Battalion Editorials
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THE BATTALION
FRIDAY, MAY 15, 1953
Colleges Hurt Progress
By Not Producing Citizen
W/HEN WILL C. Crawford said, “people are
™ more prone to criticize what ap
pears to be wrong- than to praise that which
is good,” he was looking deep within the ele
ment we «call “human nature.”
He also said about public educations “The
current criticisms center largely on individ
ual mistakes and shortcomings which, while
regrettable and subject to improvement, are
bound to occur in any large program in
volving so much of the human element.”
“Too little tribute is paid to the magnifi
cent contribution which public education
has made to the development of our Ameri
can way of life and the highest standard of
living in history.”
Yet, today, it is common knowledge that
although our public education has done a
tremendous duty in bettering our living
standard, public education is falling.
! The National Manpower Council recently
informed President Eisenhower that pro
gress is retarded and even national security
is weakened by failure to provide proper edu
cation and training for a “vast reservoir of
highly intelligent young people.”
The council disclosed that less than half
of those capable of acquiring a college de
gree enter college and “two-fifths of those
who start college — many with superior
ability—do not graduate.”
A criticism of colleges which they have
strived to correct is the unbalanced student
life on American campuses. Examples^ of
pantie-raids, water fights and needless de
struction seems to warrant the question:
“Well, General, we have not had
many dead cavalrymen lying about
lately.”—Joseph Hooker.
Final Quizzes
And YOUR Prof
“Are colleges and universities fulfilling their
place in building good citizens while attempt
ing to produce scholars?”
Citizenship preparedness is lacking with
the evidence shown that many college stu
dents fail to take position seriously. And
then, perhaps the colleges are not providing
the necessary element which will allow the
students to acquire their knowledge of hu
man behaviour and citizenship.
Scholasitically, the colleges are failing to
produce the necessary manpower for profes
sional and scientific areas.
“For every high-school graduate who
eventually earns a doctoral degree, there are
25 others who have the intellectual ability
to achieve that degree but do not,” the coun
cil declared.
And the greatest lack of professionals is
becoming apparent in the teaching field.
Through the years, the dollar sign has
drawn away the professors and instructors.
Today with the “guilt by association” tag
and treading Congressional investigations in
higher education, more of the younger pro
fessional instructors are fading into indus-
• try.. Because it is an apparent impossibility
to stockpile such personnel, the education
field will be one of the hardest hit with the
increasing number of entering college stu
dents and the depleting number of instruc
tors.
The solution, the council points out, is
to initiate “a purposeful and sustained ef
fort” which can insure the United States that
it will have adequate resources of scientific
and professional manpower to meet its needs.
To do this, the council stresses the need to
find an effective utilization of manpower,
once the shortages have been found out in
their entirety.
The main way to provide these needs is
with a continuous flow of s t u d e nt s
through colleges and universities and ex
panding the opportunities for capable young-
Fellowship Offer
To Grad Students
Search is undei*way for an out
standing graduate student who
would be eligible for a Rotary In
tel-national Fellowship, said Dr.
C. C. Doak, head of the biology
department and chairman of the
local International Service Com
mittee.
“We found two students who
were eligible, but both were al
ready launched on graduate pro
grams under other auspices,” said
Doak.
♦ Efforts to find a Rotary fellow
to send to a foreign country will
extend into the next year, he add
ed. The student chosen for this
honor, Doak continued, must be
from College Station, Bryan or
surrounding area.
Fellowships range from $1,800 to
$3,400.
YEAH, ’DEAD’ WEEK—The classically misnamed Dead
Week starts Monday. It’s supposed to be a week of rest and
review before Examination Week, but most of the pro
fessors use it to give all the major quizzes they forgot to
give during the semester.
