THURSDAY, JAN. 11, 1940
How Much Do You Think You’ll Make
After You Graduate?—Survey Tells
College youth of this new year
is faced with some of the most
staggering problems of modern
civilization, further complicated by
this nation’s attempts to make it
self a better place to live.
Unemployment continues to be a
major U. S. problem, vying for at
tention with the war in Europe,
which is bound to have its effect
on business and on wages. On
the first of February monthly
Treasury checks will begin coming
to many of the aged of the coun
try, and by the end of 1940 near
ly one million persons will be re
ceiving benefits as the gigantic
Social Security program assumes
full stride.
The Student Opinion Surveys,
national polling organization of
the campus press, has tapped the
college mind on two topics that
may give a glimpse of America to
morrow: old age pensions and the
income college youth expects.
Surveys’ interview found the
usual student optimism. Almost
two-thirds of the collegians don’t,
want the government to pay them
pensions when they reach 65, and
nearly 7 out of every 10 believe
they will be able to earn $100 a
month or more as soon as they
leave college.
The poll on pensions does not
mean that students are opposed to
Social Security for the needy. And
college women differ with their
male classmates. The surveys
found that the men are of the opin
ion that they should not be bene
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ficiaries, principally because they
believe they will be able to take
care of themselves. Most girls
voted on the opposite side. Asked,
“When you reach the age of 65,
do you think the government
should pay you a pension?” stu
dents gave these answers:
Men Women Both
Yes 34% 56% 37%
No 66% 44% 63%
The surveys’ interviewers also
asked this question of a scientifi
cally-selected cross section of stu
dents in strict proportion to U. S.
Office of Education figures repre
senting the entire national enroll
ment, '“How much do you believe
you will be able, to earn from
your first job after you leave col
lege?” Not counting those who
had no definite idea as to their
future incomes or girls who did not
plan to work,, these were the re
sults:
$ 75 or less 11 per cent
75 to 100 , 20 per cent
100 to 125 38 per cent
125 to 150 16 per cent
150 or more 15 per cent
These answers take no more
significance when projected against
the findings of the American Youth
Commission, which indicates that
even in cities, where wages are
higher, the typical youth’s weekly
pay envelope contains about $15.
College graduates often get much
more, but the cases are not many,
and the average is much lower
than what the undergraduates now
expect.
University of Richmond fra
ternity men have a new title for
Sally Rand, and thereby hangs a
story:
When the college administration
ruled that all Greek groups must
have housemothers, clever Kappa
Sigmas wired the fan dancer:
“Sorry to hear of your financial
bust
But come on down and live with
us.
We have to get a new house moth
er,
And we’d rather have you than
any other.”
A Vassar College graduate has
compiled a record of the living
language used by inhabitants of the
Hudson valley region in New York.
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Why College Students Fail Is Told
In Report by Education Dept. Head
By W. L. Hughes
Head of the Education Dept.
Among the many dances held by
A. & M. organizations during the
Christmas holidays, and one of
the more colorful, was that held
by the Heart O’ Texas and Moun
taineers Club at the Bevons Hotel
in Menard December 28.
Ladies of the Royal Court for
the Seventeenth Annual Ball given
by the club were: Top row—Martha
Roe Moore, San Saba; Biha Sue
Martin, Christoval; Mae Priess,
Brady; Dorothy Lass, Llano;
Barbara Secrest, Junction; and
Imagene Mays, Rocksprings.
Second row—Doris Raesener,
Llano; Helen Ransom, Austin;
Jewell Grosse, Mason, queen of the
Ball; Eloise Wied, Kerrville; and
Lohoma Green, Eden. All of the
ladies, except Miss Grosse, were
duchesses.
Bottom row—Walton Lehmberg,
of Mason, president; Carl Martin
of Menard, vice-president; and
Bob Langford of Brady, secretary-
treasurer.
College Peace Front
Is Formed To Keep
Students Out Of War
Evanston, 111.—An all-college
peace front, with “We Don’t Want
to Fight in Europe” as its slogan,
has been organized by the student
newspaper of Northwestern Uni
versity, and is slowly assuming
significance as college editors in
all sections of the country join in
the movement.
