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EDITORIALS
Page 2 MONDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1949
''Soldier, Statesman, Knightly Gentleman”
Lawrence Sullivan Ross, Founder of Aggie Traditions
Our New Summer School
If the Texas Legislature is willing (to
the amount of $200,000) A&M will build
a camp-like summer college near Junction,
'west of here in Kimball County.
A bill appropriating that amount has
been introduced in the present session of
the state legislature, and college officials
are optomistic about its chances of pass
ing.
The new school site would be a summer
college only. The buildings would be in
expensive structures designed for cool
ness primarily, and comfort secondarily.
Its primary function would be a train
ing center for freshmen intending to en
ter A&M for the Fall semester. The need
of a sort of training center has long been
felt by the College. Too many freshmen
(about 200 a year over the past ten years)
have been forced to drop out of A&M
because their educational background was
insufficient for them to pass A&M fresh
men courses.
This college, located on a four hundred
acre tract of land near Junction, would
offer expectant freshmen courses design
ed to prepare students for the regular cur
riculum. College credit up to six hours
could be achieved in a six weeks session.
If, at the end of this training period,
the student was still found incapable of
carrying a regular freshman load at A&M
he would be advised (but not made) to
attend one of branch schools of the A&M
System where preparatory courses for A
&M are offered.
Located in the beautiful and rugged
This Year, Old Army . .
This week the turf will really begin,
flying on the football practice fields. With
the first few days of organization out of
the way, the blocking pads will begin to
clang in earnest.
At this point A&M finds itself in a
peculiar gridiron position. While we are
just emerging from a most disastrous
and unrewarding period of football drouth
we have in spring training literally droves
of good football talent from which to pick
a squad. Our big problem is not having
enough good men but rather being able to
choose the best men from a flock of good
athletes.
While our coaches are not so abundant,
they are equally new here. In terms of
years coaching at A&M, they are all
"freshmen. But in terms of football ability
and experience they are far from green.
They are young. Probably the youngest
aggregate staff in the conference and
jdose to the youngest in the nation. Since
they have recently played the game they
'know the players end of it and they realize
its changes. One of them is so freshly
emerged from the pro circuits that the
first day out he could suit up, take a half
back position, and demonstrate his points
by running the tackles ragged.
The business end of our team seems
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terrain of Kimball County, the college
would hold a vacation attraction as well
as an educational one. The tract offered
by Junction citizens has a mile and a half
frontage on the spring-fed, rapid flowing
Llano River. Going to college in such sur
roundings might conceivably be a plea
sure.
Nor would the curricula be restricted
to freshman training, though that is its
major role. The Civil Engineering summer
surveying courses and the Geology sum
mer field courses would be based there.
If interest is sufficient and funds hold
out, it is conceivable that many other reg
ular courses would be added.
A bill similar to the one introduced in
this legislative session was presented dur
ing the last session two years ago. Then
it was caught in the last minute rush of
legislation and failed to pass.
We commend this planning and fore
sightedness on the part of college officials
and the Board of Directors. There does
exist a need for both the freshmen train
ing center and a camp-like college where
main campus students could attend sum
mer school and not suffer College Station’s
terrific heat. Naturally the field courses
should be the first to be established at the
Junction college. But we hope professors
teaching many other courses will soon fol
low the..advance guard of -'freshmen and
field course instructors.
Truly this would be a great stride for
ward toward our constant goal—a greater
A&M.
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to be well in hand. Now let’s look to our
part. During spring workouts go down
and watch the team. Both the coaches and
the players like to know you have an in
terest in their progress. Spring training
is a good time to size the team up and
learn who the players are, since you may
not be able to do either when the fall sec
ret practices begin.
Another difficulty with this years
squad is that several key athletes are hav
ing eligibility troubles. If A&M were an
uptown school with oil wells on our back
pasture we could afford to hire more tu
tors. Since we are not, students must
shoulder the tutoring duties. If you have
an athlete in your classes who is having
difficulty with the course, make it a point
to study with him. It won’t damage your
grade any and will put us a little nearer
on equal footing with the better financial
ly blessed institutions.
The most important thing, of course, is
the attitude. Our enthusiasm as a student
body will do a great deal toward determ
ining our final position in this seasons
pennant chase.
The gag expression for five dry years
has been “Next Year, Old Army.” The
next year is here.
» This year, Old Army.
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Thoughts for Religious Week
1. Do we need to be saved?
“For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of
God.” Rom. 8:23
“Jesus answered and said unto him, Truly, truly, I say
unto thee, except a man be born again, he cannot see the
kingdom of God.” John 3:3
“Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in which
all, that are in the graves shall hear his voice, and shall come
forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of
life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of
condemnation.” John 5:28-29
2. Who can be saved? Who may have eternal life?
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only be
gotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish,
but have everlasting life.” John 3:16
. “This is good, and it is acceptable in the sight of God our
Savior, who desires all men to be saved and to come to the
knowledge of the truth.” I Tim. 2:3-4
3. What must we do to be saved? To have eternal life?
“And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and
thou shalt be saved.” Acts 16:31
“For by grace are ye saved through faith; and this is
not your own doing, it is a gift of God; not because of works)
lest any man should boast.” Eph. 2:8-9
“Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the
life; no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.” John 14:6
“For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is
eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.” Rom. 6:23,
“But to all who received him, who believed in his name,
he gave power to become children of God.” John 1:12
Amplification Department
By CARROLL TRAIL
Dear Sir:
Does three plus four always
equal seven?
