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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 2, 1927)
Published Weekly by the Students of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas. VOL. XXV. BRYAN, TEXAS, FEBRUARY 2, 1927. NUMBER 16 ^ '•I* 4 $‘- WEEK’S NEWS IN REVIEW <♦ & Considerable interest is being given to a program to be broadcast by HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL MEET ASSURED HERE State’s Best Teams Battle For Title March 4-5. LOAN FUND FOR ENGINEERS MAY REESTABLISHED Central and Southwestern Utilities Company Make Offer. BARNYARD PASSES INTO HISTORY AS GREAT DANCE Cadets Cut Loose In Home-like Atmosphere. WTAW on Washington’s Birthday. This feature will be presented by the Cosmopolitan Club with the as sistance of the band. Each foreign student will announce the name of the national anthem of his country in the native tongue, then the band will play the piece. The conclusion will be a medley of the national airs of the Allied countries of the late war. President T. O. Walton will pre cede this program with a talk on Washington, and will introduce the other program with a talk on what A. & M. is doing for the world. * * * The emergency appropriation bill, introduced into the state senate, by Senator Love and promoted by Lt. Governor Barry Miller, for the pur pose of placing $300,000.00 into the hands of A. & M. officials to relieve the housing situation immediately has been voted down. Senator Wood, chairman of the committee stated that the reason the bill was voted down was that if emergency appro priations were passed for one insti tution, others would also present some to the senate, and at the present session the senate would not have time to take them up. * * * Charles Knowles, of Bryan, who has been Eugene Edge’s right hand man for a number of years has resigned to become connected with the Ex-Students association, of A. & M. College. * * * On Wednesday and Thursday, January 25th and 26th, the field Artillery unit of the college was in spected by Col. D. W. Hand. Col. Hand is from the chief office of the Field Artillery. This was his first trip to the college so he was rather surprised as well as pleased with his trip. He is making an inspection of all Field Artillery units now. He had just finished making an inspection of the unit at Fort Sill Oklahoma and he went to Fort Sam Houston from here. (Continued on Page 3) The annual high school basketball tournament to determine the State champions for ’27 will be held here March 4th. and 5th. This is the first time this tournament has been held under A. & M.’s auspices and it is therefore somewhat of an experi ment. There were two conditions attached to the permission to hold the tourna ment here; One, that all expenses must be guaranteed and two, that there be a guarantee of $1,500.00 receipts. The athletic department has assured the first and it is up to the student body to attend to the second. And attend to it you must for these teams represent the cream of the State’s young athletes. Each team has won it’s county and district cham pionship to gain the right to come here and so they naturally expect the cadets to be interested in their ability inasmuch as it is largely from such sources that the Aggie teams of the future will be recruited. Season tickets will be on sale for only one dollar. This ticket will be good for all of the five different groupings of games. One Friday morning, one Friday afternoon and another Friday night. Then the semi finals Saturday morning and the finals Saturday night. Admission to any one group of these games will (Continued on Page 5) R. V. KING CHOSES QUEEN AND COURT Allen R. Menger of San Antonio, chosen as king of the Ross Volunteer festivities this year, has announced the people who will compose his court for the occasion. Most import ant is the announcement of Miss Helen Colglazier of San Antonio as queen of the festivities. Other mem bers of the court include E. J. E. Zapp of Houston; C. T. Greenwood, Luling; J. B. Cashell, Greenville; R. F. Olson, Clifton; "Webb Townsend, Del Rio. Minor details of the April festivi- es will be announced later. The Engineering department of the college has just received a letter from the Central and Southwest Utilities Company of Dallas asking them to accept a loan fund to be established by that company. It will be similar in character to the loan fund established at Cornell by the president of the company a few years ago. This fund is to be known as the Central and Southwest Utilities Engineering Loan Fund. It will be turned over to the Association of Former Students and they will loan the money to the students. The plan of the company is to give $600.00 each year until the fund reaches a total of $10,000.00. The college hopes that other Utilities Companies will follow the plan of this company and establish funds also. The requirements on the money are that a student must have com pleted one year here before he can borrow any of the money. The limit is $100.00 a year to each man and he also must be deserving of the privil ege of borrowing the money. Mr. James C. Kennedy, vice-presi dent of the Company, has taken a great interest in the college and has secured jobs for many of the boys. There are several A. and M. men who are now the superintendents of the various plants scattered throughout the state. FISH AGRONOMY CONTEST HELD Five Freshmen Awarded Medals. Winners in the freshman agronomy judging contest just held at the A. & M. College of Texas have been announced as follows; J. E. Tatum, Dublin, score of 1620 out of possible 1800; O. W. Thompson, Winnsboro, score of 1600; W. R. Stark, Portland, score of 1580; J. W. Richards, Waco, (Continued on Page 2) Oh! What a dance! Although it comes every year it always surpasses all expectations. The Aggie Land Orchestra of course is responsible for a great part of the fun; but those farmer costumes! No self respecting farmer would wear them to feed his chickens. Shoes a yard long, high water pants, red coats, blue trousers and Major Bertram’s suit. It is being whispered around he won quite a reputation as a Beau Brummel with it in the past. Now aren’t girls funny things ? The Mess Hall was very appropri ately decorated with plows scattered around here and there for the win some farmerettes to rest on during a spell of hysterics excited by some strange costume. It was not all un usual to see a girl double up with laughter when some long, lanky bewhiskered cadet tagged in on her. Nor did the Cadet in question take it as an insult but, on the contrary, it was considered a compliment. * *?*■ +x+ »*♦ ❖ *> The following letter address- ♦♦♦ ❖ ed to the student body here, ❖ ❖ was received last Sunday. The “T” Club received a similar ❖ letter. Please accept the sin- ❖ ❖ cere thanks and profound ap- ❖ ❖ preciation of Baylor Universi- ❖ ❖ ty—Her President and Offi- ❖ cers, Her faculty and her stu- »> ❖ dent body—for your thought- *** ❖ ful and tender message of con- ❖ ❖ dolence and sympathy. Its im- ❖ ❖ port will be made known to ❖ ❖ each of the bereaved families. *♦+ ❖ Waco, Texas ❖ ❖ January 29, 1927 ❖ ♦♦♦ ♦♦♦ ♦t* +X+ +*♦ ♦j* ♦♦♦ * Wife: (as husband arrives at 3 A. M.): “What is the matter, why so mournful ?” Hubby: “Thass whash mat’r—am mor’n full.” —Exchange.