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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.
Member of National College Press Association
and makes a bull’s eye at his target—the dome of our Proxy.
As a man our President is the greatest friend that any student on this
campus has had or could expect to have; as a friend of and with a deep-
hearted interest in the parallel of the elite colleges of the country, he has
no superior, and yet some one with more emotion than brains, someone
with more of that ‘ Brother Aggie spirit” than horse sense, and someone
with more guts than mental development, disregards all the efforts of this
man and exposes in one moment the type of man he is. Such as this needs
no colleg’e education but demands that he be removed to the gi'ades, for he
has not yet reached the level of the moron’s stage.
Not only did did he as a man demand respect far in excess of this, but also
as our friend, as our President, and as a host, he should have been given
a clear field for any activities which he desired to partake in at such a time.
The sad part of it all is that the offender got away with the act, not
because it was justifiable, but because he had a surrounding of friends who
swallowed their pride for his defense.
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.
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EDITORIAL STAFF
L. W. JOHNSTON
S. C. GIESEY
Y. B. GRIFFIS
P. A. DRESSER
C. WILLIAMS
R. L. HERBERT
C. V. ELLIS
W. G. CARNAHAN
J. A. BARNES
M. H. HOLLOWAY
S. A. ROELOFS
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Associate Editor
Sports Editor
Associate Editor
News Editor
Associate News Editor
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Assistant News Editor
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Columnist
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COLLEGE INTOLERANCE
College students are notorious for their decided and unyielding atti
tudes towai’d matters—the lesser the grounds for convictions, the moi’e
jealously is the attitude preserved and advanced. For example, we invaria
bly hear professors and. students referred to as “princess” or “flat tires.”
If they are not “rubber sports” they are ignnominiously categorized as “rub
ber heels.” Men are dissected mercilessly, whether their censor is an ac
quaintance, even to a casual extent, or not. They pass by in judgement and,
often found wanting, they are often harshly cndemned to a state of eternal
insufficiency.
Exactly the same frame of mind is exhibited toward problems and
issues either local, national, religious, economic, or racial in charac
ter—Views on such problems are often radilal and biased or ob
noxious in their narrow-minded conservatism. Very seldom is moderation
exhibited when events or conditions are discussed, which is seldom indeed,
for the average student is sublime in his indifference to anything beyond
the pale of his comparatively unimportant collegiate world.
It comes as no surprise when such lack of reasoning and moderation
is shown by the proletariat, those uncouth millions who have never basked
in a collegiate atmosphere, or absorbed the drops of wisdom from the mouths
of the learned. The hectic scramble to wrest sustenance from a selfish world
leaves little time for mental growth. Therefore it creates little consterna
tion to find multitudes taking unholy pride in their prejudices and decided
but irrational and hasty judgements. But when we find the same quality
displayed so widely among university students, then we maintain something
of a spirit of alarm.
The university student is supposed to be cultured and tolerant, but
there is nowhere a group which is more susceptible to the ballyhoo of the
press and the silly abrocodabra of acquaintances. Nowhere is the color or
social line more closely drawn than on the campus; nowhere are opinions
more easily formed or actions molded; nowhere can militaristic fervor or
racial prejudice be initiated with less effort. It should be a cause of concern
that the collegiate mind so very seldom arrives at an original unprejudiced
view on a situation. We would suggest cutting a few unimportant studies,
with which every course is cluttered, and inserting several nine-unit courses
in tolerance and self-thinking under the supervision of competent instruc
tors. Of curse it will never be done.—Carnegie Tartan.
RIGHTEOUS INDIGNATION
And then you sit around and wonder why your so-called “better than
thou” class of brother Aggies keep reminding you of your unthinking, crude,
and country acts which you not only persist in doing, but resist any effort
on anybody’s part to help you out and con-ect the same. The act which we
have particularly for your note is one which, even though the offender’s
ears are touching due to lack of the separation element will be of no inter
est to you except as an item taken much the same as you do the puns of
the “Whiz Bang.”
You may recall that on the day previous to the last Senior banquet that
Dr. Walton was taking through the mess hall some distinguished visitors
from Texas University and Austin. This situation has always demanded the
utmost courtesy and manners on the part of all who were in the mess hall at
the time. Just as the group arrived at the door junction of the main dining-
room and annex and were looking into the larger of the two rooms, some
bright minded, intelligent, and very considerate chap up and heaves a bun
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