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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 23, 1929)
4 THE BATTALION fhr Battalion Published every Wednesday night by the Students’ Association of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas. Subscription Price $1.75 per year. ALL ADS RUN UNTIL ORDERED OUT. Entered as second-class matter at the post ■ office at Bryan, Texas, under the Act of Congress March 3rd., 1879. APPRECIATION. If Einstein’s theory of comparativeness can be applied without regard for a set measure, then it will undoubtedly be generally admitted that our reception over the week-end was well-nigh faultless, Fort Worth, and its spirit of friendliness. Certainly this characteristic was apparent. T. C. U., its student body, the ex-students, and everyone seemed as one people with but a single thought; to make the visitors welcome as cordial as possible. And the success of their efforts need not be debated. We wish those people who spent so much time and effort on preparing for our invasion to know how sincerely and deeply we appreciate their work. Our heartfelt gratitude is extended to you. We speak the concensus of opinion of the school; not an individual reaction. Next year, when the time rolls around for the annual T. C. U.-A. & M. game, we are going to attempt to show our gratitude in a material way by entertaining our visitors in just as fine a way as we were entertained. Member of National College Press Association ANNOUNCEMENT. 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 owm sake, are urged to make themselves known to some member of the staff. EDITORIAL STAFF L. W. JOHNSTON Editor-in-Chief J. M. GARCIA Managing Editor F. C. GIESEY Associate Editor Y. B. GRIFFIS • Associate Editor P. A. DRESSER Sports Editor C. WILLIAMS Associate Editor F. R. McKNIGHT Assistant Sports Editor R. L. HERBERT News Editor C. V. ELLIS Assistant News Editor C. M. EVANS Associate News Editor J. A. BARNES Associate News Editor C. M. BLOCK Associate News Editor M. H. HOLLOWAY Columnist Due to the much too large number of stags who are accustomed to at tending the corps dances the senior class ha descided to increase the charge fifty cents making the admission for stags one dollar and a half. As usual, date bids may be secured for the price of one dollar. IS IT TRUE? American thinking is feminine thinking, inculcated by women teachers, highly competent in detail, immediate in its application, rigidly idealistic regardless of the working facts, and weak on critical examination, Profes sor Robert E. Rogers, of Massachusetts Institute of Technology told the sixteenth annual national business conference at Babson Park here recently. The Professor, who created a national sensation last spring by advis ing the senior class at M. I. T. to be snobs, analyzed “Our Young People” at the conference. “Our boys and girls have not been taught to think,” he said. “They are interested in applications, not ideals and principles. They have had, in school at least, no fundamental instruction in the problems of ethics S. A. ROELOFS Columnist and conduct, in the problems of society and government, in genuine science as opposed to tinkering. Above all they have not been taught to criticize BUSINESS STAFF LESTER HANKS Business Manager D. W. SHERRIL Assistant Business Manager J. A. REYNOLDS Circulation Manager A WORD OF DEED APPRECIATION. It is the perpetual urge of our Prexy for the cadets of A. and M. or analyze. “They come to higher education and life with a settled conviction that the only allowable criticism is ‘constructive,’ as if one could construct with out first tearing down.... “Whose fault is it? I will hazard one unpopular guess. For a half century now the largest part of our young people have been trained ex clusively by women teachers. The faults I have been speaking about are the faults of women teachers. Fifty years of this has produced a people incompetent to think politically and philosophically.” College, as individuals, conduct themselves while off the campus as they do while on the campus: as though they had the due respect for themselves and the college they represent. Because we are, during such periods as has just elapsed, mentally in capacitated, and because it is the thing others, for desire of increased self justification want us to do, we seek pleasures publically which, because of our conspicuousness in uniform, tend to make an undesirable name for our college as a public institution. There are always a few who insanely appear before the public eye in a state of Coma but the majority remain in their logical unseen terri tories until they are capable of self management. In an interview with Dr. Walton, he wished that his appreciation of the conduct of the men on the corps trip be extended to the men because such conduct reflects credit on the student body. Both on the trains and in Fort Worth the conduct was splendid, there being only a few cases of which he had seen or heard that did not tend to deepen the faith in the good inten tions of the A. and M. student body. With a knowledge of the real qualities of our Prexy and the interest he has in each one of us, we should appreciate him and his efforts, if not ourselves and our college, enough to refrain from publicity during our periods of pleasure seeking. AN APPEAL. Once in a great while the senior class wakes up to the fact that it owes its Alma Mater something besides allegiance and lab. fees, and, out of the goodness of its heart, leaves behind it something as a present for the old school and also as a reminder to the world that there was a class of 'steen. Witness the flagpole base given by the class of ’12, and the ticket office down at the Gym., given by the class of ’28. These things were needed and the seniors got them. Now this is an appeal to the nature lovers. In the Aggie quadrangle there are several puny looking shrubs, two or three stunted trees, and many radiating walks mixed up without rhyme or reason and scattered about though someone had dropped them there accidentally. On a hot day few spots are as desolate as the center of the A. and M. campus with its sickly, poorly arranged trees and bushes. Why can’t some rapidly progress ing young man start a movement toward procuring some real trees and dis tributing them sanely about the Quadrangle with some respect for the laws of harmony and beauty? Such a move might prove incompatible with Aggie nature, but, after all, we live here and we owe a lot to A. and M. Class Pins Senior Rings EVERYTHING FOR COLLEGE IN THE JEWELRY LINE. 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