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PU VV VV VY VV VV VV VN OOTY IIVVVV VV TO POSTMASTER: > 4 » If this paper is not » called for return » postage is guaran- » teed by publisher. LBBB VVVVVVVVVYY hd A /2\/a\ A\B\B\A\o\ BoB 4 NAAR DDO® YY IVVVVVVVVN VOLUME IIL PO VOY VOY VV VV. AA 0 aA aaa a a a a A 4 RETURN POSTAGE sUARANTEED AAA. ALAA AAA A A a4 4 a 4 AA AAA A\A\A\LLLA ITN LAAN DRE YIN INV Y BRYAN, TEXAS, APRIL 15, 1924. NUMBER 7 AN A&M CELEBRATION IN EVERY COMMUNITY APRIL 21! FAITHFUL AGGIES | MANY DOCTORS ALL OVER WORLD MEET APRIL 21 Widespread Interest in Approaching Celebrations Manifested on San Jacinto Day TULSA IS ORGANIZED Infant Club Will Hold Its Meeting April 19th to Set Pace For Aggies Everywhere Else Signs of increasing interest in the approaching San Jacinto Day A. & M. celebrations are coming from far and wide. A letter from M. H. Kotzebue, of the Tulsa Boiler and Machinery Co., advises that the Tulsa A. & M. men had a party last Mon- day night and that at that time they decided to have their San Jacinto Day pariyon Saturday night April 19th. ‘will be done in order that they “can set the pace” for the Texas Aggies in the matter of the San Jacinto program. H. E. Hanna of the Hanna Lum- ber Co., and Kotze are going to take care of the speaker who is going to be selected by Parson Church. Joe McReynolds and John Carson Under- wood are going to provide the feed. S. L. Spence, youngest club member, will get out the notices. . Officers will be elected at the April 19th meeting. At their first gathering they had rep- resentatives from the class of 76, represented by A. L. Patrick, down to S. L. Spence of class of 1923. George Francis and Doc D. D. Giles are going to put over a meet- (Continued on Page Four) AANA bd 4 VV YO VV VV VV PLAN NOW TO RETURN COMMENCEMENT K 4 K K 4 2% 4 It is now time to begin plan « ning to return for the com- : mencement festivities June 1, 2 3. Come on back and see a « world of your old friends. May- 3 be your class is having a re- i union. If so by all means come back. If it is not having a re- : union come on back anyhow there will be plenty of your old « friends here to visit. : 4 A The following classes will hold reunions: Class of 1892. Class of 1891. 4 Class of 1890. < Class of 1912. Class of 1911. Class of 1910. Class of 1909. 4 ANA ANA) HOOO® OOOO OO® ODOO® WNW hb. A VN od 4h 4 TOOK PRE-MED WORK AT A.& M. Many of State’s Leading Physicians Laid Foundation For Their Train- ing at Aggieland ALL .ARE SUCCESSFUL W. W. Maxwell Writes of Present | Day Students at University of Texas Medical School Recognition of A. & M. College as a pre- -med training ground is spread- ing very rapidly according to Wil- liam W. Maxwell, ’19, now a junior in the University of Texas Medical School at Galveston. That training at A. & M. is exceptionally helpful, preparatory to the long uphill climb for medical degree is Maxwell’s be- lief. And justification of that belief is found in the invariable success which follows the practice of medicine by A. & M. trained men. Take the doc- tors in any city and find an A. & M. man there and he measures up to the best of them. The Aggie would like to receive names of former students of the Col- lege who are practicing medicine. We can account for a large number but not all by any means. The class taking pre-medical studies at the Col- lege is growing constantly and the College is giving greater recognition to the needs of those men who ex- pect to study medicine. Effort is be- ing made to fashion a pre- -medical course which shall be exceptionally helpful to them. Maxwell graduated in agriculture in the class of ’19. His home is at Austin. He is an active member of the Galveston A. & M. Club and has responded liberally to the Associa- tioil program. In addition to those whom he enumerates who are engaged in the practice of medicine may be included Dr. W. H. Luckett, New York City; Dr. J. Allen Kyle, Houston; Dr. U. P. Hackney, Dallas; Dr. O. T. Bundy, Marlin; Dr. B. C. Ball, Fort Worth; Dr. John E. Quay, Waco; Dr. L. F. Bland, Dallas; Dr. K. C. Knolle, Brenham, and