Boots Are Back Again
The O.D. missed an opportunity here as two members of the class
of ’42 showed up on registration day all decked out in new boots,
but wearing non-reg belts. Boots are back again as this picture
shows. Pictured left to right are D. C. Thurman, Skeen Staley,
Jack Lamberson, Ralph Criswell, and A. C. Anderson.
—Photo by Howard Berry
Largest Freshman Class
Tastes First Aggie Spirit
A freshman class which boosted-
enrollment to an all-time high got
its first taste of Aggie Spirit in
front of the “Y” Thursday night
as Skeen Staley and J. 0. Alexan
der took over the jobs of senior
yell leaders for 1941-42.
Following the customary tradi
tion of quieting the fish the Ag
gie Band circled the block and took
its place on the steps to begin the
first yell practice for the sixty-
fifth session of school. Chuck
Chalmers and Jack Nagle, both of
Houston, made their first appeai’-
ance before the cadet corps as jun
ior yell leaders for fne current
year.
President T. 0. Walton was pre
sented to the corps and made a
short talk urging the students
work wholeheartedly in the face of
the present situation and to up
hold their obligations as Aggies
and students.
Lieut. Joe Davis, acting com
mandant, congratulated the corps
on its conduct and spoke in behalf
of the military department in co
operating with the students at all
times.
Other speakers were D. W. Wil
liams who is acting, during the ab-
SENIOR PICTURE
DEADLINES
Sept. 16 through 22—Field
Artillery.
Sept. 23 through 29—In
fantry.
Sept. 30 through Oct. 5—
Composite Regiment.
Oct. 6 through Oct. 8—
Cavalry.
Oct. 9 through Oct. 13—
Engineers.
Oct. 14 through Oct. 17—
Coast Artillery.
-sence of Dean E. J. Kyle, as head
of the Athletic Council and E. L.
Angell, who replaced Col. Ike Ash-
burn as Executive and Assistant to
the President.
Also presented was Richard Jen
kins who comes to A. & M. to fill
the new position of leader of the
Singing Cadets. Jenkins comes
here from Houston where he was
connected with the Humble Oil and
Refining Company and served as
director of the First Methodist
Choir.
Coming as a climax of the initial
yell practice was the presentation
of Coach Homer Norton, his staff
and the Aggie football squad.
Norton reported the players as
being in the best physical condi
tion that he had ever seen and
asked the corps to remember that
the squad will be composed of ah
most entirely new players and to
take each game as it comes.
The entire coaching staff and
team expressed a determination to
play and win each game, but at
the same time none of them had
forgotten the disappointing defeat
of last Thanksgiving.
With the accompaniment of the
band the corps took the rust off
some of the Aggie yells and gave
the freshmen an idea of the vol
ume that can be obtained from the
throats of several thousand Ag
gies.
Engineer Staff To
Meet Monday Night
The staff of the Engineer will
hold a meeting next Monday night,
Billy Davis, editor, announced. The
meeting is to be at seven o’clock
at The Battalion offices.
Organization and plans for this
school year will be completed and
•discussed at this meeting.
TTie Battalion
VOLUME 41 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, SATURDAY MORNING, SEPT. 13, 1941 Z725 ~~ NUMBER 3
Registration Figure Reaches 6,459
New Activities Board Formed
Two Student
Boards Combined
In New Committee
A new system designed to co
ordinate the activities of student
organizations has brought about
the formation of a new Student
Activities Committee from the Stu
dent Publications Board and the
former Student Activities Commit
tee.
The combination was made be
cause of the overlapping of work
being accomplished by the two
committees, and the need for or
ganization of the burden of work
being done by them. An increase
in efficiency and in enabling the
students to participate in student
activities is the objetcive of the
new system.
The new committee will be made
'up of members of both the for
mer boards and will combine the
work that has heretofore been done
by each separately. The new
committee will consist of four
members of the faculty and eight
students.
Student Members of the new
committee will be Don Gabriel,
editor-in-chief of The Battalion;
R. L. “Rusty” Heitkamp, editor of
the Longhorn; Billy Davis, editor
of the Engineer; Roland Bing, edi
tor of Agriculturist; Tom S. Gillis,
Senior Publications Representative
and Charles Babcock, Junior Pub
lications Representative; Alden
Cathey, social secretary to senior
class and Fred A. Smitham, Town
Hall manager.
