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PAGE 4 THE BATTALION TUESDAY AFTERNOON, JULY 18, 1944 Books Received By College Library A Selected List Agriculture and its Sciences Organic syntheses, edited by A. H. Blatt: Collective Volume II. World Trade in Agricultural Products, by Henry C. Taylor and Anne Dewees Taylor. Fundamental Organic Chemis try, edited by F. Degering and collaborators. Bainbridge and Menzies , Essen tials of Physiology. Ninth Edition, edited by H. Hartridge. Psychotherapy in medical prac tice, by Maurice Levine. The food you eat; a practical guide to home nutrition, by Sam uel Glasstone. Allergy Anaphylaxis and Im munotherapy, by Bret Ratner. Engineering and its Sciences Television; today and tomorrow, by Lee de Forest. The D. U. technical series, Line Charts for Engineers, by Rose. Time Bases; a timely and prac tical study of a great variety of wave form generator circuits . . . of considerable value to those en gaged in cathode ray tube oscillo scope work, by 0. S. Puckle. The technique of Radio design; information helpful in solving prob lems arising in the development and testing of radio receiving ap paratus of all types, by E. E. Zep- ler. Your Career in Chemistry, by Norman V. Carlisle. Electronic Interpretations of Organic Chemistry, by A. E. Rem- ick. Strategic materials, in hemi sphere defense; What they mean to you, by M. S. Hessel, Walter Murphy and F. A. Hessel. Optical crystallography; the the ory of the passage of light through crystals and fragments . . . con struction and manipulation of po larizing microscopes and acces sories, by Ernest E. Wahlstrom. Encyclopedia of substitutes and synthetics, edited by Morris D. Schoengold with the collaboration of America’s foremost chemical and industrial laboratories—New—Un usual; Thousands of raw materials, chemicals, processes, substitutes, synthetics. Planned and laid out for war time needs. Modern Turbines; practical working data on the selection and characteristics of turbines for pow er-plant engineers and operators, mechanical, electrical and marine engineers, by Louis E. Newman; Keller, and others. General Reading The Seed Beneath the Snow, a novel, by Ignazio Silone. Pick Out the Biggest, by Frank Morris. The Listening Post, by Thomas B. Morgan. Flatland, by A. Square. Physics and Philosophy, by Sir James Jeans. Khaki is More Than a Color, by 1CT0RY BUY \ VXITBD •TATBt 1 WAR xv/BOND* W AND |\ STAMPS Sergeant M. H. E. Marsden. The Baltic Riddle, by Gregory Meiksins. How to Become An Officer; U. S. Army, by Major Arthur Voll- mer. jWhite Mammoths; the dramatic story of Russian Tanks in Action, by Alexander Poliakov. The World of Yesterday; an autobiography, by Stefan Zweig (2 copies). How Good a Detective Are You? by H. A. Ripley. Mystery Puzzles, by Austin Rip ley. Bim-Bash Baruk of Egypt, by Sax Rohmer. Old Nameless; the epic of a U. S. Battlewagon, by Sidney Shalett. The Aftermath, 1918-1928, by the Rt. Hon. Winston S. Churchill (2 copies). Audubon’s America. The Christian Fellowship, by Nels F. S. Ferre. Texas; the Lone Star State, by Rupert Norval Richardson. Teaching Physical Education in the Elementary School, by E. Ben ton Salt and others. Fountainheads of Freedom; with the collaboration of Herbert W. Schneider, by Irwin Edman. Social Sciences The Structure of Morale, by J. T. McCurdy. A Preface to Peace, by Harold Callender, N. Y. Times foreign cor respondent. Economic Equilibrium, employ ment and natural resources, by L. R. Nienstaedt. Let us now Praise Famous Men, by James Agee, and Walter Evans. • Time and Time Keepers, by Wil lis I. Milham. Patents and Industrial Progress; a summary, analysis and evalua tion of the record on patents of the temporary national economic committee, by George E. Folk. The Pillars of Security, by Sir William H. Beveridge. The Spirit of Enterprise, by Ed gar M. Queeny. Agriculture and its Sciences Physical Biochemistry, by Henry H. Bull. Man in Structure and Function, by Fritz Kahn (2 copies). Drying and dehydration of foods, by H. W. Von Loesecke, U. S. Dept, of Agriculture. Effects of Alcohol on the Indi vidual; a critical exposition of present knowledge — Volume I— Alcohol Addiction and Chronic Al coholism, edited on behalf of the scientific committee of the Re search council on problems of Al cohol, by E. M. Jellinek. Food Enough, by John D. Black, (Science for War and Peace Se ries). An Introduction to Biophysics, by Otto Stuhlman, Jr. Food Poisoning, by G. M. Dack. Exploring Tomorrow’s Agricul ture; Co-operative Group Farming —A Practical Program of Rural Rehabilitation, by Joseph W. Eat on. Engineering and its Sciences The Chemistry of Large Mole cules, edited by R. E. Burk and Oliver Grimmitt; Prominent scien tists report on recent developments in the chemistry and physio-chem istry of Plastics and Elastics. Vol ume I—Frontiers in Chemistry, published under the auspices of Western Reserve University. The Theory of Electricity, Sec ond Edition, by G. H. Livens. X-Ray Crystallography, by M. J. Buerger. Handbook of Plastics, by H. R. Simonds and C. Ellis. Synthetic Resins and Rubbers: The