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New Orleans’ Sugar Bowl Next On List VOL. 39 PHONE 4-5444 The Battalion Student Tri-Weekly Newspaper of Texas A. & M. College Official Newspaper of the City of College Station COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, THURSDAY MORNING, DEC. 7, 1939 Cadets Open Home Cage Bouts Friday Z725 NO. 30 AGGIES WILL MEET TULANE IN SUGAR BOWL Dedication Of Dormitories Cancelled Due To Weather Thanksgiving Mob One of Largest In A. & M. History Dedication Ceremony Will Not Be Held Again But Talks To Be Printed The largest crowd in the history of Aggieland swarmed the campus last Thursday, in spite of the steady rain and mud, to witness the annual Turkey Day classic be tween the Texas Aggies and the University of Texas Longhorns, which the Aggies won 20-0 to keep their season record clear and pave the way for a post-season game with Tulane in the Sugar Bowl on New Year’s Day. To start the Thanksgiving pro gram the Aggie Fish and the Uni versity Shorthorns battled in the mud on the varsity practice field Wednesday afternoon. The game resulted in a 2-0 victory for the Shorthorns when they made a safety against the fish in the first half. Thursday morning the scheduled dedication of the new buildings of A. & M. was cancelled because the newly-broken ground in the vicinity of the twelve new dormi tories was actually a “sea of mud.” However, the meeting of the Board of Directors last week with the presence of the distinguished guests, will be considered the act ual dedication and another cere mony will not be held. The speeches of the various guests have been collected and will be printed in pamphlet form in the near fu ture so that they will be available to interested persons. Honor guests who prepared speeches for the occasion and were at A. & M. last Thursday included Jesse Jones, federal loan adminis trator, to whom the Thanksgiving game was dedicated; Governor W. Lee O’Daniel, chief executive of the state; and President Homer Rainey of the University of Texas. Sonja Henie To Present Spectacular Ice Revue Setting a precedent, Sonja Henie, gorgeous Norwegian ice ballerina and Hollywood film star, will ap pear with her entire company of 65 brilliant skaters in three classi cal ballets, among many other lighter and amusing numbers, dur ing the spectacular presentation of her Hollywood Ice Revue of 1940. The revue, staged and directed by Harry Losee, famous Twentieth Century-Fox dance director, will be presented for an engagement of nine nights beginning December 8, at the Sam Houston Coliseum in Houston. Holiday Dates Remain as Listed Despite Rumors There have been no changes in the dates of the Christmas holi days, Dean Bolton announced Wed nesday. The holidays will start after the last classes on Wednes day, December 20, and classes will take up again on Thursday, Jan uary 4, as they are scheduled in the college catalog. Numerous rumors have grown on the campus that A. & M. will turn out for the holidays on De cember 23 instead of the 20 and will not take up until January 8 in order that students might have more time to return from New Orleans and the Sugar Bowl. These rumors are unfounded and contrary to the faculty ruling; and accord ing to Dean Bolton there have been no petitions by the senior class or other persons for a change. Members of the faculty have pointed out that as it is only ap proximately 500 miles from A. & M. to New Orleans, and as the stu dent will have two days to return, there is little if any need for a change in the calendar. In addi tion, numerous Aggie dances and festivities have already been plan ned by the various hometown A. & M. clubs for the early part of the holidays which would be af fected by any change in the date. Pattee, Kyle Confer On Exchange of Profs With Latin America Under recent treaties, our gov ernment will exchange eight pro fessors and several scholars each year with Latin-American countries, according to Dr. Richard F. Pattee, Division of Cultural Relations, United States Department of State. Dr. Pattee visited Texas A. & M. last Wednesday for the purpose of conferring with Dean E. J. Kyle, head of the School of Agriculture. Dr. Pattee stated that our gov ernment would select for exchange professorships men trained in tech nical agriculture, economics, and sociology, rural education, high way engineering, public health and the humanities. Those appointed to scholarships must hold the-mas- ter’s degree and have under way a research project to complete during their stay in Latin-America. Both the exchange professors and scholars must be able to speak ei ther Spanish or French reasonably well and possess a suitable per sonality to serve as an education al representative of this country abroad. Vanity Fair Selections For ’40 Longhorn Due January 15 Vanity Fair pictures will be selected, in all probability, by an outstanding newspaper columnist, Mick Williams, Longhorn editor for that section of the annual, an nounced today. Last year Ear - ! Carroll of Hollywood made the se lections. Pictures for the Vanity Fair section and the Senior Favorites section must be turned in to Mick Williams at 98 Law before January 15 and not January 1 as was stat ed in a former issue of The Bat talion. Seniors who desire to enter pic tures in the Vanity Fair section must turn in two pictures of their girls at that time. The pictures must be 8 by 10 glossy finished pictures taken in evening clothes. One picture must be bus photograph without by-line other must be a full-lengti. stand ing photograph also without by line. The printing cost for Vanity Fair pictures is $3.50 and must -be paid when the pictures are turn ed in to Williams. Out of the girls entered, eight will be chosen as the Aggie beauties and the re maining will be entered