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Editor,
The Battalion
When you took the job as editor
of The Battalion you said you
would hold no prejudice.
After reading your editorial
“Vote for the Future” we have the
opinion you are a man with two
faces.
John Wood ’58
Larry Downs ’58
John McCarty ’58
Edward J. Mikulenka ’58
Julius L. Hammack ’57
Vernon F. Taylor ’58
Charles Dosch ’58
W. Kent White ’58
Gerald A. Kramer ’58
Sonny Ellen ’58
Roy Powell ’58
James M. Warren ’58
Rollins Bilby ’58
Carl Series ’60
Joe Gooden ’60
Editor,
The Battalion
It is our understanding that The
Battalion is a student publication
As such we would like for the
editor of our Battalion to take an
impartial view on controversial is
sues on the campus. If you haven’t
alreday guessed, we are referring
to your issue of May 7, 1957 in
which you try to influence the
voters to vote for the reserved
seating plan in the coming general
election. In this issue you present
ed three specific items that made
an attempt to influence the voters.
We appreciate very much your
trying to get voters out for any
student election!, but we don’t
appreciate any one-sided argu
ments presented in a paper that is
supposed to represent us all. It
seems to us that this issue of the
(See LETTERS, Page 3)
Hope Still Exists
Despite the crushing defeat of the Senate’s plan for
integrated reserve seats for juniors and seniors in yester
day’s election, a big step was taken toward better relations
between Corps and Civilians.
Proposal of the seating plan showed that campus leaders
feel a real need for a solution to the problem of Corps and
Civilian cooperation.
Most encouraging of all was the large part which some
Corps members took in trying to get the plan accepted.
These men stood out above all others because they re
alized that the future of A&M depends largely on how well
the Corps and Ciilian understand each other.
Defeat in this initial attempt for cooperation should not
cause any student to rest in his attempts to build better
Corps-Civilian relations.
The ground has only been broken for the building of an
outstanding Civilian student body which will merit the re
spect of the Corps and be as much of a pride to the College
as the Corps has been in the past.
Building of such a strong Civilian group need not mean
the weakening of the Corps if cadets strive to make their
organization the best it can possibly be. Even though well
organized and good to a point, the Corps may die if the
cadets themselves don’t do something to make it live and
coexist with Civilian students.
Many problems and weaknesses still exist in Corps and
Civilian organizations which, if not remedied, could lead to
either of those groups’ ultimate downfall.
What A&M students should be interested in and work
for earnestly is not a school of all Corps or all Civilians but
a school where these two groups cooperate and show the
people of Texas and the nation as well that they are all wor
thy of being called Aggies. N
Voting Important
A&M’s Corps of Cadets showed yesterday what organ
ization can mean in getting students to vote in campus elec
tions.
Regardless of how the election ended, their concerted
effort shows a real interest in the affairs which affect them.
If every student would take as much interest in the future,
the result could be better student government.
Debaters Finish
Year With 3-7
The Aggie Debate Team finish
ed the year with a 3-7 record at
the Southwest Conference Tourna
ment held in Dallas last weekend.
Negative debaters, E. M. Huitt
and John Warner, won over Rice
Institute, Southern Methodist Uni
versity and Texas Christian Uni
versity. However, they lost to Tex
as Tech and Baylor University.
Jay Hirsch and David Dannen-
baum, on the affirmative, lost all
five debates.
Rice won the tournament, re
taining possession of the confer
ence trophy. The negative team
from Rice won the negative trophy
with a 5-0 record.
Vrooman Accepts
Architect Position
Richard Vrooman has been added
as architect and principal in the
Martin Lemmon & Merrell, Archi
tects Engineers Inc, of Bryan.
Vrooman has served for the past
eight years with the A&M Division
of Architecture. He holds a
Bachelor of Arts degree from
Oberlin College, a Bachelor of
Architecture from Western Reserve
University and a Master of Archi
tecture from A&M.
KEYS made
while you wait
Truck Hits Prof
C. M. Hohn, agricultural engi
neering professor, was released
from a Houston hospital yesterday
after having been hit by a truck
in Houston, according to F. R
Jones, head of the department.
Hohn was not seriously injured
in the accident, Jones said.
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THE THUNDERING MARCH
OF PROGRESS
Today, as everyone knows, is the forty-sixth anni
versary of the founding of Gransnaire College for Women
which, as everyone knows, was the first Progressive
Education college in the United States.
Well do I recollect the tizzy in the academic world
when Gransmire first opened its portals! What a buzz
there was, what a brouhaha in faculty common rooms,
what a rattling of teacups, when Dr. Agnes Thudd Siga-
foos, first president of Gransmire, lifted her shaggy head
and announced defiantly, “This here is no stuffy, old-
fashioned college. This here, by gum, is Progressive
Education. We will teach the student, not the course.
There will be no marks, no exams, no requirements. We
will break the iron mold of orthodoxy, hey.”
"Well sir, forward-looking maidens all over the country
cast off their fetters and came rushing to New Hampshire
to enroll at Gransmire. Here they found freedom. They
broadened their vistas. They lengthened their horizons.
They unstopped their bottled personalities. They roamed
the campus in togas, leading ocelots on leashes.
And, of course, they smoked Philip Morris. (I say
“of course.” Why do I say “of course”? I say “of course”
because it is a matter of course that anyone in search
of freedom should naturally turn to Philip Morris, for
Philip Morris is a natural smoke, with no filter to get
in the way of its true tobacco taste.)
But all was not Philip Morris and ocelots. There was
work and study too — not in the ordinary sense, for there
were no formal classes. Instead there was a broad
approach to enlarging each girl’s potentials.
MIC «/*£?'
JOHN SAXON /
LUANA PATTEN
with FAY WRAY
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the course edited 3#$ic Motor dkUtz
Take, for example, the course called B.M.S. (Basie
Motor Skills). B.M.S. was divided into L.D. (Lying
Down), S.U. (Standing Up) and W. (Walking). Once
the student had mastered L.D. and S.U., she was taught
to W. — but not just to W. any old way! No, sir! She
was taught to W. with poise, dignity, bearing! To incul
cate a sense of balance in the girl, she began her exercises
by walking with a suitcase in each hand. (One girl, Mary
Ellen Dorgenicht, got so good at it that today she is bell
captain at the Dinkler-Plaza Hotel in Atlanta, Georgia.)
When the girls had walking under their belts, they
were allowed to dance. Again no formality was imposed.
They were simply told to fling themselves about in any
way their impulses dictated, and believe you me, it was
quite an impressive sight to see them go bounding into
the woods with their togas flying. (Several later joined
the U. S. Forestry Service.)
There was also a lot of finger painting and gourd
rattling and sculpture with coat hangers and all like that,
and soon the fresh wind of Progressivism came whistling
out of Gransmire to blow the ancient dust of pedantry
off curricula everywhere, and today, thanks to the pio
neers at Gransmire, we are all free, every man-jack of us.
If you are ever in New Hampshire, be sure to visit
the Gransmire campus. It is now a tannery.
©Max Shulmati, 1957
And be sure to light a Philip Morris when you visit Gransmire,
or anywhere else for that matter, because Philip Morris is
ahvays a naturally perfect companion and brings you this
column each week and is ignitable at either end.
LFL ABNER
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