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"CHARGE OF R. 0. T. C. PLACES
A. & ML. SECOND T0 NO SCHOOL
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Colonel F. J. Morrow Comes From adhtigton, D. C., on His First
Official Visit and is Unreserved in His Words of Praise—
Colonel Williams Accompanies Him Here.
All unofficial rumors that have
permeated these United States in the
past years to the effect that A. and
M. is held higher in the consideration
of the War Department than any
other similar military institution if
the United States were confirmed las
week by Colonel F. J. Morrow, mem-
ber .of the army general staff and
head of the Reserve Officers’ ‘Train-
ing Corps work in the United States,
who paid his first official visit to the
college, in order, as he said, “to as-
sure himself that Texas A. and M.
did really deserve the high rank
which it held in his department.” He
said that because of its status as a
technical state institution, which con-
. sidered military training only secon-
dary, he could not easily believe all
the good things he had gathered from
reports, without personally inspect-
ing the work being done here.
On the eve of his departure for
Washinton he was ‘willing to be quot-
ed officially as stating that after a
“yery thorough inspection of every
phase of the military training given:
here he, without any reservation or
exception, placed Texas. A. and M.
‘second to no other military institu-
tion,, either in the ‘distinguished’ or
‘honor’ class in the United States,
and was convinced that it was enti-
tled to award as many commissions:
in the ‘regular army to its graduates
as any “other, without requiring them
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for their degree.” He said the Segre:
gation of the college from the dis-
tractions of city life, its campus dor-
mitory system, non-coeduc
atio: a- |
ture, excellent executive, dain =
tion and high typeeefsamili er-|
; vision 3 were the chief factors cones
 utir to its excellence.
the above was hiss
Colonel Morrow showed even gredter
personal warmth of feeling for the
institution when he was talking ‘“‘un-
officially,” and’ as this article is be-{
ing written exclusively for publica-
tion in The Texas Aggie the writer
will disclose a little bit of the latter
variety of expression without being
sensible of violating the colonel’s
confidence, provided that the read-
ers will not tell anyone else outside
of the college family. (The last
clause is not a request but more con-
fidence).
The distinguished gentleman and
famous soldier after two days of
- rigorous inspecting and confering.as-
sumed that confiding tonc of voice
that Presidet Bizzell is accustomed
to resort to when speaking before an
audience of boys of college age or
those boys’ parents when: he makes
that well known assertion that “there
is just simply no other place to send
a body for an education today except
"to Texas A. ad M.,” and after that
assumption and adjusting of tone so
characteristic of the president, Col-
"onel Morrow made the same state-
ment that has passed thc lips of the
president so many times and which
has been received as an assertion be-
traying the institutional pride of the
president instead of sound advice and
counsel worth considering seriously.
And then after using the president's
copyrighted hypothesis for disclosing
« his opinion of the school’s efficiency
the colonel proceeded to shock his
hearers by the further trite state-
. ment that “Texas A. and M. is just
the finest thing he ever saw.” The
writer who was interviewing him at
the time led the conversation into
other channels then, for he was con-
fident there would be no use chron-
jcling any statements more sanguine
than those already made, knowing as
he did the general disposition of peo-
ple to believe nothing they hear and
only so much they see (in print).
Realizing the extravagant tone
that his interview would have when
written up the writer decided to tem-
per it with the criticisms which he
“was sure the colonel had made to
President Bizzell, so in search of that
flavoring, information he called on
the president just about one hour
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CAESAR HOHNPUTS
OLD TIMEPEPIN-
10 BRAZOS CLUB
COMMITTEES MAKE FINAL RE-
PORTS ON COMMENCEMENT
ARRANGEMENTS. *
Novelty Parade by the “Old Timers”
to Be Feature of Commencement
Program. Greatest Home-Coming
Ever Expected.
Members of the Brazos County A.
and M. Club ean testify that Caesar
Hohn has lost none of his oratorical
ability since the days of his famous
senatorial campaign with Roy Estner
Dickson, now superintendent of the
Spur Experiment Station. It is rather
a coincidence that one of these great
senatorial candidates should be doing
“investigataion work,
while the other is preaching the
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‘also induce all other former students
5,000 IS GOAL
SET IN DRIVE
FOR MEMBERS
LOCAL CAMPAIGN LEADERS ARE
BEING APPOINTED BY THE
SECRETARY.
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Every Former Student Urged to As-
sist in making the Drive a
Success.
Five thousand new members for
the Association ®f Former Students
is the goal that has been set for the
membership campaign set for May
16th to 21st. - Leaders have been ap-
pointed in counties where a number
of A. and M. men are known to be,
and they will be responsible for con-
ducting the local campaign. How-
ever, every former student of the A.
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and M. College is expected to take
personal interest in this organization,
as it is to his interest as well as if
the interest of the College that hé
become affiliated with it. If the local
leader does ot get in touch with him,
he should communicate with the see-
retary immediately and become a
member of the association by paying
his two-dollar membership fee and
one dollar initiation fee. Hé should
of the A. and M. College in his cox
munity to join the association.
