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VOL. XXIX COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, OCTOBER 29, 1930 NO. 7 COMPLETING PARADE AND CORPS TRIP TO DALLAS ARRANGEMENTS Captain Harry and Bortle to Dallas to Complete Arrangements Captain T. C. Harry and Frank E. Bortle, cadet-colonel of the A & M cadet corps, will leave early Friday morning for Dallas to confer with A & M ex-students and other Dallas men in regard to the parade of the cadet corps in Dallas November 8, when the corps will accompany the Aggie grid team to Dallas for the A & M-S M U game. The senior class, several weeks ago, voted to accept the invitation of S M U to accompany the team to Dallas for the game but at that time it was doubtful that a parade would be de sirable. It was definitely announced Wednesday by Colonel Chas. J. Nel son, however, that the parade would be held. While in Dallas, Captain Harry and Bortle will probably learn definitely what course the parade will follow and make final arrangements for the corps trip. The trip to Dallas will be first to that place since 1928, when an Aggie team, occupying a position in the conference standing similar to that occupied this year, held a highly tout ed S M U eleven to a 19-19 tie. Goodrich Chosen As Sophomore President Tommie B. Goodrich, member of the band, from Marlin, was chosen to head the sophomore class at a meet ing last Sunday held in the Assembly Hall. J. W. Aston, a prominent mem ber of the varsity football team from Farmersville, was elected vice-presi dent, while J. P. Miller, Princeton, was chosen secretary-treasurer. H. W. Perkins, Dallas, and J. C. Moody, Cor pus Christi, are student representa tives on the athletic council. The meeting was called by Ray Walker, president of the senior class, who said that there was considerable competition for each office. The elec tion of the officers for the freshman class will be held at a later date and will he announced in the near future. In addition to the usual officers, the freshmen will elect five candidates for the editorship of the annual fresh man edition of The Battalion. Theater Club Brings Greet Players Here The College Theater Club has ob tained an unusual group of players for the entertainment of the campus people, students and the theater goers of Bryan and vicinity, in the famous Ben Greet Players which will appear in the Assembly Hall November 6. They will present Twelfth Night, a light comedy for the matinee per formance and Hamlet, a tragedy, for the evening. The Ben Greet Players are famous throughout tht United States as well as England. Sir Phillip Ben Greet was knighted by King George V of England in recognition of a life de voted to the cause of drama in educa tion. He creates an essential atmos phere of medieval reverence so that nothing detracts from the play’s sig nificance. His only modifications of the true Elizabethan manner is in the use of richer and more elaborate hangings than were employed in the Elizabethan days. Sir Phillip Ben Greet and his bril liant cast of English players are visit ing A & M College for the second time. Their first visit was in 1914. This group has been making a tour of the United States presenting their Shakespearan plays to a large num ber of colleges and universities as well as numerous large cities where tickets sold for three dollars. The price for students will be greatly re duced so that all who are interested may attend these plays. Alpha Hall Will Be Used as Hotel Ag-ain Alpha Hall, which was originally the only hotel on the campus, is to be used in that capacity once more, ac cording to the management of the Aggieland Inn. Some of the older members of the faculty can remember when “Hotel Shidley,” which was the original name of the structure, was occupied by the distinguished visitors who happened to visit the campus in the early days of A & M, and it is of some interest to them to see it revert back to its former use. It will be used in the future to take care of the visitors whom the hotel has had to turn down in the past. Miss Walton and Hershel Burgess Marry Tues. Eve Guion Hall Beautifully Decorated For Wedding ROTO Allotment At A & M Increased According to Major J. E. Sloan, the fifteen extra men who enrolled in the advanced courses of the ROTC this year will be admitted and receive the commutation of subsistence. Serious doubts as to whether the situation could be handled without an elimina tion process have continually been expressed by the military depart ment this year. In making this announcement, Major Sloan said: “Due to the lack of ap propriations and to the popularity of ROTC work, it has been necessary for the War Department to allot a limited number of enrollments in advanced (Continued on page 5) Miss Ethyl Walton, daughter of President and Mrs. T. O. Walton, and Hershel E. Burgess, Houston, for mer student and outstanding athlete at A & M, were married in Guion Hall Tuesday evening. Numerous out of town guests and local friends at tended the ceremony and reception at the home of the bride’s parents after the wedding. Following the ceremony the bride and groom left on their honeymoon, after which they expect to make their home in Houston. Guion Hall was especially decorat ed for the occasion, cathedral effect being achieved through the use of Southern smilax so arranged in long garlands from the balcony railing and above the seats and altar on the main floor as to suggest the V-shaped roof of a cathedral. In addition, palms and ferns were used behind and about the altar where the ceremony was per formed. The decorative scheme was carried out under direction of F. W. Hensel, head, and N. M. McGinnis, of the landscape art department of the college. The marriage ceremony was per formed by the Rev. R. E. Day, Bap tist minister of Bryan. E. B. Curt- singer, A & M student from Dallas, (Continued on page 5) Freshman Says Told to Write “Hot” Check at Yell Practice WHERE TO GO Thursday, Friday and Satur day—Palace, Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey in “Half Shot at Sunrise.” Saturday night — Assembly Hall, “The Bad One,” featuring Dolores Del Rio and Edmund Lowe. Preview—Palace, “The Widow From Chicag‘o,” with Alice White. Corps dance—mess hall annex. Sunday afternoon—Palace, a free matinee presenting John McCormick in “Song of My Heart.” Monday—Palace, “The Widow From Chicago.” Tueday and Wednesday — Palace, “Renegades,” with War ner Baxter and Myrna Loy. Wednesday night—Assembly Hall, George Bancroft and Mai-y Astor in “Ladies Love Brutes.” “I didn’t know it was wrong to write hot checks. Mr. Buford told us at yell practice that we could write as many as we wanted to,” was the plea of a freshman facing the discip line committee on a charge of passing checks with ficticious names signed to