Paf?e 4 College Station, Texas Friday, September 22, 1961 THE BATTALI^^N
Mothers’ Executive Board Meets
Members of the executive board of the Fed
eration of A&M Mothers’ Clubs met here
last weekend. The members are, left to
right, Mrs. Carroll W. Cox of Beaumont,
first vice president; Mrs. M. T. Harrington,
first honorary president; Mrs. Joe A. Smith
of Pasadena, president; Mrs. Earl Rudder of
College Station, second honorary president;
Mrs. H. Elbert Dew of Tyler, second vice
president; (second row) Mrs. Grace W. Gil
liam of Austin, fifth vice president; Mrs.
H. D. Florence of Kingsville, fourth vice
president; Mrs. J. D. Petty of Groves, third
vice president; Mrs. J. G. Frank of Houston,
recording secretary; Mrs. Victor Weber of
Victoria, historian; Mrs. Fred L. Cole of
Corpus Christi, vice president at large; Mrs.
W. M. Dantzler Sr. of Dallas, parliamentar
ian ; Mrs. Emogene Bunkley of Pasadena,
corresponding secretary, and Mrs. Desicelrio
Trevins of Laredo, treasurer. (Photo Cour
tesy College Information)
Speech
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>on, lay on its bellies absorbing
ihe puerile inanities of Gunsmoke
ind 77 Sunset Strip.
1 But part of the fault lies with
Educators, themselves. There was
ihe sight-reading mania, the ne
glect of phonics. And ovex*worked
ieachers resorted to multiple
:hoice instead of essay-type exam-
nation^ , b^eai^se the ^o.rmer j were,
:asier to grade.
Multiple choice tests will never
;each a young man or woman to
hink in the English language. Yet
have sympathy for those teach-
;rs who seized upon them. They
lo give a horseback estimate of
,he amount of information the stu-
lent has absorbed, making allow-
ince, of course, for the shrewd
juesser.
But teachers complain of the
;ime required to grade even these
niserable substitutes for essay
examinations. Well, when I was
n Navy communications school at
Harvard during the last war I
vatched a sparsely-educated yeo-
nan take 500 multiple choice ex-
xms each evening, lay them on an
electronic device that operated off
i master paper, and the machine
xot only graded each paper in
stantly but marked the wrong an
swers.
Where is such a machine in our
lublic school systems? It has been
iround at least 20 years. It would
enable an entire department of a
najor high school to give a stand-
irdized test and have all papers
graded by a student assistant be
fore supper time.
Why are so many of our educa
tors apparently afraid of simple
teaching machines? With their ju
dicious use, teachers would have
the leisure .to give, correct and
comment on short essay-type quiz
zes without which their students
will never be able to express them
selves.
I have been remarking about
secondary education in America.
As you can gather, I am not ex
actly awed by it. And neither, I
suspect, are you. But you have a
college. What has all this to do
with your problem?
I think it has everything to do
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with it. I don’t see how you can
have the institution you should
have by 1976 unless the raw ma
terial you have to process becomes
substantially less raw than it is
at present. I think our colleges
and universities must stop trying
to teach high school. I don’t be
lieve there should be any publicly-
supported college or university
that should be denied the right to
impose entrance examinations and
stick by them. I know of no other
way that ignorant school boards
or lazy school administrations can
be spurred into improvement. If
you take whatever they choose to
throw you you’ll stay in the day
nursery business.
But if you do impose standards,
if you limit your admissions to
those who are capable of absorb
ing a college education, then the
responsibility for improving your
own product becomes yours. Then
it will be up to you to experiment
with, test and adopt with enthusi
asm more complicated methods of
accelerated teaching.
The graduate chemistry of 50
years ago will have to be covered
by your sophomore year. The en-.
gineering which would have been
worth an M.S. at M.I.T. in 1925
must be known to your juniors.
Your seniors will have to under
stand all the quantum physics of
Flanck and Einstein and Teller.
