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THE BATTALION
College Station, Texas
Wednesday, October 11, 1961
BATTALION EDITORIALS
New School
The new College Hills Elementary School dedicated Tues
day night should make every College Station citizen proud.
The new school represents growth. Growth not only in
the number of elementry age children in the school system,
but also a growing awareness of the need for good elementry
education.
At the dedication ceremonies Principal Mrs. C. K. Leigh
ton said the school was dedicated to establishing good study
habits and a solid foundation, for later schooling.
Every year more and more high school graduates find
the once-open door to a college education closed to them be
cause the training they received in the lower schools was
inadequate.
And with the rising tide of applicants, colleges and uni
versities, including Texas A&M, are being forced to accept
only the top students.
It is to this end that the A&M Consolidated School Dis
trict and College Hills Elementary School have dedicated
themselves.
Guest Editorial
The Beaumont high school senior’s remark (made in
front of Aggies and passed on to us by one) . . . that the only
thing wrong about going to A&M was that you ended up
being an Aggie . . . brought a rapid response, as we rather
expected it would.
The following was received . . . unsigned but obviously
from an Aggie:
★ ★ ★
“You should answer this high school boy’s problem. He
thinks that all schools are alike. Books are the same. Teach
ers are about equal. Buildings are probably equal. Four years
at college are the same.
“But after that things change.
“There is no college with the spirit for the college that
the Aggies have (during the four years and thereafter).
“And, after the four years the Aggies have something
that no other college group can compete with—a real frater
nity, and the members fraternize.
“You should get on the Aggies’ bandwagon.
“You can look around in Beaumont and this Golden
Triangle area and see what goes on. The Aggies have month
ly meetings with never less than 250 in attendance.
“What do others do? Nothing.
“Texas meet on March 2 with a small crowd attending.
TCU, SMU, Baylor, Rice, Arkansas, Texas Tech seldom, if
ever, meet.
“Right now the Aggies are staging a big event in Beau
mont (tonight) honoring a fellow Aggie, Dell Brockett, class
of 1934. When did any other colleges do such a thing?
“Why don’t you call this to the senior’s attention?”
★ ★ ★
Well, maybe he’ll read it here. Hope so.
What our letter-writing Aggie says is pretty much true,
as most anyone in this area can tell you. Indeed, no matter
how long he’s been out of school, the Aggie still has that
spirit generated in college. Not all exes from all other col
leges can say the same.
—Beaumont Enterprise.
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CADET SLOUCH
by Jim Earle TaiTeton
May Change
Nickname
statement. “I believe the name
Plowboys is no longer represen
tative of the entire student body.
Tarleton is now a liberal arts
college and not an agricultural
college. The prestige of the
school is affected by the name
Plowboys, as it begins its four
year plan. I feel that a more
appropriate name would attract
students to investigate the col
lege.
(Editor’s note: This article is'
from the “J-Tac,” student news
paper at Tarleton State College
at Stephenville. Tarleton, a
part of the A&M system, re
cently became a four-year liberal
arts college.)
Several Tarleton exes last
week expressed their opinion on
whether the name “Plowboys”
should be changed. Persons in
terviewed agreed that changes
must be made to meet the needs
of Tarleton as a liberal arts col
lege,
C. H. (Mickey) McGuire, pres
ident of the Ex-Students Associ
ation and executive vice presi
dent of the Stephenville State
Bank, had this to say about the
idea of a new nickname for
Tarleton. “I do not object to
a change of name as long as the
student body thinks seriously
about changing it and definitely
makes the change one for the
better.”
Dr. Dick Smith, head of the
social science department and
government professor said, “The
“ . .. I’ve seen a lot of ‘Dear John’ letters, but this one is th’
most original yet!”
Sound Off
(Editor’s note: The following
letter was addressed to Student
Senate President Malcolm Hall.)
To 100 Aggies,
Dear Aggies:
Here at Texas Women’s Uni
versity, we have many girls that
are far from home, and with no
boys to write to.
Do you suppose, brothers, that
we could “adopt” a 100 or more
Aggie pen-pals?
We girls in Mary Hufford Hall
would like at least 100 of you
Aggies to send us names and
addresses.
All your letters will be re
ferred to some girl in our dorm
as soon as we receive them.
Address your letter to Miss
Ann B , Box 3771, T.W.U.,
University Hill Station, Denton,
Texas, Mary Hufford Hall.
Sincerely yours.
Miss Tessie
Bulletin Board
Aggie Wives Bridge Club will
meet at 7:30 p.m. in the Memo
rial Student Center Ballroom.
name Plowboys / which repre
sented the spirit of John Tarle
ton Agricultural College has had
a long and glorious history, but
just as it was necessary to
change the name to Tarleton
State College, because of the
changing nature of the school,
it now is necessary to change
Plowboys to something more
representative of the four-year
liberal arts college.”
Robert Walker, English in
structor and ex-student of Tarle
ton, explained, “I could hope for
a name which well represents
the entire student body. Not
one which just represents one of
the more important segments of
the school.”
Alice Sheffield, Tarleton stu
dent last year and now a student
at East Texas State College,
was visiting on the campus Sat
urday and made the following
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