Battalion
(Continued from Page 1)
Hardrove slides by TCU for a
9-6 win, giving the Aggies a
first-place tie with SMU. UT
serves notice of things to come in
November bj' downing the Fish
track team in Austin.
“Welcome to A&M, Mom and
Dad!” It’s May 6 and the annual
parents day with the Aggies Fol
lies, departmental open houses,
Corps Review and the President’s
Reception.
May 10. Dr. Morgan says,
“No coeducation at A&M.”
May 12. Two Aggie football
prospects ruled ineligible by
Athletic Council. More to come
on this.
Civilians at A&M have their
weekend, with water, food, danc
ing and beards.
“A&M Wins Conference Base
ball Title” “Stockton, Vanzura
Had It In Clutch” Almost un
noticed was the story headed:
“SWC Aggie Action May Not
Be So Bad”
May 18. Aggies beat UT in
Austin for ninth win in a row
for the champions. “Senior Ring
Dance, Banquet To Be Largest In
History”
“A&M Coaches Hit By SW Con
ference” “T Association Plans Pic
nic”
May 20. “State Senate May
Look into SWC Recruiting”, Aggies
will play in Bryan against Arizona
for District 6 baseball title.
“Bill Doubling Tuition Gets Ten
tative Approval” “Seven Get Bat
talion Awards”, A&M Faces Tight
Budget” One other head of interest
on this May 24: “Anybody Want
To Go West?”
850 get degrees at A&M gradu
ation services. “Senator Defends
A&M Recruiting”
June
June 2. “Aggies Take Arizona
To Three Games Before Losing”
“Services Held For Freshman Kill
ed In Wreck”
“SP Wants To Stop Sunbeam;
Asks Railroad Commission”
June 80. A&M budget is set at
$15,174,319, new engineering dean
is named by board, new traffic sys
tem given approval. City budget
is $274,204 for expenses and $281,-
356 as expected revenues.
July
About 3,000 persons attend
Looks At
the community picnic; A&M
Press will move to modern, new
quarters. “Musical To Be at
Grove Had Long Broadway Run”
UT to take Negroes in the fall
of 1956. Headline on an editor
ial: “Salute To UT”—comment
by a student: “If I ever see an
other story like that one I’ll quit
reading your damned paper.”
July 21. City Council ap
proves sewer system plans.
“Band Boosters Get 65 Dollars
For Uniforms”
College Station little league
team loses 4-3 to Bryan.
The BIG NEWS OF THE
HOUR: “Band To Go To UCLA
Game”, “Individuals, Clubs Aid
ing Band Trip Fund”
August
Aug. 4. Three CS swimmers
win medals. “Two Steers Help
ing- Pull Bandwagon.” Yester
day’s temperature was a “cool
92 degrees.”
“City Awards Contracts For
Sewage System” is the main
story for Aug. 18. On the same
page: “CHS Faces Problem,
Needs Money”, “4,000 Young
Lutherans To Invade Campus”
Phone numbers will change in
December announced the South
western States Telephone Co.
Aug. 25 and the 22-page Fresh-
man Edition of The Battalion.
“A&M’s Football Team To Be Bet
ter”, “Control of A&M Traffic Is
Dr. Butler Elected
Food Chairman
Dr. O. D. Butler, head of the
meats laboratory at A&M, was
elected chairman of the Texas Sec
tion, Institute of Food Technology
in a recent meeting at Houston.
Thx-ee other members of the
School of Agriculture at the col
lege accompanied Dr. Butler to the
meeting. They are Dr. I. I. Pet
ers of the Dairy Husbandry De
partment; J. J. Guenther of the
Animal Husbandry Department,
and Roy Snyder, extension meats
specialist.
During the meeting the group
inspected bakery and ice cream
plant facilities of Weingartens,
Inc., of Houston, then held a din
ner meeting at the Ben Milam Ho
tel.
1955
Duty of Campus Security Office”
“MSC Is A&M’s Living Room”
“Welcome To Texas A&M, Fresh
men”
September
Consolidated begins its school
year Sept. 7; 13 new teachei’s are
added to staff.
Class of ’59, 2,000 strong, in
vades A&M for orientation week.
Sept. 15. Back-to-School edi
tion of The Battalion and 21 pages.
“Aggies Ready To Face UCLA In
Season’s Opener”
Peron’s govei-nment fails. UCLA
beats A&M 21-0. Yell practices
staxt with the All-College Night
program. Some differences of
opinion prevail.
