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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 122 ADMINISTRATION BLDG. VOLUME 41 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, TUESDAY MORNING, JAN. 13, 1942 Z275 NUMBER 45 Board Approves No Finals, 12 Month School Year Houston Symphony Orchestra ! * i H 1 1 : I; , •• i V . ^ ^ ■ ■I Hii ■if ? . ■ ■ ■ ]: ; ; R # il M'Mf •* ■ iJb j? 1 ■ W III 4 llli ■ ■ ir . . ■ lip: •' - - W" ' ' %. fw . mm \ . ‘New Registration Days Set; Schedule Of Classes Is Now Being Rearranged The Houston Symphony Orchestra which is now in its sixth year under the direction of Ernst Hoffman (left) appears as a Town Hall Feature tomorrow night. In recent years the orchestra has become a favorite attraction on the Town Hall program and it usually draws the largest crowd of any number on the program. Houston Symphony Returning For Annual Aggie Appearance System Will Continue For Duration of W ar Emergency Registration for Second Semester Listed For January 22-23; Classes Start January 26 At a special meeting Saturday afternoon, the board of directors gave their full support and approval to the resolu tion passed by the Academic Council whereby the college will operate on a 12 month basis. Under the new system this year’s freshmen will finish their college education in two years and eight months. January 22 will mark the end of the present semester. Final exams will be cancelled this term and for the duration of the period of operation on the new schedule. A. & M. is the first school in the nation to adopt this new streamlined plan of education which will serve the dual purpose of pro ducing college graduates and commissioned officers at a greatly accelerated rate. All seniors who were classified the first semester of this term will be able to register January 22 from 1-4 p.m., H. L. Heaton, acting reg istrar, announced Monday after noon. All students now enrolled who were passing in 10 or more hours on November 15 will register be ginning Friday, January 23, at 7 a.m. Assignment cards will be released to graduate and under graduate students in accordance with the schedule below, from the Assembly Hall. New students and old students returning who were not registered for this semester will register on Saturday, January 24 beginning at 8 a.m. All students who were pass ing in less than 10 hours of work on the preliminary report of No vember 15 will be unable to regis ter until they have received the ap proval of their dean. Since grades are not due in the registrar’s of fice until Thursday, the deans will not have the student’s grades un til Saturday morning and will not be able to interview any deficient students until that time. Undergraduates will register in accordance with the following sch edule: Friday, January 23, 7-8 students whose names'begin with R, 3. Friday, January 23, 8-9 students whose names begin with C, D, E, F. Friday, January 23, 9-10 students Muntfort Leaves For Course at California U P. T. Muntfort, research asso ciate in the Agricultural Engineer ing Department, left Friday for Davis, California, where he will present two papers at the annual California Rural Electric Short Course. This Short Course is spon sored by the Agricultural Engineer ing Department of the University of California. One paper is on “Equipment for Freezing and Stor ing Food on the Farm,” and the other is on “Relation of Length of Service and Equipment Investment to Electricity Used on Farms.” whose names begin with M, N, 0, P, Q. Friday, January 23, 10-11, stu dents whose names begin with G, H, I. Friday, January 23, 11-12, all stu dents whose names begin with J, K, L. Friday, January 23 1-2 students whose names begin with T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z. Friday, January 23, 2-3, students whose names begin with A, B. Friday, January 23, 3-5, all stu dents who were unable to register at their scheduled time. Students will not be able to se cure copies of schedules of classes until early next week. An an nouncement as to the distribution dates will be made in The Bat talion. Work is progressing rapidly on $17,000 worth of improvements on the old Y.M.C.A., J. Gordon Gay, associate secretary of the Y, as serted. Work is expected to be com pleted by the middle of Febru ary or the first of March. Windows are now being installed in the sol- ariums on either side of the build ing. Walls are going to be built along the lines established by the two existing posts on either side of the lobby in the building. Doors will replace the windows on each end of the lobby and will open into the solariums. A ladies powder room will be built in the place of the downstairs front office and the of fice will be moved to a position a- long the old stairs going to the basement of the building. Four long distance telephones will be placed outside the powder room along with a free phone to Bryan. The mailbox will be moved to the corner formed by the back wall of the lobby and the new wall to be built on the right side of the The fifth Town Hall presenta tion of the year 1941-42 will be held in Gnion Hall tomorrow night at 8 p.m. when the Houston Sym phony Orchestra will give a pro gram of musical selections under the baton of Conductor Ernest Hoffman. The Houston Symphony is well known in this part of the country, since it has played on the campus on several previous occasions, dur ing which each time it was well re ceived and further boosted its popularity and renown. Ernst Hoffman, in his sixth year as conductor, has made the Hous ton Symphony an orchestra that not only wins the acclaim of critics and the respect of musicians and guest artists, but one that has wide aud ience appeal as well. Under his lea dership the orchestra has given not only entertainment but some thing more lasting, a better un derstanding and appreciation of musical masterpieces. Kittrell Reid, director of the Rice Institute