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bandry department made a “hog talk” at Hearne this week. Former Prof. R. J. Potts, who is now located at Waco, was at College for a few hours on Jannary 7 on husi- nesc. Profs. J. C. Burns, C. M. Evans, F. W. Proctor, Clarence Ousley, B Youngblood, R. P. Marsteller and I... B. Burke are on the program for the midwinter meeting of the Texas Swine Breeders’ Association, to be held at Cleburne, Texas, January 19 and 20. Prof. Potts and Cowart of the horti cultural department will attend the meeting of the Texas Horticultural Society in Fort Worth January 13 and 14. COLLEGE PRESS SERVICE. College of Industrial Arts, Jan. 11 —The student body and the faculty of the College of Industrial Arts passed the following resolution with the athletic staff’s recommendation: “Resolved, That all class meetings be held on Tuesday afternoons, all club meetings on Wednesday after noons, and that Thursday, Friday and Saturday afternoons be left open for athletics.” With this schedule it is hoped more interest will be shown in athletics. College of Industrial Arts, Jan. 11. —Rudolph Ganz, the Swiss pianist, will be here Tuesday night, January 12. The piano students of the col lege are bringing him. STANGEL’S ALL-COM PANY SELECTIONfi This is the all-company team chosen by Manager Stangel of the C-D championship team: Left end—L. M. Smith (G-H). Left tackle-—Slay (I-K). Left guard—Duncan (E-F). Center—McCollum (C-D). Right guard—Dickie (C.-D). Right tackle—White (G-H). . Right end—“Bull” Moses (C-D). Quarterback—Runge (G-H). Left halfback — “Bullet” Moses (C-D). Right halfback—P. H. Olsen (L-M). Fullback—Oglesby (I-K). “John Barleycorn has two strikes called on him,” declares Billy Sunday. Time to begin looking nice if you expect to “go high” next year. Get a ticket and let the A. & M. Pressing Club give you nine presses for $1. FOR SALE. Stove wood, $5 per cord, delivered. Good, cut kindling, $5 per cord, de livered. Phone T. M. Reddell, Feed ing and Breeding Station, 87-3 rings. FILMS DEVELOPED FREE GOOD PICTURES PRINTED THE HINSDALE STUDIO Ft. Worth, Texas Billups & Underwood 39 GOODWIN Bryan and College Interurban ; Change Scheulled Effective July 20: ; Leave Bryan. Leave College. ; ! 7:30 a. m. 7:50 a. m. ! 10:00 a. m. 10:30 a. m. | | 1:30 p.m . 2;00 p. m. ; 4:30 p. m. 5:15 p. m. ; 6:30 p. m. 7:00 p. m. ! 1 9:30 p. m. 9:50 p. m. ! College of Industrial Arts, Jan. 11. —The total enrollment of the college is now 615. Twenty of these are spe cial students. Trinity University, Jan. 9.—On De cember 31 the amount of pledges re ceived for the endowment fund amounted to $156,275, besides several thousand dollars which were pledged verbally and could not be counted. Trinity University, Jan. 9.—Today L. A. Coulter, State secretary of the Y. M. C. A., delivered his address, “Chains That Bind,” to a large crowd of young men. There were nearly twice as many present as the regular membership. Texas Christian University, Jan. 11. —Much interest has been aroused in the contest for an official varsity song for Texas Christian University. A prize of $5 has been offered for the best one submitted within the next three months. Texas Christian University, Jan. 11. Many of those interested in T. C. U. athletics have started a campaign to get Coach Freeland of Daniel Baker as coach for the university next year. It is reported that Coach Boles will retire at the close of this year. Free land is known as the man who made such a wonderful record in football during the past season with a squad of only seventeen men to start with at the opening of the season. He is an all-around athlete, having won sev eral letters at Vanberbilt. Texas Christian University, Jan. 11. A resolution will be brought before the faculty this week asking that Spanish be made a major subject in the university curriculum. Such in terest is being shown in Spanish be cause of its practical use to Texas citizens that the professors of the Spanish department have made this move to give the subjec a higher standing. Texas Christian University, Jan. 11. The Intercollegian of Texas, a month ly magazine published in the interest of Texas colleges, is now being print ed in the T. C. U. print shop, which furnishes several students work dur ing the year. The January number is now being made up. Texas Christian University, Jan. 11. —Texas Christian University over whelmingly defeated the team from the North Texas State Normal of Den ton in a game of basketball on the local court Saturday afernoon. The score was 26 to 6. Both teams