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THE BATTALION
1HE EAT1ALICN
Student weekly published by the students of the Agricultural and
Mechanical College of Texas.
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Texas, under the Act of Congress, March 3, 1879.
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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 I
E. M. LIEM Circulation Manager
GEORGE C. BRUNDRETT Assistant Circulation Mgr.
ODD THINGS AND NEW—By Lame Bode Junior College Enrollment Continues
To Grew—Texas Second In Number
Of Colleges With 45, California First
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35 YHARS AGO
Finis
With the publication of this issue the Senior members of the staff
write finis on their careers as college journalists. We wish in closing
to state that we appreciate the support of the student body which we
have enjoyed, the co-operation of the faculty and college officials,
and everyone that any matter has been responsible for any part of
the work this year.
We do not feel that we are expert journalists, nor that the paper
has been perfect. It has been our idea however to make it as near
as possible a representative record of the facts, events, and occurances
that have happened from time to time on the campus.
We do realize however, that without the support which has been
ours, we would have fallen far short of the record we have made, and
it is with this thought in mind that we ask that you bear with the
ones who will succeed us.
Their success and good will is dependant entirely upon the recep
tion you give them. Our day has passed. Follow on with the new
editors and may they carry The Battalion even higher as a student
publication.
Aggie Trackmen Student Labor
To Enter Tryout ^jeded To By
x, A1 . Northern Paper
Tor Olympics
(Editor’s Note: This is the last of a*
■eries 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.)
Dolly Madison
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installed in the
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Johnston-Wehner
Named Winners In
Mathematics Quiz
B Battery Sweeps
Intramural Meet
B Company Second
Sophomore And Freshman
Winners Are Announced In
Fourth Annual Contest.
(Intercollegiate Press)
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., May 25.—
Students who have to spend too
E.e ea Aggies Eligible For ti me -working their
Participation In Interna- way through college would be bar-
ticnal Meet.
The Texas Aggies will be well
I red from Harvard University if
' the Harvard Crimson, student
newspaper, had its way.
In an editorial announcing that
represented at the Texas state eastern colleges, including Har-
Olympic tryouts and Neighborhood v ard, had outlawed the “sympathy
Athletic club tryouts to be held at;appeal” by student salesmen, the
Rice field in Houston, June 18. No Crimson said:
less than eleven Aggies are eligible The myth that any able-bodied
to compete in the meet along with man can support himself and at
the same time realize the full ad-
! vantages of a college education
representatives of other schools of
the Southwest who are trying to
win a place in the American mus t be destroyed. And there is
Olympics to be held in California no better way to do it than by re-
this summer.
Those from A and
eligible to compete
J. A. Johnston, Trinidad, was
announced the winner of the first
prize offered in the sophomore di
vision of the fourth annual math
ematics contest. W. B. Logan, Dal
las, was the receiver of the second
prize in the sophomore division.
Logan was also winner of the
freshman prize last year. In the
freshman division, F. W. Wehner,
Jr., Rel Dio, took first place, and
E. Mattingly, Jr., La Grange, was
awarded second place.
These men as winners in each
division were awarded gold watches
presented by Hugo Zapp, Houston,
and C. E. Stanford of Shiner for
the sophomore contest, and by
Charles R. Haile, Houston, and
Joe R. Hawes, Tyler.
An interesting part of the con
test was the large increase in the
number of men to enter the finals.
Twenty-two sophomores and thirty
freshmen met last Friday night
for the final examination that last
ed three hours.
The winners were not made pub
lic until a banquet held last night
in the mess hall, when Mr. Zapp
presented the watch to Johnston.
Members of the engineering facul
ty, and contestants were present
for the awards.
Flectrlcal Eye For
Blind Invented By
Austrian Architect
fusing admission to men who are
M who are compelled to spend so much time
are: E. H. an< I g 0 to suc b ends to earn money
Wicker, Corpus Christi; and G. J. ^ or themselves that they lose many
Kohler, Palestine, in the 100 and of the most essential benefits of
200 meter; T. W. Akins, Ft. Worth, a college education.”
400 meters; Percy Mims, Ft.
W T orth, 800 meters; H. Fuentes,
Saltillo, Mexico, 1500 meters; R.
F. Marques, Yorktown, 5000 me
ters; O. L. Billimek, Poth, and W.
H. Randow, Hallettsville, 120-meter ;
high hurdles; Joe Merka, Bryan, (intercollegiate rress)
high jump; and B. M. Irwin, Kosse, VIENNA, May 25.—An electri-
discus and shot-put. j cal apparatus which takes the place
of the eye in transmitting sight
to the brain through the channels
of the regular sight nerves is the
invention of a Vienna architect,
Joseph Gartloruber.
The theory of the inventor is
that the eye is merely a machine
which transmits light into electri
cal waves which are sent to the
brain, which is the real base of the
sight.
