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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (June 16, 1939)
* Turn Co^e The Weather Fair and Warater Today's Editorial Tl« : Ho Hi _ VOL. 1 PHONE 8 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS. FTUDAY AFTERNOON, JUNE 1«, 19^9 Z725 NO. 2 SENIOR EXEMPTIONS, WEEK EARLY FINAL REVIEW, RULED 10 Big Short Courses Slated This Sumnwr}^"^ “ Cottonseed Oil Session Is First Beginning Monday Ten bif short courses have been scheduled for this summer session. , fPhe first bus already taken place —the State Veterinary Medical As- sMx iatioji convention. June • and f.j Next Monday through Friday will take place the Cottonseed Oil Mill Superintendents Short Course, under the supervision of Dr. C. C. Hedges, head of the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engi neering. One hundred seen are ex- [h* ted to be on the campus to at tend this course. 1 jThird on fhe list is the County ‘ WpMiamndenu sad Supervisors Conference, June 36 through 29, under Deun T. D Brooks, head of Mis School of Arts and ScieMSS} and fourth is the Texas School Ad ministration Conference, June 37 * through SO, under W. L. Hughes, head of the Education Depertaaent. Other short courses following these are the Farmers’ Short Course, Junior Division. July 6-7. and the Farmers’ Short Course, Adult Division. July 13-14; i the Firemen’s Training School, July 16- 31; Mm Farm Security Administra tion Conference. July 31-August 4; the Air Conditioning Short Course, July 31 and August 17-13; and the annual Short Course for Coaches, jjfaMisfc IflMA Frank Speaight, Distinguished English Actor, to Be First On Enterainment Series Next Thursday Newest Building Project Frank distinguished resent one of Week Before Exams Seniors Exempted; Exams Provided 1‘irturrd shove is the foundation recently laid far A. A M.’s newest building project, the S26.00« American Legion cooperative project house being euuutructed In the arcs Just north of the present fifteen campus project houses. It will he occupied next regular ■issiau by sous of American Leginuusires. The South Texas district of the American Legiua lately held its district conrenUon ia Bryan. Lai “Fro£ ,, l Wtdhwani, A True Aggie, Succumbs to Death After Long Illness A streptococcic infection of the heart last Friday prevailed in an eight month battle for the life of an Aggie, and Saturday last rites Mum h*ld for Lalchand H. (“Lai*') Wadbwsni. 34. of Hyderabad (Sind) Ihdla. Since his entry at Texas A. A M. College In 1936 Wadbwsni had been known as “Frog”, the appellation at first-year students who enter A. A M. at mid-testa. Wsdhwani. u transfer from John Tarleton, liked kis nickname so well that he insisted upon retaining it even after he b me a sophomore. Stricken last October, Wadhwani’s Hindu stoicism with an ad mixture of Aggie spirit amased physicians, who held little hope tor his recovery fraaa the Inception of the illness. Aggies responded with s will when dieters called for volunteers to give blood fur transfusions for the popular dark-skinned fellow-student who so willingly had conformed to regulations and restrictions pi on new students at Aggieland. A iloxen blood transfusions prolonged the Indian student’s life; and injection* at sulfanilamide reduced his fever to normal from 106 degrees, bringing renewed hope for ultimate recovery; hut since Easter Sunday little hope had been held. ••Frog” Wadhwani knew death wsa near, and hia last request to Mrs. Irene “Mom” Clsghom, beloved Aggie hospital “mother” for 20 years, era# to he taken eutaide the college hospital to see the Aggies march tot the last time on his birthday May 23. This request was granted, and H was only then that “Frag” Wsdhwani allowed the little Christmas tree, placed in his room last December by the A. A M. / Mothers’ Club of College Station, to be removed from the table beside Ins bed. . ; .*! • Following funeral services by Rev. Norman Anderson Saturday, the body was taktm to San Antonio for erssnation; and hia ashes are to be returned to India and his father, Hotchand G. Wsdhwani. a government official at Hydemhud Another Aggie.'D. H. Bhawani. graduate student, of Hyderabad, will convey the remains to Hyderabad personally within a fortnight. Summer Directory Is Issued With Battalion J i L 1 ' Today is being tesued the com plete faculty and student directory of nil those ut A. A M. for the first ■star of the 19B9 summer aee- skm. Included are the total enroll- t of 1.367 students. 