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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (May 16, 1939)
PAGE 2 1 *!S BAD SETTLEMENT ’ I > lUccnt adoption of tho exemption lyitem here **. wo boUoeo, deplorable. Exemptions, it ■mm to M. befit o high school moch better than a techni- col college. A§ we have stated before, exemptions are based upon the “penalty theory” of teaching. Rather than serving as an award to students who do good W0T ^» tb«y M'S rather a penalty upon those Who <k> not do so. ^ * Consider this. If final examinations serve the ' purpose of giving students comprehensive views of a coure, as they are supposed to do, then what is the logic behind taking this service—if it is a servicedrom the best students? If, on the other hand, finals no longer serve this purpose, then why should any students bueompelled to take them? In the faculty meeting which saw the adoption of the exemption system, a proposal that local specialists in education survey the real purpose of final! and that they determine whether they do folfiO a purpose was made. It is highly regrettable that no such action was taken. Nothing, in our opinion, could do more good than a thorough in vestigation, by our-own professors, of A. A M/s educational system. Back to Dead Week, for which we have worked this year, the report of a faculty committee to investigate the matter was never made public. . |j Another point to the exemption system which seems out <*f place to us is that seniors are eom- pslled to take finals in their last term, after this ysar We do not hold exemption for the last term to be a senior privilege; we hold it to be a senior The last part of each term sees A. A M. seniors starching for jobs in eompetitkhi with seniors from all other colleges. Surely they should not be akked to worry about grades at the same time they’re worrying about employment The rule making seniors take finals unless they are scholastically exempt was adopted as an amend ment to the entire exemption rule. The whole matter, not merely senior exemptions, but the entire exemp tion system, should be reconsidered by the faculty, we believe. Serious thought to the problem might change the course of events somewhat. THE BATTALION EDITORIAL PAGE ? ! • -TUESDAY, MAY 16, 1989 A few years ago, sports in the Southwest was comparatively unknown in other sedons of the country. During the past eight years, however, Southwest Conference teams have become popular attractions for intersectional ganeca throughout the country. | { • ? j Predictions are that the ItSMMQ season will be even greater, and the Uaiversity hopes atfs higher than before. This does not mean, however, that in the South west athletics is taking over the educational in stitutions. On the contrary, the educational iasti- tutiorts have benefitted by the growth of the atkleMO' departments. During them same eight years, the institutions of the Southwest have gained more notice throughout the country than ewOr before, and today they are enrolling a much greater num ber at students from other states. I Present indications are that the Southwest will soon he on even grounds with leading institutions' of other sections of the country, both scholastically and athletically. \ , —Daily Texan WC5 HKjHvva* COLLEGI ATE REVIEW In /dm Storm Trcfttfiotofy Will I] ference on the htterrela business and government of summer saasion aril travel m than SljDOO miles on their tours, A University of Tenaseaee doc tor has successfully uasd an ab dotninal fluid as a subetituli. for America’s first extensive his- blood t ip transfusions, tonr of the south-—-16 volmpsa- Hampdon-Sydnoy College ww <* founded six months before the Dp- State Urn- action of Independence was 'Ites been started by ^■Mpralstonsns. — I tailing more than 50,000 have heard programs t Wayne University speech ATHLETICS With the running of the annual conference track meet at Collage Station Saturday and the playing of the finals in the tennis singles and dou bles in Houston, the Southwest Conference and the , University all but completed one of the moat sue- i eessful of its throo decades of athletic history Only a few baseball games remain on the schedule for next week, and then each of the seven schools ‘■ will turn its attention to final examinations and thoughts of the 19U9-1940 seasons. From the time the first football game was ! played last September until Fred Wolcott of Rice sot a new 9A sacopda record Friday afternoon in' the 100-yard dash event at College Station, the seven schools of th. Southwest Conference were continually breaking into sports news throughout the country. With football, the Homed Frogs of T. C. U. were crowned by many as the national champions. The Longhorn basketball team won the conference title and received an invitation to the San Francisco tournament of the National Collegiate Athletic Association. The 1939 season’s successes of this time are largely responsible for the team’s | having been invited to play in Madison Square Garden in New York City during the Christmas holidays next season. In baseball, the Longhorn team won for Uncle Billy Disch his twentieth conference title and the fact that the team is still undefeated in conference play has won wide recognition for the Austin squad. A victory over the Philadelphia Phillies gave them national publicity as among the tope in collegiate baseball circles. At Rice, two of the country’s greatest junior stars held true to their sophomore predictions this ysar and during the next few weeks with national collegiate meets, more will he heard from Wolcott, the track star, sad Frank Guernsey, national intercollegiate tennis singles champion. Tax Robert mid’s swimmers won s tie for third place in the national swimming meet at Ann Arbor, Michigan, and the A. A M. water polo team won p national tola at Chicago. The Battalion STUDENT SEMI-WEEKLY NEWSPAPER OP TEXAS A. A M. COLLEGE ■stored as second daas matter at the poetoffice )liege Station, Tsxaa, under the Act of Gob- of March t, 1879. Subscription rates, $t a year. Advertising rates upon request - Office in Room 122 Administration building. Feiephooe Collage 8. Night phone College 899. Represented for naUonsl advertising by Nation el Advertising Service, Inc, 420 Madison Ave., New York Ciff! „ | •} ) * L. DOSS EDITOR IN-CHIEF W. H. SMYTH ADVERTISING MANAGE* lames Grits, Bill Murray Managing^Edaora Cricket, the famed English game, is a popular student sport on the Mount Angel College The University of the only department of GaeSe in any U. S. college or university Rice Institute has boon givun a whale for Ks biology Students enrolled in field SM in the Columbia University Pre-Medical Holds Annual ^ u , f • , T *. The Pre-Medical Society M its annual picnic at Senates Lakf,laot Saturday afu moott topping, ah 1 1 1 1 ‘ ■■ ■■ ' '' of the functions o0the dub BY BOB N18BET cinated by Irene (Nonna Shearer) year. Many members of the “IDIOT’S DELIGHT"—A Metro- who writing *• • member of an and Chemistry Department * tators will use “Give us s new deal” for their hot- Goldwyn-Mayer release directed by acrobatic troupe. Six years later ulty were present with their Clarence Brown, produced by Hunt Harry is touring Europe with a Dean Bolton arrived later on it the Stromherg, jnd tokw from a play m|ul<ml ^ ^ six girt, afternoon. | PADDY IN THE PADDY WAGON: Marquette h J ^ » Qd >Pe»ds the night at a hotel on Th ' r * » baseball f»teedur- UDiversity's football coach, “Paddy” DriaeoU, bved T . % frontl „ ^ ing the earlier part of the e|tor. to his nickname last week-end thereby hangs WedB- *^' Ml that Irene also arrives at the hotel, noon ^ whkh U* members of the i , but she is now traveling as a Rus- fmcul ty part.. ,paU4 along wit| the Iren6 muJ « Norma Shearer countess and refuseB to re- who attended ajfrccd 4- CUrk <***• cognise Harry. Dunag the night that it was the best picnig he •dws^ Arnold ^ ^ ls bo^M, and Irene con- Club ^ b* d in "“"t yean. Dr. Waldersee 1 4 Charles Coburn f rttft ^er identity I Ther « wil1 *>« one more meting C.pUta Klrrlta. ScWldkr.rt nl, J,o. i. 1.,., f.r M, *»** boh,—Clark Cbl. ud Norm. Modome Zinliko j C.