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
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NUMBER 45
Board Approves No Finals, 12 Month School Year
Houston Symphony Orchestra
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‘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