VOL. XXXIII
Published Weekly by the Students’ Association of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, MAY 13, 1920.
NUMBER 27
KEEN INTEREST HAS BEEN DEVELOPED
IN FRESHMAN STOCK JUDGING TEAM
ANNUAL CONFERENCE TRACK MEET
WILL BE HELD IN HOUSTON SATURDAY
Professors Have Worked Overtime Preparing for This Important
Event Which Will be Held Saturday and Winners
Made Known That Night.
Coach Clutter Has the Aggies In Good Form. Seven Teams
Will Fight for Championship Honors. State Teams
Are Very Evenly Matched.
BS
THE COLLEGE FRESHMAN
(By President W. B. Bizzell.)
This issue of The Battalion repre
sents the first effort of this Freshman
class to display talei'its in the field of
journalism. That che venture shall
be successful no one doubts who has
followed the career of the present
Freshman Class since it entered
school last September. The College
Freshman spends most of his first
year in applying previous knowledge
to new experiences. He is engaged
in the task of doing what President
Wilson has described as “finding him
self.” Much of life is involved in
what the scientists term “trial and
error.” This means that education
al achievement is largely the result
of experimenting with experiences.
The college freshman gets this in
concentrated form. The value of the
experiences cannot be over-estimat
ed. A young man never has his pos
sibilities and his limitations so clear
ly revealed in any other relationship
than as *a college freshman. He
comes to make many adjustments
that will be useful to him throughout
life. If the freshman student ac
quired no other good from his first
year of college than that growing
out of his social contact it would be
worth the time and effort.
It will be profitable for every stu
dent in the Freshman Class to at
tempt to catalogue the benefits of
this year’s experiences. What has
the year meant to you? Looking
back to your knowledge and experi
ences of last September, what ad
ditions have been made to your store
of knowledge? What changes have
come in your point of view? And
what udgments have you formed that
have changed your mode of action?
These are questions that will help
each of you to formulate an inven
tory of the benefits of the year at the
College.
Speaking from the standpoint of
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For a number of years it has been
the practice of the Animal Husband
ry Department to give a Freshman
Stock Judging Contest. All fresh
man students who have had A. H. 101
and A. H. 102 and who have had no
other course in Animal Husbandry
are eligible to try for a place in the
contest. A few days before the con
test, the upper one-third of each sec
tion is selected as being eligible to
enter the contest. These students
have a chance to try for a place on
the Freshman Stock Judging Team.
The team will be composed of the six
high men of the contest. There are
fifty-three men entering the contest
this year which is to be held Satur
day, May 15. Although this team
will never have the opportunity to
compete with other teams, it is no
small honor to be a member of same.
The different professors have been
working overtime to prepare their
students for the contest, and they
have succeeded in developing keen in
terest and rivalry between the in
dividual members of the different sec
tions and between the sections. Each
one of the fifty-three contestants in
trying his best to make a place on
the team. All of these men are
very willing to work overtime to
learn all the points about horses, cat
tle, sheep, and hogs that they have
missed heretofore.
It is the ambition of the Animal
Husbandry Department to develop
its students into competent livestock
judges. A team is annually sent to
the International Stock Show in
Chicago to compete for international
student stock judging honors. This
team is composed of senior A. H.
students. The Aggie team has won
first place in this International Stock
Judging Contest on two different oc
casions. This places the college
above and ahead of any other college
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CHAMPIONS NAMED SATURDAY
Bible’s men are gruelling out on
the local diamond this week as the
preliminary to the great finals,
whioh\ comes the latter part of the
■w eek and . desiides the State and
Southwest champions in baseball.
The nine leaves here for one game
with Southwestern at Georgetown on
Thursday the 13th and they go from
there to Austin for a series of two
with the Longhorns on Friday and
Saturday, after the termination of
which the decision is handed down,
naming the winners.
Needless to say these three games
will be watched with interest for A.
and M. is vitally concerned. The
question in the minds of everyone is
whether A. and M. will take the
championship in every major sport
of this school year or will she let
State University have mild recog
nition in the form of the South
western championship in baseball.
Here is the dope, Ke-rect: If the
Aggies win two of the remaining
three games to be played A. and M.
wins the State Championship, if
they win the game with South
western and both games with State
A. and M. cinches the last cham
pionship to be offered by the sport
world this year. At present Texas
is leading by the margin of one game
for the Southwestern Conference
championship and A. and M. is one
game in the lead for the State cham
pionship honors.
As a distinguishment between the
two the State championship is more
to be coveted that the dispensation
of the Southwestern conference be
cause there are a number of teams
outside the conference that are
more powerful that some of those
who are members. For instance, the
defeat that A. and M. administered
to T. C. U., recognized as the best
team in the state does not count to
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The annual Southwestern Confer
ence Track Meet will be held in
Houston May 15, on the Owl track.
There will be seven teams competing
for championship honors. Five of
these teams, S. M. U., Rice Institute,
Baylor University, Texas University,
and Texas A. & M. are State teams;
the other two contestants, Phillips
University and Oklahoma A. and M.,
being from Oklahoma. Arkansas
University is also a member of the
conference, but it is not supposed
that they will be represented, as
they were not represented last year.
As to the five State teams, they
seem to be, with the possible excep
tion of one team, fairly evenly
matched. A. and M. took an easy
victory from S. M. U., State Univer
sity beat A. and M. by an easy fig
ure, Rice won from State University,
Baylor won from Rice, A. and M.
beat Rice, A. and M. beat Baylor,
and Baylor won from State. Of the
four State teams that seem to be
evenly matched, the one that is in
the best working condition on the
day of the meet stands a chance of
being the winner. The two Oklaho
ma teams are unknown quantities.
So far no State team has met with
them, and it remains to be seen what
they can do.
Coach Clutter has been working
hard with the Aggies since the meet
with Baylor last Friday. He has the
men in excellent condition. The
team is confident that the meet will
be a success for A. and M.
The enteries for the Aggies are as
follows:
100 yard dash—Weir, Ward.
220 yard dash—Weir, Ward.
440 yard dash—Hugon, Sander?,
Harris, Riggs.
880 yard run—Hailey, Eubank.
1 mile run—Hailey, Eubank.
2 mile run — Hailey, Eubank,
Lynch, Reynolds.
1 mile relay—Sanders, Harris, Hu-