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Tin: CArmLKs Published Weekly By The Students Of The A. & M. College Of Texas VOLUME XXX COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, MAY 4, 1932 NUMBER 31 Dean Friley Accepts Position At Iowa State College—Change Will j- Become Effective On September l I OH HI FI ENIER IN Local Registrar And Dean To Head Industrial Science Di vision At Iowa College. Dean Charles E. Friley, dean of the School of Arts and Sciences since 1924 and registrar of the col lege, has announced his acceptance of the post as dean of the Indus trial Science Division at Iowa State College, to be ef%ctive September 1. The position was tendered Dean Friley by President H. M. Hughes, of the Iowa institution, when he paid A & M. a brief visit several weeks ago, and Dean Friley’s an nouncement of acceptance was made early this week. Expressing regret at leaving the institution with which he has been connected as student and faculty member since 1910, Dean Friley explained that the offer from Iowa was one which he felt that he could not reject. Born In Ruston Friley was born at Ruston, La., but came to Texas when three years of age and to Bryan when five. He was graduated from Bryan high school in 1903 and from the Sam Houston State Normal in 1905. He attended Baylor univer sity from 1905 to 1907 and follow ing several years as a teacher, he entered A and M in 1910. In 1910 he was awarded a B. S. degree in agricultural education at A & M, this being the first such degree to be awarded by the col lege. He was named secretary of the college in 1911, a post which was changed to registrar in 1913. Degree At Columbia In 1923 Dean Friley received his M. A. degree from Columbia, and Simmons university conferred an honorary LL. D. degree upon him in 1929. He is now doing work to ward his doctorate at the Univer sity of Chicago, where he was a professor of education during the summer of 1931. While at A & M Dean Friley has served upon a number of ad ministrative committees and has held various other posts of impor tance. He is at present chairman of the A & M athletic council and secretary of the Southwest Ath letic Conference. He has been a member of the Texas committee on accredited schools since 1917 and is a member of the Association of Collegiate Registrars, of which he was president in 1929. College Livestock Takes Many Prizes In Houston Contest Four Grand Championships Won In Fat Stock Show. A and_M College entries in the cattle and hog divisions at the First Annual Houston Fat Stock Show Monday won four grand championships, several first places, and a number of other places. Many of the prize winning animals were sold at auction after the judg ment Monday night. Proud Lassie, a spayed heifer, was judged the grand champion of the Aberdeen-Angus class, while College Perfecto, a shorthorn yearing, won the championship yearling honors for all breeds, and Blue Bonnet, a cross bred Short horn, won champion Shorthorn steer honors. A and M won all awards in the Aberdeen-Angus classes. A heavyweight Duroc Jersey barrow, Aggie Pride, and a pen of three heavy weights of the same class, were judged grand champions in their respective contests. Three lightweight Duroc barrows, three Hampshire barrows, and three Berkshire barrows, each won first place in their respective classes. Other Duroc Jersey entries placed second and third, and Hampshire entries won one first, one third and two fourth places. INSPECTION OP ^°^ ers ^ ^ a ^ ers To Be Honored In Anneal Mothers’ And Dads’ Day Services Here Saturday And Sunday Two Men Named For Vacancy In Military Science Person nel; Others To Be Announc ed. Trackmen Expected To Show New Form In Triangle Meet Fifteen Letters Given Swimmers For This Season Largest Number Of Awards Since The Organization Of The Team. Orders received from the War Department state that among the new members of the military per sonnel for next year will include Lt. John J. Binns, of the Field Ar tillery and Lt. Kingsley S. Ander son of the Engineers. These offi cers will fill vacancies left by Cap tain T. C. Harry and Captain Lewis A. Pick respectively, who have served their regular term of four years here. Captain Harry will go fi’om here to the