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THE BATTALION
FRIDAY, SEPT. 16, 1949 Page 5
Lewis A. Burton, senior ME
major from College Station, will
be one of The Battalion’s man
aging editors for this school
year.
Abbott Again Set
For Annex Duties
With great capability and a soft
Tennessee drawl, Dr. j. P. Abbott
has carried out his duties as act
ing dean of the annex for the past
two jears.
Born in Nashville in 1904, Dr.
Abbott attended Hume Fogg High
School, and received his BA in
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The Colonel Gets His
Wings Clipped Good
LONDON—(A > )—The man slouch
ed on the bench at London’s Water
loo station was just what a mili
tary policeman should not be: Cap
over eyes, buttons undone, ciga
rette dangling from lips. The ob
vious colonel in civilian clothes
bristled with indignation.
“Stand up man,” he said. “What
do you mean by setting such a slo
venly example?”
“Eh, chum?” murmured the re
clining figure.
“Dammit sir, what’s y
r? Who’s your c.o.?”
your num-
bellowed
ber?
the colonel.
“Now look here, mate . . .”
At that moment he was called
to take his place with other extras
on the station platform for film
ing another scene in “Seven Days
to Noon.” The colonel, speechless
and scarlet, retreated.
English and philosophy from Van
derbilt in 1925.
He did graduate work in Eng
lish at Vanderbilt University, Tu-
lane University, University of Wis
consin, and received his PhD at
the University of Iowa in 1939.
From 1926 to the present time,
Dr. Abbott has been in the English
Department at A&M,' and in 1947
was made Assistant to the Dean
of the College in charge of the
A&M Annex, a position he has held
ever since.
Dr. Abbott is a member of
Phi Beta Kappa, the American As
sociation of University Professors,
the South Central Modern Lang
uage Association, and the Texas
Conference of College Teachers of
English.
He is course chairman of Eng
lish 210, 301, 328; secretary of the
Arts and Science Faculty 1939-
1947; member and one time presi
dent of local chapter A.A.U.P.;
founder and faculty advisor of the
A&M Chapter of Phi Beta Sigma,
a Freshman Scholastic Honor So
ciety, and various committees of
the Arts and Science faculty.
Last spring Dr. Abbott received
a Battalion Award “for his capable
administration of the A&M Col
lege Annex and for his untiring
work with the Freshmen students.”
In 1947 Dr. Abbott and Dr. Geo.
Summey Jr. published “A Man
ual For Freshmen English.”
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Franklin A. Cleland has been
appointed commanding officer
of the Composite Regiment with
the rank of colonel. Cleland is
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Oceanography Department to
Be Added to Curricula in ’49-50
By LEWIS BURTON
A&M has entered a new field
of teaching and research. A De
partment of Oceanography is be
ing organized now, according to
Dr. F. C. Boiton, president of
the college.
The new department is the first
project of its kind in the Gulf
Coast area, M. T. Harrington, act
ing dean of the college, said. The
Scripps Institution on the Calif
ornia coast and Wpodshole on the
Atlantic coast are the only major
oceanography units now operat
ing.
Dale F. Leipper is the acting
head of the new department and is
making a survey of the field dur
ing the fall semester, Harrington
said.
Previously, Leipper was ocean-
‘Fish ’ To Dean is
Harrington Story
ographer with Scripps Institution
of Oceanography, La Jolla, Calif
ornia.
Work Begun in 47
Two years ago the A&M Re
search Foundation began the stu
dy of marine life in the Gulf
Coast area. The increasing losses
of oysters set the project in moa-
tion.
The research work, seeking
cause for the losses of oysters,
has developed into one of the maj
or marine investigations in the
nation. Biologists, chemists and
others of the college staff did re
search work.
“In the course of the work al
ready accomplished,’’ President
Bolton said, “it has become ap
parent that the Gulf Coast rep
resents one of our greatest natural
resources and that conservation
measures are urgently needed.
Any. program of conservation or
development should be based on
fundamental research. While un-
Dean M. T. Harrington entered
A&M in the Fall of 1918 to begin
a long and enviable record in the
service of the college.
In running the scale from “Fish”
to Dealt of the School of Arts and
Sciences, and acting Dean of the
college, Dr. Harrington has prov
ed to be a friend of the student
and is always ready to lend a hand
in the event assistance is needed.
Being a native Texan, from
Plano, and also a graduate of
A&M places Dr. Harrington in a
good position to understand the
everyday problems which confront
students both new and old.
His biggest assets in dealing
with the students are his genial
ity and friendliness. Any student
needing his advice is immediately
impressed by his sincere desire to
help in solving any problem which
might have arisen.
While attending college Dr. Har
rington achieved many honors
which come to students only by
virture of hard work and a pro
found interest in their school.
