Dead Week at Aggieland-We All Are From Last Minute Quizzes
i . , By BERT WELLER
Battalion Staff Writer
An opinion poll of the most students would reveal that
what happens around Aggieland for the next two weeks
shouldn’t happen to a dog. In fact, most of them would glad
ly trade places with that newest of Fish, Reveillell, and
spend most of the time in the sack.
This week, in case you haven’t heard, is the period com
monly known as dead week. Everyone agrees that about the
only thing dead about dead week is the students when the
seven day period is over. The time, supposedly dedicated to
review and serious study before finals, will be filled with all
those last minute quizzes and written assignments that the
. profs just couldn’t squeeze in anywhere else.
After all the reviewing is over, the work really begins.
Next Monday morning will send hundreds of bright and
cheerful students forth to do battle with the worst that
their loving teachers can dish out in the way of a stimulating
, morning’s recreation.
Armed with carefully sharpened pencils and well oiled
slide rules, students begin the three hour battle with all that
they didn’t learn throughout the semester. The cries of the
wounded and dying rend the air with their pathetic calls
for assistance. Throughout the battle the profs remain aloof.
They know nothing of what is on those 20 pages they so care
fully prepared the night before.
Relief—Only for While
With the completion of the first exam, there is a deep
sigh of relief as tired but happy Aggies wind their complain
ing way back to their rooms. Before them lies the prospect of
an hour of quick study for the next quiz.
The last exam passes as has the first. The time has
come for the meeting of that traditional Aggie social club
known as the bull session. Amid the tales of the horrible or
deals through which the members have passed, there is a
note of optimism and hope for the future.
Exams, like everything else, will soon be an' unpleasant
memory. Ahead lies only the glorious prospects of a week at
home with lots of food and fun.
Some students even hail the coming of exam week. They
are the lucky few who don’t have, to take the finals. Their
work throughout the semester has been rewarded with those
coveted awards known as exemptions.
There are 312 men on the campus that will even find
exam week a little sad. For those that don’t have to take
finals because they are graduating seniors, exams bring back
memories of the many quizzes they have suffered through in
the past.
Probably the saddest group around this week are those
for whom finals mean the difference between another semes
ter at Aggieland and a ticket for a one way corps trip. Their
time will be devoted to a fight to the finish for a chance to
stay on at A&M.
With all the studying going on, the local theaters re
port that business is hardly affected by the exam period. Ap
parently even last minute cramming can’t interfere with the
exploits of the heroes and heroines of the silver screen. One
student was heard complaining desperately as he was dragged
from his desk by his picture show bound roommate, “Just
why do all the good movies have to come during exam time?”
Power For Mid-Night Oil
The people who really know just how much studying is
being done are the men down in the power plant. For them,
exams mean extra work too. All that midnight oil just does
n’t happen. As most of the student body burns lights into
the wee hours of the morning, the power plant crew must
see that the flick of a switch still brings that flood of neces
sary light.
Those hardy souls, the janitors will be among the first
to realize that the end of the semester has arrived. As each
quiz ends the halls pile higher and higher with discarded
notes and all the other implements of study. This mountain
of waste paper must be removed twice a day.
Here and there in this collection of discarded knowledge,
a stray comic book peeps forth, a reminder that everyone
doesn’t study all the time.
Number 77: Volume 52
The Battalion
PUBLISHED DAILY IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE
COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, TUESDAY, JANUARY 15, 1952
JANUARY 2-31
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Price Five Cents
Most Valuable Football Player
Mustangs Hand Ags First
Conference Defeat, 40-34
Shir A&M defensive halfback Yale Lary receives
the award of “Most Valuable Player” from W.
N. “Flop” Colson of the Brazos County A&M
Club. Colson presented Lary with the Lipscomb-
Colson award which is given annually to the
most valuable player on the team at the annual
Winter Sports Banquet.
Churchill Goes 1 to Capital
Today; Readies for Speech
Ottawa, Jan. 15—(A 5 )—Britain’s
Prime Minister Winston Churchill
leaves for Washington today after
declaring that the West will stand
shoulder-to-shoulder against ag
gression “should our hopes of peace
be blasted.”
Churchill is primed to deliver a
tough-talking address—his second
in three days—before a joint ses
sion of Congress Thursday. It
will wind up his visit to Canada
and the United States.
To Renew Fight
While in Washington, he is ex
pected to renew Britain’s fight to
plock the naming of an American
Bank to House
Poll Tax Booth
A poll-tax station has been
* set up at the College Station
State Bank, Monday, Jan. 15.