Field Artillery school at Fort Sill, Okla., while Captain Pick will be stationed at the Commander General Staff School at Ft. Leaven worth, Lt. E. T. McCullough has received orders to go to the 18th Infantry stationed at Ft. Slocum, New York. Three other officers are to leave the college with the close of this term, but have not received orders from the War Department regard ing their destination. They are Col. C. J. Nelson, Maj. I. G. Walker, and Captain E. L. Lyons. No information has been receiv ed concerning who will take the place of these officers. P. L. Downs ’79 To Be Chair man As Five Speakers Com pete. Aggieland Orchestra Signs Contract With Summer Resort Hotel Fifteen letters, the largest num ber since the organization of the Texas Aggie swimming team, were presented to the members of the 1932 team Wednesday afternoon. Besides those in swimming, there were ten letters presented to the members of the newly organized The Aggieland Orchestra has just signed a fourteen weeks con tract with The Galvez Hotel to play for them during the summer months. The orchestra will be un der the direction of Podge Reed, pianist, and will give concerts dur ing the dinner hours and at dances on Saturday nights. The Aggieland has the reputa tion of being one of the best col lege dance orchestras in the South, having attained their rating only through persistent work and prac tice. They made quite a reputation for themselves during the Christ mas holidays playing over the state. Several years ago they were contracted by The Mallory Line, playing for their Cuban trips. The Aggieland will play a war dance at the End o’ Main dance hall in Houston, May 14th oppo site Curtis Smith and his band. Ranking orators of the student body, chosen in preliminary try outs held recently, will compete for the annual P. L. Downs ora torical award at the Assembly Hall Thursday evening, C. O. Spriggs, professor of public speaking and coach of the debating team has an nounced. The declamations will start at 8 o’clock. Five contestants who have been chosen for the finals are J. L. R. Bergendahl, San Antonio; H. N. Irvine, Fort Worth; B. L. Delleney, Denton; J. W. Wells, Aransas Pass; J. E. Gaston, Henderson. Alternate to speak in the absence of the can didates, is R. T. Brinsmade, Mexico City. The annual contest is sponsored each year by Colonel P. L. Downs, Temple, a graduate of A and M in 1879, who has sponsored the con tests since 1925. Colonel Downs will be chairman of the contest Thursday evening. Although there are two former winners of the Downs award now in the student body, I. A. Handler, Galveston, 1931 victor, and W. O. Alexander, Gulf, 1930 winner, nei ther of them will be eligible for the contest because of a rule which prohibits previous winners com peting a second time. Other winners since 1925 are H. B. Simpson, Gallatin, 1924; C. H. Quereau, San Antonio, 1926; Rich- ai'd H. Jones, Galveston, 1927; Ivan Irwin, Dallas, 1928; B. A. Clutter Jr., What Cheer, Iowa, 1929. Class Schedule Changed To Allow Drill On Wednesday Instead Of Thursday For This Week. A staff of seven officers, headed by Col. W. A. Castle, will make the annual War Department inspection of the college next week, Major J. P. Wheeler announced Tuesday afternoon. In order to observe the practical instruction being received by both the first and second battalions of all organizations, a change so as to allow those drilling on Thurs day to drill on Wednesday will be made for next week. Tuesday afternoon at one o’clock, a general review will be held. Fol lowing this those who have been drilling on Thursday will be dis- Dance And Barbecue Close The Year For Saddle-Sirloin Club Annual Dance Friday Night To Be Followed By Barbe cue Next Wednesday. Following their annual Cattle- Services In Guion Hall, Recep- tion At President’s Home, R. V. Drill And Band Con cert Included In Program. Mothers and fathers of A and M students from all sections of the state are expected to visit the campus this week-end as members of the student body honor them with their annual Mothers’ and Dads’ Day program. Opening Sat urday evening at 7:30 with a re ception at the home of President T. O. Walton, where visiting par- man’s Ball in the mess hall annex i