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VOLUME 44
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, TUESDAY AFTERNOON, OCTOBER 3, 1944
NUMBER 32
Total Enrollment Expected At Two Thousand Today
Complete Military Organizations Return
Corps Completes Move From Duncan to
Military Walk and North Gate Area
The Aggies, nearly 2000 strong, will live in the North
Gate and Military Walk Areas this fall in complete military
organizations irfcluding freshmen, sophomores, juniors, and
seniors it has been announced by the Commandant’s Office.
Divided into two regiments, of-
three battalions each the corps
will live in fully staffed military
outfits for the first time in sev
eral semesters. This was made
possible by a decision of President
Gibb Gilchrist Thursday morning
twu weeks ago.
Dormitories occupied by the Ag
gies will be Law, Puryear, Mit
chell, Walton, Milner, 14, 15, 16,
and 17. The band will continue to
be quartered in Bizzell with an
additional company of freshmen
living in Hart. The non-reg stu
dents will also live in Hart Hall.
Another step toward a com
plete military organization was
the destination of various units as
different branches of training. The
first regiment will be composed
entirely of infantry. The second
regiment will have two battalions
of field artillery and one battal
ion of cavalry.
The band will be considered a
corps band and attached to the
second regiment for administra
tion and discipline. The corps will
again be headed by a cadet colonel
and his staff.
Loupot Will Award
Prize to Best Sign
J. E. Loupot has announced a
weekly prize for the best football
banner displayed before each game
and a grand prize at the end of
the season for the best banner all
fall.
Each week a committee of
judges, as yet not decided upon,
will select the outstanding sign
and Loupot will award that or
ganization a prize of $2.50. The
grand prize for the semester will
be $25.00.
Loupot began this practice in
the fall of 1942 when the grand
prize was won by the band on a
banner before the Texas univer
sity game. No contest was held
last year because of the discon
tinuance of banner displays.
Gasoline Rations
Form R535 Application for
Supplemental and Occupational
Mileage Ration is the only sup
plemental gasoline form now in
use. Also, all gas applications,
whether supplementary or spe
cial, have to be accompanied by
the A-application stub. All tire
inspection records are now obso
lete and should not be attached
to application.
Wendell R. Horsley,
Director, Placement Office
Seniors to Select
Aggie Sweetheart
FromTwelve Co-Eds
Girls Will Be Chosen
From TSCW Beauties
Sun. Morning October 8
Twelve senior Aggies will go to
Denton Friday to select the Aggie
Sweetheart for the fall semester.
Arrangements have been made
with TSCW to make the selection
from a bevy of 12 beauties which
are selected from each class at
TSCW.'
The senior class has not decided
what men will make ’the trip but
in the past it has been customary
for the corps commander to go as
well as the regimental command
ers, and editor of the Battalion
and Longhorn. Selections will be
made at the first senior class meet
ing this week.
Arrangements have meen made
with TSCW for those making the
trip to stay in Virginia Carrol
Lodge, guest house, and also the
Aggies will be furnished meals by
the girls. According to latest word
from Denton the Aggies will meet
the girls Friday night and decide
what to do the rest of the evening.
Saturday the girls have planned
(See SENIORS, Page 2)
Town Hall
Program Has
Big Variety
Footlight Favorites
Open Season; Denton
Choir 2nd Feature
The Student Activities has com
pleted their arrangements for the
1944-45 Town Hall season and will
open the sale for season tickets
on October 4. Eight programs have
been listed for the year’s schedule.
Two numbers will be presented
in November. The Footlight Favor
ites, a quartette composed of Met
ropolitan Opera Stars, will open
the season on November 7, singing
offerings of light opera and musi
cal comedy. On November 23, the
A Cappella Choir from Denton
Teachers College will perform for
the Town Hall patrons. This group,
under the direction of Dr. Wilfred
C. Bain, has been a favorite on
the campus in the past, and will
again delight the audience with
varied program of songs.
The one entertainment for the
month of December comes on the
12th, presenting Robert Casadesus,
famed pianist, who has played on
programs in both Europe anu
America.
