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STUDENT TKI-WEEKLY NEWSPAPER
TEXAS A. & M. COLLEGE
The Battalion, official newspaper of the Agrricultural and
Mechanical College of Texas and the City of College Station,
is published three times weekly, and issued Tuesday, Thursday
end Saturday mornings.
Entered as second class matter at the Post Office at College
Station, Texas, under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1870.
Subscription rates $3 per school year. Advertising rates
upon request.
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Inc., at New York City, Chicago, Boston, Los Angeles, and
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Office, Room 5, Administration Building. Telephone 4-5444.
1941 Member 1942
Pissochded Go(!e6ioie Press
Brooks Gofer Editor-in-Chief
Ken Bresnen : Associate Editor
Phil Crown Staff Photographer
Sports Staff
Mike Haikin ■ Sports Editor
Mike Mann Assistant Sports Editor
Chick Hurst 1 Senior Sports Assistant
N. Libson .-. Junior Sports Editor
Advertising Staff
Reggie Smith Advertising Manager
Jack E. Carter Tuesday Asst. Advertising Manager
Louis A. Bridges Thursday Asst. Advertising Manager
Jay Pumphrey Saturday Asst. Advertising Manager
Circulation Staff
Bill Huber Circulation Manager
H. R. Tampke Senior Assistant
Carlton Power........ Senior Assistaht
Joe Stalcup...... Junior Assistant
Bill Trodlier 1 Assistant
Tuesday’s Staff
Tom Vannoy Managing Editor
Jack Keith Junior Editor
John Holman ...I Junior Editor
Tom Journeay Junior Editor
Reporters
irry Cordua, Bob Garrett, Ramon McKinney, Bert Kurtz
Bill Jarnagin, Bob Meredith, Bill Japhet, Bill Murphy, John
Sparger, and M. T. Lincecum.
Morale Study
Falling a representative ten per cent cross
section of the Cornell student body, Prof.
Leonard S. Cottrell, Jr., of the department
of psychology has ascertained that the un
dergraduates feel morale of the nation is
high. Only 9 per cent felt that the nation’s
morale was low or very low while 24 per cent
felt that morale among Cornell students was
in that category.
About 43 per cent of the students indicated
that they were studying harder as a result
of the war, while 35 per cent indicated they
are working at about the same rate; only 5
per cent believed in “having a good time
while you can.”
The students expressed the opinion gen
erally that “the war is unfortunate, but
being in it, we’ll fight to a finish because
we have to.” Eighty-three per cent thought
that “victory in this war is worth any per
sonal sacrifice on your part, no matter how
great.” Ninety-two per cent thought that
victory in this war is absolutely essential.
—AGP.
My belief is that to have no wants is
divine; to have as few as possible comes
next to the divine.—Socrates.
Calendar Reform?
American scientists favor calendar reform,
a survey reported by Dr. W. E. Castle, re
search associate in genetics in the Univer
sity of California, indicates.
Dr. Castle sent informal post-card ques
tionnaires to members of the National Aca
demy of Sciences, asking their opinion on
the adoption of the proposal of what is
known as the World Calendar.
“The World Calendar would be one of 12
months and four equal quarters,” explains
Dr. Castle. “This retains the familiar month
names but adjusts their lengths so as to
make them as nearly equal as possible.”
“Each quarter begins on Sunday and
ends on'Saturday. It contains 91 days. There
are 30 days in each month except the first
month of the quarter, which by reason of
having a fifth Sunday has 31 days. The
number of week days is the same in evrey
month, 26.”
The geneticist explains that this a less
radical calendar reform proposal than others
which have gained attention.
He pointed out that the chief defects of
the present calendar are: that a particular
day of the month occurs in successive years
on a different day of the week, making nec
essary a wholly new calendar each year; and
that the length of the months is not uniform
but varies from 28 to 31 days. “These two
defects make the arangement of schedules
for industry and education difficult and
temporary,” he said.
Of the 168 answers Dr. Castle received
from National Academy of Science members,
128 or 76 per cent favored it; 17 or 10 per
oent were opposed to it; and 23 or 14 per
cent were undecided. —AGP.
As long as I have a want, I have a rea
son for living. Satisfaction is death.—Ber
nard Shaw.
Quotable Quotes
“No serious student of history can doubt
that an old epoch in human development
has ended and a new one begun. In the new
epoch that lies ahead the United States will
share largely, if not assume completely, the
leadership of nations. Her riches, her geo
graphical position and her democratic tradi
tion are some of the reasons for this ex
panded role in international affairs. It is al
most unthinkable that the provicialism of
a few isolationists shall ever again restrain
- this .nation from the legitimate assumption
of world leadership.” Gordon S. Watkins,
dean of the college of letters and sciences,
University of California, hears the death
knell of United States isolationism.
This Collegiate World
PRIVATE BUCK By Clyde Lewis!
