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WW aA A A A A A A SO OA 4 A A WN VV VEN TO POSTMASTER: If this paper is not called for return postage is guaran- K K [£ 4 K S teed by publisher. K LBL LALLAL WN VV LA I VV VY LON A\2\\A\A\ ALLL INV VVVVVVVVVVV v) o . eS Ro 701-3 Littlefial A . Austin, Texas Published ‘Semi-Monthly by the Association of Former Students of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas. AA A A A A AS A & BO A oO Ba VVVVVVVVVVVVVVY RETURN POSTAGE aUARANTEED rove eveweyVeyye NAA ALL LL LALA AAA AA a A a 4 a 4 VVWVVVVVYVYVVYVY N\ AAA VVVVVVVVVVVVVV VOLUME IIL BRYAN, TEXAS, MAY 16, 1924. NUMBER 9 - Plans Completed for Biggest Commencement in History of ColleSe MANY HONORS ACCORDED MULLINS AGGIE EX AND BAPTIST LEADER Commencement Speaker for 1924 Has Been Given Many High Places in Religious World. STUDENT HERE IN 1876. Spent Two Years at A. and M. in Days When Judge Page Morris Was Commandant. Dr. E. Y. Mullins, former student of the A. and M. College who will de- liver the baccalaureate sermon Sun- day, June 1, is one of the outstand- ing religious leaders in America. His selection as president of the Baptist World Allegiance at Stockholm last year is just an indication of the pres- tige he enjoys in religious leadership. Herewith is given a brief resume of this great man’s life and achieve- ments. He was born in Franklin county, Mississippi. He lived until he was nine years old in Mississippi, and then removed to Texas, where he grew to manhood and where he received his college education. He lived first in Chapel Hill, Texas, where he attend- ed school. His father removed to Cor- sicana, when he was eleven years old. There he attended the common schools and in 1876 went to the A. and M. College, where he spent two years. He learned telegraphy as a boy in the office at Corsicana. After leav- ing College he became assistant ope- rator in the Western Union office in Waco, whose manager at that time DR. E. Y. MULLINS. was Mr. Fink. After being in Waco a few months, he was called to a po- sition in the Western Union office in Galveston, where he remained one year. Resigning from this office, he went to Corsicana to stdy law, and a little later he moved to Dallas where he entered the law office of the late Col. Wm. L. Williams. Major W. E. Penn was holding a great meeting in Dallas at the time, and young Mullins, who had a po- sition as telegraph operator in the Western Union office in Dallas while (Continued on Page 4) INTEREST GROWS IN HOME COMING COMMENCEMENT Plans Being Made for Return of Five Hundred Former Students. Coming in Great Numbers. BIG CLASS TO GRADUATE. 211 Men Are Candidates for Degrees This Year. Second Largest Gradu- ating Class in College History. What is expected to be the greatest commencement in the history of the A. and M. College will be ushered in formally on Saturday, May 31. From that time until the close of the grad- uating review, Wednesday afternoon, life at College will be just one long round of activities; military ceremon- ies, class activities, demonstrations and the usual commencement fea- tures. This commencement will be great from many standpoints. A greater return of the former students of the College for this year’s exercises is ex- pected than at any other year in the history of the College. Plans are be- ing made for at least five hundred former students. Local clubs from New York, Chicago, and the most re- mote states down to and including the youngest club in Texas will be repre- sented by delegations. The classes of 1876-77-78-79, 90-91- 92, and 1904 and 1909-10-11-12 are going to be represented in great num- (Continued on Page 2) JUDGE PAGE MORRIS IS HOPING TO MEET GREAT GATHERING OF MEN OF SEVENTIES MAJOR PAGE MORRIS. As Commandant of the A. and M. College. "A AAA AAA DDOODDOODOLOD PHY PY PPV VIVVVVVVVVVVA > UNIVERSITY PRESIDENT. Dr. Guy Stanton Ford, dean of the Graduate School of Min- nesota University, was today ‘elected president of the Univer- sity of Texas. VV NV VVVVVVVVVVV ~ IN ZN AN AN LNT NAN NANA 4 4 4 4 4 K K 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 K A AAA A 2 2 A AAA A AAS OOD OOOO YIYVYIVVVVVV VE Former Commandant is Eagerly An- ticipating Reunion With Early Day A. and M. Students. OLD TIMERS ARE COMING. Association Secretary Hears From Large Number of Intention to Re- turn