Battalion Editorials
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THE BATTALION
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1953
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Gold Bar Guessing Game
Gives Cadets Good Gamble
The air force seems to have changed its
mind again concerning student qualifications
for an officer’s commission.
Now the service has announced that a few
seniors who are not eligible for flying or not
enrolled in a technical course of study, will
be commissioned upon graduation.
Before this policy change, these students
were out of the gold bar line-up until they
had served two years as an enlisted man.
But air force seniors should remember
that only a small number of cadets through
out the nation will get these commissions.
And eligibility will be put on a competitive
basis.
It might be wise then, for these men not
to ease up in air science studies.
The air force commission situation has
become a guessing game with no one seeming
to know the right answer.
Continued effort in AFROTC courses
might be a good gamble.
Ball Game Could Be Highway Death Trap
Seven Aggies who left school to see a
football game already have been added to the
Highway department’s auto smashup statis
tics.
Six were involved in a crash with another
car near Waco. Three of them are still in
a hospital waiting for their broken bodies to
mend.
Another student’s car overturned on
highway 6 between Hearne and Bryan. It
is reported he fell asleep at the wheel.
Luckily no one was killed in the accidents.
But another out-of-town football game is
set for this weekend. Once again the high
ways will be crowded with Aggies going to
and from the game.
Unless these students obey all highway
safety rules, they may be added to the ever
mounting list of auto tragedies.
No Aggie has died on the highway this
school year.
Not yet.
Readers Concerned About
Enrollment, Facts, Spirit
TRES BIEN—Gaby Andre, one of France’s most glamorous young actresses, will make
her American screen debut in “The Two Million Dollar Bank Robbery”. Until then she
doesn’t have anything to do but pose for pictures like this.
Job Interviews
• The Pan Am Refining- corpora- t maintenance division since the
tion of Texas City is in need of a widely varied scope of its work of-
rhechanical engineer with little or j fers the best opportunity to become
no experience. New engineers us- acquainted with the physical as-
ually start in the Construction and | pects and organization of the plant.
The Battalion
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He would be assigned a coach who
guides him through the orientation
and training period.
• Mechanical engineering majors
may qualify for the teaching vac
ancy in the mechanical engineering
department of Mississippi State
college. This position would be as
instructor or assistant professor
and the person employed would
have to teach mechanics, ther
modynamics and possibly one
course such as air conditioning.
After becoming acclimated, it
would be possible to work towards
an advanced degree.
• Continental Can Co. has an open
ing for an inexperienced college
graduate or veteran to serve as
staff assistant (clerical cost con
trol). Potential supervisory ability
is important, but applicant must
have an analytical mind and tem
perament. There is a training
period consisting of reviewing and
solving typical case problems and
on - the - job training under the
close supervision of an office an
alyst. Job location during train
ing and ultimate assignment will
be in New York or Chicago. This
position will involve travel both
during and after training.
The “Spanish Main” originally
referred to to the Spanish colonies
on the mainland of South America,
but the tei'm was extended to in
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the Americas which were und£r
Spanish control.
Editors, The Battalion
There are many things that go
into the making of a great institu
tion besides the size of that institu
tion.
A&M built its fine reputation in
both academic standards and mili
tary leaders with a much smaller
enrollment than it enjoys today.
Certainly it is fine for any orgini-
zation to grow, but this growth
doesn’t have to be in size to become
recognized.
You know some firms and some
people have grown too fast and
suddenly found themselves flat on
their face, wondering how they got
there.
Bigness calls for precise control
and even at its best, management
is faced with problems that disturb
smooth operation.
When you get big, you loose that
close personal feeling toward each
other. Everyone becomes distant
and little groups form that pull
against each other. We don’t need
this at Aggieland, instead we need
more unity.
I ask you. Hadn’t you rather
have 6,000 students that are real
men, with backbone and stability,
that can be trusted and depended
upon than to have 14,000 students
here with half of them falling in
the two percenter class ?
Will Better Itself
In my opinion, A&M will better
itself by continuing to uphold high
scholastic standards, closer feel
ing and spirit between the students
and the continued urge by every
Aggie to promote good will for
the school.
By doing these things, the school
can continue to turn out graduates
who will leave here as men and
carrying with them the knowledge
to cope with future tasks and a
love for Aggieland that will stay
with them until their dying day.
As for that 41 per cent that
didn’t come back; can it compare in
any way to the 59 per cent that did
return ?
Be it academic standards, mental
Bryan Aviators
To Hear Reeves
E. J. Reeves of Dallas, president
of the National . Soaring society,
will speak to the Brazos Aviation
association at 7:30 p. m. Thursday
at the Veterans Air Reserve Train
ing unit headquarters.
He will speak on the 50th anni
versary of powered flight.
Plans will be made at the meet
ing for greeting the Texas Air
tour, which will land at Coulter
field in Bryan Saturday.
The tour is visiting towns all
over the state.
The public is invited to the
meeting, said W. L. Wilson, presi
dent.
Wentworth to Speak
On Dairy Training
W. A. Wentworth, public rela
tions man with the Borden com
pany, will talk Wednesday with
members of the dairy husbandry
department concerning dairy per
sonnel training.
The Borden company gives an
annual $300 scholarship to the out
standing senior in dairy husbandry.
