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pT TEXAS AGGIE
Published Semi-Monthly by The Asso-
ciation of Former Students of the
Agricultural and Mechanical
~ College of Texas.
© COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS.
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SF J. WEBB HOWELL ..... President
: : Ix MOSELEY...... 1st Vice-Pres.
W. A. WURZBACH . .2nd Vice-Pres.
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by pg 3rd Vice-Pres.
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
J. WEBB HOWELL
Chairman
HAL MOSELEY .. coos ids ob Dallas
W. A. WURZBACH .... San Antonio
3 PE GUS STREET .... vious Houston
X W. L. STANGEL ... College Station
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<EB.CUSHING". . .\ «2 Houston
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WB. COOK vu 4s sis wee . Secretary
: Advertising rates furnished fipol ape,
plication.
Second class postage applied for.
Colonel Morrow, who recently in-
spected the R. O. T. C. unit of the A.
‘and M. College, paid this institution
the highest compliment possible when
hesitated that his ispection had con-
vinced him that this institution was
second to no other military institu-
tion, either in the distinguished or
honor class. The studens and ex-stu-
dents of A. ad M. College have always
taken a great pride in the military
features of this institution. Many
people who have never attended a
military school have never been able
to realize the wealth of benefit there
is to be accrued from military train-
he ing. Some people in this state have
criticized this institution because of
the military atmosphere that prevails
on the campus. However, one has
oN never heard any criticism of this in-
stitution for the splendid service its
former students rendered in the late
war. When the nation began to as-
semble its young men in the training
camps the great need was men to
train these new renruits in the meth-
~ ods of warfare. The men who had
; gone out from this instituion were
able to immediately assume the re-
sponsibilities of commissioned and
: non-commissioned officers, and assist
+ in training these men. Military train-
ing certainly aids in the making of
§ good citizens. One cannot pay hom-
; age to the flag of his country at the
‘rising of the morning and the setting
of the evening sun and perform his
soldier without having gained g high-
er régard and a broader appreciation
“for the things they represent. It
is to be hoped that the young men
who attend the A. and M. College in
X SN the future will guard jealously the
glorious record the sons of this insti-
tution have won on the field of battle
4 and as private citizens in the defense
Ek) ‘of the ideals for which this country
~ stands.
u IEEE. SEL ASS.
¥ PRESIDENT BRALLEY’S LATEST
z MOVE
y President Bralley’s s latest move ‘to
take the administration of home dem-
onstration work from the Extension
Service of the A. and M. College and
place it under the College of Indus-]
f trial Arts is a communication ad-
3 dressed to each member of the he
lature. Like af ‘the arguments
has offered in ‘the past this commun-
ication is a tnasterpiece of general,
ties and ois sleading statements. The
strange. thing about it all is why!
A esident Bralley will insult the in-
i of our legislators with the
rguments he offers. He persists in
ignoring the act upon which the ex-
‘istence of farm'and home demonstra-
tion work depends, and tries to leave
the impression that it is the fault of
the A. and M. College that home
demonstration work is not being done
at C. I. A.
Smith-Lever Act Prevents It
Section 1 of the Smith-Lever Act
provides that home and farm demon-
stration work is to be ‘inaugurated
in connection with the college or col-
leges in each state now receiving, or
which may hereafter receive benefits
"i of the act of Congress approved July
2, 1862.” The act further provides
“that in any state in which two or
more such colleges have been or here-
after may be established the appro-
priations hereinafter made to such
state shall be administered by such
college or colleges as the Legislature
of such state may direct.” Under the
federal law, the administration of
home economics division of coopera-
tive agricultural extension work must
be inaugurated in connection with
the land grant ollege of a state
and in those states where there are
two colleges receivii i benefits from
the Land Grant act ‘he legislature
~ may*direct either or bot! institutions
to administer the work. In no inter-
pretation of the law can the College |
‘of Industrial Arts be considered a
land grant college. Therefore, the
Legislature is without authority to
designate it to administer home dem-
onstration work under the
Lever Act. Why does President Bral-
daily duties with the punctuality of a |
{neither lawful nor wise to develop in
1 the different states a number of sep-
Smith- X
fits under the act of Congress zp-
proved July 2, 1862. By receiving
such benefits it woud be possible ‘or
the legislature to designate the :«d-
ministration of home demonstration
work to that school. The Texas Ag-
gie is not advocating such a merger
of the two schools, but is suggesting
it only as a possible solution to meet
the ambitions of President Brall: ly
for that school. No doubt former
students and alumnae of the Collere
of Industrial Arts would dislike for
that school to lose its identity as a
separate institution in the education-
al system of this state. A thing that
the Texas Aggie does seriously re-
commend is a joint board for the A.