By 1976 we will be several light
years beyond where we stand now
in our knowledge of the cosmos,
and yet your future students will
be just as eager as your present
ones to get out, get a job, get
married and get going.
In addition, you will, as Presi
dent Rudder pointed out, have the
problem of including in this pack
age the requirements, as he terms
it, of American citizenship. This
means the humanities. This means
an understanding of history, and
appreciation of civilization, and
a concern for the meaning of life.
This is the difference between the
educated gentleman and the high
ly-trained fool.
Your present methods, however
modern they may be considered
today will be insufficient for this
task. The time has already passed
when we can affoi’d to expend a
semester teaching 25 theorems of
Euclidian plane geometry. By
1976 -vye will have to be using
subliminal devices not yet thought
of, and sleeping students will be
getting foreign language conver
sation through tiny microphones
hidden in their pillows. The human
brain is a fantastic instrument.
We are only now beginning to un
derstand how far we have under
estimated its powers of absorp
tion.
The compression of learning,
gentlemen. That, as I see it, is
your basic challenge. It will re
quire tireless research and bold
application. But the stakes are
high. They may even be vital to
the preservation of free society.
Let your motto be the dying
words of Louis Pasteur, who
looked back upon a life that had
astonished the learned world with
its fruitfulness.
But he murmured sadly:
“So little time. So much to
learn.”
ABSENCE EXCUSED
MILWAUKEE <A>)_The Mothers
of Twins Club convention had
scheduled a panel discussion by
parents of twins, but tse meeting
had to be cancelled. The leader
of the discussion did not arrive in
town because his wife was deliver
ing their third set of twins.
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Grant For
Bat Study
Is Awarded
^he National Institute of Health
ha§ awarded a bat study grant of
$54,000 to the Department of Wild
life Management.
The grant was made through the
Texas Agricultural Experiment
Station.
Purpose of the research project,
which will cover three years, is
to find and identify species of bats
and to determine their distribution.
Project locations will be southern
Mexico, Central America and the
northern and western areas of
South America.
Research will be conducted by
Dr. W. B. Davis, head of the De
partment of Wildlife Management,
and Dilford Cartel’, department in
structor.
DEVELOPED A T A&M
"Plastic Mulcher Planter’
Changes Vegetable Industry
A&M researchers have added
something new to their still-new
system of plastic sheet mulching
of vegetables by machine.
The workers have added a unique
planter wheel to the implement,
which allows the farmer to replant
the crop if things are botched up
the first time. Also, the plastic
sheeting can be used for another
crop.
Developers of the machine, H. T.
Blackhurst, professor in the De
partment of Horticulture; Clyde
Singletary, Texas Agricultural Ex
tension Service horticulturist; and
A. S. Nemec, skilled mechanic,
created a stir among vegetable
producers and the farm press when
they unveiled their creation this
past spring. Now they have gone
a step further to make the mulcher
do an even more efficient job.
Mulching, which controls weeds
and conserves moisture, is an age-
old practice. It’s usually done
with straw, leaves, sawdust and
other organic materials. And then
in 1953 long sheets of black poly
ethylene plastic were introduced
for vegetable mulching. The ma
terial worked fine, but there was
the drawback of manual, laborous
installation and seed planting.
A&M’s first machine to solve
the problem was fairly complete.
It carried fertilizer, bed shaper,
seeder and a big roll of the plastic
sheeting (40 inches wide by 1,000
to 5,000 feet long).
The implement planted seed in
a continuous stream, fertilized,
covered the edges of the pls^i
and punched seed emergence hole
all in one operation. But if
emerging plants fell victim to tk
quirks of nature, the whole pfl
eedure had to be done over &gs t!
using new plastic.
New Engineering
Students To Meet
All new engineering studenti
are asked to attend a mcetinj
sponsored by the office of ^
Dean of Engineering. The meetint
will be held at 7:30 tonight *j
Guion Hall.
