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THE BATTALION
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1953
Religion’s Place at A&M
rpHE PLACE of religion on a college campus
—where does it start and stop? This is a
question faced by many administrators from
time to time, but we believe a good attempt
at an answer has been found at this school.
With the fine organization of off-campus
churches, the part a college should play in
religion is adequately handled here. A&M of
fers many academic courses in religious edu
cation and yearly sponsors a week of religious
emphasis.
This program for religious emphasis end
ed here Friday and we would like to tab it
the most successful ever held at A&M. It
was the most successful for many reasons,
but mainly because of fine planning by mem
bers of the inter-faith council.
Inspiring this group which sponsored RE
Week, was a little man who seems to stay
in the background, getting little credit for
his accomplishments, yet doing a bang-up job
—Gordon Gay, YMCA secretary.
Through his guidance and experience a
well organized program with excellent speak
ers and forum leaders was provided for the
observance.
With humble hearts we say “Thanks” to
Mr. Gay, the inter-faith council, especially its
president Mason L. Cushion Jr., for mak
ing this week on our campus possible.
Guion Hall was packed practically every
morning to hear the thought provoking ser
mons delivered by Dr. Robert E. Goodrich of
Dallas, and students found interest and ans
wers to many questions through informal
meetings and forums held in dormitory
lounges by the fourteen visiting ministers.
Hard work and conscious endeavor to
succeed usually pay off. In that one week of
religious emphasis on our campus most peo
ple here found what a great part religion
plays in the day to day life of a student.
LETTERS
Soccermen, Thanks
Editors, The Battalion:
The members of the .soccer team
are deeply grateful and wish to
thank the Freshman Band for their
cooperation in making last Sun
day’s game a success.
We wish also to take the oppor
tunity to express our thanks to
everyone who came out to watch
and support the team.
Guillermo Cardenas T>4
Captain, Soccer Team
Eagle’s Persistence
Editors, The Battalion:
Concerning the eagle’s persist-
ance in Tuesday’s Battalion, the
Bopster would exclaim: “That
eagle is really gone.”
Dick Hensz ’54
Old Parable
Editors, The Battalion:
Modification of old parable:
“You can push a horse off a cliff
but you can’t make him fly.”
Jim Trimble ’54
Profs & Good Bull
Editors, The Battalion:
In yestei-day’s (Feb. 24) Battal
ion, Dr. Stack compared the “in-
(See LETTERS, Page 5)
Frankly Speaking
Duplication Slows Incentive
By FRANK N. MANITZAS
Battalion Co-Editor
A TYPICAL college fallacy
thrown to freshmen every
year is: “Your first year is your
hardest, and if you do okay them
the rest of college is easy.”
Needless t o
say, a good
student from a
good secondary
school is in for
a. let down when
he begins his
initial year’s
§i woi'k and finds
he is repeating
many courses.
This lessens the
challenge e x -
pected from col
lege and slack
ens his enthusiasm for more rapid
advancement in learning.
Because A&M is a state sup
ported school, it cannot acquire
all the points of a liberal educa
tion, nor can it lead certain fields
of study, although the capabil
ities are ever present here. The
following tells a story which could
be used here to increase the edu
cational qualities of the school.
Two years ago a group of out
standing teachers representing
Andover,. Exeter, Lawrenceville,
Harvard, Yale and Princeton de
cided to do something about it.
With support from the Ford Foun
dation, the six institutions began
a study whose purpose was “to
plan the last two years of second
ary school and the first two years
of college as a continuous process,
conceived as a whole.”
Real Need Seen
Recently, the report was com
pleted. “The real need,” the re
port said, “is a concerted attempt
on the part of both schools and
colleges to enable students to move
steadily forward through a coher
ent and unified program of study,
with a continuous desire to learn
and at a rate commensurate with
their ability.”
To accomplish this, the report
(“General Education in School
and College,” Harvard University
Press, $2.) presents four condi
tions which must be met:
• “The essentials of that part
of liberal education which should
be common to all must be thought
out and agreed upon.
• “Wasteful duplication of edu
cational experience must somehow
be eliminated.
• “Provisions must be made for
adapting any program to the needs
and pace of individual students.
• “Every possible device must
be explored which may increase a
student’s desire to grow in know
ledge and understanding, to edu
cate himself.”
Easy for State
All of these conditions could be
adapted by a state school system
without affecting the overall edu
cational program.
Since unification of college work
with secondary school studies also
would provide a cut in expenses,
a plan of this type should prove
useful.
The report also presents “spec
ific weaknesses and failures” ex
isting at present: wasted time
through repition of courses, fail
ure to pursue a subject far enough
to be of value, and study of rela
tively useless aspects of an im
portant field. This, of course, con
tributes to a general failure to
arouse the student’s interest and
to keep him fully stretched to his
capacities.
Admitting that there is no sub
stitute for good teaching, the re
port supports a two-part program:
one designed to provide the mini
mum requirement of a liberal edu
cation for all and the other to pro
vide for the exceptional student
to move ahead at his own pace.
Grades of Study
In this general education basic
program, the eleventh and twelfth
grades would include courses in
the English language and litera
ture, third and fourth years of
foreign languages, one year of
American history, completion of a
third yegr of mathematics, a sci
ence and art and/or music. There
also is room for electives.
The freshman college would in
clude literature, a study of west
ern civilization and a science. The
second college year would include
a course in Values (strongly rec
ommended by the committee, cap
italizing on the particular strength
of the institution), contemporary
society and art and/or music.
“There are some things an edu
cated person should know,” the re
port says. “One must have some
understanding of the ideas and
ideals on which our civilization de
pends.” To make this possible, the
committee recommends that the
college course for engineering stu
dents be extended to five years.
