Strict Application to Study for
28 days will mal^e up many
deficiences.
Published Weekly by the Students’ Association of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas.
VOL. XXII.
BRYAN, TEXAS, MAY 6, 1924.
NUMBER 30.
MANY AGGIES
WILL GO TO
HOLLISTER
Great Diversion of Recreational In
terests in Ozarks Will be Taken
Advantage of.
The lure of vacation days is al
ready enticing our thoughts and caus
ing happy anticipation of those great
times that will soon be here. The
question of how^we shall spend those
golden days for most profit and pleas
ure confronts all of us. We do not
want to idle our time away. Yet we
feel the need of rest from the mon
otonous duties of college life.
Each year the Y. M. C. A. Cabinet
conducts a ten-day summer camp at
Hollister, Mo., on Lake Tanecomo in
the heart of the Ozark Mountains.
Here select students assemble from
many states of the southwest for a
period of recreation and Christian
fellowship. In the invigorating moun
tain air amid men of genuine worth
the delegates are brought in touch
with some of the real issues of life.
No phase of their existence is ne
glected: games, athletic contests,
swimming ,boating, and hiking all
tend to the development of the body,
and keeps one feeling fit. Through
daily “quiet talks” with the leaders
the morning watch, discussion groups,
and daily convocation services, the
mind and spirit is stimulated to its
best efforts and one is brought into
a new and better relation to God and
man.
In the past few years the Aggies
from Texas have played an impor
tant role at the camp. Some of them
completed their summer R. O. T. C.
camp work upon their return. Many
go from the conference into the wheat
fields of Oklahoma, Kansas and other
wheat growing sections and spend
very profitable times during the har
vest seeason.
After nine months -of strain and
anxiety that comes during the college
year, one is ready for a change. There
is nothing so helpful as a vacation at
Hollister where the spirit, mind and
body is harmoniously developed under
the influence of sunshine, mountain
air and Christian leadership.
PREXY ENJOYS
TRIP BUT IS
COUNTING DAYS
Letter From Dr. Bizzell at Interlaken
Tells of the Beauties of
Nature.
Sunday, April 20, 1924.
Mr. T. A. McCarter,
College Station, Texas.
My Dear Mac:—
J promised to write yon -f^orn time
to time some or my impressions but I
find that little time is left to write
with every hour crowded with sight
seeing. When the day is over, I am
so tired I can hardly wait to get to
bed.
But we are having a wondrful trip.
Every day brings new scenes and mew
experiences. At one place it is paint
ings, sculpture and architecture, at
another it is the ruins of a historic
landmark, at another an inspection of
a live stock exhibit, while here in
Switzerland it is feasting one’s eyes
on the glories of nature.
Yesterday we went to Bern, the
capitol of the Confederation of Switz
erland. We visited the capitol and
looken in the Chamber of Deputies.
We also visited the great University
of Bern. This university is wonder
fully located on an eminence over
looking the city and from the splen
did buildings that house the institu
tion one gets a wonderful view of the
imposing peaks of the Alps.
We are now looking forward and
counting the days until we are back
at College Station. While all these
places are interesting the net result
of it all is to cause one to love his own
country more and appreciate more in
tensely the privilege of living under
free institutions.
Give my kindest regards to all.
Your Friend,
W. B. BIZZELL.
THE LONGHORNS
WILL BE HERE
NEXT WEEK
Earliest Arrival of Books in Several
years. Early Reports Say it is
One of the Best.
Word has been received from the
Longhorn staff that the books will be
here about the first of next week, and
will be ready for distribution imme-
PIONEERS OF
DAYS OF 1876-79
WILL BE BACK
Great Homecoming is Expected for
This Year’s Commencement
Exercises.--
What is expected to be by long odds
the largest homecoming of former
students of the A. and M. College in
the history of the insti-ytiou will be
diatejv uno 9 "™v*l, no-, - Xmy Gummy June
A Chink truck driver recently pre
sented the following bill—10 goes, 10
comes, at 50 cents a went—$5.
—Froth.
May 17. In getting the books here
early it is hoped that the problem of
distribu^^sasg^n be materially simpli
fied, but it wji^still quite a complicated
problem and will require the coop
eration-of the students with the staff
in order to distribute the books v/ith
as few mistakes as possible.
The cards, one of which every stu
dent must present in order to get his
book, will be distributed Monday and
Tuesday in the Rotunda of the Main
Building, and every student is urged
to get his card during the time spec
ified. It is not necessary that Ac
tivity fee receipts be presented to get
the cards, but much time and confu
sion will be saved if the students will
apply in person. At the same place
and time the sale of extra copies will
be conducted. Although a large num
ber of extra copies of the Longhorn
were ordered, the demand will prob
ably exceed the supply and all those
who intend to purchase extras are ad
vised to get their orders in early. The
extra copies will be sold at five dol
lars.
HUMOROUS EDITOR GETS
PUBLICITY AT C. I. A.
The following advertisement apear-
ed in a recent editio nof the Lass-O,
the student publication of our sister
institution, C. I. A. It is self-ex
planatory:
“Wanted—Two or more brilliant
young ladies to aid me in answering
the questions asked me by one R. L.
Pfau of Texas A. and M. Experi
ence necessary.—Zenda Aschbacher.”
First Flea—Been on a hige?”
Second Flea—“No—on a tramp.’
In the country the hens lay
you; in the city the yeggs lay
you.—Ex.
for
for
1 ,Monday June 2, and Tuesday June
3. Extraordinary preparations are
being made for the entertainment of
returning sons of the Codege and for
those who can be here a wonderful
visit is promised.
And they will be here from all years
in the life of the College. The Pio
neers, the “Youngsters” of the Col
lege are coming back. Col. R. D.
Bowen of New Orleans, Col. P. L.
Downs, Temple, Wash Hardy of
Shreveport, L. J. Kopke of Beaumont,
Will H. Brown of Navasota, Dan De-
Maret of College, old timers all, mem
bers of the cadet corps in 1876, 1877,
-878, and 1879, are coming back in
force. In addition to those enumerat
ed above there will be a host of others
of those same days who will be back
on the campus, some of them here for
the first time since they left.
And a tribute is to be paid to those
men. Two of their number have been
chosen to be the commencement
speakers. Dr. E. Y. Mullins of the
Southern Baptist Theological Semi
nary, Louisville, Ky., elected president
of the Baptist World Alliance at
Stockholm last year ,a graduate of the
A. and M. College and a cadet here in
those late seventies will deliver the
commencement sermon. Major Page
Morris, at that time Captain Page
Morris, first commandant of the Col
lege, and who in later years served a
number of terms as a eFderal Dis
trict Judge and whose home now is in
Pasadena, Cal., will deliver the com
mencement address. These two speak
ers are known to all of the Pioneers
of the College and their comnig here
will be another reason why these
Grand Old Men will flock back to the
College.
Then the classes of 1890, ’91, and
BUY AN EXTRA LONGHORN