200 In structors, snd all the administrative officers of the collage. The directory has been prepared and is being issued to subscribers with this copy of The Summer Bat talion, with the compliments of the staff. All those not subecribi to the paper may get their copies of the directory at Room 136 Ad ministration Building, at 1# cents s copy. Or they may obtain n free copy of the directory by subscrib ing to The Summer Battalion, the rates being only 28 cents far the first semester or 80 cents for both semesters. The Summer Battalion will he is sued each Friday of the sumn ion from now on. It was not ed Friday of last week, i first week of summer school; In stead, free introductory copies were distributed to the students register ing Tuesday of last week. Speaight, English actor, will his entertaining Dtokens Recitals Thursday, mom lag at 10 o'clock. June 32. In the Asssenbly Hall. Mr. Speaight’s reputation as an actor is of the highest type. His recitals on other college campuses have won the ardent praise of stu dent bodies in Europe as well as In America. He pos*»■**♦» the rare gift ef being able to carry his audience to the depth of pathos on* moment and swing It bade to mirth tbs next instant. ’< Early in his career Hr. Speaight decided to specialise in the works of Charles Dickens. The unusual appeal of Dickens is surpassed by no other author. The rollicking hits of laughter in “Pickwick Papers. ’ the intense drama In “A Tale of Two Cities,” the lovable story of Little Nell, snd others make up 6. program which delights every au dience. Mr. Speaight’s stage ability makes any character a live, real, person whether it be an old man, s young girl, or a gaunt horse, as in “Pickwick.” Press nstiees of p< aiae snd com, mendation on Mr. Bpnaight’s per formances are abundant. B. L. Perkinaon, President of Mississippi State College, expressed as fol lows his student body's reaction to the actor’s perform****: “As an actor snd s lecturer, we have not his superior in years. Dick- characters actually came to life and marched serosa the plat form for an hour and forty min utes. snd still the audience asked for more.” Special GRADUATION EXERCISES WILL BE HELD ON FRIDAY AND FINAL REVIEW SATUR DAY. ONE WEEK BEFORE THE END OF THE REGULAR SES SION; ALL SENIORS WITH PASSING GRADES WILL BE EX EMPT FROM FINAL EXAMINA TIONS. AND SENIORS WHO ON APRIL 1 LACK NOT MORE THAN TWO SUBJECTS MAY TAKE SPECIAL EXAMINA TIONS IN ORDER TO GRAD UATE ACCORDING TO NEW REGULATIONS JUST ADOPTED BY THE EXECUTIVE COMMIT TEE OP A. * M. A senior who ea April 1 lacks OFFICIAL NOT BCE The Summer Bchssl sad the eler icsl staff of the College will serve July 3 us a betid*y instead ef July 4 —THE PRESIDENT mathematical chance to graduate at the end of the semester, may b* allow ,.<1 a special examination in each of two suHJeets taken snbse- (jurat to his junior year. Such Special examinations are to be schednlsd on designated Saturday afternoons sheet May 1. Classes far candidates for grad- astlsu will clear ea the second It < d aday preceding the dees ef the mien, and semester grades will ha rrpon.-d to the Registrar by 8 p. nu that day. > Candidates for graduation with passing grades will he exempt from exandnations; bet these* whose rrad<s are helaw passing, und ihaae who wish to try to raise their grades, saay take semester exam inations on the following day (Thursday) at s time to be set by the head ef the deportment involv ed. Semester grades with exaeaina tion given S weight ef one-third are to ho rsported to tho Registrar by 8 pl ax. the same day. Col. Ernest O. Thompson Speaks About Oil Proration for Lecture Here COL. ERNEST O. THOMPSON “An Administrator’s View on Prorat ion and Conaervstion of Oil and Gaa” was the topic of Railroad Commissioner Ernest O. Thomp son of Austin, who delivered the i i Wednesday address of the aeries pn conservation of natural resoure- G es at A. A M. College The lectures comprint s special course being presented to summer school students in agricultural eco nomics; but the public is cordially invited to attend the daily lectures held at 10 each morning in the Civil Engineering lecture room. CoL Thompson is probably the best-posted man ia the country to day on the oil business, ,lmelRM made a detailed study of the situ*, tion during his tenure as a mem* her ef the Texas Railroad Cbramis- sion. He also represents Texas on the State’s Oil Compact Board, and long has been am advocate of con servation of natural resources, es pecially oil and gaa. Tuesday’s lecture was. deliver ed by John W. Pritchett, of the • State Board of Water Engineer*. Austin, who spoke on “Law Gov erning the Control and U*« of the Water Resources ef the State”. FRONT. BASEMENT