For the past two months, Stan
ley Frankel, editorial chairman of
the Daily Northwestern, has been
contacting other colleges, and out
of his work the Peace Front has
evolved.
In the East, Princeton University
students have organized the Amer
ican Independence League, which
includes 23 of the leading eastern
universities, and this group is
working as one autonomous organ
ization under the national All-Col
lege Peace Front. In the far West,
UCLA is now sounding out col
leges on the coast as Donn Brown,
last year’s president of UCLA stu
dent body and son of movie com
edian Joe E. Brown, has been
traveling throughout the Western
states in the capacity of organizing
secretary for the Western States
as a third antonomous unit working
for a common goal.
The Middlewest has quickly re
sponded to the idea, and today 53
of the leading colleges in that sec
tion are working under the Peace
Front banner.
At present, the women’s colleges
are being organized by the woman’s
editor of the Daily Northwestern;
and the Southern colleges are be
ing approached on the subject.
The purpose of this Peace Front
is, as has been stated, to keep
this nation out of war. Through
campus newspapers it wants to
propagandize for peace, pointing
out to the 1,350,000 college students
that the present war is none of
their business, that democracy’s
dangers lie in this hemisphere, and
that they have nothing to gain by
fighting.
The peace Front aims at con
vincing college students that they
will be called upon to fight in case
of a war, that strong and united
public opinion is the best weapon
against involvement, and that the
college student should have an im
portant hand in molding that opin
ion.
There are many factors that
contribute to the failure of the col
lege student. The college teacher
usually blames the high school.
This, of course, is the old Ameri
can pastime of “passing the buck.”
The lack of high scholastic stand
ards in our high schools may be
one of the contributing factors, but
we must remember that the high
school teacher is the product of
our colleges. But, the high school
teacher is closer to the “papas and
mamas” than college teachers are.
An irate mamma can influence the
marks which the teacher gives
Johnny. The high school can’t
throw Johnny 6ux; the college can.
But let’s not lay too much blame
at the door of the high school.
There may be factors at college
which cause the student to fail.
These factors may be divided into
several classes:
1. The student may have to
support himself in college. This
will handicap him and may cause
him to fail.
2. Many students enter A. & M.
without having their financial plans
complete. That is, they enter with
sufficient funds to carry them
through only one semeester. They
worry during the semester about
where funds are coming from to
stay in school.
3. Many college students take
on too much outside work. This
is a cause of failure .
4. Some students worry over
family finances at home, especial
ly when the parents are making
sacrifices in order to send them to
college.
5. Another rather important
cause of failure is the discrepancy
between achievement and ability;
that is, the student, for some rea
son, fails to do what he is able
to do. We college teachers often
believe this is the only reason for
failure .
6. Perhaps one of the most im
portant factors contributing to fail
ure is the discrepancy between am
bitions and abilities. The student
enters college without any idea
of his ability; he often registers
for a course he is utterly incapa
ble of doing in a satisfactory way.
He fails, becomes discouraged, and
drops out of school; or he may
change to a course which is more
in line with his capabilities. Mute
evidence of this may be found in
the Registrar’s Office.
7. A desire for economic secur
ity causes students to claim in
terests for which they are totally
unfitted, causing failure.
8. Often students have poor
study habits. They have never
learned to budget their time in such
a way as to make a success of
their studies. It may be environ
mental conditions at college which
prevent the building up of proper
study habits. It may be lack of
motivation.
9. Too many students are unde
cided as to just what they want
to do in college.
10. Many students enter college
with grave deficiencies in reading
ability and in related areas. The
high schools are accused of teach
ing everything except reading,
writing, and arithmetic. This prob
ably causes many students to fail.
11. Perhaps some students are
simply loafers. There may be an
entire lack of motivation. They
are in college for the purpose of
keeping out of work at home, or
to have a good time.
12. It may be that some students
fail because of the lack of a
sympathetic attitude on the part
of their teachers or their teachers
may fail to stimulate them to
proper efforts. In other words,
it may be there is a lack of proper
relationship between student and
teacher.
