Published Weekly by the Students of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas.
VOL. XXV. BRYAN, TEXAS, MAY 18, 1927. NO. 30
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Dean E. J. Kyle, recently returned
from the Rio Ghande Valley where,
at the request of the American Rio
Grande Land and Irrigation Com
pany, of Mercedes, he selected the
twenjty-acre farm which this com
pany has offered to the outstanding
agricultural graduate of the A. and
M. College on the condition that it be
cultivated for five years.
This is the third year that the com
pany has hung up such a prize for an
A. and M. graduate. The gift com
prises twenty acres of the company’s
choice land in the Valley, cleared and
ready for irrigation and valued, ac
cording to conservative estimates, at
$5,000. Conditions upon which the gift
is contingent, provide that the grad
uate student shall live on the land and
develop it for a period of five years
in fruit, truck, poultry, etc. At the
end of that time, the company pro
poses to give a clear deed of the
land to its occupant.
C. D. Whitman was the first grad
uate to receive such a prize and F.
J. Germany, a graduate of last June,
the second. The winner of this year’s
land prize will not be announced un
til commencement when the prize will
be awarded by Harry L. Seay, of Dal
las, president of the land company.
Other officers of the company include
Clarence Linz, of Dallas, vice-presi
dent; and H. B. Seay, secretary and
general manager.
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Dr. G. S. Fraps, chief chemist of
the Texas agricultural experiment
station, has accepted an appointment
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DAIRY JUDGING
CONTEST HELD
G. E. Love is High Point Man of An
nual Freshman Judging Contest.
The freshman class of the Dairy
Husbandry Department held their an
nual judging contest Saturday May
7th. From the results of this con
test, it looks as if A. and M. will have
a Dairy Judging Team that can’t be
beaten in a very few years.
Six classes of cows were judged in
the contests and five medals were
given to the Fish making the highest
average. There were two classes of
Holsteins judged, Fish J. E. Tatum
of Dublin, winning the medal for his
classification of them. Fish Mallory
earned his medal in the two classes
of Jerseys; Fish Thompson of Wins-
boro received one in the Ayrshires
class and Fish D. R. Dyer, Ft. Worth,
led the list in the judging of Guern
seys.
Fish G. E. Love, Jr., who lives in
Del Rio, proved to be the best “Cow
Guesser” in the class and received a
medal as high point man in the whole
contest.
The result of the contest were very
satisfactory and several of these men
will probably make appearances later
as members of our Dairy Judging
Team.
WEDDING BELLS TO RING IN
AGGIELAND SENIOR WEEK
Among many other social activi
ties plar,Vied for Scfnior week, the
outstanding is probably the marriage
of Miss Edna Hopper to Mr. W. E.
Long. Miss Hopper is the charming
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Hop
per of Wellborn, Texas, and is well
known in College society. The groom
is captain adjutant of the artillery
battalion, a senior in Mechanical en
gineering and is a very prominent
figure on the campus.
After commencement the young
couple will visit with Mr. Long’s par
ents at Roscoe, Texas, for a short
time. They will make their home in
Pittsburg, Pa., where Mr. Long will
be with the Westinghouse Electric and
Manufacturing Company after June
17.
CATTLE RAISERS’
ASSOCIATION TO
MEET HERE
Executive Committee of the Texas
And Southwestern Cattle Raisers’
Association Again Select A. &
M. For Meeting Place.
A full program of entertainment for
members of the executive committee
of the Texas and Southwestern Cat
tle Raisers’ Association on their meet
ing at A. and M. College May 19 and
20, is being- worked out, Dean E. J.
Kyle, of the School of Agriculture, has
announced.
A review of the cadet corps of the
College will be held for the visitors
on May 19. On the following day they
will attend the baseball game between
A. and M. and the University of Tex
as and on the night of May 20 they
will be the guests of the College at
a banquet. The executive committee
meeting will be held the morning of
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PLANS FOR JUNIOR
PROM COMPLETE
Third Annual Junior Banquet and
Prom to be Held in Mess Hall.
All arrangements have been com
pleted by the arrangements commit
tee for the Junior Prom and Banquet,
which are to be given Friday night.
May 27th. Dick Bernhard, who was
elected by the junior class as the
chairman of the arrangements com
mittee, has announced all details of
the affair as worked out by the com
mittee. The banquet will be held in
the main banquet room of the mess
hall annex Friday night just before
the dance. Only juniors and their
dates will be allowed to attend the
banquet, but seniors will be permitted
to attend the dance. The place cards
for the banquet, which were designed
by G. R. Olsen, are minature figures
of an A. and M. cadet with his girl.
The banquet will be the last time, the
class as a whole will be together for
such an occasion, and it is expected
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GOVERNOR MOODY
AND COMMITTEE
VISIT AGGIELAND
Senate Committee and the Governor
Pay First Official Visit to the
College.
Last Friday the Governor of Texas,
accompanied by some fifteen members
of the House and Senate, visited the
CoUegc for the purpose of studying itr.
needs. This g-roup of prominent vis-
] itors were met at the train by mili-
/ tary escort and the usual guberna
torial salute was fired as the Govern
or’s automobile entered upon the cam
pus. The party was immediately es
corted to the reviewing stand to re
view the Cadets, after which the re
maining part of the afternoon was
spent by the Governor and Committee
visiting the different buildings of the
Institution in order that they might
get first-hand information concerning
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R.H. JONES WINS
ORATORY CONTEST
The finals in the Down’s Oratorical
contest were held Monday night in
the Assembly hall with seven seniors
competing. R. H. Jones of Galveston
won first place and the fifty dollar
prize offered by Col. Downs. Jones
spoke on the question of Philip
pine Independence. The other con
testants and their subjects were: J.
B. Bell of Tyler, “The Challenge of
Crime”; H. L. Richards of Waco,
“Farm Relief;” J. R. Wood of San
Antonio, “Forming a Philosophy;” J.
L. Reitch of Marshall, “Quality of
Progress;” A. V. Chapin of Arlington,
Colorado, “Admonitions.”
This contest, which is sponsored by
Colonel Downs, an ex-student, is held
annually and has begun to attract
more attention lately than it has in
previous years. The contest is open
to all seniors who wish to compete.
Mr. Jones, who was a member of
the A. and M. debating team along
with -some of the others of the con
testants, was presented the prize by
Colonel Downs personally.