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Among the many standard complaints ing the ancient tyg. 1 Students of T.U.,
at A&M there is one which we believe S.M.U., Rice, and |he other schools may,
needs to be cleared up. Every itwo weeks if they want a date, select one
or so each of us who has the good fortune own student body. Not only lo they not
of bringing a date to a home game or to an pay $3.60, they pay nothing, since their
; out-of-town Aggie clash must re ach into date- if she is a Atudent—wi 1 have her
' the extremities of his pocketbook for coupon book UcketJ
$3.60. Anyone who isj not a student of the
Being Aggies, this $3.60 always hurts schools involved ip any
us where we are most vulnerable. Student must pay the full pjrice for adrjiissioft, just
tickets sell for only $1.20, but to have a as any outsider would.
"T date for the weekend proves nuch more movements started! to have the Tessies ad
,costly. I'■ ' • mitted to the horthiern corps tiip games at
Here is the truth of the matter behind student prices. When this wai done, how-
the price for date tickets: " ‘ evfer > the A&M athletic departnent took a
The price of $3,60 was 'established at l08s ' the o PP 0sin ? scho ° 1 in '
a meeUng of the Southwest Conference .J 18 ^ “P° n a share f[>r the "“t'
coaches, athletic djrectora. auS business ’"g ^ non-students to then , The ath-
. kT , ’ r Iptm HpnaH-fruant ViqH fA naii
managers. Any person x>ther than a stu-
_ dent must pay this price, it was decided
at the meeting. , h
A&M, of course, is the only non-co-
cducational college in the conference, and
the students of our school were left hold-
letic department had to paj) the extra
charges from their own fund.
This policy was not established by the
A&M athletic office employees by the ath
letic director, nor by the Athk itic Council.
It is purely a conference ruling and only
the - conference can change it
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BY HAL BOYLE
New York (An—Oswald Jacoby
is a big,; bear-like man who has
won fanw by holding hunch. 1
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Oasie is looking for gl
give $5,000 to. Any- ^
bodys, that, is, anybody who can
heat hint; at the new pasteboard
epidemic-f-Canasta.
Some nine months ago he spent
ai dozen hours playing Utia pastime
and (iedded he knew enough about
it to writfc a book. He did. And his
“How T> Win a Canasta" haft
sold ovett 000,000 copies.
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But a;number of other people
also wrote hooka on canasta. After
reading their books—and re-reading
his book-i- Jacoby decided he was
the beet: Canasta player; in the
world.
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“I’m filling to pay $6,000 to
who can b
One Less Jewel in Dutch Crown Colonies . . .
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Asiatic Communists received a rabbit But now, propaganda freim Moscow,
punch as a new and independent nation needless to say, has lost much of its form-
was created last week by the flick of a er luster to the newly- free ]>eople.
P ei j-- - - j I Another gratifying situati >n produced
After much unsuccessful mediation in by the agreement is that fore gners of all
the past, Dutch leaders reversed their in- nations will be given equal rade rights
.., terpational policy and converted their \ in Indonesia’s rich stores of tin, rubber,
proudest colonial possession into a separ- oil, sufcar, and spices. These items have
ate country with its own government. Its been denied to the beople'of the world dur-
• name is the United States of Indonesia. ing four years of sporadic warfare in the
Cause for pa^t differences in this area region. ! j; [
wa^j Communistic propaganda which vo- Sometime in the near f nture trade
'iferously dragged “Western imperialism” markets over the world sho ild feel the
through the mud. i beneficial results.
’ j While the colonies were still under the Then it may be possible to buy pepper
hcjjvy heel of Dutch rule, this propaganda on the wholesale rqarkct close • to the four
' made much headway with those who did cents a pound of 15 years ajo than the
not] think what Russian Commpnism was '$1.10 charged currently in New York
really like. * \ ■ . h , wholesale markets.
Red sympathizers in Indonesia be- And also by that time* we hope that
lieved with blimHaith promises that Rus- tibe-U«ted States of IndonesiF.-'-wilUbe a
sia would give them a:“fair deal.” Qnce fast-growing little internatio lal power—
again Red leaders had cloaked their own taking orders from no one and setting the
imperialist motives in the lily white guise | precedent tor other Asiatic powers, pres-
of pure Marxism. j - ently in di|enunas to follow.
Triviality, Triviality Everywhere . . .
Since reading; this AP shoift datelined Dr. Stewart H. Smith, hfcad of Mar-
Huntington, West Virginia, weive resolved shall College, said that “most of us are
to burn our Superman and Buck Rogers using all kinds of childish escape mechan-
comic books, plug our ears when entering isims to avoid being seriouj; about the
places that have juke boxes, and smash things that reaDy matter).”
our radio tubes against the cold radiators “Some people say we are iving in the
in our roommate 1 s room: atomic ^age,” he said in a spee :h last night
»’ A college president feels that comic at the West Virginia Education Associa-
books, “anemic soap operas,” and be-bop tjion convention,
are helping make this “the age of trivial- “It is really the age of ti[iviality,’
ity.” ; added.
This matter ceases to be funny: ~ '
MyCfriends are always short of money.
I must deplore this lack with sorrow . .
Since I’m the one who wants to borrow.
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In a race to grab
The check for diriner
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Comes in the Win ner.
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The surest way to stop believing in
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Will Rogers: It's great $o be great,
but it’s greater to be human.
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ABILENE CLUB, Thursday,'
after yell practice, YMCA.
AICHE, Friday, Nov. 18, 6:30 p.
m., Henscl Park. Barbecue for all
members.
