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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 7, 1931)
8 THE BATTALION The Greater Palace Big Double Program NANCY CARROLL in "LAUGHTER” LAUREL AND HARDY In A Three Reel Comedy u Another Fine Mess” P R E VT E W 11 P. M. SATURDAY CONRAD NAGEL in “FREE LOVE” Will Also Be Shown Mon.—Tues.—Wed. Comings SHOW TALK By Fred L. Porter Wednesday night—Assembly Hall, “Liliom.” Thursday night-.—Assembly Hall, “Remote Control.” Thursday, Friday and Saturday— Palace, “Laughter.” Saturday afternoon—Assembly Hall “The Social Lion.” Saturday night—Assembly Hall, “Common Clay.” Preview, Palace, “Free Love.” Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday— Palace, “Free Love.” * * * “Liliom,” a picturization in the Hungarian manner of carnival life, of death, of Heaven, of Hell, is the attraction at the Assembly Hall Wed nesday night. Charles Farrell, only fair, Rose Hobart, excellent. * * William Haines’ latest talkie suc cess, “Remote Control,” comes to tin- Assembly Hall Thursday night. The cinema shows the life of people in a radio station; a clever clairvoyant who directs the activities of his band of thieves through nightly broadcasts; and the love of two of the station’s “hired hands.” * * * “Laughter,” a picture with an ex cellent rating opens -at the Palace Thursday for a three day run. A chor us girl who marries for money only to find that she can’t live without laughter. Fine acting and brilliant dialogue makes this picture a film that is worth seeing. Nancy Carroll is the chorus girl. Frederic Marsh is the young over who steals the picture from the lovely Nancy in spite of her excellent per formance. “Min And Bill” and “Bat Whispers” ^ ■ ^ The New Year Has Just Begun WE HAVE THE NECESSARY ARTICLES TO MAKE THE YEAR SUCCESSFUL FOUNTAIN PENS— STATIONERY- DESK LAMPS— LIGHT GLOBES— ALARM CLOCKS— PENNANTS— UNIFORMS. The Exchange Store The Official Store of the College * * * “The Social Lion,” featuring Jack Oakie, Skeets Gallagher and Mary Brian, is to be seen at the Assembly Hall Saturday afternoon. Oakie, an auto mechanic and would- be pugiiist crashes the gates of the elite because of his uncanny ability in wielding a polo mallet. He falls for one of society’s children and short ly thereafter is made the goat. Gal lagher, as Oakie’s manager has his usual comedy skit. Mary Brian, who has the female lead proves that the way to a man’s heart, and purse, is through his stomach. THE PAN Colleges are failing their students— That’s the startling statement that greeted our eyes while glancing through a current periodical some time ago. The author evidently had covered his subject from every poss ible angle and being a college grad uate himself, his opinions and de ductions can be seriously considered. Present day authors— have been, as a general rule, de voting their efforts toward the des truction of many hitherto awe-in spiring American ideals and making the heroes of history appear as commonplace as the cornor grocer- man. This editorial that we so in tently persued was somewhat of of this nature in that it disrobed our highly regarded institutions of learning and revealed the antiqua ted machinery that so pitifully at tempted to answer the demand of modern knowledge-hungry youths. Recent Investigations— which were carried on to determine the reason for so many college stu dents failing to complete their edu cational exploits because of “flunk ing out” prompted this editor to ex press his views. That the college might be failing the student instead of the reverse condition, possible occured to very few of us, however, we confess entertaining “cynical” views of a paralled nature. Some how we didn’t regard the article as -a flowery alibi for the ambitionless drones who enter college solely to evade labor, but it sounded more as an intelligently reasoned answer to the question arising from the col lege failure evil. Inadequacy of brain power— isn’t aways the reason why students find themselves “on the outside looking in”. Quite often and alarm ingly too frequently, sufficiently in telligent youths are victims of the modern educational evil which might be well termed “highly spec ialization”. When a boy or girl enters college— approximately nine out of ten times neither he nor she is fully decided as to what course to follow through out life Consequently, shouldn’t some liberalization be exercised by the institution which they are at tending ? Instead the student is steered and set along a course much the same as one would navi gate a ship, and even though the subject matter at hand becomes dry and uninteresting, and its impor tance unquestionable, it must be met and passed satisfactorily else no di ploma, that awe-inspiring certificate of absolute educational domination, will be awarded. Should the stu dent falter or pause to question his blind pursuits, he loses step with his classmates and as a result becomes an outcast, a failure. At home he becomes the target of abuse, his father’s anger, his mother’s tears, and all because his dreams of ivy-covered building, tradition-laden campus, and kindly personally interested professors had become a nightmare of the most ex acting studies taught by impersonal seekers of masters degrees or old men whose fires of ambition had died long ere this. If you should be so unfortuneate— that you are compelled to leave school at some time because of fail ing, don’t seek comfort in this man’s ideas but regard them as something worthwhile and use your costly ex perience as a tool wherewith to find your vocation. Use Co-ed's Diary In Party Investigations TIFFIN, O.—Three co-eds and a young man, all students of Heidelberg College here, have been indefinitely suspended by the faculty after an extensive inevstigation by that body. The explanation of the suspensions on the campus was simply “infrac tion of the rules and smoking.” It was learned, however, that mem bers of the faculty are carrying on an investigation of parties that have been held in and near Tiffin. Other students are said to be under suspi cion. It was also learned on good author ity that the factulty members have possession of the diary of a co-ed from which they have gained infor mation which is aiding them in their investigations. To Aid Liberal Arts Colleges In America CHICAGO, 111.—A plan to secure a fund of $200,000,000 for the benefit of American liberal arts colleges has been formulated by the Liberal Arts College Movement, recently organiz ed with President Ward, of Western Maryland College as chairman. The purpose of the movement, its sponsors declare, is to promote liberal arts studies. “We shall undertake a vast adver tising campaign,” said Dr. H. J. Burghstahler, of Cornell College, Mount Vernon, Iowa,- “which shall urge American youth to undertake such college work as will make them well-rounded citizens. Too frequently students are graduated with a lop sided education. They know one sub ject very well, but don’t know any thing about anything else.”