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COLLEGE STATION,
TEXAS, FRIDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 24. 1939
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DISCUSS CADET
Joint Committee Named
Quick Solution
Nationally Font Sophs Toss
Known Band . Hll,s m lt ^ for
Will Play
Will Also Play
For Corps Dance
Tomorrow Ni^ht
i'll! n v vi t si rf a »
Chosen Cotton Show Queen
Board Position
DeVilbiHH, Fuermann,
Haines, Nisbet WIU
Seek Junior Board Pftat
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Four sophomore* have announc
ed for the position of Junior Rep
resentative oni Im Student PuWi-
eations Board this week.
Three candidates for Battalion
Editor-in-Chief and one for Senior
Representative have also announc
ed. The two Junior yell leadera will
both seek election to the position
of Chief,Yell Leader.
The annual election will be held
April 17, with April 6 as the last
dote to file intention to run. Can
didates for editorship must pay a
$2 filing fee before April 6 in
order to have their names on the
ballot.
| April 12 has been tentatively set
aa meeting date for the Student
(Publications Board to determine
eligibility pf candidates for editor-
jship.
Student* who have announces!
their intention to seek student of-
tflfean far are as follows (ar
ranged alphabetically):
FOR BATTALION EDITOR-
IN-CHIEF: ,
JAMES AiMJE- CRITZ
BILL MURRAY ' .
( HARUFi WILKINSON
This evening at 9 p. n*. the En
gineer Regiment of Texas A. & M.
will present the tenth annual En-
gineers’ Ball in Sbisa Hall Henry-
King and his nationally famous
orchestra, who have just complet
ed a lengthy engagement at The
Hawaiian Blue Room in New Or
leans, will furnish the music for
a crowd of approximately 600
people. He will also play for the
corps dance tomorrow night Within
the last two yean, King has play
ed at the Coeoaut Grove in Los
Angeles, Beverly Wilshire in Hol
lywood, the Fairmont Hotel in San
Francisco, and the Baker Hotel in'
Dallas. His orchestra offers dis
tinctive arrangements and unusual
rhythms in superb style.
Ten years ago the Engineers
(then known as the Air Corps) put
on the fint regimental ball in the
history of the school and have bet
tered the affair each year to such
‘an extent that it is, at present, re
nowned, not only for the quality
of the occasion, but for the beauty
of the girls that attend. The ball
ia given by the classes of ’41 and
’42 in honor of the classes of *39
and ’40, and, as the result of several
new ideas and a lot of hard work,
jit promises to be one of the best
’ of the year.
The ball is arranged, financed,
and managed by the sophomores
and freshmen of the regiment, and
this year they have done an es
pecially fine job of it. Thoee on the
actual operations committee, which
ia composed of two sophomores
from each of the six companies,
are: Co. A, Bryan Brown and Bob
Nall«|r; Co B, L D. Reed and
Clarence Hall; Co. C, Miller Ham
mons and E. G. Stanley; Co. D,
C. O. Watts and H. L. Blessington;
Co. E, Dan Storey and E. E. Byrd; III fl I Till) A V MEET
Co. t, Leroy Johnston and Paul In IjAlUlUlAI fflULll
FOR CHIEF YELL LEADER:
BERT BURNS
BO DIE PIERCE
FOR SENIOR PUBLICATIONS
BOARD REPRESENTATIVE:
MICK WILLIAMS
FOR JUNIOR PUBLICATIONS
BOARD REPRESENTATIVE:
I C. F. DeVILBISS
GEORGB jFUBRMANN
PAUL HilNH
BOB NIHRET
■DOUGH DOESN'T
SEE 110 CHANCE
Directors Kill
‘Dead Week’ Idea
In Wednesday Meet
Bolton Says Too Much
Emphasis Placed On
' Final Exams by Students
Dead week officially “died” Wed
nesday afternoon at a meeting of
the Board of Directors, at which
the Board decided that an institu
tion such as dead week was un
desirable at A. A M. Among the
•Vila accredited to dead week waa
the tendency of students to place
too much importance upon final
exams. Examinations are only a
small part of college work, accord
ing to Dean Bolton, and the Board
feel* that it is unwarranted in
setting aside a whole week of each
semes ter for preparations for the
finale.
Several minor changes in the
method of giving final exams are
now under eonsideratton, however.
The moat important of theae is the
possibility of allowing exemptions
to a certain per cent of tho higher
ranking students in each course
A committee from the Scholarship
Honor Society may meet with the
Board some time in the near future
to argue the question of exemptions
pro and con.
Ex-Aggie
Pleasant
With Beau
Stephens
The Texas AggMl.flrtn’t the
only ones who “did ill the good”
with the Stephens dollege coeds
who visited here recently!
