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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 3, 1930)
THE BATTALION 3 To Give Scholarships To Aviation School Students of A & M are eligible to compete for scholarship awards offer ed by W. E. Boeing, chairman of the Board of United Aircraft & Trans port Corp., at the Boeing School of Aeronautics, Oakland, Calif., accord ing to announcement from that school. Four scholarships will be awarded, at a total tuition value of $7,190, in cluding a $5,275 Master Pilot course of 204 hours of flying and 924 hours of ground school. Other awards are the Private Pilot Ground and Flying course, Master Pilot Ground course and Master Mechanic course. Those interested may obtain infor mation from the dean of the Boeing School of Aeronautics, Oakland Air port, Oakland, Calif. Awards will be made by a national committee of prominent educators, Dr. Baldwin M. Woods, Univ. of Calif., Chairman. Any undergraduate student, includ ing the class of 1931, who will com plete one or more years of study by July 15, 1931, is eligible if he has a scholastic standing classifying him in the upper one-third of his class during his enrollment. Each candidate will be required to write an essay not exceeding 2,000 words on any one of the following subjects: 1. Trends of Development in Air Transportation. 2. Progress of Safety in Aviation. 3. Trend of Airport Design and Development. 4. Radio as an Aid to Aviation. 5. Importance of Proper Co-ordina tion of Federal and State Laws Gov erning Air Transportation. Endows University Without Regulations NEW YORK —(IP)—A university without rules for its students, lack ing impressive looking buildings, and with its entire work centered about a small but distinguished faculty, is to be established here. It is the Institute of Advanced Study, made possible by a gift of $5,000,000 endowment made last June by Louis Bamberger and his sister, Mrs. Felix Fuld. The aims of the new university, which will bear many of the aspects of the original university of the Mid dle Ages in its form of organization, was outlined here by Dr. Abraham Flexner, director of the new institu tion, who gave four general principles on which it will be established. “The first of these,” he said, “is that there shall be no intrusion of those collegiate ideas and practices that are necessary in a college but hampering in a university. I mean by that that we shall have no room or time for athletics or extra-curricular activities, and no attempt will be made at paternalistic control of the student body. “Secondly, we will make no attempt at great size. Quality will be the first concern. For example, if we can find no first-rate teacher of mathematics we will have no course in mathemat ics. “The faculty will co-operate in the management of the institute and have places on the board of trustees. “We hope that the remuneration of our faculty members will be more fully commensurate with the impor tance of the positions. “Although these principles, in many ways, are the expression of a break from tradition, we intend to imply no criticism of other universities. “We can hope to do what I have described only because we are start ing new and are not bound by tradi tion. Most of the post graduate schools in this country were built on colleges. We have the advantage in that we are starting fresh and free. This freedom may result in many mis takes which the older universities have escaped. But that is part of freedom. “So far as other universities are concerned this is in every way a friendly effort.” WARN STUDENTS AGAINST USE OF LABORATORY ALCOHOL IN BEVERAGES NEW HAVEN, Conn. —(IP)—A warning has been issued by Professor Arthur J. Hill, head of the chemistry department of Yale University, to graduate students and research fel lows that they must not make bever ages out of grain alcohol kept in the university store house for experiment al and laboratory work. The warning embodied the asser tion that evidence had been submitted by federal officers to the chemical department that alcohol had been di verted from rightful uses, and declar ed this was “not only unlawful but a distinct breach of faith with the uni versity.” COURSE IN AIRPLANE DESIGN NEW YORK.—(IP)—A new course 'in airplane design is now being of fered by New York University, the first to be given by any college or university in the United States. The course, introduced into the cur riculum of the Daniel Guggenheim School of Aeronautics at the univer sity, is attracting universal attention. Fundamentals of airship design and operation, including the theory of lighter-than-air aero structures, is be ing covered in another new course in the school. FRILEY, HONOR GUEST Dean Charles E. Friley of A & M was the honor guest at a dinner spon sored by the University of Texas ath letic council Thanksgiving evening, November 27, at Austin for “T” men of the University. Invitation to at tend the function as honor guest was received from W. E. Metzenthin, chairman of the Texas athletic coun cil which sponsored the annual home coming reunion of old “T” men on Thanksgiving Day. A I E E MEETING Two talks on refrigeration featur ed the regular meeting of the A I E E held Monday night, November 17, in the Electrical Engineering building. Gas refrigeration was discussed by R. L. Allen, Ft. Worth. The advantages of electrical refrigeration were given by George A. Cushman, San Antonio. The next meeting is scheduled for Monday, December 8. AGGIELAND TO PLAY SATURDAY -...The Aggieland orchestra will play for a dance at the La Salle hotel, Bryan, Saturday night from 9 until 12, members of the orchestra have announced. Script will be $1.50. LA SALLE HOTEL BRYAN, TEXAS RESTAURANT AND COFFEE SHOP BRYAN’S FINEST EATING PLACE GreetingCards 23c bo]x 12 beautiful cards and envelopes to help you “Remember your friends at Christmas time.” Others at 49c and 98c J. C. PENNEY CO. Did You Know By J. A. Barnes Approximately 160 pounds of but ter are used in the mess hall every day? ? ? ? ? The rate that the corps enters the mess hall is 5.2 men a second instead of 52. This time the decimal point broke the “column” not the “bridge?” ? ? ? ? The elevation of the railroad sta tion in Albany, New York, is only six feet above sea level? It is about the same distance from the mouth of the Hudson River that Waco, Tex as is from the Gulf of Mexico. ? ? ? ? There are 1304 rooms in the dor mitories on the campus ? ? ? ? ? There are 42 different departments in the educational division of the col lege ? This new world will be a world based on slavery, but its slaves will be knowledge and the machine.— Frank A Clement. ’Tis written, gifts persuade The Gods in heaven; and gold is stronger made Than words innumerable to bend men’s ways.—Euripides. By no agency through which society operates can it destroy poverty out right.—President Edgerton, of the Manufacturers’ Assn. CURRY’S PLACE The Root Beer Stand WE SERVE THE BEST EATS AND DRINKS Next to Blue Moon Filling Station UNIFORM TAILOR SHOP Tailor Made Shirts and Breeches Blouses and Slacks MENDL & HORNAK, Props. j f. 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