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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Nov. 8, 1938)
4' si rood >D IMPRESSION corps fOt • food •* A. A II Jurinj Um last k*™* °** ottitod# thsy had whM they at tLlIft! r#WnUy ’ Aff * e * ^ tffort ^ 5* Tif* U * *»“• *0 »h<,vr their school to be one * ,r#B ‘ ^ rt^Potats of sports maruhip, «**Kt, sad spirit. u»t «irls from T. 8. C. W„ and the student of 8. M. U. hsd all done their part in hatihc » food Ume without ^pmjf on other. 1 rifhts, The Dallw News carried » feature story in Ha Sunday edition with the heed- line, “Joe Collefe Paradee Self Ae Gentleman.” I P»tt of the etory follows “Peotball and college played a twin tattoo oa DolUe, heart Saturday which continued far into the plight 1 r • rr. “It was frcn, colorful, exciting and despite all IhU, as onierly a larye crowd as hoil and police b*^ese*;eneo here. “Net hi single drunk waa put out of the M us tans- Aggie football r«n. at Owenby Stadium, police charted no di.turhancos or wrecks traceeble to the tafUtretten of college students, hotels Hwr pAfei but with sobet, polite visiter*. “Yet, ftoea the Ume the Texas A A M Cadet Cwpa stepped brtakly up Mein Street Seturdsy morning unUl the final whistle blew et the S. M. U. howl, there was s general quickening of pulse in the “It 4>read from the Jolly crowd of csdets and Rirl students of the Texas State College for Women 0* Deri tor. downtown, to the home-commr festivities on the .Southern Methodist campus, hung th«« dur- .to* to. *^,, Um, c*nc bMk to -tar'tt. brl*,. lights brighter “Other footimll crowds have.msde hotel man ager. wary, bat this one compmed preponderantly <4 .tudnU, Mt u nunpl. „( pn.pri.lory for .lam. Student Forum: UNION BUlLDINOl ! TO THE BATTALION: U is a/very deplorable fact that a college the ■ise of A. A M. ahould be without a Vnbn Building, ••••d laa though aoau definite progrea. i kswaij obtaining a Union Building should have been imade long before now. | The need of such a building is qgite obvious. , Each week end, visitor, may be Men sitting in their I cart, er waiting their turn to sit on one of the benches oa the campus to visit with on# of the stu dents. There should b« s place on the campus where a student could take his parents or friends to sit aad talk with them. 1 Another use of a union building would be for the dances given by the college. It *ould ,not be neceeekry for organisations to have to pay to have the tables and chairs removed from the mess hall for the dances, nor should the mess t»U staff be put to this iaeonvlenience. Instead, there should be a i dance floor in the union building at, least large ! enough for organisation dances, and fien if necs- ! “* 7 JJ* roe * > h,dl f6r ^ bigger dance* Wberu the money would come from for such a building I will admit is a problem, and if the state coold not appropriate the necessary amount, it may be possible for the ex.studente association to do a big part in raising funds—as the ex-studcnU of Texas University did in giving the university one of the finest union buildings in tbs Southwest, also, the various A. A M. mothers dubs th: .t k 'hout Texas m.vht unite and work for this one project I am writing this with the hope that it may cause someone, or some group, directly or indirectly connected with A. A M. to do something to give thin collegp a building which is a necessary part of any col). this sise. i AN AGGIE. JIBE BATTALION! , Altered as neepnd clqas matter at the poet office at College Station, Texa*, under the Act of'Congresa on March S, 1879 Subscription rates, $1.75 per ye* Advertising rates upon request, in Room 122, Administration Building College 8. Office open from 11 a. ra. until 4 p/ m. daily. Mepryaented for national advertising by Na* tional Advertising Service, Inc., 42« Madison Av e , New Yeil'Otty. , { J" 1 ^ R. L. DOSS. L... W. B. SMITH lul ■ - EDITOR. IN-CH IBP ADVERTISING MANAGER BUI Payne, James Crttx { . Managing Editors Gemrge Fulton. A C Ksetear Aasistset AdvertMng Managers Bob Oliver, lleya* Stark Atonal* Editors K C <Jewp) Oataaj Sperte Editer .!•[ ; ClHwiliitiMiMutm : f Dm Metheaaiy, H G. Howard Circulation AssisUnU C r.DeVilbis, j.