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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 6, 1939)
-U 1 ' 'A ( ' IN TMlftHlRTY-EIGHTH YEAR Entertainment A Series to Brin; Orchestra Here The Entertainment Seriea will present the Hooaten Symphony or- theetra in a concert in Gnion Hall Monday nifht, Jan. M, at 8:15. Thia will be an added attraction tainment aeriea thia year The orchestra consists of 6b members, 9 of whom are women, and is conducted by Ernest Hoff man, formerly conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Hoffman, a native-born Amer- and a graduate of Harvard, has also conducted orchestra* in Berlin, Munich, Vienna, IMmLu Poasn and other European cities. Members of the orchestra will eat in the Mess Hall with the students, one member to each table. ; A tribute to fiavid Gnion, son of the man for whom Gnion Hall was named, will be the playing of twq numbers whoch were arranged by Gnion, -Arkansas Traveler” 'and "Deep River" Also included on the program will be "Bolero” by Ravel. The program will not consist of "brag haired” music, according to Hoffman, hut will include clhssic, military and tradi- STUDENT SEMI-WEEKLY NEWSPAPER OP TEXAS A. AM. COLLEGE COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, FRIDAY AFTERNOON. JANUARY 6. 1989 TELEPHONE 8 1 AGGIES ARE AGAIN UNEMPLOYED | Many Aggies bans hoped to _ cure Jobs working on the eonstrurt- iun of the new dormitorita, but up to now those who have bdnf em ployed resigned after the first few days. I Daring the holidays while most df the students ware home 11 Ag- C m were employed. All of these < over 21 years old and in good physical condition, and had done inaatal labor in the oB fields last Eleven of these men were set to wort digging ditches and laying foundations eight hours daily with no br,*aking-in period, Man’s School? jYeah, But jL & M. Has ■ A Woman Graduate In Mrs. L B, Locke to the list of events on the Enter- and the eleven working under those condition* quit within u few days. The other man was working in the offiee, and will probably continue there, 'j t The construction superintendent stated that) he was ready to employ students If they could work as hard as anyone else he could hire, but since all the men bad to work fast and furious to have the 18 buildings completed before September 1, be couldn’t afford to take time out to break students in gradually. 1 1 v , | mt TEN A. A M. SCIENTISTS AT-] tended the 103rd meeting of the American Awootokon for the Ad- raneement of Science in Richmond, Vs., Dec. 27 to 31. Those attending Dr. R. P. Marstellel, Dr. G. W. Adrians*, Dij. !P. J. Talley, Dr. S H. Hopkins. Ur. J. H. Qu.sen- benji Dr. A. Sehipr*r, Dr. E. E. Brown. Dr. S. 0. Brown and Dr. ! S. W. BQaiag. Strange Stuff Called English Comes From Some Students' Pens "Although I am takiag an Engi- neering Course in College, I do net hope to had a wild Ufa,” Such Is the low estimate of the average engineer’s morals an Eng lish instructor here * A. * M. found grpreumd on one of the freshman English themes he whs grading. But that is only one of •everal t house ads of mistakes sad unusual statement* ofteA, auuOS- ing, frequently disheartening— found each year by the instructors of the A. A M College English De partment on the papers they grade. These are largely, but by no amahs exclusively, mistakes of freshmen If you think the sentence quoted shove funny, Just take a look at these other words, sentences, and phrases found by the teachers on the papers they have graded: "Hie ideas are well shaped to gather in way of putting forth his 1 ideas of criticism but be has little or no proving statements."—A bit of intellectual morqss. "Woemen are funny." “After wearing the shoes exact ly three times, the souls broke loses from the canvas. But I cos- tribute this to u fault in the man ufacturing, sad by no means a fault of yours."—By a senior., ! "People are mads to buy high priced products when they could buy cheaper articles that are bet- , j ^ .. tor for them, although they may not smell as go.>d or be as highly flavored." | ‘ "PNsilut a uniform in high school military saved my mother a considerable amount of money." “One objective of military ae|~ ence at A. A M. U to make prepa rations for the most intellectual fighting unit this country has ever seam" "Transitory sentence—The kind written by our students." Levels of language usage: "Vul gar: 'What the hell is going an around hers?’" "Gossamer—A perron who talks a lot" "Graduates of A. A M. literally make the world turn by their ener gies which are devoted to worth While things.” "A more stricter fugitive law was pass." "After waiting half an hour for a quorum. Urn oairman called the meeting to odor.f “Marco was stspied. Princess was a honey.” Aggie tragedy: "During C. Q. the wrong kind of roommate will '»a.i Western stories or literature, whivii distube others but the Wife of Assistant FSA Secretary Got Her Degree Here BY BILL MURRAY • She Is an Aggie! Strange