THE BATTALION
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SPRIGGS
Charles Orvine Spriggs, professor
of Public Speaking, is a man who is
precise and exacting and yet ex
tremely tolerant. This last mention
ed quality certainly serves him well,
for if Spriggs hadn’t this capacity
for forbearance he would surely go
raving mad listening to ‘speeches’
on “My Home Town.” His home
was in the north, (fairly recently
too, because the sharp As and Es
in his speech still give him away)
Indiana to be precise. He went to
Valpariso University three years and
then graduated from University of
Indiana with a B. A. degree in 1924.
Then he taught at Iowa State for
a few years. In 1927 he came to
A. and M., and without trying he
soon became a popular figure on the
campus. He was active with the
dramatic society known last year
as the Campus Players. Recently
the club reorganized under the name
of The College Theatre and elected
Mr. Spriggs as director. He is also
director of the A. and M. debating
team.
Administering all these duties, and
doing it well, makes a very busy
Mr. Spriggs, but he says he enjoys
a full day and then his work is
nine-tenths play anyway. His hard
work, he says, comes during the
summer at North-Western U. where
he is taking graduate work. We
hope he is as well liked and appre
ciated up there in the cool north
as he is here in Aggieland.
“JOHNNY” HAYS
Mr. Hays is a new member of the
English Department. His personality
is of the type that one admires even
on short acquaintance, and his per
sonal charm is enhanced by a thor
ough and deep understanding of lit
erature. He comes to us from the
University of Missouri, where he ac
quired a B. A. degree. This degree
was doubly deserved as Mr. Hays
worked his way through the four
years of college, and he has already
begun his M. A. He is an instructor
in sophomore English, a subject
which requires a thorough knowledge
and appreciation of literature; this
he has to a marked degree. His opin
ion of A. and M. is very definite.
He says: “The school spirit of A.
and M. is remarkable, and is un
doubtedly one of its best assets. The
objectionable feature of the school
is the suppression of individuality.”
May Mr. Hays, or “Johnny,” as his
friends call him, be with us long,
and continue in his efforts to make
this campus a better place for his
having been here.
SAY BO! DIDJA?
And didja use ALL of your influence
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To have a special number dedicated
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To said friend over the radio ?
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And didja leave the show early
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And rush in to hear the radio
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Where all the boys were listening in ?
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And didja sit there with a com-
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placent look on your face
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Only to hear this startling announce-
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ment.
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‘The next number will be
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SWEET MYSTERY OF LIFE
Dedicated especially to Mr.
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B. W. FARQUHAR!”
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Say Bo, didja ever?
Well, Bannister Wells “Ortho”
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“Pathe” “Forty-four Yards”
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Farquhar, the Second in Command
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Of A Company Engineers, did.
RAZORBACKS NOW LEAD
SCORING THREATS
Miller, fleet back of the Porker
team, has at last replaced the two
Baylor scoring aces and now leads
them by a 3-point margin. Texas’
scoring machine has been at a stand
still for the last couple of games,
and are not slated to score so much
when they tackle the Frogs this
week end. Furthermore Baylor and
Arkansas are not going to do so
much scoring when they meet S. M.
U. and Centenary, but the Aggies
are due to do considerable scoring
and Tom Mills should be up among
the first two or three leaders. The
following is the present standing of
the game winners:
T.D Pts. Tot.
Miller, Arkansas 11 0 66
McElreath, Baylor .... 9 9 63
Wilson, Baylor 10 1 61
Green, T. C. U 7 11 53
Leland, T. C. U 10 0 60
Mills, Aggies 6 1 37
Shelley, Texas 5 6 36
Schoonover, Arkansas . . 4 6 30
Mason, S. M. U 4 5 29
Potter, Baylor 4 4 28
All in a day’s work
A specimen of construction work in the
Bell System is the new catenary span
carrying telephone wires across the Gila
River, Arizona. The “natural” obstacle is
no longer an obstacle while there are tele
phone men to find a way through it or
over it.
This is but one example in a general ex-
for telephone men
pansion program. Others are such widely
varied projects as linking New York to
Atlanta by cable, erecting 2.00 telephone
buildings in 19 29,developing a $ I 5,000,000
factory at Baltimore.
The telephone habit is growing apace,
and the Bell System will continue to keep
a step ahead of the needs of the nation.
BELL SYSTEM
tiatioJi-wide system of inter-connecting telephones
Say, Bo didja
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Ever plan and rack your brain
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To fix up a nice, big, fat float-out
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For one of your friends.
“OUR
PIONEERING WORK
HAS JUST BEGUN”