played good ball on the open court with a high wind raging across the campus, but the T. C. U. quintet just simply outclassed their visitors. Fifteen rahs for T. C. U.! Texas Christian University, Jan. 11. —At their first meeting of the year last week members of the T. C. U. Press Club laid plans to emphasize the prizes being offered by the State Association for the best essay, poem and short story, and to urge those entering the contest to make special efforts to bring one of them to T. C. U. MANY STUNG BY “MARRIAGE BEE” AT A. & M. COLLEGE There is a marriage bee buzzing at the A. & M. College. Staid bachelor professors and instructors who long have escaped the pitfalls of married life, as ell as the younger employes of the college, are falling before the buzzing of this bee. During the Christmas holidays wedding invita tions and announcements have clogged the mails at College Station and as a result there were six brides at the college when school roppened on Monday, January 4. Here are those who have married during the holiday season: Lieutenant James R. Hill, Thir teenth Cavalry, U. S. A., commandant of cadets and professor of military science and tactics, to Miss Aileen Hague, at El Paso, December 31. Dr. Thomas L. Kibler, professor of economics, to Miss Genevieve Mc- Clintic, at Marlinton, W. Va., Decem ber 23. S. A. McMillan, associate professor of agronomy, to Miss Carrie Lebo, at Halifax, Pa., December 22. L. L. Click, instructor in English, to Miss Robbie Seale, at Benchley, Texas, December 30. R. L. Morrison, professor of high way engineering, and F. W. Kazmeier of the poultry husbandry department are other benedicts. FIFTY-SEVEN VESSELS OF NAVY TO GO TO THE PACIFIC Naval Program for Ceremonies at San Francisco Was Announced. Washington, Jan. 9. — Fifty-seven naval vessels will make up the fleet which will go to San Francisco by way of the Panama Canal next March, according to announcement made to day by Secretary Daniels. There will be twenty-one battle ships, headed by the dreadnaught Wyoming, Admiral Fletcher’s flag ship; twenty-three torpedo boat de stroyers and thirteen auxiliaries, in cluding colliers and supply vessels. At Cristobal on the Atlantic side of the canal the fleet will be joined by the famous old Oregon and Dewey’s flagship at Manila, the Olympia. President Wilson will sail from Hampton Roads on the battleship New York on March 5, 6 or 7, the exact date remaining to be fixed. If plans for the naval cruise are not amended by Congress so as to have the rendezvous at Cristobal, instead of Hampton Roads, as suggested by Secretary Daniels, the fleet will be dispatched from Hampton Roads sev eral days in advance of the Presi dent’s sailing in order to make sure that all shall have reached the isth mus and perhaps have been locked through the canal in readiness to be reviewed by him there. If Secretary Daniels goes with the fleet from Hampson Roads he will take passage on the battleship Texas. —Houston Post. Superintendent T. W. Buell of the Denton experiment station spent Sun day on the campus. NORTH TEXAS CLUB. The North Texas Club had an en joyable meeting Sunday evening, in which several matters of interest were discust. The purpose of this club is to pro mote good fellowship and to boost A. & M. in our respective counties, and for this purpose the club decided to accept as members all fellows from North Texas counties, bordering on Red River, who are not members of a club. Says the sergeant—I can’t keep step on a cold day, because my nose runs and I have to “follow my nose.” By an improvement on our machine we are able now to put a crease that will stay. A. & M. Pressing Club. Persistence does not always win. Our hen once set on a china egg for five weeks. DR. ALGIE BENBOW DENTIST Office Over First National Bank BRYAN, TEXAS CHARLOTTESVILLE WOOLEN MILLS Charlottesville, Va. Manufacturers of HIGH GRADE UNIFORM CLOTHES For Army, Navy, Letter Carriers, Police and Railroad Purposes. And the largest assortment and best quality of Cadet Greys, in cluding those used at the United States Military Academy, at West Point and other leading military schools of the country. Prescribed and used by the Cadets of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas They*re not short-lived The Jerseys In 1913 eighteen Jersey Cows were officially tested which averaged 12 years and 7 months of age. Their average milk production rage (8617 ese cc years old. Longevity, Constitution and Economic Production are Jersey characteristics. THE AMERICAN JERSEY CATTLE CLUB 324 W. 23d St., New York City