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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (April 17, 1914)
VOLUME XXI COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, FRIDAY, APRIL 17, 1914 NUMBER 27 »c»tic TRACK MEET PURPOSE, IMPORTANCE AND BENEFITS FROM THIS IN TERESTING EVENT. It is recognized by all educators that good strong bodies are a first requisite for good students and for suc cessful men in*the battles of life. It is also apparent to everyone that a certain amount of diversion and amusement is absolutely necessary for students in any kind of school in or der to furnish recreation and keep their minds really fit for study. Both of these ends are accomplished better, perhaps, through the medium of school athletics than by any other means. We therefore find all of our colleges, universities and other institutions of higher learning with regularly organ ized athletic departments or athletic associations which are designed to look after this important line of work. While the colleges have made much headway in the organization and man agement of athletics, it is a much more difficult problem to have good athletics in the high schools and academies scattered all over the State. Usually the number of students capa ble of taking part in athletics in such institutions is comparatively small. They cannot stage any big games to bring in money, and the school itself is usually unable to finance athletic teams to any considerable extent. It is for these reasons that our second ary schools are behind the colleges in the development of athletic teams and the building up of recognized sports along strictly modern lines. Recognizing this situation and wish ing to contribute all that we possibly can to the assistance of the secondary schools, as well as to build up ath letics at the college, the athletic man agement of the A. & M. College some years ago undertook to organize a (Continued on Page 20.) “ON TO FRISCO” TRIP ASSURED A. & M. CORPS IS INSPECTED Excursion of Cadet Corps to Panama-Pacific Ex- Th,s R a 0 ^ l k e9 ^ it ^ a ^ li ^^ y ys Sc ^| ) c J s H,9h position No Longer a Dream. PLANS WELL UNDER WAY By Many Considered the Chance of a Lifetime When Juniors began to talk of a trip to the San Francisco Exposition in 1915 the “doubting Thomases’’ ridi culed the idea and said that the corps would never stack arms in the exposi tion grounds. But now all doubt about that has been dissipated and the plans for this excursion extraordinary are pretty well under way, and about 400 boys are pledged to go, provided no unforeseen difficulties arise to prevent and provided further that the actual expenses of the trip do not exceed $65. It is hardly necessary to dwell at length on the advantages of such a trip. No one can doubt that a visit fluences and when the two are com bined in an efficacious manner with pleasure and amusement, such as the proposed trip to Frisco will offer, the result is going to be highly beneficial. It hasn’t been many months since the agitation for this trip was begun. It was urged for several weeks by one or two cadets, and then the idea gen erally began to take root that the trip was possible. No one ever questioned its benefit to the student or to the college. That wasn’t the idea, but many of them doubted that the deal could be swung. Then a corps meet ing was held. Professors and cadets of Country. to the Panama Pacific Exposition will alike gave the project their approval, be worth much to the cadets and in- and the matter was placed in the structors alike. It will broaden their I hands of the Junior class for final or- viewpoint, introduce them to new peo ples and to new climes and give them a bird’s eye view of the world, so thor oughly will all civilized nations of -the universe be represented. Travel and study are the great educating in- (Continued on Page 4) ganization and suggestions. An “On to San Francisco” commit tee, composed of representatives of the underclasses, was formed to per- /l&M to "Frisco'J9/5. % Annual inspection of the military organization at the Texas A. & M. Col lege to determine the rating of that institution in the War Department’s records was conducted here Saturday by Captain H. L. Laubach of the in fantry, now on the general staff at Washington. The cadet corps of the college was put through a severe test by the representative of the War De partment. Regimental drills, dress parade, work in extended order, company drill^ guard mount and practically all forms of drill were viewed by Captain Lau- bauch. He also made a thorough in spection of the hospital, mess hall, dormitories and of the records in the in the commandant’s office. A. & M.’s rank with the War De partment rests solely on the recom- ipendation of the inspecting officers. This institution now ranks as one of the ten distinguished military institu tions of the United States, and while the Texas college’s standing in that ten has never been made known of ficially, the college people have been given to understand that she stands at the top. This year the military rating is slightly different from what it has been. Instead of only one group, there are two divisions, military colleges and nilitary schools. Military colleges are those colleges which give thorough instruction and whose graduates, av eraging twenty-one or over in age, re ceive B. S. degrees. From the show ing which these colleges make at in spection al ist of the ten highest rank ing in the United States is made. A. & M. comes under the division of mil itary colleges and beoynd any doubt