Page 2 THE BATTALION ^ ' Tuesday, July 13, 1954 ^
The Battalion
Lawrence Sullivan Ross, Founder of Aggie Traditions
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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.
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