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THE BATTALION
Official Notices
All notices should be sent to The
Battalion Office, 122 Administration Build>
lag. They should be typed and double-
spaced. The deadline for them is 4:00 p. m.
the day prior to the date of issue.
SCHEDULE OP EVENTS
Jan. 15 to 18—Annual Dairy Manu
facturing Short Course.
January 16—Quarterback Club, Guion
Hall, 7:30 p. m.
January 18—Basketball game between
Rice Institute and Texas A. & M., Gymna
sium, 7:30 p. m.
Jan. 18 and 19—Polo Club benefit show
Assembly Hall, 7:00 p. m.
January 20—Basketball game, S.M.U.
and Texas A. & M.. Gymnasium, 7 :30 p. m.
Jan. 25 and 26—Pre Medical Society
benefit show. Assembly Hall, 7:30 p. rn.
Jan. 267—Sophomore Dance, Sbisa Hall,
9 p. m. to 1 a. m.
January 31—Faculty dance. Banquet
room, Sbisa Hall, 9 p. m. to 12 midnight.
FLYING CLUB ESSAY CONTEST
Students who are interested in an
essay contest on “The Cultural Value of
Flying” are invited to read a notice that
has been posted on bulletin board 29 near
the English Office. .
AGRONOMY SOCIETY
There will be an important meeting
of the Agronomy Society Tuesday night
at 7:30 in room 312, Agriculture Build
ing. The election of the King for the
Cotton Ball will be held, and committees
to assist in the preparation of the style
show, pageant, and ball, are to be ap
pointed. Cigars will be furnished.
ECONOMICS CLUB
The Economics Club will meet Wednes
day night at 7:30 in the Chemistry lec
ture room and all members are urged to
attend. The program will consist of a
motion picture with sound, and a talk by
Mr. Henry Oliver, vice-president of the
State National Bank of Houston. The pub
lic is invited to attend the program.
GLEE CLUB
The regular meeting schedule of the
A. & M. Glee Club is as follows: Every
Monday night in the basement of the
old dining hall; every Tuesday night in
the radio room of the Y. M. C. A.; and
every Thursday night in the basement of
the old dining hall. Meetings will start
promptly at 6:30 after supper. There are
new songs and new engagements—rehear
sals are very important.
CITY GARBAGE COLLECTION
The Civic Council of College Station
plans to begin the collection of garbage
within the city on February 1, 1940. The
collections will be made twice a week at
each house and place of business in the
city except those on the campus. Notice
is hereby given that bids for this work
will be opened Thursday evening, January-
18, 1940. The council reserves the right to
reject any and all bids.
LONGHORN CLUB PICTURES
Space reservations for club pictures in
the 1940 Longhorn must be in by February
1. See Watson in room 203, hall 12.
VANITY FAIR PICTURES
Pictures for the “Vanity Fair” section
of the Longhorn must be in by February
1, 1940. All pictures must be turned in
to Mick Williams, 98 Law.
PERSONNEL LEAFLETS
All seniors and graduate students who
desire the individual personnel leaflets
who have not paid for same, are requested
to come by room 133, Administration
Building, not later than January 20. This
is necessary so that the order for cuts
on the pictures may be made in due time.
LUCIEN M. MORGAN, DIRECTOR
Placement Personnel Division
Association of Former Students
LIGHTING RULE CHANGE
Pending the next revision of the Col
lege Regulations, the provisions of Para
graph 10, (a), Section IV, House Rules,
Page 38, are modified to include an addi
tional globe not to exceed 50 watts which
may be installed in each dormitory room
provided there is a built-in socket now
installed and available for this purpose.
COL. GEO. F. MOORE, Commandant
NOTICE TO TAXPAYERS
Consolidated school taxes can be paid
without penalty up to and including Jan.
31, 1940.
Penalty schedule for payment of taxes
after January 31 is as follows:
February 1%
March 2%
April 3%
May 4%
June 5%
July 8%
Taxes are delinquent on July 1 at which
time 6% interest begins.
J. C. CARLL
Tax Collector
A. & M. Consolidated School District
Organizations
STUDENT WELFARE COMMITTEE
The meeting of the Student Welfare
Committee for the month of January will
be held on the 18th. All members are
requested to keep this date open in order
to attend.
