Baseball is Here!
Published Weekly by the Students’ Association of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas.
VOL. XXX. COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, MARCH 24, 1922. NUMBER 24
LONGHORN WORK
COMPLETED AND
BEING PRINTED
EDITORS OF YEARBOOK COM
PLETE WORK FAR AHEAD OF
OTHER COLLEGES.
BIGGER AND BETTER
Athletic Section Will Give History of
Threai c, ^ntbvvest Chauipionsr and
One Southern.
A certain senior on the Campus was
seen this week to be heaving vast
sigh of relief. Certain other indi
viduals were also noticed to be emit
ting sounds that were more or less of
the nature of sighs of relief. And
well they might expand with reckless
abandon, for the cloud that had hover
ed for months had at last dissolved—
the Longhorn is off to the engravers
and printers. Away back in the fall
of 1920, the jobs of business manager
and editor of the Longhorn for 1922
were thrust on Wendt and Thomas.
The former has quietly managed to
rake together considerable quantities
of the necessary stuff that is often re
ferred to as filthy. That’s just his
way. Thomas began at once to busy
himself with gathering about him a
flock of stars of the first magnitude
who were to help him do justice to
A. and M. and the Class of ’22. All
of the above mentioned flock served
apprenticeships under the editors of
the ’21 book. When last fall came
around they were all old hands at the
game, while Thomas claims he told
his engravers how to save consider
able money in their work. His spec
ialty seems to be making a dollar
cover two pages where it covered one
before. At any rate the 1922 Long
horn will have in it more and better
work than will several books that
spent several thousands more. That
comes from careful planning and de
tail work, made possible by the ex
perience of last year.
Last summer the engravers of the
Longhorn vaguely hinted that we had
better let them do the color work on
the book, as we did not wish to have
any messy stuff therein. Just to
show that A. and M. could do some
thing besides play football, Dreke,
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PRAIRIE VIEW
TO BE HOST TO
EXTEN. WORKERS
Extension Workers of College Will
Make Visit to Colored In
stitution.
On Saturday,. April 1, between one
hundred and a hundred and fifty
members of the Extension Service,
ths-jr families, and friends will make
a trip to Prairie View to attend the
annual picnic and celebration at that
institution. The trip will be made in
the cars of the individual members
of the service and the entire day will
be spent at the colored institution.
The trip is being made to bring
about a closer correlation between
the Extension Service here and the
branch of that work at Prairie View.
The colored people are directly re
sponsible to the office here and are
very anxious to better their work
as much as possible.
Quite extensive plans have been
made for the entertainment of the
visitors while at the colored college.
A very elaborate musical program
will be made. Dinner will be served
in the white section of the Mess Hall
and quite a treat is expected in this
event.
President Bizzell, Director WaltoiS
and other prominent members of the
College Staff will be among the list
of visitors.
On the return trip, supper will be
eaten along the roadside in real old
picnic fashion. The trip offers an
unusual opportunity and will doubt
less serve a fine purpose and bring
about a better agricultural situation
for the negro.
A.M.C.
MOTHER OF GRADUATE
DIES AT BLUM
M,rs. J. M. Coffin, mother of P. C.
Coffin, Ch. E., ’21, died suddenly at
her home in Blum, Texas, Monday,
March 13th.
P. C. Coffin was a popular member
of the Class of ’21 and his many
friends on the Campus join in ex
tending their heartfelt sympathy to
him and his family in their hours of
sorrow.
DAVIS, THE MAGICIAN SCORES
BIG HIT.
Thursday, March 16, Davis , . the
Magician, entertained the largest
crowd th it has ever yet attended any
one number of the Lyceum course.
Promptly at eight-thirty p. m. Davis
appeared on the stage and after a
few introductory remarks began to
mystify his audience with some of
the most remarkable tricks that any
magician has yet shown in Guion
Hall.
He not only made things appear
but also made several things ^disap
pear in plain view. The greate-'t
laugh occassioned during the even
ing’s entertainment was Mr. Brad
ens’ attempt to recover a flask of
whiskey that the magician eased
from its hiding place. We are still
in doubt as to whether it was one of
the magician’s tricks or whether it
was just the magician’s luck.
In rapid succession the magician
demonstrated his magic. He explain
ed several of his tricks, but with each
explanation we got farther away
from the true solution. He stood
in the aisle and folded an alarm
clock in a handerchief holding a cor
ner of the handkerchief he tossed it
into the air. The clock did not ap
pear as the handkerchief was thrown
upward, but a moment later it ap
peared as from nowhere on one of
the magicians tables on the stage.
The climax of the evening came
when, handcuffed, with his hands tied
to a sack in which he was enveloped,
the magician escaped from a trunk
which was strongly reinforced and
doubly locked. Then he again got
into the trunk which was still locked
and was found in his original position
within only a few seconds.
It was the most successful num-
| ber of the Lyceum course that has
yet been here. And even yet many
of the cadets are trying to imitate
him by unsuccessful attempts to get
into a trunk with their hands bound.
A.M.c.
Freshman: “How much do you
charge for rooms?”
Landlady: “$10 up.”
Freshman: “But I am a High
school students.”
Landlady: “$10 down.” Ex.
A.M.C.
In she walked
Down she sot,
Looked at the questions
And up she got. —Ex.
FEDERATION OF
LADIES CLUBS
TO MEET HERE
Fourth District Federation Women’s
Clubs Will Hold Annual Meeting
on A. and M. Campus.
Arrangements for the meeting of
the Fourth District Federation Wo
men’s clubs at the College on April
6. 7. •*- iHf llegv.n.to assume def
inite shape as a resalt ^>f the cease
less work of the campus women un
der the leadership of Mrs. B. Young
blood, general chairman in charge of
the work of arranging for the meet
ing.
Mrs. Youngblood has announced a
tentative program which includes all
the main features of the meeting.
While many details yet remain to be
worked out the general plan of ac
tivities for the three days has been
drawn and all succeeding plans mill
be formed around the essential fea
tures which have been included in the
program already decided upon
In drawing up the program the wo
men have been guided by the purpose
which led the College to invite the
women here for their annual meet
ing, and that is to have them make
a close acquaintance with the College,
to learn by seeing and feeling the
atmosphere of student life, of learn
ing official methods, ideas and pur
poses of the institution as a whole.
Through a recognition of such a pur
pose to be attained their program has
been made to give the visitors the
greatest opportunity to get the most
information about the institution.
Care has been used in framing the
outline of activities to avoid includ
ing anything that might tire the vis
itors by forcing upon them any mass
of vague information. It is intend
ed that they shall be kept during
their stay here most conveniently re
lated to events of everyday occurence
so that their impressions may be
gained when there is the greatest con
centration through their interest.
Hence nothing has been included with
a direct and palatable object of en
listing the sympathies of the visitors.
Yet on the other hand nothing has
been placed on the program that will
for even a short length of time re
move the visitors from a place of