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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 29, 1930)
THE BATTALION 5 Poor Showing- Made by Freshmen in Eng-lish Preliminary tests taken by fresh men at the first of the year disclose that freshmen are relatively weak in English when they enter A & M, ac cording to Dr. George Summey, head of the department of English. From a list of 689 freshmen who had taken the tests up to October 1, more than half of that number made an average grade of less than seventy on examinations which includ ed reading, spelling, punctuation and vocabulary tests. The average of the whole group was sixty-nine. Grades ranging be tween ninety-seven and eighty-four were made by only ten per cent of the total students tested. Grades va ried from ninety-seven, the highest, to twenty-six, the lowest. New Members— (Continued from page 1) eligible for membership in the so ciety. New senior members as announced by McIntosh are: R. R. Atkinson, San Antonio; J. W. Bateson, Cleburne; D. F. Cheaney, Electra; H. C. Henry, Abilene; J. R. Couch, Grandview; J. S. Dial, Sulphur Springs; S. W. Flor entine, College Station; J. L. Hawley, Dallas; J. E. Monroe, El Paso; E. M. Moore, Houston; G. R. Robertson, San Antonio; G. E. Carpenter and COATS SLICKER COATS $5.50 TRENCH COATS $7.50 F. W. Conrad, Houston; L. M. Cook, G. J. Fix, C. C. Nash, A. M. Pendle ton, W. N. Rees, W. W. Taggart, N. O. Gorman, and F. K. McGinnis, Dal las. M. Benz, Port Arthur; W. M. Cur tis, Covington, Oklahoma; E. P. Fort- son, College Station; J. H. Hebert, Temple; R. M. Sawyer, Beaumont; A. R. Todd, Jacksonville; and H. A. Pendleton, Wichita Falls. New junior members are: E. Bartel, Comfort; L. E. Bell, Harlingen; M. L. Benke, G. W. Davis, C. W. Herring, E. A. Obergfell, and E. O. Staffel, Beaumont; E. C. Heliums, Yoakum; L. W. Herndon, Dublin; C. I. Holli man, Vernon; J. E. Hurley, New Or leans, La.; P. J. John, Harlingen; L. F. Lawhon, Denison; B. D. Lee, La- Grange; F. B. Lester, New Orleans, La.; A. R. Luedecke, Eldorado; E. A. Maier, Fredericksburg; W. H. Par ker, Milford; J. S. Porcher, El Paso; C. Reckenthin, Waring; A. L. Sebesta, Marlin; H. W. Slaughter, Henderson; J. B. Turner, Longview; R. J. Von Roeder, Yorktown; J. T. Wright, Fort Worth; and W. E. Wupperman, Aus tin. R O T C Allotment— (Continued from page 1) courses to each corps erea. The corps areas in turn have to divide up their allotments among their colleges. This year A & M received 560 for all units of the two advanced course years, the biggest allotment we have ever had. “But even this was exceeded by 15 applications—due to the fact that ev ery college in this corps area exceeded its number. It was only by using ev ery possible means that we were able to secure authority to accept the fif teen additional men. Our total, con sequently, is 575. The War Depart ment feels that A & M is one of the most efficient producers of ROTC graduates, and, therefore, every ef fort is made to give us an allotment sufficient to cover all selected for the advanced course.” College Education— (Continued from page 1) questioned his listeners thus: “If in deed the college is under obligation, both to the student as an individual and to the community which hopefully supports it, to make every man who enters its doors wise, efficient, ar tistic, and sensitive, to what extent are we, the teachers, and therefore the essence of the college, discharg ing this obligation?” In this conclusion the speaker brought forth the prevailing request for a truly educated man to be a wise man, a practical man, an artist, and a poet. REVERSIBLE COATS $7.50 SUEDE COATS $7.50 SHEEP COATS $10.00 LEATHER COATS $12.50 rilaldropfl(3 BRYAN AND COLLEGE Freshman Says— (Continued from page 1) thing as handwriting? It was easily traced. Result: One freshman before the discipline committee for question ing. “I am not quite certain whether I was excited that night or whether my flowery language had the corps ex cited, but one thing is certain, there was a misunderstanding somewhere,” Buford said. “I mei'ely related the leniency with which Casey deals with hot check artists. I didn’t tell them to go around and try their hand at the game.” A dose of poison can do its work only once, but a bad book can go on poisoning people’s minds for any length of time.—John Murray. AGGIELAND TAILOR SHOP TAILOR MADE SHIRTS AND BREECHES BLOUSES AND SLACKS Miss Walton— (Continued from page 1) sang and the Aggieland Orchestra played for the occasion. The bridal party included Miss Lillie Mae Walton, sister of the bride, maid of honor; Mrs. W. E. Eckles, Yoakum, matron of honor; Misses Helen Nelson and Julia Ball, College Station; Miss Lois Smith, Hillsboro, and Mrs. T. T. Walton, Houston, sis ter-in-law of the bride, bridesmaids. Z. W. Bartlett jr., Freeport, class mate and football team mate of the groom, was Mr. Burgess’ best man. Groomsmen included Bob Farmer, West Columbia; George Callaghan, Brownsville; Dan O’Neil, Brenham; Joe Davis, Foreman, Ark., graduate at A & M. Little Betty Jo Hale and Louise Marsh were flower girls and Steve Hughes jr., ring bearer. The bride is a graduate of Baylor University and is one of the few young women who took college fresh man work at A & M, having been enrolled at the college by reason of former regulation that permitted the daughters of college faculty members and officials to enroll for work. Dur ing the past summer she visited in Europe on itinerary that included Scotland, England, Holland, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, France and Cuba. Mr. Burgess, a graduate of A & M with the class of 1929, is engaged in the insurance business at Houston. He formerly lived at Hale Center. While at A & M he was a star ath lete as well as student of high scho lastic standing. SAYS EARTH IS FLAT VICTORIA, B. C.—(IP)—Embark ing on a cruise around the world, Rev. W. G. Voliva, Zionist leader, reiter ated his belief that the world is flat. He offered to debate with anyone on the question. DRINK “GIRLS’ TEARS” Drinking “girls’ tears” has become a favorite evening pastime of the new Turk. This seemingly heartless pursuit is really nothing but the drink of a cocktail so named. After one drink the Turk usually forgets to dine, and goes on drinking until midnight. Special Box Candies for Hallowe’en Choice of Whitman’s and King-’s We Wrap a Neat Package Ready for Mailing CASEY’S CONFECTIONERY STEPPING INTO /\ MODERN WORILSD They shut the door on hybrid styles Quantity production of equipment has long been practiced by the telephone industry. Telephone designers years ago shut the door on many hybrid styles—seeking first to work out instruments which could best transmit the voice, then making these few types in great quantities. This standardization made possible concen trated study of manufacturing processes, and steady improvement of them. For example, the production of 15,000,000 switchboard lamps a year, all of one type, led to the development of a highly special machine which does in a few minutes what once took an hour. Manufacturing engineers, with their early start in applying these ideas, have been able to develop methods which in many cases have be come industrial models. The opportunity is there! BELL SYSTEM CLEANING PRESSING AND ALTERATION A SPECIALTY FRAN KZUBIK, PROP. A NATION-WIDE SYSTEM OF MORE THAN 20,000.000 INTER CONNECTING TELEP: ION®®