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THE BATTALION
THURSDAY AFTERNOON, JUNE 13, 1946
Let’s Say “Howdy”...
Among important A. & M. customs which have been
ignored lately, the most noticeable is the lack of “howdys”
from fellow students as we amble down the walks. Are we
getting so deep in thought, so disturbed by the problems of
the world, that we can’t give a neighborly greeting to the
folks we meet?
Some people want to argue about who should speak
first. Last semester there was a question, should a cadet
speak first to a veteran, or vice versa. What difference does
it make? One rule of gentlemanly conduct is “when is
doubt, speak first.”
Let’s limber up our jaws and give forth with a deep,
hearty “howdy” to everyone we meet. A. & M. used to be
known as the friendliest campus in the world. Let’s get
back that reputation.
Another Step Forward ...
Through the efforts of the Dean of Engineering, his
staff at Easterwood Field and the Veterans’ Advisor, flight
training has now become a reality and an approved course
here at A. and M. College. This is another step forward
along the air trial that leads to unbelievable as well as un
known destinations. This step is another progressive step
by the college to maintain its place high on the list of tech
nical schools of the country.
This summer’s class should prove the testing group
or the guinea pigs to determine just how much can be done
and just what provisions will have to be made to fit such
a class into the college curricula for the regular semesters.
What ever the outcome and whatever the grief and
grievances, the move is a creditable one, a forward one.
Where Is Fronds Hall? Know
Campus and You Start Right
(This ia the first in a series of articles |
requested by the former Aggie veterans ’
Organization.
is hoped that through
at a June meeting of the Ex-Servicemen’s
>pe
these, new students at A. & M. College,
veterans of the last war, will learn more
of Aggie life as it is lived, and assist them
in becoming Aggies in the real sense of
the world).
No Tranquility at T. u
The attempt to establish an “era of tranquility” at
Austin has blown up with a bang. This should surprise no
one, for it is impossible to establish peace simply by saying
“Everything is rosy now.” Problems must be faced, not
merely ignored in the pious hope that “the less said, the
sooner forgotten.”
No one can accuse the American Association of Uni
versity Professors of playing Texas politics; it is the Su
preme Court of American university education. Therefore
the censure of U. T. by that body, stating that the faculty
is to be commended for “its 1 courage and tenacity in oppos
ing systematic, persistent and continuous attempts by a
dominant political j^boup to impose its social and educational
views upon the university” must be accepted as the calm
finding of the major body of American educators.
One of T. u.’s English professors, departing for a
teaching position at Harvard this week, left behind him a
letter that burned the ears of the regents. And J. Frank
Dobie, No. 1 man in the Southwest literary movement, de
clined to return to his professorship there.
' There is no gloating here at A. & M. over the difficulties
of our arch-rival. Both at College Station and at Austin
there is a large body of students who are eager to see Texas
state schools rated equal to any in the land; Perhaps, in
time, the uproar at Austin will lead to reforms sufficient
to bring about that end.
To thousands of Texas men the
greatest day of their college
careers was the first day they en
rolled at A. and M. College and
donned the uniform bearing the
narrow—but oh so wide—white
| stripe, the mark of the first
year student.
The uniform bound all stu
dents together in one large and
strong organization, expelling
social and financial standings.
Joe’s clothes were the same as
John’s. The uniform carried on
it the initials AMC which, as
far as the wearer and his thous
ands of comrades were con
cerned stood for the greatest
school in the Southwest Confer
ence—in the United States.
On the campus however, the
first main point that is put
across to the “fish”, as all first
year students of the corps are
called, is that there are many other
people in this world, people that
are just as important as he is and
a few that have duties and respon
sibilities and are due a bit of re
spect. This idea is brought to
light in an entirely different man-
er than we have witnessed in the
service. Here it is the bonding of
an everlasting fellowship.
New Name
The first important thing that
the “fish” has to remember is that
for nine months he is “fish”. He
will always address his classmates
as Fish Jackson, not Tom Jackson.
He introduces himself using the
handle “fish” before his last name.
This is not a punitive measure
Versus
While the rgger^g^administratjjcm, asnd faculty o/f The
University of Tgxas are all looking with no small degree of
apprenhension at the recent statement made by Governor
Coke Stevenson concernign the possibility of a legislative
investigation of the institution, it may well be worthwhile
to consider the following passage from “Campus Versus
Classroom,” by Burgess Johnson.
“If we are to educate our young people wholesale, and
it seems as though we cannot avoid it, there must be ma
chinery. But how simple and unobtrusive can it be kept,
and how little does it interfere with the educational pro
cesses of a man and a boy walking and talking and working
together in an atmosphere conducive to learning? Trustees
and presidents and deans and buildings and equipment are
all machinery of one sort or another. The education itself
occurs at that point of contact betweeen teacher and student.
“There are colleges where teachers are not wholly free
to serve the cause of learning because they are forced to
be too consciously the servants of a group of businessmen,
called regents or trustees, who are themselves unacquainted
with educational problems . . .
“When a group of teachers first came together, thus
forming the nucleus of the first university, they found it
convenient to select one of their own number as chairman.
They did not bother about where and how the students lived;
that came later . . . But that simple organization of teach
ers . . . has lasted until this day in some parts of the world,
and proved its own efficiency.
