THE BATTALION
Page 2 College Station, Texas Tuesday, November 21, 1961
BATTALION EDITORIALS
Spirit
The word “spirit” is an intangible element of our vocabu
lary. Webster has one definition, calling it “disposition and
frame of mind.” Another definition is “intent” or well mean
ing.”
These definitions only illustrate the inadequacy of words
in conveying the meaning of “spirit,’’‘especially when applied
to the indefinable quality that will be burning within the
hearts of all Aggies as the world’s greatest bonfire goes up
in flames tomorrow night.
It is that quality that bands Aggies into one brother
hood throughout the world; that insures lasting loyalty to
their school. But with Aggies, it is something slightly more
than “spirit”—it is the totally undefinable power that sends
chills down the spine when singing the “Spirit of Aggieland”
•—it can simply be defined as “The Aggie Spirit.”
Wk//’ Said?
To The Battalion:
For the benefit of any student who may have overlooked
the pertinent paragraphy in College Regulations, the follow
ing extract is quoted from Page 19 of the booklet:
“The following offense will result in immediate suspen
sion for not less than the remainder of the semester. Going
to another campus with the intent to paint 02' othervvise
deface statues or buildings or commit other depredation.
Minimum penalty is suspension from the College lor the
semester in which the act occurs.”
The above paragraph applies to all college campuses. In
addition in 1954 the Board of Directors of the Texas A&M
College System and the Board of Regents of the University
of Texas agreed that any student under the control of either
of the two boards who was guilty of such offense would be
punished by at least being suspended from the college for
the semester in which the act occurred.
Let us win the game on the playing field but avoid any
acts of the type mentioned above.
James P. Hannigan,
Dean of Students.
Chapel Plans Thanksgiving
All Faiths Chapel will present
four Thanksgiving Community
Worship Services Thursday, Co
ordinator of Religious Life Gbr-
don Gay has announced.
Worship services will be de
livered at 8 a.m. by Levi Gentry,
minister of the A&M Church of
Christ; at 9 a.m. by the Rev.
Alfred Johnson, chaplain of Epis
copal students; at 10 a.m. by the
Rev. Byron Lovelady, pastor of
the A&M Methodist fchurch, and
at 11 a.m. the gby. George
Nelson, associate 'director of the
Baptist Student Unipn.
The program is sponsored by
the student chaplains, Baptist
Student Union, B’Nai B’Rith
Hillel Foundation, YMCA, The
Interfaith Council, Student Chris
tian Federation, the Chapel Com
mittee, the Rabi Henry A. Cohen
Award and the Ministerial Alli
ance of College Station.
Gay said the public is invited
to the services.
THAT’S POLITICS
ATLANTA OP) — The Georgia
legislature in January will take
up a bill to let the attorney gen
eral appoint his 23 assistants.
The governor appoints them now,
under an old law letting the ex
ecutive name all but one of the
assistants paid out of the attorney
general’s appropriation.
The theory behind the system,
oldtimers say, was that governors
didn’t want to take a chance on
the attorney general building up
backing for a governor’s race.
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“ it just tears me up to think of T. U. dropping from
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Wives Clubs
Physical Education Wives Club
will meet at 8 p.m. at the home
of Mrs. Shirley Born. A repre
sentative from the Merle Norman
Cosmetic Studio will give a dem
onstration during the meeting.
Professional Clubs
Institute of Traffic Engineers
will meet in Room 120 of the
Civil Engineering Building at
7:30 p.m.
Church Clubs
Hillel Foundation will have an
open house Wednesday night.
Hometown Clubs
Borger Hometown Club will
Mrs. A&M
Deadline
Nearing
Thursday is the deadline for
entering the Mrs. Texas A&M
Contest, being sponsored by the
Aggie Wives Council. The judg
ing, to highlight a dance Dec. 2
in the Ballroom of the Memorial
Student Center, is open to any
wife of a student currently regis
tered at AM.
Mrs. Jean Vaught, president of
the wives group, said women in
terested in the contest could get
more details by calling her at
VI 6-6109.
Music for the dance is to be
furnished by the George Vincent
Sextet. Tickets, on sale through
different wives clubs, will also be
available at the door. They are
$2 per couple.
Board
meet in Room 411 of the Academ
ic Building at 7:30 p.m. Officers
will be elected.
Dallas Hometown Club will
have its Thanksgiving party
Saturday at Snug Harbor, be
tween Dallas and Carrollton, off
Highway 77. Price is $3.25 a
couple. Scotty McKay’s Band
will provide the music.
Seniors Take
Elephant Walk
Elephant Walk, the traditional
“last act” for A&M seniors who
will attend their last Aggie foot
ball game as students Thursday,
will be held Wednesday at 11:30
a.m., starting by the flagpole in
front of the Academic Building,
according to Corps Commander
Bill Cardwell.
“Uniform” for the walk will
be khaki boot pants, senior boots
and khaki shirts with the shirt-
tails out. Seniors with 11 o’clock
classes are asked to come in the
uniform of the day, Cardwell
said.
According to The Cadence,
“Elephant Walk (is held) before
the Thanksgiving Day football
game . . . when the seniors roam
aimlessly around the campus,
like old elephants wandering off
to some secluded spot to await
the coming of weath. This event
is symbolic of the fact these men
who are spending their last year
at A&M have almost come to the
end of their active usefulness to
the ‘Twelfth Man’.”
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