On January 11, H. R. Knicker-
bocher, news commentator and
analyst, will provide the entertain
ment. Having been on battle fronts
in all sections of conflict, he 'is
well able to give firsthand infor
mation on things many people are
interested in hearing. In the same
month and on the 26th, Leonard
Warren, young baritone, who has
sung in five of the world’s fore
most operas, will be the artist.
The month of February also holds
two numbers on the season’s sched
ule. On the 12th, Paul Draper,
world’s supreme tap dancer and
Larry Adler, top-notcher in the
field of harmonica artists, will give
(See TOWN HALL, Page 2)
Location Of A & A/l. Really Not
Penal Colony But Gift Of Brazos
By Dick Osterholm
Before the war started, A. & M.
could boast of being the largest
man’s school in the world. In com
parison as a military institution,
more officers were graduated from
this college than from the Military
Academy at West Point. This was
before the war, but the quality of
men still at A. & M. has not
changed. It is true, they are re
duced in number but not in
spirit. To the new men on the
campus, let them be impressed
with some of the history behind
this great college. Go back to the
days when this institution was first
thought of by men who desired to
build for the state of Texas a
school of higher learning.
During the governorship of E.
J. Davis, in 1871, it was desired
by the men of Texas to establish
in this state a school for people
who wanted a higher education.
Davis, at the recommendation of
his advisers pressed action of the
Land Grant Bill created for es
tablishing colleges in the United
States. Legislature responded by
granting the authorities an act,
I creating the Texas Agricultural
and Mechanical College of Texas.
This school was created out of the
^University land grant, and became
the oldest institution of higher
ilearning in the state of Texas.
When the construction of
college was first to begin,
location could not be decided up
on. Finally when Brazos County
offered 2416 acres of land and a
bid of $22,000 was offered to the
college committee, they accepted
and thus “Sing-Song-on-the-
Brazos”, was born.
Construction on the first build
ings began in 1871, with a work
ing capital of $75,000 obtained
from the state legislature. After
the foundation of several of the
buildings had been laid and nearly
$38,000 had been spent, the state
inspectors came down and con
demned everything and the entire
work had to be started over.
Finally, the work was completed
and the college decided to open
September 17, 1876. The big day
arrived and what happened was
quite an ordeal to the college au
thorities. Six men reported for en
rollment. The faculty decided to
postpone the opening date until
October 4 of the same year, and
everyone went out to recruit new
students for enrollment. This time
about forty students enrolled for
the first semester and the college
got under way.
In 1875, before the co lege had
opened, the board of directors had
met and decided to elect the Honor
able Jefferson Davis of Mississippi
for the college’s first president. Due
to ill health and other means, he
declined regrettfully and in his
place recommended T. S. Cath-
right. Gathright was elected and
with a faculty of nine professors,
opened the college term in 1876.
This was the beginning of Tex
as A. & M., destined to become the
greatest man’s school in the world.
The students enrolled in the
school each semester was small, but
increased every year. During 1891,
391 students were enrolled and in
1909, the school had reached its
housing capacity and had to make
accommodations for 486 men who
lived in tents on the campus until
proper housing could be built for
them.
Whenever one hears of A. & M.,
he immediately thinks of the
“Aggie Spirit”. It has been said
that the starting of this spirit
began when the college opened in
1876, under its first commandant,
Major R. P. W. Morris. Major Mor
ris was over the college’s first mil
itary office and had charge of the
infantry organization which at this
time was the only organization
on the campus. But, since way
back there, the. Aggie spirit has
flowed and is still flowing today,
greater than ever, here on the
campus and all over the world
wherever Aggies are together.
During the life of A. & M. many
men have held the office of pres
ident of the college. Probably most
colorful of these was Lawrence Sul
livan Ross, whose statue now
stands in front of the Academic
Building. Ross was president in
(See A. & M., Page 4)
President Gibb Gilchrist
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To the Freshmen:
Since December 7, 1941 hundreds of A. & M. students
and graduates have put aside their studies, in most cases
temporarily, in order to participate in either military or in-
dustral activities contributing to our national war effort.
