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Published Semi-Monthly by the Association of Former Students of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas.
VOLUME III.
BRYAN, TEXAS, OCTOBER 15, 1924.
NUMBER 15
BE ONE OF THE 1500 EXES IN WACO NOV. 1 TO TWIST BEAR'S TAIL
STAGE ALL SET
FOR WACO SHOW
LOTS OF PEPPER
Waco Exes Will Parade and Feed
Hundreds of Former Students
On November 1.
GAME WILL BE A HOT ONE.
Annual Struggle Between Bears and
Aggies Promises to be Feature
of Football Season.
On to Waco. The cadet corps will
be there. The College official fam-
ily will be there. The Aggie Exes by
the hundreds will be there. In fact
everybody and their dog will be there.
It is going to be a great A. and M.
day, November 1 is, when the Baylor
Bruins and Texas Aggies take the
field at the Cotton Palace for their,
annual struggle.
There will be a parade by the ca-
det corps in which the ex-students
are urged to participate. There will
be great gobs of food free. There
will be fun at the banquet board and
the dinner will be over in ample time |
for everybody to get to the park and
witness the calisthenics and see the
team take the field.
The official invitation from the Me-
Lennan county Aggies tells the story:
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GRADUATE SCHOOL
OPENS WITH BIG
ENROLLMENT
Fifty-Six Men Have Entered New
School for Advanced
Instruction.
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FROM MANY COLLEGES.
Twenty-Seven Institutions Are Repre-
sented in Registrations. A. & M.
Leads With Two Representatives
Making its introductory bow at the
opening of the term of 1924-25, the,
Graduate School of the A. and M.
College of Texas, under the guidance,
of Dean Charles Puryear, has gotten
away to a flying start. There are en-
rolled for graduate work fifty-six men
representing twenty-seven different
institutions. Of that fifty-six twen-
ty-three have done graduate work in
the College heretofore; thirty-three
are new students insofar as graduate
work is concerned. Thirty-seven of
the number registered are officers of
the College, twenty-two being mem-
bers of the teaching staff, seven of the
Experiment Station, six of the Exten-
sion Service and two miscellaneous.
Applications of three others for en-
rollment in the graduate school were
(Continued on Page 6)
ALLISON, END.
No team will make much around these two boys’ side of the line.
BETTER KEEP AWAY FROM
THEIR END OF THE LINE
WAUGH, TACKLE.
They
are there like a ton of brick and are turning in great games.
AGGIES HAND 7 TO
0 BEATING
TO FIGHTING SEWANEE TIGERS
IN BRILLIANT GAME AT DALLAS
Dazzling and Daring Overhead Attack of Tennessee Mountaineers
Fails to Penetrate Aggie Defense in Big Intersectional
Game at Dallas.
Displaying a desperate, dazzling,
and dangerous overhead attack the
Sewanee Tigers battled fiercely the
Texas Aggies through four quarters
of the most gruelling and spectac-
ular football game ever seen in Tex-
as, when the Texans administered a
seven to nothing whipping to the
Tennessee Moutaineers at the Dallas
Fair Park Stadium, October 11. It
was surprising, unorthodox football
that Sewanee played, the Tennessee-
ans gambling feverishly from the
kickoff and through all four periods
for victory with a most unusual but
consistent aerial attack. They pass-
ed from every formation, for every
distance, and from every location on
the field violating all rules of “foot-
ball as she is played.” But they got
away with a large number of these
gambler’s chances.
All in all Sewanee attempted forty-
seven passes making seventeen. Of
that number three were for losses
while the other fourteen were for
gains. The longest came from back
of their own goal line when a nine
yard pass resulted in a fifty yard
gain before Berry, safety man for the
Aggries, brought the runner down af-
ter a brilliant tackle.
It was fearfully hot. The Moun-
taineers, however, had some advan-
tage over the Aggies from the stand-
point of heat as the result of the use
of cotton instead of wool jersies. But
it was hot to the spectators and it
was ten times as hot to the two
teams.
" But in spite of the heat it was a rip
snorting game all through the four
periods, the fight never abating for
even a minute. For sheer fight it
probably surpassed any game played
in Texas for some seasons. In spite
of some mistakes in judgment it was
good football most of the way. The
tackling was fierce. Interference was
excellent and Allison and Waugh for
the Aggies gave some wonderful dem-
onstrations of how interference may
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FOR ECONOMY
they are off the press which should
Those who are not members
DIRECTORIES TO BE MAILED ON APPLICATION
Responding to the good judgment and experience of other asso-
ciations of ex-students it has been decided to mail directories only io
those who request a copy. The publication of this volume will be at
much expense and great economy must be practiced in the distribution.
Therefore if you wish a directory send in this statement “T want
a copy of the directory of the Association of Former Students.”
Four nae alia aqaress and you-w ill receive your copy just as soon as
ing can secure copies of the directory at $5 per copy.
