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Battalion EDITORIALS Page 2 MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1947 A New Leaf.. . After a brief respite, the campus of Ag- gieland is seething once more with activity as a new school year gets underway. From near and far, from big city and small town, from the “forks of the creek”, students have drifted in to start A&M on its 72nd year of college instruction. Numerous changes have been instituted since Texas A&M was founded nearly three- quarters of a century ago; many changes have taken place Since the end of the spring semester. Most notable of all, was the action taken during the summer by the Board of Direc tors in regard to housing of freshman stu dents. This “deportation” of freshmen to the A. & M. College Annex was probably more closely related to the upheaval in the Cadet Corps last spring, than to crowded housing conditions, which for some unac countable reason have become intensified with a drop in enrollment of some 1,100 stu dents. The Directors also acted to appoint two new department heads, a new Director of Information and Publications and an athletic director. W. L. Penberthy, head of the Physical Education Department, was appointed Dean of Men to succeed J. W. “Dough” Rollins who resigned to accept a similar position at East Texas State Teachers College. Dr. M. T. Harrington was named Dean of Arts and Sciences to replace Dr. T. D. Brooks, who went on modified service September 1. Dr. F. B. Clark, Head of the Department of Economics, and a prominent figure in the campus turmoil of last semester, was re lieved of his duties, and Dr. C. W. Randle replaced him. Dr. C. C. Hedges resigned and was replaced by Dr. F. W. Jensen. R. Hen derson Shuffler, executive director of the A. & M. Development Fund was named Direc tor of Information and Publications, replac ing G. B. Winstead, who resigned to enter private practice. W. R. “Bill” Carmichael, former execu tive secretary of the Texas High School Coaches Association, took over duties of Director of Athletics at A. & M. last August 12. These were the most important of the internal changes made in the college system; they will directly affect every department, every member of the faculty, and every stu dent. As a whole, these were needed and de sirable actions toward improving the effec tive operation of the college. The one ex ception, freshman housing, was undoubtedly a move to eliminate hazing, along with the unfavorable publicity that has literally swamped Texas A. & M. for the past few semesters. It is the hope of The Battalion that re turning Aggies will work together in an hon est effort to regain the confidence and re spect of the people of Texas and their Board of Directors so as to enable a return of the true Cadet Corps. The Expanding Batt... With this issue of The Battalion, we are beginning five-time-a-week publication. Mon day through Friday afternoons The Battal ion will be distributed throughout the dor mitories and sent through the mail. Two Associated Press teletype machines have been installed in The Batt offices, which are now located on the second floor of Good win Hall. From 6 a.m. to 3 p.m., Monday through Saturday, the teletypes will tick off the latest news straight from Texas AP of fices in Dallas. In addition, a cylindrical-type Goss press has been installed in the A. & M. Print Shop, replacing the flat-bed press of by-gone days. The Goss press will be able to print and fold 2,750 papers per hour, as compared to the 1,000-hourly maximum of the flat-bed press, which did not include an automatic folder. An Elliott addressing machine has been received, capable of addressing 2,000 papers an hour. This addition to the expanding Battalion will make it possible for papers to be in the post office for final afternoon de livery. Battalions will be distributed in the dor mitories about 6 p.m. each day; at the an nex, students will receive copies around 7 p.m. in the individual barracks. All non-dorm students will receive their copies through the mail. Students who do not live in dorms have automatically been placed on the mailing list, through records filled out for the Housing Office. News stories will be accepted in The Bat talion office until 9 a.m. on the morning of publication. After that deadline all stories will be held over for the next day’s issue. Advertisements and classified ads must be turned in to the Office of Student Acti vities, also on the second floor of Goodwin Hall, before 9 a.m. on the day before each publication. In addition, “The Little Batt’ will be published at the A. & M. Annex, or “Little Aggieland” every Tuesday and Friday af ternoon. It will be a mimeographed paper, sponsored by The Battalion, of special inter est to freshmen. The Little Batt will provide experience in the art of newspaper editing and writing for new students to use later on The Batt staff. Surprise . . • A young lady we know went to a big publisher’s stockholder meeting last week. It didn’t last long and nothing much happen ed except that a couple of elderly ladies kept asking why magazines had so much trouble getting paper. Our young lady left right be hind the old gals and, by eavesdropping a little, heard one say to the other: “What a funny meeting! At first I thought it was the wrong room. Just those men sitting around that big table. The last meeting I went to wasn’t like that at all. There were all sorts of good things to eat and it was lots of fun— just like a regular outing.” —TIDE The latest bit of classified advertising to catch our eye comes from the New York Herald Tribune, and the copy goes like this: “Experienced dentist or veterinarian to drill front large tusk of a lion. Lion has cavity that must be filled.” Sbisa Hall—1887 . . . Below is reprinted an excerpt from the Texas A.