DEAN F. C. BOLTON
JANUARY SALE
Shirts and
Pajamas
At this time you can
make substantial savings
on Manhattan Shirts and
Pajamas. Make your se
lections now.
$2.00 Manhattan Shirts $1.65
$2.'50 Manhattan Shirts $1.85
$3.50 Manhattan Shirts $2.65
$2.00 Manh’t’n Pajamas $1.65
$2.50 Manh’t’n Pajamas $1.85
$3.50 Manh’t’n Pajamas $2.65
$5.00 Manh’t’n Pajamas $3.65
SHIRTCRAFT
AI RMAN
Shirts and
Pajamas
$1.65 Shirtcraft Shirts $1.29
$1.95 Shirtcraft Shirts $1.55
$1.65 Shirtcr’ft Pajam’s $1.29
$1.95 Shirtcr’ft Pajam’s $1.55
$2.95 Shirtcr’ft Pajam’s $2.35
$3.50 Shirtcr’ft Pajam’s $2.65
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College Station Bryan
Lost and Found
LOST: Schaeffer fountain pen, with
name Richard Patrick on it, probably left
on one of the tables in the Post Office
Monday morning. Return to 207 Bizzell
for reward.
LOST: Small black coin purse lost on
the campus Tuesday or Wednesday of
last week. Reward for return. Call Col
lege 645.
LOST: Lob log duplex sliderule num
ber 553-553. Finder please return to M.
W. McCall, room 306, dorm 11, for reward.
LOST: Brown leather jacket with label
inside collar. Name, Bob Hanner White.
Please return to Bob White, room 22,
Ross Hall for reward.
Wanted
WANTED: Passengers for round trip
to Dallas, $2.00, in 1939 Studebaker with
heater and radio. Leaving Saturday noon,
and returning Sunday night. See Tex
Flynn, 77 Milner, or box 2845.
Davis And Dahl—
(Continued from page 1)
topics which came up for discus
sion which did not apply to A. &
M. but that for the most part, he
and Dahl obtained information
and ideas which could be applied
to the advantage of our school.
Among them was a discussion of
the honor system. Delegates from
Washington and Lee University
which has that plan in effect stat
ed that the success of the plan
depended on the expression on the
part of the student body of a
positive desire for its installation.
Another point brought out at the
convention was that the student
participation in suggesting curric
ulum changes. For the most part,
other schools have student com
mittees which work either inde
pendently, or in cooperation with
the faculty.
It was learned that the Student
Welfare Committee, which has been
functioning at A. & M. for some
years, is a comparatively recent
innovation as far as schools in gen
eral are concerned.
Concerning student elections, it
was noted that most schools re
quire all candidates for executive
offices, such as class officers, to
have a thorough knowledge of par
liamentary procedure. In addition,
there are scholastic standards
which qualify or disqualify a can
didate for any student office.
Since A. & M. was not a mem
ber college of the N. S. F. A., the
status of our representatives was
that of observers. They were al
lowed to participate in all activi
ties of the delegates, with the ex
ception of election of officers. It
is thought that the school could
benefit much from membership in
the Federation, and it is hoped
that by convention time next year,
membership will be obtained.
\Both Davis and Dahl reported a
most enjoyable and educational
trip.
Poll Shows—
(Continued from page 1)
Of those approving these specify:
It should be voluntary 58
It should be compulsory 13
Did not specify 29
These approve:
In schools where it is volun
tary 96
In schools where it is com
pulsory 92
In schools where it is not
taught 82
It should be noted that this poll
was taken after war broke out.
Surveys figures show that since
the start of hostilities abroad there
has been a marked increase of ap
proval of all matters that have to
do with national defense.
DUKE UNIVERSITY
School of Medicine
DURHAM, N. C.
Four terms of eleven weeks are
given each year. These may be tak
en consecutively (graduation in
three and one-quarter years) or
three terms may be taken each
year (graduation in four years).
The entrance requirements are in
telligence, character ..and ..three
years of college work, including
the subjects specified for Class A
medical schools. Catalogues and ap
plication forms may be obtained
from the Admission Committee.
