The Daily Bulle
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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-
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| 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 |
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| 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
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