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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 10, 1920)
4 THE BATTALION estcv-e* ♦j* »j. ^ »j» »5» ■>*. <.j> ^ 'J' ^ ❖ BULLETIN BOARD ❖ ❖ *t» •t* <?» ❖ ’-J- ^ +t» ❖ => <L «J* ■> Company “F” Notes. History proves that Companies F and E didn’t show up so well in com pany basketball, but history will have a different tale to tell about the Bat- ceived" d’aily." 7 Wonder why the boys talion football contests. Everyone concedes to us that we have the brightest prospects of any aggi'ega- We are told that our friends the Casuals, are intending to use Bau- com and Fish Chang as “dark horses”. However, we are not worried for in Grape Juice, Billingsly and Schmidt we have men who will offset any ad vantage they may have. * , ❖ * We have noticed that numerous let ters post marked “Austin” tion on the Campus. With some four or five of Coach Anderson’s heavy “Fish” stars in the line and two or three of them in the back field to gether with such old boys as Buck ner, Joe Brown, Adams, “Spot” Han na, and Crane, we feel confident that we will be formidable opponents to any of the teams who contest for All- Company honors. Some twenty-five or thirty men are reporting promptly each afternoon to Coaches Heinie Weir and Carl Scudder. The diffi culty that confronts the coaches is to pick an eleven from among these men. They are all full of pep and fight, and they have all had a good previous training in the game. We are look ing forward to our first game which is with the Troopers on the afternoon of the 16th. * * * We regret very much that our Top-Kick, Bob Meitzen, suffered an injury to hhs eye the other morning when the company was being rushed to the fire. Hurrying out of the darkness into the glare of the fire, he was for a moment blinded and rushed right in to a limb which gave him a rather seri ous cut just below his left eye. He is back from the hospital today, but he is wearing a bandage and it will be sev eral days before he can resume his military duties. We wish for him a quick recovery. * * * Although we hate to lose “Fish” Albert W. Harrison of Victoria from the company and student body, we wish him luck and success in his un dertaking. He has seen fit to with draw from the College to take up work preparatory to entering a Michigan Automobile school in the early spring. * -t- * We wonder why J. Hadley Edgar was so happy and relieved like when he hurridly scanned the pages of last week’s Battalion ? He went around as if he were “almost as happy as if he had good sense.” It seems that he was expecting his name to be in print. * * * After having attended the Y. M. C. A. banquet in honor of the foot ball team, Fred Wilson, All-State end, reports that although the company of girls that played at Guion Hall on the night of the 7th might have called themselves “The Old Fashioned Girls”, they surely could get over the ground. ❖ :i< >h From the looks of the refuse just outside of his door, “Buzzard” Proehl has taken to a rabbit diet. ❖ ❖ * A few nights ago, “Floppy” Har- tung and “Pat” Dwyer paid “Doc” Schmidt and “Reveille” Bi’own a short snappy visit. Later while “Floppy” and “Pat” were at the show, some one tore up “Floppy’s” and “Pat’s” rooms. We wonder who did this deed! It must have been a “Fish” or two. did not carry out Proxy’s wish that we should not annex any Texas- girls during the Austin trip ? Signal Corps Flashes. The dance given by the Mitchell Hall Jazz Club Saturday night was a howling success. Such was the night Sergeant’s opinion. He decided to honor the festivities with his pres ence just when Johnnie Baucom and Cug were giving their interpre tation of the latest step in the fox trot. The result was that “Home Sweet Home” was rendered some time before order given on the program. So popular are these dances be coming that the club has decided to make it a weekly affaii'. A new orchestra has been imported to assist the one which has rendered such wonderful service during the past. Fish Muller is quoted as saying that “Evidently his folks did not un derstand all the uses to which a music box is put to at this place.” “Over the Waves,” “Old Lang Syne,” were among the records sent. Johnny Baucom says that he will be unable to attend future dances as playing society and his ambition to make all company water boy do not run hand in hand. -f* * * The game with Texas is history but football is still the main topic of con versation in Mitchell. ' Over forty men were present at the first meeting. Legg was unanimously elected manager. The Signal Corps drew Mahan and Drake as coaches. With Legg, an all company man of last year, Walker Simmons, Dillingham, Kimbrough, Smith, Evans, these coaches are ex pected to put a fighting team in the field. Legg, Dillingham, Simmons, Smith and Evans have worked on the Aggie and Freshman squads and will furnish material around which to assemble a squad. We will admit that the art of carno- flauge has made wonderful progress during the past few years, but it is hard to believe that the art has pro gressed so far that a little water pistol would deceive a soldier of the old school. Such is the