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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 22, 1939)
pp MANN ON - ? ; ■ ■ i. write* theM letter* ; II; ACTPM the fttete to tee them. The poor have had more excitement at cgnstderabljr had »pend the week-end at college and show (even hi Bryan!). would | probably expense if Jie to a I - 4 - t r • t' (b) The more important fcrpe mckde^ in this classifi cation, however, is the perennial social climber. Her letters sre little abort of masterpieces. She usually berms by tel ling- bow dull life is where she Is stitendirtfr of the letter is a dissertation aiming to com that she is the most popular irirl in school: and parties no end. This type ip usually a sorority pirb and tahes a special delifht in dispusainp at rrbat length the reeent activities in Kappa Alpln. Theta, or whatever combi nation of the Greek alphabet she happens to tyHong to. 'I The Fifth Approach—the apy-pert-ia-a-st«m attach It cannot be denied that there are -OMMiyj ftoo many) Ifirls who aren’t attractive enoufht^face or fi^rufe) to openH M catch’* a man. And it is here that letters plhy the devil' This type resorts te the best written M lirte M that she is able to bust^ (which is usually damn pood I and. if this "lint” is clever en. wh. she may round-up a few deceived into.' n* I 1 " ' *■ 1 ’ I ■ : L it i v l i 1 . iVt ; * fg 1 i ! The Sixth Approach—the blind hex-nanher>attack This approach is the cheapest, crudest, and the one to be most feared. Any irirl who has to write to In unknown box number on the assumption that the owner brill eagerly frraap at this heaven-sent opportunity to ira.in a correspond-- •ncs partner, must—to use a trite ex preaskm pp hard up from ‘way back.’ The letter usually includes a brilliant des cription of the writer's rare virginal (. . . are you telling me) beauty and. to cinch the, deal, a flattering picture is enclosed. The poor Aggie (for I have seldom heaird of this approach being used on anyone but an Aggie) wflljpgrohably reply to the letter (ahd who wouldn't?), and "chomp off and go see the girj. But only onoe; weighs brtween 190 and 220 pounds stripped, is of B. halitosis, and athlete's foot, and is a brillUmt conver- fWlpnalidt on human philosophy or "How to mafei a happy -me in ten easy lessons." } 1 ! \ i A »? t: \i Ther. are, of coarse, many variations of the soregoipig approaches, but I think most college men will agre* that ninaty-nine per cent of our fan mail falls in a combination of these approaches. J must concede that with me St of or |U .7 thou, my hat tn. my f^ra| p<‘Ople, fact t|iat • ^ ro • r,,, — 1 This method, much like the third approach, is primarily to satisfy s girl's seemingly unquenchable ego. (a) The most disgusting approach of'thiai type is that practiced by girls who write and ask boy.« to c oins a couple of hundred miles fa see them in order that t&qb may boast te their friends that a man (Gad bless him) cajn* halfway there probably are some girls (oh, wherefore art would-be Julist) who are perfectly sincere in all writs in their letters, but I have as yet to receive! letter of this type. Maybe € don't know the **righ * but if this is tbs case. 1 can console myself on the I have lots of company. if any of you guys and gals have any comkainta to register on this article, don't h«»ld any grudge against the Aggies. This is only the opinion of one Aggie, ij regularly M-cetvc my mail at box 2279 and sincerely invite any and all repHss that refute what has been said here. I don’t think that 1 am narrow-minded, but^j facts are facts, mri^ Lw- ceived the opinions of the man^Ukggies that I haveiiuomMy •fnBted to regarding these obvioqs approaches that girls make in their letters, ! feel that I can truly say. "W# Aggfrs at. not amused!" 4 a