ents ^ be the guegts of Dr and Friday night with a barbecue and ^ and closing Sunday picnic at the agiicultmal engineei a fk ernoon w jtj 1 a concert by the A ing experiment farm on Wednes- and M band beginning at 4.3^ the day, the Saddle an n om c u p rogram arran g e d f or the enter- will bring to a close its activities for the current college year, R. J. Von Roeder, president of the club announces. Bids Obtained Bids for the Cattleman’s Ball missed to go to their regular class- may b e obtained by juniors and ference track meet tute. at Rice Insti- Will Tell In, Improvement tyih xch ±1., and w s _ sinclair> The mem bers Meet With Texas And Rice of the polo team lettering were: R. M. Smith, E. E. Osburn, C. J. Charske, R. C. Jorgenson, E. T. Shepherd, R. T. Brinsmade, Joseph Confident of their ability to place J „ E - 3 J Ioeller > R - L - Su SSs, and J. R. Knott. water polo team. Members of the swimming team night following the con- to receive letters were: R. L. Suggs, E. E. Osborn, J. F. How- der, C. J. Charske, R. C. Jorgen son, R. E.. Cox, R. M. Smith, A. Threadgill, T. L. Uhr, L. F. Wan- ja, R. T. Brinsmade, J. E. Moeller, Joseph Cockrell, E. T. Shepherd, In Austin Next Saturday. high in the Southwest track and field meet in Houston on May 13 and 14, the Aggie thinly clads will be given a chance to prove a thing or two when they tangle with Rice Institute’s Owls and the Steers of Texas University in a triangular meet Saturday afternoon in Aus tin. This meet, which will be the last of any kind before the conference tie-up on Rice field, is certain to be the outstanding one of the sea son, either dual or triangular. It brings together three of the lead ing contenders for the crown this season, each being particularly strong in some events and not glaringly weak in any. All three teams have sprinters worthy of recognition. Rice and Texas are particularly dangerous in the mid dle distances, but the Aggies are due to place. Morris, Aggie hurd- dler from Waxahachie, is virtually certain to place in the hurdle races if not to win one, while Billimek and McVey should take at least one place in the other hurdle race. In the field events A & M holds a slight edge in the shot-put and (See TRACKMEN on page 2) Every one of these lettermen will return to college next year except Co-Captain R. L. Suggs. This will leave the Aggie team one of the most powerful teams in several years for the 1933 team. Jones Made President Of Beaumont Socitey Kibby Jones, junior student in electrical engineering, was elected president of the Beaumont club for the 1932-33 college year and W. R. Montague, junior petroleum engi neering student, was selected vice- president at a meeting of the club Sunday afternoon. Jones and Montague were chosen to succeed A. J. Blanchette and Tom Patrick, graduating seniors and president and vice-president respectively of the club this year. Owls Get First Game Easy With Aggies Erroring es, while the inspection continues with an observation of the prac tical work students receive in Tuesday drills. Wednesday afternoon from three to five o’clock, the final session of inspection will involve survey of the work of the students who regularly drill on Thursday afternoon. There will be no drill this Thursday af ternoon. seniors who desire to attend from members of the club, Von Roeder said. The barbecue will begin at 4 o’clock Wednesday afternoon and in addition to members of the club all freshmen who contemplate ma joring in animal husbandry are in vited to attend. One of the features of the picnic will be a baseball game between seniors in animal tainment of the vissitors will in clude a number of features. Outstanding feature of the ex ercises will be the Mothers’ and Dads’ Day services in Guion Hall Sunday morning at 11 o’clock, ar ranged by and held under the di rection of A and M students. Talks paying tribute to mothers and dads will be made by members of the student body and Dr. Walton will extend greetings to visiting par ents. Mrs. H. L. Peoples, Dallas, will address the assemblage. Prior to the services in Guion Hall the cadet corps will be drawn up in formation and flowers will Theory inspection of work in mil- husbandry and a team composed of ladytistor^The