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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1951
Forgotten Men
I^VERY NOW and then a die hard can still be heard voicing
^ the idea that the MSC is for the “exes” and the faculty
while the students are getting it in the neck. Usually these
people don’t take the time to find just what does go on at
the Center. , M\ ,m
If you asked them they probably wouldn’t know that the
room reservations for the year were drawn from a hat which
was the only equitable way that it could be done. If they ap
plied for a room and weren’t lucky enough to get it, they
know that some influential “ex” or “big gun” staff member
got the room they should have.
Another common gripe is that they can’t get meeting
rooms. Of course they usually neglect to mention that each
year a sign-up time is announced and they neglected to get
their room application in until a couple of weeks after the
deadline.
If we would go over to the Center and take an interest
and part in the activities instead of just talking about it,
then we would really have a cracker-jack STUDENT organ
ization.
To keep it a STUDENT CENTER it will take effort and
participation on the part of the students. If we, as students,
take an active part in the committees, clubs, and activities
of the Center it can’t be anything but a STUDENT CENTER.
The average student takes too long
to leant too little.
School Papers Show Attitude
On Sportsmanship to 4 Howdys’
Southern Methodist’s Campus
follows through with a little com
ment on the Sportsmanship award
overlooked by a great number of
the Southwest Conference schools.
“Winning the sportsmanship tro
phy for the third time would be
flattering, but that shouldn’t be
the reason to behave like civilized
human beings Saturday night.
“The manners of SMU students
will be showing—and SMU has a
splendid reputation to maintain.”
From the Daily Texan of the
University of Texas an editorial
shows where a problem has final
ly been solved.
“University men should be heart
ened by the fact that the ratio 1
between the sexes this year has
taken a turn in their favor.
“A year ago, there were 10,331
men and 3,370 women enrolled in
the University—a ratio of 2.77.
“Now, according to reports from
the Registrar, the margin has nar
rowed to slightly more than 5,200,
with an enrollment of 8,747 men
and 3,543 women. The new ratio
is 2.47.
“A glance at the figures (en
rollment figures, that is) by date
conscious males also shows that,
despite an overall enrollment drop,
there are more of the fairer sex
in school this fall.”
•
“Ornery Upperclassmen” are dis
cussed by the Texas Christian
Skiff.
“We need a Howdy Week for
upperclassmen.
“Freshmen, you’re swell. A
friendlier bunch we’ve never seen.
“But you ornery, uppity sopho
mores, juniors, and seniors are
strictly drags.
“Things a,re in a heck’uva shape
when you’ve been seeing each
other around as long as we have
and can’t even speak.
“TCU has been tagged an un
friendly campus by transfers from
other schools. And no wonder.
“Why those frozen faces and
down at the corner mouths would
scare Old Joe himself.
“Sophomers, juniors, and sen
iors let’s take a lesson from the
freshmen. Let’s get acquainted.
Come on, smile.
“How about it?”
Library Service
Meets Demands
A course in “Human Relations
for Girls,” the first of its kind in
the history of the college, is be
ing offered at Baylor University.
The Baylor Lariat said that the
purpose of the course is to help the
college girl take stock of herself
and her problems and aid her in
becoming a happy useful member
of society.
They hope to accomplish this by
motion pictures, panel discussions,
round tables, and a court of human
relations in which girls can discuss
personal problems.
University of Arkansas students
were rightly confused, bothered
and bewildered at the opening of
the school year. *
It seems eight of the campus’
fraternities, half of the total num
ber, moved to new houses. What
added to the confusion, however,
was that one of the clubs moved
into the old building.
Same thing happened to a couple
of other clubs. During rush week,
as one can well imagine, the water
really came out of the kettle.
Tell Your Troubles
AN IDEA has been formulated whereby the student body
will have a chance to meet the press. In the meetings the
students would have a chance to not only air their grievances
but pass out the few if any orchids.
As the idea has been advanced, it calls for a meeting
every other week. The meeting would be a question and ans
wer affair with a smattering of informal debate. If the Bat
talion ran an editorial or article a student disagreed with,
then he would have the chance to personally tell the editor so
and the reasons for his disagreement.
