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THE RATTALION
THURSDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY IQ, 1946
The Battalion
STUDENT WEEKLY NEWSPAPER
Office, Room 6, Administration Building:, Telephone 4-54444
Texas A. & M. Collesre
The Battalion, official newspaper of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas
and the City of College Station is published weekly, and circulated on Thursday
afternoon.
VETERANS
NEWS
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By S. J. McConnell
Ex-Servicemen’s Club Reporter
Member
Pbsoaoted Gr»Ue6iate Press
Entered as second class matter at the Post Office at College Station, Texas, under
the Act of Congress of March 3, 1870.
Subscription rate $3.00 per school year. Advertising rates upon request.
Represented nationally by National Advertising Service, Inc.,
Chicago, Boston, Los Angeles, and San Francisco.
at New York City,
Sam A. Nixon, Jr.
Bill Withers
Ed Brandt
Editor-In-Chief
Corresponding Editor
Sports Editor
Mr. J. R. Vamell will be in the
Veterans Administration office,
Ramp B in Hart Hall, every Mon
day morning from 8:00 a. m. un
til 12:00 noon. He will answer
questions concerning insurance
claims or any other questions re
lative to veterans’ rights. All vete
rans who desire answers to their
questions are urged to contact Mr.
Varnell.
drag, paid in advance. Married men,
pay your fees to John Porter in
C-l, or O. L. Martin in C-6, Walton
Hall. All you single wolves, pay
C. E. Van Horne, Room 208, in
Dorm 16. Admission tickets may
be purchased at the door, but
buying your ticket in advance, will
help make the dance a success.
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Don’t forget the next regular
meeting Thursday, February 7, at
6:30 p. m. Come on out, fellows,
and meet the rest of the returning
servicemen. Let’s do our best to
welcome theni to good old Texas
A. & M.
Man, Your Manners
By I. Sherwood
“Why is a printed card of thanks paper or on his visiting card. On
regarded as bad taste?” the visiting car’d one might write,
ANS: No one should acknowledge as an example: “Thank you very
that he expects a gift, and to have much for the bill fold. It will be
cards in printed form indicates that very helpful.”
thought. Regardless of how many “Is it ever correct to ask for an
gifts a person receives, each gift invitation for a guest who is visit-
should be recognized with a thank- m your home?”
you message written either on note ANS: Yes, if the entertainment
is to be a large reception or party,
a telephone call might be made re
questing an invitation for the
guest, but never ask this favor if
the occasion is one where dinner
is to be served, or if it is a house
wedding.
(The writer of this column is
glad to answer any questions.
Please send them in care of the
Student Activities Office.)
A large German flag once flown
in Leipsig has been placed in the
Texas Memorial Museum in Aus
tin, Texas.
EDITORIAL STAFF I SPORTS STAFF
Mark Kury, James Davis, J. A. Anderson. H. A. Pate, R. B. Cawthon, Harold Borofs-
T. S. Turner. I ky.
Hit Those Books . . .
Well, the holidays are over and everyone has had his
merry little ten-day fling and is now back at AMC con
templating the woes of college life after a long holiday.
Perhaps the largest and ugliest of these, to some students
are the three remaining weeks of this semester. Call them
what you will—the last mile, home stretch, or photo finish
—and they will still be the last three weeks of a college
semester with all regular and some other difficulties at
tached thereto.
These weeks will top off this fall term, in a manner
that each individual will decide for himself. The decision
will be in the amount of time he puts in on his work—
time for classroom concentration, and a collection of review
ing of lecture notes, plus the perusal of the text book. All
three are necessary for the successful completion of any
course, along with regular class attendance.
This is the home stretch, Army, it can make or break
your record, because you’re the main influence on it. Make
it good and come out on top at the end for your own satis
faction.
BACKWASH
Backwash: 4< An agitation resulting from some action or occurence.*'—Webster.
We heard of a fish recently, in
need of a date, who proceeded to
phone a Bryan girl of more or less
short acquaintance. With that note
in his voice, he quizzed the girl as
to “Whatcha doing Saturday
night?” Quick as a flash, she en
lightened him with “I’ve gotta
date.”
“What about the Saturday night
after that?” the Aggie asked.
“I’ve gotta date”.
“And the Saturday night after
that?” our undaunted hero queried.
“Gotta date.”
His honor at stake the freshman
bowed out with “Good gosh, wom
an, don’t you ever take a bath?”
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APROPOS TO LAST WEEK
I'm always blue
When maintenance is due.
But worst of all
Is the notice “last call”.
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The most difficult job in the
world: If anyone wants to try it,
here it is . . . Take a mouthful of
buckshot mixed up with an equal
portion of oatmeal; then try to
talk while eating the oatmeal with
out swallowing the buckshot.
We wonder just who it was that
broke the eighteen expensive light
fixtures around the Administration
Building drive last week. The same
thing this summer. Those fixtures
are hard to get and cost quite a
bit of money. No one knows who
did it, or why, but it looks to us
like a sheer act of vandalism.
