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Today’s Kditorial
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VOL. 1
PHONE 8
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, TUESDAY AFTERNOON, JUNE 6, 1939
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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
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[ 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.
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