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VOLUME XXX
THE BATTALION
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Published Weekly By The Students Of The A. & M. College Of Texas
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, MARCH 2, 1932
NUMBER 22
Cotton Celebration Is Planned
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Highway Entrance Will Be Made To New Campus Front
ADOPTED PLAN
At a meeting of the advisory
board of the Firemen’s Training
School held at the college Monday,
the date for the Training School
session to be held here, was set as
August 8, 9, 10, and 11 by the com
mittee.
Members of the advisory com
mittee include: Olin Culberson, Ed
na; W. F. Hamber, Belton; John
McKinney, McKinney; and W. P.
Walker of Luling. President T. 0.
Walton, Dean F. C. Bolton, Dr. C.
C. Hedges, and Professor H. R.
Brayton were also present at the
meeting.
Firemen who represent their
cities at the school and who com
ply with the requirements of the
State Fire Insurance Commission,
will obtain a three per cent de
crease in insurance rates for their
cities.
Typewriting Test
Winners Will Get
Valuable Awards
New Typewriters Will Be
Used—Furnished By The
Factory In First Introduc
tion Of New Model Type
writer.
Prospective contestants in the
Corona-Smith typewriting contest
to be conducted in The Battalion
office at 2:00 o’clock Saturday af
ternoon by the Haswell Book Store
(See TYPEWRITER on page 2)
Map of Future Campus of College
TD FACE EAST
Agriculture Building Will Be
Erected Next; Other New
Structures Located On
Architect’s Plans.
Following an adopted plan of
Campus beautification designed by
Dr. F. E. Giesecke, college archi
tect, are taking form and will tend
to change the front door of the
college to the east, facing the new
Houston-Dallas highway. Plans for
the Swimming Pool, Tennis Courts
and Agricultural Engineering
Buildings have been completed and
work will start immediately.
Buildings Start Soon
The swimming pool will be lo
cated adjacent to the present gym
nasium; the Agricultural Engineer
ing building, as indicated on the
map, will be placed east of the
present Agricultural building; and
the tennis courts which are in the
area constructed north of the gym
nasium are nearing completion.
Administration Building
The new Administration Build
ing that will house the offices of
the President, the Commandant,
(See HIGHWAY on page 4)
Committee Selects
Dates For Annual
Fireman’s School
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Key to Placements of Future Buildings to be Constructed:
Tennis Courts
Swimming Pool
Architectural and Landscape Arts
Building
Petroleum Engineering, Geology and
Engineering Experiment Building
Agricultural Engineering Building
Veterinary Hospital
65. Animal Industrial Building
S3. To be named at a future date
66. To be named at a future date
87. To be named at a future date
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Main Building
New Agricultural Building
New Library
Buildings numbered 63, 66, 67 have not been designated but as new structures are completed will occupy approximately this area according to the adopted plan.
CONFERENCE STANDING
(Basketball)
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TCU
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Arkansas
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Texas
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New Grid Changes
Make Sport Safer
And Abolish Wedge
Changes In “Dead Ball” Rule
And Substitution Will Tend
To Lessen Danger Of Game.
(College News Service)
HANOVER, N. H., Mar. 2.—
Much more good than evil will come
from the new football rules.
Such seemed to be the general
opinion of coach and player alike
this week, following drastic revis
ion of gridiron warfare by the rul
es committee of the National Col
legiate Athletic Association.
“Dead Ball” Rule
For a time some opposition seem
ed to be developing among the men-
torial ranks to several of the
changes, particular the new “dead
ball” rule, which means that the pig
skin will hereafter be automaticlly
out of play if any part of the car
rier’s body, except his hands or
feet, touches the ground.
After due reflection, however,
most of the coaches throughout the
country accepted this rule as one
which will help to eliminate the
dangers involved in “piling up” af
ter every play.
Flying Wedge
Pigskin circles also were tak
ing a benevolent attitude toward
the elimination of the “flying
wedge” formation on the kick-off,
since this had not been entirely
unexpected. Ever since Dick Sheri
dan, Army end, died last fall as
the result of injuries he received
during such a play there has been
(See NEW GRID on page 4)
Fish and Blinn
Split Two Gaines
Closing Season
Freshmen Basket Ball Team
Full Of Good Material For
Strengthening Next Year’s
Varsity.
The Aggie freshmen cagemen
losed their season in a blaze of
glory when they gave the Blinn
Junior college Buccanneers a 32-
16 trouncing Saturday afternoon
.fter the latter had won a four
point triumph in the closing min
utes of play Friday night, on the
Memorial gymnasium court. The
win gave the freshmen an impres-
ive record of seven wins in ten
starts during the season, being de
feated once by each of Allen Aca
demy, Blinn Memorial College, and
Varsity reserves.
Leading the freshman attack in
both games was Joe Basbey, for-
(See FISH on page 4)
Editor Announces Public Sale
Of Book Which Will Give
Those Not Holding Coupon
Opportunity To Place Or
ders.
Crisler Gets Grid
Job At Princeton
(College News Service)
PRINCETON, N. J., Mar. 2—
Princeton University’s coach-hunt
ing troubles are over, at least fox
three years.
It was announced this week that
Herbert 0. (“Fritz”) Crisler, dir
ector of athletics at the University
of Minnesota, had signed a three-
year contract to become head foot
ball coach at Princeton.
He succeeds A1 Wittmer, who re
signed under fire last year.
