THOSE PARAGRAPHS.
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THE SENIOR BENEFIT SHOWS
In evolving a workable plan of financing the various social activities
of the school, the master minds have achieved more success than they real
ize. They have made a seemingly impossible thing entirely possible—that
of obtaining something for nothing.
The plan as worked out consists in the bringing of various entertainments
to the College, and making these entertainments “go over big.” The Senior
class, through a committee which will have the entire power over the fund,
will receive 60 per cent of the profits. In the case of the show to be present
ed Thursday evening, the profits consist of 25 per cent of the proceeds. The
remaining 40 per cent of the profits goes to the Y. M. C. A. and will be used
to defray the expenses attached to the proceedings and to build up a guar
antee fund to be used when such a guarantee is needed to bring some enter
tainment to the College.
This plan is an immense improvement over that of taking a slice out of
the trust fund, or that of taking the key deposit, and other expedients that
make their appearance yearly. Since the dollar (or whatever sum might be
called for) would be spent in any case, it is just as well that some benefit
be realized in the expenditure of it. And those students who cannot afford
to indulge are not forced to do so. It is truly an ideal plan, with many de
fenses, and not a single discernible flaw, and if it fails the old expedients
can again be called into use. But with normal support from the student
body, the chances of failure are almost nil.
A MORAL.
When the members of the Senior Class attended President Walton’s
reception last Monday, it was probably the first time that any number of
them had ever crossed the threshold of Dr. Walton’s home. It seems strange
that at A. and M., where the doctrine of brotherhood is so universally 1
preached, so many of the seniors should be backward in getting acquainted
with their president.
It is only another example of A. & M.’s strange, indefinable, but
potent barrier between the students and her faculty. There are men among
us who would like to take advantage of the golden opportunity they have
of getting closer to some of the leading educators of the state. There are
men among us who realize that their instructors have much more to give
them through contacts in the home and on the campus than they ever can
in the classroom. Yet these same men are afraid to do more than merely
speak to an instructor, because of our powerful, foolish, insane tradition.
There is a moral in this editorial, and those who attended Dr. and Mrs.
Walton’s reception found that moral in the congenial atmosphere of
“Prexy’s” home that could be sensed even in the midst of the stiffness and
formality such an occasion necessarily fosters.
There seems to have been an enormous amount of intellectual study
expounded during the holidays, as evidenced by the many would-be original
thoughts that are aired in recent “bull-pens.” The one most noticeable fea
ture of advancement displayed as a result of holiday study during the two
shortest weeks of the year was the development of musical talent among
our cadets.
It is noticeable that many students already increasing their musical
talent have brought back to school a music box. These are welcomed on the
campus for many reasons, not the least important of which may be because
of that certain selection one danced with some fair maiden whom one real
izes one took off her feet with that gaze which evidenced love at first
sight. But—don’t forget that no matter how sacred to you the song may
be, it will not be quite so pleasing to Capt. Montgomery at about thirty
minutes after Taps.
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