The meetings would at the same time give the editors
a chance to go into a more lengthy explanation as to why
they adopted such an attitude than is possible in the paper.
If you like the idea or have any suggestions to make on
the proposal, then send them to the Editorial Department,
The Battalion, Goodwin Hall.
By WILLIAM DICKENS
Battalion Feature Editor
To keep pace with the growth
of the college system, the Cushing
Memorial Library has started an
expansion program to build a col
lection of 400,000 volumes, which
will increase reading and refer
ence facilities for students and
faculty members,! according to Li
brarian Robert A. Houze.
The new expansion program
calls for an addition of 20,000 vol
umes to the library each year, fill
ing back files of key periodicals,
and adding new periodical subscript
tions.
Houze, who began the survey
two years ago to determine the
needs of the library, said, “With
the current expansion program and
increased budget, we will soon be
on a par with the leading land
grant college libraries of the na
tion.”
The need for a program for de
velopment of the library was first
discovered at the end of World
War II, when the demands in
creased for research by branches
of the A&M College System and re
turning veterans seeking graduate
work at A&M.
Boyer Stayed for Masters
Now He Just Wants to Stay
When a man loves a place, he
bytes to leave, and that is how
Chief of Housing Harry Boyer
feels about A&M.
As Chief of Housing this year,
Boyer is starting his 22 year of
being associated with the college.
Fie first came to A&M as a student
in 1929, and* graduated in 1931
with a degree in entomology.
“After I graduated, jobs weren’t
the easiest thing to get, so I stay
ed at A&M and started working
toward a master’s degree in soc
iology,” Boyer said.
With the exception of recitation,
he had finished all his work to
ward gaining his master’s degree
when he was offered the job as
housing officer of the college. In
reality, it was the same position
he now holds except that during
the early thirties the housing was
under the Commandant’s office.
The school was also somewhat
smaller at that time, Boyer re
called.
When Boyer first took the pos
ition, the only dormitory space
on the campus was Bizzell, Good-
v i n, Foster, Gathright, Ross,
Law, Mitchell, Milner, Post
Graduate, Hollywood, the “Old
Bachelor’s Club,” and Alpha and
Beta.
Civilian students were known as
“casuals” at that time and lived
in Hollywood Hall, which was lo
cated opposite the Campus theater,
Boyer said. The civilian students
also lived in Post Graduate Hall
and Alpha and Beta Hall, which
was located where Walton is to
day.
Born in Blanket, Tex., Boyer at
tended school in nearby Brown-
wood, where he completed his high
school education. He then attended
John Tarleton College for three
years and \borked for the College
Store as assistant manager.
In 1929 he entered A&M as a
student and has remained in Col
lege Station since he was grad
uated. His official title of Chief
of Housing was established from
the Dean of Men’s office was
formed in September, 1945.
Having established College Sta
tion as his home, Boyer is active
in civic affairs around the com
munity. He is a member of the
City Council, the Building Com
mittee of the Presbyterian Church,
the Advisory Committee of the De-
Molays, secretary of the Rotary
Club of Bryan, and a rrifember of
the Masonic Lodges of both Col
lege Station and Bryan.
Boyer was married in July, 1947
to the former Charlotte Wolff, and
the couple now live at 1206 Milner
St.
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Grad School
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more than four hours of credit may
be transferred from any other
graduate school. On Ph.D. pro
grams no hour limit is specified
for transfer work but all other re
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Transferred credits at the grad
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tion if the student’s later work in
the Graduate School here proves
unsatisfactory.
Two outstanding librarians of
land grant colleges in the country
were called upon to analyze the
college library. Robert W. Orr, di
rector of the Iowa State College
Library, and William H. Carlson,
director of the Oregon State Sys
tem libraries, spent two weeks
analyzing the A&M library situa
tion and three months in compiling
their report.
Through their analysis, the noted
librarians found that the A&M
library, through lack of funds,
failed to keep pace with growth
of the college on the graduate and
research level.
