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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 25, 1960)
K ■ A&M’s Cushing Library Well-Stocked To Fulfill Study Needs of Students A building on the campus lo cated directly east of the Academic Building should be one of the most used buildings on the campus, hut many students struggle through four years at A&M without tak ing advantage of the services of Cushing Memorial Library. Staffed by professional libra- ians and headed by Robert A. Houze, the air conditioned library has over 300,000 books at the stu dents’ disposal. Other facilities are included in the building which has become a popular studying place since it is completely air-condi tioned. New furniture and tables have been placed in the library for the students’ convenience and new lighting fixtures have been in stalled. As you enter the first floor of the library you enter the newspa per lounge where the library has over 50 newspapers from over the state and nation for your up-to- date keeping of world events. The periodical reading room is on the left, and almost all the national magazines are represented here. On the right is the reserve and required reading room. As all en tering freshmen will soon discover, a great many, assignments are giv en that are refered to as required reading. The professors intend for the students to do reading above and beyond the text, in order to supplement and further their un derstanding of the material being studied. The required reading room contains volumes which have been placed on reserve so that they can be easily obtained. This room is full of grade points; all the freshmen have to do is find them and use them. Going up the stairs to the sec ond floor, on the left is the main loan desk. This is where books from the general collection are lo cated. In the lobby on the floor ai’e located card catalogs to aid in locating books. On the right at the top of the stairs is the refer ence room. Here are located peri odical indexes, encyclopedias, dic tionaries, atlases, bibliographies, year books, and certain issues of ' Color telephones are in the height of fashion too! ■There are summer fashions in telephones too, and. they can do much to add zest and sparkle to any room in your home. Call our business office tomorrow and let us show you the many decorator colors and styles that are available. The Southwestern States Telephone Company the New York Times and other newspapers including The Battal ion are on microfilm for your ref erence. The third floor houses the bind ing facilities and catalog depart ments and the Asbury Browsing Room. In this room are located volumes of fiction to be used for reading, studying, and reference. Cushing Library is operated on a “closed stack” program which means that a check slip has to be filled out and presented to the li brarian at the main loan desk in order to obtain a book from the general collection. Library Hours Library hours during the long session are from 8 a. m. until 10 p. m. Monday through Friday. It is open from 8 until 12 noon on Saturday. On Sundays the library opens at 2 p.m. and remains open until 10 p.m. Books are checked out for two weeks and are subject to renewal for another two weeks. Other libraries are located on the campus under the supervision of the various departments and di visions of the college. The largest of these is the Texas Engineers’ Library. This is located directly east of the Cushing Library. It was established in 1943 as a co operative project between A&M and the State Board of Registra tion for Professional engineers. The present building was complet ed in 1953 and boasts possessor of some 30,000 technical books and periodicals. The Veterinary Library is lo cated in the Veterinary Building west of the main campus across the tracks. It is a specialized li brary for the students of veteri nary medicine. The Architect’s Library is lo cated on the fourth floor of the Academic Building. It, being another specialized library, is used primarily by the students of arch itecture. FftlE! A NEW PORTABLE TYPEWRITER $149.47 VALUE FILL OUT THIS “NAME CARD” AND PERSONALLY DROP IT IN THE SEALED CONTAINERS AT . . . OTIS MCDONALD’S ^ BRYAN BUSINESS MACHINE CO. 429 SOUTH MAIN BRYAN Drawing will be by a famous Aggie On . . . WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1960 No box tops ■— No strings — No gimmicks. You don’t have to be present to win but you must be enrolled in A&M. NAME ADDRESS The Portable with the Special Characters For Writing Sub-scripts ^Exponents and Formulas Ask Any Aggie They Buy More Olympias Than Any Other Portable Olympia PORTABLE TYPEWRITERS Guaranteed as long as you are in A&M OTIS MCDONALD’S BUSINESS MACHINES 429 South Main in Bryan FREE Ruler With Aggie Football Schedule Available To All Students Famed Texas Aggie Band .. . under the direction of Lt. Col. E. V. Adams 260 Members in Consolidated Band Texas Aggie Band Boasts Largest Marching Number The Texas Aggie Band is the largest marching band in the world. There are about 260 members in the band, which is divided into two groups. One group is called the Maroon Band and the other is called the White Band. There is no difference in the two bands. The members of the band live in dorms 11 and 9. The band is con ducted by Lt. Col. E. V. Adams. The band begins practice the first week of school. Most of their practice time is used in preparing a half-time performance for the football games. The band members get to watch the football, basket ball and baseball games free be cause they play at the games. They play for all of the home football games and most of the out-of-town games. When the band goes to another college to play for a game they travel by chartered buses at no extra charge to the members. The only expense they are out is their meals. The band also plays for yell practice in The Grove. It plays for the home basketball and base ball games. The Drum and Bugle Corps, which is composed of the drum and cornet players in the band, plays the troops to chow. Free Stationery Made Available To Patients If you are sick in bed in the College Hospital, you can stili write letters to your folks ani friends even if you did not bring stationery with you. Again this year the Association of Former Students will furnish free letter-writing paper and en velopes to second floor bed pa tients in the College Hospital. The stationery, exclusively de signed for the purpose by Joe Russell, artist - typographer as sociated with the A&M press, is handsomely imprinted with a ma roon-ink letterhead. Laundry No Worry For A&M Students Entering freshmen will be in< terested to know that the clothing and laundry problem at A&M is a relatively simple one. The student in the Corps of Ca dets will have most of his cloth ing issued to him. During Fish week, the entering freshman must go to the college laundry, where he will be assigned a laundry mark and .told when and- where he will deposit his soiled laundry. All students are allowed to have twenty three pieces of clothing laundered each week without pay ing extra. College Hospital Gives Health Care The A&M College Hospital which provides all of the health services for the students is one of the finest and best equipped college hospitals in the Southwest. Facilities available include physi cal therapy, state approved labora tory and a new X-ray department. These facilitiqs are only a part of the various services that are provided for the student here in college who pays his health fee at time of registration. All medications, including anti biotic drugs used in the routine treatment of patients, are fur nished without cost. The student, however, must supply special med ication used in the treatment of diabetes, asthma, hayfever and other such chronic illnesses. Students desiring immunization, desensitization injections, or cer tain other special treatments will not be charged for the service, but will be required to supply the med ication needed. The College Hospital does not provide care for major surgery. In this case the student or his family may select the hospital and sur geon desired. Also the Student Health Plan does not assume any financial responsibility for surgi cal or seriously injured cases which must be admitted to other hospitals for specialized care. Expenses for private physician or surgeon are the responsibility of the student. The medical staff under the di rection of Dr. C. R. Lyons, includes specialists in the fields of medi cine; surgery; ear, nose and throat and mental hygiene. The hospital also has a staff of registered nurses on duty at all times while the college is in session. WELCOME TO AGGIELAND! Again this year we have been selected as official photographer for the yearbook of Texas A&M ... THE “AGGIELAND ’61”. Freshmen portrait schedule will begin soon. We’ll look for ward to seeing you! You Save By Ordering Portraits From Yearbook Proofs.