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m DIAL 4-5444 STUDENT TRI WEEKLY NEWSPAPER OF TEXAS A. & M. COLLEGE The Battalion DIAL 4-5444 OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF THE CITY OF COLLEGE STATION VOL. 40 122 ADMINISTRATION BLDG. COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, SATURDAY MORNING, MAY 24, 1941 NUMBER 90 Military Five Year Men Get Early Degree New BS Degree Authorized For Five Year Courses In an unprecedented move the Executive Committee recommended to the Academic Council that five year students now enrolled in their fourth year will be eligible to re ceive Bachelor of Sdience degrees if they are called to active duty in the army before they can finish their regular curriculum. The Executive Committee made such a recommendation to the Aca demic Council because the War de partment, in view of the national emergency, has adopted the policy of awarding reserve commissions to students upon completion of the advanced R. 0. T. C. course. This procedure by the War department leaves some of the students taking five year courses subject to active duty call. Since there is some pos sibility that these boys will never finish their courses, to move to confer the B. S. degrees was ap proved. To receive the degrees students must make application to the Ex ecutive Committee. However, to be approved it must not be made un til the student is definitely called to active duty. The degree will be given at the Commencement fol lowing the application. In other (Continued on page 4) Air Enlistment Campaign Starts Today In Ross Hall Two U. S. Army Air Corps of ficers who. will form an examining board for a campaign to enlist Texas A. & M. college men as fly ing cadets arrived by airplane this morning and are setting up head quarters in room 37 Ross hall for their year-end campaign. The officers, Lieutenant J. H. Williford, pilot, and Lieutenant L. R. Dudney, flight surgeon, will re ceive applications of prospective flying cadets and give them exam inations to determine their phy sical fitness for flight training. Lieutenant Williford, a graduate of A. & M. in 1938, who is on leave from flying duties at Randolph Field, Texas, for the campaign, said a unit system will be originat ed by which 20 men may enter the flying cadets in a body and pursue (Continued on Page 4) Key Designed For Engineering Grads An emblem of a degree in engi neering, proposed by the Student Engineers Council and approved by President T. 0. Walton as of ficial on May 28, 1940, has been selected and designed by the mem bers of the Student Engineering Council. This emblem may be worn by any graduate in the school of engineering who wishes to buy it. The key which the council has selected is to be worn as a link in a chain. Its specifications call for solid ten karat gold soldered links, raised center design, star on a map of Texas locating A. & M. college done in a bright yellow gold finish with a Roman border. The name of the owner, degree or degrees with the year of grad uation are to be engraved on the back and also the letters A. & M. The keys may be obtained by writ ing to the college Registrar who will certify the name to the jewel er. Price of the key is $8.50. The Student Engineers Council is composed of the presidents of the student engineering societies, senior student from each society selected by the dean of the engi neering school and a junior student from each of the societies, elected by the members of the society. There are 21 members of the coun cil at present representing the architecture, chemical, civil, elec trical, mechanical, petroleum and aeronautical engineering organiza tions. Seniors Share Review with Miss Easterwood ~x' mm - Thursday 102 seniors had their own final review at the review held as a part of the dedication ceremonies for the Easterwood Airport. These se niors (above) have been called early to active duty and will be graduated before the regular ceremonies. Also receiving the review was Miss Eva Easterwood, sister of the man for whom the airport was named. At the right Gen. Gerald C. Brant (second from right) con verses with Capt. R. P. Lively (center) and cadets Buster Kee ton (extreme left), Bill Becker (second from left), and Paul Haines (extreme right). Gen. Brant, commanding general of the Gulf Coast Air Corps Train ing Center at Randolph Field, was to review the corps from the reviewing stand with Miss Easterwood, but he arrived by plane just in time to see the last of the review from the air. Dan Russell Honored by PH Boys at Banquet Lieut. Davis Makes Praises as ‘Dr. Dan’ Given Watch at