THE BATTALION
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CAPTAIN RICHARDS GIVES
RIDING STUDENTS PRIZES
In order to “make things more in
teresting” for his two sections in
equitation and horsemanship for se
nior students, Captain C. S. Richards,
instructor of equitation of the artil
lery, last week held jumping
for first place winners, and miniature
sabers for second place winners were
personally donated by him—with the
effect that very excellent exhibitions
were turned in. In the Friday sec
tion the winners were D. W. Sherill,
Kerens, first place, and Paul Wilson,
Hereford, second place. W. L. Corn-
best, Olton, and R. P. Lively, Dallas,
received first and second places re
spectively in the Saturday section.
So well pleased is Captain Richards
with the abilities of the seniors in
handling the horses, that he said:
“During the fall and winter I hope to
be able to train them in cossack and
rough-riding for exhibition and horse-
show performances.”
COURSE IN SOCIAL POISE
PHILADELPHIA, Pa. (IP)—A new
course of instruction to instill “social
poise” in students of Temple Uni
versity is to be inaugurated, accord
ing to Miss Gertrude D. Peabody,
dean of women.
Declaring that poise, which enables
both men and women to feel socially
at ease is as important as any other
branch of learning, Miss Peabody has
promised to arrange activities which
will assist students in gaining ease
of manner.
“Many girls,” she said, “complete
their college courses without learning
what the college life is all about.
She has outlined a definite program
aimed to place girls in their proper
vocations and to familiarize them with
the various phases of college activ
ities.
PARIS SCHOOLING CHEAP
PARIS, (IP)—The cost of living
for students at the University of Paris
is not to be compared with that of
students in the United States.
A student in the Latin quarter here
can live on . $230 for two semesters,
and his tuition, unless he takes tech
nical training, is $5.60 for the year.
MAY ELIMINATE EXAMS
FOLKSTONE, England —(IP)—
Elimination of examinations may be
possible if a new scientific method of
testing the mental growth of school
children, now being tried out by edu
cators, proves successful.
Children are asked to tell what is
wrong with a number of absurd state
ments, and if they give correct an
swers, their mental ability is said to
have been proved.
One of the brain twisters which
these same educators would try on
adults to see if they are “superior,”
is as follows:
“A mother sent her boy to the river
to fetch seven pints of water, giv
ing him a three-pint and a five-pint
measure to carry it in. How could th r
boy measure exactly seven pints ci ;
water without guessing at the
amount ? Begin by filling the five-
pint measure.”
RUSSIAN EDUCATION
MOSCOW (IP)—A plan of univer
sal compulsory education, which Rus
sia has been unable heretofore to car
ry out because of a lack of teachers,
schools, and textbooks, has been put
into operation this year after these
important gaps in the system were
filled.
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COLLEGE A PLACE
OF SERIOUSNESS
WASHINGTON, D. C. —“Coonskin
coats, college caps and collegiate slang
are remnants of the irresponsible days
of adolescence that must be put aside
upon entering college,” Dr. Cloyd
Heck Marvin, president of the George
Washington University, told members
of the freshman class here this year.
“Don’t confuse the burning of gas
with the burning of mid-night oil,” he
said. “You may go further overland
on the former, but it won’t get you
as far on the road you are to travel
while in college. Loafing is a disease,
a malfunctioning of worthwhile en
ergy. Choose as your friends those
who are going somewhere, and go
with them.”
SUN SPOTS
VALLEJO, Calif. (IP)—That with
in a decade scientists will be able to
predict serious weather disturbances
such as tornadoes and hurricanes,
and their resulting floods and destruc
tion, by means of a study of the spots
on the sun, is the belief of T. J. J.
See, U. S. Navy mathematics profes
sor, now retired.
Captain See declares that he has
deffinitely connected sun spots with
the Mississippi floods of 1927, and
with the drouth that burned up the
mid-west last summer.
Rapid increase in sun spots, se says,
cause a sudden chilling of the Earth’s
upper atmosphere, and thus cause
prolonged rains and floods.
A similar decrease in the sun spots,
on the other hand, he says, cause the
Earth to be supplied with an excess of
heat, and a drouth is the natural re
sult.
Captain See is now at work at
tempting to work out a proper ratio
of sun spots to weather conditions in
order that he may be able accurately
to predict the weather by the sun.
DEMOCRACY AT HARVARD
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (IP)—Democ
racy, an unknown quantity on the
Harvard campus for many a year, is
about to be introduced on that cam
pus, if efforts being made by Presi
dent Lowell and the other administra
tors are successful.
The administration is seeking to
bring an end to the exclusive cliques
at Harvard, and to have the under
graduates of all classes and degree:
of wealth mix more freely.
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Noble Will Address
Economics Students
The second of a series of talks on
economics and various subjects relat
ed to it, which are being given by the
department of economics, will be giv
en Tuesday night at 7:15 in the
chapel of the Y M C A by Steve A.
Noble jr., who will speak on life in
surance salesmanship. He will talk
in detail on the prerequisites to per
sonal success as a salesman, the fi
nancial possibilities, and the psychol
ogy of selling insurance. Following
his talk opportunity will be given for
a general discussion of any issue that
may be brought up.
Noble comes to the campus well ac
quainted with the insurance business,
having spent several years of study
before entering the field. At present
he is manager of agencies for the
American Provident Life Insurance
Company, with offices in Houston.
Following his graduation from A &
M in 1925 at which time he was Lieu
tenant Colonel in the cadet corps, he
attended New York University, study
ing under some of the most promi
nent economists of the day, among
whom were Huebner, Lovelace, and
Englesman. Following the comple
tion of the study under these men he
entered the insurance business as a
salesman, and from then on he has
been continually promoted. On his re
turn to Texas, he was put in the dis
trict offices at Ft. Worth, and later
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became manager of the district. He
was recently transferred to his pres
ent position in the home offices in
Houston.
These informal lectures are open
to students, campus people, and es
pecially those interested in econom
ics. The next lecture will be an
nounced at an early date.
UNUSUAL PHOTOGRAPHY
BERLIN (IP)—Reduction of a pho
tograph of a book page to an area
of 1/100 of a square millimeter, and
then re-enlargement of the photo
graph to normal size, has been made
possible by the discovery of a prac
tically grainless film formula by Pro
fessor Goldberg, a German photo
graphic chemist.
By the new discovery, it will be
possible to photograph at least 100
novels in full on one postcard, and
then make it possible to read page
after page on a projector screen.
The invention is believed to hold
great value for espionage agents, who
may now slip through the line of bat
tle with an entire plan of battle in
scribed on a bit of paper less than
a square millimeter in size, tucked
under a fingernail or pasted to the
scalp.
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