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VOLUME 44
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, TUESDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 22, 1944
NUMBER 23
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Seniors Reorganize Welfare Committee
Dorms 14,15 To Be Opened For Guests J gg ,f .P?!? I i irst ,
Aggies May Register
For Rooms Thursday
Dorm 14 will be opened for Ag
gie guests arriving for the dances
this week-end and, if necessary,
Dormitory 15 will also be available.
Students expecting guests will
register for the rooms Thursday
morning at 8 o’clock and will be ad
mitted to the dormitories from 1
to 3:30 Friday afternoon in order
to ready the rooms for their
guests. Girl will be admitted to
their rooms begining at 4 o’clock
with their linens to be furnished
by their respective dates. They
must be in by 2 a. m. Friday night
and by 1 a. m. Saturday night. A
charge of 75 cents per guest will
(See DORMS, Page 3)
Longhorn Staff Opens
Offices In Room 3 of
Administration Bldg.
With the opening Of offices in
room 3 of the Administration
•uilding work on the 1944-45 Long
horn has been begun by Marc
Smith, Editor and Bob English,
Advertising Manager.
Their offices will be adjacent to
the present Battalion Staff office
in room 5.
Plans call for the Longhorn to
record activities of the school and
student body beginning with the
next semester but it is likely that
excerpts from this semester’s work
will be included.
The groundwork for the annual
is now being laid with the respec
tive contracts being negotiated and
preliminary work started.
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FLETCHER HENDERSON,
“America’s Ace Arranger,” who
will play his insinuating music
for the Second Regimental Ball
Friday night.
Presbyterian League
To Have Swimming
Party Wed. Evening
The A. and M. Presbyterian
Young Peoples’ League will en
tertain with a “Dutch” swimming
party at the Bryan Country Club,
Wednesday evening, August 23.
After meeting at the new “Y” at
6:30, the group will go directly to
the swimming pool. Following the
swim, the members of the League
will serve refreshments. Rev. Nor
man Anderson, the Pastor, said
that all Aggies will be able to re
turn to the campus in time for’C.Q.
Dr. Frank Bolton, Dean Of College,
Is Member Of 16 Campus Committees
By Eli Barker
Being dean of the college, Dr.
Frank Cleveland Bolton holds one
of the most important positions on
the campus. He is well fitted for
this job in a school such as A.
& M. as he was graduated from
the A. & M. College of Mississippi
Mississippi, on March 24, 1883,
and taught on the Electrical En
gineering staff of his alma mater
from the time of his graduation
until 1909. He received further col
lege training at Cornell University,
University of Chicago, University
of Wisconsin, and Ohio State Uni
in 1905 and held the highest cadet versity. After being awarded the
commission, major, in his senior degree of Master of Science by the
y ear * latter institution in 1928, the hon-
Bolton was born at. Pontotoc, (See DR. BOLTON, Page 8)
Experiment Station
Receives Donations
Two grants of funds totaling
$8,000 have been made to the Tex
as A. & M. College Experiment
Station by private concerns inter
ested in furthering studies in their
respective fields of agriculture. One
grant of $5000 is for experiments
in the Lower Rio Grande Valley
and the other is a $3,000 fund for
laboratory studies, particularly of
the amino acids in meats.
Dr. Carl M. Lyman and his as
sociates have been advised by Dr.
H. R. Kraybill, director of scien
tific research, American Meat In
stitute, Chicago, that a grant-in-
aid of $3,000 has been made by the
institute for their study of amino
acids and the amounts of each con
tained in meats and meat products.
Meats, and particularly lean
meats are rich in proteins. In turn
protein contains some 22 known
(See DONATIONS, Page 3)
Football Workout
Around 100 boys answered Coach
Homer Norton’s call and reported
to Kyle Field Monday afternoon
as the Aggie mentor started put
ting his charges through workouts
in preparation for the 1944 foot
ball season.
Most of Monday’s session was
spent organizing the boys and
outlining the definite plans and
rules by which they must abide.
