BAT TALICN
Published Weekly By The Students Of The A. & M. College Of Texas
VOLUME XXX
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, JANUARY 27, 1932
NUMBER 17
Faculty Adopts New Grading
System To Be Effective Next Fall
Grade Point For Every Hour*
Required With An Exami- 1 AOSIUme Dance lO
nation* Over Term’s Work
Will Revise Educational
Standard Of College.
Feature Holidays
Confetti, serpentine, gala cos
tumes that will mask anyone’s
identity, covering any era, period,
or type of humanity will be fea
tured at the Annual Costume dance
which will be held at the Mess Hall
Annex Friday night, January 29.
Due to a misunderstanding, there
was a rumor circulated that the
affair will be a deviation from the
Barnyard frolic that is held each
year during the mid-term holidays.
“It will be the same dance only
with the name change,” Tom Bag-
ley, social secretary said.
There will be three prizes award
ed for the most originally dessed
couple, the most uniquely dressed
boy, and the best costumed girl.
Music will be furnished by the Ag-
gieland who won new laurels as
one of the South’s leading colleg
iate orchestras over the Christmas
holidays, and the time is set from
nine ’til two.
Shortage Of Loan
Funds Cuts Number
Second Term Notes
Available Money Soon Ex
hausted By Students Be
fore Christmas.
A new grading system providing
for term examinations and requir
ing a grade point for every semes
ter hour in the course was adopted
at a recent faculty meeting and be
comes effective next September is
announced by Dean Charles E. Fri-
ley. The adopted plan will revise
the present one in many respects,
but is of such nature that all stu
dents will be able to continue with
out any effect upon work done in
previous terms.
Known as the four passing grad
es system, grades will be based up
on class recitation, written exercis
es and tests, laboratory work, and
a final examination, the latter
counting a third of the total grade.
The head of each department will
place the value of the other work
in making up the rest of the grade.
’Three Hour Tests
Three hour periods will be allow
ed for the examinations which will
be held during the final week of
each semester. Examinations for
Seniors will be held the week be
fore commencement. Under the
four passing grades system, grad
es “A,” “B,” “C,” and “D, : ’ will be
' passing. “E” will be the condition
al grade, holding a position simi
lar to that the grade “D” does un
der, the present system. “F ! ‘ will
be failing.
Numerical values of the grades
will be as follows: ! 'A : '—Excellent
(94-100), three grade points per
semester hour; “B”—Good (85-93),
two grade points per semester
hour; “C”—Fair (76-84), one grade
point per hour; “D”—Pass (70-75),
no grade points; “E”—Condition
(60-69); “F”—Failure (below 60).
Test For Grade E
The grade “E” may be removed
by re-examination upon petition
within one semester, and if not so
removed becomes a failure. There
will also be a temporary grade, Inc.
(Incomplete) to indicate that the
work has been completed with the
exception of a small amount of
practice work. This grade is to be
. given only when the work which
has been completed is satisfactory,
and the privilege of completing the
work is to be limited to the end of
the succeeding semester.
System Raises Standard
Value of the introduction of fin
al examinations is expected to be
two-fold, according to Dean Friley,
since those students who have com
paratively low daily averages will
be given an opportunity to bring
their grades to passing and at the
same time all students will be en
abled to integrate the entire sem
ester’s work. The new grading sys
tem will also raise the value of a
degree from this college as the
lowest value of “C” has been rais
ed from 70 to 76 and the new rul
ing will require one grade point per
semester hour.
Use of the system wil place the
Colege in the classification of most Lettermen of the 1931 Aggie
senior colleges of the state and cou- football team were honored at a
ntry, according to a report of grad- banquet last week, at which they
ing systems given by Dean Friley presented testimonials to Coaches
and E. J. Howell, assistant regis-1 Matty Bell, Klepto Holmes, and
trar.
Delicacy of Operation May
Prevent Bullet Removal Un
less Necessary for Recovery
New Grid Schedule
Carries Six Games
On Foreign Fields
Tulane and Texas Tech Only
Large Non-C on, ference
Games on List.
Shortage of available funds was
given by the Association of For
mer Students as the cause for the
decrease in the number of loans
made to students for the sprung
term. Tardiness in payment of not
es was the cause for this shortage,
according to Mr. E. E. McQuillen,
Secretary of the Association. Ap
plications for loans were accepted
on December 15, 1932, and within
several days all available money
had been promised.