and M. College and the College of In-
dustrial Arts. By such an arrange-
ment, conflicts, which have grown
more frequent under the administra:
tion of President Bralley, could be
avoided and the two institutions
could be brought closer in touch with
each other. Each school would
be able to maintain its identity as
an individual institution, yet at the
same time both could be brough
into the close harmony they shoul
maintain by reason of their common
mission in teaching agricultural, me-|
chanical and industrial arts. This+
would also be a solution to the very
serious objection President Bralley
makes at the new courses in home
‘economics that are being offered in
the junior A. and M. Colleges. In
creating these branch institutions the
legislature made them coeducational.
Now that these institutions are offer-
ing the courses that the young wo-
men attending them desire, Presi-
dent Bralley makes the serious objec-
tion that they are duplicating the
work given at C. I. A. It is entirely
possible that a certain amount of
duplication could be eliminated if
these schools were all under one ad-
ministrative board.
rangement the
ley persistently avoid the facts in the
argument?
Facts About South Carolina and
3 Florida
President Bralley has made much
talk of the fact that the home dem-
onstration forces are located at the
woman’s college in both South Caro-
lina and Florida. He would leave
the impression that the home demon-
stration and county agent work are
administered separately. At least he
does not go to the trouble to inform
the reader that the work in both in-
stances is administered by the direc-
tor of the extension service in the
agricultural college for men. Does
Pres. Bralley believe it would be to
the best interests of the women’s work
in Texas to separate the home dem-
onstration work from the Extension
Division at College Station, place it
at the College of Industrial Arts to
be administered by the director of ex-
tension who resides at the A. and M.
College? President Bralley would
also leave the impression that the
work in South Carolina and Florida
is entirely satisfactory. He refers vo
the attitude of the presidents of the
colleges in those two states, but un-
fortunately he does not quote state-
ments from them. In a letter under
date of April 23, 1921, the President
of Clemson College, South Carolina,
states to Dr. Bizzell that by memo-
randum of agreement the Director of
the Extension Service, located at the
land grant college, is responsible for
the home demonstration work in that
state. He also says that he can see
a conflict in the future between the
work at Clemson College and the
work at the woman’s college over
the division of funds. In a letter from
the President of the University of
Florida, he says he would not advise
the separation of tlese activities in
Texas.
Secretary Houston’s View
In his original article President
Bralley quotes former Secretary
Houston as if Mr. Houston favored
the separation of these activities. In
the first place there was nothing in
the quotation given by Presiden
Bralley to warrant such an idea. It
has always been the policy of the U.
S. Department of Agriculture and
the JA. and M. College of Texas to
enlist the assistance of every agency
possible in conducting extension
work but they are not permitted by
law nor do they think it wise to
divide the work in the state into a
number of administrative units. In a
letter to Mr. Clarence Ousley on this
same gubject former Secretary Hous-
ton said: <
“The fw certainly did not con-
template "an automatic’ and mathe-
matical division of ‘funds between
home ' economics and other rural
problems. Our duty is to study the
problems of greatest relative import-
ance at the time ang to furnish aid
as we may.
“I agree with you further that eco-
nomics has not the restricted mean-
ing that some colleges give it. and
that it woud be a mistake to segre-
gate home economics from general
aricultural problems.