all the other Knolle’s in medicine. Here is the letter from Maxwell: Nearly every year for a great many years some few of the men after fin- ishing A. & M. realize that they are on the wrong path to success. They have decided to start all over and willingly go through four years of mental toil to prepare themselves for the medical profession. They all (Continued on Page Four) SPRING FOOTBALL TRAINING IS NOW WELL UNDER WAY More Than Eighty Candidates for 1924 Team Are Getting Instruc- tion in Fundamentals of Game. D. X. Sets Fast Pace. If November workouts in football are any more strenuous than those being given now to some eighty odd ‘aspirants by Coach Bible and Johnnie Pierce assistant coach, Heaven help the candidates. Immediately after his return from New York where he attended the annual meeting of the National Football Rules Committee D. X., started spring football train- ing. More than eighty men responded and. from now until the close of the scholastic year the football candi- dates will be given intensive training in football fundamentals. Handling the ball, receiving of punts, tackling, blocking, spinning, side stepping, change of pace, charg- ing—everything that goes into the technique of successful football will be poured onto the bodies and into the ears of the candidates through the spring months. A little later actual serimmage will be indulged and Bible hopes to be able at the be- ginning of the training season this fall to start right off with plays and offensive and defensive instruction for the entire team. All of the work with the individuals will be done in the spring insofar as possible. With the help of Johnnie Pierce, who is proving a valuable man in football as well as basketball, and with the addition of Claud Rothgeb to the coaching staff Bible will have ample help to take care of all men. This year Johnnie did not know the men and was not nearly so valuable as he will be next season. Both Roth- geb and Pierce are familiar with Bible’s system and even Rothgeb will know some of the football talent al- though most of all the football men here at the time of his relation with the College are gone. The Aggies will start the season with nine letter men. Of that num- ber Hardman, guard, lettered year before last but failed to letter last year. There will be Captain Louie Miller, a back, Clem T. Pinson, a back, Fay Wilson, back, Allison, J. N., end, Dansby, N. J. tackle, Forga- son, J. Y., guard, Irwin, Barlow, guard, and Waugh, C. A, a tackle. In addition there will be a number of promising men left over from the squad and a great deal of good talent from the freshman squad. As has been the case for a number of years the critical point with the Aggies will be at quarter back. Bi- ble will have four candidates for that position. All of them are young and promising but not any of them have (Continued on Page Four) RELATIVES OF FALLEN SONS OF A. & M. WILL ATTEND MEMORIAL DEDICATION Hearty Response Meets Presi- dent’s Invitation to be Guests of College April 21. GOV. NEFF IS TO SPEAK. Day to be Crowded With Im- pressive Events Honoring War Dead and College. Indications are that the closest rel- atives of all of the fifty-two A. and M. men who died. in the service during the World War will be present when the memorial honoring those men and the part played by the A. and M. Col- lege in the war is dedicated. Presi- dent Bizzell wrote to the parents or closest relatives of each of the fifty- two War dead urging them to be pres- ent April 21st when the memorial is to be dedicated. Special places of honor will be pro- vided for them and some especial en- tertainment for them will be provid- ed that day by the College. The memorial has been shipped and should be ready at least a week in ad- vance of the dedicatory exercises. Col. C. C. Todd, commandant, and Dean Charles Puryear, acting president, are now completing the plans for the pro- gram. Work will be scheduled as usual during the morning hours at the Col- lege in order that visitors to the Col- lege may gain a good idea of the scope of the work offered by the