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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 14, 1948)
L ; . - /I:! - v v 'k ' !'■ f- ” : i * T A ■ : •• m ; f t r . ' . V |'' i k > --k'';k : ■' -i 'k ■ : ■! il. i }|k : ’p ■ i • 1 ' .'•-if. • . ••! f ]• If, 4 | | , j/' vfi E j r Page 2 i u T r|| ij- ft «p f’ , ' ;» j )I t ’L^ , Battaiioh TORI — i ; | TOESDj a: \t, DECEM f* - A LS HER 14,: i ■' • 1 948 i . ;|. |: .• | f j.; ■' fii'r '• , he • * - "Soldier, Statesm Lawrence Sullivan Ross IN.V 'j. • Y J : ' i 'PY: . tn, Knightly Gentleman?’ \ j Founder of Aggie Traditions k irv-M.. :! J. 1, ' - : • • • • . . — A Y-.A i i - ► 11 J* La. • >{ ir IT JUST A SWELLED HEAD ? V ■. ’ ■/ Y If?” Mi • :f . v ; i • lutions” for implovement. of A&M College. When the end of the year draws neair, we like to see how many of them were ac complished. j| )v/:j, ;• f' j ^ ' -rm [ifl: ^ ' ■ r i- I ■ Here is a each. Eliminate Railroad Hazards Traffic hazards along tfie railroad crossings have been partially remedied, j Missouri Tagific has Installed red lights on the College Station Croaalng. Though considerable disciisslott bus taken place about the Sulphur Springs Crossing and others no definite pans hat* been made. Even as litye as September, trains were clocked at speeds above 86 miles per hour while traveling through the Bryan City Limits, ]! ; 11 The hopes of 1 a ralseddrack Union Sltattoii has been relegated, It seems, to the dis tant future, ■ : ' ^ ; • ■ ■ | ' / i !**! : k* -- r ■ ■ ! • Air-Condilum Tfaefc Building* . . . Again, hdt ^!e|ther hat come and gone, and Guion Hall and Cushing library lack, air-conditiojMflg. hurt glance backward on our last years resolutions and the results of * ■' ! ' ' • ’ i • ! .. | . * j I ' I, t: [:r I ■ 4-f ; C ■U M Letters 'i;--!-, ^ . I ,< gQ’ Editors, The Bs , There has in my dorm ab / ~'r* tho brother and sister schools they used 1 to be,” Jane Mount TSCW A&M Prof^ Write I in my dorm about some ot tne O/ • <•/%• v4 Papei -■ !i big argument some of the ps ■mil Drs. 0. E. Spei lie Ran* , were Tom Currans /I' - J V , presenting papers tb (Editors’ Note: Ilnfortunately, ffleniy of Science C GOO yards rushing in that game. I wonder if it would be too much * strain for you to publish those Young of the Range i statistics for me? Department, were •/ hbI ' * • ■ I J ■ \ fl '1 14 j;,. research' on V A. been ibi the v our sports editor says that he ^ an Antonio ' doesn’t have this information.) WORD Prom TSCW Editors, The Battalion: It seems like we’ve meirt EJtIib circuiat on ’cultural nel, umjli ” tains latest ii|f ing, P|.aiBd,,rat Iti'is Uitenddd ng informal M wi 1 or- * and irttirestei J»gperry presented “Problems Associa onous Plants on Young's paper was ,„ , ,, , ^ ^ , servation of CertainHoffOur Itseemslike we’ve got a Jew e8t and Range Resou feathers ruffled around We after The convention re all these clippings and remaHtt «* chairman of the ^My cSpy^fgWen Sow) will ex- “SjdrtS®th^ A^ade^^S^i sure hate to see us come to blows, MIto _ IIM ^ I hope youMl print it ’cause I think WIJS EUM. SETS MARK, , - it pretty well expresses most of CANYON, Tex., tho Tessies opinions. Attendance at the „ ★ historical Museum he “Every Tessio who knows an Ml records this year a list s| And Digest HHi ji of news problems Alfred H. ^ specialistt'ih ’(festry Depart- i ‘Range NbJS' to ^oi|nt|y agents, agri- service person- ranchers, con ation on graz- brush control, , Walker said. ,t these bits of „ E county agents pwople an idea of d^he towafd range , W being done towafd ran ant. s’iehth the state Letters To The Editor 1 , T • KMPI.OYMHNT OR MATIUMOf )NYT went to Dvntuu to ho big shots, It is mifnritmhto that someom should send tho TSCW Journalism Department a oartoon IMUpr, The IlMUnlkmi - Seldom rioeH an ocduslnn .