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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Nov. 11, 1914)
THE BATTALION Published every Wednesday night by Students of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas Subscription price $1.25 per year. Advertising rates on application. Member of Texas Collegiate Press Association. A. E. BURGES, ’15 Editor-in-Chief J. F. HADEN, ’15... Business Manager F. A. HOMANN, T5. .Associate Editor W. L. RUTAN, ’15 Asso. Bus. Mgr. E. McR. CLAYTOR, T5...Ex. Editor MISS LOUISE PROCTOR.. So. Editor M. T. GARRETT, ’16 Agr. Editor UEL STEPHENS, T5 Eng. Editor S. P. McFADDEN, T6...Sport. Editor G. C. MOFFET, T6. .Y. M. C. A. Editor D. H. KIBER, T7 ’Frisco Editor Cartoonists P. T. CROWN, T5 (Chief), J. M. BUR- KET, ’16. L. A. Von ROSENBERG, ’lb. Assistant Business Managers S. B. HAYNES, T6, J. B. ROBERT, ’16, Reporters J. R. BARNES, J. B. JOYCE, T. W. TEMPLE, F. W. HALSEY. All material for publication should be signed and turned in by Sunday at noon. None will be accepted after 8 o’clock Monday morning. Entered as second-class matter at College Station, Texas, February 17, 1905. College Station, Tex., Nov. 11, 1914. The secretaries or reporters of all organizations will please hand in an nouncements of regular and special meetings so that they may be pub lished in advance. This plan will en able other organizations to call their meetings when they will conflict with as few other meetings as possible, and will enable cadets who wish to attend to prepare their lessons in advance. We want to suggest to all county clubs that they buy one of the large panoramic pictures of the A. & M. buildings now being sold, frame it, and send it to the high school at home. It will be a constant reminder of our college to the boys at home xnd might cause many of them to later at tend A. & M. All of the men included in “Who’s Who” are requested to turn in their pictures at once so that there may be no break in the series. ARE YOU INTERESTED IN SIMPLI FIED SPELLING? The editor of the Battalion is fre quently asked for lists of simplified spelling, and he wishes to announce that he wll gladly secure for all per sons who will hand in their names to him within the next few days, lists of the 300 simplified words first recom mended by the Simplified Spelling Board. This list is very conservative, being composed only of words which had for centuries been spelled two given the preference by three great givent lie preference by three great dictionaries, and in all cases permitted by one or more. NEW GRANDSTAND AND FIELD. The game with Oklahoma A. & M. will serve as a christening of the new football gridiron just completed a:. Kyle Field. The field will be sur rounded by an iron railing to keep the spectators off the field. As the grandstand faces east the spectators will not be bothered by the sun shining in their eyes. The grandstand will hold about 1,500 people. A row of boxes have been erected right in front of the seats. The field is in good condition and is as level as the top of a billiard table. This new gridiron is another tribute to the'resourcefulness and energy of Charlie Moran. He is entirely re sponsible for both the planning and the building of it. Charlie, aided by “Blackie” and “Bennie,” cleared off the field last spring and cut the iron posts for the railing. As it was all done in spare time and the posts made of material that was considered bye veryone else as useless. The only cost to the Athletic Association was the material for the grandstand. This is not the first improvement Coach has made on the athletic field. He made the basball diamond the best in the State. Aided by “Buck” James, he made the track the best and fast est in the South, and the toll gate and entrance to the field, presented by the classes of ’16 and ’17, respectively, were planned and built by him. INTERCOLLEGIATE TENNIS, Sunday afternoon immediately after dinner a preliminary meeting of the A. & M. College Tennis Association was held and the following officers elected: O. S. Gray, president. P. B. Metcalfe, vice-president. U. Steves, secretary-treasurer. E. N. Hogue, reporter. Over twenty members were enroll ed, and a committee appointed to draw up constitution and by-laws. It is expected that this will be the live liest organization on the campus. The Athletic Association has promised its support and it is likely that “T’s” will be awarded to tennis just as in other athletic sports of this college. Another meeting will be held soon, and all interested are invited to join. Data are now being gathered on the cost of equipment, etc., and soon it is expected that steps will be taken toward an intercollegiate schedule. Baylor University and the Bachelor Profs. have already asked for matches. ATTENTION CLUB PRESIDENTS! It is a rule of the faculty that the constitutions of all new student or ganizations and the names of the of ficers in all student organizations must be handed in to the chairman of the committee on student publica tions and organizations within one month after the openng of school, but since this fact was not advertised this year, the faculty has agreed to extend the time until November 15. Get busy and hand your matter in to Prof. A. Mitchell. THE FURTHER IT GOES THE BIGGER IT GETS! Texas A & M.—The students have contributed $100 toward buying pea nuts for the war sufferers in Europe, to be sent on the Christmas ship — Mississippian. “WHO’S W'HO” BEGINS. This week the first writeup in the series of “Who’s Who” begins. This list will comprise about twenty of the most prominent men in the student body, and one writeup will appeal each week from now on. The small ness of the number on this list makes the honor of being mentioned an en viable one. The selection of these men did not depend on the personal opinions of the editor or his staff, but a number of persons on the campus, each promi nent in a certain line of college activi ty, were asked to hand in lists o F recommendations of about twenty cadets worthy of mention from their respective standpoints. These rec ommendations were tabulated anr 1 the cadets receiving the greatest num ber of mentions were the ones chosen In those cases where some judg ment had to be exercised, the editor endeavored to eliminate his own opinions by . considering merely those positions of authority, influence or honor which the persons under con sideration had held or were bo 1 dms- and not those which he thought they should have held. There are a number of persons wlm have attained prominence in but p single line of activity whom we would like to mention, but circumstance^ force us to restrict the number to a very few. However, the full twenty have not yet been selected. The Colonel came to this institution with the intention of becoming an electrical engineer. He had the ad vantage of the majority of the fresh men in that he had a great deal of experience. Five years had elapsed since he had graduated from high school, and he had spent that time in bucking against the world. As a result, he has studied to learn where others have studied to get a diploma. He is one of the few students who have never failed in a subject since they have been here. The students here alone know the real meaning of this statement. E. N. Hogue, Colonel of the Regiment. One of the best things that can be said about the Colonel is that he is a man of set principles, and he fol lows his principles. He has his own moral standards and sticks by them until he is convinced that he is in error. The Y. M. C. A. and the Anti- Swearing Club have had his staunch support since his arrival, and he holds offici alplaces in both. The F. M. C. A. gave him the easy and honorable position of treasurer. In serving in these capacities the Colonel has made many friends, but his warmest friends are those who see him in the class room. As a colonel, he is conscious of his duty to himself, to the cadets and to the college. He has proven his mili tary ability as a “fish” in “I” Com- pany, as a corporal in “E” Company, as first sergeant of “I” Company and as colonel of the regiment. So it will be seen that the Colonel received his appointment not alone from his good grades, his principles, or his military ability, but from the sum of them all. He is a man of ex ceptionally good characteristics. It will take such a man to fill the posi tion he occupies, and we all expect him to do well. Altogether the Colonel has a good record, and his ambition is to become an electrical engineer, marry somb sweet little girl and live happily ever afterward. He may do both, but it is expected that he will do the latter first. 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