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No Saturday Classes Before S. M. U. And Rice Games
Speed-Up Program Suspended Af End Of Semester; Final Exams Reinstated
Authorization was given yester
day by the Academic Council to
suspend classes on November 11
and 18 in order for the corps to
make the trips to the S. M. U. foot
ball game in Dallas on the 11th
and the Rice game in Houston on
the 18th.
The Academic Council also voted
to suspend the speed-up program
at the end of the current semester.
The return to a normal school year
will mean that there will be two
semesters a year of the regular
length during the fall, winter, and
spring with a special summer ses
sion.
Restoration of final examina
tions was another factor included
in the return to normalcy pro-
gi’am. Plans were also formulated
for an exemption system on the
final examination which will pro
vide that the upper 25% of .those
enrolled for a course do not have
to take the examination.
Provisions were made for the
return of ex-service men in the
middle of each semester. This plan,
■ftdien put into operation, will en
able returning discharged service
men to take a refresher course be
fore enrolling for the regular ses
sion.
The provision for the suspension
of classes on the dates of the S.
M. U. and Rice games carried with
it the stipulation that all classes
which are missed will have to be
made up. In a statement issued by
the Academic Council they said,
“ . . . that classes are to be sus
pended on Saturday, November 11,
and Saturday, November 18. In
order to make up the work missed
and meet the minimum standards of
the days of teaching required, the
classes scheduled for these days
will meet between 5:00 and 6:00
p.m. on the preceeding Monday,
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thurs
day; the 8:00 o’clock class meeting
on Monday, the 9:00 o’clock on
Tuesday, the 10:00 o’clock on Wed
nesday, and the 11:00 o’clock on’
Thursday.
“Regular class schedules will
continue through Saturday, Febru
ary 3, and registration for the new
semester will take place on Mon
day, February 5, 1945.”
This action was taken by the
Academic Council at the request of
the corps in the form of a peti
tion. The petition requested that
classes be excused on those two
days in cider that a corps trip and
parade might be held in each of
the two cities, Dallas and Houston.
Dean F. C. Bolton said in a state
ment yesterday afternoon that the
Academic Council considered. the
matter carefully but felt that it
would be inadvisable to have corps
trip parades but that they were
willing to approve a dismissal of
classes. He added that these trips
would not be considered corps trips.
Return to the regular two-se
mester and summer session plan
will mark the end of A. & M.’s
speedup program to facilitate the
education of high school graduates
prior to their induction into the
armed forces. The plan went into
operation in January of 1942 and
made it possible for a freshman
entering college to graduate in two
years and eight months. During
the time of its operation A. & M.
has turned out thousands of men
for the armed forces with a
partially complete college educa
tion.
Closely correlated with the
speed-up program is the new rul
ing which will allow ex-servicemen
to enroll in college in the middle
of a semester. Dean Bolton stated
that while the complete plans were
not as yet worked out, that fresh
men entering under this program
would likely enter upon a half
schedule double time program
which would enable them to be
ready to enroll for a normal load
of work at the beginning of the
succeeding semseter. He added
that the provision was made in
order that ex-service men would
not have to wait several months
after their discharge before enter
ing college.
Men with college credits will
likely utilize the time from the
middle of the semester in which
they re-enter until the beginning
of the next semester in refresher
courses. Dean Bolton said that this
would be so because the exper
ience has been that men returning
from the armed forces need re
freshing before college work is be
gun.
Restoration of final examinations
carries with it the provision that
students may be exempted from the
final examination. The statement
reads as follows, “An undergradu
ate student who within the pre
scribed time completes all the re
quirements of a course except the
examination may earn exemption
i'rcm the examination in that course
provided:
“He has a semester grade, ex
clusive of final examination, of
A or B and is within the upper
25% of the undergraduate enroll
ment in the class as then con
stituted. A class is defined as in
cluding all students registered in
a given subject with a single in
structor.”
During the course of the meet
ing the Academic Council discussed
several other topics relating to
the academic procedure of A. &
M. and will make announcements
of these upon the completion of
plans. The return to the normal
schedule will necessitate a revision
of the College Calendar but as this
will take some time it is not yet
prepared.
