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THE BATTALION
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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—
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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—
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OWLS—
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COLLEGE—
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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”—
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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—
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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
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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,
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to enter the U. S. Army Air
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Several other students have been
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