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d of another ytar heen accomplished bocauae you waptod
attallon, and there them. .
e aa we watch the^ Every year aa the seniors depart they
press. It's hard to have a feeling that no one can quite take
g, Maybe the reason their place and do as good a job as they
'lira combination of have done. There is usually a feeling of
“next year A&M is going to the dogs be
cause those guys coming up don’t know
what the score is.”
I don’t feel that way at all. I like to
think that this year we have laid a good
foundation on which Our successors can
v|ith the finished pro- build anything they want / !'
sorrow, hope —
en done right.
| paper symbolizes a
jyable year’s work. It
ling of a job that you
to do. I hope you
hie the feeling of every
>apjer comes out that he
r job than the ones
ing of accomplishment,
tihwhile.
\ sbund like I am brag-
lihjl your Battalion has
The Battalion will be in good hands
next year, maybe in even better hands than
it has been this year. Next year’s editors
are already laying plans and even refer •
.to Kenneth and myself as the “lame-dupk
editors.” ' ✓
This editorial would not be cqjhplete
and would be a false testimony if a word
this year. Not through of thanks were not expressed ptf all of our
ie jCo-Editors alone, for deans, faculty members, and college offi
cials who have helped i>«< so graciously
a \ minor part. Rather
if the entire staff and
F*cul ly
Spoi*!
isl: rjnents have not. been
r editorials or fiery arti-
i4v|»j been gained because
4vf! advocated have been
jiej Student Body wanted.
Bcholarship has been
||i has continued as a
11 feeling towards the
aif been eliminated, t|
i’[)jphy has been \vpd-—
t' t|he things that have
si tio’
j|id|tj wtu
crbwHin
led i| tle
|e i o
ilcei: W i
bettferl
so _
this year. Without thei^help and coopera
tion many of the accomplishments would
have gone undone/
^ Even though/ihe entire policy this year
has been determined by students, I feel,
we owe oup most sincere thanks to Roland
Bing aj^r Sid Wise, the manager and as-
sistanjr manager of Student Publications.
Thptr assistance rn our problems has been
iKvaluabJe.
Our work is through; we are proud,
aid 1 hope that you are pleased,
/ ' Tom Carter
Corps Editor 1948-41)
We ar^
, |
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111!
(he I' iaish, But llun the Runnmg ...
jho last lap. Home (if us final turn. / , v
icapjto run out, butbur All good runners worry before the
pretty well determin- race. If it's worth winning, it's worth
bad race at that. f , worrying about. ’Jesse Gwens never
e Half-way turn, the thoUghft he had a chance before each race,
y bud and we got jost- He won most of ’em going away. Pavo
Nurmi always picked every body to finish
before him. He saw very few heels in his
lifetime. , •
And there’s more to the run than the
finish. Glenn Cunningham once said, “I
used to think I just enjoyed breaking the
tape. But that’s only the climax. There’s
3n different stages. A 1ft more to' the race than the winning.”
And that’s the way we like to look at
the run of the school year^of 1949. It’s all
iled ©ulr eligibility in this pver now but thetribbons. We might have
moving out into a faster /done better; tve might have done worse,
quite sure how the pace But on every turp and in every lap, we
gave our best. ' v
Whatever our finish position, we can
look back now and say with pride, “We
ran the good race!”
ut We’re out of it now.
probably run a better
ave paced ourselves a
We might have been in a
lj>4, Everybody can always
title better. But it wasn’t
1 be too fyst for us. Maybe
background for it. May-
jack and never reach the
Passing Parade . ..
floor of the legislature in Austin
he tifth I luce of this ‘Time Marches
te XA J quote j f'
Houslo today rejected an attempt
rjUmbers to recall the one-
Lumuf College appropria-
o ,114
>r -dbljhii
l|l| fjrurijthe Suimte,
ep. |ifooksi i)f Beat
imp ( N
l I I- ! lilt-Si
a#
ooksj Beaumont, author
said recall of |tho
expand the school
4mliiH college woul<i not
M|Uture|«i flaanolai trouhles,
“If we’re to have a financial deficit,
one million dollars won’t make any ma
terial difference. It won’t be that close,”
he said, (end quote).
j It seems only yesterday that it was
every boy’s ambition to make a million
(lollai’H. Now the boy gets elected to the
legislature and dismisses the million rocks
as paltry pocket money.
i[Ah progress, how wondrous are thy
means and ends. m i ; ^ ,
MMAM■
Whe Battalion
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book a jiut of tk« Hht$vy lust
PUiAlE either return thorn te nw
or to Pm lihi Hi y limit desk.
I ktjiow that v iw $jn« took i tho
nuteliojika. Ui'lllMBittely, they i aro
of spiral tytiv and almoat oomtdate-
ly fllliiil with notes iiid therilfoit*
of nojposslblo use to iihyotiOj hut
mysolf. I would greatly apprej.'.iate
tetum, 1 noeii tliMin hatllyy
Charles U. WilllHms,
B-8 W alion '
graduating Seniors
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2, tpere will be iwsted oi»_. a
bulletin boanlin the Registrprjs
Offipe a Ipst of those Seniors
who; have completed all the: re
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who; pfe eligible to participate
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Thm bulletin will remain posted-
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date! is urged to consult it toide-
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Aq candidates should plso
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thai they a?e free of indebted
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MASSEY LIVI
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