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THE BATTALION
Published every Friday night by the
Students of the Agricultural and
Mechanical College of Texas.
Editor-in-Chief:
JAMES F. BROWN, ’13.
Associate Editor:
R. B. SIMON, T3.
Business Manager:
G. F. JORDAN, T4.
Assistant Business Managers:
W. N. REED, T4.
E. EUJ5IRARDEAU, JR., T4.
R. R. ALLEN, T5.
D. T. KILLOUGH, ’14.
Assistant Editor:
D. H. LEVY, '14.
Athletics:
R. A. HILL, ’15.
G. A. SAFER, ’15.
Society Reporter:
MISS TABITHA MILNER.
Alumni Editor:
F. J. SKEELER, ’10.
Reporters:
J. K. G. Fisher, ’14; J. C. Goodwin,
’14; E. L. Tanner, T4; E. B. Tinker,
’14; H. A. Wear, T4; A. E. Burgess,
’15; R. W. Davidson, ’15; E. H. Levy,
’15; A. M. Overstreet, '15; C. E. P.
Wisrodt.
Cartoonists:
P. T. CROWN, T5.
L. A. VON ROSENBERG, ’15.
Entered as second-class matter at
College Station, Texas, February 17,
1905.
Price Per Annum.. $1.25
College Station, Texas, Nov. 15, 1912.
All those interested in the work of
the Press Club will be glad to read
the following letter from the presi
dent of the Texas Intercolegiate
Press Association.
That the possibility of A. and M.’s
joining this association is much de
sired is shown by the fact that since
the announcement of the possibility
of our joining the association there
has been a flood of applications to
the editor of The Battalion for a
placed on the staff.
Membership in this association and
the possession of the pin are great
honors, but to obtain them one must
work and make The Battalion a bet
ter paper:
Denton, Texas, Nov. 11, 1912.
.Mr. James F. Brown, College Station,
Texas.
Dear Sir—I am writing to you, as
representative of the staff of The Bat
talion, in behalf of the Texas Inter
collegiate Press Association, wishing
to present a very important question
for the consideration of yourself" and
staff. It is that I am very anxious for
A. and M. College to join this Inter
collegiate Press Association, and I
speak for each college in it when I
say that A. and M. College would in
deed be cordially welcomed to mem
bership.
I am sending you a copy of the
Texas Intercollegian, which contains
a copy of the constitution and by
laws of the association. From this
publication can be gained almost all
the information which you will need
in your consideration of the question
of joining.
It is C. I. A.’s privilege this year
to entertain the convention of the as
sociation and it would add greatly to
her prestige if through her instru
mentality an institution of the stand
ing of A. and M. College should be
admitted to membership.
C. I. A. has received great benefit
from her membership, not only in
help for the magazine, the Daedalian
Monthly, but in the raising of our col
lege in the estimation of other insti
tutions of learning throughout the
state.
As to the financial side, the expense
to each college is $10.00 membership
fees and the payment of all or half
of the traveling expenses of dele
gates.. We have always paid half of
our delegates’ expenses.
I shall be more than glad to advise
you further on any question which
may come up in your discussion, and
repeat that the whole association will
be glad of a favorable reply from
your college.
Very sincerely yours,
Margaret F. Sackville,
President Texas Intercolegiate Press
Association.
A. AND M.'S FOOTBALL MACHINE.
The Houston Post’s write-up of the
football game Monday between A. and
M. and Oklahoma looked like it might
have been written by an Oklahoma
rooter, it was so partial to the Okla-
homer team. It credited A. and M.’s
victory entirely to the ponderous
weight of the Farmers, and one who
was not acquainted with the facts
would think it was a contest of brute
beef on one side and cat-like nimble
ness and pure and unadulterated skill
on the other. Before closing the Post
acknowledged, however, that nfiuch of
A. and M.’s success was due to its
successful forward passes. Now who
in the Sam Hill is there that does not
know that a light team can make a
forward pass just as easily as a heavy
one, provided they know how?
The truth of the matter is, A. and
M. has a football machine capable of
standing as firm in a pinch as Stone
wall Jackson’s men did at the battle
of Manassas, of going through the line
like money through a spendthrift’s
fingers, of going around the ends like
a cat squirrel up a sycamore limb, or
of kicking the ball from hell to Little
Rock.
A. and M. has a right to have heavy
men on its team if it can get them,
and kids who do not want the mush
mashed out of them had better keep
from in front of them.—Bryan Eagle.
The debating clubs, which started
out with such momentum and had
such brilliant prospects, seem to be
going the way of the Milner Debating
Club. The only club which had
enough get up to have the debate last
Friday was the C. E.-A. E. club. This
club elected officers, and had a most
interesting debate. The bughunters
adjourned as well as the E. E.-M. E.-
T. E.’s. The bughunters subsequent
ly held their meeting, but the E. E.-
M. E.-T. E.’s have not succeeded in
getting together. What’s the matter?
What would we not give for some
thing that would make us work when
we don’t want to?
The question is, “Where did Lieu
tenant Brown get all his ‘pip’ at the
football game?’’
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