Football Shoved Into Background, But
Memories Of A Glorious Season Remain
By Jimmie Cokinos
Now that football has been shov
ed into the background by the
timely appearance of basketball,
ana baseball trading, a few mem
ories of the past football season
flash through our mind. January is
the "hot stove” league goes into
action about what to expect of
baseball this year and above all
the settling of the coaching situa
tions for the 1940 season.
Brightest crack of the season:
The genial Bill “Rock” Audish
comes up with this, “Here is to
the Texas Aggies, untied, unbeaten,
and unaccustomed to it all!” His
roomy, “Big Dog” Dawson, comes
across with this one: As the Ag
gies came out on the field in the
Sugar Bowl, “Dog” put his hands
on his hips and looked at the crowd
that was in the stadium and re
marked, “Boy, all of the white
folks are here today!”
A thing of beauty to watch . . .
Herb Smith racking that interfer
ence as it would come around his
end. He was a master at this “neck
breaking” affair as he could throw
►his body into the interference, spill--
ing the whole works thus making
the ball-carrier an easy mark for
the line-backers to hit.
Best trick play of the year. . .
This honor goes to the Athletic
Council at Rice Institute. The play
started at the “R” Association
banquet where the Council an
nounced that they were satisfied
with Coach Jimmy Kitts and that
he need not worry about his job.
The following day the same group
that threw bouquets at Ki'ct threw
him a brick with a pink-snp. Boy,
I bet this play made e^en the
great Houdini turn over in his
grave.
Unluckiest team. . . Those tall,
lanky boys from the Ozarks get
the nod from here. The Hogs made
more first downs than the Aggies
in their game and still were not
able to outscore them. The T. C. U.
Horned Frogs ran a tight first
because in the games they lost,
they roundly outplayed their op
ponent in statistics. Bur. in the long
run it is the score that is on the
score board that counts and not
-what you do on paper.
Surprise team. . Homer Nor
ton’s mighty Aggies was THE
team to beat for the conference
championship. Who would have
thought in September that at the
end of the year the Aggies would
be the Conference champs and be
invited to a major bowl game and
in the end become the undisputed
National Champions?
Punctured pipe dream. . . All of
this to the Houston Fourth Estate
honeys and the darlings of the
slick sheets, the Rice Owls and
her “glamma boy” Ernie Lain. The
widely publicized Owl* were boom
ed for everything but a piece of
Czechoslovakia. Even the Bearcats
front Huntsville bea ; ’em.
Most pathetic sight. . . The fig
ure of Ed Singletary, captain of
the Rice Owls, who was hurt at the
start of this season’s play, as he
would walk to the middle of the
football field before every game
to call the “tossed coin” and then
walk to the sidelines to resume a
seat on the bench where he watch
ed his mates flounder.
"Hereford Herd” Is Informal Group;
Club Meetings Feature Bull Sessions
Among the more unusual — and
most informal—of all home-town
clubs on the Aggie campus is the
young “Hereford Herd,” organized
at the start of the present semes
ter.
And how is it unusual?
Well, for one thing it has just
nine members—and nine presidents.
The reason for this, the Herd ex
plains, is that so no one of them
will seem any higher in position
than the rest, and so any of them
has just as much chance to talk
as all the rest.
And too, this is one club that
has no program whatsoever. And
yet the meetings seem to go over
with a “bang.” Seldom is a mem
ber absent, and they all get great
enjoyment from the meetings.
To look in on one of them, an
innocent spectator might think that
the Hereford boys came to college
for the “bull sessions.” For that’s
just what the meetings consist of
—“bull sessions”—and no organ
ized ones at that, but certainly in
teresting. The topics?—Oh, such
things as incidents of interest at
home, the latest feminine con
quests, and occasionally, club prob
lems. When anyone wants to talk
he just waits till the others take
a bfeath and then he starts; if
his voice is strong enough he has
the floor until he runs down or has
to stop for aid.
