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THE TEXAS AGGIE " Published Semi-Monthly at the A. & M. Press, College Station, Texas, except dur- WEDDINGS ing the summer months, when d monthly by the Association of Former Students of the Agricultural and Mechan- ical College of Texas, College Station. Texas. IL. A. Uhr, Yi President Tyree L. Bell. 15......ccciipioeeins Vice President E. E. McQuillen, ’20...Executive Secretary 1. - B. Locke, ?18........... Assistant Secretary Subscription Price $5.00 Entered as Second Class Matter at College Station, Texas E. E. McQuillen................ Publisher 3 Directors Knox Lee, ’08 Marshall H. XK. Deason, 16a. ne ois Port Arthur Joe M. McRevnolds, ’22....... .......Mineola F. .D. Perkins, 9% aoa. mwa. McKinney W. B. Francis, ’15 : Dallas Estil Y. Cunningham, *10............ Corsicana W. Y.. Ballard, 222. 0.5. hs ett Jacksonville CLR. Haile, cdl Al tind lates tas Houston 3.0 A: Stark =23).. oo. Sealy Elmore R.. Torn; 228... iresesitantiasin anion Taylor W. C. Torrence, ’13 Waco Phil S. Groginski, ’16...............Fort Worth C. P. Dodson, ’11 Decatur T. B. Warden, ’03.. Austin F. BE. Bortle, 231......cconilinsssmeess Brownsville Marcus Gist, ’22 Odessa W. W. Whipkey, lL... i etetesd Colorado Oscar A. Seward, 207........ 0nd 8 P.i Duggan, 205. rte -srrasriotis George G. Smith, ’30................ Richard E. Homann, ’ OC. ‘1... Babeoek, ’17............~. Col. P. L. Downs, 79 Albert G. Pfaff, 27 T. W. Mohle, ’19 : EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE f. A. Uhr, 17 San Antonio Tyree L. Bell, ’15 Corsicana E. R. Torn ,’27 Taylor .T. W. Mohle, ’19 Houston Qscar A. Seward, ’07 Houston STUDENT LOAN FUND TRUSTEES “1. A, Uhr, »717 San Antonio A..F. Mitchell, ’09.............cccoeeennonses Corsicana ‘E. E. McQuillen, ’20........... College Station . REPRESENTATIVES ON ATHLETIC i COUNCIL ©. A. Thanheiser, 200.5. ceceteen —..Houston Albert G.. Pratl, 22%. ccomnssseroneeteavroensass Tyler OUR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT One feature of the tremendous development of the A. & M. Col- iege during the past ten years has been the growth of College Station as a normal, residential community. A decade ago there were no res- idences at College Station save those owned by the school itself; and one or two very small bus- iness establishments completed the picture. Today College Park and Qakwoods are thriving, active and growing residential sections just south of the campus. At the north gate is the business section, also with its residential areas, with grocery, drug, clothing, variety, barber and cafe establishments, soon to be augmented by the new U. S. Post Office building. At the | Northeast corner of the campus is another residential section, rapid- dy growing up on the new highway This development is of tremen- ‘dous importance to the College. It will provide social contacts badly needed by the student body. It will serve as a reservoir where over- flow students may be housed. It will mean happier and more con- venient living accomodations for faculty and college staff members. It will bring to College Station an entity and a personality that at present is absent; and without which no community can pose 12s an ideal place to live, to wori and to study. The most important need now along this line is increased hotel accomodations on the campus. The AGGIELAND INN is a splendid hostelry that has meant a great “deal to the campus, but its 30 rooms are wholly inadequate to meet the demand for hotel accomodations. Its size should be doubled at the least and preferably trippled. There is a great need for suffi- cient first class hotel accomoda- tions on the campus for the par- ents and friends of student, and for the many business men who are coming to the College in increas- ing numbers. With a little en- couragement Texas parents, Texas industry, Texas Agriculture, and more important, Texas’s affection and respect, will beat a path to the door of the College. But when they arrive they must be properly cared for, and the day is gone when a couch in the lobby of the “Y”, or an extra bed in Leggett Hall will satisfactorily solve the problem. A. & M. COLLEGE TO THE TOP Another tribute goes to A. & IIL. College of Texas which this fall be- comes in numbers as well as in quality the foremost agricultural school in the United States. As a result of substantial in- creases in enrollment this fall, A. & M. has a total of 1,164 students enrolled in agricultural work, with Langford — Degan Mr. and Mrs. Joseph A. Degan announce the marriage of their daughter Mary Regina, to Mr. Wil- 1| liam Harper Langford, ’27, on De- cember 26, 1935, in Bakersfield, California. Mr. and Mrs. Langford will make their home at Chow- chilla, California, where Langford is with the San Joaquin Cotton Oil .