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THE DAILY BULLETIN Vol 3. om OF HUNOR AMOST GRACIOUS GIFT TO MANKIND The American Soldiers Carried the Spirit With Them Into the Great War. John Kendrick Bangs who became | managing editor of Life magazine | without any previous journalistic ex- perience other than as the editor of a College paper, made a pleasant evening for those who heard him in Guion Hall Wednesday night. He began his talk with a recital of some embarrassments he had suffer- ed from introductions and advertis- ing cards; then with intermittent hu- mor and seriousness, properly mixed | and interestingly related throughout | his discussion, he finally ended with a pathetic, appealing, and heart stir- ring plea for a spirit of unselfish ser- vice to characterize the manhood of America, as it did the soldiers of the | A.B. PF. | His was humor unsurpassed in depth | of meaning by the ponderous writings | of many literary stars. With his talk all were kept submerged in deep thought to appreciate his intellec- tual reasoning, and yet all the time stirred with a willingness and a pleas- ure to think by his unmatched char- acteristic humor. The body of his lecture was a re- lation of his experiences as a Red Cross worker in France, “that beauti- ful land of valor.” He spoke of the German long range gun that fired upon Paris as the huge joke of the whole war, and described its operation as a good dem- onstration of the construction of the Hun mind, namely; that he thought there was only one way to do a thing, and so immediately that he started doing a thing one way he continued in the same manner until he was de- stroyed; second, he thought mechan- ical regularity was the only effi- ciency, and the third peculiarity of the Hun mind was that he conceived of no difference between a man and a machine. Consequently, when he started firing the long range gun he fired every shot within a radius of | ish-American Foundation, | Svante one mile of a certain house top in Paris, fired with clocklike regularity, and the same number of shots each day; which process was soon reveal- ed to the French, who took it with great good humor. The air raids upon Paris, he said, were conducted every moonlight night, “it being a sentimental desire to be | in Paris on such nights.” The Amer- icans took the air raids in the char- acteristic American, love-for-show way. Whenever an enemy plane be- gan dropping bombs “the American rushed out into the street and stood there looking up to the skies, hoping that a bomb would drop close to where he stood so that he could see how the darn thing worked.” On the other hand the Frenchman who had been tamed by longer acquaintance with (Continued on Page 4) College Station, Texas, Friday, March 5, 1920 Number 133 STUDENTS TO BE NOMINATED FOR STUDY IN SWEDEN Made Possible Through the Aid of American-Scandinavian Founda- tion Fellowships A year ago the American-Scandi- navian Foundation appointed, from students nominated by college of- ficials, ten travelling fellows for study in Sweden during the academ- ic year 1919-1920, each Fellow to receive from the Foundation a sti- ipend of $1000. The Jury in the United States con- sisted of William Vovgaard (chair- man), Professor of Naval Archi- tecture, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Professor H. P. Talbort, ‘Head of the Department of Chem- istry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Professor T. E. Ken- nelly, Head of the Department of Electrical Engineering in Harvard University; William Campbell, Pro- fessor of Metallurgy in Columbia University, and Professor J. W. Tou- mey, Director of the School of For- estry in Yale University. The Jury in Sweden was chosen by the Swed- Professor Arrhenius, President. Under these Fellowships (1919- 1920) the following ten American students are now studying in Sweden: Chemistry and Physics: Rowlanii V. Hagen, Northwestern University; | M. Hixon, Iowa State College, Ches- er C. Stewart, Massachusetts Insti- tute of Technology; Harry W. Titus, University of Wyoming. Hydro-Electro Engineering. Rob- ert C. Sessions, Worcester Poly- technic Institute; Clarence N. Oster- gren, Sheffield Scientific School. Forestry. William S. Moir, Yale School of Forestry; Henry M. Mel- oney, New York State School of For- estry at Syracuse University. Metallurgy. Rudolph E. Zetter- strand, Sheffield Scientific School; | Fred E. Steinback, University of | Michigan. For the year 1920-1921 the Foun- | dation expects to appoint Fellows—ten for twenty study in Sweden, [five for study in Denmark, and five These Fel- | for study in Norway. lows will be appointed for wogk in many branches of study, humanistic as well as technological. The Dean of Engineering has just received a request that this College nominate not more than four recent | graduates, these nominations to be returned as soon as possible in order | that application may be sent out and returned before April 1st. It is high- ly desirable that candidates for the Fellowships be college graduates, fitted, as the Rhodes Scholars are, for finding a place in