BA Prof Attends
Armor School
R. L. Elkins, associate professor
of business administration, left
Tuesday for Fort Knox, Ky. to
attend a fifteen week advanced
associated armor school for of
ficers.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Blood Drive Success;
Chairman Thanks Ags
Editors, The Battalion:
At the completion of the blood-
donor drive yesterday (May 13),
the general feeling of the Blood-
mobile Unit personnel was best
expressed by one nurse who com
mented that it was always a plea
sure to come to A&M because they
knew they would fill their quota.
They also took notice of the friend
ly spirit and the good manners ex
hibited by the Aggies.
Since this brings our blood-
donor drive to a close for the se
cond year perhaps everyone would
be interested to know that 214
pints were collected on the first
trip, 240. pints on the second trip,
276 pints the first day of the 3rd
trip, 240 pints on the second trip,
of the- trip. That makes a grand
total of 1016 pints and breaks our
record -for one year.
riNAL MAJOR quizzes and the final ex-
'' aminations are rapidly approaching.
With this thought in mind, we would like
to pass on a poem entitled “If.” Included
with this poem are our apoligies to Kipling.
If you can fool your prof without his
knowing *>'
That you are shooting him a line of bull.
And, while this bull from you is freely-
flowing,
By degrees you get with him a pull; - *
If you can force yourself by mighty effort
To laugh when he dispenses his stale jokes
And, when all your fellow students mifes a^
question.
You read the answer calmly from your
notes;
If you can fill the unforgiving hour
With sixty minutes worth of spoofing
done.
Yours is the couse, and three hours credit
with it,
And, what is more, you’ll make an A, my
son.
sters to secure higher education. ^ a o •
To do this, however, colleges and univer- 1. 6X3S StcltlOfl
prepare, not only in acquiring
sities must
the best professional help for their academ
ics, but preparing a suitable student life pro
gram which will enable the youth of the
nation to develop into better citizens.
President M. T. Harrington expressed it
effectively in his inaugural address three
years ago. He said:
“From the beginning of time, the one un
pardonable sin in nature has been to stand
still. When a nation or an institution or an
organization, or an individual becomes too
complacent, the end is not far off; in fact,
the seeds of decay are already active.
“When an organization takes more pride
in its past when what it is doing today, you
may write ‘Finis’ across its history.
“Let us go forward, then, bearing in mind
that no matter what success may crown our
efforts we must never be satisfied. The
things that are attained as yet are the things
most worth attaining. There is only one
royal road to success. It is the road ahead.”
Th e Battalion
Lawrence Sullivan Ross, Founder of Aggie Traditions
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Today's Issue
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Gets $3,500 in Aid
Two major grants have been
received by the Texas Agricultural
Experiment Station.
A grant of $3,000 has been made
available to it by the veterinary
research department of Merck and
Co., Rahway, N. J.
It will be used in support of
studies of the development of chick
growth promoting cultures of bac
teria isolated from chickens feces.
These studies are being conduct
ed by Dr. J. R. Couch of the de
partment of biochemistry, nutri
tion and poultry husbandry.
A $500 grant-in-aid has been
made available by the Colloidal
Products Corp., San Francisco,
Calif. It will be used in support
of research in cotton defoliation.
These studies are being conduct
ed by Dr. Wayne C. Hall of the
depai-tment of plant physiology and
pathology.
The people to thank for such
record is, of course each individual
who took one hour of his time to
give one pint of his blood. Surely
the men in Korea and their folks
are truly greatful to each of you.
And also deserving thanks are
two men who had the tremendous
job of collecting all the names of
prospective donors, scheduling
them, and seeing that they were
notified—Mr. Harry Boyer and Mr.
Allan Madeley. Without these men
our goal could never have been
obtained.
Working with them were their
office staff who ha<j the job of
finding where each donor lived so
that he could be notified. They also
had to type.many notices and an-
nouncefhents.
This comprises our team who
made it a great year with the ex
ception of one group—the first
sergeants and housemasters who
collected the names from the stai't.
To all of these people go my
sincere thanks and best wishes for
a bigger and better drive next
year.
Lee J. Phillips Jr.
Blood-donor Drive Chairman
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