—^ Proof-reader TUESDAY STAFF Tow I)arro» "ports AasisUat Junior Kditor *** 4- -Junior Editor A. G. Harren Junior Editor H F. Kocrra. A. J. Carroll, N. A. Mooraj M. C, U,rte Che(t4l0Mr f W. T. Cay. Georg. Naa- maer t R. A. Shield^ Cartar Beam. J. A. SUaaell t C ^ A. ». Ad«a Foeter Hue BiU '♦hall, M. H. Robrnnon R g. Sparks B P. Daveaport, J. W. Jeakiaa, L J. Wehrle ij FRIDAY STAFF W. F. (CMck) Deemy C Ww U EL J. F. Hports Aesteant * * Editer Editor Jnaior Editor Junior Editer G. ■ CHECK UP, ^GGIES Now is the time to sit? down and check up on all those resolutions that wets made at the beginning of the term'concerning thk grade that each etu- dent hoped to make this y+. School has been going on for a little over seven weeks. “A H quiasea practically aQ over and the "B M quisxes I started. On Dec. 1, all grades Registrar's office aad the And these will be used ae students in school. In fact,: •on* student* will remain ib Football, which surely greatest American sport 11 time a minimum amount aU^'oom schedules and cant be forgotten, still on the season or the There is still time ftadee up. With a lot of of interest each student subject he is taking. An easier state of mind for not only is he doing the ^ „ v is living op to the expectetiou* of his family. Buckle down. Aggies, and let's gdt those studies down “pet" be tuned in to the Doane’ office*, rigid checkup on all •will mean whether or not the name of “the in the air. At this studying is done. But some of which now They cannot wait left to bring these and a great amount be able to pass any this should come an who knows that ling for himself but he t*s put tii rri JOHN DEWEY: F.ip<ri«nc, I. the But Guide. This generation of outs; John Dewey says, has been the first to reaHxe thgt there are no fixed and unchanging principles. It's! A»i|bcd, he goes on (in 'living Philosophise 1 *) try big to shape our lives ac cording to some ancient sto^dard or ideal. What we should do, he thinks, is to' rteet experience with an open mind; learn from i$ what is'desirable aad what is bad; and then us^ < [>ur brains and our will power to give to later ex|Mrience such a shape a* to make life more livable imi satisfying. Here is an illu*u;t on, I think, of what he means: A tong time ago il Bras decided by the wise that a chaperone ought to accompany any boy and girl who went out togetliey after dark. Our gen eration, finding that the chaperone was frequently a joy-killer, has tested out by experience the possi bility of dispensing with W without harmful re sults. Exit the chaperone, tg the considerable relief of the young fry. In our time down* of jnort important matters thsn this have likewise beep Rested out by experience, with the result that many boring and cramping cus tom* and beliefs, sanctif ol'onty by tradition, have beea discarded. Life, I belt ive, has accordingly be come freer and richer in |h s generation. But many morn ancient “ideals" are fell badly in need of being teatedsin the same crucible ft experience. For example: It is sfe|l widely taken for grant ed in certain parts of the Country that a man who accumulates a fortune is! automatically benefitting the nation thereby. High ^tariffs help the men who are accumulating fertun^. Therefore high tariffs benefit the country. Surettr thif sort of ancient eco nomic “ideal” needs a littlfc (testing out The New Deal, wheuser one approves of its policies or not has certpihly been a great tester by experience of traditional political and economic ideals. This is why so n. ny conservatives yell bloody murder in the da$$ press. Science, which ha* jmOufnced ua roore any other generation, is. jnj>thing but an organized and systematic testing a formulation of new oi experience, known as “e r lac bed the stage of scientific experiment in and medicine. We are g of ancient beliefs and rt by means of controlled ptrinlent. 