The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, September 27, 1933, Image 1

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TRANCE OF
A AND M.
GIRLS AT
HUAK1J OF DIRECTORS p. lull 11
|vorrajo^oppwiE bn- nve Hundred Are
Employe
New Association
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S. G. Salley Heads Recently
’gahized Student Employ.
SENIOR ('MSS OFFICERS
Postponement
Granted
Bn an Merchants File Man
damus Proceedings In 85th
District Court.
Ori'anized Student Emf
ment Dept, ff CWIege.
Membt-rs of the board of direc
tor* of the college convened here
during the pa*t week-end and vot
ed unanimously to oppose the man
damus proceedings filed in the 86th
Approximately .*>50 atudent* have
t»een given work which will make
it possible for them to attend‘school
this yean according to S. G. Bailey,
district court by Bryan citixens to appointed head of the recently
compel the admission of girls to organized Student Employment De-
A and M College. partment^ Severial students were
Soon after the hoard of directors employed on trial last year as (
granted permission to daughters of janitors in the Acadspnic Building
college employees residing in Bra- The movement prove!] successful,
sos County to attend A and M, a and through the
petition demanding the same pri
vilege was signed by a dozen Bry
an girls and two from Heame. The
following signatures appeared on
the petition: Lucile Vick, Mnurine
Neeley, loin Bnrton, Alin Stanford,
Evelyn Stanford, Jane Singletary,
Francis Locke, Pauline Davis, Mrs.
A, E. Jones, and Mrs. O. A. Fox.
all o& Bryan, and Elizabeth Bart
lett and Beverly Hostrasser, both
of Hearne. _
The board has appointed a com
mittee to engage counsel and has
boen granted their request to post
pone the hearing for a week in or
der to have sufficient time for pre
paration of the defense.
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Registration For
The Fall Term
Now Over 2,100
Resist rar'H Office Reports An
Increase of Seven and One-
Half Percent Over
Year.
and through th! efforts of Dr.
Walton, a Student Employment De
partment war created with Mr.
Bailey at ita head for the purpote
of creating new
vacancies with wdrthy students.
Through the work of Mr. Bailey
and the department, 91 student
janitors now police every building
on the campus, over 100 waiter*
work in the mess, hall, 40 students
are employed hf the Landscape
Department and Che College green-
Above are the newly elected offScem of the Senior class; reading left to right: T. N. Gear-
reald, president; J. E. Weaver, vice-president; and H. C. Wend Mr, secretary and treasurer.
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jobs and filling Girls Are F^nrolled
At A and M College
For the First Time
The doors of Texas A and M
College were opened for the first
time to girl students during the
fall term last Thursday when
AGGIE DAIRY TEAM
ONWAYTOANNUAI,
I JUDGING CONTEST
Three Students and Head of
the Dairy Husbandry De
partment Make Trip.
house, 'J$ athletes work at Kyle met for the Fall and Winter
Field, and several students are em- of 1933.34
ployed in every department of the
school.
This in an unusually high per
centage , being over 25 pen-en.
the student body to be employed
during ite school year,
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Former Students
Loan $23,000 To
250 Needy Aggies
(». V. Holmes, Gonzales, F. H.
Barnhart, and F. L. Hansen, Tem
ple. member* of the A and M dairy
judging team were given an of
ficial send-off to the annual col-
legiate dairy judging conteet by the
Krt-am and Kow Klub Monday
'uMbt. C. N. Shepardaon. hewi of
the dairy husbandry department
and coach of the team, gave the
prhtcipal address of the evening,
in which he discussed the prospects
of the team and made plant- for
the year's work. Represeawtives
from the animal and poultry hus
bandly departments were also pre
sent and gave the team best wish
es for success in the contest'.
On the way to the cos test, which
will be hyld at,Waterloo, laws. Oc-
2, in conjunction with the
iry Cattle Congress, the team
stop tb do practice judging at
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Loan* Jbuiging From Seven
To One Hundred Dollars
Have Been Made To Stu
dent* for This Term.
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Twenty-three theaaand dollars
have beert loaned ta approximately
250 studehts this tana bj the For
mer Students’ Association through
their student loan fund, according
to E. E. Mr Quillen, secretary to
the Association.
Each year ail avariablr monies
in the furtd are draated to this pur
pose. The maxiiaom Amount one
student may borrow is one hun
dred dollars and their is no fixed
minimum, Loan* ait made in the
form of student iaan notes and Are
payable at the rate of six perornt
within one year from the date of
Eleven girls took advantage of
the ruling that permitted the en
rollment of the daughters of all
college employees who reside in
Brazos County. This number in
cludes co-eds from the campuses
*of the University of Oklahoma, 1 t
University of Texas, Texas Chris- i
tian University, The College of
Industrial Arts, and Baylor Wo
nsan's College.
