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A. E. Hinman, 225 Corpus Christi
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A. G. Pfaff, ’27
BETTER JUDGEMENT
The better judgment of the
legislature, encouraged by friends
or the State’s higher educational
institutions, nullified the very dan-
gerous proposal of reealling and
trimming the current bi-ennial ap-
propriation bill. With the plea
made by many that economy in
the State’s financial affairs should
be practiced, there can be no argu-
ment. But there is no economy in
crippling the educational program
of the state.
Entering also into the matter of
recalling and cutting present ap-
propriations is the breaking of con-
fracts h DIDI IVE | been made and
gaJembers
of their ulties. Fa step
would give the Rol pro-
gram of Texas a stigma in educa-
tional circles of the nation that |
would make it almost impossible
to attract to Texas schools the best
teaching talent available.
It is to be hoped there wlil be no
further .talk of cutting the present
educational appropriation. It was
made by the regular session of
the legislature last spring after,
ample and close study and delibera-
tion. Budgets have been drawn,
plans made and programs institut-
ed under that approved appropria-
tion. The finances of Texas are far
from such condition as to call for
the breaking of the State’s word
and for retarding the development
and setting back the program of
higher education for many years.
Jack McCullough, ’24, sends in
his dues. Jack is still county agri-
cultural agent of Collin County
with headquarters at McKinney,
Texas.
P. L. “Two-Gun” Tracy, '30, 1s
with S. O. Yarbrough, contractor
and builder, of Austin. At the
present time he is located at
Smithville, Texas, where he is
superintendent of construction on
the new post-office building. Tracy
expects to be in Smithville for
about four months.
John C. Herren, ’29, is living at
920 South Carrolton, Apartment
B, New Orleans, Louiisiana. Her-
ren is with the Gulf Engineering
Company.
Lloyd V. Halbrooks, 37, received
his B. S. degree in agricultural
education from A. & M. this sum-
mer and plans to teach vocational
agriculture in the Williams High
School at May, Texas, this fall.
Frederick W. “Fritz” Muller, ’32,
is doing office and field geological
work for the Skelly Oil Company,
1301 Esperson Building, Houston.
P. L. McGee, 32, has moved from
Thompsons, Texas, to Beaumont,
where he gets his mail at Box
2511.
A new member of the Associa-
tion is Asa Ben Gibbs, ’37, who is
with the General Electric Comp-
any, 1422 State Street, Schenecta-
dy, New York.
| withthe lordly
LOTS OF BOOKS
AND A FEW IDEAS
by
Dr. T. F. Mayo
Qu
TRENDS IN CONTEMPORARY
LITERATURE
(EDITOR'S NOTE: The following is
the second of a series of five columns,
prepared by Dr. Mayo on “Trends in
American Literature.” The other three
will appear in succeeding issues of the
AGGIE. These articles are reproductions
of a series of radio broadcasts made dur-
ing the Summer by Dr. Mayo that were
highly commended and that brought to Dr.
Mayo wide notice.)
In the last column, surveying the
field of recent American books, we
found that since 1929 the tide of
fashion has been flowing away
from the criticism and satire that
have colored most good novels and
plays since the War. The literary
temper of the 1930’s has been be-
coming more and more romantic:
that is, good writers nowadays tend
to consider great emotions like
love, religion, and patriotism as
most worthy of being written
about.
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For a Romantic is one who be-
lieves in following the guidance of
his feelings rather than that of his
cold and critical reason.
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Among this new group of ro-
mantic writers, Thomas Wolfe of
Asheville, North Carolina, is the
most powerful and promising nov-
elist. Like those of all romantics,
his writings are very personal. In
fact the hero of the two novels
-{ which he has published is, we are
forced to believe, none other than
Thomas Wolfe himself, and the
novels are very largely outpour- |
ings of the hero’s loves, hates,
fears, and enthusiasms. “Of Time
And The River,” Thomas Wolfe's
latest novel and so far his master-
piece, has for its theme the lost
and lonely wanderings of the edu-
cated American in search of a
world in-which he can feel at home.
Reared on the great voices that
speak to all young Americans in
school from the English and Con-
tinental classics, the American
finds that this European culture,
or interpretation of life on which
he has been fed, does not inter-
pret, has nothing in common with
the big shaggy half-tamed coun-
try in which we Agericans live.
