Daily Bulletin. (College Station, Tex.) 1916-current, September 20, 1918, Image 1

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Texas A&M Newspaper Collection

Daily Bulletin. (College Station, Tex.) 1916-current, September 20, 1918, Image 1

Newspaper Page Text"7" > V HE DAILY BULLETIN Vol. IV College Station, Texas, Friday, September 20. 1918 No. 7 College To Raise Pigeons For Army Poultry Department Gets Choice Consignment of Birds For Breeding Purposes As ihe nucleus.of a flock ihab will used in breeding birds for the war department five pairs of homing pigeons have a been received by the poultry department of the College The birds are two years old and trace their origin to Helgium,where some of their ancestors flew in 1000 mile races, but they have shown their good breeding in their own flights, which have run all the way from 15 to 500 miles One of the members of the flock flew nearly a mile a minute in a 200 mile race and all of them have shown good speed. As soon as new broods are hatched out here the young birds will be trained to fip ing -o— Erect 80 Tents for Soldiers ^ For the temporary accommodation of a number of soldiers, the College authorities have procured from the war department and erected on the Campus in front of the Y M C. A., eighty tents capable of housing six men each While the tents can be made comfortable in cold weather the; chances are they will not be used[ after additional barracks have been' constructed Forty-Third Term Will Open Today Informal Exercises to Mark Launching of Year’s Work in Guion Hall at 10 O’clock Program for Today First Period 8.00 to 8:20 Second Period 8:25 to 8:45. Third Period 8:50 to 9:10. Opening exercises, Guion Hall, 10:00. The afternoon classes will assemble to the regular schedule. At 10 o’clock this morning in Guion Hall the formal opening exercises of the forty-third annual session of the College will be held, and all students and instructors are^ expected to at tend. The program will be informal, with a brief address by President Bizzell, the introduction of the new members of the faculty and special music. Recitations will begin in advance of the formal opening, however, and the first classes will meet from 8 to 8:20, the second period will be from 8:25 to 8:45 and the third period from 8:50 to ; 9:10 The formal opening will occupy sjbhe period from 10 o’clock until noon and the afternoon classes will assem ble according to the regular schedule. (All students on the Campus are ex- Ipected to report to all their classes promptly today. Registration continued heavily all day yesterday, with still other stu dents coming in. The enrollment is mounting steadily.

Texas A&M Newspaper Collection

Texas A&M Newspaper Collection

Daily Bulletin. (College Station, Tex.) 1916-current, September 20, 1918, Image 1

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