LET ANOTHER MAN PRAISE THEE,
AND NOT THINE OWN MOUTH
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Published Weekly by the Students of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas *
VOL. XXVI
BRYAN, TEXAS, JANUARY 18, 1928
No. 14
BANQUET GIVEN AGGIES BY
HOUSTON A. & M. CLUB
THREE DANCES WILL FEATURE
MID-TERM HOLIDAYS
SUMMER SCHOOL TO BEGIN
JUNE 11.
R. V.’s SET DATE FOR FESTIVI
TIES.
Just as Marion Church of Dallas
concluded his address “Our Star Play
ers,” a curtain was drawn and a spot
light centered on a maroon jersey.
The light threw into prominence the
white “8” on the jersey.' It was the
jersey which Captain Joel Hunt wore
when he led his team to the South
western Conference Championship.
This was the climax of the banquet
given at the Warwick Hotel Saturday
night in honor of Coach Bible’s Ag
gies and Coach Krichamer’s Bulldogs,
Houston high school champs in foot
ball for 1927. After Joel Hunt was
given his All-American diploma,
signed by Knute Rockne, “Pop” War
ner and Tad Jones, he was lifted to
the top of the speaker’s table. He
attributed his success to his team
mates and pointed out Figari and
Holmes as the interference runners
who made possible some of his most
dazzling runs. As Sikes did not make
the trip, Hunt was commissioned to
bring Sikes’ All-American diploma to
him. A. C. Sprott was also presented
a diploma. Colonel Ike Ashburn was
toastmaster and some of the speakers
were F. M. Law, chairman A. & M.
board of directors, Coach Bible, Ma
rion Church, and Dr. T. O. Walton.
During President Walton’s address, he
became puzzled by the howls of mer-
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JUNIORS BEGIN FIRING ON MA
CHINE GUN RANGE.
Firing on the machine gun, 1000
inch range, below the dairy barns, be
gan Monday, under the supervision of
Capt. R. L. Ware for the infantry
juniors. The regular army qualifica
tion course, as fired by the previous
classes, will be fired this year.
To promote interest, and to award
merit, Frank Brothers of San Anto
nio, who furnished the uniforms to
the Exchange Store, is offering an
imported, gold and silver mounted, in-
graved presentation saber to the high
point man at the end of the season.
This is the first time a valuable prize
has been given, and it should arouse
the efforts of many of the next year’s
colonels, and one buttoneers.
The fastest gun crew will be picked
out of the infantry juniors soon, and
they will also be awarded, though
probably not so much as the lucky
marksman.
The few days between terms that
are so generously donated to us by
the college officials are usually more
or less dead, and the time is used to
make a trip to Houston or to one of
College Station’s thriving suburbs.
But this year it would be folly for
one to leave the campus at mid-term,
for two of the best dances of the
year will be held, followed by a Corps
Dance on the third night. Girls in
abundance are promised, for the
shieks of the campus, those one-but-
toners, are going to put on the first
of their annual shindigs. And when
they have wearied themselves on the
first night, the girls will still be left
for the rest to enjoy at the Barnyard
and Corps Dances that follow.
The Barnyard is one of the big
social affairs of the season, where
everyone forgets his dignity and a gay
time is had by all. Respectable se
niors come disguised(?) as farmers,
farm hands, and in other garbs typi
cal of rural citizens, and even sopho
mores have been known to don a pair
of overalls. To miss this dance would
be to miss a treat indeed. So dig up
those old clothes you came to college
in last September, and join the rest
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VALUABLE EDITION MADE TO
LIBRARY.
A very valuable addition was made
to the Library recently in the form
of the new Oxford Dictionary, pur
chased at a cost of approximately
$350.00. The new dictionary is com
posed of twenty volumes, and is to
replace the old incomplete set former
ly kept on the shelves.
This dictionary, which bears the
title of “A New English Dictionary,
On Historical Principles,” is based
largely on material collected by the
Philological Society, of England and is
edited by James, A. H. Murray. It is
published by Oxford University, at
the Clarendon Press. The Outstanding
feature of the work lies in the at
tention given the history and origin
of all words listed. It is at present
recognized as one of the best au
thorities of the kind available.
