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About The Daily Bulletin/Reveille. (College Station, Tex.) 1916-1938 | View Entire Issue (May 17, 1919)
VOL. I College Station, Texas, Saturday, May 17, 1919 COLLEGE FAILS TO) QUALIFY IN CUP RACE NUMBER FRESHMEN COMPET- ING TOO SMALL TO MEET RE- QUIREMENTS— COMPANY D IS HIGHEST _ In the efficiency test of the Fresh- men, held Tuesday, out of a possible 12 points to be scored, Company D ranked highest with 10.85 points, Bat- tery A scored 9.16, the Signal Corps 8.70, Company A 8.31 and Companies B and C 8.16. All of the Freshmen whos have been members of the ath- letic teams in the past year scored 12 out of a possible 12 points. Only 162 Freshmen took part in the tests and as the rules required 80 per cent of the Freshmen to compete A. and M. will fail to qualify as one of « the competitors for the silver Tlov- ing cup. Taken as a whole the aver- age was very low, Director Driver says. If 80 per cent of the Freshmen class had competed the average might have been higher but 8.75 was the av- | erage of the 162 who competed which | was too low to win in the National In- | tercollegiate test. Some good men | were discovered, however, who have | not been participating in athletics this | year, and these will be encouraged to try out for next year’s College teams. WE a i GEORGE BAILEY SPEAKES AT CHAPEL SUNDAY on George M. Bailey, editorial writer end paragrapher of The Houston Post, who enjoys a national reputation in the latter capacity, will deliver the address at the regular chapel services in Guion Hall Sunday morning at 11:45 o'clock. Mr. Bailey has a rare sense of humor and facility of ex- pression and though he is best known as a writer he is also in frequent de- mand as’ a public speaker and lay preacher. Campus residents and the public generally are invited to” hear him. » ALUMNI FEATURES PLANNED BY LOCAL MEN — ARRANGEMENTS MADE FOR GREETING JOINT COMMITTEES AND ANNUAL COMMENCE- MENT PROGRAM Plans for an adequate reception to the representatives of the Alumni Association of the College and the Ex- Students Association of the University of Texas on the occasion of the joint meeting at College Monday, May 28, for mapping out a campaign for the adoption of the constitutional amend- ment separating the College and the University, were laid at a meeting of the local alumni of the College Thurs- day afternoon at 5 o’clock. As a reception committee to greet the visitors N. M. McGinnis, A. B. Con- ner, R. F. Miller, A. C. Love and J. W. Jennings were named, while another, committee on entertainment was ap- pointed consisting of E. J. Kyle, B. Youngblood, A T. Potts, W. Wipprecht and W. L. Stangel. The meeting for planning the campaign has been called jointly by Judge Rogan of Austin and Dexter Hamilton of Corsicana, presi- dent of the Alumni Association and the Ex-Students Association, respect- ively. Plans for Alumni day of the forty- | third annual commencement, will be on Monday, June 23, will be in | the hands of a program committee to be named later by E. E. McAdams, president of the local Alumni Associ- ation, Mr. McAdams having been re- elected to this position for another year as was W. L. Stangel as secretary. A banquet for the alumni on Monday night will be one of the features of tha entertainment. PICTURE OF CHINATOWN WILL BE SHOWN TONIGHT Featuring Jack Abbe, the picture to- night in the Airdome will be “Mystic Faces,” a play built around the hap- penings of Chinatown, and one which promises to be a very entertaining photoplay. ; which ! BRAZILIAN PEANUT WILL BE TRIED INTEXAS COLLEGE MAN SENDS EXPERI- MENT STATION SAMPLES OF SUPERIOR NUT THAT MAY BE USED HERE If new varieties of peanuts which were found being produced by the wild Indians on the frontiers ef Brazil, samples of which have been sent to Director Youngblood by Prof. T. R. Day, ‘02, are found adaptable to Texas soil and climate the peanut industry in this state may be revolutionized in the opinion of Mr. Youngblood. Prof. Day has charge of a string of experiment stations established by the Leopoldina railway system, owned by a British corporation operating in Brazil, and during a recent excursion into hitherto unpenetrated portions of Brazil he discovered three new types of peanuts being grown by the wild In- dians of that section and sent samples of them to Mr. Youngblood. The Bra- zilian nuts have a larger oil content, are more palatable and have a tenderer kernel than the American peanuts, Mr. Youngblood says, and are naturally superior plants. : One of the three varieties from Bra- zil is of the same color as the Spanish peanut, but about twice as long, has three nuts to the shell, and is a much more beautiful nut than the Texas pro- duct. Another variety is very similar to this nut but has a deep red kernel, - while a third has a black kernel and produces a very dark oil. These peanuts will be tested out both at the local station and on the sub-station at Nacogdoches and in the event they are found to be adaptable to Texas soil, climate and other condi- tions they will be distributed among the farmers of the state. It will be two or three years, however, before the station can accumulate a suf- ficient supply of the peanuts for dis- tribution in the event it is found they can be grown to an advantage here.