This station sponsored by the
Brazos County Junior Cham
ber of Commerce will remain here
through Jan. 31, announced John
M. Lawrence III, head of the Jay-
cees.
This station is being conducted
here for the convenience of Col
lege Station residents and those
at the college who do not have
the time to go to the Tex-Collect-
or’s office in Bryan to pay the tax.
admiral as commander of the At
lantic Pact Navies. The Prime
Minister reportedly wants the com
mand split among the British,
Americans and Canadians.
Churchill ended his weekend of
conferences with Canadian govern
ment leaders last night with a full-
fledged speech which hailed the
12-nation Atlantic Alliance as the
West’s “surest guarantee” of
peace.
Speaking at a lake trout and
roast beef dinner given in his honor
by the Canadian government, he
peered into the future and declar
ed:
“No one can predict with cer
tainty what will happen.
“All can see for themselves the
strange clouds that move and gath
er on the horizons, sometimes so
full of menace and sometimes fad
ing away.”
“Peace Untroubled”
“Peace does not sit untroubled in
her vineyard,” he added, with a
typical Churchillian flourish.
But this time, he said, in con
trast to the days of Hitler, the
key Western nations already have
started to mobilize their vast eco
nomic and military strength.
“We are all united from the be
ginning,” he said. “We all mean
to stand by each other, here in
Canada, in the U. S., in Britain, in
Western Europe.”
With the help of an ail-Euro-
pean army bolstered by German
Revelers Quartet Due
At Town Hall Thursday
The world-famous Revelers male tions from “South Pacific”, and
quartet will appear on the Town
Hall program Thursday at 8 p. m.
in Guion Hall.
Ken Wiggens, student entertain
ment manager says this is “the
program Aggies will probably en
joy most.”
The four singers and their
pianist, all established soloists in
their own right, will present a
program of semi-classical and pop
ular music, including “The Lord’s
Prayer”, “The Dance of the Skele
tons”, barber shop melodies, selec-
others.
Originally organized in 1916 as
the Shannon Quartet, the group
has been prominant in the concert,
radio, and recording fields for,
many years. The Reveler’s have
made five European tours, and
have given command performances
for most of the royalty of Europe.
Members of the quartet are as
follows: Thomas Edwards, tenor;
Wilfred Glenn, basso, William Gif
ford Hogue, tenor; and Calvin
Marsh, baritone. Paul Sargent is
accompanist.
units, he said, “we stand with the
United States, ready under the su
preme NATO (North Atlantic
Treaty Organization) commander
to face whatever aggression may
fall upon us.”
(EARNS OWN, Page 4)
Teague Lost Lots of Time
On Trip to Japan-Korea
(Editor’s note: The following letter was received by the Wash
ington office of Congressman Olin E. Teague, Sixth District Congress
man from College Station. He wrote the letter while enroute to Tokyo
and the Korean battlefront where he inspected clothing worn by fight
ing troops.)
Four Hours From Tokyo, Dec. 31—Here is a small problem for the
office force to figure out in their spare time. I left Washington, D. C.
approximately 55 hours ago, yet according to the calendar, it is 70
hours. i * tbHI
I left Travis Air Force Base on a Military Air Transport Service
plane chartered from the Pan American Airline* about 2 a.m. on Dec.
29; arrived in Honolulu at 1:30 p.m., Dec. 29 covering a distance of
2,100 miles.
I visited in Pearl Harbor and saw the hull of the USS Arizona, the
tomb of 1,000 Navy men killed during the attack on Pearl Harbor.
I left Honolulu at 6 p.m. Dec. 29 and arrived at Wake Island by
3:30 a.m., Dec. 31, a distance of 2,000 miles. Departed from Wake
Island at 5:30 a.m., and we are due in Tokyo about 12:30 noon Dec. 31.
I turned my watch back two hours when we left California; two hours
more we left Honolulu and three hours when we left Wake Island.
Out of 50 people aboard this plane, ten are from Texas. I met
one of my classmates from A&M aboard, a Col. M. P. Brooks from
Fourth Army Headquarters.
Alpha Zeta Adds 28 Members
Twenty-eight new members were
invited into the Texas Alpha Chap
ter of the Alpha Zeta Society in
ceremony held last night in the
MSC Assembly Room.
The men selected for member
ship in the national agricultural
honor society were chosen on the
basis of outstanding leadership,
character, and scholarship in the
field of Agriculture.