“I agree with you further that it is
home economics
ducted in the Junior Colleges would
relieve the College of Industrial
Arts of carrying short courses for
home makers, home demonstration
agents and others who have no de-
sire to work for a ‘degree and make
it possible for that institution to ap-
ply the funds it is now spending to
maintain courses that are being elect-
ed by a few students to the courses
that are in greater demand. In sug-|
gesting the joint board the Texas Ag-
gie is not advancing a new idea. We
are suggesting the identical arrange-
ment they have in Florida, which
President Bralley seems to approve so
heartily. In that state the Univer-
sity and the college for women are
under the same board. The director.
of extension ‘in the University of
Florida directs the home demonstra-
tion division of the woman’s college
and the president of the latter insti-
tution has no authority whatever in
administering the home demonstra-
tion division of cooperative agricul-
tural extension work in that state.
RE rl a. —_™YDOOb
SUPPORTING ATHLETICS.
No doubt every former student will
read with a great deal of interest the
letter from Mr. James Sullivan to the
secretary relative to financial condi-
tion and future outlook of the De-
partment of Athletic Training. Every
man who has ever attended the A.
and M. College is acquainted with
the difficulties the Athletic Depart-
ment has had to surmount in the
past. Mr. Sullivan’s letter would in-
dicate that there are difficulties that
remain to be solved. ;
First of all, Mr. Sullivan and those
directing the Athletic Department
are to be commended for the excel
lent financial showing they made last
year. While it might have been wise
for them to have carried over some
of the notes against the department
for another year instead of attempt-
ing to pay them at one time, the
spirit that prompted them to pay off
these old debts and thus maintain the
confidence of our creditors was also
commendable. Mr. Sullivan is frank
to admit that these debts were paid
at the expense of the physical equip-
ment of the department and the
teams representing the different
branches of sport. It certainly is
self-evident to every reader of this
paper that such a policy will prove
disastrous if it is carried on for an-
other season. X
The A. and M. College has a very
enviable record in athletics during
the last five years. What is meant by
this is that we have branched out into
other major sports and ‘have put out
winning teams in these branches as
well as in football. Last year A. and
M. put out her first boxing and wrest-
ling team and won an easy victory
over the University. This year our
wrestling team was first in the state
meet and was defeated only by Okla-
homa A. and M. for Southwestern
honors. This year was our first time
to put out a tennis team. We ‘von
over all other colleges and universi-
ties in the state and played the Uni-
versity of Texas closer than any of
the other teams in the conference. It
will be remembered that the Univer-
sity racket wielders fought their way
arate administrative units and to set
aside funds specifically for such units
to administer. One controlling
thought in the Smith-Lever Act was
to coordinate activities and to develop
a unified piece of administrative ma-
chinery. The act provides that the
funds shall be administered in con-
nection with the land grant college,
the Department of Agriculture co-
operating with this agency as an ad-
ministrative factor. The Congress
desired to avoid duplication of effort,
dispersion of effort, friction and
waste.” A
Attitude at Washington J
The above was written when the
first attempt was made to reach a
cooperative agreement between the
College of Industrial Arts and the A.
and M. College when the administra-
tion of the extension work was under
the direction of Mr. Ousley. A tele-
gram recently received from Dr. A.
C. True, Chief of the States Rela-
tions Service, would indicate that the
attitude of the Washington officials
has not changed in the least. Dr.
True’s telegram is as follows:
“Home demonstration work and
farm demonstration work are admin-
istered in all states by one land grant
college. In South Carolina and Flor-
ida only is there cooperative agree-
ment which puts headquarters of
home demonstration work there, but
it remains under administration of
extension directors. Smith-Lever Act
does not permit transfer of Exten-
sion funds and administration from
land grant colleges.”