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CALENDAR OF CHURCH SERVICES
A&M CHRISTIAN CHURCH
8:30 A.M.—Cofr
9 :45
11:00
A.M.—Coffee Time
A.M.—Sunday School
A.M.—Morninu Services
BETHEL LUTHERAN
CHURCH
(Missouri Synod)
8:15 A.M.—Mornintc Worship
9:30 A.M.—Church School
10:46 A.M.— Mornins Worship
UNITARIAN FELLOWSHIP
4:00-5:30 P.M. Friday School. YMCA
8:00 P.M.—First four Sundays of each
month—Fellowship Meeting. Call VI G-
6888 for further information.
ST. THOMAS
EPISCOPAL CHURCH
Sundays
8:00 A.M.—Holy Communion: 9:15
A.M.—Family Service & Church School :
11:00 A.M.— Holy Communion 1st &
3rd Sundays, Morninjt Prayer 2nd &
4th Sundays ; 7:00 P.M. Evensong.
Wednesdays
6:30 & 10:00 A.M.—Holy Communion
with I.ayinu on of Hands
Saints Days
10:00 A.M. Holy Communion
Wednesday
7:10 P.M. Canterbury: 8:30 P.M.
Adult Bible Classes
FAITH CHURCH
UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST
9:15 A.M.—Sunday School
10 :;;0 A.M.—Morninif Worship
7:30 P.M.—Evenlna Service
CHURCH OF THE
NAZARENE
10:00 A.M. Sunday School
11:00 A.M.—Morninir Worship
(i :30 P.M.—Yt»un« People's Service
7 :30 P.M.—Prcachinu Service
CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST
OF LATTER DAY SAINTS
2Gth East and Coulter. Bryan
8:80 A.M.—Priesthood Meeting
10.00 A.M. Sunday School
6:30 P.M.— Sacrament Meeting
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
SOCIETY
9:30 A.M. Sunday School
11:00 A.M.—Sunday Service
8:00 P.M. Wed., EvcninK Service
2 :00 - 4 :00 P.M. Tuesdays - Iteadintf
Room
7:00-8:00 P.M. Wed.. UeadinK Room
A&M CHURCH OF CHRIST
9:45 A.M.—iijblu ClaHHcm
10:45 A.M. Morning: Worship
6:45 P.M.—Bible Clan*
7 :16 P.M. Evening Service
ST. MARY’S CATHOUC
CHAPEL
7:30,9:00,11:00 A.M.—Sunday Mas
COLLEGE HEIGHTS
ASSEMBLY OF GOD
9:46 A M
11 :00 A.M.
6:30 P.M.
Sunday
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tfi year# old.
td years old
14 years old
12 years old
10 years otd
A GOOD JOB
4 years old
4 years old
l years old
Billy’s getting bigger, and Susie's catching up. And Mom—•
like any proud mother—is delighted. Their physical progress
is one indication that she’s doing a good job.
But is she being just as careful about other, equally vital
parts of that job? Is she also measuring their spiritual progress?
As it happens, she is. Billy and Susie are both already going
to church and church school.
If you have been thinking that your own children are too
young to begin their religious education, why not give them
the chance to measure up spiritually, as well as physically?
They’re apt to surprise you!
THE CHURCH FOR ALL
ALL FOR THE CHURCH
The Church is the greatest
ilding of
i. It is
Without
neither democracy
vive. There are fi
The Churc
rth for th
od ci*'
spiritual
good citizenship
dues.
on
nd
factor
character
. .i ... storehouse of
Without a strong Church,
;y nor civilization can sur-
are four sound reasons why
should attend servi
every person should attend services regu
larly and Support the Church. They arc:
his children's
Copyright 1961
Keister Adv. Service, Inc.,
Strasburg, Va.
For his own sake. (2) Foi
of hi
lake o
loral am
to church regularly
(l)For his own sake. (2) 1'or hi
sake. (3) For the sake of his community
and nation. (4) For the sake of the Chu
itself, which needs his moral and mat
pport. Plan
id 1
and -ead your
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