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THE BATTALION
Page 2 College Station, Texas Thursday, April 26, 1962
Review
The following is submitted, compliments of United Press
International, in lieu of the approaching 1 federal inspection
of the Corps Friday and Saturday:
Aldershot, England (UPI) — The British army was
shaken today in the early morning inspection parade ordered
by Maj. G. C. G. Calvert.
Calvert, commander of Company C of the KOyal Army
Service Corps, First Training Battalion, ordered his new re
cruits out of bed before dawn.
The purpose: to find out what the new men aie wear
ing—in bed. Some were dressed in gyr* 1 suits* others wore
socks, pants, and sweaters. Some even ""ore pajamas, while
others wore nothing at all.
As a result. 11 recruits were sentenced to tnree days
“restricted privileges” for being improP e, 'ly dt ess ed in bed.
Seventeen others were severly admonished.
Calvert, 37, said he took action in the intere^ 1 of hygiene.
“This was not bull,” he said, “it w*»s in the men’s own
interest.”
A spokesman for Britain's Southern Command said: “It
is an army offense to he improperly dre s sed, whether walk
ing out, going on parade—or while sleepiog-”
The approved uniform for sleeping in l >e d Pajamas.
(And people at A&M complain because they have to make
up their beds, and wear the uniform of th e day, occasionally!)
★ ★ ★
A recent “Aggie and wife” honeymoon got to a rather
“spotted” start. Two days after the c^n 01110111 , 68 ’ glum
groom came down with the measles. Jt was learned
that the entire wedding party had been exposed the disease
during the festivities.
(Let’s hope the bridesmaids didn’t g° through the line
kissing the groom!)
★ ★ ★
This is the last “Pass In Review” coiunin to appear in the
hallowed (or hollow) columns of The Battalion'—at least the
last for a decade or so. (When your editors might enroll for
another four-year go-round, haw haw hoeeeee!)
It’s been fun, but since our desks a r e now' cleaned out,
there j’ust aren’t any more scraps of paper floating about
upon which the gems of wit appearing here were usually
written. Or scribbled.
Well, off to the East Gate Lounge
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Editor
Tommy Holbein,
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by Jim Earle' Bulletin Board
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The Battalion:
By recommendation of the com
mission on Christian Social Con
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D. Folweiler, and by action of
the Official Board of the A&M
Methodist Church, whose chair
man is Dr. Leslie V. Hawkins, I
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“In the recent several months
there has been a notable increase
in the coverage given by news
media to activities of the minor
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terested in improving the rela
tionships between all elements
of our community. It has been
observed that there is an in
creasing tendency to make no re
ference to an individual’s ethnic
affiliation when the individual
is a member of a minority group.
The A&M Methodist Church con-
gratuates the editors of news
media for this action and hope:
that the practice will become nor
mal, i.e., elimination of mention
of ethnic affiliation if nothing I
constructive can be accomplished
by the reference.”
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CRAM COURSE No. 3: ENGLISH P0ETK1
Final exams will soon be upon us. This is no time forfun aci
games. Let us instead study hard, cram fiercely, prepare assid.-
ously.
In this column today let us make a quick survey of EngW
poetry. When we speak of English poetry, we are, of coira,
spo-aicing of Byron, Shelley, and Keats. Some say that of fe
three, Keats w;is the most talented. It is true that he displays
his gifts earlier than the others. While stiU a schoolboy at St
Swithin’s he wrote his epic lines:
7/ / arn good, I get an apple,
So I don’t whistle in the chapel. 1ft
• From this distinguished beginning, he went on to write an
other 40,(XX) poems in his lifetime—which is all the mor?
remarkable when you consider that he was only five feet tall!
I mention this fact only to show that physical problems newt
keep the true artist from creating. Byron, for example, va;
lame. Shelley had an ingrown hair. Nonetheless, these three
titans of literature turned out a veritable torrent of romantic
poetry.
Nor did they neglect their personal lives. Byron, a devil
with the ladies, was ex{x‘lled from Oxford for dipping Elizabetl".
Barrett’s pigtails in an inkwell. He thereupon left England to
fight in the Greek war of independence. He fought bravely and
well, hut women w f ere never far from his mind, as evidenced by
this impmrtal poem: «
How splendid it is to fight for the Greek,
But I don’t enjoy it half as much as dancing check to chit
While Byron fought in Greece, Shelley remained in England,
where he became court poet to the Duke of Marlborough. (It
is interesting to note in passing that Marlborough was the origi
nal spelling of Marlboro Cigarettes, but the makers were unable
to get the entire word on the package. With characteristic in
genuity they cleverly lopped ofT the final “gh”. This, of course,
left them with a “gh” lying around the factory. They looked
for some place to put it and finally decided to give it to tbe
3 Mrector of Sales, Mr. Vincent Van Go. This had a rather curious
result. As plain Van Go, he had been a crackerjack director of
sales, but once he became Van Gogh, he felt a mysterious,
irresistible urge to paint. He resigned from the Company and
became an artist. It did not work out too well. When Van Gogh
learned what a great success Marlboro Cigarettes quickly be
came—as, of course, they had to with such a flavorful flavor,
such a filterful filter, such a flip-top box, such a soft pack-he
was so upset about leaving the firm that he cut off his ear in a
fit of chagrin.)
But I digress. Byron, I say, was in Italy and Shelley in
England. MeanwhUe Keats went to Rome to try to grow. Who
does not remember his wistful lyric:
Although I am only five feet high,
Some day I will look in an elephant’s eye.
But Keats did not grow. His friends, Shelley and Byron,
touched to the heart, rushed to Rome to stretch him. This too
failed. Then Byron, ever the ladies’ man, took up with Lucrezia
Borgia, Catherine of Aragon, and Annie Oakley. Shelley, a more
domestic type, stayed home with his wife Mary, and wrote bis
famous poem:
7 love to stay home with the missus and write,
A nd hug her and kiss her apd give her a bite.
Mary Shelley finally got so tired of being bitten that she went
into another room and wrote Frankenstein. Upon reading the
manuscript, Shelley and Byron got so scared they immediately
booked passage home to England. Keats tried to go too, but
he was so small that the clerk at the steamship office couldn’t
see him over the top of the counter. So Keats remained in Rome
and died of a broken heart.
Byron and Shelley cried a lot and then together composed
this immortal epitaph:
Good old, Keats, he might have beat short,
But he was a great American and a heck of a good sport.
© 1962 Max Shulman
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