Harry Stefani, an jex-Aggie xf
the class of ’34 whd'is a solicit
ing agent for the Mallory steam
ship line at its Houston headqusr-
tera, stilt hasn’t come hack to earth
since the Stephens girls passed
through Houston on their way to
A. A M.
After (he Stephen* girls’ ship
had docked, Harry canlied two bags
from the ship to the train for one
attractive student TJu- day was
hot and the bags here heavy
There were about 40 girls in the
coach where he finally placed the
two bags.
Just before he wqs ready to
leave, one of the girls thought it
vety sweet of Harry to bring the
bags all the way fnpn tho ship,
and so she told him she was going
Attorneys
ivestigate
tkaavelvts to of-
and to take action«
It both eitiea, the
city council and
ammisyon in joint
ht appointed a cam-
out a possible salu-
lem of transport*
two eitiea.
affects A. A M
than any other
Mias Ruth Gordon of Bryan has been oetorte# to reign aa Queen
over the Cotton Style Show end Pageant here April 21. BeaRHargrave
is King of the eveat.
CHEM WARFARE
BOYS UNDERGO
TEAR GAS TEST
Ruth Gordon Chosen
Queen of Cotton Bad
Wright
Each girl attending the ball will
receive either a bracelet or a pin,
, both of which will feature the in-
sigma of the Engineer Regiment
According to final plans, decora
tions will be generally the same
aa were last year’s. A huge castle
measuring 20 by 30 by 8 feet will
| cover one end of the annex. It will
be white, trimmed ia red, in three
After looking over the results
of the track meet at Ft Worth
^st Saturday, “Dough’* Rollins is
about ready to concede a victory
to the University of Texas Long
horns. whom they meet in a dual
meet here tomorrow afternoon.
I > uk! hits a right to reach for
"crying towel,” although the
The queen of the anneal Cottonf
Style Show, Pageant and Ball, to
be held April 21, has been selected
by a vote of the Student Agronomy
Society, it waa announced WeU-
nesday. She is Miss Ruth Gordon,
daughter of Mrs. J. M. Gordon of
Bryan. Miss Gordon with Beal Har
grove, selected as King, will reign
uver Aggieland during the Cotton
Pageant April 21.
Mias Gordon, who graduated
from Bryan High School in 1938,
is a member of Kappa Kappa Gam
ma aorority at Sophie Newcomb, a
division of Tulane University where
she ia enrolled aa a freshman.
Beal Hargrove, who as Cotton
King, will share honor* with Miss
Gordon, ia from Troy, Texas and
ia president of the Agronomy So
ciety.
The annual Cotton Style Show
and Ball ia always on* of the out
standing social events of the yfear.
Proceeds from it will go to finance
the trip of three outstanding agron
omy students to Europ/for a study
of all phases of the cotton industry.
dimensions, and will feature an Aggira won’t finish aa badly as he
effective indirect lighting system,
The Steers have Gilly Graham,
who will probably toes the javelin
shout 818 feet tomorrow. He is as
[good as you will find anywhere.
Steen will take a fint in the
jpole vault with Beef us Bryan going
at’ something over 18 feet On
SENIOR RING
CONTRACT MADE I
The A. A M. Ring Committee ^ . . . _ . . _ _
has awarded the senior ring con- thf 0<h ' r h * n ' !;l " 1 0>< ' , ‘
tract for the years 1940, ^ptewood, great spmt and hurdle
and 1942 to the Josten Jewelry Co. I 8 ** r * ** * hle run
of Owatonna, Minnesota, pending <* * 1 injury. This would
submission of acceptable samples.
The ring committee is made up
of Registrar J. E. Howell, W. L.
Penberthy, Col Ike Ashburn, and
C. B. McQuillen. Students on the
committee are David Thrift and
Bob Adams, aenion; D. Varner
and Tom Richards, juniors; Jack
Bailey and Preston Bolton, sopho
mores.
Bidding for the ring contract
were the Star Engraving Co. of
Houston, the Chns. Elliott Co. of
'VMMfctpRia/tbe Hrrff Jones Co
of Indianapolis, the Balfour Co. of
MaMadMaalfk! and the Josten
Jewelry Co. cf Minnesota. The lavt
named firm gut the contract.
The riagi jVftl be cheeper under
the new contract price.
leave the Aggies with first* in
all ef these MNM.'
steward b.ut "Red” Cecil in the
dashes at Ft Worth last week, hut
Cecil has been working under heat
this week tad he may be in just the
shape to Uke the Texas runner*
tomottUW.I
Hughes, also of Texas, may tos*
the discus about 163 feet for *
first, but the Cadets a»ay uke
both aefond and third.
