THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1940
THE BATTALION
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Outstanding Swimmers of Aggieland
Here is the Texas Aggie water polo team which will shoot for the Senior National A.A.U. water
polo title this year. Last year the Aggies won the junior title at St. Louis and now have to step up a class.
Since Arthur Adamson came to A. & M. as coach in 1935 the Aggies have lost but one water polo
game and that was in the finals for the junior crown in 1938. Only three members of the 1939 cham
pions are back this season.
Left to right, front row—John (Bubba) Reeves; F. M. Edwards, Barton (Butch) Robertson, Henry
Rollins, Raymond Loomis, and Paul Kirk.
Back row—Ernest Conway, H. H. Webb, John (Pinkie) Couch, captain. Coach Arthur Adamson,
Nicholas (Nickie) Ponthieux, Harold (Junie) Hensley, and Edward (Eddie) Johnson.
Couch, W. Hensley and Ponthieux are hold-overs from the championship team of 1939.
Reeves was a letterman guard on the Texas Aggie football team of 1939, national champions.
(Photo by Howard Berry).
“Trends of Engineering Education”
Is Article by Technology Professor
An article that should be of in
terest to all students and teachers
of engineering is a report on
“Present Status and Trends of En
gineering Education,” by Dr.
Dugald C. Jackson, professor
emeritus of the Massachusetts In
stitute of Technology, issued by
the committee on engineering-
schools of the Engineers’ Council
for Professional Development, with
the aid of funds supplied by the
Carnegie Foundation for the Ad
vancement of Teaching.
In discussing the present status
of engineering education, Dr.
Jackson states that the majority
of about 160 engineering schools
in the United States are now of
sound status and are alert to im
prove their effectiveness. The
principal defects, he says, are,
first, a lack of unity of learning
in science and political economy
as applied to the engineering school
—that is, the varying degrees of
stress put on these fields by the
different colleges; second, a fail
ure to make the engineering cur
ricula fit in with political economy
as well as it does with physical
science; third, the lack of an adop
tion of professional ideals as dis
tinguished from those of crafts
manship or speculative philosophy;
fourth, a failure to impress on all
students that the successful engi
neer’s life demands continuous
study throughout its length; and,
finally, the failure to recognize the
importance of the proper use of
research in all engineering educa
tion from the sophomore under
graduate level to the most advanc
ed levels.
Some critics favor the standard
ization of all engineering educa
tion through state legislation, and
support their idea by comparing
the profession of engineering with
those of medicine and law. Such
proposals are erroneous because
the scope of engineering activities
is entirely different from that
of either medicine or law. The
variety of undergraduate and grad
uate curricula exists to meet the
needs of the nation and its indus
tries, and is constantly changing
to meet the changing needs, or as
is made possible by further scien
tific research.
Out of 135 engineering schools
investigated by the Engineers’
Council for Professional Develop
ment, there was a total of 3,832
persons employed in the teaching
staffs of the engineering depart
ments. These schools reported a
total capital investment of $137,-
835,000 for building and equip
ment apportioned to engineering,
and an annual income allotted to
engineering of $23,870,000. This
foregoing investment was $2,606
per student, and the annual income
for engineering was $358 per stu
dent per year, including part-time
students.
Dr. Jackson notes as the first
trend in engineering education the
desire of engineering teachers to
formulate true definitions of the
objectives for engineering educa
tion. He also notes the widely
spreading recognition of the need
for improved methods of teaching
and the fuller acceptance of the
significance of research for the
education of engineering students
in the upper years of their under
graduate careers.
In regard to students, Dr. Jack-
son comments on the slowly wid
ening interest in examinations “of
truly comprehensive character”
and the “reduced emphasis on term
examinations in individual sub
jects,” as well as more stimulat
ing textbooks. There is, he points
out, increasing interest in student
meetings of the national engineer
ing societies and a tendency to
wards the carrying on of experi
ments in education and research
in which more than one depart
ment takes an active interest.
Another trend is the recently de
veloped attention to the social re
lations of engineering and the so
cial responsibilities of engineers.
The change of attitude towards the
study of English “has been almost
revolutionary” and there appears
to be a return to the study of for
eign languages. Dr. Jackson al
so points out the necessity for an
accurate study of economics and
sociology by engineering students.
