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Published Weekly by the Students of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas.
VOL. XXV.
BRYAN, TEXAS, MAY 25, 1927.
No. 31
ELECTRICAL SHOW
TO BE STAGED
MONDAY MORNING
Coulomb Chasers Put on Annual
Show.
As Commencement approaches, all
the .departments of the college are
getting ready for their exhibitions.
The exhibition which will probably
entertain the commencement visitors
the most will be the exhibition of elec
trical phenomena, put on by the sen
iors and juniors of the E. E. Depart
ment. The show of last year proved
to be a decided success; it had the vis
itors guessing as to what could cause
the freak things they saw. Electric
ity is a very interesting field of our
modern sciences, and with the appar
atus that is afforded, many seemingly
impossible feats can be accomplished.
Prof. N. F. Rode has been working
on the program for some time; he has
not yet announced a complete pro
gram, but he indicates that the show
will be complete in every detail.
Among the interesting details of the
show will be a talking skull, a bottle
that can’t be emptied, some diving
ducks, pail welding under water, a tin
can motor, a reversing motor, car
starting by radio, an illumination dis
play, artificial lighting, ajn oscillo
graph, and the death ray.
The entire E. E. Building will be
given over to the exhibitions.
14TH ANNUAL
STOCK JUDGING
CONTEST HELD
Fish Boethel High Point Man With
551 Points.
The fourteenth annual Freshman
Livestock Judging Contest, held in
the Animal Husbandry Pavilion last
Saturday, resulted in one of the clos
est contests ever held. Only fourteen
points separated the first six men as
the high point man had 551 to his
credit and the sixth score was 537.
This contest is held annually for
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COMPLETE PLANS FOR FIFTY-
FIRST COMMENCEMENT ANNOUNCED
Exhibitions and Inspections of Various Departments of College
to be Big Features of Program.
5:30
8:15
8:30 a. m.
9:30 a. m.
10:30 a. m.
4:15 p. m.
8:00 p. m.
8:30
9:30
11:00
The complete program for commencement has been announced by Dr.
F. B. Clark, chairman of the Graduation Committee. The program, begin
ning Saturday afternoon at 5:30 and lasting through the Final Review
Tuesday, promises many interesting features that will occupy the time of
all visitors during their stay here.
A brief outline of the exercises reads as follows:
Saturday, May 28
Individual Competitive Drill by the Ross Volunteers.
Local Players in “Lightnin’ ” by Winchell Smith and Frank
Bacon—Assembly Hall.
Sunday, May 29
Presentation of the “T” Medals. Review of the Cadet Corps
honoring the “T” men.
Inspection of quarters.
Commencement Sermon—Reverend W. M. Anderson, D. D.,
Pastor, First Presbyterian Church, Dallas, Texas.
Sacred Concert, by the A. and M. College Band—Assembly
Hall.
President and Mrs. Walton at home informally to members
of the Senior Class and their guests, and members of the fac
ulty and their families.
Monday, May 30
Exhibition Drill by the Artillery.
Live Stock Show—Animal Husbandry Building.
Inspection of the Departments of the College:
(1) Geology Exhibits.
(2) Military Science Exhibits.
(3) Horticultural Department will exhibit work done by stu
dents of landscape art.
(4) Textile Mill will be in operation.
(5) Experiment Station offices and laboratories.
(6) Exhibit of Electrical Machinery and interesting electri
cal phenomena.
(7) Architectural Exhibits.
(8) Genetics and Poultry Husbandry joint exhibit of chick
ens and pigeons.
(9) Agronomy Exhibit,
m. Inspection of Departments:
(1) Classes in dyeing, manufacturing of cottonseed oil, re
fining of petroleum.
(2) Agricultural Engineering laboratories.
(3) Civil Engineering Laboratories open for inspection.
(4) Mechanical Engineering shops in operation (molten iron
will be poured at 2:00 p. m.)
(5) Fossil Botany Museum.
(6) Entomology Exhibit.
(7) Drawing Department open for inspection.
(8) Dairy Husbandry Building open for inspection.
Annual Business Meeting of the Association of Former Stu
dents.
Exhibition Drill by Ross Volunteers.
Formal Presentation of Reserve Commissions—Guion Hall.
Barbecue for Former Students.
Final Ball.
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1:00-4:00 p.
2:00 p. m.
4:00 p. m.
5:00 p. m.
6:00 p. m.
8:30 p. m.
NEW DORMITORY
PLANS COMPLETE
‘Sections’
to be Unique Feature of
New Halls.
Since the college has received the
$300,000.00 appropriation for the two
new dormitories the Seniors of the
Architectural department have been
working on the plans and will have
them completed at an early date.
When the plans are completed bids
will be received and the contracts let.
The dormitories are to be of a dif
ferent type from any that we have
on the campus or any we have seen
in the state. They are to be built in
sections and can be added to at any
time that the money is available for
their construction. They will be three
stories high.
There will be a flight of stairs lead
ing to each suite of four rooms, and
to any other floor you will have to
go to the bottom floor. There is a door
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CATTLE RAISERS’
ASS0. MEETS AT
AGGIELAND
Many Subjects of Interest to School
Discussed at Meeting. Amarillo
to be Scene of Next Meeting.
The executive committee of the Tex
as and Southwestern Cattle Raisers
Association met for the second time
at the College, last Thursday and Fri
day. The object of the meeting was
the consideration of agricultural and
livestock problems and their remedies,
definite steps being taken Friday at
the meeting of the Committee looking
toward the organization of a state
agricultural congress or federated
committee. The functions of the fed
erated committee will be to discuss
matters of common interest to agricul
tural and livestock interests and to
work in behalf of such interest.
About twenty members of the Com
mittee were present at the two-day
session including some of the largest
producers of livestock in Texas and
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