Juniors To Get Advanced Contracts This Semester
Sophomores Are Alio wed To
Continue Studies As Usual
Seniors May Get Degrees; Non Reserve
Contract Men Must Voluntarily Enlist
Contracts for Juniors taking advanced military science
will be awarded this semester as they have been in the past,
stated Dr. T. O. Walton, president of the college, last Sun
day morning after receipt of a telegram from military au
thorities in Washington, D. C.
Present sophomores, those so classified on February 1,
in the Enlisted Reserve Corps will be allowed to remain in
school “in essential military colleges classified as such by
the War Department.” Texas A.&M. is one of eight such
schools in the nation.
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VOLUME 42
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, SATURDAY MORNING, JANUARY 30, 1943
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NUMBER 92
This action by the War Depart
ment indicates that students of
A. & M. will be looked on in a
little different light by the War
Department, since this school is
one of the “essentially military
colleges” mentioned specifically by
the War Department.
Seniors To Complete Work
Distinct possibilities exist that
seniors will be allowed to complete
their work for a degree, was the
third announcement made during
the week between semesters.
“Although we have no definite
assurance,” stated President Wal
ton, “from statements made re
cently by army authorities, I be
lieve it entirely possible that, based
on our program here, some plan
will be worked out whereby present
seniors will be allowed to stay a
semester in addition to the one
starting next Monday, February 1,
in order to get degrees.”
Contracts Available Until Mar. 1
Contracts in all military units
of the college will be filled out un
til March 1, was' the statement
made by Lieutenant Colonel A. J.
Bennett, adjutant of the Military
Science Department. Contracts will
be given to those students of good
scholastic standing until the limit
ed number of contracts available
has been reached, since only a cer
tain number of contracts in each
regiment can be given. Besides be
ing in good scholastic standing, a
candidate for a contract must be
a member of the Enlisted Reserve
Corps, or be inducted in the army,
and must pass a physical exami
nation.
Details Announced Soon
The following statements apply
to ERC in all ROTC institutions:
Only juniors who are members of
the Enlisted Reserve Corps are eli
gible to accept advanced military
science contracts. Special provi
sions are made whereby juniors
who are not in the ERC may ac
cept contracts by going through a
procedure similar to that followed
(See CONTRACTS, Page 6)
Registration For
New Semester
Begins Friday
Registration of old students who
were in good standing at the time
of the November 14 report, will
take place today (Friday) from
8 a.m. until 6 this afternoon. Sen
ior cadet officers and first ser
geants registered yesterday after
noon and new students will be sign
ed up tomorrow, according to Act
ing Registrar H. L. Heaton.
Assignment cards will be re
leased to all students from the
front of the Assembly Hall in ac
cordance will the following sched
ule:
Thursday, January 28, 2 to 5—
All Senior Cadet Officers and First
Sergeants.
Friday, January 29, 8 to 9—
All students whose surnames begin
with J, K, L.
Friday, January 29, 9 to 10—
All students whose surnames begin
with T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z.
Friday, January 29, 10 to 11—
All students whose surnames begin
with A, B.
Friday, January 29, 11 to 12—
All students whose surnames be
gin with R, S.
Friday, January 29, 12 to 1—
All students whose surnames be
gin with C, D, E, F.
Friday, January 29, 2 to 3—All
students whose surnames begin
with M, N, O, P, Q.
Friday, January 29, 3 to 4—
All students whose surnames begin
with G, H, I.
Friday, January 29, 4 to 6—
All students who were unable to
register at their regular scheduled
time.
Saturday, January 30, 9 to 1—
All new students will register.
Saturday, January 30—Old re
turning students and students
granted registration permission by
Deans and Executive Committee.
Action Taken Here
Toward Building
Of Student Union
$50,000 War Bond Given
To Texas A&M by ^Former
Students at Commencement
The second step toward the
greatest long-range need of Texas
A. & M., that of building a Student
Activities Center of Union Build
ing, was made last Friday night,
January 22 at the sixty-seventh
annual commencement exercises.
William J. Lawson, Class of ’24,
Secretary of State, and president
of the Association of Former Stu
dents, presented a $50,000 war bond
to the Texas A. & M. College from
the Association of Former Stu
dents. This sum will mature when
the war is over, and will launch
the Student Activities Center.
Right now the money is being used
to buy bullets for our fighting
men, which include over 6,000 Ag
gies.
