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THE BATTALION
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but are suggestively put forth in a conscientious effort for individual and
group improvement.
Logically, and therefore rightfully, do we clamor for better traveling
conditions to and from, over the iron; and peculiarly true is the fact that
lower rates of mechanical travel should become a realization to satisfy our
one and same periodical desire, but such results are impossible only thru
individually expended effort.
Mention of property destruction during entrainment would be trite
and would be a pathetic attempt to bring you to your senses. You can
think! You do think! But thinking is not a mob characteristic, so you
suppress it and continue on your “march to the sea.”
On the past group trirj the majority of passage was good, some of
which was first class, observance of all being impossible, and considering
forerunning events, it was most excellent. Only the absence of expector
ate recepticles kept it from being luxurous travel.
Don’t be selfishly mislead to a belief that every loss to the trans
porting companies is not balanced. We gain individually through property
increase and we lose individually through travel rate increase. Our fares
would be cheaper but for this loss: other schools, not so destructively
prominent receive them—why not us ?
Your narrowness is effectively self-detrimental.
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A QUESTION MARK?
AMBITION AND DILIGENCE A HIGH SCHOOL MEMORY ONLY.
We have in our hands a compilation of facts from the Registrar’s
office in regard to unauthorized absences from classes. It is rather em
barrassing to publish anything like this when we stop to consider the
manner in which such a statement will reflect on the character, ambition,
and enterprise of these young, industrious college men. And still, most of
us continuously raise a cry to the sky for more freedom of action and less
restrictions, under the assumption that we are men, who know our own
minds and realize fully our purpose here, when really facts confirm just
the opposite side of the question.
In the first three weeks of school there were four thousand and
thirty-six absences reported. Merely in the two weeks from September the
30th to October the 12th there was an average of 1.2 unauthorized ab-
scences from classes. At this rate, it costs the Registrar alone, to say
nothing of the time lost by the instructor in checking up and reporting
absences, enough to pay the expenses of one student for one year.
If a student’s time is worth say twenty-five cents an hour in the class
room, then the student body lost something like one thousand and nine
dollars from the time school opened to the time of the Kansas-Aggie
game. Assuming that a student’s expenses for one term is two hundred
and fifty dollars and that he takes twenty hours work, it may be said
that he pays seventy-eight cents per hour for his class room instruction.
The impression may be formed from the above statement, that an -
education is set too much on an economic basis. Such is not the case if
one takes into consideration the fact that the average mind of the stu
dents attending A. and M. College is not very sensitive to values and re
turns. It is undoubtedly an unsound principle to invest in something that
will not produce an equal or higher return. This is a disadvantage of being
absent from classes, without an authorized excuse, from an economic
standpoint; now we should consider it from an educational viewpoint.
Our original purpose in coming here, whether we still maintain it or
not, was instigated by a desire to learn a profession or acquire such
knowledge as would enable us to occupy a decent place in society. The
best method found to transmit this knowledge, is to have an instructor
expand on the intricate questions in a book so that students may not
have as much difficulty in grasping their hidden meaning. The result is
that some of us do not realize the importance of this process and conse
quently do not attend classes punctually.
The whole state of affairs is disgusting. We demand to be treated
like grown up sensible men while we act like playful and careless children.
Why not stop to think for a while and reason the question out, there
would at least be a change from the daily routine.
TRANSPORTATION RATES.
Such articles as these are not written as matters for space taking by
someone wishing to while his time, or for the purpose of increasing the self
confidence or egoism thru a commendation of non self-possessed qualities.
Of all the things that one is able to think of, there is only one that
is doubled for its owner when sharred equally with someone else. This
scarce and elusive phenomenon is complete happiness, and the search for
it has led men through all kinds of tortue, ordeals, and unbelievable ex
periences. Oftimes it remains for those who search, only to find in the
ending that the hunt was • futile and the thing that they though would
bring them so much happiness only brings gray hairs and more sorrow.
There are three things which men falsely believe the possession of
which would bring happiness. These are fame, rank, and success; and it
can be seen in all the histories of the world that men have fruitlessly gone
to their doom in quest of these. The once great kaiser, in search of fame
and rank, was brought low to the state of utmost humility and is now a
broken old man and seldom heard of. The fact that money cannot buy it
is proven in the statistics of last year, which stated that seventy-two mil
lionaires committed suicide.
Where then, and how is this rare state of being to be found ? Robert
Louis Stevenson was a person who intimated that there is no shadow of a
doubt but what happiness is to be found in living unselfishly with others
and making them happy. It means that one is never idle, and that the job
on and is always onf of which it is possible to be proud.
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