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A YOUNG MAN’S-
Published Weekly by the Students of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas
VOL. XXVII
BRYAN. TEXAS, APRIL 3, 1929.
NO. 26
CADETS WILL PER
FORM FOR C. C,
Sixty-Seven Princesses to Be Escort,
ed By Seniors
The third annual convention of the
East Texas Chamber of Commerce
will be held in Bryan May 5-7th., in
clusive. Elaborate plans for the en
tertainment of the visitors are being
prepared by the host city and by the
college, including a massed band con
cert and contest in which twenty-five
hundred musicians are expected to
participate, a spectacular and beau
tiful pageant, the theme of which
will be the symbolical portrayal of
the triumph of knowledge in the pro
gress of man, various exhibits, in
spections of the college and its de
partments, a review of the A. & M.
Corps of Cadets, open air concerts
by the A. & M. College Band, base
ball games, banquets and many
forms of recreation at the country
Club.
(Continued on Page 6)
FENCING CLUB
ELECTS OFFICERS
The fencing club comes to the col
lege as a full grown sport and will
be one of the stronger minor sports
next year.
John Jefferson, of the band, has
been elected president with Bill Dean
as business manager. With these
men as the leaders we will have lots
to hear about the club’s activities
here and at other schools. Tentative
plans are being made to immesh the
other schools in the conference in
their foils. Fencing seems to be quite
the thing at a number of colleges
over the land it is an ancient and
honorable sport besides, what D‘Ar-
tagan did the Aggies can duplicate.
Membership is open to everyone
for the remainder of the semester
but will be put on some sort of a
selective basis next year. The club
has equipment for about 15 men, th<
material has been individually pur
chased by the membership. Workouts
are held every Tuesday and Friday
and arnica and monkey blood is used
profusely by the fencers for it is no
mild afternoon affair. Golf is such
a nice game. Camerades—des foils is
the name of the club and literally
means ‘students of the sword.’
MATHEMATICS PRIZES
Freshmen and Sophomores in this
College are invited to compete for
mathematics prizes which have been
offered by friends of the College,
through the effort of Professor John
W. Mitchell, to stimulate student in
terest in mathematical scholarship.
The First Freshman Prize of $30.00
in cash is offered by Mr. C. L. Hasie,
a former student of this college, now
a civil engineer at Memphis, Texas;
The Second Freshman Prize of $20.00
in cash is to be given also by Mr.
Hasie. The First Sophomore Prixe of
$30.00 in cash is offered by Mr.
James Sullivan, Business Manager
of Athletics in the College; The Sec
ond Sophomore Prize of $20.00 in
cash is offered by A. M. Waldrop
and Company, of Bryan and College
Station. ,
Those eligibl :;o compete for the
Freshman Prizes are students who are
classed as Freshman and who are
not repeating Mathematics 101, 102,
103 or 104. Those eligible for the
Sophomore Prizes are students who
are classed as Sophomore and who
are not repeating Mathematics 203,
204.
By preliminary one-hour tests in
each section in algebra, covering
Mathematics 101 and 102, and in
each section of trigonometry and an
alytics, covering Mathematics 103,
104, Freshmen will be selected to
compete in the final examination.
The two students making the highest
combined grades i these two prelim
inary tests will represent their
Freshman sections (the analytics
sections are to be used here as the
basis of sectioning) in the final
three-hour examination. The final
examination to determine the win
ners of the First and Second Fresh
man Prizes is to be based upon Ma
thematics 101, 102, 103, 104.
Preliminary tests for Sophomores
will be held in a similar manner.
First, one-hour tests will be given
on differentiation and jits applica
tion; second, one-hour tests will be
given on integration and its applica
tion. The two students making the
highest combined grades in these
two preliminary tests will represent
their Sophomore sections in the fin
al three-hour examination. The final
three-hour examination to determine
the winners of the First and Second
Sophomore Prizes will be based up
on Mathematics 203, 204.
CHARLES PURYEAR
AGGIE TEAMS
DEBATE THURSDAY
Thursday night April 4th at eight
o’clock in the Physics lecture room
the Aggie Debating Team consist
ing of J. Bertrand and R. N. Talbott,
will debate the Sam Houston State
Teachers College on the subject:
“Resolved that the U. S. should
adopt a substitute for the jury sys
tem,” with A. & M. taking the nega
tive side of the question. On the
same night another Aggie Team
made up of B. A. Clutter and Bill
Carnahan will debate the affirma
tive side of the question in Hunts
ville. Carnahan and Clutter will de
bate S. M. U. here on April 22nd. on
“Resolved that in a democracy the
Parliamentary Form of Government
is Preferable to the Presidental
Form.” The other team goes to T, C.
U. the same night to debate the nega
tive side of the question.
Both of the teams have been work
ing hard and as work is best evident
by results we know that they will be
sure to put on a debate that A. & M.
will be proud of.
BAND GOES TO SCHULENBERG
This morning on April 3rd. the
Aggie Band left on its second trip
of the year via Houston to Schulen-
burg, and there the boys will arrive
at about eleven thirty A. M.
The purpose of the trip is to plaj
for the celebration of the opening o
a new Borden’s Milk Company.
There will also be other bands there
from Fort Sam Houston, from Texas
University, and from the Shrine
Temple at Houston. At about one
o’clock there will be a mass parade
of the bands and at three o’clock
the band from A. & M. will give a
public concert. The people of Sehu-
ienburg are going to take members
of the band into their homes for the
neon day meal.
With the entertainment by the
young ladies and the dutch refresh
ments the boys are assured of a very
pleasant trip.
BAND CONTEST
AT STADIUM
Sixty Bands Expected to Compete
The largest aggregation of musi
cians ever assembled at one time in
this division is expected for the
fourth annual band contest and tour
nament, Texas Band Teachers As
sociation, to be held at Bryan May
5-6 in conjunction with the third an
nual convention of the East Texas
Chamber of Commerce. E. A. Light-
foot, director of the Allen Academy
Band, Bryan, and chairman of the
divisional and local committees for
the contest, has announced that six
ty to seventy-five bands are expect
ed to compete in the contest.
A feature of this gathering of
bands from throughout East Texas
will be a massed band concert plan
ned for the evening of May 6th., the
opening day of the convention, just
prior to the spectacular pageant to
be depicted in the A. & M. College
athletic stadium.
Indications are that this year’s
prize list will be the largest in the
history of the division. Gold medals
will be awarded to directors of bands
winning first prize, in all classes, and
loving cups to the bands which they
direct. Medals and cups will be
awarded band-master and their or
ganizations, respectively, winning
second places in the various classes.
The national association’s full set of
prizes will be awarded in the three
high school classes and in addition
there will be numerous other prizes
offered by several firms and organi
zations.
The band making the highest score
will be designated as the official.
East Texas Chamber of Commerce
band for the ensuing year. The di
rector of the band will receive a gold
medal and the band a loving cup,
both these latter awards being by the
East Texas Chamber of commerce.
Participants in the contest will be
divided into seven regular classes
and seven special classes. Regular
classes will include six-months bands
and one, two, three, four, five and six
year bands. Special classes will in
clude three divisions of high school
bands, college or university bands,
both in the Southwest and Texas
Conferences, T. I. A. A., junior col-