| Company. ‘ Herzik — Smith Announcement has been made of the marriage of Miss Clara Eliza- beth Smith, to G. R. Herzik, Jr., '34. After a wedding trip to Mon- terrey, Mr. and Mrs. Herzik will be at home at College Station, Texas, where Gus is a graduate student in the Civil Engineering Department. Edge — Williams The marriage of Miss Lurene Williams, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. S. L. Williams, to Mr. Paul | Edge, Jr., ’34, was solemnized Fri- day afternoon, December 27 at the home of the bride’s parents. Only members of the immediate fami- lies were present. Mr. and Mrs. Edge will make their home in Ar- cadia, Texas, where Paul is now employed as principal of the Ar- cadia Public School. Moser-Murrin The marriage of Miss Margaret Genevieve Murrin and Mr. August C. Moser, Jr., ’32, was solemnized on Tuesday morning, December 31, 1935, at Saint Alphonous Church, Murrinville, Pennsylvania. Mr. and Mrs. Moser will make their home in Dallas and after January 5 will be at home at 1903 Moser Avenue. Steele-Piper News has reached this office of the marriage of Miss Irene Delong Piper, of Toronto, Canada, to Rezin B. Steele, 22, formerly of Hous- ton. The wedding was quietly sol- emnized November 20 at the Church of the Redeemer in Toron- to, Canada. Mr. and Mrs. Steele will be at home at No. 6, Wibber- ' ton Roads, Toronto, Canada. Steele is in the Engineering Department of the Canadian National Tele- graphs. Wilbeck-Bradford On June 9, 1935 Miss Lolabel | Bradford, of Arlington, became the pride of Sidney A. Wilbeck, ’27, of Hungerford. Mr. and Mrs. Wilbeck are making their home in Hunger- ford, Texas. | Hillin-Parks Mr. and Mrs. James A. Parks an- nounce the marriage of their daughter, Oma, to Mr. Thomas W. Hillin, ’32, on November 13 at Locker, Texas. Mr. and Mrs. Hillin are at home at Jan Angelo, Texas. Waide-Bolin Miss Nelle Bolin, of Farwell, and J. Waide, Jr., 29, of Muleshoe, a high mark of 488 in the fresh- man class!. By reaching this new high, Tex- as A. & M. goes ahead of Iowa State College, which has a total agricultural enrollment of 1,070 with a freshman class of 445, and Cornell university, which has an agricultural enrollment of 1,039, with a freshman class of 390. These figures reflect enrollment in undergraduate work requiring a four-year course. The figures are remarkable in that they also re- flect a 40 percent gain over last year and a 106 percent over the year before. Dean E. J. Kyle, the able direc- tor of the agricultural school, at- tributes the increase to: “The strong upswing in agriculture, the effect of the AAA on agricultural recovery, the marked success of vocational and extension programs in the state, and the improved and extensively enlarged physical plant for agricultural instruction and research at the college.” An outsider can add what Dean Kyle cannot. That is that the re- markable growth is due in a large measure to the exceptionally high type of faculty, the excellent in- struction, and the capable super- vision concentrated in Dean Kyle and the college’s outstanding presi- dent, Dr. T. O. Walton. — (The Temple Daily Telegram) —t v were recently married. Waide graduated from A. & M. in 1929 and received his Master's degree from Iowa State in 1931. Mr. and Mrs. Waide are making their home in Muleshoe, Texas, where Waide is county agricultural agent. This office has recently received the news of the marriage of Woody L. Cowan, ’28, which took place at Brenham, Texas. Cowan is with the Soil Conservation Service and is located at Dalhart, Texas. Callaghan-Junca Mrs. Paul Junca, of LaFayette, Louisana, announces the marriage of her daughter, Miss Naomi Ann Junca, of Houston, to Mr. John B. Callaghan, Jr., ’28, son of Mr. and Mrs. John B. Callaghan of Hous- ton. After January 10, Mr. and; Mrs. Callaghan will make their home at Silver City, New Mexico. Heaton-Stout Mr. C. Eldon Heaton, ’35, of Nacogdoches, and Miss Frances Elizabeth Stout were married at the home of the bride’s sister on December 26. Heaton is in charge of a CCC camp at