Our, cars ail €%r minds are filled
and nourished, from out reading,
and cultivated
tones of Shelley and Shakespeare
and Dante. But our bodies live in
crude little towns on the raw red
hills of North Carolina or the tre-
mendous dusty Texas plains. The
educated American therefore, is
lost between two worlds—the Old
World from which his culture
’21, has been
Pass to
Aubrey S. Legg,
transferred from Eagle
Sweetwater as district manager of
the Texas Electric Service Comp-
any. As a cadet at A. & M., Aubrey
was active in many student affairs
and was voted the best drilled
man in the cadet corps his senior
year.
George W. Cox, ’35, is working
for the State Highway Department
at Dallas at the present time in
the capacity of plant inspector.
Working in this same office are:
Arthur Hass, ’37; Johnny Taylor,
235; .Alan*C. Love, ’33; and Cros-
well Forest, ’37. Cox gets his mail
at 6101 Gaston Avenue, Dallas.
W. P. “Bill *MecIntosh, 137, iis
with the General Electric Company
at 1422 State Street, Schenectady,
New York. Bill declared receiving
the TEXAS AGGIE recently was
just like getting back on the cam-
pus. ‘He says quite a few of the
boys up there are planning on see-
ing the A. & M.-Manhattan Uni-
versity football game on October
2
George L. Dickey, 20, resumed
of Men at the North Texas Junior
Agricultural College at Arlington
after a two-year leave of absence.
During the past two years, he has
been loaned to Texas WPA organi-
ation and has served that organi-
zation during this time as district
supervisor of the Fort Worth Area.
He has had charge of the huge
WPA program in nine counties and
turned in a very splendid and suc-
cessful job.
W. B. Hemphill, ’32, is chief of
a seismograph party for the Stan-
dard Oil Company of Venezuela in
Venezuela.
Steve A. Noble, ’25, is with the
American Air Lines, Inc., 45 Van-
derbilt Avenue, New York City.
He has been up there over a year
and is doing well. His work car-
—all of his travel, of course, be-
ing one by air.
tinuously in flight from a Fury
of restless lonliness. As his train
plunges across Virginia at night,
he is erazy drunk, with two other
College boys, on the Pullman plat-
form. Here is the sort of thing
that runs through his mind:
“Therefore they stand upon the
rocking platform of the train, wild
and dark and jubilant from the
fierce liquor they have drunk, but
more wild and dark and jubilant
from the fury swelling in their
hearts, the mad fury pounding in
their veins . . . and the great wheels
came and the New World in which |
|
smash and pound beneath their
he must live out a life which has | feet, the great wheels pound and
never been adequately interpreted | smash and give rhyme to madness,
and glorified for him by a native!
culture.
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part of the story of a restless
young American seeking a place
co which he can feel that his whole
being belongs. As if pursued by a
Fury, Eugene Gant rushes to Har-
vard, into the crowded streets of
New York, into the estates of the
gorgeously wealthy, across to Eng-
land, our cultural motherland, and
finally to Paris, the capitol of
Western Civilization. Nowhere can
he find rest. In America he is
mentally lonely; to Europe he is
emotionally alien. At the end of
the novel he is sailing from France
—back to America. For those who
like that sore of thing, it may be
added that in each new environ-
ment which he tries, there is a
woman who embodies or supple-
ments the spirit of the place.
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“Of Time And The River” is a
truly romantic novel, almost like a
poem. It is a great burst of emo-
tion, at times magnificently elo-
quent, at other times, alas, degen-
erating into tiresome raving. But
the good parts are unforgettable.
Eugene Gant’s own people are all
seen, through his feverish eyes,
as a clan of distorted giants. His
huge roaring father dies in loud
and titanic agonies. His gaunt eld-
er sister worries as no one else
ever worried. His grotesque but
lovable uncle, in his dirty Boston
law office, with his tragi-comic
wife, is a split personality, half
madman, half genius, either half
big enough to furnish out eight
or ten ordinary personalities.
Eugene Gant himself is as vio-
lent and intense as the rest of his
tribe in his sufferings, joys, hates,
and loves.
own land America torture and fas-
cinate him by turns. As the author
keeps telling us, Eugene is con-
Particularly does his
and
a tongue to hunger and desire, a
certitude to all the savage, drunk-
len, and exultant fury that keeps
“Of Time And The River” is a!
mounting rising, swelling in them
all the time!
“Click, clack,
click, clack, clackety-clack .
Rock,
it, hit it, on the curve . . . eat the
earth, eat the earth, slam and slug
and beat the earth; and let her
whir, and let her purr, at eighty,
per! Whew-w! Wow!”
