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By Glenn Dromgoole
Student unrest: Part 2.
Youth has always been a period for exper
iment, excitement and education. The present un
rest on campus — though perhaps more widely
publicized than earlier exploits — is hardly any
thing new.
Each generation has had its problems with
“young rebels,” for it is not youth’s nature to
accept the status quo without question.
Writers as far back as Biblical days have
depicted the restlessness of youth. This basic
nature has changed very little to the present time.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE defined his youth
as “my salad days, when I was green in judgement.”
Robert Louis Stevenson termed youth “ wholly
experimental.” Ivan Sergeyevich Turgeniev called
it “that air of superiority to the rest of the
world which usually disappears when once the
twenties have passed.”
William Buter Yeats said, “When we are
young, we long to tread a way none trod before.”
And in Gamaliel Bradford wrote:
“Youth is alive, and once we too were young,
Dreamed we could make the world all over
new,
Tossed eager projects lightly from the
tongue,
And hoped the hurrying years would prove
them true.”
WE CAN LOOK back to where unsatisfied
youth such as John and Charles Wesley, Ben
Franklin and William Randolph Hearst produced
such significant contributions to the nation as
Methodism, crusading journalism and sensational
newspapers.
But it was not until after World War I that
generalities were tagged to youth’s activism.
Gertrude Stein started the whole thing when
she classified the post-WW I youth the “Lost
Generation.”
Educator Mark C. Ebersole states that the
entire generation was considered only as “high
living, madness, devolution, frivolty, wildness,
petting parties, tennis, jazz, flamboyancy, kicking,
roaring, flag-pole sitting ,vamping, bobbing, frank-
talking, dancing, smoking, synthetic gin, coon-
skin coats, recklessness and whoopee.”
“Although presumably they felt forsaken, one
would not have known it by looking at them,”
he noted. “With happy abandon they gave them
selves to outlandish propositions and to zany
ventures, to easy diversions and to naughty play.”
THE LACK OF resources during the Great
Depression kept sweeping titles off youth’s back
temporarily, until things began to get better and
the “New Generation” emerged.
“Their only principal,” one critic wrote, “is
that there is no moral principle at all, their only
slogan that all statements of policy, all appeals to
standards, are nothing but slogans, and hence
frauds and deceptions.”
This behavior began about 1940, lasted through
World War II and in the decade that followed.
It was generally recognized — especially by the
youth themselves — as a sophicated generation.
Instead of loud, they were subdued; they drank
cocktails instead of straight from the whiskey
flask.
“The students had been on Guam, at Monte
Cassino, in Normandy, over the Hump, and they
knew all about life and death and sex and radar,”
Ebersole recorded.
ABOUT 1950, however, Jack Kerouac re
classified the “New Generation” as the “Beat
Generation” which prompted William Styron in
his Lie Down in Darkness to have a young girl
say: “Those people back in the Lost Generation..
Daddy, I guess. Anybody who thought they were
lost was crazy. They weren’t lost. What they
were doing was losing us.”
Then came the “Religious Generation” of the
late ’50s, as Ebersole calls it.
“During the years immediately following (the
Beat Generation),” he writes, “piety on the campus
— and off, for that matter — surged to unprece
dented heights.”
Students began questioning their relationship
with the Supreme Being, their existence, their
birth and their consequences after death.
DURING THIS ERA, a theological school
president decided, “Nowhere does the tide of
religious awakening flow more powerfully than
among the younger generation, especially on col
lege and university campuses.”
Then came the Committed Generaiton of the
1962-63 Kennedy influence, with their interest in
the welfare of humanity, their civil rights crusades
and their involvement in the Peace Corps.
They were termed “vital, alive and ardent
young people.”
Then the “Tormented Generation” generation
appeared, according to Ebersole’s “The Rise and
Fall of Student Generations.”
“Students of this generation were distraught,
beset with confusion, misery, frustration and failure
and preoccupied with their personal plight,” he
wrote.
“THEY SEEM RELUCTANT to participate in
the world in which they are living,” a critic noted.
The rapid turnover of “generations”'continued,
with the fall of 1964 producing the “Political
Activist Generation” with its active sometime
reactionary, participation in politics, education and
government affairs. A Berkeley erupted. And a
rumble of disent began to be heard on other cam
puses.