Twenty-Eight—
(Continued form page 1)
Hess Of Rice Wins
In Tennis Singles;
Texas Cops Doubles
Texas University lost its mono
poly on the Southwest Conference
tennis championship Saturday af
ternoon when Jake Hess, Rice In
stitute senior and captain of the
tennis team, defeated Karl Kam-
rath of Texas. He won with'
straight sets in the singles finals i
at the River Oaks County Club
courts in Houston, scoring 11-9, |
6-4, 6-1. The match marked a bril
liant climax to Hess’ three years
of trials for the coveted crown that
he won so handily last year.
Only the determination to win
by Sterling Williams of Texas kept
Hess and Henry Holden of Rice
from winning the doubles cham
pionship also. With two sets lost
and only a point between Rice and
the doubles championship, Williams
began a last minute rally which
won him and Karl Kamrath the
set and the match. The score was
9-7, 6-4, 4-6, 1-6, 7-5.
Representatives from A and M,
Baylor, S M U, and T C U did not
last through the preliminaries.
M.I.T.Students Must
Pay For Fireman’s
Pants Lost In Riot
Reynolds, Bastrop; William Sodd,
Ft. Worth; Edward Steves, San
Antonio; Travis Voelkel, Shelby.
Freshman numerals in track were
awarded to J. E. Boothe, Dimmitt;
W. G. Breazeale, Crockett; Foy
Cook, Lampasas; Roy Cook, Lam
pasas; J. G. Cooper, Schulenberg;
J. W. Davidson, Eagle Lake; W.
M. DuBois, Santa Anna; L. M.
Eldridge, Gulf; Francisco Fuentes,
Tampico, Mexico; A. A. Haegelin,
Hondo; W. B. Hooser, Seymour; A.
Latham, Spur; C. Latham, Spur;
J. M. McFatridge, Roxton; E. L.
Pierson, Hamilton; W. H. Randow,
Hallettsville; Jack Stringfellow,
Terrell; J. L. Richmond, Kyle; W.
M. Skripka, Rosenberg; Ed Wick
er, Corpus Christi.
Battery B Artillery’s aquatic
team, led by C. E. Reichardt,
swam to an easy victory Saturday
afternoon in the intramural swim
ming meet, winning a total of 32 V2
points. Company B Infantry took
second with 17 points; Troop A
Cavalry third, 12 points; and the
Band fourth with 9 points. In win
ning the meet, Battery B took three
first places, two seconds and an
equal number of third and fourth
places.
Reichardt literally splashed off
with all the honors of the day by
taking three first places and one
second place, making a total of
19 points. P. M. Milburn, Company
B Infantry, took second honors
with 11 points and W. L. Young,
Troop A Cavalry, took third with
10 points.
The Summary:
100-yard free style—C. E. Reich
ardt, B Artillery; R. A. Worthing
ton, B Artillery; O. W. Paine, F
Infantry; P. M. Milburn, B Infan
try R. J. Hodge, B Infantry. Time
1:05.
40-yard free style—R. E. Reich
ardt, B Artillery; P. M. Milburn,
B Infantry; L. M. Sommers, B Ar
tillery; R. A. Worthington, B Artil
lery and O. W. Paine, F Infantry
tied for fourth. Time: 22.4.
40-yard back stroke—C. N. Hiel-
scher, Band; C. E. Reichardt, B
Artillery; W. R. Russell, F Artil
lery; L. M. Sommers, B Artillery;
W. L. Young, A Cavalry. Time 26.7.
40-yard breast stroke—C. E.
Reichardt, B Artillery; W. L.
Young, A Cavalry; L. M. Sommers,
B Artillery; H. S. Brinsmade, A
Cavalry; A. F. Knotts, B Infantry.
Time: 27.6.
Plunge for distance—P. M. Mil
burn, B Infantry; E. H. Hudgens,
C Cavalry; E. T. Knotts, B Infan
try; R. J. Hodge, D Infantry; J.
C. Coultrup, B Coast Ai’tillery. Dis
tance: 53.11 feet.
Fancy Diving—W. L. Young, A
Cavalry; C. H. Montgomery, Band;
J. G. Hester, G Infantry; A. L.
Batjer, A Artillery; J. K. Knotts,
B Infantry. Points: 59.
This year, 98,831 college stu
dents in the United States are
working for ‘Sophomore degrees.”
Many of them, of course, will
continue their educational carees
and seek bachelor degrees. Many
will not. Both will have been train
ed in a new kind of educational
institution, which has had its great
est development since the War—
the junior college.
According to Secretary Doak S.
Campbell of the American Asso
ciation of Junior Colleges, there are
now 469 private and public junior
colleges in the country. California
leads with 52 and a total enroll
ment of 28,307, while Texas is sec
ond, with 45 such colleges, having
an enrollment of 8,971. There are
181 publicly-owned junior colleges.
Junior colleges were the result
of strife between secondary schools
and universities over entrance re
quirements and differences in edu
cational ideals. The junior college
was originally intended to bridge
the gap between the high school
and the university.