The first step was taken last
fall when the Ex-Students Asso
ciation, working in cooperation with
the Board of Directors of the Col
lege, reorganized their financial
set-up, and established the Texas
A. & M. College Development
Fund. Ex-students and friends of
the college were asked to make
gifts of any amount to that fund,
thus, this year’s goal was reached
the same night that 619 Aggies
graduated from A. & M., and
entered the United States Army
in the pay of Uncle Sam.
The college architecture depart
ment will do its part in getting,
the Student Activities Center by
letting students majoring in that
subject draw up suggested plans
of a building as a term project
to be handed in.
Long the fond dream of both
students and faculty, the Activities
Center has been designated as one
of the greatest needs of the corps.
The Center is visualized as more
than the purely social center com
mon to the campuses of other
large schools. These would be pro
vided, but with added facilities to
fit the needs of the nation’s larg
est man’s school.
An Activities Center visualiized
by the Ex-students of Texas A. &
M. is a million and a half dollar
building that would include at
least 100 hotel rooms to facilitate
accommodations for visiting pa
rents and sweethearts of the Ag
gies. Also in the huge structure
would be housed extensive physical
education and intramural facilities,
and various other recreational
features which would include bowl
ing alleys, pool tables, game rooms,
ping-pong tables, music rooms,
reading rooms, and new, comfort
able furniture suitable to every
one’s taste. Every effort will be
made to make the Center the real
heart of student life on the cam-
(See STUDENT UNION, Page 6)
Cadet Colonel for 1943
Full Six Day Week Headlines A&M System
School Wide CQand Planned
StudyHighlight NewRegime
Twenty Minutes of Mass Calisthenics
Will Begin Each Two-Hour Period
For the first time in the sixty-seven year history of
Texas A. & M., such measures as a six day week, supervised
study, and compulsory physical education have been added
to the school’s operation.
Classes will be held from 8 a. m. Monday morning until
4 p. m. Saturday afternoon, includ-
John Mullins
Leads1943
Cadet Corps
Keith,CorpsExecutive
Parker, Assistant
John Mullins, K Infantry, will
be Cadet Colonel, commander of
the corps, during the next two
semesters. His home is in Carrizo
Springs, Texas and he was a ser
geant major on the corps staff last
year.
Second in command, listed as
Corps Ekecutive, is Jack Keith,
C Signal Corps, whose home is in
Houston. Kieth is also Associate
Editor of the Battalion and a mem
ber of the Scholarship Honor So
ciety, and the Ross Volunteers.
Assistant Executive is Travis S.
Parker, F Field Artillery, of San
Antonio.
Lieutenant Colonels, heading the
seven regiments are as follows:
Jack H. Barton—Infantry.
Jack W. Tynes—Field Artillery.
Frank N. Walker—Cavalry.
Douglass E. Broussard—Coast
Artillery.
Daland M. Griffiths—Engineer.
Helmuth Sommer—Signal Corps.
Albert O. Lacy—Composite.
On the corps staff, Robert J.
Orrick is Sergeant Major, states
the adjutant’s office.
Vacancies that exist in various
offices will be filled early in the
next semester, and will be an
nounced in a supplementary pro
motion list by the adjutant’s of
fice.
Promotions listed in the order
that came out late yestarday are
contingent on classification, and
enrollment in the proper military
science course next semester.
New Course Added
In Dairy Husbandry
New Course Added In
Engineering School
Announcement of a new curric
ulum in industrial engineering has
been made by the I. E. department,
and consists of courses preparatory
to positions in the administrative
and managerial ends of industry.
Those interested in such a course
should see Professor V. M. Faires
or Hall Logan in room 308 Petro
leum building.
Kokernot Is Elected
Editor Agriculturist
At a recent meeting of the Ag
ricultural Council, Bob Kokernot
was elected editor of the Agricul
turist for the coming semester.
Those present at the meeting were:
W. L. Hahn, Saddle & Surloin
Club; Jack Barton, Agronomy
Society; Jake Hodges, Agricultural
Education Society; Don Olson, Ag
ricultural Engineering Society;
and Ray Boyles of the Accounting
Societies.
The Dairy Husbandry Depart
ment is offering a new four-year
course beginning this semester
called Dairy Bacteriology. The
course is open to all freshmen,
sophomores, and juniors who are
majoring in dairy husbandry, or
some branch course of that de
partment.
The demand for technically
trained men in the field of dairy
manufacture is such that the War
Man Power Commission has au
thorized deferment of men engaged
in such work.
