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X The Battalion College Station (Brazos bounty), Texas PAGE 2 Friday, February 20, 1959 An Inner Urge The 17th annual Religious Emphasis Week activities have come to a close leaving more people conscious of what it means to live a Christian life. Without the large audiences at both the convocation meetings and group discussions throughout the campus, the week of religious activities would not have been such an overwhelming success. These large groups of students, professors, staff mem bers and local residents left heartwarming impressions in speakers, dormitory counselors and RE Week officials. The convocation speaker, Dr. Ernest Remley, charmed his way into the hearts of his listeners with his dynamic speaking voice and his use of illustrations in putting his ideas over in the most effective way. Dr. Remley’s effective use of humor and his knowledge of theology created an inner urge in his listeners causing them to return morning after morning to hear more. This year, without a doubt, we have had some of the best dorm counselors and discussion leaders that could have possibly been brought to the campus for such a widely-known occasion. On several occasions during the week-long event dis cussion groups stayed in session until around 11 p. m. and some later. Active interest by students and local people is the main reason for the 17-year tenure of Religious Emphasis Week activities. If interest is kept high in these religious activities Aggies will be better Christians and RE Week will live 17 more years and 17 after that . . . Letters To The Editor The Battalion welcomes letters to the editor hut reserves the right to edit letters for brevity, clearness and accuracy. Short letters stand a better chance for publication since space is at a premium. Unsigned letters will not be published... CADET SLOUCH by Jim Earle Who’s Here Editor, The Battalion: Among the accolades current ly being given to “Grade Point Army” how about including one for “Grade Point Registrar?” As President Harrington told the general faculty meeting in September, one out of six ap plicants for admission was turn ed down in the fall. Thus we had only 7,000 students in the fall of 1958 compared with 7,400 in the fall of '57. Isn’t it likely that without the heavy hand of the registrar we would have about 7,600 this year rather than 7,000 assuming no other variables had been introduce to affect regis tration ? Further isn’t it likely that the registrar denied entrance to those obviously poor risks who would have had a detrimental ef fect upon the recently published statistics concerning fall semes ter grade reports? Isn’t it possible that “Grade Point Registrar” is alone entirely responsible for the slight im provement and the efficiency of the Corps reforms per se has not been demonstrated ? In other words, how can the success of “Grade Point Army” be accurately assigned to Corps reforms when the “Grade Point Registrar” may also be consider ed .. . May not be a valid inference be made that somebody up there —somewhere in the administra tion—not only likes the Corps and is anxious, nay, perhaps des perate, to make it work, but has rigged the experiment just a little to get the desired results ? If so, let’s keep up the good work, with even more zealous “rigging” in the future. Parks C. Hunter, Jr. Asst. Prof., English Dept. “It’s always wet at A&M—if it’s not waterfights it’s rain.’ Job Interviews HUNTING A REAL "ENGINEER’S COMPANY’’? Looking for a company where research and development are primary missions? Where a big share of earnings goes into new research equipment? Where one out of eight employees is an engineer? Where professional matters get quick corporate attention from engineers in top management? See our representative. He may have a clue. OUR REPRESENTATIVE WILL BE IN YOUR PLACEMENT OFFICE C HA N C February 24-25-26 ORPORATCO • O A L L A 8 t TEXAS THE BATTALION Opinions expressed in The Battalion are those of the stu dent writers only. The Battalion is a non-tax-supported, non profit, self-supporting educational enterprise edited and op erated by students as a community newspaper and is under the supervision of the director of Student Publications at Texas A&M College. Members of the Student Publications Board are L. A. Duewall, director of Student Publications, chairman ; J. W. Amyx, School of Engineering ; Harry Lee Kidd, School of Arts and Sciences; Otto R. Kunze, School of Agriculture; and Dr. E. D. McMurry, School of Veterinary Medicine. The Battalion, a student newspi tion, Texas, daily except Saturday ber through May, and once a wee! iwspaper at Texas A.