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THE BATTALION Friday, October 9, 1953 Page 2 Mrs. Morgan Is Hostess For Newcomers Club Tea Mrs. David H. Morgan was hostess for a tea for the New comers club Wednesday afternoon at her home at 410 Throckmorton. Tn the receiving line were Mrs. Morgan, Mrs. M. T. Harrington, Mrs. Frank Anderson, sponsor of the Newcomers club from the CHS Students Elect Officers Yesterday Officers of the A&M Consoli dated high school were elected yesterday by the student council. Those elected were Melvin Free, vice president; Pat Owen, secre tary; Rita Hughes, treasurer; and Barbara Mullen, reporter. The president, elected last spring, is Fred Anderson. All the members of this year’s student council are new members. Each homeroom elects one boy and one girl representative. There are 16 members this year and meet ings are held once each week. College Women’s Social club, and Mrs. K. L. Dixon, president of the Newcomers club. Alternating at the punch bowls were Mesdames Gibb Gilchrist, Judd Collier, Joe Davis, and T. W. Leland. The table was covei’ed with a hand croched heirloom cloth. Punch was served from two identical crystal bowls at each end of the table. Trays of cookies were placed around the table. The centerpiece' was a crystal epergne filled with yellow chry santhemums. Decorations included bouquets of fall flowers. About 100 guests at tended. Cast aluminum utensils are made by melting the metal and pouring it into a mold. Stamped aluminum pots and pans are stamped out of a sheet of cold metal. The cast utensils will last a lifetime if they are given proper care. What s Cooking FRIDAY 7:30 p. m. — Baptist Student Union meeting. Baptist Student Center. Program: Christian life panel on the subject, “Christ My Strength for Campus Witnessing.” Navy-Marine Corps club, room 2A, MSC. MONDAY 7:30 p. m.—9807 VART sqdu. meeting, 3600 College road. Tau Beta Pi meeting, C. E. Lecture Room. TUESDAY 7:30 p. m.—Fish and Game club meeting, third floor Ag. Eng. AGGIES It's Here At Last! First Class Transportation At Low Rates ist; FANDANCE Sensitive Acting Makes Tough Yarn Outstanding By JERRY BENNETT Battalion Co-Editor ‘From Here to Eternity’-—star ring Burt Lancaster, Mont gomery Cliff, Frank Sinatra, Deborah Kerr and Donna Reed —-Columbia—Campus theater. UFTom Here to Eternity” screens page of profanity to 0 f fhg m0 st sensitive acting truly outstanding story. \ of the year in one of the toughest Players are Cast stories ever written. Directed by Fred (“High Noon”) Based on James Jones’ best sel- Zinnemann, the players are cast in ler about love and brutality in the roles that seem created especially U. S. army, the movie doesn’t for their stage personalities, need the novel’s abundant curses Montgomery Clift is excellent as and vulgarity to become a power- Prewitt, the bugler whose music ful show. could make men cry but who Its sti'ength lies in the acting wouldn’t stop at killing to avenge and a fine plot that the book al- a friend, most concealed by its abundant Burt Lancaster tops his role in use of four-letter words. Screen “Come Back Little Sheba” as tough writer Daniel Taradish has pieced Sgt. Warden a man loved, but together the plot from page after feared, by all who knew him. reveal a Frank Sinatra’s performance as Maggio, the happy-go-lucky soldier At Other Colleges Student Files Council iunction The student council at SMU has filed an injunction against the school paper, The SMU Campus. The purpose of the in junction is to keep the paper from reporting “off-the-record remarks from open meetings of the council. Council members say they have the “discretionary power to separate the extraneous, irrelevant gossip from the official decisions; and therefore we take this action to insure that the worthless gossip will be excluded from the stu dent paper and only the official, per tinent matters will be printed.” Bravo for the SMU student coun cil! They have plunged forward (or is it backward) to reach a new height in brazen stupidity. Those students at SMU who are supposed to be the leaders of the cam pus are making a move to place free dom on the same basis it was in 1700. Every once in a while some dicta tor makes an attempt to supress the news so vital to a democratic nation. So far the press of America has been able to suppress these people. The SMU Campus is fighting for the free dom battle now. Let’s hope it wins. Holder A student from Germany attended the University of Tex as for a year. He left and wrote a letter to the Daily Texan in which he gave a few of his ideas concerning the American methods of education. He said he liked his stay at the university but he also named a few things he didn’t like. He said. “I missed a great deal of the academic freedom that has become a sine quo non at German universities; I felt that the average student is—as far as his academic capability is con cerned—somewhat below the standard of his European col league ; and finally, I could not ignore the face that the whole system of supervision and assignments tends to stifle the spirit of independent inquiry, at least on the lower levels of the undergraduate school. “And there are other detrimental effects of the mass edu cation which will not fail to come to surface under a system which is in danger of evaluating a college education in terms of course credits.” whose last party led to his torture in an army prison, makes his fame as a crooner seem like years of wasted time. Deborah Kerr and Donna Reed both give the best performance of ^their Hollywood careers. Filmed on Location Filmed on location in Hawaii, the film moves through scenes of outstanding realism. The boredom of khaki clad routine; the honky tonk night life of pre-war Honolulu; a knife fight in a darkened alley; the December 7th strafing of Schofield Barracks and a love scene on a breaker swept beach are top examples of cinema art. The movie’s quiet but forceful dialogue spoken against a mini mum of background music conveys an atmosphere of impending disas ter which finally explodes in a violent ending. “From Here to Eternity” is one of the rare movies today that can be called great. It should be re membered for as long as its title suggests. ★ ★ ★ Hundreds of fish do an under water dance to the Blue Danube in “Under the Red Sea” now showing at Guion hall. The movie is a documentary of undersea life filmed by explorer Hans Hass. Fish React One of the show’s unusual scenes is an experiment to see if fish react to sound. Hass places an underwater loud speaker on the oceqn’s floor and broadcasts sounds ranging- from a woman’s screams to bebop. The fish never change their regular actions. But when Hass plays The Blue Danube the fish respond mediately. They start swimming around the loud speaker in time to the music The Battalion Lawrence Sullivan Ross, Founder of Aggie Traditions “Soldier, Statesman, Knightly Gentleman” The Battalion, official newspaper of the Agricultural and Mechan ical College of Texas, is published by students four times a week, during the regular school year. During the summer terms, and examination and vacation periods, The Battalion is published twice a week. Days of publications are Tuesday through Friday for the regular school year, and Tuesday and Thursday during examination and vacation periods and the summer terms. Subscription rates $6.00 per year or $.50 per month. Advertising rates furnished on request. Entered as second-class matter at Post Office at College ' Station, Texas under the Act of Con gress of March 3, 1870. Member of The Associated Press Represented nationally by National Advertising Services, Inc., at New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles, and San Fran cisco. 22nd ANNUAL PRISON SPECIALTY ACTS JERRY BENNETT, ED HOLDER. .Co-Editors Chuck Neighbors Managing Editor Hand Baker Campus Editor Bob Boriskie Sports Editor FEATURE XJ ATTRACTIONS RESERVED^<1 'Aft TAX SEATS fNC. Send Check Oh. MbtiEY OtIdep. To Prison rodeo Ticket- office OCTOBER 4-11-18-25 ■. PRISON STADIVM HUNTSVILLE, TEXAS LEGAL HOLIDAY Monday, October 12, 1953, being a Legal Holiday, in observance of Columbus Day, the undersigned will ob serve that date as a Legal Holiday and not be open for business. First National Bank City National Bank First State Bank & Trust Co. College Station State Bank Bryan Building & Loan Ass’n. 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