* ou't done., ood ' , - m - S*** Cmo* hU mmtri offort* or* not enter* , , . .i.i.i.ii U Hollywood -oold rootin- to ui^. 8l».r.r'. Romuo .rent Rl „ v J call its shota as <^rall as when ^ net only boring, it is repulsive “Idiot's I MapF*' was namsd, movie-goers could pick their shows without much trouble. Never did a title more appropriately fit a show. The author of the play cannot com plain that the mo vice butchered his fine play, because M-G M allowed , LJ . In 19 id there were 1.015,000 Since Septemhcx. andieneef, to- ^ ^dustes of all U. S. educational institutions Approximately one third of higher educational institutions the U. S. are state so] nnll 1 11 led. Fifteen per cent of the fathnrs of college male students are an* gaged jin a profession. QUARTERBACK SHUFFLE: When the foot. ' haliers of Murray State Teachers Col lags trot out onto the gridiron next fall, the quarterback Is going to he a card dxpert as well as a bafl-carrier. Hare’s the plan: Coach Roy Stewart is going te equip the signal- caller with waterproof cards containing the diagrams of all af the intricate plays and defense formations When the team goes into a huddle, the quarterback Will select the next play, paas the proper card ■ 1 —« ■' ■• l - 11 ■ ■ around to each player. Purpose of the plan is to r>01?\/TI/\l r C on/ l 1?ITVIITW/V prevent confusion—but referees claim they’re going I: IvILV lILvY O aUQ IVEj V lEifV O to be making a lot of penalties for too moch time in the huddle. Anyway, the democrats should rejoice: Spec will use “Give us a new deal” for thei tleery. PADDY IN THE PADDY WAGON: Marquette I op I a good story. Caught going through a red light, he was hailed into court. He got a former footballer to defend him, H ‘ rry and here’s the lawyer’s argument to the judge: Achille Weber “Your boner, the coach glanced around, thinking he saw some backfield material and missed the light." The judge, also a former footballer, replied: “I understand the coach’s predicament. Sentence sus pended l* PALACE * LAST DAY — WED. “CALLING DR. WU)ARE THITLS. . FRL * SAtJ Confessions of a I SPY EDWARD Q. ROBINSON nuwets LIMan CM. SmSm • IM Mta. wets ■ S»~M * AMTM.E LITVAX i NEW DIXIE THE STUDENT FORUM of.the club b.'fore school is out. In which the elub. president, John Ellis, will turn the meeting the new officers for next faU. Rudy, vice-president; Allen hors, secretary-treasurer; Clarkson, reporter. - -.MARIE WILSON AHea jenkini • Johnnie Davis Prise play when shown on Broad way trod on the tees of several countries in Europe; so Sherwood Mess Hall TO THE BATTALION: Well, the Aggies now have final exam exemp tions, afid it is to he hoped that they will prov* effective. The resolution which was passed pro ^ ^ ^ . vita thot an of '** clou i. Rob<irt V***' < " n ’ court* b. exempt pro„di w • yrodc of A *r B ^ Tk“ ^1*“'- has been made up to Siam time. The exemptioas, however, are optional. The resolution will apply to seniors in the same way, beginning next ysar— unless a farther aiodificatiaa is amde. This is not the same system that we had sug- igeetedf we had recommended that the highest 25% in each section, be exempt; and we hope that seniors cah again be exempt from their last-semester finals Hke m now ^ ^ m any ^jor -hut the resolution is the moat suitable compromise Europ ^ n country. The only catch that could be obteined. It probably is far from u ^ when tht . accu!iatl()n8 » nd perfect, being just the first step toward reform in inimu4tlong were U ken out there the exam system; but trial and error should de- j ugt wmw ,- t anyth i n g left. In the show Clark Gable is pre- ttntH as Harry Van, a small-time Before the exemptions were adopted, approxi- vaudeville hoofer just back from mately 90% of the student body, it seemed, de- the World W e r> broke and out of sired them. Now, already, a large number of stu- m He tries various jobs before Goings On s< HKDl'LB OF EVENTS May -16—A. 4 M vs. Texas Uni- Baseball, Kyle Field. May 21—Reserve