VOL XXIX
NO. 2
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COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, SEPTEMBER 24, 1930
WALKER HEADS SENIOR CLASS
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AGGIES TO OPEN SCHEDULE SATURDAY
PIRATES TO INVADE AGGIELAND FOR FIRST
GAME OF SEASON AT KYLE FIELD THIS WEEK
NEW SCHOOL SONG
FEATURED COLLEGE
NIGHT CEREMONIES
HAYS SELECTED FOR VICE-PRESIDENCY WITH
N. G. SCHDESSLER SECRETARY-TREASURER
MOORE ANNOUNCES
LONGHORN PLANS
HARLING TO PLAY
AT QUARTERBACK
“There Shall Be No Regrets”, new A
and M song written by Curtis Vin
son, director of publicity at the A and
DR. WALTON MAKES
WELCOME ADDRESS
MUCH INTEREST
SHOWN AT MEET
“The finished Longhorn will be
just what the student body helps us
make it,” said Edwin Moore, edi
tor of the 1931 yearbook when ques
tioned about the policy of the fu
ture publication.
“With a busy spring and sum
mer behind it, the Longhorn is pre
paring to enter its rush period. The
ensuing three months will practical
ly tell the story for both the financial
and editorial ends of the undertak
ing. Though the year is not what
one might call a prosperous year,
prospects are none the less encour
aging. If the old summons for coop
eration brings the desired response,
and if the customary support is ten
dered. the Longhorn believes that it
can make itself worthy of the corps’
consideration. At a later date, per
haps we shall bid for that corps en
thusiasm as well.
As perhaps has been recognized,
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COUNTRYMAN TO
APPEAR OCT. 1
Work on the October issue of the
Texas: Aggie Countryman, publication
of the students in the School of Ag
riculture, is under way and the first
issue will make its appearance the
first week in October, according to an
nouncement by T. B. Ketterson,
Houston, editor.
Ketterson is beginning his second
year as editor of the magazine, and
has selected T. R. Richmond, Kyle as
his managing editor. Ray Walker,
Wolfe City, will be an associate edi
tor. J. M. Cooper, Center, business
manager, has C. C. Warren, San An
tonio, for his assistant. The full staff
has not yet been completed, and any
one interested in agricultural journal
ism is invited to contribute material
for consideration.
The Countryman was first publish
ed in February, 1930, in response to
the feeling for the need for such a
publication at A and M. Since that
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WHERE TO GO
Thursday, Friday and Satur
day-—Palace, “Good News” with
Bessie Love.
Saturday night—Corps Dance,
Assembly Hall, Marie Dressier
and Polly Moran in “Caught
Short.” Preview—Palace.
Monday, Tuesday and Wed
nesday—Palace, Walter Hous
ton in “Bad Man”.
Wednesday night—Nancy Car
rol in “Honey” at the Assembly
Hall.
Pirates Bringing Strong Team To
A & M For Contest Saturday
Saturday finds the Aggies making
their initial debut into the 1930
Southwest Conference football sched
ule when they meet the lighter South
western University Pirates on Kyle
Field at 3 p. m., September 27. This
is the fourteenth clash between these
two teams since 1908, during which
time, even though many close games
have been fought, the Corsairs have
never been able to defeat the Aggies.
The Buccaneers will bring with
them one of the strongest teams that
they have had in recent years, as was
shown last Saturday when they held
the new Rice Owls to a 32-6 victory.
A, 17 yd. pass from Seaman to Weir,
younger brother of Heine Weir, for
mer Aggie grid star, placed the ball,
in a scoring position for their lone
touchdown. The Pirates, being light
er than the Owls were forced to the
air for most of their first downs.
Southwestern, under Coach Lefty
Edens, has some real stuff on their
team as is shown by the fact that
Rice was held scoreless during the
first quarter and did most of their
scoring during the second quarter
with a number of sensational drives.
The Pirates have been training for the
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E. W. Winkler Heard
At Library Opening
An informal program with E. W.
Winkler, head librarian of the Univer
sity of Texas, as principal speaker,
marked the opening Monday night of
the new Cushing Library at the col
lege.
Thomas F. Mayo, librarian of the
college, presided and expressed thanks
to all who assisted in making the
structure possible and in the arrange
ment of details so as to make the
new library meet the desired require
ments. Dr. T. O. Walton in a brief
talk introduced the speaker of the oc
casion.
Mr. Winkler pointed out in his talk
that libraries have three functions.
These are to aid in instruction, in re
search, and in the spread of culture.
In the past the college library was
something simply decorative. The
present aim is to make it a place for
reference, he said. He added that ev
ery college budget should give the li
brary at least one-sixth of its income.
The new building was decked with
flowers given by the landscape art
department and friends of the college.
Refreshments were served and the Ag-
gieland Orchestra furnished the music
for the occasion.
Guests were received in the lobby of
the building, and following the pro-
gi'am were shown about the various
rooms where members of the staff
were stationed to explain the various
details.
M Colleg-e, and with music composed
by R. J. Dunn, director of the A and
M band, featured the annual College
Night program on the steps of the Y.
M. C. A. Friday night.
College night has long been a tra
dition at A and M marking the
opening of the regular nightly yell
iron season and is always held on the
first Friday of the fall term of
school.
Speakers on the program were Pres
ident T. O. Walton, Dean E. J. Kyle,
Colonel Chas. J. Nelson, Line Coach
Klepto Holmes and Track Coach
Frank Anderson. Matty Bell, Aggie
grid mentor was out of town and his
message to the corps was read by
Fred Buford, chief of the yell staff
and chairman of the College Night
ceremonies.
