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THE BATTALION
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EDITORIAL STAFF
CLAUDE M. EVANS
PHILIP JOHN
M. J. BLOCK
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Dent, Lewis Gross, E. C. Roberts, W. H. Mecom.
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Now Is The Time For Every Good Man To—
The New Year is Leap Year and, if you will permit a play on
words, we should like to suggest that it’s time to begin leaping the
hurdles. Yes, these barriers to advancement that are up now are likely
to be up whether the times are fat or lean, and it is likely we shall
never succeed in tearing them down completely; even though they
may be partially overcome.
You know what these barriers are—fear, hesitation, indifference,
and sluggish thinking. But there is a way to overcome them, even
as there is a way for the runner to get over the hurdles that are set
up against him on the race track. Prepardness is the best and almost
only way. The tool is willpower. No one of us is immune to being
encountered by these barriers of progress. Therefore, we should all
build up around us a personal willpower that can be used effectively
to battle all odds at all times.
We realize the importance of this good advice, but too often it
is adhered to entirely too late. If we heeded this advice at the begin
ning of a period of some persued task; for instance, the beginning
of a term of school work, instead of bringing it before our thought when
the end is near, then the story would be exceedingly altered in its
ending.
Give this more than casual thought as you attack the coming
semester’s task. The effects and results will be striking.
The Outlook For 1932 Graduates
Dr. Umphrey Lee is right in saying that 1932 is a fortunate year
in some respects for boys and girls to be graduated from school.
Of course, youngsters who leave the classroom and set out to
find employment will meet serious obstacles, but they will survive, and
their experience will instill into them the attitude of the bee rather
than of that of the grasshopper.
During the period of inflation that ended in 1929, the prevalence
of prosperity made the problems of life appear too simple for millions
of persons. Much of the pessimism of today is the result of the rude
shock to persons who had adopted the grasshopper attitude as their
permanent philosophy of life.
We yearn for restoration of prosperity and the easy life, and are
prone to forget that under the very best of conditions success in life
cannot be achieved without a struggle. In some distant age the human
race may become wise enough to solve all its problems, but that day
is so far in the future that any period of prosperity must be regarded
as temporary.
The graduates of 1932 face, as Dr. Lee says, a confused world,
^at this confusion makes life more interesting, for every problem is
a challenge to the person who has grit enough to fight and imagination
enough to invent solutions. If the youngsters were being launched
into a finished and orderly world they would find their time hanging
heavily on their hands.
Boys and girls who believe that the older generation has made a
mess of things should be thankful that they have arrived on the scene
before the intriguing puzzles were all worked out. The great game
of life is still going on. There is a crying need for more participants
who are willing to play fair, hit the line hard, and to help in making
needed revisions in the rules.—The Dallas Morning News.
Standard For Judging Value Of Education
About this time of the season, students gather in the byways and
nooks of the university and talk about the uselessness of going to
school. Perhaps the near presence of examinations and the certainty
of a failure in some course is the cause of this pessimistic talk. Never
theless, we all hear it more and more every day.
The peculiar thing is that those individuals who preface all their
remarks with something relative to “being tired of it all” and “wish
I could get away from school” are really correct in their statements
nine-tenths of the time. They probably would be better off in some
other place than school. The primary purpse of a school and higher in
stitutions are to give one an education. But the mere fact of attending
school does not gives one an aducation. One whose opportunities in
attending school have been limited, can have an aducation. A professor
in the University of Chicago formulated these questions years ago
to test yourself relative to your education. Try them and see what
the result is:
Has your education given you sympathy with all good causes and
made you espouse them?
Has it made you public-spirited?
Has it made you a brother to the weak?
Have you learned how to make and keep riends?
Do you know' what it is to be a friend of yourself?
Can you look an honest man or a pure woman straight in the eye ?
Do you see anything to love in a little child?
Will a lonely dog follow you in the street?
Can you be high-minded and happy in the meaner drudgeries of
life?
Can you be happy alone?
Do you think washing dishes or hoeing corn is just as compatible
to high thinging as playing the piano or golf?
Do you know what it is to be a friend to yourself?
Can you look out on the world and see anything but dollars and
cents ? j
Can you look into a mud puddle by the wayside and see a clear
sky ? \
Can you see anything in the puddle but mud ?
