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7 P The B<iltaIion College Station (Brazos County), Texas PAGE 2 Friday, April 27, 1956 Read Battalion Classifieds Daily On Campos with Max Qhufrnan (Author of "Barefoot Boy With Check,” etc.) IT’S LATER THAN YOU THINK! An year long you’ve been promising yourself to go there. Now summer vacation is just around the corner and you still haven’t set foot in the place. Shame on you! But it’s not too late. Right now, this very minute, before you weaken, lift up your head and forward march to the place you have been avoiding ever since school began. I refer, of course, to the library. you firmed or cdnytkino] Now here you are at the library. That wasn’t so bad, was it? Of course not! Go inside. What do you see? A sign that says “No Smoking.” Go outside. Light a Philip Morris. Smoke. Go back inside. Because now you are ready. Now your trembling resolution is rigid. Now your pulsing psyche is serene. You have been gentled by gentle Philip Morris. You have been tranquilized by a smoke that dotes and pampers and caresses, that lifts the fallen, repairs the shattered, straightens the bent, uni’avels-the knotted, rights the askew, and fastens the unbuttoned. In the center of the library you see the main circulation desk. Look in the card catalogue for the number of the book you want, write the number on a slip, and hand it to the efficient and obliging young lady at the desk. The efficient and obliging young lady then gives the slip to an efficient and obliging page boy who trots briskly back into the stacks, curls up on a limp leather encyclopedia, and sleeps for an hour or two. Then, puffy but i-efreshed, he returns your slip to the efficient and obliging young lady at the desk, who tells you one of three things: (a) “Your book is out.” (b) “Your book is at the bindery.” (c) “Your book is on reserve.” Having learned that the circulation desk hasn’t the least intention of ever parting with a book, let us now go into the periodical room. Here we spend hours sifting through an imposing array of magazines—magazines from all the far corners of the earth, magazines of every nature and descrip tion—but though we search diligently and well, we cannot find Mad or Confidential. Next let us venture into the reference room. Here in this hushed, vaulted chamber, we find the true scholars of the university — earnest, dedicated young men and women who cai'e for only one thing in the world : the pursuit of knowledge. Let us eavesdrop for a moment on this erudite couple poring over heavy tomes at the corner table. Hush! She speaks: She: Whatcha readin’, hey? He: “The Origin of Species.” You ever read it? She: No, but I seen the movie. He: Oh. She: You like readin’? He: Naah. She: What do you like? He : Hockey, licorice, girls, stuff like that. She: Me too, hey. He: You pinned or anything? She: Well, sort of. I’m wearin’ a fellow’s motorcycle emblem. ... But it’s only platonic. He : Wanna go out for a smoke ? She: Philip Morris? He : Of corris ! And as our learned friends take their leave, let us too wend our way homeward —a trifle weary, perhaps, but enlightened and renewed and better citizens for having spent these happy hours in the library. Aloha, library, aloha! © M ax shuiman, 1956 The makers of Philip Morris, tv ho sponsor this column, could tcrite volumes about the gentleness of today's Philip Morris, but tee’ll only tell you this: Take a leaf from our book. Enjoy Philip Morris. The Battalion The Editorial Policy of The Battalion Represents the Views of the Student Editors Xlie Battalion, daily newspaper of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas and the City of College Station. i» 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. Burchard. Tom Leland and Bennie Zinn. Student members are Derrell 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 summer terms and during examination and vacation periods. The Battalion is not published on the Wednesday immediately preceding Easter or Thanksgiving. Subscription rates are $3.50 per semester. $6 00 per school year. $6.50 per full year, or $1.00 per month. Advertising rates furnished on request. Entered as second-class matter at Post Office at College Station, TeXfcs. under the Act of Con gress of March 3. 1870. Member of The Associated Press Represented nationally by National Advertising Services, Inc., a t New York City. Chicago. Dos [ Angeles, and San Fran- cisco. The Associated Press is entitled exclusively to the use for republi cation of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in j the paper and local news of spontaneous origin published herein. Rights of republieation of all other matter herein are also reserv ed. News contributions may be made by telephone (VI (j-6618 or VI- 0-4910) or at the editorial office room, 202 Goodwin Hall. Classified ads may be placed by telephone (VI 6-G415) or at the Student Publica tion Office, Room 207^ Goodwin Hall. BILL FULLERTON J Ralph Cole Ronnie Greathouse Jim Bower, Dave McReynolds Welton Jones Barbara Paige Barry Hart -_ Editor Managing Editor Sports Editor News Editors I : — City Editor Woman’s Editor ! . Assistant Sports Editor 1 Jim Neighbors, John West, Joe Tindcl, Leland Boyd, Ed Rivers, A1 Chappel