as H may seem, that stateaieat css he correctly ap- purd to Mrs. L. R Locks, sec Kvrhn ( rtwford. the only woman ever to b* graduated and awarded a degree at Texas a. AM. Evelyn finished Bryan High Scbeoj to 1918. la high school she wis a star basketball play er en the girls’ team. As a "fish" she attended C. L A- in Denton, daring the school fnal |1918>19. The next year she attended the University of Texas, and from J929 to ’» she taaght in the rural schools of Brsioa Cousty and the dty *rhooja of Bryan. ‘ ’ Daring the school year of 1984-25 Mrs. Locks attended A. Ai jf Though college em- ployees* daughters had pre- nous|> been allowed to visit riaaaee. they had never bees officially enrolled At the time Mrs. Locke was hers, however, that rale had been changed ae that girls whs wars relatives of college employees migh reg- tetor, and some eight er ton were xtudenta. However, Mrs. Locks was (he only ana af this group ever to complete her jvarit and graduate hare. She took a courts in Liberal Aria, toajmiag in English and miaor- ■itjia Education Mrs. Lochs, sew residing in Bryan, has two children « twelve-year-old sou and aa jMght-yesr old daughter. Her eutire family te strongly “Ag- «!«■ miaded", Mr. Lscfce, no» V*»Hi*<tant Secretary uf the For mer Students Aauaciatten. at tended A. A M. for • time. His wife’s brother, C W. Craw ford, who is sew head af ear Mechanical Baglstoring De partment, was graduated from this institution and gut Us Bachelor and Master of Sd- Distinction Will Undoubtedly Hold Its Place Forever brother, John M. Crawford. M. D. did his Pre-Medical work here sad was awarded Ms At of Mrs. here. She new has a nephew, Robert 8. Crawford Jr. fTT Coast Arifltery) who te taking • Pre-Law course. And her yoang aoa is planning to cow- tiaae the family tradition. Mat Mrs. Leeks’s disUnrtiea of being the only woman ever to grsdaate here b a aniqae one. sad la likely to be a long- li'cd one. for by court decision id 1984 the A. A M. Beard of Ihrectora was empowered to ci.-ride who might be admitw-d as students of the college. Its dedaioa was that in the fatare only mate stadeats might he enrolled far the regular sea- (ieolo^y I > rofs Attend Association Meeting Dr. 3. 8. Goldkh and J. F. Smith Jr, of the Geology department re- turned this week from New York where they attended the fiftieth anniversary’ meeting of the Geo logical Society of America which held ite aanual meeting during the holidays at the Wolorf-Antona Hotel b New York City. Whije at the meeting Dr. Gol- dich presented a paper before the Minerglogical Society on “Perth- the Canadian Provinces and Profeasor Baker, head of the Geology department at A. "A jM. College had two papers rend by title befort the same so ciety. \ Ateq while attending the meet ing Dr. Goldkh visited Harvard UnhraMp and nude an exami nation of thA Geology department there.; “Bullet” BiUy Goes To Pittsburg Team “kitet” Billy Patterson, famed passed of Baylor for the paat three; year*, hat been traded by the PUteburg Porates to the De- troit lions in exchange for two seasoned pro atari the Pirate coach yesterday. n’s las fete waa to pass the Wa*t All-Stars to a thrilling 14-0 victory over the All-America cast of AU-Ctars from-the East on "B wl Day”. Patterson's last feat was to pass combined make the worth of Pat terand are Ace Gutowski, former "They spent most of the time star St Tulsa University, and Ver. discusting their sodal and Intel- non Huffman, former Indium (Continued en page 4) star, ifioth are buekfield aros. Dead Week To Be Settled In i Next Few Days : Bolton Saya Faculty K WM Meet Aa Soon Aa I, It Can be Got Tnfwthcr Tim fata of Dead Weak will be known within the new few days, it was teamed today with the an nouncement from Dean Bolton that a faculty meeting will bo bald “u soon as K is possible to get the entire group together." Dean Bolton said bsfara the hol idays that he expected the Demi Week issue to come up for dis cussion and to be settled at the next faculty meeting. Dead Week plans as outlined by students interested in securing the re-instituting of the system, her*, call far elimination of major quis- sea and term reports during the week immediately preceding Anil examinations. Enrollment Group Meeting Today The Student Enrollment Com mittee will meet in Registrar K J. Howell’s office this afternoon at 4 o'clock. The main discussion will cantor around ways and msans of increas ing the student enrollment in ord er to fill the new dorms that will be available for next year's ses sion. The committee is paricularly fa- teres ted in making an attempt to •ocure the better type of student in the program which will be launched thia spring, Dr. Dan Rus sell, chairman, said. Conservation Is Topic for 2,100 More than 2,100 Texas ministers will make conservation the theme of their sermons on Sunday, Jan. 8, according t* Dutch Hohn, soil Wd water conservation specialist with the Extension Service here. The sermons will marke the first stage in