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[aybe, as a few
Id do anything
differertly after a seven-day cooling-off
period' They don’t. |
Las; Thursday afternoon, on Kyle
Field, you gave us a magnificent demon-
stratioi]i of football. Your play was ter
rific
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Open Letter to the TU Football Squad . .
-Gentlemen: idea about football.
We have delayed writing this for a pie suggest, we sh<
week, ia the belief that things might look draw a bigger gate and pile up a more
sational score. But ^e can’t help believ
ing that just about as many fans will turn
out, and that one of the two teams will us
ually win if football is played accordir g to
its own rules and boxing and wresding
are left to fend for themselves.
Although it may; sound like a sour-
ou also gave us an outstanding
'demonstration of dirty football, with slug'
ging a^d piling-on the rule, rather than grapes statement, wej are pretty proud of
our ’49 football squad and their record.
Scorewise, they were pretty sad. But they
gave everything they had in every game.
They didn’t quit and they kept it clean.
That’s all we expect of anybody’s foot
ball team'
Next year it looks like the University
the exception. It looked like hell.
Thej paradoxical part about it all was
that ycju could have beaten us quite hand
ily /Without the rough stuff. It seemed
to us rather foolish to mar good football
with back-alley brawling.
It would be difficult to say just how
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theL fin|al score would have been affected of Texas, with your depth of good sopho-
if you |had stuck strictly to blocking and mores and juniors will be the power of the
tackling and^ left out the slugging and conference. On TurkeyDay,1950,it’sipos-
piling-on. We won’t hazard a guess wheth- sible you may be undefeated and on the
er the difference in score would have been way to the SWC championship,
larger or smaller. ° But when you meet the Aggies in Mem-
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taijm Xou cost our very fine sophomore nor e the records. We will try to impress
fullbatk, Bob Smith, quite a bit of per- oh you that afternoon that an inspired
sonal distinction. As a result of being team can play clean football, which is also
slugged by one of your ends—and that in- good football. j I
cUlent was only the most Outstanding of You may rest assured that we will use
a long series of shoddy and illegal tactics your dirty plaj/ of Thursday against you
- -Hmi di missed a little more than half of as much as possible, We will mention it
the game, N . to our football! team and student body ou
- While he wmh Idhrhe l<i>st several plae- several occasions before the game,
es m i h»>; conference standings f«»r leading On that Thanksgiving afternoon you
grounjl gainers and scorers,; My the same will be playing two teamsT-niir 1950 team
he has already missel one all-eon- and your squad of 1949, You might he-
i team, and may lose ^cognition on gin thinking about, and working toward,
mythical elevens, the game right now,
gould be that we have the wrong We are,; f .. i
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There was big news among the na
tion’s bluebloods last week. With publi
cation of the 1950^Social Register, the
carriage trade had a field day thumbing
through its pages, seeing just who was in
cluded and who was not.
Changes always occur in the Social
Register, but the publishing association
nelverj, tells‘why. This is left to the wpn-
jdering and curious minds of the so-called
elite.
- We have never carried hopes of some
day t|eing included in this book of books.
We do not especially care. Yet we can
visualize the thousands of people who
watted anxiously for many days, hoping
agajpst hope that their name would ap-
in this publication of the select, the
-bred.
Yfet there are probably many people
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pure-
included in these supposedly revered
pages who care no more than you or we
as to its content. Their minds are prob
ably occupied by many more weighty prob
lems, which require much more mentality
and character than it takes to score a hit
in the Register.
Variations in those included have many
alleged reasons for being, j Divorces, mar
riages out of class, scandals, politics—
all have a bearing on the selection.
Place this bluebook by such a publi
cation as f ‘Who’s Who,” the annual edi
tion of greats and near-greats by their
own workings, and try to find a compar
ison. We pan see none. j >
Let this carriage trade have their fun.
It’s big news to them, even if nobody else
particularly cares.
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In Passing .
Datejined East Lansing, Michigan this
AP sltory on student subtlety:
r A group of Michigan State college stu
dents turned to Webster’s dictionary
in thfeih fight for extra tickets to the Notre
Damie football game. Tickets are at a pre
fer the game here.
me 25 single men obtained “spouse
books” entitling them to extra tickets on
the theory they were married. The col
lege discovered the hoax and took the
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Now the students claim the dictionary
defines a spouse as a fiance or fiancee as
well as a bride or bridegroom.
