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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 28, 1948)
t ■ e ’l | i'v'd M i :'i, ; ! !! i Pm ifl • i! K.i;? M- ■ ■[•I. f* : approves (jf these little tussles, but some carried a $it top far* v | .V i- M ^ » , h Evidently, this was, for last week, a; fish was struck \ playfully \ rith a pillow. The pillow cohtaifled a shoe, which wasn’t qui te 1 •' The from !Sam ( Houston State Teache: The dance will start at 8:00 jp.m., ’ Sponaoredj by the Class of 1952/ only frt*simian cadets with dates will be i adiftitted. Cadets without weekend pajssca must be in their barracks by!one a.m., and all dates staying! in |h<* hospital area must ilwlp Thoi*A ViSoXWnrwl pn«nt WSo rwVtod n<» nonv YELL LEADERS, at a regular Tuesday-Thursday t. They are, from left to right, Fish Arlen Reese, J !dy Brown, Johnny Alaniz, and Lewis Jobe. , night Jimmy be in by that time, also. Ail cadets will wear their number one uni form, the ccimph be in number leaving the !car Any: profit serge, but must iro uniform when IS. I realized from the luizzes Frighten Fish, -How went to thje clinic, There hls blood count Was noted as pear the danger ppiht. ' is'i . | :.i* • « -- p k< :i-.|j o-oSSfia^ Ana They re Just Starting ing to thb i^nnex, A shaky voice oh the <t>ther end answered, ; “Sorry, but I’m not going back. I cainili i ^ { Mondhy, Col. Melcher received a telegram from this freshman stating that his doctor has recommended dropping "out of our school to'guard against further^injury. 1| , Now! iust what kind of a class are \v£, if we can’t realize the dangerfof this type of “fun.” Most pf it is harmless, but keep at that way. Profit by anot her’s mistakes, and watch thfO thing, for it could get out of hand. f Ever .Student or your you? telephon Eac are fill use Bell’i ; bad, one hi!/[ Ma: importa ould Alexander like This? ■ • 1 • f i /..Hi ' • f ; i; -i • . ■ Hi j; «. r been kind of downhearted-when you come to the Renter: late some night, wanting ;to call your folks irh hnd see the customary Annex line awaiting reason'for this line is that we have only one ifth which to place calls aft$r C.Q. importa authorized person will rem ifpS. ^ ;. ! r The night many .Chairs in the south,end of the Center with anxious freshmen waiting tar their turn to invention. The ratio for telephoning is just pretty ►hone for over 1,000 freshmeni. , of these calls ajre emergenciles, i but all are very to the freshman concerned, j^et’s hope that some edy this situation as soon as pos- By HFIG” NEWTON One. of tiie things that modem man has inherited from his bar baric ancestors, is the ability to torture. In college this torture comes in the form of quizzes. They serve to confuse, to make us rest less, suspicious, and irritable. “Home was never like this” has been said several times because of them. In spite of our course in Fresh man Orientation, most of us still use our own old ways to study for an annoimcea quiz. We wait not too eagerly for the fateful day to arrive. With much anxiety we sit up until the wee hours p( the morn ing on the eve of the test. Confus ed questions and answers bother usi Finally, when we fall asleep j| - * } 1|. m ; j , . ^1 f j j Two-Percenters Found! I ’ Lasl Thursday niight at yell practice, a group of so- called lojal Aggies joined; in the cry, ‘Drown out the two- percentqrs,” whenJhey themselves jwtre doing almost as ■ bad, if pot worse, r [ .3 s ^ III . h I Fresknmi Bait will never def ny [ jp: ball will be I entered into! the fresh man class fund, the committee in charge! of the dance has announced The ball!will be rhaperpned by officers of the Annex and their wives, with the girls' barracks each having a matron.! The hos pital area will be off limits for all stiidenu. 'I j r After cij|ht weeks ojf 'grueling toil, the Freshmeh are looking for-; ward to the Stiarlight Ball and awaiting the opportunity to show j off that hometown girl-friend. ! There has been a mad scramble ! for the limited number of tickets,' in our answer. ; i j . . ! “What Was the first written constitution of America?” Ap parently, this has become lost itn some dark, damp corner of our brains. We answer, “The Articles After all we must have some | uml a ^ n - out crowd ' 18 »nticipate<l. donsideration fbr the man who has J to>,iix*ad ankWers over and over un til very Irttjc. The mistakes on some of our papers show that the grad er, being just as able to make mis takes, as the re.