Published Weekly by the Students of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas.
VOL. XXV.
BRYAN, TEXAS, FEBRUARY 2, 1927.
NUMBER 16
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WEEK’S NEWS
IN REVIEW
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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,
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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.
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*> 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 ❖
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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.