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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (May 2, 1934)
.» *i THE BATTALION i . ■' J - $ t __ INTRAMURAL ATHLETIGSI POSSIBLE FOR EVER! PARTICIPATE IN IT. IENTT0 ILLEGE SPORTS Some people hare the erroneous idea that to participate in athletics, one must hare physique, cat-like muscles and a tough constitution. But this is not <o at the A and M Collefe of Tex as, for Kyle Field, known ortr the • country as the home of the great Aggie athletic teams, might well - be called the home of Texas Ag gie Intramural sports and physical education work. Of course the Ag gie tatercollogiate teams bring fame and financial aid to the de partment of physical education of the college, but the main aim and work of the physical education de partment is to prepare students to serre as physical education in structors ;in high school, to better the physical condition of the stu- dent body as a whole and to pro vide healthful and pleasant recrea tion, exercise and competition for eVery student who desires it. ' There is some kind of athletics for erery student and the facili ties of the giant athletic plant of the college are turned over to the intramural department during the year. How well the department’s intramural program has succeed ed in reaching all the students is shown by records during the past years. This year has been the best that has ever been enjoyed by the intramural athletic ,department with the largest number of boys to take part in some phase of in tramural competition than in any previous year in proportion to the enrollment of the student body. There has been approximately eighty percent of the student body that has taken active work in six teen intramural sports offered. Last year, the figure was only slightly below this when 1317 dif ferent boys took part in the intra mural sports of a school enroll ment of about 2000. The total number of entries during the prog ram last year was 4008. This com parison shows that the boys who yearly is run in such a mankier as to crants wholesome competition among the different orgamtations on the campus thus arousing interest among the stu dent* to such an extent that they are anxious to participate in the contests. The work is carried on by interested students as much as possibk in the following way. A* the beginning of each new school year a call is issued to all EX-AGGIES BOAST ASSOCIATION 20 THOUSAND STRONG ’ Twenty thousand brotaers Is a big family, but that’s the number of Former Students aad Graduates who have passed through the portals of the A and M College of Texas. Like any other group of brothers there occasionally arise r.K-k-throwing disagreements, but these are strictly private and woe unto him who interferes as an out- sophomores who care to come out aider. The Association of Former Students is the organised effort and ekpression of these former students. While a majority of the men who have attended A and M since its doors were opened in 1876 live in Texas and its bordering states and pork for a place on the staff. At the end of the year medals are awarded to the four boys whose work has been outstanding and these tour are carried over to the next year as junior managers. The junior managers receive heavy in tramural numeral sweaters at the ( of Oklahoma, Louisans, Arkansas, end of the year and the two whose and New Mexico, there remain work has been most meritorious hundreds of its sons who make are selected as senior intramural managers for the year to follow. The two senior managers receive beautiful gold watches at the end of the year as a final reward for their laibors. There is a company intramural manager in each of the twenty-six different organisations on the cam pus whose duty it is to look after the intramural activities of his or ganization. The organisation com mander selects the intramural manager for his company on the basis of his ability and interest. As an added stimulus to eliminate forfeitures to as large extent as possible a handsome pen and pen cil set is presented to the company manager who has the smallest their homes in nearly every city of the United States and without exception in every state of the Union. Foreign countries and ob scure posts of the world find their A and M representatives. 'Wherever engineering or modern agricultural work is to be done there can usually be found an A and M man. The purposes of the Association of Former Students are roughly three-fold; to be of service to their Alma Mater and its student body, to be of service to each other, and to keep fresh the bonds of friend ship between A and M men. No school of equal sise and rank in this country has the deep feeling of friendship and the conscious- President of the Board of Directors l r BATTALION SPORTS EDITOR PAINTS A VIVID FAMOU! [CTURE OF THE IG DAY GAME waved to the corps to “talk to the team.” , A« the “twelfth man” in the stands is screaming “com* bn ole away,” something strange seems to be happening to the eleven Ag- r>es on the field, their weary muscles that had long before spent their energy seem to be strength ening and the lagging spirit of the players seems to .be renewing its will to fight on and on. Some thing more than the sound is cora in the wind. This day there ln f from those straining voices— was an orange and white banner