•equljre the beauties as a huneh of hr tins Wen brought Certainty the relations, which tbm ulk of mld«! am Is hnlfwayi responsible auch erit(clsm|as 0 It has been Rotated out that it is mechanically impossible to air-coftditibn Guion Hall within atiy^reasonable amount of expense. And since the Memorial Student £4 xpense. >, Guion, as a recreational center, will take a I i : Center will be completed within two years back-seat to Ha hew neighbor. The library is still devoid of circulating or cooling media other than attic fans and the isolated fans are fot the use Of the employees. 4, ' ■ ' | f1 ; ijf ; 'll i ' ' I P |i j' ; ’ ’ ' ■ il 'III. " ’* • '-Li i Establish A |ournalism Department At the beginning of the current semester a full department of Journalism, with a four yepr curriculum, was set up. , , : Forjthe first Time in jts history A&M students may obtain a degree with a ’major i^our^ifra. 4 1 4 ’ j | ; J|.V•••, / While still ill jits fondling staRe, thie department is growing rapidly, and has am- bitious plana btRansioii. | - \ .' . ■ jj ■ ■ '■ Kext semester the curriculum is to be broadened further, and reports from the ahnex and a survey on the campus indicate a substantial pick-up in enrollment. -‘vCurrently there is a large need over the state for writers in both agricultural and engineeringTieldk Added to the demands in the classical jaurnalism fields, this gives the-Journalism department the promise of being the fastest growing infant in the college. 1 1 - -I* M" | ■ V II titl' \l j Xmprbve Athletic Booking S': (!' fv I Prospects f<ta the appearance of am important intersectional opponent on Ky]e Field approached reality during 1948. Tne athletic department following coach Stite- ler's policy thut |he bnly godd win is R win elver a strong team, scheduled Vlllatiova on a home ami heme basis. With the ffirmt game of the series behind them, the Maroons and their huekori eagerly look forward to tho '49 opener at A&M against the Wildcats. The proposddj installation of llghtls oh Kyle Field prior to next season will en- • — able tho Aggies jbj(il)ntlmio to bring outstamilng elevens tp the local, gridiron. ! L KntIcing Inihtiid will be the sltuHiioiti dilVhig the '49 campaign with all four of the 1 Kyle Field oph|t|dhta havingimrtlclpaltod in JnmiHry l, 1949, bowl gkmes: Vlllanova 4 (Ilirborl, Baylolr (jbl4oh SMU (notion), and Texas (Orange). Y Kalslng of thu standards of A&M lathletles can be forsoch yfrom the Fish grid team’s except ion at record and the fine prospects for otho«jflrst-ycar teams. <. '*■ iii'i| ■ J / : i Itnprove (4hnpiiH Appearance • . . Reprinted below Is one of the Battalion's resolutions for 1948. We earnestly tried to bring abouttatafovements of these conditions, but the situation is just the same ak it was 12 months ago. t . / ' ^ • i;. "From the Fast Gate, the West Gate, or the now North Gate, the A&M campus | is an imposingisighi But when visitors^ who gasp with awe at the first glimpse, are taken into the bchthr of .the Campus, they are disillusioned, Tor the campus leaves much to be deal red. ; : . >7 1 '•.Ji - . ' ('Street signji are not to be found, 5e caUKe there aren't any. Yet A&M is a com plex placerwith many streets, and it iis h^rd to tell a visitor how to find Junior in Dorm 32, when there is po way of Identifying streets. Dormitory designations are also hard to find—mostly hidden behind shrubbery—so that parents have been known to stand out aide Milnejr Hall, Wondering where, !oh where Milner can