Charles N. Shepardson, dean of
the school of Agriculture, made a
short speech welcoming the new
members after the formal initia
tion.
The following men were initiat
ed as members of the Texas Alpha
Chapter of the Fraternity of Al
pha Zeta: Edward H. Hill, L. O.
Tiedt, Shelby Newman, Harold
Grelen, Frank Morris, Gene Steed,
Jim Smith, Bill Hoover, Louis
Amsler, Jr.
Ewell A. Rogers, Buck Elwood,
J. A. McCrady, Clyde O. Arrington,
Paul Law, Don P. Hegi, Don L.
Tsechirhart, Richar’d W. Miller,
Billy B. Bates, Henry D. Hulan.
Leo B. Bucholt, Shelton Glenn
Black, Joel W. Harper, John W.
Evans, Albert Y. Blankenship, Har
old E. Phillips, Wm. M. Huffman,
Harry J. Mack, and George E.
Townsen.
Senior Class Meets Tonight in MSC
By JIM ASHLOCK
Battalion Sports Writer
Dallas, Jan. 15 — Receiving it first
tumble after successive conference wins over
Rice and Arkansas, the Texas Aggies bas
ketball team was handed its first conference
loss by the Southern Methodist Mustangs
40-34 in Dallas last night.
Little Charles Galey, five foot, ten inch
Mustang guard, was the first to scratch the
scoring column as he dropped in two free
throws giving SMU an early quarter lead.
As the Farmers brought the ball down
New Patrolman
Needed By City
The senior class will meet to
night to discuss a proposal con
cerning senior class support of
changing the name of College Sta
tion to “Aggieland,”
Proposals concerning limiting
the wearing of Senior boots to two
semesters; Silver Taps recommend
ations; and inter-outfit customs
will be presented by the Traditions
Committee.
All seniors are requested to be
in the MSC Ballroom at 7:15 sharp,
said President J. W. “Doggie” Dal-
ston. The meeting will be open to
visitors, he added.
By FRANK DAVIS
Battalion City Editor
The College Station Chamber of
Commerce went on record last
night as favoring a night patrol
man on duty.
Marion Pugh, president of the
College Station Development Asso
ciation and Chamber of Commerce,
told the city council his organiza
tion had voted to assist the council
in any way to get a night patrol
man on duty.
Pugh said there had been two
thefts at the Marion Pugh Lum
ber Company on Wellborn Road
during the preceding month a night
patrolman was not on duty. He
said the thefts were minor and
only one had been reported.
College Station employs two pat
rolmen, both on duty during the
day. Lee Norwood, former night
patrolman, is handling parking
violations in the North Gate area.
Curtis Bullock patrols the city,
making accident reports, and catch
ing speeders.
To Enforce Parking Regulations
The city council said a night
patrolman was not available be
cause of the necessity for enforc
ing the city ordinance declaring one
hour parking and six hour parking
limits in the North Gate business
area. The council said an attempt
would be made to remedy the sit
uation.
A representative of the Little
League requested council aid for
plans to erect lighting for the Lit
tle League baseball field located
near the picnic grounds at the Bry
an County Club.
Need Copper Wire
John Dennison, manager of a
College Station team in the Little
League, told the council all mater
ial needed -for lighting the field
had been purchased except copper
wire, which was not obtainable
without a priority.
Dennison asked the council to
either lend or sell the wire to the
group. He said in order to schedule
a double header each day, it was
necessary to begin around 3 p. m.
which placed a strain on the refer
ees.
The manager said revenues for
the Little League came solely from
the concessions stand, operated by
mothers of the Little Leaguers.
(See CITY COUNCIL, Page 4)
somewhat obvious that their team play was
n’t up to par. Bad passes and fumbles pre
vailed from the first, and the hustling Mus
tangs stole the ball consistently.
The end of the first period found the
Mustangs out in front 12-6.
Six minutes deep in the second quarter
A&M completed a rally which shoved them
into the lead with five minutes remaining
before halftime. The Mustangs overtook
this lead, lost it a minute later, but finally
tied it up immediately before the half as
court to make their first scoring bid it was
4 Darrel Murphy, ace Mustang for
ward, dropped in a free throw on
Jewell McDowell’s fowl.
SMU outpointed the Aggies 16-
12 in the third quarter, but found
themselves once again theatened
as the Farmers tied the score 30 all
in the opening moments of the
fourth period. But here Aggie vic
tory hopes faded.
