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THE BATTALION
Thursday, March 5, 1953
Letters to The Editors
Coeds Involve New Expense
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Editors, The Battalion:
I was greatly impressed by
your editorial (an editor’s column)
of Feb. 25 in which you offered
two alternatives to the present
condition in which we find our col
lege. However, in subsequent is
sues of The Battalion I have dis
covered that only one of the two
alternatives has been proposed and
elaborated upon, that of coeduca
tion.
Looking upon this issue from
the taxpayer’s viewpoint, (it) is
obvious that considerable invest
ment of state money must be
made in new facilities—the pre
sent dormitories are certainly not
Shakespeare
Speaks Again
Editors, The Battalion:
Another Great Tragedy.
Friends, Texans, countrymen,
lend me your ears; I come to bury
A&M, not to praise it. The evil
that schools do lives after them;
The good is oft interred with
their bones; So let it be with A&M.
The noble senator hath told you
A&M was outdated; If it were so,
it was a grievous fault, And griev
ously hath A&M answer’d it.
Here under the leave of the
senator and the rest, For the sen
ator was an Aggie? So are they
all, all Aggies, Come I to speak
at A&M’s funeral. It was my
friend, faithful and just to me:
But the senator says it was out
dated; And the senator is an Ag-
suitable for women to live in—
and also the curriculum offered
to students must be broadened to
include a school of fine arts.
There won’t be many women tak
ing agriculture engineering, or the
present liberal arts courses. The
difficulties presented here are ob
vious, and the expense involved
would be great.
Now looking at the question
from the standpoint of an Aggie,
and I hope The Battalion is, just
how would a coed system affect
that “Aggie Spirit” which is, I
can safely say, world famous ?
There is no question but that it
would destroy the very meaning
of Texas A&M, the purpose for
its existence, and the fraternal
spirit which holds our graduates
together in a unified body.
Should we follow in the foot
steps of that other state school in
Austin, whose loyalties and rival
ries are divided among the var
ious fraternities and soroi’ities on
the campus? Should we adopt the
very methods we have scorned for
75 odd years ?
A&M has a reputation at pres
ent and especially in the past for
turning out men. To attain this
reputation it developed methods
which make out school unique
among colleges. We are different.
If we wish to retain our distinc
tion we must not follow in the
pathway of other colleges whose
contrasting methods have made
us distinct.
These men who have graduated
from A&M have helped lead this
nation through two world wars,
and are now fighting and dying in
Korea. We, have leaders in indus
try, commerce, agriculture and ed
ucation, also, who were trained
at this college by methods which
now are condemned.
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It hath sent many soldiers to
war, Whose deeds did the state
of Texas honor: Did this in A&M
seem outdated? When the people
of Texas have needed, A&M hath
helped Obsolescence should be
made of sterner stuff: Yet the
senator is an Aggie?
I speak not to disprove what the
senator spoke, But here I am to
speak what I do know. You all
did love it once, not without cause:
What cause withholds you then to
mourn for»it?
You have raised the problem of
our drop in enrollment and have
made the statement, in which there
is some truth, that the increase of
college ROTC units among other
schools has hurt us. Yet you also
say that we are rated alongside
VMI and The Citadel in military
proficiency, at least officially.
These schools are state support
ed and have not proposed coeduca
tion to solve their enrollment prob
lems. Our state with its great
public resources should be able to
more than adequately support
A&M if the comparatively small
states of Virginia and South Caro
lina can support their institutions.
Yet these are military colleges.
It is so disgraceful to be military,
“corps happy,” if you please ?
Have we forgotten that the very
principles, traditions, and customs
which most of us observe are mili
tary, and are the very methods
which produced the men who have
made this school so famous?
As you stated, we must admit
that we have descended into a
state of mediocrity. Yet, you have
in subsequent issues of The Batt
never mentioned the most obvious
solution. We must have a revival
of the spirit, the military stand
ards, which made this college
great.
I think that all of us, some con
sciously and some unconsciously,
are proud of the uniform we wear.
To rise from our present state of
mediocrity we must return to the
military basis on which we former
ly stood.
To me, the corps is the very
heart and backbone of this school.
If it is disrupted or shaken any
further, the college itself, as we
know it, and as the ex’s know it,
will collapse. To make this school
coeducational will destroy the
corps, save, possibly in name only.
Plans have been discussed which
might possibly help solve the prob
lem of mediocrity. They would
put A&M back on a more military
basis. But, to do this, action, not
words, is needed. It would certain
ly be the most immediate, prac
tical and inexpensive way to solve
the problem of mediocrity.
The problem of enrollment will
solve itself when the children
born during the war, whose num
bers greatly increased the birth
rate during the years 1941-45, at
tain college age. Until that time
we must concentrate on quality,
and let quantity take care of it
self.
build for the newcomers. After a
year of being coed, the technical
school of Georgia has four fe
males. Certainly it would be im-
pi-actical to become coeducational
without planning for these stu
dents.