Under this new arrangement the
social secretary of the senior class
and the Town Hall manager will
be added to the committee in or-
1 der to include two more important
phases of student activity. After
this year the offices of publica
tions representatives from the jun
ior and senior classes will be abol
ished and only six students will be
members of the board.
Dean F. C. Bolton, member of
the old Student Publications board
and member of the new commit
tee as one of the four faculty
representatives gave as the reason
for abolishing the publications
representatives offices the fact
the two new student representa
tives were holding elective offices
and would be sufficient to repre
sent the student body.
Dean Bolton also said he believ
ed the new Student Activities Com
mittee would be able to serve the
students in a greater capacity
since it would facilitate the guid
ance of student organizations by
placing them all under one com
mittee and one office.
Former faculty members of the
(See ACTIVITIES, page 4)
Aggie Engineer
Will Be Issued
Once Each Month
Eight Issues Will
Concern All Depts.
Engineering School
The new Engineer staff will
publish eight editions of the Texas
A. & M. Engineer, official publi
cation of the Engineering school,
announced Billy Davis, editor of
the publication in a statement of
his plans for the coming year. The
magazine is to be issued about
the middle of each month if the
present objectives of the staff can
be accomplished.
In the preceeding school years,
the magazine had been issued bi
monthly but this year heralds a
monthly magazine with issues ap
pearing from October to May.
The magazine is expressly de
voted to the engineering field.
Articles contained in the Engineer
include material which is of de
tailed technical nature and of
special interest to students of those
fields as well as articles which deal
with the general field of Engineer
ing.
Sponsored by the Student Engi
neering Council through the Stu
dent Publications Office, the En
gineer is the voice for all engi
neering departments of A. & M.
Included in this group are the de
partments of Electrical Engineer
ing, Mechanical Engineering, Chem
ical Engineering, Civil Engineer
ing, Architecture, Petroleum En
gineering, Geology, and Aeronau
tical Engineering.
The nominal price for the entire
eight issues of the magazine is 50(1',.
A. & M. Dames Club
Plans First Meeting
The A. & M. Dames Club will
hold its first meeting of the cur
rent school semester Tuesday night
at eight o’clock in the old Y. M.
C. A.
The purpose of the meeting is
for the old members to reacquaint
themselves and introduce new mem
bers. It was originated expressly
for students’ wives who are strang
ers on the campus.
Meeting Called For
Agriculturist Staff
A meeting of the Agriculturist
staff has been announced by Ro
land Bing, editor, for next Tues
day night. Staff members are re
quested to report at The Battal
ion office at seven o’clock on this
date.
It is imperative that staff mem
bers be present.
Registration Day
Over For 6500 Old
And New Students
It’s all over but the shouting!
That means that once again regis
tration is over.
The Administrative building was
crowded to capacity for the past
few days as a record enrollment
in its halls. Toughest job of all
probably went to the janitor force
who had to do double duty in order
to clear the debris out of the halls
every night.
Registration lines are gone—
gone until mid-term and no one
is sorry.
First impressions are usually
lasting ones. That must be right
too, because no Aggie ever for
gets the endless lines on regis
tration day.
Three Students
To Room Living
In Old Dorm Area
Housing 2772 students, the rooms
in the old area dormitories are
full, with the exception of a few
reserved rooms. All the rooms in
the old area are now accomodating
three cadets; this includes the cor
ner rooms of Walton and Hart,
which formerly had only two to the
room.
Every effort is being made by
the commandant’s office to see
that all boys are placed in their
proper military organizations, and
the office realizes that many
changes will be made during the
next few days. The plan is to ac
commodate as many cadets as pos
sible who wish to make any room
changes.
Revival Planned
By Baptist Church
Dr. W. Douglas Hudgins, pastor
of the Broadway Baptist Church
in Ft. Worth, will lead a revival
at the First Baptist Church in
Bryan next week. The meeting be
gins Sunday, September 14, and
continues throughout the week.
The programs will feature mu
sical numbers by a twelve member
orchestra, two pianos, and an or
gan. Choir director Euell Porter
will be song leader.
College students have been ex
tended a special invitation to at
tend these meetings by Dr. Wm. H.
Andrew, pastor of the church. Sun
day services begin at 10:50 a. m.
and 8:00 p. m. Weekday services
are at 10:00 a. m. and 7:30 p. m.
