Texas Military Institute - Crusader Blue Bonnet Yearbook (San Antonio, TX)

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I Culture as an Aim in Education xxxx There has been much talk about culture being an aim in education. Let us first consider what is culture. According to Mr. Webster’s New International Dictionary it is: The training, disciplining, or refining of the moral and intellectual nature’’ or, in other words, “the enlightment and discipline acquired by mental and moral training.” For this definition we see that culture is what lifts people from their every day aims and standards of life— what gives them an appreciation of higher things. Surely this should be the aim of all education. Greece and Rome both emphasized this idea of culture. In the barbaric wars of the Dark Ages culture was forgotten, but it was saved from destruction at the dawning of the Renaissance. Today we live in a materialistic age; the tendency is to look on the practical side of life, and to amass money and further our own ends seems to be our chief aim. Education tends in a marked degree towards the scientific and technical and there is again the danger of sinking to the level of materialistic things. To combat this spirit we are taught at T. M. I. to return to the old idea of education. We have training in the Classics, we spend much time in studying the lives and works of famous writers, and we trace the rise and fall of nations from ancient times down to the present day. And why? That we may be lifted out of our every-day habits and occupations, and that we may gain from our study that refinement and culture which should be the aim in education. RALPH E. HAINES, Jr. X 2-1 X

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Hall of Fame xxxx Most Representative Cadet Most Popular Cadet....... Most Handsome Cadet. .. . Best Athlete............. Best Cadet Officer....... Best Scholar............. Best Drilled Cadet....... Best Bugler.............. Best Marksman............ Most Industrious Cadet... Best Declaimer........... Best Musician............ Most Ambitious Cadet. . . . Best Mathematician....... Most Dignified Cadet.... Biggest Griper........... Meanest Cadet............ Biggest Goldbrick......... Biggest Shiek ............ Best Dancer............... Best Dressed Cadet........ Best Natured Cadet........ Biggest Baby.............. Biggest Feet.............. Best Ad-Getters........... Biggest Grouch Biggest Liar.. Salutatorian Valedictorian .. . . .J. C. CARRINGTON .V. D. WF.DF.GARTNF.R .......T. O. BROOKS .....W. R. WF.STON .....J. B. TALCOTT . . .J. C. CARRINGTON ....F. VON ROSSUM .......H. J. CRASH ....E. L. ANDERSON .........A. J. VICK . . .J. D. WILLIAMSON ....B. S. CHANDLER ..........W. WEST . . .J. C. CARRINGTON .......J. WARREN .......R. T. BANKS .......J. G. BOWMAN .........P. R. SMITH .......J. E. RUSSELL .......J. R. HYSLOP ....W'. D. BF.NCHOFF .......L. B. FALLEY ....H. C. T. GEMBLER W. B. VON FRIEDRICH .......A. J. VICK W’. W. JOHNSTON A. KING .........R. T. BANKS .W’. B. VON FRIEDRICH .......F. VON ROSSUM .......H. OSTF.RMAN X 25 X