Published Weekly by the Students of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas.
VOL. XXV. BRYAN, TEXAS, APRIL 6, 1927. NUMBER 25
: WEEK’S news :
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President T. 0. Walton, Dean E. J.
Kyle, Dr. Frank C. Bolton, and Secre
tary S. G. Bailey left early Tuesday
morning for Marlin where they con
ferred with the members of the Texas
Senate Finance Committee in regard
to the A. and M. budget. Hon. A. E.
Wood of Granger is chairman of the
Senate Committee. A. B. Connor and
E. O. Siecke left later in the day for
Marlin.
Members of this committe were
scheduled to come to A. and M. Col
lege Tuesday, but were unable to make
the trip.
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The Entomology Department is car
rying on extensive experiments under
the direction of Dr. F. L. Thomas,
State Entomologist, on the cotton flea
hopper which did so much damage
to the cotton crop last year. This is
a very important experiment and is
being watched with great interest
because it will determine to a great
extent the amount of cotton that will
be produced in the next year or two.
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Dr. O. M. Ball has been informed
by Dr. R. W. Brown of the Depart
ment of Geological Sciences that the
latter had submitted for publication
his monograph on new and other fos
sil plants found in the Green River
Formation of Colorado. The Mono
graph describes 50 species which were
procured by Dr. Ball during the sum
mer vacations of the last three or
four years.
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INSPECTION TRIPS
NEXT WEEK
Annual Trips of Engineers to Cover
Four day Period.
The annual spring inspection trips
taken by the Engineering students will
be made the first few days in R. V.
week. Each year the students take
a three or four day trip to some large
center of engineering development nd
sec ihe things cnac iney are learning
being put into real practice. This is
a very good thing for the men to get
to see outside developments and study
the real working of engineering that
they will come up against when they
get out on the job..
The senior students in M. E. will go
to Houston and Galveston and per
haps to Beaumont. They will leave
here on Monday, April 11. E. E. sen
iors will go to Houston; T. E. stu
dents will go to Waco, Dallas and Ft.
Worth; senior students of C. E. will
go to Houston, and all junior and sen
ior Chemical Engineers will go to Cor
sicana and Dallas.
Many of the other departments have
had their inspection trips at differ
ent times this year and this will be
about the last of the trips.
After the trips most of the men
will go on to their homes and return
to the College after R. V. holidays.
Those who do not make the trip will
have to do some practice work of
some kind while the others are gone.
AGGIE BAND ON VISIT TO C.
I. A. CAMPUS FOR PROGRAM
The Band left yesterday for a three
day trip to C. I. A. and Stephenville.
The first concert was given at C. I.
A. last night in the new auditorium
there. They will play tonight at John
Tarleton. This is the first trip the
band has made this year outside of
the Corps trips. It did not make the
trip to the Stock Show as is the cus
tom each year.
The program will consist of March
es, Classical numbers, a solo, and sev
eral popular numbers. This is the sec
ond time it has made the trip to C.
I. A. and the girls help put the trip
over in good style. The boys were giv
en a banquet and a dance after the
concert last night. Incidentally some
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APRIL 21 PLANS
PROMISE NATION
WIDE GATHERING
San Jacinto Day and A. and M. Day
to be Celebrated Together as
Groups Make Plans.
April 21st, a day hallowed in the
memory of every Texan, and the day
of the year set aside as a day when
A. and M. men come together every
where, is not far away. Many A. and
M. clubs are already making their
plans for its observance. Many A. and
M. meetings will be held where there
is no local club organized. Two A. and
M. men are all that is needed to make
a meeting on April 21st. Down in
Guatemala, up in Boston, way up in
Maine, out at Seattle, Los Angeles,
Chicago, Pittsburg and dozens of
other places the “gang” will be com
ing together to pass a few hours with
each other.
Station WTA ( W, the College Broad
casting Station, will have a program
on the air for those who can’t get a
meeting somewhere. San Jacinto Day,
the day on which Texas won her in
dependence, will be celebrated along
with these A. and M. meetings. There
promises to be more of them and bet
ter attended ones than have ever been
held in the past.
R. V.’S TO ENTER-
TAIN APRIL 15TH
IN ANNUAL AFFAIR
Plans Made for Spring Festivities
When Crack Organization Will
be Hosts to Texas Girls.
Plans are well under way for mak
ing this year’s Ross Volunteers dance
and festivities the best ever held at
Aggieland. The week-end of April 14,
15 and 16 will be given over to the
occasion. Drills by the crack company
of Ross Volunteers themselves will be
a feature of the military side of the
entertainment. The Mess Hall is be
ing decorated in a lavish style and in
dications point to the presence of hun-
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AGGIELAND TO
HAVE NEW ATH
LETIC FIELD
Concrete Stadium to be Ready For
Longhorn tilt Next Fall.
Plans for a concrete stadium, en
largement of the present athletic field
to a total area of fifteen acres, relo
cation of the vaisily baseball diamond
so that batting will be to the north
instead of east as at present, and
other changes and improvement on
the athletic field that will give the A.
and M. College one of the largest and
best planned athletic plants in the
country, have been announced in de
tail by James Sullivan, business man
ager of athletics of the College.
The new stadium, to be of concrete,
is the outstanding feature of the im
provement plans for Kyle Field. This
stadium, to be built a unit at a time
over a period of years, will be U-shap
ed. Business Manager Sullivan esti
mates that it will require egiht or ten
years for the whole concrete structure
to materialize. When completed it will
have a seating capacity for 35,000.
Work on the first concrete unit, which
will cost between $75,000 and $100,000,
will be started about May 1. This unit
with a seating capacity for 10,000 is
scheduled for completion by fall in
time for the annual gridiron classic
between the Aggies and the Long
horns to be played at College Station
this year. Steel seats, heretofore in
use at A. and M. will accommodate
another 10,000 which will make the
total permanent seating capacity this
fall 20,000. It will be possible to erect
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SENIOR SMOKER.
Definite plans are being made for
a smoker to be given to the senior
class in the Senior Club room, April
20, at 8 p. m., by the Y. M. C. A.
The program planned will consist of
speeches by President Walton, and
other members of the faculty; music
by student quartet and finishing with
refreshments. J. J. Brown, social sec
retary of the Y. M. C. A. who has
charge of this entertainment will send
out invitations to all the seniors in
the near future.