The latter, accused of trying to
dictate secondary school curricula
and standards, was in many cases
told to mind its own business, with'
the result that a beginning fresh
man in an institution of higher
learning often found himself lost
in a strange world.
But instead of remaining a mere
stepping stone along the education
al highway, the junior college has
become within itself an important
entity, with a two-fold purpose:
first, as an institution prepared to
orient the high school graduate
with two years of basic liberal arts
training, enabling him to transfer
painlessly to the upper division of
a university, and second, as a liber
al arts institution organized to sat
isfy the basic cultural needs of the
students who is financially unable,
not inclined or not properly equip
ped to continue past the sophomore
year.
Los Angeles Junior College, with
an enrollment of 3,800 students,
has gone a step further. In addi
tion to duplicating the first two
years of a university's liberal arts
curriculum, it has installed a semi-
professional division of a definite
ly vocational character but of a
higher order than the usual trade
school.
Undoubtedly recognized as one
of the foremost experiments of its
kind in America, L.A.J.C. has as
its director, Dr. William H. Snyder,
who took over his position after
years of experience as a high school
principal. Well aware of the dif
ferences in obpectives which have
caused friction between the four-
year colleges and high schools, Dr.
Snyder and his staff created a new
type of institution capable of per
forming the usual dual functions
of the junior college on a much
more pretentious scale.
Students are divided into certifi
cate and semi-professional groups.
The former plant from the start to
transfer to a four-year college or
university. The latter are permit
ted to absorb enough “culture” and
“background” to prepare them for
the ordinary contingencies of life,
and in addition are offered special
ized vocational training.
Now concluding its third year of
existence, the Los Angeles college
is pointing the way to other two
and three-year institutions, which
will become something more than
connecting links between the sec
ondary school and university.
Come to the
ASSEMBLY HALL
on
THURSDAY NIGHT
and see how the Fresh
men spend
“A NIGHT IN AN INN”
Learn
“HOW HE LIED TO
HER HUSBAND,”
and meet your
“POOR RELATIONS”
at 8 P. M.
ADMISSION •
Cadets 25^ Adults 50^
Let’s smoke a
MAN’S
SMOKE!
6
■f )f Then the girls begin to cut cor-
VV ners in our cars and do back
somersaults in our planes and borrow
our cigarettes—
then it’s time to
take to a pipe!
Call it the last
stronghold of mas
culine defence—or
the one pet diver-
sion our little
friends keep their
fingers off. Call it
what you will—
there’s something
downright satisfy
ing, understanding, companionable
about a friendly, mellow, MASCU
LINE pipe! It’s a real man’s smoke!
And a pipe’s at
its best when you
fill it up with Edge-
worth. There’s a
rare, mellow flavor
to the Edge-
worth blend of
fine hurleys that
simply can’t be
touched. It’s cut
long—to give you
A pipe’s a a cool, slow-burn-
man’s smoke in g smoke> And
you’ll find it the favorite with smokers
in 42 out of 54 colleges.
You can get Edgeworth wherever
good tobacconists sell smokes. But if
you’ve never tried it, we’d like the fun
of treating you to that first satisfying
pipeful. Just write to Larus & Bro. Co.,
105 S. 22d St., Richmond, Va.
EDGEWORTH
SMOKING TOBACCO
Edgeworth is a blend of fine old hurleys,
with its natural savor enhanced by Edge
worth’s distinctive
and exclusive elev
enth process. Buy
Edgeworth any
where in two forms
—EdgeworthReady-
Rubbed and Edge-
worth Plug Slice. All
sizes, 15^ pocket
package to $1.50
pound humidor tin.
CAMPUS CLEANERS AND TAILORS
NEW CASH AND CARRY PRICES
CLEANING AND PRESSING
Suits 75
Pants 40
Shirts 20
PRESSING
Suits 40
Pants 25
Shirts 15
These prices are Cash and Carry only
JOEL ENGLISH W. E. (Shorty) HALBROOKS
(Intercollegiate Press)
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., May 25.—
Fifty cents is being assessed each
student at the Massachusetts In
stitute of Technology who partici
pated in the recent “riot” at M. I.
T.
It is said that in the “riot,” caus
ed when students attemtped to pre
vent firemen from extinguishing a
fire they had built in the dormitory
quadrangle, one Cambridge fireman
lost his pants and other firemen
were hampered in their fire fight
ing.
The 50 cents a head is being as
sessed to cover the cost of damage
to fire apparatus. No institute
property was hurt. If a student
takes an oath that he did not par
ticipate in the affair, he is not
required to-“come across.”
Otherwise the “four bits” is pay
able to the bursar.
Early in the spring traffic in
this city was tied up for hours one
night when the students of Har
vard University took possession of
the streets. Several students were
temporarily arrested in that fray.
Quality
AT
Popular Prices
Campus Shoe
Shop
Serving A. & M.
Sinee ’91
%
Engineering Summer
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
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