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2 THE BATTALION THE E ATT ALIEN Student weekly published by the students of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas. Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at College Station, Texas, under the Act of Congress, March 3, 1879. Member of The National College Press Association. Exclusive reprint rights of this paper are granted to The College News Service and to The Intercollegiate Press. Advertising rates on request. Subscription rate $1.75 per year. EDITORIAL STAFF CLAUDE M. EVANS Editor-in-Chief PHILIP JOHN Managing Editor M. J. BLOCK Associate Editor D. B. McNERNEY Associate Editor W. J. FAULK Sports Editor R. L. HERBERT Feature Editor C. E. BEESON Staff Correspondent J. L. KEITH Art Editor RUSTY SMITH Cartoonist W. 0. SANDERS Cartoonist Reportorial Staff: R. A. Wright, R. L. Elkins, E. L. Williams, G. M. Dent, Lewis Gross, E. C. Roberts, H. G. Seeligson. BUSINESS STAFF B. G. ZIMMERMAN Advertising Manager TOM C. MORRIS Assistant Adv. Manager TRYGVE BOGEVOLD Assistant Adv. Manager E. M. LIEM Circulation Manager GEORGE C. BRUNDRETT Assistant Circulation Mgr. Worry This is a trying time of the year for college men, especially seniors. All year they have had scholastic worries, financial troubles, and cares not born in the class room, but now comes the last grind, preparation for graduation, worry about grades, futile attempts to find work, bills to be paid. It is now that the senior’s worries are quite his own, and his problems to be solved by himself. The attitude toward life is now changing, the senior begins to think in a different channel, and his nerves are at a high pitch, too high for some. The professor can co-operate by realizing this situation, but many do not, and purely because they do not stop to think. This year has given the student more outside worries than any other in the past. Maybe the strain in a few short weeks will end, leaving the student not broken, but with confidence to attack the problems to come before him later on. Regardless, if the students and the professors will co-operate, if the prof will stop to think about the student’s problems and attitude, the best can be made of the situation, and the year will end with re sults that are fair, and without this unusual unnecessary strain. a realization that “there are great er problems to be solved by engi neers than merely technical ones.” Future captains of industry, he says, must be sociologists, as well as technicians. They should, there fore, be taught their lessons in “co-operation” long before they en ter their respective fields of pro- iessional activity. (Next: Chicago cleans house.) HOLLYWOOD— (Continued from page 1) Reciprocity If professors actually knew what most of the young collegians in their classes were thinking about while they enter into serious discussions calculated to blaze the way for light and learning, we won der what their reaction would be. Many students develop the happy (or unhappy) faculty of appear ing to pay attention when in reality their thoughts are soaring on non stop flights from the Florida Gulf Coast to the Blue Ridge Mountains and back again. By the time one is a junior or senior he should have fully developed his ability to seem one thing and be something else. Else what has he gained from his college education? After all it is not characteristic of representative bachelors of arts to be accomplish ed make-believers ? Perhaps 75 per cent of th.e students in the average classroom in dulge in day dreams three-fourths of the class hour. And yet seventy- five per cent of these are able to conceal it from their trusting peda gogues. This is not to say that all university professors are unaware of their students’ inattention. Many of them gradually realize this, lament it, probably, at first and then carry on with a “here-it-is— take-it-or-leave-it” attitude. They do their best, and if the young disciples of learning do not care to avail themselves of the advantages at hand, why should they worry? Aren’t they being paid to keep on talking, anyway? Thus the matter resolves itself into an endurance contest—the student endures the professor as a necessary evil while he day dreams, and the professor endures the student with a bleary- eyes expression while he earns his maintenance. Who gets the most out of these so-called study hours, it is hard to say. Probably the students do, for they can dream their dreams, plan dates with the girl friends that night, do, in short, a million things, and still tune in on the professor’s lecture program at will; but the poor professor must keep on talking for the whole hour. Perhaps professors develop a similar faculty—that of day dreaming while they are lecturing. It’s only fair that they should.