^t of us, has gone to sleep while grading a few times, p Perhaps there is some special (leity who looks after those who are in need of aid. The results sometimes show that some miracle has happened! and we have passed a quiz. When we leave the class room, we have a resolve in our minds to use more effective study methods. How well will we keep these resolutions? Only time will tell. .Senior boots, we hope, are listed for us somewhere in the chronicle “of the future. !* tworm, hour each • ■* ,ll f| I’lvnniHiMi jkvm iievei uafejld the boolf lJ the two^ercenter,, who can’t give tesa than an hour eacn week tojj yell and uung for his school. But iBlmosi equally as bad, n bur eyes, are the freshmen who do go to yell 'practice^ but yell Only weakly, keep |uj 4 constant chatter, disobey ihe yell. leuders, jmd in gerier ib make a nuisance jj It • 1 .1 j , x !. j j , me quwuunii ana cnccK our papers i"t" Thb jAggie yell practice is one of the oldest, most loved . (m , r ' u „tii time to go, When we traditions of Aggieland. Let’s all pull together, yell togeth- kilow that we don’t know what the or, and improve our class bv making these sessions ‘‘the best answer tjo u certain qpCstjonis, we ' - r H * ... - • r r : !! usually try to put a little humor in the study hall, we give Up our task and go to bed; Articles of Confederation, lenticelp, clauses, phrases, and yerbals become just andther bunch of coqfqsed statis tics as we have our dreqms of quiz papers during the reipainder of our sleeping hours. ! The Uine comes for; us to fall out for Reville. We are so sleepy that we ; barely make formation. After chow, we make another feeblei attempt to fig jthe impor tant fhets in our brains, more thor- oughlv. In class, surveying of the entire] test is done. “My gosh”'we thipk, “what formj of fiendish brain could have conceived such horrible thought makers?” |‘How much does a stamp cost?” Of ccjurse, this soumls sb simple that wo immedi ately look for u catch In it. “Does that mean I how much; jt costs the government to maki) jot* does it mean the price I would have to pay for ;|t?” We answer most of I ^ wf p 0IU , truti „ ng for both to the questjans and cheek our papers credit of one-half game eafh. Only 330 tickets will be sold, being distributed equally to all companies and squadrons. Tick ets may be obtained at $2 per couple from your executive of ficer.; Late this week the remain ing tickets will be returned to Fish Bpsek in Barracks T-158, who will take charge of the fi nal Sales. J • i ;, j The regimental committee, in cooperation with Mrs. Ann Hil liard, Annex hostess, has arranged the dance, and with the present plans; it will be one of the most successful dances held at the An nex. The gymnasium will be elab orately decorated for’ the occasion the Committee announced. Sports at Little Aggieland I By FRANK! N. MAN1TZAS As play advanced in flag football at Little Aggieland, so did Flight 9. Squeezing past Flight 11 by one penetration, Flight 9 leads the field with four wins to no losses. Flight 10 won its first game over Company 3, 6-0, this three cent | being the fourth game that, company 3 has lost. Flight 10 of League. “A” brought forth itsf first win as it edged out the slight ly favored Company f», 7-fi.- In league “B,” Company 4 and Company 1 split a dose one with | a scoreless tic and all even num- College at Huntsville, nd last until midnight. m 9 ’<. >1 •r kit' Thompson Polls Fisk Opinion On PE Shuttle Run • ■ L L By BILL THOMPSON The question of tho week: What is your opinion of the shuttle run ? This comer reserves the right to reject any answers, and anyjf similarity to, actual person llv or dead is purely intentional. THc physical education instroc- IMS ;n Page '' , * Ml! M L*“ 1 1 . tors . at the Annex will be pleased to kiiow that the majority " ' ■ * • ■ 4 this M ■ of the students interviewed this week wer# in favor of the shuttle run. Fish W. C. Parkci 1 of Barracks T-:i2'J made this statement while pushing a ping pong ball: “I think that the shuttle run will build us up, and I think that the other ex ercises will also help us get in better physical condition. I don’t like it because I have to run, but I think it’s good for the students." Fish John Millender , of bar racks T-231, gazed at us over a cue stick and eight ball and made this statement: “I don’t like! it, and I don’t think that it’s, worth the effort that I put tunas; ciss^rg ‘ Dick Jones, secretary *»f the jcSmatsyUnt’* office//^ Companies 2,8. Flight H fin SS® 1 )L. RO! the guidon to ■If secretanr T IER, Wnnex commandant, la P-ington, commander of HBiofficf. 