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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (May 6, 1925)
Published Weekly by the Students’ of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas. VOL. XXIII. BRYAN, TEXAS, MAY 6, 1925. NUMBER 27 ♦ SAY AGGIE + + ♦ **♦****♦♦♦**♦♦♦♦* The question of custom is constant ly coming before the student body, and will always be considered in the problems of the hour. One by one, many of the old customs have been cast aside for newer ones, but there is usually a wide difference of opinion as to whether the new customs are better than the old ones. Fish ban quets happen to be in the limelight just at present, and naturally nearly everyone is very anxious to see them occur, especially some of the first-year students. It seems that about six or seven years ago a fish banquet was a simple affair given in honor of the upperclassmen. Only in late years has the fish banquet grown into what it is at present. Needless to say, the banquets are looked forward to with pleasure by all students, and as long at too much disturbance is not cre ated, they should not be particularly objectionable. The interuptions in work just at the last of school must be seriously considered as those who are still “on the line” may get over the work by a little extra work. Think it over, do you want fish ban quets as they were originally, as they have been the last few years, or not at all ? ❖ ❖ * Another present tendency seems to be to applaud speakers and musicians in Guion Hall during chapel services. Genuine applause is always appreciat ed, but it is rather out of place to show appreciation in that manner on such an occasion. Then, too, some people might doubt. its genuineness. Such little things as this are usually overlooked here, but visitors are us ually impressed by details as these. * ❖ * The renewal of senior week marks the reinstatement of an old custom which was discarded because of the wrong attitude taken by men whom it benefitted. The granting of this is an act which is deeply appreciated by all seniors and it is to be hoped that this year will not mark the last one. * * * Not all of our parents can be here for Mother and Dad’s Day and we sincerely regret that they cannot. But as the hours next -Sunday go by, let not a one pass without a thought of (Continued on Page 10) PROGRAM FOR PARENT’S DAYS IS COMPLETED Events of Visiting Days Will Permit Parents to See Every Side of The College Life. The first 2annual Mother and Dad Day days will be observed at the A. and M. College next Sunday and Mon day. Arrangements for the program of events have already been made, and it is expected that the parents of many of the students will be here on those days. The events of visiting day have been arranged with the view of permitting the visitors to see every side of college life as it goes on from day to day. On Sunday morning at 10:30 the mothers will pin flowers on the breast of each student before the corps marches into Guion Hall for the morn ing service. Parents will attend the chapel service with their sons, and in the afternoon mothers and fathers will attend a reception in the Y. M. C. A. lobby. At 4 o’clock Sunday af ternoon there will be a band concert. In the evening the denominational groups will have their regular serv ices. All of Monday will be given over to visiting of classrooms, and laboratories, and at 3 o’clock that af ternoon there will be a short informal reception for the visiting women given by the College women of the Campus Study Club. A dress parade of the cadet corps will be given in honor of the visitors at 4:10 Monday afternoon, and a pep meeting of the student body to be attended by the parents of the students will conclude the events of the day. The complete program for the two days as announced by President Biz- zell is as follows: Sunday, May 10. 10:30 a. m., distribution of flowers by mothers at chapel formation. 10:50 a. m., Sunday morning con vocation. 3:00 p. m., Open house at Y. M. C. A. for visitors and students and cam pus people. 4:00 p. m.. Sacred concert by the A. and M. College Band in Assembly Hall. (Continued on Page 10) southwest conference: track AND FIELD MEET HEBE MAY 8 AND 9 COLLEGE HOTEL WILL BE OPENED PARENTS’ DAY W. A. Duncan Will Be In Charge— Dining Room and Lunch Room Will Be Feature. May 10 will see the first opening of A. and M.’s new hotel, the Aggieland Inn. The hotel will be pressed into service before it is actually complet ed in order to accommodate the crowd that is expected to throng the cam pus as guests of the College on Mothers and Dads day. The hotel, when fully completed, will rival any hotel in the state in point of service. It will be operated directly by the College through W. A. Duncan, supervisor of subsistence, who has already employed a matron to take over the actual details of the administration of the building. Under the direction of this matron a cap able staff, including a chef, will be maintained. There will be a main dining room which will serve meals during the regular hours and in addition a cof fee room will be open constantly and will serve lunches and drinks at short notice. The food for both these branches of service will be prepared in the hotel kitchens under the direc tion of the chef and his assistants. One feature of the administration of the hotel that will be especially pleas ing to the cadets is that the service offered by both the dining room and lunch counter will be open to every one on the same basis. The furniture of the hotel wil be of walnut throughout and will be mod ern in every respect. Each room will contain ample equipment, including a bed, chairs, rugs, * writing desk and grip rack. The desk and the dressers will be topped with heavy bevel-edged glass. The floors are of hardwood throughout with the exception of the bath rooms, lobby, and the dining and (Continued on Page 10) 125 Track and Field Stars Expected Here for Premier Track Event of the Season. On Friday and Saturday, Aggieland will be host to the Tenth Annual Southwest Conference Track and Field Meet that will be held under the su pervision of the Department of Phys ical Education. The leading athletes of the conference will be present on those days to compete in what prom ises to be the greatest event of its kind that has ever been held since the athletic confederation of the South west was formed several years ago. The privilege of holding this an nual affair comes to each school that is a member of the conference once every eighth year. This year is the Aggies’ year, the meet having been held in Austin last spring by the Uni versity of Texas. Entries have already been received from practically all the schools in the conference and this number has ex ceeded the one hundred mark insuring a total that will very probably exceed one hundred and twenty-five of the best athletes in the Southwest in track and field events. Both the Uni versity and A. and M. have entered teams of twenty-five men each and the other schools have teams that are small in number but include some of the best in the conference. Activities will begin Friday morn ing when all the coaches and mana gers of the teams will meet in the me morial gymnasium at 10:00 a. m. That afternoon at 3:30 the preliminaries in the 100 and 220 yard dashes and both the high and low hurdles will be run off. The finals in all events will take place Saturday afternoon, beginning at 3:00 p. m. The affair will formally terminate Saturday night after the banquet that will be given at the Mess Hall annex at 6:00 p. m. in honor of all participating athletes, coaches and managers. All trophies and medals will be awarded the winners in the different events at this time. The referee and starter of the meet will be Guinn Henry of the University of Missouri. The various judges, timers, and inspectors have been se lected from those connected with the