institu- tion. There will be no duty in the afternoon other than that connected with the dedicatory exercises. The cadet corps, which now num- bers more than 1700, will be massed at the memorial. This memorial will be centrally located on the spacious lawn West of Guion Hall. It wil be the key to the landscape development which is being worked out by F. W. Hensel, professor of landscape arc tecture. At present very little will be done towards the development of this lawn as it is desired to see where the burden of the demand for walks, ete., will occur. A walk will be laid ‘(Continued on Page Four) War Memorial presented to the College by the classes of 1923-24-25-26. It is of Vermont granite and weight nine tons. wide and four feet in depth. It cost It is nine feet high, five feet AGGIES VICTORS WITH MUSTANGS INDUAL MEET Anderson’s Track Men Administer Decisive Walloping to S. M. U. At Dallas WIN ALL FIRST PLACES. S. M. U. Garners Only Four Seconds In Contest. Aggies Meet Bay- lor at College Next Anderson’s Texas Aggies decisive- ly defeated the Mustangs in the first conference meet at S. M. U. Satur- day afternoon, winning the dual con- test, 105-12, allowing the Mustangs only four second places. Poth, speed merchant for the Ag- gies, was the high point man of the meet with two firsts and a second. He took the century and the 220 and won second place in the broad jump. His time on the century was 10 1-5 seconds, while he navigated the 220 course in twenty-two seconds flat. Allison, Aggie football star, is giv- ing promises of setting a new con- ference record in the javelin. Alli- son’s record in Saturday’s meet was 177 feet 2 inches, only a little be- hind the record set several years ago by Dietrich, also an Aggie. S. M. U.’s twelve points were got- ten from second places in the 220 low hurdles, the high jump, the high hurdles and the shot-put. Morrison was high point man for the Mus- tangs with six points. Davidson clipped off the 440 in fair time and must be given credit for running one of the prettiest races ever seen in this part of the country. He has a long stride and runs with- out apparent effort. The pole vault record for S. M. U. was shattered in Sautrday’s meet. It had formerly rested at eleven feet, but the two Aggie contestants cleared the bar at eleven and a half feet, near the con- ference record. (Continued on Page Four) URGES LOCATION OF CENTENNIAL AT AGGIELAND Bruce Frazier of Electra Hopes A. & M. Will be Well Represented on Board of 100 Directors. IS ENTIRELY LOGICAL. Part Played by A. & M. in Agricul- tural and Industrial Growth of State Makes it Fitting to Hold Exposition Here. Urging that a determined effort be made to bring the Texas Centennial to the A. and M. College, Bruce Frazier of Electra, is taking the lead in insisting that A. and M. men everywhere take an active interest in the selection last Saturday of county delegates to the senatorial conven- tion which meet April 19 to select the majority of the 100 Texans who will be charged with the direction of the exposition honoring Texas, birth- day. The plan is to select through these thirty-one senatorial district meetings Saturday two permanent members from each district to repre- sent their respective districts on the Texas Centennial Board of Directors. The Associatio nhas taken up with a number of A. and M. leaders the question of being represented at the county meets and it is hoped that when the district groups gather that there will be a goodly number from Aggieland present. Frazier advocates a determined campaign by the Association to lo- cate the Centennial Exposition at the College. The fact that the A. and M. College stands for the greater growth in agricultural and industrial devel- opment of the State is cited by Bruce as one reason why the Exposition should be staged on the 4,000 acres at College Station. A brief statement from Bruce as to the possibilities of this movement follows below: “After reading the manner of se- (Continued or Page Four) BIBLE EXPLAINS RULES CHANGEN FOR FOOTBALL D. X. Just Back From Meeting of Na- tional Football Rules