11: out” Fifh Review Before Colonel Boitner : m> TAJ*LEY I > »?[’• • }• |i;i. • t y ,j , Col. He L. Boaitiet, PM3&T of the college, was on the |X*-— -* j—lit*-- —*- —i-i a_i _!—Ljf_. ItaiiSi.-. Col. Boatn ! * reviewing aland during Monday’s regimental parade. With ~ ' “ ler were M. Coh ^ l. Melcher, commandant at c. E. Sebesta looked up Major H. B. Greer, front His copy of Life and sajd: ‘T think it’s worth the effort It’s pretty tough to run, but I think it will help me, and I think that I will improve on it during the se- meathr.”! Fish Jerry Houser of barracks T-32I, stopped playing the piano and said: “You can’t put my an swer on paper. I wish they’d start some games instead of the shuttle and those exercises.” Fifch C. G. Masey of barracks T-163,! who was waiting on a tele phone i call made this statement: “I think it’s worth the trouble. It’s better; than just work outs because it hsis! 1 competition.” Fish F. B. McDaniel of barracks T-230, emerged from the corsage line and answered us ; with: “I think it’s all right to get you in shape, and it doesn’t hurt me any.” the Annex, Luke H&FHc *vFtos& son, ■ft? Cadet Chaplirin Fish Regiment By ANTHONY Mj what :j ; - -r : j . • I L ^ 1 ' t, f ‘! : II nin» P«K«. ncwipijpcr of thr A. A M. Ainivcx fre.hmen, |h iiutli.hnl y . mh jdi innitlo |i«tre iff the HATTAI IO Ifthtl i* n><>n»(irW Sam The Fi each ThurWty ftH Southwell, liffttiulty. ftilvUor. Ncwh WntrlbuHomi m«y 1m> mate at the KrcHhimnii flATTAI.iON nffioc in the Student Ccjjtoi* nt the Atjnex. JL Kdftar. ......... .I.i. Munaftinir IHdltor. ‘ Sport* Edlto ■ FRESljMAN ST A Kg Feature Edit ir News Editor..! Report era, cjulumnists Chief PKotet rapherj.- ji- Make-up.. .-..t hn Tapley, urn v-4- I iDeanj Ree<l t.. • OLi Tiedt Frink' N. Minitzaa I . ."Fly' N<-wton A. Cjl Marttoitta hotupaon. Z'tfie Martin.; Jack Sjkflca. M. G. Smatfi-rsi PaVid Darter. David Rice, 1 obert Hynes. Jer > {Hnuan'r, Vf.' W. Alftridue, H. M. Corl, Joe iCr'iRftton. tR. A.j Moreland i J..... I , , . Hank <V>le ; R. A. Mor^anji. lUill IfhompBon. Jack ‘Skilea 1 I ' ■« I ;■ Annex Religious Schedule Given i By DAVID RICE -f—- Furmtur© Specials BED SjOFA' .....i..... 4...$2i.00 59.00 SED PIANO .. .$1 rop^ “ * ROOM p Rang!: si 10.00 SUITE NEW BABY BED Miller Furniture Co 206 S. College lie Place to Save' u icr Adams ' Ml ESTATE ANCE LOANS 1 Block East of North Gate Ph. 4-1217 Seiid The Battalion Home : T ' r The Aggie Christian Fellowship is; scheduled to meet at .0 tun. Fri day in Room 6 of the Chemistry Building. This Bible' study group for all denomination!!] welcomes all students who wish to attend its meetings. The selections td be stud ied Ithis Week will be taken from the second chapter of Galatians, j Everyone present may participate i irj the general discussion of tjhis ; chapter. Prayer meeting during tho fol lowing Weeks will be held in the chapel at 12:30 p.m., in addition to the regular 6:15! p.m. services hbld. in T-235. These latter meet ings will be held (.Monday through Friday with thej exceptions that the evening group will meet with the Union Services in the chapel at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, and With the Aggie Christian Fellowship Fridays. Church buses will leave for Bry an and College Station at 9:15 iLm. Leading league “B” is Com pany 8 who defeated the confi dent Veterans, 12-0. Company 2 won the first game that it has played against Company 5 with a score of 7-0. The winners of each league will, battle it out for the championship at Little Ag gieland. The tumbling team elected offi cers composed of Charles L. Ger- Rghty, president and, Harold E. Cottle, secretary-treasurer. The team wijll sell cokes at the Star light Ball to raise money for the trips planned. An exhibition is planned at the Annex later on in the year. The team will attempt to attorn! the A.A.U. gymnastics meet in Dallas this coming spring. The present tumbldrs Ore: R. D. Westcott,, George Moglig, Archie Stallings, Fred Stanley, Leroy Frevena, 3. C. Trauth, John Herd- wick, Bobby L. Moore, Bob A. Yaegcr, L. A. Hplmcjsl R. C. Rog ers, and Bill Walker. Bout Tir Contest Started at Annex ' By DEAN REED Dust off your imagination!! and prepare to enter a different, nq- iiojds-barred, no boxtop contest. With this issue, the