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Page 2 THE BATTALION Thursday, November 9,1950
Day of Significance .
Not because it will make Marion T. Har
rington any more a college president than
he is now, but because it is the official be
ginning of what promises to be one of A&M’s
most prosperous and successful eras is to
day’s inaugural ceremony most significant.
Certainly, there have been presidents who
were, inaugurated at a time when, to accept
the job, was more than a challenge. But
never has there been a period when that
challenge was as important as it is today.
For today’s responsibility does not end at
the college front door. It goes far beyond,
having become directly connected, as it has
with all institutions of learning, with the
welfare of our nation and of our civilization.
Today’s students are tomorrow’s first
citizens, and today’s training is the founda
tion of tomorrow’s leadership.
We are just now emerging from a period
of education which received a “shot in the
arm” of interest and enthusiasm provided
by our older, wiser veteran students. There
is a challenge to maintain the effect of that
‘■'shut;” to keep the intellectual curiosity of
younger students at a respectable level.
President Harrington has pointed out
earlier that we are in a crucial period of try
ing to balance liberal education with technical
education at A&M. Without question, we
have tended too far toward the technical,
leaving education in the “why and wherefore
of living” up to the individual.
If his only accomplishment should, be to
bring to A&M that necessary “balance,” our
new president will have served his college
and its students well.
We have great confidence in our new ex
ecutive. He has proven himself capable in
job after job, a fact recognized by the direc
tors of the college and one which has not
gone unnoticed by students and former stu
dents. In only a minimum of appearances
before large student groups, he has made
himself known to them personally and com
manded their respect and admiration. It
goes without saying that such a relationship
will put much more of his goal within reach
of the immediate years ahead.
It is important, too, that he is a former
student of the college; the first to become
its president. The very fact that he is the
first makes greater his responsibility.
With mingled feelings of pride, because
we long since elected him our candidate for
A&M president; confidence, because we think
him capable of the job; and anxiety, because
we are impatient to witness the advent of a
new and better A&M; we witness the inaug
uration of our president.
May his tenure be filled with the fruits of
progressive effort and climax with those
goals within his grasp that he has set for
himself and his college.
Second Town Haller . . .
Soprano Jean Dickenson
Combines Old-New Singing
Need to Learn
Of Humanities
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Harrington Address
In his inaugural address and ac
ceptance of the office bestowed up
on him, President Harrington out
lined broadly some of the educa
tional plans he had in mind for
the institution.
He paralleled the initial open
ing of the school in an era of
change and the present day situa
tion in a period of even faster
change. In that day and time the
trend was toward technical educa
tion, of which there had been but
little before the advent of land
grant colleges.
A world war brought us even
closer to the completely technical,
until now we are at a point where
we must bend our efforts toward
balancing liberal education with
technical training in order to pro
duce a well-rounded graduate, he
said.
Humanities Needed
Employers today realize the
need for a student grounded in
the humanities as well as the tech
nical.
Technical and professional edu
cation, he said, places great em
phasis upon the development of
skills while liberal education
stresses the gaining of understand
ing and developing of qualities of
mind and attributes of character.
“My objective for A&M is that
we offer the best technical and
scientific training possible, prop
erly balanced with the right pro
portion of a liberal education in the
humanities. If we can accomplish
this, we will be fulfilling our re
sponsibility to the young men of
this state.”
Quoting from what he termed a
“well known author,” President
Harington made clear that he was
not going to stand-by while the
college stood still. “. . . When . . .
an institution . . . becomes too
complacent, the end is not far off.
. . . When an organization takes
more pride in its past than what
it is doing today, you may write
‘Finis’ across its history.”
By JERRY ZUBER
“When you are selling something,
you must sell yourself first in or
der to sell your product,” so goes
an old adage. Jean Dickenson put
it' to good use in her Town Hall
performance here last night.
’Her gracious,, smiling entrance
on the Guion Hall stage immediate
ly won her a spot in the hearts of
her audience. Gowned in an ex
quisite hooped skirt, Miss Dicken
son presented a perfect picture of
charm and beauty.
