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\ Che Daily Bulletin VOL. IV COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, I'RIDAY, OCT. 1, 1920 NUMBER 15 AGGIE FOOTBALL TEAM DANIEL BAKER COMES SIX NEW INSTRUCTORS | LEGISLATURE WILL ACT WORKS NIGHT AND DAY | REGULAR | SQUAD IS GIVEN SKULL PRACTICE WORK-OUT ON THE FIELD. There is one course in school which very few students and practi- | cally no teachers ever heard. this is a class that demands as much study and hard work as any other class in school. After this “Bible” class, where they taught the finer points or the work of the game, Every night after supper the men gather in the Y. M. C. A. Chapel, some of them dressed in a non-de- ceript style, but regardless of ap-| pearances their attention is head It is in this class that the men are taught how to watch the cpponent’s offense and direct their defense accordingly. On the offense they must learn to shift and maneu- ver their strength so they can always blackboard. AFTER .| of | Yet | working hard on the foot- | ball field the men come in and go to | are | always | directed toward Coach Bible and his | FOR A GAME TODAY FIRST TEST | WILL BE AGGIE SEEN ON KYLE | FIELD THIS AFTERNOON. The Aggies play the second game of the season this afternoon on Kyle | Field, and it will be the first real test of Aggie football strength to! | be seen by A. & M. It will really be | | the first step toward the coveted | A. & M. athletic spirit. Daniel Baker will be the victim of the Aggie onslaughts this time University Scuthern = Methodist University took a game from Daniel Baker last Saturday by the score of 70 to 0. The game will be called at 4 o’clock. | COMMITTEE APPOINTED TO WORK ON HOUSING PROBLEM President W. B. Bizzell has ap- STRENGTH | Southwest Conference Championship | and will be the first provocation of and | I’ the result of the game will tell State | something about what to i expect on Thanksgiving. | Engineering Department IN C. E. DEPARTMENT NEARLY THREE FOURTHS OF] THE TEACHING STAFF COM- POSED OF NEW MEN. The Civil Engineering Department, | of A. & M. begins the session of 1920- 21 with nearly three-fourths of its teaching staff composed of new men. The only holdovers in the department | are J. C. Nagle, Professor Engineering; J. C. Richey, Professor of Structural Engineering; Byron | Bird, Associate Professor of High- | way Engineering and Mrs. L. M. gineering. There are six new men in the department. W. J. Emmons, Professor of High- | way Engineering, (succeeding Mr. Roy M, Green, who is now manager | of the Western Laboratories at Lin- i ccln, Nebraska,) comes to the Civil | from Birmingham office of the Pittsburgh ! Testing Laboratory, where, ant tc the director of the department | of roads and pavements, he was in | | charge of the testing and approval of | cbiain the advantage over their op- | pointed a committee of five to work ponents. They must learn to watch! cut plans for solving the housing the opponents every movement, know | problem on the campus along thea the effect the glance of an eye or| the slightest movement of the foot will have. And above all they must | try to be psychologists, try to know | the workings of the minds of their | opponents by some action or word, so | that they will be uncertain as to what | is going to happen. | It is such things as these, with | hundreds of other details, that are drilled and hammered into the foot- | ball team at skull practice every | night. Coach Bible and his team are working both night and day trying to | be ready for the big games that are | to come. ———— CAMPUS PEOPLE TO GET TIRES | AND TUBES AT WHOLESALE | A contract has just been signed | with the U. S. Tire Company, where- ky employees of the college can get tires and tubes for their cars at wholesale prices. The Department of Agricultural Engineering will order for any who wish to take advantage of this oppor- tunity. Orders will be sent in every Saturday morning and goods received about the following Thursday. In case goods are needed Suicker, spec- ial crder can be made. lines suggested by Dr. F. B. Clark! held in the Y. M. C. Saturday night. The members are: Dr. F. B. chairman; A. H. Leidigh, agronomist, F3posiment Station, secretary; E. B. La Roche, professor of architecture: S. C. Hoyle, editor of publications, : Extension Service and Dr. J. J. Taub- | enhaus, plant nathologist of the Ex-! periment Station. They will have a meeting today and discuss plans to be outlined other conference to be held soon. ———————— TEXAS AGRONOMY SOCIETY REORGANIZES FOR TERM | A. Chapel last The Texas Branch of the American | Society of Agronomy held its first meeting of the year Tuesday evening in the social room of the Y. M. C. A. the retiring vice president, Harvey Matthews, and all old business was brought up and discussed. Nomina- ticns were made for all officers, with the exception of those coming from the junior class. 