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THE BATTALION
-THURSDAY, MAY 16, 1940
Nine Nationally-Known Bands Visit Aggieland During 1939-40
Swimmin'’ the Year ’Round
Morgan, Weeks, Fields Just Three
Of Visiting Musical Organizations
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The P. L. Downs Natatorium, erected in 1933, is a popular place for A. & M. students the year around.
The tile swimming pool is kept filled with fresh, clean water always and offers a good sport for all
students. It contains seating stands, locker rooms, and shower rooms.
Placement Bureau Now Helps
Graduates To Secure Jobs
By A. J. ROBINSON
Graduating seniors of A. & M. are this year for the first time
receiving official college aid in finding employment through a cen
tralized special placement and personnel bureau. Established here
in November, 1939, by the A. & M. Association of Former Students,
that ofYice has already placed hundreds of seniors in profitable em
ployment and has prospects which appear good for the placement of
other men.
The placement bureau, inaugur
ated on a cooperative basis by the
Association of Former Students
and faculty of the College, acts
to coordinate the personnel rela
tions among employers, A. & M.
College and its students and alum
ni. The major aims of the service
are:
1. The establishment of a cen-»
tralized placement service, to work
in cooperation with the college
staff and employers, in placing A.
& M r men.
2. The development of a pro
gram to acquaint prospective em
ployers with the products of A.
& M. College.
3. The promotion, in cooperation
with the faculty, of an educational
program of vocational guidance
for students.
4. Employment and placement
efforts for men already out of
school—both graduates and non
graduates.
5. The development and main
tenance of personnel records.
6. The performance of conscien
tious and worthwhile services to
both present and prospective em
ployers.
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The placement and personnel of
fice is directed by Lucian M. Mor
gan, who was born and reared on
the A. & M. campus, graduated
here in 1935 with a bachelor of
science degree in agricultural ad
ministration and in 1938 obtained
a master of science degree in ag
ricultural economics. He has serv
ed as a graduate assistant in the
Department of Agricultural
Economics at A. & M. and
has been employed as a jun
ior field officer of the Federal
Crop Insurance Corporation at
Amarillo.
Wanna Know Why
You Failed? Here ’Tis
New light was thrown this
week on the problem of college
scholastic failures through surveys
at two Pennsylvania institutions.
State College learned to its sur
prise that only a third of its re
instated students win diplomas af
ter their reinstatement. Muhlen
berg College' at Allentown report
ed success with an innovation in
routine designed to bring up the
level of freshman grades.
Penn State’s school of liberal
arts is considering rigid tighten
ing of restrictions governing re
instatements, as the result of its
findings in this respect.
Dean Charles W. Stoddart, re
porting the results of 86 readmis
sions in a three-year period, com
mented he was “very much sur
prised that only 32 were later
graduated.” Of the remainder, 25
failed again and 29 withdrew.
“Apparently,” he declared, “we
had been so much impressed by the
distinctly fine records of some re
instated students that we did not
realize how badly the others did.”
Muhlenberg’s change in study
routine was introduced at the open
ing of the new all-freshman dor
mitory last fall. Freshman Dean
Harry A. Benfer found that the
number of first-year students earn
ing passing grades in all courses
jumped from 49 per cent to 73 per
cent in the first year of the new
system.
Despite more rigid academic
standards, freshmen this year have
earned higher grades than ever
before recorded at Muhlenberg.
Here’s How To Stay
In Best Of Health
AMHERST, MASS.—(ACP)—
An increased awareness of how
to stay in good health is demon
strated by students of Massachu
setts State College under a system
of allowing each student a maxi
mum of seven days in the college
infirmary, according to Dr. Ernest
J. Radcliffe, college physician.
Fewer bed patients were accom
modated in the infirmary last year
than in the year previous, he re
ported, while the attendance in the
outpatient department was con
siderably greater.
Dr. Radcliffe interprets these
figures to mean that “our students
are slowly coming to the idea of!
having their illness treated in an
early stage.”
Without drawing definite con
clusions, Dr. Radcliffe points out;
that the removal of the fear of
medical expense has led students!
to report sickness in earlier stages;
than was the case under the sys-:
tem in effect prior to 1937 when 1
students were charged infirmary
fees for each day as a bed patient. |
HOUCK’S
The Wise-
Holick’s
Boots
BOOTS
Large Aggie Swim
Pool Is Open to All
Students of A. &M.
