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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (April 24, 1941)
THE BATTALION Page 4- -THURSDAY, APRIL 24,1941 Largest Number of Models Ever Sent To A&M to Be Here for Cotton Show Excess-Cut Petition to Faculty Sfrange "Goings On" Heard From Laboratory in Old Pfeuffer Hall The largest number of models and helpers ever sent to A. & M. for the annual Cotton Pageant and Style Show by any store handling the event will be at A. & M. on the night of May 2. According to ad vance information among this group of twenty-four from Sang er Brothers of Dallas will be 12 or 14 of the store’s best and most beautiful models. The girls will present to the aud ience a preview of the latest styles and coming designs in the world of cotton fashion. As part of their presentation they will show the advancement of cotton clothes and will give a prediction of coming streamlined garments. Before the style show begins, the crowning of the king and queen 150 to 5 p. m. - 200 After LAST DAY BIG DOUBLE FEATURE • PROGRAM No. 1 “Santa Fe Trail” Shows at 2:00 - 5:02 - 8:02 No. 2 “Ride Kelly Ride” Shows at 1:00 - 4:02 - 7:02 - 9:52 FRIDAY - SATURDAY A UNIVERSAL PICTURE —Also 3 Stooges, Wild Hare, A Wabbit Twacks, Cartoon — Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse—and the Annual A. & M. Horse Show Film ed by Aggietone. of the cotton ball will take place. Sterling C. Evans, president of the Federal Land Bank of Houston, is the person who has been selected to present J. T. Anderson with his symbol of regeancy. The forming of the king and queen’s court will follow the cor onation and in turn it will be fol lowed by the style show. Intermingled with and immedi ately after the style show the Agronomy Society will present pro fessional entertainers. The enter tainment will include a team of professional ball room dancers, a group of novelty dancers and other specialties. The grand finale of the pageant will be a la conga by the king and queen’s court and the duchesses and their escorts. After the pageant from ten un til two in the main dining room and the annex of Sbisa Hall the Cotton Ball will be held with Ed Minock and the Aggieland Orches tra playing. Arrangements have been made for one of the new dormitories to be vacated for the visiting girls during the cotton festivities which will be held at the same time as the Ag Day events. Pinson said yesterday during a Battalion interview that there are still several of the duchesses and some of the models from Dallas who don’t as yet have dates. Any cadets who wish to escort one of these girls may contact Pinson at the Agronomy office before Thurs day. The 1940 production of wool in the United States both shorn and pulled, totaled 449,763,000 pounds and was the largest on record, the Agricultural Marketing Service re ports. Dr. David Rubio, head of the Romance language department of Catholic university of America, is visiting Spain and Portugal to col lect additional volumes for the li brary of congress. Academic Council Considers Measure In Next Two Weeks Absences Without Grade Point Deductions Is Essence of the Plan The recently submitted petition to abolish all penalties for excess cuts in class will be presented to the Academic Council for consid eration at their next meeting which will be held sometime within the next two weeks, Dean F. C. Bolton stated. The plan to modify the present system of forcing class attendance by deducting from the student’s total number of grade points for excessive cuts was presented ori ginally at the meeting of the Stu dent Engineer’s Council last Thurs day night. The essence of the proposed plan is that the student be allowed to take as many cuts as he desires without having the absences affect his grade point total. Instructors will be required to keep a record of class attendance and turn in a record of all absenc es to the registrar when grades are sent in so that a correlation of grades and cuts may be made. The total number of cuts will be sent out with each report of the stu dent’s grades. The plan was founded on the basis that students are penalized sufficiently by cutting class and that their grades should not be lowered because of excess cuts. Flight Instructors Course Is Offered Trainees . who have completed the secondary phase of the Civil Pilot Training Program are eli gible to praticipate in the third stage of the flight training. This stage is called the Student Flight Instructors Course and consists of about forty hours of flight train ing at the college airport. The ob ject of the training is to prepare students to act as flight instructors for new trainees in the primary flight stage. There is a great short age of flight instructors at the present time, and this is one meth od taken to remedy the deficiency. There is a small amount of ground school work given at the airport in connection with the flight train ing. The only expenses attached to the training and insurance and transportation, provided the train ee’s commercial CPT secondary physical examination is still in effect. The requirements for the English Contests Set for May 15 The English contest examina tions for both sophomores and freshmen will be held at 7 p. m., Thursday, May 15 in the library classroom (basement) and infor mation about the material of the examinations will be published not later than May 1, Dr. George Summey, head of the English de partment, announced yesterday. The cash prizes offered are as follows: first prize $15 and second prize $10 in the William Morriss English Contest for sophomores; first prize $20 and second prize $5 in the F. M. Law English Contest for freshmen. Conditions of eligibility for the sophomore contest are grade ‘A’ in English 203 or 231, distinguished student rating for the first semes ter, and grade ‘A’ on any course paper or book review that may be required in the sophomore English course the student is now taking. For the Freshman English Con test, conditions of eligibility are grade ‘A’ in English 103 and dis tinguished student rating, first se mester; grade ‘A’ or ‘B’ in English 104 to April 1, and satisfactory oral work in the same course to April 19. Eligible students are required to file their names with their instruct ors or with the secretary in the English office by noon Friday, April 25, after which time no en tries can be accepted. If the num ber of entries appear to be too few, the donors of the prizes, F. M. Law of Houston and William Morriss of Dallas, have the right to withdraw them, Dr. Summey said. For this reason it is necessary that eligible students file their en tries promptly. course are that the student must have satisfactorily completed the secondary course and must be rec ommended by his flight instructor as being acceptable instructor ma terial. A quota of ten students has al ready been allotted to A. & M. College. Five of these will start training