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Dancing Tonight in Sbisa To Tune of Aggieland Orchestra Semi-Formal, All-College Affair From 9-12; Admission $1.50 Stag or Drag Following last night’s Sophomore Revue is anoth er All-College Dance, being held this evening from 9 to 12 o’clock in Sbisa Hall. Featuring the Aggieland Or chestra, the dance will cost $1.50 for couple or stag. Since an advance sale of tickets was not held for this affair, tickets will go on sale at the door at 8:30 o’clock. The dance is open for everyone. Dress will be semi- formal, which means that girls may wear either street or evening dresses. Texas A&M The B PUBLISHED IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE VOLUME 46 COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, SATURDAY, MARCH 1, 1947 Number 41 Travel in Pairs, Insult Other Guests, Don’t Dance Academic Council Appoints Five-Man Committee to Study Student Life Program Here Theory, Practice Weekly Schedule For Summer School Increased Three-Fold A five-man committee to study the student life program at A. & M. College and make recommendations for the improvement of the pro gram -was appointed at a regular meeting of the Academic Council last Tuesday, February 25, Dean F. C. Bolton announced Thursday. Appointed to the committee were the following heads of departments: Guy W. Adriance, department of horticulture; C. C. Doak, biology department; G. W. Schlesselman, department of geography; S. A. Lynch, geology department; and M. C. Hughes, electrical engineering department, ; The recommendation of the Ex- Veterans To See Football Picture On Monday Night Association Opens Office In Goodwin Hall; Board of Representatives Active Veterans will gather Monday night at 7 p.m. in the old Assem bly Hall to see moving pictures of last season’s Oklahoma University- A. & M. football game. The pic tures are expected to show the dis puted touchdown, not allowed by the umpire, which might have given A. & M. a victory over the team which a week before had scared Army. A member of the athletic de partment will explain the various plays as they are shown. There will be a little routine bus iness on the agenda. Such matters are now generally handled by the Board of Representatives, which meets twice a month in sessions resembling those of a city coun cil. Any business brought before the monthly meeting of the whole association will be referred to the council for discussion, then placed on the agenda for action at the next monthly meeting. Matters which are on the short agenda for Monday night include a statement of policy from the new officers, headed by Bill Andrews; nominations for veterans’ duchess to the Cotton Ball; and a prelim inary Mess Hall committee report. On Monday the association will open an office in Room 207, Good win Hall, which will be used for all official business and committee meetings. The board of representatives will meet in that room every second and fourth Wednesday nights in the month. These sessions are open to all veterans. The first council of the present administra tion was held this week. By such an arrangement, club officials say, tiresome debate and discussion will be eliminated from the general social meetings, and transferred to a strictly-business group. ecutive Committee that after Sep tember 1, 1947 students entering A&M as freshmen with military service acquired wholly after Sep tember 1, 1945 be required to take the basic military science and to be members of the Cadet Corps was referred back to the Executive Committee for further considera tion. Approved by the Academic Council was the proposed recom mendation of the Executive Com mittee that during the coming sum mer session the class periods be the normal length and that the weekly schedule of theory and practice be increased three-fold. Of interest to business and ac counting students, was the re quest of Prof. T. W. Leland and Dean T. D. Brooks to publish busi ness and accounting courses in separate lists in forthcoming bulle tins. This proposal was approved by the Council. Upon motion of Dean Howard W. Barlow and seconded by Dr. C. C. Doak, the Registration Com mittee was asked to make further study of improvements in the re gistration procedure, and to report their recommendations to the Council. Proposed by Prof. Ernest Lang ford and seconded by Dr. Doak, the following resolution was un animously adopted: WHEREAS, the primary pur pose of the Agricultural and Mech anical College of Texas is that of providing opportunity of educa tional accomplishment; and WHEREAS, hazing stifles indi vidual initiative and seriously in terferes with studious pursuits; and WHEREAS, it is the concensus of mature judgment that hazing neither develops nor tends to de velop a better citizen, but rather that it tends to reduce the stu dent body to a level low below that which is expected of good citizens, WHEREAS, be it resolved that the Academic Council, individually and collectively, pledges its sup port to the program to eliminate hazing. The meeting was then adjourn ed. Nationally Known A Capella Choir to Sing Here Tuesday A program featuring the Sam Houston A Capella Choir under the direction of Euell Porter will be the tenth show on Town Hall this season. Composed of 57 voices, the group will present four soloists during its performance next Tues day evening at 8 p. m. Both popular and religious songs are included in the program to be presented at Guion Hall. Porter recently or ganized the choir following his joining the staff of Sam Houston State Teachers College.'