Battalion Editorials
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THE BATTALION THURSDAY DECEMBER 3, 1954
Leaders Must Help Students
To Accomplish Grade Plan
A&M scholastic officers and sergeants
placed a high goal on a tottering pedestal
Monday night.
They started a program designed to im
prove the grades of cadet upperclassmen.
The plan mainly affects students doing un
satisfactory scholastic work.
The program calls for scholastic officers
and sergeants to keep reports on the academ
ic standing of cadets, and requires upper
classmen on scholastic probation to sign an
oath forcing them to fullfil certain study
obligations.
A high academic rating of a student
body is a great asset to any institution. But
certain factors must not be overlooked in
carrying out the plan.
A college education serves several pur
poses—it developes character and personal
ity and teaches a student to think for and
discipline himself. The grades a student
makes are determined by the degree of which
he possesses these qualities.
A student cannot be forced to study nor
can any of these qualities be shoved, into
him. He can only be guided so that he might
absorb them himself. He must determine
what he wants from'college and then develop
the initiative and ability needed.
After graduation, a student must guide
himself. No one will be around to force him
to do anything. It will be entirely up to him.
The grade improvement program offers
an opportunity to guide a man to success. But
at the same time might cause a man to be
resentful of such a plan and make him build
up an inward resistance to its very aims^
The goal is tottering. The students can
go either way. They will be resentful of the
force or they will learn to develop habits of
discipline.
The way they go depends on the attitude
of the men who will carry but the program,
the scholastic officers and sergeants.
These leaders must remember they are
trying to help the students on probation.
They are not punishing the men for failure to
meet grade requirements. If this principle is
adhered to, then the tottering pedestal will
develop a firm foundation.
Enrollment Figures
Rumors of Freshman
Quash
Decrease
Figures recently presented at the annual
meeting of the Land Grant College associa
tion show that A&M is leading 16 out of the
22 land grant colleges in freshmen enroll
ment for 1953.
Freshmen enrollment this year at A&M
totaled 1,758. A&M can take pride in this
fact especially when the freshmen total is
211 more than it was in the fall of 1952.
Six colleges led A&M in the number of
freshmen entering school this year. Yet
three of these suffered a drop in freshmen
enrollment under what it was in 1952 while
A&M’s increased.
These statistics quash occasional state
ments which would have one believe that less
high school graduates each year enroll at
A&M.
We hope that the number of freshmen
will continue to rise until A&M has made up
for its total enrollment drop and leads the
freshmen enrollment of the 22 land grant
colleges.
WhaVs Cooking
Thursday
7 p. m.—Houston hometown club
meeting, room 301, Goodwin hall.
Very important meeting.
Texarkana - Four State club
meeting, room 224, Academic
building.
7:15 p. m.—Waco - McLennan
county hometown club meeting,
room 306, Goodwin hall. To dis
cuss Christmas party.
Kansas-Missouri club meeting,
room 107, Biological Sciences build
ing. Discuss Christmas party and
election of officers.
Panhandle club meeting. Aca
demic building.
San Angelo A&M club meeting,
Ag. building. Bring pictures for
duchess election.
Pan - American club meeting,
room 3C, MSG. The A&M Latin-
American committee will be pre
sent.
Fayette - Colorado A&M club
meeting, room 2C, MSG. Christ
mas party plans.
7:30 p. m.—Knights of Colum
bus, basement of St. Mary’s chapel.
Rusk county hometown club
meeting, room 307, Goodwin hall.
Whispering pines club meeting,
room 228, Academic building.
Laredo A&M club meeting, room
125, Academic building. Plans for
dance. Very important, reserva
tions for tables.
El Paso hometown club meeting,
3rd floor, Academic building* Dis
cuss Christmas party.
Marshall meeting, YMCA. Dis
cuss Christmas party plans.
Tyler - Smith coufity hometown
club meeting, room 104, Academic
building. Plan Christmas party.
Austin hometown club meeting,
chapel, YMCA. Plan Christmas
party.
West hometown club meeting, YM
CA. Plan Christmas party.
Shreveport club meeting, room
106, Academic building. Discuss
plans for Christmas party.
Amarillo A&M club meeting, so
cial room, MSC. Final plans for
Christmas dance.
Flax county club meeting,
Academic building.
Palestine hometown club meet
ing, 3rd floor, Academic building.
Discuss Christmas party.
East Texas hometown club, 227
Academic building. Special. Smoker
and plans for Christmas party.
Job Calls
# Dec. 4—Oil Well supply will
interview mechanical engineering
and business administration majors
graduating in January. Mechanical
engineers will be interviewed for
either sales engineering or design
work, and business administration
graduates will be interviewed for
audit work and also sales and
management.