Can you look into the sky at night and see beyond the stars ?
Can your soul claim relationship with the creator?
—Semi-Weekly Campus, Southern Methodist University.
Degrees
ODD THINGS AND NEW—By Lame Bode
Is the value of a degree decreasing with the over supply? Do
students attend college primarily for a degree ? It seems that the run
of students attend college for any one of seven reasons: It is the wish
of the parents; the belief that college training guarantees increased
earning power; it is the thing to do after high school graduation; it
is smart to be collegiate; because the neighbor’s children attend col
leges; because college is the only place in the world where excellent
contacts and acquaintances are made; to learn to live better and to
appreciate the finer things in life.
How is it possible to fulfill all these expectations with but one
system ? Why not schools for each purpose ? If degrees are necessary,
why not two kinds of degrees as in the English system, one a sheep
skin with downy fleece, and one with a bit of leather to it ?
Grades
What are they? Are they an accurate and iron bound measuring
stick of the student’s ability? Are they a defense and standby to
explain D’s! and E’s? Are they a necessary evil? Are they indispen
sable? Should grades and grading systems be complicated and inde
pendently decisive, or simple guides for an estimation of ability? Can
an instructor grade within one-half of one per cent, within one per
cent, or two, or three?
The questions are not for the lay mind to answer, or for the
student, but for the serious consideration of educators. Numerical
and alphabetical grades have clung to education through all of its
progress and advance. Perhaps criticism should not be made without
a suggestion for betterment. Perhaps it will suffice to ask if the com
mon grading system is an evil. If so, what is being' done about it?
Sport Sidelights
By W. J. Faulk
The game in Waco, with
Baylor, Monday night will
probably find in the line-up
Joe Merka, sophomore center,
who has been kept out of play
to date because of ineligibil
ity. Merka’s exhibition in a
game against the freshmen
Saturday night, just prior to
the A and M-Baylor game,
gave Aggie cage fans hopes
quite a boost.
Just whether the Aggies are to
be even considered as title con
tenders, this season, will be decid
ed with the game Monday.
Speaking of titles—Coach Hig
ginbotham is starting Monday af
ternoon toward a second one in
baseball. Everyone loves a win
ner, but, everyone loves to see the
winner—or in other words, the
champion, lose. Likewise, the road
to a second conference flag is like
ly to be rougher, and the injury
of Marshall Shaw’s wrist may
hamper the Aggies chances great
ly. However, some added strength
from the freshman team of last
season must be considered.
With Veltman’s ankle injury ap
parently healed, and the addition
of Charlie Malone and Joe Merka
to the list of available pivot-men,
the conference basketball race may
yet hold something more than a
cellar berth for the Aggies. Ma
lone succeeded in getting the tip-
off from the brilliant Strickland,
Baylor center, for more than fifty
per cent of the game Saturday
night.
Lieutenant Nachman’s Aggie
Sharpshooters, twice Nation
al Intercollegiate rifle cham
pions in the past two years,
will bear down in the next four
weeks of practice and little
match firing will be done un
til after the matches with
North Dakota. Too much stress
cannot be put on bring home
the title this year, since one
more win will give the Aggies
permanent possession of the
silver trophy cup now in the
A and M library. Since twelve
of the fifteen men composing
the present team will be ab
sented from the team by grad
uation next June, the Aggies
golden opportunity will be lost
in case of a poor season.
The A and M team set what is
probably the best record in the
history of the Intercollegiate
matches, and certainly one which
has never before even been ap
proached by an A and M team,
when they weathered a complete
season with only two reverses last
year. Those setbacks were admin
istered them by the West Point
Military Academy and Washington
State University, in a match where
only five-man teams competed. Not
a single defeat marred the record
of the matches in which the entire
team of fifteen men fired.
After they had exceeded the
highest total score ever made in
intercollegiate matches the year
previous, the Aggie riflemen came
back to better that score last year.
Everything is being blamed upon
the depression. Something new
however, and to a great extent
true, is the fact that financial wor
ries and worries from home which
in the past have been minor, are
now coming to play to distract the
student in his studies. People don’t
want to think or hear of anything
serious anymore.
DR. A. BENBOW
Dentist
Office over First State Bank
Phone: 275 or 635
Bryan
I'Hl: GAfv-fISH
ms GREEN BONES.