in the Senior Favorites section without additional charge. Although all contestants for Van ity Fair section will be entered in the Senior Favorites section of the Longhorn, Seniors who so desire may enter their mother’s or sweetheart’s picture only in the Senior Favorites section of the an nual. The printing charge for this is $1.50. Pictures which are to be entered only in the Senior Favorites section should be 5 by 7 bust photographs without a hat and without by-line and must be glossy finished . .vavnan ' both sec - January 15, Williams stated, in order that there will be ample time for the selection of the beauties and the making up of the pages in the 1940 Longhorn. Houston Symphony Orchestra To Visit Aggieland Tuesday The Houston Symphony Orchestra, famed in musical circles, will present a concert of the most popular semiclassical selections on the A. & M. Town Hall here next Tuesday night. This will be the second appearance of the orchestra at Aggieland, where it was greeted enthusiastically by the Aggies last year. Dairymen’s Short Course Held This Week At Creamery More than a hundred dairymen of note are at A. & M. this week for the annual Dairyman’s Short Course now being held in the Col lege Creamery. The program start ed Monday morning and will last until 12 o’clock today. In addition to well known Texas dairymen present at the meeting, prominent members of the Ameri can Jersey Cattle Club are also attending the four day course. Tuesday night the dairyman’s banquet was held at 6:30 in the banquet room of the mess hall with C. N. Shepardson, head of the Dairy Husbandry department, as chief speaker. The program Wednesday morn ing was made up of talks by G. G. Gibson of the Texas Extension Service on “Cooperative Breeding Plans”; B. T. Simons of the American Jersey Cattle Club on “Community Dairy Program”; F. W. Atkeson of Kansas on “Breed ing of Dairy Cattle”; and Lynn Copeland also of the American Jersey Cattle Club of “Selective Registration of Jerseys.” Wednesday afternoon was taken up by a talk by J. W. Ridgway of the Borden Company of San An tonio on “Dairy Cattle Classifi cation Plans” and a classification of the college dairy herd by F. W. Atkeson. Thursday morning the program includes a talk by A. L. Darnell, professor in the dairy department on “Official Test of Dairy Cattle for Production”; a talk by Lynn Copeland on “Factors Influencing a Successful Business’ and a talk by G. G. Gibson on “Dairy Herd Improvement Association Testing.” Steel Manager To Speak Tonight A. W. Nichols, district manager for the Detroit Steel Products Company will lecture tonight at the regular meeting of the Archi tecture Club at 7:00 in the civil engineering lecture room. Mr. Nichols, who is well known in the construction field, will furnish members of the club Drafting Room Details so that the lecture can be more clearly illustrated and understood. In addition the Detroit Steel Products Company which Mr. Nichols represents has given the Architecture department samples of steel casement windows for their permanent materials exhibit. F. P. Buie, a member of the Buie-Lunsford Building Company, will come from Houston to attend the meeting and accompany Mr. Nichols at the invitation of Earnest Langford, head of the Architec ture Department. Do Aggies Like Classical Music? -- Past Houston Symphony Reception Says 'Yes’ Place Fourth In Contest Above is shown the A. & M. Poultry Judging Team, which placed fourth in the intercollegiate poultry judging contest held in Chicago last Saturday. From left to right are Earl H. Roesner, O. L. Davis, Fred Swallow, Otto J. Schulte, and E. D. Parnell, team coach. A. & M. Teams Outstanding At International Livestock Show Poultry and Livestock Judging Teams Fourth, Meats Judging Team Sixth In Intercollegiate Contests According to reports from Chica--*-member of the Aggie team, was go Wednesday, A. & M. judging fourth in standing among the 145 teams won two fourth places and one sixth place at intercollegiate judging contests just held there. The poultry and livestock teams each won a fourth place, the meats team sixth. First team in the judging of live market poultry, and fourth team in all-round competition, was the record made by the A. & M. Poul try Judging Team in the Mid western Intercollegiate Poultry and Egg Judging Contest, accord ing to a report made by E. D. Parnell, team coach. In addition to high team honors in live market poultry, the A. & M. team mem bers, Earl Roesner, Fred Swallow, and O. L. Davis, all tied for high individual honors with scores of 185 out of a possible 200. Electric clocks were awarded the boys as prizes. Swallow was fourth high individ ual in production judging, and Davis was fifth high in exhibition classes. The team ranked fifth in production, sixth in exhibition, and fourth in combined total scores. Last year’s team also ranked fourth, but more teams competed in the contest this year. Swallow was high scorer for the A. & M. team. O. J. Schulte, team alternate, accompanied the team to Chicago but did not judge in the contest. Out of 29 teams competing in livestock judging at the Inter national Livestock Exhibition, the A. & M. team finished fourth fol lowing the Ohio team, which won the contest, followed by Kansas and Minnesota. James Grote, a Reappearing for its second visit at Texas A. & M., the Houston Symphony Orchestra will present a concert of best-known classical and semiclassical selections in Guion Hall for the third program of A. & M.’s 1939-40 Town Hall series, next Tuesday night, December 12, in Guion Hall. Ernest Hoffman, whose distin guished performances during his past three seasons caused him to be named permanent conductor of the orchestra, will conduct. This season Hoffman leads a musical group strengthened in many ways, with