Outstanding numbers from her
program were; “Carnival of Ven
ice” by Sir Jules Benedict, “Tar
antella” by Rossini, “The Last
Rose of Summer,” “L’Eclat De
Rjre’ by Daniel Auber, and Stephen
Foster’s beloved, “Beautiful Dream
er.”
’Other popular numbers included
“Pagnis Angelicus”, noted sacred
song- by the German composer,
Franck, and “Scena E Cavatina’-
Qiii La Voce” by Bellini.
Miss Dickenson was given excel
lent, support by her accompanist,
Miss Joan Ryan, of Austin. Though
Miss Rryan is not Miss Dicken
son’s regular accompanist, she left
nothing to be desired by her per
formance at the keyboard.
“The Nightingale of the Air
ways,” as Miss Dickenson is called,
concluded her program with a
group of five numbers and four
encores.
“Ann Street” and “I Hate Music”
were two catchy tunes Miss Dick
enson described as “modern,” warn
ing that the audience might think
them strange.
With “The Little Chinese Fig
ure,” third of the five concluding
pieces, Miss Dickenson drew the
audience more closely to her by a
throughly delightful presentation.
Last two numbers of the program
were “Beautiful Dreamer” and
“Some Folks” by the loved Ameri
can, Stephen Foster. Despite the
lack of spontaneous applause dur
ing the program, Miss Dickenson
was brought back for four encores
before the assemblage would let
her call it a night.
Parade Includes AH Branches
Girls
March 18, 1943—A full-dress re
view will be held by the Cadet
Corps, the Army Air Corps, and it
is expected the Naval Training
Station Sailors and the Marines
Friday afternoon at 2:30 as a last
review of the Corps as a corps of
Aggies, according to the Com
mandant, M. D. Welty. Classes will
be dismissed at 1:50 p.m.
“I think it only fitting that we
have this review now, commemor
ating not only the activation of
most of our juniors and seniors,
but also as a salute and gesture of
friendliness to the other branches
on the campus. We are all in the
war together, more so now than ev
er, and we must work together
and live together”, said Colonel
Welty.
The Navy, Marines, and Air
Corps joining in with the Aggies
in this review, will make it the
first time in the history of the
college that such a full dress oc
casion has ever taken place.
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C. Davis of the 85th Judicial Dis
tance ruled that the college had
authority to deny enrollment to
girls on the grounds that they were
not “biological adapted” to en
rollment in the. college or for work
for which graduates were fitted.
Records show that as early as
1915 there were girls in attendance
here. The 1916 edition of the Long
horn pictures Miss Estelle Tatum
and Miss Bernice Carter under its
Special Students heading.
At other times in the long his
tory of the school there have been
girls enrolled in the college but
since 1933, as far as can be ascer
tained, there have been no women
enrolled for regular academic work-
Dr. Hannah
Makes Talk
(Continued from Page 1)
rington, the new president.
He also introduced General
Dwight D. Eisenhower, Chancellor
Gibb Gilchrist, and G. R. White,
president of the A&M board of di
rectors.
Mrs. Robert W. Butler, Bryan,
sang “Let All My Life Be Music.”
After the Singing Cadets, under
the direction of Bill Turner, ren
dered a choral number, Dr. Hannah
was introduced by Heaton. At
the conclusion of Dr. Hannah’s
speech, Mason L. Cashion, secre
tary of the YMCA gave the bene
diction.
If all American universities were
to vanish, rebuilding would be dif
ficult, Hannah said.
Equal opportunities for all with
the limit based on personal initia
tive would be one of the first prob
lems. Secondly, public funds would
have to be made available for part
of the education.
Public’s Responsibility
Final responsibility would have
to be left in the hands of the gen
eral public, to be exercised through
boards of trustees responsible to
the people was his third point.
He answered his own question
as to what land-grant colleges had
accomplished with public funds
they have received by saying this
type college was responsible for
tearing down the cold, forbidding
walls that had shut ordinary peo
ple off from higher education.
It is evident we are at war with
Soviet Communism, and it is com
mon knowledge that the American
colleges and universities will be in
the forefront with the know-how
upon entrance of this country into
actual bomb and shell type war.
