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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 15, 1930)
4 THE BATTALION ivlattalion 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. 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. EDITORIAL STAFF L. W. JOHNSTON Editor-in-Chief J. M. GARCIA Managing Editor S. 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 Associate News Editor W. G. CARNAHAN Assistant News Editor J. A. BARNES Assistant News Editor M. H. HOLLOWAY Columnist S. A. ROELOFS Columnist BUSINESS STAFF LESTER HANKS Business Manager D. W. SHERRILL Assistant Business Manager J. A. REYNOLDS Circulation Manager SCHOLARS—THE VANISHING AMERICANS We agree that it is our childish nature to fight, to rebel, and to be greedy, but are we not, as we grow older, taught the uselessness of fighting, and do we not see that the only way for us to live as individuals in our society A to live peacefully? The world is nothing more than a large society, and what is the logical reason that it cannot be educated to the fact that peace is the only condition in which a country can be prosperous. Of course the uneducated of all countries may always want to wage war, but is it the uneducated who are in control of the country? Certainly not; only intelligent men can long be in power of governments that are sound, aiid what educated man who advocates war is not in favor of it only for some economic interest? There certainly should be no monetary price for human bloodshed. As Professor Gilbert Murray states, civilization and war cannot exist longer in the same world. Science is rapidly developing, and if another in ternational emergency should arise, it would only be a battle of the in tellectual who will play the ignorant as robots against each other with a view of selfish gain. Of course a large standing army and navy promotes peace, but if peace, is so precious to all of us why isn’t it logical for the men with the brilliant minds to devise a plan by which the world in gen eral can live in amicable tranquility ? UNIFORM TAILOR SHOP TAILOR-MADE SHIRTS, BREECHES, BLOUSES AND SLACKS Mendl & Hornak, Props. *- * *■ * •V- * * * -¥■ * * *• * * * * '***********-*-k-k-fc-K-K-k-k-fc-fc-fc-K-*+**-* College Jewelry Belt Buckles WELCOME BACK AGGIES! If you need anything in our line for a Birthday or Wedding Gift, remember your credit is still good at I CALDWELL’S JEWELRY STORE Possibly there are today, in some colleges and schools, rare students who want to obtain knowledge and worthwhile skill they are matriculating, at least there must be a few of these eccentrics extant in the collegiate world,—and it is for the benefit of this vanishing species that we publish this lament. For students of this type, like the American bison, are gradually disap- peaxdng from the face of the earth. With the system of teaching that is popular at this institution and in many others of its kind, earnest students are very few, although who try to appear earnest are legion. The students themselves are partly to blame for this lamentable state of affairs, but the real murderers of the desire for knowledge are the instructors. The insistent demand of the professor is not that the student should learn— that is incidental—but that he should make a show of what he already know’s; that he should not weep for what he lacks, but that he should boast of what he has. And so, with all this, the race of scholars is going from us, and a new generation, very viporish, has come to be. This desire to appear to know, works more woe for the student than he realizes. How many of us have boned and crammed until the cock crew thrice or a dozen times, preparing for a quiz wherein we were to prove to a disinterested instructor that we could put down more or less fluently seventy per cent of what the course consisted of? How many of us have passed such an examination and have promptly forgotten all about the subject? We did not learn anything—a dictophone could have done the same work, told more about the subject, and could even have forgotten it more completely than we. Such a practice is not particularly favorable for the acquiring of an education, but it passes the course for one. After taking a quiz like this, the avei’age student retires for another month’s rest, having learned what he studied most; that is, how to get by. The little knowledge obtained from the pex-usal of the text is usually entii'ely accidental, and may justly be considered as a by-product. Theoretically the aim of a course of instruction is the mastex-y of a body of material, actually neither the professor nor the student pay the slightest attention to this goal, for both of them devote their attentions to grades ^s determined by tests. Thex - e is the situation. Perhaps we do not need a change—college men get along some way, and pex-haps a thorough training in getting by will really help the collegiate more than an education when he gets out in the wicked world. But still—it is a terrible thing to see the tribe of scholars laid to rest by the system that has grown up around them. CIVILIZATION AND WAR—CAN THEY EXIST IN THE SAME WORLD The coming Naval Conference of the greater nations of the woxdd marks another important step in the realization of the fact that war is no longer needed, and that mankind in his trend of progress is coming to see that international difficulties can be best solved by other means than gunpowder and human flesh. The present arguments of the persons who are in favor of war can be summarized in the statement that it is man’s inherent nature to fight. FOBS PHONE No. 5 VANITIES The Campus G leaners and Tailors HENRY LOCKE, Manager i > Alterations, Cleaning, Pressing and Repairs Hats Cleaned and Blocked. Caps Cleaned. Ties Cleaned and Pressed. OFER THE EXCHANGE STORE Records and Portables Victor, Brunswick, Columbia and Okeh. Come in and hear the latest hits. JOE KAPLAN & CO., INC. “If its new, we have it” THE NEW YORK CAKE New Throughout and Modern in Every Respect. SOLICITS THE PATRONAGE OF OLD AND NEW STUDENTS Next Door to La Salle Hotel n t ! Bryan, Texas Phone 460
