U of H Beats Golfers
Cadet Marcelino Moreno shot a
two-under par 68 to win medalist
honors but the University of Hous
ton downed A&M’s varsity golfers,
5-1, here yesterday.
The Fish, led by Bobby Nichols’
68, edged the Cougar frosh, 314-
2y 2 .
Varsity summaries:
Rex Baxter, Houston, (72) de
feated Bobby Briggs, A&M (74),
2 and 1. Pete Hessemer, Houston
(70) downed Tommy Cox, A&M
(74).
Wally Bradley, Houston (71) de
feated Dave Vandervoort, A&M
(74) 4 and 3. Tommy Cruse, Hous
ton (70) halved Moreno, A&M
(68).
Frehsmen summaries:
Bobby Nichols, A&M defeated
Frank Wharton, Houston, 5 and 4.
Les Wasserman, Houston defeated
Ed Malone, A&M, 3 and 2.
Jim Hiskey, Houston, defeated
Joe McKune, A&M, 4 and 3. Stu
art Nuckols, A&M, defeated Larry
Morrell, Houston, 7 and 6.
On Campus
uftth
MaxShuIman
(Author of "Barefoot Boy With. Cheek ” etc.)
SCIENCE MADE SIMPLE: NO. 3
Once again the makers of Philip Morris, men who are dedicated
to the betterment of American youth, have consented to let me
use this space, normally intended for levity, to bring you a brief
lesson in science.
It is no new thing, this concern that the makers of Philip
Morris feel for American youth. Youth was foremost in their
minds when they fashioned their cigarette. They were aware
that the palate of youth is keen and eager, awake to the subtlest
nuances of flavor. And so they made a gentle and clement smoke,
a suave blending of temperate vintage tobaccos, a summery
amalgam of the most tranquil and emollient leaf that their
buyers could find in all the world. And then they designed their
cigarette in two sizes,'king-size and regular, and wrapped them
in the convenient Snap-Open pack, and priced them at a figure
that youth could afford, and made them available at every
tobacco counter in the land.
That’s what they did, the makers of Philip Morris, and I for
one am glad.
The science that we take up today is called astronomy, from the
Greek words astro meaning “sore” and nomy meaning “back.”
Sore backs were the occupational disease of the early Greek
astronomers, and no wonder! They used to spend every blessed
night lying on the damp ground and looking up at the sky, and
if there’s a better way to get a sore back, I’d like to hear about it.
Especially in the moist Mediterranean ar^a, where Greece is
generally considered to be.
Lumbago and related disorders kept astronomy from becom
ing very popular until Galileo, a disbarred flenser of Perth,
fashioned a home made telescope in 1924 out of three Social
Security cards and an ordinary ice cube. What schoolboy does
not know that stirring story — how Galileo stepped up to his
telescope, how he looked heavenward, how his face filled with
wonder, how he stepped back and whispered the words heard
round the world: “L’etat, c’est moi!”
Well sir, you can imagine what happened then! William
Jennings Bryan snatched Nell Gwynne from the shadow of the
guillotine at Oslo; Chancellor Bismarck brought in four gushers
in a single afternoon; Hal Newhouser was signed by the
Hanseatic League; Crete was declared off limits to Wellington’s
entire army; and William Faulkner won the Davis Cup for his
immortal Penrod and Sam.
B wt after a while things calmed down, and astronomers began
the staggering task of naming all the heavenly bodies. First
man to name a star was Sigafoos of Mt. Wilson, and the name
he chose was Betelgeuse, after his wife Betelgeuse Sigafoos,
prom queen at Michigan State College from 1919 to 1931.
Not to be outdone, Formfig of Yerkes Observatory named a
whole constellation after his wife, Big Dipper Formfig, the
famed dirt track racer. This started the custom of astronomers
naming constellations after their wives — Capricorn, Cygni,
Orion, Ursa Major, Canis Major, and so forth. (The Major girls,
Ursa and Canis, both married astronomers, though Canis subse
quently ran off with a drydock broker named Thwaite Daphnis.)
After naming all the heavenly bodies, the astronomers had a
good long rest. Then, refreshed and brown as berries, they
undertook the gigantic project of charting the heavens. Space is
so vast that it is measured in units called “light-years.” These
are different from ordinary years in that they weigh a good
deal less. This, of course, is only relative, since space is curved.
As Einstein laughingly said, “E=mc 2 .”
Well, I guess that covers astronomy pret-ty thoroughly. Exit
before we leave this fascinating topic, let us answer one final
question: Is there life on other planets?
The answer is a flat, unequivocal no. Recent spectroscopic
studies have proved beyond a doubt that the atmosphere of the
other planets is far too harsh to permit the culture of the delicate
vintage tobaccos that go into Philip Morris Cigarettes . . . And
who can live without Philip Morris?
©Max Shulinan, 1955
This heavenly ctilumn — like the author's more earthy ones — is broitfthl
to you by the makers of PHILIP MORRIS cigarettes—tvho feel you'll
find real enjoyment in their prtnluct.
The Battalion
The Editorial Policy of The Battalion
Represents the Views of the Student Editors
Battalion Editorials
Page 2
THE BATTALION
TUESDAY, MARCH 15, 1955
Might Be Handy
The announcement in Friday’s paper of
more than $8,000 in scholarships and awards
to be made to A&M students in the next few
weeks should have a line forming in front
of the registrar’s office.
