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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (May 13, 1925)
Published Weekly by the Students’ of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas. VOL. XXIII. BRYAJST, TEXAS, MAY 13, 1925. NUMBER 28 ♦ SAY AGGIE t * ♦ As each day passes, each person on the campus realizes more fully that the end of another session is ap proaching. Whether or not it has been a successful year from each stu dent’s standpoint depends on what he has put into it to bring success, and also what he considers success. Look ing back over the year, we can see many things that we wish hadn’t been done and also many things that we wish we had done. Now is the best time of the year to realize the mis takes made in the past, and if every man would only take the trouble to write down what he would have liked to have done or not done, the list would be very helpful as a guide for next year’s work. * * * The seniors appreciate the fact that only a few days are left, more than any other group. The sensation is peculiar, and it seems almost the same as preparing to leave home. In deed, Aggieland has been more than a home in many ways; and as every thing has its faults, A. and M. has hers, but in retrospection, we can love her for the very faults that at the time seemed so distinctly harmful. One of the advantages of our type of school is that any good movements started will be carried on from year to year and only a good start is need ed. The knowledge that the Junior class has been trained to take up all work where it is left ofl the previous year is a source of satisfaction to everyone that leaves the school. To the Juniors, we leave,our active share in aiding the development of A. and M. * * * This issue is the “swan song” of the present Bat Staff. If its columns have furnished- amusement, enter tainment, ©r topics for discussion, it has accomplished something of what it should. May the next staff use its mistakes to improve the future Bat talion. % * * *: As a whole this student body is con sidered as an individual by outsiders. Other student bodies have their var ious personal opinions about us. It is only natural and human that we be more or less jealous of the reputation (Continued on Page 8) OFFICIALS OF S. W. CONFERENCE HOLD MEETING Executive Board of the Southwest Conference Take Steps to Fill Va cancy in Membership. PARENTS’ DAYS SUCCESSFUL IN EVERY RESPECT Four Hundred Mothers and Fathers Visit Their Sons as Guests of the College—Parents Visit Classes. At a meeting of the executive board of the Southwest Conference held at the memorial gymnasium, Saturday morning, steps were taken to fill the vacancy left by the withdrawal of Oklahoma A. and M. from the confed eration that becomes effective next year. Centenary College at Shreve port, Louisiana, was given an oppor tunity of proving to other members of the conference that they are cap able of holding a berth in the confer ence along with such schools as the University of Texas, Texas A. and M., and others. Centenary was not admitted as a full fledged member but rather upon condition. That is, they will be ad mitted to the conference if they are (Continued on Page 8) Mothers’ Day for the A. and M. Col lege was made a literal thing Sunday, and the ceremonies emphasizing the virtue, purity, and fundamental help fulness of motherhood were given deep impressiveness by the presence on the campus of over 400 mothers and fathers who came to participate in the day’s exercises with their sons, and to celebrate the first annual Par ents’ Day at Texas A. and M. College. As the cadet corps stood in forma tion along the paved street leading to the auditorium Sunday morning, the mothers and sweethearts of the men went down the line and pinned a floral token of home and mother love at each breast. Then they stood by while the cadet army of over 2000 (Continued on Page 2) PROGRAM FOR COMMENCEMENT IS COMPLETED Many Visitors Will be on Campus for the Exercises—Final Review Tues day Closes School Year. New Mess Hall Annex Will Open in September The plans for the new mess hall an nex have been completed and work on the construction of the building will begin immediately after com mencement. The old annex will be torn down completely to make room for the new structure. The new ad dition will be an exact replica of the main mess hall in style and material. The plans were designed by Profes sor June of the Architectural depart ment, and the construction will be un der the direction of Mr. Kraft of the Buildings and Grounds department. The annex will be constructed of two floors, a basement and a second floor. The building will be “L” shap ed and will be divided into three main compartments. The dining room for | students will be eighty by one hun- [ dred and twenty-two feet and will seat eight hundred and forty-five peo- j pie. To the rear of the main room will be a banquet hall thirty-five by eighty feet in size and with a seating capacity of two hundred and fifty- four. A reception room will take up the projection of the “L” and will be thirty-five feet by thirty-five. The space for the banquet hall and the re ception room will be obtained by mov ing the inner wall towards the kitch ens and the building will now" be set flush against the directors’ room. Entrance to the main floor will be by three methods. A porch will con nect the dining room and the kitchens; a large door will be cut through the partician separating the annex and the main dining room, and a spacious flight of stairs on the west side will constitute the main entrance. The stairs will lead to an entry room and there will be a cloak room to the left of the stairs. The basement may be entered either by an entrance in the rear, by stairs (Continued on Page 8) The forty-ninth annual commence ment exercises of A. and M. College will begin on Saturday, May 30, and end on Tuesday, June 2, with the final review in the afternoon. The pro gram which has been prepared for the four days includes a wide range of events, all of them interesting and appropriate. Each exercise has been so planned that it has a part in mak ing the commencement program rep resentative of the various features for which A. and M. is noted. The ex ercises will evidently be of unusual | interest, judging from the program which Dr. F. B. Clark, Chairman of the Caculty Committee on Commence ment Exercises, has announced. The senior class play, “The Impor tance of Being Earnest,” will be giv en Saturday evening. On Sunday morning Rev. I. E. Gates of San An tonio will preach the commencement sermon. Reserve commissions will be presented to the seniors at the annual convocation of the students on Mon day afternoon; at this time Mark Me- Gee, Adjutant General of Texas will speak. The baccalaureate address on Tuesday morning will be given by Honorable Tom Connally, Congress man from the eleventh district of Texas. According to Colonel Ike Ashburn, Executive Secretary of the Ex-Stu dents’ Association, there will be an unusually large number of former stu dents at the college for the com mencement exercises this year. The Association of Former Students will have a meeting at the College on Monday afternoon. The usual mili tary ceremonies will add much inter est to the program for commencement and the many visitors who are here will find the four commencement days fully taken up with the numerous ex ercises. The complete program for the forty-ninth annual commencement follows: