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Tit 4fM COUIOI or TIX45
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Entered aa second cUm matter at the Poet Office at CoDefe Station,
Texas, under the Act of Congress, March S, 1879.
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But, unless you allow yourself to understand the symbolism of
that tiny white band an dact accordingly your first year, nerer. during
the remaining three will you quite be able te appreciate and- under
stand those men who will be undersWasmen under you, and f »u will
realise that the mucilage binding you to your own ekasmatei
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your own clasi
as strong as it might have been. They went through it, you {ktnt—
so—wall, you’re just a boy going to school here, being an Aggie
mean much to you.
Remember, a freshman can always be spotted; no fish s^ipa
necessary, and it is not for the convenience of the uppere
for YOU, freshmaa; it’s your passport to better thing*. So l< t
known, and be proud of what it symbolises.
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Today’s Reflections
Ignorance may be a bliss, but we hardly think sot
Contenting himself with the petty, insignificant problems of his
own campus, the average American college student, today, quietly pro
ceeds on the local green grass unaware of the thunder that rumbles
on the collegiate horizon
It may be wonderful altruism for s man to spend his entire
energy working out the problems of his. own school, but he is rob
bing himself of both genuine pleasure and intellectual development.
In Europe the colleges and universities are veritable hot-beds of tho
ught and radicalism. Until Hitler preyed upoa the poet-war minds of
his harraesed youths, young Germany boasted an abundance of free
and healthy thinkers. The revolutionary movement of 1848 and ’49,
which held so much promise for Germany and all the world, originated
largely with the student body.
But American students remain disinterested!
“And so what? American graduates fit idto the business world as
easily as anyone else, don’t they?” j , ,
If that is your question, the answer is an emphatic NO! For the
son of a present-day capitalist or politician, job-finding and job-keep
ing are comparatively easy. But for thq son of a farmer, a doctor, or
a small town merchant, commencement is k dreaded doorway, ushering
the collegiate mass into days of job-seekijtg, disillusionment, and fin
al embitterment. To those who doubt, we suggest the reading of Al
bert Halper’s "Ice-Cold Turkey", in the October issue of "The Nat
ional Student Morror."
There are many things that should ekeite interest among Amer
ican students today—should hut don’t A {ross-scction of the nation's
universities would reveal hundreds of projects and endeavors, yet ad
would be shown ss working without the knowledge of the American
student body.
We have plenty of radicalism today, but it la all spent on some
infantile purpose—fraternities, class-cutting, honor systems, or basing.
Very little of it is given to the healthy purpose of coordinating Am
erica’s student body into one mass moveertment of national endeavor.
Movements for such thingp as peace, prohibition, and Socialism have
stafted on a hundred different campuses, but they have nearly all
been short-lived. American students seem to lack the punch!
Here are some things that ought tq strike up enthusiasm, whether
destructive or constructive, within the heart of every coilege stadeat
in the United State*.
In the first issue of the Battalion we encouraged underclassmen te
submit themselves to the leadership of the seniors. It eras our pi • that
the seniors would progress little with their plan for better dii ripline
unless juniors, sophomores, and freshman alike plunged theiliselves
wholeheartedly into the program outlined by the cadet officer!!.
That is still our contention but far from being the theme kt this
editorial We feel that, to date, the slovenliness 1 that exists in the Corps
can be blamed on the senior class.
Collars unbottoned, sleeves rolled up, pockets crammed with pen
cils, peper, and what-not, dusty shoes; and cordless hats are cel tainly
not attractive. Neither are they regulation. And most certainty they
are ill-becoming to seniors!
We do not wish to criticise, or to crusade, but the cadet o fleers
of this college pledged themselvee to make this a year of J un-up
militarism—we are simply reminding them. It should be
to say mors.
Young Gentlemen!
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Agricultural Experiment Station !
At Sonora Reports Discovery of
Type of Texas Spineless Cactus
By R. R. Storms
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Complaint has been registered in several campus circles
the untidy conditions now prevalent in the dormitories.
With the student body crowded to the point of extreme
in an inadequate number of halls, H should be the reeponsibii
every man to commit himself at much at possible to the
keeping the dormitories clean and decent Particular disfavor
present'verted toward the occupants of Mitchell and Leggett, 4her«
paper, garbage, and all manner of unsightly trash has been dutnp^d
into the indoor courts—daily, it seems, since the beginning of the
term. ’ I '
Someone has said of A and M students: They are not only ypung
officers, bnt young gentlemen in training."
Having promised our readers
-sbme of the previous findings of
the Agricultural Experiment Sta
tion, we shall attempt to preterit
it in such a manner as will meet
with your approval and. perhaps,
enjoyment.
An item of worth discovered at
the sab-station in Sonora a year
ago should still prove interesting
to you. The experiment dealt with
spineless cactus, whose technical
nhme is Opuntia (pronounced like
inch-i-a) Ellisiana.
.uite interesting to us was tlto
background of this Latin tens.
The word Opuntia eras first used
in. the writings of one of the most
iiib 'rious students who ever lived.
PRay. The derivation at that time
came from Opus, a town in Greece.
Mow this ancient word cam* te be
applied to cactus it a mystery, but
hen it la. y
To take up the experiment, w«
found out that every ranchi
could well afford to have a tent
acre* of spineless cactus, it he
could only manage to cut down all
hie spiny esetus. Stock does so well
on cactus and eats it down so close
that unless an effort is made, the
cattle or sheep will eat all the
LOTS OF BOOKS
AND A FEW IDEAS
by
Or. T. P. May*
The FERA at the present time is employing 46,000 teachers, re
cently graduated from various colleges. . It is also employing 100,000
students on a part-time basis, paying them 816 a month and exposing
them to beneficial influences on their respective campuses.
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Student pacifists in various institutions are doing'their best to
wreck havoc with ROTC organisation. Reserve officers are inefficient,
and should he the joke of the nation, they claim. They had succeeded
well enough in 19^0 to exhort the following statement from the Secre
tary of Wart "With all due acknowledgement of the splendid corps of
ROTC graduate*, it must be recognised that they will require a further
period of training on mobilization to fit them for the performance of
their duties.”
It seems that the Morrill Art has lost its hold.
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The National Student Fnderation of America, founded in 1926,
looks forward this year to gfeater expansion and development than
ever before. This organization serves a membership in 120 colleges
and universities, conducts national and regional conferences, prints
monthly magazine, conducts a news service, and aims in every way at
the development of initiative among young Americans.
The Fish Stripe
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This yaar, tor some unaccountable
be a tendency among the first year
or rhyme, there ■
to be a tendency among the first year students to attempt to hide
from evidently hostile eyes their unfortunate plight by merely turning
the left cuff over the little white band—the insignia of the freshmaa
So, to you first year cadets (NOT to freshmen) who resort
to this crude subterfuge, this is directed as first a bit of friendly
advice and second as a warning regarding your future status here a|.
school the place you will frequent most the next four years.
You are now members of perhaps the most fraternal body of men
of its size and kind In the country. Recognize yourselves as such, and
appreciate that membership! Your station is such that you are privi
leged to make yourself known to anyone you choose by a mere hand
clasp and self-introduction. It is your only investment necessary to
bay stock in college friendship, the dividends of which yon will treasure
more and more in years to come. Then, too, because you are freshmen,
your responsibilities are few and your restrictions are actually quite
unlimited—this to permit you ample opportunity to adapt yourselves
to new surroundings, and, consequently, allow you to make your first
WHAT IS A DIRTY BOOK?
A dirty book is a book that
makes yen feel dirty.
It follows that a novel like "A
Farewell to Arms,” for example,
may be dirty for some people and
clean for others. Personally, this
particular book seems to be the
most beautiful love-story ever writ
ten in America. Its combination of
extreme frankness about sexual
matters, and equal candor in the
expression of honest tenderness
and the comradely affection be
tween two lovers, appeals to me
as something that I’ve always
hankered after in books as well as
in life: that is. Idealism with a solid
basis of realistic Common Sense—
in other words: Heads ap. bat feet
on the ground.
I’ve noticed, however, that some
people—some very good people at
that—are honestly shocked by "A
Farewell to Arms.” This means
that it made them fed dirty. For
these people, then, "A Farewell to
Arms” is a dirty book.
Now, the last fifteen years have
been especially fertile in "dirty
books.” That is, in our time writ
ers have dared, for the first time
in a hundred years, to call a spade
a spade. Their readers, unaccustom
ed to hearing spades talked of in
decent society or to seeing them
named in print, h»v* naturally been
shocked. The new novels have made
thousands of people feel dirty, and
so, for thousands of people, the
new novels have been dirty.
But the old-timers who cry out
against this modern frankness
ought to remember that it isn’t the
modems who are peculiar about
such things. It was the Victorians
who were queer in their attitude
toward sex—tha people of the age
which ended about 1910.
titude toward books that are 1 rank
about sex—a more or leas iidalt
attitude, if jrou get what I n can.
You are surely past the ag» of
snickering over what’a scrawl* i by
bed little boys on the back board
fence. Reed these frank book!by
all means, if someone in whom you
have confidence tells you that hey
are Interesting. But try to ead
them without dwelling too chih ish-
ly much on Rie sexy episodes. ITbe
author, if h4fe worth anything at
all, never intended that these epi
sodex should overshadow
rest of the lo"k
And be frank with yourself a
all jthe
satisfy it sensibly—partly with
books of a scientific nature which
explain such matters, and partly
with good modem novels which try
to depict the way in which sex
works itself out in people’s lives.
Here are a few hooks which the
Library can furnish for such read
ing. (The chances are, some of you
have read them already!):
SCIENTIFIC
Popenoei: "Modem Marriage”;
Ranter: "Happiness in Marriage”;
Rneitf : “Marriage and Morals” (a
cool and honest statement of the
radical point of view. You may find,
as I -did, that you can’t agree with
all of hie ideas.); Havelock Ellis:
"The Psychology of Sex” (Pretty
heavy, but probably the classic on
the subject); Westermarek: "His
tory of Human Marriage.”
NOVELS
Floyd Dell: "Moon Calf" and
"The Briary Bush”; Gather: "A
spineless cactus sad then start on
the spiny cactus. Like some human
being*, they keep on even though
they, see destruction ahead
The actual experiment that prov
ed the value of spineless cactus
was this. Two groups of cattle
with fifteen head in each group
were pnt into separate pastures
In one pasture the cattle ate all
the spineless cactus they could
pins about two pounds of cotton
seed cake. In the other the cattle
had the cake alone. Both groups
had access to adequate wmter-pa*
lure vegetation. At the end of
thirty days the cactus take group
had gained fifty-eight pounds per
head, while the cake-pasture group
had gained only thirty-six pounds
per head. V
If further interested, yeu may
be pleased to know that spineless
cactus can withstand sere tem
perature without apparent injury
and cactus from tha first time the
first padre saw our great West
has been associated with sands
and desert. That means the cactus
fears drouth very little and will
provide a juicy feed during dry
winter months.
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COLLEGE ECONOMICS
Every period in the history
the world except the one between
1800 and 1910 has called a spade a
spade ia all its hast hooka. For
variety of reasons (too complicat
ed to discuss here) our great
grandfather* and great grand
mothers (Bless their hearts!)
"went Victorian” on us. They hush
ed up all mention of sexual jnat-
ters and put petticoats on every
thing—in extreme cases, even on
the piano legs!
Weil, that was their privilege.
But why should w* be asked to go
on maintaining this same funny
attitude toward eex? Non* of the
centuries befere the Victorians
mode any bones about it. Why on
earth should the centuries after the
Victorians be expected to do so?
(If you don’t believe whet I any
about the pre-Victorian literature,
read Fielding's ‘Tam Joaee,” writ
ten in 1749. By the way, It’s
gfrad novel too.) y
SO WHAT?
Well, just this: Nobody ought
to feel dirty. It’s bad for you.
Therefore, don’t read books that
make you feel dirty.
But try to cultivate a healthy at-
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