i Th THE BAtTAUON THE DIRECTORS KtPORT. Inr tb(! stwlcata A«tocian o* 4M AtnfWMl I *-.d M*ct»nur«J 8 C«D«t* >f T«» a&t ■ T»*Jt. Hb^tXnirAT , Last •Sunday’s Houston tost cou- f tam» an article on tke report of the ■ Efttor-m-Ckie! Chic l B. Bs*» ;i 1 lliiinirtM» ■pmi fc at/O. MoohF. , . .i U BunBC>> Ml *. tH STAfct**** . A>V*^x Bottaro Ma *• B. |- Local 1 ife 1 ^ mm efic*. n . -06 1 If! BjMFT F. D. * A ’ T* I A- CcnJui.. ™ 1 CJff. LafoaTT • I^^naeNBr:«. '06 C. A ScnMn Alumni Editor the Aw-t eucToas ( ;»*ct R. F KJi D. B. HAaos Kwwvjrni -i 4 1 , ■ ,, -c-r^r 1—»• —) —j not fucluded in this $amtBarY MOI ICE All uiabwcript into dol for imfot bear the ognatart Ot the v. dc plume, will be Mcep rd While I Daf be pAibiahcd. no not KM piece* if thev ere not igned. bruamr 11. Mas prick rant ami T1 | ctarilDNF.SDAV. JANUARY; 16 5T. I i: board <>i directors bl A, and Mi The followiug clipping from thi^ article is likely to interest the stud-; I cuts here: I i After tietailing tvhat -^as been *S6E!“*£ ; accomplished in the.last two years; - i—-pof| gives in terib-' strong ^ ternu* th THE STUDY W THE KiBi i ■ Mag Weipe^t «livered the fol lowing talk ht the V. SI. C. A. n. v ting last'Sunday: “Fellows: I have spent Way a pleasant Christmas vacation, but the qne that bas^ast passed sur passed all its predecessors. As far as deirp thought a fid pleasure com bined are concerned, these holidays excel ed everything I have pre vious ly experiences!. And it was due I >!you all giv^sg me the honor of hi qg one of th* delegates that •I wei tC, and ^ want to thank you jail fcfr doing:the b*st thing for me l has evier dofle. M. H. MB IKY H ENRY m CRAH : HR«>Ol»»N * B. I.- kl ROGDON BROS ,« AND RKTaIL DEALERS -AND—";—: -r- i LIVERY BU$IXK8.S »iKX«LCrSIVKLY FOR WHITE' TRADK Alt ILK llOFIlg’LjpC * that ^Uiman hand “I’intend toHaya few words con cernfng Bible study.’ Whether or not |’ll succeed infeo ject |iy left for yRu Bible study is the M. C. A. work. the foundation of 3 Tho Bible Study (t ciatlon is its main •ellows, we are Jg6ing to make the'most progr izabons here. In we initist get busy W* cannot affor« colleges of broad a sub- all to decide nuclens of Y. t may be called the Y. M C. A lass of the asso> working force, rit to, and we he Y. M.-C. A. e of all organ- brder to do this on Bible Study. 1 to lag behind pur size in this m A^dr jif. MAN KV THE LEGISlA [T^pr/?fl. iji-ilr, Thi Dallas Nfcws- of January is, publics a jiicture of W- A. TjrMUKman.j wish the. following facts •■about his life.* This is the tether of Kobe rt Trencjkxnan, now at College: W. A- Trenckman of Bellville, Austin County Representative of the Fbrty-NintL District, was born at Millheitaj lek.. in 1S5I9. and ^vas’ educated it, the Texa*. Agrt- caltural amf tlechanical Col leg* 1 , iSyb-j-y. | Hie lias been publisher and’editor o4 tie BelUnllt Wochen- fct ft hiatt for fifteen years % V m fii, ■> it necessity of this, bnilding is folly , , . demonstrated and could the legis- Wl ^, lature but see the crowded, inade- V" ’ . quate quarters which tlie depart-- . y 1 *. ments of civil engineering, electri- ! 8 cal engineering and drawing there ; would he no hesitatfonJ The ‘fsteam Heating Plant’’ re-' . , 1C *1^*®,’ tested)is simply an economic nec- 18 ^ J e tU H B , (1. |B Jo.). lh ’ C allege, asi Stu apirl will nqt mis.- tot Bible Study. t. In the American institu tions there are about 54,000 stu dents engaged in 6ible Study. In Clfmson College, lit. Carolina they h^ve an attendandbof 550 students, at^d out of tSiese t^ere are 280 en- g«*ted in Bible !$tudy, or over 50 pc r Cent. They w*ve thirty-nine Bfbte classes. That institution has oiily! seventyifive" more students than we, and look$*t the work they ate doing. 