The Herd had a Christmas dance,
just as did all the other home-town
clubs; and it was stated by many
of the guests that it was the best
dance ever given in the budding
metropolis of Hereford . . . What,
you don’t know where Hereford
is? Well, just get a large map—
be sure it’s large—and if you look
closely you’ll find Hereford some
where around Amarillo, Texas—
that is, if the last dust storm didn’t
bury it!
Mid-Term Degrees—
(Continued from page 1)
18 degrees being conferred. The
lowest groups are the four which
are giving one degree each. These
are one each in education, physical
education, science, and industrial
education.
Following is the list of men
graduating at mid-term:
Master of Science—
P. L. Chiem, George Clyburn,
Bennet Coulson, O. H. Graham, W.
S. McGregor, D. B. Mejias, L. A.
Miller, A. K. Fatehkhan Mir, Leon
L. Smith, F. W. Taber, T. H. Ter
rell, M. R. Thadani.
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE
School of Agriculture—
Joe Boyd, U. W. Crow, G. W.
Cunningham, T. L. Fike, C. F.
Flynn, A. E. Gary, E. C. Hess, J.
T. Kantz, Virgil Klump, R. L. Kyle,
Elton Lewis, James Lindsey, J. L.
Miller, F. E. Seale Jr., R. M.
Struwe,T. E. Voss, M. J. Wenmohs,
M. E. Williams, H. C. Abbrecht,
W. J. Clemans, W. H. Heartsill,
J. W. Holcomb Jr., W. W. Howe,
R. M. Irvin, R. M. Morehead, L. W.
Rhoads, J. P. Davis, L. W. Kelly,
G. T. Thompson, J. K. Walker, J.
B. Bishop, H. G. Butler, E. G.
Chapman, H. L. Clearman, A. K.
Coffman, E. H. Cox, L. W. Crouch,
E. H. Douglas, B. D. Ewing, J.
L. Hensell, L. L. Jacobs, A. L.
Lain, J. A. Morris, B. L. Poston,
W. R. Ross, R. L. Seamans, I. M.
Silbert, Samuel W. Smith, R. P.
Wallis, C. G. Ward.
SCHOOL OF ARTS AND
SCIENCES
Bachelor of Arts—
iR. W. Burchfield, A. L. Dube,
B. O. Timmerman.
“Whoopee, No More
Mid-Term Exams” Say
Beloit Student Body
BELOIT, Wis.—To de-empha-
size the importance of mid-semes
ter grades and to place greater
emphasis on scholarship, Beloit
College authorities have abolished
mid-term examinations.
Only those students whose work
is not equal to a passing mark
will receive any indication of their
standing. Those in this group will
be given “unsatisfactory” reports.
The purpose of the new system
is to take the stress off grades
and emphasize day to day prepara
tion and effort. Mid-semester
marks have never been recorded in
any permanent record as they are
not an indication of final achieve
ment.
By stressing steady work and
abolishing a rating which can be
interpreted in terms of grad points,
it is hoped that students will view
the work in their courses as ma
terial to be successfully mastered
and not as a means to a number
of grade points.
It is not to be understood that
this arrangement will in any way
interfere with the usual exams
given by instructors in regard to
the class work .
“Farm-Owned Cotton
Gins Save Dollars,”
Grahams Says in Talk
“Four hundred farmer-owned
and operated cotton gins are to
day saving Texas farmers thous
ands of dollars annually,” declar
ed R. A. Graham, president of the
Texas Cooperative Ginners Asso
ciation, in a lecture given last
week to marketing and finance
students of A. & M.
“Cooperative marketing and
service organizations are doing
more than any other one thing to
solve the farm problem,” continued
Mr. Graham. “The cooperative
cotton gin has demonstrated its
value, beyond a doubt.”
“It was not until the price of
cotton became so low that farmers
became dissatisfied with the price
charged for ginning that the co
operative ginning movement gain
ed momentum. Now farmers gen-
Bachelor of Science—
Melvin R. Smith, L. A. Harrison
Jr., J. M. Arendale Jr.
SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING
Bachelor of Science—
S. D. Chesnutt Jr., R. E. Collins,
J. W. Potts, C. E. Simpson Jr., R.
B. Teissier, R. W. Crook, J. R.
Harris, Yoichi Kishi, W. deRouhlac
McClellan, J. H. Simmons, J. W.