for Their Reunion. That he is eagerly looking forward to his return to Texas and more es- pecially the A. and M. College, which institution he has not seen for more than forty years is the statement of Judge Page Morris who will deliver the commencement address June 3. Judge Morris was the first com- mandant of this institution serving here in the years 1876 and ’77. Mrs. Morris will accompany him on this trip to Texas. They expect to arrive here from their home at Passa- dena, Cal., on May 30, and will be here for all of the commencement exercises and festivities. After leaving Texas, he was then a Major in the United States Army, Judge Morris retired from the service. He located in Duluth, Minn., and for three years was judge of the munici- pal court of that city. He later served one year as judge of the State Dis- trict Court there. Elected as a mem- ber of Congress from the Duluth dis- trict he served his country in that ca- pacity for six years. After his re- tirement from Congress he was ap- pointed judge of the Federal District Court in Minnesota which position of JUDGE PAGE MORRIS Retired Federal District Judge Who Will Deliver Baccalaurete Address. honor he held until he retired recently having served twenty years as Fed- eral District Judge. “I am anticipating great pleasure in meeting the ‘old boys,” ” the Judge writes. “They were really as old as I was at the time of my service there and we are all old men now. I shall also note with pleasure the great growth of the College, with its more than two thousand students and the splendid work it is doing.” GONZALES GANG -AWAKENS TOWN IN GET-TOGETHER Rousing Meeting of Old Timers Re- sults in Rejuvenation of A. and M. Club There. THEY SIGN DOTTED LINE. Under Leadership of San Antonio Workers Boys Make Investment In Association. BY HARTWELL KENNARD. The old town of Gonzales came to life again with a called meeting of the Aggie Exes at 8:00 p. m., April 8, 1924, in a rousing meeting. Dinner was served to the gang and during the meal A. H. Fitzgerald, who was president of our old club told us something of the purpose of the meet- ing and introduced “Runt” W. K. Han- son of San Antonio, who had come to us as a missionary. Runt told us of the work of the Association of Ex- Students and made an inspiring ap- peal to every man to give some of his energy to the College that gave him an education, that it might live and be of further service to the young manhood of the state. Bill Orth, also of San Antonio, also told of the birth and work of the As- sociation and of the fight that is being waged from some quarters upon higher education. He dwelt upon the needs of the College and upon the (Continued on Page 4) AGGIES SECOND IN TRACK MEET RECORDS BROKEN University Cops Southwestern Meet— Six New Marks Set in Spite of , Heavy Field. AGGIE CAPTAIN IS A STAR. McCullough Wins First Place in Pole Vault for Twenty-First Time. Tops Bar at Twelve Feet One Inch. In what was expected to be the fastest track meet in the history of the Southwest Conference at Austin May 10, Texas A. and M. took sec- ond place. The meet was not so fast as had been expected because of a heavy track which interfered consid- erably in almost every event. Six new conference records were estab- lished, however, in spite of the heavy field. It is a matter of great regret that the paths and take-offs were so heavy because it is believed that al- most every record in the conference would have fallen had the weather and track been ideal. The University of Texas presenting what was perhaps the best balanced track team ever as- sembled in the Southwest or South for that matter, won first place. It will be remembered that recently Texas gave a terrific beating to Mis- sissippi A. and M. College in a dual meet at Austin. Last week while Tex- as was winning the Southwest hon- (Continued on Page 4) Great Mother of A. & M. Men Dies at Her Girlhood Home In the death at Buda on April 27th of Mrs. Mary Wilson Puckett, the A. and M. College lost one of its staunch- est friends and greatest mothers. Five sons, one grandson, and two brothers, enrolled in the A. and M. College was the record of loyalty to the institution established by this good woman. In addition to all of these she is survived by her husband, W. W. Puckett and by five other brothers and four sisters and numerous other