Published Weekly by the Students’ of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas.
VOL. XXIII. BRYAN, TEXAS, APRIL 8, 1925. NUMBER 24
GOVERNOR CUTS APPROPRIATION
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For years the Aggies have had the
distinction of being called the best
or one of the best group of sports
men in the state. We have treated
the visiting athlete as if he were our
own representative and in every way
possible tried to show the esteem in
which any athlete is held at A. and
M. But after witnessing the scurry
way in which a visiting athlete was
treated by the corps last Saturday,
a doubt arises in one’s mind as to the
veracity of the abpve statements. A
repetition of that act will be noticed
by sports writers and much unwelcome
publicity will result from it.
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The building up of the physical ed
ucation department has been one of
the greatest benefits to the school of
the year. The gym is a decided asset
to us, and because of it any cadet
may receive better physical instruc
tion than ever before. As the gym is
kept open at all times and the equip
ment is available to all students, we
should make use of the opportunities
offered and at least visit it once in a
while to see what is there.
But just because the gym is open
nearly all of the time and the equip
ment out, is no reason that it should
be misused. There has been some
complaint from those in charge that
much of the apparatus has been dam
aged from time to time by wilful
rough usage. The floor has a very
smooth surface, but will it keep it if
cadets continue to wear hobnails and
all kinds of rough heavy shoes while
they are on it. Damage of this kind
is very noticeable and also very ex
pensive. Do you think that it is good
sportsmanship to give the gym equip
ment such treatment, even though it
may be through negligence?
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The Governor evidently doesn’t be
lieve that we need a library. Perhaps
the impression is that only law stu
dents use books very extensively and
that engineers work exclusively with
a slide rule and the farmers should
be plowing anyway. A different
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QUEEN’S BALL TO
FORMALLY BEGIN
R. V. FESTIVITIES
Annual Festivities of R. V’s Promises
to be Premier Event of
Social Activities
The Ross Volunteer Festivities will
begin on next Thursday night with
the coronation of the king and queen
of the three-day period and the for
mal Queen’s Ball which follows. Plans
for the pageant which includes the king
and queen and the royal party have
been completed, and it is evident that
the festivities are going to be inau
gurated in a blaze of splendor and
color.
The throne will be placed in the
middle of the south side of the mess
hall, in front of the main door
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The Texas Aggies will leave Col
lege Station next week for Lawrence
Kansas to compete in the Third An
nual University of Kansas Relays
that will be held on April 18 in the
Memorial Stadium at that institution.
The dash relay team consisting of
Poth, Wilson, Arnold, and Woolridge
and Allison, the entry in the javelin
throw, will be sent by the Athletic
Department.
In view of the fact that there are
other men who have shown up ex
ceptionally well in the meets held so
far this year. Coach Anderson has
expressed a desire to have them enter.
In order that these men might make
the trip and secure the experience
against the best competition in the
United States, the cadet corps has
taken the matter in their own hands
and by means of subscription methods
are raising the money to send these
athletes to this meet.
A. AND M. DE-
BATORS LOSE TO
OKLAHOMA
Sooner Aggies Win Decision Over
Their Texas Opponents in
Contest. —
The A. and M. debate team consist
ing of Guy Powell of Red Oak, and
Arthur Bayless of Hillsboro, met the
Oklahoma A. and M. team in a joint
debate at Stillwater, Oklahoma, last
Saturday, April 4. This was a regular
intercolegiate debate and a return en
gagement, as the Oklahoma team de
bated here last spring.
The question debated was a very
live, real one, and one that should be
of interest to every public spirited
citizen. It was the question that was
injected into the last presidential
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The Kansas Relays were establish
ed three years ago and have risen in
importance until now they hold a
place as one of the foremost relay
meets held each year. Last year, the
second annual holding of the event,
there were more than one thousand
athletes from more than one hundred
institutions from widely scattered
parts of the United States, competing
in the different events. This year the
entry list is even greater and more
representative of all sections of the
country than in the past years.
There are six different relays in the
university class,—the quarter, half,
one mile, two mile, and four mile, and
the medley race. Last year the Uni
versity of Texas set a new mark in
the medley relay running the course
in seven minutes, thirty-eight and
two-fifths seconds. Besides the re
lays there are nine special events that
are open to University and College
men.
A. & M. APPRO
PRIATION BILL
CUT $310,400
Itemes Vetoed by Governor Ferguson
Include $200,000 for a Library
Building.
The recent cut in the educational
appropriation bill dealt a severe blow
to those who had hoped for A. and
M. College in the next two years such
improvements as the growth of the
school has made almost necessary.
It is useless to pretend that the ex
pansion and normal development oc
the college plant has not been great
ly hindered by the cut which the A.
and M. budget suffered in the recent
curtailment of the appropriation bill
at the hands of Governor Miriam A.
Ferguson, whose policy of tax reduc
tion became very evident when she
reduced the bill by $1,243,560.
A. and M. College suffered a cut
of $314,000. The items vetoed were:
Department of Rural Sociology, car
rying an appropriation of $12,700:
associate professor of physical edu
cation, $6,000; associate professor of
veterinary medicine, $4,800; director
and secretary in publicity office,
$7,900; and the entire contingent item
of $20,000 for additional teachers anil
adjustments as well as the contingent
fund of $10,000 in vocational teacn-
ing. The salary of the band director
was also among those not looked upon
with favor by the governor. The
building program for the College was
checked very effectively by the cut
in the A. and M. budget. The fol
lowing items were vetoed: Publica
tions and print shop, $3,000; library
building, $200,000; test barn in dairy
department, $8,000; and a galvanized
iron building- to be used as an arm-
onry, $15,000.
The Agricultural Experiment Sta
tion did not suffer so heavily through
the cuts. The items vetoed in its
budget are $3,600 for ranch econom
ics; $1,500 for specialist women clubs
in the extension service, and $600 foi’
the expenses of specialist womens
clubs.
Track Men Leave For
Kansas Relays Next Week