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Che Daily Bulletin Vol. VII College Station, Texas, Wednesday, April 2, 1924. No. 151 DISTRICT LEAGUE MEET APRIL 11 & 12 Director General Preparing Program | for Events to Select Interscholas- tic League Representatives. [he program of events for the sel- ection of rerresentatives from dist- rict 24 of the Interscholastic League which will be held at the College April 11 and 12 has been announced by George B. Wilcox, superintendent of | the A. & M. Consolidated Rural School and director general of the district. Literary events will be held in the College Y.M.C.A. building and As- sembly Hall and athletic competitions will take place on Kyle field. Ten- |! | War Department | Rating Board Is | Inspecting R.O.T.C. Lieutenant Colonel Herman Glade | of the General Staff and Major Wol- ton Goodwin, Jr., cavalry of Wash- | ington, D. C., composing the War De- | partment Rating Board are inspect-' ling the Reserve Officers’ Training | Corps unit of the College. They ar- | rived here direct from Washington . yesterday morning and will remain through tomorrow gathering infor- mation on the work of the Military | Department of the College, inspecting the equipment, methods of teaching, ard ability, training and spirit of the cadets. \ They are the guests of Colonel C. nis doubles, debates and declamations C. Todd, commandant. will be held Friday April 11 and ten- | Sa : nis singles, track meets and music | ° memory contest will be completed P resident’s Book Saturday morning. 0 Tickets admitting to all the events | As Reviewed By of the two days will be sold for 50 | cents to adults and 25 cents to child- ren and a charge of 25 cents and 15 cents will be made from those who | attend only the evening debates and the field events. [Pres a picture of farming condi- -— tions in Texas from their inception A. & M. MEN IN MAJORITY in the early days of the Spanish do- WITH FREEPORT COMPANY ; minion down through the Republic to rs | the pr im iB. 1 : - A. & M. graduates have exception- al Eke ally good standing with the Free- | «pural Texas,” a book just off the port Texas Company. Whenever a press of the Macmillan Company, has pan. 1s needed it is the rule for Ag- | made a distinct cor tribution to the ag- gies to get first crack at the job. j.uitural history of the Lone Star There are six A. & M. men connected State. Student of agricultural af- with the company, one: Rice man. and | fairs as Dr. Bizzell is, he has covered one Eastern college man. : n 4 | his subject comprehensively by laying Shppese t at you have heard that | ; f,,nqation in the opening chapters the sand will be pretty oo warm In| f the volume which will give the . How 00 ioe Po yi Cle | reader an insight to the wide variety 30.9 Han or the “slaughter.”— | ,f climate, soils, topography and all as : = pate, the natural resources of the biggest ELMER C. NASH IS NOW | State in the Union. The research STUDENT IN i work in geological investigations by COLUMBIA 1 A Udden, Robert 7. Hill aud other Elmer C. Nash, formerly county authorities is used by Dr. Bizzell in VICTOR SCHOFFELMAYER — i agent at Athens, who for a number of | a foundation manner, upon which he | years was connected with the United | rears his superstructure of extensive | States Veterans’ Bureau, has resigned | observations made during many years his position at Athens and has gone | of close personal contact with every to New York where he will enter | part of Texas. In the same way Columbia University. Nash will take | the early h'story cf the Texas Com- work in the agricultural education | monwealth is sketched broadly to en- graduate school and expects to spe-| able the reader to urderstand the in- (Continued on Col. 1, Page 4) cialize in that field. —Texas Aggie CONTEST FOR HIGH SCHOOL BOYS HERE Annual Smith-Hughes Judging Con- test Will Be Held at College on April 1. Expect 100 Teams. Pupils of vocational agriculture will come to the College on April 21 for their annual judging contest. Of- ficers of the State Department of Education and of the College are co- operating to make of the contest this year the most complete and instruec- tive of any previous contest. In past years the main contest has been held at Fort Worth and only a preliminary contest has been held at the College. The change to the Col- lege was made this year by vote of the teachers of vocational agriculture in the high schools. In this vote 80 per centum of the teachers voted to hold the contest at the College. The pupils will judge livestock, pcultry and seed. Premiums will be awarded to high teams and high in- Dallas News Man. dividuals. A total of 10 team prizes and a number of individual prizes have already been announced and others will be secured before the date of the contest. Two scholarships to the A. & M. College are among the indi- vidual prizes. An effort is being made to have a representative here from every one of the 133 high schools in the state giving courses in vecational agricul- ture under the Smith-Hughes law. A majority of the schools are expeet- ed to send team and individual entries. An entertainment program is now being planned to be given at the Col- lege before the date of the contest for raisirig a fund which will be pro- rated among the schools sending teams to the College, the division to be on a mileage basis. Contestants and judges wil be given free lodging and they will be served their meals at a rate of 35 cents each. All judging will be done on April 21. Prizes will be awarded tc the winners at a dinrer to be attended by all the contestants and officials of the College in the evening. On the following morning coaches and teach- ers accompanying the pupils will meet in business session with the officials | of the College and State Department and the pupils will be taken vn a tour of inspection of the College.
