The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, January 21, 1931, Image 1

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    Fur FAT TA.LI0N
VOL. XXIX
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, JANUARY 21, 1931
NUMBER 17
COLONEL NELSON TO REMAIN ANOTHER YEAR
Sullivan Accepts Position
With Experiment Station,
Effective September First
James Sullivan, who last week ten
dered his resignation as business man
ager of athletics at A & M, has ac
cepted the post of assistant chief, di
vision of feed control service, Texas
Agricultural Experiment station, ef
fective September 1, Director A. B.
Conner of the station announced Wed
nesday. Mr. Sullivan will be under
F. D. Fuller, chief of the feed control
service, under whom he previously
served as executive secretary of the
service from 1914 to 1919 when he
became athletic business manager.
Both Director Conner and Mr. Ful
ler voiced gratification over forthcom
ing renewal by Sullivan of connection
with feed control work administered
by the station. Mr. Sullivan had no
comment to make except that he look
ed forward with pleasure to the work.
It was announced by Dean Charles
E. Friley, chairman of the A & M ath
letic council, that Sullivan would con
tinue as business manager of athletics
until assuming his new position.
In his nearly twelve years as busi
ness manager of athletics at A & M,
“Sully,” as he is known to students
and ex-students of the college, sports
writers and others who have been as
sociated with him in his work, guided
the growth of the A & M athletic
plant from a property probably worth
$10,000, with an indebtedness almost
equal, to its present size as one of the
finest and most complete athletic
units in the South. The new Kyle
Field stadium, the most recently com-
RESIGNS
James Sullivan who recently resign
ed as business manager of athletics
at A & M after twelve years service.
pleted equipment of the plant, was
constructed at a cost of approximate
ly $350,000 and with Memorial Gym
nasium and an auxiliary gym, facil
ities for handling virtually all forms
of intercollegiate and intramural
sports as well as the administrative
offices of the physical education de
partment are included in a single
enclosure.
The improved plant followed placing
the athletic department on a self-sus
taining basis, the revenues from col
lege sports being used for the devel
opment.
Architects Competing
For Beaux-Arts Prizes
First preliminary of the 24th An
nual Paris Prize Competition of the
Society of Beaux-Arts Architects was
entered by junior and senior students
of ai’chiteetual designing on Monday,
January 19. Following the require
ments of the competition, the con
testants work for twelve consecutive
hours on a problem, the nature of
which is witheld until starting time,
without access to books or documents
and are placed under strict supervis
ion the entire time. The problem,
which was revealed by Ernest Lang
ford, head of the department of arch
itecture, shortly after noon Monday,
was, “A Fountain” facing the en
trance to a metropolitan park and
commemorating the completion of a
new water supply for the metropolis.
The contest is national in scope and
is open to any draftsman, architect,
or architectual student, who is a citi
zen of the United States and will be
under the age of twenty-seven on
July 1, 1931. The Paris prize carries
a stipend of $3,600 a year for study
at the Ecole Nationale des Beaux-
Arts in Paris.
Work of those competing in the
first preliminary exercise is sent to
New York for judgement by a com
mittee appointed by the sponsors of
the competition. From the submitted
exercises a number of the best are
qualified to enter the second prelim
inary and from these problems the
finalists are chosen.
VOCATIONAL AG. MEETING
E. R. Alexander, professor of agri
cultural education and state advisor
of the Texas Association of the Future
Farmers of America, was in confer
ence with some twenty-five North
Texas teachers of vocational agricul
ture on January 10, at Dallas.
The principal business of the meet
ing was to set up specific standards
for certificates of merit awarded in
the various branches of agriculture
to members of the Future Farmers
organization who sueessfully complete
the specified requirements. The
■prime purpose of the association is
•to create and promote a lasting in
terest in scientific agriculture as a
means of livelihood. Members of The
Future Farmers of America are high
school students in agriculture.
Debating Team Will
Compete In Oklahoma
An invitation extended by the South
east Teachers’ College of Durant, Ok
lahoma, to debate in its tournament
January 30-31, has been accepted by
the A & M Debating Society, Profes
sor C. O. Spriggs, coach of the team,
reports.
The question, “Resolved That All
Nations Should Adopt the Policy of
Free Trade,” will be argued by repre
sentatives from schools in four states.
It is the initial contest of the year for
the local team.
Members of the society making the
trip are: W. G. Carnahan, Center; W.
O. Alexander, Gulf; Howard Lang,
Dallas; and J. E. Gaston, Henderson.
A & M Band Plays For
Sterling Inauguration
The A & M band, and Captain T.
