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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 25, 1960)
Checking Mail New students will find checking their mail a daily habit and will always welcome a letter from their parents or that special girl (or girls as is the case with most Aggies). There are two U. S. Post Offices located on the campus, one near each dormitory area. Two Post Offices Serve Mail Needs of Students While a student at A&M you will be wanting to hear from your folks, your girls and other friends. This poses the question of just how does a person receive mail at A&M. Mail is delivered at two places on the campus. One is at the main post office at the North Gate, the other is the post office in the Memorial Student Center. You will have to go by either of these two places and fill out an application for a post office box. This is where you will re ceive your mail. Be sure to do this as soon as you are assigned a room so that you can pick the post office nearest your dormi tory. The college does have a special delivery service, therefore it is important that you give your cor rect room number when filling out the card for the post office box! Immediate delivery is made in the special delivery depart ment. A&M BOASTS (Continued from Page 1) their part in the great emergency program of training a victorious military force. Six former students of A&M have been awarded the Medal of Honor for exceptional bravery in World War II—all but two of the awards being posthumous. A&M trains citizens soldiers— trained men to be available for military service in a war emer gency. That it has well met that objec tive is evidenced by the splendid performance of its sons and by these overall figures of its train ing program in round numbers. Printed in Boston Newspaper Twelfth Man Tradition Enjoys Nationwide Fame A&M-s Twelfth Man tradition enjoys long-time far-reaching fame and proof of this was sent to The Battalion recently by Ben Trotter, ’59, who is stationed at Fort Banks, Mass., near Boston, Mass. The clipping is from the Boston (Mass.) Herald and is a reprint of a May 15, 194G, column of noted Sports Columinst Bill Cunning ham. Cunningham died recently and some of his best columns are being reprinted. Following are excerpts of the column which give a first-hand ac count of the Twelfth Man tradi tion: “There’s been a little touch o’ Texas around heah lately, Strang- uh! For one thing, an old Fort Worth boy, Col. (Kentucky, that is) Alvin N. McMillin, has been here brushing up on his culture. Amongst those he’s been brushing it up with is an old Dallas boy, Col. (likewise Kentucky, that is) E. William Cunningham, who chances to be oversigned. “We’re a couple of black land mavericks who strayed long ago, darned nearly strayed together as a matter of fact, but didn’t, and it was funny to find ourselves sit ting side by side as imported guests at the very happy banquet of the local chapter of the Univer sity of Indiana Alumni. There was nothing funny about Col. Me- Millin’s being there. He is the distinguished coach of the Cream & Crimson Fighting Hoosiers, who last season won the football cham pionship of the mighty Western Conference, and landed the Col in the top spot as “Coach of the Year.” “Myself? I was present to pay my respects — with a few well chosen words — and I paid ’em. “The Col., of course, is the famed Bo McMillin, the Centre College All-American quarterback of 1919-20 and the gentleman who won fame in his time by defeating Harvard singlehanded with one of the most sensational solo feats in the history of Harvard Stadium. “Bo was the rabbit-legged quar terback and captain, to the best of my memory, of the North Fort Worth High School eleven. I was the dashing center rush and cap tain—no, come to think of it, I was a blocking back that last year —of the Terrill School team of Dallas. “The local A&M alumni of the region were very active, to state it quaintly. Uncle Charley Moran was the A&M coach, but he got . WELCOME TO AGGIELAND and Ca. e Aotor Company Your Friendly Ford Dealer 44 Years With Ford 1309 And 1700 Texas Avenue Dial TA 2-1333 A COMPLETELY EQUIPPED SERVICE DEPARTMENT FOR ALL MAKE CARS. Terms If Required. himself into conflict with the powers that were and quit, or he was fired. I never knew which. He promptly came up, however, with a new connection far to the northeast of our native prairies. It seemed the name of the place was Centre College, and it appear ed to be located in a place called Danville, Ky. “Bo and the rest has become warmly attached to Uncle Charles and they decided to go up into the borderlands with him. They did, and the rest is history. It was super-terrific history in 1919, ’20 and ’21. “I wasn’t so warmly urged as the rest to go, as it was mostly a Ft. Worth deal, and anyhow, at that point the Dartmouth Club of Texas, or so the three or four brethren called themselves, de cided to install a Dartmouth schol arship in the prep school I had the honor to attend. I decided to shoot for it. “There were but two of us ‘working our ways through Dart mouth.’ I worked mine playing the piano in chapel mornings, and whatever was current on thp ath letic field afternoons. The other self-helper helped with the jani- toring and the grounds. He wasn’t a bad tackle, either, as great east ern throngs were due to see short ly. “And, in backsight, it’s funny still how it all worked out. I got back to the home country ahead of Bo and the rest, and was only fairly well broken in as a news paper cub on the city side, which means the news side, of The Dal las Morning News, when that great Centre team dropped off in Dallas on its way back from the Coast to play what amounted to an exhibition game for the benefit of the North Texas folks—mostly their own folks. “This was to be their last game as an historic team, and, oddly enough, this same Texas A&M was to furnish the opposition. The Texas Aggies of those days were n’t the mighty machine they later became. In fact, this affair was expected to rank with the Alamo as a one-sided slaughter. “A Boston paper with which I’d filed my name as a possible cor respondent in that particular dis trict wired me to send a routine 500 words and the lineups. I had never written a sports story be fore and was a little uncertain about the whole business, but the sort of miracle a man ih the field of sports literature waits half .his life to see blew loose in that sta dium that afternoon. The pitiful Texas club came out of its locker room crying and fighting and pro ceeded to murder the great na tionalized eleven. “So there, a fledgling, I sat with the greatest sports story of the time in my lap. In fact, it was one of the greatest of all time. It reeked with color, drama. “There was a great story angle in the fact that the Texas team used up everything it had on the bench, and the coach sent up into the stands to get a sub who hadn’t ‘made the trip’ but had paid his own way to be a spectator and was sitting up there with his girl. This swain, hastily summoned, was rushed below, hurried into a suit and thrown into the fray where he starred all over the place. Began Tradition “This latter, incidentally began a tradition at A&M which holds today and which runs the opposition, and most of the audience, crazy. It’s that every A&M student must stand up and cheer every min ute of every contest an A&M team is in. That’s their trib ute to that sub, whose name I’ve forgotten. The slogan of the schopl ever since has been, The Stands Are the Twelfth Man on the Football Team. Play Your Game.’ “That story got me my job in Boston. “That was 25 years ago. “Thanks, Bo.” THE BATTALION Thursday, August 25,19G0 College Station, Texas Page 3 Doing Laboratory Work All students at A&M will have at least one the advanced science laboratories. Labora- laboratory course during their stay here and tories are required in courses ranging from those majoring in technical fields will find freshman biology and chemistry to advanced that their schedule will be filled with them, nuclear engineering. This group of students is at work in one of , Singing Cadets Welcome New Voices to Organization Back in 1906 at Aggieland, ten students got together and organ ized their o\vn singing group. Today this group is known as “The, Singing Cadets” and consists of 55 members. Under the direc tion of Robert C. Boone, the group gives concerts at schools, colleges and civic organizations throughout the South. The members are majoring in architecture, engineering, veteri nary medicine, liberal arts; in fact, they are from practically every major subject in college. None of the members plan to make sing ing their career. “The Singing Cadets,” dressed in special uniforms, have sung with the Houston Symphony Orchestra and many other organizations and they have traveled to almost all parts of Texas and the South to give concerts. They practice each day from 5 to 6 p.m. in the Music Hall—and WELCOME CLASS of '64 WATCH YOUR MAIL... WE ARE SENDING YOU A DISCOUNT CREDIT CARD WHICH ALLOWS YOU 207o OFF ON • 00 LAMPS LOOSE LEAF NOTEBOOKS SHOWER SHOES WASTE BASKETS TAYLOR'S CAMPUS VARIETY NORTH GATE COLLEGE STATION TEXAS (Across From The Post Office) they like it—they get pleasure from their work. They have and are bringing choral entertainment that has and is drawing the plau dits from noted musicians and singers throughout the land. Their record album has sur passed all other similar college al bums in sales—over 11,000 have been sold to date. Overseas and in the far corners of the United States, former stu dents of A&M demand their rec ord albums—and with one accord say, “The Singing Cadets are tops.” All students interested in join ing this colorful group should con tact Boone, director of the Singing Cadets, in the Memorial Student Center. Several trips are planned during the coming year. COLLEGE STATION STATE BANK A HOME OWNED BANK, SERVING THE COLLEGE STATION AREA It’s no trick at all to Start A Checking Account COMPLETE BANKING FACILITIES 3% Interest Paid on Savings MEMBER— Federal Reserve System Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation jSSEBII North Gate VI 6-5511 UPPERCLASSMEN KNOW WHERE TO GET THE BEST DEAL ON BOOKS AND SUPPLIES--lf You Are In Doubt Ask An Upperclassman LOUPOT S TRADING POSY