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THE B ATT ALIO N
THE EATTALICN
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
G. 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
D. B. McNERNEY
C. M. EVANS
P. J. JOHN
A. J. MILLER
H. G. SEELIGSON II
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BUSINESS
R. N. WINDERS Business Manager
W. F. FRANKLIN Assistant Business Manager
W. J. NEUMAN Circulation Manager
of Texas for the wonderful part played by A. and M. College and
the Band in the program of the Inaugural ceremonies and Recep
tion given Governor Sterling here yesterday.
Captain Harry and all the other officials and members of the
A. and M. party contributed greatly to the success of the occasion,
and all of us want to thank those who were in the party, as well
as the student body at large, for their kind assistance given in this
matter. The entire party displayed, as is very characteristic of
the College and its training in the art of music, the refinement of
their conduct and attentiveness to the duties assigned. Texas is
proud of A. and M. College and we hope that you shall continue to
advance in the wonderful achievements as you have in the past.
With kindest personal regards and best wishes, I am,
Sincerely yours,
CLAUDE D. TEER,
Chairman, State Board of Control.
PAYS TRIBUTE TO YOUTH
Paying tribute to youth by saying
that the young were always hopeful
and optimistic, Dr. F. S. Groner,
president of the Marshall Junior Col
lege, delivered the chapel address
Sunday, January 18. “Youth,” said
Dr. Groner, “is like Napoleon, who
saw the world and dared to conquer
it. The spirit of youth is to try un
til success is attained, failure not be
ing in the vocabulary of the young.
For this reason youth is the mainstay
of armies and the accomplishers of
the greatest achievements.”
No one, it has been observed, is
ever completely miserable while suck
ing a chocolate caramel.—Ivor Brown.
One man’s meat being, as we know,
another man’s poison, it is foolish and
presumptuous for a man to prescribe
for other men, to tell other men what
their way of life should be.—Robert
Hichens.
Erect Building- For
Demonstration Home
A model six room cottage, desig
ned by Ernest Langford of the archi-
tectual department, which will be
known as the Key Demonstration
Farm Home, is now under construc
tion on the southeast portion of the
campus in the vicinity of the Consoli
dated School. The purpose of build
ing the house is to show the farmer
that it is possible for him to have a
good home architectually regardless
of its smallness. Lumber used in the
building of the cottage has been do
nated by the Texas Lumbermen As
sociation and the entire house-hold
nated by the Texas Lumbermen’s As-
ious manufacturers. The architec-
tual design follows the colonial style
in its adaption to small cottages.
The home will be used for demon
stration purposes by the Extension
Service.
EDUCATION OR DIPLOMA?
What is a diploma? How many of us really know what this
bit of sheep skin that we’re struggling for, that our mothers and
fathers are paying for, is? Not many. Most of us have a hazy
idea that when we walk upon the rostrum at Guion Hall and shake
Prexy by the hand we have achieved our ultimate end. We think
Prexy is handing us a “jimmy” to pry open the world’s treasure
house door.
Somehow or other it doesn’t work that way. Men, business
men, have different ideas on the subject. They expect us to work.
^Really they do. Why, some of them have been heard to say that
college, our glorious institution, should be looked upon as a method
of training young men to study and apply what they will learn in
later life. Now doesn’t that sound funny? To study and apply
what we will learn in later life. Frankly, how many of us have the
Idea that we will be fully equipped with all necessary information
for earning a livelyhood when we leave college? Have an idea
that all we need to learn after graduation is the address of the
bootlegger and some phone numbers? Too many of us blindly
believe just that. There is a sad awakening coming to us and if
we can just get this awakening over before cold experience knocks
it into us we will be that much ahead of the mob. Come on and
try it.
POLITICS AND EDUCATION
The fact that three national associations composed from the
leading colleges of the country have refused to recognize all Mis
sissippi institutions under the jurisdiction of state offcials empha
sizes at least one truth. Education and partisan politics cannot
successfully be mixed. This is no new revelation. It has been
shown time after time.
It is indeed a hardship on the students attending these va
rious colleges that selfish politicians have so interfered with their
inalienable rights to good education and the natural benefits
thereof. Mississippi has probably made more progress in estab
lishing and improving its educational system over its former status
in the last five years than any other state. Thus for a few ap
parently unscrupulous state officials to do so much damage in
such a short time is no less than a tragedy.
However, the national bodies that officially reprimanded the
action of our sister state’s political overseers have indicated their
willingness to reestablish all Mississippi colleges in good standing
as soon as they regain their former places and show themselves
to be beyond the harm of uneducated job-seekers, prejudiced
politicians and other incompetents.—Tulane Hullabaloo.
CAMPUS CCMMENT
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.
Dr. T. O. Walton, President,
Agricultural and Mechanical College,
College Station, Texas.
Dear Doctor:—
I hasten to write you, as President of A. and M. College, to
express to you the thanks of the citizens of Austin and the people
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