J. M.
Answer: Fm glad you asked
this question, J. M., for it was re
cently posed during a meeting of
the mathematical bigwigs of the
country at a northern university.
Almost immediately debate started
and the argument became so heat
ed that the meeting was forced to
adjourn until a future date.
Hence, if these brains cannot
agree on the matter, I can hardly
give a satisfactory answer. How
ever, I have inquired of several of
ficials on the campus for their
opinions.
A professor of mathematics be
lieved that the sum gave a good
approximation of seven. “If one
will set up a Fourier series for
the expression, differentiate term
by term, expand the result (we
can do this since Cauchy’s integral
test proves the series converges
for all values of x), solve this ex
pression using a Bessel function,
and make the approximation that
since x equals x, one will get for
an answer 6.999999, which, for all
practical purposes equals 7,” he
said.
However, a representative of the
Registrar’s office was not convinc
ed. He even went so far as to say
that the total hardly ever equalled
seven. “For instance,” he explain
ed, “four hours of themodynamics
with a grade of A plus three hours
of integral calculus with a grade
of B, taken at SMU, will only
transfer as one hour of general
elective for a ChE at A&M.”
A mechanical engineering pro
fessor wasn’t sure. Taking out his
20-inch Keuffel and Esser, he said,
“I really can’t commit myself on
the subject, but. I’ll be happy to
find three to the fourth power, or
four to the third power; or, I can
find four times three, three divid
ed by four, or four divided by
three. But addition is not on the
slide rule. What do you want to
know for? If the process cannot
be performed on the stick, it’s not
worth knowing anyway.”
To get a lay opinion, I asked a
North Gate Merchant. “My friend”
he said, “three and four never
equal seven in my profession. Why,
if it did, I’d be out of business.”
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By C. C. MUNROE
Cadet Agg O. Knee surveyed the
company bulletin board and groan
ed. His name was displayed prom
inently under the section which
read “Cadet corporals of the guard
will be as follows.” Cadet Agg O.
Knee,, didn’t like guard duty.
A few days passed and finally
Cadet Knee’s time for duty ar
rived. Jamming his helmet liner on
his head he took off for the guard
room in dormitory 12, determined
to stick out his tour in spite of
his feelings toward the matter.
He climbed into the dormitory
through the laundry station win
dow, paused to snuff out a cigar
ette and walked into the guard
room.
He turned around and walked
out again, for this wasn’t the
guard room, it couldn’t be. But
it was, as Cadet Agg O. Knee
soon discovered. Something had
happened to the guard room. The
new look had hit A&M.
The first sight greeting Cadet
Knee’s eyes as he re-opened the
newly painted door lettered “Ca
det Guard Room” was a set of
curtains with maroon AMC’s on
them. Underneath the curtained
window was another new addition,
one which looked good, a large
green overstuffed sofa.
After looking around the room
Agg O. Knee discovered a second
sofa, this one brown. Scattered
here and there were sights pleas
ing to his eyes—four easy chairs
covered with a plastic material.
All looked comfortable.
A large console radio with rec
ord attachment sitting beside the
green sofa made the coming guard
duty look a little more promising
than it had before.
Cadet Agg O. Knee sat down,
this was too much to comprehend.
But, he looked pleased and sur
prised.
Everyone who walks into the
newly decorated guard room
looks pleased and surprised. In
addition to the sofas, chairs, cur
tains and radio, other things
have been put in the room to
make it more attractive and com
fortable.
Two former shower stalls have
been converted into telephone
booths to replace the wooden con
traptions which once housed the
phones.
The two bunks have been put in
to another part of the ex-shower
and are separated from the rest
of the guard room by a blue cur
tain.
The OD’s desk has been sanded
and painted, and the partitions
which once extended into the room
have been removed. Pictures have
been hung around the walls. Cadet
colonels of past years are shown,
and a picture of the signing of
the truce between the United Na
tions and Japan, which took place
on the U.S.S. Missouri, hangs just
inside the door. ■
A large picture of Fleet Admiral
Nimitz is on the wall opposite the
door.
The labor necessary to paint
all the exposed piping in the
guard room was provided by
“volunteers” from the Saturday
bull ring. In addition to the
painting, acoustical blocks were
placed on the ceiling. All the
work was done between noon on
Saturday and 3 p. m. Tuesday
afternoon when the last of the
furniture was moved in.
The only unsolved problem about
the guard room’s new look is de
termining just who was responsi
ble for the change. Thorough in-
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ing everyone who has been on
guard duty for the past three
years, only one man would take
credit for the improvements.
He was a five year man who had
three years duty left to do on the
bull ring and thought the publicity
might help him out.
Cadet Agg O. Knee didn’t care
who was responsible, for he
liked it.
From his seat he could see into
the tactical officer’s office. “Too
bad,” he thought, “that he had to
get all the furniture thrown out of
the guard room. I guess he just
doesn’t rate.”
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