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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Nov. 9, 1949)
Page 3, THE BATTALION, Thurs., Nov. 9 A Young Grad Returned to Instruct These were members of the A&M Chemistry Department when M. T. Harrington began his career as an instructor here. Harring ton is third from the right in the rear row. Others in the back row still associated with the college are (left to right) Dr. George Bauer, now deceased but whose wife is ring clerk at the Registrar^ Office; (third from left) Dr. H. C. Tidwell, now on the faculty of the SMU Medical School; E. L. Harter, currently teaching in the Chemistry Department; Harrington; R. E. Snuggs, also still teaching in that department; and F. F. Bishop, presently teaching in the Chemical Engineering Department. On the middle row B. C. Jones and L. A. Koenig (third and fourth from the right) are both retired and living in Bryan. C. C. Hedges, head of the department at the time and still an instructor there; H. R. Brayton, currently director of the Indus trial Extension Service’s Fireman’s Training School; M. K. Thorn ton, now connected with the Ag Extension Service; and C. W. Burch- ard, still a member of the department, are on the front row in left to right order. New President is Civic Leader, Too... (Continued from page 2) have been lifelong members of the Baptist Church and have been ac tive in church work. For the past several years he has taught a class of young married men in the Bap tist Sunday School, while Mrs. Harrington has taught a class made up largely of the wives of his pupils. The new executive is also a member of several professional so cieties including the American Chemical Society, Sigma Xi, hon orary research society and Phi Lambda Epsilon, honor society for chemists and chemical engineers, new head of the nation’s largest One of Dr. Harrington’s inter- technical college is from neither ests is the desire to travel, which ^ ie School of Agriculture nor the resulted in his organizing and School of Engineering. He has conducting Summer Tours to throughout his teaching career Western Europe. The first trip been a member of the School of was for adventure—those after it Arts and Sciences, have been for pleasure. The edu- This fact is significant in view cational value of these trips is of the current trend toward pro- one of his treasures. viding all graduates, professional He enjoys music, especially the an< ^ otherwise, with the liberal classics. And occasionally he visits background necessary to most ef- Dallas and Houston to hear the factive citizenship, symphonies. Probably no words can better Though he followed professional describe Dr. Harrington than those lines in his own education, the of T. D. Brooks, Dean Emeritus of Arts and Sciences at A&M, when he said, “Dr. Harrington is an unusually genial and friendly person who has demonstrated his ability to think directly on any subject confronting him, and who has been rated as one of the best class room lecturers and teachers on the campus.” Now, as he steers the college into a new era, he enjoys the con fidence of students, former stu dents and citizens of the state. The lad whom Success awaited did not leave her waiting long.