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Page 2 THE BATTALION ^ ' Tuesday, July 13, 1954 ^ 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 term§, and examination and vacation periods. The Battalion is published twice a week. Days ol 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 $9.00 per year or $ .76 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 hy N ational Advertising Services, Inc., at New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles, and San Fran cisco. News contributions may be made by telephone (4-5444 or 4-7604) or at the editorial office room, 202 Goodwin Hall. Classified ads may be placed by telephone (4-5324) or at the Student Activities Office, Room 209 Goodwin Hall. t The Associated Press is entitled exclusively to the use for republi cation of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in the paper and local news of spontaneous origin published herein. Rights of republication of all other matter herein are also reserved. Harri Baker.. Editor, Advertising Manager Kerstin Ekfelt Society Editor Larry Lightfoot Circulation Manager Letters to the Editors July 1, 1954 Editor of the Battalion Dear Sir: The other day at a national con vention I heard a college president say that the most important person on a college staff is “the humane teacher.” The rest of us are ex pendable, he said, but not the great teacher. Unconsciously I thought of Thomas F. Mayo as an illus tration of the speaker’s point. The full force of that remark struck me when I heard of Dr. Mayo’s death after I got back home. Though Mayo was a learn ed man with an incisive mind, to me the source of his greatness as a teacher was his love of his sub ject and an absorbing interest in students as individuals. In a spirit of dedication to his work, he led his students to experience great books. Aggies went away from his class feeling that Sophocles or Shakespeai’e belonged not to some exclusive set but to them and that each author spoke their own lan guage about the fundamental mat ter of how to live. I don’t know how many students have told me that the turning point in their col lege lives was the reading and dis cussion of great books with Dr. Mayo. In a technical school like ours, where students are mainly interest ed in their special field, why did literature come alive for the first time for many Aggies in Dr. Mayo’s classes ? I think the rea son was that there they first be came intensely aware of themselves as individuals, and when Dr. Mayo took them through Dante’s “Infer no” which opened their eyes to the possibilities of human nature, they entered eagerly upon the quest of self-discovery. As their teacher knew, deep down inside young peo ple do not prefer to fit into a stereotyped pattern and look and act and think alike. So in sharing with them the great moments of literature, he waked them up to the best in themselves and enabled them to see that they will really succeed in life only by setting out to be as completely as possible the kind of people they potentially are. In Dr. Mayo’s classes, the world of ideas also became a reality to Aggies, and a surer moral sense and a social consciousness dawned in them. Thereafter they realized that college was more than merely a place “to sharpen their economic claws.” It was also a place for youth to cultivate the habits and attitudes which help them to be come mox - e understanding, more Dr. W. E. Street has been elect ed vice-chairman of the Drawing Division of the American Society for Engineering Education, 1954- 55. He is head of the engineering drawing department at A&M. This is the highest elective of fice in the division. He will auto matically become chairman of the Drawing Division in 1955. Dr. Street has served on var ious committees within the So- broad-minded and sympathetic, more intelligently concerned about social and ethical matters—in a word, better people. I know of no one here or else where who more fully, exemplified than Dr. Mayo the qualities of a humane teacher, or who stood out more strongly for the values which in our topsy-turvy world can no longer' be taken for granted. It is hard for me to imagine A&M Col lege without him. John Q. Hays AFROTC Summer Camp Nellis A. F. B. Las Vegas, Nevada To the Editor: T. F. Mayo taught more than correct grammar, writing, or an alysis of classical philosophy. He taught a way of life. . His was not an ethical doctrine answering all questions of what we should do. It was merely an in vitation to take active part in the struggle of opinions. To his would be disciples, who would pattern themselves after the master, he carefully explained that volitional differences cannot be settled by the appeal to a system of ethics con structed by some learned man; they can be overcome only through the clash of opinions, through the friction between the individual and versy and the compulsion of the his environment, through contro