IN THEIR DISTRIBUTION
Give
be by November 1.
of the Association in good stand-
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“SILENT” MILLER TO CONTINUE
AS CAPTAIN OF 1924 AGGIES
Leader of Aggies Twice Cheated Out
of Football Participation by Broken
Leg is Honored by Retaining
Leadership of Present Team in
Spite of His Being In-
capacitated.
Retired from the game a second
time by a broken leg Louie “Silent”
Miller, contender for All-Conference
honors at fullback and one of the
mainstays offensively and defensively
of the Fighting Aggies of 1924, will
continue to lead that team as captain.
In the spring of 1923 “Silent” was
chosen to lead the football team of
that fall as captain. A broken right
leg sustained in spring training
cheated him out of those honors. He
abstained from participation in inter-
collegiate athletics last year in order
that he would have another year of
eligibility for football. Last spring he
again was chosen to captain the Ag-
gies, this time for the season of
1924,
The start of the Aggies this season
has been exceedingly auspicious.
Much of the credit for that splendid
spirit was due to the leadership of
Captain Miller. Friday, October
3, he was taken from the field with a
broken leg sustained in the first quar-
ter of the game with Southwestern.
University. This break is just a lit-
tle above the old break and involves
that break. Of course it is a worse
break than was the first one. Louie
is through as an athlete from an in-
tercollegiate standpoint. But he is
not through as a Captain. He will be
able to leave the hospital in time for
the S. M. U. game and will make all
of the trips and captain the Aggies
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CAPTAIN “SILENT” MILLER.
from the bench in all conference con-
tests.
Tribute is being paid to Miller by
everyone. His very loss, however,
seems to inspire the team and their
fighting spirit has been quickened by
the tragic injury to their captain.
Miller’s spirit will be felt on the team
and his continuation as captain is a
just tribute to his services to Aggie
teams in the past.
His injury prompted Clem Pinson,
diminutive but fast and capable back
of last year to return to A. and M. to
help fill the hole made by Silent’s in-
jury. Clem will make a big contri-
bution to the team and Aggieland is
happy that he could make the sacri-
fice to return to College when he had
not planned to do so.
LILY BESS KYLE TO
BE A. & M. DUCHESS
AT THE COTTON PALACE
Lily Bess Kyle, daughter of Dean
and Mrs. E. J. Kyle will represent the
duchess at the premier social event
of the Waco Cotton Palace this fall.
She has selected as her maid Miss
Helen Dowty, present student at the
University of Texas and a former
student of A. and M. She is the niece
of Prof. and Mrs. W. L. Hughes. Miss
Kyle is now engaged in selecting her
costume adornments and naming the
seven A. and M. student escorts who
will attend her at the coronation cere-
mony of King and Queen at the Cot-
ton Palace.
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ALLEN YATER, 22
STRUCK BY TRAIN
DIES INSTANTLY
M. E. Graduate Completing Appren-
ticeship at Santa Fe Shops Killed
in Oklahoma.
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Death has exacted another toll from
the ranks of former students of the
A. and M. College. On Wednesday,
October 8th, Allen Yater 22, M. E.,,
of Cleburne was struck by a fast mov-
ing Santa Fe passenger train at
Thackerville, Oklahoma, being killed
almost instantly. He was buried at
Cleburne.
After his graduation Yater went to
work for the Santa Fe shops at Cle-
burne. He was just completing his
apprenticeship there and had been de-
tailed to make a number of runs on
locomotives for observation and, ex-
perience with reference to the oper-
ation of these engines. He was rid-
ing in the cab of a freight train that
had gone “in the hole” for the fast
After standing
on the siding for a while Yater step-
ped down from the gangway of the
engine, directly in front of the on-
rushing passenger train.
His neck was broken and death re-
sulted immediately. He was carried
to Gainesville and later was taken to
Cleburne.
His mother Mrs. Carrie Yater lives
in Cleburne. A sister married Ray
Chappelle, a graduate of the College.
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AUDITORS FINISH WORK
ON BOOKS OF COLLEGE
The work of auditing the books of
the College was completed yesterday
by the A. Austin Smith Company of
Houston. The work was done by W.
E. Hammond, C. P. A. of the firm, as-
sisted by J. C. Cobb and J. C. Nie-
meyer. Mr. Niemeyer stated yester-
day that the finished report of the
audit would be compiled by October 15.
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D. H. Levy, 14 formerly of Waco |.
is now with the Engineering depart-
ment of the Texas Power and Light
Co., at Dallas. “Jew” sent in his
check for dues this week.
“HE SAYS IT IS GOOD
TO BE BACK AGAIN”
“CLEM PINSON
Clem was not planning to return
to College this year. There was no
one to stay with his mother following
his sister’s marriage. And then too
he had entered in several different
lines of business. Along came the
disastrous injury to Louie Miller and
Clem came back. He says he ex-
pects to go on and graduate. Thou-
sands of Aggies everywhere appre-
ciate the sacrifice that Clem has madd
to help out the Aggies and hope that
he will be able to get that old degree
and at the same time give two more
years of wonderful service in foot-
ball.
