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4 THE B ATT ALIGN
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menange from catapulting over the precipice that bordered by the road.
Suspended from a protruding musket barrel, one sees a faded maroon rag
on which, in squire squat letters that had once been white, is printed the
inscription “Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas—Parnassus or
Bust.”
A group of ragged urchins, we run beside the cart and jeer, only
stopping long enough to gather rocks to throw at the senseless beggar
Circumstance, who keeps our cart upon the trail. Vicious little wretches
Entered as second-class matter at the post office at Bryan, Texas, under the Act of
Congress March 3rd., 1879.
aren’t we ?
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REGARDING STUDENT LIVING CONDITIONS
All undergraduates in the College are eligible to try for a place on the Editorial
Staff of this paper. Freshmen, Sophomores, and Juniors who are interested in journalism
for its own sake, are urged to make themselves known to some member of the Staff.
E. L. ANDREWS
R. H. SHUFFLER
W. C. MORRIS
H. C. GIVENS
A. PAEZ
J. M. HOLMES
P. A. DRESSER
F. W. THOMAS, JR. . .
W. T. COLEMAN
J. J. LOVING
H. W. TOEPPERWEIN
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J. E. TEAGUE
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Y. B. GRIFFIS
T. B. KETTERSON . .
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The last few issues of the “Bat” have contained editorials on student
living conditions, a subject that is of considerable importance, yet, one
that has been given little attention in the past either by the students or
the college officials. In this day and time when comforts are attainable
with comparatively little effort and cost it is a grotesque anomaly to see
men attempting to master Calculus and Physics amid surroundings that
would be a discredit to a college of twenty years ago. And, it is absurd
to think that any degree of culture can be instilled in students who live in
rooms that are crudely furnished, in dormitories that are vene worse than
the army barracks which they resemble.
Conditions here are not intolerable but they could be improved, should
be improved. From the amount of furniture stored in the M. E. Shops
each spring it is quite evident that the students are dissatisfied with the
equipment in the rooms and are willing to pay for better and additional
articles. The relative cost of remodeling and refurnishing the dormitories
would not be excessive and if the students were willing to pay the extra
cost through an increase in the maintenance fee there could be no reason
for not so doing. It would be interesting to know how many of the stu
dents would concur in a plan that would give them the comforts that in
modern life are considered essential and how much they would be willing
to pay for these improvements.
SUGGESTIONS
Pride in personal appearance is a duty which every man owes to him
self. People instinctively form much of their estimate of a man’s charac
ter from his personal appearance. The man who is careless and indifferent
to outward appearance is apt to be the same way in other habits of life.
Some have said a man is as much of a soldier as his uniform makes
him. On the other hand it has been said that the more of a soldier a man
is the more pride he will take in keeping neat and smart.
I take a great pride in the interest that most of our senior and jun
ior classes take in their personal appearance. However, I think there are
a few in those two classes and many in the sophomore and freshman class
es, that are careless in their personal appearance. The following are a
few suggestions that will help, if carried out, in improving the appearance
of the cadet corps at this institution.
1. Wear the exact uniform prescribed.
2. Never wear any part of the uniform with civilian clothes. Make
it all one or the other.
3. Keep the uniform clean, neatly pressed and in good repair.
4. Have no missing buttons, collar and cap ornaments. Replace them
promptly when lost or destroyed.
5. There is but one correct way to wear the cap—set square on the
head. Never wear it on the back or side of the head. To do so im
mediately marks you as a recruit who knows no better or a man
who has no pride in himself or his appearance.
6. Never wear your blouse or your shirt unbuttoned. It marks the
slouch.
7. Keep shoes neatly polished and your leggins clean, if the spiral
puttee, neatly rolled.
8. Keep the sleeves down, leave the low neck and short sleeves for
the females.
—COL. C. J. NELSON.
E. E. HOP
(Continued from Page 1)
More than a hundred aspiring Elec
trical Engineers w’ere on deck with
their queens and nearly every spon
sor of the department was present.
And it might be well to add that
these queens spoken of were noth
ing more than a hundred beauties
selected from over the entire state
that gave the dance an even more
alluring charm. These E. E.’s know
how when it comes to picking prizes
of the fairer sex.
A great portion of the success of
the dance must go to the committee
that put the dance over financially
and socially. R. S. Boykin, Merle
Horn, Alex Paez and G. W. Beams
constituted the committee. F. W.
Atwell and C. S. Robertson had
charge of the lights.
Little else can be said except that
it was the best, peppiest dance that
has been given in Aggieland this
year.
WE WANT YOU TO KNOW OUR SHOP AND THE
KIND OF WORK WE DO—
OUR PLACE IS CONVENIENT TOO.
The Campus Cleaners & Tailors
(OVER EXCHANGE STORE)
(Operated by Fermer Students Ass’n. for Student
Loan Fund.)
COMMENT
In this age of enlightenment and of so much knowledge, superstition
is supposed to be more of a joke than a fact. We smile when we make dire
predictions after an ebony hued cat has crossed our way, or after we have
inadvertently passed under a ladder. We laugh when we talk about a broken
mirror causing so many years of bad luck. We laugh outright when we
knock on wood after making certain predictions.
But yet we encourage and nourish these traditions and fallacies. And
as we do, faithfully and doggedly, let us not court “Lady Luck” in the
wrong manner and for the wrong people. If we are to bring good luck to
the baseball team, by standing up in the seventh inning, let it be the right
half of' that inning instead of the wrong half as was done last Friday
in the game with the Houston Buffaloes. We need our luck too much not
to deliberately drive it away, if such a thing is possible.
PARNASSUS OR BUST!
Through the blinding heat and dust of a summer’s afternoon an ancient
weary mule drags a creaking two wheeled cart along a dusty trail. The cart,
a time-worn relic of the frontier days is groaning and swaying under the
burden of a queer collection of ancient firearms and munitions, broken
plows, and a jumble of bright and shiny machinery of more modern manu
facture. High on the teetering seat is perched a blind crazy beggar, who
dozes intermittently, only waking to jerk the lines enough to keep the
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