Band, has been promoted Saddle and Sirloin Club to Initiate New Members at Meeting Members of the Saddle and Sir loin club will take in new mem bers at a meeting Thursday night. All two-semester men or classi fied sophomores majoring in Ani mal Husbandry are eligible and are urged to join. Members and candidates for membership will meet in the Ani mal Industries lecture room at 7:00 p. m. where the candidates will be introduced and formally brought into the club by form of a ritual. front door. Offices for M. L. Cash- ion and J. Gordon Gay will be mov ed from their first floor positions to the second floor. On the second floor a hall will be built at the head of the stairs which will run north and south through the building with doors opening from it into the studios of WTAW and the offices of Cashion and Gay. A kitchenette will be built into the walls of the powder room but will be concealed from the eye. A system of doors can be opened when the device is to be used and will make accessable a sink, cookstovc, and other apparatus for the prep aration of food. The Y has borrowed the money for these improvements from the college fund and will not attempt to furnish the building. Furnish ings will be bought from a fund which is being arranged under the direction of Preston Bolton. At present the fund has risen to the amount of $1,300, but $5,000 more must be raised before the furniture can be bought. from the third chair in the trumpet section which he has held for the last five years to the first chair. Reid graduated from Rice Institute in 1937 where he was an outstand ing track man. Immediately upon graduation he accepted a job as director of the Rice Institute band, and began to play with the symphony, with which he has played ever since. Many of the members of the Symphony orchestra are local mus icians, with only those that cannot be obtained locally being import ed from the east. When a top flight musician is obtained every effort is made to retsin him throughout the years since the longer the musicians play together, the better and a more of an integrated unit the orchestra becomes, Hoffman said. Aggies urged this week to hurry and get in their part of the $50,000,000 which the Red Cross ate future. First sergeants and pro campaign calls for in the immedh ject house captains are contacting the men in their organizations for the money which will be turned ov er as soon as possible to the Stu dent Activity office. Some of the money will be spent on the campus to equip first aid kits and stations which are being set up under the civilian defense program. Tom Gillis, cadet colonel, pointed out that since these funds are delayed through administration some of the benefits of the funds may go to students who are leaving school immediately. In other words, the student might receive bene fits from the money which he con tributed to the fund. This money is to be used in behalf of American soldiers and civilians in the Philippines and other war Fish Who Want Dates For Ball Should Make Applications by Sat For the annual Freshman Ball, a trip is being planned which will bring 150 girls from T.S.C.W. to the college. But before the trip can be made 150 freshmen musH sign for dates and so far only 20 freshmen have signed. The rest must be sign ed for by Saturday so the plans may be completed. There is no cost of transportation for the dates, but there is a 50 cents charge on rooms for the dates to stay in. Marketing, Finance Club Meeting Is Thur Tom Nelson, Vice President and General Manager of the Gulf Pub lishing Company of Houston, will address the Marketing and Fin ance club Thursday night in the Y Chapel. Mr. Nelson’s address will be on “Business Papers.” Profs Wheel To Class as National Defense Rations Tires In the words of war time par lance, it seems that the A. & M. faculty is decidedly in favor of “going all out” in interest of the United States’ armed forces. Not only are local professors contributing from their pocket- books for the numerous benefit funds, but indications are that our teachers realize the severity of the situation and are replacing their “rubber-eating” automobiles with the “not-so-hungry” bicycle. Yes, war has already prompted a half dozen or so instructors to join the ranks of that one math prof who even rode a bicycle in peace time. And if there are to be others to follow suit, some sort of a “Two-Wheelers to Save Amer ica’s Rubber Club” might be form ed. Military Walks Being Constructed At New Dormitories The construction going on in front of Walton Hall and between the P. G. Hall and the new dormi tories is the building of new streets and sidewalks to the new dorms. It includes a military sidewalk from the street beside Sbisa hall to the old street in front of the new dormitories, a military side walk to replace the old street be tween the hospital and the new dormitories, and several sidewalks. The military sidewalks are to have a gravel base and an asphalt top, with gutters and curbs. The old sidewalk in front of Walton hall will be torn up and a new sidewalk further out from the hall will be built. Other sidewalks are to be built that will connect the new dormitories. areas and in the United States proper. Brazos county’s quota is $6,000, 15 per cent of which will be retained by the local chapter. M. L. Cashion is the chairman of the Brazos county Red Cross, Mrs. A. J. Buchanan, the execu tive secretary, and Mrs. Edna May Erickson director of the area for Texas and southern Oklahoma. Further Red Cross activities on the campus include knitting and the preparation of clothing for ser vice men. Mrs. G. W. Adinance, College Station production chair man, stated that the local group has received an additional quota of 325 knitted sweaters and garments. On each of these articles of cloth ing will be a tag saying that the garments were made by the Texas Aggie unit of the American Red Cross through arrangements