5. ; At the conclusion of the > RECEPTION FOR TEXTILE ENGINEERING STUDENTS | fi All Textile Engineers of the sil and two year courses are cordially invited to attend a reception to be given in the parlors of the Y. M. C. A. building tonight at 7:30. Fresh- man Textile Engineers are especially invited. By order of the Commandant the above students are excused from call to quarters. — — rr wg — Support the Y—Boost the Y. session an address was made by Dr. These will be voted | on at the meeting to be held October | | at the conference of college officials | Clark. | road materials and the design, prep- | avation and construction of asphaltic | of Civil | oland, Secretary to the Dean of En-' the ! as assist- | ~ ON COTTON SEED BILL PRESIDENT BIZZELL ATTENDS HEARING ON LEGISLATION IN AUSTIN. | | | { | i On his return to college vesterday morning from Austin where he at- i tended the hearings on legislation | now pending to regulate the cotton seed crushing business in Texas Pres- icent Bizzell said the indications | were that the bill would pass if time permitted. He said the agricultural | committee was seriously concerned | about the farmers’ rights in the mat- ter and that there was no doubt it | was the intention of the legislature | to take some action with respect to regulating the seed erushing business in this state. The bill now be=ore the legislature provides for the complete i divorcement of cottonseed oil mills anc cotton gins and the prevention of { the packers holding stock in the oil mills. Dr. Bizzell said the ficures quoted H yy Assistant Attorney General Keel- ing showed the large differential be- iween the prices paid for cottonseed in the state of Texas and in other | Southern states had caused the farm- ravements. tore of Texas to feel that they are not Mr. Emmons received the degree | receiving adequate prices for their i of Se. B. in Civil Engineering from | seed. Brown University in 1912 and that| Dr. Bizzell went to Austin from ofA -M:3n highway engineering | Hillsboro where he delivered an ad- from Columbia University in 1914 | dress at the opening of the Hill Coun- : Since that time he has had a broad | experience, both in contractors or- ; ganizations and state highway work, | especially along the lines of labora- | tory examinations, testing and con- | | trol of bituminous and other mater- at an- | iais for highway and street construe- | tion. B. D. Marburger, Associate Profes- | | under {ty Fair Tuesday. He spoke along the lines of conservation of the soil and improved farming methods, together with crop diversification. He stated yesterday that he was well pleased with the live stock ex- hibits at the fair many of which were the direction of former A. & M. men. He said al] of them seemed sor of Railway Engineering, succeeds | | to be making good as live stock pro- A. C. Love, who has resigned to ac- | | | The meeting was called to order by cept a position, as division engineer | ducers. I —:-::i with the Texas State Highway De- | LIEUTENANT COLONEL LUHN . i partment. Mr. Marburger graduated from the ' Civil Engineering ccurse at the Ag- ricultural and Mechanical College of Texas in 1905, since which time he ‘has been connected with the Sunset- business | ~ | sistant Professor of Civil I: J. O. Morgan, head of the Agronomy : ned the working aims of the socie- ty, and expressed his belief in its: perpetuation and growth. The question of membership was | brought up and three forms of mem- bership were discussed. At the next meeting the society will adopt the] form of membership which seems to test fit the.eonditions existing here. | the over the prospects for altend the Tuesday night meetings. a | Department, in which he clearly de-! Central Railway Lines, St. Louis, Brownsville & Mexican Railway, San Antonio & Aransas Pass Railway and Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway. as general foreman, district engineer. T. A. Munson, who comes to the Civil Engineering Department as As- Engineer- ing, graduated from the Civil Engi- neering Course, A. & M. College of | Texas, in 1910. My. Munson was assistant highway , engineer for Fort Bend County, 1910- | | I I 191i, since which time has held the positions of engineer on sanita- tion and installation of water supply, topcgrapher and designer for recla- | mation and drainage projects, chief engineer for drainage district and The old members are enthusiastic highway engineer for road districts year ss | in Brazoria County, Texas. work, and uige that all juniors ally | tion he has had an extended general themselves with the organization and | er2ineering practice. In addi- (Continued on Page 2) assistant and | DELAYED FOR ONE MONTH President Bizzell has received tel- egraphic advices from Lieutenant Colonel W. L. Luhn stating that he has obtained a leave of absence from the War Department for one month to accompany Mrs. Luhn to Washing- ten where she will undergo a surgi- cal operation. He will’ report to this college for duty as professor of military science and tactics as soon as it is possible for him to leave with Mrs. Luhn. —— JUNIORS AND SOPHOMORES TO ELECT CLASS OFFICERS Election of officers of the Junior and Sophomore classes will take place soon and nominations for the various cffices are now being received. The following offices are to be fill ed in each of the two classes: presi dent, vice president, secretary-treas- urer, historian, student welfare coun- cil, Nominations must be signed by twenty men and turned in to A. B. Knickerbocker at room 51 Milner by noon Saturday, October 2nd.