The Academic Council is made
up of the deans of each of the
four schools, the dean of the col
lege, and the heads of each de
partment of instruction.
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OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER
OF THE CITY OF
COLLEGE STATION
SEMI-WEEKLY
STUDENT NEWSPAPER
TEXAS A. & M.
DEEP IN AGGIELAND
VOLUME 44
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, FRIDAY AFTERNOON, OCTOBER 20, 1944
NUMBER 37
Aggies Open Conference Play Against T. C. U.
Rickety,
Rock,
Rock,
Rock!
AGGIE “T”—Pictured above is the famous Aggie “T” as it was
formed in pre-war days. The Corps has practiced this formation dur
ing the last week in order to be able to go into it quickly at the half
during the A&M-TCU game tomorrow. It is traditional that the
T” is formed at the first conference game played on Kyle Field each
football season. This will be the only formation of the “T” this
season, as was the custom before the “T” was discontinued at the
close of the 1942 grid year.
Blue Book
Is Revised
By Council
One Copy Issued
To Each Room;
Must Be Returned
First Sergeants were directed to
report to the Commandant’s Of
fice this morning, where they re
ceived enough copies of the newly
revised “Blue Book” of college reg
ulations to distribute one book to
every room in each unit.
A number of minor changes were
made in the rules set forth by the
college in September, 1942. The
most important among these were
the changes made in the call to
quarters regulations, the hospital
hours, and the uniform.
Students have been directed to
take care of these books because
they are to be turned back to the
Commandant’s Office at the end
of this semester for re-distribution
to those students who return to
school, and to the new students
who will enter in February.
World-Famed Plant
Scientist Visits
College Campus
Dr. F. E. Clements,
California Ecologist,
Talks With A&M Staff
Dr. F. E. Clements of the Labo
ratory of Ecological Research lo
cated in Santa Barbara, California
and Manitou Springs, Colorado was
a visitor on the A. & M. campus
October 8 and 9. Dr. Clements is
one of the foremost Plant Ecolo
gists in the United States. His
work has won world-wide acclaim.
He is the author of a number of
books and articles on Plant Ecology
and Bio-Ecology. Dr. Clements is
starred in the last edition of the
“American Men of Science” which
is indicative of his achievements.
Dr. Clements was formerly Chair
man of the Department of Botany,
University of Minnesota and Ecolo
gist with the Carnegie Institute of
Washington.
Dr. Clements was accompanied
by his wife and Dr. H. M. Bell,
Chief of the Range Management
Division 4 of the Soil Conservation
Service.
Dr. Clements held conversations
with Dr. W. P. Taylor, Dr. C. C.
Doak, Dr. W. B. Davis, Dr. Chas.
La Motte, Dr. John J. Sperry and
other A. & M. staff members.
Garden Clubs Meet
Here Three Days
Thirty-seven officers and board
members of Texas Garden Clubs,
Inc., and presidents, local garden
clubs throughout the state gather
ed at the A. & M. College October
17-19 for the annual business meet
ing and Horticultural Forum. Mrs.
C. B. Campbell, is recording secre
tary.
Mrs. C. E. Beavers of Wichita
Falls is president and Mrs. C. E.
Miller of Dallas is regional director
of the organization. Both were
present at the A. & M. meeting,
and former state presidents in
attendance include Mrs. Will Lake
of Fort Worth and Mrs. Ben G.
O’Neal of Wichita Falls.
Assisting Mrs. Campbell in mak
ing arrangements for the garden
enthusiasts were Mrs. J. E. Rob
erts, president, Mrs. D. W. Wil
liams, vice-president of the A. &
M. Garden Club, Mrs. S. H. Yarnell,
Mrs. Adam Bennett and Mrs. C.
W. Crawford.
President Gibb Gilchrist wel
comed the Garden Club ladies to the
campus in an address proceeding
the business session October 18.
A luncheon was give nthe visiting
ladies, who were quartered in A.