. Permits Advancement
An important feature of the
program is that the student with
a marked interest and capacity in
a particular field would be per
mitted and urged to move ahead so
that he was constantly challenged.
The committee 'believes: the ex-
dfeptToMl student should be al
lowed to compress the normal
eight years of secondary school
and college into seven. To measure
the student’s achievement in es
sential areas, the committee m’ges
examinations for “Advanced Place
ment.” These together with tests
for aptitude, emotional maturity
and good health, would form the
basis for screening. Although the
committee believes that between
one-fifth and one-third of the stu
dents in a good school might meet
the intellectual and psychological
requirements, the final decision to
accelerate should be entirely up to
the student.
Motivation Increased
Student motivation which is in
creased with the elimination of
duplication of courses, is improved
by:
© Giving top priority to re
cruiting and encouraging imagin
ative, creative teachers.
• Schools encouraging and stim
ulating more independent work on
the part of their ablest seniors.
•Finding ways to increase per
sonal contact between college fac
ulties and undergraduates.
• Forcing students to more ac
tive participation in their educa
tion through increased use of pap-
Th e Battalion
Lawrence Sullivan Ross, Founder of Aggie Traditions
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FRANK N. MANITZAS, JOEL AUSTIN Co-Editors
Ed Holder, Jerry Bennett Managing Editors
Harri Baker ; City Editor
Peggy Maddox Women’s News Editor
Today’s Issue
Ed Holder. Managing Editor
Chuck Neighbors T News Editor
Bob Boriskie . Sports News Editors
Bob Hendry, Joe Hlpp, Chuck Neighbors News Writers
Uus Becker, Bob Boriskie, Jerry Estes.... Sports News Editors
Vernon Andersonr' Frank Hines, Bob Alderdice,
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R. D. Gossett. Carl Hale, Donald Kemp, Alfred
McAfee, Bill Rogers. Ray Smith, Jerry Sonnier,
Edwin Stern. Roy Sullivan, Jon Kinslow, Dick
Moore. Lionel Garcia, John Moody, Bob Palmer,
Bill Shepard ,. Staff News Writers
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ers, discussions, and problem solv
ing.
Disavowing any pretense of pre
senting a cure all, the report
closes: “The heart of formal edu
cation is always the encounter of
the teacher and the student. But
when the evidence of wasted ef
fort and loss of intellectual mom
entum among our best students is
as clear as it is, and when some
of the causes so evidently lie in
faulty academic planning, then it
is foolish, or worse, not to do what
we can to improve programs of
study and to integrate require
ments.
“The goal is certainly worth our
efforts. It is to increase the possi
bility that more and more of our
students may start strongly on the
way to becoming liberally educat
ed men—and find themselves un
able to turn back.”
INCOMPLETE ANGLER
From the Montreal Star:
So what if your girl walked out
on you ? There are other fish in
the sea!
Yeah, but she Avalked out with
all my bait.
DOUBLE JEOPARDY
From Marquette Engineer:
An elderly lady driving non-
chantly along, turned a corner and
ran down a poor inebriate crossing
the street. Without any shoAV of
emotion, she stopped the car, roll
ed down the window and called,
“You had better Avatch out there,
young man.”
The drunk rose on his elbows
and yelled, “Ye Gods, lady, don’t
tell me you’re going to back up.”
AGGIE LOVERS?
From The Dally Texan:
“Presidents just aren’t what
they used to be,” declared a bio
grapher of presidents recently.
And he was right.
People can’t help wondering
how Harry Truman, for example,
stacked up Avith George Washing
ton in their younger days with
the fairer sex. Sources tell us the
general fell in and out of love
more times than a hen lays eggs.
Harry, on the other hand, could
n’t have been much. He was a
Twentieth Century army man, and
Avhen you think of “army” A&M
just nacherly comes to mind. And
after all, avIio ever heard of an
Aggie who could—?
ET CETERA
From Montreal Star:
“Well Dear,” said Mr. Blair,
after dinner had been cleared
away, “what are you planning to
do this eA'ening?”
Mrs. Blair shrugged her should
ers. “Nothing special,” she replied.
“I’ll probably Avrite a letter or
two, read, listen to the radio, and
so on.”
“I see,” he replied. “When you
come to the so on, don’t forget my
shirt buttons.”
WHOSE FAULT
From Illinois Education:
The College Professor:
Such rawness in a student is a
shame, but lack of preparation is
to blame.
The High-School Principal:
Good heavens, Avhat crudity!
The boy’s a fool. The fault,’ of
course, is with the grammar
school.
The Grammar School Principal:
Would that from such a dunce
I might be spared; they send them
up to me so unprepared.
The Primary Teacher:
Poor kindergarten blockhead,
and they call that preparation—
worse than none at all.
The Kindergarten Teacher:
Never such a lack of training did
I see; Avhat kind of person can
the mother be?
The Mother:
You stupid child, but then
you’re not to blame. Your father’s
family are all the same.
* * *
EUPHEMISTIC CRACKPOTS
Goi've Patterson In Toledo Blade:
I haA r e heard there is a neAV
course at Ohio State University
called psychoceramics. It is de
signed, I am told, to be a study of
crackpots.
* * *
COLUMN REMUNERATIONS
George Fucrmann in Houston Post Card:
Writing a column, as practical
ly everybody reminds us, has its
advantages. A columnist, for in
stance, can ride a city bus foi
ls cents, and he gets to join a
lot of clubs.
Harry Boyer Released
From Hospital Sunday
Harry Boyer, chief of housing,
Avill be returned from Houston’s
Memorial Hospital, Sunday.
Mr. Boyer underwent a stomach
operation Feb. 16.
Allen Madeley, assistant chief
of housing, has assumed Boyer’s
duties during his absence,
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