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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (May 19, 1915)
THE BimLIOil Published every Wednesday night by Students of the Agricultural and Mechanieal 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 Business Manager P. A. HOMANN, T5. .Associate Editor W. Li. RUTAN, ’15 Asso. Bus. Mgr. E. McR. CLAYTOR, T5...Ex. Editor MISS LOUISE PROCTOR..So. Editor L. V. WITCHER—Contributing Editor G. J. CORNET, T6 Eng. Editor M. T. GARRETT, ’16 Agr. Editor S. P. McFADDEN, ’16...Sport. Editor G. B. HANSON Y. M. C. A. Editor Cartoonists P. T. CROWN, T5, J. M. BURKETT, ’16 Assistant Business Managers S. B. HAYNES, ’16, J. B. ROBERT, T6, Circulation Manager. H. A. SAWYER, ’16. Reporters D. H. KIBER, J. R. BARNES, J. B. JOYCE, T. W. TEMPLE, F. W. HAL SEY. All material for publiication should be signed and turned in not later than Monday night. Entered as second-class matter at College Station, Texas, February 17, 1905. THE PROPER MAN FOR NEXT YEAR’S EDITOR. It has long been customary for the editor of The Battalion each year to state his choice for his successor. Editor Fisher gave his influence last year toward the election of the pres ent editor, and each year’s editor le as far back as the present editor is aware has publictly exprest his choice of a successor. And this is as it should be, because the editor has worked with and observed for a whole year the various literary men on the campus and noted their qualifications and abilities. The present editor will therefore follow out the custom by- expressing his choice of a successor. We have a man among us who has had more experience in the newspaper business than the present editor. He is a correspondent for one or more daily papers, he has been on The Bat talion staff for two years, and has helped handle the college publicity work. He has a good newspaper style,* he is an independent thinker, and with it all he has tact. This man is M. T. Garrett. Garrett was run a few weeks ago for editor of next year’s Long Horn, a much bigger job than editing The Battalion, and missed election by a very narrow margin. This vote shows that the members of his class have realized his ability. The written list nominating him for editor of The Battalion is headed by the names of the three editors of the campus, and the Junior who circulated the nomina tion states that it was readily signed by every student to whom it was pre sented. Garrett has during the year now closing run a regular department in the Student Farmer and so demon strated his industry that Bugbee had set his heart on him for editor of the Student Farmer, and he signed the petition nominating him for editor of The Battalion only because he thought it would be unjust to Garrett to stand in the way of his getting a more important posiion. So indus trious has Garrett been in his student labor for the past three years that he is now a year ahead with his finances and is under no necessity to continue such labor next year. The corps will make no mistake in electing him editor of the college weekly. Take home with you a new song of prosperity for the A. & M. College. Registrar Friley says that the appli cations for enrollment are far in ad vance of previous years. It looks like the Legislature and the Governor are going to deal liberally with the Col lege in the matter of appropriations. We have a president who is qualified in every way to fill his position. There is a new note of harmony and ag gressiveness in the officers', faculty and students alike. It appears that the college will have settled for once and all times its existence as a sep arate and independent institution. All in all, there are great things ahead. A few new buildings; few more feet of concrete walks and some pavements; continuation of the plan to make the campus a place of beauty; better records in athletics, all these things are looking forward to the success of the institution. Think about them yourself and then tell the home folks and high school boys. The Southwestern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference will hold its sec ond annual track meet at Kyle Field next spring. Manager-elect Runge is expect big things for the meet. Coach Clutter said that the meet held at Austin last week, when A. & M. won third place, was perhaps the fastest meet ever held in the Southwest. Many records were broken. Mr. Clut ter says it was an unusually fast and clean meet and that the Aggies sim ply were outclassed. Next year, with all of the present track men back ex cept Captain Everett, A. & M. should be right at the top. At any rate, we have something pleasant to look for ward to, and that is the coming of the best athletes of the Southwest to Kyle Field to participate in this meet. Con Lucid left for Houston