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The Battalion
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College Station (Brazos County), Texas
Friday, December 13, 1957
Art for
Aggies’ Sake
BY WELTON JONES
With the approach of the Christmas season, most per
sons are to some degree preoccupied, with purchasing gifts.
Readers of this column are no exceptions and, with the
current lull in local entertainment activity, this column will
devote itself today to discussing books, phonograph records
and similar matter suitbale for gifts.
Before beginning, however, there is one local event
of note, as follows:
MOTION PICTURES — For those hardy enough to
brave recent weather conditions at a drive-in ttheatre, one
of the truly superb films of the past decade, “The Prisoner”,
starring Alec Guinness and Jack Hawkins, will be on view
at the Skyway Drive-In for
the last time tonight.
Inspired by the Commu
nist trial of Cardinal Joseph
Mindszenty of Hungary in
the early days of the Cold War,
the movie chronicles the efforts
of a Communist interrogator
(Hawkins) to brainwash the high
est Catholic official of the coun
try (Guinness) into confessing
fictitious crimes.
HOOKS—The annual Exchange
Store book sale, although a week
old, still affords several good
selections, all at reduced prices.
“Town Hall Tonight”, by Har-
lowe R. Hoyt, is a stiff dose of
nostalgia for those who still think
of the 1880’s and 90’s as “the
real hay-day of the theatre”.
Robustly written, it is full of
dialogue, song and illustrations.
For those who like their bawdy
stories set in the past, Herman
Kesten has a new biography of
Casanova, the almost legendary
Italian lover. Thomas Mann calls
the book “well founded in re
search and written with verve.”
Most admirers of music would
welcome a copy of Harry Dexter
and Raymond Tobin’s “Pocket
Encyclopedia of Music.” Possibly
there are too many lists and too
few comments. And then there
is the inexplainable lack of
Tchaikovsky’s ballets in the dance
section. But, for its size, the
volume is complete.
Many children’s books are in
cluded in the sale. One that
caught this column’s eye was Wil
liam
Hutchinson’s “Child’s
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Book of the Theatre”. There is
also a supply of assorted books
authored by the admirable
Horatio Alger.
Before leaving the store’s sale,
mention must be made of the col
lection of prints available at
reduced prices.
Represented are all types of
illustrations from oriental silk-
screens to the posters of
Toulouse-Lautrec. Represented in
full size mock canvases as well
as smaller works are such popular
artists as Van Gogh, Picasso,
Degas, Matisse and Braque.
RECORD MUSIC — It is al
ways news when one of
the Metropolitan Opera Com
pany’s leading divas releases a
new recording of an opera, and
this column is happy to see
Renata Tebaldi singing Violetta
in Verdi’s “La Traviata” as brilli
antly as she does in a new album.
Columbia Records and Eugene
Ormandy’s Philadelphia Sym
phony Orchestra have joined pro
fitably many times before, and
do themsleves proud with a cur
rent recording of Prokofiev’s
“Peter and the Wolf.” Not the
least attraction of this charming
old folk tale is the spirited nar
ration of actor Cyril Ritchaixl.
“Concerto for Jazz Band and
Symphony Orchestra” is the ar
resting title of a rather discon
certing work by Rolf Liebermann,
done on a RCA Victor record by
Fritz Reiner and the Chicago
Symphony Orchestra with the
Sauter-Finegan band.
The piece is dull and even poor
in places, but it is quite a novelt/
and might lead to great things.
It is backed by the Richard
Strauss perennial, “Don Juan.”
Two records nearer the “pop
ular” field that are heartily re
commended by this column are
“Ole Caterina” featuring Caterina
Valente and her brother Silvia
Francesco (including a rendition
of “El Cumbanchero” that should
become a classic) and a new pro
duction of “Annie Get Your Gun”
with Mary Martin and John Raitt.
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Letters To The Editor
Editor:
The Battalion
Your editorial in the Wednes
day Dec. 4 edition of The Battal
ion proves one thing: you are ig
norant of the simplest and most
fundamental purpose of the Corps
of Cadets and the ROTC program,
despite your heroic experiences in
the Corps earlier in your college
career.
