Image provided by: Texas A&M University
About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Sept. 5, 1944)
VOLUME 44 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, TUESDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 5, 1944 NUMBER 27 Freshman Week Begins September 2 Lasts Through 7 Days of Orientation 650 New Students Take Physicals Sun. More than 650 new freshmen will arrive at A. & M. September 24 for the comprehensive freshman week program which is a required activity for every new freshman. Dormitories will open at noon Sun day and the hospital will be open Sunday afternoon from 1 to 5 for the purpose of giving physical ex aminations. The freshman week program in cludes adresses by. various mem bers of the faculty and extensive personal and general conferences for the freshmen. President Gibb Gilchrist will welcome the new students Mon day Morning, September 25. Mon day the new students will also take an interest locator test and a math ematics and science survey test. Tuesday the freshmen take a psychological test before being addressed by Col. M. D. Welty, Commandant of A. & M. In the afternoon H. L. Penberthy, director of physical education will have charge of a freshman program. The fullest day will be Wednes day when the freshmen meet and hear F. C. Bolton, Dean of the College, and also hear an address by Lt. Col. A. J. Bennett, execu tive officer. Students will also meet with their respective deans and have conferences with special advisers. Thursday’s program will feature E, E. McQuillen, Secretary of the Association of Former Students, in his address on the “Traditions and Customs of A. & M. College. Fri day will be taken up by assigned conferences. C. W. Crawford, head of the department of mechanical engineering will address the fresh men Saturday. Work Supervisors “Supervisors of student em ployment are urgently request ed to turn in assignment cards for students now employed with your department. The cards may be turned in at anytime between now and September 15th. Please be sure to give a rating of the student’s performance.” Dean Kyle Leaves For Washington E. J. Kyle, dean-of Agriculture, Texas A. & M. College, left today for Washington where Friday and Saturday he will lead a formal discussion on postwar problems relating to agriculture before the joint committee of the Associated Research Councils. The Associated Research Council represents the National Research Council of Learned Societies, and the Social Science Research Coun cil, Dean Kyle said. He has been appointed a member of the joint council on account of his know ledge of Latin American affairs, and his discussion before the meet ing this week will be from the standpoint of inter-American re lations. Forming the joint council with Dean Kyle are Lewis Hanke, Li brary of Congress, chairman; J. C. Beebe-Center, Tufts College; Earl J. Hamilton, Duke University; Rene d’Harnoncourt, Indian Arts and Crafts Board of the U. S. Depart ment of the Interior; R. A. Lam bert, Rockefeller Foundation; Ir ving A. Leonard, University of Michigan;- Carl 0. Sauer, Univer sity of California, and T. Lynn Smith, University of Louisiana. Ross Hall Former Home of Ross Volunteers TVas Once Bat Roost By Billy Blankenship Erected in 1891, Ross Hall still is in use after fifty three long years of wear. The building was erected in honor of Laurence Sullivan Ross, A. & M’s first president. Ross Hall was originally used as dormitory for members of the Ross Volunteers. The building was condemned some years back and was used as a store house only. It remained a store house until it was recondi- State Adjutant Gen. To Visit College Arriving today about noon, will be the Adjutant-General of Texas, A. B. Knickerbocker. He will meet with President Gilchrist during the afternoon for a private meeting. Details of the meeting are not known. Knickerbocker is formerly of A. & M., being of the class of 1921. He has recently been appointed chairman of the State Military Af fairs Committee of Texas. Also, he has been appointed to the Ex-Stu dents Military Affairs Committee, whose interest is directed toward the national post war policy and program. It is not known how long Knick erbocker will stay on the campus as this will be terminated by his business with the president. How ever, his stay is sure to be a pleas ant one while here. A&M Finance Com. Directors To Meet A meeting of the Finance Com mittee of the Board of Directors of Texas A. & M. has been called for Wednesday evening at six. The committee will meet on the campus to dispose of a few financial mat ters left over from the last Board meeting in the latter part of last May. The finance committee is made up of F. M. Law, president of the Board from Houston, Major Gen eral H.'J. Brees, from San Antonio, and John C. Burns, from Ft. Worth. Law will not