First Aggie Corps Trip is Never Forgotten
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streets that have streetcar tracks).
tin cans, chewing gum, etc., you
find that the parade ends on the
far side of town from your car.
You begin the long ovei’land jour
ney, in the meantime encounter
ing several jovial remarks—
“What’s that, Mania?”, “Hi, there,
Poy Scout!”, and “Wanta fight,
.soldier boy!” Finally, you reach
the car and begin the mad dash
to the stadium.
After a three-hour struggle, you
manage to reach the game, and
you are somewhat shaken but still
intact. You find the Aggie section
and get with your Fish buddies
for protection. The Aggie section
is easy to find, because it is in
the worst possible spot, behind the
posts and in the sun. “They have
to come, so why give them good
seats, “seems to be the slogan
among football ticket salesmen.
After the kickoff, routine is the
same as at home games—stand
and wildcat, squeeze, or kiss your
girl or anybody’s girl after the
touchdown. You will know what to
do by Corps Trip time, as you will
already have been to several
games.
After the game ends—with Ag
gies winning this season—you
dash to the company party out at
“Old Lucy’s Inn.” By now you
have noticed that the keynote of
the whole trip is rush, rush, rush.
At the party, you enjoy your
self to the utmost—dance with
the soph’s girls, and even the jun
iors’ if any of them have dates.
Make yourself as big a nuisance as
possible, because chances are the
upperclassmen won’t remember a
thing when they get back.
After leaving the party in the
wee hours, you have two choices.
First, you may drive back to col
lege right away so you can meet
breakfast formation Sunday
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morning by yourself, or you can
hole up in your buddy’s hotel
again and not get back until noon
Monday. Here the decision is up
to you. In any case, get back. You
probably owe somebody money.
As the corps drags back to
school Sunday and Monday and
even Tuesday (One Old Army fel
low waited until Wednesday and
told the Bulls that the Tessies had
him in the dorm and wouldn’t
let him go.), you begin the same
old grind of classes and intramur
als.
You have your memories as you
plan anxiously for the next corps
trip. Next time you’ll be a veteran
and know all the angles.
After four years of this routine,
they give you a diploma*—not for
your scholastic achievements—but
to show the world that you made
it through eight Corps Trips and
lived.
Thirty-six foreign countries had
145 students enrolled in A&M in
fall of 1955.
WATCH THAT TROLLEY TRACK!—Corps Staff Officers
approach the Reviewing- Stand during march-by review on
the 1955 Dallas Corps Trip. (Wonder how many Aggies
have used foul language in reference to those tracks in the
last 25 years?)-
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