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Published Weekly by the Students of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas.
VOL. XXV.
BRYAN, TEXAS, APRIL 20, 1927
NUMBER 27
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At last we have received the much
needed appropriation for two new
dormitories. These dormitories have
been needed for several years, the
college has been growing and the
number of students increasing every
year but our housing facilities have
not increased in accordance with the
number of students, thus the crowded
situation at the College.
The $300,000 will be used in build
ing the two new dormitories some
thing like Bizzell Hall and they are
to have about one hundred rooms each
making a total of two hundred rooms
whilch should relieve the crowded
conditions a great deal.
The exact location of these dormi
tories is not known at the present, but
they will probably be located where
Alpha and Beta halls now stand.
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The appropriation to the college for
the operation of the college steam
plant up until this year has been
$100,000.00, but was cut down this
year to $80,000.00. The reason for
this is due to some erroneous state
ment made by someone which gave
the Governor the idea that we had
about $25,000.00 left from last years
appropriation.
A bill was put before the Governor
which would make up the deficiency
but he vetoed this bill and the only
hopes for getting more money to op
erate the power plant is through a
special session of the Legislature.
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Membership pledges to the Ex-stu
dents Association have been sent to
all the members of the senior class by
Mr. McQuillen, secretary of the Ex-
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ANNUAL GYMKANA
THIS SATURDAY
Local Rodeo to be Staged by Cavalry
Squadron.
The fourth annual horse show and
gymkana will be held on the parade
ground at A. and M. College at two
o'clock on the afternoon of April 23.
The show will be put on by members
of the cavalry squadron, practically
all cadets in the cavalry taking part
in the program. There will be twelve
main events on the program, with
special numbers for the Fish. Captain
H. H. Cheshire is making plans for
the program, and he says that the
show will be much better and more
complete than any ever held here.
Souvenir programs for the show will
be sold in order to finance a trip for
the polo team to a tournament in
Houston during the first two weeks
of May. Five players will make the
trip. Teams from San Antonio, Wich
ita Falls, Brownwood, Dallas, and the
Second Division at Fort Sam Hous
ton are also entered in the tourna
ment.
A large crowd is expected to be on
the parade ground to watch the show,
because it will be a reminder of the
old “circus days.” All those who do
come out are assured that they will
have some fun, and they will help
the polo team out if they will buy a
little souvenir program.
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REGULAR SPRING ELECTION
TO BE HELD THIS WEEK
In accordance with the regular cus
tom of selecting a yell leader and an
editor and business manager of the
Battalion the annual spring election
will be held in the rotunda of the
main building this Friday.
Nominations must be turned in be
fore taps Thursday to L. W. Webb,
chairman of the election committee
and must be signed by at least twen
ty classified juniors.
As we go to press the following
nominations have been turned in: for
editor, W. C. Morris, who at present
is the news editor of the Battalion;
for business manager: L. N. Bour-
land, J. R. Kennedy; for yell leader,
A. H. Peoples.
DORMITORIES NAM
ED FOR DEAN PUR-
YEAR AND MR. LAW
Dean of College and President of
Board of Directors Honored in
Naming New Buildings.
Instructions to draw up plans for
the two new dormitories authorized
for A. and M. were issued by the
board of directors at a meeting in
Arlington last week, President Wal
ton annom. .ed on his return to the
College last Thursday.
It is expected that the board will
advertise for bids on the dormitories
at the next meeting, in May, and it is
hoped that the buildings will be ready
for occupancy by next fall.
The dormitories will be named Law
Hall and Puryear Hall, in recgnition
of the services of F. M. Law as pres
ident of the board and of Dean Charl
es Puryear as dean of the college and
the graduate school. Mr. Law is a
Houston banker. He was appointed a
member of the board in 1918 and be
came its president in 1925, still hold
ing that position. Dean Puryear, who
served as acting-president of the col
lege for the 1913-14 session, has been
with the college since 1889.
ENGINEERS IN
SPECT TEXAS
INDUSTRIES
Hundred and Fifty Students Spend
Week in Gulf Coast Cities.
Financed by Uncle Sam’s payment
of thirty cents a day, one hundred and
fifty mechanical, electrical, and civil
engineering Juniors and Seniors vis
ited the various industries in the
southern portion of the state.
The entire party left College in one
group and spent Monday together
along the ship channel. Riding up and
down the channel on a pleasure boat
furnished by the Houston Chamber
of Commerce, visits were made to the
Turning Basin, where a fire boat ex
hibition was given; the Grain Eleva-
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SCHUMANN- HEINK
Announcement has been made in
connection with the scheduled appear
ance of Madame Ernestine Schumann-
Heink, world famous contralto, in the
Assembly Hall at the A. and M. Col
lege the night of May 2, that the
great singer who endeared herself to
the soldiers during the world war, will
hold open house for A. and M. cadets
Sunday, Miay 1, the day preceding
her concert.
Schumann-Heink is due to arrive
early so that she may have Sunday
at the College, M. L. Cashion, Secre
tary of the Y. M. C. A. has announced,
and it is likely that she will spend
part of that day, probably the after
noon, in receiving visitors at the Y.
M. C. A.
War veterans remember the great
singer’s services in camp and in hos
pitals during the war. She gave her
voice in the spread of cheer during
that trying time and rendered what
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