VOL. XXIX
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS MAY 20, 1931
NO. 34
District Manager
G. E. Speaks To
Senior Engineers
'‘Engineering is the backbone of in
dustry,” L. T. Blaisdale, district man
ager of the General Electric Company,
president of the Dallas chapter of the
American Institute of Electrical En
gineers, and associate member of the
Dallas A & M Club, said in his talk
to the senior engineering students on
“The Engineer in Business’ at their
banquet Monday night.
“The executive and responsible posi
tions are to be in the future filled by
engineers,” the speaker stated, “and
hard work, friendliness and co-oper
ation are the points to be remembered
in mounting to such positions.”
In discussing what a graduate might
expect after leaving school, Mr. Blais
dale sketched the “post graduate”
school of practical learning of the
General Electric Company as being
representative of the probable ad
vancement of the engineer, explaining
that the student’s desire before grad
uation was to be able to use his knowl
edge of a slide rule and figures and
to stick to details, but that the “money
is on the business end.”
Among the numerous qualities de
sirable in a progressive employee, as
given by the speaker, are to be a
friend of everybody in the organiza
tion, for it is by helping them and not
by stepping on their toes that one
progresses, to practice self examina
tion, to have your whole heart in your
work, and not be too modest about
your abilities. “The future is one hun
dred per cent up to you,” Mr. Blais
dale reminded.
Arthur E. Shields, district manager
of the industrial department of the
General Electric and a member of the
class of 1910, proceeded Vthe main
speaker of the evening with a short
address.
Senior Week Starts
At Noon Sunday
Saturday noon will mark the close
of the last classroom period in the
academic existance for seniors who
are not behind in subjects other than
those of senior standing and for sen
iors who do not plan to do any grad
uate study work, for “Senior Week”
begins Sunday after the baccalaure
ate chapel services.
There’s a catch in it, however, as
seniors enrolled in required courses
not of senior standing, must attend
these recitations until the course has
been completed. Seniors will not be
required to attend elective courses
next week, even though these courses
are not of senior standing.
Senior term examinations will be
held Monday and Tuesday, May 25
and 26. Arrangements to take these
tests must be made by the individual
with the heads of their respective de
partments.
Underclassmen will be dismissed
from classes Friday, May 29, at noon.
Term examinations for them will be
held Friday, May 29, in the after
noon, and Saturday, May 30, in the
morning and afternoon.
Retiring 1 Editor
Most recent orders read that all
seniors will be required to attend the
baccalaureate sermon Sunday, the
ceremony to receive commission Fri
day and the graduation exercises Sat
urday, May 30. It is also announced
that all seniors will be required to
have passes to leave the campus dur
ing Senior Week.
Medal Winners to
Receive Trophies
In Review Sunday
Final award of college medals will
be made at a review to be held Sun
day, May 24, on the drill field. The
review will begin at 8:20 a. m.
Among the medals and trophies to
be distributed will be “T” medals to
varsity lettermen, the Caldwell trophy
to the best drilled man in the corps,
and Hurst’s trophy medal and ribbons
—to rifle team members. Trophies
also will be given to the honor com
pany, battery, and troop in each bat
talion, and, in addition, the Walters
trophy will be presented to the most
efficient Cavalry troop. The National
Intercollegiate rifle trophy will offi
cially be presented to the rifle team
as a group.
Miller and White
Win Essay Contest
A. J. Miller of Corsicana and Karl
K. White of Eastland have been
judged the winners of the anual
sophomore and freshman writing con
tests respectively. Miller will re
ceive a prize of $25 offered by Mr.
Williams Morriss of Dallas, class of
1902, while White will get a prize of
$20 offered by Dr. J. Allen Kyle of
Houston, class of 1890.
W. A. Ludeman of Gainsville and
J. G. Goldberg of San Antonio were
given honorable mention in the sopho
more contest, and H. F. Martin of
Dallas received an honorable mention
in the first year affair.
White’s prize winning paper was
entitled “What is an Education,” while
Miller’s winning theme was on “Con
tributions of Chemistry to the Home”.