rel- atives in Travis county. Mrs. Puckett was a pioneer resident of that county, having lived in the Buda and St. Elmo communities all of her life. Mrs. Puckett saw but one football game in her life that being the game with the University of Texas in Aus- tin in 1906, the year Felix S. Puckett, now of Houston, was captain of the Aggies. Her sons were: J. W. Puck- ett, 04, Johnson City; F. S. Puckett, '07, Houston; Walter Puckett, 10, Fort Worth; D. M. Puckett, ’11, Wich- ita Falls; J. R. Puckett, 16, Everett, Washington. J. B. Wilson and J. M. Wilson, both of the Class of ’80, were her brothers. Manor Puckett of San Anonio, a grandson, is now a student at A. and M. and is an outstanding baseball man. She was buried at her old girlhood home in Travis county. EXTENSION WORKERS VISIT ON CAMPUS Carl Tanner ’16 and John T. Car- lisle ’22, both recent recruits to the of the College were on the campus last Agricultural Extension Service week. Tanner, who after his grad- uation farmed at his home near Wolfe City has more recently been in the cotton business at Spur. He now is county agent for Lamar county at Paris. Johnnie Carlisle has been running the Texas Co.'s stock farm at Port Arthur since his graduation but gave up that work to go into exten- He .is at Palestine, Anderson county. Johnnie reports a healthy interest in the Palestine A. and M. Club. Polly Eaggleston, assistant county agent at Houston also visited on the campus. Polly and “Tubby” Star- nes who is with the Phoenix dairy at Houston drove up from the Harris county capital for a visit on the campus. All of the visitors attended the Extension Service picnic at Royal's lake, near the campus. sion service. DALLAS MOTHERS ESTABLISH FUND WORTHY STUDENTS Dallas A. & M. Mothers’ Club Creates Student Loan Fund for Deserving Young Men. WATCH THE FUND GROW. Starting With Nest Egg of $100 Steps Already Have Been Taken to Great- ly Increase Amount Available. Establishment of the Dallas Mothers’ Club Student Loan Fund with a nest egg of $100 has been one of the most significant events of the past week for the Association of For- mer Students. Under the terms of this donation the money available in this fund will be loaned under Asso- ciation direction. Dallas boys will have first call on the fund but in case there is not sufficient demand from them to use all of the funds available the money will be let out to other worthy students. The establishment of this fund came as the result of the May~meet- ing of the Dallas A. and M. Mothers’ Club. It was decided to establish the fund and to build it up as rapidly as possible with the view point of hav- ing several hundred dollars available shortly for worthy students. Last year the club gave $50 to the William Bennett Bizzell Loan Fund (Continued on Page 4) HOUSTON AGGIES GIVE HIGH BOYS TRIP TO COLLEGE A. & M. Club of Bayou City Gives Per- sonally Conducted tour to Aggieland. WORKING ON A BIG STUNT. Houston Gang Developing Program That Will be a Knockout to All of Texas. As a part of its program to interest outstanding high school men of Hous- ton in the A. and M. College the Hous- ton A. and M. Club on Friday of last week sent up to the College twenty picked men from Houston High. These men were men who were favorably in- clined to the A. and M. College and who had made unusual records in scholastic attainments, athletic en- deavor, and who otherwise were out- standing high school men, oe The bringing of these men to the College ‘was the result of an idea pro- pagated at a regular weekly meeting of the club and entered into most heartily by the membership of that organiaztion. Funds to pay the ex- penses of twenty men were raised at one meeting and the details of work- ing up the trip were referred to Andy Rollins, Roy Wood and Nick Brau- miller. Andy is just one of the half dozen Rollins boys who have come out (Continued on Page 4) BOPOOOODOOOOOOODOPOOOOOOOP IT ALWAYS TAKES AN A. AND M. MAN TO DO THE JOB. The University of Texas has just about completed the exca- vations for thei rnew stadium. It will be a magnificent stad- jum. We know it will be a whiz. One of the chief reasons that we are counting so strong on the successful completion of this stadium is that when the Uni- versity Stadium committee got ready to let the contract for the construction of the plant they let the job to an Aggie. The firm of Walsh and Burney, con- tractors of San Antonio, will build the big U. Bob Burney is a C. E. of 04, and is a high- ly successful contractor. And so the story goes—even when Texas University wants a job well done they turn to Ag- @ @® @ @® ©@® @» ® @» ©@ @» ® @® @ @» ® @» £04 @» @» ® @® ® @® @» @» @® ® @® @® ©» ® ® ® @» @® ® @ ® ® @» @ ® ® : § gieland for their talent. 