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AGGIE BAND
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and hearty invitations were extended
to it to come again. San Angelo is
already making plans for a return
trip next year of the band to stay
three days.
REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE
FAVORITE AMONG CADETS
In the recent student election and
straw ballot the prevailing custom of
electing a Democratic president was
discarded and the ballot showed an
evidence of the consideration of the
real merits of the candidate. Hoover
was elected over. Smith by a 3 to 2
majority. The other candidates in the
race received very few votes.
This is the first attempt at a straw
ballot and as a result very few of the
students showed any real interest in
it. This next fall will see a new list
of members among the voters which
will include many college men. Some
of these will vote for their first time
and it behooves them to consider se
riously the men who are to bear the
presidential burden of the nation for
the next four years.
KEY CLICKS
Business is the art of swindling
someone else before they swindle you;
economics is the college professor’s at
tempt to justify it.
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A technical education is that which
enables the sons of bookkeepers, drug
clerks, salesmen, and farmers to be
come petty clerks for large corpora
tions.
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One of the greatest problems in
school is to take an engineering
course and to get an education in
the same four years.
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It must be true that God looks after
the helpless. That is probably why
the Ag students didn’t take engineer
ing.
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The mess hall and the Aggieland—
“What a whalp of a difference a few
cents make.”
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Public speaking is the art of ex
panding a two-minute idea to fit a
two hour vocabulary.
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The E. E.’s song: “Ohm, Sweet
Ohm.”
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Call at my room and I’ll tell you the
joke originally intended for this space.
—Ed.
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The moon was shining down gently
on a cadet and his date as they were
strolling on the outside during an in
termission. A bugle call sounded,
faint but clear.
“What was that?” asked the sweet
young thing.
“Tattoo,” was the reply.
“Well, I’ve seen them on men’s
arms, but I didnt’ know they had cer
tain times to do it.”
ELEVENTH ANNUAL SERIES
VOCATIONAL AGRICULTURAL
TESTS HERE APRIL 23
BLISS NEW HEAD
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work in the Capron Cotton Mill at
Capron, near Utica, where he re
mained for three years. This work
was followed by work as a machinist
for two years.
He was an engineer with Allis Chal
mers Manufacturing Company, Mil
waukee, being a machinist in the
team turbine and gas engine depart
ment for three years. In 1913 he be
came instructor at Marquette Univer
sity. In 1920 he was made head of
the department of industrial relations
and in 1923 became head of the de
partment of mechanical engineering.
Between 500 and 600 Texas boys,
vocational agricultural students, rep
resenting seventy or more high
schools of the state, are expected to
attend the eleventh annual series of
vocational agricultural contests at the
A. and M. College of Texas, April 23.
These contests, held under the super
vision of the school of vocational
teaching and the school of agricul
ture of the college, call for comple
tion in five events, livestock judging,
farm mechanics, poultry and egg
judging, plant production and ento
mology.
Indications are that the attendance
this year will be the largest in the
history of the contests in Texas. At
tendance last year totaled 300 boys.
Attendance in 1926 was 700, but all of
these were not contestants.
J. J. Brown, assistant director of
vocational agriculture, State Depart
ment of Education, Austin, a recent
visitor at the college, declared that
“the department at Austin feels that
the contests for vocational agricultu
ral students this year will be the larg
est in attendance ever held at A. and
M.”
E. R. Alexander, professor of ag
ricultural education, A. and M., and
chairman of the rules and regulations
committee for the contests, has an
nounced that motion pictures of the
contests will be made. Final plans
for the contests were discussed re
cently by Dean C. H. Winkler and
Dean E. J. Kyle, of the school of vo
cational teaching and agriculture,
Prof. Alexander and others.