* Formerly he was director of the Singing Cadets and for several years headed the choral group of Stephen F. Austin High School in Bryan. The A Capella choir performs on Town Hall as the first program of a tour which includes a number of stops in West Texas. Recently it completed a circuit of cities in south and central Texas where the members sang in schools and churches. Four Bryan students among the members of the choir are: Edward Carson, who is featured as a lyric tenor, Marvin Downey, Ralph Wee- don, and Esther Montoyo. The choir sings standing in phalanx formation by voices. Their robes are wine-colored and cossack-styl- ed with white satin stoles for the girls. Married Vets Turn In Mailing Address Ag Education Grads Practice Teaching Approvimately 60 seniors in the agricultural education department at Texas A. & M. College are going into different parts of the state and practicing teaching this se mester, E. R. Alexander, head of the A. & M. agricultural education department, announced. While out teaching, these stu dents will have complete charge of the class rooms and pupils being taught. Practice teaching is part of agricultural education work be fore graduation from A&M, ex plained Alexander. Also the agricultural education department is carrying on exten sive work in graduate extension work for vocational agricultural teachers in high school and county vocational schools for veterans in different parts of the State. The courses being taught carry credit toward a master’s degree. Students living in Vet Village, Project Houses, Trailer Camps, or in the College View Apart ments, should contact the Bat talion office if they wish their names placed on the Battalion mailing list. There has been so much dis satisfaction with the present delivery system to those areas that this service will be dis continued. Luse Presents $5,000 Gift To Research Foundation Receipt of a gift of $5000 from W. P. Luse, Dallas oilman, has been announced by the Texas A&M Research Foundation. The donation is the third similar contribution made by Luse to the Foundation, an agency which provides research facilities for industry and agri culture. WfclL, I CAN'T KEEP THIS UpT" ALL NIGHT / MAYBE IF I ^ relieved/ WELL,WHADDA YOU KNOW / ( HE'S already TOYING to fug i SOMEBODY / ^ v y THERE SHE GOES/ WONDER HOW LONG. THIS M(JGG WILL STICK ? NOW H£~'S WAVING A DOLLR / / SAY, SHE MUST BL WORSEN j i thot / n—T WELL, THIS GUY MAKES TEN TIMES [ she's changed in the iust u FOUR MINUTES ! BET SHE THINKS i^she's popular > ' "“f and there HE GOES / SAY, mis is getting interesting/ (HMMM / THAT FOUR SUCKS IS PASSING RIGHT ON DOWN I THE LINE LIKE THE OTHERS- AOV y SHE'S HADE THE ROUND AGAIN AND NOW THEY'RE M\/ING EIGHT DOLLARS > THERE' SHR GOES AGAIN / ^ AND THIS TIME THEY'RE WAVING THIRTY DOLLARS//-^ OMIGOSH / NOW IT'S THE ORCHESTRA IS PLAYING THE LAST NUMBER NOW SO I GUESS LIL' OLE BLOTTO HAP BETTER STEP IN / THIS LOOKS LIKE A PURTY GOOD INVESTMENT FDR A DOLLAR / I NEVAH HAD SUCH A LOVELY TIME IN ALL MAH LIFE, OTTO ■ I BELIEVE IT/ FORTY-F7VFJ FORTY SIX, FORTY — j0m |1 ity-hveI y »*P; Latest Rules for Socialites From Egypt’s Pyramids By Mack T. Nolen The advent of a new social season always poses old problems again for the bon vivant and the habitue of the ballroom. Ticklish situations rise up from nowhere to puzzle and confound. All sophisticated persons have encountered these social problems before, and it is the manner in which they disposed of the poser that has classified them as a true sophisticate. Savoir faire (from the French, meaning savoir faire) is second na ture to an old hand at the drawing room game, a “must” for those who would enter polite society. Here are a few rules for the teas, dances, and soirees: 1. Always travel in pairs at teas as a protection against having more crockery piled in your arms than one can handle. The second person can hold your cup in his teeth while you arrange matters. 2. Never speak unless your mouth is full, and always insult the other guests. The hos tess will think you are a famous actor or artist and invite you again sometime. 3. At a dance never dance. Stand in the corner and brood. Temperament adds var iety to the affair, and you are not so apt to be stuck with one unattractive partner. 4. Discover the whereabouts of the bar and never venture far from it. 5. And by all means, let us suggest that you follow the example set by Fish Blotto (left), which was excavated from The Batt morgue of ever-good cartoons by Pete Tum- linson. Drawn ’way back in 1941, this Blotto strip tells a fellow how to get out of such a situation—if you have a spare buck! Social gatherings are said to be the in vention of the ancient Egyptians. Inscrip tions on the tomb of Queen Hatshepsut (1501 B. C.) tell us that the favorite party was called “the open pyramid.” It was similar to our modern “open house,” but pyramids were used rather than houses. During the Middle Ages parties almost died out. Records of earlier parties were discovered in mon- astaries, however, and from these sources scholars of the Renaissance were able to re construct full size Roman parties which can not be described here. Louis XIV invented the modern party as we know it today. It is a mixture of one part people and two parts vermouth; mix well and serve chilled. Ballet Theatre Brings Dancers to Guion By David Seligman On a cross-country tour, the Ballet Theatre will stage a per formance at Guion on March 12. Featuring 60 dancers in the corps de ballet and a symphony orches tra, the company is the first Am erican organization of size com parative to the big-time ballet companies. Recently the group performed for a summer session in the London Royal Open House and an en gagement in New York. Their ap pearance here is one of a schedul ed 70 engagements on a tour of the country. Featured stars of the company are such celebrities