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THE BATTALION
Published every Wednesday night by the Students’ Association of the
Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas.
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to insure the future glory of the school by helping to kill a lot of use
less and cumbersome habits which other schools dropped ten years ago.
Also, we would not think it amiss if students were clubbed with at least
as much education as tradition, and we feel certain that they might in
time become adapted to such a strange state of affairs. Pei'haps they
might eventually like it. Who knows ?
It is probable that our contributor misunderstood the nature of most
of the gripes appearing in these columns. When we say traditions, we do
not mean the practice that has made the Y steps sway-backed. Yell Prac
tice is a tradition, of course, but it is harmless. We have been crusading
against the pernicious, almost vicious, practices which have been handed
down to us, and which can only retard the progress of the school.
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PETROLEUM EDUCATION.
Youth is intrigued by problems. The petroleum industry has problems
in number and variety. Perhaps that is one reason why American youth so
avidly is seeding education in petroleum lore, and why so many colleges
and universities are offering courses which provide it.
In more than a dozen institutions students have an opportunity to
learn about oil, either through study of theory in the class room, practical
work in the field, or both. The following have announced established
courses in petroleum engineering or related subjects:
University of Texas, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Univer
sity of West Virginia, Pennsylvania State College, University of Pittsburg,
University of Oklahoma, Stanford University, University of Southern
California, Washington State College, University of Tulsa, Texas Agricul
tural and Mechanical College and the graduate divisions of New York,
Columbia and Chicago Universities.
Among the various war cries of the psuedo would be intellectuals on
the campus are the ones whose gist is that since this is an agricultural
and mechanical college, the students do not have an opportunity for in
tellectual and literary development outside of the classroom. Observation
is a part of every man’s own university, and if a goodldy portion of these
whiners would look around, they should perceive that there are several
forces at work here on the campus which are able to supply some of the
needed culture, whose value is intrinsic to a college education, if they
would but take advantage of them.
The two forces which are paramount to the others are the Science
and Social Science Seminars. The chief aims and functions of these two
bi-monthly gatherings are to afford an informal meeting of the professors
and students interested in the sciences and social sciences, and to con
verse ad lib with one another, in the course of a splendid meal, various
subjects which anyone may have in mind. From time to time these two
gatherings hold joint meetings and engage speakers of national fame to
address them. Among the famous speakers to appear at some future meet
ings are Max Eastman, nationally known author and lecturer, and Mrs.
R. P. Gilmar of Louisiana. Thus it can be seen that the scope of the two
seminars is very large and varied.
Anyone attending one of these meetings is immediately impressed with
the fact that they are chuck full of vitality and learning, and are always
intensely interesting to one who would get the full value from a college
degree.
AN ANSWER.
Away back in the days when Austin was the finest dormitory on the
campus—back in those vanished Springs when the loved and respected
Captain Aldridge was a mere lance corporal in the R. O. T. C.,
—in those days, according to last week’s contributor to this page,
A. and M. was a great school and, moreover, this gentleman further re
marks that “the old school is not so badly off” even now, although the
Captain is far away, and old Austin sprawls pathetically, like a paralized
medicant, at the entrance of the new and shiny M. E. building. And “we
still have our memories and our traditions,” in spite of gripers and rash
writers in this and last year’s Bat. And to all this we most heartily agree.
Yes, even so—our traditions are our school, and the school is A. and
M., right or wrong, and we will continue to aid freshmen to make the
Corps trip on the first of December by means of injudicious hazing because
doing so is an honored custom; and we will demonstrate the high water
mark of our education by “hell-raising” during the shows in the Assembly
Hall because that, too, is an old custom; and all these things must be
right because our school is right—right or wrong.
No, we cannot quite agree with our contributor concerning these last
points, and we still believe that a little change for the better would im
prove the situation here. We would not see the memories of older glorious
days die, for they are treasures nothing can replace, but we would like
COLLEGE BANDS.
The fact that the interest in college bands has increased the last few
years is demonstrated in the training period of the New York University
Band. This college band, one of the most famous in the U. S., has started
a practice of having a regular period of training at the beginning of each
school year, and continues until each member of the band has adjusted
himself to the director, his fellow-bandsmen, and the style of playing of
each. In the training period, there is an alloted time given to playing the
scales and easy exercises and in getting the band in tune, and in gradually
working up to the larger and more difficult selections of music.
Most people will think that all this preparation is not necessary for a
band, but they do not stop to consider that perfection is more important In
music than in anything else. Also the band of a school is with one excep
tion, the football team, the largest advertising factor of the school, and
without it there could be no school spirit, no school songs or no good pep
rallies.
The New York University Band has initiated a good practice, and it
would be well if other school bands would follow suit.
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