& M. dormitories during their stay
on the campus. In the afternoon
Mrs. Gilchrist honored the visitors
with a tea at the President’s
home on the campus.
The Horticultural Forum was
conducted by Rudolph Hensel, S.
H. Yarnell, F. W. Hensel, and Elo
Urbanovsky.
Wilcox Speaks To
Brazos County
Aggie-Exes Club
Injured Aggies To
Attend T. C. U. Game
As Gilchrist’s Guests
Around 50 former Aggies heard
George B. Wilcox, head of A&M’s
Student Personnel Department dis
cuss the duties of his organization
before the monthly meeting of the
Brazos County A&M Club at the
Bryan Country Club Monday night.
Taking this semester’s 700 fresh
men students, Mr. Wilcox described
how his office wrote a letter to the
parents of each boy outlining the
functions of the Personnel office
and asking the parents or the stu
dents to use these facilities at any
time needed. Each student is helped
with his assignments, or advised
how a course may be changed to
better fit the boy with his capa
bilities. Some 35 faculty advisers
work through the personnel office
with the students they have under
them.
P. L. Downs, Jr., good Samari
tan of the club, reported nine
wounded or injured Aggies now
in McClosky Hospital will come
over to the TCU-A&M football
game Saturday and will be guests
of President Gibb Gilchrist at the
game. They will be accompanied
by the commanding officer of Mc-
Closkey, Brigadier General James
A. Bethea. They also will attend
the Aggie yell practice and Tem-
ple-Bryan football game Friday
night.
Control Course
Lecturers Listed
Principal lecturers for the short
course on Quality Control by Sta
tistical Methods to be held here
Oct. 25-Nov 2, will be Paul Peach,
industi’ial consultant, and Dr. Ed
win G. Olds, chief statistical con
sultant, Office of Production Re
search and Development, both of
WPB’s Washington office, V. M.
Faires, head of A&M’s Department
of Management Engineering, an
nounced today. Already sufficient
registrations have been received
to assure the short course beipg
held.
This intensive, 8-day, tuition-
free quality control short school is
being sponsored by the Agricultu
ral and Mechanical College of Tex
as in cooperation with the War
Production Board, and the ESMWT
program of the U. S. Office of
Education. The subject is a new
but proven tool for industry man
agement that not only saves the
executive’s time but lowers pro
duction costs.
Other lecturers will be brought
in for one-day programs. This list
includes S. E. Sites, Westinghouse
company, Mansfield, Ohio; Capt.
A. R. Burgess, St. Lounis ordnance
office; L. S. Kauffman, chief in
spector, American Stove Co., St.
Louis; and Edward M. Schrock,
quality control engineer, ordnance
research and development center,
Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md.
Those taking the short course
may stay in dormitories and take
their meals in A&M’s dining hall,
or Aggieland Inn at a nominal
chatjrge. To qualify for the short
(See COURSES, Page 4)
Marine Resources
Committee to Meet
On Campus Friday
Dr. Walter P. Tavlor
Wildlife Unit Head,
To Be Chairman
A meeting of the Texas Com
mittee on Marine Resources has
been called for Friday afternoon
and Saturday morning in Room
324 of the Animal Industries
Building to consider means of
greater utilization of the products
of Gulf Coast waters, Dr. Walter
P. Taylor, head of the A. & M.
Wildlife Research Unit, has an
nounced.
A great store of potential food,
feed and fertilizer products lies al
most untouched at our very door,
Dr. Taylor said. Very little is be
ing done about it, and this meet
ing will be an open discussion to
determine how best the facilities
of the Texas A. & M., College may
be used toward this end.
In attendance will be represent
atives of the Texas Game, Fish
and Oyster Commission, Fish and
Wildlife Service of the U. S. De
partment of the Interior, Biology
Department of Southern Methodist
University, commercial fishing in
terests, and several departments
of the A. & M. College.
Dr. Taylor will be chairman of
the meeting, and its secretary is
Dr. S. H. Hopkins of the Biology
Department.
Every month ’(O,UU0 discharged
veterans are re-entering industry.
