Legal Holiday
Tuesday, February 22, 1955 being a Legal Holiday, in
observance of George Washington’s Birthday, the un
dersigned will observe that date as a Legal Holiday and
not be open for business.
First National Bank
City National Bank
First State Bank & Trust Co.
College Station State Bank
Bryan Building & Loan Ass’n
On Campos
with
MaxQhuhm
(Author of "Barefoot Boy With Cheek,” etc.)
THE CARE AND FEEDING OF BOOKS
You busy college people — you with your classes and your
studying and your social activities and your three-legged races —
it is no wonder that you have so little time for reading. I mean
reading for the pure pleasure of it, not to cram for exams. It is
a sad omission, and my heart goes out to you. I do, however,
take comfort from the fact that the graduation season ap
proaches. Many of you will soon leave the hurly-burly of college
for the tranquility of the outside world. Oh, you’ll love it on
the outside! It is a quiet life, a gracious and contemplative
life, a life of ease and relaxation, of plenty of time to enjoy the
treasures of literature.
It is with you in mind that I sit now in my cane-bottomed
rocker and close my kindly gray eyes and smoke a mellow
Philip Morris cigarette and remember books that made me
laugh and books that made me cry and, remembering, laugh and
cry again. It is, I say, with you in mind that I sit thus and
rock thus and close my kindly gray eyes thus and smoke a
Philip Morris thus and laugh and cry thus, for 1 wish to recom
mend these lovely and affecting books to you so that you too may
someday sit in your cane-bottomed rockers and close your kindly
gray eyes and smoke a mellow Philip Morris and remember
books that made you laugh and books that made you cry and,
remembering, laugh and cry again.
Sitting and rocking, my limpid brown eyes closed in reverie,
a plume of white smoke curling lazily upward from my excellent
Philip Morris cigarette, I remember a lovely and affecting
book called Blood on the Grits by that most talented young
Southerner, Richard Membrane Haw. It is a tender and poignant
story of a sensitive Alabama boy who passes safely through
puberty only to be devoured by boll weevils ... A lovely and
affecting book.
I puff my splendid Philip Morris cigarette and close my danc-.
ing blue eyes and recall another book, a thrilling true adventure,
lovely and affecting, called I Climbed Everest the Hard Way
by Cliff Sherpa. Mr. Sherpa, as everyone knows, was the first
man to reach the peak of Mt. Everest by tunneling from below.
In his book he gives a lovely and affecting account of his trip,
which was not as easy as it sounds, you may be sure.
I light another merry Philip Morris cigarette and close my
lambent hazel eyes and recollect another book — Life on the Farm
by Dick Woolly. This is a short book — only 55 words — and
rather a dull one. It would not be worth mentioning here were
it not for the fact that the author is a sheep.
I exhale a cloud of snowy white smoke from my bracing Philip
Morris cigarette and shut my laughing green eyes and think
of the vast, vast array of historical novels that have given
me pleasure.
There is Blood on the Visor by Richard Membrane Haw (he
who wrote the lovely and affecting Blood on the Grits). There
is Cold Steel and Hot Flashes by Emmaline Prentiss Moulting.
There is The Black Shield of Sigafoos by Wruth Wright. There
is Four Quarts in a Galleon by William Makepiece Clambroth.
There are many, many others, all lovely, all affecting.
But sitting here, drawing on my matchless Philip Morris
cigarette, my saucy amber eyes closed tightly, I am thinking
that the loveliest, most affecting of all historical novels is May
Fuster’s classic, / ITaw? a Serf for the F.B.I. Mrs. Fuster, justly
famed for her rich historical tapestries, has outdone herself
in this tempestuous romance of Angela Bodice, fiery daughter
of an entailed fief, who after a great struggle rises to the lofty
position of head-linesman to the Emperor of Bosnia and then
throws it all away to lead the downtrodden peasants in a revolt
against the mackerel tax. She later becomes Ferdinand Magellan.
But the list of fine books is endless, as you will soon discover
who are about to leave the turmoil of the campus and enter into
the serene world outside, where a man has time to read and rock
and close his rakish taupe eyes and smoke good Philip Morris
cigarettes.
(&Max Shulrnan. 1955
The makers of Philip Morris, tcho firing you this column, tell you
that in our hook. PHILIP MORRIS is the mildest, tastiest cigarette
anybody ever made.
The Battalion
The Editorial Policy of The Battalion
Represents the Views of the Student Editors
Battalion Editorials
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THE BATTALION
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1955
Evaluation Needed
About this business of professor evalu
ation—some of the professors seem to be
leery of the things, possibly because there are
tales of a professor once being fired because
of them.
Other objections are that the evaluators—
in this case students—might have a tendency
to let personal feelings or grades received
warp their evaluation, thereby losing the
objectivity necessary.
These are valid objections, but on the
other hand, some evaluation is better than
no evaluation.
The teachers can get valuable points from
an evaluation, points that might be unnotica-
ble or considered unimportant by the pro
fessor.
There probably would be some “crackpot”
ratings by students, but it would be easy to
spot these and give them the relative amount
of value.
On the whole, the professors would gain
from an evaluation, and the students would
gain from the resultant better teaching.
Some mutually satisfactory form of eval
uation should be worked out and put into ac
tion.
Too Many
At the Student Senate meeting last night,
the senate’s hospital committee quoted Col.
Joe E. Davis, head of the college’s hospital
committee, as saying that he had investi
gated the cases of all students who had been
in the college hospital, and “only one did not
receive proper treatment.”
✓ For a hospital—sometimes an agency of
life or death—one is too many.
Pinky Hospitalized
At Galveston
Doctors at Saint Mary’s
infirmary in Galveston report
that P. L. (Pinky) Downs jr.,
official greeter for the college,
is doing as “well as can be ex
pected,” according to his
daughter, Miss Grey Downs.
Downs became ill shortly
after the first of the year, and
was confined to Scott and
White hospital in Temple for
a short time. Soon after this,
he entered the Galveston hi-
fi rm ary.
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ture of Doerpinghaus was not
available.
The Rev. L. A. Richardson, pas
tor of the Northwood Presbyterian
church in San Antonio, will live in
Hart hall and lead the forums and
discussion groups in the lounge.
He will be available for confer
ences during the week.
He received his. BA degree from
the University
of Tennessee and
his B D from
Yale Divinity
school and after
serving in the
Navy as chap
lain, took a
year’s work a t
Richardson the Austin Pres
byterian seminary in Austin. He
went to the Presbyterian church
in Raymondville, then to Hillsboi-o
where he remained until called to
his present work in San Antonio
in 1954.
❖ * ❖
Dr. Dallas H. Smith attended
John Hopkins university, Univer
ity of Maryland and University
of Alabama and has held many
prominent business positions.
He will live in dormitory 10 and
^ pv r
will lead the forums and discus
sion groups for dormitories 10 and
12 in the dormitory 10 lounge. He
will be available for conference
during the week.
His church responsibilities are
elder, deacon,
youth fellow
ship adult ad
visor, Sunday
Ilf school teacher,
member of the
ad m in i s tra tive
committee of the
Department o f
ministry, joint
Christian vocation
and National Council of Churches.
Smith
department of
The Rev. Louis Hahn, S. J., a
Jesuit Father of
New Orleans,
will live in the
MSC and will
hold Mass and
meditation a t
6:30 each morn
ing in St.
Mary’s chapel,
Hahn followed by a
short discussion. Tuesday and
Thursday at 7:15 p.m. he will hold
services and instruction followed
by open forum for married stu
dents.
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