New Agriculturist
Will Be Issued At
Monthly Intervals
Contests For Magazine
Will Be Taken From All
Non-Engineering Schools
Eight new issues of the Agricul
turist are scheduled to roll off the
presses and into the hands of the
student body during the current
school year. This is the first in
stance in the history of student
publications that plans were defi
nitely settled to print more than
four issues.
Changing from a bi-monthly pub
lication to a monthly issue the first
edition of the magazine will be
available to subscribers in Octo
ber. A new issue will be printed
during each of the following months
through May.
Roland Bing, editor of the Agri
culturist, announced recently that
first hand information for the
magazine will be obtained from
the Experiment Station. Each issue
will contain information beneficial
to every student enrolled in the
school of Agriculture here at A.
& M., he said.
The Agriculturist will contain
information pertaining to every
branch of s^udy here at A. & M.
with the one exception of the school
of engineering.
Fifty cents is the total cost for
each subscription which entitles
each subscriber to all eight issues.
They are distributed in the dormi
tories by first sergeants.
Welcome Given
This Morning By
President Walton
As the opening meeting of the
year President Walton will speak
to members of the Junior and
Senior classes in Guion Hall at
ten o’clock today. At eleven there
will be an assembly of all sopho
mores in the same building. All
students are required to attend.
In order to facilitate students
meeting Saturday morning classes,
and also the required assemblies,
there will be an abbreviated sche
dule for the mornings classes; the
classes will each last 20 minutes.
This will be the opening meeting
of the year. President Walton will
speak to both meetings. The neces
sity for the separate meetings is
due to the large classes and the
limited meeting space. There will
be a short program and announce
ments for the coming session.
Freshman
Enrollment
Above 2300
Decrease Shown
In Old Students
’41 Registration
The registration for the first
semester of 1941-42 reached a
total of 6,459, unofficial reports
from the Registrar’s office an
nounced as the third day of regis
tration closed Thursday night
when the long lines of old students
finally turned in their assignment
cards. Old student registration is
under that of last year.
At the close of the freshmen
registration, an unofficial count
from the registrar’s office showed
that 2327 new students had com
pleted the ordeal of the semi
annual registration procedure.
As compared with last years
freshmen enrollment figures at
this date a slight increase of 164
students is shown. At that time
2,163 freshmen had enrolled.
Three Long Days
For three better than average
days registration has continued.
Getting the registration ball to
rolling classified Seniors began
the procedure Tuesday morning
after a meeting in the Assembly
Hall. Wednesday was “Fish Day”
at the Administration building as
a merciless mob of prospective Ag
gies poured endlessly through the
portals of A. & M. Juniors and
sophomores came close on the
heels of the ambitious “Fish”
Thursday to complete the third
day of the tiresome grind.
Exhausted minds, tired legs and
aching feet were only a few of the
after affects of registration day.
Tuesday’s early registration was
taken advantage of by 555 classi
fied seniors. This was the first
year that this group has been al
lowed to register ahead of the
rest.
Old Students Under
An unofficial report from the
registrars office, Friday, showed
that Thursday night the enroll
ment figures for old students had
fallen slightly under last years
record at this date. The total en
rollment at this time last year was
3,894 as compared with an un
official count for this year of 3879.
However, eligible students who
still wish to enroll have until a
week from next Thursday to do so.
The unofficial total figures of
both old and new students at the
close of the day Thursday show
that 6,459 have enrolled. This rep
resents a total increase of 98
students over last year’s 6,363 at
this time.
Fish Wishfully Wait . . . .
Studiously Sign Up . . . . And Happily Near End
The largest freshman class in the history of A. & M., totaling exactly 2,327
at the end of the first day’s registration, slowly milled through what to them
seemed like hundreds of lines Wednesday. One hundred sixty four more students
passed through those line than passed through similar lines last year. However,
the class of *45 has not yet reached its greatest size for some freshmen are ex
pected to be still signing up during the next few weeks. Above some of the many
fish are seen at strategic spots which marked definite advancement along their
weary trail. At the left part of the class is seen waiting for assignment cards so
the students of ’45 can start this new thing of registration. Expectany of what
would happen in the Administration building is almost entirely satisfied for
the seven freshmen in the center picture as they progress to the “county card”
table. Not many more lines for them. The picture on the left graphically in
dicates the feeling of the first year cadets as they neared the end of the line—
relief and amazement. Jack Nagle, W. H. “Chuck” Chalmers, Shorty Glenn, and
J. O. Alexander are the seated upperclassmen issuing the athletic coupon books
and Battalion cards. —Photos by Howard Berry