case, how ever, for Douthit has received orders from the Commandant’s office to turn in his much beloved water pistol. * * * Rumor says that Doug Thomas is planning to start a class in roping and half-hitching just as soon as he gets a little more practice. The Fresh men think that more practice is un necessary judging from his marvel ous feat of Tuesday night. Next year’s Rodeo Association will do well to sign The Texas Kid up for their performance. *t* -i- Watch the lobby of Mitchell Hall, boys. Something new and different is in store for you. Pep and enthusiasm in the Signal Corps have increased a hundred per cent. Especially among the Fish. The causes appear to be as numerous as they are obscure. Probably it is the cold weather, more likely it is the approach of the holidays, and most likely it is the effect of a certain rumor, perhaps unfounded, of a cer tain raid that was to come off but did not. DR. BIZZELL TO ADDRESS MASONIC CLUB At the last regular meeting of the Masonic Club all business of organi zation was completed with the follow ing result: That the meetings shall be held on the 2nd and 4th Tuesdays of each month in Room 38 C. E. building at 7:00 p. m. All details of organi zation have been perfected and there now remains the larger work to be handled which was the primary rea son for the organizing of the club. Considering the limited publicity and the heavy work of the office, unusual and creditable interest has been taken in the work. Enthusi asm and the desire to put things across stood paramount even in the exciting days of the games. That being over there is very much to be expected to materialize in the days that follow: As as Master Mason there is yet much to be learned and done and it was with that idea uppermost that the committee will try to put something of vital importance before the club at each meeting. Dr. W. B. Bizzell has kindly con sented to talk to the club and any other Master Mason in the student body or on the Campus at the next regular meeting. He will possibly talk on the ethical application of Ma sonic symbols. It will be the pleasure and privilege of every Mason to hear this put concisely and clearly before him. For the information and guidance of those who have failed to learn through a former issue we wish to state that Mr. S. G. Bailey is presi dent, Mr. C. C. Braden, vice-president; Mr. T. J. Potts, secretary-treasurer. Mr. Potts is also chairman ex-officio of the membership committee and in his hands has been placed the author ity to pass on a man’s eligibility as a Master Mason and good standing and is also authorized to take money for dues should anyone desire to join the club. LATE NEWS ITEMS. (Details Too Late for This Issue) King Vivion, popular student pastor of the Campus Methodist group re turned from Missouri Saturday as a benedict. The news came as a sur prise to the students and Campus res idents. Students have frequently urged King to make the step, stating that Mrs. King would be made an of ficial student chaperone. They are making their home at the residence of Miss Laui'a F. Neale in Honey Moon Flats. * * Dr. Winfield Scott Hall addressed the entire student body of®A. and M. in Guion Hall last night. Dr. Hall’s lectures are an annual event and are met with considerable interest among the students. He is nationally famed as a lecturer and writer. * * >|! J. F. Casey and Bill Sparks were hosts at a most elaborate banquet given the football men Wednesday night. An excellent menu was provid ed and the squad tenders its fullest j appreciation of the honor. 4* * ❖ MIDNIGHT MUSINGS. * * * Well, Uucle Dan is losing out in popularity. He wasn’t even nominat ed as president of this year’s slimes. What’s the matter with the Sophs ? * * * Staff tables are good thermometers. The cooler the morning the more va cant seats at breakfast. If Mess Hall hash don’t improve rapidly, the holidays will just about come in time to keep the fellows from thinking McSweeny wasn’t so much after all! * * * It’s about the time when some Senior lets off a pack of fire-crackers on the military walk and then dashes madly about yelling, “What Fish did that?” * # * And at this season the uncles and cousins begin failing in health. Next week everybody will have a dying rel ative ! * * * Lots of fellows are getting much appreciated checks now for railroad fare. Its the first money they’ve had since Thanksgiving. “Strawberry Industry on the Gulf Coast”. Mr. Westcourt’s topic was “Bud Selection”. He brought out the fact that this was an untried field that was one of the surest ways of improving the present varieties of fruits. After all business and the pro gram was dispensed with, Mr. Holm- green and Mr. Mortensen, acting as hosts of the evening, served refresh ments of punch and assorted cakes. The society forgot all seriousness and surrounded the tin punch bowl with the eagerness of high school children and did full justice to its contents. H. M. Sandei’s, Sec.-Treas, and Reporter. 4' " *!