Committee Announces Revision in Code. INSPECTS GY MN A SIUMS. Gets Ideas From Eastern Plants for Adoption in New Building to Re Erected Here This Summer. Return'ng this week-end from New York where he attended the annual meet'ng of the National Football Rules Committee, D. X. Bible, heal :oach has prepared a statement with -eference to changes in rules and clarifications, ete., as adopied by the Nat onal Comm: ttee at its mee’ ng la:t week. Mrs. Bible and D. X., went by Jef- ferson City., Tenn., for a brief visit with his family. While in the East D. X., attended the Princeton Dartmouth champion- sh’p game in basketball. He v.sitel many gymnasiums in the East with the viewpoint of getting ideas for the new gym which is to be erected this summer at Kyle field. He now is devoting all of his time to spring football. All promising fish material and good men from the com- pany teams have been called out in addition to the regulars who will re- turn. Work in fundamentals will be taken this spring. The statement with reference to the rules changes follows: The National Football Rules Com- mittee held a two-day sess’on at lane Hotel Biltmore, New York City, March 21-22, 1924, with the follow- ing members present: E. K. Hall, Dartmouth. Walter Camp, Yale. A. A. Stagg, Chicago. F. W. Moore, Harvard. W. W. Roper, Princeton. J. A. Babbitt, Haverford. " M. F. Ahearn, Kansas. W. S. Langford, Trinity. $2,500.00. (Continued on Page Four) 3 AGGIES WHIP CHRIS- K SOME MORE Q TIANS AT TENNIS « NOTE SIGNERS. & 3 2 @® The Texas Aggies’ tennis $ 4 One note signer whose name $ team defeated the courtmen of VRNIh Dried dn the ost 135ue 8 eat : ‘ I) e Aggie is Joe Utay, ever Texas Christian University hore : S faithful, of Dallas. Joe sent his © Saturday afternoon, winning 3 ¢ check in December but his note g four of the six matches. The 2 1 has not been received and that & K Aggies were victorious in three 4 3 accounts for the failure to list 4 of the four singles and one of €|% hi. aa hein ‘dosllds 8 > Last week notes were receiv- 2 » . | 1 ed from Andy Rollins, Nagle, « Singles—Rounds, A. & M. $'$ Witt and Rollins, with head- defeated Newcomb Busch, T. ) § > quarters at 908 Hathway street, & C. U., defeated Darby, 6-4, 6-4; $ Houston; from Eben H. Peters : Hinman, A. & M., defeated § $ ¥ I Sod Toners Tubbovile, 6-4, 6.2; Under. $ § Loo Tp Weer ovat § a a i a defeated Tom- ¥ ® Power & Light Co., Dallas. 4 inson, 6-8, 7-5, 6-2. < | Almost every day results in S Doubles — Newcomb and 2 > the receipt of notes from some Bush, T. C. U., defeated Rounds other good A. and M. man who &§ and Darby, 6-4, 0-6, 6-4; Hin- ©{& has been advised of the pro- ¢ man and Underwood, A & M 3 f the A iati d 3 £3 os gram o e ssociation an defeated Tomlinson and Tubbe- 4 $ wants to share in its accom- 4 ville, 6-4, 1-6, 6-1. vw 21 & plishments. 3 & AGGIES HIT HARD GOING IN SIX BASEBALL FRAYS; WIN ONLY TWO nect With Ball. ROGERS PROVES WORTH. Youngsters Are Showing Well Under Fire; Play Good Ball. <U. fos A 20. A AT. 6. and M. 1; Texas 3- . and M. 1; Texas 18. BY MARVIN STEPHENS. Six games of baseball have swiftly passed by, lacking only two games of making half a season. In the six played, the Aggies have fared rather badly, having won only two of the encounters. After a wonderful start A A A A. and M. A A Patsmen In Slump and Fail to Con-' against Rice, in which both games were won by scores of 11 to 2 and 25 to 9, respectively, the Aggie bats- men hit a slump, and with only one to lose. With the coming of Duke Bassinger of S. M. U. and his wide outcurve, went the eyes of the Farmer batters. They have been unable since to hit ball with the result that the won and lost column is not quite all that it should be and that individual batting averages have fallen way down. The time should be coming right away when the batting eyes should be re- covered, and with Crawford, the other Aggie pitching standby, rounding in- to better and better shape, the Ag- gies should give a mighty account of (Continued on Page Four) veteran pitcher in the box preceeded anything which looked like a curve’