“Trustee control of colleges has sometimes turned out
to be more arbitrary and more destructive of teacher in
dependence and self-respect than a political-minded legis
lature or a narrow-visioned denomination. The trustees are
of course essential where trust funds and endowments must
be perpetually guarded and invested, and guardians em
ployed; but the men who first established such a board of
control chose citizens who were themselves educationally
minded and trained for such a job; and did not contemplate
a day when men tested only by business success would be
put in complete control of educational objectives and meth
ods of attaining them. The college president was then the
final authority on such matters. But today in many colleges
and universities the trustees control the appointment of
teachers, the addition of courses to the curriculum, or their
discontinuance; the determining of educational policies and
the choice of a president, who becomes their employee often
without a right to share in their councils except by re
quest.”—The Daily Texan.
taken just because he is a first
year student, but it marks him
as such. The title “fish” can
bring many hardships but at the
same time it offers to others the
reason, not necessarily excuse, for
the student’s lack of knowledge—
acquaintance with the campus, peo
ple and customs.
Next to remembering his new
name, the greenhorn should never
forget the name of his roommate,
organization commander and the
person whom he served as maid.
This will be discussed later un
der the title of administrative
duties.
Know the Campus
This college is a large one
and one which seems forever
growing. Of this we are proud!
We keep abreast of all the new
changes and new buildings and
at the same time know the
story of the old ones.
Where is Gathright Hall?
Where is Francis Hall?
These are probably the first
two questions asked a “fish” to
test his knowledge or acquaint
ance with the campus. In no
time at all he will learn to know
the campus far better than he
will the book.
Know your campus. In civies
we are often mistaken as vis
itors on the campus. At the
same time, many of us are ask
ed for information concerning
the location of certain offices,
buildings or establishments. Be
able to answer properly if you are
asked. The Registrar’s Bulletin
carries a detailed map of the cam
pus. Any pre-war Aggie will be
glad to help you. You might take
a bit of ribbing, but if you can’t
take what little they’ll give you
now, chances are you wouldn’t
have lasted had you entered as a
“fish”.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
RECORD COLUMN RAZZED
BY RABID READER
Editor
Battalion (Newspaper for men?)
Open letter to author of “Platter
Chatter”
Oh I do think our column called
“Platter Chatter” is so divine. I
simply must tell you about it, es
pecially your latest column head
ed, “New and Oldies Feature Re
cent Record Releases;” how utterly
charming.
You remind me of another old
friend of mine, poor boy. He took
tap-dancing with knitting on the
side, but that awful Army took him
and now, as you have probably
guessed, he has just gone to the
dogs. Yes, he stopped his knitting
and started dating girls, of all
things. Now he says naughty
things about your column, too.
Secretly, though, Ferd, the
other fellows and my room-mate
GOFER BETROTHAL
Miss Sara Allen Gofer of Col
lege Station and former member
of the Summer Battalion Staff is
being honored with teas and lun
cheons proceeding her coming
marriage to Cedrick R. Landon
June 15.
all laugh at me when I go into
raptures over your exotic descrip
tion of Frankie or Harry’s latest
recording, but I just say, “Oh
shush,” and ignore them, the hor
rid people.
One more thing, Ferd dear, did
you ever take knitting or tap-danc
ing?
Breathlessly awaiting your
next column I remain,
(Name withheld at writers
request.)
CollegjtaStation,
(Non-khit^g, noh-tap-dancing,
ex-army man English says, “What
do you want, egg in your beer?”)
ASHWORTH MARRIED
Jack Ashworth, veteran student
from Bryan, and Miss Dorothy
Foster were married in Bryan
Tuesday night at the First Bap
tist Church. Ashworth was a staff
member of the old Battalion maga
zine before joining the Army Air
Corps.
MRS. VARNER GRAVELY ILL
Word was received late yester
day evening that Assistant Dean
of Men D. B. “Woody” Varner
has been called to the bedside of
his mother, who doctors say is
not expected to live.
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SELF ASSISTS DANIEL
Allen Self, co-editor of the Bat
talion elected by the corps, is
spending the summer as a secre
tary to Price Daniel, candidate
for state attorney general. Self,
is now working in Austin, but will
go on tour with Mr. Daniel after
the campaign opens in Houston,
on June 17.
The Brazos river valley was the
habitat, in prehistoric times, of
the huge mastadon known as the
Brazos river elephant. Several
skeletons are in the A. & M. mus-
PENNY’S SERENADE
By W. L. Penherthy
Every once in a while I run
across one of our returned students
who had difficulty in being rein
stated because when he left the in
stitution his scholastic record was
pretty badly messed up. This sit
uation is true in
the case of many
of our men who
felt that the fu
ture was so un
certain that there
was no use in be
ing too concerned
with their scho
lastic record. This
attitude is un
derstandable, but
I feel that many
of us adopt the
same attitude in instances where
there is much less reason. It is
often very easy for us to adopt
the “what’s the use” slant when
we just don’t want to put out what
it takes to do the job.
I get a lot of inspiration from
the story of Joseph, the Biblical
character, whose father showed
favoritism by giving him a coat of
many colors. This act made Joseph
very unpopular with his manybro-
MASONS TO ORGANIZE
IN COLLEGE STATION
All Master Masons interested in
organizing a College Station lodge
are invited to attend a meeting at
7:00 p. m. on Monday, June 17, at
the Assembly Room of the YMCA.
Those who signed the original
petition for this purpose are
especially urged to be present.
DEADLINE FOR
OFFICIAL NOTICES
During the summer session the
deadline for Official Notices and
Classified Advertising will be 2
p.m. each Wednesday, for display
advertising, 3 p.m. each Tuesday.
CURTIS WILKINS DIES
Curtis N. Wilkins, brother of
Taylor Wilkins ’36, Assistant Dir
ector of Student Affairs of the
College, and John Wilkins ’37 of
Franklin, Texas djed last week
after an operation ponnected with
an internal muscular disorder.
Funeral services were held Sun
day in Franklin.
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