chemistry of synthetic resin ous materials and the raw materi als from which they are made. Covers: Theories of Polymer For mation, Condensation, Polymers, Vinyl Polymers, Synthetic Rubbers, Resins from Natural Products, Ap plication of Synthetic Resins, by Paul O. Powers. Marconi: Pioneer of Radio, by Douglas Coe, illustrated by Kreigh Collins. Circuit Analysis of A.C. Power Systems ,by Edith Clarke—Volume I, Symmetrical and Related Com ponents; Solutions of practical problems . . . instructions for the construction and use of equivalent circuits, including many examples for use in analytic calculations and with AC or DC calculating tables . . . charts and tables to reduce the time required for calculations. Al pha, Beta, and Zero components are here fully and simply described for the first time in any book. Micromeritics, The Technology of Fine Particles. Second Print ing; by J. M. Dallavalle. The Chemical Front, by Williams Haynes. Electricity and its Application to Civilian and Military Life, by Charles A. Rinde. The Separation of G'ases, by M. Ruhemann. Treatment of Experimental Data, by Archie G. Worthing and Joseph Geffner. The Physics and Chemistry of Surfaces. Third Edition, by Neil Kensington Adam. The Nature of Thermodynamics, by P. W. Bridgman. Second print ing. Servicing Sound Equipment: A complete guide covering the care, operation and servicing of all sound reproducing equipment; sound pic tures, public address, radio-tele vision. Fifth Edition, by James Ross Cameron. General Reading If Sugar Bums, by John C. Krantz, Jr. Whitman, by Edgar Lee Mas ters. Accountancy as a Career, by Lawrence W. Scudder (Kitson Ca reers Series). Advanced Cost Accounting—^Vol ume II of Cost Accounting, by Charles F. Schlatter (The Wiley Accounting Series). Auditing Developments During the Present Century (Dickinson Lectures in Accounting) by Wal ter A. Staub. Lytton Strachery, by Max Beer- bolm (The Rede Lecture of 1943). The Barbary Coast, an unflinch ing account of the sink-hole de- prav and vice that once made San Francisco’s underworld the most dangerous spot in America, by Her bert Asbury. Master-at-Arms; a swordsman who outwitted his generation’s fate, by Rafael Sabatini. Fish and Tin Fish, by Philip Wylie. This Winged World; an anthol ogy of aviation fiction, edited by Thomas Collision. The Captain from Connecticut, by C. S. Forester. Journey Into War; War and Di plomacy in North Africa, by John MacVane. Witchcraft; its power in the world today, by William Seabrook. A Bell for Adano, by John Her- sey. This Gun for Hire, Graham Greene. Specialized Accounting Systems, by H. Heaton Bailey. Memory Room, by Don Bland- ing. Pictures of Paradise; Moods and Moments in Hawaii, by Don Bland- ing. Vagabond’s House. 32nd print ing, by Don Blanding. The United States Navy, by Car- roll Storrs Alden and Allan West- cott. Social Sciences U. S. Foreign Policy; Shield of the Republic, by Walter Lippmann (2 copies). A Treatise on War Inflation; Present Policies and Future Ten dencies in the United States, by William J. Fellner. Industrial Statistics; Statistical Technique in Industrial Research and Quality Control, by H. A. Freeman. What the Citizen Should Know About the Army. New and revised edition, fifth printing, by Harvey S. Ford. Fiscal Planning for Total War, by William Leonard Crum; John F. Fennelly, an<l Lawrence Howard Seltzer. American Political Parties; Their Natural History, by Wilfred E. Binkley (2 copies). Leadership for American Army Leaders, by Colonel Edward Ly man Munson, Jr. History of the English-Speaking Peoples, by R. B. Mowat and Pres ton Slosson (2 copies). Latin America and the United States, by Graham H. Stuart. The stools at the bar of the Brown Derby in Hollywood are chained to the rail at a respect able distance from each other to prevent customers from getting overamorous. Tickets For Staff * Dinner Should Be Purchased Now Those desirous of attending the faculty and staff dinner honoring'* President Gibb Gilchrist to be given in Sbisa Hall at 8:00 p.m., Thurs day are requested by Dr. Ralph ‘ W. Steen, general faculty secre tary, to acquire tickets as soon as possible in order that the dining hall staff may better prepare to handle the large crowd expected. These tickets, which cost 85 cents each, may be secured from any of the following on the campus: John Paul Abbott, C. B. Godbey, * Chas. W. Crawford, P. W. Burns, J. F. Rosborough, C. H. McDowell, Fred Hale, E. B. Reynolds, L. P. Gabbard, W. R. Horsley, S. L. Frost and Dr. Steen. In Bryan, tickets may be secured from B. L. Wilson, secretary-manager of the Cham ber of Comerce. Sponsoring the testimonial din ner are members of the staff of the College proper, Agricultural and Engineering station, Extension Service and Texas Forest Service. ^ Invitations have been issued to members of the board of directors of the Texas A. & M. College and presidents of all Texas State-sup ported institutions. We’ve heard so many jokes about . saving rubber and scrap iron that we wish the comedians would start saving a little corn. A. B. 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