♦ EX-AUSTIN. ‘QUACK”, “QUACK”. As generally known the open sea son for quail, ducks (Teels), deei% and other carniverous animals is on and each day crafty nimrods from A. and M. may be observed tracking them to their lairs. Foremost among them, one C. M. Cole, statesman, scholar, authority on duck-hunting, “woman snatcher,” general utility man, cui'bstone cutie, who has de voted the greater portion of his young life to Teel hunting, and dis regarding the laws of God and man, hunts the teel throughout the entire year. While out hunting one afternoon this above mentioned “Hawkeye” trailed a piece of pie and a cup of coffee to Butler’s Cafe and made a counter-attack. With his undauunt- ed perseverence he charged them and hid them with the few swallows he had taken. After less dauntless duck huntei’s have sheathed their idfles and encased their hip-boots, and lie in doxunant expectancy for the ensuing season this aggx-essive youth with his hand on his rifle goes forth in quest of the genus “teel”. Although Cole, the mighty hunts man, has not gotten the Teel he has been trailing these many years, as a hunter he can ring the belle and only awaits the command. It so happened a fortnight since while this “out-door spoi’t” was in the overgrown thickets of Bx'azos Bottom with his head high in the air, as if in search of a few flying squir rels, that one of the members of the feline tribe, noted for their scents, mistook his pedal extremities for the gateway to opportunity and left our young nimrod not with the desire to find flying squirrels but for flying home. After fooling his homefolks he bounced into the house with his cus- tomax-y agility and a new air about him. Huntsman Cole has stated that he will convert his other suit and hat into hunting habiliments and ere long will pux’sue the Teel if he must needs go even into the virgin piney- woods of Sax'atoga. DECEMBER MEETING OF THE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. The x-egular December meeting of the Horticultural Society was held December the sixth, the president called the meeting to ox-der at 7:30. The minutes of the last x-egular ses sion and the minutes of the special session of November 27, wex-e x'ead and accepted by the society. The resignation of Mr. Martin as Battalion Repox'ter for the society was read, and the society voted to accept Mr. Max-tin’s x-esignation. The societly lost, in Mx\ Martin, the most intex-ested worker it had, but he states his academic work will require all his time and under those circum stances the society was bound to ac cept his resignation. Mx\ Max-tin made a motion that the office of Re porter be turned over to the Secx-e- tax-y-Treasui'er and that these thx-ee offices be consolidated in the society. His motion was unanamously accept ed. The committee on investigation of the dates for the horticultux-al tx-ips reported that they had decided that the most beneficial time for the trip would be immediately after the Christmas holidays. The society voted unanimously to invite the membex-s of the horticul tural faculty to put their pictux-es in the 1920 Longhox-n with the Horti cultural Club. The speakex-s for the evening wex-e: Holmgx-een, Mox-tensen, and Px-ofessor Westcoux-t, Mr. Holmgx-een read a paper on “The Px-ogx-ess of an Expex-iment on Fex-tilization in a Citx-us Ox-chard.” Mr. Mortensen made an intex-esting talk on the College Station and the surround ing countx-y furnished many intex - - ested spectatox’s to the annual clash on the gridiron between the Aggies and- the Longhorns. A special tx-ai-a was fux-nished for the use of the in habitants of Bx-yan, Wellbox-n, Bench- ley, and for Cadets who were lucky enough to seize the opportunity by the neck and accompany some wee bit of femininity on that painful journey to and from Austixx. The joux-ney over was devoid of thx-ills oxx accouxxt of the xxxany stops aixd the slow velocity of the tx-ain. We ixxight also add that the trip was made in the mox-ning. The thx-ills of that great gi*idirbn battle fade into insignificaxxce when compared to the excitement which px-evailed in one of the rear coaches that night oxx the x-eturn tx-ip. The older heads of the party being too dowriheai-ted to discuss the game calmly nodded their heads and dx-op- ped off iixto peaceful slumbers. One chivah-ous youxxg Cadet feax-ing that the lights would distux-b the slum bers of the occupants of the coach turned off the lights and herewith the love scene of Romeo and Juliet was eclipsed xxxany times before the silhouette of Bryan was discerned in the enshrouding dax-kness. In one corner a vex*y interesting gaxxxe of Checkers was in px-ogress which was predoxxxinated by many swift and ac curate moves. One gay yoxxxxg Loth- ax’io wajs evidently feeling pretty keen by the way he xvas Edged xxp in the £ox-ner. Another was heard to exclaim that he was Moore than satisfied! with his tx-ip. Mx\ Bx-ackett will now no doubt cease advertising fox* xxx^tei'ial for his draixxatic club a fter jsuclx a public exhibition of thespian ability. -tr-" —■Ogfr' i-MMP 66b rolicvet. a cold. Kings and Nunnelly’s Fine Candies J ELEGANT ASSORT MENT XMAS BOXES We are prepared to supply you with the largest assortment of Christmas candies in L-d I, 2, 3 and 5 pound boxes—just as you wish. 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