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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 30, 1918)
VOL. XXV. Published Weekly by the Students’ Association of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas. COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, JANUARY 30, 1918. NUMBER 18 BOARD OF DIRECTORS NET HERE NONDAY Adopted Recent Suggestions of Investigating Committee. BUILDING CONTRACTS LET Complete separation of the Univer sity of Texas and the Agricultural and Mechanical College; an equitable division of the permanent University fund between the University and the College; a special tax for permanent improvements at all the state insti tutions of higher learning; the con centration of all educational activi ties in agriculture at the College; more adequate salaries for the offi cers and teachers in the College; and opposition to the establishment of a co-ordinate Agricultural and Mechan ical College of Texas were unani mously indorsed by the board of di rectors of the College in session here Monday. This educational program for the state was outlined a few days ago in a report of legislative Sub- Committee No. 9, composed of Hon. Leonard Tillotson, Dr. I. E. Clark and Dr. Oscar Davis, and the board pled ged its support to these gentlemen to ward the adoption of such a pro gram in Texas. President W. B. Bizzell was author ized by the board to proceed to close negotiations with the war depart ment looking to the training at the College between May 1 and October 1 of between 2,000 and 3,000 me chanics and technicians wanted as soon as possible by General Pershing for foreign service. Dr. Bizzell was authorized, likewise, to accept the joint federal and state appropria tions for the College and its branches to be used in the promotion of vo cational education in Texas under the Smith-Hughes Act. The maxi mum sum that will be available to the College and its branches for this purpose in any one year is $62,150. Contracts fer new agricultural buildings at the Junior A. and M. College at Stephenville and the Prairie View Normal were let by the board, these buildings to be ready for occupancy by the opening of the fall term. Action on a similar build- (Continued on page 8). SUNSHINE CONCERT CO. HERE MONDAY NIGHT Y. M. C. A. Entertainers Drew a Large House. The Sunshine Concert Company appeared in the A. H. Pavillion Mon day night in a nice program of pop ular, as well as favorite Southern selections. Miss Nin^a Coral Kellog charmed the audience wilh her excellent whistling-bird imitations, while Miss Fay Etna Epperson called forth vol umes of laughter by her child imper sonations, in both readings and comi cal vocal solos. Mr. Chester Rand, the tenor of the trio, gave several popular selections. Miss Alice Spencer Wheeler was the piano accompanist. A very good crowd witnessed the program despite the disagreeableness of the weather. The Y. M. C. A. cabinet wishes to thank the cadet corps and campus people for their support and atten dance. MRS. POTTS FATHER DEAD. The many friends of Mrs. A. L. Potts regretted to learn of the death of her father,Mr. Poland a prominent lawyer of Alvin, on last Friday. Mr. Poland had been ill at the hospital in Houston for several months, and both Mr. and Mrs. Potts had been called to Houston some days before the end came. Mr. Poland had visi ted on the campus several times and made many friends among the cam pus pei trie. Mrs. Poland, Mrs. fotts’s moih-. r, returned with them to College Sun day and will make her home here temporarily. prof. McMillan in Atlanta. S. A. McMillan, associate professor of agronomy in charge of farm man agement, is in Atlanta, Ga., this week in attendance upon the annual ses sion of the Southern Association of Agricultural Workers. He will read a paper before that body on “What a Farm Management Study of 125 Brazos Botton Farms Has Shown.” SQUAD LEFT TUESDAY FOR ABILENE GAMES Will Play Baylor at Waco Fri day and Saturday. The Basketball team left Tuesday at mid-night for Abilene by the way of Ft. Worth, playing Simmons Col lege at Abilene on Wednesday and Thursday, dedicating the new gym nasium there and returning to Waco, Thursday nigbit, playing Baylor Uni versity at Waco, Friday and Satur day nights and returning to College Sunday. The following men have been selec ted by the coach to make the trip: DeLee, Dwyer, Gouger, Longcopa, ^ McQuillen, Starnes, Walker, Wise. The team is not in the best of shape, bad colds being prevalent m the squad on account of poor dress ing facilities and due to the exceed ingly cold weather. Knickerbocker will not make the trip, although scholastically eligible. If he plays basketball this Spring it will mean a years competition lost and he only has two more years un der the rules. Rather than insist on his participating in basketball this Spring the athletic authorities had rather for him to use his talents in helping out a winning football team next two years. Knickerbocker would have been a big help to the team. Freshman Dwyer from San An tonio is filling the place at center very well now. In the two Rice games he held Kingsland to one goal and threw two himself besides figur ing in the passing more than Kings land did for the Rice team. Our idea of completing the German boycott is to refrain from eating kraut, because kraut is a German dish. CHAPEL SPEAKER SUNDAY: Rt. Rev. J. Elliott Ross, St. Austin Chapel, Austin, Texas. ‘Y” SPEAKER. Rev. Ross. AGGIES BREAK EVEN WITH RICE OWLS Team Found Itself in Second Game and Evened Scores. PLAYS BAYLOR THIS WEEK. In two games replete with thrills, the first “f + he A. and M^-Rice. ball ser ; es ended by the latter nisn- tution winning the first and the for mer the second, each by the close margin of four points. Each game was a hard fought struggle, fast and furious from beginning to end, with he victor uncertain until the time keeper’s gun. Both contests were marked by the iiercest_.playing possi ble, Rice having gained, in the few years of its life, the uneviable posi tion of being one of the most bitter rivals, and for this reason fouls were frequent. Aggies 14, Rice 18. The first game began with a rush. each side gaining possession of the ball for a short time, carrying it the length of the court, and making in effective attempts at goal. The first score came after several minutes of scrimmaging by Rice shooting a free goal. As hereinbefore intimated the number of fouls called were unusual, with the Aggies being the chief of fenders, and it was largely due to this that Rice won, they shooting over half of their free goals while our team made about a fourth of their goals, besides which fact the visitors had more of such shots awarded them. From this initial score the game be came fiercer than ever, each quiny doing its very best. Both appeared to be oblivious to personal danger; knockdowns were frequent, and the guards were not interested so much in guarding an opponent as to take the ball away from him by force. The large number of fouls the Aggies received from this source proved fatal, but the indescretion is mitigat ed by the fact they played so hard to win in the face of the odds against them, for the Owls had three old and experienced letter men from last year, while we had a team composed of sophomores and freshmen in their novitate. Neither team was