be, 4 ! "On dark pights residents of College View and some Other campus areas stagger around in total darkhess, or make mad dashes whenever the moon shines through a bout by tho Hutldmi t«M*m coMtru'nri'tncrtt oksnImh for Student* Who ('Xpert **’ grndusto hi JstiUMry, Evotj with what promise* to be a record-bpiakinf number of trradutttea, it acem* very late to be chanRlng nlann that muat often be made far i|i advance of ouch an event. Strangely ejnouRh, a few of tho (roops intend to go to i^ork im- mediately after their little hitch is finished and may find it difficult to strut, theii stuff in the crisp and colorful air of late January. Another' factor to be considered is that a considerable number of erstwhile bachelors have admitted to the intention of committing mat rimony within a week after their departjuri f<j>r widely scattered parts of the country. Of course, lit is realized that a majority of Wives, mothers, and relatives would like to see the pptnpous culmination of a long* prduous grind| but this seems; hard ly the time (o r a sumum Revival of an iRRue that was understood V) be long-settled. It is generally hoped that the whims of a few will not cause the inconvenience | ami embarrassment that will prevail if graduation ex ercises are allowed to become an added burden, instead of the me- rabJe. pleasure which they pro- Ide ih their proper place. TeX Fields, et *1 /' ! . M -\1 ; ' •!',.* 1 ’ ' | t i -; I FAIL TO ARBITRATE EditorM, The liattulion: What an arbitrator The Batta lion turns out to’hb? First two irate Tessies write down here with all sorts or consternation and mental, wrath which seemS to ac cuse the Ihnoiiewt sad let tho guilty go free. The situation semriKto shape upiiln two aspects, either the one or both (h,, Tes*les: (who WrottK letters down hern on the olglith) have l>een j)llwtl by an Aifjnp and are taking I HI nut pn the student* in general, or otherwise their no- eusatlons mukt hold some wster, But regnidles* of who, I* right dentetlng of hngs, A AM Is hnlfwwvi resnonslble fur maintaining with THCWt cannot be Upheld when (everyone coneeifnwl dues not use discretion. ! 1 say let* I do everything w e can to keep this fine relationship going. \ J ! • R. L. Dynes, *48. ABSENT SENATORS Editors, The Battalion; , In reading the !new$ story in the, Friday Battalion by Chuck Maiscl, one sentence stands put, “Fourteen senators were absent.” Why couldn’t The Battalion print the list of absentees at each Student Senate meeting and the area that each represents? By do ing this the Student Body would know if theiif senator was on the job. Would this j be possible? Billy Ray Boling (Editors’ Note: It is the in tention of the editors that the various areas or dorms “not represented’’ be listed in The Battalion after a Senate Meeting. We did not have this informa tion, or it would have been print ed in the story mentioned.) PALACE Bryan 2'0fi79 LAST DAY UNIVEIMUIIIERNMIONAl pusints WILLIAM ANN POWELL’BLYTH in Hum lOIINSOH'S- 0 and who Is that thu policy of The RnUnliou he such that It's position prompt H to correct such sHuatlpn* us have Just >y first investigating Vnd then printing! In this case It seems to me It wduld have been much wiser to lot those responsible for such n situation dp the upologi^- ink. If they! felt ode duo. For 1 don’t think the Ringing Cudete tt' 1 f ’ hole in the cloudy.' j 4 4‘Roads arfi fiilL of "chug" v holes .,. will become impassable to all but jeeps. Things haven’t changed much, even I. •| ;l , .. : i.| . Ji . . . . ' hi- . something will have to be done ,or Aggieland ff • ■ ''■•I 1 ! : . ; i • il ! ■ ‘ in a year, have they? SAVE ON YOUR^ INSURANCE NEEDS a Call today about our ... 