First, of course, A&M is not
intended to be a West Point. But
then, neither is the United States
intended to be a military dictator
ship. However, in case you have
not heard, the USSR is a dicta
torship, does have a very active
military program and would like
nothing better than to see a weak
military in our nation. And who,
Mr. Editor, is better qualified to
serve in the military, a high
school graduate with no military
training or a college graduate
with two, three or four years of
military training?
So now you argue, why make a
man take military training, if he’d
rather not. Well, then, why draft
a person if he’d rather stay home,
take the easy way out and let the
men do the fighting?
Then, Mr. Editor, you don’t
even realize that the “R” in ROTC
stands for “Reserve,” A man
completing four years of training
at A&M is tendered a commission
in the Army or Air Force Re
serves, not normally the Regular
Army. This fact alone prohibits
A&M from ever becoming another
West Point.
Your most obnoxious proposal
is that A&M should adopt the
policy now in effect at most col
leges, and allow students to take
military training without partici-
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pating in the Corps. That will
accomplish just’two things. First,
it will create a third group on
this campus and split the student
body even more. Second, it will
destroy one of the greatest dif
ferences between A&M and every
other common college in the
country, by leading to the dete
rioration of the Corps of Cadets
and its eventual dissolution. Why
not go ahead, Mr. Editor and
tear down Sully, forget about all
of A&M’s traditions, and start up
an exchange program with TU
so we can set up fraternities in
place of today’s outfits ?
Your one-man war on the Corps
of Cadets has done-more to unite
us than any one other factor
since I’ve been at this school.
Keep up the good work.
Bill McDaniel ’59
Editor:
The Battalion
I take it that you think in the
future the United States will on
ly need a few men who are lead
ers and will need only specialists
in certain fields who couldn’t lead
a thirsty cow to water.
Everyone knows that West
Point is a great military school,
but it does not provide enough
officers for the Armed Forces to
day. The Corps of Cadets helps
to provide the officers which
West Point cannot produce.
The Coi'ps of Cadets has some
thing that the Civilians will nev
er have. It teaches self-disci
pline, leadership and obedience to
superiors while learning and
studying for a vocation, while the
Civilians have time only for
themselves and their studies.
Kent Hoyle ’60
(Editor’s Note: My thanks go
to the many students who have
expressed a desire to write letters
in opposition to some of the
opinions stated above, but who
say they feel enough harm has
already been done by the letters
and they do not wish to add to it.)
College Students
On Liberal Arts
Initial results of a college stu
dent opinion poll run throughout
the nation recently showed that
students are pretty evenly split
on the question of whether or not
there is enough emphasis being
placed on liberal arts education
today.
American college and univer
sity students answered the fol
lowing question: “Not long ago
a midwest educator said he feels
that not enough emphasis is be
ing placed on a liberal arts edu
cation today. Do you agree with
this statement, or do you disagree
with it? Why?”
The poll, taken by the Asso
ciated Collegiate Press, showed
that 47% of the men and 41%
of the women agreed, for a total
of 45%; 41% of the men and
49% of the women disagreed, for
a 44% total; and 12% of the men
and 10% of the women were un
decided, for a 11% total.
The basic point on which the
issue revolves is specialization.
Students disagreeing with the
statement felt more emphasis
should be placed on specialization,
while the opposite held true for
those in agreement with the ques
tion.
“Over-specialization has rob
bed the United States of a think
ing public,” argued a Colorado
State College sophomore. A Uni
versity of Kentucky sophomore
coed added: “We are becoming
too specialized in this country.
We need to have more emphasis
on general education in order that
we may develop along a number
of lines.”
Topic
On the other side of the picture,
a sophomore coed at Tyler Junior
College in Texas-' commented:
“Liberal education is good, but if
people did not excel and special
ize, there would be few advance
ments.” A Wayne State Univer
sity (Detroit) freshman coed
backed up her views by saying:
“There should be more emphasis
on science as such, because more
scientists are needed.”
How do you feel about it?
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