the Soil and Water Con- nervation Week set for Jan. 8-14 by Gov. James Allred ia bis proe. la motion af Dm. 30. Many county agents have plan ned conservation tours and ter racing demonstrations especially fbr town people, according to Hohn, and some 812 service clubs and sim ilar organisations hava signified their intention to make conserva tion the subject of their weekly jnasringl,' With speakers drawn from the ranks of county agents, soil conservation technicians and teaehars of vocational agriculture. Hubbell Will Draw $24,000 This Year Lame armed or not, "King” Carl Hubbell, southpaw pitching ace of the New York Giants will draw between 822,500 and 824.000 for his services this year. The Giants’ front offiee khs 24 in the announced that the Hub’s signed contract had beet that there would able to finish the 1988 season. During the later pari of last paralleling Hubbell's arm went dead rates by had his elbow operated on and very pessimistic about his pitching ranis age for this season. BRYAN(T) 709 BUT ANNIE DOESN’T LIVE THKRK- AND NEVER HAS! Annie doesn't live there any more —the CHy Warehouse and - Shop doe*- ■ Aggies who have bora calling Bryan 7W wMlk sounds very much Mbs Bryant 706—have met with disappointment and at times with severe rebdMn. The number cotoes from the cur- rently popular tone, "I Meat See Atodej Tbuight," , whkh can ha tlHjrd at almost every "spot" in Braxos County, ft* line causing nt ” the trouble ia enough to ward df h For a white, those the inquiries w^re Bryant 709^ it aound dear 4wn.al.lM trouble. the latest tsed, but reported is an answer something like, “Hell, no, Annie doesn’t Irw here and-Mtep has" came back.). Fortunately foif the Bryan firm, telephone employe* report, most of the "prank cals" are made late at night when I ho body is at the AT A MEETING <'F THE PRE- Law club to htf held Monday at 7:30 p. m. in the Petroleum Lm- t:ire room, probable Democrat*- an0 tonMiout raddMktoe for president in 194# will be discussed by club members THE CHEMICAL KNGINKKR ing Society will meet in the Chem istry Lecture room Friday at 7 p. m. to hear a dirou**"'!! of wort related to cheia^try. Artis from Silvertdn, morning as a White waa iz the ^oftege Hospital at the time o Mg An "A" C4( was 17 year Mra. Finlay Funeral aeUera jirhkh will hh in charge of Sato era-MeCuDoogh Funeral Hon « of Iryan were not complete at praplUme. White ban been aince 10:86 The death ond among Puckett died fantite paralysis. His troop that White rttuntod to Oftttege 01 after the bqUdayi and almonl hn- ’cp , '>rte« to the White had drived 500 hia homo A. A M.’| Ban<i will play nt the B W. Le# OTkan- i Dec. 17, H was team- Two Out Of 1,000 College Si Have Syphilis, Survey Re its Blood teste of 7MB8 undergrad uates in more than 500 American collegea indicate that 8 out of tv, ery 1,000 students examined are infected with syphiHs, according to a report issued Lday by the American Social Hygiene Associa tion, Thia rate ia practically the same as that of non-eoltage young I>eople of the stone age. These find ings are.feNorporated in n study prepared by staff m. mbera of the United States public Health Ser vice fer the ninthly Journal of the American Social Hygiene As sociation. The rata of infection for the general population in the age group 18-19 years, bafed on estimat. * of the Publk Health Service issued in November, 1938, is about 1.8 per i.ooo The spp«irntly higher sol- lege rate reaulte from the inclu* ion ef an unknown number of stu dents in hiebto age groups up to in higher a the prasrat i Other findings ef the recent our- i received and vey show an indie*ted difference be no change of about 18 pbreent teas syphih* hi* check although he was un- among college women thaw among men, a difference, H may be noted, nationwide prevalence There ia also * oa him. During the winter he has slightly lower rate among college women than afnong group at MAJOR LEAGUE DISCUSSION ■ i TELL OF MUSICA GUN RING difference is fhown, ■■of the large. Little States and the wHkihrg* student bodies. Blood gives at entering "TTt* of these i Bated »rroup between the 816 in this • cent, testing testa. already 89 actually testa aa aj ska! IpBOflj schools, large ed not mors total et schools, while both ment group (, sideration. m tine met! tkaBy positive ed by the The number given « eoDegra; grant hi the ag« and 19. O* of participating It or ever 40 per- facilitiee for thooe giving ve teste an n rife 11 perorat— schools -gave | part of the phf- tested in aD of the enroll- »> par I.ooo found to be the muabe of found in km, then, P««« 4) MATE J the woridchampion New YorkYinlweA. . W Alir^l ShrigTe J ^ftt^Mexfcnn comu^h Cr Q» in ' manH ^ er of &nd Joe iMeCart »«s;tta«»«aRr£gt Ssjassuswsr ss&saa sgvsrs! 5 ’ - (left) end Evelyn Hopping, iK)t^ 18, who discovered they were Burke, a sal en man, on’bigamy charge;' manager ofl ........ abproached in an ^tur^CchnMmS“ d the ssim nun and dSCTSSlS different^ .boot the nutter »d Wled ai-yeu-^ld 8^3