THE BATTALION
THE BATTA.LICN
Student weekly publication of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of
Texas.
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EDITORIAL STAFF
ROBT. L. HERBERT Editor-in-Chief
C. V. ELLIS ...Managing Editor
J. A. BARNES Associate Editor
FRED L. PORTER Associate Editor
G. M. WRENN Associate Editor
W. G. CARNAHAN Associate Editor
J. L. KEITH —Art Editor
RUSTY SMITH Associate Art Editor
FRANK W. THOMAS JR Sports Editor
BUSINESS STAFF
R. N. WINDERS Business Manager
W. F. FRANKLIN Assistant Business Manager
W. J. NEUMAN ...Circulation Manager
THE NEW SENIOR COURT
If the proposed actions of the Senior Court are realized, the
impeached student will have realized his justice and the originator
or originators of the plan are to be highly commended for making
the changes.
It has long been desirous both on the parts of those brought
before the court and the unaffected students that some more rea
sonable and loftier method be installed to take care of the offend
ers of the regulations; so any change, whether wholly desirable or
not, just so it is an improvement, will hit the students with open
arms. The tentative changes seem acceptable in their entirety.
A & M graduates are unfortunately notorious for crimes commit
ted at the dinner table.
A responsible person among us has had an idea. It has been
suggested that we institute a course in the fundamentals of eti
quette—this course to be taught by women. Ideas and sugges
tions, however, do very little good unless some action is taken. The
question is, if this course were offered, would you take it? And
will you help get it started?
For purposes of diplomacy, tea-sipping was not mentioned
in this article. If it had been, probably the entire student body
would have rejected the idea instantly. We admit that it is an
unusual change, but we must change one way or another. We
cannot stand still very long, and it breaks no worthwhile tradition
to move forward. To be eligible for this course you will not have
to be a member of the Knights of the Pink Tea Table nor will your
little finger have to be habitually dislocated.
—Two who have been embarrassed.
New York—IP—Milton H. Thomas
has announced plan for an endow
ment fund of $100,000 to provide im
portant additions to the Columbian
collection of books, manuscripts, maps
and other memorabilia now in the
possession of Columbia University,
and to make these available to stu
dents, alumni and scholars in all
parts of the world.
THE NEW LIBRARY
Care of the new Cushing Memorial library building and equip
ment is imperative not because it is college property, but because
it is a gift to us students, invaluable to each of us irrespective of
our frequency to it. It is a sturdy and architectural structure sel
dom excelled. This is particularly true of its interior finish.
The striking of matches on the walls and the unequal distribution
of cigarette butts on the floor will be the more likely ornamental
student contributions to the building.
For no better manner of approach, we sincerely appeal to you
to exercise more thoughtfullness while in the building so that its
present beauty may be maintained.
Bethlehem, Pa.,—IP—After a care
ful study, Dean Max McConn, of Le
high University has found that only
one in eight of the lower half scholas
tically at high school manages to
complete his college course.
The dean believes that admission
to college should be as highly selec
tive as the circumstances of each
particular institution will permit.
Urbana, O.—IP—Not more than 24
undergraduates were expected to
register at Urbana University when
it opens here this fall. The univer
sity boasts the smallest student body
of any higher educational institution
in the United States.
The size of the student body was
swelled somewhat by the institution
of a new course in music.
To perpetuate the Hawaiian race,
the United States government has ap
proved a second appropriation of one
million dollars which is to be used to
establish natives on farms on the
island of Molokai.
INTESTINAL FORTITUDE
NEW EXTENSION WORKER
Regulations are regulations and it so happens that here at
A & M the regulations are military. Occasionally we have the de
sire to break one or more of these; oft times we carry out the im
pulse, but to the end that we are caught and sentenced. More of
ten, though, we are not caught, and even if so, the sympathy in the
man usually overrides his better judgement and he smoothes it
out for us.
But that is not the point! If you have to have rebellious in
stincts and see fit to carry them through, that is all right; but to
plead like a bleeding sheep and bename your captor a feather-leg
just because he found you out, instead of standing your punishment
without a whimper, shows the lack of guts—the outstanding char
acteristic of a real man!
The highest temperature during the
past summer season was recorded in
Death Valley, Eastern California,
wherle the thermometer registered
130 degrees one day.
The latest busts to be place.' in the
Hall of Fame include those of James
Fenimore Cooper, Elias Howe, (.eorge
Bancroft, Horace Mann, Joseph Story,
Patrick Henry, John Lothrop Motely,
James Russell Lowell and John
Quincy Adams.
New York State has the largest
single supply of radium in the world.
CAMPUS
SHOE SHOP
Serving A. & M.
Since “91”
STUDENT COMMENT
A MATTER OF POLISH
Do the students of Texas A & M lack polish and refinement ?
Do we need such things here on the campus? Just a minute fel
lows—Who needs electrical engineering, horticulture or economics
here on the campus? Obviously nobody. Serious students, how
ever, would like very much to have some knowledge of these things
after leaving.
Polish and refinement? The mechanics of table manners?
Tact of approach, the ability to entertain by smoothness of con
versation in formal, mixed company? Let us, if we please, be dif
ferent and original for a moment and look just a little into the fu
ture.
Just to the Christmas holidays, for instance. Nearly every
one of us will attend, during that time, a more or less formal af
fair of some sort. After three and one half months of the cat
and dog environment enjoyed so hilariously in the mess hall, will
you feel natural and at ease in such a position? Be frank with
yourself and the answer is obvious.
To the more mature students who are able to look ahead pos
sibly five or six years, we offer this situation. You are invited
out to dinner by the president of the company. You are seated
between the manager and the chief engineer. Will your conduct
so impress them that you will be given the retiring manager’s
position ? We wonder. Instances on record point to the opposite.
Miss Elizabeth D. Terrill, of Culpep
er, Va., was recently appointed nutri
tion specialist in hte division of rural
home research, Texas Agricultural
Experiment Station, succeeding Miss
Emma E. Sumner, resigned. Miss
Terrill becomes a co-worker with Dr.
Jessie Whitacre, chief of the division
of rural home research, in nutrition
projects under way which include the
adequacy of diet and growth in height
and weight of Texas school children.
Miss Terrill received B. A. degree
from Hollins College, Hollins, Va. in
1917 and M. A. degree in the chemis
try of foods from Columbia Univer
sity in 1924. During the past year
she took work in graduate nutrition
courses at Columbia toward her Ph. D.
degree. She has had considerable
teaching experience also, including
grade and qunior high school work
and work at the Girls Preparatory
School, Chatanooga, Tenn. and St.
Mary’s College, Raleigh, N. C. She
also served as head of the laboratory
for research in oil extraction of the
Southern Cotton Oil Company at Sa
vannah, Ga.
Senhora Bernardina Conrado da
Silva Guimaraes, of Pernambuco,
Brazil died recently at the reputed
age of 113. She had 129 direct de-
cendents.
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Next to Blue Moon Filling
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We are sole representatives
for the designers and man
ufacturers of the new model
1931 Senior Ring. (This
ring can also be made with
any numerals on it.)
A. & M. Jewelry
Watch Repairing
J. P. Davidson, 40 Puryear,
Representative
SANKEY PARK
JEWELER
WHEN YOU WANT
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Company C, Infantry
College Agent
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