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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (April 1, 1931)
rnc r \i t \ i k n VOL. XXIX COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS AFLIL 1, 1931 NO. 27 FACULTY APPROVES PUBLICATION BOARD PLAN Seniors and Juniors Invited toj Attend R. V. Dances April 16-18 DAY McNEEL Engineer Dance In Gym April 10 Heaves and grunts of panting ath letes will be ousted from the Kyle Field Memorial Gymnasium Friday night, April 10, by frolicksome fox trots and wailing walzes when the Engineer Battalion holds its second annual dance from 9 until 2. The Ag- gieland orchestra will play for the occasion. The decorative motif will be a com bination cave-carnival effect. The ceil ing and walls will be covered with Spanish moss and other appropriate decorations to complete the cave ef fect, while serpentine, gay caps, and confetti will furnish the carnival at mosphere. A committee of sophomores, compos ed of R. E. O’Connell, chairman, and O. E. McKay, C. E. Praeger, J. B. Cornet, and Jimmie Daniels have charge of the arrangements. The dance will be exclusively for members of the Engineer Battalion. M. E. Students Compete For Birming-ham Trip One junior and five senior students of mechanical engineering have so far indicated their probable competition in the selection of a student represen tative of the A S M E to attend a na tional meeting of the engineering so ciety to be held in Birmingham, Ala bama, April 20 to 23. Competition consists of preparation and presentation of a subject of engi neering interest by each of those try ing for the trip, the paper of the one selected to be given at the Birming ham meeting. Those expressing their intentions of competing are G. B. Slover, Pecos; the only junior submitting a paper, and J. D. Richter, Moulton, J. W. Jen nings, Kosse, G. H. Shiftlett, Marble Falls, F. G. Sleep'er, Alexandria, La., and C. V. Ellis, Wichita Falls, senior members of the society. Selection will be made at the next meeting to the local student chapter, which will be on April 9, according to the chairman of the program com mittee. INVITATION EXTENDED TO TWO UPPER CLASSES BY DAY McNEEL Members of the two upperclasses of the A & M student body, have been ex tended an invitation to attend the an nual spring festival of the Ross Vol unteers, honorary military and social organization, to be held April 16, 17 and 18, Day P. McNeel, San Antonio, captain of the R. V. Company, has announced. The three-day festival will be fea tured by dances each night in the main dining room of the mess hall, the first to be the queen’s ball and to follow the coronation of the queen, whose name has not been announced by James A. Cotton, Abilene, king of the festivities. Process of transforming the main dining room of the mess hall into a ball room of a yachting club is now underway under the direction of E. E. Roberts jr., architectural student from San Antonio. A nautical theme will be carried out in the decorative scheme, which will include various lighting effects to produce an atmosphere of gayety and merriment. Herman Waldman’s recording or chestra, now playing at the Gunter hotel in San Antonio, has been selected to play for the three dances in the Mess hall and for the tea dansante at the Bryan Country club Friday after noon for members of the R. V. com pany and their ladies. Chairmans of the various commit- (Continued on page 8) A&M ROTC Unit Will Be Inspected April 14 Major-General Winans, new com mander of the Eighth Corps Area, will be at A & M on Tuesday, April 14, to inspect ROTC activities and to visit the college. General Winans will be ac companied by his chief of staff, Col onel Tyner, who is Field Artillery officer serving in the general staff corps, and his aide, Captain Parmley At a review of the cadet corps in the afternoon medals will be awarded to members of the rifle team who par ticipated in the recent national inter collegiate rifle matches. Because of the review all students will be ex cused from their afternoon classes on that day. Architects To Make Trip To San Antonio Junior and senior architects will make an inspection trip to San An tonio, April 12-15, Ernest Langford head of the department of architec ture, recently announced. The students of architectural de signing will be accompanied by S. C. P. Vosper and C. J. Finney, both of the architectural department. With survey of the Spanish Southwest as its chief objective, this group will visit Goliad, Refugio, Victoria, and Mexico. A study will be made of the missions, forts, and roads built by the early Spanish invaders. The structural architects, under the guidance of J. C. Byrd of the architec tural department, will remain in San Antonio to inspect buildings now un der construction, steel mills, modeling plants, and cast stone shops. Mr. Langford will attend a meeting of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture in San An tonio on Sunday, April 12. It is plan ned that the two architectural groups will meet at the Menger Hotel in that city to attend the opening meeting of the American Institute of Archi tects’ annual convention on Wednes day evening, April 15. “Architectural Education” will be the subject of dis cussion at the first meeting of the convention. Landscape Artists Dressing Up Campus Since the control of outside improve ments has been transferred to the de partment of landscape art, a program of campus beautification has been adopted which provides for continual improvements of the grounds for period of eight to ten years. To date some thousand dollars have been spent in the purchase of plants, evergreens, and hedges and for seeds for the cul tivation of stock to be set out later. N. M. McGinnis of the landscape de partment is supervising the work. In the next two or three years, the landscape effect of the Main build ing, Guion hall, and the Mess hall will be changed, and several new ever greens will be set out. A large number of shrubs are to be placed around the hospital. The adopted plans also call for the transformation of the plot of ground north of the assembly hall into park. Through the proper placing of (Continued on page 8) April Fool” Brings Usual Sophomore Pranks, But “Misfit” Is Missing April 1—All Fools’ Day—arrived on the campus Wednesday to find chaos the order of the night and crude humor the order of the day. The entire soph omore class turned out early for rev eille to see the freshmen look for their shoes in the “hide the shoes and look for someoneelses’ campaign,” but doz ens of the “fish” had outwitted their tormentors by caching their footwear in safe places the previous night. The freshmen in greater numbers than usual on April Fools’ Day, cai a.' to class carrying alarm clocks, rifles with fixed bayonets, and laundry bags for book satchels. Two husky lads spent their spare time hauling a, ward robe trunk between classes, while doz ens .came barefooted, or with feet wrapped in all manner of bizarre ban dages. Artillery and Engineer “fish” went to breakfast minus shoes, sochs, or leggins. Those fooled on April Fool: Freshmen who found no shoes. Sophomores who thought they fool ed all the fish. Students looking at their mid-term grades. The April Fool jokester pest whose jokes fell flat. The baseball team while playing the Montreal Royals. The malcontents, who have been chuckling for weeks, when no issue of the “Misfit” appeared. Full Time Business Manager to Direct All Students Periodicals Laboratory or Lavatory? Evidence of A and M’s need for more adequate housing con- ; ditions for its chemistry depart ment was to be had in quantity during Monday’s showers, when ; the roof and eaves of the wood en building housing the petro- ; leum laboratory began to leak. ; Five students out of a class of ' twenty were kept busy all after- noor holding umbrellas, buckets, and washtubs over the largest of the crevices in order to pro tect their equipment and experi ments. | 300 Ex-Students Expected For Meet The annual meeting of the Asso ciation of Former Students will be held on the campus April 11 and 12. Information from the office of the secretary of the Association reveals that about three hundred former stu dents are expected to tattend this year’s meeting. One of the chief fea tures of the annual meeting this year will be the return of a large number of men who graduated in the classes of 1886, 1891, 1896, 1901 and 1906. Through the president of the As sociation, Burt E. Hull, class of 1904. the former students cordially invite the graduating class of 1931 to be present at the annual business session which will be held in the “Y” chapel at 2 o’clock Sunday afternoon. Mr. Hull says, “Since you will shortly be for mer students, it will be our pleasure to become better acquainted with each of you and when you have completed your work at A & M all of us will work together.” Firemen’s Training School April 27-28 The annual firemen’s training school conducted by the department of chem istry will be held here April 27-28 in clusive it was announced Friday by Professor H. R. Brayton. A complete program has been arranged and it is predicted that it will attract firemen from all over the state for a much larger attendance than last year. The course will give instruction in various phases of fire fighting under the direction of experienced firemen over the state as well as several tech nical experts from insurance depart ments, fire underwriters, life saving experts and building experts. Instruction will be given through the use of motion pictures, actual de monstrations, and lectures. The Bryan fire department is co-operating with the chemistry department in furnish ing such heavy fire fighting appara tus as will be needed during the course, and part of the sessions will be held in Bryan. Special attention will be given in the methods of life saving, rescue work, personal safety, first aid and work in gas and smoke under the di rection of C. F. Herbert, of the United States Bureau of Mines. He will be as (Continued on page 8) FOLLOWS SUGGESTION OF A&M PRESS CLUB MADE RECENTLY Approval of a plan for concentrat ing student publications of the college under a central governing board, to be known as the A&M Student Pub lication Board, was given by the fac ulty in session Wednesday afternoon. Faculty membership on the board, to be composed of six student and three faculty representatives, will be named within the next few days, Pres ident T. O. Walton announced. High points of the plan, submitted to the. faculty by the executive com mittee following consideration of a proposal by the Press club, are as follows: 1. That a central board of nine mem bers, to be known as the A&M Stu dent Publications Board, be formed for the purpose of managing, publish ing, distributing and directing all stu dent publications at the college. 2. That the personnel of the board be as follows: the editors of The Bat talion, The Longhorn, The Country man and The Technoscope; three mem bers from the faculty, appointed by the president, including the head of the department of publicity; and two members selected from and by the stu dent body at large, one of these to be a junior chosen for two years. 3. That the board be authorized to appoint a salaried, full-time manager, subject to the approval of the presi- (Continued on page 8) Engineering- Day Plans Are Getting Under Way Active work on the program for the Second Annual Engineering Day is expected to commence within the next week or as soon as the engineer ing school faculty committee for that purpose selects a student committee chairman. The affair has been sched uled for May 9, the Saturday before Mothers’ Day. N. F. Rode of the E. E. department is faculty committee chairman, and other members include Dr. L. E. Grin- ter, Dr. F. W. Jensen, Ernest Lang ford and V. M. Faires. This group held an informal meeting during the past week, but nothing definite con cerning the Engineering Day was set tled. Debaters Lose To Team From Centenary College The debating season was brought to a close here Wednesday night with the defeat of A & M by the Centen ary team following a banquet attend ed by members of both teams. The is sue, resolved that nations should adopt a policy of free trade was affirmed by A&M, represented by J. E. Gaston of Henderson and W. O. Alexander of Gulf. The winning team was compos ed of Gordy Reid and O. C. Woodard of Centenary. Previous to the debate the visitors were banqueted at the Aggieland Inn with a full attendance of the A&M debaters.