13. Some students may be un
able to adjust themselves to col
lege life. They have never de
veloped a sense of responsibility
at home, and when thrown into a
college environment they are un
able to survive.
14. A few fail because they are
in love. The mating urge is a
powerful influence in the life of
the youth. A girl left at home
may be the cause of worries and
failure.
15. Some students undoubtedly
fail because of poor health, or
physical handicaps of various
kinds.
16. Purely emotional factors
cause some students to fail. Fear
is probably the most important of
these.
17. Lack of mental ability to
do any kind of college work may
cause some failures.
18. There is a strong probabil
ity that many students at A. & M.
register for entirely too much
work.
There is no one reason why col
lege students fail. It is possible
that no two students fail for the
same reason. People differ in
mental ability, emotional stability,
personality, traits, adaptability,
physical strength. Some young
men mature early, some late. It
may be possible that some young
men enter college while entirely
too immature both physically and
mentally. All of these problems
should be studied with a view of
reducing failures. The college has
not lived up to its responsibilities
when it admits them and then
ejects them.
Show To Be Held
In Houston Feb. 28
Attention of America has been
called to the spectacular National
Flower and Garden Show scheduled
for February 28 to March 6 in
Houston.
Plans have been announced
which assure for Texans the larg
est and most elaborate exposition
in the long history of the Society
of American Florists and Orna
mental Horticulturists, sponsors
of the show.
Estimates were made that there
would be an attendance during the
8 days of the show well in excess
of 150,000 and that the value of
the exhibits and their settings
would be nearly one million dol
lars.
In addition to the showing of
virtually every seasonable flower,
space must be provided for exten
sive exhibits of gardens, examples
of landscape designs, blooming
bulbs, flowering shrubs and trees.
— — PAGE 3
“Norden News” Features A. & M. School
Of Veterinary Medicine and Surgery
In the Januaiy-February, 1940,
issue of the Norden News Maga
zine, published in the interest of
the veterinary profession by the
Norden Laboratories of Lincoln,
Nebraska, appears a short sum
mary of the history of the Texas
A. & M. School of Veterinary
Medicine and Surgery, accompanied
by a half page illustration of the
A. & M. Veterinary Hospital and
a picture of Dean Dr. R. P. Mar-
steller, head of the School of Vet
erinary Medicine. The history of
the school as it appears on page
17 of the Norden News is as fol
lows:
“The Agricultural and Mechani
cal College of Texas (Texas A.
& M.) was established in 1876. The
total attendance for 1939-40, on
October 10, was 6,063, largest at
tendance of any college in the
world for only men.
“In 1888, Dr. Mark Francis was
appointed professor of veterinary
science, and chief veterinarian of
the Division of Veterinary Science
for the Texas Agricultural Experi
ment Station. In 1916 the School
of Veterinary Medicine was organ
ized, with Dr. Francis as Dean,
largely in response to demand for
veterinary service to the livestock
industry and public health in the
Southwest. There was then an
enrollment of seven.
“Dr. Francis died in June, 1936,
after a career notable for research
of practical value. In June, 1937,
Dr. R. P. Marsteller was made
dean of the School of Veterinary
Medicine. From a nucelus of four
men in 1919—Drs. Francis, Mar
steller, R. Clark Dunn, and A. A.
Lenert—the school has expanded
until there are now six depart
ments: Veterinary Anatomy; Hy
giene, Medicine, Surgery and Clin
ics; Parasitology; Pathology and
Bacteriology; Physiology and
Pharmacology.
“The curriculum covers one year
of pre-veterinary work and four
years of veterinary studies lead
ing to the degree of Doctor of
Veterinary Medicine. Attendance
including pre-veterinary students,
October, 1939, was 386.”
Leonardo da Vinci’s mechanical
inventions included printing press
es, an oil press, screwcutting
lathe, and pile driver with auto
matic release.
A Chicago woman got a divorce
from her husband by alleging in
her bill of complaint that on the
glorious Fourth he assailed her
with firecrackers; on Thanksgiv
ing Day he hurled a turkey at her;
and on Christmas Day he beat her
with a Christmas tree. Nothing
like that good old holiday spirit!
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