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THE BATTALION
Thursday, February 12, 1953
The AGGIE-Nizer
‘Shame’ Noted in American Colleges
By JOEL AUSTIN
Battalion Co-Editor
“Many of our college grad
uates—perhaps a majority—
cannot think at all: they can
only emote.
Some of them
cannot speak
| g r a m m a t-
ic a 1 English
and even
more could
n o t possibly
write a full-
page letter
without half
Austin a dozen mis
spellings or grammatical mis
takes.”
These are a few of the char
ges made by author Louis Brom-
field in “The Shame of Our Col
leges,” in March Esquire.
Bromfield points to three “ugly
seeds” which have given rise to
this “tragic general ignorance”:
our failure to discipline our chil
dren, our tolerance of downright
subversion in the schools, and our
emphasis on the college degree
rather than the college education.
C. C. Newton
Wins $25 Prize
In Tile Contest
C. Chartier Newton of Tyler
won first prize in the archi
tecture department’s first an
nual contest sponsored by the
Tile Council of America.
The Tile Council, made up of
the major tile companies of the
United States, donates the $25
prize money.
Honorable mention went to
Robert L. Dabney and James A.
Muncey of Dallas, Stephen O. Nall
of Tyler, and C. Richard Watson
of Bryan.
“The Tile competition is to be
a sophomore project, with a new
program devised by the staff each
year,” said Ernest Langford, head
of the architecture department.
The contest was established to
exploi’e and promote the use of
ceramic tile for floors and walls
of vai’ious types of buildings.
This year’s project* devised and
directed by Richard Vrooman, as
sistant professor, and James A.
Davis, instructor, was to design
a store or show room in which
ceramic tile is sold.
Eighty sophomores submitted
drawings of their solutions to the
jury of staff members.
Winning drawings now arc on
exhibit in the architecture depart
ment, but soon will be loaned to
the Tile Council of America.
Dance Class Schedule
Postponed by MSC
The MSC dance classes schedul
ed to begin Monday, Feb. 16, have
been postponed until the follow
ing week, said Miss Betty Boland-
er, MSC program consultant.
This change was made because
of Religious Emphasis Week, she
said.
Pointing to a subject wide open
for criticism, Bromfield elaborates
on this plague of our present day
society which makes it “the thing
to do” to get a college degree.
He says, “There are too many
who don’t want to be there at all
and make passing marks only be
cause their teachers nag them or
their parents scare them.”
These statement we find very
true from associating with other-
students. How often do you hear
a father comment, “I never had a
chance at a college education and
I’ll do everything possible to see
that my son gets one.”
The emphasis on degrees from
college, this alarming factor in
our higher education set up, is
caused in part by adults of today
who have forgotten the real mean
ing of what college education ac
tually constitutes. We are mass-
producing graduates with fewer
over-all qualifications than the man
who finished college 30 years ago.
Mass-Producing Graduates
Why are we mass - producing
these graduates? Because society
demands that college training be
obtained by young men, and even
more recently young women, who
hope to obtain a place in the bus
iness and society world.
In attempting to educate these
students who are having it “forc
ed” upon them, Bromfield says
colleges are obliged to “drag down
the standards of class, hold back
brilliant students and those who
are working their way through
college because they really want
an education, and in general de
moralize their schools.”
Yet industry laughs at the job
applicant who has no college de-
What's Cooking
Thursday
6 p. in.—Brazos Valley District
Dental Society Smorgasbord, As
sembly Room, MSC.
7 p. m.—Collegiate 4-H Club,
Room 3B, MSC.
7:30. p. m.—Knights of Columbus,
Basement of St. Mary’s Chapel.
A&M Film Society, Ballroom,
MSC.
Junto Club, Social Room, MSC.
French Club, Room 2B, MSC.
Aggie Wives Bridge Club,
Rooms, Rooms 2C & 2D, MSC.
PetE Club, Petroleum Lecture
Room, Important Speaker.
8 p. m.—MSC Bridge Club,, Room
2A, MSC.
Friday
8 a. m. to 11 p. m.—Executive
Training SC Library, Room 3D,
MSC.
8 a. m. to 5 p. m.—Garden Club,
Assembly Room, MSC.
9 a. m. to 5 p. m.—Executive
Training Short Course, Rooms 3B
6 3C, MSC.
7 p. m.—Junior AVMA Auxiliary,
Social Room, MSC.
7:30 p. m.—Hillel Foundation,
YMCA.
Saturday
8 a. m. to 11 p. m.—Executive
Training SC Library Room 3D,
MSC.
9 a. m. to 5 p. m—Executive
Training Short Course, Rooms 3B
6 3C, MSC.
7 p. in.—Delta Kappa Gamma,
Social Room, MSC.
The Battalion
Lawrence Sullivan Ross, Founder of Aggie Traditions
“Soldier, Statesman, Knightly Gentleman”
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grec. Society says “thumbs down”
to the girl| who leaves high school
and goes to work.
Is this mass-produced college
graduate capable of thinking,
spelling, or writing correct let
ters? Chances are you would find
the majority of students not able
to fulfill all these/ requirements.
One of the important factors in
this situation is a constant demand
from industry to give the student
of technical subjects a moi’e spec
ialized education. The engineer is
a prime example. As technological
improvements and innovations are
evolved he must add more training
to his curriculum—crowding out
courses in English, foreign' lang
uage, the arts, even economics and
business which a prospective exe
cutive should study.
A Means To Live
To quote Bromfield: “What is
important is to provide children
and young people with the means
by which to live, both in a mater
ialist and in a cultural sense, to
create in them an interest in
everything, to encourage and
‘spark’ their enthusiasm along
the lines of their special inclina-
ations. We have tried always in
our household to make the world
itself seem a,stimulating and fas
cinating place and to scorn the
“Hoodlum Empire”
“Tough Girl”
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mind which does not operate clear
ly, logically and with force.”
Addition of more specialized
training to the technical curri
cula, however, is not the only rea
son graduates may be poorly qual
ified.
Industry and the world of busi
ness demand a highly trained
graduate, then usurp outstanding
educators for their own employ
ment. Colleges are therefore faced
with the problem of training stu
dents with a professorial staff in
adequate to meet demands of bus
iness. Colleges also offer unpleas
ant conditions of employment to
graduates who would remain in
the field of education.
The majority of large colleges
and universities in the United
States are tax supported. When
we must rely on state and govern
ment funds to compete with sal
aries paid by industry, it is easy
to see who will out do the other.
Wrung Kind of Education
Bromfield says we do not have
too much education, despite all the
colleges in the US; our problem
constitutes too much education of
the wrong kind.
A few of these wrong kinds he
TODAY & FRIDAY
JOSEPH COTTEfi
SHELLEY WINTERS
SCOTT BRABY
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mentions are: “the mediocrity and
bleakness of too many American
homos, the crowded schools, the
poorly paid teachers, the vast
numbers of young • people who
should not be occupying space in
a‘university or college, the mass
neurotic emphasis on sports, and
the pedagogic dry rot which has
been eliminating the human and
humanist element from our
thought.”
We agree with Bromfield’s
conclusion,- “education at its pre
sent stage in the US seems to
be merely messy.”
Like that author, we hesitate
to suggest any solutions or re
forms to the problem. The late
John Dewey of Columbia Univer
sity thought he had the answer in
the early thirties with “progres
sive education.” It swept the coun
try and was a thorough flop.
Leaders of tomorrow—a solution
is needed!
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