THE BATTALION
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United States Senate. A newly in
stalled ventilation system sucked into
the Senate chamber a part of a fog
which hung over Capitol Hill and a
blue haze hung over the chamber
thoroughout the night session.
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It may be assumed rather definitely,
I think, that the socalled “over-em-
phastis” on college athletics—a hack
neyed subject for writing about which
journalists are still drawing down
large checks from the magazines—has
assumed a place beside the prohibi
tion question as the Great American
Bogery. What over-emphasis there is,
it appears, is in the columns of news
papers, which devote ten times more
space to sporting events on the cam
pus than they do to academic events.
I say this with confidence based on
the fact that scarcely a college edi
tor this year has not been forced to
write an editorial deploring the lack
of college spirit in attendance and yel
ling at football games.
Now college spirit is a good thing
for many reasons, but it is not neces
sarily bound up with attendance and
yelling at games. The college editors
who have found it necessary to “jack
up” their readers in this way, I think
have misplaced their energy. They
have been reading the papers and
have found that college football is
more impoi'tant to the public than the
students seems to believe. Much more
to the point would be editorials in the
college papers commending the stu
dents on their dying interest in big
time sports, and pointing to the fact
that such interest is dying on the cam
pus as giving the life to the pessi
mists who thinks college students are
going to the devil.
Show me the college coach who re
ceives as big an ovation on the campus
as he does off the campus, and I’ll
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A year ago—
we cherished the anticipation of
being a member of that class which
traditionally steps from the picture
of military responsibility for a
brief period and occupies itself
with the building up of a separate
individuality or peculiar character
Now that we have reached that idea
listic point of our college careers we
find ourselves being hurled back in
to the fray by having unnecessary
responsibilities heaped upon us
We hoped to occupy our time—
in really and truly receiving worth
while returns from this machine-like
college of our. Heretofore we had
been, first the raw material and
next the shapeless mass. Just
when we arrive at the point when
we begin to assume some half-way
discernable shape, we are called up
on to sacrifice our noble ideals as
a result of additional duties.
Perhaps some of you—
are “in the dark” about the inci
dent we have reference to. Not
long ago, the Artillery juniors were
accused of shirking their “duties”.
As a result it has been deemed best
they assume certain capacities
which have heretofore belonged ex
clusively to the senor cadet officers.
True enough it is that the above
action has affected only one organi
zation, but it is not unreasonable
to believe that such encrouchment
upon the junior’s good nature can
spread.
A regretable incident occured—
last week at the Aggie-Texas bas
ketball game. Referee “Ziggy”
Sears called a technical foul a-
gainst the Aggie team when the
Corps indulged in what he thought
was the unsportsman-like conduct
of “hissing” while a Texas man at
tempted a free-throw. In reality,
the Corps was trying to abate some
of the noise itself. Mr. Sears, how
ever, was justified in his actions and
henceforth it should be the corps
personal interest to see that such
should never occur again.
Please note well—
that we are leaving the question
concerning the ring selection made
by the juniors, alone. There were
147 for and 137 against the adop
tion of the new ring, and since we
learned at our mother’s knee to be
careful about antagonizing even so
many as ten, we think it’s a nice
day if anyone happens to ask us.
show you a coach who has other ar-
tributes than those bound up merely
with being a good field general.
Prof. Ralph W. Aigler, of the Uni
versity of Michigan, has made an ex
cellent point when he says that stu
dents lose a lot more sleep entertain
ing their visiting parents on football
days than they do over football it
self.
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BUKHAREST, ROMANIA. — A
member of the National Academy of
Fine Arts in Moscow, was slain re
cently while swimming across the
River Denister in an attempt to es
cape Soviet Russia.
Frontier guards here saw the man
desperately swimming the river with
bullets from Soviet guards spatter
ing the water about him. As he
reached shore and clambered up the
Roumanian tank, he was struck in
the neck by a bullet, and before he
died murmered to the Roumanian
guards:
“I am Tscherbakow, a member of
the National Academy of Fine Arts
in Moscow.”
His body was returned to his Soviet
pursuers.
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