PROF. BITTLE DEAD
GAVE UP WORK AC:
COUNT OF ILLNESS
Faithful Instructor, Member of Fam-
ily Long Identified Prominently
With A. & M. Dies at Bryan.
The death of Professor “Beall” (B.
W.) Bittle, a veteran member of the
A. and M. teaching staff brought sor-
row to the College community recent-
ly and sympathy for the bereaved
relatives who reside on the Campus.
His death occurred in Bryan where he
had gone to reside after ill health had
made his teaching activities too bur-
densome for him two years ago.
Expressing the sorrow of the
community, President W. B. Biz-
zell extolled the life and work of
the man. “Professor Bittle served
faithfully and efficiently as a member
of the teaching staff of the English
Department for several years,” he
said. “He was highly respected by
the students because of his gentle-
manly qualities and faithful devotion
to his work.”
Greatest grief in his death is
brought to his nieces, Mrs. J. B. Bag-
ley and Mrs. C. C. Todd and to his
sister-in-law, Mrs. Bittle who resides
with her daughter, Mrs. Bagley.
H. A. Carroll, ’23 and C. L. Wall,
Jr., 24, are employed at the Lynn
(Massachusetts) Works of the Gen-
eral Electric Co.
Tickets for the football
1st. No box seats for sale.
section for former students
Eleven Registered Animals Produce
537.93 Pounds of Butterfat Each
On Test at Bryan Dairy Farm
of Aggie Exe.
In business for only about three
years, Carl Wipprecht, B. S., in D. H,,
in ’18 has succeeded in building up a :
herd of registered Jersey cows at his
dairy in Bryan which has established
an exceptionally splendid record.
Eleven of his registered animals,
which constituted all of his producing
registered cows at that time, tested
out an average for the past year of
537.93 pounds of butter fat and 10,662
pounds of milk each. Any production
of butter fat which exceeds +500
pounds per year is an ‘exceptionally
good record.
After his graduation and service in
the army Carl spent a year and a
half on the road for the College on
register of merit work with Jerseys.
Then he entered business for him-
self. He started on a very rational
basis with only six head of registered
cows, a good young herd bull, and a
number of good grade animals. He
has slowly, and with but little ex-
pense built up his herd until he now
has 59 head of registered, young
stuff and cows. He is milking 28
cows which are producing about 650
pounds of milk daily or a daily aver-
age of 23% pounds, roughly, three
gallons each. Carl is selling whole
between A. and M. and Baylor, will be put on sale, on Oct.
wish the tickets sent you by registered mail send 10 cents
additional, or otherwise tickets will be mailed at your risk.
No tickets will be reserved after Oct. 25th by tha Wnece gaa
A. & M. Club as they will be thrown open to the public.
Mail check or money order to E. P. Hunter, Care Wm.
Cameron & Co., Waco, Texas.
CARL WIPPRECHT ’18, IS MAKING
FINE RECORD WITH JERSEY HERD
IMPORTANT.
game at Waco on Nov. 1st,
Reserved seats in A. and M.
will be $2.00 each. If you
CARL WIPPRECHT, D. H, ’18.
milk at retail in Bryan and has built
up a splendid business for himself.
He hi his barns and a 22 acre Ber-
muda grass pasture on the outskirts
of town where he keeps his producing
herd. His dry stuff ranges on a 141
acre Bermuda pasture some distance
out from ‘town.
In addition to his dairy herd he has
a herd of Duroc Jersey hogs in which
he is taking much pride. He has just
finished a litter in the ton litter con-
test, seven of his registered pigs in
one litter weighing 1960 pounds at
six months of age.
PROFESSOR GEIST ON
STAFF PHILADELPHIA
PAPERS PAST SUMMER
Professor G. A. Geist of the Draw-
ing Department was one of the mem-
bers of the A. and M. faculty who en-
joyed a most profitable vacation the
past summer. Exploiting his advan-
tage as former art editor of the Phil-
adelphia Public Ledger he secured a
position on the art editor’s staff of
that great daily for part time and en-
gaged his remaining time with the
Philadelphia Record doing news re-
porting. For the Ledger he did var-
ious kinds of pen work including some
advertising drawing. His chief piece
of work with the Record was a sur-
vey of the New Jersey highway sys-
tem, prepared on the opening of the
new concrete highway which now
traverses the state, mostly by reason
of the contributions of the Du Ponts.
His drawings published with his arti-
cles illustrated the architecture of the
bridge types on the road.
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Major Bennet Puryear, Jr., “Little
Pewee” ’05 is now at the headquarters
of the Marine Corps at Washington,
D. C., as assistant quartermaster for
the Marine Corps. He makes his res-
idence at 3338 Stephenson place, N.
W., Washington.