Freshnian Batt is starting a contest which will call for your wildest thoughts andl schemes. Just exactly HOW would you like to see our team beat the Tex as University Longhorns this Thanksgiving Day ? contest, just HOW. T h e. contest sodnds simple chough, but it has unlimited pos sibilities. Perhaps you would like to some purely exhibition n of men at the Annex, and Df the Annex. . viiif'.'BSp*'' 2, K and Flight. IJ , WWn«n# aaid, “The personal appearance V the men has improved 100 per cenL and a number] of the com- irttefcMfcave picked up consider- V” i . -F I- t ' , i his was the initial win for Company 8 and Flight' II, with M; Company i the lone repeater. Com pany 2 has led the First Battalion for thp second successive! week. The three winners Will miss! tho breakfast formations for fho re mainder of the week. . Also at the review, the pres entation of officer# and lion- cotes’ rank insignia wap made. Officers will wear raaropn strips oni their shoulder, while the non- cotbs will wear an-jarmy bam) with their respective number of Mm- . , , ,, IHs Pish Roy S. LeTourneau of Longview, Texas has been lected as Chaplain of Freshman Regiment, Robert L. Melcher;, A n n je;X commandant, has announced, j; - * Tourneau’s appointment wa# unanimous, with m football. For instance*, let’s keep ^' V(s 9-t A&M tteent , . , recr peaking for itself. J||i; A member of the Bajtoi|t t’hu LeTourneau nevcrthelms ha? deep respect .for- .a!j|V relig faithaJ. [ t|P A J9to graduate M-Whe. Academy in Illinois, be « active in religious work bind alsodn extra-curricular activBi9».* > Playing end on tijij football team, Fish ]Whe fourneai ft forcRjg the Teasippers to punt; so that Mr. Royalty can run brok en field plays for the rest of our scoreLf . /jo Another one start# like this: “It! will begin in their hearts. Defeat will worm into their miser able hearts on the night before the game, when the first represent m ,i tativ^s of Aggie spirit begin drib- fhat s tho bljn>f into Aust i ni whct , they first begin to hear the fearful breathing of thb twelfth man, an awfully big man. Naturally they won’t be able intramural flag footbl Tie 1# fully qualifiyidn ovirif reaped foe the position of chap lain," Col, Melcher added. Lc- Tourneau’a transfer litoral* itmid grades, and the kind of leadef- »Mp miulrtd b, aA. President of the ; Acade»ji>y League at Wheaton, M' ii a hu-m- ber of the Baptist Student Uniofi here. Fish LeTourneau in Thanksgiving; C Tourney Entilies Due by Friday • • ' . te. ’ !j An open tennis tournament for the annex fresh men is’ expected to get in full swing next week, Luke toj make your idea .the funniest, S ee ciiuclest, most novel, or the most exciting. The best all-around entry will be judged the winner, and will receive prizes which Will be an nounced later. All entries must be in the Freshman Batt office in the Student Center by 5 p.m. Friday; November 19. j ' ; Entries will not bo limited, so bj ing by as many as you like. Sign . , . , sleep. In the morning they will Easter services *t ; the Annex, - Aggies behind every bush. The . along with other religious activi- fear that was a worm will become a dinosaur. After the TU play ers, protesting for their lives, have been forced by their coaches to go onto the field, they will learn that their fears have not been in vain.*’ Still another one sounds like thi#: “Well, I want it to be like this. I want the twelfth man to rise up. . . ; . i. 4 * vrcaiiv bifi. bwcuvu mail \aj i i.^ir up* your name and barracks number . l want him ^ ^ out of the to each entrjvDent wait until the | an( , village8 all ever Texas and i wdek before the deadline to enter W ant him to come stalking over the for elimination will; begin as soon - --- ; 1 as enough are entered. i The contest, whose judges Will be announced later, is limited to jAnnex freshmen, Corps members gnd iM»n-corps alike. All are elii- T : . ';m j-i GET OUR SPECIAL O • Hi '• 1 . *' ! , * . or 9 months Send the Battalion for 9 months ■ ; i 1 r ! : : t •iS ’ I : l —4rl i i aai" City J State ■l ’ j • 3^, ; {ii .; li ; ' . M t each Sunday morning. These bu^es, Harrison, dean of . men at the-An-, £*ble except members of the which will leave froth the Admin- nex, has announced. The (net tour-( I res! stration Building, serve [all ney will be only for doubles team. - Below are several ideas conceiy- Freshman Balt staff. which will leave froth the Adnjijin- nex, has announced. The (net