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THE BATTALION
Charlie DeWare New Candidate
For Office Railroad Commissioner
was the only newspaper in Ameri
ca published by college officials
and distributed without cost to the
faculty and members of the student
Charles A. DeWare, Brenham, member of the class of ’10, an
nounced his candidacy for office of State Railroad Commissioner re
cently. For many years an active A and M man, and prominent in the
oil business around Brenham, as well as conducting an insurance office,
his entering the race has caused considerable comment in political
centers.
Speaking of his campaign, Mr. DeWare says: “My platform is
capable service, patterned after the Constitution, equal privileges to
all, special privileges to none.—The best interest of the people will be
my guide in the many problems that come before the commission,
should I be elected to this position.
Northern University Finding System
Successful In Allowing Students To
Get Education As Fast As Is Desired
(Editor’s note: This is the third in 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
Service.)
By James Crenshaw
When Robert Maynard Hutchins
announced that he was going to
turn the University of Chicago up
side down and remake it into an
entirely new kind of institution,
leading educators everywhere sat
up and took notice.
But so did thinking students.
Here was a young man—the young
est president— ready to answer in
practical terms their persistent ar
gument against the old course and
grade systems.
Recent College Man
It was not so long ago that Pres
ident Hutchins himself was an un
der graduate, so he knew all the
undergraduate arguments, as well
as he knew those of the profes
sional educators. He, therefore, set
about re-assembling his scattered
building blocks with all the enthu
siasm of an inquisitive boy who
has taken something apart.
“An educational system based on
cooperation is the thing,” he said,
and arranged his pedagogical
blocks accordingly.
Naturally, he did not do all this
alone. Even the fundamental idea
was not unique. But students ev
erywhere have come to admire him
for his courageous leadership in up
setting the traditions of a century
with one fell blow and for his te
merity in replacing them with what
admittedly is an experiment.
Chicago Plan
Still only a few months old, the
“Chicago plan” has, of course, de
veloped a number of minor flaws,
but President Hutchins is even
more firmly convinced that the fun
damental theory—namely, coopera
tion and coordination, plus indivi
dual responsibility—is practical and
sound.
Briefly, the plan is this:
The beginning freshman enters
the “college,” which offers him a
general liberal arts training for
admittance into the university pro
per. The latter is divided into di
visions, rather than specialized de
partments. The upper divis
ions are: the humanities, social
sciences, physical sciences and bio
logical sciences. The graduate
school is eliminated, graduate work
being offered by the divisions. Six
professional schools, conferring
their own degrees, are retained,
however—Divinity, Law, Rush Me
dical, Commerce and Administra
tion, Social Service Administration
and Library Service.
Specialized Courses
In the college and upper divis
ions, grades, specialized course re
quirements and compulsory class
attendance are abolished. Students
are responsible to advisers, who en
courage individual initiative. To be
admitted to an uppper division, a
student must pass a comprehensive
examination covering his work in
the college, the examination to be
taken as soon as the adviser decid
es the student has adequately pre
pared himself.
Rigid course regulations, like
wise, are taboo in the upper divis
ions. Lecture courses are open to
large groups, with syllabi availa
ble for those who do not attend.
Small discussion groups under the
direction of instructors provide for
closer inspection of study matter.
Degrees Offered
Bachelor’s, master’s and doctor’s
degrees are to be conferred after
the student passes comprehensive
examinations covering work in one
of the four divisions. Students,
however, may cross divisional lin
es in the pursuit of problems which
cover more than one field.
Graduate work—except in the
professional schools—is to be less
specialized, since the basic theory
of the new system is a correlation
of elements of education. Higher
degrees in the humanities division
may now even be awarded for work
done in two or more departments.
Students Set Pace
Thus the Chicago student is
really his own mentor. He may
progress as rapidly as he wishes,
subject only to his own personal
limitations. His education cannot
be forced on him, but he must work
for it.
The Chicago plan foreshadows
other similar changes elsewhere.
Already Minnesota U. has inaugu
rated a special college for privi
leged students who want to find
themselves and, therefore, are al
lowed to devise their own study
plans.
Other developments of this type
are to be expected, and they will
be stimulated by a now keenly felt
need for economy. Reorganization
of the University’s finances on a
sounder basis was a part of the
Chicago upheaval. (Next: Sopho
more degrees)
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lege. As a statement on the editor
ial page of the first edition of The
Reveille pointed out, the publication
body.
Like The Bulletin of today, the
daily paper of that time carried
the official notices of the college
and other brief announcements and
advertisements. But in addition to
matter of that kind, its pages al
so contained campus news items,
informing students and faculty
members of what was happening in
the social, athletic and official life
of the campus. Occasional stories
from other colleges and news ar
ticles from elsewhere which might
effect A and M were also recorded
in its columns. Editorials were us
ually reprinted from the larger
daily newspapers of the state. As
we thumbed the crisp, yellowed
pages of the volumes on file in the
library, we noticed a number of
things which interest us even at
this time. Particularly was this
true of the copies of which coincide
with the dates of the United Stat
es’ participation in the World War.