Sept. 22. “Thx-ee SW& Schools
Admit Rule Infraction” A&M, of
coxirse, is on a two-year probation
for reexuiting px-actices. Nothing
happens to the other schools.
“SCONA Assured For A&M”
Aggies blast LSU 28-0 for first
win. “Union Fee Vote Stalls To
morrow”
“Ike Progresses Along Road To
Full Recovery”, “Yankees Big- Fa
vorites In Series”
October
Oct. 4. “Aggies Clobber
Meek’s Cougars 21-3”, “Students
Approve Union Fee”, FSA gives
A&M an inter-faith chapel.
Brooklyn goes wild as the
Dodgers rally to take the World
Series in seven games. “Senator
Johnson Named As Presidential
Possibility” Everybody seems to
be trying to turn the White
House into a convalescent home.
“Faure’s Government Wobbles
Over North African Policies”
Aggie Fish beat TCU fresh
men while their big brothers
smash Nebraska 27-0. TSCW
senior is chosen as Aggie Sweet
heart. Three A&M sophomores
are hurt in car crash.
Telephone Company to move
into new building Oct. 17. Col
lege Station plans a clean-up
drive Nov. 1-4.
Corp Trip to TCU game in
Fort Worth Oct. 14; Community
Chest Drive starts Oct. 31..
A&M rolls over TCU with a
stirring 19-16 comeback win;
Fish quelch the Baylor Cubs’
rally to win 7-6. Tigers tie Cy-
press-Fairbanks 6-6.
Oct. 19. A&M is 12th in As
sociated Press standings.
“If Aggies Should Win Crown,
Cotton Bowl Would Be In Jam”
“Dulles, Eisenhower Give Hope
For Progress Of Big Four” A&M
students are praised by Fort
Worth city officials for their con
duct during the Corps Trip.
“Local Community Chest Drive
Goal Set At $12,100”, “Dances,
Conceit, Game Invade A&M”
“Fiery Aggies Butcher Baylor
Bears 19-7” Cadet officers are
given oath in ceremonies at
Guion Hall—Oct. 27.
UH student protests Battalion
editorial in a letter on Oct. 26. Tak
en rather hard by some, although
the letter had some good points.
(The author apparently changed
his mind when he was up hei’e re
cently for a debate tournament—
said he’d been treated “very nice
ly.”)
A&M Consolidated’s bonfire
burns while the Aggie Fish stum
ble to a 7-6 win over the UH Kit
tens.
November
Sui’prising Porkers tie Aggie 7-7
at Arkansas. Waller edges CHS
14-12 in homecoming thriller. Com
munity Chest Drive opens, as does
the clean-up drive.
“Fieshman Dies At A&M Pool;
Architect Dies Of Gun Wound”
Moi’e men ax - e announced this Nov.
2 day for the Fall Military Day
program Nov. 5.
“Football, Military Fill Week
end Slate” Student Senate recom
mends dismissal of school painters.
“Aggies Bounce Into Nation’s
Top Ten” after clubbing SMU 13-2.
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Ronnie Greathouse Sports Editor
Don Shepard, Jim Bower, Dave McReynolds .News Editors
Welton Jones City Editor
Barbai'a Paige Woman’s Editor
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Battalion Editorials
Page 2 THURSDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1955
Maybe This Year?
Thirty-one days has December and the baby 1956, as yet
unborn except in the warehouses of calendar companies who
optimistically stay a few ye^irs ahead, will be here, ready to
attempt to bring - about the peace that the old and worn 1955
could not execute.
Fortunately, babies have no vision of what is in store
for them; they must depend upon the ones who are already
here as they struggle to grow to maturity. The environment
for 1956 is set; set by his father 1955 who preceded him and
who inherited his year from his father 1954 and so on, back
to the beginning of time.
The joyous doves of peace are still locked in their mortal
prison, bound with disillusionment and dispair, eager with
the faith that reasoning man will provide the keys of love and
trust that can unlock the solid curtains of suspicion and hate.
Mankind hasn’t destroyed himself yet—he has only de
veloped the ability to do so. And he has developed a world
in which only the fear of self-destruction prevents eternal
carnage and holocaust.
1955 is almost gone, and the world is still with man.
19t>6 will soon be here. Maybe man will be with the
world—joined in friendship and brotherhood kindled by the
power of love and trust.
Our ‘Yawp’ of Welcome
We certainly hope everybody has enjoyed 1955. If any
body didn’t and wants to, he’d better do some quick enjoying
for only a couple of days separate us from the new year.