rtary science will occupy the morn- [faculty members and extension ser- Rosi . Vollmteei . s wiu appcar in ex . mg sessions of all classes. There y.ce workers. hibiti(m driu Slmda afternoon at will be no change in schedule. I)allcc In Annex 2 0 . clock . In a(Mition to tkc . Officers coming here for the in- | the Cattleraan . s Ball the ti(m at President Walton . s home decorated Saturday evening, there will be a appropriately and members of the [corps dance Saturday night, start- organization will wear vari-color- ed shirts and white trousers, with sashes to match the shirts. Non members will wear white pants, white shirts and black ties. The dance will be followed with a corps dance Saturday night. For spection include: Col. W. A. Castle, 1 , „ , T^rri 1- Tl-Ol meSS hal1 anneX Wl11 be Lt. Col. Dan D. Tompkins, Lt. Col. Ralph M. Pennel, Major Norman Groff, Major Glenn P. Anderson, Captain Clay Anderson, and First Lt. Arthur E. Mickelson. Fish Nine Playing Blinn College Next Tuesday-W ednesday the program ar- services in Guion Failure To Come Through In Tight Places Allows Rice To Win. College Reorganization of Collegiate Life And Class Instruction In Many Forms (Editor’s note: This is the second of a series of four articles on outstanding cur rent developments in the field of higher education, written especially for The Bat talion by the editor of College News Ser vice. ) educational systems were built to satisfy the requriements of a com petitive society. As college and university student bodies grew into unwieldy, hetero geneous populations of degree- seekers, it was every man for him self—within certain standardized ,, . , 1 boundaries. In the liberal arts col- someth,ng toward wh,eh the young pal . ticu , arly , students worked newly emancipated democrat could strive. By James Crenshaw When higher educational institu tions first got under way in the United States, college training was Gradually, education became a game, with representatives of all classes striving for a degree-grant ed culture, diluted by a certain amount of pragmatic training. The against time, against each other and against their professors in a turbulent scramble to win them selves an “education” by collecting credits, like so many cigar cou- (See COLLEGE on page 2) Frequent miscues and failure to connect in the pinches cost the champion Aggies a well pitched game as the Rice Owls took ad vantage of the “breaks” and tallied three times on Kyle field Tuesday afternoon. The final score was 3 to 1 in favor of the feathered tribe, although the Aggies clouted “Smokey” Klaerner for five base blows while only three could be garnered by the “Birds” off of 'Scheer’s delivery. The Aggies took an early lead in the second inning when Carpen ter was safe at first on a fielder’s choice, went to second on a passed ball and finally stole third. “Moon” Golasinski, Houston boy who han dled the receiving for the cham pions, then sent a clean single over second base, scoring Carpenter. Veltman Walked Another threat to count was made by A & M in the fourth af ter Captain Lester “Squawk” Velt- an walked, went to third on Car penter’s single to right, but was left on base as the next two men went by way of the strikeout route. The fifth was dormant concern ing Aggie threats to score but the willows again returned to action early in sixth. Fischer opened the inning with a ripping double to left, went to third on Veltman’s hard drive to Enck on second. When a score was apparently sure Fischer was tossed out as Klaerner fielded Carpenter’s sacrifice bunt, and thus ended the last scoring threat for the Aggies. Scheer Holds Owls “Bob” Scheer, the Marshall curve ball artist, held the Owls well in hand in all but two innings, those in which the three tallies were ac counted for by the opposition. And Battery F, Field Artillery, Winner Intramural Meet Four First Places Give Orga nization Lead Over Other Entrants. The Texas Aggie freshman base ball team will play its third game with the Allen Academy Ramblers in Bryan Friday afternoon. In the second game played last week the freshmen won easily by brilliant base running and numerous errors on the part of the cadets by a 7-4 score. Return games with Blinn Me- | morial College of