An Eleventh Commandment:
Don’t Get Caught!
Published Weekly by the Students of the Aarri cultural and Mechanical College of Texas
VOL. XXVII BRYAN, TEXAS, NOVEMBER 28, 1928. NO. 11
IN MEMORIAM
A. H. Holton, a freshman of H Company, died in the hos
pital early last Saturday morning, after a short but severe
seige of pneumonia. A military escort from his company was
sent with the body for the burial ceremony Sunday morning.
The Battalion extends its sincerest sympathies to the par
ents and relatives of Holton, and to his close friends and ac
quaintances of the campus.
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1929 FOOTBALL
SCHEDULE MADE
Aggies to Play Tulane and Kansas
Aggies Next Season.
Before the budding conference
winning Texas Aggie football team
of next year swings down the long
lane that ends in a possible South
west Conference pennant it will
have undergone a tempering and a
testing process calculated to try the
mettle of the best of teams, the
1929 Farmer schedule recently re
leased by “Sully” shows.
On October 5 the Aggies will
journey to New Orleans to attempt
to take the Green of Tulane into
camp. The following week the Kan
sas Aggies replace the Sewanee Tig
ers as the Farmer opponents on the
Dallas Fair football card. The ca
dets then move over to Fort Worth
to see if T. C. U. will hop when
the Farmers yell “Frog.”
The 1929 schedule as it now stands
is as follows: September 20, Trinity
at Waxahachie; September 28, South
western at College Station; October
5, Tulane at New Orleans; October
12, Kansas Aggies at Dallas; Octo
ber 19, T. C. U. at Fort Worth;
October 26, Arkansas at College Sta
tion; November 2, Sam Houston State
Teachers College at College Station;
November 9, S. M. U. at College
Station; November 16, Rice Insti
tute at Houston; November 28, Tex
as University at College Station.
Contract with Tulane calls for games
in 1930 and 1932 that will probably
be played on the State Fair date.
DEBATING TEAM REORGAN
IZING FOR COMING SEASON
Did you know that A. and M., be
sides having men who could carry
a football across a goal line, also
has a few who can stand on both
feet to discuss and argue a question
sensibly? For the past thirty years,
at different intervals, these men
have been organized into debating
teams, but not being able to take a
lively part in the general trend of
activities, at this institution, have
failed to attract any attention. How
ever, for the past two years the
debating team has been steadily
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THE BATTALION A
MEMBER OF N. C. P. \.
At the annual meeting of the
National College Press Association,
which was recently held at Purdue
University, The Battalion became a
full member of the Association. Mem
bership is restricted to college news
papers. E. L. Andrews, editor of The
Battalion, represented A. and M. at
the meeting. He traveled the longest
distance to be present at the meet
ing, and thus gave A. and M. and
The Battalion very much publicity.
Many very important subjects were
discussed at the convention, and the
delegates received much valuable in
formation. Colleges from some twen
ty-six states had delegates present
when the roll was called. Officers
elected for the ensuing year were:
W. C. Pettit, a senior and represent
ing the University of Pittsburg, as
president; and G. F. Taubeneck, a
junior and representing the Univer
sity of Illinois, as vice-president. A
committee was elected to choose the
place for the 1929 convention, and
it seemed certain that the University
of Illinois would be chosen.
“BEGGARS OPERA” TO BE
GIVEN DECEMBER 6
John Gay wrote a play in 1728
in which he said there was not an
honest man or woman, but the
characters were all human. This is
the two hundredth anniversary of this
opera. The company which will ap
pear at the Assembly Hall on De
cember 6 is the original cast, with
one exception, that had a run of
four years at the Lyric Theatre in
London.
It is said that every signer of the
Declaration of Independence saw this
show the first time it visited Amer-
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SIGNAL CORPS TO GET
BATTALION FLAG
As the result of gift by the South
west Telephone Company, of Bryan,
of check for $116.00 the Signal Corps
of the A. and M. College of Texas
cadet corps is to have a new set of
battalion colors, Lieutenant A. E|
Michelsen, officer in charge of the
Signal Corps, announced Thursday.
The check to purchase the new col
ors, which will be of silk, was pre
sented by the telephone company
through its local manager, B. H.
Noel, to Cadet Major C. S. Robert
son, of Denton, ranking cadet officer
of the Signal Corps Battalion. Pre
sentation of the check was authoriz
ed by E. P. Seamen, district man
ager of the telephone company, whose
headquarters are at Georgetown. The
gift was made, it was explained,
through interest of the company in
the college -and its work.
TICKETS GO ON SALE
FOR THE WHITE LECTURE
General admission tickets for the
William Allen White lecture, to be
given at the Assembly Hall on
Wednesday evening, December 5, are
now on sale. The plan of selling
tickets used last year for the Dur
ant and . Browne lectures is to be
employed. General admission tick
ets may be purchased from someone
in each office or classroom building,
or, in the corps, from each company
commander. These may be exchanged
for reserve seats at no additional
charges at the Y. M. C. A. or at
the Canady and Burtis Drug Store,
Bryan. The first exchange date is
Monday, December 3. Only those
holding general admission tickets
may secure the reserved seat ticket
on this date. Thus, those buying early
are assured of first choice seats for
the sale is open to the general pub
lic on December 4.
CORPS WILL GO
TO STATE GAME
Entire Cadet Corps Will Entrain
For Austin.
It won’t be long now. From all
indications . Old Aggieland will be
rather deserted after those special
trains pull out Thursday morning.
The first train is scheduled to leave
at 6:15, the other three following at
ten minute intervals. They will ar
rive in Austin at 9:45—9:55—10:05
—10:15 respectively. The parade will
start at 10:30, the Corps marching
up Congress Avenue to the Capitol
Building where it will be dismissed.
The band will be stationed in front
of the Chamber of Commerce build
ing, and the reviewing stand will
be in front of the Stephen F. Austin
Hotel. Baggage will be checked at the
Chamber of Commerce Building free
of charge, and it is requested that
no tips be given.
For those students who are re
turning Thursday night the fare will
be the small sum of three dollars
and ten cents. Those who contem
plate remaining over until Sunday
night should buy a ticket costing
$4.50. This ticket will be good on
any train leaving Austin not later
than midnight Sunday. Three spec-
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NOTICE!
All students who have not
already purchased their 50c
tickets for the Thanksgiving
football dances, please see your
top-kicks tonight and do so.
Even though you are not com
ing back for the dances, the
football players are. And they
have the right to expect some
real good dances from the
corps. The money has been
coming in very slowly, and the
committees will be powerless
to throw some real dances for
the football players if the corps
does not buy these 50c tickets.
All the top-kicks will be around
again tonight, and everyone
please do your part.