Published Weekly by the Students of the A gricultural and Mechanical College of Texas
VOL. XXVI
BRYAN, TEXAS, OCTOBER 5, 1927.
NO. 3
A. & M. STOCK
JUDGING TEAM
WORKING HARD
Daily Workouts Reveal Intense Iner-
est of Aspirants
To Team
A. and M. is preparing for another
championship. While all our minds
are centered down on Kyle Field,
there is yet another team working for
more laurels for Aggieland. This is
the stock judging team. Fourteen
men have been working since the be
ginning of this school-year so that
A. and M. will be well represented
in the various mee£s that are to be
held this year. Although we are al
lowed but five men on the team, six
or seven men will get to make the
different trips. The first trip will be
to Dallas, where the men will work
at the State Fair for practice and ex
perience.
The team will represent us in the
American Royal, which is to be held
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POTTER ELECTED TO LEAD R.V.’s
ELECTION OF SENIORS OCT. 16th
An important meeting of the R.
V.’s was held Sunday afternoon in
the Senior club room. The officers
elected for the present term are
Lester Potter, Captain; Ralph Young,
1st Lieutenant; J. D. Wyman and
Leo Gerdes, 2nd Lieutenants. The
program of the Ross Volunteers for
the coming year includes all the
events of previous years with tenta
tive plans for other new events. The
A. and M. duchess will be escorted to
the Cotton Palace by an escort of R.
V’s.
The exhibition drills will be given
again during the spring festivities in
• April and on special occasions during
May. The dances to be given in
April will be on the same high plane
and of the same quality as those of
previous years.
The full strength of the company
will be attained with the election of
thirty Senior candidates on Sunday,
Oct. 16th, and forty-three Junior can
didates on Sunday, Oct. 30th. There
are at present fifty-two old men back.
Two men failed to get back to school
this year.
COMMITTEES FOR
THANKSGIVING
HOP NAMED
Plans Already Being Made for Big
gest Dance of Season
Dick Bernhard, chairman of ar
rangements, assures us that the equal
of this year’s Thanksgiving hop has
never been seen. Dick is working
day and night to make + he hop the
success we know it will be.
Allen Peoples has already placed
an order in Dallas for the best saw
dust that Texas produces. Peoples is
chairman of the floor and says it will
be in the best of condition. The hop
will be staged in the main mess hall.
Carlos Ordonez is chairman of
decorations and W. E. Eckles is chair
man of music. The orchestra will be
an imported one and one of the best
in the state. M. E. Dietert has charge
of the financial end of it and H. H.
Hardin is chairman of programs.
These committees consist of practi
cally the same men who made last
year’s Final Ball and Junior Prom
such successes. They assure you that
they will put on the Thanksgiving
Hop in the same manner.
Thursday night, November 24, will
be the hop in honor of the football
team and Friday night will be the
Thanksgiving Hop. This will be the
greatest and best social event of the
season so make arrangemnts to have
that sweet thing here.
CLASS OF ’28 TO
LEAVE MEMORIAL
Seniors Will Build Ticket Booth at
Entrance to Kyle Field
At a meeting of the Senior class
about a week ago, the idea of erecting
a Senior Memorial was introduced by
Drexel Turner and approved by the
class. It will be a permanent struc
ture at the entrance to Kyle Field,
next to the gym, and will stand in
memory of the class of 1928. Turner
originated the plan and will appoint
a committee to supervise its construc
tion. The stadium contractor, O. K.
Johnson, will arrive soon to make a
bid, and construction will start im
mediately.
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CORPS TRIP
TO T.C.U. IS
NOW ASSURED
Low Rates Will Make It Possible For
Everyone To Go
The details of the corps trip to Ft.
Worth, on Oct. 22, have not been de
cided, but should be announced early
next week. However, the fare will
be in the neighborhood of $3.50 and
the tickets to the game will be about
$1.00. Anyone wishing to visit their
homes or friends after the game had
best get a pass to that effect.
This will be the only corps trip this
year, unless the faculty gets lenient
and declares a holiday for the Rice
and Sewanee games, so the chances
are that few will get to see both
games. If the faculty does not give
the holidays, upperclassmen with the
standing stated in the “Blue Book,”
are entitled to a pass to one of the
games.
For the convenience of those that
wish to make the trip to Dallas this
week end, the fare will be $3.40 round
trip if you return to College Saturday
night or $4.65 if you remain over un
til Sunday night. Mr. Davis, S. P.
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REAL BRONC
RIDERS SLATED
FOR RODEO
Schlemer, Hooks, and Ketterson To
Ride
Another big feature of the Rodeo
and Pageant will be riding by one of
the best and fanciest riders in the
state. This young man is Herman
Schlemer of Kyle. All the old men
have seen him ride and know what to
expect, but the Fish have a great
treat coming when Herman strips the
khaki and dons the uniform of the
west. He does all the things the
horse, or steer, thinks he won’t do;
and, boy, your mouth will be easily
susceptible to flies when he emerges
from the chute.
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BAT SUBSCRIPTION
CONTEST STARTED
Companies to Strive for Honor of
Putting Out Extra
Edition
The annual Battalion extra sub
scription campaign started Sunday,
September 25, and will end Sunday,
October 16, with the winning company
gaining the privilege of publishing a
special Company Battalion later in
the year.
First sergeants are in charge of
the company campaigns, and are al
ready at work in an effort to bring
their companies the privilege of put
ting out the special edition. The
competition is expected to be keener
this year than in the past.
Last year D Company, infantry,
took the honors with a score of 139
per cent, the highest score on rerord
for these campaigns, The two pre
ceding years, the campaigns were won
by B Battery, artillery, and this out
fit is expected to put up a good fight
this year to regain lost honor. Then
too, there are a number of outfits
who have never before headed the list
and who intend to add this year’s vic
tory to their list of accomplishments.
The standings of the various com
panies will be figured in the contest
on the basis of percentage of sub
scriptions sold, with the number of
men in the company as the percent
age basis. This gives the smaller out
fits the same opportunity for success
as the larger organizations.
The only way any company can win
is for every man to work with the
first sergeant and make an effort to
make his part of the company percent
age as high as possible.
ANNOUNCEMENT
W. J. Fields, ringmaster for the
Rodeo and Pageant to be given on
Nov. 4th, wishes to see all men, who
are interested in entering rodeo
events, as soon as possible at room
100 Milner. Anyone who is a good
bronc or steer rider please report to
Fields because it is the aim of the
Juniors to put on the best rodeo that
has ever been staged here.