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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (June 1, 1897)
34 THE BATTALION. the executive committee* W. B. Philpott, alumni editor of Battalion. A motion was adopted providing that three members from the alumni and three members from the Alphi Phi,with President Ross as chairman, be appointed to act as an executive committee to consider all matters of interest to both associations. The graduating class of twenty-six members joined the association. The grand chapter of the Alpha Phi fraternity held a business meeting Monday evening and elected the following officers for the ensuing year: E. B. Cushing, Houston, grand commander; E. J. Smith, Denison, lieutenant com mander; T. Hadley Franklin, Houston, officer of the day; E. W. Hutchinson, Houston, Adjutant; P. L. Downs, Temple, quartermaster; H. F. Jonas, Houston, sergeant of guard; J. W. Hawkins, Halletsville, corporal of guard; C. M. Parks,. Dallas, sentinel. Red and white were adopted as the colors of the fraternity. The following were elected to the veteran degree of the grand chapter; Judge Rogan, Brownwood, Silas Hare, Jr.,. Sherman; F. A. Reichardt, Houston; R. B. Green, San Antonio; E. B. Cushing, Houston. A resolution was adopted thanking the Galveston News and its correspondent for the full and complete reports of the Alpha Phi meeting. ♦ ♦ ♦ As the A. & M. college is. under the constitution, a branch of the state university,and as is it is furthermore legally provided that the A. & M. college shall give instruction in subjects pertaining to agriculture and the mechanic arts, the university by establishing a civil engineering department has entered into competion with itself; this department belongs to the college, and the university with just as much propriety might establish at Austin a medical department in competion with the one at Galveston. Shall the different branches of