THE BATTALION.
Published Weekly by the Students’ Association of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas.
VOLUME XIV
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, JANUARY 23, 1907.
NUMBER 15
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PROGRESS OF THE Y. M. C. A.
Two Handred Men Expected to Enroll
For Bible Study.
T he work of our Y. M. C. A. is
maksng good progress. Alteough the
association is comparatively young in
our institution, it will soon show itself
equal to those of other colleges, which
were established many years ago. All
that is necessary is for us to stay
with it now during its infancy, and in
several years we shall feel the full
force of it. It may be the means of
our getting a gymnasium and other
things here. Xhe association is pay
ing its share toward the salary of
student secretary for the state, who
will endeavor in turn to secure for us
one of the twenty different Y. M. C. A.
buildings to be built at different col
leges of Texas. The A. and M.
stands as good a showing as any col
lege. A budget has been made out,
and without doubt we shall have these
things in shape before long. Differ
ent cadets have been around organiz
ing the Bible classes in the different
halls. According to indications now,
at least 200 men will enroll for the
Bible work.
Another endeavor of the association
will be to get good speakers to ad
dress us at different times. This will
be an important factor in our life here.
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Many Interested in Cross Country
Running.
FIRST CROSS COUNTRY RUN
Held Saturday, With One Mile Course
Along Wagon Road.
•Friday evening a meeting of those
interested in cross country running
was held in chapel, Prof. Campbell
opening the meeting by suggesting a
temporary organization in order to
carry on the trial runs. Upon mo
tion, a committee of four was elected
with Thompson, the track manager,
as chairman, to take charge of the
trial runs. It was decided to have
the first run on Saturday, Feb. 19.
The following are the members of
the committee: Thompson, chair
man, Huff, Richenstein, Utay and
Cornell.
The membership of the Cross
Country Club will be chosen from
those making the best records in the
runs, and as it will be quite an honor
to be a member of the club. Don’t
fail to give your name to one of the
above committee before going out on
the runs. While the cross country
runs are somewhat apart from
our usual college athletics, an effort
will be made to get jerseys for the
team. The first cross country run at
A. and M. took place Saturday after
noon at 4:30. The course for Satur
day was along the wagon road a mile
in either direction from the I. & G.
N. Station. Uutil further notice
there will be runs on Tuesday, Thurs
day and Saturday afternoons. The
course will be different each day. As
the boys get in trim the runs will be
longer. About twenty-five came out
Saturday and the mile was more than
enough for some of them. This is
something everyone Can take part in
and more should show up. The
equipment for the Field Day sports
has arrived and can be found at
Shearer & Wyche’s tent whenever
wanted. Murphy is doing stunts
with the hammer, with Ross and
others also working hard to master
the new plaything. Spivey seems to
have the best of it with the shot.
MEETING OF AUSTIN LITERARY
SOCIETY.
The A. L. S. met at its usual place
of meeting January 19th, 1907, with
an attendance of nineteen members.
The minutes of the previous meeting
were read and adopted. Mr. Clay
ton was elected recording secretary
upon resignation of the one holding
this position.
The program for the meeting was
a debate on the subject, Be it Resolv
ed, “That Home Influences Have
More to Do with the Shaping of
Man’s Character Than All Other In
fluences Combined.” The talks of
Messrs. Berg on the negative, and
Clayton on the affirmative were es
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DR. BLAKE ON “COLLOIDS.”
Addresses Scientific Association on
this Subject.
Dr. J. C. Blake addressed the
Scientific Association last Friday night
on the subject of Colloids.” He be
gan speaking shortly after eight
o’clock, and held the attention of his
audience for about an hour and a
half. He defined and discussed col
loids and colloidal solutions, perform
ing a series of experiments during
the lecture.
Dr. Powell, secretary of the society,
announced that some future speakers
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pecially interesting. The decision will be Dr. Ball on “Archaeology,
rendered by the judges was unanim
ously in favor of the affirmative. There
being no further business before the
society, it adjourned.
M. H. W., Cor. Sec.
Prof. Warsall on “Live Stock,” and
Prof. C. S. Potts on a subject not
given. The first two lectures will be
illustrated with stereopticon pictures.
Miss Prim—>“ln Alaska they have
reindeer.”
Mr. Nervy “Yes, but oftener they
have snow, darling.”—Ex.
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