Published Weekly by the Students’ Association of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas.
VOL. XXI. BRYAN, TEXAS, AUGUST 23, 1923. NUMBER 29
NEW BUILDINGS
NEXT BIENNIUM
COST $315,000
H
L. Roberts and }. F. Baker
Get Highest Rank in Cadet
Corps for Session of 23-24
Program for Next Two Years Will be
Credit to Ambition of President
Bizzell to'Have Building Go On.
Construction and other building
plans now under way at the A. and M.
College of Texas are of such propor
tions as to do credit to the ambition
of President W. B. Bizzell, so oftey;
expressed, that three shall e^er be
building on the A. and M. campus as
long as he is head of the institution.
A summary of the work now progress
ing under the efforts of carpenters
and bricklayers and architects shows
that in the next biennium more than
$300,000 will be expended in new con
struction.
The chiefest of these buildings will
be an extension service administration
building to cost $100,000, a combina
tion hotel and dormitory to cost $75,-
000, exchange store to cost $40,000,
new assembly hall to take the place
of the old airdome and to cost $30,000,
dairy building $20,000, repairs
to Gathright Hall $15,000, green
house $10,000 and deep well $20,000.
In addition there are to be new side
walks and more gravelled streets, new
residences and a number of other re
pairs and improvements.
The assembly hall, dairy building,
repairs to Gathright hall and green
house are nearing completion. Plans
for the extension building have been
completed and plans for the combina
tion hotel and dormitory will be be
gun by E. B. LaRoche, college archi
tect immediately after he completes
the extension service building plans.
It is expected that the contract for
the two buildings will be let simul
taneously about September 1. Con
tract for the new well was let about
a month ago and calls for the com
pletion of a well that will flow 450,
000 gallons every twenty-four hours
by January 1. The exchange store
will probably not be started until next
year.
Extension Service to be Housed.
The extension service building will
be constructed with money appropriat
ed by the Thirty-Eighth legislature
and will be the first exclusive extension
administration building in the United
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Promotion List Issued by President Bizzell Gives List of Cadet
Officers and Non-Commissioned Officers for
the Coming Year.
Commissioned and non-commissioned
officers of the senior and junior
classes of the A. and M. College of
Texas for the session of 1923-24, have
been announced by President W. B.
Bizzell. The appointments were madfe
by Colonel C. C. Todd, professor of
military science on the basis of schol
arship, discipline, military bearing,
leadership and physical qualities, a?
judged the commandant, registrar,
pr; sideiU.; and on the recommenda
tions of last year’s senior officers. The
(Continued on Page 2)
The Call to Booths
The vacation period is
rapidly drawing to a close.
The time has come to make
preparations for returning
to College. It is my sin
cere hope that every stu
dent who reads these words
has had an enjoyable, profit
able summer and that he
can find it in his heart to be
joyful over the prospects of
renewing his work in Col
lege.
Every possible effort is
being made to provide as
comfortably as we can for
the student body this year.
Additional housing accom
modations have been provid
ed and other conveniences
installed that will add to the
comfort and convenience of
the students of the College.
We earnestly hope that the
days of “Sheik City” are
over. Unless an unprece
dented number of students
enroll, ample housing ac
commodations will be avail
able this fall.
Old students who read
this communication are ear
nestly requested to report
to College on time. Re
member that the new year
begins Wednesday, Sep
tember 19. New students
will be expected to register
on September 17 and 18. I
hope that every high school
in Texas will have represen
tation this year in our stu
dent body; not because the
College will be short of stu-
derts, but because I desire
that the advantages offered
here be made available to
the entire state. An old stu
dent can render no greater
service to any young man
than to urge him to come to
this College and prepare to
take his place as a useful
citizen. I urge you, there
fore, to bring the advan
tages of the College to the
attention of every young
man who is qualified to
enter here.
In conclusion, let me urge
you to resolve when you
leave home to reenter Col
lege that you are going to
make the new year one of
great profit to yourself. I
hepe that you will come
back determined to make
the .most of your opportu
nities throughout the new
year. I pledge to you my
loyal cooperation in help
ing you to fulfill this reso
lution.
Faithfully yours,
W. B. BIZZELL,
President.
SPIRIT SOON TO
REINHABIT BODY
Formal Opening Exercises for 1923-
24, September 21; 1000 Freshmen
Expected for Work.
Empty classrooms, uninhabited
dormitories, a vacant drill field, lone
some mess hall and a quiet athletic
field with its sportive equipment
standing lif e death sentinels in a IJThd
foresaken, are all calling, beseech
ing in mute promptings for the vi
vacious spirit of habitaOnn that will —
make the whole place resound agam
with that soul stirring, victorious
voice of Aggieland. In other words,
there is a great desire for the spirit
to return and reinhabit the body.
The “ole school” is offering more
this year to inspire the minds, de
velop the muscles and cheer the hearts
of Aggies. It has expanded its log-
of Aggies. It has expanded its lodg-
“school of fish” extended also its build
ing equipment for classroom and lab
oratory practice and last but not
least, added facilities at Kyle Field,
the place where Aggie hopes for in
terscholastic triumphs spring, are sel
dom discouraged and have never died.
Announcement of the commissioned
personnel of the senior class and the
noncoms of the junior class gives en
couragement to brighter views of
student work and play the coming
year. With the most experienced and
best qualified men in the places of
greatest responsibility for discipline
and constructive endeavor there is
every reason to believe that there
will be no discordant elements in the
cadet corps this year but instead only
peaceful cooperation and harmonious
action which makes such a beautiful
and admirable thing of the A. & M.
student body. A united spirit for a
bigger and better Aggieland would be
a phrase aptly applied to the new or
ganization that will determine the des
tiny of the school for another year.
New students will have precedence
in date of registration. They will be
enrolled on September 17 and 18. Old
students will be dated into the fold
again on September 19 and 20.
Graduate students will be accepted on
September 21 and recitations will be
gin September *21 at 8 a. m. There
will be a short respite from class-
work, or rather the assignment of
lessons at 10 a. m. September 21, for