Members of the A and M football
team who spoke were Captain J. G.
Floyd, Adrian Tracy and Roscoe Van
Zandt, all seniors who are in their last
year of gridiron competition. Re
maining lettermen were introduced by
Buford.
“There Shall Be No Regrets” was
written by Mr. Vinson carrying out
the war cry of the Aggie triumph
over the Texas Longhorns on Kyle
Field in 1925. Considered the under
dogs in the contest, the A and M
team went into the game with the
motto, “There Shall Be No Regrets”
firmly engraved in their minds and
at the final whistle the score stood
28-0 in their favor.
The title of the song was announc
ed by Buford as a motto for the year
at the College Night cei’emony, and
plans are being made to feature it
for the A and M-Nebraska intersec
tional tilt at Lincoln October 4.
FIRST CORPS HOP
SATURDAY NIGHT
A new Aggieland orchestra under
the direction of Don Giffen will fur
nish the music for the first corps
dance of the current college year in
the Mess Hall Annex Saturday night,
September 27.
This year the band will have ten
members with several new names on
the roster to replace those lost
through graduation. Frank Molina,
freshman from Brenham, will play
second trumpet. Gorden Steinhoff,
an exceptionally good trombonist will
replace L. M. Gandy who graduated
last June.
Podge Reed succeeds Pete Baughn at
the piano, while Ed Bassett and Bob
Hieatt are back in their old places.
Newton Hielscher, bass, and William
Machmehl, tenor saxaphone, are the
other new comers to the band.
The orchestra has been practicing
nightly since the opening of school
and good music is assured at the dance
Saturday night. The melee will begin
at nine o’clock. Script will be $1.00.
Formation of right habits of think
ing and conduct, recognition of the
rights of others and the determination
to make the best of opportunities af
forded were stressed by President
T. O. Walton in his formal address
of welcome to the students of the A
& M College Friday morning in Guion
Hall.
“To be a good citizen one must first
be a good man and one cannot be a
good man unless the impulse to do
right becomes a habit so firmly fixed
that it is acted upon automatically,”
Dr. Walton said. “I hope that every
student who has entered the college
this year has come here with the in
tention of forming these right habits
and the determination to improve him
self steadily by making the most of
advantages and opportunities offered
him.”
Dr. Walton laid stress upon the in
fluences of one student over his fel
lows and upon the responsibility of
each student to his fellow students and
to his college, pointing out that it is
only through setting the right example
that any improvements can be wrought
in the student body or in the college.
He also stressed the desirability of
frequent use of the new Cushing Li
brary.
seminarsAnnounce
PROGRAM FOR YEAR
The Social Science Seminax - an
nounces an imposing array of na
tionally known and local speakers who
will deliver a series of lectures dur
ing the coming year.
The season opens October 6 with a
joint program of the Science Seminar
and the Social Science Seminar, when
Dr. George E. Boethel; president of
the medical school at Galveston, will
address both seminars at a banquet in
the Mess Hall Annex.
On October 13, Dr. Gates Thomas,
professor of English in the San Mar
cos State Teachers College, will de
liver a lecture on “Negro Folk Songs
in Texas.”
Thomas F. Mayo will appear on Oc
tober 27. His subject will be “What
is an Education?”
V. K. Sugareff, who has spent
several years and the last two
summers in Bulgaria, will deliver a
talk on “The International Aspect of
the Macedonian” on November 10.
On November 13 the two seminars
wall hear Dr. Charles Frances Potter,
the well-known New York minister
who debated Dr. John Roach Stratton
several years ago. Dr. Potter is one
of the leaders of the Theological
School of Humanism, and will deliver
an address on “The Rise of Human
ism.”
“English Pi'onunciation” will be the
subject of Dr. George Summey when
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Bagley Elected Social Secretary; Her
bert, Historian, Sunday
Ray Walker, Wolfe City, major of
the First Battalion, Infantry, was e-
lected president of the senior class at
a meeting in the Assembly hall Sun
day afternoon. Marvin Hays, Mt.
Pleasant, captain on the Second Bat
talion, Infantry, staff, was elected
vice-president of the class.
Other officers chosen at the meet
ing were N. G. Schuessler, Llano,
secretary-treasurer; Tom B. Bagley,
College Station, social secretary; and
Robt. L. Herbert, Lufkin, class his
torian.
Walker until this year was a mem
ber of Company C, Infantry, having
been first sergeant of that organiza
tion last year. He is a distinguished
student and a member of the Scholar
ship Honor Society. Hays is from
Company E, Infantry, and is also a
distinguished student and member of
the Scholarship Honor Society.
Schuessler is commander of Troop
D, Cavalry. Bagley is first lieutenant
and drum major of the A & M band
and Herbert a first lieutenant on the
First Battalion, Infantry staff.
A senior representative on the ath
letic council will be elected at a later
date.
Announcement was made concern
ing seniors’ making trip to Lincoln.
Details of pullman and round trip
rates were announced, and seniors
were requested to make arrangements
as early as possible.
SHINE’S SOLILOQUIES
Young gen’man had his shoes shined
here this mawnin’ sed evy time ya
beared uh fellah gripin’ bout things
ya could bet he’s one o’ them as don’
'tend meetin’s an’ sech like. Guess
fella lak that’s lak ole settin’ hen—-
alius loafin’ in de back yahd makin’
lots ah racket but not doin’ nuthia’