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QUEENS OF THE MAY
In a little conference over in the stable of the Father of the Herd, re
cently some two or three hundred of our lithesome drill field dancers were
chosen for the eight day May Fete, starting May first. Of course, original
as always, the college, is making variations in the usual system of sym
bolic gambolings for this festival of fertility. Instead of the usual silly
virgins dancing around the phallyc pole, we symbolize the same great fact
of nature in a much more realistic manner. In this case each and every
one of the participants gets a pole of his own and dances a slow and pain
ful pantomine upon the drill field green. Now isn’t that appropriate, I
ask you ?
FIRE
Among the other pointless jokes in a recent collegiate publication,
appeared the following questionable bit of humor (the question is whether
or not the writer realized the humor):
“The Spirit of Aggieland is a fire which burns in the hearts of true
men; honest and real men; men with courage, and with a will. It comes
from a die formed by time and tradition combined. The noble and clean
are bound together by it into a conscious brotherhood which goes out in
to the world to feed and develop mankind. This is the Spirit of Aggie
land!”
Three more years here may cause this same young writer to see his
celestial fire more as a pale and sickly yellow flame flickering fantastical
ly in the black forest of mental darkness, around which one sees at cer
tain times a group of savages, foul, dirty and absolutely uncivilized, danc-
ing a silly pantomine of the more glorious orgies of the fore-fathers.
It is needless to say that both pictures are decidedly overdrawn. There
is something to the so-called spirit of the place, but just whas, after four
years of searching, the present writer has failed to discover. There are
friendships, numerous and strong, which bind one to the place. There are
many good things which one runs across at times which make life here
more pleasant and worthwhile than in many places in the world. In fact,
the writer, after several years at the place does not honestly regret his
coming here. It has been better than one might imagine.
But at the same time, just how may of your classmates or acquaint
ances could you honestly say were “true men, honest and real; men with
courage, and with a will?” They are all far too human to fit such an
ideal definition. Then too, in this place, with its overbearing crowd, act
ion and though, the men who are avowedly at a tangent with the group
need more courage than all the true and loyal sons of old Aggieland com
bined. There are many things here which any person making preventions
to civilized life would abhor. The brutality, both in thought and actlorj
the barbarity and utter thoughtlessness of the many little things that go
to make up life here are senseless, useless and practically intolei’able. It
is these little things that should be killed out, and must be before the
general trend of life here will be less irritating.
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