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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.
EDITORIAL STAFF
ROBT. L. HERBERT
C. V. ELLIS
FRED L. PORTER
J. A. BARNES
M. J. BLOCK
O. M. WRENN
W. G. CARNAHAN ,
J. L. KEITH ..:
R. S. COLLEY :...
RUSTY SMITH .....
T. S. ROOTS ■....
FRANK W. THOMAS JR. ...
W. J. FAULK
J. C. POSGATE '...
A. C. MOSER JR i..
D. B. McNERNEY ,
C. M., EVANS
P. J. JOHN ,
A. J. MILLER ;
H. G'. r SEELIGSON II *.
L. A. LULAURIN 1.
Editor-in-Chief
Managing Editor
Feature Editor
Associate Editor
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; Art Editor
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... Associate Art Editor
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.Associate Sports Editor
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* News Editor
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BUSINESS
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R. N. Winders \ Business Manager
W. F. FRANKLIN ! Assistant Business Manager
W. J/ NEUMAN „..! Circulation Manager
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just tweWty-three more days
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Now that one week o|f the New Year has passed and all of our
resolutions have been broken leaving our minds free to think of
other things, it seems fitting that we pause a while to count the
number of days which remain before the close of the first term and
the posting of final grades.
Not as many as youi thought, are there? Twenty-three, to
be exact, twenty-three days which many of us will waste just as
we have wasted the four months past while others of us will use
them advantageously—perhaps • to make fast our hold on a few
extra grade points or to bring up those grades which fell just a bit
below the passing mark December 1.
Now is certainly the time for balancing the books. Another
week and it will probably be too late, but with three weeks to go,
it will not be difficult to overcome what seems now to be an almost
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lriSl.irrriOLirit3.bl6 Obst3Cl6. }
Check up on those grades, find just where you stand and hit
the weakest point the most powerful blow. The result may sur
prise you. 1
CAMPUS CCMMENT
This column is open to sig:
faculty at A & M. Contribute
and The Battalion reserves the
ered\ unfit,
ned contributions from members of the student body and
ons must be either typewritten or legibly written in ink,
? right to refuse publication of any contribution consid-
AN EXPRESSION FROM COACH BELL
(Editor’s note—The following letter from Coach Madison
Beil was received by The Battalion prior to the Christmas holidays,
but because the details of the Christmas issue of the publication
had alreatdy been arranged i,t was necessary to withold it until
. this- time..)- .'1
Did You Know
By J. A. Barnes
The Christmas holidays are OVER ?
“Dammit” or “Thank Goodness,” as
the case might be.
? ? ? ?
The song “Hail! Hail! The Gang’s
All Here” is an operatic selection? It
is taken from Gilbert and Sullivan’s
opera “Pirates of Penzance.”
? ? ? ?
The exact location of College Sta
tion on this old world is Longitude
96° 21' 30" West—Lattitude 30° 38’
30" North?
? ? ? ?
At the request of “powers that be”
the following were returned to the
mess hall: 160 teaspoons; 140 knives;
45 forks; 53 ice cream dishes; 66
glasses; 9 coffee pots; and 64 pie
plates ?
? ? ? ?
There are 42 keys on the standard
typewriter key board ?
In an interview with the Daily
Princetonian, Princeton undergraduate
publication, Dr. Henry Van Dyke de
nied having called the award of the
Nobel literature prize to Sinclair Lew
is “an insult to America.”
Once to every man and nation
Comes the moment to decide,
In the strife of truth with falsehood,
For the good or evil side.
But the case presents no problem
To the White House engineer;
He appoints a big commission
To report some time next year.
—Senator George Norris, of Neb.
STEPPING INTO A 1V1 O O E R N WOR8LID
To The Student Body:— . '
. . In Jaehalf of myself, all of,the coaches on my staff and the en
tire football squad, I take this opportunity to express our sincere
■ appreciation for the unexcelled cooperation, support and fighting
spirit which the student body gave this fall under the direction of
that fine leader, Fred Buford,,and his staff. It hurt all of us to
keep losing- as we did and it hurt each of you students but you took
it manfully and that is the, reason the spirit of Aggieland is un
equaled. Most of that footbq.il squad will be here next fall and
that spirit will cause them to i^ive you everything in their power
for a winner next fall. That &ame spirit assures A & M of many
great teams in future years. 1 1
.. . . ; .MADISON BELL
The mayor of the city of iLynn, Mass., gives out that he is
going to put a stop to flirting on the streets. Won’t Lynn look
funny, without any girls!—Cleveland Plain Dealer.
—5—-—1. ;
It is pot the clear-sighted who lead the world. Great achieve
ments are accomplished in a blefesed, warm, mental fog.—Joseph
.Conrad.. ...
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Charting tomorrow’s telephone needs
Looking ahead — laying a firm founda
tion for tomorrow’s telephone service
— has long been a keystone policy of
the Bell System.
To illustrate: business starts creeping
into a residential district — a sign that
greatly increased telephone facilities will
be required. Through intensive studies,
commercial engineers forecast the needs
of five or more years hence with scien
tific accuracy. Additional exchanges,
cable ducts, equipment of all kinds are
planned and built. When the call comes
the telephone company is ready.
So long as the nation continues to
change and grow, the plotting of its fu
ture telephone needs will never grow
dull. y opportunity is there!
BELL SYSTEM
A NATION-WIDE SYSTEM OF I N T E R - G O N N E C T I N G TELEPHONES