The present regulations con
cerning deferment of college stu-
. dents provide, among other things,
for the deferment of students ma
joring in bacteriology who are
within four semesters of gradua
tion. Therefore, a four-year course,
majoring in bacteriology, will be
offered by the Dairy Husbandry
Department beginning this semes
ter.
This course will offer an oppor
tunity for any sophomore who is
interested in this field of work.
It will qualify men finishing this
course to fill a number of positions
in the field of technical dairy sci
ence that cannot be supplied at the
present time. The demand for men
trained in this field is acute now,
and it will be more acute within
the next few years.
In addition to subjects in dairy
ing, and those science courses sup-
porting them, the new curriculum
provides for a liberal choice of
electives.
Any freshmen, sophomores, or
juniors interested in this course
should consult with some member
of the Dairy Husbandry Depart
ment before registering for classes
this semester.
Shown above is John Mullins, K Infantry, who will lead the cadet
corps this year. Mullins is from Carizzo Springs, and is majoring in
mechanical engineering. He succeeds Walter Cardwell as leader
of the corps.
Longhorn Mailed
To Seniors, Others
Not Coming Back
Yearbook Will Arrive
About February 5;
Extra Copies Available
Due to circumstances beyond the
control of the Longhorn staff and
£he Student Publications Depart
ment, the Longhorn did not arrive
before the close of last semester.
The annual will be mailed to the
seniors and those students who did
not return to school this term.
The Longhorn will arrive about
February 5, said Marvin McMillan
Longhorn editor for the 1944 year
book.
Students not intending to re
main in school this term should
come by the Student Activities of
fice in the basement of the Ad
ministration building and fill out
a student publication blank, giv
ing their name and address. For
those who do not want the Battal
ion mailed to them next semester,
a $1.25 will be refunded to them
by turning in their blue Battalion
card to the Student Activities of
fice.
Those who would like to have
an annual, and have not paid for
it as yet can get one by coming
by the Student Activities office,
and paying $5. They may obtain
the Longhorn as soon as they ar
rive. There is only a limited sup
ply of these extra copies, so in
order to get one please come
around as soon as possible, said
McMillan.
Batt Staff Meeting
Held Tuesday Night
All students interested in work
ing on the Battalion newspaper or
magazine are urged by the editors
to be present at the first staff
meeting of the new semester to be
held Tuesday night, February 2,
at 7:15 in the Battalion office
(basement of the Administration
building.)
Freshmen, sophomores, and jun
iors interested in journalim are
especially urged to attend as sev
eral positions on the staff are open
at this time.
College Opens
68th Session
Next Monday
First Winter Opening
Sees Major Changes
Texas A. & M. College opens its
sixty-eighth annual session Mon
day morning according to the war
time schedule of year-round class
es. This is the first time in the his
tory of the school that a regular
session has been opened during
mid-winter, and is a result of the
speed-up plan put into effect in
February of last year.
Due to the fact that many stu
dents here last semester are now
liable to induction either through
the Enlisted Reserve Corps or the
Selective Service, and because high
school mid-term graduating classes
are small, a total enrollment of
only about 4000 cadets is expected
this semester, with all but 300 of
therp returning old students.
New students will register today,
and beginning Monday will be en
tered in a program of orientation
designed to make him familiar
with the college and its workings,
although the program will not be
a complete “freshman week” be
cause of the lack of new students.
Old and new students alike will
go to class for the first time on
Monday, as the old students reg
istered Friday. Cadet officers and
first sergeants completed their
registration Thursday afternoon so
that they might assume control of
their organizations and help any
others that might have difficulty
getting registered or established.
This session will mark the first
time in years that the cadet
corps has numbered less than 4000
students and several of the dorm
itories, in the past filled to over
flowing, have been temporarily
closed.
Classes will begin at 8 a. m.
instead of the 9 to 6 arrangements
ing not less than 25 contact hours
of classroom study, laboratory and
practice, and five hours of physical
training. In so far as practical, all
classes are being arranged to be
over at 4 p. m. every day; this is
exclusive of some laboratory pe
riods that cannot be worked in
schedule to be over at 4 p. m., and
will continue until 5 o’clock.
The physical training will be
broken down into two two-hour pe
riods of supervised physical train
ing a week, and another hour will
be devoted to a campus-wide, class
wide intramural schedule, the de
tails of which are being worked
out at present.