The college is taking a dim view of the
argument. I 1 j
As ingeneous as Aggies sometimes are,
we doubt if any have lately equaled this
dictionary foat. We don’t read diction
aries: by heading them one niught get edu
cated.
The Battalion
"Soldier, Statesman, Knightly Gentleman"
Lawrence Sullivan Ross, Founder of Aggie Traditions
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Letters
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iTbeioua'material will be publtihed.
EXPLANATION WANTED
Editor, The Battalion:
The object of this letter is to
find out why in the world the Dean
of Men should put two senior^ yell
leaden on conduct probabtion for
the rest of their days at this
fair school, and also to campus
them for the rest of this semester,
We understand that the jokes
(some of them) were out of place
In front of ladies, but since this is
a boys school, It wa« not conduct
rating such a "chicken" act, *
Name withheld hy request
(Editors 1 Note—The action
taken aunlnel the two men was
hy faculty panel, Nlnee panel
eases are nt»n to The llattalloo
for olwervatlon only (with ap
proval of men Involved and pan
el members) and tint for public
cummenl, we refer you to the
two yell leaders for the eiplaaa-
lion,)
Hollis to Discuss
Graduate Problems
A discussion of graduate prob
lems with the Graduate School
Council is being planned for Wed
nesday by Dr. Ernest V. Hollis.
Dr. Hollis, chief of college ad
ministration, Office of Education
for the Federal Security Agency,
will spCak at 8 p. m. Thursday on
the subject. “Potentialities and
Pitfalls of Graduate Programs.”
The talk will be the third in the
1949-50 graduate series and will
he giVcn in the Physics lecture
room.
After the lecture, a group of 17
faculty members will' meet with
Dr. Hollis in the home of Dean and
Mrs. Trotter. Dean Trotter and Dr.
Hollis were classmates at Miss
issippi State College in 1917-18.
Oriental Agriculture
Discussed by Trotter
Oriental agriculture was the
subject of Dr. Ide P. Trotter, dean
of the Graduate School, in a mcet-
, ing Monday night.
Dean Trotter used 49 kodachromc
slide!* to illustrate his lecture for
a meeting of agriculture education
majors and tho Collegiate Chapter
of FFA. A total of 60 students and
one faculty sponsor, W. W. Mc-
Ilroy, were in attendance.
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SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING
Novrmtwr 0, Ittt
NOTICE—H) CARDS—WUI all students
in h)I school* having ID Cards numbered
below pieaxe phon* or call at the Dean
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sons wishing to have their name* withheld from publication may request such aowm
and these names will not, without tha consent of the writer, bo divulged to any persons
other than the editors.)
f NOSE POWDERING
Editor, The Battalion:
Open letter to Aggies—will you
heed some frank and sisterly ad
vice from an ex-Tessie wht( feels
sorry for her modest sex who suf
fer needlessly from the careless
ness of their Aggie dates?
■ 1 have; often wondered why, Ag
gies, when asking a girl dotvn for
tlje bonfire and game for thie first
time didn't give the girl some warn
ing of (he one to three hmiif stand
whe'll have at the bonfire With no
chance to Mil down lor go (towder
(heir noMes), I have seen ami talked
lo many gills who suffer.lhi) agon
ies of llm damned (with a height
smile mi her fare) from Wearing
high heels from lltelr arrival clear
through supper and live Inmra of
the honflre, hecause no one hail
given ihem an ililtllng of (he lime
element?! or the elmimMtanees
awaiting them, Of course) some
glrlw will wear what they please
anyway, or hllgh heels all the time,
hutd'vt) heard too many others
moan, "If I'd only known ; ,
Now hoys can he men, can't
they? H may he asking too much
that you tactifully afford an op
portunity for your date to go
powder her no0c during a long
dey, here, hut at least you ean write
her that for the most paH, there's
no sitting down on a weekend at
Aggieland! 1
Natne withheld by request
of Engineering Office (phoue. 4-S744 at
4-S344) at S10 Petroleum' Building and
give Uifc name c '
number. A new
day. |
H. W. BARLOW,
>[responding to their
lift will be pubyabed
W. BARLOW.
Dean of Engineering
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425, 404, 436,i 440. 44t 465. 460, 4S0,
486, 48\ 50.7, 504 , 505, 506, 507, 510.
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2011, 3177. 317S. 3322, 3403, 3412, 3*43,
3481, 3511 3610. 3709. 3792, 3814, 3851,
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Party Planned By
Brush Countrymen
The Brush Country AAM Club
will hold its annual Christmas
party and dance December 27 at
the VFW Hall in Alice, Joe Saleh,
president of the club, said this
morning.