immediately. The second group of five will start about June 1. Provided a sufficient number of applications are received, a furth er quota of ten will be allotted, and the training will probably be given in either the first or second summer sessions. Any student now in college who has completed the secondary train ing either here or elsewhere is re quested to get in touch with Cap tain C. A. Miller of the Kadet Aviation Company at the Airport. By W. F. Oxford Jr. If you hear any strange mut- terings coming from Pfeuffer hall, don’t be afraid and run on to that calculus class to escape the “spir its.” It’s neither the voicings of the ex-Aggies who used the hall as a place of abode or the echoes of the students of the Consolidated High School who used to attend classes there. It is merely the stu dious work of three graduate as sistants of the biology department, Marshall Wheeler, Martin Burow and Bryan Glass. Their laboratory of the “hollow” as it is called, is a strange con glomeration of hides on the wall, snakes in boxes, a baby owl in the window, quail in a light proof box and microscopic crayfish. “Oscar,” the baby owl and a gift from a student who caught the animal, is soon to be stuffed and will be a permanent fixture in the college museum. “Oscar” doesn’t know this yet. More of their live stock includes a possum with six Youth Training Course Will be Offered in June A three-weeks course in youth leadership training carrying col lege credit will be offered at A. & M. June 9-28, Daniel Russell, head of the college rural sociology department, announced here this week. Cooperating with the college in holding the course will be the Hogg Foundation of Texas and the Boy Scouts of America with O. H. Ben son, director of rural scouting, Boy Scouts of America; V. K. Brown, director of playgrounds, Chicago, 111.; and Prof. Russell named to give the series of lectures. The course will be divided into sections so that the first and third weeks will serve as institutes which professional or voluntary workers not seeking college credit may attend. The week of June 9-14 will be directed by Benson and will deal with rural youth problems and ru ral youth leadership attempting to interest leaders in 4-H Clubs, Fu ture Farmers of America, Boy Scouts and similar organizations. During the week of June 16-21, both Benson and Russell will leqf ture to those students who are en rolled for the full three-week course. Instruction during the week of June 23-28 will be under the di rection of Brown and this period will serve as the second institute for those not taking the full course. He will discuss the problems of or ganizing recreation for youth in local communities. Prof. Russel] has pointed out that this part of the course should particularly in terest leaders and teachers in schools, N.Y.A., W.P.A., Y.W.C.A., Y.M.C.A., and other recreational instructors. Personality and per sonality adjustment will be stress ed throughout the entire course. Students who satisfactorily com plete the course will be given three hours of college credit. Goodrum, Lehmann Are Campus Visitors Visitors on the campus yester day were Phil D. Goodrum, direct or of restoration, Texas Game, Fish and Oyster Commission, and Valgene W. Lehmann, regional game manager, Texas Game, Fish and Oyster Commission. Goodrum and Lehmann confer red with leaders of the Texas Co operative Wildlife Research Unit relative to summer employment for fish and game majors. A New York commercial jour nal recently attributed gains rin cotton futures to expectancy of high loans in Washington and to acceptance of bids for 80,000 bales of cotton and 6,270,000 yards of ticking by the Surplus Marketing Administration. The cotton and ticking will be used in the federal cotton mattress demonstration pro gram. The Agricultural Marketing Ser vice, USD A, reports the number of turkeys on hand February 1 for breeding in the United States was 14 percent lower than on the cor responding date a year ago. ^-little ones, and seven male quail. The quail belong to Burow who is working on photoperiodicity or in plain English, showing that an increase in light will increase the sexual cycle. Their prize assistant, “Butch,” a white rat, was out for a vacation and could not be interviewed. He escaped from a hormone experi ment and is very much happier in his new life running around with the common rats of Pfeuffer hall —which are many. Wheeler, the herpetologist by av ocation is studying an indigo snake along with his crayfish. The snake formerly belong to Tex Flynn but it seems that his room mate did not like the idea of sleeping in the same room with a snake, so Wheeler was presented with the reptile. Wheeler’s thesis is the micros copic Crustacea of Brazos county while Burow is hard at work on the parisites of man. One of these days when you are looking for something new around the college and in the mood to learn something, drop in most any grad uate laboratory and the “grads” will be glad to show you around. Engineer Aide Jobs Open to June Grads Vacancies for aeroplane engi neering aide, $1800 per annum, and junior aeronautical engineer and junior mechanical engineer, $2000 per annum, exist at the Naval Aircraft Factory. It is sug gested that any member of the June graduating class who is in terested in such employment write the Factory immediately, outlin ing his education and experience, if any, and enclosing a photograph. Probational appointments in the above ratings can be issued to can didates selected by the Factory and can be held until the appointtees are available after graduation. Pro bational appointments become per manent appointments after six months of satisfactory service. The Factory also has a number of vacancies for Associate Aero nautical Engineer, $3200 per an num, and Assistant Aeronautical Engineer, $2600 per annum, which it is authorized to fill by proba tional appointment of individuals selected. Qualified graduates who desire to be considered for such employment should immediately forward a complete outline of train ing and experience, with photo graph, to the Factory. Any comments which you may care to forward concerning your graduates or students who are in terested in employment at the Na- vail Aircraft Factory will be ap preciated. If you’re off for the shore, the club or the hills—a good first aid to a good time is a Goodall PALM BEACH SUIT Take a White for moonlight—and a summery Tan for a spin in the car or a loll on the beach... Still room in your bag for 2 pairs of smart breezy Palm Beach Slacks—And what a wardrobe! What eye appeal! What value at $17.75 The Evening Formal $20.00 - And the Slacks $5.50 Goodall makes the cloth - Goodall tai lors the suit - Always look for this label! (I Aaldrop & “Two Convenient Stores” College Station Bryan There's something about Coca-Cola,— ice-cold,— that stops thirst in its tracks. 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