the student com- munity to which they are to be sent; and, under present conditions, it is also recommended that the Fellows appointed have funds in addition to (Continued on Page 4) REGULAR MEETING OF AGRICULTURAL CONFERENCE HELD Dr. Clark Talks on Agr. Administra- tion and Dr. Taubenhaus on Plant Pathology In the Agricultural Conference Wednesday afternoon Dr. Clark talk- ed on the new course of Agricultural Administration, to be put in the cur- riculum. He said. in part: Thirty- five students have left there to enter a course in business administration at University of Texas. This course would accommodate them, also a number who are now regularly class- ified. It will prepare for the busi- ness side of agriculture, banking with reference to agriculture, agri- cultural civil service, or any general business pursuit. Instead of prepar- ing for one thing it will prepare for a number. The course is modeled after the one given in the University of Ill. It will require courses in mathemat- ics, economics, history, law, account- ing, marketing, elementary statistics, money and banking corporations, in- ternational law, European history, Industrial history of United States, citizenship, American history, gen- eral sociology, general psychology. Dr. J. J. Taubenhaus, Plant Path- ologist to the Experiment Station dis- cussed the “Relation of Plant Path- ology to Agriculture.” He said that plant diseases were known to the ancients. Pliney in Roman times made some curious and erronious statements about it. Ages little advance was made. Dur- ing the Renaissance the discussion was most speculative. In the eight- eenth century the first real advance was made. De Barry was the first scientist to isolate a disease and re- infect another plant. Brefeld also ‘made further discoveries. During the last few decades the U. S. Government has taken the lead. |In 1885 a division of Plant Path- | ology was established and Lamson | Scribner was the first incumbent. | Erwin F. Smith was his assistant and is at this time perhaps the lead- ling bacteriologist of the world. The science is now in its infancy, but we | recognize the subject as a great ec- onomic problem. In fruit growing, truck growing, | viticulture, plant diseases are in- creasing in destructiveness. In 1918 in Texas, corn, wheat, rye, oats, and sorghum suffered a loss from plant diseases of $19,000,000 which [amounted to the total value of the | wheat crop; cotton $15,000,000, figs |and pecans $1,000,000. All crops | for that year in Texas $85,000,000 loss, half of which could have been saved. It is hard to impress the farmer with the idea of plant diseases. The place to make real progress is with our college students. We do not give students a strong enough course here. The prerequisites should be plant physiology, plant breeding, en- RUTH LAVERY IS SURE TO ATTAIN TO GREAT THINGS She is an Artist Whose Tone is Un- surpassed, Has High Attainments as an Entertainer Sam Lewis, lyric tenor who heads the company bearing his name whizh will be presented to College and Bryan people in Guion Hall Monday night possesses a voice of the vibrant robusto quality that you will be de- lighted to hear, a singer in the first rank. He is declared by many com- petent critics to become one of the few great Welsh tenors of his gen- eration. Mr. Lewis has sung from the lakes to the gulf and from the Atlantic to the Pacific. A feature of the concert will be a group of songs by the famous tenor. Miss Ruth Lavery, violinist, is one of the finest young artists of Am- erica, who is destined to attain to great things in the musical world. She is an artist whose tone is un- surpassed. Few conservatory stu- dents have scored greater success as soloists than Miss Lavery. An evi- dence of her ability was shown last winter in the contest conducted in Peoria by Associated Musical Clubs of Illinois, when she was awarded first place among violin students of the state who competed. Miss Irene Harruff, accompanist and soprano has charm and musical attainments that have given her a permanent place in concert work. Miss Amber Hopkins, has high at- In the Dark | tainments as an entertainer which make friends for her everywhere. She possesses unusual personal at- tractiveness. SCIENCE SEMINAR TUESDAY EVENING Dr. O. M. Ball Will Give an Illus- trated Lecture on “Certain First Families of Texas” At the next meeting of the Science Seminar on Tuesday evening March 9th, Dr. O. M. Ball will read a pa- per on “Certain First Families of Texas.” He has prepared a large number of lantern slides, showing reconstruc- tions of many of the dragons, din- osaurs, mastodons and other mon- sters that .once roamed over the plains or swam in the waters of Tex- as. The remains of many of these huge animals of long past ages have been colleced by Dr. Mark Francis and Dr. Ball and form the basis for a museum at the College. The meeting will be held in Room 301 E. E. Building at 7:30 p. m. Stu- dents and all interested are invited to attend. tomology, cytology, mophology, etc. Dean Kyle, Dr. Morgan, and Professor Kellogg also discussed: the subject.
