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Training School Continues
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The second week-long session of
the Texas Rescue Training school,
being held here, will open tomor
row with an address by Jim Shaw,
assistant ti'aining specialist of the
Texas Department of Public Safe
ty.
The students of the second class
will be greeted by Dr. David H.
Morgan, A&M president; Dr. F^ank
C. Bolton, president emeritus; and
H. D. Beax'den, vice-director of the
Texas Engineering Extension serv
ice.
Col. H. R. Brayton, who origi
nated and still directs the firemen s
training school, is in charge of the
courses.
The first session of the ti’aining
school for civil defense rescue work
ers over the state was held here
Feb. 13-17. A continuous program
of weekly classes is scheduled.
On Camas
with
MaxQhvlman
(Author of "Barefoot Boy With Cheek,” etc.)
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But this is not the only news I’ve got for you today. Following
you will find a roundup of news highlights from campuses the
country over.
Southern Reserve University
Dr. Willard Hale kigafoos, head of the department of an
thropology at Southern Reserve University and internationally
known as an authority on primitive peoples, returned yesterday
from a four year scientific expedition to the headwaters of the
Amazon River. Among the many interesting mementos of his
journey is his own head, shrunk to the size of a kumquat. He
refused to reveal how his head shrinking was accomplished.
“That’s for me to know and you to find out,” he said with a
tiny, but saucy grin.
Northern Reserve University
Dr. Mandrill Gibbon, head of the department of zoology at
Northern Reserve University and known to young and old for
his work on primates, announced yesterday that he had received
a grant of $80,000,000 for a twelve year study to determine
precisely how much fun there is in a barrel of monkeys.
Whatever the results of Dr. Gibbon’s researches, this much
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Eastern Reserve University
The annual meeting of the American Philological Institute,
held last week at Eastern Reserve University, was enlivened
by the reading of two divergent monographs concerning the
origins of early Gothic “runes,” as letters of primitive alphabets
are called. , ,,
Dr. Tristram Lathrop Spleen, famed far and wide as the
discoverer of the High German Consonant Shift, read a P^P e ^
in which he traced the origins of the Old Wendish ru ^e “pt”
(pronounced “krahtz”) to the middle Lettic rune gr (pio-
nounced “albert”). On the other hand, Dr. Richard Cummerbund
Twonkey, who, as the whole world knows, translated The Pajama
Game into Middle High Bactrian, contended in his paper that
the Old Wendish rune “pt” derives from the Low Erse rune “mf
(pronounced “gr”).
Well, sir, the discussion grew so heated that Dr. Twonkey
finally asked Dr. Spleen if he would like to step into the gym
nasium and put on the gloves. Dr. Spleen accepted the challenge
promptly, but the contest was never held because there w 7 eie
no gloves in the gymnasium that would fit Dr. Jwonkey.
(The reader is doubtless finding this hard to believe as
Eastern Reserve University is celebrated the length and breadth
of the land for the size of its glove collection. However, the reader
is asked t® remember that Dr. Twonkey has extraordinarily
small hands and arms. In fact, he spent the last war working
in a small arms plant, where he received two Navy E Awards
and w r as widely hailed as a “manly little chap.”)
©Max Shulman. 19j5
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THE BATTALION
TUESDAY, MARCH 22, 1955
‘Now, If I
Today is the first day for filing for class
officers and some other campus posts, and
the filings will last a week.
But if past years are any criterion, there
will be very few people who are interested
enough in the running of their school to
Wander up to the student activities office hi
Goodwin hall and file for election.
Then, percentagewise, even fewer stu
dents will be interested enough to vote in
the elections.
It’s rather amusing, in a way—there is
no scarcity of people who sit in their dormi
tory rooms or over a cup of coffee and com
plain to the high heavens about the general
state of affairs.
Everybody knows them, and knows their
line of ^reasoning: “If I were running this
school, things would be different.”
Yet they pass up their chance to help
run the school, either through laziness, cow
ardice, or indifference. Or maybe because
they just like to complain.
Everybody will agree that a school run
entirely by students would have no academ
ic rating at all, but everyone will also agree
that the students should have some voice in
things that concern them.
