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THE BATTALION
Published Weekly by the Students’ Association
of the Agricultural and Mechanical
College of Texas
T. E. Holloway - - Editor-In-Chief
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... Local Editor
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L. Gugenheim, ’06 - - Alumni Editor
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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 23
THE FORMATION OF A. AND M.
CLUBS AS A STEP IN THE
DEVELOPMENT OF THE
COLLEGE.
Many of us have read in the
newspapers of several of the large
Texas towns that A. and M. Clubs
have been formed at these places.
We are naturally interested in the
fact that former students of A. and
M. have been organized into clubs,
but aside from this the movement
has a deeper significance that
should not escape us. The forma
tion of these clubs is closely con
nected with the future of the A.
and M. College, and it may even
affect our personal success in life.
The clubs have, we believe, two
main purposes. First is to bring
ex-students together in a social
way, to make them more loyal to
themselves and to their alma mater.
The second is to advertise the A.
and M. College throughout the
length and breadth of Texas, not
so much for the sake of A. and
M. as for the sake of the young
men of the State. Incidentally, the
clubs will be the means of assisting
men just graduated in obtaining
good posisions.
It seems to us that the club
movement marks the beginning of
a new period of growth in the his
tory of the College. Few things
are better for a college than a
strong alumni association, and if
this applies anywhere, it applies
here. With a body of graduates
in every Texas city, united in
working for a greater A. and M.,
what may we not expect?
LEGISLATOR EDUCATED AT A. AND M.
Churchill Jones Bartlett of Mar
lin, Representative of the Sixty-
Seventh District, was born in that
city June 6, 1862. He was edu
cated in the Texas Agricultural and
Mechanical College, 1878-79, and is
a farmer. He is a democrat and
was postmaster at Marlin under
Cleveland’s first administration.
He has held no other public office
until elected to his present posi
tion.—Dallas News.
Knowing Hi men Nature.
Hotel Proprietor—You have given
the most elegant and most expensive
rooms to Herr Lhamann. Can he
pay for them?
Clerk—Certainly. He is enorm
ously rich.
Proprietor—How do you know that?
Clerk—Because he is old and ugly
and his wife is young and beautiful.—
Muskete.
His Explanation.
“When your mother-in-law fell into
the water why didn’t you help her
out?”
“My dear madam, you must know
that nothing I ever have done has
pleased her.”—Figaro.
MANAGER OF RANCH WANTED.
The following letter explains it—
J self:
January is, 1907.
To the Editor of the Battalion.
Dear Sir, —Please give publicity
in your columns to the following
letter:
“I have a small ranch of 8 sec
tions in Shackelford County. The
stock registered and practically
pure bred, consisting of Hereford
cattle, horses and mules.
My health is not very good, and
I am not as young as I was 40 years
ago, and I wish Very much to se
cure the services of a young man
capable of acting as foreman, or
better of taking charge. Have you
any graduates who would fill the
position? I have a house in which
a family boards the extra men and
with whom he would board, or if
married, I would expect him to
board the one or two extra men
needed. I have telephone connec
tion with the city of Abilene and
the town of Albany.
“If you can assist me in securing
a suitable man I will greatly ap
preciate tlje favor. Thanking you
in advance for the courtesy, I re
main, yours verv respectfully.”
If there are any graduates of the
College from the Department of
Animal Husbandry, or any under
graduates who feel themselves suf
ficiently qualified for this position
and who desire it, I shall be glad
to be advised.
H. H. Harrington, President.
THE JUNIOR BANQUET.
Juniors Will Have Class Banquet on
February 21.
The Junior class, after some de
liberation, has decided to have a
banquet instead of a reception, as
proposed by some members. At a
meeting last Sunday, Februa^ 21
was fixed as the date, this being
Washington’s Birthday and a holi
day.
Skaggs was elected Chairman of
the Arrangement and Program
Committee. Cornell, Chairman of
the Finance Committee, and Eem
Adams Toastmaster. The class of
’08 expects to score one of its usual
successes in the coming affair.
Ballade of Aladdin’s Lamp.
Aladdin was a lucky man,
The genii wrought, at his behest,
According to this simple plan:
He rubbed the lamp,they did the rest
But you should be as greatly blessed—
Your magic lamp, unrubbed still,
Lies all forgotten or unguessed—
The genii wait to work your will.
