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THE BATTALION
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L. W. JOHNSTON Editor-in-Chief
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S. C. GIESEY Associate Editor
Y. B. GRIFFIS Associate Editor
P. A. DRESSER Sports Editor
C. WILLIAMS Associate Editor
W. C. CARNAHAN Associate Editor
F. R. McKNIGHT Assistant Sports Editor
R. L. HERBERT News Editor
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well-bred men and, since he has a history as an athlete back cf him, he
continues to exist in a life of comfort, pleasure and happiness.
There is so much to say concerning an athlete that we have almost
forgotten our other character, the intellectual We decide to call him so
because he has decided to come to college with the purpose of broadening
! his mind, and increasing his knowledge of the phenomena which sur-
I rounds him. He sees, he thinks, and he acts without encouragement and
■ praise; he has learned that it is wise to avid the crowd that laughs at
| him. Nothing comes to him unless he works for it, and under the present
i trend of education he has to work hard. He sits courteously in class, pay
ing attention, offering the best suggestions for the solutions of problems
and writing the best themes. At the end of his college career, he receives
a hard-earned diploma which only puts him on the same le\el with men of
lower mentality. In after life he develops into a scientist w T ho augments
progress and welfare by his worthwhile work.
Meanwhile we have been thinking on the real purpose in the educa
tion offered by our institutions of higher learning. Why must they be
forced to give out diplomas for the sake of a football team? Why should
standards of education be lowered by handing out diplomas to men who
are better fitted for manual labor? Why not have special diplomas in
athletics, so that the word education should come to mean something ?
Why should every advantage be given to an athlete who has only physical
force to offer human progress when the intellectual has a mind worth a
whole lot more? Confusion and fear save us the embarrassment of answer
ing these questions.
THE PRACTICAL VS. THE LIBERAL.
On Thanksgiving Day we are thankful for:
One of the questions that is most prominent in the minds of business
men, and in college men preparing for business is whether a college edu
cation is really an essential asset or a handicap to young men who intend
to enter the business world as a profession.
A Cornell graduate has just made the statement that college is a four-
year handicap to a youth planning to enter the business world. The reason
he gives for this astounding sentence is that the men who go to college to
prepare themselves for business do not do so. They study subjects like
economics, statisics, etc., and after they take these subjects they do not
apply what they have learned. This graduate seems to think that four
years of actual experience in business is much more preferable than four
years preparation in college.
However, there is another side of the question. The man who goes to
college four years and applies himself in his studies, activities and making
friends has a great advantage over the person who does not attend college
and participate in the above mentioned. Education, and in the broad sense,
enables one to learn how to live better in the society in which he is placed,
and a college education, like nothing else, will enable one to do so.
Having won the football game.
The marvelous Aggie spirit that has predominated in the corps.
The fact that we still have Yell practice in spite of civilized
people in the community.
Our Sunday morning inspection at eight o’clock following some
one’s suggestion that on the “Holy Sabbath thou shalt rest.”
Some of our professors who want to send us home, much to our en
joyment, but against our parents’ wishes.
Those humanitarians who have guided our lives along paths of clean
living, unmalicious thinking- and hypoci’itical understanding with ou-
fellowmen.
The fact that most boys will not go anywhere near the library; first,
because books will very likely interfere with their college career, and
second, because the reading of such may destrop their home training, ruin
their morality and bring about disbelief in some fairy tale their mothers
used to tell them so they would attend Sunday School.
For all these things, full of “spirits” we gave our thanks Thursday
and Friday.
The curricula of most colleges and universities call for weekly periods
of instruction covering a specified number of week in the year. Theoreti
cally there is no time set aside for engaging in any major sports; practi
cally there is a tendency for athletics to monopolize the time which should
be devoted to instruction. We shall not deal, in this short space, with the
advantages and disadvantages derived from athletics—this question has
been discussed thoroughly by well-known writers but nothing definitely
decided—; we are concerned with the temptation of drawing the picture of
two interesting characters around any college campus, the athlete and the
intellectual, and analyzing them carefully.
By an athlete we want to convey the impression of a man who comes
to college with no other purpose in mind but to engage in as many sports
as he qualifies for and who furthermore assumes a careless, frivolous and
absent-minded attitude towards his studies. You can recognize him easily:
he has an easy manner, being sure of himself—why not, the papers laud
him as a great football player. His indifference to others sets him on a
higher plane, everyone looks up to him to save the day, patting him on
the back and praising him in the best hypocritical terms. On the campus
he is king of all he surveys. In the classroom he sits with a bored express
ion on his face waiting only for the class to be over; if the instructor
dares to ask him a question he will turn around with a look as if saying:
“Don’t ask me any questions, you interrupt my absent-minded passive
ness. Are you so ignorant of the fact that I am one of your big athletes?”
The poor professor will likely beg his pardon, in case he is afraid to lose
his job, and may apoligize after class. He goes through four years of
college passing all his work, provided he does not show any interest in it;
he gets a degree which puts on the same plane with well-educated and
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