Texas A and M University - Aggieland Yearbook (College Station, TX)

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Lt. Col. J. E. Mitchell THE OFFICE OF THE COMMANDANT Maintaining the rules and regulations of the college among three thousand healthy young Americans, many of them away from home for the first time, is certainly no easy task. It is through the office of the Commandant of Cadets that the discipline of the college is administered. The Commandant, Col. John E. Mitchell, is certainly to be commended for the manner in which he has filled this difficult office. The Commandant can, by delegation of authority to responsible students in the Cadet Corps, develop leadership in those boys, and a respect for constituted author¬ ity in those under their authority. It is such training as this that develops the best Reserve Officers, which is the primary purpose of the Corps of Cadets.

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PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE All civilized nations are passing through a social and economic crisis. Many of the institutions we in the Unit ed States had come to consider permanent have been shaken at their very foundations. Patriotic leaders and statesmen in the educational and political field are striving to their utmost to bring order out of disorder—to rebuild upon the old foundations a social and economic superstructure more fundamentally sound than the one that has crumbled. Their efforts are meeting with partial success, but there still remains much to be done. Young people graduating from college, if they have taken advantage of their educational opportunities to establish within their own minds high ideals and purposes, and if they have secured the training necessary to enable them to function efficiently as citizens, will have a large part in the Nation’s program of reconstruction. The training that the members of the Class of 1935 have secured at the Agricultural and Mechanical College peculiarly qualifies you for service to your community, county, state, or nation. You will find opportunities to render this service in the proportion that you are willing to contribute of your time and talent to the great tasks that lie out ahead. Your faculty believes that every member of the Class may play a conspicuous part in the program. We urge you to dedicate your talent to the solution of the unsolved problems that so sorely beset the Nation at this time. President

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F. C. Bolton THE SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING Due to the efforts of Dean F. C. Bolton the School of Engineering at A. M. has gained the reputation of turning out excellent young engineers with a solid founda¬ tion for continuing in their chosen fields. The curriculum of each engineering course prescribes some courses in practically every type of engineering, so that the graduate is not only a specialist in his particular branch, but also has a general knowledge of all types of engineering. In the School of Engineering the following departments are included: Architec¬ ture, Chemical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Municipal and Sanitary Engineering, Textile Engineering, Petroleum Production Engineering, and Drawing.