Tallying two quick field goals
the Mustangs went into their stall
game six minutes remaining. De
spite the fact that A&M was able
to break up the stall and gain the
ball on several occasions, the Mus
tang defense aallowed them only
four points throughout the entire
fourth quarter.
McDowell, the Aggies top floor-
man, was high point man of the
game as he dropped in six of his
famous two-handers and tallied on
one charity shot for a total of 13
points. It was McDowell’s last
collegiate appearance in Dallas, his
eligibility expiring at mid-term.
Buddy Davis, lanky Aggie pivot
man got selfish treatment from the
scoring column as he cleared the
bucket for only 9 points.
Murphy, functioning well on his
jump shot, cashed in 10 points for
the Mustangs as well as perform
ing •yeoman service on collecting
rebounds.
(See BOX SCORE, Page 4)
Everybody Has a Dance
Aggie Social Calendar Jammed
The Aggies’ spring social cal- function, the Fish Dance will be of the class sweetheart. Although intra-squad football game, plus a One of A&M’s larger student
ender is becoming thoroughly jam- March 1. the Class of ’54 hasn’t begun defin- track meet and all the other top church organizations, the Newman
med with outstanding events. In Just so you won’t get behind ite plans, the dance committee performances which would surely Club will have its annual dance,
fact most of the class dances will on making plans for these events, should be functioning within the interest a high school student. April 25: Cotton Pageant and
be over by March 1. or getting those all-important next week or two. March 22: Military Ball. The Ball. It’s the biggest of the spring
Already committees are being dates to come down at the right March I: Freshman Ball. It’s Military takes the spotlight as dis- all-college affairs, with the Agro-
appointed, programs made, and times, here’s the schedule in brief: the big day for the Fish. Slated to tinguished Army and Air Force nomy Society at the reins. It will
plans formulated for the bigger Feb. 16: Junior Prom and Ban- be the largest class dance of them men from all over the country feature a new King Cotton and a
occasions. Q l| et. The juniors are undecided all, the freshmen will probably v >sit A&M to see its Corps of lovely new Cotton Queen from
Yesterday a committee of 30 about their orche stra, but they pack Sbisa Hall when their dance Cadets and be their guests at a TSCW.
students and members of the Mili- wil1 probably decide on the mat- rolls around. Six weeks before date dance that night. Tentative ar- May 17: Senior Ring Dance and
tary Science Department met to ter at a meet > n S tomorrow. Plans i s as far in advance as plans are rangements are made to book Dick Banquet. The long awaited event
make initial plans for the gigantic bave tentatively been made to get made, but it won’t be long before Jergens and his orchestra for this when the seniors glide through the
Military Ball and Military Day "Proff” Jackson of the TSCW the freshmen start getting ready occasion. r i n g with their dates to turn their
activities to be held March 22. History Department to make the for their “big” day of the year. March 29: The FFA Ball. This own ring around. “The” event of
after-dinner talk. He’s well known March 8: High School Day— is the day the future farmers put the year, for most seniors.
Dance Dates throughout North Texas for his Sports Day. Outstanding students on their big stomp. May 30: Final Ball (after com-
The Junior Prom and Banquet entertaining and informative talks, from Texas High Schools take the April 5. Ross Volunteers Ball, mencement exercises). A dance
will be Feb. 16, with the Sohpo- reports a member of the junior spotlight as the A&M sports ma- The boys in the white and gold many new second lieutenants will
more Ball following the next week- committee. chaine grinds at top speed to pro- uniforms hold their annual dance long remember. The next day will
end, Feb. 23. Slated to have the Feb. 23: Sophomore Ball. High- duce an attraction for each of the at this time. see them parading with the Corps
largest attendance of any class light of this event will be selection athletic teams. There will be an April 19. Newman Club Dance, of Cadets for the last time.
Building Open
In February
The new College Adminis
tration Building will be open
ed early in February, an
nounced T. R. Spence, man
ager of Physical Plants.
The building, which was built by
Fisher Construction Company of
Houston, will be completed this
week but it will be impossible to
move in until r’ecords can be clear
ed after registration, Spence said.
Former Aggie Herbert Voelker
and his Associates of Houston,
most of whom are A&M graduates,
designed the building which cost
$475,000.
Housed in the new building wilt
be the offices of the Registrar,
Fiscal Department, President, Dean
of the College, and the Dean of
the Graduate School.
Aggies to Attend
Wildlife Meeting
The Fish and Game Club will be
represented by twelve students at
the North American Wildlife Con
ference in Miami, Fla., March 14-
16, according to Jack M. Ingles,
club sponsor.