—Tulane Hullabaloo. Removal of the shacks means little to this year’s freshmen and not much more to the sophomores as a whole, but there are few jun iors and, especially seniors who will not always have tender memories in connection with Hollywood. Erected as a temporary means of solving the housing situation at A and M a number of years ago, the shacks had almost become a permanent feature of the campus and had drawn a great amount of publicity as a unique housing facil ity for a college. Each cottage was constructed large enough to acco modate two students though three and four were often required to share the limited space—and it has been the ambition of President Walton and other of the College to accomplish the removal of the shacks each year. The recent build ing of Law, Puryear, Walton and Hart halls made this removal pos sible this year. No more will students sit along the Boulevard and flirt with the passing girls, no longer will Fra ternity Row, Matamoras Street, Shore Drive, Fifth Avenue and Broadway be the scenes of after noon bull-sessions and evening wat er fights. No longer will those students who lived in Beverly Hills, the little suburb just across the creek from Hollywood, be able to turn up their noses becaus their residences were among the trees and not down in the swamps.” What the fate of each individual shack will be, it is almost impos sible to say. Some of them, one of which bears the legend “Bleed Frog Saenger Bleed,” are now located between College and Bryan to be used as tourist cabins, others have been sold to be used as poultry houses and still others will become servants’ quarters to become the home of noisy pickaninnies instead of the “shacks” of noisy cadets. broad jump. Baldry, Rice pole vaulter and leader in the conference at present, and Hyneman, Texas vaulter, are about evenly matched with Jack Hester, Aggie tall tim ber topper running a close second. First place points in the javelin throw are due to be won by Hodges of Texas with Baldry of Rice and Lightfoot of A & M fighting for second. The 440 yard relay race will most likely feature the meet with the winner as yet not even suspected. Rice recently won from Texas in this race and A & M had prior to that vanquished the Owl in the same run. Texas University is fav ored to cop the mile relay with such stars as Cox, Blitch, Schiller and Earle competing. In a triangular between these three teams last season the Owls were victorious by one half of one point, their score being 59% to 59 for A & M. LONGHORNS— (Continued from page 1) OWLS— (Continued from page 1) COLLEGE— (Continued from page 1) pons. Nothing very definite was done about the situation until quite re cently, when the pressure of a new co-operative social order forced ex perimental departures that are now being further stimulated by the .current economic unrest. ^Naturally, the problem of reor ganization centered around the lib eral arts college, which many edu cators admitted was failing to ac complish its dual purpose: that of preparing the future professional -student for specialization, and that iof providing all students with something indefinable called cul ture and “background.” The need for individual co-opera tive experience in education, how ever, had been felt, and a degree must eventually come to mean something more than a mere title of nobility, embodying in itself the elements of culture. We have there fore. a new conception of educa tion—one which is essentially so ciological, because its reformation is based upon the precept that leaming is a prerequisite to fuller living and hence the key to a more nearly complete understanding of the fundamental necessity for co operation. Thus we are at the present mo ment witnessing a very definite movement which will end with the breaking up of the impersonal, mass-formed liberal arts