THE BATTALION
VOL. XXIX
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, OCTOBER 8, 1930
NO. 4
AGGIES SEEK REVENGE FOR LAST
YEAR’S DEFEAT IN TULANE GAME
AT STATE FAIR THIS WEEK END
Numerous Banquets
Planned By YMCA
In keeping with their custom of the
past, the YMCA with M. L. Cashion
as their local secretary, is planning
and arranging for a number of ban
quets for the various classes and
campus organizations for the present
college year, according to members
of the “Y” cabinet.
The first of the banquets is set for
Thursday night October 9 in favor of
the “Y” cabinet and will be for the
purpose of completing the organiza
tion and detailed plans of this group.
On the following Tuesday, October
17, the entire freshman class will be
entertained with a banquet in the
mess hall annex. Arrangements are
being made to have Retreat early on
this day to allow those who attend the
rodeo that night a chance to attend
the banquet also.
Other banquets have not yet been
arranged by the YMCA.
Dairy Judgers Go
To National Meet
J. D. Sellers, J. J. Willingham, J.
H. Taylor and J. L. Allen compose the
dairy judging team which left this
morning for the national meet in St.
Louis, October 13 and 14.
Enroute to the national meet the
team will inspect dairy herds at the
Grayson county fair at Sherman; the
county fair at Denton and the Dallas
fair.
On September 29, the team coached
by A. L. Darnell, professor of dairy
husbandry, made a five day practice
trip to the Guadalupe county fair at
Seguin where three herds were being
shown; the Foundation Farm at Rul
ing where one show herd was inspect
ed; the Scott and White herd at Tem
ple; and the Navarro county fair at
Blooming Grove where five herds were
judged.
Ex’s To Give Writing-
And Speaking- Prizes
Through the efforts of E. E. Mc-
Quillen, secretary of the Association
of Former Students, several promi
nent ex-students have donated prizes
for the freshmen and sophomore
writing and oratorical contests, ac
cording to Dr. George Summey, head
of the English department.
The sophomore writing prize of
twenty-five dollars cash was donated
by William Morriss, president of the
WHERE TO GO
Thursday, Friday and Satur
day—Palace, “Madam Satan”
with Kay Johnson, Reginald
Denny, Lillian Roth and Roland
Young.
Saturday night — Assembly
Hall, Dorothy Sebastain and
William Boyd in “His Last Com
mand.” Preview—Palace, “Dix-
iana” with Bebe Daniels and the
famous comedians, Wheeler and
Woolsey.
Monday, Tuesday and Wednes
day—Palace, “Dixiana.”
Wednesday night—Assembly
Hall, Lawrence Tibbett In “The
Rogue Song.”
A & M Plays Southern
Conference Champs
Saturday
With minds bent on revenge for the
13-10 defeat handed them in New Or
leans last year, Coach Matty Bel’s
gridsters will entrain Friday for
Dallas to meet the Tulane Greenies
in the new Fair stadium Saturday
afternoon. The Aggie intersectional
game is always accorded the honor of
being the feature of the opening day
at the State Fair of Texas. The
Aggies have returned the honor by not
having been defeated in an intersec
tional game played there.
The loss to Tulane last season was
the second time in the past fourteen
years that the Aggies have been de
feated by a Southern conference
team, the first defeat being 6-0 by
L. S. U. in 1921. During that period
of time, eight Southern Conference
teams have suffered losses at hte
hands of Aggie teams. As is remem
bered, the Aggies were barely nosed
out by the Green Wave in a battle
that was staged in a sea of mud and
rain. With the Aggies lies the conso
lation of being the only school that
was ever able to stop and force out of
the game the highly touted, all-Am
erican Bill Banker.
The game last season was well fill
ed with sensational playing, and the
half ended as in the Nebraska game,
with the ball close to the goal line in
an easy scoring position.
The Aggie starting lineup will prob
ably be the same as that which faced
the Cornhuskers last week, with the
exception of Maggie Magrill, who is
out because of injuries received in the
Nebrask game. The loss of Magrill
will be a severe blow to the Aggie
line for several weeks, as there is a
lacking of reserve tackle material. It
is thought that Oran Dawson, 220-
pound giant tackle, will be sufficiently
recovered from injuries to fill Mag
gie’s place in the line. Stiteler and
Zumwalt, backfield men, who are nur
sing injured ankles will be ready for
service in the coming clash. Magrill,
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Ag-g-ieland To Play In
Dallas Fri. and Sat.
