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THE BATTALION
Wednesday, October 13, 1954
At Other Schools
Students Enthused
Over Fair, Football
By JON KINSLOW
Battalion Managing Editor
Football, naturally, remained the center of attraction for
most Texas colleges, but the current State Fair of Texas in
Dallas led a close second. For those lucky few who play
their games in the Cotton Bowl during the Fair, there was a
chance to cram football and the Fair into one weekend.
University of Texas
lucky few was er-game story
One of the said
the Orange and White, but after
Saturday’s game with OU, they
may have wished the weekend had
never come. A story in the Daily
Texan says all roads lead to Dal
las. However, we don’t think all
roads do—just most of them, at
least during Fair season.
is headlined, “The
Spirit Was There — But So Were
Sooners.” The score of the game^—
14-7—indicated there weren’t too
many more Sooners — only about
seven.
One other item from Austin:
The lads over there are taking up
Bermuda shorts. It doesn’t look
as if there is much chance for the
fad to hit here unless the military
department tears up its regulation
book.
A pre-game rally last week
found most students with the opin
ion of “Poor Sooners,” and an aft- __
Rice Institute
During the next several years, new dormitories will be
gin to dot the Rice campus. Rice officials are planning some
modern buildings, at least according to the cost, which will
be $3,600 for each student housed.
The Rice Thresher, student newspaper, boasts of a foot
ball prediction average of .818 up to last Friday. One bug
in their predicting is A&M football games, but this is under
standable. -
Southern Methodist University
The Ponies in Dallas have also been caught in the Ber
muda shorts fad. They are even so popular that one student
remarked, ‘T seriously think that everyone on the campus
should wear them.” Another fad-follower has a wool pair
for winter wear. We grow cold on ideas like this.
That business of “Who sent the fake forms to new SMU
students” is almost as big a puzzle on the Hilltop as the foot
ball tossing incident in Houston Saturday is to us. One thing,
though, is certain in the SMU case: Someone did send the
forms.
Texas Christian University
The Skiff, TCU student newspa- out, but thinking about it is enough
per, and the Student Congress for us not to want to participate,
staged a mud battle recently, but here or anywhere else,
they used real mud and not words.
The affair was a tug of war, the
center being a 20-foot ditch one
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Letters to the Editors
Under a by-lined column in the
paper is a cheery proposal for cur
ing those who tend to break in
line at the school cafeteria. The
suggestion was, “Break a few
heads. Bloody bodies are impres-
foot deep in mud. The Skiff says
the melee will “end many years of
mud-slinging’* between the two
groups. We have received no re
ports of how the match turned sive.”
University of Arkansas
The Razorbacks took their first win on Texas soil since
1948 recently when they bowled over TCU 20-13. The boys
from Arkansas were pretty happy over it, too, and some
of their enthusiasm must have carried over to last week
end when they beat Baylor. A&M will ge their chance at
the Porkers in three weeks, but after meeting Texas this
week, we can hope the Hogs will be a little more tame..
Baylor University
One short note from Baylor: They get their day at
the Fair Oct. 5, and they got a bonafide holiday for it. How
ever, the “fair” they got to see was the Heart o’ Texas Fair
in Waco—which might be compared to UT’s imitation of our
bonfire.
T S C W
The Tessies don’t let a good of buildings for administration,
a
moon go to waste even if there
are no dates around. The school’s
class of 1957 celebrated the annual
Harvest Moon, complete with an
hour-long serenade and picnic. A
wonderful way to spend an eve
ning.
In other events concerning the
Denton Damsels, the TSCW Board
of Regents is considering a $900,-
000 project for the construction
classroom, library science and gym
nasium. A&M can probably advise
on gymnasium planning, but we’re
a mite short on classroom propo
sals. Also, the Daily Lasso says
the Tessie rifle team is starting
practice. The team is described
by the paper as being the one
“which shamed the Texas Aggie
rifle team in a match last spring.”
Just remember, you can’j; get a
man with a gun, the song goes.
North Texas
Some Italian cosmetologists, says the NTSC paper, have
devised a few “improvements” for the ladies compact. It
consists of what actually amounts to the girls wearing no
makeup at all since the new look is for pallid, death-like
colored faces with eyes painted to give them a sunken look.
Some girls we know won’t have to buy a thing to take up this
new fad.
