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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 23, 1907)
A- & M. CLUBS FORMED. Dallas, San Antonio, Houston, Austin, Beaumont and Bryan Now Have Clubs. A. & M. Clubs, composed of Alumni and other old students of the A. & M. College, are steadily being formed throughout the state. These clubs are largely social in nature, and are expected to keep up a strong loy alty to this institution among ex-stu dents. The clubs will also advertise the college, and will make it easier for an A. & M. graduate to secure a position. We reprint below some clippings from the daily papers concerning the clubs now formed. Bryan: At the lastAlnmni meeting in June it was decided to organize Agri- culturial and Mechanical College Clubs in such cities and towns where a sufficent number of the old students are residing. The executive comm ittee was charged with the exertion of this plan, and this compiittee has made a ruling that it is npt necessary for one to be a graduate bf the college to be eligible for membership in these clubs. They need only be ex-stu dents. On this basis the first club was organized a few days ago at Col lege and is known as the Brazos County A. and M. College Club. The membership is about fifty and is composed of Bryan and Campus resi dents. During the next two weeeks plans have heen made to organize clubs at Houston, Galveston, San Antonio, Austin, Dallas, Waco, Palestine and Beaumont. This will be the begin ning, as other towns will be organized as soon as conditions warrant. It is believed these clubs will serve some good purposes. Houston: Forty-three alumni and ex-students of the Texas Agricultural and Mechanical College organized as the Agricultural and Mechanical Col lege club at a meeting held in the Elks’ club room last night. The meeting was enthusiastic; there was manifest the same old spirit that char acterized college days, and it is pro posed to boom the club until its membership shall include every man, young and old, in Harris county who ever wore the cadet gray of the old college. The move toward the organization that was effected last night was first made on the preceding Friday. Then a few of the college men me, and formed a temporary organizationt setting Friday night as the meeting time and calling on all alumni and ex-students to attend and take part in the permanent organization. The attendance last night was much bet ter, though many college men were detained and unable to be present. But many of these indicated how heart ily they are in sympathy with the movement by sending in their names and asking that they be enrolled as charter members. H. M. Rollins of the class of ’97 was elected president. No other officers were elected, for the constitu tion perscribing the various offices that the club is to have, has not yet been accepted or even prepared. A committee, consisting of Captain F. A. Reichardt. H. L. Hudson and Flint McGregor, was appointed last night to prepare a constitution and by-laws and present it to the club for its approval next Friday night. This is as far as the organization has proceeded. It is impossible to go any futher until a constitution is in effect. But this has not limited the enthusiasm and interest of the boys. From veterans of the class of ’78 to the young grads of the class of ’06 they are every one heartily and sin cerely behind the organization. They believe in “college,” believe in it with all the deep-seated devotion that in undergraduate days was expressed by the intensity with which they marched out on a “field of battle,” willing to root or to fight as the provocation might arise, for the football team and for the honor and prestige of “alma mater. Beaumont: A constitution and by laws was adopted and officers elected at a meeting held last everting of the Agricultural and Mechanical club of this city. The object ok the club is to foster and promote the tie that binds the alumni to each other and to assist the members i,h securing posi tions. Another puij^ose is to secure an endowment to Assist worthy and needy students to complete their courses. Regular meetings of the club are to be held on the first Mon day night/in each month. The fol- lowihg.officers were elected: C* L. Scherer, captain; H. A. Gribon, first lieutenant; S. T. Brogdon, adjutant; W. W. Krug, officer of the day; L. J. Kopke, chaplain. San Antonio: Local ex-students and members of the alumni of the A. & M. College met last night in the Alamo Bank Building and formed a club for social and educational pur poses. The club was temporarily organized by Profs. Potts and Mar shall, both from the college. The organization was completed by the election of officers as follows: C. C. Todd, president; Judge A. W. Seelingson, vice president; E. J. Atlgelt, secretary; G. Giesecke, treas urer; executive committee, C. C. Todd, E. J. Altgelt, W. A. Wurz- bach, R. B. Green, E. C. Jonas, C. C. Foutrel, I. C. Baker, P. H. Shook and Fritz Groos. The club will hold regular meet ings and will some time in the imme diate future have a big banquet. Austin: At a meeting which was held last night in the parlors of the Driskill hotel for the purpose of or ganizing an Agricultural and Me chanical College Club, a temporary organization was effected. Fred C. von Rosenberg was elected president and J. H. Freeman secretary. A num ber of former cadets from the Agri cultural and Mechanical college were present and several addresses were made. Those who attended were in favor