A double engagement will occupy
the Aggieland Orchestra in Dallas
this weekend when they will play
Friday night at the gridiron dinner
at the Baker Hotel and again Satur
day night opposite Henry Lange’s
Baker Hotel Orchestra for the Satur
day night dance.
Members of the Aggieland include
Bob Hieatt, banjo; Newton Hielscher,
bass; Podge Reed, piano; Mac Greg
ory, drums; Edwin Bassett, Fritz
Mueller and Willie Machemehl, saxa-
phones and clarinets; Emmet Giffen,
director, and Harold Gieb, trumpets;
and Gordon Stinehoff, trombone.
Morriss Buick Company, Dallas,
while Owen W. Sherrill, a George
town banker, was the donor of the
same sum to the oratorica) priz<
fund.
Although the prizes for the frefr.
men are as yet incomplete, J. Allen
Kyle, Houston physician has already
signified that he would give twenty-
dollars cash to the winner of the
freshmen writing contest. Further
plans for the contests will be an
nounced iater.
ALL AMERICAN RATING GIVEN
1930 LONGHORN BY NATIONAL
SCHOLASTIC PRESS ASSOCIATION
$50,000 Added To
Student Loan Fund
Hogg Will Discloses Increase Iri Fund
Originated by Donor
Fifty-thousand dollars will be add
ed to the student loan fund maintain
ed by the Association of Former
Students as a result of a provision to
that effect in the will of the late Will
Hogg, according to announcements
from the office of E. E. McQuillen,
secretary of the association.
This latest donation will not have
any special name attached to distin
guish it from the ordinary fund al
ready maintained by the ex-students,
and it will be placed with the original
fund to be loaned to all students who
are in need of finances with which
to enroll in school in the future, Mr.
McQuillen added.
It will be of interest to note that
the original fund for students loans
was begun by Mr. Hogg with a dona
tion of twenty-five hundred dollars,
and it was his last gift that increas
ed the fund to approximately $105,-
000.
Seminars Hold Joint
Banquet Monday
Members of the Social Science Sem
inar were guests of the Science Semi
nar at a banquet and joint meeting in
the banquet room of the mess hall last
Monday night. The speaker for the
evening was Dr. T. S. Painter of the
Zoology Department at the Universi
ty of Texas, and he discussed the
“Modern Biological Views of Sex De
termination.”
The officers of the host seminar in
clude Frederick A. Burt, associate
professor of Geology, president; F.
L. Thomas, state entomologist, vice
president; and E. E. Vesey, associate
professor of physics, secretary-treas
urer.
The two seminars have a very in
teresting program of speakers ar
ranged for the coming year and cor
dially invite the campus people and
the students to attend the meeting
throughout the year. Announcements
of the speakers will be given from
time to time as they appear on the
schedule.
Change Procedure
Of Senior Court
Proposed changes in the routine of
senior court discussed in the first
meeting of the court Tuesday night,
September 30 were adopted without
alteration in the second meeting of
the court Tuesday night, October 7,
Cadet Colonel Frank Bortle an
nounced.
In the future culprits before the court
will be allowed to bring some senior
to act as their defense counsel, and
the right to bring witnesses to testify
in Lhcir behalf will be permitted.
A general court martial form was
adopted with the understanding that
cor.ain technicalities not applicable
to student cases were to be omitted.
In the future the defendant will
have the privilege of asking that some
certain member of the court be excus
ed from duty in order to avoid any
personal prejudices.
Summons will be mailed the de
fendant several days in advance of
the meeting of the court, and will
bear the charge for which the student
is to be tried.
Annual Rodeo To
Be Staged Oct. 17
Twelfth annual A&M Rodeo and
Pageaent, under the auspices of the
Saddle and Sirloin Club, for the ben
efit of the international livestock
judging team will be staged in the
Animal Husbandry pavilion Friday
night, October 17.
John Winslow, Menard, who has
been chosen ringmaster will be as
sisted by Ranger Captain Bill Sterl
ing in the promotion of what is ex
pected to be the most spectacular
rodeo that has come to A&M in recent
years.