as Igor Yous- kevitch, Nora Kaye, Lucia Chase, Dimitri Romanoff, and Michael Kidd. They will perform both clas sical dances of the past and num bers representative of the contem porary period in a full show in complete costume regalia. Tickets for the ballet now on sale at WSD and Waldrop’s in Bryan and at the Student Activities at College are pric ed at $2 for reserved seats and $1.50 for general admis sion. The performance is sche duled to begin promptly at 8 p. m. From their repertory of some J. E. Adams Named Cotton Chairman Dr. J. E. Adams, head of the department of agronomy, has been named chairman of the cotton re search committee of the Texas wide cotton committee, Burris C. Jackson, general chairman of Hills boro, announced Wednesday. John Leahy, Austin, director of cotton research programs at A&M, the University of Texas, and Texas Tech, will serve as secretary and co-ordinator. J. W. Hayward, Col lege Station, will assist him. “Cotton and all of agriculture stands at the threshold of a re- sonvolutionary era in research,” Jackson said in announcing the 40-man committee of top research ers and scientists. forty dances, the Ballet Theatre has chosen four numbers to per form here. They are in order or program: “On Stage” by Norma Dello Joio; “Tally Ho” by Gluck; “Black Swan”, by Tchaikowsky; and “Interplay” by Morton Gould. From, pictures of the cast of the Ballet Theatre, the members are young and good-looking. The sketchbooks of their costumes and scenery designs indicate that these items are both beautiful and elab orate. Adding to the array of the cast and sets is the 20-piece sym phony orchestra which furnishes the music for the performance. It is under the direction of Ben Steinberg. The number “Tally Ho” has nothing to do with foxhunting. The scene is in a French forest on an afternoon in mid-summer. The ac tion concerns the dalliances of a scholar, his wife, a prince, and an innocent, wherein the scholar dis covers there are many things in life which cannot be found in books. “Interplay” is a breezy ballet based on dance games in which there is constant play between the classic ballet steps and the con temporary sprit in which they are danced. “On Stage” demonstrates that day dreams are exclusive to no one. Even during a ballet com pany’s rehearsal there may be on lookers whose fancies and desires are so touched by the scenes be fore them that they are wafted away from the position of mere by standers to other realms. In this number a shy girl aspires to be a ballerina watches such a perfor mance beside a handyman who sweeps floors. When all the perfor mers have gone he induces her to dance freely and to finally achieve her goal. She goes with the ballet company, leaving him alone with his broom. “Black Swan” (Pas de Deux) is an adaption of Act II of the origi nal “Swan Lake”. The scene takes place near a lake where the prince and his friends have gone to hunt. The prince learns that the swans are really young girls transformed by an evil magician. He falls in love with the swan queen, but the magician appears and spirits the queen away. Surveyors to Hold Short Course Here The gentlemen who “know where they’re at” better than most any one—Texas’ surveyors and location engineers—converge on Texas A. & M. College March 26-27 for a surveying and mapping conference, co-sponsored by the A&M civil engineering department and the Texas General Land Office. Professor J. A. Orr, program chairman, estimates an attendance of 150, comprised equally of licen sed land surveyors and petroleum company location experts. New methods of controlled sur veys, special problems peculiar to the Texas system of surveying and oil company problems will be cov ered. In addition, Orr plans to ex plain a new method of triangu lation by means of weather bal loons, he said. Land for Cemetery Purchased by City; Warrants for Sale A tract of land has been pur chased by the City of College Sta ton for the purpose of developing a cemetery for the residents of this area. Consisting of thirty-one acres, the plot encircles a smaller piece of land containing four acres owned by the Methodist Church. It is reported that the church plans to give their section to the city, so that the entire area may be landscaped and planted to beautify it for burial grounds. The cemetery will be located on Highway 6; the lot formerly be longed to Victor J. Boriskie from whom it was bought. Headed by Hershel Burgess, the Cemetery Advisory Committee is completing plans for the construction of drives and walks. They have been request ed to make recommendations to the City Council on the design and also the rules concerning op eration of the cemetery. Financing of the land and con struction will be conructed through the issuance of $10,000 in Ceme tery Warrants. Bearing 4% inter est, these warrants are in $100 denominations written to mature within the next five years. Twenty of them will becofne due each March 21 through 1952, it was announced. It was pointed out that this ar rangement gave pux-chasers an op tion of a long or short investment period. Individual purchases will be limited, it was said, in order that the maximum number of resi dents may participate in the pro ject. Warrants may be obtained at the City Office. Dilberts and Spoilers To Plan Activities March 3 At a meeting scheduled for 7:15 Monday night in the Y. M. C. A. the Dilberts and Spoilers will dis cuss activities at N. A. S. Dallas. All ex-sailors and ex-marines are invited to the meeting to plan the club’s social affairs for the cur rent semester. Igor Youskevitch and Nora Kaye, co-stars in “Pas de Deux” (Black Swan), one number on the program of the Ballet Theatre to be presented March 12 in Guion Hall.