C. Harry, tactical officer of the unit,
returned Wednesday from the inau
guration rites of Governor Ross Ster
ling held at Austin Tuesday. It was
the official band of the ceremony.
While on the trip they played a
series of short concerts at three Aus
tin hotels in the forenoon, for the
inaugural on the steps of the Capi
tol in the afternoon, and in a massed
concert that night with the Texas
Longhorn band, the Shrine band of
Houston, and the Eighth Infantry
band of San Antonio. They also at
tended the ball.
Chem. Papers May Be
Used In Engl. Contest
Will Be First Command
ant To Serve At A & M
Longer Than Four Years
Papers written by freshmen in
competition in the American Chemi
cal Society essay contest may be en
tered in the annual freshman writ
ing contest held each spring by the er ly- As a result of inadequate dor-
college, Dr. George Summey, head 1 uiitory facilities, and a desire upon
| the part of the Board of Directors of
Dr. Walton Explains
Use Of Rent Money
By Dr. T. O. Walton
At the request of the Student Wel
fare Committee, the following state
ment is submitted for the information
of all those interested in the $60 a
season room rent that is charged to
students occupying rooms in the Col
lege dormitories.
For more than twenty years is has
been impossible for the authorities
of the institution to secure appropria
tions for the construction of dormi
tory rooms is sufficient numbers to
accommodate the student body prop-
of the department of English has an
nounced.
The prize for the A & M contest
is $20. in cash donated by Dr. J. Al
len Kyle of Houston, and has pre
viously attracted a large number of
contestants.
“These papers will also be accep
ted as term themes in English 104,”
Dr. Summey said.
the College to accommodate all the
students who apply for admission,
it has been necessary from time to
time to house students in tents and
shacks, and frequently to place from
three to four students in one room.
These conditions make it impossible
for the student to do satisfactory
work. They also mitigate against
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TCU BEAUTIES
rfO-ZELLE Q*Y/tNT Meb/em
Members of the sophomore class at Texas Christian University have
named four girls from their class as candidates for the beauty section of
the Horned Frog, TCU student annual. Two of the girls wil be honored
in the final selection by pages in the annual. The four prettiest are (left to
right): Margaret Reeder, Knox City; Eloise Barksdale, Fort Worth; Mozelle
Bryant, Goliad; and Marian Miller, Waco.
War Department Grants Exten
sion Asked By President
Walton
Col. Charles J. Nelson, head of the
military department and commandant
of cadets at A & M for the past four
years, has been assigned to the same
duties for another year, announcement
by President T. O. Walton, following
receipt of orders from the War De
partment, discloses. Col. Nelson’s reg
ular four year assignment as profes
sor of military science and tactics
at A & M, the customary period of
assignment to such R O T C duty by
the War Department, will end with
the present academic year. His new
period of duty will be for the 1931-
32 fiscal year. Col. Nelson, whose ex
tension of service at the college was
requested by President Walton, will
continue as commandant and he will
be the first commandant to serve at
A & M for five years.
Col. Nelson was assigned to A & M
as professor of military science and
tactics in September, 1927. He was
named by the college officials at the
same time as commandant of cadets,
the latter post being that of jiscipii-
nary head of the cadet corps. Prior
to coming to A & M, Col. Nelson was
executive officer of the Ninth Infan
try at Fort Sam Houston, San An
tonio. He has known army life ever
since his college days, having volun
teered as a private in the Alabama
National Guard at the outbreak of
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Freshman Live Stock
Contest On Saturday
The annual live stock judging con
test for freshmen will be held Sat
urday, January 24, starting at 12:45
p. m., in the animal husbandry pa
vilion. All freshmen who have taken
Animal Husbandry 107 are eligible
to enter and are urged to do so by
the department.
All entrants will have eight classes
of animals to judge and will be re
quired to give their reasons on four
of these classes. The judges for the
contest this year will be: Fred Hale,
swine; J. M. Jones, sheep; D. W. Wil
liams, horses; and John Jones, beef
cattle. All the judges are local men.
Several prizes are being offered to
the high point men for this contest;
among them will be six medals to the
six high men. Also the high point man
of the contest will have his name en
tered on the Charles Nitch Trophy,
and the high point man in horses will
have his name entered on the Purina
Mills trophy. The medals are being
given by the following local firms:
A. M. Waldrop & Company, Caldwell
Jewelry Store, Campus Grocery, Casey
and Sparks, James Drug Store, and
T. K. Lawrence. The engraving on
these medals will be done by the
Caldwell Jewelry Store.