The big Aggie swimming pool,
one of the finest in this section of
the country and the largest indoor
pool in the South, is open to all
students of the college, emphasizes
Art Adamson, widely-known swim
ming and water polo player and
coach who piloted the Aggie water
poloists to the national junior A.
A. U. title in ’39.
The hours for use are from 4:00
to 5:30 on week days, and from
3:00 to 5:30 on Saturdays and
Sundays. The official caps and
straps that swimmers are required
to useTn the pool can be secured
there.
The A. & M. swimming pool,
formally known as the P. L. Downs
Natatorium, is the largest col
legiate indoor pool in the South. It
is 100 feet long and 60 feet wide.
By George Fuermann
It’s the rightful boast of Texas
Aggies that their college not only
I has more name orchestra on its
: campus each year than any other
Southwest Conference school, but
also that it has a dance orchestra
of its own that is “tops” in the en
tertainment field.
1940’s social season has heard
the “Candid Camera” music of Del
Courtney, the “Champagne Music”
of Lawrence Welk, George Hamil
ton and his “Music Box” orchestra,
the “Cascading Chords” of A1 Ka
velin, the rhythms of Bernie Cum
mins and his orchestra, Shep Fields
and his “Rippling Rhythm,” the
| “Ambassador of Rhythm”—Anson
Weeks, Russ Morgan’s “Music in
the Morgan Manner”; and George
Hall’s orchestra is still to be heard
at the Junior Prom and Final Ball.
Add to this list of nationally fa
mous dance bands the name of
Jack Littlejohn’s Aggieland Or
chestra and you have a dance pro-
gram almost without parallel in
American college and universities.
But the ‘rhumbacations’ and
swing fabrications of 1940’s social
season still aren’t complete
There’s the list of attractive and
lovely songstresses needed to fin
ish the picture. From the “South of
the Border” rhythms of Jayne Wal
ton to New Orleans’ “won’t kiss
girl”, Claire Nunn, there’s been
an imposing array of feminine vo
cal talent including Patty Mor
gan, delovely Connie Barleau, de
mure Eunice Clark, Carolyn Clarke,
and Dolly Dawn yet-to-come.
There are more than sixty
species of mosquitoes in the United
States—and all of them
blamed nuisance!
are a
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ion has rated Russ Morgan, Anson
Weeks, Bernie Cummins, and Shep
Fields a tie for the number-one
spot in the Aggie way of dancing
things, with Lawrence Welk close
behind. Shep Fields’ Claire Nunn
probably rates tops as far as the
singers are concerned, but any of
the ladies rate pretty well where
Aggies are concerned. Dolly Dawn
is expected to be a big hit.
All the adjectives in the book—
the good ones—are needed to de
scribe Jack Littlejohn’s Aggieland
Orchestra. That’s the band that
swings and waltzes for the mighty
Cotton Ball, the annual Barnyard
Frolic, the Cattleman’s Ball, and
more than that, they fill many
other engagements throughout the
state and on the campus.
What’s to come in 1941 is a
matter of speculation—but one
thing is certain—Texas A. & M.’s
social seasons have long been the
envy of other Southern colleges . . .
And they always will be.
Banking Magazine
Prints A. & M. Talk
The April issue of “Banking”,
a monthly journal which is pub
lished for the American Bankers
Association, devoted a large part
of a page to commending the talk
which was recently given here at
A. & M. by Henry Oliver, vice-
president of the State National
Bank of Houston, and the picture
show, “Money at Work”, which
was shown at the same time. Many
of the questions and subjects that
were brought up at the time were
reprinted in “Banking” in order
that other bankers might know
about the general trend of discus
sion to follow when appearing be
fore groups of students and mem
bers of adult organizations.
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TEXAS A. & M. COLLEGE IS
OLDEST STATE-SUPPORTED
Texas A. & M. College was op
ened in 1876 as a land-grant col
lege, and is the oldest institution
of higher learning in Texas that
is state-supported.
That first year enrollment was
approximately 100. This year it
is more than 6,000.
GREETINGS TO HIGH SCHOOL
SENIORS...
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