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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 23, 1927)
Published Weekly by the Students of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas. VOL. XXV. BRYAN, TEXAS, FEBRUARY 23, 1927. NUMBER 19 ♦}* >5* ♦t* ■<$► ^ -ij<- : WEEK’S NEWS I : SN REVIEW : ❖ ❖ ^ At last the bill for appropriations has passed the Senate Committee and the new dormitories for A. and M. have practically been assured. Gen eral emergency appropriations totall ing in round figures $1,000,000 were agreed on by the Senate finance committee Thursday night. The gen eral appropriation Cl when intro duced will carry $300,000 for two new dormitories at A. and M. and pro visions for summer schools i i State institutions, including the ' . of T. which gets $110,000 for this purpose. Some of the crowded conditions that exist here now will be remedied with the addition of the new dormitories. C. I. A. has just had another bill passed that will give them nine mem bers on the board of Regents instead of six. The bill provides that four of the members shall be women. * * * Degrees at the College of Indus trial Arts will be handed to about 195 seniors next June, according to a statement from the office of the dean of the college. The correct num ber will be determined the first week of the spring quarter when a final check will be made. * 'l< * Figuratively speaking, a lot of weight has been lifted from the backs of the American Doughboy since packs have been lightened 28 pounds. All such impediments as helmets, overcoats, and reserve rations will be carried by wagons. An increase in the ration has also been made from 36c to 50c a day. The Athletic Department has com bined forces with the Building and Grounds department to erect or con struct, or whatever it is they do to a tennis court. Anyhow there will be three new tennis courts here next fall. They will be located on the plot of ground across from the laundry by the M. E. Shops, and will run East and West. The coui’ts are to be of cement construction and will be up (Continued on Page 3) IMPERIAL ARTISTS IN CONCERT T0NITE World Famous Artists Appear at College. The Y. M. C. A. has another treat for the cadet corps in a recital to night by the “Imperial Concert Ar tists. Two of the four artists have ap peared before the crowned heads of Europe. The pianist, Charles De Harrack, is an Aiji»ie.o recording artist of note and has studied under several famous musicians. The violinist is, or was, a prodigy. Fie appeared at 13 as a so loist with the “Cleveland Symphony Orchestra” and is only 18 now. It might be well to say here, that the troupe consists of four artists. A soprano, a tenor, a violinist and a pi anist. They are all famous musicians and have been very well received in the towns that they have appeared in so far. Therefore the cadets should find it well worth their time and money. As to just what kind of program there will be, there is, as yet, no defi nite information forthcoming. It will probably be a series of popular song hits, classical songs and musical gym nastics. Just what musical gymnas tics are, you are permitted to guess. One guess is as good as another. DEBATING TEAM TO MAKE DEBUT The A. and M. debating team will made its initial appearance Saturday night when a team composed of S. C. Leslie, J. L. Reitch, and I. Irwin meet two ladies and on man from Louisiana State University on the question: “Re solved, that Congress Should Enact Legislation Embodying the Principles of the McNary-Haugen Form Bills. A. and M. will take the affirmative. This debate will be held at a ban quet at the mess hall at 6:30 p. m. and reservations must be made before Friday noon. Reservations may be made by applying to Professor Spriggs of the English Department, or R. H. Jones at 24 Goodwin, and plates will be 75 cents each. The reason for hav ing this debate more or less private is because the same question will be (Continued on Page 3) MASONS HOLD BAN QUET AT COLLEGE Banquet Honoring Washington the Mason is Big Success. Seven hundred guests were pres- 1 ent for the annual patriotic program and banquet honoring the memory of Washington, the Mason, given in the A. and M. College mess hall Friday night by the Brazos Union Lodge of Bryan and the A. and M. Masonic Club. Special guests included a num- 1 m cf Ctate Masonic and Eastern Star officials and the attendance in cluded members of the order from College Station, Bryan, Hearne, Cal vert, Franklin, Navasota, Anderson, and Bedias. State representative George C. Purl of Dallas was toastmaster. President T. O. Walton of the College delivered the address of welcome and Grand Master M. A. Childress of San Anto nio delivered an address on the phil osophy of Masonry. J. B. Leign, Nav asota, spoke on “Washington, the Ma son” while others who appeared on the program included the Rev. R. L. Brown, College Station; S. C. Hoyle, Bryan; Fred Erhard, A. and M. Sen ior; Mrs. Margery Peters Wofford, Sabinal, Easterns Star; Miss Morene Howell, Bryan, Rainbow Girls; and the Rev. J. C. Thompson, College Station. The banquet was a big suc cess. ANNUAL MEETING OF BOARD HERE FEB. 22ND. The board of directors of A. and M. College met here Tuesday, Feb ruary 22, for their annual meeting. All members of the board were pres ent, including F. M. Law of Hous ton, chairman of the board; Walter L. Boothe, of Sweetwater; Henry C. Schumacher of Houston; W. A. Wurz- bach of San Antonio; P. L. Downs of Temple; Byrd E. White of Dallas; James L. Young of Kaufman; and Walter G. Lacy of Waco. The meet ing was to consider the possible lo cation of the dormitories, if the leg islature provided the money for them; also the plans of the former students association for a permanent loan fund; the establishment of an engi neering unit of the R. O. T. C.; the (Continued on Page 3) SENIOR CLASS BRINGS DRAMA TO COLLEGE Miss Bewley Presepts Play March 1st Miss Irene Bewley, dramatic artist will present “Sun Up,” Lula Vollmer’s three-act drama of the Southern- \ mountains at the assembly hall on Tuesday evening, March 1, at 8:00 o’clock. Miss Bewley herself is a highlander from the foot hills of the Tennessee Mountains. She portrays nine characters in such a realistic way that one feels that they are living personalities. The stoic, unemotional and intrepid character of widow Ca gle, her son, Rufe, also a product of the mountains, endowed with a great er love of country than feud; Emmy Todd, his sweetheart, and wife, a winsome mountain lass: “Pap” Todd, a harmless old fellow with a taste for “likker:” Sheriff Jim Weeks, an of ficer of the law intent upon perform ing his duty, and “the stranger” all are presented as living personalities b^ Miss Bewley in dialect, gestures and expression. Miss Bewley has made many plat- foi'm appearances in United States, Cadada and Newfoundland. She was in France and Germany with the A. E. F., and was one of a number se lected to entertain at an affair given in honor of General Pershing. More recently she has appeared in Boston, at Columbia ( University where she has a return engagement, and in New Mexico. She has also been selected to give a recital this week in Dallas before the Superintendent’s section of the National Education Association. This is another entertainment ar ranged by the Y. M. C. A. and the Senior Class. It will be highly enter taining and educational with its in- continued on Page 5) The Dallas News has kindly sent a large number of copies of the Tex as Almanac, as gifts to the students of A. and M., especially the Seniors. Copies may be had by calling at the loan desk of the library. During the week February 20th to February 27th, copies will be given to seniors only. After the 27th, any student may se cure a copy as long as they last.