Ten papers were submitted in
each contest for the judging and the
final decision made by committees
composed of representatives of the
english department and of the student
body. In the sophomore contest, how
ever, it was necessary to eliminate
five of the contestants and re-judge
the remaining five before a final de
cision could be made.
NEW YORK.—Students of Barnard
College have presented college author
ities with a petition asking for a
change in the grading system at the
college, and the substitution of pass-
failmarks only. The action of the stu
dents followed a campaign carried
on by the Bulletin under graduate
newspaper.
Retiring Business
Manager
New Coast Artillery Unit Assigned
Equipment And Basic Course Students
Sophomore Prom
Is Disapproved
With an emphatic “Disapproved”
stamped across its face, the petition
for the annual Sophomore Prom was
returned to class officials last week
by Student Activities Committee. De
traction from the Junior Prom and
Final Ball and interference with
studies were given as causes for the
disapproval.
President T. O. Walton declined to
act in the matter, stating that the
committee had full control over such
matters and undoubtedly had a just
cause for with-holding permission to
hold the affair.
Refusal of premission to hold their
first and only social function of the
year was made known to the sopho
mores by their class president, T. B. j
Goodrich of Marlin, at a class meet- j
ing held in the Assembly Hall last
Thursday. Further action on the mat
ter was unanimously voted down by
the class.
The money thus far collected on
bids for the dance will be returned,
Goodrich stated.
ANOTHER STAFF
PASSES ON
Their work on the staff of The Bat
talion virtually being complete with
the completion of this issue, Robert
L. Herbert, and Richard N. Winders
pass on to next year’s editor, Claude
M. Evans, the difficult task of con
tinuing a work nobly attacked and
successfully carried on. Too much can
hardly be given in favor of these two
men, for Herbert has left nothing un
done towards publishing a paper which
would reflect only credit on the col
lege, and Winders has done an excel
lent work in keeping up with the ex
penses that Herbert has incurred, de
spite the financial handicape which he
was forced to work under.
Unfortunately the publication lost
the services of Herbert for its last few
issues, but because of his accomplish
ments, it was voted to retain his name
as editor-in-chief for the remainder of
the 5^ear.
C. E. Calder To
Address Seniors
At Commencement
College Again Gets
High Military Rating
The Military Department of the col
lege again has a rating of “excellent”
following an inspection made here re
cently by army officers from eighth
corps area headquarters in San An
tonio.
In addition to rating the military
department as a whole, the inspectors
also rated each service branch individ
ually. The Artillery, Cavalry, Engi
neers, and Signal Corps units all re
ceived ratings of “excellent,” while
the Infantry was given a rating of
“satisfactory.”
As a result of this rating, the col
lege will be permitted to designate
five per cent of its second year ad
vanced military science course grad
uates as “Honor Graduates.” As such
the names of these men, soon to be
designated, will appear on the com
mencement day program.
The honor graduates thus named
also will be entitled to appointment in
u he regular army in time of a vacancy
without the usually required mental
examination, if they so desire.
SENIORS OF ORGANIZATION
TAKEN FROM PRESENT
FIELD ARTILLERY
New Technoscope
Staff is Announced
The staff of The Technoscope has
been selected and work on next year’s
publications is under way, it was learn
ed from E. P. Fortson of Ashville, N.
Carolina, who will occupy the editors
desk next year. The following men
will perform the indicated duties:
B. G. Zimmerman, Shiner, adver-!
tising manager; G. H. Samuels, San
Antonio, associate editor; W. T. Evans,
Corsicana, assistant editor; P. D.
Laughter, Matagorda, news editor; H. !
W. Perkins, Dallas, associate news edi
tor; L. W. Storms, San Antonio, as- j
sistant news editor; and J. L. Chap
man, Lockhart, designer.
Other officers are:
B. G. Zimmerman, Shiner, business i
manager; J. C. Barron, Center, asso- |
ciate business manager; B. M. Gottlieb,
Corsicana, assistant business man-!
ager; F. S. Scott, Little Rock, Ark., j
circulation manager; J. B. Cornett, i
Waco, associate circulation manager;
and C. C. Johnson, Victoria, assistant !
circulation manager.