A colorful revue with a greater
variety of special musical numbers
and a larger cast will lend an atmos
phere of dignity and splendor to the
occasion. Mary Belle Kennard is di
recting the pageant and has planned
a musical revue of the sweethearts
of the world with “Sweethearts on Re
view” as the theme song.
Other outstanding attractions in
clude a chorus of fifty male voices, a
solo dance by Miss Kennard, and a
number of songs by little Jane Short,
blues singer extraordinary.
L. T. Burns, Yoakum, has been se
lected king for the occasion with Kate
Parker, Bryan, as queen.
Ag-g-ies To Open Title
Schedule With T. C. U.
Like a giant cloud from the North,
2,000 Ft. Worth people and T. C. U.
students will invade the campus on
Saturday Oct. 18 for the annual clash
between T. C. U. and A&M. This
game never fails to draw interest
from all over the state as it is always
one of the hardest fought games
played in the Southwest conference
each year.
The Frog team of this year is vir
tually as strong as the eleven last
year that came back to defeat the
Aggies 13-7, and later win the con
ference championsthip.
Coach Francis Schmidt has a well
rounded team, composed of a number
of lettermen and several all-confer
ence selections. The Frogs have
been chosen as one of the outstanding
candidates for the conference title
this year.
Captain Noble Atkins, all-confer
ence center, is back in his position
this year, and is a powerful offensive
man and line bucker. The Frogs
have Cy Leland at quarter, a heady
player and just about the fastest
backfield man in the game. Red
Oliver is playing at half this season—
which gives the Horned Frogs a little
more speed in the backfield.
The Frogs have an abundance of
wing material with Othol Martin,
Clyde Roberson, Howard Baxter, and
Ray McCulloch, all lettermen fighting
for the positions. Guard is filled by
Leo Butler, Stand Lambert, lettermen,
and T. W. Carpenter, a squadman of
last year. Coach Schmidt’s greatest
trouble lies with the tackles, having
no lettermen for that position . Leo
Baxter, Rob Cox, a squadman, and
Roy Eury, another squadman, are
available for the position. Harlos
Green, all conference full back, is
holding down that position again this
year. Vance Woolwine is playing
the other half opposite Oliver.
M. T. Halbouty Brings
Highest Honor to
A&M
Announcement by M. T. Halbouty,
editor-in-chief of the 1930 Longhorn,
discloses that the college annual for
that year has been awarded the All-
American Honor rating by the Nat
ional Scholastic Press Association of
Minneapolis, Minn.
Schools having publications enter
ed in the competition are classified
according to the number of students
enrolled. The Longhorn was in com
petition with yearbooks representing
school with a student body of 2500 or
more.
This honor is the first ever accord
ed an annual from A&M. For the
past two years no book representing
the college was entered, and before
that time those entered never rose
above the fourth class which rates the
publication below average with no
honors given.
The Longhorn scored 910 points
out of a possible 1000. Three de
partments, administration and facul
ty, album and classes, and financial
status were accorded perfect scores.
Plan of the book and theme made 180
points out of a possible 200; editing
and make-up gained 95 out of a possi
ble 125; mechanical considerations
missed a perfect score of 265 by 15
points; and the activities section
made 105 points out of a possible 110.
Invite Students To
Submit Their Poems
NEW YORK, Oct. l.—-(Sp).—A
new anthology of Amecican college
verse will be published in May 1931
by Harper and Brothers, it has been
recently announced by the publishers.
The book will consist solely of poetry
written by students attending college
during the 1930-31 college year. It
will be edited by Miss Jessie C. Reh-
der, Randolph-Macon ’29 and Culum-
bit University ’30.
All students, either undergraduates
or gradute, attending any college dur
ing the current year, are invited ti
submit poems for inclusion in the
anthology. The verses will be select
ed for publication solely upon thf'i
literary merit, it was announced, if
the venture is a success it is expect
ed that it may become an a.: :ual af
fair.
The verses may be written upon
any subject, blit must be limited to
fifty lines or less. Students wishing
to make con rib rtions should mail
their manuser nts to Anthology of
College Verse, o E. F. Saxton, Har
per & Bros., 49 Fast. 33 Street, New
York City. All contributions must be
in the publishers’ hands by December
10, 1930.
Cambridge, Mass.—(IP)—Follow
ing the refusal of Harvard University
to accept a gift in a will to endow
courses for instruction in eugenics,
the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
has ruled that the money must be
given to some other institution for
the same purpose.