ASSOCIATED COLLEGE PRESS
Blanket graduation requirements are a thing
of the past at Knox College, where the fac
ulty” has adopted a system of all-out indiv
idualization in which each student’s course
of study will be tailor-made to fit his own
professional aims and aptitudes. Designed
to achieve at last that high degree of per
sonalized attention hich has long been the
beast of small colleges, the new plan took
effect with the summer session.
In abandoning the traditional require
ments Knox is thoroughly aware of the new
and vital importance it thereby attaches to
the adviser system. In fact, the faculty ad
vised, no longer able to write out a student’s
curriculum simply by consulting the cata
logue for a list of required courses, must
now make a careful and conscientious analy
sis of the student’s objectives and abilities.
“The student tells us what he wants to
do, and then we will tell him what he has to
do,” explains Charles J. Adamec, dean of the
college.
A freshman’s program at Knox is de
termined on a basis of his announced profes
sional aim, on his aptitudes as revealed in
vocational guidance tests or in terms of his
major departmental interest.
Far from relaxing requirements for the
individual student, the new Knox plan in
fact intensifies them, Dean Adamec points
out, in that once he has decided on a profes
sional or scholarly objective the course of
study pursue during his four years may be
very rigidly outlined. The only general re
quirements retained are rhetoric, physical
education and the widely discussed survey
course in which Knox freshmen approach
the problems of living and learning through
a study of the Middle West, their own en
vironment.
“Why didn't you tell me you were wearing new-mown hay
perfume, dear? We all thought it was phosgene!”
BACKWASH
By
<lidi Hood
“Backwash: An agritation resulting from some action or occurrence” — Webster
By John Holman
An Omen
An experiment in reading tests undertaken
several films. Wanger has inter
ested the Coordinator of Inter-
American Affairs in making short
features about Aggieland for dis
tribution in Latin America. Jack
. . perhaps is the fact that the
this year at Barnard college by Gelolo Me- Aggie defeat dealt out b y 1116 L - Leighter, of Motion Picture So-
Hugh of the department of psychology has s - u - Ti g ers is the first opener we ciety for America will arrive on
resulted in introduction of a new course for have lost since Howard Payne Col- the campus in a day or two to be-
next year. lege downed the Aggies in 1922 in gin work on the shorts. . . which
The course, “Mental Adjustment Lab- the season starter. That dosen’t will, incidentally, be pure Allied
oratory,” will be conducted by Mr. McHugh, mean much, but significant is the propoganda but good and truth-
It will have no academic credit. Mr. McHugh fact that year saw the ful propo „ an( j a
said it will include conferences for students mighty Longhorns (they are
who wish to improve in their adjustment to mighty, ask ’em) bow to the Ag- As a last word > Iet me sa -y tbls -
problems of mental »health, educational gies on the turf of Memorial Sta- If you look up next Saturday
achievement, and vocational or avocational dium in Austin. We haven’t done afternoon during the football game
guidance. it since, but who knows? and see someone poking a motion
He added it may include an analysis, by . picture camera in your face—don’t
objective tests and standard scales, of the Old Timer . . . blush, because the Wanger crew
aptitudes, interests, attitudes, methods of ^ . . . . wil1 probably be on hand.
study and other traits of each student, with : V 1 ° n an Arizona ranch 18 as
a view to providing information that may c ° loriu L a character as there is
be practically useful to each individual. allv ®' The . ol< *, ma £ T ^ e "
gendary m the West, and fact
* * proves him to be an Aggie en-
In cold cash, what is a college education rolled here in the first class. He
worth to a girl ? Not as much as you’d think, came here in 1876, and tells proud-
In fact, unless she goes on and gets a iy of the cadets firing the campus
doctor of philosophy degree, the “invest- cannon at niggers who used to
time and money as represented by camp near the campus on their
earnings does not seem to be justified, it way north. He left Aggieland in
was concluded by the American Association i 8 7 8 w hen the School of Agricul-
of University Women in a recent survey. t ure was installed.
“Fifty-five per cent of the women who
have doctorates had attained earnings of TRCW Locals*
$3,000 per year,” said Dr. Susan Kingsbury,
professor emeritus of social economy at Bryn • • -Three lonesome TSCW fish
Mawr college, who conducted the poll. inform!'me that they don’t know
Thirty-three per cent of the Ph.D’s any Aggies and although they see
earned between $3,000 and $4,000, and 22 them around the campus in Den-
per cent more than $4,000. Only 17 per cent ton and have “ . . . heard that
of those with master’s degrees had reached there are even more at A. & M.”