The Solution
Since there are such close restric-
tions thrown around the administra-
tion of home demonstration work by
the Smith-Lever Act, there is only
one practical way to remove these
disabilities in the case of C. I. A. do-
ing the home demonstration work in
Texas. If the College of Industrial
Arts was merged into the Agricul-
tural and Mechanical College system
tire United States last year and after
means must be provided for supply-
could be supplied the department
Under that ar-|
courses as they are now being con-|-
from the lethargy into which they
it woud be entitled to receive bene- [into intercollegiate finals for the en-
Bg |
defeating all opponents was defeated
for the national championship by
Yale, after a very close contest. At
the time of this writing it looks as if
we shall be southwestern champions
in track, and our chances for the
conference championship in baseball
are good. Every one is familiar wit
the very enviable record we have in
winning two basket ball champion-
ships in as many years. Are we going
to maintain the enviable position we
have won?
One of the main objections that
has been raised to playing the
Thanksgiving game with Texas at
College Station is our inability in the
past to properly take care of the
crowds that attend this game. As
Mr. Sullivan points out, the situation
his year is more acute than ever. The
football bleachers are old and dan-
gerous, if overloaded. They must be
completely rebuilt before next year’s
football season opens, and as Mr.
Sullivan shows in his statement, the
department must go in debt again to
build these bleachers.
If we would ever maintain the po-
sition in college athletics in this state
that we deserve to occupy some
ing the Athletic Department with the
necessary physical equipment, other
than building it with gate receipts.
Every dollar of these receipts should
go to maintaining the teams and se-
curing more and better athletes by
making our athletic raining more at-
tractive to the youn® men over the
state. If this physical equipment
without touching the gate receipts,
there is no reason why the Athletic
Department could not be self-sustain-
ing. Here is a problem that is the
duty of every former student of the
A.tand M. College to help solve.
EXPRESSIONS FROM OLD MEN
EX-STUDENTS’ ORGANI-
~ ZATION.
~ Your kind favor of 16th., has been
delayed on account of my absence
from the city.
The four years that I spent at old
A. and "M. from 1896 to 1900 are
tr easured by me as the happiest
years of my life, and while I did not
enjoy the pleasure of graduating, I
feql sure that there is no graduate
who takes a deeper interest in the af-
fajrs of A. and M. College than my-
self. ;
/I believe that the Association of
Former Students which you have or-
ganized is the best day’s work our
ge ever did, and it certainly has
my heartiest endorsement, for 1 feel] Sor athletic teams is the develoy- -
thelt there are hundreds of men who
haye in the past attended A. and M.
did not graduate, but have the
inferests of our school at heart as
m§ch as any of the Alumni.
et me know right away what steps
ke to become a member of your
nization, and will | send you
ck to cover.
ishing you every success in your
w undertaking and if there is any-
thing that I can do to boost things
along and put “pep” and “push” in-
| Sincerely yours,
E. P. HUNTER.
It should go without saying that I
m in sympathy with any movement
hich will tend to bring the former
students of the Agricultural and Me-
chanical College of Texas closer to-
gether. By concert of action along
well conceived lines of high purpose,
the ex-students can do much good for
our College and for our State.
I hope your efforts to awaken the
Alumni and the former students
have fallen may be successful. I
have seen several similar efforts rise
and fall. I hope that your plans may
be layed on such lines and so execu-
ted, that the present movement may
continue through all time to come,
and that by the force of united and
earnest accion on the part of the ex-
studets the Agricultural and Mechan-
ical College may be an influential and
potent factor in the progress of our
great state toward the splendid des-
tiny that awaits it.
Sincerely yours,
E. B. CUSHING.
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MANY OLD TIMERS
RETURN FOR R. V.
The Ross Volunteer festivities
brought a large gathering of old tim-
ers back to the College. “Newt”
Settegast and wife came up by motor
from Houston. Hartwell Kinnard and
wife, formerly Miss Eleanor Wurz-
bagh, of San Antoniq, daughter of
Judge Charles Wurzbach, were here
from Gonzales.
Among the others who returned
were “Catfish” Goodman, Pinkney
Price, of Dallas; Leslie Ballard, of
Houston; T. Burns, of Houston;
“Skinny” Vandervoort of Dallas;
“Skeet” "Girardeau, of Galveston,
“Duggie” Pittman, and a score or
more of others.