Where there is a sufficient numlfer
of A. and M. men in a community a
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UNIVERSITY EX-ES
oIVELIBELALLY TO
USTIN CITIZENS CONTRIBUTE
EIGHT THOUSAND DOLLARS.
FOOD FOR THOUGHT.
University Advertised Tremendously
Through Newspaper Publicity of
Interscholastic League.
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The following is a clipping taken
from the Daily Texan, which will ex-
plain how the University of Texas is
terscholastic track meets in the coun-
try. Very often, A. and M. men are
heard asking why the A. and M. Col-
lege cannot hold meets similar to that
of the Interscholastic League. The
answer can easily be found in this
The very best high school
athletes in the state were brought to
A. and M. College this spring in our
high school track meet. This meet
was a dead expense to the Athletic
Department and the College, as no
outside help was given.
“Entire expense of carrying on the
University Interscholastic League for
this year is approximately $146,000.
The $50,000 for carrying on the 180
county meets was paid by the coun-
ties. The $60,000 for staging the 32
district meets was paid by the dis-y
tricts. The $16,000 for paying the
expenses to Austin is now being
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This gate gave you your first welcome when you came to the College as a “Fish;” it bade you
the last farewell upon leaving the institution; it is wide open to welcome you
COME.
BRAZOS COUNTY CLUB SUGGESTS
CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS
FOR NEXT ANNUAL MEETING
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fruths his forfper opponent is discov-
ering.
“Dutch’ Hohn was the honor guest
of the Brazos County A. and M. Club
at its regular meeting May 2, when
he addressed the club and imbued
them with the old-time pep. Other
prominent guests were Gus Street of
Houston and Dayton Moses, Jr., of
Fort Worth.
This was the last meeting of the
club before commencement, and the
several committees made reports on
the progress of the arrangements
that, are being made for entertaining
visiting A. and M. men during com-
mencement. These reports show that
arrangements for entertainment will
be more extensive than ever before,
and that something is going to be
provided in the program for ‘every
minute ‘of the three days commence-
met.
One of the features of the Com-
mencement this year will be a nov-
elty parade by the visiting “ex-es.” It
is planned that the several classes
represented by the visitors will stage
stunts of different kinds in this pa-
rade that will recall their college
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at commencement this year.
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Pledges for Membership Over a Long Period of Time Features of
Amendments—Expected to Avoid Much Cam-
paigning for Members.
PLAN TO PLEDGE MEMBERS FOR
LIFE WITH ANNUAL PAY-
. MENT OF DUES
Will Eliminate Necessity of Future
Membership Campaigns
At the regular meeting of the
Brazos County A. and M. Club a
very important step was taken by the
local A. and M. men in recommend-
ing to the annual meeting of the As-
sociation of Former Students this
month amendments to the present
constitution of the Association. It
was recommended by the club to
amend Article V to eliminate the
yearly dues feature and substitute in-
stead a pledge by the members to pay
a certain amount yearly for a def-
inite period of time. It was suggest-
ed by the club that the amount of the
pledge be five dollars annually for a
perind of twenty or thirty years or
prol ably for life.
The action of the Brazos County
Clulj grew out of the remarks made
by the secretary of the Association of
Former Students before the club rela-
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SUPPORT LEAGUE|
: EW MEMBERS OUR OAL HS
ALUMNI ASSOCIATION a
REORGANIZATION EFFECTED
IN MEETING AT COLLEGE
EEK
AD
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Membership of Old Included in
and By-Laws Announced.
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‘New Orgunization--Constitution
AANDMLMAN
EMPLOYED ON
SUGAR FARM
ARCHIE NEYLAND, ’20, TELLS
SOME INTERESTING EXPERI-
ENCES IN SAN DOMINGO.
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Americans Well Protected by United
States Marines.
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It is always interesting to hear
from theh fellows who have ventured
upon careers in foreign lands. In
His issue we carry letters from A.
and M. men in the frozen north and
the tropical south. Like England
with her possessions so is the A. and
M. College with her ex-students—the
sun never sets upon them. The fol-
lowing is a very interesting letter
from Archie Neyland, who, shortly
after his graduation in the spring of
1920 became a manager for one of
the large sugar companies in San Do-
mingo. y 2 4
La Romana, Santo Domingo,
Guaymate ‘Divi
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Dear folks:
We arrived in La Romana yester-|
day at 6 a.m. without mishap. The
steamer was very crowded from Por-
to Plata here which made the last
lap of the journey disagreeable to
every one. The natives are quite
subject to seasickness and all of them
on the boat had six meals a day, that
is, three down and three up. Maca-
roni, ete. was so strewn about the
deck that it was necessary for us to
put on weed chains and boots to get
thru it.
