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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Sept. 25, 1914)
THE BATTALION Published Weekly by the Student’s Association of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas VOL. XXII. COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER, 25, 1914 NUMBER 1 UM. NEW MEN Session to Open With Many New Professors, All of Whom Have Reported. NEW PRESIDENT BEGINS DUTIES FOOTBILL PROSPECTS GOOD THIS SEASON Squad Returned From Training Camp on Sea Shore Full of Life and Vim. Dr. W. B. Bizzell, newly elected president of the A. & M. College, ar rived at the college Friday night and Saturday morning began his new du ties. Dr. Bizzell resigned the presi dency of the College of Industrial Arts at Denton to accept the presi dency of the A. & M. College. The college begins its annual ses sion with twenty-three new instruc tors. Most of these men were appoint ed to fill vacancies made by resigna tions. Three, however, are new po sitions, these being an associate pro fessor of highway engineering, an as sociate professor of agricultural edu cation, and an associate professor of poultry husbandry. The civil engineering department leads in the list of new men with three new instructors. These are R. Li. Morrison, professor of highway en gineering; B. K. Coghlan, associate professor of highway engineering, and Dan C. Miller, assistant professor of civil engineering. Both Morrison and Coghlan, who assumed their duties in August, are graduates of the Univer sity of Illinois, specializing in high way engineering. Both have had much practical experience, and since their coming to Texas have been over the State in answer to requests for assist ance in highway building. Miller graduated from Washington and Lee University in 1905 with the degree of (Continued on Page 6.) W. A. LEIGH OFFERS VALUABLE PRIZES One of the most liberal offers yet made to students at the A. & M. Col lege is that of W. A. Leigh, the cam pus confectioner who has announceed that he will give $100.00 for expenses to the San Francisco Panama Pa cific Exposition to the student making the best record in scholarship at the College this year. Dean Puryear will be the judge as to who is entitled to this purse. “I am very much in favor of the trip to San Francisco and that is the main reason why I am offering to pay the expenses of a cadet to the Expo sition the expenses being estimated something like $100.00,” said Mr. eLigh in making the announcement. “Then too, I want to do something that will stimulate interest in scholarly attain ments.” Railroad fare to San Francisco and return has been announced as $50.00 and as this requires but one-half of the amount offered by Mr. Leigh the student winning this prize would have a considerable sum left over for ‘eats’, necessities, and incidentals. M r. Leigh’s offer is a liberal one and will be appreciated by the entire corps. Dr. Bizzell on Campus—Some Facts Concerning C. I. A.’s Gift to A. & M.—Press and Public Praise New President. rhe student body and supporters of “None but the best” for the new presi- A. and M. have cause to rejoice that dent. More than a year was consum- Dr. W. B. Bizzell, former president of ed in the search before Dr. Bizzell C. I. A., has accepted the position of was tendered the place. The action of president of this college. Dr. Bizzell the board was unanimous and without is a finished scholar and successful his knowledge. The salary offered educator, well fitted for the work he him was $5,000. When it became has undertaken. | known that he had been offered the Says the Bryan Eagle: “Dr. Bizzell place the supporters of C. I. A. got was born near Independence, Wash-1 busy. A petition nine feet long, urg- ington county. He received bis early ing him to stay at C. I. A., and signed training in the rural schools and. pre- by every citizen of Denton to whom it pared for college in the academy of was presented,, was laid before him. Baylor University at Waco. He re- Hundreds of telegrams and special de ceived the degrees of B. S. and P!h. livery letters of students of C. I. A., D. from that institution. Later he past and present, poured in upon him, pursued graduate work in the Univer-'and the board of directors of that in- The football squad has recently re turned from the training camp on San Jacinto Bay, and reports a glorious time there. They were the guests of Otto Sens, owner of the Houston Club House, who would ac cept nothing in payment for his en tertainment but the promise that the squad would return next year. He turned over his own two-story home by the bay to the boys and built them a screened mess hall. Out of the kindness of his heart he brought the boys a treat of chocolate candy, but being in training they had to regret fully decline this. Fishing, swim ming and alligator hunting were in dulged in. The fellows report two al ligators being caught. Among those at the camp were: Settegast, weight, 200; age, 23; team, Houston high school; height, 6 feet 1 inch. De Montel, weight, 170; age, 23; team, Coronal; height. 5 feet 11 inches. Rogers, weight, 170; age, 20; team. Coronal; height, 6 feet. Minier, weight, 155; age, 19; team, Waco high school; height, 5 feet 11 inches. Brown, weight 170; age, 20; team, Waco high school; height, 5 feet 11 inches. Johnson, weight, 170; age, 22; team, Hubbard high school; height, 6 feet. Schenk, weight, 205; age, 21; team, Greenville high school; height, 6 feet. Harris, weight, 160; age, 20; team, Greenville high school; height, 5 feet 10 inches. From A. & M. company league: Scott, weight, 155; age, 21; team, El Paso; height, 5 feet 10 inches. Rothe, weight, 160; age, 21; team, Hondo; height, 6 feet. Kelly, weight, 180; age. 22; team, Greenville; height, 6 feet. Heldenfels, weight, 170; age, 18; team, Beeville; height, 6 feet. Squad 1913: Coleman, weight, 175; age, 21; (Continued on Page 2.) MEW COMMANDANT ARRIVES sity of Tennessee, the University of Chicago and Columbia University. The degree of master of arts was conferred by the University of Chicago, where he specialized in rural sociology. He also holds the degree of doctor of civil law, received in 1909, from the Illinois College of Law at Chicago.” When he became president of C. I. A., four years ago, that institution had an attendance of 190 with 20 faculty members; the past year it had a fac ulty of 40 and an attendance of 564. Whem Col. R. L. Milner resigned, the official board adopted the slogan, stitution offered to raise his salary to A. and M. now has a new com- $5,000. But after considering the mat- mandant, Second Lieutenant James R. ter for several days he decided that » Hil1 of the 13th cavalry, U. S. A. He greater field of usefulness lay him here at A. and M. Having in the beginning been a 1 serv i ce - A year country boy and later a country school | was spent before I S ra( T ua t e <l from West Point in 1909, and has had several years of active service. A year and a half of this in the Phillipines; two teacher, Dr. Bizzell is acquainted first y ear s at Fort Riley, Kansas, and near hand with all rural educational prob lems and since his stay at C. I. A., in dustrial and vocational education is no new thing to him. He had identified himself with ev- (Continued on Page 2.) ly two years on the Mexican border at El Paso and in New Mexico. He is a native of Wyoming, being reared on a ranch in that state. Unlike our form er commandant, he is unmarried, and he and Ike Ashburn are batching to gether.