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Friend—Ah, professor, I hear
your wife has twins. Boys or girls ?
Prof, (with the original absent
mind) Well, I believe one is a girl
and one is a boy, but it may be
the other way around.
—O—
A good thing has appeared on
the campus this week in the form
of a bright, new up-to-date Direc
tory of the faculty, staff, and stu
dent body, published by the Stu
dent Activities Office. It’s a handy,
helpful packet of paper and ink,
and everyone connected with the
college shbuld own one. If you
haven’t got yours yet, students are
selling them and the news stands
have a good supply at only two-
bits per each.
—O—
We received a communication
Between the Book Ends . . .
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President Gibb Gilchrist has an
nounced that married veterans liv
ing in Walton Hall will be able to
stay there as long as they meet
the set requirements. However, pre
ference will be given to returning
Aggies on other apartments made
available. No assurance could be
given as to the future housing
conditions for any veteran students.
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A special meeting of the Ex-
Servicemen’s Club will be held at
6:30 p. m. on January 21. All
members are urged to attend. Fel
lows, we can’t have a club without
your help. This is your organiza
tion, and it’s up to you to make it
successful. An estimated 1,000 to
1,500 new ex-service students are
expected to attend A. & M. College
next semester; let’s set them a good
example!
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ATTENTION, VETERANS! A
dance will be held for all vete
rans, their wives and dates, with
the time and date to be announced
later. The price is 50<, stag or
the other day from A. C. Cannata
from Guam that Aggies would be
interested in: It reads in part . . ,
“We have formed a Texas A. & M.
Club on the Island of Guam, which
meets on the 29th of each month
in honor of the 29th Bomber Com
mand. There is a membei’ship of
about 30. We still have that Ag
gie Spirit and we hope that in
’46 we will all be back at Aggie-
land”. That’s the kind of letters
we like to receive. Here’s hoping
we get more.
—O—
Song of the E. E. Lab
Press the first switch down
And the current goes round and
round,
Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeee—
And the power comes out here.
Now press the middle switch down
More current goes round and
round,
Pooooooooooooooowt—
And the breakers go out here.
Now press the last switch down
The instructor goes round and
mind,
Yeaaaaaaaaaaaay—
And now you go out here.
—O—
Dr. Klein's "Mental Hygiene"
Surveys Psychological Field
MENTAL HYGIENE: The Psy
chology of Personal Adjustment,
by D. B. Klein. Reviewed by Dr.
Walter A. Varvel, Professor of
Psychology, A. & M. College.
According to Dr. Klein, a major
objective of this survey of the men
tal hygiene movement is to orient
the student of psychiatry or clinical
psychology who is just beginning
his professional studies. But the
needs of the intellectually eager,
general reader have been care
fully considered. Such a reader will
secure from this book an under
standing of mental disease, and
of the factors which promote men
tal health in our modern society.
Dr. Klein deals more with the gene
ral conditions for and the prin
ciples of improvement of adjust
ment than with the nature of and
therapy for specific mental dis
orders. It is not therefore a text
on abnormal psychology nor is it
one of the popular “self-improve
ment” books. Rather it is a text
which treats the broader social and
personal problems of adjustment
with no sacrifice of basic scientific
accuracy. There are sections on the
nature and scope of mental hygiene,
the nature of mental disease, the
prevention of mental disease, and
the promoton of mental health. Dr.
Klein treats his subject with the
critical restraint of the conscien-
tous laboratory worker rather than
with the zeal of the evangelist or
promoter. But he faces objectively
some phenomena which many wri
ters have regarded as improper sub
ject matter for scientific writing;
for example, he discusses in some
detail the significance of consci
ence and ethical standards in men
tal conflict. He includes references
to a wide body of research papers
as well as to the literature of opin
ion.
Dr. D. B. Klein, AB (CCNY,
1918), MA (1921), & PhD (Colum
bia, 1930), author of MENTAL
HYGIENE, is a Professor of Psy
chology at the University of Tex
as, teaching general, clinical, and
mental hygiene. He is a co-author
of two college texts in General
Psychology and a lecturer for the
Hogg Foundation.
Dr. Varvel will review Dr. Klein’s
book, Sunday night, January 13th,
at the regular meeting of the
Hillel Club.
The Library has several new
books on the subject of mental hy
giene and psychology already be
ing circulated.
Fish: How do you like your room
as a whole?
Senior: As a hole it’s fine, as a
room—not so good.
—O—
Geology prof: Yes, the inside of
our earth is a molten mass of
rock and flame.
Student: Ain’t that hell!
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Another rumor—The 1946 Long
horn will be here in about two
weeks. Only this time it looks like
the real thing. If it’s true or not
it makes no difference to Smith.
He set a record—eight months
late.
Congratulations to Guion Hall’s
arch rival of flicker flashbacks.
Their last two cinema attractions
have been topnotch entertainment.
It wouldn't surprise. BACKWASH
if they were not financially profit
able to the owner, for the Aggies
know a good thing when they see
it. Why not more of the same?
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