It may be well to remember that
at A&M are housed home economic
specialists which include extension
services in clothing, food and nu
trition, homestead improvement,
home management, parent educa
tion, recreation specialist and oth
er women’s organizations.
But if A&M’s enrollment would
drop to 500 students, the state
could continue to support it as an
all-male college. The question of
enrollment is minor.
“Aggie Spirit,” world famous?
We are glad you added the ques
tion mark. Few colleges are known
outside of their immediate states
by many people, unless they have
exceptional athletic teams, and
then their popularity is short liv
ed. No one wants to destroy the
fraternal spirit "which exists at
A&M although it would be help
ful to destroy the secret fraternal
gx-oups which are present. And
we disagree with you that the
many years A&M has existed are
“odd.”
A&M certainly has a reputation
for turning out men. Women are
not allowed to enroll, hence only
one legal produce—men.
Consistantly following contrast
ing methods. Does not mean you
are always right. As to the meth
ods now condemned at this college
we presume you mean some of the
hazing principles. Again we differ
with you. Hazing does not produce
men.
6:30 p. m.—Management Engin
eering Short Course Banquet,
MSC Ballroom.
7 p. m.—Agx-iculturist Staff,
Agriculturist Office, Picture for
Aggieland.
7:15 p. m.—Debate Teams.
A&M vs. TU, Assembly Room,
MSC.
French Club, Room 2A, MSC.
Aggie Wives Bridge Club,
Rooms 2C & 2D MSC.
TSCW Ex-students Association
of Brazos County, Rooms 3B &
3C, MSC.
Student Senate Senate Room,
MSC.
New club being formed of States
East of the Mississippi River and
South of the Mason Dixon Line,
301 Goodwin.
8 p. m.—MSC Bridge Committee,
Room 2B MSC.
Here’s the Record of
8 to 10 p. m.—Management En
gineering Short Course Lounge,
Room 3D, MSC.
Friday
9 to 12 a. m.—Management En
gineering Short Course, Assembly
Room, MSC.
12:15 p. m.—Style Show, Din
ing Room. MSC.
7:30 p. m.—Journalism Club,
Ballroom, MSC.
8 p. m.—Musical Concert, As
sembly Room, MSC.
9 p. m.—Journalism Club Cof-
O judgment! thou are fled to
bratish beasts, And men have lost
their reason. Bear with me; My
heart is in the coffin there with
A&M, And I must pause till it
come back to me.
Edward V. Wright ’54
Steve Williams ’54
BACKWARD
GLANCES
We can certainly get a better
education in all male classes, with
no feminine distractions. Let the
males in coed colleges go to class
with the girls. We can take care
of them in their off-periods as
we’ve always done.
Yours for a bigger, better and
“greater A&M College.”
Carl Bruce Sterzing Jr. ’54
John Curtis Farrell ’54
Both VMI and the Citadel are
military throughout. They are list-
ted in the World Almanac as “mil
itary,” and A&M is not. We agree
some are “unconsciously proud” of
their uniform. Many wear it that
way.
You say to make the school co
educational would destroy the
“save possibly, in name only.”
We said that today A&M has a
corps, in name only.
No one can say whether or not
all male classes provide better ed
ucations. Better check your psy
chiatrist and English teacher on
the last sentence in the next to
the last paragraph.
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One Year Ago Today
The class of ’52 launched a
campaign to change the name of
College Station to Aggieland.
EDITORS’ NOTE: A&M is not
dead. Other schools also have pro
vided soldiers for wars; A&M
alone did not win World War II.
Obsolescence means “going out of
use;” do you mean A&M is losing
its usefulness? We think not.
Improvement is possible and
needed. No one has showed the
way yet. Lincoln said: “I shall tiy
to correct errors where shown to
be errors, and I shall adopt new
views as they shall appear to
be true views.” A&M needs to cor
rect errors and adopt new true
views. Burying the school, is not
the answer.
Five Years Ago Today
The campus livestock depart
ments have given animals to stu
dents to be groomed and trained
for-the Little Southwestern Live
stock Show.
Ten Years Ago Today
Upon inauguration of the Army
Specialized Training Program,
seniors and juniors now under
contract were assigned to active
duty immediately. The men were
sent to Replacement Training Cen
ter for “processing.”
Fifteen Years Ago Today
Members of the senior class of
’38 will select the five most pop
ular seniors.
EDITORS’ NOTE: In Co-Edi
tor Austin’s column of Feb. 25,
be stressed that A&M should be
come a quality military school
and not simply the largest. He did
not say go coed, but did say the
college may be forced to turn to
coeducation to uphold an adequate
student body. President Harring
ton believes our enrollment is re
maining stable and has not drop
ped more than expected. The drop
is because of the fewer males to
graduate from Texas high schools.
If A&M went coed it should not
make the mistake made by Geor
gia Tech, but ^hould plan and
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