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» The Daily Bulletin Vol. VII College Station, Texas, Tuesday, April 22, 1924. No. 165 Governor Neff Unveils Class Monument 365 HIGH SCHOOL BOYS CONTEST FIRST SMITH-HUGHES DAY GREAT SUCCESS 49 Schools in All Sections of the State Represented in First State Contest Held Here. High schcol boys gathered here yes- terday morning for the annual Smith- Hughes judging contest from 49 schools of the state scattered from the New Mexico to the Lousiana bor- der. There was a total of 365 con- testants on hand acccmpanied by a- bout 50 coaches and teachers. Col- lege and state officials who are co- operating in holding the contest here this year declared that it is the larg- est gathering of the kind ever held in the state and nation. The men came in automobiles and on the trains from Panhandle, Littlefield and Lubbcei in the northwest, Del Rio on the southwest, Buda in the lower Rio Grande valley, Jasper and San Au- gustine on the Louisiana line and from Athens in the northeast. There is no section of the state not repre sented. They were welcomed to the Col- lege by Deans E. J. Kyle and C. H Winkler at 8 o’clock yesterday morn- ing in the big judging arena of the Animal Husbandry building and im- mediately afterward went to work, judging livestock, poultry, seeds, grains and cotton. All day they worked judging and giving reasons. and in the evening they assembled around the dinner table and were addressed by cfficials of the College and by Governor Pat M. Neff, who took dinrer in an adjoining room with the executive officers of the institu- tion after delivering a memorial ad- dress earlier in the evening on the unveiling of the class memorial to the A. & M. World war dead. Win- ners in the contests were announced and prizes awarded Most contest- ants and coaches remained over un- til today for final check of work, designation of winners and visits to College departments. (Continued cf Col. 2, Page 3) | - Pp. T. A. ELECTS OFFICERS FOR COMING YEAR AT STYLE SHOW MEETING — At the conclusion of the style show held in connection with the last meeting cf the Parent-Teacher As- sociation of the A. & M. Consolida- ted School, the following officers for the coming year were elected: Mrs. E. P. Humbert, president; Mrs. E. O. Randolph, vice-president; Mrs. D. Scoates, secretary Mrs. F. H. Turner, Cor. Sec’y.; Mrs. D. H. Reid, reporter; Mrs. C. C. Hedges, treas- urer. The style shcw exhibit by Miss Gillespie’s girls was judged one o! the most successful events of the scholastic year for the School. The exhibit included gingham, voile, linen, wool and silk dresses, which were worn and displayed by the girls who | designed and made them, and were divided into classes for schocl, house, morning afternoon and evening. -— ———————{—~ COLLEGE ENGINEERS ATTEND | RIO GRANDE VALLEY MEETING | J. J. Richey, head of the Depart-| ment of Civil Engineering and T. 3 Munson, associate professor in the ef same department, have returned from | Brownsville where they attended the] spring meeting of the Texas Section, | American Society of Civil Engineers on April 16, 17 and 18. Prominent engineers who addr essed | the meeting included C. E. Grunsky' of California, president, and J. H. Dunlap of New York, secretary, ot] The great construction program of | the Rio Grande Valley was inspected during the meeting. One of the cut standing results of the successful meeting, as reported by the College | representatives, was the cooperation between teachers of engineering and the ]Tacticing engineer. The eighth wonder. of the world is the man who succeeds in growing chickens, a spring garden and a cov- | ey of children on a fifty-foot town | lot. i the parent society. CEREMONIES IMPRESS DEDIGATION OF GIFT . Governor Is Accorded Courtesies of Military Ceremony; Corps Participates. The closing words of a glowing oratorical tribute to the cause of those who gave their lives for their country in the late war by Governor Pat M. Neff was the cue for the raising of the A. & M. College ser- vice flag with its 52 gold stars and thousands of blue stars from its en- shrouding position over the mam- moth granite slab which has been erected on the Campus by the classes of 1923-24-25 and 26 as a memorial to the World War dead. The un- veiling took place at 4 o'clock yes- terday afternoon. The governor arrived at 3 o’clock yesterday afternoon. A battery of 3 inch field artillery boomed the gu- bernatorial salute of 17 guns as he | stepped from the train, and a troop of mounted cadet cavalry presented ' sabers, and as he entered Colonel C. C. Todd’s car took the lead and escorted him to the scene of the mon- |umnt. He was taken to an impro- | vised platform adjoining the mon- ument and introduced to the assemb- led crowd of College officials, visitors | and serried ranks of uniformed ca- | dets by Colonel Ike S. Ashburn, ex- | ecutive secretary of the A. & M. ex- students’ Association. When he had addressed the crowd Cadet Colonel H. L. Roberts took the platform called the cadet corps to attention and read the names of the honored dead to be memoralized | by the granite monument with its 'irser’bed plate. With the sound cf the last name the mournful cornet “ones silenced the throng with the ‘mpressive notes of taps. At the (last sound of the dirge representa- tives of the four classes do- | nating the memorial drew the cords ! through the pulleys that raised the oreat service flag from its drayed position about the memorial slab and ‘spread it to the wind allowing it to wave and display evidence of the (Continued on Col. 1, Page 4)
