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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (April 24, 1929)
in-chief, at 38 Goodwin before May 4th. A liberal commission on sales will be given. Get in there, Fish, and help put you Bat over. COMPULSORY CHAPEL Was ever known The witless shepherd who persists to drive A flock that thirsts not to a pool dis liked ? A weight must surely hang on days begun And ended with such mockery. Be wise, •%§ ■%» c%» »|« g-X 4 ^ ^ ^ ^ *1* ‘’I* ‘‘I* "‘I* ^ Mother’s Day Candy Hollingsworth and Nunnally. Sweeten the Day Wm. L. Powers We advertise in the Longhorn Ye Presidents and Deans, and, till the spirit Of ancient times revive, and youth be trained At home in pious service, to your bells Give reasonable rest, for ’tis a sound Hollow as ever vexed the tranquil air; And your officious doings bring dis grace On the plain steeples of our English Church, Whose worship, ’mid remotest village trees, Suffers for this. WORDSWORTH, “The Prelude.’’ A Freshman Looks at The Hazing Problem Editors Note: It is interesting to note that such open discussions of this dark and dreadful question by a freshman are now possible. It has not been so many years since such a thing would not only have been im possible but would have been con sidered unthinkable even by the freshmen. Perhaps there is some hope after all. I rather fancy that some of our hoary ancestors are beginning to toss about restlessly in their graves and to mutter incoherent but dark sounding words. Abolish hazing! Bet ter, think they, to abolish the school! To abolish hazing will require many years and will be the result of a gradual change, not a rapid one. And it will be accomplished by the method that has already been begun, that is, by attacking the principle of hazing and by putting the facts be fore the freshmen in a logical man ner. This must nesessarily be done early, for the student will soon be come dominated by the mob spirit of our college, and will refuse to view the problem in any light ex cept the prevalent one, which ap proves hazing because the men who compose the alumni of A. and M. ap proved it. We must educate our future fresh men to see above and beyond the fog of tradition which allows such con temptible practice, and the educa tion of a mass to a new thought is always a slow and laborious process. There will be a few men—men who are not afraid to use their minds A Novelty in ? 71—A Necessity Today first passenger elevator in in a photographer’s gallery on CCORDING to old records the San Francisco was installed Montgomery Street in 1871. Time has wrought great changes since then, and the San Francisco of today is a great city with many tall buildings in which Vertical Transportation is a necessity instead of a novelty. From coast to coast, American cities are constantly growing; populations increase each year, and buildings mount higher and higher. The Otis organization, which pioneered the way with the world’s first safe elevator, is today meeting the needs of the present and planning to anticipate the requirements of the future. 1/^ OTIS ELEVATOR COMPANY OFFICES IN -A.LL. PRINCIPAL CITIES OF THE WORLD and who have the courage of their convictions—who will openly take their stand against hazing, who will be joined later by men who oppose the practice, but who have not the courage to take an open stand against it, until hazing will no long er be “the thing to do.” Then it will die. This work is being advanced by more than one agency. To a few of our professors belongs a large part of the credit. The work is being ad vanced by the number of “bull-ses sions,” fostered by the Y. M. C. A., conducted Aveekly under the super vision of some member of the fac ulty. FreshVnen are encouragied to express their opinions and to dis cuss their problems in these meet ings, and if this movement becomes popular, as I think it will, then the death of hazing is inevitable, for ty ranny can never exist where free speech is allowed. When this practice is Inbolished, perhaps we shall be proud of “the old aggie spirit” and of our supposed democracy, but hevter while our thoughts and actions are dominated by a group of thugs whose only pur pose is too give expression to their primitive repressions of brutality, made possible by a practice endured only because it is sanctioned by tra dition. ASSAILED Quite unaware that she was being watched by seeking eyes, she had wandered far from her home, to en joy in Nature’s own way, the glories of a beautiful spring day. My. . . .what an alluring charm en veloped her as she moved about with all the graces of a Greek Goddess. What a dainty, tiny, yet beautiful thing she was. 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