The loan fund to be used for the
coming term amounts to $25,000;
the aggregate loan fund of the As
sociation is $65,000. There will be
approximately two hundred loans
made to students at mid-term for
the spring session, these loans are
in addition to those made last Sep
tember. The Former Students’ As
sociation prefers to make loans to
seniors, however, in all cases aca-
Glenn G. Commons, 19, junior in
mechanical engineering from Mer
cedes, was critically wounded in the
head while examining a .22 calibre
pistol in his room in Walton Hall
Monday shortly before noon. The
bullet entered the center of his
forehead just above the bridge of
his nose, penetrating a considera
ble distance and lodging just at
the base of the brain.
The condition of Commons was
reported as encouraging at the hos
pital, where he was removed im
mediately following discovery of
his injury. The bullet remained in
his head and due to the delicacy of
such an operation, the question of
attempting its removal will de
pend on developments in his case,
it was announced.
Parents Here
Mr. and Mrs. G. G. Commons,
parents of the injured student, are
here with him, having arrived in
the early hours Tuesday morning
by automobile from Mercedes.
They were notified of the injury to
their son immediately following its
discovery and made the drive to
College Station in fifteen hours.
Commons’ inert body, stretched
on his room floor by an open trunk
was found by E. C. Buie, Commons’
room mate, when Buie returned to
their room after class Monday a-
bout 11:30 o’clock. Commons had
gone to his room about and hour
before. A pool of blood had collect
ed by the body when Buie arrived.
He reported the matter and Com
mons was rushed to the college
hospital where he remained in a
state of semi-consciousness until a-
bout 3 o’clock that afternoon.
Tells Of Shot
Commons told Buie Monday af
ternoon and later repeated from his
Concrete Work For Chemistry
Building Nearing Completion
Stone Work To Follow At Once
(See STUDENT on page 3)
Expensive Books
Added To Library
Of Architecture
(See LOAN on page 3)
Making the finest addition to the
library in several years, the De
partment of Architecture received
about thirty expensive books re
cently, some of which are elabor
ately hand painted and illustrated.
Possibly the most outstanding book
of the group is the Collection of
Byzantinq, Georgian, and Old Rus
sian Ornament, entitled “Les Mos
ques De Samarcande,” which is
hand painted in the most intricate
detail. The book is written in Rus
sian and French paralleled and the
Bell, Holmes, Hunt, and Spra- r 1 ™”? 1 M< f?“ e j s analized * ra i> h
gue Presented Testimonials lca y 01 a a 11 y ‘
1 Many other valuable
Grid Coaches Get
Compliments Of
Players At Party
For the first time in three years
the Aggie football schedule calls
for less than three intersectional
games, with only Centenary Col
lege and Tulane University on the
list for the 1932 season.
The schedule as arranged, calls
for ten games, five w* jh conference
teams, two intersectioual, and three
with minor colleges. Arkansas is
the only conference ieam absent
from the Aggie schedule, and it so
happens that A. and M. and Ark
ansas will be the only members
in the race to play less than six
games.
On the opening date, September
24 the Aggie “regulars” will meet
the Texas Tech “Matadors” in Am
arillo, while the reserves play hosts
to Southwestern University’s Pi
rates on Kyle field.
Tulane University fills the bill
for the second week-end and they
will be followed by the Texas A
and I Javelinas, as the Aggies last
opponents, before they open the
conference with Texas Christian
University on Kyle field, October
15.
Three games on foreign fields
with Baylor University, Centenary
College, and Southern Methodist
University, in the order named will
give the Aggies sufficient competi
tion until they return to Kyle field
with the Rice Owls to furnish op
position on November 12.
A lay-off of nearly two weeks
will follow the scrap with the Owls
before the season is brought to a
close with the Texas Longhorns as
their opponents in the annual grid
iron classic of the Southwest,
Thanksgiving day, in Austin.
The complete 1932 schedule is as
follows:
Sept. 24—First team vs. Texas
Teach at Amarillo and reserves vs.
Southwestern at College Station.
Oct. 1—Tulane University at
New Orleans.
Oct. 8—Texas A. and I. at Col
lege Station.
Oct. 15—Texas Christian Uni
versity at College Station.
Oct. 22—Baylor University at
Wftco.
Oct. 29—Centenary College at
Shrevepoi’t.
Nov. 5—Southern Methodist U.
at Dallas.
Nov. 12—Rice Institute at Col
lege Station.