At that time, there were 163,GOO
volumes in the library, when 400,r
000 volumes were needed to serve
the field which A&M serves. Orr
and Carlson recommended nine
new professional positions and
eight non-professional positions on
the library staff.
In line with the recommenda
tion, four professional and three
non-professional positions have
been created to give expanded ser
vice, Houze said.
Agriculture and science reference
librarians, and a gifts-and-ex-
changes librarian were added to
The staff. Additional catalogers,
clerk typists and a bookkeeper
were also employed. Today, the
entire library staff has been in
creased from 18 employees in 1945
to 37.
At the present time, the number
of volumes has been built up to
200,000, and the building program
will continue several more years,
Houze said. A new wing is being
planned to be added to the library
building to take care of the addi
tional books, while new steel stacks
to hold 40,000 volumes have been
added as a temporary measure.
In an effort to show that a col
lege education is the instrument
by which a student learns how to
learn, Houze is planning his pro
gram to teach students to use
the library to keep one step ahead
of their chosen field all through
life.
As a step in this direction, the
freshman library instruction pro
gram was revived last year, after
a lapse of several years. As a part
of the Basic Division’s orientation
program, freshmen are taught how
to use the library through lec
tures by Houze and through tours
and exercises in which freshmen
use the library facilities.
Library instructions for junior
and seniors are now being planned
by Houze in an effort to familiar
ize all students of the college with
library and it’s facilities.
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JOHN WHITMORE : Editor
Joel Austin Managing Editor
Bill Streich News Editor
Frank Davis ....V City Editor
Allen Pengelly Assistant News Editor
Bob Selleck Sports News Editor
William Dickens Feature Editor
T. H. Baker, E. R. Briggs, A1 Bruton, Norman Campbell,
Mickey Cannon, Monte Curry, Dan Dawson, Bob Fagley,
Benny Holub, Howard Hough, Jon Kinslow, Bryan Spencer,
Ide Trotter, John Robards, Carol Vance, Edgar Watkins,
Berthold Weller, Jerry Wizig, Raymond York News and Feature Writers
Bob Cullen, Jack Brandt Cartoonists
Frank Scott ...Quarterback Club Director
Jim Jenson Photographer
Pat LeBlanc, Hugh Phillips, F. T. Scott, Chuck Neighbors,
Gus Becker, Joe Blanchette, Ed Holder.; ' Sports News Writers
John Lancaster Chief Photo Engraver
Russel Hagens Advertising Manager
Robert Hayme, Advertising Representative
Painter
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group will travel by bus to Austin
and San Antonio. Upon their ar
rival in Austin, the educators will
tour the University of Texas cam
pus.
Dr. Painter To Speak
Principal speaker for the asso
ciation’s luncheon in Austin will
be Dr. T. N. Painter, president
of the University of Texas, who
will speak on “Brief History of
University of Texas.”
Following the luncheon, the edu
cators will go to San Antonio
•where they will be guests of Trin
ity University for a barbecue sup
per before attending the A&M-
Trinity game.
LETTERS
Corps or Pastor
Editor, The Battalion:
In answer to Rev. Anderson’s
letter appearing in last Wednes
day’s Battalion, I ask the follow
ing question: Are we, the Corps
of Cadets, going to run our own
affairs, or are the pastors of
North Gate going to run, them for
I have yet to hear anyone say
that the greeting “Beat the Hell
out of ” is profane language.
Instead it is an honorable Aggie
tradition, a custom through which
we express our desire that our
team will win the next Saturday’s
game.
Furthermore, if we were to drop
that handle, we might just as well
use “Howdy” all the time—since
“Beat ” doesn’t carry any feel
ing what so ever of school spirit
in it.
In closing, I suggest to those
who do think the “Beat the Hell”
is profane to leave this up to the
Corps of Cadets to decide. As stat
ed beneath that letter in Wednes
day’s Battalion, the senior tradi
tions committee is working on that
problem right now.
The word “hell” can be used in
many profane ways, but the way
we use it, does not speak of pro
fanity at all.
Bill Mebane ’50
y/illiam Wymard
Duquesne University
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