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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1941-
Signal Corps Offers
Chance for College
Grads as Officers
THE BATTALION
The War Department has made
arrangements to take a limited
number of college graduates into
the Signal Corps Reserve with sec
ond lieutenants ratings.
Other than a college education
or its practical equivalent in elec
trical engineering or electronic
physics applicant must have the
following qualifications:
1. Be civilian or enlisted person,
nel i" any component of the Army
of the United States in either ac
tive or inactive status.
2. Be unmarried without de
pendents between 21 and 36 years
of age and be able to meet the
physical standards prescribed for
appointment as Reserve officers.
3. Accept active duty outside
the Continental United States if
necessary.
Personnel commissioned under
this authority will be ordered to
active duty at Fort Mammouth,
New Jersey, for a brief course of
military instruction. Their train
ing will be continued at other lo
cations to be designated.
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Journalists May
Take New Courses
English Department
Supplements Curriculum
With Journalism Subjects
Two new courses in journalism
are to be added to the English
Department this year. During the
first semester, a new course in in
terpretative writing will be offer
ed. This is a course for advanced
reporters. It is a continuation of
straight news writing but recog
nizes the fact that there is grow-’
ing importance to interpretation of
certain types of material which
has news value but is too com
plex for the average reader.
During the second semester, a
new course in specialized forms
of writing is to be offered. This
course deals with interesting and
proper writing of feature stories,
special columns, reviews and var
ious types of editorials. The course
also teaches students how to read
newspapers and magazines with
maximum appreciation.
In addition to these new courses,
the English Department will again
offer a course in beginners news
reporting and a course in news
editing. The beginners news re
porting course includes a study of
the fundamentals of news report
ing. It deals primarily with a gen
erally accepted newspaper style
book, the value of accuracy, proper
evaluation of material used in news
writing and the importance of con
ciseness, simplicity and brevity in
reporting material of current inter
est.
A &M Board of Directors Pass
Resolution on E. J. Kiest Beat
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Plans for a Greater A & M Designed
/ t As Former Students and Board Meet
The Board of Directors of A.
& M. in a recent meeting passed
a resolution on the death of one
of its members, Edwin J. Kiest,
of Dallas. The resolution follows:
In the passing of Mr. Edwin
J. Kiest Texas has lost one of
her most useful and distinguished
citizens. For more than a half
century Mr. Kiest made notable
contribution to the development
of the great city in which he
lived, but he was not content
to stop there. In many direct
ions his interest was State
wide, and perhaps the most
striking evidence of this was
the devotion with which he serv
ed long and faithfully as a
Director of the A. & M. College
of Texas. The college was very
dear to his heart and, in his
quiet way, he helped many poor
boys through the institution.
Mr. Kiest was regarded by
his associates on the Board as
a never-failing tower of strength.
During the last months of his
life he was in failing health, but
Street Takes
Spencer’s Position
William E. Street has been se
lected to head the department of
engineering drawing, succeeding C.
Spencer, resigned, Gibb Gilchrist,
dean of the school of engineering
has announced.
Street, who replaces Spencer, is
a native Texan. He took his de
gree of bachelor of science in elec
trical enginering and master of arts
in engineering education at Texas
Technological College and has been
serving in the drawing department
there since 1928.
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regardless of doctors’ orders he
attended all Board Meetings of
the College and performed faith
fully every duty assigned to him.
He was a man of strong char
acter and convictions and al
ways had the courage to fight
for what he thought was right.
BE IT RESOLVED that this
testimony regarding the charac
ter and service of Mr. Kiest be
recorded in the minutes of the
Board of Directors of the A. &
M. College of Texas, that a copy
be furnished to the press, and
that a copy be sent to his fam
ily.
Student Laborers
Make Honor Grades
A high percentage of A. & M.’s
distinguished students are employ
ed here as part of the student
labor program, Wendell R. Hors
ley, Chairman, Student Labor Com
mittee, announced after an analy
sis of student personnel records
for the last year.
During both the first and sec
ond semesters 641 student were dis
tinguished in their scholastic work.
Of this number 273 of them or
42.6 per cent were student labor
employees.
In order to distinguish, a stu
dent must have a grade point av
erage of 2.25 and have no grades
below C. In commenting upon the
showing made by student em
ployees, Horsley said, “I believe
this is a fine record.”
Moser Only Player to
Have Old Number
Derace Moser is the only Aggie
football player who will retain his"
old number (42) for the coming
gridiron campaign. This year, in
accordance with the Naitonal Foot
ball Association’s suggestion, Coach
Homer Norton has numerically ar
ranged his players by position.