promise of great er accomplishments than ever be fore. The one hour and forty-five-min- (Continued on page 4) boys in the contest for high-point man. The A. & M. team finished second in judging cattle, sixth in judging hogs, seventh in sheep, and fifteenth in horses. In the Meats Judging Contest the A. & M. Meats Judging Team finished sixth. The Wisconsin team won, although the Aggie team placed first in the judging of limb. Roy Martin, Infantry sen ior, was sixth high-point man in the total scoring, placing second in the judging of lamb carcasses. This is the first year that A. & M. has entered a team in the Meats Judging Contest at the Interna tional Livestock Exhibition. Members of the livestock judg ing team were James Grote, Wal ton Lehmberg, Wilson Buster, R. S. Huddle, Frank Corder, and James Gallant. L. A. Miller was team coach. Meats judging team members were Charlie Wilkinson, Roy Mar tin, Lynn Mead, and Robert Ditt- mar, with C. E. Murphey as team coach. SOIL CONSERVATIONIST ADDRESSES AG STUDENTS N. P. Stephenson, head of the Regional Training Section of the Soil Conservation Service at Fort Worth, spoke Tuesday night in the Agricultural Engineering lec ture room for a meeting of all agronomy students. Mr. Stephenson’s address dealt with the requirements for employ ment in the field of soil conserva tion. FISH LONGHORN PICTURES MUST BE MADE NOW The following schedule is im mediately effective for the making of freshman class section pictures for the Longhorn. All freshmen are urged to follow this schedule strictly so that confusion can be avoided. No pictures will be ac cepted after the date herewith outlined: Inf. Regiment—December 7, 8. Field Artillery Regiment—De cember 9, 11, 12. Composite Regiment and Coast Artillery Regiment—December 13, 14, 15. Engineer Regiment and Cavalry Regiment—December 15, 16, 18. Military pictures for the juniors and seniors will not have to be turned in until some time shortly after the Christmas holidays. New Year’s Day Game Scheduled Tickets Will Be On Sale At A. & M. By End Of Week The Texas Aggies, ranking num ber one team in the United States, will meet the ranking number two team of this country New Year’s Day at New Orleans in the ranking bowl of the United States, THE SUGAR BOWL. Aggie players voted Tuesday night to play in this classic after Tennessee had stated that they could give no definite answer on playing in the Cotton Bowl until after the game between U. S. C. and U. C. L. A. Inasmuch as the Aggies have met the most formidable opposition of any team in the United States, Tulane, the host of the coming number one bowl of the country, had decided that Texas A. & M. would be the strongest team in the United States to ask to play in the Sugar Bowl. They had to have an answer to their bid Tuesday night, and after the Aggies had learned that Tennessee was waiting for the Rose Bowl, the Cadets voted to play in the Sugar Bowl. Coach Bob Naylan of the Ten nessee Vols stated that they were expecting a bid to the California holiday tilt and could not agree to meet the Aggies in Dallas for the national championship. Immediately after the team voted to play in the Sugar Bowl, Coach Homer Norton, Dean Kyle and EL W. Hooker left for New Orleans to make final arrangements. Twelve thousand tickets will be available at approximately $4.40 apiece. This number will be for students, exes, and friends of the Aggies. The team will go into practice (Continued on page 4) Bank Associate Will Speak Here On Refrigeration Roy B. Davis, secretary of the Houston Bank for Cooperatives, will talk on “Refrigerated Food Lockers” in the lecture room of the Animal Industries building tonight at 7:30. The subject is one receiving a great deal of attention in Texas today as refrigerated food lockers furnish a means whereby farmers might conserve their meats, fresh fruits and vegetables, and other perishable foods the year around for home consumption. Seniors Asked By Placement Bureau To Fill Out Records To begin the employment pro--* gram for the’ senior class of 1940, the Placement and Personnel Divi sion of the Association of Former Students headed by Lucian Mor gan, this week sent to all members of the senior class of 1940 a brief summarization of the major aims of the division so that the seniors could become acquainted with the proposed work of the office and could get a general idea of the func tions of the placement bureau. The major aims of the bureau were summarized in the letter as being: Cooperation with the college staff in its placement and person nel activities. Employment and placement ef forts for ex-students. Promotion and study of addi tional placement opportunities and outlets. Development of a publicity pro gram for prospective employers and establishment of active place ment committees in A. & M. clubs. Promotion, in cooperation with the faculty, of a program of stu dent education along employment lines. Development and maintenance of personnel record. The placement bureau in an ef fort to establish a record of all the seniors in the college so that full facts will be available to prospec tive employers is asking all seniors to fill out a personnel record. These records will be distributed in the next few days and will form a permanent record of the student. From this record a personnel leaflet will be prepared for each senior desiring them. The leaf lets will show the student’s picture, his full name, degree expected, address, personal data, high school and college information, business and industrial experience and ref erences. By the use of these rec ords a prospective employer can become fully acquainted with the senior and by this method 'it is hoped to increase the number of jobs open to A. & M. graduates as well as the number of Aggies that secure placement.