ALUMNI DEPARTMENT.
F. MARION LAW, ’95, Editor.
L. HUTSON, ’95, writes the Bat-
. talion that the Worthington
Pump Company, of Brooklyn, with
which he is working, has constantly on
hand large orders for pumping machin
ery from sugar planters in Hawaii, and
that there should be fine openings out
there for graduates of both the Agri-
cutural and Mechanical departments.
Prof. H. K. Orgain, an old A. and
M. boy, is candidate for superintend
ent of public instruction in Bell County.
Good luck to you, Henry.
“Pee Bunk” Bittle has resigned his
position as Commandant of Cadets and
Professor of Mathematics with the
West Texas Military Institute, at Lla
no, to accept the position of Assistant
under our efficient steward, Mr. Sbisa.
If you want to keep up with the
college and the comings and goings of
your old college chums, subscribe for
the Battalion.
Robert E. Doyle, a popular second
class, man in the session of ’89 and ’90,
paid the college a visit at the opening
of the present term. He came down to
enter a younger brother in college.
Doyle says that he i^ sorry that he
did not return and finish his course.
He is now a wide-awake planter and
general business man at Granbury.
The University has taken rank as one
of the leading and most numerously at
tended universities in the south. The
A. and M. College has issued matricu
lation blanks to 442 students this ses
sion, and is the best and most numer-
iously attended A. and M. College in
the south. Texas is all right!
H. E. Rawlins, ’98, formerly chief
clerk to the commissary department of
the United States Army, in Havana, is
now with the Engineering department
of the army. He is inspector of mason
ry and is at present engaged in securing
stone to be used in paving the streets
of Havana.
As a tree is judged by its fruit, so
is a college judged by the prominence
and achievements of its graduates and
ex-students. Look over the Alumni
catalogue and see what the A. and M.
boys are doing. Every one of them
are following an honorable occupation,
and many of them hold positions of
honor and trust in the commercial and
professional world. That’s not bad!
S. L. Blount, ’95, recently wrote to
a friend on the Campus announcing his
departure for South Africa on a Brit
ish transport, loaded with mules. He
goes as a veterinarian. Look sharp,
“Potsy,” for the wiley Boers.
W. F. Hutchinson is with the Amer
ican Cotton Company, Houston.
C. G. Robson, ’98, is the customs in
spector’s office at Gal\eston.
We regret the fact that the hardware
establishment of Barnes and Son. of