Arrangements for an orchestra,
refreshments, and entertainment
are being made, and if present
plans materialize “this should be
the best party the club has ever
held," Saleh said.
All members of the club and
students from the Brush country
have been asked by Saleh to meet
tonight in Room 305 of the Acade
mic Building at 7:15 p. m. when
party plans will be completed.
A Freshman edition of the Brush
Country Club is now being organ
ized at the Annex, Caleb conclud
ed.
Hawg Catching C.O.
Represents Outfit
Scott Howell, Company Com
mander of A Company Transporta
tion Corps, will represent his com
pany in the Pig Catching Contest
to be held as a feature on the
program of the Intercollegiate Ro
deo, which will be held on the
campus this week-end.
Scott has had previous exper
ience in such contests, He suc
cessfully caught two Aberdeen-
Angus calves on two different oc
casions at the Houston Fat Stock
Show while he was a member of
the Waller County 4-H Club.
The pigs will be thoroughly
greased and turned loose in, the
arena of the A. H. Pavilion! The
contestants try to catch as many as
they can.
Lamar County Sets
Christmas Dance
Preparations are now being made
for the annual Lamar County A&M
Club Christmas Dinner Dance to
be held in Paris, Dec. 24.
There is to be a special meeting
of the club tonight at 7 in tho
YMCA Assembly Room.
Persons from that vicinity in
terested in attending the dance
are asked to contact Boh Gregg,
room 317, Dormitory 10, or Char
les Secrest, room 302, Dormitory
15, immediately.
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BY C. C. MUNROE
Having successfully dodged the
explosive missies, brickbats, clods
of dirt, and old Battalion boxes
tossed our way during the past
several weeks, those of us with
thwarted, ambitions to "do a col
umn" have decided to take tho
plunge. We took a fling at "do-
i n g" columns
last year but in
our haste to put
our names in
print, we mis
takenly placed
our writings
under the head-
line, "Sticking
My Neck Out"
At the time
we thought it
was a good
title, but every
one expected us
to denounce
those who pay
us our bread and butter mon
ey, so the effort at columnizing
went the way of all good inten
tions. :. ■: 1 ],
This year we’re going to make
another attempt. Instead of three
times a week as we tried to make
"Sticking My Neck”, we plan to
bend over our typewriters only
once during each seven days to pro
duce our epics.
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Since we have received several
written, and countless verbal in
vitations, to "go to work for the
Dally Texan", have taken par
ticular notice of the University’s
Sales Classes To
Hear Smith Talk
George Smith, diet riot manager
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MNlftHnittRNlilp aijul MHlea manage-
of the llouMton office of the {Meta
phone Corporation, will. aodreMs
immt i'Immmm in the BualneM ami
Awountlng Department Mdmla
DeeemOer ft, Prnfewmr Undent L
Billow Maid yeMtenlay, A member
of the elaNK of 'UP, Hmltli Is a
pant Praalderlt rtf the Former MUi-
danti AMNoelfttlHt.
’Hmlth's talk villi he on tho
nlquen of denKMatratlmi an selU
log, Rulnw etatek* He will also give
a demonstration of the latest mod*
el Dictaphone Which his company
now selln.
Smith will alsi give some tips on
how to overcone price obstacles
and how to delaly the discussion of
1 cost until after) the salen presen
tation is completed, Bulow added.
Buldw concluded by stating that
all persons interested in hearing
Smith were inyited to attend any
of the sales classes next Monday.
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For Philippines
Seven agricultural teaching po
sitions) are open in Burma and the
Philippines unjjer the Fulbright
Educational Exchange Program, ac
cording to a release from the Fed
eral Security Agency.
Two teacher? of agriculture in
secondary schools arc needed Rt
the Central State High School in
Rangoon. At the National Agri
cultural School; at Bukidnon in the
Philippines, five teachers are need
ed. Or>e is needed in farm mechan
ics, farm management, animal hus
bandry, horticulture, and agricul
tural teacher education.
Applications for these teaching
positions should be filed before
Dec. dl. 1949.) Application blanks
Way Be secured from the Division
of International Educational Re
lations, Office 1 of Education, Fed
eral Security Agency, Washington
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paper just in case popular opin
ion forced such a move. Our in
tention has turned up what might
be a valuable tip for those ex
tending us an invitation to head
Austinward.