Banquet Daniel Russell, head of the de partment of rural sociology and the man responsible for more than 6,550 boys attending A. & M. col lege by way of the cooperative housing system for college stu dents, was honored Thursday night by the “Project House Boys” by the presentation of a watch, bought by contributions of all the students now in the project houses. The watch was given to Professor Rus sell at a special meeting of project house managers and matrons in the American Legion Hall. “Most of the boys who lived in project houses would have been unable to attend college except under this system,” Robert R. Herring, chairman of the meeting stated. “Many of these boys have gone to high positions, and at the present we don’t know a single boy who stayed in the project houses who does not now have a job.” Lieutenant Joe Davis, assistant commandant and military officer in charge of the project house area, praised Professor Russell for the work that he has done declaring that he has helped more boys through A. & M. than any other (Continued on page 4) Landscape Art Club Elects Scherz 0. E. Scherz of San Angelo was elected president of the Landscape Art Club at an open air meeting, in front of Francis Hall, Thursday night. Other officers elected were Giles Singletary of Center, vice pres ident; W. L. Vitopil, College Sta tion, secretary; H. H. Krenek, Bryan, treasurer; and K. E. Schmidt, San Antonio, director of publicity. Trip Winners Pledged They'll Make Jaunt or Bust The agronomy department has come to the conclusion that there isn’t any use in planning a trip out of the United States for the winners of the cotton judging con test they put on each year. Last year they planned to send the winners to Europe with all exr penses paid, but because of the war this plan had to be altered at the last minute. This year the winners, Ralph B. Hartgraves, F. G. Collard, J. H. Robinson and E. R. Butler (alter nate), were scheduled to make a tour of South and Central Amer ica, but again the original plans had to be discarded because it was feared that it would be difficult to obtain the necessary visas and passports. This left only one course open to them—make a tour of the United States and Canada. The department had no sooner sat back in its collective chair, when it discovered that Ralph Hartgraves would have to report (Continued on page 4) Walton, Sullivan Address Fish Class W. W. Sullivan Jr., Captain of 4th Corps Headquarters, and Pres ident T. O. Walton were the main speakers at a meeting of the fresh man class held Thursday morning at eleven o’clock in Guion hall. After being introduced by cadet colonel Bill Becker, Sullivan gave a short speech in explanation of the selective service act. Those subject to call to active duty under the provisions of this act were ad vised to see Dean Bolton if they had sufficient reason to wish de ferment. “Our first duty,” stated Sullivan, “is to serve our country in the way in which we are best fitted, wheth- (Continued on page 4) Airport Dedicated As 100 Seniors Have Final Review at Thursday’s Ceremonies College Park Streets Will Be Resurfaced Soon Assessment of 4 Cents Per Foot for Repairing Made to Property Owners Mr. I. G. Adams, secretary- treasurer of the College Park Com munity Council, stated today that the City of College Station has agreed to turn over to him at this time the pro-rata share of the general tax fund available for the streets of College Park. “We have about $450.00 on hand collected from various sources since our hard surfacing project three years ago,” said Mr. Adams. “It is estimated that a voluntary as sessment of four cents per run ning foot on all property now on a hard surface street, together with that we have, plus the allot- (Continued on Page 4) Davis Selected As Engineer Editor By Engineers’ Council Magazine to Continue With Same Policy Used By This Year’s Engineer The Student Engineering Council has chosen Billy Davis, civil eng ineering junior from Hillsboro, to be editor of the 1941-42 Engineer, Benton Elliot, president of the council announced Friday. Davis and Tommy Moore were the two candidates who were cer tified by the Student Publications Board as being eligible for the position of editorship. A member of H company Infantry, Davis has been on the editorial staff of the magazine for the last year and was the author of an article on A. & M.’s contribution to national defense in the Engineer’s Day is sue. He succeeds Jeff Montgomery as the magazine’s editor. Next year will mark the second appearance of the publication under its present name. Prior to the pres- (Continued