versy and the compulsion of the situation. He was a man of books; yet his knowledge was by no means de rived solely from bound edges of worded paper. He urged those who would study ethics to go not only to the philosopher, but into the malestrom of life where moral is sues are fought out. He enjoyed living in the community of a group where life is made vivid by com peting volitions, be it the group of a professional organization, a book club, or a group formed by common study n a classroom. His great personal kindness was exhibited in his gentlemanly toler ance of ideas contrary to his own. He taught that if error is correct ed whenever it is recognized as such, the path of error is the path to truth. His absence is felt here by those who knew him, as it is in many parts of the world by four genera tions of friends, students, and col leagues. There will be a tempor ary silence in room 317 Academic, but the pulsation of his teachings will reverbrate through the ages in the hearts and minds of the men of A&M College. To but know him was to be a better man. James R. Henderson ciety. He attended the annual meeting held recently at the Uni versity of Illinois. At the Chicago World’s Fair in 1939, one firm exhibited a huge typewriter, 1,728 times larger than normal weighing 14 tons. U. S. farm exports in January, 1954 were valued at 205 million dol- lahs, about 24 per cent below those of the previous January. Church Of Christ Bible School Is Now In Progress A large attendance of young peo ple is registered for the Church of Christ’s vacation bible school now in progress, according to Rev. James F. Fowler. Registration for the school was Sunday at 4 p.m. Classes are held daily from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. through Friday. For- the first time there will be classes for teen-aged girls and boys. Mrs. Grace Bernard and Rev. Fowler will teach these classes. They will emphasize prep aration for marriage. The Rev. Gene Green, pastor of the Bryan Church of Christ, will instruct the adult class. He will use the same course which was taught two years ago, but there will be several differences in the manner of presentation. Rev. Fowler urges that even those who attended two years ago plan to come again this year. Mrs. Damerall and Mi-s. Street will have charge of the nursery, which will include all children un der three years of age. Three-year-olds will be taught by Mrs. Sutphen and Mrs. Bevens; four-year-olds, by Mrs. Wade and Mrs. Mullinix; and five- and six- year-olds (pre-school), by Mrs. Hardaway and Mrs. Hockaday. “Citizens for Christ” will be the topic in each of these groups. “Why We Worship God” will be on the agenda for Grade 2 (chil dren who have finished the first grade). Mrs. Fails and Mrs. Ten- nery will instruct these children. Grade 3 (for those who have fin ished the second grade) will be in structed by Mrs. Moore and Mrs. Holt. The topic for this class will be the same as that of Grade 2. Children in grades 4 and 5, who have completed the third and fourth grades, will study “Men Who Worshipped God.” Their in structors will be Mrs. Fowler, Mrs. Sherrod, and Mrs. Sorenson. Mrs. Potts will instruct grades 6 and 7 on the subject “Worship ing in God’s House.” Transportation for those children who need it will be fm-nished by the Transportation committee, un der the direction of Mrs. A. S. Avery. Mrs. Tennery, Mrs. Sher rod, Mrs. Clemmons, and Mrs. Bachus will aid Mrs. Avery. Mrs. Carl Lancflss is chairman of the committee on refreshments. She asks that all who can furnish cookies or help serve the refresh ments each morning call her at 4-9222. Mary Routh Back From .California Miss Mary Routh, president of the Texas Home Economics Asso ciation, retui-ned Friday from Cal ifornia, where she represented the Texas group at the meeting of the American Home Economic Asso ciation in San Francisco July 5-9. Miss Routh is a clothing specialist for the Texas Agricultural Exten sion Service. Mrs. Agnes Marrs, Smith Coun ty home economics agent, took part in a panel on “Today’s Challenge to the Extension Worker” at the national meeting. Other Extension personnel at tending the professional home eco nomics association meeting were Miss Maurine Hearn, state home demonstration leader; Miss Mae Belle Smith, consumer education specialist; Mrs. Aubrey W. Rus sell, district agent; Miss Fannie Brown Eaton, district agent; Miss Beatrice Rubenstein, assistant home demonstration agent of Braz oria County. Save Your Money! j Save Your Clothes! I Welirmans Cafe HOME COOKED FOODS 1009 West 25th St. BRYAN IF. E. Street Renamed As Engineers Vice-Chairman ! > r inage i < '. Man;t} Marion part in tZL. c^. e Soil C ""^""'the colic work l han<ik Vri by the y-.esearch| | ice, with e thin kit revisin pi to mute etations irmati'ii. trepardsc E Agrh'iil state di ed sp' jmittees c , agroiM ring, i ' dlife. 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