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About The Daily Bulletin/Reveille. (College Station, Tex.) 1916-1938 | View Entire Issue (May 15, 1923)
Che 4 arly ulletin Vol IV College Station, Texas Tuesday, May 15, 1923 No. 180 FREAK STUNTS ON GYMKHANA PROGRAM Places for Men and Lady Partners; Will be First Thing of Kind Given Here Numerous novelty stunts involving | freak riding and combination mounted and de- acts have been of the gymkhana which will be given on the infantry | drill field Saturday, May 26, under | the auspices of the cavalry unit. Ac- | quainted with the unusual entertain- ment to be obtained from such an | event as the result of years of par- ticipation and observation in regular dismounted vised as events army posts Captain J. F. Davis, com- | mander of the cavalry unit is devot- | ing all his available time to arousing | interest among the students and se- curing entries. The entire cadet corps is invited to prepare for entering the gymkhana. In nearly all the events there will be place for both a man and lady and this will give the event the much de- | sired characteristic of a society af fair, permitting a combination of A. & M. masculinity and Bryan feminin- ity an ever harmonious accomplish- | ment. Events including both men and wo- men are the needle and thread race, ! men mount at designated | in which places and ride across field with pieces of thread to lady across field holding needle, have her thread needle and race back to starting place, the first one to return being winner. There are several such competitions. In an- other the lady will have a pile of veg- | etables and she will fill out a list brought her by partner, place them in sack in competition of speed with other ladies with similar piles. Again riders will race to lady, take her um- brella, open it and attempt to mount for the return ride. In still another event the riders will take a bottle of soda water from lady partners, open | and drink before remounting for race back. Of more excitement still will be a couple of events in which both partners mounted. In lady will carry ball on tennis racket around prescribed course, man follow- ing must pick up and replace when (Continued on 4) are one Fives rag | held | the Mess Hall tonight at 6:30 o’clock. | ' out the project of a $150,000.00 Ma- | sonic club building and dormitory at next the College are expected to visit the FINAL MEETING OF SEMINAR TONIGHT Dinner Will be Held in Mess Hall; Address on Immigration; Election of Officers The final meeting for this year of be the Social Science Seminar will in connection with a dinner in Following addresses by Dr. J. J. Tau- benhaus and Dr. E. P. Humbert immigration, the officers for year will be elected. on Dr. Taubenhaus will speak on Im- | igration in its Relation to National Progress and Dr. Humbert will dis- cuss the Biological Aspects of Im- migration. College officials and faculty mem- bers are invited to attend with their | | wives or lady friends. A Ag — ea, BOOK BY PROFESSOR COFER IS IN DEMAND Requests Come from Twelve States Following Publication of Com- mendatory Editorial A vital concern in the lapse of in- | terest in diction of business corres- pondence indicated in the great number of requests for copies of the book on business English by Professor D. B. Cofer of the English Depart- ment of the College which have fol- lowed editorial comment on the book published in Commerce and Finance and reprinted in the Dallas News. Editorial comment of and Finance was that stenographers and is Commerce “the use typewriters has made must business men utterly care- | less of their diction in correspondence and buried the old fashioned art of letter writing almost beyond resur- rection.” The writer then closed with the suggestion “that those who aspire to improve the style of their business correspondence should write to Professor Cofer for a copy of the book.” Requests for copies within less than two weeks after the publication of the editorial have come from twelve (Continued on page 4) | tomorrow afternoon at 3 o’clock. of | ' proposed Masonic SHRINE COMMITTEE T0 VISIT COLLEGE Representatives of Nine Shrine Bodies Will Meet to Consider Plans for Masonic Building Nine Shriners, one from each of the Texas Shrine bodies and composing the committee that has been charged with the responsibility of carrying College tomorrow afternoon to meet with the A. & M. Masonic club and | confer with the local building com- | mittee on final plans for the building. It is expected that definite decisions with respect to the building will be | reached tomorrow and the committee will present its recommendation for | adoption by the Shrine Council which | will meet in Wichita Falls Saturday. Eight of the Shriners on the com- mittee who are expected to come here tomorrow are Walter D. Cline of Wichita Falls, chairman, C. A. Soule of San Antonio, Guy Carlender of Amarillo, R. E. Thomason of El Paso, E. D. Fulbright of Beaumont, George Pruter of Houston, W. E. Gaylord of | Waco and W M. Cook of Fort Worth. The Dallas committee member who has not yet been announced is also expected. They will arrive on the H. & T. C. A committee of the A. & M. Masonic club will meet them and carry them for a short inspection of the College plant and the site selected for the building. In the early evening the visitors will ad- dress the local Masonic club in the Y.M.C.A. building and after this meeting will go into executive session with the local building committee of which Colonel Ike Ashburn, comman- dant of the College is chairman. The building of the combination club house and dormitory was accept- ed by the Shrine Council in its meet- ing at San Antonio last year as its project, after the need for the build- ing had been outlined to the poten- tates by Colonel Ashburn.