made by Gillis. By Ken Bresnen “Air raid!” will no longer be the mess hall cry of noisy A. & M. fish. Because A. & M. has been designated as a possible objective, and because it is in a danger zone, blackouts and air raid alarms are being planned by school authorities under the supervision of the Fed eral Bureau of Investigation. College Station has been divid ed into seven zones for policed pro tection and air raid warden ser vice. Each zone will organize its own auxiliary police department which will be concerned with crime protection and sabotage during emergencies. These special police will be at large during blackouts and air raid alarms to prevent the Drill Increased Next semester will begin on Jan uary 26 and will mark the begin ning of increased drill periods and more intensive training in military science. Drill will be held four hours per week instead of two. Registration will begin Thursday afternoon, January 22, and will ex tend through Friday, January 23. Special efforts are being made to increase the enrollment of the school for the first summer semes ter in the history of the school and college officials anticipate the largest freshman class in A. & M. annals to register on June 1. More Reserve Officers By keeping the $15,000,000 ins titution in operation the year around, A. & M. will be able to turn out hundreds of officers in the next few years who will take their place alongside more than 4,000 officers now in the service who have graduated from A. & M. in the past. Freshmen entering college aver age about seventeen years and three months of age. Under the new plan these men will finish school shortly before they reach the selec tive service age of twenty. It is predicted that the minimum age requirement for commissioned of ficers will be lowered to 20 so that these men may go into the army immediately upon gradua tion. Efforts are being made to secure commissions at once for those stu dents who will finish their college work this month but will have only seven semesters of military science. As yet no definite information has been received from the War De partment. Seniors Who Have Waivers Must Report For Physicals Today Physical examinations for the senior military science students who have waivers will begin this morning at 8 o’clock. Captain B. L. McCloud, Jr. and First Lieutenant Clyde Kernek will arrive from Fort Sam Houston to be in charge of the examinations. All students that have to take the examination must see Sergeant Beck in the Military Department to obtain their appointments. work of saboteurs and to prevent petty thefts and damage to prop erty by vandals. Howard Lee of the commandant’s office has been sent to the F.B.I. school on Civilian Defense at Gal veston to receive training in the technique of the blackout. Because many of the details involved in pre paring a community for a black out have not been worked out, a definite date cannot be set until Lee returns. One police company has al ready been organized in the cadet corps which will assist in the pol ice problems on the campus. All preparations on the campus prop er will be handled by the cadets. The residential communities ad joining the campus will designate ED Department To Renew Defense Drawing Training Course Includes Math, Drawing and Sketching In Civilian Instruction The Department of Engineering Drawing is sponsoring a National Defense course in Advanced Engi neering Drawing in cooperation with the United States Department of Education starting February 7. This course has been given three times within the last year, and draftsmen are still in demand. The course is strictly civilian training and in the interest of Na tional Defense. Enrollment is lim ited and students will be selected upon their ability to profit from the training. The minimum requirements for entrance to the course are: Grad uation from high school with at least two years of mathematics and one semester of drawing, or equiva lent. The course includes 34 hours per week in class as follows: 13 hours drafting, 3 hours shop sketching, 8 hours practical descriptive geom etry, 3 hours shop mathematics, 5 hours gauges and measure ments, and 2 hours shop process es. There is no tuition charge for the course. Students must pay for room and board, books, drawing instruments, paper, etc. They may live in the college dormitories or anywhere off the campus. They may eat in the mess hall or off the campus. The estimated cost for students staying on the cam pus is $100.00, Jobs are not guaranteed, but every effort will be made to place students. The Engineering Draw ing Department and the Ex-Stu dents Association Placement Bu reau will both assist in this ob jective. The course is strictly civil ian training and in the interest of National Defense. Upon com pletion of the course the trainee is free to accept or reject any civilian employment he may choose. Application forms may be se cured from the Engineering Science and Management Defense Training headquarters or from the Engineering Drawing Department. their own air raid wardens and police personnel. Headquarters for all police and wardens will be the commandant’s office in Ross Hall. Auxiliary headquarters will be an nounced later. The purpose of set ting up an alternate headquarters is to provide a nerve center for the efficient operation of the alarm if the raid should came suddenly without warning or if the main office is inaccessable because of damage or seizure. The whole blackout is to be run much on the order of a tactical problem which assumes that the college is undergoing an attack. T. R. Spence, Vice Director of the Engineering Experiment Station has been made head of a committee (See BLACKOUT, Page 4) New $17,000 Y Improvements Expected Finished in February Local Red Cross Chapter Collecting Funds to Fill Brazos County Quota Air Raid Protection College Station Plans Blackout As Defense Envelops Aggieland