SECOND
SECTION
The Battalion
SECOND
SECTION
VOLUME 41
122 ADMINISTRATION BLDG.
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, TUESDAY MORNING, SEPT. 9, 1941
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NUMBER 1
On The
Campus
:With Jack Decker:
During the last several years,
as the A. & M. student body was
increasing in size, a decided need
was left for some means of help
ing the students in the old and
new areas to become better ac
quainted with one another and learn
more about the campus as a whole
instead of just one certain section
of it. This column will be written
for the sole purpose of trying in
a small way to remedy this situa
tion. Each column will deal with
one campus personality—someone
on the campus who may or may
not be well known, but someone
who is connected with the college or
who lives in direct contact with the
Aggies.
Perhaps one of the busiest and
most often thought of men on the
campus during registration and
for a short time following regis
tration is H. L. Boyer, more fa
miliarly known as “Mr. Harry.”
“Mr. Harry,” A. & M. graduate
of 1931, first came to A. & M. in
1929 after having gone to John
Tarleton Agricultural College at
Stephenville where he took his two
years of basic military training.
His first year here he lived in
Alpha Hall, where the Aggieland
Inn parking lot now stands, and
he claims he carried more trunks
than other freshmen in school.
His senior year was spent in the
Bachelor’s Club.
Upon receiving a degree in en
tomology in 1931, he spent the
next two years doing graduate
work and working first in the regis
trar’s office and then transferring
to the Commandant’s office where
he has served under six command
ants.
The Commandant’s office origin
ally had only seven people working
it—a commandant, an assistant
commandant, two men working in
the office, and three watchmen—
but its personnel now consists of 5
men, three women, eight watchmen,
and 17 students to cope with the
expansion of 2,612 students in 1929
to approximately 7,000 in 1941.
“Mr. Harry” is in charge of room
reservations for everyone living
in the dormitories and project
houses. About 12,000 reservations
per year, counting the long ses
sion, summer school, short courses,
and national defense courses go
through his hands.
Contrary to the idea a few have,
“Mr. Harry” is not responsible for
the placing of students, but puts
students in the dormitories allot
ted by the Commandant’s office
proper.
Aggie Meets War Department Head
School of Engineering Again Offers
Defense Courses Open to the Public
Once again the school of engineering at A. & M. in cooperation
with the U. S. Office of Education will offer a series of intensive
training courses in engineering, science, and management defense,
Gibb Gilchrist announced this week. All of the courses proposed are to
train men for needed positions in national defense industries.
A total of 15 of the 19 courses proposed will cover engineering
subjects, two will be in science and the remaining two in business
administration. Of the engineering courses, three will be given at Fort
Worth, two at Houston and one-j^-
The above was a proud moment for First Lieutenant James A.
Powers, ’37, of Company F, 66th Armored Regiment, Fort Benning,
Georgia, when he shook hands with Secretary of War Henry L.
Stimson, who had been an interested observer of the recent middle
Tennessee War Games. With more than a score of high ranking
officers nearby, Secretary Stimson stopped to greet this young
officer as an outstanding representative of Uncle Sam’s new army
officer personnel. As a student at A. & M. “Jimmy” Power was
captain of A Troop, Cavalry, a distinguished student and active in
other student affairs.
Dairymen’s Short
Course Scheduled
For November 17-19
A. L. Darnell of the department
of dairy husbandry has announced
dates for the annual Dairymen’s
Short Course, to be held here No
vember 17, 18, 19. The annual
dairy herd classification for both
Jerseys and Holsteins also will be
held during the short course, which
annually attracts more than 250 of
the leading dairymen of the state
and nation.
"Hey look ...
A new Arrow!”
Everybody goes for Arrow
shirts — for Arrows go well
with everyone.
New fall Arrow shirts come
in snappy patterns and every
model desired—button-down,
low-slope,wide-spread points;
stripes, solids, or whites.
Mitoga tailored to fit, and
Sanforized-shrunk (fabric
shrinkage less than 1%). $2
and §2.50.
Pick up some new harmoniz
ing Arrow ties, too! §1 and
§1.50.
Ten Points Maximum Student May
Garner at One Time in Campus Affairs
Student executive positions in
the corps are limited now as a re
sult of the point system which has
been adopted by the Student Activ
ities Committee.
The maximum number of points
to be allowed a single student would
be ten. The original recommenda
tions of the students activities
committee provided that the var
ious student jobs be distributed
among as many students as possi
ble, and, at the same time, prevent
any one student from being en
gaged in more activities than time
would permit.
The basis for this limitation, as
recommended by the committee,
would be a point system whereby
each job would be judged by the
importance it carries and weighed
accordingly.
Cadet Colonel Tom Gillis was
the student who was most vitally
effected by this system. He had
to resign the position of editor of
The Battalion in order to become
Cadet Colonel. Both the position
of Battalion editor and Cadet Col
onel have maximum ratings of ten
points.