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passes them, fullspeed, on the
double track: “Wham! Smash!
With slamming roar, hoarse waugh,
and thunderbolted light,
southbound train is gone in one
projectile smash of wind-like fury
—and the open empty silence of its
passing fills" us, thrills us, stills
us with the vision of Virginia in
the moonlight, with the dream-
still magic of Virginia in the
moon.”
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This is what “Of Time And The
River” is like. Dozens of places,
scores of characters, boil out of
Thomas Wolfe’s young brain, so
fiery hot from the mint of his
creative imagination that each
single one burns itself into the
memory. The book is full of faults:
It is too long, it is at times im-
pertinently personal, assuming that
anything that concerns the writer’s
insides must be of general inter-
est. Occasionally it is plain dull.
More seriously, it lacks restraint
and finish. Most seriously, it falls
short in spots, of the sincerity
which never comes spontaneously,
but only from hard honest thought
self-analysis. But “Of Time
And The River,” with all its
faults, is alive—almost shockingly
so. It fairly reeks and pants with
life. Its faults, it seems to me, are
those of a young genius whose
next book (also to deal with Eu-
gene Gant) is worth watching for.
ries him all over the United States.
reel, smash and swerve; hit |
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his regular duties this fall as Dean |-
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clackety-clack; | dolph Field, San Antonio.
| ents.
: : ‘man. Mr.
Then as another train meets and |
WEDDINGS
Elder-Curtis
Miss Vera Curtis, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Curtis of Grah-
am, Texas, became the bride of
T. J. Elder Jr., ’32, on July 23. Mr.
and Mrs. Elder are at home to
their many friends at 414 N. Trav-
is Street, Sherman, Texas.
News comes to the AGGIE of the
recent marriage of Dr. E. A. Grist,
37. Dr. and Mrs. Grist are at
home to their friends at 637 W.
San Antonio Street, New Braun-
fels. Grist is doing private veteri-
nary practice.
Ragsdale-Lanz
Mr. and Mrs. P. F. Lanz an-
nounce the marriage of their
daughter, Ruth Estelle, to Mr.
John Morrison Ragsdale, ’36, at
Portageville, Missouri on Septem-
ber 26. Mr. and Mrs. Ragsdale
will make their home in Bloomfield,
Missouri, where John is employed
in the county agent’s office.
Bone-Luther
News has come to us of the mar-
riage on October 15 of Miss Arlene
Luther, of Dallas, to Mr. Robert
Bone, ’32, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Walter M. Bone. Mr. and Mrs.
Bone will make their home in Dal-
las.
J ohnston-Chilton
The marriage of Miss Jane Chil-
ton, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Bradley J. Linthicum Jr., of Mar-
lin, and Harry W. Johnston Jr., ’35,
of Laredo, was solemnized on Oe-
tober 16 at the First Baptist
Church of Marlin. Johnston has
just recently returned from Vene-
zuela, South America, where he
has been a geologist with the
Standard Oil Company.
Smyre-Shelton
Miss Theo Shelton and Guy J.
Smyre, 35, were recently married.
The bride is the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. G. C. Shelton of Gresh-
am. Mr. and Mrs. Smyre will make
their home in Houston.
Moore-Kendall
The marriage of Miss. Emma
Sue Kendall, daughter of W. B.
Kendall, of Houston, and Milton
M. Moore, ’36, of Houston, was
solemnized at the Church of the
Incarnation. Mr. and Mrs. Moore
: doches on October 9. Mr.
will make their home in Houston.
Melden-Powell
Mi-s Frances Patton
daughter of Dr. and Mrs. William
Powell of Nashville, Tennessee, |
was married to Theodore M. Mel- |
den, Jr., ’33, son of Mr. and Mrs, |
Ted M. Melden of Mission on Oc- |
tober 17. The bride’s father, Rev- |
erend Powell, read the marriage
vows. Melden has recently receiv-
ed his aviator’s wings and com-
mission as lieutenant from Ran-
Powell, |
Cramer - Lantry
On March 6, Miss Josephine |
Lantry, dauahitor of Mr. and Mrs. |
J. T. Lantry, of Tulsa, Oklahoma,
became the bride of A. C. Cramer,
"35, at the home of the bride’s par- |
M. B. Cramer, ’37, was best |
and Mrs. Cramer are |
making their home at Great Bend,
Kansas, and get their mail at Box
686.
Cox — Hutchinson
Miss Helen Hutchinson was mar-
ried to L. B. Cox, ’35, on May 22.