college. This was presaged within the past few weeks when advisers of the University of Wisconsin Experi mental College proposed the event ual division of large liberal arts schools into “15 or 20” small col leges. Harvard, however, already has shown the way, and Yale is follow ing. Instead of being dumped into a melting pot of conflicting inter ests, the incoming freshman is as signed to a residential college group, where he not only has the social advantages of a small college but is aided and advised by tutors, who can give him individual atten tion. There are tendencies in this di rection noticeable in other institu tions throughout the country. In Southern California the idea is em bodied in the development of the Claremont Colleges group, while elsewhere administrators are de vising new x’esidence plans as the first step toward decentralization. Some are going so far as to demand that fraternity and sorority groups close their houses and enter dormi tories. On some campi, however, Greek organizations are solving the problem in their own w r ay by hiring tutorial advisers to guide their scholastic efforts. Meanwhile, a need for a new type i of liberal arts training is being I voiced by those in the professional schools, as illustrated by the plea of Dean Joseph W. Baker of Col umbia’s School of Engineering, who would have his students trained to but for errors by his mates would likely not have been seriously in trouble then. In the fifth and ninth frames, those in which the three Owl scores were made, the Ricemen found Scheer for the same number of base blows, two singles and one I triple. The first twelve men to face Scheer, when the game opened, went out in order. Klaerner Pitches Well Klaerner, while being touched for two more hits than Scheer, pitched well in the pinches and was accorded very nearly errorless sup port when the Aggies threatened to count. In only one inning did the cham pions bunch hits, that in the sec ond, as Weaver and Golasinski both singled. The fire-ball of Klaerner’s had a telling effect on Aggie batters as records show a total of nine strike outs. Scheer sent five to the bench by this route. Probably Klaerner’s best exhibition was in the fourth inning when he retired the side on strikes. Both pitchers displayed plenty of control and only one man reached first on balls, that being Veltman in the fourth period. The absence of “Sweetie” Davis, stellar second sacker, was keenly felt by the Aggies. likely be opposed by “Bugga” Moon, the lost wronghander of the conference. Texas Heavy Hitters Facing Raymond Ater, Van Vie- big, Gordon Sullivan, and Ernie Koy, the Aggie tossers will meet the problem of silencing the tim bers of four circuit walloppers, as evidenced by the games with Baylor last week. Each of the four hit at least one home run during the two games series. Koy is one of the most powerful hitters in the con ference and the Texas team as a whole is one of the best hitting combinations in the loop. Davis Back With “Sweetie” Davis back at his position on tha keystone bag the Aggie line-up will resume its regular form and should be in tip top shame for the invading Steers. Scheer will have had three days rest and Freddie Marshall Shaw will be ready to take his turn on the hillock in an emergency. Shaw has failed to be as effective this season as last, due to a broken wrist last fall, but is rapidly re gaining the form which won him an all-conference berth last year. In hopes of finding an effective line-up Coach Higginbotham has converted A. C. Fischer, freshman numeral man from Cuero, into an outfielder. Fischer numeraled as a pitcher but his hitting in practice has caused him to be shifted to an outfield berth, which apparently was the correct thing to do, as he came through with a neat dou ble in the Rice game Tuesday af ternoon. INTRAMURAL STANDING Battery A. F A 440.5 C Eng 408 D Inf 404.33 Battery E, F A .. 397.33 A Eng 393.83 A Signal 392.5 Troop C 346.3 H Inf 345 B Inf 330 Battery B, C A .. 328 B Cignal 325 Battery F, F A .. 302 F Inf 290 C Inf 271.25 Battery B, F A .. 259.25 B Eng 246 Battery D, F A 226 Battery A, C A .. 220.3 G Inf 207.5 A Inf 202 Troop D 195 Troop A 184 Troop B 172.83 Band 166 Battery C, F A .. 