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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
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
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
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
In last week’s edition of the Battalion an editorial appeared under the
head, “Righteous Indignation.” Two assertions were made which are false,
and for which we wish to apologize. The bow was not thrown at Dr. Wal
ton, nor did it hit him, and the offender has been properly punished for
the act.
will die, and we, the downtrodden, abused, browbeaten proletariat masses,
will wave red flags and acquire leisure in which to think. Just what we
I shall think has not yet been divulged, but possibly we shall be given instruc
tions in the near future.
But we are wearily pessimistic. Prohibition, the Infernal Feminine, col-
; lege shows and the Faculty Committee have led us to be deeply suspicious
of anything as much discussed as this question of emulating the Russians
and Karl Marx. For it is written as an axiom guaranteed by numerous pages
in history text books that strife follows new policies of state, and we shall
not rend our youthful beards when the Nation, after listening courteously
to these prophets, continues to wage the deplorable civil war of Capital
versus Labor, while the Democratic donkey and the Republican pachyderm
and the Independent w'hat-not smear mud across every front page in the
country. We are a college generation and we are progressive, but some
times we find ourselves yearning wistfully for some celestial bolt to blow
these “current questions” into nothingness.
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PUBLICATIONS
The majority of the A. and M. colleges of the country have long since
annexed agricultural and engineering papers to the list of their publica
tions, although many are much smaller in size than our institution. But
now the reins have been taken in hand; we are to be classed with them.
The new movement here sems to the writer to herald an era of progress,
heretofore unknown in these specialized fields. The advisibility and advan
tage of what is being done is not a matter of conjecture. Unquestionably
our size and importance as an engineering school and as an agricultural
school justifies the interest being taken to make the magazines successful.
The national recognition we shall undoubtedly receive will improve our rat
ing considerably.
If the engineering magazine continues its existence the college pub
lications will total four. There are few schools in the East which are able
to maintain more than this number, excluding scandal sheets, etc. From
this standpoint, making a generality, we are certainly not backward. In
the field of publication work no one can rate us a back seat.
And still no department of journalism.
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Where Service and Friendship Meet
BERT SMITH, Prop.
WHY?
There is a market difference between constructive criticism and gri
ping and this distinction should be justly considered when reading an article
in these columns concerning- any phase or relations of our collegiate sur
roundings whether they be of the nature which concerns the college or of
the nature which concerns the student body activities and traditions.
Any article submitted by anyone speaking authoritatively on an exist
ing condition shall receive equal consideration as will staff written articles
provided such writings be on a parallel with those customarily here pre
sented.
It is our object to improve our college as one with a deep interest in
it and its value in an educational way. To edit a school paper for an entire
year without benefitting the school would be a very poor compliment to us;
with this in mind we present articles under the above head.
What interest do you take in your school? None! If you did you wouldn’t
sit idly by and not only allow but encourage acts becoming only to a moron
incapable of thinking. This school is yours and for your benefit and only
beneficial efforts should be expended on your part for it. The process of
thinking is not impossible to any except the lazy.
OUR SOCIETY
Indignation, however righteous, is easy. Pessimism is easy, too. That is
how we became pessimists long- ag-o. And the succession of socialistic ad
dresses recently delivered in the Assembly Hall have made socialism sim
ple and comprehensible to most of us. There is nothing to it. The capitalists
—the wicked, wealthy men, who thrive by means of unearned increment—
will soon cut their own throats, the pathetic current attempt at democracy
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MARCH 6-7-8
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