This fight against Communism,
he pointed out, can best be fought
by letting the public know the dif
ference between American Democ
racy and Soviet-type Communism.
Hard to Define
“The average American has some
notion of the difference, but he is
hard put to define it. He knows
that we have freedom of religious
worship here and they do not have
it behind the Iron Curtain, but
that is about as far as his definite
knowledge extends.”
Higher standard of living, elec
tric washing machines, fine auto
mobiles and other luxuries are the
material things we arc fighting
for. This is the thought of the
average American. Dr. Hannah
calls this “mistaking the shad
ow for the substance.” We fail
to recognize that our higher stan
dard of living is not the difference
between our systems but exists
only because there is a difference.
“We must teach Americans that
opportunity is the method by which
he is to realize his ambitionsA >
McDonald ‘Father of Corps Trip
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TCU game in Fort Worth.
The initial Dallas jaunt was
complete with special trains and
cars for the ladies who were also
provided special places in the
Aggie section of the stands.
Credited with being the “Father
of the joint Corps Trip” is Dr.
F. L. McDonald, director of the
TSCW Department of Journalism.
He still handles the yearly publici
ty for the event in his capacity
as director of the TSCW News
Bureau.
Preceding the first joint Dallas
invasion, the TSCW Junior Class
officially invited the A&M Junior
Class to a Friday night dinner-
dance. This Saturday’s session
will be somewhat similar in that
an All-College Dance is being held
on the TSCW Campus tomorrow
night.
The Tessies themselves elect
ed the first Aggie Sweetheart—
and apparently did a good job
of it. At least they came up
with two of them—twins Dorcas
and Doris Harrison. Since that
time, our own crew has taken
over the task.
Each year a Sweetheart Selec
tion Committee treks up Denton
way to pick the choice lass from a
list of nominees from the Tessie
sophomore, junior and senior
classes.
The lates selection, which oc
curred two weeks ago, found “Dot”
Mangum chosen to fill the position
this year.
Also an annual joint affair be
tween the brother-sister schools is
the selection of a Cotton Ball
Queen. Ibis finds expert and
carefully picked judges going up
that-a-way each year to pick a
fitting monarch for the yearly
Cotton Ball at A&M. They also
select a Tessie slate of duchesses
to accompany the Queen.
The initial try at this one was
in the Spring of 1940 when the
judges chose Mamie Tramonte.
Last Spring, Docia Schultz
reigned over the Ball.
Both of these programs were
discontinued during the war and
revived later.
Third major joint endeavor
of the two schools isi the annual
newspaper staff exchange, re
vived by Battalion and Lass-0
staff members last year for the
first lime since World War II.
As the name implies the staffs
of each newspaper take a crack at
publishing the other paper. The
TSCW Daily Lass-0 staff had
their yearly tussle with The Bat
talion last week-end. Results, in
cidentally, were excellent. The
Battalion staff will publish the
Daily Lass-0 sometime during the
Spring semester.
Other cooperation between the
two schools comes about in joint
sponsorship by various comparable
organizations on each of the cam
puses of social affairs and dances.
A good example would be the home
town clubs at A&M and TSCW.
Sept. 23, 1908—The Veterinary
Hospital has been completed and
will soon be used. It offers great
facilities for horses with different
contagious diseases. There are also
rooms upstairs for veterinary stu
dents to room in if they wish to
do so.
LF LABNER
He Knows Women
By A1 Capp
AMIGOS!
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Before or after the game visit —
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“The Finest in Mexican and American Food”
• 120 E. Colorado
• 1608 McKinney
DALLAS
HAVING SHIRT
TROUBLE?...
Keep yourself happy and
your shirts, too. Eliminate
that tired, worn-out look.
Call us for regular atten
tion to apparel and linens.
Campus Cleaners
‘Over The Exchange Store’
Call your local Greyhound Agent for complete information
on low fares and convenient schedules.
Ames Travel Agency, North Gate, Phone 4-7114
CONGRATULATIONS
to
Dr. M. T. Harrington
For a Job Well Done
in the Past.
We Wish Him the
Best of Luck
A&M Will Progress
at Great Strides
With President Harrington
BRYAN, TEXAS