After going thru the “Aduana’ or
custom house, we went to the com-
pany’s restaurant for breakfast. That
finished we strolled around for a
couple of hours looking the town
over. It looks more like-a modern
American town than the small Dom-
inician pueblo you might have imag-
ined. The town of La Romana prop-
er is very old and is situated on the
La Romana River about one mile up
from the sea. But the new and mod-
ern La Romana is situated right at
the mouth of the river and is built on
a cliff overlooking the sea. This, cliff
or bluff is more likc a giant sea wall
because the waves dash against the
rocks and then plunge upward for
twenty to thirty feet and make a
deep roar. The top of this cliff is
fringed with colorful tropical growth
which borders a paved road that runs
along the long rows of stone bunga-
lows, the houses of the factory em-
ployees.
These homes, the factory, the ma-
chine shops, the water tanks and
even the bridges are built of stone of
grayish color and cemented with car-
amel colored sand. The whole town
follows a symmetrical, uniform yet
beautiful style of architecture. Every
modern convenience is furnished the
employees at. Romana. They have
electric lights, paved streets, automo-
biles, running water and sewerage
systems, wireless news every day, a
hospital, a big club house with all
kinds of provisions for entertainment
such as ball room, pool tables, a li-
brary, tennis courts, ete., and behind
this a base ball park with a grand
stand. Down near the big sugar mill
there are railroad tracks in countless
number, standard guage too. Big
locomotives with long trains of cars
are running in and out of the yards,
just the same as in our cities. These
tracks run right along side of the
company’s docks so that the ships can
unload directly on to the cats.
Of course, it would be very nice if
I could stay in La Romana all of the
time but I can go down there only
week-ends on motor cars kept here
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. I Association at the time of ‘the ddop- po
| tution, the following persons are also
or in case he declines to act, all the
‘The following are the constitu- "x
tion and by-laws of the Association
of Former Students as they were
adopted at the annual meeting of the
Alumni Association last year. By this
action the Alumni Association ceases
to exist, but becomes the nucleus
around which the Association of
Former Students is being formed.
Those who had been elected to mem-
bership in the Alumni Association,
that is those who had paid dues to
the Association, automatically be-
come members of the new associa-
tion. This is a far reaching step
and means much in the progress of
this institution.
Article 1. Name.
The name of this organization
shall be “The Association of Former
Students of the Agricultural & Me-
chanical College of Texas.”
Article II—Objects and Purposes. ;
The objects and purposes of this
organization are to promote social,n
literary and scientific pursuits, and
to perpetuate and strengthen the
ties of affection and esteem formed
in college days, and thereby, through
organized efforts to promote the in-
terests and the improvement of the
A. M. College of Texas, ad of edu-
cation in this state.
Article II Membership.
Section. 1. The following persons
shall be considered members of the
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Pr
tion of this amended constitution. a
(a) All persons who, prior to the
adoption of this amended Constitu- 2
tion, have been elected to ‘member- :
ship in this Association under any
constitution, and rules and regula- 4
tions hitherto in force, shall have the
same privileges as were hitherto. en-" 3
joyed.
After the adoption of this Coltstie:
eligible to membership in the Asso- | {i
ciation: 0 .
(b) Membership in the Avvocia: v,
tion of Former Students shall be
limited to séudents who have attend-
ed the College for at least one ses-
sion and who left the institution in
pods standing. .
Any person who has tendered
IRE sqrvice to the Assceia-
tiof, or to the ‘A. & M. College of
Téxas, or the advancement of educa-
tion in Texas, may, by unanimous
te, be elected an honorary mem- :
er of the Association: who shall
enjoy all privileges of member ship
lexcept the right of holding 20; iy Fg
A
Jy voting.
Article IV—Officers.
Section 1. The officers of this As-
sociation shall be a President, three .
Vice-Presidents, and a Secretary A
and Treasurer. #y
Section 2.—There shall he an Ex-
ecutive Committee, consisting of
President, three Vice-Presidents, Sec-
retary and Treasurer, and three other
members of the Association, to be fi 3%
elected by the Association.
© All of the above officers shall ba
chosen at each regular annual meet-
ing by a majority vote of the mem-
bers present, to hold office for ome
year or until their successors are id
duly elected.
The President shall be ex- officio ;
chairman of the Executive Somme t
tee,
The Executive Committee Sul
choose each year, a former student
of the Agricultural and Mechanical
College of Texas to deliver an ad-
dress at the annual meeting of the -
Association during commencamine
at the College.
Section 3. No perdon _ ve. eligi-
ble to serve as President or as a
member of the Fixecutive Commit-
tee, unless’ he 5: been a member
of the Associatidn in good standing
for at least ¢wo years. :
Section.. 4. It shall be the dity.
of the President to attend and pre-
side at all meetings, to preserve or-
der, to name committees, except in
cases where it is otherwise provided
for. In the absence of the President, .
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