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THE BATTALION
FACULTY BANQUET
GIVEN PROFESSORS
General Get-together Greatly En
joyed.
The members of the Faiulty were
guests of Dr. Walton last Monday
night at a banquet given in the
banquet room at Sbisa Hall. The
primary purpose of the meeting was
to bring the faculty in closer con
tact with each other, to welcome
the new members into “our large
family,” and as Dr. Walton further
expressed, “just a general get-to
gether in order to become better
acquainted, so that each one could
cooperate with the other in carrying
on a great work for even a greater
cause.” To insure a good beginning,
the President asked each of the
150 members present to stand and in
troduce himself, stating with which
department he is connected.
Dean White, of the College of In
dustrial Arts, the first speaker on
the program, gave a short talk on
the large number of college men
and women in America today. He
said that out of the one million
students enrolled in colleges through
out the United States, over 50,000
of them are enrolled in Texas insti
tutions. Dean White closed his talk
by praising the wonderful progress
made at this school in recent years,
and expressed hopes that such prog-
I'ess would not only continue, but in
crease from year to year.
Dr. Walton, in his address, gave
some very interesting facts concern
ing this college and the three others
with which it is affiliated. This
system of four State supported
schools, consists of Texas A. and M.,
John Tarleton, North Texas Agricul
tural College, and Prairie View Col
lege for negroes. They have an an
nual enrollment of about 8,000 and
employ something over 1,000 men
and women. Not only does the state
support these four institutions, but
various other departments connected
with them. For instance, the Exten
sion Service, which employs over 300
men and women; the Research De
partment which not only does re
search in agriculture but in the en
gineering field as well, is divided into
eighteen various stations scattered
throughout the state. The state Leg
islature has provided funds for four
others which have not been station
ed. The Department of Forestry,
with it’s headquarters here at Col
lege Station, has the actual experi
mental work carried on in East Tex
as. “It is necessary to review these
facts,” he explained, “in order that
we may keep up with the progress
we are making. Even though our
progress seems very slow at times,
we find on cheeking up, very startl
ing figures which prove that we are
really advancing with comparative
rapidity. Since September, 1925,
there has been $2,900,000.00 spent
on the improvement of this system
of schools, $1,485,000.00 of which has
been expended for A. and M. alone.
It is very discouraging at times,
when we see the dire need of physi
cal equipment in our institutions and
that the State Legislature will not
appropriate enough funds, but we
will not give up the fight. Even
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though we lost the last battle, the
war is not over yet, by any means.
“Another great problem with
which we are confronted is one that
is so very prominent in military
schools. That is, the barrier that
has long existed between the stud-
dent and his instructor. It has grown
so strong that the students actually
consider it a sin for one to consult
an instructor on some problem con
cerning his every day life. I ear
nestly desire to see each member
of this faculty make a conscientious
effort to break down this barrier
that has caused so many difficulties
among the student body.”
Later on in the year, the faculty
and their wives will be extended an
invitation to attend a similar meet
ing. For those who cannot bring
their wives, Dr. Walton suggested,
“That we make arrangements with
Dean White to have him bring some
of the members of his faculty along
for the next banquet.”
Dean Puryear gave a brief expla
nation of the system of Term Exam
ination and the meeting was ad
journed.
A CHALLENGE.
Challenges were sent out today to
162 rifle teams in all sections of the
I country by marksmen at Kemper
! Military School here, who yester
day began their range season. In
cluded among those invited to par
ticipate in a dual telegraphic meet
are marksmen of Texas A. and M.
College.
More than fifty aspirants to the
Kemper varsity team answered the
initial summons of Capt. W. T.
French, coach, yesterday. An imme
diate cut will be made in the squad,
followed by intensive practice to fit
them for the opening of their in
terscholastic schedule shortly before
the Christmas holidays.
Cadet Lieut. Archie J. McGuire, of
Blackwater, Mo., a ranking shot last
year, was today named captain of
the squad.
Last year the Yellow Jacket marks
men defeated 61 teams in a slate of
62 matches, won the military schools’
individual championship, and ranked
high in the Dewar, Hearst, and Na
tional Rifle association matches. Of
the 62 invited to compete with them
this year, all but Pennsylvania State
college fell before the Kemper shoot
ers.
Of particular interest to the read
ers of The Battalion is the announce-
nent that Daniel Russell, popular pro
fessor of rural sociology at A. and
M. will begin a series of articles on
his work as a special investigator
of the social conditions in Chicago in
The Battalion in the near future.
The series of articles, while deal
ing v/ith the problems that Trofessor
Russell discovered when making his
investigations, will be replete with
many of the experiences that he en
countered while working. Some of the
topics to be written are: leisure time,
commercialized amusements, and re
lation of amusements to crime and
politics and vice versa.
The title of the first article, which
will appear in The Battalion in the
near future is: PROBLEMS OF
C O M M E R CT A L IZ ED AMUSE
MENTS.