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The Battalion
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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 29, 1956
Our ^Silent Generation ’
We of the younger generation in America have picked
up a lot of names in our short stay in this "‘land of the-free,
and the home-of the brave”: the United States.
We’ve been called “The Silent Generation”—an accusa
tion that should make free men hang their heads in shame.
But we get shouted down when we wish to speak.
In only about three months, those of us who are hoping
to graduate will be leaving the colleges and universities of
our nation. Only three months to develop more completely
those beautiful theories of living that are the immortal her
itage of youth—-only three months before we begin to roam
the treacherous paths of life, the gradual disillusionments
that force upon us the decadent belief that it is ugly to try
to live our beautiful theories.
Three months and the sheltering covering of jmuth drops
from about us. To each of us the end of our youth will seem
like the end of all youth; certainly our lives will be different
from that we have known at college.
But a question keeps running through our minds, a
question created there by observations of the pressure to
ward conformity now invading the campuses of our nation’s
colleges and universities. Proof lies in the efforts to
silence our school newspapers. The Daily Texan is our
closest example, but this blanket of silence is being thrown
over many others.
The question that keeps coming to mind is: “Is age to
be decay rather than more life?” In other words, does this
famed “experience” that we have heard so much about lead
to constriction of knowledge and beliefs, instead of to wider
horizons ?
It has been written that “no one raves because you
breathebut why the raves “if you take a determined stand
when that means the verv breath of life to you?”
The road of easy conformity is wide and safe; but it is
stifling to the creativeness of man’s soul. Jailed thoughts
or oppressive to man’s aspirations; they lie like stones upon
the heart and soul. m
Three months to the end of one life; three months to
the beginning of another phase, a swifter, more colorful ex
perience.
Or is it three months to the beginning of the end ? What
will you have to say, Silent Generation ? Are words also
jailed with thoughts?
— Bill Fullerton.
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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. Faculty members are Karl E. Elmquist,
Chairman; Donald D. Bux-chard, Tom Leland and Bennie Zinn. Student membex-s
are Derrell H. Guiles. Paul Holladay. and Wayne Moore. Ex-officio members ax-e
Cha.rles 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 dux-ing 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, S6.00
per school year, $6.50 per full year, or $1.00 per month. Advertising rates furnished
on request.
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the paper and local news of spontaneous origin published herein. Rights
of republication of all other matter herein are also reserved.
BILL FULLERTON Editor
Ralph Cole : 5: Managing Editor
Ronnie Greathouse -i Sports Editor
Jim Bower, Dave McReynolds News Editors
Welton Jones City Editor
Grants-In-Aid
Accepted At
Board Meeting
A total of $150,162.05 in
gifts, grants - in - aid, loans,
scholarships, fellowships and
awards has been accepted by
the Board of Directors of the
Texas A&M College System at a
meeting here Saturday.
Texas Agricultural Experiment
Station received $66,000 in grants-
in-aid; $500 in gifts; $1,165 in
loans; 7 Aberdeen-Angus heifers;
two Charbray heifers and three %
Charbray heifers.
Texas A&M received one $6,000
oriental rug for use in Memorial
Student Center; one photoelectric
load control attachment to preci
sion watt meter previously donated
and one watt-hour meter demon
stration board. A&M also receiv
ed $23,312.05 in scholarships, fel
lowships and awards; $16,840 in
special gifts, plus personal library
of the late W. F. Fabian; $9,800 in
additional capital funds and $25,000
in new capital funds.
Arlington State College received
a 160 volume library in the field of
engineering.
Prairie View A&M College re
ceived $545 in additions to estab
lished scholarships and develop
ment funds while Tarleton State
College received a $1,000 gift.
System Members
Named To TCHE
Five administrators of the A&M
College System have been named
members of the System’s advisory
committee to the Texas Commis
sion on Higher Education.
The five are Dr. M. T. Harring
ton, Chancellor of the Texas A&M
College System; Dr. David H. Mor
gan, president of A&M; Dr. E. B.
Evans, president of Prairie View;
Dr. E. H. Hereford, president of
Arlington State; and E. J. Howell,
president of Tarleton State.
^ SWSU OURL
Job Interviews
AUENO IP VOO UAOM'T,
CUT CLAfe*? TO WRrtEf
For more than 50 years Canada
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production of nickel. It’s 1954 out
put amounted to more than four
times that of the rest of the free
world combined.
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from the latest to the oldest models. Here’s a chance
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Hearne, Texas
WILL CONDUCT PERSONAL INTERVIEWS
ON CAMPUS
March 1 and 2
Group Meeting February 24)
Boeing has many positions open for graduating and graduate students.
