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THE BATTALION
P. A. DWYER (JAYBIRD)
Vice-President
Pat, our vice-president, entered
school in the fall of ’17 and was
known as the best Fish on the cam
pus that year. Many were his deeds
and acts of that year, but probably
the most notorious of all was his at
tempt to spy on the birds of the air
from an advantageous perch in a
small tree behind Leggett Hall. It
was from this adventure that he
gained the name by which all Fish
know him—“Jaybird.”
In ’18 Pat played on the Aggie
basketball squad to such perfection
that he was awarded this position on
the ALL-SOUTHWESTERN team.
His smashing, driving tactics and
ever persistent fighting spirit stamp
ed him in the minds of all A. and M.
students as the. best of rushing
guards. He came back to us after
a year’s service as an officer in the
“army” and took his old place on
the team. His playing was again
above reproach and all that can be
expected of any human. To him is
due much of the credit for the small
scores of our opponents and but for
ineligibility at the start of the sea
son would undoubtedly have been
named by all critice as the other
ALL-SOUTHWESTERN guard with
Floppy. He is now playing first base
on our baseball team and will soon
be one of the seven to have made
letters in two major sports.
Pat, we are proud to have you as
our vice-president. May your happy
laugh and cheerful smile continue
with you always. Your sunny dis
position is worth a million dollars
and your congeniality is the true
basis of your many friends. We
have chosen our second in comand
wisely.
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. C. W. THOMAS
Historian.
At the annual election of officers
of the Sophomore Class, C. W.
Thomas was honored in being chosen
as class historian. Thomas came to
A. and M. as a freshman in the Fall
of 1918. His freshman year presents
little in the way of stirring incident
or varied experiece to attract the cas
ual reader; it was rich, however, in
the experience of the mind—he has
accomplished the almost impossible—
he has never made less than an “A”
in English.
But dear reader in order that we
may prortay other sides of his accom
plishments, let us lead your eyes
through the pages of last year Fresh
man Bat.—he was editor of that.
Most of you remember the days of
watchful waiting before the Junior
Banquet. Thomas was one of the
watchful seven, not in the sackhold-
er sense, however. His sound judg
ment, with that of the other six, did
much to capture the Junior Toast
master, almost.
Now let us turn to a gentler side
of our hero. Nothing could picture
him better than “The Arrival of
Kitty”. This shows him going at top
speed, and in full action.
But aside from being a man of
great studential ability, a charming
personality, logical mind, and gentle
disposition, he is a tireless worker in
anything he undertakes, and a true
friend to everyone.
The Sophomore Class is proud to
have you for their historian, and we
are expecting great things of you in
the future.
O. FRAZIER
Secretary-T reasurer.
R. L. CARRUTHERS
President Sophomore Class.
Bob Carruthers is a man. First
and foremost, he is that. After that,
he might be called a Chemical Engi
neer. Carruthers never loses his bal
ance and is an excellent example of
the old saying that a man must gov
ern himself before he can govern
others. For Bob is a natural leader.
Quiet and self-contained, his is not
the type to tickle the fancy of the
crow with batant wit or blustering
self-assertion. But, rather, he has
that subtle force of character that we
call personality. There is no need
for him to force himself on men; men
make him their leader.
Those of us who were closely asso
ciated with Carruthers in the trying
days of the Junior Banquet know how
hard and willingly he works for the
interests of the class. He showed
himself to be a wonderful extractor
of secrets and would work in sixty-
one different ways to get dope that
he pieced together and based his
opinions on. But, however sure he
was of his position, he never tried to
put his plan over someone else’s, un
til the committee as a whole decided
that his was best
Bob is not exactly what the diction
ary calls a ladies’ man. Yet he be
lieves strongly that the single man
is not blessed of Jove. At times he
developes strange sympathies for cer
tain fair ones and was known to be
stow a “T” pin upon one for bravery
in action. Whether or not he made
the presentation a la’ Foch, Bob nev
er told. However, he said it was
“easy” to do.
Football is Bob’s chief delight and
Chemistry his principal diversion. If
he were as successful in one as he
is in the other, he would be either a
good football man or a good Chemist.
We won’t tell in which one he is suc
cessful; but the made his “T” on the
all-Southwestern football team of
1919. Carruthers was a demon
Thanksgiving against Texas and play
ed the veteran Green to a standstill,
and even more. We pick him for an
all-State tackle next fall. Bob hasn’t
announced his plans for the summer
as yet, but we heard him recently
quoting a line of Kipling’s—at least,
he said Kipling wrote it.