something..that sends a tingling marked Longhorns on the pole down the back of every one nf the' next fee the maroon banner mark- players—something that the ex- ed Texas Aggies. It was the last students are feeling when bears game of a season which had not come in their eyes as they think been so good, but still the cadet of the days when they were corps had victory in their minds students. But soon the old “exes’* and fight in their hearts. forget about the old days, they . To one observing the small are looking at the eleven fighting groups moving to the stadium, a i men out there on the field and To one not inspired by the fc>re shadowing of a great struggle, that November day was cold and drab and dull. The chilling wind was conducive for on* to stay in doors sitting comfortably before a warm fire—but not so for those two thousand cadets who were anxiously treking toward the stadium—tdarard Kyle Field with its many banners and'tags flew number of forfeitures during the ness of a common bond that exists year. Besides the intercollegiate sports of football, basketball, baaeball, track, cross country, swimming, tennis, golf, and rifle shooting, the intramural department adds six teen sports to this list. They are: intramural football, baaketball. playground baseball, tennis, speed- ball, rifle shooting, cross-country, handball, volleyball, horseshoe participate are entering the dif- pitching, boxing, wrestlyg, intra- ferent sports as they become in mural golf, intramural track, in- season, thus allowing students the tramura! swimming, and ping benefit of all year round adequate physical training. Under the leadership of W. L. Penberthy <director of the intra mural department, the intramural department is very efficient in its organisation, records are kept of the participation of every student and their advancements, and the pong. Close watch is taken of the intramural contests and when a boy seems to have natural ability among the great family of A and M men. An outstanding feature of the organised work of the sons of A and M is the development during the past 10 years of its student loan funds. Now totalling over $100,000, these funds have made possible the college attendance of thousands of students. A and M men have been noted for “sticking together,” and this quality has proved of immense personal value to hundreds of them. To maintain that quality, to cement the brotherly and friend ly feeling among the sons of the Editor’s Nqte: This short artidle take ^was made. A young man can was written by F. M. Law, preti- get jbst about all that he needs'at dent of the Texas A and M Board that institution to prepare him of Directors) president of tie 1 for life. First National Bank of Houston. Th* Class of 1896, with which I and president of the American j graduated, will have ita Fortieth Bankers Association which ia 4$* ; Anniversary 'next year, so it will highest office to be held in the be I have been out of college banking profession. ; for a long time. Never have I re gretted my choice, and if I had it to do!over again. I would not hesi tate to apply for membership in the famous Aggie Freshman Club. —F. M. LAW When as a seventeen year ohi high school graduate I decided to go I* the A land M Oofteg* <jf Texas for collage training, no mia- New Petroleum and Geology Building in any p( the intramural sports,, institution, and to make them- he is invited to try out for the varsity spert. Some of the great est athletes of the school have been found and trained in ' this man nqt. selves helpful to their College, are the ambitions and the hopes of A and M men as expressed thru their organisation, the Association of Former Students. ■T; . v MW COLLEGE YMCA IS New Chemical Engineering Building ” A RECREATIONAL 1 CENTER AT A & M The YMCA building is sit uated practically in the heart of the campus. It is a center of stu dent recreation and is regarded as a general meeting place by every- > one. - / . j, m *• The first noor of the building contains a spacious lobby that ex tends across Che building, a chapel ^ o, ein | atry Building, erected in 1929-1933 at la coat of $500,000, with seating capacity of about 2fi0, contm j na laboratories, class rooms, administrative qffices, auditorium and the Y M C A offices. On the and 9tore for the department of Chemistry and Chemical En- second floor there is a large par nit fii llillMI once again they become part of the corps as they can no longer back their own yells—and those boys on the field, their jaws are set and they plant their toe* in the ground, they’re moving forward—they're gaining. Again •M.again they crash inte the heavier enemy—again and again they gain. The “something” that is coming from the Aggies in the stands is strengthening the nerves of the Aggies op the field. Some unseen power seems to be coming from the stands as the players push closer snd closer to the goal. Soon they are over, the goal is kicked, and when the game ends, the score stands Aggies 7—Long- boras 6. The miracle has happen- - ed snd the tradition of Kyle Field favoring the Longhorns. Sport | >• again upheld as the carets pour writers and dopesters had looked ont ') the field and carry all players forward to this game with a ques- off—both friend and enemy, be- tion in their hearts—they knew cause now they are all friends the Aggies were hard