Nov. 24—Texas University at
Austin.
by Captain and Team.
books in
cluding a signed copy of “Kiowa
Indian Art” (Oklahoma), which is
drawn and hand painted by the
Indians themselves and is written
in French and English paralleled,
the “Empire Style” in five volumes,
and two volumes of “L-Acropole”
were also received. These books
Contestants Finish With All
Scores Comparatively Close,
Winners to Receive Medal
Given by Bryan Merchants.
F. C. Schillingburg, of Dublin,
won first place in the Annual
Freshman Livestock Judging Con
test held at A. and M. Saturday,
January 23rd. Schillingburg, whose
score was 683 of a possible 800,
was a member of the state winning
Vocational Livestock Judging Team
in 1931, and also was a member of
the state team that won first place
in the National Contest held in
Kansas City in November, 1931.
As high point man, his name will
be inscribed as winner of the 1932
Freshman Livestock Judging Con
test on the Charles Nitch Trophy.
Second place was won by J. W.
Holmes, of Ralls, whose score was
673 of a possible 800. He also won
first place in the horse judging and
his name will be recorded on the
Purina Mills Trophy. Holmes was
a member of the Vocational Dairy
Judging Team of Ralls, which won
the state championship in 1930.
Honor for third place was won
by T. E. Voss of Post, whose score
was 670. Robert Cross, Spur, and
C. C. Williams, Dexter, tied for
fourth and fifth places with a score
of 657. Sixth place was won by F.
Bednarek, Schulenburg, whose score
was 655.
All six winners will receive Live
stock Judging Medals which have
been donated by Merchants of Col
lege Station and Bryan.
High honor winners in the indi
vidual contests were: sheep judg
ing, F. E. Schillingburg; beef cat
tle, L. M. Lane; hogs, F. Bednared;
and horses, J. W. Holmes.
Judges of the contests were: D.
W. Williams, Head of the Animal
Husbandry Department; J. R.
Couch, Experiment tSation; C. Lu-
]ier, Vocational Agriculturist of
'Bryan; and W. R. Horlacher, Pro
fessor of Genetics.
Texas Art Exhibit
Shown In Library
Through This Week
f Class Rooms and Lecture
Room Will Be Well Equip
ped for Laboratory Demonr
strations.
The fourth annual circuit exhi
bition of the work of Texas Ar
tists, will be displayed by the De
partment of Architecture January
28th to February 7th on the third
floor of the main library during
library hours.
This exhibition, which includes
thirty-six paintings, water color
ings, and etchings, is sponsored by
the Texas Fine Arts Association,
and is representative of the work
of many of Texas’ well known ar
tists, among whom is E. M.
Schwetz, a graduate of the A. and
M. Department of Architecture.
Much of the work in the exhibition
was done by professional artists,
and the exhibition as a whole is
considered very good.
Bowling Arouses
Local Interest
Aggies Fall To
Bears In Close
Game 29 To 23
The ancient sport of bowling is
helding considerable interest among
students and faculty members at
A and M since the recent installa
tion of a bowding alley in Bryan.
Two of eight teams in a Bryan
bowling league are composed of
college students and campus resi
dents.
Although the sport is compara-
of the stu-
Progress On Tennis
Court Held Up By
Inclement Weather
Due to the recent rains, work is
progressing slowly on the new ten
nis courts. The beds of these new
courts have to be set in such a
way that unless the right amount
of moisture is present they will
not be satisfactory. The courts are
completed with the exception of the
laying of these beds and when the
weather permits, work will be rush
ed in order to complete them in
time for intramural tennis contests.
Farmers Hear Ryle
Speak On Program
For Agriculturist
At the invitation of the Corpus
Christi Chamber of Commerce,
Dean E. J. Kyle of the school of
Agriculture, spoke to a large group
of farmers and business men at
Corpus Christi on “A Permanent
Agricultural Program for the Gulf
Coast Country.”
In February, Dean Kyle will ap
pear before the First Citrus School
offered in the Rio Grande Valley
at Edinburg, where he will talk
on the “Importance of Improving
the Quality of Citrus Fruits.” Then
on February 18, he will offer a
Permanent Agricultural Program
for Central Texas before the fourth
district Texas Bankers Association
in Waco.
In the lectures Dean Kyle is
stressing the importance of the
farmers changing from a cotton
farming to a general livestock
farming basis, and also the advis
ability of raising and consuming
their own vegetables and living at
home.
Intramural Handball
Games To Be Resumed
Aggies Working For
Next Bear Game In
Waco Monday Night Engineer Rifle
With the finishing of the con
crete skeleton work, the second
unit of the New Chemistry Build
ing is rapidly taking form. Work
on the cast stone exterior will go
forward immediately, according to
Mr. W. A. Orth, Superintendent of
Construction, and the building will
be ready in plenty of time for oc
cupancy at the opening of school
next fall.
