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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (March 22, 1939)
-• i\ . i ( WiiA THE FI RET >m i \ i * >:‘h ! * N- j! - All college firl» land especially T. S. C. W. firls) whose fiirures are not grossly deformed to the extent of weighing from 190 to 220 pounds, and whose faces are not the clock- stopping typey art g< ing to recetre (and do!) thr uvrh t their college caret their opposite sex. so-called “fan male’ Unlike you poor defenseless Aggies, we up here are not forced to worry after our popular fish year from whence our next “male’* is coming. You see, we know better, after APPROACH All of us girls have received an j verage of J *1^ letters a year at least from "seekinf” euM. poor girl who will swallow their lengthy “I” gtve^out. In ^ * Mich a letter, the writer makes hirhsel appear to he Apollo ia i uniform, or Clark Gable, with nice^ ears, of coarse. He is lV fa** the man wherever he goes -and I in dam swell of Jiim to t ike time out to write you. i j < #, J Ur 1 * i | le has'Seen you on the campus |on one of his many Den onward treks, or his rapmmate knows a girl who kaoim . yoa, or he heard somrone say youi- name—or as is typical bf t ic bolder Aggie, he simply decided to write a letter to a 3.C.W. girl, and (aren’t you luck ’!) it Happened to be youi|His letter is mostly a description fnasterpiece—eshilling'" his {Jharma, physical and otherwise—And he usually closes wit^i the supremely indifferent, workfbr statement that he coroe up to see you If you mal e it Worth his while; ^ Ithe excruciating thing about thii type of approach «s thaflvhi heavent-sen: writers really cx| get liny girl- to whom jttmiwrite to respond eagerly, with % m| qukkanad ^Mact beat and trembling lips, “Ah, he has come My dream man!” | ■ I !'v ’ J \ - * I jjj |: 1 j 4 ktlieve US, most of us feel quite differently; we • havr had several doses in the not-t o-rosy past of these kni| its on white steeds—but too oftefi they turn odt to be just ^nether cadet, tluvnbing his way iup in the world. I ’ |V 1 b. 1 , * ~ 11 ''il- •* i I . \ 1 *» * THE SECOND APPROACH \ A | . Ve nters of letters falling undci 4 this heading afford mosi Jof the daily laughs we girls enj >y. They hatve a form letter and a - mimeograph machine, and the amorous letters they )urn out are a joy to behold; especially when a group of If j or 20 girls get together and rend them, singing them - 4 ! . - from member* of i m years of experience, than to rely wholly upon Aggieland for forthcoming epistles, and hence our interests lie in broader, more diversified fields. Let us Inre express our syippatHf to for you Aggie seniors—for according to Mr. F’s theory, you of off hlv a love song. It sounds like a s^eakmg choir, ai^d the only different word in the bunch ia the name at the beginning; i letter. 1 \ li J are prac hjow to the men. jp^metimes though, the writer is Rev** (?) enough not the name in the aalutation--~th|* relieves the trouble ng through the mimeografftted 'sheets and supplying names- allows the whole thin^ to be handlW in a irt of this issue—we feel that Soph. F. has rather kept in a rut himself—for his article is so biased, one-sided, egotistical, that it is obvious that he is just too naive he should try subscribing to a worldly mngnsine, spend more time ihithe library, or translate Homer’s Odyssey the nythmg but write for so universal a magasine ns the Battalion. We are flattered to find that we have sax well- worn ruts to jog along in; upon careful analysis ef the letters you Aggies bless us with, we are rather bored to find that you follow oaly two “well-worn’’ ruts—and when there are hut two nits in a muddy road, as you farmers should know, you stick to them. Heie, for your contemplation and chagrin (we hope!), Ure give you the two bedraggled, ancient, trite, and altogrthei too prc*umptious “approaches'* (apologies o Mr. F.) used by Aggies—(.lod’s gifts to women. MARCH. 19S9 wit flMMN business-like manner. All the. writer has tajimt is U> sort t le letters and get addresses strteght, then run through qmcl|lj y and Hgn them. . - I 1 «lo not mean to be too critical,, hut we are sure that ' ] • ‘ i riters of such letters are of u certain undesirable They are ego-full, self centered shallow, and wholly t conscience. Msy we als<» add th it this group must be rtely lacking in sufficient menu I capacities to trump hing within a five-mile radiuk >f originality, wit, or Mncority. f * *' , . . v j r> jii I ; * I ' i \ (c feel that what we have said »• the response all riters-to everywhere would giv i, and we arc ccitai^. ♦ ^ S. C. W/s reply to Mr. Hgi rmt u i»|i We aie not the guilty doga, barking, are two sides to every question, and th s is the othor ona Mr. 9*1 discassion. I nn’s informative bit blit after ail, there Jw 17