Cherry, A. A. Dean, M. L. Speckels,
J. G. Fry, III, J. W. Clark, G. G.
Grimmer, S. H. Berlecher, P. M.
Carter, L. M. Duhon Jr., H. R.
Gowan, H. H. Halsell, J. A. Laird,
J. D. Lowrie Jr., W. M. Patterson,
G. W. Pullin Jr., E. A. Radack, W.
A. Russell, F. L. Wallace.
Vogue Magazine
Offers Photography
Contest To Seniors
The editors of Vogue Magazine,
a Conde Nast publication, have
just announced a Photographic
Contest for seniors in American
colleges and universities.
The contest offers two career
prizes—one for men, one for wom
en—consisting of a six months’
apprenticeship, with salary, in the
Conde Nast Studios in New York—
with the possibility of a permanent
position on completion of the
period of apprenticeship. In addi
tion, eight cash prizes and honor
able mentions will be awarded.
The contest will be composed of
a series of eight photographic
problems to be presented in the
magazine. These will cover a wide
range of topics, including outdoor
and indoor shots, action, still life,
etc. Winners of the contest will
join Vogue’s New York staff on or
about June 15th.
For further information write
Conde Nast News Service, 420
Lexington Avenue, New York City.
erally are learning that with suf
ficient volume, large savings will r
accrue to the farmer through oper
ation of their own gins.”
According to Mr. Graham, the
Greenville Cooperative Gin Asso
ciation on which he is manager
ginned for a net cost of 12c per
hundred last year compared to a
charge of 40c per hundred which
the farmers were required to pay
before the organization of their co
operative.
The lecture was the eighth of a
series of lectures arranged by the
Department of Agricultural Eco
nomics for the benefit of students
in the department studying co
operative marketing.
More than, one-fourth of the
University of Arkansas student
body are relatives of graduates or
former students of that institu
tion.
It costs $56.50 to outfit a football
player with first-class equipment.
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TUESDAY, JAN. 16, 1940
Grade Points Are Worth Dollar Per
Month To Graduates, Prof Discovers
By Bob Nisbet
Recently C. W. Wilkinson of
the English Department was re
quested to speak before a meeting
of the Freshman Discussion Group
on the subject of “Just Getting
By.” Immediately after receiv
ing the request, he went into a
huddle with the files in the li
brary, and during the following
C. W. Wilkinson
week read four books, 23 magazine
articles, and two pamphlets. Some
of the facts he found are truly eye
opening. His general conclusion
drawn from the study was that
within five or ten years after grad
uation a man’s grade-points will
earn him a dollar a month. In
other words, a man graduating
with 250 grade-points will be
drawing a salary of $250 or more.
First he pointed out that he was
by no means measuring success
by the amount of money a man
makes. He said, “Whatever suc
cess may be—whether one thinks
of it as financial reward, assured
social position, satisfaction in
able work accomplished and recog
nized, or as a combination of all—
many factors contribute, some
tangible and some intangible; but
records in school correlate so high
ly with success in life that clearly
good school records lead to suc
cess, or both are the results of the
same characteristics in individ
uals.” He goes on to say that
there are some men with poor col
lege records who have made good,
but their number is small and are
the exceptions to the rule, the
more widely exploited because they
are exceptions.
Those who rely, he said, on
“suck” or “pull” will find them
selves on the short end unless it
be the kind that results from a
greater interest in the work. He
quotes politics as being an excep
tion to the rule. With reserva
tions, “men get what they earn
and earn what they get.”
Baylorites Again To
Have “Reverse Weekend”
Social reversal, wherein the co
eds make the dates and pay the
bills, is okay for a single weekend
but must not exceed that time, so
Baylor University students voted
in a campus poll.
Though 80 percent favored the
reversal, only 45 percent wanted
it to continue for longer than three
days. Campus gossip has it that
the coeds stuffed the boxes on the
latter vote.
The weekend, to be observed
sometime in February, was begun
last year, and question was raised
as to continuing the reverse pro
cedure over a complete week this
time.
The Bradley College library has
a collection of 1,040 books and
6,266 pamphlets dealing with in
dustrial education.
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