The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, December 11, 1929, Image 1
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- (Continued on Page 7) 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. (Continued on Page 7) 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. (Continued on Page 7) 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