Other hundreds have entered and are now entering in order
to devote themselves to college training that will equip them
for their own contributions, and also for their future ca
reers after the war. If you devote yourself to the course of
study on which you have embarked and do well in that course,
by that accomplishment you will further your country’s
cause in the present emergency. This is the task of you who
are entering A. & M. at this time. If our men who are now
on the battlefields could speak to you they would advise
you to enter upon your studies wholeheartedly, devoting your
self to them from the very beginning, and taking full ad
vantage of every opportunity afforded you at A. & M. This
is your job. Ours is to help you in every possible manner.
Our staff is genuinely interested in your welfare and is de
dicated to helping you gain the most from your stay at A.&M.
We welcome you to A. & M., and wish you success in
all your activities.
Gibb Gilchrist,
President
Athletic Department Equipped For
Intercollegiate, Intramural Sports
Boasting one of the finest ath
letic departments in the nation,
A. & M. begins its fiftieth year of
intercollegiate competition this
fall. The athletic set up is divided
into two separate departments;
Homer H. Norton being head of
intercollegiate activities and W. L.
Penberthy being head of intramural
sports and the physical education
department.
Texas A. & M. is a charter mem
ber of the Southwest Conference
Athletic Association, participating
in all major sports. The facilities
here on the campus include Kyle
Field, the famous stadium, known
around the world as the home of
the Texas Aggies; a baseball
grandstand, and DeWare Field
House, where the Aggie basketeers
perform.
Homer Norton is head of this
department, but he has a capable
group of assistants with which to
work including Bill James, Man
ning Smith, Lil Dimmitt, and
Pete Jones.
The intramural and physical
education departments, with of
fices in DeWare Field House, is
headed by W. L. Penberthy. With
six assistants to help in the phy
sical education program, Penberthy
is trying to get the students into
the best possible physical condi
tion for either military or future
college training.
Facilities for this program in
clude 27 basketball courts, 10 soft-
ball diamonds, five football fields,
15 volleyball courts, 10 tennis
courts, five handball courts, a
swimming pool, and a tumbling
room.
Intramurals will again be stress
ed this fall, with competition be
tween different organizations in
basketball, touch football, speed-
bal, volleyball, and cross country.
Medals are given to the winners
in the different events, and the in
tramural flag will be presented to
the organization with the best
record for the semester.
A Company won the flag for
the semester just ended, and will
be entitled to carry it in all re
views.
Penberthy urges all incoming
freshmen to enter into the intra-
(See ATHLETIC DEPT., Page 2)
Tenth War Time Enrollment
Sees A. & A. College Grow
New Students Register Monday Morning
And New Students Register After Noon
An estimated total
portals of A. & M. for
mate of 1200 returning
ure to nearly 2000, for
of 700 will pass through the
the first time today. An esti-
students will up the total fig-
the tenth war-time registration
of the college, and the second semester with President Gibb
christ at the helm.
Savings on Longhorn
Plans are complete for the
resumption of publication of the
A. & M. Yearbook, the Longhorn.
This book will be on sale during
registration for $4.00. Any pur
chases made after that date will
cost $5.00. To obtain the bene
fit of this saving Marc Smith,
editor of the Longhorn, urges
every student to make his pur
chase on the date of registra
tion.
Sidewalks In New
Area Take Priority
In New Program
Plans Call for 1 x /i
Miles Concrete Walks
Costing Over $25,000
Investigation of a request made
by student representative Sergeant
Major Charles Trickey has led to
the authorization of the permit for
the building of sidewalks in the
new area.
The project had long been under
consideration by the president, but
student request brought about im
mediate action. The investigation
found that this project was urgent,
and the president took special ac
tion in this project. President Gil
christ is still engaged in working
out his recommendation of the
project for the Board of Directors,
but the go ahead has been given.
T. R. Spence announced last
Thursday that bids for the pro
ject would be received on October
12. The plans have been drawn for
the construction of 11,000 square
yards of concrete sidewalks, cost
ing in the vicinity of $25,000. The
plans include a pavement in front
of Duncan dining hall, and one
half mile of 16 foot walks, and a
mile of 8 foot walks. The plans
have been so made to take care of
the main walks in the entire new
area.