The building will be the best
equipped and most modern build
ing on the campus. There are eigh
teen private offices for the profes
sors of the department, and one
general office for the head of the
department and his staff. Nihfe pri
vate laboratories will be at the dis
posal of the professors that wish
to carry on any experimental work,
ten research laboratories fol’ stu
dents doing graduate work, and
six other laboratories for advanc
ed work Will be provided. 1 * '" ■
Good Class Rooms
The class roqms will seat. Let-
tween thirty and thirty-five stu
dents and each room will have a
demonstration desk where the in
structor may do experiments for
the observation of the class. .
The lecture room will be modern-
ly equipped and have a seating
capacity of three hundred students.
Electric fans will ventilate the
room in warm weather, and con
cealed heating devices will warm
the room in cold weather. A pro
jection booth in the rear of the
room will make possible projection
of slides and motion pictures. The
windows will have darkening ap
pliances in order that the projec
tion machine may be used in the
day time.
The wood trimmings of the build
ing will be natural finished oak,
while the paint and electric fix
tures will be acid resisting. AH
windows will be steel, and all out
side doors will be metal, probably
aluminum. The laboratory floors
will be cement; the floors in the
I offices will be linoleum, and those
in the class rooms will be made of
an asphalt composition.
Stone used on the exterior will
be manufactured in the College
Stone Plant. The front of the build
ing will have chemical symbols in
scribed between the windows. The
entrance will be built of Mexican
Mosaic, tile, and marble. The esti
mated cost of the completed build
ing is $450,000.
Merka’s Eligibility for Game
Next Week Strengthens
Hopes for a Victory.
Joel Hunt, reassuring the latter of
their faith in them. This ceremony. , , ,, ^ ,
was followed by presentation of a re J> r f P a <> bab ' y tbe ™> sb “I*”- j to many
silver mounted comb and brush set s,vc boo,IS b ° u eht recent years, dents, it has taken such a hold on
to each of the lettermen, the ; T , | them that there is talk of getting
coaches and Carl “Doc” Sprague, Longhorn AlHlOUnCeS j U P a team to P la y student teams
trainer i ^ i j* /* from other colleges in this region.
The testimonial presented to' Completion of Staff H. T. Mast, joint owner of the
Coach Bell, by captain Carl Moul-1 ! Bryan Alley with B. C. Allen, and
den, read as follows: “We, the un
dersigned members of the Texas ! for the Longhorn was recently bowling aUeys at Houston, are re ^ ^ r .v, bu
Aggie football team, wish to ex- made by A1 Saenger of Beaumont, ported to be trying to arrange a are ver y much ahead of the other,
sincere annreciation to : editor of this y ears ’ annual - 0f f ices home-and-home tournament be-l teams stil l have a good chance to
Intramural handball tournaments
will be resumed the second week
after the start of the second term
if work on the auxiliary gymna
sium is completed. Although these
tournaments were delayed while
the stiffest competition was on, the
games when renewed are expect
ed to be equally as fast as before.
The standings of the different
leagues now are: C Engineers lead
ing in A league; B Artillery, B
league; E Artillery, C league; F
Artillery and B Infantry tied for
D league; and the Band tied with
Announcement of staff memoers j F. E. Vance, manager of the main L Artillery in the E league. Since ■ j n t 0 the line-up
. i none of the leaders in these leagues
Hoping to avenge themselves of
the 29 to 23 setback handed them
on their home floor Saturday night,
Coach Reid’s Aggie cage hopefuls
will make a second attempt to stop
Baylor’s title-bound Bears when the
two teams meet in a return engage
ment in Waco, Monday night.
Although odds will favor the
Baylor quintet even more than in
the first battle, the Aggies may
present a still better team than
that which held the Bruins to a
six point margin at Aggieland,
should Joe Merka, elongated soph
omore center from Bryan, bi-eak
Merka and Malone
With Merka and Charlie Malone,
who made his initial bow as a bas-
jketball player in the game Satur-
! day night, alternating at center it
| is likely that Dooley Dawson will
A i •. . ri, j , I remain at the guard post for the
Arcnitecture otuaent rest of the season. Captain Charlie
Beard, formerly a guard shifted
The Department of Architecture | to forward last week, will in all
received one of the highest honors likelihood start the game at that
High Rating Given
I press our sincere appreciation - . , .