The complete support and co-oper
ation of all engineering students is
asked in the editing and publication
of this magazine. Next year a effort
is to be made to secure membership
in the Engineering College Magazine
Association.
Recent orders from the War De
partment indicate that the organiza
tion and establishment of the two
Coast Artillery batteries here next
September are well under wa5 r , and
immediate work on the part of the
department of military science has
virtually completed the enrollment of
sophomore members which are being-
drafted voluntarily from the present
freshman members of the engineering
and signal corps units.
The first freshman to signify his in
tentions of joining the new unit was
Charles E. Friley, jr., son of Dean
Friley of the School of Arts and
Sciences, it was learned from Major
Sloan this week.
New equipment which will be sent
here during the summer for instruc
tion in this branch of the army will
have a valuation of over $50,000 and
will necessitate the erection of a
building for storage purposes. Tena-
tive plans call for the building to be
placed ajoining the armory.
Aside from numerous types of com
puting devices, calculating instru
ments, and surveying instruments
there will be sent the following heavy
equipment: one 155 mm. gun, one
3-inch sea-coast gun, one 75 mm. an
ti-aircraft gun mounted on a truck,
one 10-ton tractor, and one 3-ton
truck. Aside from this the work in
camp, which will be held at Fort
Crockett at Galveston, will involve the
use of many new instruments that
have been developed since the last
war.
The disciplinary control of the bat
teries, until Seniors can be from
within their own battei-ies, will
be composed of five seniors and five
juniors from the six field Artillery
batteries. These men will continue in
their field artillery work however, and
will be in charge of the battery only
for formations and while in barracks.
Army instruction in this work will
be under the direction of two army
officers and an enlisted detachment
which will arrive here during the sum
mer. The establishment of this unit
comes following the war department’s
increasing its defense along the gulf
coast and the likewise need for re
serve officers in this unit.
Student requirements for signing
up in the coast artillery at the be
ginning of school are that their class
work include a course in Trignometry
at least.
Programs for commencement can
be obtained now from the president’s
office, the Y M C A, or the office of
Dr. Humbert in the Agricultural
building, but cannot be obtained at
the commandant’s office.
C. E. Calder, a widely known and
recognized individual in the financial
and public utility fields, has been ob
tained as the speaker for the com
mencement address to be given at the
exercises Saturday, May 30, at Guion
Hall, when the largest senior class in
the history of the college wends its
way past the last goal post of educa
tion to receive diplomas.
Mr. Calder’s official connections in
clude president of the American and
Foreign Power Company, incorporat
ed, vice president of the Electric Bond
and Share Company, director of both
the National City Bank of New York
and the First National Bank of Dal
las, and officer of various other public 1
utility and financial organizations, and
his accomplishments as a speaker to
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Commencement Program
Changed
Recent changes in the program
for the commencement activities for
Thursday and Friday of Senior
Week, move all Ross Volunteer ac
tivities which are scheduled for
those dates to Friday afternoon.
This change affects the drill com
petition which was formerly plan
ned for Thursday afternoon that
under the revised program this
will follow the exhibition drill on
Friday afternoon. The competition
drill will be held to determine the
winner of a ten dollar gold piece
that is being donated by a resident
of the campus.
Decorations Final
Ball Being Finished
Decoration for the junior banquet,
junior prom, and final ball, the an
nual commencement social affairs, is
rapidly being carried to completion
by J. L. Keith and other groups in
charge of arrangements, George Fix,
president of the junior class, announc
ed this week.
The Final Ball, as in the past, will
be the only one of the events that will
be open to the entire student body.
The Junior banquet, which will start
at seven Thursday evening, will pre-
ceed the Junior Prom. The Banquet
will be open to the Juniors and their
ladies only, while the seniors are in
vited to share the evening’s dance
in the main dining room. The script
to the Prom is two dollars and a half,
and will be paid by all attending.
The Final Ball on the following night
is in honor of the four year men, and
may be attended by all underclass
men. Members of the finance commit-
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