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Hie Battalion .... College Station (Brazos County), Texas
PAGE 2 Thursday, September 13, 1956
How Much Enthusiasm?
Of the many students enrolling - this year (expected
7,400) there are probably many varied reactions as to once
again getting back to school.
Some will be sorry, some happy, some indifferent and
others in varying degrees of either or all of these. As we
face this year, there is at least one idea that will be com
mon to us all—and that is just what the year holds in store
for us and how we will cope with the many different situa
tions.
Naturally there cannot be one universal treatment or
diagnosis that will fit each of us and help us meet the out
come of events of the coming year, whether they be good or
bad.
But there is one frame of mind that perhaps will do more
good for more people, including the school, regardless of how
we feel at the present. This elusive element has many syno
nyms but is more commonly known as enthusiasm.
For those of us who are returning already enthused and
full of determination to do good, regardless of the endeavor,
added enthusiasm will serve to strengthen us when we meet
adverse situations, as we surely will.
For those of us who are returning unhappy, enthusiasm
will at least lift us to the level to where we will be more re
ceptive to progress, take more interest and therefore help
those who are pushing ahead towards better goals.
For those of us who are indifferent and really don’t seem
to care one way or another which way things go, enthusiasm
will lift us into a position where we will at least try a little
and therefore throw more weight into the forward push.
Of course this panacea called enthusiasm must be used
with planned moderation or we will find ourselves worn out
after a few months or so blindly possessed with our cause
that we have no reasoning power or understanding.
Irregardless of the outcome of too much zeal, such situ-
-ations would be better than the apathy and complacency
which at times is very common. The more of us that take an
active part, the better chance we have for success.
Those of us who do nothing to make room for those of us
who would lead the wrong way. When we find we have
been led over a cliff, we have no right to then drag out our
soapbox and begin protesting.
So as we begin this new school year, let us have a posi
tive outlook in that we realize our problems and responsibili
ties and will tackle them determined to do the best we can,
hever resorting to back-sliding or blind stubbornness.
Ross Volunteers Off To Early Start
; The Ross Volunteers, honor mil
itary guard at A&M is getting off
to an early start this school year.
Commander John Specht, a senioi
from New Braunfels, has begun
work on plans for the many func
tions the Volunteers will perform
on and off the campus this year.
The Volunteers, about 100 mem
bers, in white uniforms, will act
,as honor guard at the inaugura
tion of the governor of Texas, hon
or guard for Kin,g' Rex at. the Mar-
Texarkana Junior
Picketed With No
College
"V iolenee
TEXARKANA, Tex., — Texark
ana Junior College was picketed
again yesterday by .a crowd of
anti integration white adults and
male students, but no Negroes tried
to challenge their guard.
An estimated 100 persons gath-
ered on the campus in the third
straight day of demonstrations
against integration of the school.
A federal judge ordered Negroes
admitted to the college this year
for the first time in its 29-year
history.
Seven Negro teen-age boys in
volved in a rock throwing incident
last night were ordered turned
over to Bowie County juvenile
authorities. Police Chief Leon Ar
nold said the youths were accused
of throwing stones at a car oc
cupied by Charles E. Harland and
Floyd E. Fowler Jr.
Neither of the two men appear
ed in city court when the Negro
youths were arranged.
Meanwhile, Steve Poster, 17, a
Negro youth who had taken en
trance examinations for enroll
ment at the college, left town to-
CADET SLOUCH
di Gras in New Orleans and the
Aggie Muster on the campus next
April and many other programs.
Officers are Commander Specht;
Marvin E. Nelson, Eagle Pass, ex
ecutive officer; Karl J. Soringer,
San Antonio, adminstrative offi
cer; Larry Piped, Brownwood, Jer
ry Betsill, Doole and Jimmy Dell
inger, Corpus Christ, platoon lead
ers. Jack Thomas of Fort Worth
is first sergeant.
‘Okii-V A MEW COMER WILL
E1GMT TMAT RECiFiTRA'nOki
MO& UWM2MED?"
LIT, ABNER
By A1 Capp
day to attend a Negro school.
Interviewed just before he
boarded a bus, he said he hoped
to enroll at Texas College at Tyler.
He said he wasn’t sure about
whether to try any longer to at
tend Texarkana College.
Poster was one of two students
who were turned back by a crowd
at Texarkana College Monday.