Hemphill, Tex- as, where they will make their home. Graham-Fariss The marriage of Miss Gladys Fariss and W. P. Graham, ’21, was solemnized on November 27 at the home of the bride’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Fariss in Lake Victor. Mr. and Mrs. Graham will make their home in Lampasas, Texas, where Mr. Graham is county agent. Woodland-Sanders Mr. and Mrs. F. D. Sanders an- nounce the marriage of their daughter, Virginia, to Mr. Sully S. Woodland, ’34, on Sunday, Decem- ber 22, 1935, at Chester, Texas. Mr. and Mrs. Woodland will make their | § home at 535 S. Bonner St., Tyler, Texas and receive their mail at Box 1088. Sully is in the sporting goods business and handles Wilson sporting goods line in East Texas. BERTHS Mr. and Mrs. George C. Moffett, 1’16, are receiving congratulations from their many friends over the birth of a little girl, Joy. Moffett has extensive farming and business interests at Chillicothe, Texas and is one of the leading members of the House of Representatives at Austin. Mr. and Mrs. Laddie J. Lesikar, ’28, announce the birth of their second pair of twins, Johnie Nall and Jerry Clair, born on December || 16. The older set of twins are Lad- die and Lynda and are now three years old. Mr. and Mrs. Lesikar make their home at 514 Sycamore Street, Palestine, Texas. Mr. and Mrs. R. L. “Bob” Patton, ’34, are delighted over the arrival of Bob Junior on December 11 at their home at 3244 Thomas Blvd, Port Arthur, Texas. Mrs. Patton was before her marriage Miss Al-| ma Lou Thompson and was secre- tary of the Mechanical Engineer- ing Department for several years. Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Morrow, 23, are happy over the birth of a fine || son, William Dempsy, Jr., born on December 11. They make their home at Pitkin, Louisana and re- ceive their mail at Route 1, Box 70. W. Worth Holmes, ’34, is with the State Highway Department at Clarendon, Texas. He reports W. E. Carmichael, ’32, Frank Frey, ’32, and Virgil McGee, ’35, also with the State Highway Depart- ment at Clarendon. Commodore Shipley, ‘31, is at Clarendon with Cocke-Braden, highway contrac- tors. H. M. “Flip” Breedlove, '34, is located there as county agent. Clyde C. Frazier, ’33, is with the Texas Co., Masonic Bldg., Shaw- nee, Okla. R. S. Dockum, ’30, engineer at the Hillsboro CCC Camp, was re- cently transferred to the Pfluger- ville Camp. Ben F. “Tex” Sanders, ’11, was transferred to Hillsboro from Corsicana to replace Dockum. the THOMAS MAYO--- HIS COLUMN <4 While Rome is burning, even a modest columnist probably ought not to be fiddling. And there is un- doubtedly at least a smell of scorch- ing in the air these days. But after all, this is the night after Christ- mas, and whoever reads this col- umn will do so just about New Year’s. Perhaps under such cir- cumstances a fellow may be excus- ed for writing for once about what he likes, instead of about what he believes all good citizens should be puzzling over in the contemporary scene. And what he does like, and has liked best for ten years or so is the 18th Century—everything about it: its books, its music, its furniture, its manners and conversation, its way of carrying on life in general. He certainly cannot defend the practice of habitually turning one’s back on one’s own day and escap- ing into some real or imaginary past. This is pure self-indulgence— so let it go at that! In Memoriam Leo T. Peden, 04 Leo T. Peden, age 51, of 1816 Woodhead, Houston, died in that city on Decem- ber 11. Burial was in Forest Park Cemetery. Surviving him are his wife, Mrs. Mar- garet Peden, and three sons. Mr. Peden was born in Jef- ferson County Mississippi, coming to Texas in 1899 to enter the A. & M. College. He graduated in civil engi- neering. He was formerly as- sistant city engineer for Houston, and prior to that time manager of the Smith Brothers Construction Com- pany. He retired several years ago as assistant city engineer and engaged in pri- vate engineering practice. He was a member of the Ameri- can Society of Civil Engi- neers. Cary Neblet Smith, ’34 Cary N. Smith, age 24, son of Mr. and Mrs. Travis L. Smith, Jr., '98, at 308 Hyde Park, Houston, died at the Herman Hospital in Hous- ton on December 15. He was seriously burned on Thanks- giving Day while installing gas meters for the Humble Oil and Refining Company at Gulf, Texas. Young Smith ¥ was terribly burned but E hopes were entertained for his recovery until the last 24 hours before his death. In the explosion two men were involved. To rescuers young Smith insisted that his companion be cared for first. 