to beat on »lf*in. Again the “spirit of Aggie- their h<}me field, but still the ■••'d” has made a real showing of Longhorns had a powerful team its presence . and they did not see how anything The * tradition of Kyle Field i* short of a miracle could cause the widely known and wherever there thin red wall of Aggieland to stem ia ap ex-Aggie, the spirit of Ag- the charging line W a heavy Tex- gieland lives on. Over the yean as University team. Now the that men spend at A aid Me Longhorns were leading 6-0. They spirit grows and fuses the Student had crossed the sacred goal line body together in a fashion that ia of Kyle Field. For a second a not known at any other institu- pause had come in the Aggie yell- tion of higher learning. This spirit ing that made an ominous silence has been termed the “Spirit of cover the field. But this silence Aggieland” and everyone who has flashing of the eyes and a quicken ing of the steps of the boys in their uniforms was the only out ward evidence of the quick beat ing of the hearts of the cadets. But there was more, there was something unseen coming from these groups as they were stream ing into the gates of Kyle Field. Some strange foSce seemed to be surging out from the anxious faces that put a tenseness in the air and sent shivers down one’s spine. The whistle has blown for the kickoff and a mighty roar comes from the Aggie section as the corps yells as a unit. No wonder they have been nicknamed the "leather-lunged cadet corps.” But before long the tide of battle is The PetrolOum Engineering, Geology,j and Engineering Experi ment Station Building, erected in 1113.3, contains offices, class rooms, drafting rooms, and laboratories. | did not last long for in rapid suc cession the yell leaders Ifd the corps in yells. K-Y-L-E F-I-E-L-D, Farmers fight, gig ’em Aggies rang over the field and was followed by a continuous rumbling yelling as the leaders attended the school has felt it at some time or other to such an extent that it seems to be some thing tangible, and those who have felt it seem never to forget it, so the term has arisen “Once sn Aggie. Always an Aggie.” Agricultural Administration Building f TECHNICAL AND RE8BARCH SIDE OF ENGINEERING BEING STRESSED BV f .1 lor in which a number of club meetings are held and which ia open for the use of students and their viaitors, the studio of A and M College’s radio station. W T A W, is also located on the second floor. The top floor is taken up with rooms and apartments for professors and graduate students. In the basement there are seven billiard and pool tables and a 20 X 50 foot swimming pool. The Y M C A building also houses Casey’s Confectionary and an eight-chair, modemly equipped barber shop. The “Y” lobby ia adequately fur nished with large easy chairs and sofas. Space is provided for ping pong, dominoes, checkers, and chess; telephones are available for local and long distance calls; and a radio is provided for entertain ment. Besides several magazines, two copies daily of eight leading Texas newspapers are provided. The lobby also contains a general information desk froifi which stamps and stationery may be ob tained and outgoing mail is col lected three times daily. Three years ago the YMCA built a cabin on an island in the lake near the dairy. It is an ideal place for picnics and other gather ings. Any organisation that is do ing constructive work on the cam pus may obtain permission to use the cabin from th* YMCA sec retary- Throughout the year campus res idents desiring student labor for yard work or odd jobs list their names on the labor book in the “Y” office. gineeringi CHEUCAL ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT OFFERS PRACTICAL EXPERIMENTS AS PART DP MODERN PLAN OF INSTRUCTION “A department of teachers, whose business is the study of Muih-nt Instruction- nut merely research.”; Thus, Dr. C. C. Hedges, head ef the department of chemis try, describes the objective of his staff members, all graduates of noted‘American colleges. The Ch^mis^ry department al present is forging to newer effi ciency, wiih its modern building, better equipment, and lately ac quired facilities. Dr. Hedges be- w ell-equipped stock- 000 cottonseed oil by the Texas Cotton- ’ Association, aad a th* evaluation of natural gas are all ich help permit thor- n of stodentr «- chemical engineer- lie ves. room, a mill, givi seed Crui refinery f< crude oil features ough i chemistry Und ing. Seven graduate students are at present engaged in research in th* problems < J cottonseed oil milling, petroleum defining, vitamin study, and other pelaUd questions. On* of [the other experiments of chief interest at present) is th* mineralisation of cottonseed meal. L. W. Huebel. Glidden, who graduated last year, is in charge of this project. Ground lime, ground oyster shells, manga nese, copper, and iron are the five minerals which are separately in troduced into the cottonseed meal container, preparatory to a final manufacture of cottonseed meal. The individual meals are then ob jectively fed to white rata, and their food qualities determined. Another experiment, somewhat comparable to the other, consists in the analysis of certain mater ials, of known vitamin content, for the determination of substituent minerals. An effort Is made to correlate the vitamin and mineral content of each compound