When the high-up wheels who decide how
things shall be start to make a decision
concerning students, they look to the organ
ized representative groups of students for
advice.
The student classes and groups such as
the Student Senate and the Civilian Student
Council are respected by the administrators
of the college. As evidence, many recom
mendations of these groups have been put
into effect, and all of them have received
careful consideration.
Any student who has the desire and, in
the opinion of his fellow students, the ability,
can be a part of these student groups. All
he has to do is be elected.
Likewise, every student can have a small
part in the school’s affairs, by choosing the?
men he wants with his ballot.
If the election system worked right, with
lots of candidates and lots of voters, there
would be no reason for anyone to say “now,
if I were running this school . . He would
be helping to run it.
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Tentative Dates Set For Physicals
April 20, 21, and 22 have been These dates have not been con-
tentatively set as dates for soph
omores to take their contract phy
sicals said Lt. Col. Dale F. McGee,
adjutant.
firmed yet and the military de
partment may have to get the time
back to early May, McGee said.
Job Calls
• Tuesday, Wednesday, March
22 and 23—Texas Electric Service
Co.—spring and summer graduates
with majors in electrical, mechani
cal, and civil engineering, and ac
counting and finance.
9 Wednesday, March 23—Texas
Instruments, Inc.—electrical engi
neers for development of transistor
circuits; PhD or MS in electrical
engineering, physics, or chemistry
for research.
• Wednesday, March 23—Ernst
& Ernst will interview June and
August graduates for junior ac
countants.
• Wednesday, March 23—Price
Waterhouse & Co.—also junior ac
countant positions.
• Wednesday, Thursday—March
23 and 24 — Columbia - Southern
Chemical Corp.—BS and MS de
grees in chemistry, chemical engi
neering, mechanical engineering,
civil engineering. Will also inter
view chemical engineering juniors
for summer work on the morning
of the 24th.
• Wednesday, Thursday—March
23 and 24 — Sears, Roebuck and
Company — Business administra
tion, economics, agricultural eco
nomics, accounting majors for the
College Executive Training pro
gram and the Accounting Training
program.
• Wednesday, Thursday—March
23 and 24—U. S. Army corps of
engineers—civil, electrical and me
chanical engineers, architecture
majors for engineering 'work for
design and construction of flood
control dams and levees, army and
air force bases, dredging of canals,
etc.
• Thursday, March 24 — Bur
roughs corporation—business ad
ministration and accounting ma
jors.
• Thursday, March 24 — Con
sumers Power Co.—electrical engi
neers for electric distribution engi
neering, production and transmis
sion, substation design and over
head lines; mechanical and civil
engineering for substation design,
overhead lines and general gas en
gineering. Also summer work for
sophomore ME and EE.
• Thursday, March 24—Texas
Employers’ Insurance association—
safety engineering work for me
chanical, electrical, civil, and indus
trial engineering majors.
• Friday, March 25 — Lincoln
laboratory of the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology—staff po
sitions are aavilable for engineers,
mathematicians, and physicists in a
broad field of research and develop
ment in communications, radar, and
digital computer design and appli
cations to large real-time control
systems: electrical engineering,
physics, mathematics.
• Friday, March 25—Lone Star
Gas company—Dallas—mechanical,
civil chemical engineers to learn
and be assigned jobs in distribution.
Possible locations are Dallas, Fort
Worth, Waco, and Greenville. Pe
troleum engineers to leani and be
assigned jobs connected with the
drilling and operating wells to pro
duce gas and crude oil. Location—
the Southwest.
® Friday, March 25—Honolulu
Oil corporation — petroleum engi
neers for production engineering in
the West Texas area.
• Friday, March 25—Aluminum
Corp. of America (Pittsburgh and
Rockdale, Texas)—mechanical in
dustrial, chemical, civil, electrical,
industrial education and accounting
for openings in plant engineering,
production department, research
department and sales department.
• Friday, March 25 — N o r t h
American Aviation, Inc. — Engi
neering department—Los Angeles,
Calif.—all degree levels for aero
nautical, civil, electrical and me
chanical engineers.