Published Weekly by the Students of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas
VOL. XXVIII
BRYAN, TEXAS, NOVEMBER 6, 1929.
NO. 8
NEW BASEBALL COACH APPOINTEO
COUNCIL SELECTS
FORMER ATHLETE
AS NEW MENTOR
FINAL PLANS FOR
RODEO COMPLETED
To Take Place Friday Night.
Announcement of the selection of
Miss Julia Ball of Bryan as queen
and L. A. Machemehl of Bellville,
as king of the pageant climaxed the
happenings of the final week of
preparation for the annual rodeo and
pageant to be presented by the Sad
dle and Sirloin club at A. H. Pa-
pilion Friday night.
Beautiy and dignity will reign
supreme in the pageant in which a
galaxy of young women, as maids
of the “Court of Seville,” will be
accompanied by A. and M. escorts.
The pageant cast will include a bevy
of dancers and another group of
young women as peasants. As the
dance feature of the night, a special
dance will be given by one of the
expert body art dancers.
Maids of the “Court of Seville”
and their escorts are: Sally Boyett,
Bryan; and M." H. Baugh, Dallas;
Helen Coulter, Bryan, and W. N.
Marshall, Gilmer; Ralphana Searcy,
Bryan, and C. B. Northrup, Dallas;
Virginia Wiseman, San Antonio, and
F. W. Hall, Eden; Marie Elizabeth
Webb, Bryan, and K. E. Simank,
Ellinger; Wava Martin, Bryan, and
G. G. Harwell, Harlingen; Pauline
McCulloch, Bryan, and B. L. Mar-
hsall, Gilmer; Jane Oliver, Bryan,
and R. J. Howe, Seymour; Myrtle
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FAMOUS OLD SOLDIER DIES.
A famous campus character passed away late Saturday when
General Fish Call was attended in his last moments by the of
ficers and men of Battery “E” with whom he had resided from
time immemorial.
At the request of the friends of the deceased, the under
taker laid the body in state in the room of one of the dormitory
residents where sorrowing hundreds viewed the remains.
At 3 o’clock Sunday afternoon the funeral procession started
from Foster Hall and slowly wended its way to the burial grounds
on the lakeside at beautiful College Park. The cross-bearer led
the column, followed by the pall-bearers holding the casket,
draped in simple black and bearing the words “Rest in Peace.”
A wreath which had hung on the main entrance of Foster Hall
was placed upon the casket before the procession started.
Immediately behind the casket walked Rabbi McNurney, the
high priest, and following the divine came the mourning, sobbing,
chanting Fish leer 1 by Brothei Shearer.
Halting beside the grave, th~ mourners held obsequies. These
included chants in Latin by the high priest and eulogies by mem
bers of the Freshman class.
The casket was interred with many expressions of grief, and
the sad, beautiful not.es of Taps breathed a soft, poetic prayer
for the repose of the soul of the illustrious dead.
5000 Exes to Attend Dr
Turkey Day Tilt
LONGHORN STAFF
NOW COMPLETED
Fantastic Plans are Promised.
The complete staff for the 1930
Longhorn has been finally announc
ed by M. T. Halbouty, Editor-in-
Chief, and the list comprises not
only members from the senior class,
but also from the junior class.
Members of the staff from the
senior class having major ^posi
tions and sections are as follows:
J. A. Tarver—Senior Assistant Edi
tor.
L. H. Moon—Class Section.
Hank Nanny—Art Editor.
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About 5000 ex-students are expect
ed to be here Thanksgiving for Home
Coming Day and to witness the
football classic of the Southwestern
Conference. There has been no regu
lar program arranged, since in the
last few years the meetings have
turned out to be only a round-table
discussion of past and present foot
ball games. The ex-Aggies will have
their headquarters in the Y. M. C.
A.
Approximately eighteen or twenty
special trains will bring the enor
mous crowds here on that day and
a silver belt buckle and belt will be
awarded the ex-student who comes
the farthrest to see the game. Last
year the prize was won by a man
who came all the way from San
Francisco, California. Plans are being
made to give the visitors their noon
meal in the Mess Hall, but have not
been definitely arranged.
Mr. McQuillen, secretary of the
Former Students Association, said
that there will be several men back
this year who were members of the
student body ’way back in 1876, the
first year of the College’s existence.
. Pearce Delivers
Splendid Address
Bringing upon himself the praise
and admiration of a greater part of
the audieifce with the wrath of a
few, Dr. James E. Pearce, Professor
of Anthropology in the University of
Texas, addressed the Social Science
Seminar in the lecture room of the
Physics Building last Monday night.
Being a man of profound knowledge,
sane judgment, and in possession of
unusual ability to speak, Dr. Pearce
fully succeeded in developing hi's
subject: “Anthropology and some
Fundamental Human Problems.”
After a short talk on the past
and present of anthropology as a
science, Dr. Pearce proceeded with
the human problems that have a re
lation to anthropology. Race control,
birth control, control of criminals
and the mentally unbalanced, the
sex problem and the question of re
ligion were the most important phas
es of human life upon which the
speaker digressed.
The audience in attendance was of
the highest intellectual type and it
was indeed unfortunate that more
students were not present. Hopes are
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To Succeed Countryman.
Announcement has been made by
James Sullivan, business manager of
athletics at A. and M., of the se
lection by the' athletic council of
Roswell Higginbotham, coach of
freshman sports, to succeed Bob
Countryman as coach of the Texas
Aggie varsity baseball team.
Higginbotham, who is better known
to A. and M. men as “Little Hig.”
came to A. and M. in the fall of
1927 as coach of freshman sports,
renewing his connection with Aggie
athletics after an absence of seven
years in other fields. Countryman
came to A. and M. as head coach
of baseball the following spring.
Hig is a graduate of A. and M.
and while a student here starred on
both the gridiron and the diamond,
being a brilliant punter, passer and
ball-carrier on the football eleven
and a crack infielder in baseball. He
CORPS DANCE SATURDAY NIGHT