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THE TEXAS AGGIE E.-B. McQuillen................ Publisher Published Semi-Monthly at the A. & M. Press, College Station, Texas, except dur- ing the summer months when issued menthly, by the Association of Former Students of the Agricultural and Mechan- ical College of Texas, College Station, Texas. LIA BH I TR Ir RN ME President CL. - Babeoek, 18.0 ...ive. Vice President E. E. McQuillen, ’20.._ Executive Secretary L.. B. locke, ”18............ Assistant Secretary Subscription Price $5.00 Entered as Second Class Matter at College Station, Texas Directors HaNIKssDeagon, 116... ils Port Arthur Charles L. Babcock, ’18................ Beaumont TE PRR ET tf Pe I SI SSS Tyler Be. DD. Perking, 207... rei in ak McKinney Jd. B. Crockett, ’09. : Dallas 0. A. J. G T Charley K. Leighton, ’32.................. Austin Poel Downs, JT; 208.....cciemicdis.iosenit Temple J.C. Dykes, 2211. ........... Fort Worth Oo HaMeDowell, 2120. ........ ohh. Towa Park ABs Winman, £7225... 0. Corpus Christi eSB 2 Pat! Blac hry, 222... dish aredo R. S. Reading, ’10 : El Paso G. Dudley Everett, ’15............. Stephenville G. C. McSwain, 20 Amarillo BB. YV:48pence, 211... ...... 0... Big Spring E. E. Aldridge, ’16........ ....San Antonio Penrose B. Metcalfe, ’16............ San Angelo Eo R i Budaly, #’10........: College Station C. “A. iThanheiser, ’01...........ccccumvins Houston A. P. Rollins, ’06 Dallas B.A, Birk, 18. 4. ni. Wichita Falls EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Bei Di Perkins, (3297 ci cilities McKinney C. LL. Babcock, '18....ciritene Beaumont C. A. Thanseiser, 01 Houston KR. CEudalyy- 210. 0d. College Station Oscar A. Seward, Jr., '07........... Groesbeck FUND TRUSTEES McKinney STUDENT LOAN F. D. Perkins, '97 AZ TF. i Mitchell, 209... .....0...... end Corsicana E. E. McQuillen, ’20............ College Station REPRESENTATIVES ON ATHLETIC COUNCIL Dallas Tyree L. Bell, 13 Tyler A. G. Pfaff, '27 MORE THAN A GAME The annual Thanksgiving Day. football game between the State’s two largest institutions of higher education has become more than a gridiron attraction. It is called generally the “Football Classic” of the Southwest, and is one of the leading annual gridiron rival- ries of the Nation. It has become even more. It is a Texas Tradition. Regardless of the standings, or the relative strength of the two teams the game annually draws the largest attendance of the South- west’s football season. Its out- come can not be foretold by any knowr_zard_stick of the football ex ’ This game of games has become only a leading feature of a day that sees the finest of Texas citi- zenship gathered for a holiday. The former students of the two schools in many instances make the trip to College Station or to Austin to- gether. Thecusands of Texans who never attended either institution are annual spectators and visitors. This year the Aggies are hosts. Regardless of the outcome of the battle that afternoon every visitor will be made to feel that he is wel- come to our campus. That such an occasion can be- ‘come the splendid, tolerant, happy day that it has, is ample indication of the fine spirit of sportsman- ship that almost alone of the peo- ples of the world, Americans pos- sess. The Thanksgiving Day game is more than a football game; its one of the Southwest’s finest tra- ditions. DEMAND REFORM AT RICE FIELD The AGGIE suggests that con- ference schools playing Rice In- stitute in Houston demand a com- plete change in the general handl- ing of the stadium crowds in that city, or transfer the Rice home games elsewhere. Surely the fol- lowers of the football game de- serve far more consideration than they are given at Rice. The snide arrangement now in Vogue at the Rice stadium calls for the visiting team to be given its rightful share of tickets on the SUNNY side, whereas every other conference stadium is di- vided at the 50 yard line. Further- more, the rickety wooden stands on this sunny side are diabolically designed for the suffering of the cash customers. At the A. & M.