of pushing the matter to a per manent organization and it was de cided to hold another meeting in Fred C. von Rosenberg’s office next Thurs day night. The following address was deliver ed to the meeting by Professor R. J. Potts of the Agricultural and Me chanical college: “In view of the fact that the Agri cultural and Mechanical college is the only pure technical school in the state, and in view of the further fact that Texas is one wide field of op portunity waiting for industrial devel opment, it is not at all strange that the graduates of this college are so actively in demand. The crying need of the hour is for men with a technical education; men who, in their training, have so blended the theoretical with the practical as to be able at once to transmute the abstract findings of the scientist into improved conditions on the farm, greater economy in business or better efficiency in the machinery of our great industrial enterprises. It is of course, particularly gratifying to the older graduates of the college to know that, at the present time, the actual demand for the service of Agri- | cultural and Mechanical men is per- I haps stronger than that for the grad- | uates of any other college in the j country. “There are now nearly 600 grad- I uates of the college, and the number ! of ex-cadets is, of course, very large. , These all feel a very active interest in the wellfare of the college and it is the purpose of these clubs to enable them to express this interest in some practical, substantial way. “The clubs will be largely social and will enable the Agricultural and Mechanical men in any city to know each other and keep up old associa tions. “They will be centers for the dis tribution of information to the benefit of those who have boys to educate, pointing out to them the advantages offered by the Agricultural and Mech anical college. “They will also diffuse information to the general public in regard to the work of the college and of its needs and thus educate the people and their representatives up to a liberal support of so valuable an institution. “They can assist in the distribution of the new graduates to the best ad vantages, enabling the old men to get needed assistants from among the youngsters ond the young men to land in the most acceptable positions. “They will enable the authorities of the college to keep track of ex-cadets as well as graduates and enlist them all in any movement for the good of the institution.” At the conclusion of the meeting a resolution was adopted thanking the management of the Driskill hotel for the use of their parlors. Dallas: Alumni of the Agricultural and Mechanical College organized a local association last night, electing t he following officers: B. C. Pittuck, president; Tom Griffiths, vice presi dent; W. E. Beilharz, secretary and treasurer; H. Moseley, sergeant at arms. With H, E. Elrod acting as tem porary chairman, the meeting was called to order in the Comercial Club rooms. Short talks were made by Messrs. Griffiths, Hull, Robertson, Moseley-, Harry and Woodall, who spoke of what the purpose of the or ganization should be. While the alumni will hold social sessions, it is proposed that one of the primary ob jects shall be to aid in securing legis lation favorable to the work of the Agricultural and Mechanical Col lege. The following committee on organ ization was appointed: J. M. Harry, Hal Moseley, H. Heidelberg and Frank Gray, with President Pittuck ex-officio chairman. After a resolution had been passed thanking the News for courtesies ex tended, adjournment was taken until next Wednesday night. i The following were present: B. 1 Hull, J. T. Wyse, J. W. Carter, H. Woodall, E. Day, Tom Griffiths, H. | E. Elrod, W\ E. Beilharz, J. Harry, j D. K. Robertson, F. Vinther, S. E. | Gillespie, J. C. Manning, Hal Mose ley, Frank Gray, H. Heidelberg, A. W. Curry, W. W. Lillard, J. E. Pirie, T. B. Hoffer and E. D. Dun can. ESSAY ON GIRLS. “Girls are sisters of boys and has long hare and wares dresses and pow der. The fust girl wuz called Christ mas Eve though I do not see why. Most every family has one girl, and some of ’em that is in hard luck has two or three. We have a girl in ourn who is my sister. Girls can grow older and get younger. My sister has been twenty-five for three years and some day we will be twins. Girls play planner and talk about each other. Fat girls want to be thin and thin girls want to be fat and all of them want to marry doods. Why the Lord made girls nobody noes, but think it it was to go to church and eat ice cream. They is three kinds of girls—brunet girls and blond girls and them that has got money. Girls is afraid of mice and bugs, which makes it fun to put them down their back.”—Ex. G. D. Tucker FEED g LIVERY STABLE The Only Stable on Main Street. FIRST-CLASS TURNOUTS. THE ONLY RUBBER TIRE CARRIAGE IN BRYAN. M. H. JAMES 11 Leading Druggist BRYAN, TEXAS Stationery, Pipes, Tobacco Toilet Articles of all kinds DO YOU NEED A NEW PAIR OF Uniform Trousers or Uniforms CHARLIE The Tailor CAN MAKE THEM FOR YOU ON A FEW DAYS’ NOTICE. Cleaning, Pressing and Repairing ARE AIjSO HIS SPECIAETIES. DON’T FORGET the PLACE—NORTH of GATH RIGHT HALL J. M. CALDWELL bryan,tex. Give your , f rderfor CLASS RINGS CLASS PINS And all repair work to J. M CALDWELL The Jeweler All kinds of Watches and Alarm Clocks at the lowest prices. Jewelry of all kinds. Hand-Painted China, Cut Glass, and the fin est line of China in Bryan. 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