11 W'e have about tousling the result* of physical matters like diet idually moving toward the shaping of ideals for hamsn conduct and institu- tioa^ by the same scientific method of experiments fairly and coolly conducted and impersonally studied for their findings. Of course, as John Dtwe)r points out, we still have a long way to go bh$ore we learn to hru*t ex perience sufficiently to Bpow away all the useless end harmful beliefs anid, ideals we etill respect simply because they ard hncient But at least we are on our way. 1 | I f T • • John Dewey’s viewq have probably influenced more “modern" people tla^i those of any other liv ing American. For one Iking, he made his attack on the public mind twenty years ago. Tens of thmisaods of young school teachers ^have imbibed Deweys ideas in Teachdrf 1 Colleges and Education iH-partment*. Millions ofAudent* who perhaps have never heard of John Dehrey himself thdess reviewed his ipjii through their teachers If the “modern” man •den hilosophy of experience is more likely than his ancestors to trust experience and to disregard mere tradition, he owes this tmit more largely to John Dewey than to any other American. { We can’t tell you juati who started all this busi ness of naming college* sifter animals, but whoever and whatever It was, ho should have set Up some rules for the new pastitie. He had little conshiera- Ho*» for the sports pajra readers, for twonty-two teams have the title of “Tiferi.' That’s the most for any one animal, but a close second is “Bulldogs,’’ which has been adopted by 21 institution* And right on down the line are JWildcnta, 14; Pattthers, 9; Ea*lea. 8; Beers. 7; Cardinals. 6; Blue jays, 2; Duck, 1. Some even go down to the insect family, for there are nine yeltow-Jacket teams and one rttibadfe "If you treat a •h« will respond to that treat" That is what Mrs Mabel Cooper believes. And Mrs Cooper should knopr, for she is celebrating her eighteenth anniversary as housemother at the Rappn Alpha Theta chapter nokse at the University of Pittsburgh. “American collefe Have changed consider- aWy in the last eighteen yeati,” Mrs. Cooper says. Eighteen years ago girls were a little more thought ful and more delibera o Now they do most things on impulse, hot they have pretty fair judgment” Mrs. Cooper conteMI that the behavior of Pitt girls in the last five yemn shows a marked improve ment over the -Jaa* a*” group Coeds today taka coUego work more eerily, she aayt. the battalion A. & M. Still His A Guard Room Hiou«h “T«ii’t Wb«t It Lsd To fie “Spirit of History as TV Aggie Bant No. the Guard Room Is net what H used to be. Although H plays an important role in connection with the Commandant's office, few Mu- denta, especially freshmen, have rm heard of R or know whore it is located. , i 1 V jjj ' However, prior to 1936 the guard room was very well known to nil *rudfnu. At that time it was to catod in Pfeuffer Hall, the present Consolidated School budding, and *tudent| who were habitual offend- •re of the College Regulation* were sent there for punbhmcnt. These students had to live thars until their time waa up They were subject to call at all times, and could leave only for moale and classes. The guard room contained a com plete set of files on the students of A. A M. Anyone wanting any in formation about any student could ••cure H by calling there. However, in 1936 the guard room underwent a change. Students Were no longer sent there for punish ment; the Commandant * office em ployed several students to live there guard northeast corner room of Austin dicatod on too musical score waa Hall, sad has been there since. )R mJ . * .'O' leave the time. In 1987 the “‘"•Hti the Aggie Corps, was changed to the | “Aa first pushed, the time In- Allegro Marcia (fast march time) Today the guard room is the only aml for years the piece was place that information about stn- in ^t mode. In fact, the M I. k - L I r-A-* » a T - d.nts rsn be secured after 6 p. m. «»w.w.ee*w^* u . 111. * * 1 ^ isoii So moo ne is always in the room ex- m * n >' many times to the strains cept daring meal time, foothill of 7116 S i* rit ot Aggieland". games at Kyle Field, and corps trips. ( j " The telephone number is College S, and anyone desiring information ” Pl*y*<i somewhat slower so we • bout any student can get it there. rewrot * ^ in “four-four” or common time and marked the tempo “Maestoso" (majestic), and it seemed to mett with the ap proval of all concerned. About this time we invented and submitted the "Yell" on the second chorus which wa* also accepted. “It ha* been the constant effort of the A. A M. Band to “GIVE THE CADET CORPS WHAT THEY WANTT. If the Corps wants it* *°ng played faster, the Band will comply with