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THE BATTALION Tuesday, November 24, 1953
UT, Aggie Friendship
EDITORS NOTE:
This article should not be read and then forgotten. It
has deep and intelligent meaning especially now when re
lations are so tense between two American campuses. Holl
and Winder ’52 submitted the article to The Battalion. It
appeared in the Houston Post during World War II.
Letters
To the
Editors
Heart-warming was the letter written from Germany
Jan. 4 to the Austin American-Statesman sports editor by
Pfc. Barrett H. Wyont of Austin.
“I have a little story to tell you about the Texas Aggies
and the Texas Longhorns.
“I attended U.T. for three years prior to my enlistment
in the army and during that time I was very closely connect
ed with the Longhorn football team. This naturally made me
as bitter an enemy of the ‘Farmers’ as they had. Then I re
ported for basic training at Camp Maxey.
“The inevitable happened. Half of the company were
Texas Aggies and the other half were from Texas. Of course
we were bitter at first and fought to beat the others—so
much that the company turned out to be the best one in
camp. V
“During our infantry training we became closer together
and that carried on to six months of training in the A.S.T.P.
at Ohio State university. As soon as this group of Texans
got away from Texas, the bond became tighter than ever
and it was no longer ‘Farmers’ and ‘Teasippers’ but just Tex
ans.
“From our training there we were shipped to an infantry
division training camp at Samp Swift and very shortly to
combat in Germany.
“Even if we couldn’t see or hear the annual Aggie-Long
horn game, we did the best we could and wagered a few small
bets. I won’t be able to collect some of those bets now, be
cause some of MY BUDDIES are no longer with us.
‘Yes, they were my buddies and they were Aggies. I
may be condemned for that by some staunch Texas support
ers, but when and if I get back to U.T. every Thanksgiving
game I attend I will face west and salute some of the best
friends I ever had. ‘Gig ’Em Aggies.’
Editors, The Battalion:
Open Letter to John Clark
Are you really biting’ your fing
ernails in despair that your “Dear
Darling Aggies” may not have
read your charming letter publish
ed Wednesday? By your letter you
seem rather agitated that certain
men of strong character bemoan
the passing of the various tradi
tions that carved out widespread
fame for Aggieland from a wild
erness of mediocre southern col
leges. Enough has been said about
these victims of the attempts by
college officials to increase enroll-
men to justify larger appropi’ia-
tions by the Texas State Legisla
ture.
These disappearing traditions
were instated in a period of rugged
individualism now all but past
from the American scene. They
served their purpose, but with the
advent of equalization thru sociali
zation they cannot be allowed to
remain because individual charac-
terand stamna must be standard
ized to insure no one person’s get
ting different treatment from all
others.
I fear that if you continue your
education in this college for which
you have few kind thoughts, you
will permanently injure your ability
to think rationally. It might really
be a good idea for the True Aggies
to take uj) a collection for a rail
road ticket to O. U. so that your
fondest wishes could come true.
Thankfully no relation
Alber (Shorty) Clark ’54
“PFC. BARRET H. WYONT.”
' An Apology to Houston
The Battalion wishes to apologize to the citizens of
Houston for a sentence in one of its recent editorials.
In the editorial condemning the beating of three Aggies
by U of H students The Battalion stated, “It seems the re
sidents of Houston are trying to live up to their reputation
as the most criminal in the south”.
This was meant to pertain only to the lawless element
of the city. It was understandably read by many to encom
pass the whole population.
The Battalion feels that the numerous criticisms it has
received because of this generality are justified. Houston is
a great city. We do not blame the editorial’s Houston critics
for feeling indignant.
NEWS BRIEFS
SPEAKERS FOR the bonfire
will be P. L. (Pinky) Downs jr.,
Barlow (Bones) Irvin, Ray George
and the senors on the team. The
bonfire will be lighted at 8 p. ni.
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DEAN OF THE COLLEGE J. P.
Abbott will preside at the annual
Conference of Academic Deans of
the Southern States in Memphis,
Tenn., Dec. 1. The meeting is held
in conjunction with the meeting of
the Southern Association of Col
leges and Secondary Schools.
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MR. AND MRS. ROBERT Owens
sang at the Lions club luncheon
yesterday in the MSC. Both Owens
and his wife are graduates of Bay
lor university. He is music di
rector of the College Avenue Bap
tist church.
