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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-
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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
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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
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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-
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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.