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Published Weekly by the Students’ Association of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas.
VOL. XXIII.
BRYAN, TEXAS, OCTOBER 22, 1924.
NUMBER 5
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^ SAY AGGIE *
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Again we have good reason to be
proud of A. and M. and that ol’ Ag
gie spirit. Newspapers over the
state seem to have conveyed the im
pression that we are just a bunch of
roughnecks, but in spite of this,
every school in the state envies our
spirit and the support that we give
our teams. To them we are the
standard to which they try to con
form, if we stand up and yell when
our team comes on the field, other
schools begin to do the same thing.
But the thing that they have not dis
covered is that our spirit is not based
on a winning team. Where would we
be if we quit yelling when our team
lost a few points ?. Just compare the
support given an Aggie team and
that given another team and you will
see why it never dies.
* * *
However, we know our own faults
and they must be corrected as far as
possible. A few men always want to
sit in the bleachers and watch the
“T” formed. We know that every
one wants to see how the “T” looks
but restrain that impulse, for how
could we have a “T” with half of the
corps in the bleachers. That brings
up another point, men in uniform in
the bleachers absolutely ruin the ef
fect of the “T”. Go down and get in
the “T” but if it is absolutely Impos
sible drop down behind the bleachers
or get out of sight somewhere.
* * *
At this time last year the enroll
ment total was two thousand and
forty-nine; today it is two thousand
two hundred and forty-three, an in
crease of almost two hundred.
Two hundred extra students! For
many schools, that surplus would ee
a fair sized student body in itself;
yet here, the increase is scarcely
noticed. At the same time, those two
hundred extra students must have pre
sented quite a problem to the faculty
and the college officials.
* * *
Last year S. M. U. brought down
a rooting section that made quite a
good bit of noise. They “cheered”
and “rooted” very well indeed. Those
S. M. U. supporters furnished the ca
det corps with its first competition
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INTRAMURAL
PROGRAM BEGINS
ON NOVEMBER 4
Great Interest Being Shown by the
Students in the Newest Depart
ment of the College.
ROSS VOLUNTEERS
PROVIDE BIG ACT
FOR THE CIRCUS
Company Acted as the Escort for
America’s Most Beautiful
College Girl.
Tuesday, November 4, will mark
the opening of the gigantic intramu
ral athletic program that has been
carefully worked out by the Depart
ment of Physical Education for the
benefit of the A. and M. student body.
On this date the inter-company bas
ketball season will start.
Instead of having only one league
as has been the case in the past there
will be four, giving each company
in the cadet corps an opportunity to
enter a team. There will be two
leagues of five teams each and two
leagues of six teams each. The
schedules will be arranged so that
each team in the four leagues will
play one game a week, the playing
days being Tuesday, Wednesday,
Thursday and Friday afternoons. In
all probability, the games will be play
ed at five o’clock in the afternoon.
Courts have been laid out over the
campus affording practice space as
well as places to play the games.
The Athletic Department, by care
ful buying has made possible for
members of the teams to secure a
very serviceable uniform at a price
ranging from $2.15 to $3.15 consisting
of shoes, socks, trunks, jersey and
strap. These uniforms can also be
used for the different sports that are
to follow later in the year.
Battalion business managers have
been elected in each organization and
they have selected their asistants in
each company. At a meeting held
Monday night that was presided over
by H. H. House, the head of the de
partment, details of organization
were worked out and a sufficient num
ber of blanks given to each manager
to give every man in school one to
fill out.
These blanks will be given out in
the near future and each student is
requested to check the sports he is
interested in of the list given on them.
In case the individual is not interested
in any of them, he is requested to give
this information at the bottom of the
slip.
Last Friday night, forty-six mem
bers of the R. V. company, left for
Dallas, the scene of the first anual all-
ccllege c’rtus, as A. and M.’s entry
in the crowning feature of All-College
Day at the State Fair. They arrived
in Dallas the following morning at
6:30 and were the guests of the
Dallas-A. and M. Club for breakfast
at Joseph’s Cafe.
That evening at seven o’clock, the
personnel left Joseph’s for the Fair
grounds and the circus.
At eight o’clock the Longhorn band
entered the field and paraded its
length followed by the duchess of the
various colleges and universities rep
resented, who were driven around the
arena in automobiles and then took
their seats in front of the throne of
the All-College Queen.
The spotlights were then trained
upon the west entrance and from it
emerged the R. V. company com
manded by Capt. Richard Quayle.
Dressed in their immaculate white
uniforms which dazzled in the floods
of light focused upon them, they
formed an appropriate escort for the
queen who followed accompanied by
her retinue of eighty attendants.
Reaching the center of the arena, the
company was brought into company
front and marched to the steps lead
ing to the throne, where they were
halted and presented arms while the
queen, M^iss lone Roberts, from the
University of Oklahoma, was escort
ed up the tiers of steps to her throne
by her duchess.
After she had been crowned by the
president of the State Fair and Ex
position as America’s most beautiful
college girl, the various escorts re
tired and the entry from Aggieland
took the limelight as the opening
number of the circus and proved to
the asembled thousands and the world
their right to the title of the best
drilled body of college men in Amer
ica. Marching to the entrance from
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MODERN HOTEL
TO BE ERECTED
ON THE CAMPUS
Three Story Structure to be Erected-
Will Relieve Over Crowded
Conditions.
The need for a hotel building at
A. and M. College has been apparent
for a long time. Whenever large
numbers of visitors have come here,
it was impossible to give them con
venient quarters without having to
vacate at least one dormitory. And
for this reason—to have accomoda
tions enouyh for all visitors so as to
cause no inconvenience both to them
and to the students—a hotel is to be
built here in the near future,
recently completed plans for the new
building and delivered them to the
Department of Grounds and Utilities.
The building, according to the plans,
will be a structure of three stories,
eighty-seven feet by fifty-seven feet.
The outside walls are to be construc
ted of hollow tile, trimmed with brick,
and then stuccoed. The roof is to
be of red tile. The first floor of the
hotel is to have a large and well
equipped lobby, a modern dining room
and kitchen, a lunch room, and five
bedrooms. The second and third
floors will be identical; that is, each
floor will have a hallway, sixteen
rooms, and a bathroom between every
two rooms.
The ground where the hotel will be
built has been staked off already. This
plot of ground is on a line with the
Hospital and the Mess Hall, between
Dr. Bizzell’s home and Alpha Hall.
The hotel will have its main entrance
on Houston street, this entrance lead
ing directly to the lobby. The dining
room will have an entrance from the
side, and will also have the full force
of the south breezes. The ground
around the building will be planted
with shrubs and plants.
Actual work, according to Mr. W.
W. Kraft of the Department of
Grounds and Utilities, will start with
in the next two weeks.
This new hotel will be the latest
work of improvement at A. and M.
College this year. That such a build
ing was needed has been proved many
times before. It is only fitting that
such a college as A. and M. should