4 > DO ORAM AOS CCC aaa ing “Fly-Flue”. BIZZELL AND FRILEY NOW ON WAY HOME FROM FOREIGN TRIP “Prexy” Bizzell and Charlie Fri- ley, Registrar, are at sea en route back to America after a hurried European trip which included visits to France, Italy, Switzerland, Bel- gium, Holland, and England. They sailed from Southampton on the Lev- jathan on May 138th and are due to land at New York City of May 19. No time will be lost in getting back to College. Messages to Mrs. Bizzell and Mrs. Friley report a great time. It is hoped that Dr. Bizzell will be great- ly refreshed and rested after this trip. Both have been thoroughly well all during their absence from the States even during their sea vogage. G. R. “Pud” Minier of Waco has taken to the road. Pud now is sell- His postoffice ad- dress still is 1317 Washington Ave., Waco. BASEBALL SEASON CLOSES NEXT WEEK IN BRENHAM GAMES Baseball at A. and M. will come to a close next week with the annual contests with Southwestern Univer- sity at Brenham. This week-end the Aggies are meeting Texas Uni- versity at Austin. Games schedul- ed last week with Southwestern Uni- versity at College Station were rain- ed out. The season has been an up and down one for the Aggies. Lack of pitching strength has been the chief cause of House’s big worry with the Aggies. Back of consistent pitch- ing, however, the team has been in- comsistent in its performance due to inexperience largely. rh Andrew Winkler, 1900 of The Grove, Texas, sends in his check and says that he wants to have a part in the student Loan Fund. We are very glad to have this promise from {by Dr. R. B. “Tubby” Ehlinger 13, Mr. Winkler. “KINKY” MORGAN IS NOW MEMBER FOUR HUNDRED UNDERGOES OPERATION Dr. J. O. Morgan, head of the de- partment of Agronomy is now a member of the “Four Hundred”. He has had his appendictis removed. Dr. Morgan had: been feeling badly for some weeks. An acute attack of appendicitis resulted in an immed- iate and highly successful operation college surgeon. Dr. Morgan has made a splendid recovery and has resumed his duties in the depart- ment. RE a SEE R. S. Redding, Southwestern Gas and Electric Co., at Texarkana writes to Dr. Bolton that R. H. Mil- ler ’13, with the General Electric Co., at Kansas City recently was in Texarkana with the Kansas City Chamber of Commerce on a trades excursion. Redding reports that Miller is doing splendidly in his work at K. C. VV VVVVVVVv <¢ 4 [ 4 4 4 4 & KK 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 K ‘ was secured from that source. 4 the Association. Casper. Go to it fellows. SVT VV VV VV VV VV 4 4 K 4 4 4 4 K 4 4 4 4 H. C. Carroll who is with the State Highway Department writes that since May 1st, he has been lo- cated at Mt. Carmel, Illinois, and that he is anxious to get the Aggie since that is the only connecting link that he has with the old school and the gang. J @ HILL COUNTRY A. AND M. CLUB. Inspired by the leadership of “Polly” C. C. Kreuger and “Runt” W. K. Hanson and G. H. Briggs of San Antonio, sixteen good and true Aggies from the hill country surrounding Kerrville completed an organization Friday, May 3. They not only organized permanent- ly the Hill Country A. and M. Club with Casper Real as President but every man present, sixteen in number, signed notes in favor of the Association of Former Students and its loan fund. A total of $975 J. C. Yeary was elected financial secretary for that section and ac- cording to “Polly” may be expected to turn in a big piece of work for More detailed announcement of the formation of the Hill Country Club will be made in the next Aggie when we have had a report from DOPOD DDDDDDDDDDDDPDVVIIDVDVDPDIVVVIVVVVVVVVVVOVVVOIVDOOO® T. J. Hardeman of Minden, La. is another member of the cadet corps of those days who will turn his steps back towards the College in June. He says that he is extremely anx- ious to see the institution inasmuch as he has heard much of the mirac- ulous growth of the College.
