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The Daily Bulle 1! 1 Vol. VII College Station, Texas, Saturday, March 8, 1924. No .130 LITTLE TALK AND MUCH FOOD SERVED ‘Interbattalion League Has Enjoyable Evening With Quantity and Quality of Food. A surprisingly long dinner for its prodigious number of rich and sub- its redundant merit of humor, sound advice and counsel consumated the Interbattalion Football League sea- son Thursday evening with great in- spiration, and tribute to Coach H. H. House and the students who partieci- | pated in making his spring training schedule an admirable success. ~ Chief contributors to the pleasant- ness of the occasion were W. A. Dun- can, director of subsistence who ex- tended the dinner and Colonel Ike S. Ashburn who reduced the words and ccntributed a good part of the humor. In the list of responsible administra- | tors also belongs the mame of Sol Bartlett whose inspired direction of ! the Aggieland music was the most | enthusiastic of recent events. In this combination of connoisseur of after- dinner speech, fcod and music is the | chief reason of the enjoyable even- ing. Secondary importance attaches to the terse, epigrammatic information and recommendations of Head Coach D. X. Bible, Ccach H. H. House, Ex- captan W. D. Johnson and Captain T. L. Miller. Colonel Ashburn gave a prclogue to the series of remarks by a brief statement of the purpose and past successes of the Interbattalion Lea- gue. The Athletic Council has taken AMERICAN POETRY IS SUBJECT OF STUDY Miss Camp Reviews Progress of re etry Since War; Mrs. Fermier Reads Own Compositions. The subject of “American Poetry : since the War” was led by Miss Mam- stantial food elements and a surpris- | ingly brief after dinner program for | ie Ruth Camp, assistant librarian at the last regular meeting of the Cam- pus Study club held Tuesday after- nocn. Miss Camp summarized the tendencies of modern poets and dis- cussed at length Edwin Arlington Robinson and Edna St. Vincent Mil- lay and gave interpretations and erit- icisms of their work. Under meeting Mrs. E. J. Fermier was in- read several of her most recent com- positions including “The Ladder” “The School Bus”, “Valentines”, “Convalescent”, “Easy Shoes.” _ “It would be difficult”, said Miss Camp, of “poetry in the United States at the present time. This is partly due to the novel character of modern po- etry and to a lack of cohesion. ing like it has ever been known; comparison and predictions are idle. In addition to the older artists, all of whom are producing cn a high level at the present time there has grown up a lyric school led by Millay and Sara Teasdale, a group of rhapso- | dists represented by Oppenheim and J. G. Fletcher, besides a great horde | varying brands. “There are in the United States at | the present time five hundred poets, the subject of the study | vited to read some of her work. She | “Spring Styles” and | “to make a correct appraisal | Noth- | so | PRESIDENT GIVEN ~~ HEARTY SEND OFF College Stops Business for Thirty Minutes While Cadets and Officials Join in Saying Goodbye. The A. & M. College stopped busin- ess for thirty minutes at 11 o’clock yesterday morn ng to enable the Col- lege family to give a respectful and hearty farewell to President W. RB. Bizzell who departed at 11:20 for a trip to Europe on what will be his first vacation from the cares of ad- ministering the College affairs in the ten years that he has been presi- | dent of the institution. His route will be by St. Louis, Washington and wo | New York, from which port he will | sail on the America March 12 for | Cherbourg. The entire cadet corps of nearly 2000 cadets farmed a column on each side of the street leading from the | president’s residence to the depot. | A troop of mounted cadet cavalry es- corted his automobile from his home to the station, passing between the re columns. as they presented | arms. The president will join Charles E. | Friley, registrar of the College in | New York who will accompany him | on his European tour. They will visit | France, Italy, Switzerland, England and Belgium . They will return on i the Leviathan, landing in New York | May 19. | The farewell was a surprise to | President Bizzell. Colonel €. C. Todd, of minor and more minor poets of | commandant used a great deal of sec- | ret dipl¢ macy in arranging the pres- | ence of the cadet corps at the proper | time. H= enlisted the assistance Hf - an increased interest in the training | with printed volumes to their ecredi Mrs. Bizzell, Dean and Mrs. E. J. Ky- which it makes possible, he said, and | | practising their trade. Practically will continue to back the program | | all are writing in free verse, a form | of training which it affords with fin- | strangely suited to depict the varicus ancial support, and expert direction. aspects of life. There are also twen- House he declared it had progressed | to the publication of poetry. | Under the present direction of Coach ty-one magazines devoted exclusively ' missal from classrooms. i le;othr College officials and the cadet officers ‘n his diplomatic: corps to carry out the proceedings. No bugle was scunded for the for- mation of the ¢adets or their dis- Word was in a manner which indicated it was on «. sound basis. Coach Billc was in- troduced with partial quotations from Bible’s Tennessee rustic acquaintan- ces who had expressed their pleasure that their friend had gone down to Alabama and Texas and made a suc- cess of “thet ball bizness.” Coach Bible emphasized the impor- tance of the intramural league declar- (Continued on Page 2 Column 1) | These facts may not necessarily in dicate a high grade in the but they do indicate a wide in the subject. “It is no derogation of a true poet output ‘nterest to say that he does not catch the pop- | ular ear. This is especially true of Edwin Arlingtcn Rob nson whose first popular success came in 1921 with the publication of his collected | (Continued on Col 1, Page 4) : (Continued on Col. | passed to them through the officials and cadet officers and they assembled quietly on the military walk while the president was packing his last ‘handbag and pac'fying his family. From the military walk they marched" | to th> main gate and then strung out | in single columns along the sides of the street leading to the President’s residence. The Gh Jroop made a . page 4)