The remains of the 150 elephants
and 100 mastodons on display in
the A. & M. Museu*- all ex
cavated within ?' f the
campus.
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A momentous meeting in the an
nals of the state’s land grant col
lege was held on the campus re
cently when members of the col
lege board of directors held a joint
session with the board of directors
of the former students association,
during which President T. 0. Wal
ton and the deans of the college
staff detailed their plans and hopes
for a greater A. & M..
The A. & M. Association of
Former Students presented to the
college directors and administrative
heads a complete program which
would lead to endowment of the
institution, to enable it to make
progress by supplementing state
appropriated funds. The proposal
was accepted for thorough study
and later action.
Walton Tell of Experimental
Needs
President Walton stressed the
need for industrial and engineering
experimentation. “Had the same
support been given these fields
as has been accorded agricultural
experimentation through the years,
Dr. Walton said “the nation’s in
dustries would not now be ranged
along a comparatively small area
of the Eastern seaboard, and the
national defense emergency would
not be so acute.”
Dr. Walton pointed out that A.
& M. was founded under pro
visions of the Land Grant Col
lege act of 1862 which in a man
ner revolutionized the educational
concept of that day, in that it open
ed the doors of higher education
al opportunity to the children of
the middle class; and that it
stressed military training as a re
quisite. “Land grant colleges in
states such as Texas, where they
are separate from the state uni
versities, have adhered strictly to
the provisions of the act with a
higher degree of efficiency,” Dr.
.Walton said.
A. & M. Service Institution
“By their nature, however, land
grant colleges in general, and A.
& M. in particular, have not had
adequate financial backing, and
hardships have resulted. In the
very truest sense of the word, A.
& M. is a service institution for
all of the people of the state, and
it is unfortunate that we have been
so handicapped financially through
out the life of the institution that
we have been a training ground
for faculty and research experts
for better financed educational in
stitutions.”
Largest Percent of Graduates
Dr. F. C. Bolton, dean of the
college, spoke along the same line,
declaring it the policy of A. & M.
“not to have the largest fresh
man class in history, but the fresh
man class with the largest percent
age of eventual graduates. Where
as at the present time only one
student out of three who enter A.
& M. graduates, we hope to re
verse the ratio not by reducing
standards, but by better guidance,”
Dean Bolton declared.
Dean Gibb Gilchrist of the school
of engineering suggested revolu
tionary changes in the curriculum,
and more intensified vocational
study before high school gradu
ates are allowed to launch upon
the study of any phase of engineer
ing.
Proposed Summer Camps
“I believe we should make it
compulsory, “Dean Gilchrist said,
“for every high school graduate
planning to take engineering to
attend a two-month summer camp
maintained by A. & M. out in the
hill country where he would be
reviewed in mathematics and
science by guidance experts who
'at the conclusion of the 60-day ob
servation period would be able to
advise the boy whether to continue
in his ambition to be an engineer.
“Those who are accepted then
would be given two years of pre
liminary training, and a certifi
cate of completion of the basic
courses. Then he would be given
a six weeks intensive preparation
for launching into the specialized
training of whatever branch of
engineering he was best equipped
to follow.
Exes Back Board
All of the other deans at A. & M.
and the deans of the branch col
leges at Arlington and Stephen-
ville spoke on the shortage of
classroom and laboratory facilities,
and on the situation which forces
scientists to carry such a heavy
teaching load that no time or en
ergy is left for research work.
Directors of the Forestry Service,
Extension Service, and Agricultur
al Experiment Station also spoke
on their programs.
Speaking for the former students
of the college, Marion Church of
search personnel; funds which
might be used to keep outstand
ing professors when other colleges
and universities offer greater re
muneration; an auditorium or
Dallas, declared that the alumni
would back the A. & M. Board of
Directors and the administration
officers in any undertaking they
would launch to expand the facili
ties and usefulness of the institu
tion. “You be the Robinson Cru
soe,” Mr. Church declared, “and
we’ll be your man Friday.”
Pressing Needs
Among the immediate pressing
needs for A. & M. discussed at
length during the two-day meeting
were additional teaching and re-
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armory or recreational building
which will seat the entire student
body expected to reach 7,000 this
year; purchase of additional land
adjacent to the present campus;
erection of a student union build
ing to vary the social and leisure
hours of A. & M. students; and
establishment of an endowment of
sufficient size to supplement the
state funds appropriated for the
college.
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