on page 4) Junior Prom Ticket Deadline Is 6 PM Wednesday Separate Tickets For Dance or Banquet Will Not Be Available The dead-line for purchasing tickets to the Junior Prom and banquet is Wednesday at 6:00 p. m., with the price for the ticket, good for both the dance and banquet, set at $1.85. Separate tickets for the dance or banquet will not be sold; admission for just the dance or just the banquet will be the same price, $1.85. Tickets may be purchased to attend the dance only up until dance time Thursday, but anyone intending to go to the banquet must buy their ticket by Wednesday night. Favors, which are heart-lockets with a Mother-of-Pearl face and A. & M. seal, may be ordered for $1.50 up until Monday at 6:00 p. m. Tickets and orders for favors may be received from the first sergeants who will turn in the money to Fred Smitham, room 422, dormitory No. 2 (favors) and Gene Perry, room 308, dormitory No. 9 (tickets). New Officers Elected By Pre-Med Students Officers of the Pre-Med Club for the year 1941-42 were elected at the clubs final meeting held May 22. Those elected were W. D. C. (Bird Dog) Jones, president; Bill Robinson, vice-president; Jim Stin son, secretary-treasurer; and Tom Lang, reporter. Non-Militaries Show Up Other Students In Scholastic Survey While A. & M. is the lai’gesfrfwere able to reach this goal. military school in the world, it is the non-military students who have the highest grades at A. & M. results of a scholastic survey con ducted by the Registrar’s office revealed. The non-military boys have a gradepoint average of 1.245. Tops among the military stu dents are the boys over in Com pany A, Chemical Warfare Ser vice. It all goes to show that perhaps chemistry is the easiest course after all. At least the regis trar’s record would bear out this statement. Companies C and B are not far behind ranking 11 and 17 respectively among 52 organi zations here. According to the registrar’s of fice, each organization should have a grade point average of at least one grade point per credit hour per man in the oi’ganization. Only nine organizations on the campus Brain trusts of the campus must run riot in the following organi zations: A CWS, 2nd CHQ, Hdq. Cav., C CAC, C CAC, E Inf., 4th CHQ, B Field Art., and 2nd Hdq. Field Art. These were the only organizations to achieve recogni tion from the registrar’s office as having grade point averages of one or more. According to the Registrar, “Individual averages (grade-points Possibility of School Becoming Air Corps Training Post Disclosed by General In impressive ceremonies Thursday afternoon the $300,000 A. & M. College airport was officially designated Easterwood Field in honor of the late Lieut. Jesse L. Easterwood, U.S.N. and distinguished son of Texas A. & M. Prior to the ceremonies at the field the entire cadet corps passed in review honoring Miss Eva Easterwood, sister of Lieut. Easterwood, who unveiled the Monument in his honor at the field. This review also served as a “Final Review” for about 100 cadets who will have to report for active duty in the army. The graduating seniors formed a line on the review field and marched over to the -"f sidelines to receive the review. As each organization which had sen iors graduating passed by the sen iors they executed eyes right for their senior cadet officers. Brigadier General Gerald C. Brant, commanding general, Gulf Coast Air Corps Training Center, Randolph Field, flew over to par ticipate in the ceremonies and dis closed that the War Department may consider turning the college into an Air Corps post should the United States enter the war. “About two years ago I made an inspection of all colleges in the country, and at that time Texas A. & M., Purdue, and Notre Dame stood out above all others from the standpoint of usefulness to the War Department. Fine Army Post “You have the barracks (dormi tories), mess halls, shops, military training and everything which is needed to make you a very fine army post. This field will be a great asset and in event of war we could take over those facili ties, your faculty and your stu- D. Brooks. J. G. Richardson of Newgulf was the winner of the second prize in the freshman mathematics con test and both he and Keith receiv ed gold wrist watches as their awards. These were donated by R. F. Smith and presented by Mrs. R. F. Smith. The third freshman mathematics prize winner was A. S. McSwain of Bryan and he re ceived ten dollars which was given by the Mathematics Club and pre sented by W. L. Porter, head of the mathematics department. Baird, winner of the sophomore mathematics contest, and A. H. Lynch, second place winner, both received gold watches as their prizes. Baird’s watch was donated (Continued on Page 4) To The Battalion: RESOLUTION The “T” Association of the University of Texas, believ ing that all campus visitors should receive fair and cour teous treatment, regrets the occurrence of certain inci dents during and after the A. & M.