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THE BATTALION
College Station, Texas Thursday, October 12, 1961
Pass
In
Review
Jerry Cooper, member of Company A, 2nd Brigade last
year and now living in Legett Hall, was surprised to receive
a ram slip for 10 demerits the other day, signed by Gary
Lively, Corps Chaplain.
Charge was failure to report to bull ring last Saturday.
Cooper said he has been contemplating showing up for bull
ring this next Saturday afternoon, in his usual uniform
slacks and a sport shirt.
★ ★ ★
Recent newscast received in the Bryan-College Station
area reported “All survivors of a plane crash escaped “in
jured”; could it have meant, “injury”?
★ ★ ★
A certain math professor we know became so involved
with a problem at the blackboard this week that the students
asking that the problem be worked slipped out the door of
the classroom without the professor noticing it. Now that’s
what we call dedication!
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Another professor was extremely honest with his class
this week. He admitted he hadn’t finished one of the chap
ters in the text required for an up-coming quiz, because he
had fallen asleep reading it the night before. Now he’s
worried the troops will fall asleep taking his quiz.
★ ★ ★
An Aggie friend got married last Saturday night. Made
this comment just before going down the aisle:
“Well, boys, looks like we’re going to have our first
argument tonight; I told her several months ago that we
were going to listen to the A&M-Tech game, no matter
what!”
★ ★ ★
Last night, an irate student was observed writing out
a parking ticket for the KK’s white Ford Falcon. The car
was parked in a visitor’s slot in front of the YMCA Building,
instead of its normal parking space.
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Mrs. Earl Rudder, attending the appreciation dinner
given for her husband in Dallas last Friday night, was
presented a big bunch of red roses during the banquet. They
were the gift of Col. D. H. Bird or behalf of the University
of Texas. Col. Bird, we are told, is so pro-University he
wears only orange and white pajamas and will drive only
orange and white Cadillacs. It was a nice gesture.
Guest Editorial
Texas A&M is winning prestige in the academic field
with the same determination that made the Aggies famed
in athletics. Earl Rudder, a 1932 graduate who rendered
distinguished service as a soldier and head of the Texas
Land Office before becoming vice president and now presi
dent of his alma mater, told the A&M story in Dallas the
other night.
Postwar problems for institutions closely linked with
agriculture haye been especially acute in recent years of
urbanization. Aggie administrators faced a lack of school
spirit, static enrollment, changes in curriculum emphasis and
a dearth of students, faculty and facilities of top quality in
some cases. Texas A&M has made striking improvement
in all of these.
President Rudder stressed that neither this state-sup
ported school, nor Texas as a whole, can fail to rise to the
need for brain power which must supplement raw material
and skilled labor as the pathway for progress.
Education pays, and it will pay Texas to keep its top
students here and to supply managerial positions in the
Southwest with Texas-trained leaders. Texas A&M, as
ever, fills a vital place in development of military, engi
neering and agricultural talent.
—Dallas Morning News
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“Can you think of a better way to walk on these waxed
floors?”
Editor,
The Battalion:
The article in the Oct. 4, Bat
talion concerning the 85th anni
versary of A&M has brought
some. question to my mind.
It is not so much the headline,
“A&M Observes 85th Anniver
sary,” which bothers me, as it is
the sub-headline; “Oldest Uni
versity Born Oct. 4, 1876,” and
the first sentence; “A&M, the
oldest institution of higher learn
ing in Texas, is 85 years old to
day.”
First of all, the oldest univer
sity was born sometime in 1190
in Bologna, Italy. Okay, so this
is stretching the point a little.
I’ll narrow the field down to Tex
as then. But that leaves us with
Southwestern University which
was founded in 1840. Is not this
an institution of higher learning
in Texas ?
But perhaps, we didn’t mean to
say university, but rather col
lege, which is what A&M is. That
still leaves us with Mary Hardin-
Baylor College which was estab
lished in 1845.
I guess we had better just say
Sound Off
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f Eldest state
supported ^institution of higher
learning in Texas.
And by the way, what is this
“University” jaz? about any way ?
Some form of subliminal indoc
trination to change the name of
the school?
James W. Carter ‘63
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Editor,
The Battalion:
I have been to both a football
game and midnight yell practice
at Kyle Field and each time this
ominous fact stared me in the
face: Aggie freshmen don’t know
the Spirit or War Hymn much
less the yells.
What has happened to the Ag
gie spirit? I take it for granted
that the upperclassmen have the
Spirit but what of the class of
’65?
To me there is a duel Aggie
Spirit: that which is tangible and
that which is intangible. An Ag
gie might have the Spirit deep
within himself, but not to ex
press it outwardly is like not
having it at all.
A true Aggie would learn his
school songs and yells as si
as he set his suitcase idown d
ing new student week, if not
fore he arrived at Aggieland
Come on fish, you are Agg
too!
John Schmidt III ’61
CORPS FRESHMAN
YEARBOOK, PORTRAIT
SCHEDULE
FRESHMEN in the Corps fj
have their portrait made fortt
“AGGIELAND” atvording
the following schedule. Poi
raits wall be made at the A(
G1ELAND STUDIO, one bloc
north of the intersection i
North Gate, between the hom
of 8. AM and 5 PM on the daj
scheduled. ’
UNIFORM for portraits willl
winter blouse. BLOUSES AN
BRASS WILL BE FURNISJ
ED AT THE STUDIO. EAC
MAN SHOULD BRING HI
OWN SHIRT AND TIE.
October 01-8 sucrjpnnbg-gHi
12-13 - Squadrons 114
16-17-Squadrons 14-1
, 17-18 Maroon & Whit
Bands
(The studio will have no Ban
Brass. Band Members are n
quested to bring OWN BLOUSl
WITH BRASS.)
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Bulletin Board
Brush Country Club will meet
at 7:30 p.m. in the YMCA Read
ing Room.
Clubs meeting at 7:30 p.m. in
the Academic Building are Bel-
laire in Room 108, Corpus Chris-
ti in Room 224; El Paso in Room
106, Hill Country in Room 205,
St. Thomas in Room 206.
Clubs meeting at 7:30 in the
Memorial Student Center are the
Ellis in Room 2-B, Laredo in
Room 2-A, Odessa in Room 2-C,
Irving in the second floor lounge.
Women’s Clubs
Freshman Wives of A.V.M.A.
will meet at 7:30 p.m. at 4320
Maywood, Bryan.
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