It is hoped that within a year
additional walks beyond this pro
gram will be authorized, Spence
stated.
Gilchrist Addressed
Annual Vet Meeting
While the organized veterinari
ans of Texas have held their an
nual business meetings at the Tex
as A. & M. College several times
in the past, College officials would
like to be hosts at all meetings,
President Gibb Gilchrist said in
welcoming the two-day 34th an
nual meeting of the Texas Veteri
nary Medical Association which
opened Monday. He said that
while the A&M School of Veteri
nary Medicine was outstanding
among tho institutions of the coun
try, it should be more so, and he
called for suggestions, criticisms
and advice that would bring about
this condition.
Around 135 veterinarians had
registered at headquarters in the
Veterinary Hospital by noon Mon
day. Quite a number of the vis
itors came down Saturday and at
tended the Aggie-Bryan Field foot
ball game. Others came Sunday
and many informal conferences on
mutual problems-were held at Ag-
gieland Inn.
Response to the address of wel
come was made by Dr. E. A. Grist,
chief veterinarian for the Texas
Livestock Sanitary Commission
with headquarters in Fort Worth.
Dr. Grist advised that about 80
(See GILCHRIST, "age 3)
■ The estimate was made by H. L.
Heaton, registrar of the College,
on a basis of expected enrollment
and the enrollment for the past
semester. Of the probable 2000,
the frogs will number 700, the fish
will number upwards of 800, andU
over 500 old returning Aggies are
expected. These figures top all the
enrollment totals for the past three
semesters.
For the second time, both old
and new students will be registered
in the same day. This registration
also marks the return of the
orientation week used in 1942. New
students will register in the morn
ing, and old students will wrestle
with their fall schedules in the af
ternoon.
Registration cards will be re
leased to new students in a ac
cordance with the following
schedule:
All students with surnames be
ginning with A, B, C, D, will re
ceive their cards between 8 and
8:30 today.
Aggies with E, F, G, H, I, J, or
K as the starting letter in their
surnames will get their cards be
tween 8:30 and 9.
Those with L, M, N, O, P, Q, or|
R surname beginnings will receive v
their assignment cards from 9
to 9:30.
Frogs with S, T, U, V, W, X,
Y, and Z as the first letter in their
surname will have their cards re
leased between 9:30 and 10.
From 10 to 10:30 all frogs who
were unable to register at their
regular scheduled time will receive
assignment cards.
Old Aggies will receive assign
ment cards from bewteen 1 and 5
this afternoon. They will follow
this prescribed schedule:
Students with surnames begin
ning with the letters A, D will get
their cards at 1.
E-K surnames get cards at 1:30.
At 2 cards will be issued for stu
dents with surnames L-R. ^
At 2:30 the rest of the alphat
will register.
Aggies who were unable to reg
ister at their scheduled time may
do so between 3 and 3:30.
The Registrar’s Office will close
at 5 p.m. Monday, and old stu
dents who have not registered by
that time must pay an additional
matriculation fee of $2.00 for late
registration.'
Animal Nutrition
Meet Scheduled for
College October 1
Feed Manufacturers
Requested Conference;
D. H. Reid Is Chairman
Beginning October 11, Texas A.
& M. College will sponsor a nutf'
tion conference at the request
the Texas Feed Manufacturers
sociation. D. H. Reid, head of
department of Poultry Husbandly;
who will be general chairman, an
nounced that experts on all lines
of livestock and poultry will dis
cuss the latest facts in nutrition.
O. C. Copland, head of the dairy
division here at college, will be
chairman of the morning session
October 11, and the subject of the
session will be fats. Dr. G. O.
Bur, head of the division of phy
siological chemistry of the Uni
versity of Minnesota will discuss
the role of fats in animal nutrition;
J. H. Jones of the Experiment Sta
tion animal husbandry division
will discuss fat requirements for
beef cattle and sheep; Dr. J. H.
Thompson, Experiment Station
turkey nutritionist will discuss fats
(See NUTRITION, Page 3)
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