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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Nov. 1, 1939)
The Letter to the ^Modern” College Youth IOUS Aggie “line"!! ... Perhaps I am of too conscientious and serioua * nafepfo, VT . .. . . 4 - . ^ . ' l to comprehend upon what any lasting relationship between IffSHaaRT* ^ two slick, up-to-the-minute college students can be based, when the whole thing is falae, cheap, and entirety Kynthfiu- .... And you are called “frank”! You do not have the slightest conception of what the word means. If you mean by “frank” a disgustingly open and vulgar attitude towards sex, an utter disregard for the feelings of others, and un becoming, unchi valro us actions towards the not-no-niuch- fairer sex, then perhaps you are frank. But while the dis carding of good words is being carried out, I personally should sew that one up In a little sachet bag until its true meaning daUrns upon an awakened group. It ia so ill-uaed by you modems. time or another, and many cadet* what do ouir sister school coeds thank about this masculine attribute? Here's he answer-^a little blunt, but ly to the of T. S. C. ner the qu this letter received from Is answers in no Lion asked in the above t Dear Boy— . This has and it has Corps Trip against all it heavily there since that Fort Worth. Long have I Yea, “people in glass house*—”; but I tell ycai t am not one of you, and I do not intend to be. on my chest for about four years now— This has been too personal—that I realize. But believe «vet + We*** 11 1W aWeeS ^ U. 1A T -1 _ — a a« 1 a • • a I * Worth. .; I have hidden behind a flimsy and desperate waB—built of What I have called your mexi peri«*nee and youth—to strike back at rages directed to wards you. 1 said, “If he is insincere, perhaps it ifl be cause you hate not called for sincerity from him; if' he is cheap and animal-like, be is not representative of the group; if he lieu,;;it is probably because he thought you waited the lib sooner than the truth.” This last 1 4 ould r believing that, one must decide that you y stupid and even below childishness, accusations have pierced the skimpy waB and skepticism planted in my mind are Unless you can do something quickly to not believe, are unutte Boy, t at last. The well over-ri cut whom the growth, I fear complete disillusionment in you * ratty v n I have always held high. man. a As I sai4, the Corps Trip brought the thing closer to me. Not through a personal experience (at this year!) bat through the experiences of a my friends who are hurt and puxxled at the Cain which you lie and lie and lie ... . \ I’m not talking to you as an Aggie only; I adM'trying to let the modem college boy know how at least a few sincere coll. gn girls feel about his streamlined > ei4t^adMl Yea, I said SINCERE—don’t you remember, that’s the word discarded yearn ago by the typical college Romea, bad one foejj which I hm pleading a revival. If i I sound like a Victorian, well and good, Mr Browning did all right But can you tell a^e, please, are there any more real people left on earth ? People who mean what they say 4 say it; people who look beyond the surface of th it all thefe is a semblance of ' or a faint knowledge of morals few of ua there are, are weary yea. even sickening slew of line. You have worn the me, I do represent a small group of girls everywhere who you { are looking for a New Deal in men. ; It is bad to. be as cynical and unbelierving as' I have grown, and I am looking forward to the day of a fresh modem generation ef men with whom one can feel safe not to be a peaaimiul. I recognize that girls are correspond- ingly shallow-minded and as entirely truthless *a most of you seem, but this is my issue with you. ' Serious as this has all* been, you will not believe that the chief thing I do like about you ia your sense of humor —moat of you have that, and where lies a sense and ap preciation of the ridiculous there lies a possibility of the buildpg of a real person, I believe. * 1 beg of you, I beseech you, I plead with you!! Be sin- core with us, be honest with youraOtf. Scrape off the varnish “modernity” has surfaced you with, and )o! a man’s man. and a wea^m’* man. will emerge! Yours for sincerity, A Modern College Girl. ’ She: Why don’t you scram, buddy? Don't you see me sticking out my tongue at you ? He: Yeah, but how do I know whether you’re mad or just want a kiss? ; \ > • Coed: Your boy friend d<Wn*t seem to know the first principle of petting. A 2nd coed: No, when it cornea to petting he’s completely unprincipled. . > \ i to see if a hint of We. teeth of the known, l bel different. I know-why-l-fc its wot my core. Can there who is witty. enough NOT to be modern. t to be When people not think deeply enough their lives to a line. You have worn the ”you-are- ve-never-met*anyone-like-you-befor#. Now-1* t-that-way-when-I-saw-you” story down to fun t»- be wi N«p*- story tiowd r ^e such a quaint person as «m th, intelligent, and opea-t n. In the worst sense of the h spout least * i or twenty-one what they are Kg at least * stab at developing a character, the# I believe the moderns are losing losing it fast. NOVEMBER, 1B38 and BULL'S EYE 17 <\ r - ]• U