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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 13, 1938)
1 T- n IN THE I: r-EIGHTH YEAR COI COLLEGE STATION OFFICIALS I STUDENT 8EM1- .EGE NEWSPAPER OF TEXAS A. A M. COLLEGE TW n*+\y .fecud offidab of ColWfd SUUon at* show. abo*«. The member* in thi. croap art x sutiTJiL* G ~ r ** a wi, “*' 315 *1^ pr^ 1(1 .n,,, ike SUV TeaeWr. Aweeeieiiee, Dr. J. H. Binary. Mayor. Earnoot Laafford A. Mitekoll and LaUor Faculty Will Decide Fate Of Dead Week At Meeting, Says Bolton ' Wildlife Unit Is Conducting Research On Campus Property The Texaa Cooperative Wildlife Be—arch Cnit ia conducting im portant quail management studies oa the college property west of the railroad tracks in the general ▼ieinity of the Pastures and fields of the animal husbandry and the dairy husbandry departments. This project, ia which D. W. Wil liams, head of the animal hus bandry department, and C. W % . Sh« j Hudson, head of the dairy hus bandry departnssnt,, are cooperat ing is being undertaken under the personal direction of Dean Kyle. The fiahral plan of the project is to install headquarters areas to control and influence food and shelter favorable to quail. It is essential for the purpose of this work that the quail and other birds, as well — the animals, on this property be undisturbed. Stu dents should recall that target shooting and hunting on college property are against the college regulations. H. C. Hahn, an employee of the Texas Cboperative Wildlife Re search Unit, is in charge of this project and frequent checks of progress are being made. •e j ENTERTAINMENT SERIES TO OFFER SINGING PROGRAM Bringing a program that is different to anything that has been presented on the campus be fore, the Deep River Plantation Singers will be presented by the Entertainment Series Thursday night in (iuion Hall at 8:00 p. m. It brings j the jubilee chants, plan tation -'ipelodies, camp-meeting rimaw aad spirituals of the negro •f the 014 South, and in tfMlr pre sentation, no— of .the rhythm and character of the colored race is lost. u Opeping with an original scane, these entertainers offer a musical production that is decidedly out °f tbf •tdkmi y, Stage settings and costs rues are used to advan tage In the first part, while the later part b devoted to negro spirituals and plantation melodies. Selections from “Show Boat", “Halblu^h", “Green Pastures,” “Emperor Jones", and other fam ous negro productions am offered, whib many of the old favorites such as “Roll, Jordan, Roll - , “Swiqg Low, Sweet Chariot**, are indexed. • The Plantation Singers have been received enthusiastically by audiences all over the country. a COMMITTEE FOR COTTON BALL IS SELECTED The Agronomy Society has elect ed an arrangement committee to prepare plane for the eennnl Cot ton Wall and Style Show which b tp be hold here April 7, 1988. The member^ of this computee are E. A. Miller, social secretary, L. L. Jacobs, busisess manager, R. L. Gr««. if. B. Sheppard,'aad J. H. Robinson. The election of the cot ton ball king will*take place soon after the Christmas holidays. 'potton Ball b one of the outstanding serial events of the year and b sponsored by the Agro nomy Society. Funds derived from the bail and pageant are used to send tfcma k.!* M. students a- broad each summer for the purpose of studying production and market ing of cotton in other countries. These three students will be select ed by s —ties of comparative ex aminations whkh are to be held next spring. Billiard Champion To Give Exhibition At YMCA Wednesday There will be no such thing as an impossible billiard-shot in the College Y. M. C. A. pool hall to morrow when Chari— C. Peterson, world's fancy shot billiard cham pion. fives an exhibition of his uncanny billiard skill at A. A M. before students aad members of the faculty. Peterson, who b making his seventh annual college tour under the auspices of the A—oebtion of College AJnions, invites anyone in the audience, after hb lecture-de monstration, to “Show Me A Shot I Can’t Make”. Masters and nov ices, alike, have failed to stump hik to date, even when players in a recent world’s tournament in Chicago “framed’* a ahot they thought was impossible. The “ Missionary of Bii’i.ir, 1 -' is coming here at the invitation of the local college union, because of the entertnininjr