Battalion Editorials
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THE BATTALION
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 16, 1955
Esprit de Civilians
With Military day, the corps of cadets
big annual celebration, the logical question
to ask is why don’t the civilian students have
a celebration of their own.
And now the Civilian Student Council,
spokesman for the civilians, has proposed
such a weekend, to include tentatively a
dance, a barbecue, a beard-growing contest,
and an ugly man contest.
The item was on the council’s agenda as
“esprit de civilian students,” and this is the
main factor in such a weekend.
It’s one of those circles: it won’t work
unless the civilian students have the desire,
or spirit to make it work, and if it is a suc
cess, it can be a big factor in developing a
spirit among the civilian students.
The fact that the idea was proposed in
dicates that the germ of the spirit is there.
. Such things as this weekend and the
Civilian Student Council will do a lot toward
developing it.
Another big help, and this was discussed
at the council’s meeting, would be having a
civilian live in the same dormitory for all
of his four years here. This would develop
the competitive outfit spirit that is a big
part of the corps spirit.
All of these things are being considered
and will probably be put into effect. The
leaders of the movement will have to carry
on without much reward in actual tangible
evidence, because it will take years to erase
the “second class student’” concept and re
place it with a special civilian spirit.
But it will come in time, and if A&M is to
survive half civilian and half military, it
must come.
The start has been made this year.
'Mind Your Manners
A&M students have been accused, perhaps
unjustly, of lacking the social graces neces
sary in every line of business after gradua
tion. A&M’s critics say that the type of life
the student has here is not condusive to de
veloping the ability to get along well with
other people.
Be all this as it may, the Memorial Stu
dent Center is offering an eitquette series
for any student who feels that he has more
to learn in these fields.
The course will cover good manors at
the table, in the business world, in the mili
tary, and just plain good manners.
A men’s style show, helpful to a student
who has spent the last few years in a uni
form, will end the program.
And the best thing about it is that it’s
free.
Many local people are donating their time
and energy to be guests on the panels, and
the MSC’s committee has done a great deal'
of work in organizing the series.
It’s something that could be worthwhile
to almost anybody.
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Student directories now only 50c
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Pets
Help Wanted
Electronics Laboratory needs
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Special Notice
Baby sitting by hour, day, week.
Mrs. G. W. Pollan. C-10-A College
View. 75tl0
OFFICIAL NOTICES
Students: Board your dogs at
special low monthly rates. The Ba
yard Kennels, on Highway 6 south
of College. 6-4121. 75tf
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of Student Publications (207 Goodwin,
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through Friday) at nr before the deadline
of 1 p.m. of the day preceding publica^-
tion.—Manager.
Pancake Meal
Set April 16
By Kiwanians
The pancake supper, jointly-
sponsored by the K i w a n i s
clubs of College Station and
Bryan, will be held April 16 at
the Bryan Country club, ac
cording to W. E. Briles, chairman
for the supper.
Committee chairmen for the af
fair are Sidney L. Loveless, pub
licity; Ralph H. Rogers, procure
ment of food; Raymond O. Berry,
bus boys; John H. Southern, enter
tainment; Robert R. Shrode, ticket
sales; J. B. (Dick) Hervey, pro
curement of equipment and uten
sils; and Isaac I. Peters, executive
chef.
Further plans for the supper will
be announced later, said Briles.
At the club’s luncheon yesterday,
the program featured a one-act
comedy, “Where’s That Report
Card?” put on by students from
A&M Consolidated junior high
school.
The cast included John Barger,
Beatrice Luther, Sara Goode, Pat
Jackson, Kim Johns and Jeanelle
LaMotte. The plot was the plans
of an emotional father to base his
children’s activities on the results
of their report cards, and his re
action when the cards turned up
missing.
Job Calls
Identification cards which were made in
connection with registration of February
4. 5, for the current semester are now
ready for distribution in the Registrar’s
Office, College Administration Building.
They should be claimed in person imme
diately.
H. L. Heaton
Registrar 79t4
ZOOLOGY !«MINAR
March 16. 1955 at 7:30 p.m.
Assembly Room. VMCA (second floor)
Speaker: Dr. Raymond O. Berry, De
partment of Animal Husbandry.
Topic: Pregnancy Tests—illustrated with
slides.
Refreshments will be served. 79t2
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—Co-Editors
Wednesday, March 16—Continen
tal Can Company, Inc.—interviews
for sales, production engineering,
industrial engineering, pi-oduction
control, quality control, research
and development, and purchasing.
Majors: Bio-chemistry & nutrition,
chemical engineering, industrial ed
ucation, industrial technology, in
dustrial engineering, business ad
ministration, mechanical engineer
ing, economists, agricultural eco-
noniics, chemistry, physics.
Wednesday, March 16 — Cessna
Aircraft Co.—mechanical, aeronau
tical and any interested engineer
ing student. Assignment would be
to one of several groups: aerody
namics, stmetures, design and de
velopment, research and testing.
Representative would be glad to
talk to junior students who would
like to ask questions about Cessna
or the aircraft industry in general
— but summer opportunities are
limited.
Wednesday, March 16—Reming
ton Rand, Inc.—Engineering Re
search Associates Division will in
terview as follows: electrical engi
neers and physicists for electronic
development in the communications
or computer fields or for computer
field engineering; mechanical engi
neers for design of small mechan
isms connected with the input and
output of computers; Mathematics
for computer systems analysis and
programming.
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SOME. AL.OES DON'T
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WEDNESDAY
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8:00—Newman club, St. ;Mary’s
student center, report on conven
tion, general business and religious
meeting.
THURSDAY
5:15—Corpus Christi club, front
MSC, take Aggieland picture.
7:30—Milam county club, YMCA.
El Paso hometown club, third
floor Academic, discuss party.
Amarillo club, no picture will be
taken this week.
Sewer Contracts
Awarded For CS '
w
Two contracts were awarded by
College Station yesterday for ap
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proximately 80,000 feet of sewer
Wes
pipe, according to Ran Boswell,
the
city manager. ,
——
The W. S. Dickey Clay Manufac-
JR
turing company of San Antonio re
ceived a contract for one half of
$68,712 worth of sewer pipe and
the Texas Vitrified Pipe company
of Mineral Wells received the other
half.
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What young people are doing at General Electric
Young engineer
is responsible for
design analysis
of $3,000,000
turbine-generators
The average large steam turbine-generator
costs $3,000,000 and takes two years to build.
It is one of the biggest pieces of electrical
equipment made. Yet its thousands of parts
are put together as carefully as a fine watch.
Even a small change in design can afject the
stresses and vibration of the turbine, and
the way it performs. At General Electric,
several men share the responsibility of pre
dicting those effects before the turbine is
built. One of them is 29-year-old E. E.
Zwicky, Jr.
His job: analytical engineer
Here’s what Ted Zwicky does. He takes
a proposed mechanical design feature, de
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into digestible bits, modifies it, and feeds it
to electronic computers. (It may take two
months to set up a problem; the computers
usually solve it in twenty minutes.) Then
Zwicky takes the answers from the com
puters, translates and interprets them so they
can be followed by design engineers.
23,000 college graduates at General Electric
This is a responsible job. Zwicky was readied
for it in a careful program of development.
Like Zwicky, each of our 23,000 college-
graduate employees is given a chance to find
the work he does best and to realize his full
potential. For General Electric believes this:
When young minds are given freedom to
make progress, everybody benefits—the in
dividual, the company, and the country.
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