Student jobs on the campus car
ry the following weights:
Cadet Colonel 10
Editor Battalion 10
Editor Longhorn 10
Advertising Manager Battalion 8
Advertising Manager Longhorn.. 8
President Senior Class 8
Associate Editor Battalion 6
Associate Editor Longhorn 6
President Junior Class 6
President Sophomore Class 6
President Freshman Class 6
Town Hall Manager 6
Senior Yell Leaders 6
President of student clubs 4
Managing Editor Battalion 4
Junior Yell Leaders 4
Vice-president student clubs 2
Secretary-treasurer student clubs 2
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Colleges Must
Redouble Efforts
During Crisis-FDR
Post-War World
Rehabilitation Falls On
Backs of Trained Leaders
President Franklin D. Roose
velt expressed his sentiments con
cerning higher education for Amer
ican youth in a letter to the Amer
ican College Publicity Association
at their annual convention. The
president said that our country
will always need men and women
with college training and that ef
forts should be redoubled to make
the colleges give more efficient
service.
The letter read as follows:
The White House
Washington
Dear Mr. Reck:
To the twenty-fourth annual
convention of the American
College Publicity Association,
my hearty greetings.
The message I would empha
size to you this year is that
America will always need men
and women with college train
ing. Government and industry
alike need men and women of
broad understanding and spec
ial aptitudes to serve as lead
ers of the generation which
must manage the post-war
world. We must, therefore,
redouble our efforts during
these critical times to make
our schools and colleges ren
der ever more efficient service
in support of our cherished
democratic institutions.
Very sincerely yours,
Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Mr. W. Emerson Reck,
President,
American College Publicity Assn.,
Route 1,
Iowa City, Iowa.
at Kilgore. Both of the business
administration courses will be off
ered at Houston.
The Federal Government pays
all the cost of instruction includ
ing laboratory fees. Incidental ex
penses, costs of textbooks, board,
room and laundry are all paid by
the students. Most of the trainees
under the courses offered at the
college will live with private fam
ilies near the campus but it is
estimated that such costs will not
exceed $125 for the twelve-week
periods the courses last. It is plan
ned that all of the propsed courses
will start in September about the
same time the regular college year
open on Sept. 10, but it will be
necessary to have sufficient en
rollment before any course is given.
While the college does not guar
antee a position for all who com
plete the courses under the pro
gram, no course will be offered
where there is not a shortage of
trained men in that field. It may
be of interest to know that all
men who enrolled in past courses
have been placed in employment
and in many cases they have ac
cepted fine positions before they
completed the work they were tak
ing. During the past Summer
Sessions one course was unable to
gradute any of their students sim
ply because manufacturers hav
ing defense contracts took them as
soon as they showed signs of pro
ficiency, preferring to complete the
training in the individual factory.
Some of the courses have pre-
requisit training but others may
be taken on the basis of ability
to do college work as shown by
the applicant’s high school record.
The courses and the prerequisits
are as follows: Design of structural
elements (to be given at Fort
Worth), three years draining at an
engineering college; Advanced
Structures (to be given at Fort
Worth), graduate in civil engineer
ing or architectural engineering
with experience in the field of
structural design; Camp Sanita
tion, ability to do college work as
shown by high school or sanitary
work record; Chemistry of powder
and explosives, three years of col
lege chemistry including one year
of organic chemistry.
Principles of chemical engineer
ing (to be given at Houston), four
year of technical college work; Pe
troleum refining (to be given at
Houston), four years of technical
college work; Materials testing
and inspection, two years of an
engineering school course or its
A. & M. was established in con
formity with an act of Congress
known as the Morrill Act, approv
ed by President Lincoln, on July
2,1862. Provisions of the act were
accepted by the Texas Legislature
on April 17, 1871.
equivalent in training and exper
ience; Surveying and mapping, high
school education with one year of
trigonometry; Aircraft inspection
(to be given at Fort Worth), two
years of college in engineering,
including chemistry and shop prac
tice.
Architectural drafting, two years
of experience in high school archi
tectural or mechanical drawing, or
the equivalent in experience; Struc
tural drafting, one year of an engi
neering school course including
engineering drawing.
Radio communications, high
school graduate or working knowl
edge of high school algebra and
physics. Amateur radio experience
highly desirable; Power and elec
tric circuits, high school graduate
with good understanding of alge
bra; Fuel and lubricant testing (to
be given at Kilgore), two years of
college engineering including chem
istry and physics; Advanced engi
neering drawing, high school grad
uate with at least two years of
mathematics and one semester of
mechanical drawing.
The business administration
courses to be offered at Houston
and their prerequisites include:
Budgeting, high school graduate
and college courses in principals of
accounting or acceptable practical
experience in accounting or budget
ing work; Cost accounting, high
school gradute with credit in book
keeping or the equivalent in of
fice or clerical experience.
Application for any of the
courses, regardless of where they
are scheduled to be held, should be
addressed to E., S., M. Defense
Training at College Station, Texas.
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