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THE BATTALION
“DUTCH”
Harley C. Dillingham graduated
from A. and M. in 1922 as Captain
for Company B, Signal Corps. The
next year he taught here in the
E. E. department and in ’24 he left
here for the “Big Town” and work
ed in the Bell Telephone Research
Laboratories of New York until ’28.
But that “old spirit” swelled up and
now Dutch is back in the E. E. de
partment teaching the juniors and
seniors to “know their coulombs”
about radio and communications.
Dutch is an amiable sort of a
fellow with a round good natured
face and “stand-at-attention” hair.
He is built heavy (maybe a little too
much) but even so he is still full
of that old vim that he used to put
out on Kyle Field. He played squad
football under Bible his entire four
years of school, and in ’22 and ’23
he coached the scrub team.
When Dillingham worked in New
York he took some graduate courses
at Brooklyn Polytechnical and Col
umbia University, and he is now
completing his M. A. work here;
however, he does not find very
much time for study because teach
ing- the boys E. E. and being papa
to the radio station makes every
cay a full day.
He says, “Wjhen I was a cadet
we used to do a lot of griping and
now the boys have thought up brand
new things to gripe about—but let
me tell you, its a grand old place.
When I left I went as far away
as I could go, clear up to New York,
and I couldn’t get away quick
enough; but when I came back I
rode the fastest train and it just
couldn’t bring me back to dear old
Aggieland soon enough.
J. C. CHEATHAM
Introducing Mr. J. C. Cheatham
of the M. E. Department. (No rela
tion to Cheatham of the Exchange
Store.) He taught at Texas U. last
year but he didn’t like the school
at all (great! we have that much
in common)..
Cheatham graduated from South
Carolina A. and M. in ’23, and he
and the corps have still more in
common, because he was a “kaydet”
too, and says he will never forget
some of those long hours on the
“bull-ring.” He likes our school, the
military life, the comradeshipe, and
the fellows, and hopes to be here for
a long time.
Then there was the “Bull Flunky”
who asked if Highway Engineering
was a course in Bryan.
Petroleum Course
Important Addition
Too much cannot be said and not
enough has been said about the new
petroleum production engineering-
course being inaugurated in the A.
and M. College curricula.
The little importance given this
course as a mere news item for The
Battalion has not revealed its impor
tance, not only as an addition to
the present engineering courses ob
tainable, but as a course in the out
standing and most rapidly develop
ing science of the age.
Contrary to the plans of those con
cerned to begin the course at the
start of the 1929-30 session, it was
necessary to delay its entrance until
further important arrangements and
developments could be carried thru.
The most important problem was
to obtain a department head, and
because the most capable man, both
in the theoretical and in the prac
tical field of the science was desired,
it was necessary to delay the course
so that the man obtained could com
plete his business and make transfer
preparations.
The man obtained for the depart
ment comes to us as one deeply in
terested in the science and its de
velopment and as one of extensive
experience in' the petroleum indus
try, and a vast knowledge of pe
troleum production, refiningj and
marketing, particularly of its refin
ing. He is one who deeply apprecia
tes those with educational interests.
J. B. Joyce was the one acquired
for the position.
Harry Pennington, consulting en
gineer for the Freeport Sulphur
Company and the Humble Oil and
Refining- Company, and the discover
er of the Raccoon Oil field near
Hempstead, has a keen interest in
the new petroleum course and, to
gether with 15 or 20 of the leading-
petroleum authorities of the state, is
cooperatively trying to secure equip
ment for the laboratory of this
course from the manufacturing con
cerns and oil companies of this sec
tion. They seem confident that near
a hundred thousand dollars worth
of equipment will be obtained for
this department, most of which will
necessarily be outside of the A. &
M. College region. Mr. Penning
ton has in the past shown quite a
large interest in the M. E. De
partment.
NEW CATHOLIC DICTIONARY
The New Catholic Dictionary, an
nounced in the enclosed circular, was
issued December 2nd. This is the
only publication of its kind for any
religious body. It is a great thing
to have under one cover everything
that one can wish to know about the
Church which recently has become
more than ever a subject of interest
and inquiry. The articles on the or
ganization of the Church in every
civilized country and in the missions,
with tables and statistics are of
special value.
A pre-publication sale of over 12,-
000 copies here and abroad, by pur
chasers of every creed, shows how
much the book is in demand.
Weslayan University (Conn.) has
received a copy of Agricola’s “De
Re Metallica” autogi-aphed by Pres
ident and Mrs. Herbert Hoover, who
translated it into English.
The Student Speak
Probably the first book by stu
dents about colleges has just ap
peared. “The Students Speak Out!”
(New Republic, Inc., 421 West 21st
Street, New York. SI) giving their
opinions — irreverent, idealistic,
shrewd—on Trustees, Deans, Profes
sors, fraternity brothers, football
heroes, credits, examinations, com
pulsory classes, and other ingre
dients of modern college life.
Early this year The New Republic
held a contest for short essays by
students and recent graduates on
the subject, “What College Might
Be ” Twenty-two of these papers
compose the present volume.
“The number of papers received,”
with which they were written testi
fy to the existence of a critical at
titude, on the part of the more able
students, which is becoming artic
ulate and which should be listened
to with respect.
“The publishers believe that in
making this symposium available to
the colleges and the general reader
they are acting to advance the dis
cussion of the new and unsolved
problems with which the American
colleg-es and universities are called
upon to deal.”
As soon as plans have been work
ed out, the University of Chicago is
to receive $2,000,000 from John D.
Rockefeller, Jr., for an “International
House,” which will provide dormi
tories and clubhouse facilities for
according to the publishers’ note, j 500 foreign students attending the
“and the seriousness and sincerity j university.
THIS IS NUMBER THREE OF A SERIES OF ADVERTISEMENTS TO COLLEGE MEN
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