likely attend the meeting because he is out of the state. G. R. White, vice-president from Brady, will attend the meeting in Law’s place. Senate Group to Tour Colleges This Fall Junior and Senior Courses Will Be Available In Fall Semester Schedule Student Employment “All students who wish part- time employment during the coming term are urged to file either an application renewal or an application with the Place ment Office between now and the end of the term. Renewals will be accepted beginning, Mon day, September 4th.” Penberthy to Speak At Press Club Banquet Wednesday evening at 7 o’clock the Press Club will be honored by the Student Activities office with a banquet to be held in the Dining Room of the Aggieland Inn. Guests will include the Bat talion Staff and those who have contributed to student publications and Student Activities during the semester. Opening the festivities, Geo. B. Wilcox, Director of Student Per sonnel, will give the invocation, to be followed by Dick Osterholm with a speech of welcome. Master of ceremonies will be Dick Goad, president of the Press Club, who will introduce the guests and the speaker of the evening, W. W. (Se6 BANQUET, Page 7) + Estimated 1700 Will Register October 2 H. L. Heaton, Registrar, an nounced this morning that the of fering of courses for the fall se mester would be as complete as possible for junior and senior courses. A complete schedule of pre scribed courses for 1 and 2 semes ter freshman and sophomore work will be offered and all prescribed 1 semester junior and senior courses will be available in the Schools of Agriculture, Engineer ing, and Arts and Sciences. In the School of Veterinary Med icine students will be able to reg ister for all courses prescribed for the first two years and 1 and 2 semester courses in the 3 and 4 years. Only 2nd semester courses will be offered for the 5 year vet erinary work. Six hundred and fifty new stu dents are expected to enroll for the fall semester, it was also revealed by H. L. Heaton, registrar, this morning. This boosts the total esti mated enrollment for this fall, at 1650. All old students will register Monday afternoon from 1 to 5, October 2 and new freshmen will register Monday morning. Regu larly scheduled classes will begin Tuesday morning. Silver Taps Is Highest Tribute Paid Deceased Student By Fellow Aggies Highest tribute that can be paid any Aggie by his fellow men here at Aggieland, is the playing of Silver Taps in his honor. Tradi tion at A. & M. is strong and this one tradition has meant more to many men at Aggieland for its simplicity and stirring emotion than any other tradition on the Tax supported state institutions of higher learning will be toured I campus. this fall by a Senate Committee it I For the men on the campus who was announced Saturday by Sena- have never heard the playing of tor Penrose Metcalfe of San Angelo I Silver Taps, there is a hollow in anticipation of the adjustments i spot int heir lives here at Aggie- tioned and made safe to live in I that will probably follow the post j land. Not that Silver Taps should once more. war period. • ! be played continually for its sig- Moving out of the Academic This committee of five senators; nificance alone does not warrant building the Military Department! is the same one that conducted an! that, but the emotion and beauty ed for the Aggie who has gone to the land beyond. It is one of those traditions that brings the tears to your eyes and the butterflies to your stomach. While you stand at attention, listening to the notes from the trumpets, a thousand and one thoughts race through your mind. The richness of the tones dig deep into your thoughts, and you closely renew your faith in the traditions of Aggieland. Silver Taps is not too old a tradition here on the campus. It was started about the year 1928, with its style still intact. The music which is kown to all, that of taps, is arranged in a three tone decided to make their new offices investigation of A. & M. earlier this of its silver notes as they drift harmony effect. It is played by in Ross Hall. Here the Comman- year. The final committee report over the campus mean more to anjtix trumpeteers, two playing the dant Department has remained ^ on all state colleges will include Aggie than the mere playing of first harmony, two playing the sec- for the last three years. Here on I the report on the earlier investiga- the first floor of the building is tion at A. &M. The minutes of found the Commandant’s office, i this earlier investigation have not (See ROSS HALL, Page 2) 1 (See SENATE, Page 7) a few notes at midnight. | ond harmony, and two playing the One does not fully fully realize j third harmony. It is played in a the close union between Aggies j slow tempo, decreasing during the until he hears Silver Taps play-1 (See SILVER TAPS, Page 2)