The United States spends about
$150 million a year on aid to the
blind but only about $114 million
of private and public funds on re
search on eye diseases according
to estimates of the National So
ciety for the Prevention of Blind
ness.
hazing, the thoughts of moving
over in that big and mean upper
classmen area—what they imagin
ed—or the lack of what it takes
inside a man to be an Aggie;
whatever it was that took the toll
from the roll, it served its purpose
well.
Find Yourself in Combat
Wouldn’t it be wonderful to find
yourself in combat with that
bunch and just as soon as things
got hot as h— and you really need
ed them, you suddenly find out
that 41 of your 100 men got lost or
went to the rear to get rations or
such.
You might wish that you had
weeded these 41 out back in the
training period. Of course you are
going to know why these men sud
denly disappeared when going got
rough, but just for the record, you
write them a letter and ask them.
Do you honestly think there will
be any answers coming back that
will contain the truth ?
No one likes to admit that they
couldn’t take it. You will get such
a flood of rationalization that you
will feel sure they all wrote the
210 English book.
Lets all congratulate the 59 per
cent that came back and let that
41 per cent drown in their tea.
Get Cream of Crop
Surely if the freshmen enroll
ment can be kept up or boosted
and we get the cream of the crop
back here for their sophomore
year, this school will feel no pain
in the future from actions of its
students and graduates.
If there are 59 genuine Aggies
found out of evei’y 100 boys that
come here as freshmen, this school
will not only remain as the “best
by test,” but will continue to pro
gress in the steady and magnificent
way that it has in the past 77
years.
For my money, I had much
rather have a degree from A&M
in campusology than a Doctor’s de
gree from some schools I know.
In fact, if I couldn’t attend
school here, I wouldn’t be going to
college period. You may call this
attitude what you wish, but I am
sincere in saying this.
Is Some Argument
Of course there is some argu
ment that A&M is in a rut and is
making no progress and that it is
not up to par in teaching methods
and academic standards,—Most of
this has come from northern im
migrants to this school who seem
to be looking for some gravy train
in Texas—and are just riot keep
ing pace.
That old saying about keeping
up with the “Jones” could apply
here. This over extended effort to
make a show can ruin people and
organizations such as this are not
emmune.
Improvements; yes there is al
ways room for more. We could pro
bably acquire more knowledge by
having smaller classes in many in
stances, better class rooms for
sure— oh those shacks are little
dandies — and the use of more
visual aids in all teaching.
See First Hand
It seems that what you see first
hand stays with you longer than
what you acquire through lectures
or reading.
Certainly, there is need for much
more effort on the students’ part—
me for sure—in order to receive
what’s being offered.
There is need for much more
stimulated interest among the stu
dents in the class work and less
complaining about the teachers.—
1 am the world’s worst.
Then there seems to be some
Editors, The Battalion:
About your issue Thursday, Oct.
1, 1953—Foreign Students Enroll
ment Rises—we wish to call your
attention that the Phillipines is
also represented among the stu
dent body of A&M.
We have in this college two
Filipino special students under the
Point 4 program of the Foreign
Operation Administration of the
far East branch, PTAD, Washing
ton DC, enrolled in the industrial
education department.
(Also) One Phillippine govern
ment scholar, specializing in me
chanical farming; one under the
Point 4 program also taking
specialized courses in agriculture,
one Fil-American specializing in
army engineering, one taking grad
uate course in agriculture, one in
chemical engineering and one tak
ing pre-medics.
The Phillipines may be well re
membered by the American people
in connection with the last World
War between the United States and
Japan in the Pacific Theater or
Carlos P. Romulo, the Filipino per
manent delegate to the United Na
tions who during the lust term was
the president of that body.
Pedro C. Pangilinan
Filipino Student in A&M College
teachers with too much “take it
or leave it attitude” in their
oratory. Some teachers here leave
the impression that it is a privilege
to be present in their classes and
little do they realize that if it were
not for the students, there would
be little need for them around here.
Oddly enough, the teachers that
I consider to have been the best
that I have had, I made my lowest
grades under. There is plenty of
room for improvement in both the
teacher and student attitude.
Thought of Dicipline?
As for a different reason for
the 41 percent failing to return,
have you thought of discipline?
It is hard to change the course
of a river after it has run in one
direction for sixteen years. Many
of these boys ran into discipline for
the first time right here at A&M.
How can the college officials ex
pect them to “obey and like it”
when they have never had to do it
at home.
It would be interesting to know
something of their family back
ground. And of course there are al
ways some of those “Mama’s boys”
that daddy wanted to send down
here to make a man and Mother
told him to “come on home if they
are not good to you.”
Those kind simply give me the
“itch.”—Mothers that is.
Lets just keep improving what
wc have and not worry jibout that
41 per cent long, for Aggieland
will be here when they are. dead
and gone.
Hal I. Hart, ’54
Editors, The Battalion:
I’ve heal'd so much about th(
“Spirit” that Aggies have. If this
ti-ue why don’t we have con 1
fidence in our team ?
If the football players knew they
really had the school behind them,
they might have a little more self-
confidence in themselves. A little
more self-confidence in a man us
ually means he will be a little bit
surer in his actions.
If our team were more sure per
haps there would be less fumbles
and more completed passes.
Too many times I have heard
Aggies say, “If only we had a team
we might stand a chance at the
conference.”
Why don’t they say instead,
“We’ve got good men on the team
and we stand a pretty good chance
at the conference.”
Mrs. Philip Stern
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