THE BATTALION
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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
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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.
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