'They*imve a splendid secretary if* ther person of Mr. I iThe A. Ai M.College ©f North Carolina ha^ an afltendaned of 400 rolled in Y. M . i a budget of ly to show you in other insti- other examples V r ! ' comes up. What The First National Bank :$F iRYAN.^TEXAS. | : I designated {United States Depositary. Capital Surplus and Profits : W4i d««lr* t©| lion amt palnatal of any and all aei s100,000.00 46,000.00: tsirvd at h# r» t*ur patron* of prompt attaa- n { endeavor in iHf perfa*nian«e !■ I* d-aairvd at our hnnds. L. iOl essity, qs it is belated it >^ill for itself ia_less than five years. The. teport quotes Df. Houston, now-president of tile State univer sity; in!his biennial pepbri of the Agricultural and j Mechanical col-. lege in 11901-1902 Mechanical col- * kUe * C years; -for twelve floor otitiie oddest dormitory build- rs previously he was a teacher. Mr.' Trencluna in was elected |o tnc - llegislafiart as the nominee t>f the Dtmocra^io party, which part\ hadinpt made a >minations for the Leg-.^iatare dr or local offices dur- ing the thittji three years preyed ing 1 ?o'>. 11901-1902, who jsays;' *■ ’ seems vicar that it is a matter of State policy to furnish at the Agri cultural and Mechanical college in dustrial, or technological training of every kind whatsoever Jo the young men of the State. It seems clear that the college was mfemfed to be. in the largest sense, the technologi cal institution of Texas,’ ’ [• And yet at Austin the State university -has a magnificent -civil engineering building, while h*re that depart ment te crowded into a few rooms of the main bnilding, the Electrical engineering department;' has one ing and the department of architec tural ejtgineerifig one-half 'the fourth.floor ot the main building. The great need <>f a new dormit ory and naiatoriura isfeo evident to any one wno knows anything at all _ . Ldt us hope that Bible Study is $ugh , wejl ’■ ji Fifty year: Counted: pjcity.; t ■■ fijom now it Will mental c4pacit S^id, ’The pi We is a literature in the rarest of a thought and ima man npon fbllegc car} hon gcbicated if the h teost retnarltable jial knowledge, the principles u gress of ifiattk time, for after wn ed the profess* u-orldj we do never think the fij about the college that the lengthy Furpost ABVL'T THE BATTALION. Tht Leader i ► iuedebted to the Lampasas boy^ in A. & M for a number of copiss of the “Battal k>u’’ h weekly ] >aj>er published by the students qf that institution. , defense of the'request ju the report Wiatus . superfluous. “Come add ae©’’ would be the most effective argument. ; ■ r' It is to be hoped that this telling report will have the desired effect upon the legislature now in session that they may have their eyes It is well edit© 1 and very neatly opened to the great needs here to gottea up. Ti e standard set by the adequate maintenance of ap- it is very high and it is free frqm pearances, not to speak of the ex- the petty spirit atjd nauseating j pected growth and development of frivolities. whi:h too o f t e n ; this institution of the people, edm Characterize a publication of that mensnrate with the growth and de nature.—Lampasas Leader. velopruent of this great State. of every man in nts must not this opportunity It is either now liege, or never, t is not die latter, ntial to a thor- ded education, ago if was brawn that it fib the mental *a-; fijre to fifty years spiritual .and Mr. Fronde oroughly known sell; the richest, departments of y which exists.’ radnating from tly call himself is upgleeted Jthat library of essen- he repository of lerlying the pro- Now is oiut have once enterf ial of busin*a$ find time .and t it. So much nt. The second —b-. here. clear to us. grasp it" as tl each of his boys crowc their app said. “Now the ’ third pur Bible Study is to lead a 1 form the hgbit iof study which will remain throughout life. There is that aids us matr^* x We of our tasks with greater nation ,aud a lifj we are in thfi ha objection of Martin Cutlfer. jiart of his life busy now that hours each me cation with Gt he set aside k>ne hour for tl pose. Do ypu all know West Point cadet has minutes a day' to him* they have hard work at tl before Christnps, they twenty plebgs anil many i to keep from tteing expell* withstanding tliis fact, hive of busy workers qpnt two hundred nten actively] in Bible wotksj Their orp . * President Vice President Vice President Cashier Assistant Cashier thought that by introducing th* Y. M. C. A. into the tmiveslty it might be saved. Larson himself j' was a tough and did not believe in the spiritual side of life, so you i can about imagine the time thpse fellows had in getting Jim to t^at conference. Even after they had succeeded in getting him there he would not attend * single one of the meetings, but like the mighty Achilles, ‘sulked in his tent.’ The delegation knew that the only one who could do anything was Jimmy Larson. He must' be won over. His bosom friend wielded great influence over Jiite and be undertook the task of prying to solve the problem. ^In order to do this he must himself become a muni- ^Christian. At night he went titeea l*ir- the and train in the Jesus Op] Christ is getting them .classes. The si for me to ^peek wish that.Boa al opportunity of C. A. Cj ‘there ohtat tions of j u< Chi to ; have New Y< ji. H ill I w Christian students k of Y winning men to !st. Winning men partly^ accomplished by ■ * attend our Bible ject is too deep 1, but I earnestly might have the tending a Y. M. A delegate small concRp- gations to. qwr I’d give aay- fiat grand man, of the city of ■a the cadets :sj * is well recognuse it. | W’e k we made tba* promise cadets of die ]A. & Mr were the to do it. no other thing that wi our college! any Ijette*. the ones to dfc> it. Y Jimmy Larson's of tht Larson was a student i versaty of Idaho, where and spiritn*! studying to low an order that the di cognized the fact that nr thing be done, the institu go down hi min. L leader of students, of ath > ics and various organizations 11 He was recognized as th w-ho could save the When the M. C. A. was held at Pacific G the University sent there, I^arson being of the members. The Mr. Cooper, who had charge of the' meeting, and toM him just how things stood. Theyf stayed to4 gether and prayed for a white and then the visitor left © hntot op Larson. The next morning Mr. Cooper noticed his Jiight visitor walk up to him with «fet- stefle ol a happy Christian. He- had found Larson in bed the night before.) He woke him up and took him oat. They spent, the whole night walking along the bench. He told Larson that he was the only one who could save the University, .that it was his duty to’tbe Univer sity and to Qpd to do so. He toM him how he himself had become a Christian. Larson decided to do it. He saved the institution.’ It’s up to i*s.fellows. What is our delegate to Kuston to report on Bible study next year? This question is for you to answer.’? iU« L-J Hi * ’ - ORDER MOOiFIEO. « mj f college, fily one l Ration, ference to Exclusion From Civil Servlos Stricken Out. i' " Wantolnzton. Jim. 18.—Br dtrvcflon of the president Serretsry Taft issued s special order modifying the specie] order dUmisstns the n*Rro brfrtallon the Twenty-fifth infiintry hy BtrHdog out the clause relating to the exclu sion of the discharged soldiers from employment la the civil service. > The secretary, now that the invest!- Ratios has closed, will undertake to pass separately epos the applications for rs-enhstasent ,of the discharged meet wherever they are supported Ly evidence of their non oompltclty in th# nffrity. s “*5 ; Death Due to CsrbuncKle St. Louis. Jan. 15.—Captain Samuel C. Boyd died Monday from a car- bunckle on his nack that reanMad from having scratched a small pimple He a connected with the police rty-eight yes