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Editor-in-Chief
JROY F. RUDOL-PH
Associate Editor-in-chief
C. JE. MARIS
Business Manager
JRY LOU WIEN, JR.
Assistant Business Managers
T. G. HUTH
A. G. WILSON
Assistant Editors
CAESAR HOHN
R. M. LEVY
Exchange Editor
CLAUDE WILSON
Society Reporter
B. E. GIESECKE
Alumni Editor
F. J. SKEELER, TO
Entered ■ j s second-class matter ai
College Station, Texas, Feb-,,
ruary 17, 1905.
TRICE PER ANNUM $1.25
College Station, Tex., Dec. 9, 1910.
YELL LEADERS.
Have Received One Prize for Being
Best Yell Producers in State.
Tbe greatest service and incourage-
ment a body of rooters can render a
t am is cheering from tbe beginning
to tbe end of tbe game. Without tbe
proper support from tbe spectator tbe
football player can not take tbe in
terest in tbe game that be will other
wise. If proper yells are given at
tbe proper time a player is forced to
realize tbe importance of bis exerting
every power towards defeating tbe op
ponent. In order that systematic
cheering shall prevail it is necessary
to have competent yell leaders. Such
leaders must understand the proper
time to cheer, haw to lead, and bow
to obtain tbe most efficient .and loud
est noise.
This season we have bad one of tbe
Lest qualified leaders in tbe South.
At tbe opening of tbe football season
the Sweeney Jewelry Co. of Houston
offered a silver plated megaphone to
tbe most competent yell leader in tbe
state. If you desire a look at this
novel article visit tbe headquarters
of K. M. Trigg.
Trigg is a tall, shapeless, bronze
combination of flesh and bones. Be
fore entering A. and M. be was a
bronco buster. After entering A. and
M. he attained the reputation of be
ing the most noted hot air merchant
this side the great waters. Judging
from the volume and duration of his
voice, he has lungs made of some un
known material, the flexibility of
which would be impossible to ascer
tain by •the instruments in use. Evi
dently a tremendous supply of air is
fed these monstrous cavities exclusive
of that which is inhaled during tbe
process of breathing.
Such a man it is who stood in our
midst and led the team to victory by
noises more shocking than sudden
claps of thunder.
Two eminent figures stood by his
side and assisted in the manipulation
of many small cogs which developed
power for tbe movement of the great
noise producing machine of one thous
and throats. These were chief engi
neer Gilbert and Chemical Analogist
Frazier.
THE ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION.
Directs A. 6& M. Athletics and Is Com
posed Almost Wholly of
Students.
i be Athletic Association is almost
strictly a student organization. An
aiumnus usually is chosen for presi
dent, while an active member is
cnosen by tbe Alumni Association.
The other members of tbe association
are stuaents, these student members
oemg elected by the corps. The cap-
cams ana managers of tbe various ath
letic teams have a voice, but do not
vote. There are only four voters in
the council, three student members
elected by the corps and the alumni
representative.
Some of the students have a wrong
conception of their relation to the as
sociation. They seem to consider that
the association is made up of grafters,
and that if they beat the association
they have done something for com
mendation. They fail to realize that
the members of tbe association are
men with lots of college spirit and not
mercernary men. They do not appear
to understand that every time they
beat the association that they are
withholding their support from the
worthy cause of athletics.
The alumni members of the athletic
council are the “old heads” that look
after the finances and make the usual
business affairs connected with such
a body. Tbe two alumni members this
years are Profs. Kyle and Potts, to
whom the students and the college
athletes are deeply indebted for the
good work they have done for the as
sociation and what it stands for. These
gentlemen, for love of their alma
mater, have given much of their time
to the affairs of the association.
Prof. Kyle has been president and
in charge of the association during the
past four years. When he took the
chair the association was badly in
debt. By careful management he has
brought the association out of debt,
enabled the various teams to equip
themselves, and has ereotedi the best
athletic park in the Southwest. The
association is easily one of the best
managed of the college associations in
the state and has a neat little bank
account. It took a good manager to
accomplish all these things for the as
sociation, and the students owe Prof.
Kyle much.
The First National Bank
OF BRYAN, TEXAS
Designated United States Depositary
Designated State Depositary
Capital $100,000, Surplus and Profits $100,000
J. W. HOWELL, Pres. Board H. 0. BOATWRIGHT, Pres.
GUYM. BRYAN, JR, Vice Pres. L. L. McINNIS, Active V. P.
R. W. HOWELL, Cashier.
Cadets!
We are headquarters for College sta*
tionery. sixty-one different styles in
tablet form. Fourteen different styles
of composition books. A full line of
Toilet Articles, Etc. Just arrived our
line of FAIT SHOES, see our dis
play. We carry everything you need
in wearing apparal,
W. C. Boyeti & Son.
THE CAMPUS STORE.
“QUALITY AND SERVICE”
HOWELL & NEWTON Inc.
Grocers and Coffe Roasters
CANDIES AND FRbITS
Double daily delivery service to College.
a. McKenzie
Watches and Jewelry
College Emblems, Pins and Fobs
FINE WATCH WORK A SPECIALTY
TWENTY-THIRD PALSM.
(As interpreted by a married man.
With profuse apologies to David.)
1. My wife is my boss; I shall not
deny it.
2. She makes me to lie down be
hind the bed when swell company
comes. She leadeth me behind her up
Main street.
3. She resorteth to my pocket-book
after she has spent all its contents
for hobble skirts and theatre tickets;
she leadeth me up the main aisle of
the church for her new hat’s sake.
4. Yea, tho I walk more than half
the night through dark rooms with a
crying baby, I will get no rest, for she
is behind me, her broomstick and her
hatpin, they do everything else but
comfort me.
5. She prepareth a cold snacx for
me, then maketh a bee line for the
Mothers’ Domestic Club. She anoint-
est my head with a rolling pin occa-
ionally; my arms runneth over with
bundles before she is half through
shopping.
6. Surely her dressmaker’s and her
milliner’s bills shall follow me all the
days of my life, and I will dwell in
the house of my wife forever.
EXCHANGE
Barber Shop
T. A. ADAMS, Prop.
Bryan, Texas.
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