VOLUME XXI
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, FRIDAY, APRIL 17, 1914
NUMBER 27
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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
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“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.
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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