Published Weekly by the Students of the Agricultural and Mechanical Coll ege of Texas
vol. xxviii
BRYAN, TXXA^, DECEMBER li, 1929.
NO. 14
S.W.C. TO BE INVESTIGATED
SING-SONG AND FREE FOR ALL
Cadets and campus folk will be interested to know that a “Free For
All” Christmas program may be enjoyed next Sunday afternoon. The pro
gram is being sponsored by the Young Mens’ Christian Association of the
College. It is hoped that this meeting together of the campus people and
cadets will do much to enrich the true “Spirit of Christmas” in our minds
as the holidays fast approach.
The singing of new and also familiar Christmas carols will begin at
2 p. m. Special numbers have been arranged for the occasion. A mixed
choir of ladies and cadets will sing special Christmas carols. The Band
quartet will render a group of selections.
A treat is in store for all who will attend this community “get to
gether.” We have the pleasure of announcing that our own Prexy, Dr.
T. O. Walton will be the speaker for the occasion. Prexy always has an in
spiring and helpful message and as is well known is a true friend of every
cadet.
After the Sing-Song, which will last about 45 minutes, will be shown
on the screen “The King of Kings.” Remember every one is invited.
ROSS VOLUNTEER
KING SELECTED
Everts Will be King of Annual Fes
tival, Initiation Held Sunday
Afternoon Followed by
Banquet.
CURTIS M. EVERTS
Curtis M. Everts, Houston, was
elected King of the Annual Ross
Volunteer festival at a short busi-
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Try on is Visitor
at A. & M. College
M. I. T. Representative is Well-
Pleased With School.
“It has always been my desire,”
said Dr. J. L. Tryon of Massachu
setts Institute of Technology, “to
visit and review the A. and M. Col
lege ever since I learned that all its
bachelor work was accredited at M.
I. T. on graduate work.”
It seems not to have been Dr.
Tryon’s purpose to investigate sit
uations existing in the technical de
partments at A. and M. but only as
one interested in such a high-rating,
brain-cell-distorting institution so far
from Massachusetts that his intimate
knowledge of it was impossible.
In his association with Dean Bol
ton while on the campus and with
the various departmental heads and
professors and in his travel through
the college. Dr. Tryon seemed well
pleased in the evidence existing to
show the efforts of the education
ally-interested men concerned.
It is for such ratings as this that
our college manipulators are work
ing for.
LIVESTOCK TEAM
SCORES HONORS
Wins Several Trophies and is Best
in Ten Years at International
Meet.
Placing first in one meet and
fourth in another and capturing one
trophy for the second time, the in
ternational livestock judging team of
A. and M., returned to College Sta
tion with the highest record any
Aggie team has made since 1919
when the local team last won first
in competition for the bronze bull
at the International Livestock Show
at Chicago.
The A. and M. team, which is
coached by A. K. Mackey, professor
of animal husbandry, won first place
in the Kansas National Livestock
Show at Wichita, Kansas; fourth
place in the International Royal
Livestock Show at Kansas City. It
was the first time in ten years that
the A. and M. team had placed so
high in the international meet.
In addition to these honors, the
team won the Percheron trophy for
judging the Percheron class of horses
in the international meet. It is the
second time an A. and M. team has
won this trophy, the team of 1920
having achieved the honor for the
first time. Another win in this meet
will give the A. & M. team per
manent possession of the trophy. Ok
lahoma is the only other team with
more than one victory to its credit
in this competition.
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NEW MAGAZINE
TO BE EDITED
Contest Now on for the Naming of
Monthly Publication.
Sharpened wits of Aggieland are
taking on a keener cage these days
as they puzzle over a word or com
bination of words that might serve
as a name for the new agricultural
monthly magazine launched last week
by the newly formed Agricultural
Journalism Society.
The prize: a Wahl fountain pen
donated by Manager Lipscomb of
the Aggieland Pharmacy.
The name contest is open to any
A. and M. College student," and will
close at noon Saturday. The winner
will be announced as soon thereaf
ter as the judges make their de
cision. Proposed names may be turn
ed over to P. A. Dresser, 76 Leggett;
T. B. Ketterson, ’24 Law; or to Dr.
Russell at the Agricultural build
ing.
The judges of the contest will be
Dr. Russell, Dresser, Ketterson, and
a faculty member yet to be named.
The new publication has been
started after several monts of work
by agricultural and agricultural jour
nalism students. The Agricultural
Journalism Society was formed
Thursday under the direction of Dr.
Russell. O. W. Thompson was elected
president, while L. C. Brezeale, Gail
Oliver, and D. H. Taylor were se
lected as a committee to draw up
the constitution.
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STUDY WILL BE
MADE IN FUTURE
Scholarship Eligibility Requirements
Changed up.
Heartily approving an investiga
tion of all athletics and offering
their support in such an investiga
tion, officials of the Southwest Con
ference in their winter meeting at
Dallas Monday literally endorsed the
recommendation made by Dr. T. O.
Walton, president of A. and M.,
several weeks ago in reply to the
charges made by the Carnegie Foun
dation, Dean Charles E. Friley, sec
retary of the conference announced
Tuesday upon his return from the
meeting.
“The conference feels that a great
deal has been done in the last ten
or twelve years to better athletic
conditions in the Southwest but be
lieves that there are still a great
number of problems to be solved,”
Dean Friley said.
“However,” Dean Friley added,
“the conference feels that whatever
improvement is made must take place
with the cooperation of outsiders.
Many of the evils of subsidation that
now exist in the conference are the
result of the actions of over-zealous
alumni and friends of the athletes
and schools, and if the public is
really in earnest they must help us.”
The conference went on record as
favoring an investigation by out-
I CHUCKLES FROM THE I
| MILITARY. |
^ M(ajor Sloan waxed face-
% tious the other night and told ^
^ this one on Captain Gibson: S
X The captain was one of those
1> giving the “Fish” their physi-
nal examinations at the first <§>
x the year. Fish B—*— did X
not appear to have normal
«> sight in his right eye, which 4
X fact was duly recorded on the %
x boy’s chart. Later one of his ^
associates turned to Captain x
X Gibson and remarked casually: ¥
i “That boy, Fish B , will I
X not be able to get in the R. a
O. T. C. His right eye is glass.”
4 No, Oswald, the captain said l>
x nothing. Army men are not X
X given to profanity. x
CORPS DANCE SATURDAY NIGHT