Baylor’s Golden Bears streng- Coach Madison Bell, and we fur- includ e: J. H. Perkins, Bastrop, ad-; tween teams composed of A and capture the title.
thened their hold on top the con-| ther desire to state that in our vertisin £ manager; B. J. Gottlieb, M and Rice Institute students,
ference basketball heap when they opinion he is America’s finest Corsicana - assistant editor; G. E. Ne , son on Team
sent the Aggie cage five to a 29-23 lCoac h, a great sportsman, and a Carpenter, San Antonio, circulation Colonel Charles j Nelson> com _
defeat in the A and M Memorial 1 coach who is fair and square in mana g er I A - C. Moser, Dallas, mil-' mandant) u ]eader of one of the
gymnasium, Saturday night. a n his dealings, and last, but not ltar y: A - Weil > Corpus Christi, The teams in the Bryan league . other
From the opening whistle both least, a great teacher and a gen- Greenhorn; C. W. Herring, Taylor, j mbers 0 f the team, which is lim-
teams began a “fast-breaking” ; tleman.” classes; H. P. Wofford, San An- ited to four men, are J. U. Parker,. . .
passing attack which brought al-1 Jack Christian made the presen- toni °, activities; I. M. Baker, Hous- gherman, chief yell leader; F. B. : g * ven by the Beaux Arts Institute position Monday night. Lester Velt-
most immediate results for the Ag- tation to Coach Holmes, which ton ’ as sociate editor; J. D. Edgar, E jj| g j r , Waxahachie; and J. W. Des i&n recently, when the Of- man seems the probable choice for
gies as Squawk Veltman, Aggie read: “We, the undersigned mem- ;C uero > organizations; J. P. Chris- jR obersorit Devine, all students. An- ^ c * a } Pu blication of the Institute one guard post, Joe Moody or
guard, looped a one hand shot from bers of the Texas Aggie football G 411 ’Abilene, athletics; J. L. Keith, team f rorn tbe campus is carr ^ ed a miniature reproduction of “Pete” Robertson will assist Beard
the side of the basket to give A team, wish to express our sincere Beau mont, art editor; and C. W.; com p osed 0 f j obn Mitchell, assist- one of the Problems submitted from a t the other forward post,
and M an early lead. appreciation to Coach J. G. (Klep- Fichtner, San Antonio, features, j ant commandant; w . L. Pemberthy, A and ^ The problem, “A Bus Following the game at Waco the
But the lead was short-lived j to ) holmes and would like to state Beginning next year the business, d j rector j n t ramura i athletics; and Str eet Car Terminal,” was Aggies will make an extended road I
when the lanky James and the j that be has kept faith with us. manager of each student publica- Captain Earl Lyons, freshman drawn B. O. Travis, Mexia, and trip which will include games with
“Mighty” Alford, star Baylor for- We consider it an esteemed privi- tloa be selected by J. E. An- basebal , coach) and Sergeant Walk _ "as among the e i g ht mentioned t C U, S M U, and Texas Univer-
wards, passed their way through de & e to have had the honor of play- g . e ’ M a nager of Student Pub ica- er jj 0 i deT1) cam p US day sergeant. a of one hundred and s jty, before they return to their
ing under his able direction and *!° as Board. This > ear te adver- There are no bowling alleys on i ®’ g bty e ight drawings submitted home floor to entertain the Rice
i | Using manager will assist as busi-1 ■ i to the B
I various
Trophy Awarded
To A & M Unit
In competition for the Society
of American Military Engineer’s
rifle trophy in the tenth annual
contest, the Engineer unit at A
and M was awarded first' place
with a score of 3,703. This compe
tition is among the R.O.T.C. Engi
neer units in the colleges having
this branch.
The trophy must be won three
consecutive times to be possessed
permanently, and is now on dis
play in the library, where it will
remain until the local unit loses a
match.
High individual score in the con
test was shot by F. 4V. Bechert of
Carnegie Institute of Technology.
L. M. Cook and E. O. McKay of
A and M were second and third in
individual scores, respectively.
The first trophy was won per
manently by Carnegie Tech, and
the second trophy is now in poss
ession of A and M, with one win.
Scores of the four highest teams
were as follows: A and M 3073,
Carnegie Tech 3591, Rose Polytech
3554, and Oregon State Agricul
tural 3554.
the Aggie defense to score three
(See AGGIES FALL on page 3) i (See COACHES on page 3) I ness manager.
, (See BOWLING, on page 3)
Je aux Arts Institute from
Co Ueg es of the nation.
(See AGGIES on page 3)
Father Safle/jy/
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