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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 15, 1944)
VOLUME 44 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, TUESDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 15, 1944 NUMBER 21 ■f Houston Symphony On Town Hail Thurs. Ernst Hoffman To t Bring Distinguished Musicians to Campus The Houston Summer Sym phony, Ernst Hoffmann, conductor, will be presented by Town Hall at Kyle Field Thursday, August 17, beginning at 8:30 p.m. This will be the second annual appearance of the summer sym phony at College Station; the or chestra played a very successful concert at A. & M. last summer. The Houston Symphony Orches tra has been an annual feature on the winter series for several years and has always been greeted with great enthusiasm. The summer or chestra, consisting of some 45 se lected players from the Houston Symphony, is playing its most suc cessful summer season. Physical Education Program Modified; Classes Specialized, Hours Shortened Due to a change in the present conditions and the objective of the physical education program, a ten tatively planned schedule for next semester, differing from the pres ent schedule, has been recommend ed to the Academic Council through the Executive Committee. If passed, this plan, which calls for a differ entiation between the physical ed ucation programs for the respec tive classes on the campus, will go into effect next semester. At the present time, practically every student enrolled for physical education, takes the same program, with no distinction being made for (See PROGRAM, Page 7) Divided in two sections the first half of the program will open with John Philip Sousa’s best marches, “King Cotton,” followed by the fa mous “Blue Danube” waltzs. Ros sini, composer of the “William Tell” overture will have his “Semi- ramide” overture played at this concert, and it is one of his best. It contains the first quartet for French horns ever included in an operatic overture. David Guion Texas bom composer, will have two of his compositions on the pro gram: “The Harmonica Player” and a clever orchestral adaptation of “Turkey in the Straw.” The first section will close with the overture to Strauss’s “The Bat.” After the intermission, the sec ond half will conclude the chezo from Brahms’ Fourth Symphony, and the Andante from Haydn’s (See SYMPHONY, Page 6) ERNST HOFFMANN, conductor of the Houston Summer Sym phony. Scouts Collect Four Tons of Waste Paper Last Friday, between the hours of 4 and 7 P. M., College Station Boy Scout Troops Nos. 411 and 102 together with the Cub Scouts and six adult sponsors, collected 9,000 pounds of waste paper. At the conclusion of this drive, the boys were taken to the Bryan Country Club Pool for a swim, after which they feasted on ham burgers and cokes. These boys, Dr. Luther Jones revealed, have averaged collecting 5,000 pounds of discarded paper every two months since the waste paper drive began over a year ago. Regimental Ball Was A Definite Success With approximately three hun dred couples attending the Regi mental Ball Friday night and two hundred coming forth for the all service dance Saturday night the dances over the weekend were defi nitely very successful, said L. M. Collins, head of the Student Ac tivities. Not as large a turnout as was anticipated was had for the all service dance, said Collins, but the two day dance program as a whole was very gratifying. Collins also added that since the attendance for both dances was not up to par, part of the reserve from the pre vious two dances of this semester was used to defray some of the expenses. The committee was very satis fied with Friday night’s Regimen tal Ball, declaring Ernie Fields’ music very appropriate and enjoy able. It is believed that everyone who attended Friday night enjoyed every minute of the dance. Next on the entertainment list for Aggies is the Second Regimen tal Ball scheduled for August 24 with an all-service dance on the following night. Fletcher Hender son and his orchestra will furnish the music for both dances. E. J. Kyle, Agriculture Dean, Was An Outstanding Member Class ’99 Here By Eli Barker Edwin Jackson Kyle, Dean of ic School of Agriculture, was Drn at Kyle, Texas, on July 22, 376. After attending private :hool at Kyle, he came to Texas .. & M. to receive his B. S. A. tid then went to Cornell Univer- ty to get his dgree of M. S. A. * While a student here at A. & M. he had the highest military rank in his'junior and senior years, act ing as Commandant during his senior year with a seat on the Faculty. He was the only student ever accorded this honor. Presi dent of the senior class, president (See DEAN KYLE, Page 5) Classified Seniors and Commissioned Cadet Officers Qualify to Wear Boots Applications Must Be Made For Renewal Of Basic “A” Gas Books ...The Placement Office has ap plications for renewal of basic “A” books, for the convenience of employees of the College. The in structions in connection with these applications are as follows: “Fill out and attach cover of old “A” book, or if unable to locate it, at tach automobile license receipt to verify ownership of vehicle, which will be returned when new books are processed and mailed back.” ....Applications must be completed early enough for the Placement Office to be able to turn them to the O. P. A. by September 1. New books will be issued by September 22. Student Activities Office Gives Dinner The Student Activities Depart ment of A. & M. entertained 33 guests with a chicken dinner at “The Oaks” in Bryan Mon-day night. The meal was served in the yard under the trees. The Aggies who attended the dinner were the members of the Committee on Student Activities, employees of Guion Hall, and the Battalion Staff. + Senior boots have been made optional regulation uniform wear for cadet commissioned officers and classified seniors it was an nounced with the approval of pres ident Gibb Gilchrist by the Com mandant’s Office this morning. The substance of the order per mitting the wearing of senior boots reads as follows: “By direction of the President of the A. & M. College of Texas the prohibition against the seniors wearing boots as directed by the Executive Committee on 18 Sep tember, 1942, is suspended until the close of next semester which will be 2 February, 1945. “All cadet commissioned officers and academically classified seniors who are wearing the prescribed uniform and who are quartered with military units are authorized to wear boots as a part of the uniform on appropriate occasions. “Boots will not be worn during hours devoted to military instruc tion except that they may be worn during periods of mounted instruc tion in equitation. “All cadets concerned are cau tioned that nothing in this order shall be interpreted as to imply that the concession granted in this order shall extend beyond 2 Feb ruary, 1945. In no case should stu dents obligate themselves for boots on the presumption that they will (See PRESIDENT. Page 8) “Aggie Of The Week” . . . Cadet Lt. Colonel Paul Q. Olschner Plays Violin, Commands 9 Companies By Dick Goad I Mrs. C. E. Olschner of that city. Another one of the many Lou- While attending the public schools isiana boys who have made good there, Olschner was an outstanding on the campus is Paul Q. Olschner, member of the high school band in cadet Lt. Colonel of the Second which he played for five years. Regiment. As regimental command- While in the band Paul played the er Olschner is in charge of the viola, and later on as a member activities of three battalions and of the high school orchestra for the band, making a total of nine two years he was a specialist on companies under his supervision, the violin. From this activity Paul An Electrical Engineering stu- traveled a great deal over the dent Paul is also chairman of the country representing the local local chapter of the American In- band. On one of his trips away stitute of Electrical Engineers. from the school, Paul played in Paul comes to Aggieland from the National High School Band in Shreveport, La., the son of Mr. and (See AGGIE, Page 4)