WhaVs Cooking
Tuesday
7:15 p. m.—ASME, IAS, and
SAE joint meeting, lecture room,
petroleum Eng. building. Speaker
and film from Bell Aircraft corpo
ration.
7:30 p. m.—Pre-Med Club meet
ing, room 107, Biology building.
Freshmen invited.
A&M Collegiate FFA Chapter,
lecture room, Biological Science
building. A talk by George Hurt,
state director of vocational agri
culture.
Collegiate 4 - H club meeting,
senate chamber, MSC. All former
member urged to attend..
West home town club meeting,
YMCA. Party plans to be dis
cussed.
The Battalion
Lawrence Sullivan Ross, Founder of Aggie Traditions
“Soldier, Statesman, Knightly Gentleman”
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Editors, The Battalion:
My Dear Mr. John Clark,
I would like to ask a few ques
tions.
If you consider A&M a dark age
institution, why in the HELL did
you come down here.
You mentioned that A&M is not
a civilized part of the world.* Then
how does A&M tux-n out more and
better officei\s than any other
school in the U. S. ?
You stated that “we children”
ai'e under the impression that a
man is not a man unless he can
take physical punishment.
I think I can safely say that if
someone can not abide with our
rules at A&M, he is not capable of
being called a man or an AGGIE.
As for our enrollment dropping,
some of it can be explained. The
boys graduating from high school
in 1952 had the smallest class en
rollment in several year's.
As for making fun at cookie-
pushers, well I guess a person with
your mentality does not x’ealize
that all colleges make fun at other
colleges in some way or other.
When you went to visit O.U. and
liked it so, why in the HELL didn’t
you stay up there where you could
see more of their truly great foot
ball team and band.
When you get to O.U. in 1955
you Won’t have to worry about an
AGGIE 'di'opping by and seeing
you.
By the way, if you like O.U. so
much, why don’t you go up there
now, for as far as we ai’e concerned
we don’t want you down here.
And, as far as the financial
px'oblem of going to OU is con
cerned, to anyone who really wants
an education, money is no pi’oblem.
A person who really wants an
education is willing to work his
way through, regardless of ex
pense.
Don Page, ’56
Milton Sharp, ’56
Jay W. Weinstein, ’56
John D. Cunningham, ’56
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Editors, The Battalion:
To Cookiepusher Clark:
In inference to your letter (?)
to the editox ; s, in Wednesday’s Batt,
we, the undersigned, would like to
comment on your feeble efforts to
deride the A&M Student body.
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matter at Post Office at
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Fii’st, Texas A&M is a militai’y
college (the lai’gest in the woi’ld)
where a certain amount of dis
cipline is necessary.
According to Webster, discipline
is “training which coiT’ects, molds,
sti’engthens or perfects.”
Hardships, on the other had, ai’e
“that which is hard to bear, such
as privation or injury.”
Our fii’st point Mi'. Clark, is
that men at A&M are not forced
to go through hardships, but are
made to accept the standards of
discipline that prevail here.
Second, as far as uncivilized
parts of the country are concerned,
A&M hasn’t done too badly in
turning out good officers for the
armed services, leaders in the busi
ness field, outstanding authorities
in agriculture, outstanding engi
neers and above all, men.
It is gratifying to know that
among the 6.500 “children” en
rolled in A&M there is one man
who is above physical punishment.
How did you manage to escape
the stone club In this “dark ages
institution”.
Save your sorrows for yourself,
Clark, because creatures like you
are responsible for our traditions
falling out along the way.
Speaking on the campus was not
an old tradition when it first be
gan.
So Oklahoma U. has a student,
body that likes to yell, so they have
a beautiful campus, so they have
rich backers, so they have a good
football team (1951 A&M 14 O.
U. 7), so what?
Since you have told us why you
are not at O. U., will you tell us
why you are at A&M ?
There are other state supported
schools in Texas where you would
probably be better suited, such as
TSCW or TU.
After you get to O. U. Law
School in ’55, please drop us a line
and let us know which sorority you
are pledging, that is if you can
withstand the physical hardships
of Hell Week!
Evidently you would rather be
a “Damned Sooner” than a good
Aggie; therefore, since Reveille’s
food fund got such good response
perhaps we can start a similar fund
and get you out of your misery and
out of this uncivilized area and
“dark ages institution”.
We commend you on one point in
your letter. You did not disgrace
your class further by indicating
which one it is.