The Daily Bulletin of February
16, 1918, records the fact that all
seniors who wished to enter the
military service at that time or
who had already enlisted would be
giving certificates showing that
they had. been candidates for de
grees and in good standing at the
time of their enlistment. It is in
teresting to note that by the end of
the last term of the college year
1917-1918, more than eighty per
cent of the senior class had taken
advantage of this opportunity.
Pages of the Reveille were re
plete with war propaganda and
with stories of A and M men in
the service. One story told of a for
mer student who “had his clothing
shot off of him” while crossing No
Man’s Land and yet escaped un
injured. An advertisement in this
issue and in nearly every issue
of about the same time read,
“SWAT THE KAISER, if you
aren’t going across, come across—
buy Liberty Bonds.”
In April, 1918, two airplanes
crashed on the campus and the
pilots escaped uninjured. The col
lege was making arrangements to
obtain the service of two “experts”
to teach patriotism during sum
mer school, and the Navy issued a
call for college men, particularly
engineers, offering them $2100 per
year—no unemployment situation
then, to say the least!
And also in April, 1918, the Tex
as Aggie baseball team, although
it boasted only two lettermen from
the preceding year and suffered
innumerable handicaps as a result
of injury and sickness, was one of
the best in the history of the col
lege. And we’ll have to agree, too,
for in that year the Aggies, with
Roswell G. (Little Hig) Higgin
botham on the mound, shut-out the
Texas Longhorns 5-0, and the
Steers didn’t get a hit either! Just
prior to this the Aggies had de
feated the Houston Buffs with Hig
pitching in what the writer des
cribed as a “great game”—the Ag
gies got fourteen hits and made
seven errors in the game.
On May 25, 1918, Guion Hall,
then called Guion Chapel and As
sembly Hall, was dedicated al
though it was not yet completed—
and one of the principal speakers
on the program was Charles E.
Friley, registrar then as now. It
was also announced at that time
that the student body at A and M
represented a larger area than ever
befoi’e in its history, its students
coming from 7 foreign countries,
17 states and 180 Texas counties.
Today the student body represents
11 foreign countries and 22 states,
but we didn’t count the counties.
Judging from the pages of the
old newspapers, the A and M cam
pus at that time greatly resembl
ed an army training camp in war
time. All cadets were required to
practice “wig-wag” signalling and
stand regular sentinel duty. Fail
ure to obey orders or infractions of
rules led to “arrest” and “arrest”
meant confinement to one’s room
except while attending class or
meals—and violation of arrest
meant dismissal, according to of
ficial orders in The Reveille.
Letters from ex-students “over
there” were reproduced from time
to time. One of them, written in
the trenches, said that aside from
West Point and Harvard, Texas
A and M was mentioned more in
the army than any other college—
evidence that even then there was
such a thing as “Aggie spirit.”
And so from page to page there
is material which it would require
several days to read, much of it
of no interest at all and much of
it of no value, but still enough of
it to blend together and make a
vivid and interesting chapter in the
history of Aggieland.
El Paso Coaches
Worked Together
Through College
Coach And Assistant Played
On Same Teams Since High
School Days.
FORT WORTH, May 11.—When
Othol Martin reports next fall as
assistant to Coach Lester Brum-
below of El Paso High it will mark
the beginning of their eighth year
of association.
Their friendship started in the
hills of Jack County in 1924 when
tion on the Jacksboro High foot
ball team where Brumbelow was
already a stellar fullback. They
played two years together there.
Then Brum made his appearance
in the purple and white of T C U
in 1926. Martin followed a year
later. Both starred for the Frogs,
winning three letters in football.
Brum was captain in his senior
year and won all-conference hon
ors. Martin won the annual award
in 1930 as the most valuable man
on the team. They roomed togeth
er three years.
Both boys spent a year at T C U
following their undergraduate ca
reers, as assistant to Coach Francis
Schmidt. Last year Brumbelow
went to El Paso as assistant coach.
The coming year he is to be head
coach and Martin again joins him,
as assistant.
CONTINENTAL DIVIDE
LOOKOUT MtU-
School of the Rockies
Students of Engineering who wish to make
up work or secure additional credit during
the summer are offered an unusual oppor
tunity to combine work and recreation in
Golden, the Gateway of the Rockies.
July 11 to August 26, 1932
For detailed announcement of courses, write
to the Registrar for Bulletin S-2.
Colorado School gf Mines
Golden, Colorado
Vacation
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