted clem ency; a man pleads that he married in the heat of passion, and is not ex cused. Falling in love is as irrational as falling into anger.” Submission to emotion was de nounced by the speaker as a barrier to intellectual activity and develop ment. Emotional experience is usu ally not connected with the brain it self, he declared, as it is evidenced by the fact that dogs and cats will still express emotion after removal of the cerebrum. First Survey of U. S. Land Grant Colleges to Be Made Dean E. J. Kyle, of the school of agriculture, who was selected by the United States Bureau of Education as one of the six specialists to assist in the survey of land grant colleges authorized by the Sixty-Ninth Con gress, has pointed out that this sur vey will be the first complete inter pretative study of such institutions in the half century or more of their existence. The selection of Dean Kyle as one of the specialists to assist in the sur vey is considered a signal recognition not only of the place of the A. and M. College in the ranks of land grant colleges, but of his work in agricul tural education as well. The survey of the land grant colleges was authori zed by Congress following the request of the Association of Land Grant Colleges and the Secretary of Agri culture. It provides for a study of the organization, administration, and work of the institutions and is being conducted officially by the Secretary of the Interior through the United States Bureau of Education. Con gress made an initial appropriation of $117,000 for the survey. * * * The Y. M. C. A. is presenting Wed nesday, Thursday and Friday, Nov. 23-25, the picture, Ben Hur. This is one of the best shows of the season. Admission 35 and 50c. The Y. M. C. A. is making an at tempt to bring as good pictures as possible, and have on the program for December, Rookies, Frisco Salley Levy, and Legionaire. Stella Dallas will be the first L. C. Show after the Thanksgiving holidays. * * * Pres. T. O. Walton, accompanied by Deans E. J. Kyle, F. C. Bolton, and C. H. Winkler are representing this (Continued on Page 6) ❖ DR. 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