Mr. and Mrs. Cox are making their
home at 1517 Washington Boule-
vard, Beaumont, Texas. Cox says
he thoroughly enjoys working with
the Beaumont A. & M. Club.
McKnight — Fruit
Miss Emily Virginia Fruit, of
El Paso, and Arthur L. McKnight,
"31, were married on August 20 in
the First Christian Church of El
Paso. Mr. and Mrs. McKnight are
making their home at 4419 Ave-
nue Q'%, Galveston, Texas, where
McKnight is still connected with
the U. S. Engineers’ Office at Gal-
veston.
Seeligson — Johnson
Mr .and Mrs. E. M. Johnson, of
San Angelo and Austin, have an-
nounced the marriage of their
daughter, Nadine, to Harry G.
Seeligson, ’34, of San Angelo, for-
merly of Dallas, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Henry Seeligson, Dallas. The
wedding was solemnized at 5:30
p. m. October 5 at the home of ‘the
bride’s parents in Austin. One of
the groomsmen was J. B. Heinen,
’34. Mr. and Mrs. Seeligson sailed
from Galveston on the Algonquin
for a wedding trip to New York.
‘ris Underwood,
tian Church of San Antonio on
September 12. Mr. and Mrs. Un-
~derwood are making their home in
. Houston.
' make their home in Crockett, Tex-
as, where Frank is county agricul-
Upon their return, they will make
their home in San Angelo.
Barham — Whited
The marriage of Miss Carolyn
Whited, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
H. W. Whited of Nacogdoches, and
George S. Barham, Jr., ’34, of
Shreveport, son of Dr. and Mrs.
George S. Barham, 02, of Nacog-
doches, was solemnized at the
Christ Episcopal Church of Nacog-
and Mrs.
Barham will make their home in
Shreveport, La.
Long — Scoates
Announcement has been made of
the engagement and approaching
marriage of Miss Mary Eleanor
Scoates, of College Station, to Mr.
Clarence E. Long, Jr., ’37, of Ros-
coe, Texas. The wedding will be
solemnized at Saint Andrew’s Epis-
copal Church, Bryan, Texas on
October 16.
Dexter — Dyer
Miss Dorothy Dyer, of Houston,
recently became the bride of Fred
Dexter, Jr., 28, of Houston. After
a delightful honemoon to Mexico
City, Mr. and Mrs. Dexter are
at home to their many friends in
Houston, Texas. Dexter is asso-
ciated in business with Roy R.
Brown, ’25. They are connected
with the Systematic Company, 242
W. 17th St., Houston.
Pedigo — Knight
Miss Fayrene Knight, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Knight of
Sherman, was married to Edward
M. Pedigo, 37, son of Mr. and Mrs.
S. H. Peigo of Sherman on Septem-
ber 11. Mr. and Mrs. Pedigo are
making their home in Sherman.
Tompkins - Bethune
Mr. and Mrs. Samuel W. Beth-
une, of Little Rock, Arkansas, have
announced the marriage of their
daughter, Miss Lillian Bethune, to
James F. Tompkins, 22, son of
Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Tompkins, of
Corpus Christi, on August 22, at
Colorado Springs. Mr. and Mrs.
Tompkins are making their home
in Houston, where Tompkins is
with the U. S. Steel Corporation,
1507 Petroleum Building.
Kleber — Pierce Re
The marriage of Miss Sarah
Pierce, daughter of Mrs. Walter
F. Pierce of Sparta, Ga., and John
P. Kleber, ’35, son of Mr. F. M.
Kleber, was performed recently at
the home of the bride’s brother and
sister in Dallas. After a wedding
trip, Mr. and Mrs. Kleber are at
| home to their friends at 3320 Doug- | §
las, Dallas, Texas.
Underwood — Kercheville
Announcement has been made of
the marriage of Miss Ruth Kerche-
ville, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J.
Ira Kercheville of San Antonio, to
Harris Underwood, Jr., ’36, of
Houston, son of Mr. and Mrs. Har-
’12. The wedding
took place at the Central Chris-
BIRTHS
Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Boehne, ’26,
are the proud parents of a fine |
son. They make their home at 615
Longacre Boulevard, Yeadon, Pa.
Boehne is with the Philadelphia
Switch-gear Plant of the General
Electric Co.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank W. Medley,
’35, are delighted over the birth of
a little son, Frank W. Jr., born re-
cently. Frank and Mrs. Medley
tural agent.