studied. Also under study, among the graduate students, are problems of the photo-cell, thermal conducti vity, and the sulphur consti tuents of gasoline. Dr. Hedges aad his corps of assistants have all foregone th* attractive rewards of research in their field, in order that they may better apply themselves to teach ing. Constant lookout is kept in the department for new teaching methods, and any expe d i * a t measure for student instruction. The last -half of thb year has seen a change iathe type of course taught by the Petroleum Depart ment. Heretofore, the course has been mainly descriptive, dealing with elementary field work, in th* sophomore work, but this semester the technical, research side of en gineering has been stressed. R. L. Mills, B.S., head the Department of Petroleum Engineering, has done well in developing the depart ment as th* science of petroleum producing has been advanced. Mr. Mills was <with the Humble Oil Company for some time. Dur ing his employment with this com pany he saw many sides of the pe troleum industry* which qualified him for able charge of the depart ment. Assistiag him in the instrocing is Dr. lonel L Gardescu, Pet. E. and Ph. D M who Is consulting en gineer for the Texas Company. It was through Dr. gardescu that Dr. Stephanescu, ChiSf ' Engineer for a Roumanian oil company, cam* to give an intending talk to the club on Roumaniasi oil production. Dr. Gardescu has been doing quite a bit of research work lately on th* behavior of gas in oil production, and has several articles in the cur rent oil periodical*. The department boasts a fine ar ray of equipment iwhich is em dis play ia the Petroleum Geology Building. The Geology Department has held quit* a few field trips this spring, on which the students pot into active use their newly-acquhr- ed geological deducting ability by eaaminidg the surrounding coun try’s bedrock formations and geo- lok'-icsl structure. The work has i>r l-'dl admirably this year. i Dr. J. ;T. Lonsdale. Ph. D., head of the Ceology Department, has given ov,er his laboratory equip ment to (the use of research work irt the historic field. The problem of thb work b to determine under exactly what conditions certain tfrpe* of fish can live, in order to more easily ascertain the climatic conditions in certain epochs of th* egrth’s ijistory, Bine* fosMIa of these fis|| are in evidence in cer tain forrqs lions. fir. F.jA. Burt. M. S.. and Dr FL B. Ste^sil, Ph. D^ assist in the instruction and lecturing, both be ing capable in their respective lin es} of work. Many interesting fossils, which of plants and animal ia the rock forma- on dbplay in the Pet- Geology Building, s- with pertain curious rocks snd ad miniatures repreaen- sections in dsscrib- of geology, ing b new, being con st riuctsd lapt year under that year’s building program. Its walb are decorated with significant fixtnres and symbols of geology and petro- InAib Thajhaseaent b devoted to mechanical laboratories. The first and second) floors comprise the lec ture and jelaaa rooms, while the third flood ia devoted to reaaarch iabora 1 .>n«s It b of modern *r- chiteetur*, : with a bluestone tower over the center. I 1 .1 1 i'l .. » The Agricultural Building, erected in 1922. contains administra tive offices for the School of Agriculture, and offices, class rooms, and laboratories for various agricultural departments. Interviews With Freshmen And Seniors Reveal Hazing Absent On Texas A and M Campus 2 After some students were questioned on the subject of hazing last week, one would draw the conclesion that hazing, using the term as it is generally applied, as an institution in A and M b a thing of the past. There were about tea seniors, mostly battery, troop, or company commanders, and tea freshmen who were select ed St random from practically every organisation on the campus that expressed themselves on the snbjsct. There has been n growing move ment on the A and M campus dur ing the past few years to dis courage hazing. Some students have been far sighted enough to believe that hazing has reUrde.l the growth of the schools since its .ii<sdvantages outweigh Rs advan tages and have used their in fluence to aid in dropping Unng from th* traditions of tbs institu tion. Contrary to the general belief, there was no baaing on the A and M campus before the war. Tha reasons for thb sm th# fact that tha whole were older and more inde pendent than the cadeta to follow them after the war. Abo at this Linve th* .school was small aad under strict military discipline. Following the war hazing became a general practice and probably reached its height about seven years ago. Since that time there has been a gradual but steady change to the pther extreme—no hazing at alL After A and M had suffered such a. decrease in enrollment in 1931, n number of changes were made to^ encourage students to , come to X and M. On* of th* first steps that was taken was to defi nitely stamp out basing from the tradition* of the students in A and ^ M. With the aid of the upperclass men, the college officials have been abb to remove hazing although some seemingly drastic measurs# were uaqd to accomplish thb act. In order to bring th* facts about basing before the people who «r* . r' - cd ia Tma A and M, tha following seniors have stated that to tha bant of their knowledge tha# « on page 7)