Corps Activities
His corps activities include such
accomplishments as becoming cap
tain in the Infantry Shock Troops
and winning the Drill Medal of
Company E in 1921.
Other campus activities include
president of the Collins County
Club, member of the “Y” Cabinet,
member of the Chemistry Club, the
Dramatic Club and Tau Beta Pi.
Upon graduation 'in 1922 Dr.
Harrington entered the commercial
field as an analytical chemist with
the Texas Company. He was later
a chemist for the Lone Star Gas
Company until he became interest
ed in teaching.
He began his teaching career
here on the campus in the Chem
istry Department in 1924 as an
instructor. It was while teaching
that he began his graduate work
obtaining his M. S. in Chemistry
here in 1927.
More Graduate Work
The next 14 years were spent
in doing more graduate work at
the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, the University of
Michigan and the University of
California. Also during this time
he advanced to the position of As
sociate Professor.
He received his Doctor of Phil
osophy Degree in Organic Chemis-
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try from Iowa State and on his
return to A&M in 1942 was ap
pointed Professor of Chemistry.
The next step up the academic
ladder was taken when the end of
the war came, flooding the campus
with old and new students neces
sitating the opening of the Bryan
Field Annex. At this time Dr.
Harrington was appointed Assist
ant to the Dean of the College in
Charge of the Annex.
Appointed A&S Dean
His success in this roll and his
popularity with the students re
sulted in his appointment in Sep
tember 1947 as Dean of the School
of Arts and Sciences.
Dean and Mrs. Harrington and
their son Norris are now living
in tlie house on the campus which
was formerly occupied by Pres
ident F. C. Bolton, when he was
Dean.
Dr. Harrington is a member of
the American Chemical Society in
the field of research and Phi
Lamda Upsilon honor society of
chemists and chemical engineers.
Locally he is a member of the Ath
letic Council and the Bryan Rotary
Club.
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of the housing office that he wants
to live with the band.
All the unusual instruments
will be furnished, free of charge,
Col. Adams said. In addition, all
the accessories necessary for a
bandsman will also be provided
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Practice sessions will be held
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istration Building. Special em
phasis is placed on the required
reading • material for Freshman
English courses, but recreational
and popular volumes are also kept
there.
General reference books and
popular periodicals complete the
Annex library.
Engineer’s Library
The Texas Engineer’s Library
is a joint project between the Col
lege and the State Board of Reg
istration for Professional Engine
ers. This library is located on the
ground floor of the Mechanical
Engineering Shops.
Students and faculty have ac
cess to this library and may bor
row books and use other library
materials. However, the library is
developed primarily to serve the
registered engineers of the state
and this is done on a “mail order”
business.
The librarian for the College,
Paul Ballance, has offices located
on the second floor of the main
library.
dertaking this fundamental re
search, we must, at the same
time, train scientific oceanograph
ic investigators, since very few of
them exist.
“The Gulf Coast is. relatively
untouched, and we feel that we
should contribute to its develop
ment in this way.”
Major Field
The department, which is being
organized by Professor Leipper,
will be developed in the major
field of oceanography, including
studies of ocean chemistry, meter-
ology, marine biology, and botany
and submarine geology and stu
dies of the physical forms of
waves and currents.
Specific problems under study
will be corrosion and fouling, con
tamination control, sedimentation,
beach erosion, restoration and
preservation of sea life for the sea
food industries and designs for
off-shore structures.
In addition to Leipper, it is ex
pected that there will be four oth
er members on the department
staff, Harrington said.
Work will be done in coopera
tion with the Research Founda
tion, the Departments of Geology,
Geography, Physics, Biology,
Chemistry, and Chemical, Petrol
eum, Civil and Mechanical Engine
ering and the Agricultural and
Engineering Experiment station of
the college.
MS Degree Offered
The department will be under the
School of Arts and Sciences, Har
rington said, and will offer a
Master of Science degree in ocean
ography. Although most of the
courses offered, and the research
work, will be conducted in the
graduate school, it is expected
that some under-graduate courses
will be offered to stimulate stu
dents to follow this field of study.
No classes will be offered dur
ing the Fall semester, since I^eip-
per is engaged in studying the
field and organizing the depart
ment, Harrington said. First class
es will be offered in the Spring
semester.
Industries, especially the oil int
erests, will no doubt help the .de
partment in their research studies,
Harrington added.
Weather Officer
During World War II Leipper
served as oceanographer and
weather officer with the U.S. Ar
my Air Forces in the Aleutian
Islands. He has been with the
Scripps Institution since 1946.
A' native of Ohio, he took .his
master’s degree at Ohio State Un
iversity and his bachelor’s at Win-
terberg College. He did further
graduate studies at the Scripps
Institution and the University of
California.
Leipper has taught at Ohio
State University and the Scripps
Institution, and has done much
research work; Harrington added,
saying that Liepper has establish
ed an excellent reputation in this
field.
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