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Page 2—Sec. I THE BATTALION
THURSDAY, JANUARY 27, 1955
That Time Of Year
This time of the year—examination week
—always underscores a situation that exists
all the time at A&M.
Ask any «tudent here what his grade
point ratio is, and he can tell you exactly,
correct to three decimal places.
But ask this same student what he is
learning here, and he is somewhat baffled
and at a loss for an answer.
He’s not sure what he’s learning; his
main idea is to “make a grade.”
There’s too much emphasis placed on
grades at A&M, and not enough on actual
learning and thinking.
Both the faculty and the students share
the blame for this. To ease the situation,
both groups will have to come half way.
The faculty will have to move their half
first; they will have to inspire in their stu
dents the desire to learn for the sake of
learning, instead of for the sake of a grade.
This is, after all, the time-hallowed principal
function of a teacher.
When the teachers do this, they will find
that their students for the most part really
want to learn, and are more than willing to
do their half.
Of course, there must be some method of
indicating how well a student is doing in his
school work. The parents expect it, the stu
dents should know, and the teacher should
dceep an eye on the progress.
But a grade should be just that—an indi
cation—rather than a goal to be attained for
its own sake.
“77#e Hospital Problem 9
In any student discussion of the college
hospital, there will be many stories of mal
functions on the part of the hospital and its
staff. Some of these- are well-founded;
many are exaggerations; many are based on
lack of knowledge of hospital procedures.
Yet the fact remains that there must be
something wrong there—the students don’t
trust their hopsital.
They won’t go to it when they feel bad,
pD’efering to stay in their rooms and try to
sleep it off, or go to a Bryan doctor.
The complaints that the students have
about the hospital are not the same kind as
the continual complaints about the mess halls.
In the case of the hospital, the students don’t
complain just to be complaining. They ac
tually believe that it is as bad as they say it
is.
And if the students believe it is bad,
then for all practical purposes it is. A hos
pital that is hot trusted is almost as bad as
no hospital.
So something has to be done about the
hospital—if there is something wrong with
it, it should be fixed; if there is nothing
wrong, the atmosphere of distrust should be
cleared away. It can serve no useful pur
pose until this is done.
This matter of the hospital is not a prob
lem for laymen — only medical men know
what to do. A committee of doctors has
made a study of the college hospital, arid
their report is now in the hands of the pres
ident.
Perhaps it is the answer to the “problem
of the hospital.”
College Station got good and scared last
October, when what looked like a polio epi
demic broke out in the A&M Consolidated
school.
Polio vaccine, given by trained doctors
and nurses, stifled the outbreak before it
had a chance to get serious. But it could
have been serious, had it not been for the
vaccine.
The March of Dimes paid for that vac
cine. There is no better reason for contrib
uting to the current March of Dimes cam
paign.
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BOB BORISKIE, HARRI BAKER.. Co-Editors
Jon Kinslow Managing Editor
Jerry Wizig Sports Editor
Don Shepard, Ralph Cole . ... News Editors
Bill Fullerton City Editor
Ronnie Greathouse ..Sports Writer
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Mrs. Jo Ann Cocanougher Women’s Editor
Miss Betsy Burchard A&M Consolidated Correspondent
By CHARLES PARKER
W 7 TAW News Staff
Many times radio and television
newscasters are asked, “How can
all newsmen know the correct pro
nunciation of difficult names and
places in the news; and why, no
matter what station to which you
are tuned one hears the words
pronounced the same?”
This is not a difficult question
to answer. Newscasters have their
own ready made pronunciation
guide—supplied by their news
source. In the case of The Bat
talion and WTAW the pronuncia
tion guide is their news wire, the
Associated Press.
The AP, with main offices in
New Y r ork, has no difficulty in
finding out how to say it right.
If the staff hired for this pm-pose
doesn’t know the word, there’s al
ways the United Nations staff.
The pronunciation is sent over
the teletype following the difficult
word. An example:
THE MEN WERE BOUND
FOR KWAJALEIN (KWAH’-
JAH-LAtN) FROM JOHNS
TON ISLAND WHEN THEIR
PLANE WAS FORCED
DOWN.
As you see, the word is spelled as
it would be pronounced. Another
example is the word pronunciation,
spelling phonetically, (PRO-NUN-
CI-A-TTON).
Teddy Roosevelt made an at
tempt at getting all English words
spelled like they are pronounced.
Do you recognize “President Izen-
hower?” Roosevelt did succeed in
getting a number of them accepted.
The word night is acceptably spell
ed nite.
From the AP we’ve selected the
names most in the news at this
time. In connection with their
recent news stories you’ll find their
pronunciation.
At flood stage the past weekend
was the river Seine (SEHN) which
flows through Paris, France.
French Premier Mendes-France
(MEN-DES FRANCE) or (MEN-
DESS FRONCE) is drinking milk
rather than famous French wine.
The big news is coming from the
Far East. Big battles are shaping
up, or are going on, in the Tachen
(DAH-JEN) islands. Recently the
Chinese Communist captured the
island of Yikianshan (EE’-KYONG-
SHAHN). Yikianshan is also
known as YT Kiang (EE’-KYONG).
The “shan” is a Chinese suffix
meaning island. In case you’re
interested, you won’t find these is
lands marked on a good world at
las; however, they are just off the
Chinese coastal city of Changhi-
chen (CHANG-E-SHEN).
Off the coast of Formosa, of vi
tal importance to the defense of
Formosa, are the Pescadores
(PESS-KAN-DOH’-RESS).
From the Chinese Communist ra
dio station in the capital city of
Peiping'(BAY r -PING’) came word
of the US Fliers. Peiping is not
(PEEKING) or (PIPE-ING).
The premier of Communist China
is Chou En-Lai (JOE UN-LYE).
The president of Guatemala is
Castillo Armas (KAHS-TEE’AYOH
AHR’-MAHS). His rival is the re
cently deported Col. Elfego Monzo
(EL-FAY-GO MOHN-ZOHN’).
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