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THS BATTALION
THE BATTALION
Published every Wednesday night by the Students’ Association of the Agriaultural
and Mechanical College of Texas.
Subscription price $ 1.75 par Year.
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Entered as second-class matter at the post office at Bryan, Texas, under the Act of
Congress March 3rd., 1879.
Member of National College Press Association
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
L. W. JOHNSTON
J. E. TEAGUE
J. M. GARCIA
Y. B. GRIFFIS
T. B. KETTERSON . .
EDITORIAL STAFF
Editor-in-Chief
Managing Editor
Associate Editor
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Sports Editor
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Assistant Sports Editor
Literary Editor
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. Columnist
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Associate News Editor
; Assistant News Editor
Assistant News Editor
Assistant News Editor
W. P. PATTON, JR.
L. HANKS
V. A. BUESCHER .
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, Business Manager
Assistant Business Manager
Circulation Managar
PRAISE WHERE PRAISE IS DUE
It has been our policy thus far to attack everything objectionable in
our surroundings, and since there were many such things the attacks
have been numerous, but at last we have had forced on us a fact that can
no longer be denied. There is something here worthy of commendation,
something better than the ordinary, something for which we can be truly
thankful. The laundry has at last decided to give our shirts a square deal.
After years of more or less mediocre work, they have burst forth
with a new shirt process that is unexcelled anywhere. They actually clean
the shirts to a snowy white (if that happened to be the original color) and
press them into respectable stiffness. Not only do they accomplish won
ders with once wavy collars and cuffs, but they even have a system of
bundling and arranging with pasteboard protectors that maintains the
collars in the upright position necessary to a respectable collar. This in
deed is a cultural gain.
WHY IS A PROF?
The Monday morning papers carried a very interesting story of the
death of a college girl and a teamster and the injury of some fifty other
people due to the crush of a mob attempting to avoid a spring rainstorm.
This happened in the Yankee Stadium, New York, Saturday afternoon
when a sudden rain-storm caught several thousand baseball fans in the
bleachers. Someone made a dash for the run-way to cover, and immediately
the entire mob pushed forward to the narrow passageway. Not thinking,
stopping for nothing, pushing, shoving, panting, sweating, several thous
and otherwise average citizens piled up, one upon the other in a mad scram
ble to get out of the rain. The result was that three hundred policemen and
a corps of doctors worked overtime to sort them out, and two of the lot
were fit only for the discard when they were found. Yet, we are un-.
doubtedly the greatest, most enlightened people on the face of the earth,
and green rabbits would very likely have pink ears, if they possessed any
ears at all
If in the process of earning a meager salary, and incidentally while
lecturing to or questioning a group of uninterested and uninteresting stu
dents in his classes, a prof can impart one spark that may light the fire
of one single idea in some heretofore untroubled brain, what other ex
cuse need be made for his existence ? One such shock may put the mass
to fermenting and an idea, or even two, may be produced, ana then the
man will be above the level of our great masses, “boobus Americanus,”
so far ahead that he will never care to drop back into the crowd.
One idea to one man in a lifetime of teaching would justify the rant-
ings and ravings of the most persistent profs. May the candles flicker
on in the wilderness!
LAST WORDS
This issue of The Battalion sees the passing of just another staff—the
staff of 1929. Next week’s issue will give the newly elected men a chance
to become acquainted with the many difficulties of printing such a sheet
as The Battalion.
When we think of giving up the places we have come to know and
like so well, there immediately arises a feeling that we do not yet want
to pass into obscurity. It seems as if we have not really had time to do
all the things that we had planned. But time cannot be stopped, and we
must go our way in order that others might have a chance. And, no doubt,
there are others who can fill our positions as well if not better than we
have.
At the first of this school year we decided upon a certain policy to
follow, and we have done all we could to follow out the plan. The pro
cedure may not have been to the liking of every reader, but it has pleased
the staff or the members would not have done as they have. If
the paper has been of any pleasure to the readers, or if certain
articles within its sheets have caused the readers to have new thoughts,
the staff is glad. We have often been called cynics by some unthoughtful
persons for attacking parts of the Aggie credo and of the national code
of morals as handed down to us, and this has shown us that our state
ments have been given some consideration. We have been cursed t)y Ag
gies, preacher, reformer, and this has shown us that our work has ac-
complishd something.
Without further apologies, we wish every good fortune for The Bat
talion and its staff next year.
THE 1929 BATTALION STAFF
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