Brenham, sched uled for Friday and Saturday of last week, will be played in Bren ham Tuesday and Wednesday, May 17 and 18. To date the freshmen s Battery F, Field Artillery walk- only defeat has been at the hands ed 0 £j? w j^ b 4 be honors in Intra- of the Blinn Buccaneers; the first mura j Track Sunday afternoon by was an eleven inning 6-6 tie, while w j nn j n g f our first places and ty- the second was lost 10-5. j ng f or a fifth and winning one Ihe line-up for the game with second pi ace; amassing a total of Allen will probably be as follows: 291^ points. Company B Infantry Mooty, pitcher; Steves, catchei, wag seconc i -with 19% points; Band, Hutton, first base; Voelkel, second third with 17 points; Company G base; Connally third base; Bobbitt, j^antry, fourth with 14% points; short; Jones, left field; Sodd, and 'i' r00 p Cavalry, fifth with center field; and Reynolds right p 0 j n t s> ! The prowess of two men, C. B. PLANS DRAWN FOR TROPHY Husgev and M L CASE ing at 9 o’clock. Following is ranged for the Hall Sunday: Prelude—R. J. Dunn directing the orchestra. The Invocation—Rev. R. L. Brown. Greetings from A & M—President T. O. Walton. Memoirs of Mother—College Glee Club. To Our Mothers—R. J. Morris, Jr. Te Deum in B minor—College Glee Club. Address—Mrs. H. L. Peoples, Dal las, introduced by Mrs. F. K. McGinnis, President Dallas A & M Mothers’ Club. A Flower for You, Mother Dear— College Glee Club. To Our Dads—W. M. Curtis. Hymn: Faith of Our Fathers. Benediction. Postlude. Plans for the Aggie trophy case were completed last night by S. C. P. Vosper. This is the case the Senior class voted early in the year to build for the college, to house I the many A & M athletic trophies. Longhorns Play Two Games Here Friday-Saturday Steers Still Have Champion ship Possibility As They Meet Aggies. (See BATTERY “F” on page 2) (See OWLS on page 2) “Hollywood,” Home of Many Aggies In Past Years, Takes Place Among Discarded Traditions of Aggieland Hussey and M. L. Sargeant, were the main features for the conquest of Battery F. Hussey took two firsts while Sargeant took one first „ _ TT . and one second. These two men ! Those Longhorns of Texas Um- were also the two high point men ' versit y wil1 be the g ues ^ « f ^ & of the day, Hussey making 10 and M ’ s baseba11 mne on K y le field on Friday and Saturday afternoons of this week. The series will be the | first of four games scheduled be tween the two teams this season, j the latter two to be played on Clark field in Austin. Both teams play sixteen games this season and as yet the Steers are credited with only three losses, | which leaves them with a mathe- matical chance at the title, while Rome and Chicago were razed by i hauled away behind a truck. the Aggies are definitely out of the , , , | nnw nil tlint vpmains to re- rac e with six losses against them, fire, Pompeii was destroyed by a And now aU that ^mams to re ^ 6 volcano, Galveston was engulfed mind Aggies of the colony of cot- Taylor 10 Pitch by the waters of the Gulf of Mexi- tages which many of them have Vernon Taylor, leading confer ee and Hollywood, the home of stu- called home at one time during ence hurler who limited Baylor to dents at Aggieland for many years their colle S e career is a vast vacant three and Rlce to two runs Iast has been placed on wheels and area dotted here and there b y the week ’ is sIated to start the °P ener hauled away by contractors! vestages of the slight foundations for the “Dischmen.” on which the tiny houses were con- j He will probably be opposed on The corps was still sleeping one 3^,^^ i n one place there is the the mound by “Bob” Scheer, who morning last week when the last cbarre( i remains of a shack which tossed well against Rice Tuesday, of the large group of shacks, which last faU burst into flames to pay Charlie Winton, Uncle Billy’s sec- has been known as Hollywood since they were first erected to take care of the overflow of students here a number of years ago, was elevated, placed on a trailer and Hollywood’s final tribute to the annual Thanksgiving Day football game with Texas. ond rating pitcher will be given a chance against the Aggie swat- smiths Saturday and will most (See HOLLYWOOD on page 2) (See LONGHORNS on page 2)