155 E Inf 145 BOLTON HEADS ENGINEER SOCIETY At a meeting in Dallas of the Texas Section of the Society for the Promotion of Engineering Edu cation, last week, Dean F. C. Bol ton, Dean of the College, was elect ed president. The meetings for this year were held in Arlington, at North Texas A & M, and at S M U at Dallas. Two Students Back From Examination To Enter Air Corps BATTERY “F”— (Continued from page 1) Sargeant 9 points, respectively. Not only did Hussey win two first places but he also set an unofficial intramural record on the 100-yard dash with a time of 10.6 seconds. Summary of Events 100 yard dash—Husse; drow, F, F A; Tracy, A Inf. Time 10.6. 1 , r A ; 1 racy, A Inf. Time 10.6. 220 yard dash—Hussey, F, F A; Roberts rs, 440 yard dash—Sargeans, F, F A ; Steale, zzo yi Inf ; Mears, H Inf. yard dash—Hussey, F, F A; Win- F, F A; Tracy, A Inf. Time 10. F A ; I ms, F, F A B, S C: Moon, A Cav. Time 54.4. 880 yard run—E. C. Roberts, Stuteville, A, F A; Reichert, B, F A. Time 2:15. Mile run—Herfurth, C, F A; Russel, F, F A ; Obergfell, Band. Time 4 :56.6. 120 high hurdles—Haynes, F Inf; Brea- zeale, G Inf: Barton, Band. Time 16.6. 180 low hurdles—Breazeale, G Inf; Sar- A; 120 high hurdles—Haynes, F Inf; Brea- geant, F, FA; Christian, C Cav. High jump—Duhon, C Eng; second place tie, four contestants. Height 5 feet 8 inches. Pole vault—Tie: Robinson, F, F A and Dalton, E, A F. Height 10 feet 6 inches. Broad jump—Langley, F, F A. Distance 20 feet 7 inches. Discus—Ritter, B Inf; Noster, Band; Connelly, A Art. Distance 114 feet 8 inches. Javelin—Logan, B Inf; Worthington, B, F A; Young, A Cav. Distance 151 feet 10 inches. Shot put—Haynes.'F Inf; Delery. A Cav; Watson, C Inf. Distance 39 feet 10 inches. TRACKMEN— (Continued from page 1) discus throw, with “Honk” Irwin due to win both. Wingo is likely to win at least a second in the high jump and “Pete” Robertson has an even chance to place in the Norris and Johnstons Chocolate CANDIES Can Be Had For MOTHER AT CANADY’S PHARMACY Bryan mm MOTHERS’ DAY GIFT SUGGESTIONS Whether your Gift is expensive or not, select it at our store. You will find many at tractive Gifts, as— VANITY NECKLACE PEARLS PERFUME SILVER POTTERY FOUNTAIN PEN WRIST WATCHES CRYSTALS See our window for other suggestions. SANKEY PARK DIAMONDS SILVER WATCHES Loupot Sponsors Used Clothes Essay Con test This Month W. E. (Sweetie) Davis, Captain Battery A, Field Artillery, and second baseman of the Aggies, re turned Tuesday night from Gal veston. He and W. E. Emigh, captain of Battery D, Field Artill ery took an examination required to enter the U. S. Army Air Corps. Several other students have been examined for entrance in the Air Corps, but no one has recently been admitted from this college. J. E. Loupot, student dealer in slightly used clothing and owner of the Green Lantern, has announc ed an essay contest to be open to all A. & M. students, the essays to be written in defense of A. & M. cadets’ wearing second-hand cloth-, ing as a portion of their regulation uniform. A prize of ten dollars in gold will be awarded to the winner of the contest, Loupot announced. The es says will be judged by members of the English department and will be based upon subject matter, form of presentation, and neatness he said. Entrants in the contest should turn their essays in to Loupot at the Green Lantern, The Battalion office or Professor P. G. Gunter at the English department office. Following are the rules of the contest: 1. Essays must be written in de fense of A & M cadet’s wearing slightly used uniforms. 2. Essays must not be more than 400 words in length. 3. Essays must be turned in to J. E. Loupot at the Green Lantern, The Battalion office, or to Profes sor P. G. Hunter in the English de partment office not later than May 18, 1932. 4. Essays may be used as a part of the students’ scholastic work in English if instructors are willing to accept them as such. 5. Contestants must use either typewriter or pen and ink in pre paring their manuscripts and must write on one side of paper only. 6. Contestans should remember that by the term “used clothing” is meant clothing which is mended, cleaned, pressed, and otherwise re conditioned so that it will meet all requirements of the college in re gard to regulation clothing. Adv. ' ft A JLJr VaiftL UNIVERSITY STYLED CLOTHES . Always Right . . . ALWAYS! 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