Iita dual meet the Aggies have a
good chance of winning because
they are balanced. It ia the meets
in which several schools are repre
sented tha| hurts the Cadets. A
team wilb a few speeialisU who
are cinches for firsts is the one
that wins the big meets. * -
FAMOUS ART
PRINTS SHOWN
HERE YESTERDAY
j' A hundred museum prints, re
productions in color of famous
paintings which hang in American
and foreign galleries, was on dis
play yesterday afternoon and even
ing, on the fourth floor of the
Academic building. Students, fac
ulty members, and townspeople at
tended the exhibit
The prints are remarkable h
their coloring, which closely re-
aerabies that of the originals from
which they were copied. The list of
pa i nters. wprsssnted included such
artists M Correggio. Da Vinci,
Raphael, Holbein, Rubens, Van
Dyek, Rembrandt Murillo, Velas
ques, Corot Millet Pouaain, Wat-
tesu, Gainsborough, Reynolds. Tut
•eg, and many others. The pictures
are mouated on white mats and are
twelve by fifteen inches in site.
At 7:30 a short lecture was giv-
A. & M. MEN TO
LEAD CONVENTION I
OF MAMMALOGY
The American Society of Mam
malogiats, an international organi
ration of persons interested in the
study of mammals, will bold its
twenty-first annual meeting at
Baton Rouge, Louisiana, April 3-7.
Dr. William B. Daria, Professor
in the Department of Wild Game
at A. A M. and the Corresponding
How would you like to enter a
tent filled with tear gas? Probably
you wouldn’t But the boys of the
Chemical Warfare Battalion are
doing it deliberately during their
nrut drill periods this week.
The purpose of this test is to
give each sophomore and fresh
man confidence in his gas mask
and the protection it affords him
against tear gas or ehloreeetophe-
none. The boys first enter the tent
without their masks and remain ex
posed as long as they can stand
it; then they sling their masks
and remain in the tent fer a while
with them on to insure them that
their mask is protecting them.
Tear gas ia a non-toxic gas and
ia harmless, but it is a.lisry im
portant part of Chemical Warfare
defense and offense.
to reward him with: a good-bye
kias.
Now, one of Harry'b duties is to
create good-will for Ipa company;
so after S few seconds of silent
meditation, he realised that there
was no possible way he could
gracefully get out of kissing the
attractive brunet good-bye. By the
time he had finished ikissing her,
the other 39 girls decided that they
had *lso better kiss Harry good
bye.
When Harry finally stumbled
out of the coach, h?- face had
enough rad on it to paint a circus
wagon. But Harry wy all smiles
He said that Shepens College ia a
wonderful institution.'
Mayoi
Are to
After pi
feet ragula
which will
College gi
the Bryan eit;
session last ni
mi tie* to worl
tion to the pi
tion between
The prohlei
students
group.
Mayors J. H Binney of College
Station and EjE. Yeager of Bryan
and City Attorneys J. Whedkr
But* of College Sution and F L.
Henderson of l}ry»n Were named on
a committed to study the possibility
of creating a transportation mon
opoly in order to be able to regu
late operations of the company! in
the interest of the passengers.
The cbmmittee is ho' report is a'
second joint meeting in the near
future.
Appearing before the joint Ses
sion in an effort to explain the
viewpoint of A. A M. students and
to point out the seriousness of the
transportation problem now were
R. L. Doss, Battalion editor-in-
chief, and James “Hymie” Cfitx
and Bill Murray, managing editsra.
The stated that an insufficient
number of taxicab* are now ope*qt*
ing between the eitiea and that the
cabs are not now regulated enough
to'protect passenger*. Allowing too
many passengers ia cabs and not
checking the vehicles for rnodasn-
ical defects were cited as bad fea
ture* of the problem.
Members of the governing bodies
appeared very interested in the
students’ viewpoint, it was re[K>rt
dil.-
Texas U. Prof Will
Speak Here Tonight
“Recent' Advimcemont* in Min
eralogy and Crystallography” will
be the subject of a lecture to be
presented by Dr, Dupcmn McCon
aril of the Department of Geology
of the University qf Texas at
A. A M. tonight at 7 JO in the
lecture room of'the Petroleum
Geology Building. Dr. McConnell
is also scheduled to lecture Satur
day morning to geoldgy students
C. /. A. Girls To Be
Here for Soph Ball
41
if
plans were made for the 11
ball, which ia to be held
at a meeting of the
dais officers and rep-
Tuesday night in the
T. S. C. W. sophomores
down for the ball; they
_ arrive by bus Friday after-
charge of the program, announces ^ ^ Bun ,, Q Oommittee, has
that this meeting will be of par
ticular interest to Texans.