- Rice game last Saturday there were scores of burly bluecoats and stu- dents armed with long poles to prevent anyone climbing the fenc- es. Up in the stands there were NO ushers working to protect those who had paid good money for seats that they were unable to occupy. And these usurpers were NOT students. Unless a spectator reached the stadium thirty minutes before game time he could not work his way in before the kick-off, and getting out was equally difficult. When he finally reached the stands he found LOTS OF BOOKS AND A FEW IDEAS by Dr. T. F. Mayo Ce. TRENDS IN CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE (EDITOR’S NOTE: The following is the third of a series of five columns, pre- pared by Dr. Mayo on “Trends in Ameri- can Literature”. The other two will appear in succeeding issues of the AGGIE. These articles are reproductions of a series of radio broadcasts made during the Summer by Dr. Mayo that were highly commended and that brought to Dr. Mayo wide notice.) (III) The Jazz Age, that hardboiled decade following the Armistice, af- fected the women more than the men. Critical reason, which dictat- ed most of the good books of those years, always acts as an acid solv- ent of ideals and traditional re- straints. Now the ladies (God bless ‘em) probably had, to begin with, more ideals and traditional ~ re- straints than the men. 1t 1s there- fore no accident that the two American poets who have the best claims to the Laureateship of the Age of the Breaking of Idols should both have been women. Ed- na St. Vincent Millay was quite frank about “burning her candle at both ends,” even though she knew that it would not “last the night.” She seemed rather proud of the fact that her “shining pal- ace,” unlike the ugly rock-based houses of dull and respectable peo- ple, was “built upon the sand.” kok kk 3k But perhaps Dorothy Parker (today, I understand, writing scenarios in Hollywood) came near- er than anyone else to expressing the essence of the age of critical rationalism. Fortunately also for five-minute column hacks, she cul- tivates the habit of extreme brev- ity and quotability. Here is what Miss Parker called an “Unfortu- nate Coincidence”: “By the time you swear you're his, Shivering and sighing, And he vows his passion is Infinite, undying— Lady, make a note of this: One of you is lying.” k % kx kk Xk poems is the bitter grin of one who is too rational to trust her _ameotioge-—that As her work matures, the bitter- ness deepens and the grin fades. Here, she writes, is “The Flaw In Paganism”: “Drink and dance and laugh and lie, Love, the through, For tomorrow we shall die! (But alas, we never do.)” der i de dw % 70 1TVv is Foor reeling midnight There is no grin left at all in this epitaph for “The Very Rich Man”: “He’d have the best, and that was none too good; No barrier could hold, before his terms. He lies below, correct in cypress woods, And entertains the most exclus- ive —worms.” k sk ok 3k ok Finally, this is all the consola- tion that Miss Parker can bring herself to leave with us im her concluding “Summary”: “Every love’s the love before In a duller dress. That’s the measure of my lore— Here’s my bitterness: Would I knew a little more Or very much less! * k 3k kk To close Dorothy Parker’s “Death and Taxes” and open Paul Engle’s “American Song” is to step from the rationalistic 20’s into the romantic ’30’s. Mr. Engle is a young Middle-Westerner who be- lieves that life is good, that love is real and lasting, and that Amer- ica, whatever its faults, is the most beautiful and love-worthy and altogether singable country on earth. He believes this, he feels it Behind most of Miss Parker’s RIVAL EXES 0 JOIN HANDS AT ANNUAL AFFAIR San Antonio Ex-Students, both University of Texas and Texas A. & M., will hold their annual joint rally and party again this fall pre- ceding the Thanksgiving Day Clas- sic at College Station. The affair will be staged at the Plaza Hotel in San Antonio at seven P.M. Tuesday, November 23, and will be an informal dinner-dance. An at- tendance of several hundred is ex- pected. Col. Ike Ashburn, Assistant to the President, Association Secre- tary E. E. McQuillen, ’20, will be among the guests from College for the occasion. Since the big football game will be played at A. & M. this year the San Antonio Aggies are “Hosts” for this year’s joint party. Hugh Wharton, ’28, is gen- eral chairman of arrangements, as- sisted by C. C. “Polly” Kreuger, ’12, and other members of the San Antonio Club. A. & M. men and their ladies from other cities are extended a cordial invitation to be present. deeply, as a good romantic, and he trusts his feelings sufficiently to sing it at the top of his voice, in accents sometimes tuneful and im- pressive and sometimes merely breathless. He writes, among other things, an impatient “Letter To An Elder Generation” (the rebel- lious, bitter, rationalistic