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THE BATTALION
THE EATTAEICN
Student weekly publication of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of
Texas.
Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at College Station, Texas,
under the Act of Congress, March 3, 1879.
Subscription by the year, $1.75.
EDITORIAL STAFF
ROBT. L. HERBERT
C. V. ELLIS
FRED L. PORTER
J. A. BARNES
M. J. BLOCK
G. M. WRENN
W. G. CARNAHAN
J. L. KEITH
R. S. COLLEY
RUSTY SMITH
T. S. ROOTS
FRANK W. THOMAS JR.
W. J. FAULK..
J. C. POSGATE
A. C. MOSER JR
D. B. McNERNEY
G. M. EVANS
P. J. JOHN
A. J. MILLER
H. G. SEELIGSON II
L. A. LELAURIN
Editor-in-Chief
Managing Editor
Feature Editor
Associate Editor
Associate Editor
Associate Editor
Associate Editor
Art Editor
Associate Art Editor
Associate Art Editor
.... Associate Art Editor
Sports Editor
.Associate Sports Editor
Associate Sports Editor
News Editor
..Associate News Editor
..Associate News Editor
... Associate News Editor
...Associate News Editor
Reporter
Reporter
BUSINESS
R. N. WINDERS Business Manager
W. F. FRANKLIN Assistant Business Manager
W. J. NEUMAN Circulation Manager
SULLY
Since the announcement two years ago of the resignation of
Dana X. Bible as head of the department of physical education
at A & M, probably no one bit of news has been so keenly felt by
A & M students and, we believe, by a majority of the A & M ex
students as that which last week brought information that James
Sullivan, for twelve years business manager of athletics at A & M,
had resigned.
Taking over the reins as athletic business manager at A & M
in 1919, Sully, as he is known to students and associates at the
college, guided the development of the Aggie athletic plant from
a property probably worth $10,000, with an equal indebtedness,
to one of the most complete physical education laboratories in the
South, the latest addition to which is a concrete stadium construct
ed at a cost of approximately $350,000.
In 1919 Kyle Field was smaller than it is now and was sur
rounded by a dilapidated board fence. Not only was there no
concrete stadium, but the steel stadium which students who were
here in 1927 can remember had not been erected. There was no
gymnasium building, no baseball grandstand, no tennis court
accommodation, none of the many things which now compose the
impressive athletic plant of the college.
All these things, and probably many others which he has not
had time to develop, were merely plans in Sully’ mind, plans which
have absorbed his unflagging interest and constant attention for
the past twelve years.
And, perhaps most remarkable of all, this development came
without state appropriation and without a drive among former
students such as those usually carried out when colleges need
stadiums and gymnasiums. The entire development followed the
introduction of a process of putting into the athletic plant the
revenues of college sports, a self-sustaining, self-building process,
in itself an example of the business ability of Mr. Sullivan.
Today the A & M College of Texas boasts an athletic plant
which last year enabled 1444 students, more than half of the
student body, to take part in intramural athletics, indicating that
at A & M a plan has been worked out which does not exclude stu
dents who cannot participate in varsity sports. In addition to this
unusual feature is the fact that facilities for giving every freshman
student in the college courses in physical education are available,
and a course which will allow students who expect to coach to
major in physical education is conducted.
Truly Sully has been “an untiring worker in the cause of
Aggieland.”
ETIQUETTE OF SPITTING
In an old etiquette book one may see a paragraph which says
that one should not spit tobacco juice on the floor; spit in the
corners. In modern American public buildings it is quite custom
ary to design round corners so that they may be easily cleaned
of the droolings of spit spouting bravos. But even an old fash
ioned etiquette book nor modern architects would consider a
woman’s hat the correct place for sputum!
In the show the other night a cadet, we are sorry to say, very
carelessly let his mouth leak right on top of a visitor’s hat. A
feminine visitor!
Now if you must spit, like a cow slobbering in the summer
breezes, please, Please, do it like a gentleman and land in the
corners, or near there!
A woman’s hat is no place for tobacco juice. A man who
has any desire to dampen someone’s clothes with brown saliva,
ought to pick on a man capable of remonstrating with him and
not on a defenseless woman in the dark. It just isn’t mannerly,
judged even by the lax standards that tobacco chewers are accus
tomed to. It just isn’s done!
A S M E Inspector To
Visit A & M College
Roy V. Wright, president of the
American Society of Mechanical En
gineers, a writer and publisher of
note and an engineer, will visit the
A & M College Tuesday, January 27,
on his national tour of inspection of
sections and student branches of the
ASMS.
Mr. Wright recently completed thir
ty-two years in the field of railroad
mechanical engineering, before and
during which time he also gained con
siderable recognition in editorial work
as editor and managing editor of sev
eral well known i - ailway engineering
journals, the most prominent of which
is his present editorship of “Railway
Mechanical Engineering.”
His other activities at present in
clude director and secretary of two
prominent eastern publishing compan
ies and director of the Ampere Bank
and Trust Company of East Orange,
New Jersey.
While on the campus Mr. Wright
will address the faculty at a luncheon
and will speak to the students of engi
neering in the afternoon, according to
word received from the mechanical en
gineering department.
The vulgar cannot love anything
different to themselves.—Jeffery Far-
nol.
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ATTENDING MEETING
Professor Dan Scoates of the agri
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last Friday for the annual conven
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secretary. The convention will be
held in Dallas January 20-23.
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