The two two-hour periods of su
pervised physical training will
probably include a rotating plan
whereby students will take differ
ent phases of exercises at each of
the periods; such exercises might
include running the commando
course, cross country running, touch
football, swimming, tumbling, or
other forms of supervised exer
cise. Each period will probably
start with 20 minutes of calisthen
ics for all. (This is more fully ex
plained on the sports page).
“These measures are . necessary
to satisfy War Department re
quirements on essentially MC Col
leges (Military College) of which
Texas A. & M. is one, and the
success of the new program here
will be a deciding factor in the
future of A. & M., and of its stu
dents in the war effort,” declared
Dr. T. O. Walton, president of the
college.
Call to quarters will be at 7 p.
m., and taps, with lights out for
everyone will be sounded at 10:30
p.m.; Wednesday, Saturday, and
Sunday nights are the exceptions
to this, since call to quarters will
not be sounded until 8:30, with taps
and all lights out at 11:30. Call io
quarters Saturday night will be at
Walton Confers
With Paul McNutt
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Dr. T. O. Walton left Tuesday
for Washington, D. C. to attend a
very important meeting Thursday
with Secretary of Agriculture
Claude R. Wickard, and Paul V.
McNutt, War Manpower Commis
sion Head, at Wickard’s request.
The purpose of the meeting as
revealed by Dr. Walton before his
leaving for the nation’s capitol, is
to arrive at a workable plan where
by college agricultural students can
obtain deferment from military
duty to remain in school on the
basis of their course of study.
There is a very real need at the
present for trained agricultural ex
perts to man the nation’s farming
industries to feed the united na
tions’ troops.
“There is every indication at
this time,” stated Walton, “to in
dicate that some steps will be
taken to allow agricultural stu
dents in good standing to remain
in school and complete as much of
their work leading toward a de
gree as possible.”
used for the last two semesters.
Resumption of the 8 to 5 arrange
ment is for the purpose of allow
ing time in the afternoon for other
duties.
12 midnight, and taps at 12:30 a.m.
The cadet corps commander, corps
executive officers, regimental com
manders, and troop, company, and
battery commanders are allowed to
leave their lights on 30 minutes
after taps each night.
Call to quarters will be strictly
observed by students of all classes
each night, unless excused in writ
ing by the commandant. This in
cludes all students working as jan
itors, mailing clerks, and others
who are working their way through
school. These students may secure
permanent passes from the office
of the commandant for permission
to continue such jobs. Men work
ing on the student publications may
also obtain such permanent passes
as requires them to continue their
work.
Students may secure passes
from the officer in charge of quar
ters to study in the library during
call to quarters. Such passes must
be countersigned by an employee
of the library, and filed with the
officer in charge of quarters on
the student’s return from the li
brary.
Absolute quiet and conditions
conducive to study will be main
tained in the dormitories during
call to quarters, and between the
hours of 8 a. m. and 4 p. m. Each
student will designate on the
schedule of classes posted on his
door a minimum of five hours per
week for study, exclusive of Sun
day and call to quarters.
After the last call of the day
all students except those scheduled
for intramural activities for that
afternoon are free to visit on or
off the campus within a radius of
five miles until call to quarters.
With proper authority students
may secure passes through the
commandant’s office from 3 p. m.
Saturday afternoon until call to
quarters at 8:30 p. m. Sunday
night: This includes Juniors and
Seniors.
Student privileges will be for
feited when any student receives
more than 50 percent of his de
merits in any semester. Upon re
ceipt of two-thirds of his demerits,
the student’s parents will be noti
fied of his standing here in school.
Any man who receives his limit of
demerits will appear before the
Discipline Committee.
Tour duty will be suspended, and
demerits may be reduced only aft
er a student receives 50 percent
of his demerits, provided he goes
one month without receiving any
demerits. He then will be given
a credit of 10 demerits in order
that his privileges may be re
stored.
Day students are subject to the
same rules and regulations as the
dormitory students. All day stu
dents apprehended on the streets
of Bryan or College Station dur
ing the hours designated as call
to quarters will be subject to dis
ciplinary action.
Seniors are reminded that boots
are non-regulation, and will not be
worn on the campus. Exceptions to
this regulation will be cadet offi
cers assigned to mounted organi
zations, who may wear boots dur
ing hours actually devoted to
mounted military instruction.
Seniors are further reminded
that senior officer’s hat cords will
be worn by cadet officers only.
Approved technical clubs, and
all other clubs may hold meetings
on Wednesday night only, and all
meetings must be concluded by call
to quarters.