Read Battalion Classifieds Daily
by Jaimes Earle
Students Can
Buy Football
Ducats Friday
Reserved seat tickets for the four
Aggie home games have gone on
sale at the Athletic Office and
date tickets for students will go on
sale Friday, according to Pat Dial
of the Athletic Office.
“Students desiring to purchase
date tickets must have their ath
letic activity card with them, the
yellow slip denoting payment of
fees will not be accepted,” Dial
said.
Cost of date tickets will be $2.50
each until Sept. 21. After that day
at 5 p. m. date tickets will be the
regular price of $3.50 each.
Out-of-town date tickets will be
$3.50 each with the exception of
the LSU game Sept. 29. Those
tickets will be $3.75 each.
Advanced ticket sales for this
season have been the best in his
tory and have exceeded the Okla
homa game in 1951.
“Plenty of tickets are still avail
able, although it is expected that
the TCU game here Oct. 20 will be
a sellout,” Dial said.
Military Day
To Be Held
On November 3
The third annual Fall Mili
tary Day will be Nov. 3, the
day of the A&M-Arkansas
University football game here.
The first Fall Military was
held Nov. 13, 1953 when the Ag
gies lost to Rice Institute on Kyle
Field. Since then an impressive
host of generals and other dis
tinguished personnel have been
guests of the college.
Acceptances have already been
received from Congressman and
Mrs. Olin Teague, who are heading
the Washington party of guests
and Lt. General and Mrs. Clyde
Davis Eddleman. General Eddle-
man is Deputy Chief of Staff, De
partment of Operations and Ad
ministrations, Department of Ar
my.
Among the guests will be Major-
General Guy S. Meloy, Command
ant of A&M cadets from 1947-
1948. General Meloy, together with
cadet officers, wrote the first Ar-
tilcs of the Cadet Corps. Prior to
that time, A&M had no established
guide or policy of operations.
Also, General and Mrs. William
N. Gilmore will attend the cere
mony. General Gilmore is com-
manding general, Third Corps, Fort
Hood, Texas.
Other members of the party in
clude distinguished personnel from
the Army and Air Force plus state
officials.
Congressman Teague has ar
ranged the Washington, D.C. party
of guests attending the Fall Mil
itary Day. A full Corps review
will be held in honor of the guests
on Saturday afternoon before the
football«game that night.
No Cross Examination
NEW CANAAN, Conn. GP> —
Town Court Judge Louis Bucci-
arelli refused to convict a motorist
charged with speeding' on the basis
of evidence provided by police radar
alone. “A machine cannot be cross-
examined, and the defendant ought
to be given the benefit of every
doubt,” he ruled, noting there was
no corroborating testimony.
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AT THE TRIANGLE
South College
On Campus
With
MaxQhulman
(Author of "Barefoot Boy With Cheek," etc.)
ANOTHER YEAR, ANOTHER DOLLAR
Today I begin the third year of writing this col
umn for Philip Morris Cigarettes, and I am merry in
my heart.
I am merry for several reasons. First, because I am
being paid.
Not, let me hasten to state, that an emolument was
necessary. “Sirs,” I said a few days ago to the makers
of Philip Morris, who underneath their dickeys ai’e as
friendly as pups and twice as cute, “Sirs,” I said to this
winsome assemblage, “there is no need to pay me for
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men and women to Philip Morris’s natural tobacco good
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Philip Morris smokers and thus enhance their happiness,
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“PQ?” said the makers, looking at me askance.
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the college population of America, there is no need for
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$ We wept then. I am not ashamed to say it. WE
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jack of us. The makers wept. The secretaries wept. I
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“No, no!” cried one of the makers, whose name is
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Refreshed and exalted, we returned to the busi
ness at hand. “Now then,” said one of the makers, whose
name is Merry Andrew, “what will you write about in
your column this year?”
“About students and teachers,” I said. “About classes
and cutting. About eds and coeds. About Greeks and
independents. About the important issues that occupy
the supple young minds of college America.”
“Like what?” asked one of the makers, whose name
is Tol’able David.
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And we all shook hands — silently, firmly, manlily —
and I left, dabbing at my eyes with my agent, and hurried
to the nearest typewriter.
©Max Shulman, 1956
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this unccnsored, free-wheeling column each week during the
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