Mr. and Mrs. William D. Me-
Cabe, ’27, are happy over the ar-
rival of a fine son. They make
their home at 1000 Larrabee Street,
Hollywood, California. Bill is ad-
vertising and production manager
for Radio Station KFAC, Los An-
geles.
Mr. and Mrs. Wm. E. “Bill” Mor-
gan, 30, are receiving congratu-
lations from their many A. & M.
friends over the birth of a son,
Bryan Morgan, on October 17. Mr.
and Mrs. Morgan reside in Bryan.
“Bill” is connected with the A. &
M. Extension Service at College
Station. Mrs. Morgan was formerly
Miss Lilla Graham Bryan, of
Bryan.
Mr. and Mrs. Wilmer R. McCul-
lough, ’25, are rejoicing over the
birth of a new daughter born re-
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cently in Bryan, where they make
their home. This makes their sec-
ond daughter.
Mr. and Mrs. H. Morrison “Flip”
Breedlove, ’34, announce the arrival
of a fine son, Homer Mack, born
recently. Mr. and Mrs. Breedlove
make their home at Clarendon,
Texas, where “Flip” is county agri-
cultural agent.
Mr. and Mrs. Oscar D. Price,
22, are the happy parents of a lit-
tle daughter, Hertha Elizabeth,
born September 2. Oscar is with
the Soil Conservation Service and
at the present time is located at
Spartanburg, South Carolina.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank B. “Bugger”
O’Bannon, ’31, are receiving con-
gratulations from their many
friends over the arrival of a baby
girl, Jo Ann, born on August 29.
They make their home at 3622 Cole
Avenue, Dallas, Texas. O’Bannon
is working for Cabell’s Ice Cream
and Dairy Shops as supervisor of
Surburban Shops. He reports that
J. A. DePasquale, 31, is with the
same firm and is supervisor of
the downtown stores.
Mr. and Mrs. T. O. Foster, Jr,
22, are delighted over the birth of
a little girl, born on September 6
in San Antonio. Foster is with the
State Highway Department and :
gets his mail at 1609 Main Street, 3
San Antonio, Texas.
Mr. and Mus. F. L. Holmes, ’30,
are the proud parents of a fine
son born on August 27. He has
been named Frank Leslie, Jr. They
make their home at 3928 Cambridge
Street, El Paso, where Frank is
sales manager of the Wathins
Motor Company, Buick and Chevro-
let dealer in El Paso.
Mr. and Mrs. A. P. Young, 36,
are delighted over the birth of a
fine son, A. J. Young, Jr. on
October 3. Mr. and Mrs, Young
make their home in Bryan, where
Pat is employed in the First Na-
tional Bank of that city.
IN MEvoriay
A. P. Smythe, ’77
News comes to the AGGIE
of the death of Mr. A. P:-
Smythe, one of A. & M.'s
earliest students, at his home
in Pasadena, California.
Death followed a shock from
a fractured hip caused by a |
fall. Mr. Smythe was 80:
years of age. As a student
M at A. & M. he was the first
MM president of the Austin: Lit-:
erary Society and the first
captain of Company A. He
served as trustee of the Col-
lege under the administra-
tion of Governor Sayers. He
is survived by a son in Dal-
las, and a daughter, Mrs.
Beryl Roulac in Pasadena,
California.
Fred H. Ligarde, ’03
Fred H. Ligarde died at
his home on July 5, 1937. He
was an active member of the
Laredo A. & M. Club.
A. J. Seargeant, ’17
A. J. Seargeant, of Brack-
ettville, died in that city on
January 1, 1937. He has a
son who is a student at A.
& M. at the present time.
W. D. Rowell
W. D. Rowell died at his
home in Huntington Park,
California, several weeks ago.
He was active in the affairs
of the Southern California
A. & M. Club.
John William Burgess, 29
John W. Burgess, com-
mander of the CCC Camp in
Oklahoma, died recently at
Ponca City. Services and
burial were held in Fort
Worth. He is the son of Mr.
and Mrs. Duke Burgess, of
Fort Worth. John was grad-
uated from A. & M. in 1929
in architecture and was on
active CCC duty at the time
of his death.
Franz Hermann Altgelt, ’32
Franz H. Atlgelt, age 25,
died at his home in New
Braunfels recently. At the
time of his death, he was em-
ployed as engineer for the
Servtex Materials Company.
Known to his classmates as
“Sarg,” he received his de-
gree in mechanical engineer-
ing and was a member of the
cadet band. Burial was at
New Braunfels.
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