The new set recently bought is more
complete than the one formerly in
use here. In addition to this, the vol
umes are lighter and more compact,
and are much better in appearance.
The 1928 summer school of the A.
& M. College of Texas, which will
open June 11, the Monday following
commencement of the regular college
year, is now being organized, Dean
C. H. Winkler, of the school of Vo
cational Teaching and chairman of
the summer school committee, has an
nounced. The summer session will
again continue for twelve weeks, with
two terms of six weeks each. En
rollment in the college division of the
summer school last summer wass the
largest in the history of the school
and Dea,n Winkler predicts an even
larger enrollment for the coming sum
mer.
In-addition to the regular college
division, which includes the graduate
school, a number of short courses will
be given, such as the summer school
of cotton, six weeks; course for vo
cational teachers, three weeks; course
for public utility men, for graduate
veterinarians, cotton breeding course,
county superintendents’ conference,
and the big Farmers’ Short Course,
each of the latter five calling for one
week’s duration.
Dean Winkler has called attention
to the fact, by reason of law enacted
by the Fortieth Legislature making
provision for the extension of teach
ers’ certificates by attendance at sum
mer school, any person holding a
teacher’s certificate of any kind or
grade has the right to have such cer
tificate extended for one year by pass
ing in four courses or subjects at a
recognized summer school. This pro
vision, he added, should result in a
considerable increase in summer
school attendance by teachers.
ENGINEERING SENIORS TO
TEST PRAIRIE VIEW PLANT
Under the able direction of Mr. A.
V. Brewer and Mr. M. C. Hughes a
representation of Chemical, Electri
cal and Mechanical engineers will
make a general test of the Prairie
View Normal power plant shortly af
ter mid-term. The plant is very much
smaller than the A. and M. unit but
the test will require just as much, if
not more, engineering skill than the
test made here since nearly all of
the Prairie View equipment is out of
date. It is a hand fired plant, run
ning non-condensing both of which
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At a recent meeting of the Ross
Volunteers, the official dates for the
spring festivities of the organization
were set. Tlje decision was to hold the
dances and other affairs during the
spring recess, April 19th, 20th, and
21st.
The exhibition drills will be a fea
ture of the festivities, but they will
probably be overshadowed by the
three dances which will be given by
the organization. On Thursday night,
April 19th, will come /the Queen’s
Ball, a very unusual and spectacular
affair. The Queen will be chosen by
Frank Mabry, who was recently elect
ed King of the 1928 R. V.’s. On Friday
night, April 20th, will come the R. V.
Hop, another beautiful affair. The
dance on Saturday night, April 21st,
will be an official corps dance.
A visitor on the campus during R.
V. week would think that A. and M.
had been changed to a co-ed school,
for many a sweet young thing from
C. I. A. and elsewhere will be stroll
ing around the campus, for they all
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“ABRAHAM LINCOLN” TO BE
SHOWN AT COLLEGE
“Abraham Lincoln,” a drama por
traying the life and character of one
of America’s greatest men, is to be
shown at the Assembly Hall, Friday,
January 27th. This play was written
by John Drinkwater, an English dra
matist as one of a series of plays de
picting the lives and characters of
great Americans of history. “Abra
ham Lincoln” won the Pulitzer prize
for the best play of the year. The
play, as written by Drinkwater, was
in six scenes, beginning in Lincoln’s
home in Springfield, 111., in 1860, and
ending with his death at Ford’s Thea
tre in 1865. The play has been faith
fully transcribed to the screen with
the added advantage of being able to
show more action, since the screen is
not limited to such a small number of
scenes. Every word, expression and
action adds its bit toward bringing
out the great character that Lincoln
was. It is a picture that no one
should miss, for it gives us of this
later generation a chance to see and
appreciate the true greatness of a
real, honest-to-goodness American,
our Civil War President, Abraham
Lincoln.