Speaking of mentality, Clark,
were you Valedictorian of your
English 103 class ?
If your use of the English langu
age is indicative of your mentality,
the only way you will ever be ac
cepted by the bar is to prove to the
Liquor Control Board that you
have passed 21 years of age.
Richard L. Drive, ’53
Charles Cobb, ’53
Bubba Super, ’54
Bill Cobble, ’53
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Editors, The Battalion:
There has been much said re
cently about the way the freshmen
are being treated. Let’s face it. It’s
not entirely the freshmen’s fault—
neither is it entirely the fault of
the rest of the Corps. The Basic
Division hasn’t helped matters a
whole lot. It is hardly ever in
agreement with the Corps, the
military, or anybody else on any
problem. There will always be a
problem of some sort as long as
there is this disagreement among
these different parts of our school.
Every year the CORPS has had
less to say about how the CORPS
is to be run. This fact is very
evident, because if the Corps had
the strength it used to have, idiots
like John Clark would not be here
to fill the Batt with tripe like that
which appeared in Wednesday’s
edition. By the way, what class is
Mr. ( ?) Clark in ? Maybe he is
just as unproud of it as he is of
the rest of A&M.
To Buchanan, Boses, Leimbrook,
Heaton, Daniels, and Jones: It is
very evident that you Aggies (?)
are in the freshman area. All of us
in this area are naturally proud of
the freshmen. But, they are far
from perfect! As far as the class
of ’57 being better than the class
of ’56, just what do you mean? Are
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they better because they have more
privileges than we ever had ? Are
they better because SOME up
perclassmen want to . . . polish
their apples? Ask the freshmen/
The majority will tell you that
they would like to be like other
classes too (That is, if you don’t
use a Basic Division Poll as an
example). Just because some
“mean ole’ new area wetheads”
wrote some harsh (?) words about
the class of ’57 is not a reason for
the fish area upperclassmen (not
to mention any names) to go “ape”
trying to take up for them.
The sooner the Corps can run it
self again, the sooner we will have
a better A&M. And, as for “OLD
ARMY” Clark, all that can be said
is: THE NORTH GATE IS AL
WAYS OPEN!!
Larry Griffin ’56
Tommy Murray ’56
Don Smith ’56
Ted Chinnock ’56
Gerry Griffin
Jim Renick ’58
Gene Tongate ’56
Duddley Swofford ’56
Ken Snipes ’56
Bud Whitney ’56
Marion Williams ’56
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Editors, The Battalion:
To Deaiest John Clark, Aggie?
In your letter to the Batt you
refer to “people of your mentality,”
meaning that you placd your
self on a pedestal as having super
ior mental attributes over the rest
of the student body.
Why didn’t you write OU and tell
them of this) wonderful gift?
I am sure you could have
landed an all expense scholarship.
Since you didn’t do this and you
are still worried about cost, I know
a place you can go for absolutely
nothing.
J. W. “Moon” Mullen, ’54
Editors, The Battalion:
air. Clark,
If that part of the student body
which likes to be reffered to as
TEXAS AGGIES doesn’t pack you
away from this school, then Old
Army lias indeed gone to hell!
Dale Dowell, ’54
Heriberto A. Garcia, ’54
A. J. Jumper Jr., ’54
Ed Stern Jr., ’54 ,
John Hill, ’53
L. M. Fauber Jr., ’54
J. L. Dunkin, ’54
Ed Keeling, ’54
Pat Brown, ’54
Tom Ratcliffe, ’54
Nick Alexander, ’54
H. M. Far ha, ’54
Jimmie Tyree, ’54
Eugene Tipton, ’54
Gary Rosenberg, ’54
Leonard Kutac, ’55
Bob Mousa, ’54
R. L. Hooks, ’54
Lee Roy Hahnfeld, ’54
Lary Milrany, ’54
Harold Kupfer, ’54
Bill Dark, ’54
R. Warren Sexton, ’54
Fred Olds, ’54
Norman Hill. ’54
George Cook, ’54
John J. Top, ’54
Don Peterson, ’54
Bats Reside
In Library
Bats no longer have a home in
the Cushing Memorial library.
Bats have been entering the
building through a crack in the
north wall and roosting in the
stacks.
The crack has been patched and
Mike Krenitsky, assistant librarian,
hopes the bats will stay away now.
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