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THE BATTALION
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Published every Wednesday night by the Students’ Association of the
Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas.
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Entered as second-class matter at the post office at Bryan, Texas, under
the Act of Congress March 3rd., 1879.
we writing about Spring when April is two months away ?
But Spring is imminent. It is coming—it always has, we suppose, and,
as we ventured to state above, there is not much that can be done about
it. There is a green mist shrouding the landscape even new, and this in
cludes the vast mud-tundras surrounding College Station. Second term bull-
pens have started and our roommate is in love with the blonde again she
threw him over last term. This is not to be doubted because he used six
sheets of our stationery yesterday. But it is not his fault. It is Spring.
This season has heretofore been hailed by us with delight, but we aie
getting educated now and it happens along too regularly. We-can study in
the rain that deluges us for nine months, but who can concentrate wdth
a raging- spring fever? It is time to stop this folly and start taking Spiing
forgranted. Girls can be pretty in Winter, even if they do wear more clothes,
and birds have been birds since the Jurassic period. Poets are eccentric, but
there is no sane reason for them to be more painful in April than in an^
other month. Oh well, we have protested. Spring can come now if it wants
to.
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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
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
Associate Editor
Associate Editor
Sports Editor
Associate Editor
Assistant Sports Editor
News Editor
. Associate News Editor
Assistant News Editor
.Assistant News Editor
Columnist
Columnist
BUSINESS STAFF
LESTER HANKS Business Manager
D. W. SHERRILL Assistant Business Manager
J. A. REYNOLDS Circulation Manager
An editorial on this subject is not yet justifiable but rather we deem
just a word at the present time enough to call attention to the existing
condition. The senior sections in the Assembly Hall are not being observ
ed properly by under classmen, and unless improvement is shown further
measures will be taken.
THE INTELLIGENCIA
Every community has a certain element which is known as The Intel-
ligoncia: the driving power of the community, and every factor of develop
ment passes through the hands of this particular savant group. Our cam
pus is a community and it’s inhabitants lead a different existence than the
normal community—we live apart from the rest of the world. Our minds
soar above the world in an ether which is free and pure! “Untramelled, we
deal in vast abstractions.” The passing years may cause the ether to van
ish and may bring- disillusion to us, yet we shall never wish to forget these
college days. Disillusion may come in later years, but no one can deny that
this community of ours has its intelligencia and that we are governed by
it’s leadership and guidance. The highest ideals of the real man are rep
resented in this group and when they act, everyone falls in the rut and fol
lows. We are not referring to the faculty, but to the students: the stu
dent’s intelligencia and after a brief but accurate analyzing, we find that
group to possess those qualities which make our campus and college shine
in scintillating features and activities far above the colleges and univer
sities throughout the land. You know who comprises that group for they
perceive and we act and insensibly we take on new ideals that the intel
ligencia possess. Look about and around you and notice each member of
that group and when you find one, notice his actions, his characteristics,
and leadership, and then psycoanalyze yourself to see if you are like him
in any way. Indeed the qualities of our intelligencia are not perfect, but
aren’t they far reaching? It should be the high ambition of every man
not only to be a leader in his business or profession, but, because of his
public spirit and unselfish devotion to the student body to be justly called
“our leading student,” and his title of a “leader” comes only because he sur
passes others in the quality of his work.
AFTER WINTER GOES
It is happening. We feared this, but there was nothing much for us
to do about the event. Spring will be here pretty soon; it is hard by in the
sunny Southland, and last week we saw the Doodle birds flying north where
they will be presently referred to as “harbingers” on every editorial page.
There is a suspicious lassitude permeating the campus, and only today we
saw a friend staring intently at a collection of dangerous curves . . . Just
walking along staring and thinking of nothing at all . . .
It is all unreasonable and distressing. Why should this period between
Winter and Summer transform lousy sparrows into harbingers and make
pretty girls prettier ? Why should every embryo inkslinger lurk, pen in
hand, in waiting' for the returning cuckoos? Why do bards, great and small,
invariably choose this time to voice their shrillist song? Why should we
sleep through classes—why should profs attempt to keep us awake when |
they realize fully that we are mentally, if not physically, asleep ? Why are
ROBISON CRUSOE LIVED A
LONELY LIFE
How a photograph would have cheered him.
Is your sweetheart a Hobison Crusoe ? She will
appreciate a photograph of yourself and no
doubt you have other friends who will like one
also. Made from your Lorghorn negative or
£ new.
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