&M. bulletin of 1887: “The food served in the mess hall is ad mitted by all to be abundant, palatable, and wholesome. It is therefore very desirable that parents should refrain from sending boxes of delicacies to their sons. The prac tice of eating from these between meals is undoubtedly very injurious to the health of the young men.” Need we say more? The Arcadia, California branch of the Citizens Bank of Moravia will soon feature drive-in tellers to accommodate depositors in their cars. —TIDE A PRINTER on the Columbus, Ohio Citi zen didn’t estimate Rocky Graziano’s strength when he set the line: “The fight is scheduled for 75 rounds.” The Battalion The Battalion, official newspaper of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas and the City of College Station, Texas, is published five times a week and circulated every Monday through Friday afternoon, except during holidays and examination periods. During the summer The Battalion is pub lished semi-weekly. Subscription rate $4 per school year. Advertising rates furnished on request. News contributions may be made by telephone (4-5444) or at the editorial office, Room 201, Good win Hall. Classified ads may be placed by telephone (4-5324) or at the Student Activities Office, Room 208, Goodwin Hall. The Associated Press is entitled exclusively to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in the paper and local news of spontaneous origin published here in. Rights of republication of all other matter herein are also reserved. Entered as second-class matter at Post Office at College Station, Texas, nnder the Act of Congress of March 8, 1870. Pbsodated GbOeSicfe Press Represented nationally by National Ad vertising Service, Inc., at New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. CHARLIE MURRY, JIMMIE NELSON Co-Editors Vick Lindley Wire Editor Farris Block, Duke Hobbs, J. T. Miller, David Seligman Managing Editors Mack T. Nolen Feature Editor Louis Morgan, Kenneth Bond Feature Writers A. D. Bruce, Jr., Howard Spencer Columnists Paul Martin Sports Editor Don Engelking, Arthur Howard, Larry Goodwyn Sports Writers Maurice Howell Advertising Manager D. W. Springer Circulation Manager Record Rush to Classrooms ★ ★ ★ You’re Better Off Than Most By A. D. Bruce, Jr. The rush to go to college will again be a mad scramble this year. Demand for higher education has never been greater. Colleges expect a record-breaking registration of about 2,750,000 students in the 1947-48 sea son. They will be squeezing those students into an educational plant originally de signed for about 1,600,000. Needless to say, much of that plant was out of date before the war began. The result is that the living and study ing conditions in many colleges may be worse than in the autumn of 1946. Yet those who do manage to get into any college may be counted as lucky. A.&M. has been more fortunate than most schools, for very few students have been turned down for admittance. This may be accounted for by the raising of entrance standards for out-of-state students. High school graduates from other states must'’’ be in the upper quarter of their class and transferees must have a grade-point ratio of 1.5. Veterans are getting a break on scholastic requirements. Those over 21 years of age without high school diplo mas may enter A. & M. by passing an extrance exam. The Veterinary Medicine School at A. & M. has had to turn down approximately seven-eighths of those desiring en trance this fall. sophomore classes cannot be less than 10 students is no cause for worry any more. The big problem is finding some way to keep classes below 30 or 35 students. Laboratory classes are limited by the amount of equipment on hand. Many sec tions are combined for lectures. Different departments set differ ent limits on the size of the classes, and when registering, it becomes a case of first-come-first-serve. ★ In many universities fees have risen considerably. Here, the cost of board has increased and a re quired student activities fee has been added. However the medical service fee and the cost of laundry have been slightly reduced. Vet erans’ fees are now a flat $150 regardless of the number of hours carried, which was the basis of the costs figured for last year. Like everywhere else, living costs are up at A. & M. Fortunately costs are not as bad as they are in the east, and it is possible for the