And I’m learning here in College what
the ten-year driller tells,
“If you’ve heard the oil a-callin’ you
won’t never heed naught else.”
Confidentially, we thing Bob utter
ed the above in our presence, hoping
that we would print it where Prof.
Thomas would see it; in one of his
darkest hours of despair one day he
told us he had to do something to
get a drag with his English Prof.
Carruthers came to A. and M. from
Fort Worth, where he was quite fam
ous. He made his “T”-second in foot
ball in his fish year. As Historian
of the Freshman class and a good
fish, he was “popular” with all the
old boys. (Note—See A. and M. dic
tionary for definition of “popular”)
He was raised right and had strongly
impressed on him the fundamental
governing bodies of this college. Bob
is the kind of a man that grows in
ones estimation in direct proportion
to length of acquaintanceship, and
when last fall came ’round he was the
unanimous choice of the Sophomore
class for its President. His person
ality has had, perhaps, more influence
in shaping the spirit of the Sopho
more class than that of any other
man. We know that the class of ’22
is the best in history and we are glad
to say that Carruthers typefies our
spirit. Clean, fair, and hard-work
ing, he is the logical as well as the
official leader of the Sophomore class.
We take credit to ourselves for the
clearness of judgment to see his qual
ities and make him our President.
This secretary-treasurer of ours is
a very striking man. He can do
most anything he sets out to do.
Perhaps this is because, back of all
his good humor, he has a quality of
determination that is popularly as
cribed to such noted characters as
Napoleon and. George Washington.
For “O” is above all a working man.
He works his Profs, and everyone he
runs across. Even now he’s figure-
ing on working his way to Central
America after camp this summer.
Just how he’s going to get to camp
he hasn’t said as yet. However,
most any old wild-haired plan may
be expected.
But, seriously, it would be diffi
cult to find a harder worker than
Frazier. ’Way back in his high
school days he took a liking to track
and a certain young lady and he’s
been sticking to both ever since. We
can’t trace for you his progress
with the last named. But his track
record is open to public inspection.
With his brother, “Mule” Oscar used
to come down and carry off the High
School Meet. Then he decided to
take off a fe wcolleges and came to
A. and M. to do it. His Fish year
was taken up with football and
track. In the first he won a “T-sec-
ond”, playing in the back-field. In
track he won his “T” in the dashes
and hurdles. Oscar came back in
the fall of 1919 and repeated his suc
cess in football. When wrestling
was started he took that up, but had
to drop it for his track work. “O”
hurt his ankle last fall and has not
been able to reach his best time in
the hurdles so far this year.
“Hyroxide” Frazier is a bughunt-
er, but he has leanings towards the
chemical side of his course. In fact
he waxes eloquent whenever “Geol
ogy rocks” is mentioned. So far, no
Fish has been persuaded to ask him
the whyfore of his wild outbursts.
For they’ve all seen him twiddling
his sixty-pound bar to keep his
fingers nimble. To make this phys
ical prowess seem more marvelous,
“O” declares that he has never
touched a drop of nuxiated iron or
tanlac in his life and furthermore,
that he will never permit the man
ufacturers of the above named
“kicks” to use his photograph or sig
nature to advertise their wares.
“O” isn’t a loud “bird” at all.
He’s rather quiet and impresses him
self on one by his sheer worth. He
is going through life on purpose and
not just because he happened to be
born. Those who are intimate with
him know there isn’t a cleaner, finer
man at A. and M. And on top of
this he has an open, frank disposi
tion that never lacks a smile and a
passing word. Frazier has a mania
for freak expressions: “Well, I
dunno,” ‘whose horse,” but he “olive
oil-ed” the whole campus last month.
It’s hard to tell into what channel
his Iforid imagination will next turn.
We are hoping that the wild women
of Havana won’t vamp him this sum
mer, for Frazier is the kind of man
we need and want.
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THE SOPHOMORE CLASS.
The Class of ’22 began its days at
A. and M. under trying conditions.
The S. A. T. C. caught us as fish—and
we passed a hard winter. The spirit
of some of the shave-tails over us
was arrogant in the extreme,—as wit
ness this punishment: For a petty
offense, a fish was made to carry a
bucket of water from the basement
of Leggett to the top floor with a
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