this week. Lucid has been on the campus only since February, and yet in that short time he became well known to the cadets. His work with the base ball team got results. A. and M. had one of the best teams in the State, and much of their good record is due to the heady coaching of Lucid The closing season was a' success from many stanpoints. A. and M. put the best team in the field that she has had in many years. Lucid has a host of friends here among the students, officers and fac ulty of the college who will wish him well in every undertaking. We are always glad to have visitors like the Texas Veterinary Medical As sociation with us. The association held a three days meeting here this week, the sessions being attended by many cadets. There are too few of these men, there being only about sev enty-five graduate veterinarians in Texas, a State whose live stock inter ests pass the $470,000,000 mark. A. and M. should be headquarters for all such organizations, for their problems are largely the problems which the college is attempting to solve. J. M. CALDWELL THE JEWELER Of Bryan, will appreciate the patronage of all Cadets and Campus people. Guaranteed satisfaction to all. His repairing is best; his optical department is best; his stock is of the highest class. See his agents at College; leave them your watch for repair. H. A. JOBBING J. R.- JARVIS Room 7, Foster—Campus Agents NOTE THE FRESHNESS Of cigarettes, tobacco, cigars, etc., bought at the Bryan Gold Drink Stand, front Pool Hall. M. T. BROCKMAN, Prop. All honor to the baseball and track men who were given letters. Some times it seems that here is not enough stress laid on the giving of letters. “T” should mean everything to a man. It comes as a suitable reward not only for athletic prowess, but for old hard work and honor should be paid to the men who wear letters. Wearers of the “T” should remember, however, that they have an obligation to meet, and that is that their letter should never be dishonored or disgraced by ungen- tlemanly conduct. »\. AND M. ALUMNUS IS RE-ELECTED AS COUNTY ENGINEER. News has been received here of the re-election of R. J. Windrow as county engineer for McLellan County at Waco. Mr. Windrow was re-elected for an other two years without opposition. Inasmuch as his position is an ap pointive one, that power being lodged with the County Commissioners’ Court, his re-election without a dissenting voice shows that he has made good. According to officials in the Fed eral department at Washington, Mr. Windrow’s plan of organization for road maintenance is one of the best n the United States. Mr. Windrow is a graduate of the civil engineering school of the A and M. College. After his graduation* here he went with the Santa Fe Railway Company as an engineer, and then re turned here as an instructor in the civil engineering department. He was serving in that capacity when elected engineer for McLellan County. He has had direct charge of the expendi ture of more than one million dollars in good roads construction. A. C. LOVE IS ELECTED PRESIDENT S. I. A. A. At the annual business meeting of the Southwestern Intercollegiate Ath letic Conference in Austin last week, A. C. Love, general manager of ath letics at A. & M., was elected presi dent of the conference. Prof. Love succeeds W. T. Mather, of the Uni versity of Texas, the first president of this conference. At the same time it was decided to stage the annual track meet at Kyle Field next spring. The meet was held this year with the University. A. & M. ALUMNUS IS MADE CITY ENGINEER Hal Mosely, formerly president of the Alumni Association of the college, has been appointed to the position of city engineer in Dallas. Mr. Mosely was appointed by the new administra tion, of which Mayor Lindsley is the head, and which has just been inaug urated. Mosely is a graduate of the civil engineering department at A. <& M., and has been in close touch with the college ever since he graduated. AN EXPLANATION. The recent issue of the Junior Bat talion contained an article making cer tain improper personal allusions. It should be explained that the appear ance of this article was due to the in experience of the Junior editor and his lack of information as to the require ment that any such matter must first be submitted to the Faculty Commit- ee on Student Publications. (Signed. Committe on Student Publications. ^ <1 <1« <X <11> O O O O O ^ ^ ^ Yours should be correct in style and fabric. You are invited to inspect my line of Flannels, Palm Beach and Tropical Silk Suiting before placing your order. SATISFACTION IS THE THING. CHARLEY NITCH The Campus Tailor Thirsty or Hungry? It is our business to take care of your desires. A large assortment of fresh Confections, Tobaccos and Cigars. THE CAMPUS CONFECTIONERY The Quality House