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THE BATTALION
Thursday, August 25, 1955
Pu b l ica tionsO'ffice
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Has Newspaper,
Four Magazines
Thp Office of Student Publica
tions offers the student body of
A&M a wide variety of reading
material throughout the year, with
a daily newspaper, a yearbook and
four, magazines.
The newspaper is The Battalion,
City Grew Up
After Founding
Of College
A college was founded and
a city grew up around it. That
is the story of the City of
College Station, the “Home of
Texas A&M.”
College Station’s population is
approximately 7,000, not count
ing students living on the campus.
The city almost completely sur-
ronds the island of state property
that is A&M. Each of the city’s
three main sections are on a dif
ferent side of the college.
The oldest section is to the
south and has three subdivisions:
College Park, the oldest; Breezy
Heights; West Park and Oak-
woodi.
Across Highway 6 from East
Gate is the largest section of Col
lege Station. This area has five
additions: College Hills, Wood
land, Ringhoffer, Kelley and Coon-
er. The streets in this area are
named for well known men of
A&M: Walton, Puryear, Kyle,
Milner, Foster, and others.
The third section is behind
North Gate. Composed of Boyett
and Tauber, this section has most
of the city’s churches. It also is
the location of the City Hall.
Each section of the city has its
own business district and shopping
center, and each is a city ward.
College Station was incorpora
ted in October, 1938. A city man
ager type of government was adop
ted in 1944. A mayor and a six-
tnan council form the legislative
branch of the city. The mayor of
the city is Ernest Langford, head
of A&M’s Architecture Depart
ment, who has served College Sta
tion in this capacity for 13 years.
Ran Boswell is city manager.
.• A; volunteer Fire Department is
bp .hand, and city police officers
work in conjunction with A&M
Gainpns Security officers, Bryan
$dhce' and county and state offi-
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written and edited by students for
the students, faculty, staff and
residents of College Station.
Published four times a week dur
ing the regular session, it is a
member of the Associated Press
and is the official newspaper of
A&M College and of the City of
College Station.
The Batt, as it is called, covers
campus, local, state and national
news, with emphasis placed on
happenings around the campus. It
carries regularly Pogo and Li’l
Abner comic strips and also car
toons about A&M drawn by stu
dents.
Several special editions, such as
this one, are published during the
year. One of these, a safety edi
tion put out last winter, won third
prize for college dailies in a na
tional contest.
The yearbook, which is called the
Aggieland, presents a record of
student life on the campus during
the year. Work on the book is
begun in September and continues
until June. The Aggieland is de
livered in October.
There is one magazine for each
school of the college. These are
The Agriculturist, Th^ Engineer,
The Southwestern Veterinarian
and The Commentator, which is
the publication of the School of
Arts and Sciences. The Engineer
is published monthly, and the oth
er magazines are published four
times during the school year.
All publications are staffed en
tirely by students, and all students,
including freshmen, ai*e invited to
try out for the staffs of any of
the publications.
Subscriptions to all publications
are included in the student activ
ity fee, and the student who pays
this fee receives the Aggieland, a
year’s subscription to The Bat
talion, and a subscription to the
magazine of his choice.
Fish Drill Team
Open to Students
The military students of the
freshman class have their own drill
team, coached by military science
instructors and led by its own
elected officers.
At the first of the year, tryouts
for the team will be announced.
Membership is on a competitive
basis, with about 80 men trying
out each year for the 30-man team.
Besides putting on drill exhi
bitions on the campus, the team
travels to other cities to perform.
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AGGIE PASTIME—It may look like fun but the famous
Aggie “Water Fights” can get you into trouble with col
lege officials. Despite this, however, the watery contests
continue year after year, so you who have indicated that
you intend to come to A&M had just as well see what goes
on. It is highly advised that you avoid such incidents,
but you may happen to get involved in one. It’s an old
Aggie pastime, and, after all, there are no girls at A & M.
A&M’s Stormy History
A&M now has 79 years of his
tory, history significant mainly
for the people who made it and
what has been done. Some of the
time has been stonny, but the re
sult is the most important thing.
Texas A&M, like every other
state’s land grant school, was
authorized by the Morrill Act of
1864. At this time, Texas and
the rest of the South were a little
too busy fighting the “dam yank-
ees” to do anything about the a.ct,
but by 1866 they began looking
around for some place to put a
land grant college.
A&M was not founded in the
middle of Brazos Valley by acci
dent—contrary to what upper
classmen think. The City of Bryan
gave the land to the state. The
story goes that the school was to
be two miles from Bryan, but
some persevering state researcher
discovered that Bryan had (at that
time) some 14 saloons. So the
college was moved out another two
miles to get away from the poten
tial evil influence.