Officers' Ae- Senior Luncheon, It noon doctored up the movie version in order that it could be sold abroad, dfficers of the army talk in Es peranto, the “international lan guage,” and wear a uniform un- May 26, L E. Club Benefit show, Assembly Hall, 6:46 p. m. Jane 1, Junior Prom, Mess Hall, 9 m. to 1 a. m. June 2, Final Ball, Mess Hall, 9 p. m. to 1 a. m. terrame our future course in this respect, necessary improvements can be made. and Kiiv. Father G. M. A. Schoener of the University of Santa Clara was tM.first in the world to grow s black rose. HERE PLEASING P \ I PARTICULAR , H n I :! PEOPLE THE CAMPUS CLEANERS Over Exchange Store E. C. (Jeep) Oates George Fulton, B. C. Knrtaar Just aov. Jtgrs. — . -—~ , '' r~r -*■ Boh Oliver, Wayne Stark Associate Editors petroleum engineering teacher has already promis Philip Golman Staff Photographer ed) or will give so many quizsgs. make them so J. C. Diets ( irrulsUon Manager muc h harder, and grade them ao much more BowaH. 1L G. Howard strictly, that stodente will be diicouraged and will . tt». DoVIHii*. tatmU UaNM, ^ ^ ira ^ ^ TOWDAYSTAJT o, fotil. to 1«*. otuii»d tt««. ‘ Ray TrendweB , _ , rr Jnmor F.ditor L. E. Thompson Juniet Editor Bob Nisbet, A. J. Bobtaeon, J. S. (FConnar, a O. Burk, J. A. Stansell, Foster Wise, M. L. How ard, B. G. Grady, Richard Litoey An advisory council on educa- tion in the graphic arts been dente, not to mention s number of ever-skeptk»l wo ' rking M ^ assistant'in s mind- formed fay the Carnegie Institute faculty members, are beginning to “second guess” ^ Ib 0mBha h e is fas- of Technology. and are predicting that the exemption system does —- t — »■ ■ ■ . f — not have “the chanoe of a snowball in HadeV’ of working. How do we know yet? Isn’t it just a bit early to make such declarations, since it has never vrt been tried out here? There is one way We ean find out, and that is by trying the system about r i. We hope it will work! During the last couple of yean there has been an alarming slump in study and scholanhip at this college. For instance, 49% of the student body was deficient last mid-term. Not assuming by any means that we were unfailingly right, our group set out nevertheless to study the situation and see if our humblt efforts Bright not accomplish some thing, no matter how little. Final exam exemptions, as ti means of encouraging increased study and scholarship in order to attain exemptions, as well as of reforming to some extent the heartily un popular exam system here, teas just one of a num ber of thiags we thought might help out. We never stated that exemptions were bound te work; but we said that we thought they might. And we still think they oould, and would—and will, if our pre vious grading system or ratio is employed without change. What we fear and what many other stu dents fear is that many instructors, determined to retain the old exam system or to make up its . change with increased severity on their part, wifi re fuse te grant any A’s or B’s (as we heard one Mr. Latchest is NOW in the Y. M. C. A. Parlor tak ing: orders for ’The Perfect Ankle-Break Boot.” See him before yon year boots. Lucchese Boot Co., Inc. [ ; 1 101 W. Travis StrMt| Son Antonio, Texas Georg* Fuermaan, T. N. Stoder, Lewis Chevaillier. Hub Johnsoa Sport* Assistant FRIDAY STAFF Junior Editor E. A. Shields, a M. WflktaroB - Frank Phelan, H. G Tolbot, a A. Lopes, J. P. MeGarr. Jack Benfaraon. Billy CUrkaoa, L* A. Newman, Jr., Max Perkina, Alfred Fischer, James Eppler, D. K. HO, W. W. Sullivan, M. L. toward. Max Mr' mlnr. Tommy McCord. ADVERTISING SOLICITORS Friday Staff: Tuesday Staff: Adams, R. L. Davenport, 8. P. ■aaby, J. L Burk, D. G. Jenkins, J. W. Wahrla, L J. j We hav# requented that the teachers make an attempt, at least, to aee these things through the eyes of students as well as faculty memhertk Hit re peat that bequest; and reiterate our belief and hope that the exemption system will Work if the toechers cooperate with the'atndhnts as fully as is aecetaary. 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