We’re not exactly the type to make resolutions; it’s just
not in our nature, having learned by experience that yester
day’s bright ideas are today’s bad conscience. And yet, we
could not let the old year slip out of our hands without some
farewell, with out indulging in a few reminiscences of joy
and laughter, tears and sadness.
1955 was a full year—abundant with promise and wither
ed by unfulfilled hopes. 1955 was life itself, terrifying in its
swiftness, passing without a pause over the troubles and the
joys of man. (
But the beauty was there also; and love, sensual, spirit
ual, life-giving. Faith sustained us, smoothing over our
cares, filling us witli courage to continue the struggle for ac
tuating our innermost hopes and desires.
And many retained hope—and belief that this world can
be a new world of peace and joy and love.
“Roaming in thought over the Universe, I saw the little
that is Good steadily hastening towards immortality.
And the vast all that is call’d Evil I saw hastening to
merge itself and become lost and dead.”
— Walt Whitman.
Well said, thou good and grey old bard.
Togers lose to Sealy 60-21. “Agree
ment Made On Charges For Space
In ’56 Aggieland”, “Would-Be
Pranksters Sxxspended From A&M”
Nov. 9. “Cold Weather Hits
Aggies As Winter Front Moves
In” Soviet Foreign Minister V. M.
Molotov stunned the Big Four con
ference at Geneva last night with
xi thunderous demand for Communi-
ist dominance in xi United Germany.
In Washington the Civil Seiwice
Commission claixned “inherent
power” under the Constitution and
the law to. withhold information
from Congress, the press and the
public.
Aggies leave Nov. 11 for
Houston Corps trip and the feot-
(See BATT’S 1955, Page 3)
A& M To Hold
First Annual
Traffic School
The first annual and the
first in the state, Traffic En
gineering School, will be held
at Texas A&M College begin
ning Feb. 20 and continue for
five days. The Texas Ti'anspoi’ta-
tion Institute and the Civil Engi
neering Department will sponsor
the school.
Attendance will be limited to one
engineer from each city to a total
of 40.
C. J. Keese of the CE Depart
ment, will chair the school which
will be held in the Memorial Stu
dent Center.
Instruction will be given by prac
ticing' traffic engineers throughout
the state and staff members of the
college.
Subjects to be covered will in
clude Traffic Engineering Organ
ization, Suiweys and Studies, Ti'af-
fic Planning, Ti-affic Signs, Sig
nals and Markings, Traffic Laws,
Parking, Speed Regulation and
Zoning xxnd Design. Engineers at
tending will sxxbmit actual case
problems to be discussed.
Official Nos.
Dr. David H. Morgan, president
of the College, has two new tele
phone numbers. They ax - e VI 6-4759
and VI 6-4750.
At the Office of the dexxn of the
College, Dr. J. P. Abbott, the new
number is VI 6-5513. Dean Robert
M. Kamm, deaxx of Student Person
nel Services has for his new num
ber VI 6-7110; and the Registrar’s
Office is now VI 6-4815. The Re
cords Section of the Registrar’s
Office is VI 6-4778.
Switzerland is among the coun
tries thxit have acquired merchant
fleets since Woi'ld War II. Others
ai'e Liberia, Ireland, Costa Rica
and Ecuador.
Bowl Games
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another top-flight match. Both
teams have perfect 10-0 recoi'ds.
Both Oklahoma and Maryland
were kept out of bowl engage
ments last year by conference rul
ings which forbid appeai’ances by
the same team in successive sea
sons.
Despite the attempts of Geor
gia’s Gov. Marvin Griffin to pre
vent Georgia Tech from entering
the Sugar Bowl because a Negro
plays on the Pittsburgh team which
will face them Jan. 2, the Wrecks
are settled in another of their
many bowl appearances. Tech had
an 8-1 record and was rated No.
7 in the nation. Pitt, making its
first bowl appearance since 1937,
had a 7-3 mark and a No. 11 ra
ting.
The Gator Bowl will feature the
No. 8 team, Auburn (8-1-1)
against an unranked Vanderbilt
eleven (7-3).
Now for a few predictions. Ron
nie Greathouse, Battalion Sports
Editor, is out of town (at Dallas
for the Cotton Bowl) and the pxes-
ent writer doesn’t know much
about sports. But he found a
broken Crystal Ball that had been
discarded for inaccuracy and de
cided, to use it. So here goes:
Cotton Bowl—
TCU 20-Mississippi 13.
Rose Bowl—
Michigan State 28-UCLA 7
Orange Bowl—
Oklahoma 21-Maryland 14
Gator Bowl—
Vanderbilt 20-Auburn 14
And that’s all of the poop that »
we have for you, sport fans.
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