Those who registered for school
here this fall are: Margaret Dun
can. Barbara Eudaly. Sarah Orth.
Mary Scoatea, Evelyn Koenig. Al
ice Senates, Jean Sandstedt, Bernie
Rea Marburger, Criatobel Bailey.
Simmie Wheeler, and Margaret
Beason.
CORPS DANCE
Zeke Tiploa. social secre
tary of the deniar clam, an
nounces that the ^AoMaad
Orchestra wil play a corps
dance in the Meat Hall An
nex Saturday sight, Septem
ber 3U.
The Aggielaad Orchestra
played several during the va
cation aiaatha, and will of
fer the aamn rhythm that
made the orchestra So pop
ular last year. The usual
hoars will prevail at the
dance: run- til twalvh.
Seeligson
Vice-President At
Sixteen Are Dropped
From Teaching Staff
By Economy Measure
Fiyteea members of the A and M
SENIORS ELECT ALL
ClJkSS O F F IC E R S AT
INITIAL MEETING OF
CLASS SUNDAY AFTER-
, NOON] . J •
T. N. Gearrt aM of Stephenvilte,
1 u|rtain of the A and M Band, was
elected president of the Senior
Cite* at its first meeting Sunday
afternoon, September 24. Nominees
whom Gearreald defeated were L.
Last 0. Zapp, Huustoa, Captain of Troop
C Cavalry, and Corps Captain W.
W, Halite, Shamrock.
A total of twenty-one hundred In a close race for vice-preai-
student* had finished their regis- dem y, J. E. Weaver, Refugio, Cap-
tratio;) at noon of the fifth day ot tain. Battery A Field Artillery,
registration, according to informa- was elected over T. E. Jarman of
: lion given out by Assistant Regis- Waco, Major of the Corps Staff;
trar William Morgan. Some fifty T. P. Kennedy, Houston, Captain
or seventy-five more students |are of the Composite Regiment; and
expected to register before the J. H. Willard. Giddings, Major of
final date for registration. the Oavalry Squadron.
This year’s enrollment represents Members of the Senior Glass
an increase of approxitnately seven gaint exhibited their faith
and a half percent over the prt- Wemfler, president of last year’s
vious years registration. Compris
ing this total of twenty-one hun
dred students, are eight hundred
and sixteen new students, an in
crease of amost forty percent over
last year’s freshman class, and
twelve hundred and eighty-four
old students. Many of the old
Glass
in H. C.
Initial Y Meeting "•*'*"’*
Collafce leaching staff were drop- gtudAits are returning after stay-
ped from the payroll this year, out 0 f ^hool f or WV eral years.
making possible a $43,000 reducti *n
in Ippaimes. In addition to this _ . ~ .
econbmy measure, ail other mem- 11 NriPdRl
bers on ‘ the sUff were given a T
twenty-five percent salary cut, f.
0. Boltoa. dean .of the college an-
nodtrad.
Sev eral of those discharged, how-
eve*. have been reemployed by the
1 v.<ge H- work in ovner rapacities
Kach depart ment had its salary al-
lotasent reduced approximately the, Grtdlfst Bargains On Trip To
same amount, thereby minimizing Aggie-Tulane Game Are Of-
the hardships incurred by s smaller fered On Battalion Special.
Will Carry Many
Students To Game
force.
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-One Assistantships Are
b ‘ 1 te Li il , fr ,
Awarded To Graduate Students
To Replace Dismissed Professors
.Antestant Is Working
Toward A Master’* Degree;
Select ions
Made by Deans.
Not to be outdone by leaders of
other industries. A and M College
* officials devised a code to work in
harmony with President Roose-
. velta N. R. A. program, and inci-
gwiially, to satisfy the demands of
an economy-minded Texas legisla- regarded M an act of charity on
tur«. As a result, forty-seven A the part*of the college, as each
and M graduates and fourteen graduate is required to work about
luates of other schools, who , twenty-taro hours a week, for arhich
he recnirte only a small salary.
The deans of the coOgM; with the
—’— !
thr college is representt-o in the
graduate school, the mmteer in
t-arh to be increased as sooa m pro
vis teas are made for them. The
Chemistry department, with seven
graduates, has the largest number
of candidates, followed by the
Electrical Engineering department,
which has five.