Political activism continued into this acade
mic year, but more and more the generation is
slipping into the “New Left” classification.
SO FROM LOST to New to Beat to Religious
to Committed to Tormented to Political Activitists
to New Left, college students have always had
a ready-made category to fit into during this
century. Their particular individual philosophies
and ideologies have not mattered — they have
only been part of the whole.
As individual students break away from
their current classification, others follow. And a
new “generation” is born.
Perhaps this partly explains some of the un
rest that accompanies each movement — an in
dividual struggling against society’s tag, only to
win the struggle and gain another tag.
Thursday: Size of schools.
Che Battalion
Volume 61
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1966
Number 267
Political Club
Issue Readied
For Directors
A resolution recently passed by the Student Senate con
cerning- admittance of political clubs onto the campus is ex
pected to be sent to the Board of Directors shortly.
Senate President Roland Smith said Tuesday the resolu
tion would probably be taken up by the Board at its March
meeting.
In addition to the normal
tions, the resolution issued a
affecting political clubs only.
Restrictions to political _
clubs include:
Speakers will be subject to
the approval of the Dean of
Students.
No parades, bands or demon
strations connected with political
clubs will be permitted on cam
pus.
No candidate who has filed for
a primary or general state elec
tion may be brought to speak to
the organization.
No on-campus campaigning for
candidates for a political office
or distribution of campaign ma
terials except between members
of the organizations will be per
mitted.
Organizations will be permit
ted to solicit funds and members
in an orderly-manner, with ta
bles allowed outside Sbisa Dining
Hall during registration. With
the permission of the Dean of
Students, soliciting of funds and
members will be permitted in
the Memorial Student Center
area, on the corner of the Guion
Hall block.
Posters of regulation size may
be placed on student bulletin
boards for club announcements
only. No campaign posters will
be allowed.
The polotical clubs should be
affiliated with a nationally rec
ognized party.
Clubs will have access to meet
ing rooms to conduct meetings.
If a speaker is engaged that oth
erwise fits the requirements of
Newman Congress
Scheduled Friday
Students from 26 schools will
be here this weekend for the 16th
annual South Texas Province
Newman Club Congress at the
Ramada Inn.
“Ecumenism” will be the theme
for the three - day convention
scheduled to get underway Friday
night.
About 300 delegates are ex
pected to be on hand Saturday
for sessions featuring a Catholic
priest, Protestant minister and
Catholic layman.
Rev. James F. Dane, chaplain
of the Little Rock University
Newman Club, will highlight the
conclave with a discussion on
“The New Catholic Church” at
7:30 p.m. Saturday.
Student discussions will follow
the 9 a.m., 1:30 p.m. and 7:30
p.m. sessions. A&M students of
all faiths have been invited to
attend the meetings.
Dances for the delegates are
scheduled Friday and Saturday
nights.
Schools to be represented are
Baylor, Blinn, Southwest Texas,
Temple, Texas, Del Mar, Laredo,
Pan American, Texas A&I, Texas
Southmost, Corpus Christi, La
mar Tech, Rice, Prairie View
A&M, Sam Houston, Stephen F.
Austin, Texas Medical Center,
Texas Southern, UT Medical
School, Wharton, San Antonio,
Southwest Texas Junior College,
Victoria and Texas Lutheran.
Student representatives from
the National Federation of Cath
olic College Students at Incarnate
Word, Our Lady of the Lake,
Sacred Heart, St. Edward’s and
St. Thomas’ will also attend.
Pinnell To Lecture
At Kansas State
A Texas A&M researcher will
be one of six visiting lecturers in
transportation engineering at
Kansas State University during
the spring semester.
Dr. Charles Pinnell, head of
the Highway Design and Traffic
Engineering Department of the
Texas Transportation Institute,
will present two lectures on “Re
search in Highway and Traffic
Engineering” April 28 for the
Kansas audience.
campus organization regula-
nine-point list of limitations
the administration, the meeting
may be opened to the general
public, but shall not take on the
aspect of a political rally.
These rules will not affect
campaigning or rallies held off
campus.
The resolution suggested that
club offices be obtained in prom
inent positions on campus as soon
as possible to prevent any opera
tion of an underground nature.