These opportunities are in all branches of Engineering (AE, CE, EE, ME
and related fields). Also needed are Physicists and Mathematicians with
advanced degrees.
Fields of activity include Design, Research and Production. Your choice
of location: Seattle, Washington or Wichita, Kansas.
Personal interviews will cover the details of openings, the nature of
assignments. Company projects currently in work, and miscellaneous infor
mation about the Company.
Come and learn about the excellent opportunities with an outstanding
Engineering organization—designers and builders of the B-47 and B-52
Multi-Jet Bombers; America’s first Jet Transport, the 707;
and the Bomarc IM-99 Pilotless Aircraft.
For time and place of group meeting and for personal inter
view appointments—consult your
The following job interviews will
be held Thursday in the Placement
Office:
The MAGNOLIA PETROLEUM
COMPANY will interview chemi
cal, civil, electrical, mechanical,
geological petroleum engineer
ing, geology, business administra
tion and accounting majors for op
portunities in the Civil Engineering-
Department, Geophysical Depart
ment, Marketing Division, Pipe
Line Co., Refining Division and
the Natural Gas Department.
The SPERRY GYROSCOPE CO.,
Great Neck, Long Island, N.Y. will
interview electrical, mechanical,
aeronautical engineering and phy
sics majors for research and de
velopment of precision instruments,
controls for aircraft, missiles,
ships, bombing systems, and for
field service engineers and techni
cal writers.
The TEXAS ELECTIC SER
VICE COMPANY will interview
electrical, mechanical and civil en
gineering and industrial technology
majors for careers in the electrical
utility business; also accounting
and finance majors who do not
have military duty yet to do for
opportunities in the Financial De
partment.
CHANCE YOU GUT AIRCRAFT,
Dallas, Texas will interview me-l
chanical, aeronautical, architectur-|
al, civil and electrical engineering
majors foi- opportunities in re-1
search, design and development of*
military aircraft and missiles.
The E. I. DUPONT COMPANY I
will interview chemical, mechani-l
cal, electrical and industrial engi-'
neering - , chemistry, and physicsl
majors who are interested in thisl
company.
BOEING AIRPLANCE COM.j
PANY, Seattle, Wichita, will inter.l
view for men interested in piloted |
and pilotless aircraft research, de-j
sign, and production engineering]
activities. They are interested ini
majors in aeronautical, civil, elec-|
trical, industrial and mechanical
engineering, business and advanced
degrees in applied math and phy
sics.
CONY AIR, San Diego, Calif.,
will interview aeronautical, civil,
electrical and mechanical engineer
ing majors and advanced degrees
in physics and math for various
opportunities.
The U.S. Air Force’s Bell X-lA
holds the unofficial altitude record,
reaching 90,000 feet (17 miles).
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In March Reader’s
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HOW TO CONQUER FRUSTRATION. When blocked
from what we seek to do, we feel pent-up and
thwarted. Result: most of us work off our feelings
by lashing out at someone else. Here’s how—if you
are aware of what frustration is doing to you—
you can avoid many a needless clash.
BEST ADVICE I EVER HAD. A street-corner phrenolo
gist “read” the bumps on the boy’s head, spoke 6
words. British Labour Party leader Herbert Mor
rison tells how this advice spurred him on his career.
GUIDED MISSILES: KEY TO PEACE?Terrifying weap
ons we are building in hopes of preventing war.
HOW MUCH DEBT CAN YOU AFFORD? Worried over
your instalment buying? Feel you owe too much?
Here’s a simple way to measure how much debt
you can afford on your income—and suggestions
on how to avoid getting in too deep.
HOW YOUR NOSE KNOWS. Scientific facts about our
amazing and mysterious sense of smell.
AMERICAN MEN ARE LOUSY FATHERS. Famed au
thor Philip Wylie tells why a child needs his father’s
companionship; and why a dad’s greatest rewards
lie in sharing himself with his kids.
THE MAN WHO SAVED A PRESIDENT. The impeach
ment of Andrew Johnson depended on the vote of
one man: Edmund Ross. Senator John F. Kennedy
tells how Ross sacrificed wealth, career to vote as
his conscience bade: “Not guilty.”
WHY DO DOCTORS SMOKE? A doctor asks, “How
can medical men condone the use of tobacco,
knowing its harmful effects?”
COLLEGE WITH A BUILT-IN POCKETBOOK. Story of
Southern Missionary’s work-study plan where stu
dents earn their tuition, get practical experience—
and make a profit for the college.
DOOMED PRISONERS OF DIFFERDANGE. How a Nazi
guard risked his life to save 18 of his captives
from death—a drama whose final scene was enacted
just last spring.
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