Most of the awards are for classified ju
niors planning to graduate next year and for
engineering students, but a few are outside
that category.
The unusual thing about scholarships and
awards is that so many deserving students
never apply for one because they feel they
don’t have a chance to be selected anyway.
They are right in one respect. If they
don’t apply for one of the awards, they cer
tainly don’t have a chance.
Remember, the deadline for applying is
March 20, so any student who could use some
extra money next year should check on the
available awards and scholarships.
The money might come in handy.
Cadet Slouch
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TUESDAY
7:00 — ASAE, Ag Engineering
building.
7:15 — Spanish club, 127 Aca
demic.
7:30 — Kream and Kow Klub,
Creamery, speaker: Dr. Shrode
Guest.
7:30 — French club, room 124
Academic. Two short films, one
narrated in Fi’ench and one in Eng
lish. Admission 25 cents. Business
meeting: draw up a constitution,
select club name, and decide on
meeting dates.
A&M Will Enter
Bridge Tourney
A&M will enter the National In
tercollegiate Bridge tournament
when the 16 hands which are mail
ed to entx-ants will be played.
Any undergraduate student may
play, according to Miss Gladys
Black, sponsor of the A&M team.
The hands will be played at 7:30
p.m. in the assembly room of the
Memorial Student Centex’.
Prizes include trophy cups for
colleges winning national titles.
Charles Skillman is chairman
of the MSC bridge committee, and
Wayne Staxk, director of the MSC,
is chairman of the tournament
committee.
Bliecher Leads
3-0 Bowling Win ^
Joe Bliecher scored a 202 high
ganxe and a 525 high series to lead
the A&M bowling team to a 3-0
win over Baylor Friday.
Al McLellan had a 500 series
score, Ed Goodman, 472, John Red
den, 470, and Maxk Hanna, 444.
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Co-Editors ;
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Jerry Wizig Sports Editor
Don Shepard, Ralph Cole News Editors
Bill Fullerton City Editor |
Konnie Greathouse Sports Writer 1
Roger Coad, Welton Jones, John Warner. Reportei’s :
Mrs. Jo Ann Cocanougher Women's Editor
Miss Betsy Burchard A&M Consolidated Correspondent
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Tuesday, March 15 — Tennessee
Gas Transmission company — pe-
troleum engineex-ing, accounting,
business administration, economics,
agricultural economics, industrial
education majors for the following
type openings: BS or MS in ac
counting for work in Houston; BS
or MS in petrolexim engineering to
woi’k in the Southwest area; also
personnel interested in life insur
ance sales management training
for employment in Houston. Coi--
pus Christi, or Lubbock. This
would be with the new wholly-
owned subsidiaxy, Tennessee Life
Insux’ance Company.
Tuesday, Mai’ch 15 — Sun Oil
company — employment in Dallas
reseai’ch laboi-atory; permanent po
sition: June grads with BS and
MS in physical chemistry, petrol
eum, chemical and civil engineer
ing. Summer employment: for boys
classified at least as juniors and
in top 25 per cent of class—majors
in chemistry, chemical and petrol
eum engineering, physics.
Tuesday, March 15—Sunray Oil
corpox-ation—interviews for petrol
eum and geological engineex’s and
any engineex’s intei’ested in petrol
exim production, field development
or resex-voir engineering. *
Tuesday, Max-ch 15—Cities Serv
ice Reseai’ch & Developmentof Tul-
| sa, Okla.—interviews at the petx-o-
leum engineex-ing department for
petroleum, chemical engineex-ing.
Phi Eta Sigma
(Continued fx*om Page 1)
D. Lai i d, Delvin J. Lefnei’, Charles
S. Lessard, John M. Long, Konind
P. Losen, Ronald S. McCarter, Gex-
ald N. McGown, Roy Lee McKay,
Dewitt McLallen, John L. Martin,
Thomas C. Massey, Roy Eax-nest
Mitchell, Tom C. Morris, Yack C.
Moseley, James H. Munnerlyn, Sam
Paul Nave, Jack E. Nelson, John
j G. Nolte jx\, Lawrence L. Patton.
I John B. Phillips, Elbei’t Frank
Pipes, Fletcher Pool, Joe Henry
Post, Charles H. Price, Robert D. !
Purrington, George M. Ragsdale,
William M. Redditt, X. B. Reed jr.,
Robert J. Ring jr., George T. Shep-
ard, Clax-ence J. Shumbera, Joe
Thomas Simmons, Douglas M. Skel
ton, Clarence C. Skrovan.
John E. Smith, Robert R. Stans-
bei-ry jr., John C. Stephens, Louis
C. Stipp, Peter L. Stromberg, Dan
Charles Thompson, Chai’les T.
Tuckei*, John W. Llmer, Roscoe L.
Van Zandt, Alan Ward Vencil, Jules
R. Viterbo, Samuel Boyd Wachel,
Curtis S. Wells, Jerome L. Win
kler jr., Donald B. W’ood, Robex-t
R. Wunderlich, and Jack Rodney
Yardley. ' i
physics and physical chemistry.
Schedule is at the petroleum engi
neering department.
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