tour- strntinn Building, sciwe (all ney will he only for doubles team. , , igardless of denomipa-; All rackets and balls must be j s biff membels hnd by fresh- portation is provideqj to furnished by the# participating stu-( in ! lt ‘ n already interested in the con- and; from church by the college, dents. The winner of each match The week’s best entries will and( students are invited to use will be determiined by the best % printed in each Thursday’s is- theXe facilities. j | two-out-of-three set#. All entries Lnion Church services Will nieet! should , be in Harrison’s' office in every Sunday at 11 a.m. in the the,administration building by five chapel. These services are spon- o’clock Friday afternoon. Sored by the local; churches (for To enter, each student must put the convenience of ihe cadets who his name, company, barracks and cannot, or do not wish to, attend a schedule of his afternoon off- the regular church groups in town. ' periods for the, next week, along Any student who dpes not Wish to |With his partner’s name. leave the Annex on; Sundays is in-j — : vited to attend these services, i 1 Wednesday night services (are (sponsored by the (Union Council and the Baptist Student Union (Council, (both of which meet at 6:15 p.m. Students interested in working with -either of these groups are i urged to attend | the council meetings. : , ^ ( j | ' 1 '' T ' y r ' 1 i i-1 I i 1 mmI T ... WHY PAY MORE? Call today about our ... » 20% RATE REDUCTION Billie Mitchell, ’42 STATE FARM INSURANCE COMPANIES Phone 4-7269 Above Aggieland Pharmacy HOLIDAY An Adventure in / Good Smoking sue. j “Personally I prefer just a nor mal victory. I want our team to begin by passing from the spread formation sb well that it becomes monotonous. For about half a quarter I would like to see some first class passing from Mr. Cash- ion. When this gets old, let Mr. Goff run off-tackle plays until the iUT line begins to disintegrate, puring the last quarter let’s settle fields and the prairies like a blue norther, come stalking right over to Austin, then right pver to Me morial Stadium, maybe knocking the dome off the TU , tower with his toe as he steps over it He's big, you know. Stepping down into the middle of the bowl he will wreak, in every old which way, wrath and destruction, on the ene my.” f ■ ( ' j! /¥■ ■ “Texas’ four top back-field men deserve at least to break a leg, just for attending the University to begin with. 'Therefore, I would like for these four men of the TU team to break each a leg in the first quarter. We might as well do it the easy way.” Now here’s one involving the feminine angle. “I’d like for Miss Pat Parker, the Aggie sweetheart, to walk around the field just near the end ! HOLIDAY MipcMMSj AUTO — LIFE — FIRE VAN DYKE STUDIOS I ’ ' D l N E ( «nd DANCE Annex Club# Urged To Fill Out Forms T 4 ; All organizations don club#.-at the Annqx are requested , to send, a representative by the Freshman Battalion \office in the Student Center as soon as possible. Three students will be given a blank form to be filled out and returned to the Freshman Bati office. * This will be very Important-:in getting your meeting* announced, reporting the actiyltie# of ybur club, photographing your club-of ficers., . /ifg?'I.. Jh’l -fMr- Pq! ■ of a tied-up game, |hd the nipper team will naturally en in a pursuit. They’re human, i they are. Of course,. Miss Pi will be well defended,.but i meantime, our team Will acoi final, winning T.D.’I ! . THE ft- This was the first parade where eh unit carried their new guid on*,' Streamers will bje awarded the winning units and will be placed ort three guidons. . ( \ :( ‘‘Oply five point# xcpuralted the best company of the regiment from the, worst, whichiJal a ver* 11 shawing;” Col, ^etcher nd i! m; m , , , „ , y To Err Is Human When WE Do It Well; jmrdon Usl 1 lit Instj week’s ' Freshman‘Page we a’nnounM that Fish Dean Remh Freshman Batt Alitor, was an inmate of barracks T-220T We have been informed,,, that this certain bpmicks iis oc cupied by the office oif’CnPit* W. D Wood, tactical officer for the first battalion.; Although , Fi#h Reed might be seen in the!Captain's of fice quite often, he (lives iUL Bar- tacks. T-164. | . j *Now we take id|p' tlhe case of Fish U; O'! Tiedt, managing editor of tlfp Freshman Baft.,' Fish was listed as .living iijr UTaint so- There ia !nq,8UCl. racks, and he lives in. 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