&M.. is published in College Sta- ay, Sunday, and Monday, and holiday periods, Septem- eek during summer school. 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For advertising or delivery call VI JOE RUSER.. ...EDITOR Fred Meurer Managing Editor Gayle IV^pNutt v Executive News Editor Bob Weekley Sports Editor Bill Reed, Johnny Johnson, David Stoker, Lewis Reddell....News Editors Bill Hicklin Assistant Sports Editor Robbie Godwin, Ken Coppage, Jack Teague, Bob Edge, Jack Hartsfield Staff Writers Laney McMath, Dave Mueller Photographers Kay Hudson— —- Circulation Manager Monday Atlantic Refining will inter view ChE, EE, ME, GEOPHYS ICS, PetE and PHYSICS majors for opportunities in production and construction. Atlantic Refining will inter view ChE, ME and PetE majors for summer employment as rou stabouts. Argonne Nat’l Laboratory will interview ChE, EE, ME, CHEM ISTRY and PHYSICS majors for opportunities in research and development positions. Texas Company will interview ChE, CE, lEng and ME majors in Class'" of ’60 interested in op portunities in their respective fields. Texas Company will interview ChE, EE, ME, PetE and GeoE \ majors completing junior year who are interested in opportun ities in drilling, production, de sign, operation and processing. . ''fi : CIRCLE FEI. THRU SUN. THE ^ Tunnel OF LOVE Also “OREGON PASSAGE” j* ^ —*u i»..n..XltT-Aj * * VKWAhr*" N i ■ . f M •. t RF l THRU SATURDAY Guy Madison in “BULL WHIP” Also Hugh O’Brien in “THE FRIEND WHO WALKED THE WEST’ FRIDAY NIGHT LATE SHOW “THE SPIDER” Plus “THE BRAIN EATERS” The MSC Film Society presents FRIDAY, FEB. 20 at 7:30 p. m. MSC Ballroom Aetna Life Insurance will in terview BA, ECO, MATH and ACCOUNTING majors for the opportunity as home office rep resentative. Linde Company will interview ChE and ME majors for posi tions in research, development, engineering, sales and produc tion. TODAY THRU SAT. Also “MAN OR GUN” Sat. Nite Prev. 11 p. m. Also Sun. - Tues. TSw /3A 7W£ smurf SPECIAL ADDED ATTRACTION FOOTBALL HIGHLIGHTS OF 1958 Double Feature TODAY & SATURDAY “UNWED MOTHER” & “JOY RIDE” Jim Langston is Well - Remembered As A Rough and Tough Aggie Guard By JACK TEAGUE James E. (Jim) Langston, 23- year-old industrial technology and distribution major from Sul phur Springs and Texas City, is remembered by many as the rough, tough Aggie guard that helped win many football games during the “Bear” Bryant re gime. Born in Sulphur Springs and raised in Texas City, Jim grad uated from Texas City High School in 1952. He made quite a name for himself in that neck of the woods as an outstanding football player. He was soon to be named as an all-district play er, and after that was selected to the Texas All-State team. The “Bear” recognized Jim’s prowess and it wasn’t long be fore Jim was under a Maroon- and-White scholarship, along with some other “respectable” players, such as John Crow, -* CharHe Kru.ger, Bobby Conrad. SH £; PUT IN her THUMB Roddy Osborne, and many others. A veterinary medicine major BROCKTON, Mass. (AP) — for two years, Jim soon realized Unlike Little Jack Horner, 2- that he was either going to have year-old Laura Jean Valley put to quit football or vet medicine 1956. “Ken Back and I played across from Earl Leggett that game,” Jim recalled. “01’ Earl was LSU’s All-American tackle that year, and he nearly killed Ken and me. Football’s supposed to be rough, but I sure began to Social Whirl Petroleum Engineering Wives’ Club will meet Monday night at 7:45 in Room 113 of the Petro leum Engineering Building. Industrial Engineering Wives’ Club will meet Monday at 7:30 p.m. in the Cabinet Room, YMCA. Mechanical Engineering Wives’ Club will have a coffee for pros pective members Sunday, 3-5 p.m. in the South Solarium, YMCA. in her thumb—into a can of po tato sticks—but failed to pull out anything. Including her thumb. “I really didn’t have a choice,” Jim said. “Football was putting- me through college, and if I didn’t play, I would be at Aggie- land to study anything.” And so for three years Jim played foot ball for the Kyle Field Farmers. Jim remembered one of the the potato sticks most exciting games of his ca reer as the Aggie-LSU game of But Laura Jean wasn’t upset when hospital doctors freed her had and took two stitches in her cut thumb. She kept on eating SMORGASBORD Saturday, Feb. 21 A&M Consolidated Elementary School Cafeteria Adults $2.00 Children 75c mMm FRIDAY JAMES CRAIG-ANGIE DICKINSON wwTTCNut JOHN TUCKER BATTLE «*j D 0. BEAUCHAMP Nooucww- RICHARD WH0RF •• wwctcobv RICHARD l BARE. Plus The Life... The Loves... The Dmieqtums Of OiMK KIMM starring I |conn«L w miCMMi 1 ItDE^EflWE^El' De^IHot TECufiiC0E0ij* , !!