8 Physicians and hospital at- 8 tendants stated his bravery at the time of the accident and during his treatment at the Herman hospital was as- tonishing. Young Smith is survived by his parents, three brothers, Sidney N. Smith, Travis L. Smith, III, ’30, and J. Doug- las Smith, ’37. Burial was in the Forest Park Cemetery at Houston. Young Smith received his degree from Texas A. & M. in petroleum production en- gineering. He was affection- ately known as “Little Tack” to his classmates; was a ca- det officer in the cavalry dur- ing his senior year; and was a member of the Ross Volun- teers. Dr. Rufe E. Adams, ’10 Dr. Rufe E. Adams died at his home in Thermopolis, § Wyoming in December and was buried in that city. He was a practicing physician and moved to Wyoming sev- | eral years ago from Coleman, Texas, where he had practic- ed for many years. Details of his death have not been re- ceived. As a student at Tex- as A. & M. he graduated in civil engineering and was a member of the A. & M. stu- dent band. What is still available of the special flavor of the 18th Century is, I think, to be found at its purest in the sayings of its typical people. And of all its typical people, its smart women were the most typi- cal. In Paris especially there flour- ished, during the hundred years before the French Revolution, a score or so of society women who were able to concentrate into their “salons” and their parties the best of the sanity, graceful intelligence, and social charm generated by a period and a nation which valued sanity, graceful intelligence, and social charm above everything else. Of course, all this cost somebody, and the people who in the last analysis footed the bill were the exploited middle and working classes. But in itself and while it lasted the polished civilization of the Ancient Regime certainly had its points. ES ES * The Comte de Segur, an amiable French aristocrat, spent his youth and middle age in this society but wrote his Memoirs as a very old man who had lived through the Revolution and the Napoleonic Era into a very different period, the wildly romantic and democratic and debasing ourselves in his eyes.” Madame Geoffrin: “He a man of intellect ? Bah! He is a fool rubbed over with intellect as we rub beef with garlic. (Was she talking about some college prof?) And the same lady: “She talked so agreeably of things she knew nothing about, that no one wished her to know more.” RT ak oh Madame de Lambert wrote to her son: “Let your intimacies be with persons who are above you. With our equals we grow careless; the mind drowses.” And again: “We spoil our tastes these days by our amusements; we become so accustomed to intense pleasures that we cannot descend to simple ones.” And yet again: “It is not always our errors that ruin us, but our way of conducting ourselves after we have committed them.” * * & Madame de Tencin (a ladv who, I yegret to report, was as careless in her morals as she was precise in . her observations): ‘Never refuse any offer of friendship; even ' though nine out of ten would not give themselves a farthing’s worth of trouble for you, the tenth may unsettled 19th Century. This is{ become a useful friend.” how the Paris of his young man- ’ | hood appeared in retrospect to the octogenarian: ES ES k “I often went in those days,” he writes, “to the houses of Madame Geoffrin and Madame du Deffand. Moreover in many other houses, such as those of the Princesse de Beauvau, the Duchesse de Chois- eul, la Marechale de Luxembourg —and my mother, I found conver- sation, deep or light, but always instructive and agreeable, whose charm is not to be found nowadays. It contained an indefinable mix- ture of simplicity and elevation, gracefulness and reason, criticism and urbanity. The latest produc- tions of the brilliant minds who were the glory of France at that time were all eagerly taken up. The conversation found constant nour- ishment in the recent works of Rousseau, Helvetius, Diderot, and Voltaire. Everything was discussed gently; disputes almost never oc- curred. And as everybody had a fine knowledge of the delicate art of pleasing, nobody ever bored by laying on too much of anything. The precept most practised was that of Boileau, which teaches one to pass constantly from grave to sweet, from