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\ Pagre 2 THE BATTALION Tuesday, February 14, 1956 Consolidated Menu Menu for the A&M Consolidated Schools this week is as follows: Wednesday Hamburgers, potato chips, but tered corn, pickles and onions, buns milk and cupcakes. Thursday Chili beans, spinach and bacon, cabbage and onion salad, corn- bread and butter, milk and stewed apricots. Friday Salmon patties, creamed new po tatoes, English peas and carrots, vegetable salad, bread, milk and apple crisp. On Campus With Max Qhulman (Author of “Barefoot Boy With Check,” etc.) THE CARE AND FEEDING OF ROOM-MATES Today we take up room-mates, a delightful phenomenon of American college life. Having a room-mate is not only heaps of fun ; it is also very educational, for the proper study of mankind is man, and there is no bettei* way to learn the dreams and drives of another human being than to share a room with him. This being the case, it is wise not to keep the same room-mate too long, because the more room-mates you have, the more you will know about the dreams and drives of human beings. And that’s what we’re all after, isn’t it? So try to change room-mates as often as you can. A recent study made by Sigafoos of Michigan State shows that the best interval for changing room-mates is every four hours. Now let us discuss how to go about choosing a room-mate. Most counselors agree that the most important thing to look for in room-mates is that they be Coaxee (00112“ mates every people of regular habits. This, 1 say, is arrant nonsense. What if one of their regular habits happens to be beating a great gong from midnight to three a.m. ? Or growing cultures in the tooth glass? Or reciting the Articles of War? Or peanut brittle ? Regular habits indeed! I say that beyond quibble, far and away the most important qual ity in room-mates is that they be exactly your size. Otherwise you will have to have their clothes altered t j fit you, which can be a considf rable nuisance. In fact, it is sometimes flatly impossible. I recollect one time I roomed with a man named Tremblatt Osage who was just under seven feet tall and weighed nearly four hundred pounds. There wasn’t a blessed thing I could use in his entire wardrobe— until one night when I was invited to a masquerade party. I cut one leg off a pair of Tremblatt’s trousers, jumped into it, sewed up both ends and went to the party as a bolster. ( Inci dentally, I took second prize. First prize went to a girl named Antenna Wilkins who poured molasses over her head and went as a candied apple.) B ut I digress. Let us get back to the qualities that make de sirable room-mates. Not the least of these is the cigarettes they smoke. When we borrow cigarettes, do we want them to be harsh, shoddy, and disdainful of our palates? Certainly not! What, then, do we want them to be? Why, we want them to be gentle, delicately-reared, and designed to suit the tempo of today’s broader, easier life! And what cigarette is gentle, delicately-reared, and designed to suit the tempo of today’s broader, easier life? Why, Philip Morris, of corris! (I’ll bet you knew it all the time!) To go on. In selecting a room-mate, take great pains to find someone who will wear well, whom you’d like to keep as a permanent friend. Many of his tory’s great friendships first started in college. Are you aware, for example, of the remarkable fact that Johnson and Boswell were room-mates at Ox ford in 1712? What makes this fact so remarkable is that in 1712 Johnson was only three years old and Boswell had not been born yet. But, of course, children matured much earlier in those days. Take Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart who wrote his first symphony at the ^ age of four. Or Titian, who painted his fii'st masterpiece at five. Or Hans Otto McGrath, who was in many ways the most remark able of all; he was appointed chief of the Copenhagen police department at the age of six! (It must be admitted, however, that the appointment was less than a success. Criminals roamed the city, robbing and looting at will. They knew young McGrath would never pursue them; he was not allowed to cross the street.) ©.Max sum man, 1956 \our hours' The makers of Philip Morris, who sponsor this column, cordially invite you and your room-male to try today’s new, gentle Philip Morris. It’s always welcome! The Battalion The Editorial Policy of The Battalion Represents the Views of the Student Editors The Battalion, daily newspaper of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas and the City of College Station, is published by students in the Office of Student Publications as a non-profit educational service. The Director of Student Publications is Ross Strader. The governing body of all student publications of the A.&M. College of Texas is the Student Publications Board. Kaculty members are Karl K. Elmquist, Chairman; Donald D. Burchard. Tom Leland and Bennie Zinn. Student members are Derrcil H. Guiles, Paul Holladay, and Wayne Moore. Ex-officio members are Charles Roeber, and Ross Strader. Secretary. The Battalion is published four times a week during the regular school year and once a week during the summer and vacation and examination periods. Days of publication are Tuesday through Friday for the regular school year and on Thursday during the summer terms and during examination and vacation periods. The Battalion is not published on the Wednesday immediately preceding Easter or Thanksgiving. Subscription rates are S3.50 per semester, SO.00 per school year, 5(3.50 per full year, or §1.00 per month. Advertising rates furnished on request. Entered as second-class matter at Post Office at College Station, Texas, under the Act of Con gress of March 3, 1870. 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Don Shepard, Jim Bower, Dave McReynolds News Editors BILL FULLERTON Editor Ralph Cole Managing Editor Ronnie Greathouse —- Sports Editor Welton Jones - City Editor Barbara Paige — - Woman’s Editor | Barry Hart .-.Assistant Sports Editor Job Calls Wedn esday JONES & LAUGHLIN — inter view for men with interest in sales career for business administration, economies, agricultural economics, industrial education, and industrial engineering majors. ARO, INC. — Tullahoma, Term, will interview aeronautical, me chanical, electrical engineering, mathematics and physics majors. OHIO OIL COMPANY—will in terview accounting majors. THE CONTINENTAL OIL COM PANY—will interview business ad ministration, marketing, economics, chemistry, physics, chemical, me chanical and petroleum engineering graduates for opportunities in manufacturing and petrochemical departments, production depart ment, research and development, marketing, land department and controller’s department. HUMBLE OIL & REFINING CO.—all interested students go to a group meeting at 7:30 in the MSC Assembly Room where a schedule will be formed for inter views for Wednesday and Thurs day. Majors wanted are chemis try, physics, civil, chemical, electri cal geological, industrial, mechani cal and petroleum engineering. GENERAL ELECTRIC COM PANY—interviews will be held for various programs for chemistry, physics, electrical, mechanical, in dustrial, aeronautical and chemical engineering majors. Wednesday and Thursday. McCALL’S Humble Service Station “Where Service Is First” East Gate VI 6-4922 Hy 6 namgatHi TUESDAY & WEDNESDAY “Bedeviled” - * * * * ^ r ^TfMUOMN UNDMM?VCARS- rRtfc TUESDAY & WEDNESDAY “Dance Hall Racket” and “Good Time Girl” STORY OF A CHAMPION! JUNGLE Tony CURTIS Pat CROWLEY Ernest BORCNINE CIRCLE LAST DAY “Good Morning Miss Done” JENNIFER JONES — Also — “Demetrius and the Gladiators” VICTOR MATURE Hoffman Diamond Cuffing Co. 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