One airplane company already has
employed more than 1,800 veterans
of World War II.
Maroon And White Given
Edge Over Frogs Saturday
Horned Frogs Rested Last Weekend After
Tying Razorbacks in Conference Opener
Between 10,000 and 15,000 spectators are expected to be
on hand Saturday afternoon to witness the Aggie’s first con
ference game of the season against the Horned Frogs from
Texas Christian University at 2:30 on Kyle Field.
A. & M. and T. # C. U. have the best season records of
any schools in the Southwest Conference; the Frogs having
-+only a tie with Arkansas to mar
their record while the Aggies were
Longhorn Still
Needs Snapshots
All students having photographs
of Aggie activities of the past six
months are requested to send them
to the Longhorn for publication in
the Aggieland section. If you have
any snapshots of yourself or
friends or best girl that you want
published now is the time to do
so.
It is the desire of tfie Longhorn
to have some informal snapshots
of the compny members at the
bottom ’ of each company page in
the yearbook. To do this each com
pany must turn in its own pictures.
Either mail or bring all pictures
to the Longhorn office on the
gound floor of the Administration
building.
Forest Service Men
Attend Conference
W. E. White, of the Forest Serv
ice, is attending the program for
Texas Forest Conservation Day at
Lufkin on October 24. Other men
from the Forest Service here also
attending are S. E. Frost, D. A.
Anderson, R. W. Schoen, Harry
Quinn, Larry Fisher, and Frank
Nedbalek.
Governor Coke Stevenson has set
aside the week of Oct. 22 as Texas
Forestry Week and’ they are cele
brating Texas Fdrestry Day at
Lufkin on Oct. 24. The purpose of
this meeting is to get forest own
ers to use better cutting practices
In order to “conserve and protect
this great natural renewable re
sources.” There are sixty-five tree
farms in Texas using good cutting
practices now and it is hoped by
this meeting to increase this
number. /
Hatton W .Sumners,
Dallas Congressman,
Visits A&M Campus
Hatton W. Sumners, congres
sional representative from Dallas,
visited on the campus last night.
He ate mess with the cadets in
Sbisa as the guest of Cadet Col
onel George Strickhausen.
Sumners arrived yesterday aft
ernoon shortly after six and left
this morning at ten. He visited J.
W. Potts, assistant state boys’ club
agent in the Extension Service.
defeated by the Oklahoma Sooners.
The two teams were rated about
even earlier in the season, but the
Aggies’ showing last week against
the L. S. U. Tigers has gained them
much support an air-tight defense
which the Tigers were never able
to dent.
The Frogs have had two weeks
in which to prepare for their meet
ing with the Aggies,. having an
open date following the Arkansas
game. During this time, Coach
Leo “Dutch” Meyer of the Christ
ians has been getting his charges
in tip-top shape. Most of the drills
have stressed defense against Ag
gie plays, although the Froggies
have been polishing their offense
which never really got started in
the Arkansas game.
Meyer has altered his starting
lineup somewhat by putting John
ny Sherrod at quarterback in
place of Kucera. Sherrod is the
best passer on the squad which
seems to indicate that the air will
be filled with passes Saturday af
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(See CADETS, Page 3)
Student Concessions
Must Be Registered
“Any studdnt operating a con
cession on the campus must have
his concession authorized by the
Student Activities Office. If any
student has agents working for him
on his concessions he must have
these agents listed in the Students
Activities Office. Any student
caught operating a concession
without a permit from the Student
Activities Office will be subject
to action by the disciplinary com
mittee.”
A&M Flying Club Holds
Classes Every Monday
Each Monday night at 7:00 p.m.
the A. & M. Flying club will meet
in room 107 of the Academic Build
ing, according to Barney Myatt,
president. Students atetnding these
meetings will have authorized ab
sences from C. Q. until 8:15 p.m.
All freshmen and old returning stu
dents interested in flying are in
vited to attend these meetings.
Navigation and various C. A. A.
courses will be taught at the meet-
ings. These training courses must
be taken before one can get his
pilot’s license.