THE BATTALION
Page 2 College Station, Texas Thursday, August 22, 1963
BATTALION EDITORIALS
Launching College Career
Will Be An Important Stop
The old adage says, “A Journey of a thousand miles
begins with a single step.” You and about 2,000 other young
men are about to take a similar step in entering college.
Starting out in college involves much more than simply
continuing or streamlining your education. For most of you
it will mean the first real separation from home. With this
will come the first real responsibility for many of you.
Some of you will be spending your own or your parents’
money—or both. Others will be using money given or loaned
to them by various clubs and agencies. Regardless of whose
money it is, doesn’t it behoove you to make sure none of it
goes to waste?
Many old sayings can never really become trite because
they are unquestionably true and broadly aplicable. Take
for instance, “You will get out of something exactly what
you put into it.” This advice could never be more useful than
to you beginning freshmen. A&M, or any college for that
matter, is not an institution designed to take a few thousand
of your dollars and four years of your life in return for mak
ing you a polished man.
The job is yours.
Your parents and others have already helped most of
you in many ways. Here at A&M there will be classmates,
faculty and staff members who will continue this assistance.
You’ll find that most will do much more than is expected of
them in aiding individual students. Nevertheless, all they
can do is help. The job is yours.
And it’s not an easy one.
Nor is it impossible. Many may disagree with this but
we are convinced that there is at least one field in which each
of you can do acceptable work at A&M—if you apply yourself.
There are many who will tell you college is no problem
once you get the knack of it. It is a big and somewhat
frightening change but after adjustment it’s not so bad.
A number of young men spent semester after semester here
searching for the secret. Some never find it because it is
so simple.
It’s plain, old-fashioned work. Study, pay attention,
don’t get behind and don’t give up. After you’ve been here
awhile, and have found a better way to get something out
of college, drop by and let us know—you’ll be the first in
history.
In conjunction with hard work, proper budgeting of
time will be vital in making your stay here worthwhile. This
means sacrifice. It means deciding when you can afford to
slack off and when you can’t. The bitter truth is that there
seldom are opportunities to slack off in college. It gets
mighty hard to keep up the pace at times.
But if you do keep up the pace it pays off in big
dividends.
A&M will represent only one of many experiences con
tributing to your development as a useful citizen. Your stay
here will represent one of the most important phases of your
life. You can make the most of it, or you can waste it.
The job, and the choice, are yours.
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Typical Day In Life Of Fish
Filled With Activity, Stud\
“If I don’t find a system pretty soon, I’m gonna hafta re
sort to studyin’ for my exams!”
‘Spirit’ Change Announced
Aggies can scratch one line
from the school song, “The Spirit
of Aggieland,” and pencil in
another.
A change has been made to
match the new name of the 87-
year-old institution—Texas A&M
University—which becomes ef
fective tomorrow.
The new wording was approved
by the song’s author, Marvin H.
1926
Minims of Banquete,
graduate.
Last line of the song previously
read, “The Aggies Are We, We
Are From Texas AMC.”
The new lyrics are “The Aggies
So True, We Are From Texas
AMU.”
The change was announced by
Robert L. Boone, music coordi
nator.
Many things have been said
about the life of a freshman at
A&M, but one thing has never
been said, that it is dull and un
eventful.
The Aggie week day starts at
6:30 in the morning, breakfast at
6:50. This 20 minutes is devoted
to, first of all getting out of bed.
If an individual has trouble
waking up and getting up at the
same time, he will overcome his
difficulty here.
It is advisable to leave the
room dusted and swept, and the
bed made, before going to forma
tion. This, added to the fact one
has to dress and shave, makes
those first 20 minutes very well
spent. At 6:50 you will fall out
and march to breakfast.
After breakfast there are
classes, which begin at 8 a.m. and
are conducted until the lunch
formation at 12 noon. Classes
begin promptly at 1 p.m. in the
afternoon and are conducted until
5 p.m.
Then comes the time to play.
A&M sponsors one of the finest
intramural programs in the
Southwest. The variety of sports
offered is numerous. To mention
a few, there are football, soft-
ball, wrestling, basketball, hand
ball, horseshoes, rifle, gymnas
tics, golf and soccer. Equipment
may be checked out for any of
these sports at any time of the
day, also there are ample facili
ties for each.
begins C. Q. or study time. The
freshmen and sophomores are re
quired to be in their rooms, at
their desks, studying. An indivi
dual may be excused from C. Q.
only by a valid reason for his
absence.
The “typical day” just de
scribed did not mean every day.
One does not attend classes eight
Next on the agenda is the
evening meal at 6 p.m. after
which one is free until Call to
Quarters. Beginning at 7:30 p.m.,
the dormitory is quieted, and so
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