Dr. Walter P. Taylor, Leader of
the Texas Cooperative Wildlife
Research Unit, and Vice-President
of the Socieety, will act aa chair
man of a symposium at which the
animal life of Texas, Louisiana.
Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Alabama
will be discussed. Dr. Daris will
discuss the problem of increasing
the Texas bighorn, one of the
rarest game animals in Texas. Mr.
Dan W. Lay, a graduate of A. A M.
who is game manager of Region I,
with headquarters at Beaumont,
Texas, will discuss the economic
«n, and tea was served by the Cam- importance and management of
pus Study Club, which secured the
exhibit from the General Founda
tion of Women’a Clubs, Waahing-
m, D. C., Small donations were
accepted at the tea to defray the
shipping coets involved in bring
ing the collection to College Sta-
the opossum, the most important
fur producing animal in Texas
A feature of the program will
be motion pictures of the big game
animals of Canada, the rare ele
phant seals which opeur akmg the
west coast of Mexico, sad the
aaisnal life of Labrador.
Comparison of
First Semester
tirades Completed •
In a comparison of the first se
mester grades, the senior project
house! ktudeata made the highest
percentage of B average grades or
better, according to an official ea*
timats made in the'registrars of
fice on March 10 The senior day
student* placod second, and the
junior day students place third.
Among the freshmen, the dormi
tory students took first place ia
the highest percentage of grades.
The day student* placed second and
Oie project house students took
third.
The percentage of the sophomores
ran the same as the freshmen.
In the junior class, the day stu
dent* were first, dormitory stu
dents second, and the project house
students third.
a list of these girls in his room at
209 Bixsell Hall. Sophomores wish
ing dates with thae girls can go
there and arrange for one. The
list of the girls contains their
post office box number, their
height, their weights and their
complexion.
Propositions for a tea dance the
Saturday afternoon following the
Gall were rejected by* the Student
Activities Board; so \nere will be
no tea dance. L
All classified scrapr* are cor
dially invited to thalball. If they
wish, they can keep their dates in
Leggett Hall, which itill be vacated
for the dance.
Preston Bolton, chuirman at the
Decorations Cbmmitfce, armour*-
ed that elaborate dpcorationa are
being made for the 6all. The Ag
fieland Swing Band'iwfll play for
H-r
f
Woody Bell, former Aggie base
ball star, has been 'sent to San
Antonio of the Texaf^Leagut. Beau
Bell, a brother of Wpody »nd
formerly of A. A is'with fhe
St. Louis Browns, r
FENCERS LEAVE
FOR FORT WORTH
MEET TOMORROW '
The A. A M. Fencing Club will
go to Fort Worth tomorrow to de
fend the Southwest Fencing League
Championship in the final meet of
the year against the Moody Chib
of Galveston. In preliminary meets
both clubs have won twelve out of
fifteen matches.
Last year the club returned aa
''champions for the first time. This
year the club has been outstanding
in all meets including the lecter
ns lions! Mardi Gras Meet at N*W
Orleans. In this meet the meaajbera
competed against many; Olympic
and National Champions from the
U. S. and countries of Europe and
South America.
Approximately 109 fencers from
the Southwest will tw preaeaf for
finals in tha. individual eontest*
to be held Suhday in the lobby of
the Texas Hotel. Teams to be
Buy lor Unjver-
T\ Los Verdegos,
Club and also
the affair.
~
Many prominent
highway engmeerin|f will be
authorities
the A. A M. campus
way Engineers Short Course to be
hold here April 6, 6, and
on
for the High-
7.
rtty, Dallas
Si M. U. F.
the Moody
Club Cai
will be
with the A.
also be
in League
? H
Goodstein in
es, as Is' Jim
match,
team and
A M. Club*.
Alvin GoodRtein
his last matches
M Club and will
a perfect record
for the year,
expected to back
and sabre match-
in the epee
ixtriuipate in
tehee in
clude W. A. Franks, Don Rose,
John Baird, Watty dements. Bill
Swigert, and Le Roy Everett
—
Ex-Aggie Charles
James Killed in
Fall From Derrick
Charles O. James of Houston,
who attended j A. A M. until the
-pnig term i ( 1938/man killed
late Monday afternoon when he fell
MM feet from the top of an oil
derrick in HoUma, Louisiana. Jam-
«*» the only son of Mr. and Mrs. R.
C. James of Houston, was a stn-
deat in A. A M. from the fall term
in 1936 until midterm of 1938
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