That princely castle that you scan
With envy on yon mountain crest,
Uprose, obedient, arch and span,
To slave into his service pressed
By one who heeded jibe nor jest,
But rubbed his lamp serenely till
’Twas finished.—Laggards, distressed.
The genii wait to work your will.
If only you do what you can
And put your magic to the test,
The palace that in dreams began,
The rainbow treasure of your quest,
W^ith form and truth you will invest,
For diligence is served by skill;
So rub your lamp and do your best,
The genii wait to work your will.
Envoi
Oh, brother dreamer, East and West,
WTose great air-castles comes to nil,
Wake! rub the lamp by each possessed,
The genii wait to work your will.
—Thomas L. Hunter.
In Saturday Evening Post.
Better Said Differently.
Elderly Young Lady—Today I
drank some wine as old as I am.
Gentleman Friend—My! That
must have been good.—Figaro.
A. AND M. COLLEGE MATTERS.
Dry Farming Congress — Indian and
Kaffir Corn Feeding Test—Neff in
Charge Steam Plant.
President Harrington is in re
ceipt of an urgent invitation to at
tend the Trans-Missouri Dry Farm
ing Congress, which convenes in
Denver on the 24th and 25th in
stant, or in case he can not be pre
sent to have the college represented.
It is not probable that President
Harrington will be able to go, but
the college will perhaps be repre
sented by some one else. The ob
ject of the congress is to discuss the
development of the semi-arid West,
and speakers of note are promised
everjr state west of the Missouri
River. A permanent interstate or
ganization will be formed, and the
authorities^of the college feel that
much good is likely to result from
the meeting, and much matter will
be gone over that will be of interest
and importance with the conditions
prevailing in the western part of our
State.
The president of the college is in
receipt of a letter from a Western
ranchman asking for a young man
that has been trained at the college
to go out in Shackelford County
and take charge of a small ranch of
improved stock, but there is not on
file in the office of the president at
the present time the name of even
one graduate who is out of emplo3'-
ment and seeking a position.
The Department of Animal Hus
bandry is just beginning a feeding
experiment to test the relative feed
ing value of Indian corn, Kaffir
corn, milo maize and black strap
molasses. Twenty head of high-
grade shorthorn steers have been
purchased from Mr. J. M. Reynolds
of Alice, Tex. They will be divid
ed into four lots of five each. One
lot will be fed on a ration of Indian
corn, along with roughage, which
will be given to all lots alike. The
second lot will be fed on Kaffir corn,
the third on milo maize and the
fourth on molasses. They will be
weighed at the beginning of the ex
periment and from time to time un
til its close, about May 1. The
relative value of the four feeding
materials will be shown by the
gains made by the four lots. The
cattle will then be put on the mar
ket. A similar experiment is now
being conducted in the Panhandle
country to test the relative value of
milo maize and cotton seed meal.
Mr. A. J. Neff arrived yesterday 7
from Brownwood to take charge of
the college water and light plant,
this position having been made
vacant a few days ago by the resig
nation of Mr. George Grupe, who
takes charge of a Government
dredge boat engaged on the Harris
burg cutoff in the Buffalo Bayou.
Mr. Neff is a man of excellent
character and ability. He grad
uated in mechanical engineering
here in 1903 and was for two or
three years connected with the creo
sote works of the Texas and New
Orleans Railroad at Houston.
More recently Mr. Neff has been
running a small iron foundry on
his own responsibility at Brown-
wood.
Mr. Neff’s family, consisting of
wife and one child, will move about
the first of February and will oc
cupy the cottage formerly occupied
by Mr. Grupe.
They stood beside the meadow bars.
Beneath the twinkling sky;
Above them evening’s stars
Dike diamonds shoae on high.
They stood knee deep in clover.
But whispered not of vows;
As silently they lingered there,
Two peaceful Jersey cows.—Ex.
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PLAY SOMETHING!
Basket Ball, Tennis, The
Track, Cross Country Run
ning and Baseball are all
Candidates on The
A. and M. Ticket
For your Approval.
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DON’T SCRATCH THETICKET!
But get interested. Play
your game and watch the
other fellow play his
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