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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 17, 1928)
VOL. XXVII BRYAN, TEXAS, OCTOBER 17, 1928. NO. 5 MW CHEMISTRY BUILDING SOON T C. U. FROGS AND FORT WORTH PEOPLE TO INVADE AGGIELAND COMPANY “F” WINS CONTEST To Be Built in Wings Like Nevr Dormitories. Before many more years roll by Aggieland will be the proud possess or of a brand new Chemistry Build ing. We are going to try our best and maybe the legislature will ap propriate a sum large enough to complete a building which will ac commodate about twelve hundred students. The location will probably be back of the Varsity tennis courts. Before long a wing of the proposed building will be started. If we are able to complete one wing without the help of the state, the chances are that the legislature will help to complete the building. Rice has a Chemistry building that cost one million dollars, and the one at Texas University cost about eight hundred thousand dollars. It is es timated that a building which will accommodate the large enrollment expected in the Chemistry depart ment in the future will cost about five hundred thousand dollars. One thousand five hundred and seven students have enrolled in the Chemistry department this term. There are eleven hundred and ten freshmen, one hundred and forty- nine sophomores, eighty-seven jun iors, seventy-two seniors, and eighty- (Continued on Page 3) +$*■ ■*$*■ -*$»- +$«- -*$*• *$*■ -*£«- ❖ ❖ ❖ LONGHORN NOTICE! ❖ — ❖ All students who intend to *** have their pictures in The Longhorn please have them +*+ "t* made early, in order to not *♦* ❖ rush the photographers. If * *** they are not rushed, they can *1* *■> make much better pictures. ^ All seniors have their pic- ^ ❖ tures made this week. *1* ❖ LONGHORN STAFF ❖ ❖ ❖ *♦* ♦♦♦ | Special Entertainment Features to be Provided for Visitors. Old Army, we will have a recess in heaven this coming week-end. Two special trains, running over with the prettiest damsels in the State, will invade this athletic and military campus for some dozen hours. As in days of old, when oilgrimages wr~° the public’s sole entertainments, so will this be to this group of beauties from the Texas Christian Universi ty. With these pretty maidens will be none other than Matty Bell’s T. C. U. gridiron warriors who have been a “jinx” over ole Aggieland for the past four years. Fort Worth is sending one of the largest special trains to this “city of speed” that has ever been known in the. history of Texas. The two special trains will carry no less than two thousand “rooters,” many of these being A. and M.’s twelfth man of many years past. Not less than a dozen months ago our Army departed for Fort Worth. We had heard and read of many royal entertainments throughout the country that the Prince of Wales had received from his most intimate associates, but we had no idea that we C^vould break into such high so cial environment. Lest you forget Old Army, it was none other than T. C. U. who entertained us with such hospitality. They fed us, gave us dances and fellows, words can’t express it. The “Fish” are unaware of this great entertainment, but ye uppers will never forget that day. It will always be the day among days in the memories of we upper-class- men. With this in mind the Fort Worth Club at this Institution has plan ned an entertainment which we hope will live in memories of the Pur- (Continued on Page 5) OFFICERS OF ROSS VOLUNTEERS ELECTED Bennie Varner Elected as Captain. The Ross Volunteers held their first meeting of the year in the Y. M. C. A. chapel last Wednesday night for the election of officers for the year. B. C. Varner was elected as cap tain of the company, C. E. Richter as first lieutenant, and N. A. Web ster and O. W. Sommers as sec ond lieutenants. Raymond Bradford was also elected as secretary-treas urer of the organization. The first sergeant will not be elected until the juniors are taken in later on in the year. There are forty-five old men in the organization at present. On the twenty-first of October thirty addi tional seniors will be taken in, and on the fourth of November fifty (Continued on Page 10) CORPS DANCES FOR FIRST TERM ANNOUNCED Plans Being Made to Increase Pop ularity of the Corps Dances. Because of the failure to announce the dates for Corps Dances far enough ahead of the date hereto fore very little interest has been taken by many of the boys and as a result they do not try to have their girls down for any of the dances. Plans at present as explain ed by the Social Secretary are to announce the dates of the dances far enough in advance that any of the cadets desiring to have their girls down for the week-end can arrange to have them here for some special occasion and remain over for the dance. Not enough of the cadets are taking any interest in the dances. 'They are for the entertainment of (Continued on Page 3) A. W. Bryant Works Hard to Get a Company Percentage of 142. The honor of putting out the spe cial company edition of The Bat talion in the spring goes to Com pany “F” Infantry, due to the ex tra efforts of Alton Bryant, first sergeant of the company. Bryant has been 1 wofkxng hard ever since the contest and campaign started, and besides getting every one in the company to buy extra subscriptions, he went outside of the company to get more, in order to bring his per centage up. Every member of the company co operated with the top-kick in order to help him win. The percentage that was made, stands as the highest that has ever been obtained since The Battalion started having the contests. The winning company has a very peculiar personnel, and they ought to be able to put out a very good special edition. The following gives the percent ages of the various organizations: Infantry—Co. A 14, Co. B 5, Co. C 11, Co. D 22, Co. E 5.7, Co. F 142, Co. G 46, Co. H 30. Cavalry—Tr. A 2.6, Tr. B 12, Tr. C 2.3, Tr. D 3.3. Artillery—Bat. A 3, Bat. B 20, Bat. C 4.5, Bat. D 15. Engineers—Co. A 14, Co. B 4.5. Signal Corps—Co. A 15, Co. B 36.7. Band—5.6. JUNIOR CLASS ELECTS HANKS AS PRESIDENT New System of Election Put into Effect. With the election of Lester Hanks, San Augustine, Sunday to the presi dency of the Junior Class the Jun iors made their first step toward class activities for the year. The custom of having a candidate for Junior president indorsed by twenty- five members of the class was brok en and the election was held im- (Continued on Page 3) CORPS DANCE SATURDAY NIGHT