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THE BATTALION
THE BATTALION
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COURTESY.
Ole Army! On Saturday you are going to entertain the best group of
students that the Cadet Corps ever comes in contact with. Always there
has been only the best of feelings and good will toward the T. C. U. stu
dent body, and this is the time when all cadets oug’ht to do everything in
their power to show our visitors as good a time as they showed us in Fort
Worth as their guests last year. Never has the Corps been treated as royal
ly and welcomed with such warmth as it was by the T. C. U. students.
We want our visitors to feel that they are welcome, and to have a good
time while they are on the A. and M. Campus.
You can treat our guests nice and show them real courtesy at all times,
and you have done it. Look what the Centenary fans think of the reception
they received. We all like for them to express their appreciation of our
courtesies, but it is a case Saturday of where you cannot overdo yoursell
no matter how hard you try, so just stay in the right and give them every
consideration in the world that our campus and your abilities will allow.
And listen to me Boy! While you’re thinking about all that considera
tion and courtesy don’t forget that the Frogs are coming down here to
play football, too, and they don’t mean to go home with the little end of
the score. They are always our hardest contender and have proved to be
much of a jinx to these old Farmer Boys of ours. Get your mind on that
game and live it for these next three days.
for all the jackasses are not in the Museum, but rather that such a min
ister could find people claiming to be religious and intelligent who will
listen to him.
It will probably never reach a stage in America where politics can be
carried on in the churches, we believe too strongly in separation of church
and state, but it seems that we have already arrived at the point where
churches can carry on (and how) in politics.
The saving grace of political campaigns is that the two parties are
usually very similar and it is just a case of dog eat dog, but when one
calls in his God to vote for his candidate and to help him calumate the
other side’s candidate, “The decent fates retire.”
Truly there is enough religious disturbance going on at present, not
only in colleges, but everywhere, without the divines confusing political
buncombie with what we sincerely hope is NOT religious hoakum. It is
too straining on the imagination to try and connect the ultimate destination
of the soul with supposed sanctity in high political places.
Blessed are the meek—and the militant ?
A FEW THINGS ABOUT THE Y. M. C. A.
For the past few years the students have known very little about the
affairs of the Y. M. C. A. It is the policy of the Y. M. C. A. Cabinet, this
year to show the students what the Y does, what it has done and try to
carry on a program that will be worthwhile and of interest to all.
We have with us this year, Mr. Gordon Gay, formerly of S. M. U. who
will be Assistant Secretary. He will help in all forms of religious train
ing on the campus. Mr. Gay is a very competent man and has already
made many friends on the campus. If you ever get blue or homesick and
do not know what to do, just drop around and see Mr. Gay.
The Cabinet has been asked to take the place of the student labor
previously employed by the Y. M. C. A. at the picture shows. It has ac
cepted this responsibility and hope that the students will cooperate with
us.
Realizing the fact that the students do not understand what is done
with all of the money taken in at the picture shows, we are publishing
the following statement which we hope will be of interest to everyone.
If, after a thorough investigation, you do not understand it, we will glad
ly give any information desired.
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It will be hard to offer anything like the kinds of entertainment that
they provided for us last year but we can make the best of what we have
here and welcome them with all the sincerity that it is possible for this
Cadet Corps to offer.
CORPS DANCES.
For the benefit of those who do not know or for those who have for
gotten it might be well to state here that a few rules are always to be
observed at the Corps Dances at A. and M. Besides the rules or ordinary
dances that we are accustomed to observing it is important that other
rules be heeded also. Fish are not to tag a Senior. Stags will stand in a
small group in the middle of the floor and not crowd the dancers too
much. . Tags will not be honored on the first dance; Smoking on the floor
will not be allowed.
It is necessary that these rules be followed out in order to keep the
best order at the dances and have perfect regard for the rights of others.
Fish, we want you to come to the dances and have a good time but don’t
try to come in and make a Social Flash of yourself. All men should con
sider the right of a fellow with a date, so let him try to show her the good
time that she is expecting and if he can’t perhaps he will call on you with
your undisputed ability to show a girl a good time and ask for assistance,
but otherwise don’t consider yourself the only one on the floor who is
anxious to have fun.
—SOCIAL SECRETARY.
POLITICS.
Religion has caused war, religion has plead for peace, religion has
done many things, but never has religion intentionally put itself on a
ridiculous basis. It took an American Presidential Campaign plus an ego
tistical hound to bring a matter of the soul, of emotions, of the finer char
acteristics of mankind to a position where a minister of the One God could
stand on a platform and say, “The Democrats Donkey has a dry tail and
a wet head, and belong in the jackass department of the New York Na
tional Field Museum.”
The pity of it is not that a minister of the gospel would stoop so low,
PALACE
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