20% RATE REDUCTION Billie Mitchell,’42 STATE FARM INSURANCE COBIFANlES Phone 4-?269 Above Aggieland Pharmacy AUTO — LIFE — FIRE Coming: WED. heart a new lease on . : hi: 'j: r. :h! . I ! • I *11 :| Ilia I ffteB — ^a?! 1 Advertising fatea'furnished'‘on"request 'eekly On Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Subscription rate $4.30 per school The Associa 1 credited to it or tv ’•-'i ligii 1' > noit otJv r*4—-+— s is entitled exclusive y to the use- for republication Of all news dispatches Otherwi iited in tho ed herein. <> Rights' of rbpubliCation of all other matter herein are also reserved. Entered a* nccom J Office at. College Slat if*' fe --'t ■’ 1 ||' ■ M Poat h >• m , the Act of Congroea iof March 1*70. t: ^^- . News contributions, may be made by lele; Goodwin Hall. Clarified ads may be pucet Office, Room 209, Goodwin HaU. ~ ■ Member of The Associated Press KENNETH BONt)’, - t-fa Louie Marvan ..wm.. Harvey Cherry.- John ftl Clark M unroe Mra. Nancy Lytle Bill IlUlinsaley T. Nanney Alfred Jolmetun ............ Amly Davin „.... Alan Curry : bS! ; j| '» f ; f.Jtj ' , • I yj -r Kdl or Mi Win* Editdre S* iteipeaai i^|«a B »«%««.♦|tae«mai^e .. . '"'"Tzt"ikiteSS feature rf- , i I! i c 2SJS f4- ±- 1 paper and local news of spontaneous origin publish- Bepreecntcd nationally by National Ad- vertiainz Service Inc., at New York City. Chicago, Loa Anzelce, and San Francisco. fe ANNUAL SENIOBj CHRISTMAS DANCE rl ;] -ii ‘•I ’•«# : p;-vut i AAM CONSOLIDATED I } HIGH SCHOOL WUI be Held DECEMBER 17, 1948 at the ,1 . SCHOOL GYMNASIUM Beginning/at 8 pin. — Formal . ' : 1 ! /''■■■ / 1 . 'I . ■ 1 i — tone |[4-5444) or at the editorial office, Room 201, ' phone (4-5324) or at the Student Activitib —- •eeeaameoe Howard PotirUon aSi'en Krcd Sommer. SporU in!* >ieter»ii»»*«ey*e>»t**ee»*«* SoEra 1... . I; • RECORDS • RADIOS School & Office 1 ALL YOUR NEEDS BASWELL’S - : fapeffi TlCHhiCOLCR IliecHd eed UMNn let *e t«*M by M . GEORGE SEATON wf^byWI LUAM PERLBERG \ i r'.ii,..' :.i ••• Y/Y ! i V '! k 4 f; kl. ; i* UYi fl Y M “But without faith it is im- posaibie to please him.” Heb. 11:8. There are those who doubt their beliefs and those who believe their doubts. The need of the world to day, as it is for all individuals, is a positive, potent faith in God. The individual who is not anchored to something powerful, permanent, and ennobeling'is adrift on the sea on confusion, indecision and frus tration. Lot us’ believe our beliefs, have faith in our faith; and trust in God. Il^Smw Fit »K. JOHNS. -OftU Il OaMwril’a 1* Bryan, . „pp.......... fW .,.. rr .„ T ** .... think we all agrae that Tea* noupeed. Total ruglflffWob \ lant il4-A|rglb relation* ar* prottV well year waa 44,507. » ; \ I shot but fussing among ourselves !'. ' 1 — i« • hack of a way to better th* • situation. . ■ jT .'' jf VT , “Personally, 1 have hi the Aggie Man-Haters Asi and I do not want to t think our Aggie brothers I about the best fellows In the world. "Borne of these gals have mel the wrong Aggie*, and some of you have met the wrong Tessies too ' am afraid, but ran you judge all o us by one or two bf tho group ? “what say wo stop thiviWiag these rash statcrhcntsi 1 at ' curh other? A little respect on. both side* of the fence would do won-J ders toward making our. schools of ®ljis m :if0R RYE EX A j* 'mm AND GLAAlHEiK' ; CniMHli I . DR. 4. W. I’AYNR \ i OpUtmrlHh : J7r. 1 um South Mrin ate HryM, THS* : ] ■>. u——i —•vL.ui£|&X i, consult Hr. Carlton ”" J OPTO^. mpm.sm s ..a For Your Visual (PreMtma *08 8. Main -k «»#* Phone MMlJT V. 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