In completing the list of trends,
Dr. Jackson observes a “softening”
of “institutional jealousies” and
predicts that ultimately engineer
ing schools will reclassify them
selves according to “their ability
to minister to students of various
ambitions,” thus eliminating the
duplication of work and concen
trating the different kinds of work.
He also observes a tendency of
technical institutes to change to
degree-granting engineering
schools, and says that there should
be better-defined engineering
schools and a proportional num
ber of technical institutes for stu
dents desiring to enter the engi
neering trades.
J. E. Simpson Marries
TSCW June Graduate
Announcement has been made of
the marriage of Dr. J. E. Simpson
to Miss Rosemary January, daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Malcom Jan
uary of Denton, Saturday evening,
February 10. The wedding was
solemnized in the study of Rev.
J. V. Gray, Baptist minister.
The bride is a student of T. S.
C. W. and will continue her studies
there until June, after which the
couple will be at home at College
Station.
Dr. Simpson is a graduate of
N.T.S.T.C. and of Texas A. & M.,
and received his doctorate at Louis
iana State University this past
year. He is now a state research
chemist at the Texas Agricultural
Experiment Station.
National Youth Administration Will
Spend $70,200 at A. &M. This Year
The College and Graduate Work-f
program of the National Youth
Administration for 1939-1940, it
was announced today by Adminis
trator Aubrey Williams, is reach
ing 18.8 per cent more youths than
during the preceding academic-
year. The increase has been made
possible by the Relief Appropria
tion Act of 1939.
Colleges and universities were
assigned quotas of students on the
basis of 10 per cent of the total
number of resident undergraduate
and graduate students, 16 to 24
years of age inclusive, enrolled as
of October 1, 1938. For the cur
rent academic year 1939-1940, the
national student quota is 104,379 as
compared with a student quota of
87,886 during the year 19,38-1939.
Undergraduate college students
are allowed to earn an amount, set
by the various college authorities,
between a minimum of $10.00 per
month and a maximum of $20,
while the earnings of graduate stu
dents range from a minimum of
$20 to a maximum of $30.00. In
November, 1938, preliminary fig
ures show that N.Y.A. paid an
average wage of $13.28 to college
and graduate students. The aver
age wage of the undergraduates
was $12.93, while that of the
graduate students was $21.31.
The total allotment of College
and Graduate Work funds for the
academic year 1939-1940 amounts
to $14,038,268. The allotments to
the states are made on a monthly
basis usually over a nine-month,
but sometimes over an eight-month
period. The monthly allotment
to all the states, District of Colum
bia, Alaska, Hawaii and Puerto
Rico is $1,562,007.
During 1939-40 the student
quota of A. & M. was 520, the
monthly allotment was $7,800, and
the yearly allotment $70,200. These
were second greatest among all the
schools in the state, exceeded only
by the University of Texas.
The National Youth Administra
tion College and Graduate Work
program provides part-time em
ployment to needy students be
tween the ages of 16 and 24 inclu
sive who are regularly enrolled in
non-profit-making, tax-exempt,
bona-fide educational institutions
The officials of each educational
institution select the needy stu
dents for this work and assign
them to projects under the super
vision of the faculty. These col
lege students perform a wide
variety of work activities, such as
research and laboratory work,
building and repair of equipment,
construction and repair of buildings
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Convention To Meet
At Baylor April 5
WACO, Feb. 14.—Letters have
gone out to the governors of the
47 states other than Texas asking
them to name college twins to rep
resent their states at the second
annual Texas College Twin con
vention on the Baylor University
campus April 5 and 6.
Lois and Louise Bailey, identicals
who are presidents of the host
Baylor Twin club, announced that
plans are now underway for a
program that should excel in many
ways the first annual meeting of
the group, which attracted inter
national attention.
Early estimates are that 150
sets of college twins will be in at
tendance. Eighty-five sets came
last year.
On the University of California’s
new geological clock, one second
represents the passage of 50,000
years.
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"MORE PLEASURE PER PUFF...MORE PUFFS PER PACK"...
That’s how these three members of the U. S. Antarctic expedition tell of the advantages
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