mirthful to serious. Thus it often happened that dur- ing the same evening the subjects talked about alternated between Montesquieu’s “Spirit of the Laws” and the gay and spicy tales of Vol- taire, the philosophy of Helvetius and the operas of Marmontel, the politics of Mably and the charming verses of Saint Lambert or the Abbe Delille. The most distinguish- ed men of letters were admitted with favor to the houses of the high nobility. This mixing of men of the court and men of letters brought more enlightenment to the former and better taste to the lat- ter. Never did Paris more resem- ble the Athens of classical fame.” ES ES ES Unfortunately for us, nobody took down in short-hand all the delicate sparkle of conversation that flowed for a hundred years through the salons of Paris. But fortunately, the women who presid- ed over these dinners and “even- ings” were all inveterate letter- writers, and their correspondents frequently had the good sense to preserve their letters intact. Here are a few sentences from the flood of gossip, observations of human nature, and light philosophizings about things in general which some of the most famous women of the 18th Century poured out on their note-paper. I warn all Romantics that they will find little comfort in these sharp sayings. The 18th Century was nothing if not realist- ic, and its great ladies went in less for Sweetness than for Light. But if you like keen observation on small but important matters, w.... a touch of vinegar and pepper to season them, read away! % kx 0% The Duchesse du Maine: “Alas, my dear, I have the misfortune not to be able to do without scores of persons for whom I care nothing at all!” Madame du Deffand: (in a rather cynical mood): “There is not a single person to whom we can con- fide our troubles without giving him a malignant joy, or without Again: “Intelligent men make many mistakes in the management of affairs because they can never believe people to be as stupid as they really are.” * * Ed And so on, to the extent of pages and pages, if I had more room and you had more patience. In its later decades, as its rather haywire economic underpinnings began to tremble, and the revolutionary thunder to mutter, a change came over the Grand Century. Its tone grew sentimental and romantic. It began to be fashionable to sigh and weep elegantly—to put the heart above the head—to trust the feelings rather than clear common sense. This change was the ruin of good conversation. As talk in- creased in heat it lost more and more in light—and in lightness of touch. k * * The old Comte de Segur sadly recalled in his Memoirs this change which he had lived through just before the Revolution broke. Re- turning in 1789 with Lafayette from helping Washington to defeat the British, he had found Parisian society already full of storm and stress. Perhaps his comment on the end of an era had better end this column: * % “I spent my evenings going about the various circles of the town and revisiting the social haunts of my youth. I found them livlier, wittier, and more animated than ever. It would have been im- possible to find languor or bore- dom anywhere. Nevertheless, the gentleness, polish, and wurbanity which had been their characteris- tics for so long were now no more. Political passions had invaded the drawing rooms, transforming them into battling arenas, where the most hostile opinions were con- stantly at war. Discussion was dead. Disputing took its place. Everybody talked loudly and lis- tened hardly at all. Bad temper revealed itself.” * * & (Most of these sayings I found in “Portraits of the 18th Century,” translated from the French of Sainte-Beuve, which I recommend for casual reading. Each sketch is short and independent of the oth- ers. Graham Hall, 13, of the Ben Milam Hotel in Houston, was re- cently elected president of the Texas Hotel Association in its an- nual convention held at El Paso. Hall is already national president of the Hotel Greeters’ Association and will spend most of this year traveling throughout the United States and Canada on work con- nected with these offices. George G. “Hoot” Gibson, ’29, was recently appointed assistant Dairy Specialist for the A. & M. Extension Service and will make his headquarters on the campus. He attended Iowa State College after graduating from Texas A. & M. and for the past three years has been doing dairy work for the Iowa State Extension Service.