It also advised that clubs be
formed with two-fold organiza
tion, meeting and recruiting on
campus and holding its rallies
and campaign speeches off cam
pus.
Specifications for admittance
of political organizations are the
same as for other student clubs,
having to meet the approval of
the Executive Committee of the
University or its designated rep
resentative.
An official request must be
filled with the Student Finance
Center in the MSC by Oct. 15 for
official recognition during that
school year.
Freshman Ball
Slated Feb. 26
Tickets are on sale in the Memo
rial Student Center for the
Freshman Ball, scheduled for
Feb. 26 in Sbisa Hall.
Both Corps and civilian fresh
men may purchase tickets in the
Student Program Office or from
any fish class officer for $3.50
per couple.
Music for the dance will be
provided by “The Yaks” and the
Aggieland Orchestra. The Yaks
are a rock-and-roll group who
specialize in music with an Eng
lish flair.
Dress for the event will be
Class A Formal, with white
shirt, bow tie and white gloves
for Corps freshmen and dark
suit and tie for civilians.
Students wishing to enter can
didates for Class Sweetheart
must turn in a 3x5 photograph
and a casual snapshot to the Stu
dent Program Office. The girl’s
name, level of study, hometown,
school attending, hobbies and es
cort’s name are also necessary.
Seven finalists will be chosen
Monday and attend an afternoon
reception Feb. 26, with the win
ner being selected at the ball.
Final judging will be based on
poise, personality and appearance.
Top Reserve Aide
Speaks Thursday
Dr. Theodore C. Marrs, mem
ber of the Air Force Secretariat
and Deputy for Reserve and
ROTC Affairs, will speak at an
Air Force ROTC “dining in” for
seniors at 6:30 p.m. Thursday at
Briarcrest Country Club.
Other guests will include Maj.
Gen. John Doyle, USAF (Ret.),
A&M President Earl Rudder and
Dean of Students James P. Han-
nigan.
Marrs has authority over the
Air Force Reserve, Air National
Guard, Air Force ROTC and Civil
Air Patrol policy.
As a physician he is a member
of the American Board of Pedia
trics, the President's Committee
for the Handicapped and the
Royal Society of Medicine. He
has also founded and built six
clinics and hospitals.
His military career includes as
signments as flight surgeon,
wing surgeon, hospital com
mander and special assistant to
the Surgeon General of the Air
Force.
Invitations to the dinner have
also been extended to Cong. Olin
E. Teague, Col. E. M. Jones,
Air Force area “G” commander,
and Col. Ralph C. Embrey, from
headquarters of the Air Defense
Command.
TRADITIONAL ASIAN KNIFE DANCE
This Southeast Asian knife ritual will be
shown in a film-lecture program on “The
Four Faces of Southeast Asia” at 8 p. m.
Thursday in the Memorial Student Center
Ballroom. Fran William Hall, who has trav
eled in 50 countries, will show color films
of Cambodia, Burma, Thailand and Malay
sia. A former Walt Disney photographer,
Hall will appear under sponsorship of the
World Around Us series.
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All-Male Status Broken
As Hutson Twins Enroll
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By TOMMY DeFRANK
Battalion Managing Editor
The coeducation barrier at the
A&M College of Texas was
broken in 1899, two years before
the bid by Bryan citizens to
merge the proposed state indus
trial school for girls with A&M
was rejected by the Legislature.
Mary and Sophie Hutson,
popularly known as the Hutson
Twins while studying at A&M,
were enrolled in the fall of 1899
to attend classes during the regu
lar session.
Daughters of C. W. Hutson,
longtime professor of English and
history, the girls enrolled in the
engineering curriculum and re
mained in school for four years.
They were active in social
functions and are credited with
being the first to place before the
senior class the question of pub
lishing a student-operated year
book.
The 1903 Longhorn, then the
college yearbook, said the Twins
“have availed themselves of the
course of instruction in the Tech
nical Departments of the College
and are now doing senior work,
in which they will receive certifi
cates at Commencement, 1903.”
BUT THE GIRLS, although
both fulfilled all requirements for
graduation, were not granted a
diploma. It was not the fashion
of that time to award degrees to
females.