“Starting at 8 o’clock to
morrow (Thursday) morning an in
tensive 1932 Longhorn sales cam
paign will get under way and those
wishing to purchase a copy of the
book are asked to see George A.
Carpenter of the Engineers who is
campaign sales manager,” A1 Saen-
ger, Longhorn editor, said today.
The books will sell for $4.50 each
and those who give an order for a
copy will be required to deposit
$2.50 and the balance may be paid
when the books are delivered.
A special effox-t will be made to
see that every student and campus
resident will have an opportunity
to purchase one of the books this
year.
Saenger said that the Longhorn
staff regretted the necessity of
closing the campaign by March
10th. “Our contract with the print
er requires that we give the exact
number of books we will want
printed by March 10 and after that
date it will be impossible to in
crease our printing order.”
Those desiring to purchase books
should see George Carpenter at
H-6 Hart Hall or A1 Saenger at
28 Legett.
Grade Point Roll
Has Two Men With
Forty-Four Each
Engineering School Tops List
With Eighty-seven Out Of
A Total Of Hundred and
Eighty-four Men.
There are one hundred and eigh
ty-four students eligible to be dis
tinguished students at the end of
this term, according to E. J. How
ell, Registrar. To be distinguished
a student must make a total of
fifty-four grade points a year and
not fail in any subject. Twenty-five
grade points was arbitrarily set
as the standard for the first term’s
work, the remaining thirty-two to
be made during the second term;
however, those students who make
less than twenty-five points the
first term are still elligible provid-
(See TWO MEN on page 4)
Spring Basket Ball
Starting Next Week
There will be no loss of time be
tween the finish of the present
cage campaign and the start of
spring training for basket ball can
didates, which is slated to get un
derway Monday afternoon, March
7, as announced by head basket ball
coach John Reid.
All freshmen numeralmen and
any others aspiring to play var
sity basket ball are requested to
report immediately, while members
of the vasity squad will be allowed
a rest of one week before report
ing.
Rifle Team Leads
Competition With
28-Point Margin
Crass Scores High With 388
Points Out Of A Possible
400.
Competition in the third week of
firing in the National Intercolle
giate matches closed with the
champion Aggie sharpshooters
leading the field with a margin of
28 points over their nearest rival,
the University of Washington. The
Aggie total for the ten man team
was 3796 points out of a possible
4000. They were also victorious in
a special five man match with
Washington and Brooklyn Poly
technic Institute.
N. Dakota Goes Down
Of especial interest to Aggie par
tisans was the smashing win over
North Dakota’s entry, who is tied
with the Aggies in the number of
“legs” on the National Intercolle
giate cup, each having two. North
Dakota emerged at the foot of the
list of the ten terns with the very
unimpressive score of 3519 out of
a possible 4000 points.
Crass High Man
Individual high score records, set
previously by the Aggie riflemen,
fell by the wayside in the first of
las week as C. W. Crass, Palestine,
captured honors for the third con
secutive time and set a new all-
time record of 388 out of a possi
ble 400 points. J. Harding and C.
S. Porcher followed closely on the
heels of Crass with totals of 386
One Day Demonstration Fol
lowed By Night Of Merry-
Making Will Mark First
Cotton Day At College Sta
tion.
Proclaiming the romance of cot
ton with a pageant, describing the
kinds and uses of cotton with a
special exhibit, and glorifying cot
ton with a Ball reigned over by
His Majesty King Cotton; the most
elaborate plans for a cotton festi
val were announced this week by
Tom Drew, president of the Agro
nomy Society. Date for the event
has been set as April 1st.
Large Exhibition
The cotton exhibit will start the
program and last through the day
with a very complete array of dis
plays being brought here through
the co-operation of the Texas Cot
ton Breeders Association, the Na
tional Cotton Seed Products Asso
ciation, the General Electric Com
pany, and many other notable con
cerns.
Showing almost every manner of
the use of cotton, and the many
kinds of cotton which may be
grown; the exhibit will make a
very detailed study of the general
(See COTTON on page 4)
Ligon Smith To
Play For E E’s
With the announcement that a
contract had been signed with
Ligon Smith and his orchestra,
which is playing at the Baker Ho
tel in Dallas the present time, final
arrangements for the annual Elec
trical Engineers Hop March 25
were definitely completed last
week.
Something entirely new in the
way of artistic ball room lighting
effects will be the feature of the
Hop this year. All the necessary
equipment has been placed at the
disposal of the decorations com
mittee by the Electrical Engineer
ing Department and Roy Krezdorn,
committee chairman, displayed no
little enthusiasm regarding the
many novel effects obtainable from
such an array of equipment.
Printing of the bids has been
completed and are being distribut
ed over the campus through J. R^
McMahon Jr.
Swimming Team In
Triangle Meet At
Houston Saturday
Aggies, Rice, And Houstoi
“Y” Teams Compete A
Houston YMCA Pool Ii
First Aggie Meet.
Seventeen men on the Texas j
gie Swimming Team will joun
to Houston Saturday to comp
with Rice, Texas, and the Hous
YMCA in the first swimming m
of this year, to be held in
YMCA pool at Houston.
Preliminaries to the contest
scheduled to take place at 1
o’clock Saturday afternoon, sw
mers to compete in the record r
es being chosen by elimination. r \
record races will begin at 7:30 S
urday night.
Immediately after the races,
Houston YMCA Water Polo Te
will clash with the Texas Ag
(See RIFLE TEAM on page 4) j (See SWIMMING TEAM page 2)