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or less to keep on the sidewalks at times but wouldn’t that be better than to
have ugly splotches such as appear in front of the Main Building' and around
the various halls. Of course there are not enough sidewalks at present to
allow anyone to go everywhere without getting off them, but if the Author
ities saw that we were in earnest I think that they would help out a little on
that.
A green lawn I know is better for the eyes than the area we have between
the Y and Mitchell Hall and it would make this place better to look at and
make life around the campus seem more pleasant.
If you care to publish something- about this in the Battalion I am sure
that someone else could write a better article on the subject and might im
press the student body as well as the faculty. It would take money to break
Up the tramped spaces but I believe that the College would meet us there
and let the Department of Grounds take care of that.
H. K| BROWN.
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ENEMIES OF EDUCATION
There are three things that come near to making education impossible
in our schools. ^ ^
These three enemies of education are, viz:
Notebooks.
Credits.
Examinations.
The notebook mania turns students into reporters instead of learners.
How long could a conversation between two intelligent men be kept
alive and vital if one of the men kept his head bent over a notebook and his
eyes intent on a racing: pencil that was taking down all the other man said ?
The credit mania turns students into prize hunters instead of learners.
An education fails that does not stimulate a disinterested quest of under
standing; and yet our elaborate systems of grades and credits and diplomas
tend to make students more interested in the attainment of marks than in
the enrichment of their minds.
Authentic education is something more than teasing students to study
by holding before them the lure of a bonbon at the end of an hour, a term,
or a year. No system of grades yet devised goes very far in measuring the
actual education accomplishments of students. We are yearly perfecting
our systems of credit. We are devising tests and techniques that go beyond
a mere cross-examination of the student’s ability to remember what the tea
cher said or the textbook contained, but we have done little to remove that
primary concern about marks that so often turns the student aside from the
deeper and broader concern for understanding.
The examination mania turns students into professional witnesses in
stead of learners.
“Examination, like fire,” said Thomas Huxley, “is a good servant, but
a bad master; and there seems to me to be some danger of its becoming our
master. Students appear to become deteriorated by the constant effort to
pass this or that examination, just as we hear of men’s brains becoming af
fected by the daily necessity of catching a train. They work to pass, not to
know; and outraged science takes her revenge. They do pass, and they don’t
know.”
This commuter psychology that examinations induce means death to
genuine education; the next great advance in education will, in my judgment,
come when we break the hold that notebooks, credits, and examinations have
upon the schools; but this is a matter that can not be met by minor tinker-
ings with the systems themselves; it is a problem that sinks its roads in the
larger problem of our educational objectives and teaching methods.
Again, Thomas Huxley made a suggestion that may help us here. “The
great end of life,” he said, “is not knowledge but action. What men need is
as much knowledge as they can assimilate and organize into a basis for
action; give them more and it may become injurious. One knows people
who are as heavy and stupid from undigested learning as others from over-
fulness of meat and drink.”
If we really believe this, we should revolutionize our schools.
(Copyright, McClure Newspaper Syndicate.)
CUTTING ACROSS
I wonder if many of the cadets have thought of the way we treat our
campus when we walk across the spots that could be made into beautiful
lawns. Did it ever happen to dawn upon them that this could be made into
the most beautiful campus in Texas? Would it mean a morons’ revolt if
we started a campaign to stop walking across the grass here and make
everyone keep on the sidewalks ? Anyone who has ever visited a campus
where the lawns are well kept and preserved would realize the value of such
a movement.
It would mean that the cadet would have to take about ten steps more
LATIN-AMERICAN CLUB
ORGANIZED AT A. & M.
The Latin-American Club of A. and
M. College recently organized, held its
first meeting at College Sunday after
noon, at 3 o’clock, in the “Y” parlors.
A. Paez of Merico City, president of
the club, told of the purpose and aims
of the organization, which were to
create a better understanding and
give first hand information about the
countries represented in the student
body of the College. He also intro
duced the speaker of the afternoon, T.
P. Bauman of Mexico City. So well
did he picture to his audience the city
nestling at the foot of mountains,
with its castles, paved streets and
splendid business institutions made
one know that it enjoyed beauties
unto itself that few if any other city
did. C. Flagg and R. A. Kunitz on
guitars accompanied C. Calle of Rio
Grande City, who sang LaPaloma.
Officers of the club are: A. Paez,
president; Carlos A. Clauseell, vice
president; I. de la Fuente, secretary;
P. Cuellar, sergeant-at-arms ; and I.
W. Parhart, treasurer.
Membership of the club is as fol
lows: J. A. Morales, J. Ma. Garcia,
Carlos A. Clausell, J. G. Esparza, V.
Aldape, P. Cuellar, I. de la Fuente, L.
Ramirez, A. Paez, J. J. Woolkett, T.
P. Gaumann, J. P. Avila, C. M. Rom
ero, E. Garcia, C. Valle, J. R. Dritt, R.
S. Hodges, H. B. Adams, F. K. Pey
ton, W. Stuckert, C. Ordouez, Artuos
Garcia, J. A. Rodriguez, J. H. Jenk
ins, I. W. Parhart, J. A. Martin, Al
bert Koehler, E. R. Rice, T. F. Koeh
ler, M. Brown.
THE MUSTACHE.
Fair reader this is what one of our
fair Dallas girls thinks of that growth
a good many of us have under our
noses—
Despise Mustaches ? What a mild
undescriptive manner in which to con
vey the utter and firmly rooted feel
ing in our hearts. Fain would I die
before the degrading article of men
tion, touch my pure, snow-white face.
Such a growth comes from Satan and
in it lurks all the dangers, unknown
and yet feared by the timid maiden.
Rather would I, my man, cultivate the
habit of chewing vile tobacco—black
filthy stuff that it is—than to rear
a menace to human society—-as the
mustache is. I grow faint and weak
at the thought. No “lady” would al
low the above mentioned thing to lin
ger long in her presence. Listen not
to the whispers of the devil one, abhor
the thought of such filth—go your
way untempted, for that sort of thing
would lose you your home, friends,
love, and everything that is worth
while in a true man’s life. Take coun
cil from one who knows!!!!!
! WHEW !
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