$3,000. Only 8 per cent of women with bach- Descriptions indicate blonde hair,
elor’s degrees alone had reached that level, weights ranging from 100 to 125
+ ^ ^ pounds—avoirdupois. A post script
„ . . . ^ adds that they do not like tea-
Breaking a tradition of 138 years, the si which undoubted , y shows
University of Vermont no longer requires they are intelligent if not beautiful
Greek and Latin for its A. B. degree The and : don>t know about the
change is only one facet in a movement that look L Th kindl ive out
is liberalizing arts and sciences curricula in with ^ p 0 box 3232 Tscw
this century-and-a-half-old New England in- Denton Names? Eed , whitie,
U The A B degree will be given in 1943 Plnkie ’ an<1 Gl>ldle - • - at least that ’ s
j , V uegree win ue given in h t th said
to students completing the present classical,
literary-scientific, social science and general T rtof
science curricula. The curriculum leading to • • *
it is designed to insure adequate basic train- . . .On Saturday September 5, a
ing in language, particularly in English as raincoat in the car of Mrs. R. H.
the mother tongue and the chief tool Of Preuss, of 3104 Georgetown St.
thought and expression, and in certain other Houston, who says that the coat
subjects essential to an understanding of may be had by the owner upon
the various fields of human knowledge. telling where he was picked up
In line with the changing of requirements and let out of the car. Write the
for the A. B. degree is a modification in the above adress.
distribution of subjects required of candi
dates. Sweeping aside many required courses Movie . . .
that formerly clogged student schedules,
Vermont has now limited its required courses * • * Czar Walter Wanger has
to two years of English, one course in a for- J ust come back from Washington
eign language of at least intermediate grade, where the FBI and War Depart-
one laboratory course in science, physical m ent okayed the Aggie film. Both
education for men and women and military Norman Raine, (who is writing the
science for men. story) and Wanger said there was
With fewer prescribed courses there is enough material down here for
to be a tightening up in the field of concen-
tration. Each student is to have an adviser, The adjoining town houses of
and in consultation with his adviser he will President Roosevelt and his mother, •
choose a field in which he will do most of his the late Sara Delano Roosevelt,
studying. These fields are language and lit- have been purchased by a com-
erature, social science, mathematics and mittee of citizens for use as a
Qfantpus
Box Office Opens 2 p.m.
4-1181
TODAY - TOMORROW
DOUBLE FEATURE
“She Knew All the
Answers”
with
JOAN BENNETT
FRANCHOT TONE
3:31 - 6:17 - 9:03
—No. 2—
“A Hunting' We
Will Go” ^
with
LAUREL and HARDY
2:10 - 5:10 - 7:56
Also
Merry Melody Cartoon
Dairy Show Is Held
During County Fair
During previous years the dairy
husbandry students through their
organization the Kream and Kow
Klub have sponsored an annual
Dairy Show. This show has been
held either in the fall or spring
semester at the dairy farm on the
campus. This year, due to the co
operation of the Livestock depart
ment of the Brazos County Fair,
the show will be held in connection
with the County Fair at the Amer
ican Legion grounds in Bryan Oct.
TUESDAY MORNING, SEPT. 29, 1942
7-9 inclusive.
At a meeting of the Kream and
Kow Klub Tuesday evening, it was
decided by those present, to meet
at the dairy barn Thursday after
noon September 17 at 5 o’clock and
select the animals to be fitted for
this show. It is planned to have as
many animals as their are dairy
students who are interested in fit
ting an animal for this show.
Therefore, any student in dairy
husbandry who is interested in this
show should meet Professor Dar
nell of the dairy department at the
dairy barn Thursday afternoon at
5 o’clock for the purpose of select
ing an animal.
MOVIE
Guion Hall
3:30 and 7:00 P. M.
j • » . .
Mon. - Tues. - Wed.
Sept. 28, 29, and 30
The Corsican Brothers
Starring
DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS, JR.
with
Ruth Warrick and Akim Tamiroff
Two Men With But a Single Soul
MEET YOUR
OLD AND NEW FRIENDS
AT THE
Aggieland Pharmacy
KEEP TO THE RIGHT AT THE NORTH GATE
AND YOU CAN’T GO WRONG
It is a common wonder of all men how,
among so many million faces, there should
be none alike.—Sir Thomas Browne.
science.
* * *
A survey of the employment record of
former University of Minnesota athletes dis
credits a common belief that collegiate stars
shine less brightly after graduation.
Clarence Osell, instructor in orthopedics
made a study of the extensive file on for
mer Minnesota athletes.
He discovered that 27 per cent of the
former athletes now are professional men,
13 per cent salesmen, 9 per cent engineers,
7 per cent executives, and 6 per cent teach
ers.
“Only five of 722 athletes are now en-
.gaged in professional athletics,” Osell said.
community house by, Hunter col
lege students.
War is -delightful to
had no experience in it.
those who have
WHAT’S SHOWING
At Guion Hall
Tuesday, Wednesday—“The
Corsican Brothers”, with
Douglas Fairbanks, Ruth
Warrick and Akim Tamiroff.
At the Campus
Tuesday, Wednesday—“A
Haunting We Will Go” with
Laurel and Hardy. Also, “She
Knew all the Answers” with
Joan Bennett and Franchot
Tone.