A&M had the usual opening cer
emonies in 1876, but there‘was a
slight misunderstanding. Only a
few students showed up, so college
officials told them to go home and
bring some more boys back with
them. Things got off to a start
the next year.
The presidency of A&M was of
fered to Jefferson Davis, former
chief executive of the ill-fated Con
federacy. But Davis declined on
the grounds of poor health—pos
sibly because he had just gotten
out of prison. The job was then
offered to Thomas Gathright. Al
though Gathright was then super
intendent of instruction for the
state of Mississippi, he could read
and write and accepted the job. He
had five faculty members to help
him.
Texans in those early days did
n’t think too much of their two-
building Agricultural and Mechan
ical College at first. The faculty
members were trained only in the
classics, and the farmers and
ranchers of Texas had no use for
an education along these lines.
On to the scene galloped Law
rence Sullivan Ross, to rescue
A&M as he had saved Cynthia Ann
Parker from the Indians about
90 miles up the Brazos River.
The bearded Ross took the pres
idency of the college in 1890, and
his personal prestige gave the
school the public prestige it so
badly needed.
You’ll hear a lot about L. S.
Ross during your stay at A&M, but
briefly, he was a Texas Ranger
captain at 18, a brigadier general
in the Confederacy, and a general
all-round soldier, statesman and
knightly gentleman.
He also makes a lovely statue,
gracing the front lawn (now side
walks) of the Academic Building.
This statue, a bronze by Pompeo
Coppini, is sometimes orange and
white—but it is unodubtedly the
most photographed object on the
A&M campus.
A&M perked up and sung along
from this time on. It has had a
few student revolutions, a glimmer
of a faculty revolution and a few
other things that a college needs
to get out of its system while
growing up. But since Ross’ day,
A&M has had the approval of the
people of Texas, its owners, for
the job of education it is doing.
Lawrence Sullivan Ross
The Man Behind A&M’s Great History
Clothes No Worry
For A&M Students
Clothing will be no problem at
A&M.
If you are a civilian student, you
will wear just what you would
wear anyplace else. If you are a
military student, you will be is
sued uniforms, and told what uni
form to wear and when.
Civilian students should have a
suit for church, banquets, and other
dress up occasions; slacks and
sport shirts for class wear, and old
khakis or blue jeans for loafing.
The climate here is mild most
of the year, but there are a few
bitterly cold days during January
and February, so you’d better have
a heavy coat.
And the Brazos valley being
what it is, it rains during the win
ter. A raincoat and hat will help.
The college has very few rules
about the clothing of civilian stu
dents. You will be told about them
during Freshman Week.
Corps students will be issued a
uniform after they get here. It
will contain all the basic items
Ronnie Greathouse
Is Sports Editor
Battalion Sports Editor fCr this
coming school year will be Ronnie
Greathouse, senior juornalism ma
jor from Kaufman, Tex.
Greathouse has been with the
paper for two years, serving the
past year as sports writer on the
staff of Sports Editor Jerry Wizig.
Although no final plans have been
thus far set, Greathouse will have
two and possibly three assistants
this year.
It is hoped that by having a
large sports staff, more of the
various sports around A&M will
get complete coverage.
needed by a freshman cadet.
You will need a few things that
aren’t issued; your company com
mander will tell you about them.
Briefly, they include hats, brass
and cloth insignia, belts, and an
extra pair of winter uniform pants.
You will be issued one pair of
uniform shoes, but you will prob
ably want to have another pair for
dress-up occasions. Tan and brown
plain-toes are the only shoes ac
cepted by the military department,
so don’t bring any oxblood or other
off color shoes. It would be a good
idea to bring two pairs of shoes, if
you have them.
And you will be expected to keep
your shoes shined, so bring a little
shoe-shine kit.
Corps students should have some
civilian clothes with them too. You
will want to wear them on week
ends away from the campus, and
your company will probably have
outfit parties that you can go to
out of uniform, or ‘“non-reg.”
A suit, a pair of slacks, a couple
of sport shirts and a pair of blue
jeans will be plenty of civilian
clothes for the military students.
You will also need enough civilian
clothes to last through Freshman
Week.
For both civilian and military
students who will have field labo
ratory courses, and that includes
all engineering and agricultural
majors, a pair of heavy boots will
come in handy. Any type of boot
will do—engineer, paratroop, or
cowboy—except that corps students
can’t wear cowboy boots with the
uniform.
The best way to bring your
clothes and personal items is in a
footlocker, which can then be kept
in your room and used as storage
space to supplement the dresser
there.
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