Such gf program xhould not He
The
Passing Review
DKDICATTCHV Since the detero
tion 0/ this column is in order aft
this time, aw wish to dedicate it
to those tarn politically powerful
figures nf ““H" Company Infatety,
Tyrus K. Timm of Hallettmille.
and W. Angus McLeod of te*ar
’ole Quern tSTuero to you) whe de
monstrated their political prawess
last spring when they croaael the
line to live with the foreign teg ion
of New Mrmro while in ramp—O.
O. Ty and tear .... Even?
EI.ECTBDL Congratulhttero to
Tull GearraiUi on being elertni to
the presidemqr of the senter class
—a well atencted and competent
man for tW position the amor
class did well in its selectroa if
Johnny We—.. Henry WenAw,
Fane ho Vela, and Zeke Tipton te
tee other evermbsv positions of the
das* also.
CLASSMATES. Letter from
WABD (Crupper) NEAL Sunday
— working in East Texas oil field
— wanted to get the Hat—be back
second term sent greetings to “C"
Troop beys—VIRGIL PEACOCK—
senior E. E. student — Captain
second Battalion Infantry staff—
“G” company—unable to rrtaro be
cause of serious ilbieas—address
Mineola, Texas.
grafui
partly replaced the sixteen dismiss
ed members of the teaching staff
in addition to many other regular
employees of the college, are now
assured of three square meals a
day and—at least part of them—a and
master’s degree.
Pyactkally every department of
approval of Dr. Wialton, choose the
members ff the school, their selec
tions being based on the scholastic
extrd-cutriad* activities of
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H. G. Sveliglnn, Dallas, eras
elected vice-president of the Y M C
A Cabinet at their first formal
meeting of the . year which-wa
held Sunday morning oa the
Island”. J. N. Ffrguson.1 El Paso,
was elected secretary for the group
when M. C. Shumpert. Pertales.
New Mexico, failed to rrtom to
school. Other officers, whe were
elected last spring fer this year
are R. E. Porter. Jr.. Sam Antonio,
president, and A; L. HaHsin. Wax-
ahachie, treasurer.
As vice-president ef *he cabinet,
Seeligaon is anteteatenally chair
man of a committee agipninted for
the purf>o>e of iigiliniag.
ing out a detailed pmgrrain for the
weekly discussion gpnatps which are
scheduled ta atari sdiortly after
Thanksgiving. _ As in
years, various |ii»ifaminn
pus leaders wHI Jieamked to
over the groups, which are in tee
nature of forum* Their ehW Ob
jective it to dimni and propose
solutions to curnerti student prob
lems.
Porter apfmin$ei several other
committees to mate investigations
and reports on hiaines* brought
before the to hmet
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Freshman Enrollment
In AniauU Inditstiy
Increased This Year
~ Named Intramural
Manners For Year
Npct
With the cry “Beat the Tulane
11 ^ • .Green Wave” on their lips, many
lYixrin 4 rul students and ardent fans are an-
I/3V IS ADO * n fcllVCr xiomiy awaiting the time for the
Sptetal Pullman sponsored by the
BMtalian to pull out Thursday
tsrght from College Station toward
I New Orleans. Reservations are be
ing rapidly made and the seats are
filling fast ns what promises to he
the most colorful of the already
colorful intersectional football
games ef the Aggies looms ahead.
One eif the greatest bargains in
railromd travel offend in quite a
while will be given since the college
has consented to allow the stu
dents wishing to make the trip
the privilege of leaving Thursday
mjfit with the football team. Since
the special pullman will be used for
hte*-l accomodations while in New
Orleans, a two day hotel bill will
to included ia thr saving on the
tsrket, thus affecting a saving of
over six dollars to the students.
Anyone wishing further informa
tion concerning the trip should
Junipr ('late, by electing him Sec
retary-Treasurer. Wendler, who
ha8a from Boerne and is Majog -
of the Infantry Regiment, had'afl
his opponent F. B. Dickson of Sag
Antonio, Major of the Engineer
Bati^ltea, had T. W. Akins. First
Lieutenant on the Engineer Bat
talion Staff.
Cadet first lieutenant W. O.
Vela. I-a redo, of Battery E. Field.
Artillery, gas honored with the of
fice of ('la** Historian. Unsuccess
ful candidates ia the race were C.
A. Tosch of Mesquite, Adjutant of
the 2nd Battalion Infantry; J. M.