Maurice Olian CHS Sports Correspondent f- , Circulation Manager James Schubert, Mike Ivccn, Guy Fernandez Reporters Last Thoughts About A Year On Battalion By BILL FULLERTON Battalion Editor Today marks the last issue that I will be editor for The Battalion ; the new staff takes over next week, leaving - as “has-beens” Ralph Cole, man aging editor, Ronnie Greathouse, sports editor, and myself. I’m not satisfied with what has been accomplished this year. But I’ll not worry, for no one ever is completely happy with what he does. Take, for instance, the pris oner who complained of the litera ture that the “prison angel” gave him to read. “Nutt’n but continued stories,” he grumbled. “An I’m to be hung next Tuesday.” Well, Ronnie, Ralph and I aren’t going to be hung next Tuesday, but Vve are out of a job. And the needs that we saw before us at the start of this year are not ful filled. Working for the good of A&M College—as we honestly try to understand “good”—is a contin- ping process. A new crew will be around to carry on the job. We’ve not much left to say, at least not at the present, although no where near gleaned of thoughts. The old quotation, “Knowledge and timber should not be much used until they are seasoned,” will have to delay our speaking about other matters. Our views during this past year, we thought and think needed to be expressed. All cf us are grateful for every one who ha? been helpful to us this year. By helpful, we mean both those who agi’eed with us and those who disagreed. Only by the open conflict of ideas—something which is at times not very well tolerated at A&M—can pi*ogress be attained. And progress mean- ng as far as A&M is concerned a more complete education: academ ically, socially, ethically, and a de veloping sense of individual respon sibility to and perspective of our changing world — is a forward movement. It will not be attained by stepping backward. A crayfish may be looking forward, but his fastest movement is backwards. A&M is a changing institution; probably everyone dimly realizes this is so. But a lot of people are fighting even the idea of change. Fighting change is the wrong way; these persons would do better to try to guide, as far as possible in this at times impossible world, the new horizons. Nothing in the world is as it was centuries ago; nothing will be the same centuries hence. Change cannot be prevented, but it can be somewhat controlled. McCandless Takes Badminton Title Charles McCandless defeated El bert Gray 15-8, 15-3 annexing championship Intramural honors in open badminton yesterday. Mc Candless’ victory climaxed a series of preliminary matches open to any A&M student. Pitcher Norman Morrison hurled C-Infantry to a league softball championship and a berth in play off competition, edging Maroon Band 9-8. Wednesday’s attempt to separate the two upperclassman teams resulted in a 7-7 deadlock. The Infantrymen, held scoreless for two full innings, watched the Band pile up a commanding 4-0 lead before blasting the game open in the third with six diamond cir cuits. Second baseman Bill Boyd ac counted for two Infantry scores walking in the third and fifth in nings. Boyd, a wiley basemaster, managed to capitalize on both to lead scoring for the new league champs. Make her weekend Complete with flowers for the Prom See Your DORM REPRESENTATIVE Or Come By . . . Student Floral Concession Across from the Main Entrance to New Area “Run by Aggies for Aggies’* School Study (Continued from Page 1) Today marks the end of the line for three Batt members in their present positions. We’ll be around for a while longer as re porters. This day also marks (he beginning of a new phase of life, the world outside with its color and change—the world that can only too easily blot out what WAS in the struggle for exis tence and make important only what IS. Getting back to the present. I’ll have to end now the expression of my own opinions with this issue. After today, I’ll no longer be what was once described (1937) as a person “who knows all the an swers off-hand and can settle great affairs with absolute finality three or even six days a week.” Anoth er, and I believe a good, man now has claim to that title. Best of luck to him, his staff, and his readers at A&M and Col lege Station. the Texas State Department of Ed ucation imposes a ruling that pro hibits more than 25 per cent of the students in any public high school from taking more than four solid subjects at one time. We be lieve that this ruling should be modified to permit more students to take more courses at a time. We urge school patrons and organ izations to recommend such change to the following: Jack R. Hawkins, (Groesbeck), this district’s representative to the State Board of Education. Dr. J. W. Edgar, State Educa tion Commissioner. Dr. T. P. Baker (Asst. Superin tendent of the Austin Public Schools), Texas representative to the Southern Association of Col leges and Secondary Schools. Our filial recommendation is that each semester the Education Com mission sponsor a meeting, with the entire staff of the junior higli and high school, to discuss prob lems of discipline, teen-age con duct, and standards of behavious. 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