genera- tion of the Post-War Decade): “You say you buried God (weep- ing you say it) And split the flesh to its essential parts— But you have left us bodies with flame And buried God no deeper than our hearts. We are sick of this. Have we not buried friends? There will be sons to bury us too soon. We will not fear it nor raise up a shout Against the yellow and unhearing moon. bright EE I I Paul Engle is a romantic mystie, with the mystie’s faith in a pur- poseful whole of which we are all working parts: “We hold that life works haltingly through us, Using for its dark ends our hands, our hearts, That life is one vast movement, and, as men, We are its passing and parts.” eternal Hck ok kk “Earth is in our blood,” says this young man, and “who are we to speak of death?” “Not to wonder, feel, wish life, is the one crime For us whose hearts have no hurt and no grief That cleanly the certain surgery of time Will not heal with long days fled. O rich rain-blooded earth! O sun- greened leaf! Only the dead should talk about the dead.” $k ok ok 3k its hands of And as for dry, cold rationalism as a way of living, here is what Mr. Engle thinks: “We live by no mind that is only reason, ‘| For there are in us strengths older than thought, Memory of moon-earthed the treason Of spring in our hearts, old fam- ily-named corn lands— Eternal in us as ancestral, wrought Curve of our thigh and the gripped shape of hands.” kk oF 3k 3k seeds, “We live by no mind that is only reason”’— “Not to wonder, feel, wish life, is the only crime”— Let those two lines of Paul Engle’s stand as the credo of the new gen- the aisles completely blocked with people, no ushers, the rows poorly numbered or lettered, and the num- bers on the seats obliterated. Such treatment of visitors should not be permitted nor countenanced. Perhaps the Rice and Houston peo- ple seated in the nice steel stands on the shady side of the field are properly care for, but the AGGIE hopes that conference rivals of the Owls will demand a reform of this situation or refuse to play Rice in Houston. Conscience and good sportsman- ship on the part of Rice authorities should reform the situation, but apparently these qualities can not be depended upon and firm outside demands will be required. eration who since 1929 are cap- turing American literature from the critical rationalists and social satirists. Romantic Ages have al- ways produced the greatest poetry, since romantics respect their emo- tions, and since emotion is the wind which must fill the sails of poetry. The verse of the rational- ists (like Millay and Parker) can be neat, intelligent, and beautiful- ly incisive. But only a romantic can write poetry in the grand man- ner. So far, in spite of Paul En- gle’s respectable beginnings, such poetry has not appeared in our time. But since, as we have been seeing in these columns, romance seems to be emerging into Ameri- can literature, perhaps great poet- | ry is also on the way. NR - DID YOU KNOW: That the term “Bull” as applied to the commandant of A and M originated nearly forty years ago. The original beginning of this term started during the period when General George T. Bartlett was Commandant of A and M. Gen- eral Barlett before coming to A and M, had seen considerable ser- vice among the Indians and was called by them, “Sitting Bull”. It did not take the A and M cadets of those days any longer than it would take the Aggies of today to shorten the appellation to “Bull”. From that day to this the Aggie Commandant has been the ‘Bull’ whether that term meets with his approval or not. General Bartlett left A and M in 1898 to go to the [ Spanish-American War. That Gus Mistrot was graduated from the CE Department in 1928 while at the age of 17. ‘That the Aggies defeated LL. S U at Dallas in 1914 by the score of 63 to 9. But the oddity of the game was that L S U was leading the Aggies at the half by a score of 9 to 0. What Charley Moran, the Aggie coach, said to the team be- tween the halves is unknown—but the Aggies did come back the sec- ond half to score 63 points. Dudley Everett started the second half off for the Aggies by returning the kickoff for a touchdown. Ev- erett, although usually an end, was the greatest ball carrier that day, that the Southwest had ever seen. That the name of the first year book at A and M had rather a novel origin. The editors of the “Olio” explained it thus: Dryden called a certain play of Ben John- son’s an Olio—because it “was a mixture