First Rifle Shoot
With Ohio State
Team In February
Then the story is told about the
kind hearted Business Manager, D.
W. Carlton by name, who “rose to
the occasion” and was first to do
nate FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS
to “The Little Orphan Negroes
Home.” As the story goes, after an
elongated elucidation at a bankuet,
recently attended by Mr. Carlton,
the speaker stated that anyone who
so desired to contribute to the mor
al uplift and education of “Little
Orphan Negroes” to the extent of
five hundred dollars, would please
rise
No sooner had the talk been com
pleted than like a “jack in the
box” arose Mr. Carlton, to the
amazement and exultation of both
himself and the crowd. When ques
tioned if sincere in his actions it
developed that the sudden rise was
encouraged by an electric “shock
ing machine” concealed in the seat
of the chair, and the rising and
donating happened to be wholly
involuntary. It so happens that the
“Little Orphan Negroes Home”
never existed.
After two months of preparatory
firing Lt. Nachman’s rifle team,
twice intercollegiate champions of
the United States, will be ready to
open the season the first week in
February against Ohio State Uni
versity, which will be followed by
other collegiate matches during the
month.
With the idea in mind of gain
ing permanent possession of the
championship cup, no collegiate
matches have been scheduled dur
ing March. The cup is now at A
and M and the outcome of the
match fired later in the season a-
gainst the University of North Da-
Kota will decide whether or not the
trophy stays at Aggieland. To gain
permanent possession of the cup
one team must win it three times.
North Dakota and A and M have
won it twice, while Ohio State has
had it only once, but should the
latter win again this year the race
will be thrown into a three way tie,
which will necessitate at least one
year more of competition. But with
a team composed of thirteen letter-
men out of a total of fifteen mem
bers, indications are that at the
, end of the season the cup will be
placed in a permanent position in
the A and M Library.
Lt. Nachman has challenged the
U. S. Military Academy for a
match that will be fired during the
latter part of March. The West
Pointers have the distinction of be
ing one of the two teams to defeat
the Aggies last year.
The month of March will be de
voted to the firing of national mat
ches sponsored by the William Ran
dolph Hearst and National Rifle
Association along with special mat
ches.
The schedule just released calls
for the week ending February 6
with Ohio State, University of
Kentucky, and Kemper Military
Academy.
Matches the second week will be
fired against Wafford, Western
x.Iaryland, Culver, Miss. A and M,
Rose Polytechnic, Auburn, New
York Stock Exchange, Georgetown
University, and South Dakota
State. For the third week; Univer
sity of North Dakota, Stanford,
Creighten, Kansas State, Washing
ton University, Michigan Coilege
INDIVIDUAL
SCORES
Player
Fg. Ft. Tp.
Dietzel, T.C.U
19
10
48
Kubricht, Tex. U. 17
12
46
Dixon, Rice
17
7
41
Sumner, T.C.U
15
10
40
Hess. Rice
13
12
39
Sexton, Ark
13
12
38
Murphy, Ark
12
4
28
Tullis, Tex. U
9
6
24
Elkins, Tex. U
7
9
23
R. Johnson, SMU
10
3
23
Williams, SMU ....
9
5
23
Beard, A. & M
5
12
22
B. Johnson, SMU,
8
6
22
Alford, Baylor ....
7
8
22
Price, Tex. U
9
1
19
Kendall, Ark
7
3
17
Brannon, T.C.U. ..
6
4
16
Koch, Rice
6
4
16
CONFERENCE
STANDING
Team—
W.
L.
Pet.
Pts.
Baylor
3
0
1.000
102
Arkansas
3
1
.750
124
T C U
2
1
.667
123
Rice
3
2
.600
132
Texas U.
2
3
.400
127
A and M
0
2
.000
52
SMU
0
4
.000
97
Last Week’s Results
Baylor 41, Rice 21.
Ark. 46-29, S M U 20-20.
Baylor 29, A and M 23.
Rice 25, Texas U. 22.
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For the last three years Sankey
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Oregon State, Wichita University,
University of Tennessee, and New
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fourth week; Norwich University,
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Alabama, Iowa, Kentucky, Carnell,
Washington, Lehigh University,
and the Oklahoma Aggies.
Those composing the team are:
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lahoma; W. B. Hemphill, Gaines
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