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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Sept. 19, 1944)
t VOLUME 44 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, TUESDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 19, 1944 NUMBER 31 Corps Moves Back To Military Walk Area Corps Review Scheduled For Saturday Practice Review To Bet “ Held Wednesday Nite Old Students to Register October 2; Saturday morning at 10:30 the /II "L rfl J corps of cadets will parade in the 143.8868 SCfledUled tO BCgln 1116803} final review of this semester. The 0 review will be held on the regular drill field in the military walk area. This is not a final review in the sense that the final review used to be understood. The final re view will not be held until the end of next semester when the present senior class graduates. The parade (See CORPS, Page 3) BEAT BRYAN FIELD Press Club to Hold Meeting Wed. Night All workers on the Battalion and the Longhorn Publications will meet in room 118 of Dormitory three Wednesday evening at 7:15 in a meeting of the Press Club call ed by the President, Dick Goad. Plans for the coming semester will be discussed and announce ments of publication dates and staffs will be made, said Goad. Goad also urged all Aggies in terested in working on the Bat talion or Longhorn next semester to attend the meeting. Fees Payable Now At Fiscal Office; Cost of Longhorn Not Included Fees for the coming semester total $83.00 and may now be paid at the Fiscal Department. Included in this amount is $7.00 for the Student Activities fee, which is for admission to all athletic events and subscription to the Battalion. The Student Activities fee is op tional. Not included in this amount is cost of the yearbook. Work has be gun on the 1944-45 version of the Longhorn, and it will come off the press in May of 1945. During the coming registration for the next semester students will be given a chance to purchase a Longhorn at a special table in the registra tion line. The price set for the book is four dollars. This special table was deemed necessary when it was decided not to include the (See FEES, Page 4) - Official registration for all old students currently enrolled will be gin at 1:00 p.m. Monday, October 2. All students enrolled at present who are in good academic standing at the end of this semester will be issued assignment cards at the As sembly Hall from 1 to 5 Monday afternoon. This applies to graduate and undergraduate students both. Assignment cards will be issued according to the following sched ule of registration periods. All students whose surnames begin with A, B, C, or D will register from 1 to 1:30; all names begin ning with E, F, G, H, I, J, or K from 1:30 to 2:00; student whose surnames begin with L, M, N, O, P, Q, or R will register from 2 to 2:30 and those whose surnames (See REGISTRATION, Page 7) BEAT BRYAN FIELD Gilchrist Appoints Committee to Study Hospital Facilities To study present facilities and the possibility of improvements of the college hospital. President Gil christ has appointed a committee composed of five members of the faculty and two students. Members of this committee are Dean Bolton, chairman, Colonel Bennett, Mr. Wilcox, Mr. Hopper, Dr. Harrington, Tom Alley, Presi dent of the Senior class, and S. L. Inzer. Thus far the committee has dis cussed the problem among them selves but another meeting is scheduled for Wednesday after noon. The committee intends to examine the status of the hospi tal both for present and future use to determine what improvements can be made. Improvements might include an expansion of present facilities, said Bolton. Co-inciding with the appoint ment of this committee, hospital officials announced that visiting hours for the student body would be from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Majority O f Junior Class To Return For Next Semester This week your browsing report er has taken a short census in the way of finding out the views of several members of the junior class, on the subject of coming Battalion Schedule This issue is the last for the Battalion during the current se mester. The next issue will be published Tuesday, October 3 and the following week Will mark the resumption of the regular publication schedule. Because of the shortage of manpower and materials the Bat talion will be unable to resume publication three times weekly. It will continue to come out on Tuesday and Friday afternoons dur ing next semester. back for the fall semester. This interview has more or less been limited to the juniors since the majority of this class are around the age where they are eligible for employment in Uncle Sam’s forces. In other words, these men are sweating the draft! While talking with Ernest Baetz, president of the junior class, we learned that he is definitely sweat ing the draft. Baetz plans to come back next semester but for how long, time will only tell. He plans to continue to carry on with his Chem Engineering work. Dan McGurk, junior yell lead er, seems to have the situation well in hand. Dan was worried about the draft, but he worked (See JUNIORS, Page 8) Ushers At Gaines Meet With Adamson All students interested in act ing as ushers at fotball games on Kyle Field this fall are urged to see Art Adamson at the swim ming pool at five o’clock Wed nesday afternoon. Ushers for the games are urgently needed and everyone interested is ask ed to report. Final Semester Ball Friday Followed By Full Fall Schedule Eleven scheduled dances fill the fall social season for the Aggies it was announced today by the senior Committee on Student Ac tivities. The first in the series will take place Friday night in Sbisa with music by the corps’ own Ag- gieland orchestra. This will be the final ball of this semester and the last until the junior prom in October. Script for the Formal dance Friday night is priced at $1.20 and no special invitation price is extended to sen iors. A dormitory will be available for guests and students desiring to quarter guests in a dormitory can make the necessary arrange ments in the Room Assignment Office in Ross Hall. Next semester the Committee on Student Activities has arranged for a series of five weekends of dance activity with two dances scheduled for each weekend. The first dance will be the junior prom (See DANCE, Page 8) Dorms In Duncan Area to Be Vacated The corps will move from the Duncan Hall area to'the military walk area the latter part of this week it has been announced by the Commandnt’s .Office. There will be a memorandum is sued giving the dormitory assign ments for each organization and the moving date which the Com mandant’s Office said would be arranged so as to be as conven ient as possible and as soon as possible. Aggeis will live in the military walk area while the navy and the ASTP will remain quartered in the Duncan Hall area. Sbisa Hall will be opened and all Aggies will take their meals there. Dormitory assignments are not definite as yet but it is probable that 14, 15, 16, 17, and Walton will be used for the old students. New freshmen will be quartered separately. BEAT BRYAN FIELD San Antonio Aggies to Hold Final Meet Wed. Attention all San Antonio Ag gies! Final meeting of the San-. Antonio A. & M. Club will be held this Wednesday night in Room 212 of the Academic Building. The meeting will begin at 7:00. Purpose of the meeting will be final discussion of the dance. Ev eryone was urged to sell all of his tickets and make their returns Wednesday night, by R. L. Smith, club president. Thus far only sixty two tickets have been sold, said J. C. Kostelnik, club treasurer. “Dough” Rollins, ’17, To Return To Campus As Student Affairs Director Major John W. “Dough” Rollins one of the all-time greats of Texas A. & M. football history is return ing upon his release from the army as director of student affairs, it has been announced by President Gibb Gilchrist. The newly authorized position makes Rollins direct representative of the executive office to handle administrative matters in connec tion with student affairs and ac tivities. He will take over a number of duties heretofore handled as part time or as extra activities of a number of administrative offi cers, President Gilchrist explained. “The new director of student af fairs will deal closely with students in a civilian capacity, and will act as representative of the president in connection with military discip line and cooperation outside the academic field,” President Gilchrist said. Major Rollins is especially (See ROLLINS, Page 6)