Coach Norton, in a 30 minute talk
to his charges, welcomed the new
boys to A. & M. and outlined his
plans for the next five weeks to
the group.
For the next week or so the drills
will consist mostly of the funda
mentals of football. This is a part
of the training which must be
covered, but it is not usually taken
up until the later stages of train
ing. However, until the weather
has cooled off, the workouts will
be taken up mostly by place kick
ing, punting, passing, running back
of kickoffs, extra point kicking,
(See FOOTBALL, Page 5)
Vice President Wallace Is Visitor On
Campus; Confers With Gilchrist, Kyle
When Harold Young, Dallas at
torney, became executive assistant
to Vice President Henry Wallace
five years ago one of his first as
signments was that he bring the
former Secretary of Agriculture to
Texas A. & M. College.
Young carried out that assign
ment Sunday, and he and the Vice-
President spent several hours on
the campus as guests of President
Gibb Gilchrist. They later depart
ed for Austin where the Vice-Pres
ident will get in some relaxing
tennis matches, and be honored
with a barbecue today by •’Mayor
Tom Miller.
Mr. Wallace spent Saturday vis
iting the Southern Regional Cotton
Laboratory at New Orleans, and
early in the evening he had Mr.
Young telephone Dean E. J. Kyle
of the School of Agriculture.
Young told Dean Kyle the Vice-
President long had wanted to
visit Texas A. & M. College, and
arrangements were made to meet
him in Houston Sunday morning.
Dean Kyle took Mt. Wallace to
Prairie View College on the way
(See WALLACE, Page 8)
‘Battalions Elect
Committee Group
Reformation of the Student Wel
fare Committee has been partially
completed with the designation of
three battalion representatives for
the senior class and designation of
class officers to represent the jun
ior .and sophomore classes. Fresh
men will not be represented on the
committee until the remainder of
that class registers in October.
Elmo Crehshaw, and Willie Rals
ton have been elected by the 3rd
and 2nd battalions of the 1st regi
ment and J. R. Kidd has been se
lected to represent the 1st battal
ion of the 2nd regiment. Junior
representatives are: Class presi
dent, Ernst Baetz, vice-president,
John Huebner, and secretary treas
urer, Jere Higgs. Sophomore rep
resentatives are president, Jack
Ward and vice-president, Bill
Pratt.
President of the senior class,
Tom Alley, reports that he will
secure the names of the other
elected representatives from bat T
talion commanders and certify thej
completed committees to Dean F.
C. Bolton within this week.
The Student Welfare committee!
will be concerned with matters
concerning the welfare and in-[
terests of the student body and 1
will meet with and make recom-f
mendations of the Executive Com
mittee.
Methodist Aggies To
Have Picnic Wed.
The Wesley Foundation, A. and
M. Methodist Student organiza
tion, is sponsoring a picnic Wed
nesday, August 23. All Methodist
Aggies and Service men are in
vited, and transportation will be
furnished from the A. • and M.
Methodist Church to the picnic
grounds and back, according to
Abie Jack Adrian, President of the
A. and M. Wesley Foundation.
There will be sports, and plenty of
food for all. Those who will at
tend, please notify either the A.
and M. Methodist Church, or the
Parsonage. Students and service
men will meet at the A. and M.
Methodist Church Wednesday at
5:45 p.m.
Seniors To Discuss
Revision of Cadence
With Dr. Doak Wed.
Seniors will meet with Dr. C. C.
Doak, chairman of Sub-Committee I
No. IV of the Post War Plans!
and Policies Committee, Wednes
day night, in Room 32, Science
Hall, at 7:00 o’clock, to discuss the
use and possible revision of thefl
“Cadence”.
In a similar meeting last Wed
nesday night, twenty freshmen
met with Dr. Doak to discuss the!
merits of “The Cadence” and to V
offer suggestions that might make
it more useful as a handbook for
first year students. This particular
discussion is an outgrowth ofp
studies undertaken by the sub-corn-L
mittee which has given considera-f
tion to “The Cadence” as a part|
(See CADENCE, Page 8)