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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Sept. 25, 1923)
“Wording Will Win When Wishing Wont” VOL. XXII. Published Weekly by the Students’ Association of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas. BRYAN, TEXAS, SEPTEMBER 25, 1923. NUMBER 1. 48TH SESSION OPENED WITH FINE PROGRAM President Bizzell Makes Opening An nouncements and Introduces Speaker of Occasion. Dr. B'zzell called the student body together Friday, September 21, at 10 a. m. for the purpose of formally opening the forty-eighth session of the and M. College of Texas. Guion Hall was filled to its capacity wth military and civilian students and campus residents. A record breaking enrollment was made evi dent by the large attendance at the first gathering. Although the new students showed signs of homesick ness, the morale of the entire cadet corps was exceptionally admirable. Predictions of A. and M.’s most suc cessful year are based upon the en thusiasm displayed by the students of the college. Dr. Bizzell introduced as speaker of the day, Dr. Splawn, a member of the Railroad Commission. Be fore accepting this position he was a professor of economics at the Uni versity of Texas. He has studied railroads for many years and is one of the state’s best authorities on rail road commerce. Dr. Splawn has pioved that it does not take a politic ian to hold a state position. Dr. Splawn said that modern prog ress and facilities are the result of a revolutionary move called the In dustrial Revolution, which reached Texas about fifty years ago. Texas was typically frontier fifty years ago. Industrial Revolution reached Texas at about the time this great college was first started. All America can be divided int,o two classes, those who are interested in commerce or industry, and those who are self-sufficient. The pio neers were self-sufficient farmers but new inventions created a demand f >r markets and caused the adoption of policies for internal improvements. Railroads were built, canals sprang up, and steamships began to span the (Continued on Page 8) I OUR PREXY Dr. William Bennet Bizzell, M. A., D. C. L., L. L. D., Ph. D., President of the A. and M. College of Texas and a true friend to every Texas boy, is the man whom we, students of A. and M., hail as “Our Prexy.” His devo tion to Texas boys can be ex pressed only in his own words: “As long as there is a place in the Mess Hall, or one can be made, and as long as there is a tent that I can borrow and there’s a Texas boy who wants an edu cation, I’m going to see that he gets it.” Listen to him, boys, follow him, study him, and you will profit from the example that he sets for Aggieland. ■"“t FRESHMEN ARE SHOWN THE REAL A. AND M. SPIRIT Many Old Timers Are Thrilled With ‘Monty’ Montgomery’s Exclama tion of “Farmers Fight.” i That period just after the first handshakes and just before the be ginning of another year of real A. ahd M. life came to an abrupt end about seven o’clock last Firday night. Things had been dragging along rath er slowly because of the usual irreg ularities common to the opening of i every years session. Many of the freshmen had contracted the custo mary case of homesickness and “Wish I could see that gal” blues, and the old boys were all anxious for “Col- lege Nite” program to begin. When i it did begin, A. and M. life assumed a different air, and with the help of the large number of new students, the old boys began to display the real Aggie spirit which has been, is, and always will be unsurpassed by the n spirit of any other college in any land. All of the freshmen ills were alleviated. “FISH” HAVE ANNUAL COMING OUT PARTY Y. M. C. A. Entertains With Recep tion to the Freshman Class. The “debutants” of A. and M. made their initial social appearance Saturday night at the Animal Hus bandry pavilion, with the Y. M. C. A. as the host. With a few excep tions, every member of the Freshman class was present, and that meant that the entertaining ability of the “Y” staff was taxed to the utmost. After the picture show was over and all the upper-classmen had dis persed, the Fish were assembled in (Continued on Page 3) DAIRY TEAM LEAVES FOR SYRACUSE Will Compete in the National Dairy Judging Contest. Last Saturday at noon, the north bound H. and T. C. took with it four Texas Aggies: L. D. Steffens of Smithville, W. K. Cottingame of Itasca, F. H. Downs, of Fal, La., and Conger Poage of Waco. These four boys who comprise the National Dairy Judging Team, were accom panied by Coach A. L. Darnell, asso ciate professor of dairy husbandry/. Eight men reported about the first of September and held daily (Continued on Page 3) “Monty” Montgomery led the band down the military walk and up to the steps of the Y. M. C. A., where the first yell practice was to be held. The : old band never played better before, and amidst the clamor of whoops and yells, one could almost feel his old ! spine creep further up his back when those notes of “Wildcat” and “Good bye to Texas University” emerged from the collection of trumpets and drums. It was a processional that will never be played in any place other than Aggieland. The yell chief then made the pre lude to his opening address and bade the bunch render “Taps” as the ini tial inspiration for the year 1923-24. We do not know what made it, but with voices only in pre-season condi tion and with a band organized only a day before, the student body made “Taps” seem to say that there is something not very consoling in store for a few other schools this year. “Cy” Edwards performed to perfec- THE “BAT” IS YOUR PAPER - PATRONIZE ITS ADVERTISERS V