aspect of hi* exhibition and began— of hb re putation of being able to teMh quickly the fundamentals of goo I billiards Within the last few years, the rame of billiards has enjoyed wide spread popularity in colleges, .'lube, municipal and P—k recrea tion center*, with the result that Peterson, who b largely responsi ble foe the revived interest in billi arda, is much in demand for lec ture-demonstrations. He teaches the student the art of billiards with sympathetic coaching and then takce time to good-naturedly argue with professors who Insist he can not transfer "English" to the ob (Continued on page 4) A decision regarding Dead Week may be expected from the faculty at Ha first meeting following the | h istmak holidays, Vice-President Bolton predicted today. Dean Bol ton —id he fe)t sure that the issue would bo brought before the body at its next meeting. Concealing a plan for allowing final oxhminations ten days in- stead of' the five or six regularly allowed, < Dean Bolton —id, “Just as was pointed ou( in a Battalion editorial, we most meet .yequire- ments on the number of days spent in classroom work. In view of this, I do not see how the plan of ex tending the exam period could be put into operation. The plan was submitted through the Student Forum section of The Battalion by Cadet Oolond David Thrift Dean fckdton said he believed the period nAw allowed for finals is enough because students with “nor mal” courses have only one ex amination a day under the preseat arrangements. He pointed out. however, that moat students have slightly irregular courses. The Battalion and large num bers of students have been asking for Dead Week, construing Dead Week to be the week before final examinations with major quixz.c term reports and other similar teaching techniques barred by the faculty during the period. Those interested in securing Dead Week have not voiced <-b jections to compulsory classroom attendance and daily assignment during the week. pri RNOON, DECE! IS. 1988 TELEPH01 28 December 1 Grades Show Many Flunks IN Per Cent of Total Enrollment JPassing r Less Than 10 Hours Eight—n per cent of the total enrollment of A. A M. is passing *res ting ;ten houm of study, al most two per cetti |r—tot ybrnr. —cording to statistics revealed by the Registrar's office this week. Last year only slightly ■“ore than sixteen per cent at the total enrollment was on the ten tour hst, indicating that the per- rentage of defiebnt students b on tbs increa—T - Of the 987 deficient students in the college, 88% are included in the Engineering departments, 28% “» the School of Agriculture and 11% in the School of Arts ard Soisnks. The School of Veterinary Medicine has the smallest per centage of failing students with only 1% of the total deficients of the college in that department. In the number of failing students withia a department the Engineer ing department has the highest nuiubtr, having 623 students out of • total enrollment of 2320 on the list or in other words, one out of every five students in the Ei«i- n. cring department b passing le— than ten hours. Second in number of ddficient students but third in perreiiUigii b the School of Ag’-*- culture with 280 failing students out of a total enrollment of 1814 or about one out of every sight students. Third b the School of Arts and Sciences with 108 failures in the department; whib bat b the School of Veterinary Medicine with only SI out of Its SM students failing or one out of every eleven students. Ml- MEN TO ATTEND MEETING ] IN RICHMOND T M Ifc-anj R P. Mars teller. Head of the School of Veterinary Ms«ri*i; Dr. S. }V. Bilsing, Head of the En tomology Department; and Dr. Guy Adriance, Head of the Horticul ture Department, make up the par ty tha^ will represent A. A M. at the annual convention of the American Association for the Ad4 vancentent of Science in Richmond, Va n during the Christinas holiday* Dr. Mafng is attending — the delegate of the Tex— Acad, my of Science. All three men will take an important part in the iasuunt' Won, which will consist of 22 ses sions. . ( They are 1—ring on Jan. 28. going by car to Jacksonville, Flori da, thence to Richmond. They will return by way uf Nashville, Ten nesaee, and will be back at College on Jaa. 8. On their trip the patty will make Inspection visits ef Alabama Polytechnic Institute