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—
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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—
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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—
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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
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BRYAN AND COLLEGE
Freshman Says—
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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—
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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!
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