Mitchell. Galveston, Second Lieu
tenant of iBattery B Field Artil
lery; and M- H. Lee, First Lieu-*
tenant of fCampany E Infantry
from W
\nother|-*"8taf will he
within the next few weeks to
the annoallrorpa trip aad ta
act other busines* that la tali*
en -up during the coming year, Cli
President Gearreald announced
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ATHLETICS. All you lads hi
better go down in your pockets
and bring out a dollar for that
swimming ticket—heat investment
in exercise and recraation that has
ever been offered at A and M—
better do the same about the acti
vities fee because that football
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X
One hundred
students have
freshman course
bandry. an i
cent over last fear's rorollmeat,
D. W Williams, head ef the de-
partvent. announced Monday. Mr.
William* said thdt it ia oa through
the aaefartaaro of two jpadBate
students that th* department will
be able to handle the large >»- >
rose. J I ■
la tra mural ^yorts a tel
Balm Are A—uweed At
Banqaet HeM ia the Ajjjpic-
tand Inn Maaidso Night
C. M. Davtss Hits*boro, anl T.
•te. Weaver. OaOm. were chosen for
ami carrv- oI »•»»»• T‘»itramurml man
ager*. aad Wilbc iFStzgerald. Shre-
;eeydfik>|a. and W. D. Percy
Jonah, wew sehsrte<l as the two
i junihr' tearogNM for the £933-34
season, W. L. Fhmberthy announc
ed at a darken tharbecue nerved to
m tram ami tau>m managam at the
. . « I* wil Inn teanday night. There
are twe vacanoau- in thr sank* of
junior amnngory and Mr. Perv-
berthy aaaaataied that any juniors
who art iatrnciaed shoUM are him
at ooce.
Mr. Prabritiiy called attention
to the fact that Ping Peng has here
mad# a class B' sport for the com
ing season Ping Peng made ita
debut in the gynut last spring and
it mH with sorh enthusiastic re
ception that the directors decided
to adbpi. it as a regular sport ia
the irttramursl realm.
Water Polo teams will be orga
nized this year on an intramural
HUTCHISON, CLASS ;
OF 'S3, TO MAKE
Major of Signal Corps Battal
ion Joins Byrd on Trip ta
the South Pole.
Gay C. Hutchison, Denton, mem
ber of the class of ’Ll, left Bostoa
.the twenty-fifth of this month with
the Byrd Expedition to the South
Though no definite information
is kaown as to how Hutchison was
awarded his sppointment, it ik'
thought that he received the pod-
tior because of his high rating at
the Signal Corps ('amps of year
before last or because of his active
work in the Radio Relay Club of
come to the Battalion office in the Ameteca. . j' \ i.
old Administration Building not Laat year Hutchinson was Major
later than 9:30 p. m. Wednesday of the Signal Corps Battalion and
night. president of the Radio Club hero.
Entire Staff of Military Science
Department Returns From Civilian
Conservation Camp To Resume Work
uwd medals will be given Nine Officers Spend Summer tion, road building, construction,
to thd winning team although no At Variou* ‘Tree Camp*” and erosion prevention. All camp*,
participation points will be given Cher Southwestern State*. *<cording to Captain L. R. Nach-
until the new sport has been tried ■«*". run »■ •" orderly man-
for one year and its popularity de- All nine officers, who saw duty ner with leaders and assistant lead-
tteMMp this summer with the Civilian Con- era, corresponding respectively to
At the banquet, managers were servution ('orp* had returned to the sergeant* and corporals in the
instructed in their respective do- College before September 1, leav- army, bat without any evidence of
in-1 ties aUd.Mr. Penberthy called their «ng their companu** under the com- militariara.
. • ion to a new rule which pro- mand of reserve officers who were The entire personnel, Captain
The two assidtantahipa in the! rides that in any sport, a team that detailed by the War Department, Nachman said, was comprised of
animal husbandry department were forfeits as many as throe games according to a statement issued by men ■♦win twenty yean of age,
awarded to R. A Von Boeder, a will be disqualified from finishing Lieutenant Colonel A. R. Emery, mainly high school graduates, and
the league series. , Following a three week’s stay first year college men. All mea re-
Ahhough the State has made at Fort Sill. Oklahoma, all com- oeived board, lodging, and clothiiy
drastic reduction in the appropria- mandants were ordered to their in addition to monthly salaries
These taro men ifill conduct prae- j lions for intramural athletics, Mr. I respective location* throughout the rangiiftt from thirty to forty-five
tice daiuee in the freshman course. }< I / Southu. «t to supervise civilians In T —
Mr. Williams announced. I Continued to page S) j the different project* of reforostte |patinued to page 4)
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graduate in the Mae of ’32, ard
8. J. Decker, a graduate of Okla
homa A and M in the same yew.
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