-Texas baseball game at Austin May 19. The mem bers feel that these incidents, for which a small group was responsible, did not reflect credit upon The University of Texas, nor did they reflect the true spirit of those par ticipating in athletics here or the student body. The “T” Association does not condone such tactics and pledges it self toward their elimination. Carlton Terry, President, “T” Association. Goppert, Baird Hatfield, Keith, Win Contest Firsts Dr. Summey Gives D. S. Ware Unannounced Third Prize in English Contest J. J. Keith of Houston and J. A. Baird of Omaha were the win ners of the freshman and soph omore mathematics contests, re spectively, and R. C. Hatfield of San Antonio and J. G. Goppert of Edna were the winners of the freshman and sophomore English contest, respectively, it was an nounced at a banquet given for the contestants Thursday night. There was not a thii'd prize scheduled to be given in the freshman English contest, but D. S. Ware of McKinney lacked only two points tying for second place and because of the close score, Dr. George Summey, head of the Eng lish department, is giving Ware five dollars as third prize. The prize will be given to Ware at his English class May 26. H. S. Jacobson of San Antonio was the winner of the second freshman English prize, five dol lars, and R. R. Hidell of Dallas was the winner of the second sophomore English prize which was ten dollars. The first two English prizes were given by F. M. Law of Hous ton, member of the class of ’95 and president of the board of direc tors. The sophomore English prizes were given by William Morriss of Dallas, class of ’02. The freshman English prizes were announced by D. B. Gofer of the English depart ment, and the sophomore English prizes were announced by Dean T. (Continued on page 4) Longhorns Issued Through Monday PM Distribution of the new Long horn will continue through today and Monday, O. G. Allen, circula tion manager, said yesterday. Longhorns will be issued to sophomores and freshmen today from one to six p. m. Students who have lost their September main- per credit hour")”"were'first deter- tainance receipts win be able to re mined by dividing the number of after grade points by the number of hours for which the student was registered. Company averages were then found by determining the median grade points per cre dit hour for the company. The me dian grade point average is that point above which 50 per cent of the students in the company ranked.” ceive their copies Monday noon from one to six. Students are warned that dupli cate maintainence receipts will not be honored Monday. It will only be necessary to sign for the Long horn if the receipt has been lost. Several students have brought coupon books to redeem their cop ies of the Longhorn. Coupon books also will not be honored. Marines Notify 15 of Acceptance Members of the July 1 Candi dates’ Class from A. & M. who will report to Quantico, Va., for three months instructions in of ficer’s training were received here yesterday from the Marine Corps offices by the military department. In the July 1 class are E. L. Floore, T. B. Miller, Jr., King Moss, G. E. Geyer and J. P. Prowell. Candidates who will report on October 1 are D. R. Sayles, E. P. White, Jr., E. A. Vivian, Leon Noel, H. C. Hughes, Jr., R. L. Hobbs, T. E. Chapoton, Clarence Cpnnally, S. P. Sims and H. M. Prater. After the three-month training period, the men will go on three- month duty as officers and then go on a year’s active duty. Howell Releases Exam Schedule Dates For Second Semester The change in final exam sched ule to begin on Saturday morning May 31, has been posted by E. J. Howell, registrar, who stated that the change was made since the fi nal review is now on June 7. Howell has also posted a list of students who have to take con flict exams and the courses in which they conflict has been post ed in the rotunda of the Academic building. Revised Final Examination Schedule K—May 31, Saturday—8-11 a.m. L—May 31, Saturday—1-4 p.m. M—June 2, Monday—8-11 a.m. N—June 2, Monday—1-4 p.m. P—June 3, Tuesday—8-11 a.m. R—June 3, Tuesday—1-4 p.m. S—June 4, Wednesday—8-11 a.m. T—June 4, Wednesday—1-4 p.m. V—June 5, Thursday—8-11 a.m. W—June 5, Thursday—1-4 p.m.