Vol. vo.
cre oe Texas, Friday, Shit: 20. 1918
Colleg . : 'o Raise
"Pigeons For Army
Poultry Deprrtment Gots Choice
~ Consignment of Birds
For Breeding
Purposes
~~
As he nucleus. of ee flock hat wll
be used in
war department five pairs of homing
pigeons have been received by the
poultry department of the College
The birds are two vears old and trace |
their origin to Relgium, where some of
. their ancestors flew in 1000 mile]
races, but they have shown their
good breeding in their own fiights,
which have run all the wav 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 fis ing
FN — hfe — R=
Erect 80 Tenis for Soldiers
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any
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 |f
men each. . While the tents can be
made comfortable in cold weather the;
chances are they will not be used
after additional berracks have been}
constructed 2d f
breeding birds for | the|
|Forty-Third Term
Will Open Today
Informal Exercises
Launching of Year’s Work
in Guion Hall at
10 O’clock
Program for Today oh
First Period 8.00 to 8:20
Second Period 3:25 to 8:45.
Third Period 8:50 to 9:10.
Opening exercises, Guion Hall, 10:00.
The afternoon ciasses will nssenible
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,
music.
Recitations will begin in advance of
the formal opening, however, and the
the second period will be from 8:25 to
3:45 and the third period from 8:50 to
‘9:10 The formal opening wlll Occupy
the 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-
promptly today.
dents coming in.
mounting steadily.
to Mark
the introduction of the new
members of the faculty and special -
Registration continued heavily all
day yesterday, with still other stu- .
The enrollment is
i
eb)
Yeaaunllly
first classes will meet from 8 to 8:20,
ipected to report to all their classes