Homer L. Fry, landscape architedt
of Waco, who recently was married
to Miss Jeanette Seward, of Waco,
had planned bringing his wife over
for the festivities but had to forego
the trip on account of the illness of |
THE FIRST YEAR MEN al ¥ RE
IN COLLEGE ATHLETICS | :
'd | Campus T Club Wants Former Ath-
fair, clean sport.
would come, or who would be sent
by over-zealous friends,
take part in athletics, will not come
if they have to remain one year in
college before they are eligiblle to
play on the varsity team. During
their first year they must play apart
and in the meantime show that they
have the scholastic requirements and
the ability to represent the college.
coach to make a careful survey of all
the athletic material among the first
year men and to see that these men
come out for the teams. At the end
to the varsity coaches a number of
men who are able to fill the places
this manner it is possible for the var-
sity coaches to get the best material
with the least possible delay.
a first class varsity team if there
were no reserve and freshmen teams
to help in its development through
practice games.
freshmen have given the varsity team
and Thursday of last week by scores
tain-elect of the 1922 basket ball
gle.
held the Owls to a single binle, but
errors by his teammates permitted
the only run. Morris, star shortfielder
of the Aggie nine, pulled a nifty bit
for the College Station lads.
Dyer, star moundsman, for the owns
in the second game, when they jump-
as many runs.
for the Aggies, gave up five hits,
which scored two runs for the Owls.
Dwyer again started the
when he doubled to left in the cen-
ter and scored on a single by Smith.
The Aggies continued to hit until five
runs were made in this frame. Again
in the fifth they started a batting
rally and this time sent the great
Eddie Dyer to the Showers.
Score by innings:
A. and M...
Rice .
Crawford; Rice—Melton and Walker.
Score by innings:
A.-‘and “M...o
Rice .
and Crawford; Rice—Dyer, Dunker-
ley and Walker.
W. B. “Bebb” Franeis andiwitel of
Dallas were here as we raid
(Mrs. N. M. McGinnis Das.
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3 By Frank G. Anderson
Freshman Coach \
The Southwest Conference sille
which prohibits freshmen from tak- g
ing part in varsity athletics is
ably the most potent of all me sures.
taken to rid intercollegiate. athletics | been, what is it now and what will it
of professionalism, and to raise. ‘the
prob- |
standard higher toward the aim of
Many men who
‘simply to,
It is the duty of the freshman
of the year he is usually able to give
of those lost through graduation. In
It would hardly be possible to have
It has been a notice-
able fact during the past year that
more valuable scrimmages than have
the reserve teams. The varsity and
reserve squads usually work together
and are interchangeable. In this way
they become too well known to each
other to give a scrimmage the na-
ture of a real contest. The fresh-
men, though grounded in the same |
fundamentals and by the methods
used by our head coach, are given
different plays and signals and are
capable of giving the varsity team a
contest that will be as beneficial, to
a certain degree, as a game with |
some outside . team. Especially is |
this true in football and basketball.
One of the chief reasons for sup-
ment of the individual participants.
By maintaining freshmen teams it is
possible to practically double
number of men taking part in our,
competitive sports. FAA
It is very important to give a first |
year man a good start in his college
athetic training. In schools where
freshmen are allowed to play on the
same teams with upper classmen, it
is noticable that they show a mark-
ed lack of confidence and very rare-
ly find themselves until the second
year. Freshmen will try harder and
will put forth their best efforts much
better if they are among men of
their own class.
AGGIES BEAT OWLS
IN BASEBALL
The Aggies Hook Te both games of a
two-game series from the Owl base-
ball team on Rice field Wednesday
of 5 to 1 and 9 to 2. Pat Dwyer, cap-
team, as well as a diamond star, was
the hero of the first game by polling
two home runs, together with a sin-
Olson, pitching for the Aggies,
of base running that counted a run
The Aggies got revenge on Eddie
ad on his delivery for nine hits and
Henderson, pitching
scoring
First game.
RA.E.