LOVE’S SEIGE OF THE CASTLE
OF INTELLECT
I builded me a castle towering to the
sky,
Solid was its structure, impregnable
it seemed,
With towers of opinion and broad
walls of fact;
Turreted authorities, quotations all in
tact;
Vaulted chapels fancies, ceilings idea
beamed,
Where studied introspection was the
only heeded cry.
A river of lonesomeness where sor
rows were stored.
Now they clamber and moan, each one
recalls
Some emotion strangled a desire now
flown.
Must I beg for mercy that I’ve never
given ?
Must I beg for terms that before
were my own ?
Ignoble surrender, capitulate slowly ?
Descend from self-mastery to one of
the lowly
Importunate beggars, whining in tone.
Asking for crumbs and herd like
driven.
NO! Thunders forth, but a smile and
a feather,
A rustle of silk, a brown pair of
eyes . . .
A footstep that echos way back in my
head,
Dark, wavy hair, lips flashing and
red . . .
WILL orders NEVER . . . then slowly
it dies.
Desire whispers YES, in your castles
together.
The race is run, the tale is done;
The girl has won; I’ve had the fun.
And now a taste
Of ragged waste
And garbage
And cabbage
Mingle and tingle disgusting, revolt
ing—•
Lingers in your mouth gentle reader.
My moat was running repartee and
darts of cruel satire
Flashed ever from my loopholes, hot
lead of ridicule
Cascaded o’er assailants. Big words
were cannon shot.
Epigrams kept boiling in an ever
seething pot.
Ballisters of fallacies, cold egotisms
rule
Sublimated neatly such things as
heart’s desire.
Arrogant, deceitful, calculating, cold,
Subtly self-vaunting, infallible I rea
soned
For trusting was foolish and I trust
ed none.
Asked for no favors, took all that was
done
As motivated selfishly, every action
was seasoned
With getting and grasping ... to
have and to hold.
Thus in my frowning castle, suffici
ent and aloof,
I lived, and if not happy ... at least
was satisfied.
Quite recently a stranger laying seige
would let me know
That she only wanted company, and
would not ask me go.
But join our two estates, our castles
and our pride,
Hold constant thought communion as
lasting friendship’s proof.
I laughed, I scorned, I railed, I slan
dered.
My bucolic bluster and bombshells of
bombast,
Iconoclast ravings, loud mouthings of
doubt.
Were sufficiently awful; they put her
to rout—•
At least so I thought and the inci
dent past
Again turned subjective, my ego I
pandered.
But my castle is sinking, tumbling
down.
Turret by turret, tower by tower it
falls—•
For she bored beneath, tunneled under
and poured
MONTANA POTATO GROWERS
TO VISIT A. & M. COLLEGE
A group of representatives from the
Montana Potato Growers’ Association
of Bozeman, Mont., now on a tour of
various points in Texas, where dem
onstrations with Montana potatoes are
being carried on, is scheduled to visit
A. and M. next Friday. The group
is being accompanied on its visit over
the state by J. F. Rosborough, horti-
cultruist of the Extension Service.
The Montana delegation came to
Texas to inspect the demonstration
with potatoes from that state which
were sent to Texas for' experimenta
tion. In all a carload of potatoes
were shipped to this state by the
Montana association and experimenta
tion is being carried on at the Troup
and Weslaco sub-stations of the Tex
as Agricultural Experiment Station
and in various counties, the latter
demonstrations being under the super
vision of county agents.
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This week we are celebrating
a very important day for us. s
April 14th is our birthday and
we shall be 26 years old.
Many changes have taken j
place since Our Founder f
started a small general store I
in Wyoming. We have seen
the passing of old styles and !
the advent of the new. Store- I
keeping methods have improved |
and we have grown to a lusty
height of 954 stores. But the
friendly smile and the desire to
give helpful service never
vary. The same old latch
string of WELCOME hangs
outside our door for both cus- ;
tomer and curious passerby.
Twenty-six years ago we
started life as a “Friendly
Store.” We don’t believe the
years have changed us a bit.
What do you think about it?
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