BELIEVE IN YOURSELF AND OTHERS WILL
BELIEVE IN YOU TOO.
Published Weekly by the Students of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas
VOLT XXVf" ~ BRYAT^rTEXX^OCTOBER 12," 1927: NOUA
WEEKS’ NEWS
BAT SUBSCRIPTION
CONTEST CLOSES
SUNDAY, OCT. 16
CHARLIE PADDOCK
COMES TO A. &M.
NEXT TUESDAY
FT. WORTH TO
RECEIVE CADET
CORPS NEXT WEEK
Temporary seats are being erected
at the T. C. U. stadium to accommo
date the crowds expected when the
Horned Frogs play the Texas Aggies
on October 22 and the Mustangs on
Thanksgiving Day. The entire stu
dent body of A. and M. will be pres
ent for the Aggie game, which will
reserve 2500 seats for cadets alone,
while the Thanksgiving game will be
the first Homecoming game for all
T. C. IT. alumni. Seating capacity of
the stadium is only 7500 and a much
larger crowd is expected at both
games mentioned. The construction
is well under way and is expected to
be completed about ten days before
the Aggies and Frogs clash.
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The plans for the memorial project
of the Ex-Students Association of the
University of Texas have been com
pleted and are on display in Austin.
It is a three-unit building project and
the estimated cost will be about one
million dollars. The Association now
has S100,000 of the amount needed
and a new drive for funds will begin
in a few weeks. Construction work
on the building is expected to begin
within the next year.
The first unit will consist of the
auditorium and gymnasium and will
be located on Jordan field. The audi
torium on the main floor of this
building will have a seating capacity
of 8500 and will be surrounded by a
runway. The balcony will contain
rooms for athletic classes and tro
phies, and the showers and lockers
will be in the basement. A 150x75
feet swimming pool will adjoin the
men’s gymnasium and will be glass
covered and heated in winter.
The second unit will be the stu
dent’s building, which will be divided
into two sections. One of these will
contain offices for student organiza
tions, committee rooms, etc., and the
other a smaller auditorium of 1200
seating capacity. The third unit of
the project will consit of a woman’s
gymnasium, a smaller swimming
pool, and rooms and offices for wo
men’s activities at the University.
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The debaters of Texas Christian
University have arranged for twelve
debates during the present school
year, if sufficient interest by other
schools is shown. The men debaters
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B Company, Signal Corps, Leads in
Extra Subscription Contest.
With subscriptions turned in up un
til Monday night gave Company B,
Signal Corps, the highest percentage
of subscription:- for, the. company en
rollment. However, there is still a
chance for some other company to
come out on top. The campaign for
extra subscriptions to the Battalion
is nearing its close, as October 16 is
the last day to get in your subscrip
tions. Everyone who intends to sub
scribe should do so at once so their
subscriptions can be turned in and the
first sergeants given credit in the
percentages for their organization.
The standing of the companies is
figured on a percentage basis, with
the number of men in the company as
the basis. Thus, the smallest company
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I& M. LIVESTOCK
AT STATE FAIR
Many Head of Champion Stock to Be
Exhibited
A. and M. has an extensive live
stock showing at the State Fair of
Texas this year including horses, cat
tle and sheep in addition to a picked
dairy herd.
Exhibit stuff from the Animal
Husbandry department of the college
includes fourteen horses, six steers,
one heifer and nine sheep, according
to an announcement by Mr. D. W.
Williams. The animals made two car
loads of exhibit stuff.
The horse division includes eight
Percherons, two Morgans, three
American saddle horses, and one
standard bred. In the Percheron
group is Dunham’s Pavia, grand
champion Percheron mare at the
State Fair in 1926.
In the steer division are three Here
ford, two Angus and one Shorthorn
steer. One of the Hereford steers
was third at the Fort Worth and first
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Holder of Worlds Record in 220 Dash
to give Exhibition Run.
Nothing Being Spared in Efforts to
Entertain A. & M. Aggregation.
We are to have some FAST com
pany in our midst on October 18.
Charles Paddock, who has broken 17
world .sprint records since 1.92ft, is
to be our guest and entertainer -
Grantland Rice calls him “The Fas
test Man of All Time,” and Harold
Di ble, member of the Olympic Games
Commission said of him: “Paddock
can answer the reason for athletics
better than any other American.” In
1920 Paddock won the 100 and the
220 yard dashes at the Olympic
Games. At that time he had not grad
uated from the University of South
ern California. He used to spend his
summers as a cowboy on a Western
ranch; he saw overseas service dur
ing the war; he has taken part in
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aT&estudents
LEAD NATION
Fourteen of Last Year’s Graduates
Offered Commissions.
Announcement has been received
by President Walton from the War
Department that of the 120 honor
graduates of distinguished colleges
last year, Texas A. and M. leads with
a total of fourteen, or more than
11 1-2 per cent of the whole. The hon
or students were selected from thirty-
three colleges, and the University of
California had ten, the next highest
number. Other ranking colleges in
number of honor graduates were Vir
ginia Polytechnic Institute with eight,
Clemson Agricultural College with
seven, and Georgia Tech with seven.
Honor graduates are those whose
attainments in scholarship have been
so marked as to receive the approba
tion of the head of the college, and
whose proficiency in military training
and intelligent attention to duty have
merited the approbation of the head
of the department of military science
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When the cadet corps arrives in
Ft. Worth October 22 for the A. &
M.-T. C. U. game, it will find that a
continuous program of entertainment
has been arranged by the students
and alumni of T. C. U. and the citi
zens of Fort Worth. The Fort Worth
A. & M. Ex-Students and the junior
class of T. C. U. have been planning
since mid-summer on the various
phases of entertainment to be offered.
The headquarters of the corps while
in Fort Worth will be at the Texas
Hotel.
Breakfast will be served in the mess
hall at 4:00 a. m., October 22; sack
lunches will also be given out. South
ern Pacific trains will convey the
corps to Fort Worth; the first train
leaving - at 5 o’clock, and the other
three at ten minute intervals. The
first train will arrive in Fort Worth
at 10.15. The parade will be formed
on 14th St. At eleven o’clock, the
band will lead the parade up Main
Street, past the reviewing stand,
which will be at 5th and Main.
Automobiles for taking the cadets
out to the T. C. U. Campus will be
found on Jennings Avenue, near the
Viaduct. At 12:30, the Junior class of
T. C. U. will give a barbecue for the
corps on the campus, with T. C. U.
girls serving the cadets. At the same
hour, a luncheon will be given by the
A. & M. Exes to the presidents and
faculties of A. & M. and T. C. U., and
the A. & M. Mothers Club and the P.
T.-A. will entertain the wives of the
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CORPS DANCE SATURDAY
NIGHT IN ANNEX
There will be a Corps dance in the
Mess Hall Annex Saturday night af
ter the Arkansas University football
game. The music will be furnished
by the Aggieland. It is expected that
there will be a large crowd out, es
pecially girls, from Navasota, -Bryan,
and surrounding vicinity. This time
there are going to be shorter inter
missions and longer dances.