® Dec. 4—National Advisory Com
mittee for Aeronautics will inter
view 1954 graduates at all degree
levels in aeronautical, civil, electri
cal, mechanical and chemical engi
neering, chemistry, mathematics,
and physics. Work will be in basic
and fundamental research in var
ious phases of aeronautics where
their training and specialities may
be applied.
# Dec. 4 — Civil and mechanical
engineering majors at all degree
levels graduating in January will
be intervied by Chicago Bridge and
Iron company. Training would be
in field construction, shop fabri
cation, and engineering drafting,
and there will be quite a bit of
traveling involved during this
period. They will consider men
with ROTC contracts.
Save Your Money!
Save Your Clothes!
CAMPUS
CLEANERS
The Battalion
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Editors:
We are very fortunate here in
this land of ours for everytime we
are ready to cast judgement of dis
approval on a group of people a
few rise to show the best side of
the human race. Bill Wiseman and
Ed Waples should be commended
for their un-biased minds. If this
mature thinking and reasoning is
i\ result of their four years here
then neither educator’s time nor
the tax-payer’s money has been
spent in vain. These are the ex
amples of tomorrow’s praise
worthy citizens.
Barney Smith
Editors, The Battalion:
Ole Army:
The Texas A&M club of Ark
ansas appreciates the fine turn
out of Cadets that came to Little
Rock on October 31 to see the A&M
-Arkansas football game.
We are proud of you and wish
particularly to commend those
Cadets present at the game for
the fine spirit they showed after
the regrettable incident involving
moving from one section of the
stadium to the other.
Such spirit, we feel, can be
found only among the student body
of Texas A&M, and it gives us
renewed pride in our school. We,
of course, deeply regret the in
cident and are sorry that it oc
curred.
We understand that Chancellor
Harrington has already received
letters from the Governor of Ark
ansas, the President of the Univer
sity of Arkansas, and the stadium
management expressing their re
grets for the incident.
Also, the mayor of Little Rock
addressed a letter to you under the
date of November 12.
In this connection we feel that
only a small percent of the people
of Little Rock were responsible for
the incident and that there should
be no ill will toward the University
of Arkansas, its student body, or
its football team.
They were in no way responsible.
We are also grateful for Dr. Har
rington and Dean Abbott. They did
a splendid job in easing the trouble
and preventing a much greater dis
turbance.
In order that the people of Lit
tle Rock may more fully appreciate
and understand our side of the
story we are making available to
the editors of the local newspapers
the write-up in the Battalion of
Tuesday, November 3.
Again let me assure you that the
majority of the people of Little
Rock feel badly about, this incident
as evidenced by an editorial which
appeared in the Arkansas Gazette,
November 3, and which follows:
“It was extremely unfortunate
that formal rounding out of the
cycle of War Memorial Stadium
appearances by Arkansas’ six
Southwest Conference opponents
should have been married by in
cidents involving seating of the
Texas A&M student cheering sec
tion.
“The fact that Saturday’s game
was A&M’s first stadium ap
pearance offered some excuse for
the Arkansas hosts, but not
enough.
“The Aggies’ ancient ‘Twelfth
Man’ tradition well-known in Con
ference circles, and the stadum
management should have made ad
vance arrangements to place the
standing Cadets where they would
not obstruct the view of other pat
rons.
“A student spokesman for the
Aggies said after the game, ‘I hope
we never come back to Little
Rock.’ For our part, we hope that
he and the other Aggies will re
consider on cooled second thought.
We think we can assure them that
it won’t happen again.”
We are glad that you came to
Little Rock, we deeply regret the
misunderstanding, we hope that
you will forgive and forget and
that you will come back again. The
welcome mat is out.
Yours very truly,
Texas A&M Club of Arkansas
Charles A. Long, ’32 President
Editors, The Battalion
To John Clark:
I cannot address this to an Ag
gie Because you could never fall
in that category. There are a few
names I could address you by but
the editors wouldn’t print them.
With reference to your literary
masterpiece in Wed’s Batt. We are
extremely fortunate in having very
few men of your kind on the cam
pus of A&M. Although I’ve never
met you, your type is very easily
spotted on the campus. You be
long to the gi’oup that think it
above their dignity to speak when
passing people on the campus, you
belong - to those few who talk about
the shortcomings of A&M but
make no attempt to alter and im
prove them. You belong to the
group that feels like it is some type
of belittlement to meet the fellow
sitting next to you in class, or
standing by you in a coffee line, or
riding with you in a car. This de
scription may not fit you on every
count but it describes the group to
which you belong. You and those
who feel as you do are truly a
sorry lot.
As for you and your future alma
(See LETTERS, Page 4)
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