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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 22, 1930)
4 THE 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. Member of National College Press - Association Yet, if the undesirable does one small act that does not meet with the ap proval of those governing the institution, or fails to meet, by a slight margin, the requirements of that institution, he cr she is ousted. The three hundreds of dollars have been spent—nine weeks have been wasted iri a futile effort to gain credit for work that must go unfinished and un done. And yet, it is probable that the undesirable was admitted to the school or the department at the beginning of the year. A careful check was not made to determine whether or not that undesirable was qualified to at tend the school In the rush of registration, members of the registration committee did not take into consideration the effect that the following ousting proceedings may or may not have upon the individual. They did not consider that such an outsing may cause the brupt ter mination of the student’s educational career in an institution of higher edu cation. They did not consider that on ousting may mean the complete down fall, the deterioration of the life of the individual. Many things are yet to be done in the American educational and college system for the betterment of the undergraduate. 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 J. M. GARCIA S. C. GIESEY , Y. B. GRIFFIS ! P. A. DRESSER C. WILLIAMS F. R. McKNIGHT R. L. HERBERT C. V. ELLIS W. G. CARNAHAN J. A. BARNES M. H. HOLLOWAY S. A. ROELOFS Editor-in-Chief Managing Editor Associate Editor Associate Editor Sports Editor Associate Editor Assistant Sports Editor News Editor , . Associate News Editor- Assistant News Editor .Assistant News Editor Columnist . . . Columnist LESTER HANKS D. W. SHERRILL J. A. REYNOLDS BUSINESS STAFF Business Manager Assistant Business Manager Circulation Manager FURTHER And that seems to be that). At least one instructor appears to have awakened to the fact that smiting while the iron is hot is a virtue even in this Chirstian age. We are smitten, but are still very much unbowed, and we, tod, recognize the truth in the old maxim . . . After struggling through the maze of somewhat esoteric but never theless scatching sarcasms which seems to constitute the greater part of the above message—appearing in the Open Forum, after we had recovered from our amazement which overpowered us on seeing an instructor come down from his books—we gathered that the irate Mr. Faires disapproved of our editorial of last week, and that, therefore perhaps, he thinks it to have been a bit off key. We differ from Mr. Faires. No offense. C’est la guerre. In the editorial in question it was stated that the grading system now in vogue at this institution is not especially favorable to the highest stan dards of scholarship, that the use of the Test as a scholastic measuring stick was more or less absurd, and that instructors as we know them, in generally applying the Test measure to students, are instrumental in the demise of scholarship. Now we know next to nothing about the intricasies of thermodynamics and the idiosyncrasies of structural design, but we will bet our bottom dollar that there are “A” students in the classes of instruc tors teaching thermodynamics and structural design who know less about those subjects than many so-rated “B” or “C” students in the same classes. And we still believe that there are instructors who know that these students are learning about all they can be expected to learn from their courses, who will, because of a few mediocre quiz grades, brand such men as mediocre or poor students. Not every instructor is guilty, of course, but there are far too many tares amidst the wheat. As to the professor having to be a mind reader in order to find out what a student knows without depending absolutely upon quizzes; that is buncombe. One normal human being who associates with another for the space of a scholastic term or session, and is not able to find out what the oth er does or does not know without resorting to monthly quizzing should hardly be leading lads along the road to knowledge. We trust there will be no sui cides over at Bachelor’s Club because of that statement. We have no apologies to make for that editorial. We believe that all is not yet perfect in the instructor-grade-student relation, and we have said so. Reposte, Mr. Faires, and welcome. IS IT A LOSS? Some colleges in the United States are devoting their efforts to eradi cate themselves of students who do not reach or maintain the requirements set forth in the college catalogues. Perhaps those “undesirables,” we will call them for the sake of con- veniency, have paid hard, cold cash for their registration into a college. Perhaps they have spent some three hundreds of dollars in an effort to attend that institution of higher education for a short period of time. UNIFORM TAILOR SHOP TAILOR-MADE SHIRTS, BREECHES, BLOUSES AND SLACKS Mendl & Hornak, Props. 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 CALDWELL’S JEWELRY STORE PHONE No. 5 FOBS VANITIES 1 The Campus Cleaners and Tailors HENRY LOCKE, Manager Alterations, Cleaning, Pressing and Repairs Hats Cleaned and Blocked. Caps Cleaned. Ties Cleaned and Pressed. OVER 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 IT t ! Bryan, Texas Phone 460
