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BATTALION EDITORIALS
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The Realization of a Goal
Final Review has many meanings to the Men of Aggie-
land.
To some it is the culmination of four years study and
work, to others it is the donning of the long-awaited boots,
to sophomores it means an end to being an underclassman
and to freshmen it signifies full-recognition by upperclass
men.
Like some other traditions here at Aggieland it has
been abused and not been carried out in full military man
ner. But throughout all this it has survived to be the goal
of Aggies from when they first enter the gates of Aggie
land until their last final review when they become former
students of Texas A&M.
Final Review is more than just a couple of marches
around the drill field. It means more than the end of the
school year. It is the beginning of another year or of a
future as a college graduate.
A large part of its true meaning is attached to the
changing of uniforms that has accompanied it in the past.
Freshmen gain their curved brass, military creases
and all the other uniform privileges of sophomores.
To sophomores it is the day when they first don the
serge that they have worked two years to earn the right
to wear.
Juniors gain the privilege of wearing the symbol of Ag
gieland—boots.
And to seniors it is their last honor from the Corps of
Cadets and to most their last contact with the men of their
outfit.
These are the things that make Final Review so im
portant to Aggies—from the most inconspicuous freshman
to the highest-ranking senior.
Any change in the procedure of the rite would only
serve to cheapen it and lessen its meaning and impact—a
fate which has befallen many Aggie traditions that have been
tampered with by outsiders.
Will it happen to Final Review?
Symbol of Ag Brotherhood
Traditions are one of the things that help make a man
proud to be an Aggie and one of the most beautiful of these
traditions is Silver Taps.
A man gains new faith in himself and his fellow man
when he can be a part of a Silver Taps. It means a lot to
know that more than 6,000 students pause in their studies
and gather to honor a departed Aggie.
Aggies talk of their comradeship a great deal, but the
Silver Taps ceremony is the living testimony to how Ag
gies feel about their buddies.
Not even the turning on of lights in one of the Academic
Building classrooms or in several dorms adjacent to the site
of the ceremony as the last strains of the buglers’ notes
were fading away could serve to lessen the feeling left by
Silver Taps.
As long as there are true Men of Aggieland to carry on
such a tradition as Silver Taps, the future of Texas A&M
holds only bright happenings and an optimistic outlook.
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School Year Nears Close
Parents 9 Day Programs Available
Final Review 17 Days Away;
Aggies Anticipate Last Event
Students who have not received
a program of events for Parents’
Day weekend may pick them up
at any of the following four lo
cations, according to W. L. Pen-
berthy, director of the Depart
ment of Student Activities.
Programs may be picked '
at the Memorial Student Center,
offices of the deans of the vari
ous schools, the Commandant’s
office, or the office of Student
Activities.
By BILL HICKLIN
Battalion News Editor
It won’t be long now. Only 17
days remain until Final Review.
And Aggies in the Corps of
Cadets are anticipating making
their final appearance in respec
tive classes before donning the
uniforms for the last time
around, which marks an advance
ment and the conclusion of an
other year. Or for graduating
seniors, it is the final appearance
which terminates four years of
work here at A&M.
Anticipation is so high in some
instances that the time remain
ing until the final event has been
reduced to hours and even min
utes. Beginning with the fresh
men and on into the graduating
seniors, expectations of the long-
awaited affair have been ex
pressed.
“We are looking forward to
wearing the uniform which makes
LETTERS
Editor,
The Battalion:
We surely appreciate the co
operation you gave us in con
nection with our recent Secretar
ies Week program; your publish
ing the article relative to our
various activities helped very ma
terially in publicizing this event.
Mrs. Florence Hall, President
Bryan-College Station Chapter
The National Secretaries Assn.
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us upperclassmen,” said Dan
Deupree, president of the Class
of ’62. “We think the sophomores
should wear serge and the juniors
wear the boots at Final Review,”
he concluded.
Clint Murphy, president of the
Class of ’61, stated, “We have
been waiting two years to make
this advancement. I definitely
want to wear serge the final time
around.”
“This is a part of A&M,” de
clared Randy Curtis, deputy
Corps commander. “It ranks
along with Muster, Silver Taps,
the 12th Man and all other things
that make A&M great.”
“There may have been some
things in the past that we have
done to cheapen it by being un
military in formations and such,
but it is still one of the good
things left here at A&M,” he said.
Preparations for one of the
PITCHING TO PREACHING
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (^ > )—Ben W.
Render switched jiis newspaper bag
for a pulpit. (
Render started his paper route
13 years ago. He retired recently
when he was ordained a Baptist
minister.
Render, 26, paid his way through
high school, the University of
Louisville and Southern Baptist
Theological Seminary with his
paper-carrying earnings. He broke
only one window in his 13 years
as a carrier, and that belonged to
a longtime customer who gladly
paid to have it replaced.
Smith Leads Trip
To Study Brazos
Fred Smith of the Department
of Geology and Geophysics con
ducted a geological field trip Sat
urday to the lower tertiary and
upper cretaceous of the Brazos
River valley.
Members of the Houston Geo
logical Society and the Gulf Coast
section of the Society of Econom
ic Paleontology and Mineralogy
and professors and students from
schools in Texas and Louisiana
made the trip.
This field trip was an continu
ation of the study of the Brazos
River section, the upper portion
of which was covered by the Dec
ember, 1958, field trip of the
Gulf Coast section of SEPM and
the Houston Geological Society.
The chief aim of the trip was
to give Gulf Coast geologists an
opportunity to become acquainted
with good exposures of lower ter
tiary and upper cretaceous for
mations, to understand their
sedimentary history and thus “be
able to better correlate despite
facies changes,” Smith said.
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outstanding highlights of the
year for Aggies are underway.
Freshmen have begun work on
curved, brass which stamps them
as sophomores, while sophomores
have procured serge—a patent of
the junior class.
Juniors have obtained the boots,
establishing them as the graduat
ing class of Aggieland. Also,
Final Review completes four
years of effort, for graduating
seniors.
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