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Battalion Editorials
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tribesman of southeast East Pak
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pressing apology. They stick out
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On Campus
with
MaxQhuJman
(Author of "Barefoot Boy With Cheek,” etc.)
THE GIFT HORSE
Today’s column is about Christmas gift suggestions, and 1
suppose you think I’ll begin by suggesting Philip Morris. Well,
the joke’s on you. I’ll do no such thing. Why should I? Anyone
with two brains to knock together knows that Philip Morris
makes an absolutely smashing Christmas gift. Only a poor
afflicted soul with atrophied taste buds needs to be told about the
new Philip Morris; its bracing flavor; its freshness, lightness,
pleasantness, gentleness; its truth, its beauty, its brotherliness
in this discordant world of ours. So why should I waste time
telling you what you already know?
Page 2
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1955
Lei’s Get Acquainted
Tonight provides a good opportunity for both sides of
the academic fence to get together for mutual understanding.
The Open House for Freshmen will give our new Aggies
a chance to see just what their future department has for
them. And it gives the faculty of each department a look
at “them.”
Upperclassmen should attend tonight’s programs, too.
Many’s the time that it has been expressed that freshmen do
not attend departmental clubs and organizations. So to
night, upperclassmen can give the “glad hand” to the fresh
men and encourage their participation in activities of the
department.
Town Hall has been set at a later starting time through
the cooperation of Student Activities. Nothing should be
more important to all students than this chance to get ac
quainted with each other and with one’s major field of
study.
IVoductio n Expert
Paul Howard, General Produc
tion Supervisor for Proctor and
Gamble, will be the speaker to
night for the AIIE meeting at*
7:30 in the new engineering build
ing.
His subect will be Industrial En-_
gineering activity at Proctor and
Gamble from the production stand
point.
31 Students Included
On CHS Honor Roll
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Let us, instead, turn to less obvious gift suggestions. Here’s
one I bet you never thought of:
Christmas is the best time of year, but it is,also the beginning
of winter. How about a gift that reminds one that though winter
has come, spring is not far behind? I refer, of course, to Easter
chicks. (Similarly, on Easter one can give Christmas chicks.)
Next, we take up the problem, common to all undergraduates,
of trying to buy gifts when you have no money. To this dilemma
I say—Faugh ! It is not the price of the gift that counts; it is the
septiment behind it.
Take,, for example, the case of Outerbridge Sigafoos. Outer-
bridge, a sophomore, finding himself without funds last Christ
mas, gave his girl a bottle of good clear water and a nice smooth
rock, attaching this touching message to the gift:
Here’s some water
And here’s a rock,
I love you, daughter,
^ .diround the clock.
And "the whole delightful gift cost Outerbridge less than a
penny!
I am compelled to report, however, that Outerbridge’s girl did
not receive these offerings in the spirit in which they were
tendered. In fact, she flew into a fit of pique, smashed the bottle
on the rock and stabbed Outerbridge with the jagged edge. But
the experience was not without value for Outerbridge. First, he
discovered that the girl was not his type at all. Second, he learned
how to make a tourniquet.
But I digress. Let’s examine now a common complaint of
Christmas shoppers: “What do you get for someone who has
everything?”
To this I reply, “Does he?” Does he, for instance, have a
unicycle? A sled dog? A serf? A burnoose? A hairball? A bung
starter? (The bung starter, incidentally, was invented by two
enormously talented men, Fred Bung and Otho Starter. Their
partnership thrived from the very start, and there is no telling
to what heights they might have risen had they not split up
over a silly argument. It seems that Bung was a firm believer in
reincarnation; Starter was just as firm a disbeliever. Bung in
sisted so violently on the truth of reincarnation and Starter
scoffed so positively that they finally decided to go their separate
ways. Singly, alas, the two fared badly. Starter gave up business
altogether, joined the army, and was killed at San Juan Hill in
1898. He is today buried in Arlington National Cemetery. Bung
drifted from job to job until he died of breakbone fever in
Elizabeth, N. J., in 1902. He is today a llama in Uruguay.)