Col. Baker Attends
PMS Conference
Col. D. L. Baker, professor of
military science, is attending an
annual PMS Conference today
at Fort Sam Houston.
Fifty professors of military
science from a five-state area
schools are attending the Fourth
Army headquarters meeting.
Colleges, universities, military
and high schools in Texas, Ark
ansas, Louisiana, New Mexico
and Oklahoma will be represent
ed.
The conference is to orient
PMS’s on current and projected
Army activities, plans and pro
grams.
Kuykendall To Speak
At Ohio Meeting
W. E. Kuykendall, assistant
research engineer of the Activa
tion Analysis Research Labora
tory, will present a paper on “Lu
nar and Planetary Surface An
alysis” in Dayton, Ohio, Feb. 17.
The research report was writ
ten by Kuykendall, Richard E.
Wainerdi, M. Y., Cuypers and J.
S. Bishop, all AARL scientists.
The Ohio meeting is sponsored
by the U. S. Atomic Energy
Division of Isotopes Develop
ment and the U. S. Air Force’s
System Command.
Another early coed was Emma
Watkins Fountain, daughter of
Professor Charles P. Fountain,
later head of the Department of
English.
She was admitted in the fall
of 1901 and studied German with
the junior class, French and
mathematics with the sophomore
class and physics with the fresh
men.
Emma never finished course
work at A&M—in fact, the col
lege refused her credit for any
of the courses she completed.
President David F. Houston
left A&M to take a position at
the University of Texas in 1905,
and when he took up his new post
he told her the University would
accept credit for her A&M
courses.
SO SHE TRANSFERRED to
Texas in the spring of 1905 and
was graduated in 1907.
She married Dr. R. P. Mar-
steller, second dean of the A&M
College of Veterinary Medicine,
and lives today in Bryan.
Mrs. Marsteller recalls that
male students treated her and the
Hutson Twins with courtesy dur
ing their careers at A&M.
“They were very nice to me and
all of the girls,” she said. “The
boys realized there was no place
else for us to go, and they seemed
to be glad to have us.”
Records indicate that some
girls attended classes during the
regular term between 1905 and
1925, but the total number was
negligible. Most of these were
kin to members of the faculty and
staff.
Dr. D. B. Gofer Sr., former
English professor and college
archivist, recalls that four girls,
including the two daughters of
Professor F. E. Giesecke, were
enrolled in his freshman English
class in 1910.
“Dr. Fountain told me, ‘Gofer,
you’re a bachelor and the young
est in the department so I’m
going to give the girls to you’,”
he said.
They were all good students,”
Gofer remembered, “and they all
made A’s and B’s. The boys were
very proper and took them for
the good students that they
were.”
IN 1909 the Board, by direction
of the Legislature, opened a
summer session to provide in
struction to both sexes without
administering entrance examina
tions.
Women thus attended these
sessions from the onset of the
project and have always done so
without opposition from the ad
ministration.
A handful of women students,
nevertheless, attended classes at
various years during the regular
term from 1910 through 1925.
The 1916 Longhorn carries the
pictures of two women under the
heading of “special students,”
while the 1922 and 1923 year
books list an aggregate of 21 girls
as “special unofficial students.”
These girls apparently never
completed degree requirements
since none received degrees.
THE FIRST woman to receive
a degree from A&M was Mary
Evelyn Crawford, sister of a
professor of engineering.
She entered in 1921, attended
both regular and summer sessions
and was granted a degree in
English in the summer of 1925.
However, she was not permitted
to receive the diploma at summer
Commencement.
“I got a call from the regis
trar’s secretary,” she reminesces.
“She told me to come over to her
apartment and get my diploma.
“I was so glad to hear that I
did get a diploma I would have
crawled over to that apartment.”
Now, Mrs. L. B. Locke, wife of
an assistant secretary of the
Association of Former Students,
she remembers that being ad
mitted then posed no problem for
a woman.
“The President (William Biz-
zell) said I could go so I started,”
she said.
AND HOW does she feel about
the possibility of complete coedu
cation for A&M?
“I think they (the present
Board) have gone so far they had
better go the rest of the way,”
she ventured.
(Next: The 1933 trial.)
FIRST TWO COEDS
. . Hutson Twins enrolled in 1899.