Dick Elam, editor of the Texan
who has been voted one of
the ten most hated men bn the
campus, was , recently condemned
for “gross mismanagement of the
Daily Texan" py the Mica Exe
cutive Council, a student ! o*rgan-
ization. The Micas, referring to
what they called "complete and
deliberate incompetence on the part
of the editor" voted 22 to3 for send
ing a report of their disapproval
to the Student Publication^ Board.
Final blow came when the pres-
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gripes above the wejl bOing of Hie
paper and in so doing is causing
it to degenerate into a useless
M.!.
tict Elam, but believe he plight he
willing to exchange with us.
Added Note—In the same issue
of the Texan in which Blah! was
condemned was a report that his
paper had placed first, in Sigma
Deity Chi’s general newswritihg
contest for - college newspapers.
SDX is the largest professional
journalism organization in the
world.
PS to Added Note—We cannot
help but remember an incident last
year when the Southern Methodist
student council made a formal in
vestigation of The SMU Campus,
that university's, paper. The. pres
ident of the council, Joe Patter-
ion, in a elaaaic statement regard
ing the Mustang's paper, saUHvith
a deep insight, "Wd've got toJnave
freedom of the ptysa, but they
cant go around Maying things like
that,"
One final word tn college jmir.
nallHin^A paws n ipping on Tho
‘rag’.’
e haven’t been able! to cpn-
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Singing Cops Canned
Brcjfpcn—<*Pi—After a drinking
party,); seven German policemen
drove 'j through this city singing
Nazi ijiungM. They were discharged
from ithc force, police headquar
ters reported. i
Battalion’s bulletin board! has this
headline: “College Editor Shot and
Killed on Frat Lawn".'
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would appreciate it if
they) could be typed and double
’ Not for 'our convenience,
night Linotype man has
time reading sonic of the
longhand turned in. Double spac
ing : permits easi.er insertion of
printing instruction to the Linotype-
man. Also, to avoid misspelled
names, would you please sign and
print your handles? j
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We Were glad toJ see Trail
(Cqke) Street converted from two-
way to one-way traffic with dia
gonal parking. Moving of the bus
stops was a good blow,too. The
Batt had asked for one-way traf
fic for Trail Street last year, «ml
had editorialized for it again this
^ear. Same treatment had been ac
corded the the bus step location.
The diagonal parking was thrown'
inijfor good measure so more 1
be parked on one side.
f!:[Mcxico to Halt
Tax-Free Import
Mexico City-- t'luiiige*
In buying Hum tlm U, M,-Mexico
border may come nfler'Det), 3. On
that day thi'i'b will expire tempor
ary permisaion for Mime frontier*
towiiH to import jthe 207 urtlolea
on a prohibited list Issued June
21.
So far President Miguel Aleman
has shown ho disposition to' en
large the special rights of border
people to bpy in the United States
and to bring goods to Mexico with
out paying duty. Under a law pasB-
ed Npv. 2),; 1948, the president
is authorized to create, alter gr
abolish free zones. His one major
action was the 15-year extension,
beginning Jan. 1, 1952, of the
lower California privilege.
Nogales, Aria, frequently has
beeh mentioned as a candidate
for free zone rights but so far
there is no indication that the
president wil) authorize them. His
disposition, as represented by the
treasury department, his been more
toward tightening than loosening
restrictions, all aimed toward dis
couraging the spending of dol-
lors abroad by Mexicans.
dr good measure so more cars
could be parked
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usi, it is only natural to let our
minds dwell on money. Wity thst\
thought in mind, we dropped in to
see George Long in the Student
Labor Office. For those who arc
well heeled all the time, let it be
knbwn that the campus loan funds
are also administered from that of
fice.
We asked Long if he had gotten
thb $304.21 which was earmarked
for the loan funds hy the Student
Life Committee. The rfioney had
been left over from the funds of
Dormitories One, Three, Nino, and"
MWt
Gong said, yea, he had gotten
thp money and It had bien iplTt.into
throe parts, Oiif lliTi'd went nut
tn tye Annex whoiu Him Davlu
Buck Fund Im kepi, AnothiT third
went to the (laher I,nan Fund, and
(hr remainder went Into the
Hreakeale fund, •• • I ,
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furcemeiils lu the ileplcled funds
rd arutinil fast fiir Ginig said all
halted
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the imnttty mlelved rnnn Mludeiil
Idle was leaned mil; In UU mill-
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