such instructions from “THE CHIEF YELL LEADER”, but if they desire it played slowly, it will be so playod, “OUTSIDERS NOTWITHSTANDING 1 *. “In conclusion, we invite any members of the student body to submit words for new songs, or original melodies and we assure you that we will devote time to “dressing them up” for suitable use. The University of Illinois has about twelve school songs; bow- ever, it still retains its old Alma Mater * Richard J. Dunn, Liet. Col, GSST., | Banjpiaitof. Dr. Trotter Takes Leave To Do AAA Work Dr. Ide P. Trotter, head of the agronomy department at Texas A. and M. College, has been granted a 30-day leave of absence from his departmental duties st the college to assume the post of head field officer. Southwestern Division, Ag ricultural Adjustment Administra tion, at W’aahington, D. C. Dr. Trotter left for his tempo rary deties Nov. 1 and will return to his regular post Dec. 1. While in Washington he will act in an advisory capacity on the AAA program insofar as it re lates to the field of ageonomy. Part of his work will be to criticise pro posed program and assist in co ordinating the plans fer the entire wmtrk. New Chairs Added In Mess Hall Annex Seventeen hundred new chairs have been purchased and located in the basement and annex of the mesa hall, according U an an nouncement made by J. C. Hotar 1, dietitian of the mesa hall. These chairs are of a new type, which is more comfortable than the old chairs. Fourteen hundred more chairs are needed to complete the replacement of the old chain. When In Doub^ About Your Eyes Or Your Classes Consult DR. J.W. PAYNE OPTOMETRIST Masonic Builtag i Bryan, Texas Next to Palace Theater . .. 1 Through the Ages. Men Have Been Striving For SECURITY Man’s Primary Needs Are FOOD, CLOTHING, AND SHELTER There Is One Safe Way j Of Making The** permanent] II ,1 I SEABOARD LIFE INSURANCE CO. Fordl Manaerlyn, ’21 Diet Mgr. Associate H. & Bur -**- “Our attention has haw invited to recent journalritic comment up on the school song, “The Spirit of Aggieland", aad I respectively sub mit too following for the inform*- tion of the Cadet Corps in general. “The word* of the song were writ ten by Mr. Marvin H. Mm:ms. Clans of *26, during the sumnmr of 1925, and the music was composed for voice and piano aad arranged for band by the writer of this let ter. The song was submitted to the Corps and played the first time on College Night, 1925, and was at once acclaimed and adopted aa one of our college songs. It must be recalled that in 1927 the *7* M. football team won the Southwest Conference Championship, and we felt that the song did not retard them in any way, bat to the con trary, contributed some inspiration to the leam and to the famous ia a number Thursday to he st the team tort of dal by the Professor R, Depart- Cadet Corps marched the mess hall Durbig the year 1932, the Yell Staff and the Corps decided that the song would be more impressive Resutifut Personal Chriataias Cards, 56 Assorted Designs with envelope* $1.50; Fittest Grade, a work of art, assorted $3.00. Name iascribed on each if desired. Aa ideal Xmas Gift. Order at once. Nichol* A Co„ Rockmart. Georgia. The Thursday Ft. Worth to of debating Wgbt they are T. C U. Friday Will debate Bt and Friday night B. M. U. MJ j Only four men These four kill I in the finals of a that has betg iKactlak M Weaver, of the ment, will accompany the team on the trip. AT 7:36 TRl R8DAT*’ NIGHT the Aschitectigial Department will again show (he nation pictures of Mexican Scenes that were made on the Department^ trip le Mex ico this past sumnjpr. These pic tures were shown - last Tuesday night at the open f> *e sponsored by. the Deportment in conjunction with the exhibit of'paintings and sketches of Mexican Life that is no* being held. Maay people‘were unable to see them Tu.-sday night, however, and ia jcompliance w.th their requst, another showing wfll beheld. T .. —.—. . FLOWERS I "11 j. .. J H I ? It* i A. & M. > RICE Game and Dance \ i ,1 J1 ALLEN MYER, *22 ' Greenhouse-Fresh * Flowers BRYAN FLORIST & NURSERY 108 Pierce Avenue Phone Bryan 266 4- J an n Winter Starts Sgt next nouacemeut Bryan Dairy Store SAXBF ’Good” leg Cretin -rr «'■ . . 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