©Max Shulman, 1955
The makers of Philip Morris, sponsors of this column, beg leave to
add one more gift suggestion — MAX SHULMAX’S GUIDED TOUR
OF CAMPUS HUMOR, a collection of the funniest stuff ever written
on or about campus — now on sale at your bookstore.
The second six-week’s honor
roll at A&M Consolidated High
School has been announced by J.
J. Skrivanek Jr., principal. Thirty-
one students made the list. They
are as follows:
Ninth Grade
Kenneth Bailey, Bill Jones, Be
atrice Luther, Margaret Dehling-
er, Patricia Jackson, Nancy Rog
ers, Jeanelle LaMotte, Johnny Bar
ger, Billie Letbetter, Mary Varvel
and Martha Esten.
Tenth Grade
Sue Ellen Mowery, Joe Ran
dolph, Pat Byrd, Junius Clark,
Jerry Mills, Christy Kent, Mary
Margaret Hierth and Millie Caugh-
lin.
Eleventh Grade
Larry Leighton, Maurice Olian,
Jo Anne Walker, Charles Dela-
plane and James Martin.
Twelfth Grade
Ann Fleming, Norman Floeck,
Vivian Sullivan, Marilyn Davis,
Marcia Smith, Margaret Berry and
Claire Rogers.
’56 Class To Meet
Tonight in Center
Letters
(Ed. note: The following poem
was submitted by Frank Tam-
borello, ’59, in lemory of James
E. Sarran who died Nov. 24 from
injuries received in a truck-car
accident Nov. 21. Before he was
hit, he pushed two other boys to
safety.)
THE HERO OF AGGIELAND
The sparks were flying gaily.
The crowd was all aglow,
With cheers both fast and slow.
But in the hearts of some,
There was .only darkness and
gloom.
For in the hospital bed lay,
A boy all mangled and bruised,
Waiting to die most any day,
Because of school spirit he could
not lose.
The day of the game the boy
was dead
But he died a hero on that bed.
What’s
Cooking
4:30
The Handball Club will meet in
the old gym to discuss the possi
bility of going to the Sugar Bowl
tournament.
7:15
There will be an A. G. C. meet
ing in room 404 of the Academic
Building." The speaker will be from
the Libby-Ownens-Ford Class Co.
Refreshments will be served.
Junior Collegiate FFA chapter
will meet in the YMCA.
The Physical Education Club
meets in room 231 of G. Rollie
White Coliseum. Speaker for the
meeting is from the Southwest
Conference Physical Education As
sociation.
Pre-Medical and Pre-Dental so
cieties , will meet in room 107 of
the Biological Science Building.
Plans for a party will be made.
Although many people find the
whippoorwill’s call pleasant at a
distance, it sounds harsh when
heal'd :it close range.
The senior class will meet to
night in the Student Center Ball
room at 7:15.
Class President Allen Greer
said that the meeting would be
kept to about 30 minutes in length
so as not to interfere with Town
Hall.
Greer also said that this meet
ing would be a very important one
since work has to get started on
-the Ring Dance and most of the
committees, will be appointed to
night.
In addition to the appointing of
the Ring Dance committees, the
class wifi vote on their choice of
commencement procedure and cov-
ei~s for the Aggieland.
Voting on the last issue will de
cide whether or not the traditional
ring will be used on the Aggie
land cover.
Greer urged that all seniors try
to come to the meeting since the
issues at hand were of importance
to everyone.
In the face of danger he had
come through,
To save the lives of his two
friends,
He was a hero everyone knew.
And here his story ends.
But never will his name be gone.
For in the hearts of Aggies he
still lives on.
Frank Tamborello, ’59
Editor, Battalion:
I’m sure that you get tired of
hearing complaints all the time—
I’d hate to put up with that kind
of mail in my mail box. I’m afraid
that I do have a gripe, however;
the reason I write to you is because
of your ability to arouse ol’ Army’s
opinion.
I have just come from the show
and found my roommate’s parking
place filled in the parking lot. I
parked his car two blocks from
the dorm and felt darn lucky. On
my way back to the room I noticed
the spacing between cars for one
block. There was enough room
between cars to allow four or five
more cai's to park on that one
block, had the spacing been uni
form.
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