them. Freshmen attending the nightly gatherings around the “Y” steps must be unduly impressed with the elegant flow of language Freddie is often wont to bubble forth when someone has taken advantage of his ability to get away with everything from murder to mayhem. One night last week an nouncement was made that someone had absconded with a desk set that be longed to our own Casey. The strings of human emotion were plucked to the tune of ... “take that desk set back to the place you took it from. You all know how Casey backs us up in most everything we do. When we are without a sou in our jeans we go to Casey’s and cash one of those rubber checks. When it comes bouncing back are we hounded till we pay off ? Hardly, we take our own precious time about getting around to settling the matter. He’s been more than decent to us. Why can’t you all play the game with him ? ” Following this noble address on the wages of sin, the missing set made its appearance. Also, a new name on the college annals. In fact several new names put in their appearance. There was a darky in the coal heap. Who was this moneyed person that went around throwing the necessary evil to the October breezes? And who was fool ish enogh to overlook such a small (Continued on page 5) AUTHORIZE RESUMPTION BAYLOR AND A & M ATHLETIC RELATIONS First Technoscope of Year to Appear Soon The Technoscope, magazine pub lished by the engineering students of the college, will make its first appear ance this year during the second week in November. The magazine is a quarterly review featuring technical topics in the language of the layman and recent developments in engineer ing research. Contributions, outside of the editorial staff, are made by students, members of the faculty, ex students, and noted men in the engi neering world. The aim of this issue is to gain recognition from Engineers’ College Magazines Association, a national or ganization which at the present has a membership of about twenty-five. Recognition from this assocation would benefit both the school and The Technoscope, for the magazine will have state-wide distribution. J. E. Laney, Eastland, editor-in- chief of the publication and J. W. Simmons, Orange, business manager, announce the following as members of their respective staffs: The editorial staff: A. C. Showman, St. Louis, associate editor; Willis Col lins, Schenectady, N. Y., and W. N. Keisling, Stanton, associate editors; J. W. Mims, Cleburne, assistant pub lications editor; and W. D. Staples, San Antonio, articles. The business staff: W. M. Andrews, Abilene, associate business manager; C. L. Pickett, Post, sales manager; H. A. Eddins, Marquez, circulation man ager; D. F. Cheaney, Electra, ac counts manager; J. A. Shellberg, Ft. Worth; J. A. Cotton, Abilene; A. H. Grantham, McGregor; H. P. Caro- thers, Pyote; W. E. McCorquodale, Orange; H. F. Rumfelt, Dallas, and F. R. McIntosh, Covina, Cal., assist ant business managers. College Education Too Technical—Mayo In presenting his ideas as to the true meaning of education and what the curriculum of the ideal college should embrace, Thomas F. Mayo, Col lege Librarian, extended to the mem bers of the Social Science Seminar last Monday night at their meeting held in the physics lecture room what he termed a pseudo-philosophical imperti nence. A good education according to Mr. Mayo, should make the stu dent not only a wise man and a practical man, but also an artist and a poet in the true definition of each. The truly educated man should choose a path through life wisely and cast aside all vulgar temptations Vvhich have caused the modern business man to become a “go-getter” in the sense of securing quantity at deplorable sacrifice of quality. Such an individ ual having completed this construct ive course toward a more enjoyable existence on this too little sympathetic globe should have his own sympathies widened and quickened to the degree that it would be impossible for him to view, much less practice, the forms of torments which the frigid veined business man of today inflicts upon his fellow mortals. Present day graduates leaving their alma maters to face the outside world have efficently equipped themselves with a highly specialized technical knowledge, and a false idea of success that embraces a glittering pot of gold en dollars as the apex of achievement. In concluding his lecture Mr. Mayo (Continued on page 5) Presidents Walton and Brooks Authorize Resumption of Relations Severed Four Years Ago Resumption of the athletic relations between A & M and Baylor Univer sity, severed in the fall of 1926, was authorized in a joint statement signed by President T. O. Walton of A & M and President S. P. Brooks of Bay lor. The relations between A & M and Baylor were broken off after a clash between students of both schools in which a member of the A & M stu dent body was killed. The schools have not met since the last game at Waco, four years ago. There is as yet no indication as to when the two schools will meet again, but negotiations between the athletic councils of the schools are expected to get underway at once. It is probable that there may be a meeting next fall of the two colleges. The presidents’ statement follows: “Having in mind the interests of intercollegiate athletics in Texas, and desirous of promoting same, we, the undersigned presidents of A & M col lege of Texas and Baylor University, cordially invite the athletic business managers of our institutions to ar range future games between the schools, starting at as early a date as is feasible in the light of present schedule arrangements. In making this suggestion and in giving our consent, we are acting up on the often-repeated advice of the alumni and friends of both institu tions. We do confidently rely upon our students, alumni and friends to carry out the lofty ideals held by all for the promotion of good fellowship and the physical training of the young man hood of our state.” No action in regard to including Baylor in schedules for the coming spring and next fall has yet been tak en by the athletic council, to whom the next step toward complete re sumption of athletic relations has. been left. New Members Added Scholarship Society F. A. McIntosh, Covina, California, president of the Scholarship Honor Society has announced that fourteen seniors and forty juniors were elect ed to the society in a meeting held October 23. At the opening of school, the thir ty-two senior members of the society met to formulate plans for the elec tion of new members. All students who had maintained a “B” average since their admission to A & M and who had not failed in any course were (Continued on page 5) SHINE’S SOLILOQUIES Jes’ lots an’ lots a folks say dat dere’s no fool like a ole fool while all de time dey’s growin’ older an’ older ev’ry minit.