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If you feel real good, happy and
full of pep, if you have just passed
a hard quiz and feel like throwing
your hat in the air and hollowing, if
you wear a broad grin on your face
and greet all your friends with a
word of cheer, or if you have other
un-christain feelings of joy—and
you want to get rid of them all, why
just go to the Y.M.C.A. After be
ing there five minutes you will be
a changed man. You will have lost
your pep, your face will be glum,
your eyes dull, and your spirit dead;
your friends will shun you, not un-
derstandingly, and whisper to each
other that you must have been in the
Y.M.C.A.
Our “Center for Social Activities
for Students" has done its work
well.
Instead of giving us demerits for
misbehavior, they ought to punish us
by making us stay a cei'tain length
of time in the lobby of the Y.M.C.A.
We feel sure that within a week af
ter this system has been inaugurated
not a single College Regulation
would be violated. One hour of this
ordeal would cure the worst of us!
What we would like to know is,
what makes you feel so uncomfort
able, and so uneasy whenever you
enter the Y.M.C.A.? What causes
that replusive atmosphere that makes
us feel like turning our collars up,
and slinking out? What makes that
place so utterly inhospitable? Why
is it that when you are on your way
to the Y someone asks you where
you are going, you will never tell the
truth? Why is it that you do not
like to be seen when you go in the
Y.M.C.A.? _
wade from, and to, some of our dor
mitories?
Why is it, that, though the State
has spent a hundred) thousand or
more dollars on an excellent chapel,
we have to attend lectures, and other
meetings in the cold, damp, and un
healthy Airdome?
WACO CLUB DANCE
On Monday night, December 29,
1919, the Waco Club of A. and M.
College showed what the combined
efforts of the A. and M. Alumni Club
of Waco and the present students of
the College could put forth in the
shape of a dance.
This event was one of the great
est occasions which has taken place
in Waco for the past two years, and,
in fact, was the best dance held In
Waco since the famous Waco Club
dance in 1918.
The dance was started in a whirl
and during a short intermission af
ter the third dance, the A. and M.
men gathered around the piano, gave
a few yells and the orchestra, Hol-
ick’s of course, led out with “Wild
Cat Blues”. Needless to say this
demonstration of ’’pep” and enthusi
asm received much favorable com
ment from the visitors, many of
whom had never heard such before.
After the fifth dance the floor was
cleared for the Waco Club Novelty,
which took the form of six dancing
fairies who danced to the accompan
iment of “Christmas Dolls” and other
pieces. This, of course, was a very
great surprise to every one and the
effect was greatly enhanced by this
fact.
To say that thA dance was a
“howling success” would be easy, but
in order that we m> ' not be accus-
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When you want to enter the lob
by, you have to leave your cigar out
side, take off you hat, open the door
very quietly, tip-toe to a chair, sit
down, (be sure that you don’t make
any noise by moving the chair),
pick up the current issue of the
Christian Herald, of the Christian
Science Monitor, and proceed to en
joy yourself. Then there are a few
more enjoyments to be found: You
may test the strength of your grip,
or you may play checkers (with an
incomplete set), play dominoes (not
on Sundays), or buy postage stamps.
So the only real pleasure the Y of
fers to us is that of being allowed
to test our grip—and we have to pay
for that!
Four fifths of the students of this
College would never know of the ex
istence of a Y.M.C.A. on these prem
ises, if it were not for the beautiful
building they pass every day. As a
center for student activities it is a
complete failure. As a decoration of
the Campus it is a success. What
we want is not a place wherein cold
inhospitality reigns supreme, but
where a sign of warm welcome
greets everyone that enters.
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Why is it, that, after the depart
ment of Electrical Engineering has
been teaching that subject for forty
years, we have such a rotten light
service?
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Why is it, that, after the depart
ment of Civil Engineering has suc
cessfully taught its students how to
lay side-walks and build roads, most
of our sidewalks are under water,
and the roads impassable?
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Why is it, that, though we have a
perfectly efficient department that
teaches Irrigation and Drainage, we
still have to swim to the classes, and
pi'J-ri
se ret
Dixie Saturday
The Best Bill This Year. See it Sure.
JACK PICKFORD
In His Newest and Best First National Picture
“A Burglar by Proxy”
Also Brand New Two-Reel Feature Sunshine
FOOT LIGHT MAIDS
MONDAY—GEO. WALSH IN “THE BEAST”
quote a sentence or two which is the
real test of the success or failure of
a dance.
Mr. Fellow, manager of the Ral
eigh Hotel—“It was^the cleanest and
best dance of the "holiday season.”
Mrs. Austin, also connected with the
Raleigh—“There wasn’t a single
drunk person on the floor and the
dance was wonderful.”
In the preparation of the dance
too much credit cannot be given to
the arrangement committee of the
Waco Club, who put many hours of
hard labor into the task of making
the dance the best of the holiday sea
son.
The decorations were of many
kinds, the colors of maroon and
white predominating, and, in the ar-
angement of the lights, the lights
with red trimmings took the shape of
a large “T” and in the center of the
hall was a huge red banner with the
legand “275-0” in white numerals.
Out of respect for our sister insti
tution on one side of the hall a C.I.
A. pennant was completely surround
ed by A. and M. pennants, which
shows the path in which our thoughts
travel.
The official chaperones for the
evening were: Mesdames. J. C.
Nagle, A. T. Potts, Joe W. Taylor,
Boyd Huff, T. A. Luckett, W. C.
Torbett and T. I. Chaney.
Among the out-of-town guests of
the Club were: Messrs. Carl Scud-
der, Herbert DeLee, and Asa Hunt
of Dallas, A. B. Knickerbocker, T,
A. Cheeves, Levy and Rogers of Mar
lin, Harold Walthrip of Fort Worth,
Bryan Gouger of San Antonio and
A. S. Webber of Houston.
The arrangement committee for
the dance consisted of W. C. Fiser,
Chairman; Roy P. Huff, Finance
Manager and Ceborn Megarity.
QUEtM—Saturday
The Master of Them All in Beauty and Class
MALE AND FEMALE
All the Passions and Yearnings of the Race Featuring
BEAUTIFUL GLORIA SWANSON
In a Love Story That is Absolutely Absorbing in Power
HOLICK’S ORCHESTRA
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