at {JUHRb Alabama; the University of Flon da at Gainesville, Florida; Louisi ana State University at the Lout siana ’capital. Baton Rouge; and possibly other institutions. f IHL < HRISTMAS ISSUE OF The ’ Battalion Magasine will be distributed in the basement of the Administration Building Wednes day afternoon at 4:30 p. ss., it was announced today. ' NO POSSIBILITY i OF AN EPIDEMIC i WALTON SAYS There b no reason to fear the possibility of aa infantile paraly- sb epidemic,” President Walton —id today. “Four .i.Ktom have said that the case which resulted in the itre fortunate death of Jack'Puckett W— only a sporadic outbreak —d that we need have ao tear of aa epidemic,* he —id. Rumors that the school is to be P need under quarantine are false. Dr. Walton said. “We anticipate following the regular college cal- ewfeter," he stated. TBhBe - College hospital attend ants expressed the belief that f any more cases were going to de velop they would pi bably already be Obvious, they aaked that all students who develop —re throats come to the hospital for treat- KIRK BREAKS OUT IN HART SUNDAY • ’ ,'-j. . | Sunday night from 7:30 to 8:80 a f|re waa the eau— of eonskier- gna . excitment in Hart Had. Though Hart b a Ore-proof struc ture, a fire of undetermined origin broke out between the walb of “I* ind “J” ramps, causing billow* ef poigent smoke to pour from the about a yard wide between tifo wills. water-pouring by the soon got the fire under cen- However, the College Fire Department waa called to make subs It was completely put out. Th# fire trucked arrived in a few minutes, and put an end to what waa left of the bla—. A & Af REPRESENTATIVE $1 i i Mi- Fsy Randolph Wibon, above, will be the A. ft live to the Sugar Bowl Ball and Festivities to be held uunag sorar Bowl Week. Mi— Wilaon, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J.lCook Wilson of Beaumont, was selected by the A-edatiou of Former Students - the A. A M. repr. v. n? «11 \ r. represents Sngar Marvin Smith Awarded Professional Degree At [Testimonial Dinner Former A. & M. Student Conferred Degree Fori Outstanding Work in E* | A. 4 M. honored Marvin Smith, cla— of ’li, by conferrirfe upon him the professional degree of Electrical Engineering at a teuti- monial dinner held last Thursday night in Shi— Hall. Smith 'is nttn- ager of engineering, Westingho—c Electric 4 Manufacturing Co.. Pittsburgh, Pa. Smith was horn and educated through high school at Overton ind entered the study of electrical en gineering at A. 4 M., graduating — valedictorian of his el*ss with the degree of Bachelor of Scieice. Immediately after his' grpduation from college he entered the Ant- ploy of the Westinghquse C4m- puny — student ebgMMrflg^llMk association with that company ba be— continuoum. His first uoik for Westlnghcniv was in generator engineering op erations, first as a design engineer and letor — section engineer. Later he was promoted to engineer, in barge of design of the larger, al ternating current machine* of the generation division. His next ad vancement w— to the position he now holds with rhutgu sf all en- *. • 'mg activities af dm —tite' P*njr- Conferring uof the professional degree came aa a surprise at the banquet which had been planned only to honor a soecemfu) ex- stu- d«rt of the college. Dean Bolton, C. C. Hudspeth, of Ft. Worth E. C. Rack of New York and Vfeeo, and J, H. Bplfrua% technical employment. Westing house Co, each honored Smitji in talks during the dlmter. "'ben ‘‘resident \V*lton arose to end the program the professional degree was conferee*. • Dr. Walton explained that the degree b con ferred on the basis| of approved professional work shire graduation (Continued on page 4) REPRESENTATIVE FOR A.» M. AT BOWL AHNOURCED; Mbs Fay Wibon of Beaumont, attractive daughter of Mr. and Mr*, it Co4ke Wilsoa of that city, has accepted the invitation of Fresldsid t. O. Walton amd of Association of Fortneri Students of Texas A 4 M. Jo attend the Sugar Bowl events ia New Orleans from Dee. 3ft through Jan. 2 — the representative of A. 4 M. College. She will attend- the A 0 * 0 *! Sugar Bowl Ball ont Dee. 80, aad will also represent the college at all the Other events put oa by the New Orleans Mid-Winter Sports Association, including the Sugar Bowl football game petwee^ Texas Chistian University ;«nd Carnegie Tech. ‘ If i\ J. Cooke Wilson i» president ef the Wibon-Broach Oil Company, president ef Hotel B iumont, and active in other burifte** and civic affairs of the city. [ Mi—‘WOson’s escort to th* var ious events will be bderud by the New Orleans Mid-Winter Sports Association which is i managing the Sugar Bowl progra 1 #Dies At 'College j Infantile* Paralysis Pauses Death Of Junior I ditor of Bat saver ftp," mas played Sun day night in! memnry of Jack Puck- mtt > pa » [Junior editor of The Battalion, vjho died at IOJ30 p. m. 8a9B»dar i« the College hospital of infantile paraljrsb. Funeral —r- beld at Weed Funeral Home ia Austin Monday afternoon, with burial in ah Austin frmstmj. Pueksti, only Aild of Mr and M, Puckett, Sr, became ill Wedneat ay afternoon and went to the hos] ital. His condition was not thougl t —noos, however,'un til late Si turday afternoon. L *• Marsh and other phy sicians a Ued into consoltation —idvthtit because the diaea- b not •jiong students of college Jly ocean late in imer, little fear b cases here. * of the diaea— hi w— not apparent hours before his death. a ward by himeetf the time of his eonfino- •priag felt for lie Puckett's VII. IU.I to I er are relatives. •®y*d as pallbearers or guard of 28 Aggba in for the funeral. Has highway engineer, A. 4 M, aad hb moth- only surviving do— STUDENT OPINION SURVEY IS MADE ON REFUGEES BY JOB - ndentl America, The Bat BDITOR Surveys ef kt, 1988, fer f AUSTIN, Tegaa, Dee. 18 Jew- ixk Fefugbea ftuai Central Europe -nouM not be allowed to come into the i Unite* States in great number*, a large majority of eol- le^u you4 of this country belbvea, the first naUoiml poll of the Stu dent Opieion Surveys of America ruveab. In lightly more than a month Germany fh— tamed ita Jewa Into a: World have to £ tnorro of today. Tr m J4WS? should room'r a -•pp<.s<<! of Ellis These nounced ion Su one that may leaden of to rn and women the United States to the persecuted many think some id if other nations seven out of ton are < per mg wide the doors are the first an- the new Student Opbt- f% organised with The Battalion; — one of the cooperat- among college newt- tike nation. The Sur- organixa- editora, will pub- reporta baaed on nat- ■knilar to tho— of recently have been reliable. The Sur- on page 4) Aggies Turn Out For First Christmas As Guion Hail Is Filled By A Singing BY BILL MURRAY Sunday afternoon at <4 in Guion Hall waa inaugurated a new precedent at A. 4 M.—the Cadet Torpe * Community Sing to greet the Christmas aeaaon. A large au dience of Aggies and raeipus res- identa was present and puriici- puted heartily ia the siugiag. Guion Hall was almost completely filled. Before the program the Guion Hall organ p ayed a musical re minder which was broadcast over the campus — that all might hear and remember to attead| tbJ sing. At the door students presented the people entering with attiwetive four-page souvenir leaflet giving the program to be followed and the worda of the songs to be song. First on the program was Senior President Bob Adams, who gave the welcome, declaring that it waa tlte purpose of the Urogram to in- atiU the true Christmaa spirit of joy and fellowship. { j ! ^ Dr. J. J. Woolket, Glee Club Di rector, who— idea tbe Community Sing was and whq planned the program, led the sfcging. He ex pressed his wish ihmt the Sing might become an anneal custom, observed even more wtitlp. The entire audience joined in- singing to j the ac«ompani|nent of the mighty organ, s dumber of the best-known Christmas carols and larmma—*yoy to tlf. World", “O Little Tp am of Bythlehura", "O Come, All Ye Failhfal" “Hark! The. Herald Ange s^ing", and “Jingle Belb”. Cadkt Colonel Da vid Thrift gave i he Christmas <*—ttaga, giving briefly the his tory of the Christinas season and spirit He stated that hb pro- gram waa to allow tt* Aggies to r. future The H : FM ■ ■ 'j|'! j: •]' ip 4* th « tr «wu Christ- also that he hoped be coatinue<i in nil all Concert Band play- A Christmas in triage —lection blended strains from end the rus” from “Tana- Club sang “We Orient Are" and Song", and aang fine harmonv without r I—-r sure Be U«fto Yiu".|4|ii •*> the memory of Cadet Jack Fw^kett, who had rfud tbs night b^ore. The pfograa w— concluded with rv«* r yb<q y ringing tho- familiar song, “frib^jlllght*, Vpmit at Aggbluter, .ml •Home Sweet Hog—*. i \ 1