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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (June 6, 1939)
ONT BA SEMENT The Weal her Warm, partly cloudy. LIBRARY ft fectofcti Um rf Tta C-jUw S*i*> Td< Today’s Kditorial PubHcatioM E>ATTALI ON VOL. 1 PHONE 8 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, TUESDAY AFTERNOON, JUNE 6, 1939 Z725 LARGEST Plans (or Summer Session Completed Dr. CL H. Winkler Again | ’Yo Direct Snmmer Session Three hundred and twenty-one are being offered daring iiaer session at A. A M today, C. H. Winkler, d»- of the tummer sesaion, has n announcing plans for the 1939 amer se^ion, Winkler pointed main purpose of the summer school is to for regular col- to carry on their it the calendar year; thss giriag, if a student so desires, san opportunity to complete college work in considerably leu time than the Qsqal isur years, t Tdthki end, courses are offered by nearly 'Very department of the college duihnjf the summer session. I The csUlogue for the current sum mer seasiei lists 321 courses coy bui ly- as wide a range offered during the long SUMMER ! SCHOOL TO ENROLL 2,200 STUDENTS At Dedication of Kiest Hall J A . ts. [ According to Dr. Winkler, the quality of summer school instruc- tioa is entirely on a par with that of the long session. He pointed out that the faculties of both sessions are nearly the same, plus the fact that/ there arc a number of visit ing professors associated with the summer session. Further than this, the entire facilities and unrices of the college are available to sum- m« r school students. { “The summer session enroll- Dun Winkler said, ession, is of the entire state.” He added that the ssmmer sesaion drew men and women from hearty all other Texas colleges and universities. A number oC short courses and lectftirye and Summer Entertain ment Series programs are included , in fhe plans that have been made I fer the '39 session of Last Thur^in> afternoon the key derasitory of the greup of twelve now dedicated to Edwin J. Kiest. a Member of the A. A M. Hoard of Directors fee the past twelve years. Shown above at the dedication eereweuiae are. from left le fight. F. M. Law, heard chairman; Mr. Kiest; H. C. Schehmarher. sad JaO Utay. board “as in 1939 Summer Entertainment Series SMS -1 _ j Promises To Be Biggest and Best Ever The 1939 SumoM Series, which will have more pro grams than any previous series, will get under way June 20 as Frank Speight, England's distin- *uish«*<i actor, presents a Dickens Recital in the Assembly Hall. Initiated in 1982, the Summer Series has grown in popularity and nnmtMr of summer. At first the were arranged to be held at nightf it was later decided to hold the programs (with the exception of movies) at some hour during the morning at which time all classes u that all would he could attend. The main feature ef these pro. grains is the absence of an admis sion charge. Although a charge was made in the earlier yean of the series, a provision is now made in the summer school budget which takes care |of the expense of thou programs. T Following is the schedule of the 1939 bummer Entertainment Se ries: Tuesday, June 20 — Frank Speight, distinguished English nc- 1 he\ Head Summer Battalion Staff tor who will preunt one of his entertaining Dickens Recitals. Thursday, July «—Lucile Elmore Company, a program of songs, dances, mimicry and ventriloquism. Tuesday. July 11—Salon Risk, presenting his outstanding lecture, “The Americanisation of an Tmer- ican." m Tuesday, July 18—“Marching Men of Song,” a world-fasaous men’s choir. Wednesday, July 19—“The Coa- lerer,” a motion picture given for the annual Firemen’s Short Hiru. Thursday, July 26 — I-onrur Campbell, magician. V Besides thou programs which have bun scheduled to entertain miner school students, other di versions include the softball games of Abe Twilight League. To Register Today For First Semester I I * * Approximately two two hundred students—the number nn the history of A M.—are expected to 1939 summer session, an estimate made by J. Howell. Of this total enrollment, 1,600 were expected to enroll for the first ster of the session, beginning with registration at 8 a. itu today in the lobby of the Administration Bui diag. Dr. C. A. Winkler will sqrve as director of the summer session, and all official business will be carried on thri'Uifh his office. ' Classes will begin this afternoon at 1 p. m. Friday is the lost day of regiatrstioB for credit during the first term* Four halls will be opened to the students. They are Leggett, Mit chell, Walton, and Milne*. Girls and married couples will live in Waits tv and the boys will be as signed to the other thru. Expenses tar the first susioa wiU include $12.60 for the SUtricu- lation fu, $2.00 tar the medical fee, and $8.50 for room runt and janitor service. Meals, if eaten in the mess hall, will cost $2t.60 for the six wuka period. Requirements for admis^on will be the same as <in the sion. Additional information in pact .to summer school may be ob tained in the sumrtCer logue at the Registrar’s DI KING THE SI MMKR 8ES- sion, the Collage Library will re main open each day 8 a rn until pt«on o 10 p. m. t with the excef of the period from 12 noon Saturday til S a. in. Monday. ALL SUMMER 8CH DEKIB.WHO ARE I ED IN BECOMING M OF THE SUMMER BA STAFF ARE URGED TO TOUCH WITH BILL M OR GEORGE FUERM ROOM 122. ACADEMIC ING. STl - Greeting From Summer School Director Shows above, left to right, are Bill Murray, newly-Meet ed editor-is-chief of The pottaliou tar 1939-46 and editor at The Summer Battalieu being pshliahad this summer for the first time; George who will be a Junior editor at The Battalion mags Has and newspaper dnrtng the next regular seasiei who is maaagtag editor ef the summer publication; sad Den Berk. Mhn la advertising manager of the nor paper and will he an assistant advertising manager at The Battalieu negt seseiea. The members of the admtoistrmtim* staff +nd the faculty welcome you to your .rummer school here at the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Te^as. ■ A* a group of approximately two thousand students representing every mayor college and unipeipityf in our great State, you will find that fAp Summer Ses sion provides opportunity for more than the mere mastery of two or four college courses or the acqui sition of six or twelve more credit hours. This association with ptmi fellow students all engaged «» the common purposes of preparing for ' a fuller and more useful life should prove very stimu lating and helpful to you. As in the regular school year, all the facilities of this great institution—its libraries, laboratories, shops, and other teaching* equipment—are here for the use of summer session students. We want to help you to realize in the fullest measure the goals which each of you has set for knm- eelf this summer. FRONT BASEMENT k