| rntym 9 A brairiouft Picture Prevue Saturday Night 10:30 p. m. Also Sunday & Monday Paramount presents The DON HARTMAN Eugene Oneill-s production of DESIRE TJOSTDER, THE ELMS • SOPHIA ANTHONY BUHL LOREN-PERKINS'! VES Directed by MIPERT MINN • Produced by DON HIRTMAN Screenplay ty I8WIN SHAW-A Paramount Release ysjrjwf* wonder that game.” Jim’s football career at A&M came to a halt in 1957,^though, right before the A&M-Maryland University game. Jim hurt his knee during practice, and two op erations followed this. His play ing days were over. “When this happened, I lost my scholarship,” Jim said. “From the football field I went to de livering mail for the College Sta tion Post Office, from there to working at a filling station, and now I’m a mechanic. I’m happy, though!” One reason for Jim’s happi ness is that he married his high school sweetheart, the former Miss Gretchen Griner, of Texas City, on June 7, 1957. Gretchen is now employed in the Agricul tural Economics Department. Upon graduation in July, Jim plans to work for the Western Company, an oil field servicing company. “And I’ll be refereeing college football games, too,” Jim said. He joined the Southwest Football Officials Association last year. Enjoy life . . . go out to eat, HOTARD’S Cafeteria OnCHqns with MaxShuJman (By the Author of "Rally Round the Flay, Boys!" and, "Barefoot Boy with Cheek") THE GIRL I LEFT BEHIND ME It happens every day. A young man goes off to college leaving his home-town sweetheart with vows of eternal love, and then he finds that he has outgrown her. What, in such cases, is the honorable thing to do? Well sir, you can do what Rock Sigafoos did. When Rock left Cut and Shoot, Pa., he said to his sweetheart, a simple country lass named Tess d’Urbervilles, “My dear, though I am far away in college, I will love you always. I will never look at another girl. If I do, may my eyeballs parch and wither, may my viscera writhe like adders, may the moths get my new tweed jacket!” Then he clutched Tess to his bosom and planted a final kiss upon her fragrant young skull and went away, meaning with all his heart to be faithful. But on the very first day of college he met a coed named Fata Morgana, a girl of such sophistication, -such poise, such savoir faire as Rock had never beheld. She spoke knowingly of Franz Kafka, she hummed Mozart, she smoked Marlboros, the ciga rette with better "makin’s”. Now, Rock didn’t know Franz Kafka from Pinocchio, or Mozart from James K. Polk, but Marlboros he knew full well. He knew that anyone who smoked Marlboros was modern and advanced and as studded with brains as a ham with cloves. Good sense tells you that you can’t beat Marlboro’s new improved filter, and you never could beat Marlboro’s fine flavor. This Rock knew. So all day he followed Fata around campus and listened to her talk about Franz Kafka, and then in the evening he went back to the dormitory and found this letter from his home-town sweetheart Tess: Dlar Rock, Us kids had a keen time yesterday. We went down to the pond and caught some frogs. I caughtyhc most of anybody. Then we hitched rides on trucks and did lots of nutsy stuff like that. Well, I must close now because I got to whitewash the fence. Tr „ . , Your friend, Tess P.S.... 7 can do my Hula Hoop 3,000 times. Well sir, Rock thought about Tess and then he thought about Fata and then a great sadness fell upon him. Suddenly he knew he had outgrown young, innocent Tess; his heart now belonged to smart, sophisticated Fata. Rock, being above all things honorable, returned forthwith to his home town and walked up to Tess and looked her in the eye and said manfully, “I do not love you any more. I love a girl named Fata Morgana. You can hit me in the stomach with all your might if you like.” “That’s okay, hey,” said Tess amiably. “I don’t love you neither. I found a new boy.” “What is his name?” asked Rock. “Franz Kafka,” said Tess. “A splendid fellow,” said Rock and shook Tess’s hand and they have remained good friends to this day. In fact, Rock and Fata often double-date with Franz and Tess and have heaps of fun. Franz can do the Hula Hoop 6,000 times. © 1959 Max Shulman All’s well that ends well—including Philip Morris. Philip Morris ends well and begins well and is made of superb natural tobaccos by the same people who make Marlboros.