AUSTIN CHAPTER, Houston
CLUB, Thursday, Nov. 17, after
yell practice. Room 225, Academic
Building.
BASTROP - LEE COUNTY
CLUB. Thursday, Nov. 17, 7:30
p.m., Room 224, Academic Build
ing Discuss plans for Thanksgiv
ing party.
BEAUMONT CLUB, Thursday,
after yell practice, 106 Academic
Building. Plans for the Christmas
DanceNwill be discussed.
BELL COUNTY. Thursday, after
yell practice, 128 Academic Build
ing. Special meeting.
BRAZORIA COUNTY CLUB
meets Thursday Nov. 17, 7:30 p. m.
in Room 224 of the Academic
Building to discuss plans for
Thanksgiving partv.
BRYAN-COLLEGE STATION
A&M CLUB, Thursday, Nov. 17, 7
p. ni., room 308, Academic Build
ing. Election of officers and plans
for Thanksgiving party. \
BRUSH COUNTY CLUB meet
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Practice in Room 305, Academic
Building.
COLLIN COUNTY CLUB\
Thursday, after yell practice,
Room 308 Academic Building.
Official Notice
SCHOOL Of EMil.VEERING
.November B. 1949
NOTICE—ID CARDS—Wilt nil students
in all schools having ID Cards numbered
below please,, phone or call at the Dean
of Engineering Office (phone C-5744 or
4-8344* at 210 Petroleum Building and
give the name corresponding to their card
number. A new list will be published each
day.
H. W. BAKLOW,
I>ean of Engineering
Will the students, with the following
Identification Picture Numbers please con
tact the office of the Dean of Engineer
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Thursday, Nov. 17, room 307 Ac-
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Christmas party will be complete
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Building, Election of officers.
FANNIN COUNTY A&M CLUB,
Thursday, November 17, after yell
practice. Room 129 Academic Build
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he made.
FOOD GROUP A&M SOCIAL
CLUB, Friday, 1:15 p. m. at the
home of Mrs. Ray Oden, 100 Mont
clair.
FT. WORTH CLUB. Thursday,
after yell practice, Room 32, Sci
ence Hall.
HEART O' TEXAS CLUB,
Thursday, 7:30 p. m., Room 305,
Acadenfiic Buijding. ^
LUFKIN A&M CLUB, Thursday,
Nov. 17, 7:30 B. m. room 204, Aca-
derpjr Building. Final plans for
Thanksgiving dance.
NAVARRO COUNTY A&M
CLUBj Thursday, Nov. 17, 7:30 in
Room 228, Academic Building to
complete plans for Thanksgiving
party. Refreshments will be served.
PANHANDLE CLUB. Thursday,
Nov. 17, 7 p. m., Lounge of Dorm
1. Discuss final plans for Aggic-
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PASADENA CLUB, Thursday,
Npv. 17, 7:30 p. m., room 106,
Academic Building.
P\ E4 CLUB. Thursday, Nov. ^
17, 7:30 p.m. in DcWare Fieldhouse (
W. R., Horsley will speak on ob
taining employment after gradua
tion.
RIO GRANDE VALLEY CLUB,
Thursday, Nov. 17, 7:30 p. m.
YMCA Chapel.
SAN ANGELO CLUB, Thursday
after yel] practice, 208 Agricul
ture Building. .. \
SAN ANTONIO CLUB meeting,
Thursday, Nov.. 17, 7:30 Room 203,~
Academic Building. Tickets on sale
for Thanksgiving ,j>arty. \
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HOUSTON, CLUB, Thursday, Nov.
17, after yell practice. Room 223,
Academic Building.
SAN MARCOS CLUB meets
Thursday night, Nov. 17, at 7:30
in Room 105, Academic Building.
Reorganizations! meeting.
anyone Who can beat me," he an
nounced. “There may be a couple of
unknown [guys in Oshkosh who can
do it, but I doubt it, And I’m sure
there is no other canasta author
able to—not if they play the way
they write.”
He has reason for self-confi
dence.. This 46-year-old, grizzly-
gray, 6-foot-two-inch Texan is a
fine mathematician. He began play
ing bridge at the age of ;7. Since
1930 he has won the Vanderbilt
Cup, the; Kentucky Derby of tour
nament 'Bridge, six times.
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f Unique Hands
ty runs in hia tribe. will Stay popula
“My father entered college at H,
at 16 and r
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I entered at 15 and my son [at
16." he said, smiling: fl guesft the
family is petering out."
Jacoby says there is no card
;amc that can be played perfect
ly, and that U someone invented; a
machine that could—“A good play
er could beat it because he could
predict what the machine would
do."
His tip to amateurs: To play any
card game well you halve to avo; '
patterns.
Why is he so good? j!
“There are card players with
better memories than mine, hut
none is as good a mathematician. I
also have a fast mind, I’m unread
able—so far at least—and I can
outguess other ^people.”
Jacoby feels that esnastis isn't
a brief craze like mah-jongg but
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Friday at 7:30 P.M.
Baptist Student Union will hold
a meeting Friday evening at 7:30
in the YMCA Chapel. The students
will hear a report by Drexel To-
land on! the student fund raising
drive for the Student Center.
Of thp original total of $63,000
needed fbr the building, $15,600 still
remains to be collected. $43,000 was
contributed by the Texavs Baptist
Convention, $4,500 has be&i raised
from students, and some more has
been ahd , is being raised by Cx-
students.
All students arc invited to the
meeting! Friday evening, according
to Bob ; Davis, publicity chairman^
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