. 021 000 101—5 7 6
mes + Sok 000 001 000—1 1 6
Batteries: A. and M.—Olson and
Second game.
R.H.E.
050 040 000—9 9 0
eyes 000 011 000—2 5 8
Batteries: A. and M.—Henderson
the |
REORGANIZATION
OFT CLUB PLANNED
OLD T MEN CALLED TO COM.
'MENCEMENT TO REVIVE
SS -T ASSOCIATION
letes to Support the Athletic
Association
We the members of the T Associa-
tion on the campus see the need of
a stronger organization. We have
had a T Association but what has it
be in the future. This is the vital
question now and it is only through
the members that we can answer.
Gentlemen, we want to see you here
commencement, but if you are not
here personally we want to hear your
| suggestion.
Some of you have gone out from
school and have never returned,
others have returned only a few
times. While receiving the good old
blows and bruises that made you love
old A. and M. you realized that every
thing that could be supplied the ath-
lete was not given you. If you are
one of the old timers you may think
he athletes of today are receiving
more - attention than you did. Be
that as it. may, we all know they
don’t have enough. We know that
the Athletic Department has gone its
limit all the time, in fact more than
the limit in some things. They have
their noses to the grindstone all the
time trying to make ends meet. Now
we can help them and we can help
old A. and M. Don’t you think that
the Athletic Department will feel
better when they know the T Asso-
ciaion is back of them with a real
live organized body of men, in every
sense of the word who will go to the
mat for old A. and M. Let’s get or-
ganized in better form and do some-
thing.
Now is the time, during commenc=:-
ment this year. This T Association
is going to be a 100 per cent A. and
M. oganization. Come back and help.
Signed,
V. SCOTT,
“WOODROW?” WILSON,
A. L. SMITH.
Cmmittee.
HIGH SCHOOL MEET
BEST IN HISTORY
OF THE COLLEGE
‘Austin High Wins Fast Meet at Col-
~ lege Station. Four Records Broken.
Sherman High Wins Relay.
pet,
" The Eleventh Annual High School
| Track and Field Meet, held at Kyle
Field April 30, was one of the best, if
‘not the best, meet in the histor } of
the College. It was beyond doubt the
fastest high school ‘meet ever held in
the State. More high school stars
were present than ever before, faster
‘time was made on all track events,
and the field events were almost
equal to those of college meets.
Austin High School, presenting a
well balanced team, won the meet,
with Sherman High and Forest High
through. There were over 175 en-
tries, representing almost every sec-
tion of the State. i
Stanford of Austin was high-point
man. He won one first and two sec-
ond places, giving him 11 points; and
his nearest competitors were Wilson
of Forest High of Dallas and Rich-
ardson of Sherman, who tied for sec-
ond place, both taking two first
places, giving them a total of 10
points each.
Four high school records were
broken. Richardson of Sherman hurl-
ed the discus 127 feet 4 inches, only
5 feet short of the conference rec-
ord held by Keen of A. and M. He
also put the 12-pound shot 44 feet
9% inches. Wilson of Forest High,
Dallas, broke the record in both the
broad jump and the 220 low hurdles,
his record in the former was 22 feet
8 inches and his time in the latter 26
flat. Stanford of Austin threw the
javelin 170 feet 1 inch. :
The A. and M. Cup, which was won
last year by Cleburne, was turned
over to Austin High, in whose posses-
sion it will remain for at least an-
other year. The Spaulding Cup was
permanently awarded to Austin High
School, the winner of the meet, while
the banner was awarded to Sherman
High School, the winner of the relay.
Gold, silver and bronze medals were
place men.
Saturday night the visiting con-
testants and their ‘coaches were
given a banquet by the student body.
While many delicactes ordinarily in-
cluded in a banquet menu had to be
excluded,'a wholesome training menu
was given instead, spiced with music
by the Aggieland-Jazzland Seven.
ed a program of boxing and wrest-
ling, after which the winning" contest-
ants were awarded their trophies.
of Dallas close contenders all the way
awarded to first, second and third -_
After the banquet the visitors enjoy- |