And an article in the paper also expresses doubt that
Pete the Python ever did leave the Forest Park zoo recently.
This sounds like someone is trying to destroy Texas folklore
just like-the white man tried to destroy the Indian. We
don’t think either will succeed.
The Battalion
The Editorial Policy of The Battalion
Represents the Views of the Student Editors
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 $9.00 per year or $.75 pei
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
N ational Advertising
Services, Inc., at New
York City, Chicago, Los
Angeles, and San Fran
cisco.
BOB BORISKIE, HARRI BAKER Co-Editors
Jon Kin slow Managing Editor
Jerry Wizig Sports Editor
Ralph Cole, Don Shepard , ....News Editors
Nora Burge Woman’s Editor
Kerstin Ekfelt : : Assistant Woman’s Editor
Betsy Burchard A&M Consolidated Correspondent
Maurice Olian .A&M Consolidated Sports Correspondent
John Huber Advertising Manager
Larry Lightfoot Circulation Manager
Tom Syler, Russell Reed, Ken Livingston Circulation Staff
(Editor’s Note: The Battal
ion prints all letters received
that are signed and are not
libelous or obscene. We would
like to request that the length
of letters be kept to not more
than 250 words.)
Editors,
The Battalion:
WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO
THE TRADITIONS OF AGGIE-
LAND? We realize that the pres
ent technique is done in the best
interests of the school as far as
the authorities are concerned/ But
what we cannot understand is the
attitude that the freshmen have
taken toward the traditions of the
school and the upperclassmen.
What good is the ring or the boots
if it doesn’t call for any prestige?
Why should the freshmen be given
the privilege(?) of wearing boots
if they haven’t earned them as
those in the past have ?
Another thing we were wonder
ing is why • some freshmen flatly
refused to carry the players off
the field Saturday in Houston.
Since in the past ALL freshmen
participated in carrying them off,
we feel that it was slighting the
players, and why wouldn’t the play
ers feel the same way?
A school has to be proud of its
exes and how are we training boys
to be men that we can be proud
of in the future? We admit that
in the past, traditions have been a
little strong, but in correcting that
should we wipe them out all-to
gether ?
It’s our belief that the school is
tending to work toward QUANTI
TY instead of QUALITY. We ad
mit that this would increase the
money for the local establishments,
but how would it aid A&M, now,
or IjO years from now?
These are a FEW of our opin
ions and we would appreciate hear
ing tfie opinions of others.
Dick Warren ’55
Bill Ike Allred ’55
Bob Bell ’56
Frank Eichman ’56
Charlie Bond ’55
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Editors,
The Battalion:
I receive the student publications
of three of Texas’ largest colleges,
and in none but The Battalion have
I found the football coach quoted
in his more or less confidential
talks to the players.
Was it necessary that- a news
item go out from College Station
stating that the coach sent the
first team in early, or such re
marks as those where The Bat
talion quotes Coach Bryant making
WhaVs Cooking
THURSDAY
5:00—A m e r i c a n Institute of
Chemical Engineer’s function at
Bryan country club. Tickets, $1.25,
may be obtained from Fair Colvin
or N. F. Nielson at the Petroleum
Engineering building.
7:30—Tyler-Smith county home
town club, room 103, Academic
building.
7:30 — California Golden State
club, lounge Puryear hall, Califor
nians come.
Abilene club, 127 Academic, or
ganization and election of officers.
Rio Grande Valley hometown
club, room 3C MSC, election of of
ficers.
Grayson county hometown club,
room 2D MSC plan party.
to the team before their departure
for the Houston university game?
Why not quote the football sig
nals ?
The other student publications
do not quote their coach’s remarks
made while coaching.
A. F. Mitchell ’09
Dallas A&M Club
Elects Nicholson
Frank Nicholson was elected
president of the Dalas A&M club
recently at the first meeting of
the group.
Also elected was James Plumlee,
vice-president; Jennings Bunn, sec
retary; Jack Lonquist, treasurer.
Connie Eckard was appointed pub
licity chairman.
Sigma Xi Meeting
Chester M. Rowell, instructor in
the biology department, will lec
ture on “The Vegetation Zones of
Mexico,” at the first meeting of
Sigma Xi in the Biological Sci
ences lecture room tonight at 7:30
p.m.
Control of insects in recent years
has added a third to U.S. potato
production per acre.
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