A. & M. veteran to get by on his $65 by carefully watching his expenses. Married veterans are ex periencing a little more difficulty in figuring out ways to stretch their $90. Housing conditions are better than a year ago at most colleges. With the addition of the College View Apartments, A. & M. has 687 college-operated apartments and space for 120 trailers for married students. Since married veterans vacated Walton and Hart Halls, single veterans have been placed two to a room instead of three. Although the new “barracks” classrooms and offices down at “hog-hollow” on the main campus are not ideal, they will help alle viate the difficulties encountered last year. Before the war, colleges had about 165 square feet of space per student for all instruction pur poses. This year, they will have about 83 square feet per student. Educators freely warn that classes now are too large for in struction of normal quality. Lab oratory sections are so large that many students cannot even see the machines and processes the instruc tors are demonstrating. A. & M. can vie with any college for the all-time low in lighting, a condi tion which should be corrected. Army techniques, such as using a loudspeaker for lecturing to large classes, are being adopted. Several colleges are having their quizzes machine-graded — which may or may not be a disadvantage. The old rule that freshman and ★ On the bright side the textbook shortage of last year is not ex pected to recur at this registration. Books have been ordered since the first of August and there is no indication that they will not arrive in time. Only 652 students had part-time jobs at A&M last spring. That means that about one-ninth of those enrolled were working, which is not a very large percentage. About 60% of those men were vet erans. When war-time savings are depleted more students are expect ed to apply for jobs. Competition for scholastic stand ing will continue to be keen. Vet erans, older and in a hurry to grad uate, seem to be setting the pace. However, with freshman at the Annex, competition will be mostly among high school graduates. With the teacher shortage, students are more on their own. Teachers of college grade are too few. This causes a strain on both the college and students. A great many colleges are asking the Government to help pay for at least part of the facilities they need, but do not have the money to build. Congress passed up that request for the time being. A&M, however, can now put around $5 million to good use — thanks to those who supported the college building amendment. The jump in enrollments is forc ing more colleges to herd students through without individual treat ment. That means many changes in the pattern of college life. Let us hope that the changes made at Texas A&M are for the betterment of all concerned. Bejoins CE Department Return of Howard L. Furr to the civil engineering faculty has been a nnounced by Dr. S. R. Wright, department head. Furr taught briefly here after being separated from the army, and cur rently is connected with the South ern Railway, Cincinnati. He is a Mississippi State College graduate. CAMPUS AIR CONDITIONED — OPEN 1:00 P. M. WELCOME AGGIES Playing Today and Tuesday ^L<V^BDVENTURE! ROMANCE! ^ Extravagant exploits of the world’s most famous over... rover. .*. rogue! —Plus MGM Cartoon WED. — THURS. Ray Milland Loretta Young ww The Doctor Takes a Wife” FRI. — SAT. “Good Girls Go To Paris” — with — Joan Blondell Dairy Husbandman Ag Engineer Story On 5-State Tour In British Review R. E. Burleson, assistant dairy husbandman for the A. & M. Ex tension Service, is visiting points in five states to make a detailed study of dairy cattle artificial breeding programs. He will visit Muskogee, Oklahoma, Springfield, Missouri, Madison and Shawano, Wisconsin, East Lansing, Michigan, and Tiffin, Ohio. From the tour Burleson will be able to gain firsthand knowledge of progress being made in the va rious localities and can determine whether or not it is adaptable to conditions in Texas. H. P. Smith, agricultural en gineer for A. & M., has been mak ing late headlines in the cotton press. His article, “The Production of Cotton in the United States,” was featured in the July issue of the Empire (British) Cotton Growing Review. This magazine is publish ed in London, England, by the Em pire Cotton Growing Corporation. Smith was also given a boost August 20 for “fighting the farm er’s problems” by Bodie Crump, feature columnist for the Delta Democrat Times published at Greenville, Mississippi. GUION BALL LAST DAY TODAY "xvonMF \ The BIG EVENT in Entertainment History! S W' ( ' Wme6 WffiB .,SSS«Y Darryl F. ZanuckV*drcduction 6f W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM'S The Razors Edge 21 IT CENTURY-FOX ■ ' .# TUBS. — WED. — THURS. PAUCE THEATRE BRYAN, TEXAS MONDAY — TUESDAY — WEDNESDAY THURSDAY — FRIDAY and SATURDAY Bing Crosby and Berry Fitzgerald —in— “GOING MY WAY” DAYS ARE HERE AGAIN... WITH THOSE WONDERFUL “GOING MY WAY” STARS BING and BARRY TOGETHER AGAIN... AND BETTER THAN EVER! 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