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THE BATTALION
THE BATTALION
Student weekly publication of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of
Texas.
Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at College Station, Texas,
under the Act of Congress, March 3, 1879.
Subscription by the year, $1.75.
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ROBT. L. HERBERT
C. V. ELLIS
FRED L. PORTER
J. A. BARNES
M. J. BLOCK
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W. G. CARNAHAN
J. L. KEITH
RUSTY SMITH
FRANK W. THOMAS JR.
W. J. FAULK
J. C. POSGATE
A. C. MOSER JR
D. B. McNERNEY
C. M. EVANS
P. J. JOHN
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H. G. SEELIGSON II
L. A. LELAURIN
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HIGH SCHOOL COLLEGIANS
A small orange and white placard bearing the legend, “Down
the A & M Boy Scouts,” published by a thoughtless eating house
proprietor in Austin, has been receiving far more consideration by
members of the cadet corps than such a childish contrivance
merits.
When we were in high school such things were considered
quite “up to the minute,” as were acts like that which recently
occurred when the A & M stadium and other parts of the athletic
plant were disfigured with paint. A recent editorial in The Semi-
Weekly Campus of S M U, the work of another college student
not yet out of his childhood, should also be placed in this category.
We go to Austin this week, not to avenge any remarks made
by the Austin cafe owner and not to unloose pent-up feelings arous
ed by sophomoric actions of other student bodies, but to lend our
support from the stands to the players on the gridiron.
Let us leave the kindergarten pranks to members of the
other schools.
CAMPUS CCA4A4ENT
This column is open to signed contributions from members of the student body and
faculty at A & M. Contributions must be either typewritten or legibly written in ink,
and The Battalion reserves the right to refuse publication of any contribution consid
ered unfit
AN APOLOGY FROM RICE
Dr. T. O. Walton, President,
Texas A. and M. College,
College Station, Texas.
Dear Dr. Walton:
We regret that some Rice enthusiasts saw fit to paint signs
on the Aggie Stadium and the Rally Club wishes to assume the
responsibility for seeing that these signs are properly removed.
Four members of the Club will come to College Station Tuesday
morning, arriving there about noon, to personally remove these
signs from your premises.
It has been suggested that the signs on the fence be painted
over but we feel that a skilled workman will be needed to plaster
over the painting on the Stadium. I shall call you by long distance
Monday to inquire if you have a skilled plasterer on the campus
or one available in Bryan. The Rally Club will stand all expenses
in connection with this work.
We sincerely hope that this act on our part will erase from
your minds the memory of this unfortunate incident. Although
the Rally Club was unaware of the painting of these signs we feel
that it is our duty to remove them.
We shall call at your office on our arrival in College Station
Tuesday to meet with your Supervisor of Buildings, or some other
representative, who can direct this work.
Trusting that the future will hold only the friendliest of rela
tions between our two schools, I am
Very sincerely yours,
Mason Barron, President Rally Club.
WITH REGARD TO OUR CONDUCT
j In the past it has been the object of this college to make men,
real men, of the boys sent here and to feed them to the public in
such a manner that it could give them a once over before accept
ing them. Through the history of the college there has been a
reputation built that has enabled the succeeding citss to step into
the world without the close examination, but in the last few years
there has been a destructive force working on the campus. The
few “ever-spry,” members of the “smart-set” have inaugurated
a new, but false, axiom reading that “anything will do for brains.
There has been a few who have gone so far as to change the axiom
to read “no brains will do”—But here is the sad part: there has
been an overlooking of the true characteristics of a man for those
characteristics not so true. We should know by now that a man
does not always feature a large, hairy chest, bull-like neck, mus
cle-bound arms, and a vocabulary of ear-bursting quality. There
is such a thing as being a man in mind as well as in body. Will
Durant says, “It was through thought that man was made.” I
venture to say that those few who have consistantly started mind-
slide in the picture shows have been totally ignorant of the fact
that this college has as one of its purposes the development of the
mind. To those who have not passed the childish stage of stomp
ing their feet, wise-cracking of parts of the feature, and thus mak
ing their vulgarity publically known, I suggest they be watched
when they go home for fear they will take the playthings away
from the baby. There should be a play house provided for those
few (and I repeat there are only a few), who refuse to pass the
stage of childhood, to which they could be directed when it becomes
impossible for them to longer act the part of a full grown man.
The shows are one of the few sources of intertainment pro
vided for your and my benefit, but is the one next to you enjoying
the show above the distracting effect of your filabustreing. These
shows are given us as a result of the endless labors of members
of the “Y” cabinet and we should show our appreciation to them
by acting our age in the house during the showing.
Thank You.
GLENN H. FRANKHOUSER
November 15, 1930.
University of Utah students are
campaigning to have a number of
their professors placed in the Hall of
Fame being selected by a Salt Lake
City newspaper.
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Them Good Malted Milks
We Still Make Them
King’s, Whitman’s and
Pangburn’s Candies
HOLMES BROTHERS
Confectionery
Campus Barber Shop
In the “Y”
LOOK OUT TEXAS U
WE’RE GOING TO WIN THAT TURKEY DAY GAME
BERT SMITH, Prop.
Feature
Edition
Another one of those feature editions of The
Battalion, chock full of stories, cartoons,
rhymes, jokes and other features, will be pub
lished Wednesday, December 17.
Free show tickets go to the contributors of
the five best jokes, rhymes, jingles, cartoons,
illustrated jokes, etc., which are accepted.
Fall in line and help us give A & M College a
monthly magazine which will rank with the
best of them.
Will your name be among the contributors?