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Mechanieal College of Texas
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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
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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.
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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.
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