of comedy and tragedy.” “It is some what in this sense that we use it.” That the now famous Aggie band was formed in 1894. That the first assignment to the College of a military instructor by the United States government oc- curred in the year 1877, when Captain G. T. Ilmsted was ordered to report for duty on the A and M campus. That the Battalion saff was el- ected three times a year by the two Literary Societies in joint ses- sion in 1895. F. M. Law, Jr., 95 was the first Editor-in-Chief in the 1894-95 season. That the Aggies were C 1 A- minded in 1913. One of the Aggie yells in 1913 was: “Chicker Fum- mer, Chicker Fummer; Hug, Kiss, Spoon—C I A, C I A, here we come — See us, Hear us, we are the same—after the game!” A and M To Get $878,975 From State This Year Refusal of Governor James V. Allred to bring up for discussion allotment for A and M College for this term at the legislature leaves the college with the appropriation of $878,975 for this year. The ap- propriation was made during the last regular session of the legisla- ture. It is believed that had the con- siderations been brought before the legislature in special session, a considerable reduction might have been made. The appropriation of $878,975 does not include funds granted to A and M branch col- leges or the extension service or experiment stations. In Austin recently in the inter- est of the college were President T. .O. Walton; Col. Ike Ashburn, executive secretary of the pres- ident; Vice-President F. C. Bolton; A. B. Connor, experiment station director; E. E. McQuillen, secre- tary of the Former Students As- sociation, and Dean Gibb Gilchrist of the School of Engineering. Longhorns Orders are now being taken for the 1938 Longhorn. Any ex-student who desires a copy, may reserve one by writing to the Student Publications. Price $5.00. Copies of the 1932-34-35-36 Longhorn are still availal.le. M. M. Dikeman, ’36, is with the Westinghouse Electric Supply | Company, Dallas. ‘| “Pat” Patterson, WEDDINGS BIRTHS Patterson — Lancaster News has just reached the AG- GIE of the marriage of Miss Eteaua E. Lancaster, of Glade- water, Texas, to Lt. James A. ’30. The mar- riage took place in August of 1936. They make their home in Cody, Wyoming, where “Pat” is a First Lieutenant Cavalry Re- | serve at Camp F-24-”, Co. 1852, CCC, Cody, Wyoming. Reed — Peterson Miss Mary Peterson, of Belton, became the bride of Charles O. Reed, 32, on October 24. The wed- ding took place in Temple, and Mr. and Mrs. Reed are at home ‘to their friends at Eastland, Texas. Gregg — Schuenemann Mrs. August Schuenemann an- nounces the marriage of her daugh- ter, Hattie, to Bruce P. Gregg, ’28, of Kingsbury. The wedding was solemnized in Lockhart. After a wedding trip to Old Mexico, Mr. and Mrs. Gregg are making their home in Taylor, Texas. For the [ past four years, Gregg has been connected with the National Life and Accident Insurance Company, serving at present as superinten- dent of the Northern Division of the Austin District with headquar- ters at Taylor. Logsdon — Epperson The marriage of Miss Inez Ep- person, of Mineral Wells, and Mr. E. Couger Logsdon, ’26, of Palo Pinto, were married on October 2 at the First Christian Church in Stephenville. Mr. and Mrs. Logsdon are at home to their friends at Mineral Wells, Texas, where Logs- don is associated with the State Re-employment Office of that city. Davie — Daugherty Miss Imogene Daugherty be- came the bride of Roland W. Da- vie, '28, recently at the Brooklyn Methodist Church in Dallas. Mr. and Mrs. Davie are making their home in Dallas, where Davie is with the Borden Milk Company of that city. Rollins .— Steadman The wedding of Miss Betty Steadman, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Hugh A. Steadman, of Me- Camey, and Charles C. Rollins, Jr., ’33, of McCamey, was solemn- ized on Octiber 14 at the First Presbyterian Church of McCamey. Mr. and Mrs. Rollins will make their home in McCamey, Texas. Hardin — McLean Miss Maxine McLean, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. A. McLeano of Marshall, was recently married to Robert R. Hardin, ’30, of Marshall. Mr. and Mrs. Hardin are at home to their many friends at Marshall, Texas, where Hardin is a staff member of the sail erosion camp in that city. Richmond - Shillinburg Miss Aleen Shillinburg, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jerome Shillinburg of Dublin, recently became the bride of Jason L. “Cy” Richmond, ’35, son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas R. Richmond, of Kyle, Texas. Mr. and Mrs. Richmond will make their home in Hope, Arkansas, where “Cy” is connected with the Soil Conservation Service. Jordan — Wallace News comes to the AGGIE of the marriage of Miss Virginia Wal- lace, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. R. Wallace of San Antonio, Walker R. Jordan, ’34, of Mason. Mr. and Mrs. Jordan are making their home in San Antonio, where Jordan is connected with a broker- age firm in that city. Williams — Sanders The marriage of Miss Gladys Sanders, of Lubbock, and J. D. Williams, ’'35, of Colorado, was solemnized on November 7 at Lub- bock, Texas. Prior to her marriage, Miss Sanders was assistant home domenstration agent of Lubbock County. Dr. and Mrs. Williams are at home to their many friends at Colorado, Texas, Where Williams is engaged in the practice of vet- erinary medicine. Albert Earl “Little Dutch” Voel- kel, '37, is working for the A. S. Gage Estate & Ranches, San An- tonio, and gets his mail at Box 1107. Voelkel says he likes his work very much and invites any of his classmates passing through San Antonio to give him a ring. pr 8 lk a fh + of to | Mr. and Mrs. Lester J. Young, '25, are delighted over the birth of a son, George Derryberry, born on October 17 at the John Sealy Hospital at Galveston. Mr. and Mrs. Young make their home at College Station, Texas, where Les- ter is connected with the A. & M. Extension Service. Mr. and Mrs. Spencer C. Frost, Jr., ’28, announce the arrival of a son, Spencer C. Frost, III, on August 23. They make their home at 4246 University Boulevard, Dal- las, Texas. Frost is with the South- western Bell Telephone Company. Mrs. John W. Burgess of Fort Worth, wife of John W. Burgess, ’29, who died on September of a streptococcic throat infection, an- nounces the arrival of a daughter, Beverly Ann, born on November 7. Mrs. Burgess has two sons, John William, Jr., and Robert Ed- ward. Mr. and Mrs. Lee R. Pool, ’32, announce the arrival of a son, Charles Walton, born on September 12. Mr. and Mrs. Pool make their home at Kermit, Texas. Mr. and Mrs. Homer A. Hunter, 25, are happy over the birth of a fine son, Robert Frederick, born last June. Hunter is with the Texas Air Conditioning Corporation and his office is 407 Capps Building, Fort Worth, Texas. Mr. and Mrs. W. R. “Bill” Kim- brough, ’35, are receiving congrat- ulations from their many friends over the birth of a little daughter, Carroll Frances. Mr. and Mrs. Kim- brough make their home in Sierra Blanca, where Bill is county agri- cultural agent. Bill is the older brother of Jack and John Kim- brough, now at A. & M. L. E. Johnson, ’35, has moved from Long Beach, California to Fresno, California, where he gets his mail at Box 834. R. E. Harris, ’23, is county sup- erintendent fo Caldwell County aad lives on a farm four miles fron! Lockhart, Texas. He gets his mail in ‘P.vO. Box 449. Mr. Harristis rmarried and has two children. W. B. White, ’23, is production and drilling superintendent of the Felmont Corporation, 1901 Esper- son Building, Houston. C. A. Muncey, ’23, has changed his mailing address to P. O. Box 182, Houston, Texas. Muncey form- erly lived in Beaumont. Matt M. Moseley Jr., ’36, is with the Braniff Airways, Ine. out at Love Field, Dallas. He is doing radio service work and as this particular job is a 24 hour job, Moseley has been on night duty for the past two months. His mail- ing address is 2013 West 10th St., Dallas. W. Earle Tardy, ’36, who is with the General Geophysical Company, has been transferred from Lexing- ton, Mississippi, to Indianola, Miss- issippi. a i itd LL hk Uhh ihe, IN MEMORIAM Joe H. Muenster, ’99 Joe H. Muenster, age 54, died on October 29 in Austin following a paralytic stroke suffered a week before. He is survived by his widow, one daughter, and one son. At the time of his death, he was in the insurance business. Mr. Muenster was widely known over Texas in Ma- sonic circles. He served for many years as secretary of the Scottish Rite organization in the Austin District; as secretary of the Ben Hur Temple in Austin, and as secretary of the corporation operating the Scottish Rite Dormitory at the University of Texas. He was born in Lul- ing, Texas but had been a resident in Austin for the last 30 years. Active in A. & M. affairs in Austin, Mr. Muenster serv- ed as president of the Capi- tol City A. & M. Club for several terms. His death is a real loss to that organiza- tion.
