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Published Weekly By The Students ef The A. A
of Texas
V01
XXXII
COLLEGE STATION,
7, 1932.
NUMBER 12
Annual CIA Hockey Game Fails
To Foretell Outcome Of Aggie-
Longhom Thanksgiving Classic
In the annual hockey fame play
•d on the CIA campua the A and
M team defeated the Taxaa U team
by S aeore of two to one but the
encounter failed in its intended
purpose of predicting the winner
of the Turkey Day football classic
Each year the students at C I A
organize two hockey teams just
before the Thanksgiving holidays,
one of them to represent the Long
horns and the other the Aggies,
and the outcome of the game be
tween the two la supposed to be
indicative of the result of the foot
ball game on Thanksgiving Day.
The Battalion docs not have the.
; records of past CIA hockey games
end cannot state the prophetic val-
ife of the contests but this ^ident-
ly is not a hockey year as far as
the Aggies are concerned.
A and M was represented is
the dash by It J. Miller, Captain,
Dorothy Anderson. Charlotte Lane,
Charline Lane, Geraldine Forrest,
Aliens Goode. Grace McMillan. El-
eanor McKee, and Melba Davis.
The Texas U team was composed
of Kitty Winters, Captain, Helen
Andersouv Lucille Lang, Jaunita
Weber, ‘ Maurine Bagwell, Alice
Moberly. Dorothy Davis, Margaret
Manor, Margaret Sergeant, Mildred
Aiken, Virginia Sergeant, and Alice
Groves.
Bonnie CotteraJ was sponsor and
Aliens Goode business manager of
the game.
Debaters Chosen for
Contest With Utah
Team Next January
In the first debate try-out of
the season last Friday evening,
Charles L. Coleman, Alpine, and
CUMMINGS TO
CAPTAIN 1933
FOOTBALL TEAM
R. B. Jenkins, De Leon, were sel
ected to represent A and M in •
debate with Ow University ef Utah
to be held here in January. fTfee
debate « to be on the qm-ntion
“Resolved, that the United States
should agree to the cancellation of
Inter-Allied war debts.” Judges
who selected the debaters were:
J D. P. Fuller. J. Q. Hays an^ t
0. Spriggs, farulty sponsor.
Several other contestants who
tried out for the team were so well
prepared that the judges found it
extre*.^y difficult to make a de
cision a« to who would represent
A and M. Mr Spriggs said, fcich
contestant gave a six minute dis
cussion of the war debt question,
and then answered various ques
tions on the subject put to him by
the judges.
Head of Next Year's Gridsters
Is Selected At Annual Foot*
ball Banquet Monday.
Texaco Quintet f
Wins 46-45 Tilt
With Ag (lagers
Houston Maple Floor Tei
Takes Hard Fought Game
Saturday Night.
C ivil Engineers See
Picture Pertaining
To Testing Machines
Enrollment I n
, J} *«
Cotton Courses
Shows Increase
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Cotton Contest Is Given As
Cause For Growth la Ag
ronomy Enrollment.
Professors in various cotton cour
ses estimate that enrollment in
their courses this year is nearly
one hundred per cent greater than
The A and M Chapter of the
American Society of Civil Eagi-
neers met in the lecture room of
the Civil Engineering Building las*.
Thursday night for the presenta
tion of a film on tasting machine#.
The film showed the construction,
erection, and tasting of the Uni
versity of California's •UMXMXMi lb.
universal tasting machine in the
shops of Baidwm-Soothwark Cor
poration at Eddstone, Pennsylva
nia.
•Following the presentation of
the film, plans for the Christmas
banquet were made; the date for
the banquet being set for the night
Of December fifteenth.
CAVALRY SENIORS
HONORED
The Seniors of the Cavalry
Squadron were honored with a
in previous years. The increase is rgast duclf supper by E. H. Hudg
attributed to renewed interest sti- ms of Hungerford, Major of the
mu la ted by the cotton contest held
last spring. W’inners of last year's
Following the annual football
banquet which was held in the ban
quet room of the mess hall Mon
day night Charlie Cummings, Bry
an, was electad captain of the 193?)
Texas Aggie football team. Cum
mings was also chosen to receive
the Aggieland Pharmacy award for
the most valuable player on the
Aggie squad during the season just
closed
This year the banquet took tha
form of a venison dinner, the steak
being donated for the occasion by
Coaches Roswell Higginbotham and
Frank G. Anderson, Trainer Carl
T. (Doc) Sprague, and W. L. Pen
berthy. director n.* in- ramural ath
letics, all of whom went deer hunt
ing during the Thanksgiving hoii
days.
Guests at the banquet 'included
the Varmity footfall and Cros-
country teams the Fresh mad A
football squad, members of the Ath\
letic Council and coaching staff
Wd a few persons who are not con
nected ia an athletic way with the
college.
Highlights of Zit program in
cluded, besides the election of Cum
mings to the football captaincy,
the election of Hector Fuentes
captain of the 1933 Aggie Croes-
eountry team, the awarding of thc
Aggieland Pharmacy Captain tro
phy to Jimmie Aslan, announce
ment ef the Varsity lettermen in
football and Ooss-country and the
Freshawn football numeral men,
and talks by the senior members
of the football team. Captain-alert
Jumminga, and Coach Matty Bell.
Varsity players whose letters
were officially granted are: Cap
tain Jimmie Aston, Farmersville;
Rue Barfield. Port Arthur; Morri
son Breedlove, Smithvillc; R. E.
Connelley. Fort Worth; J. W. Crow,
Milford; Charlie Cummings, Bryan;
Clifford Doraiague, Port Arthur;
E. 0 Fowler, Fort Worth; J. A.
Golasinski. Houston; Henry Grav
es, Corskana; W. W. Hewitt.
Groesbeck; W. T Jordan, Fort
Coach John Reid’* Texas Aggie
basketball team opeted its 1032-31
campaign by dropping a close game
to the Texaco five of Houston da
Memorial Gymnasium last Satur
day night The score was 44-46.
’ The Cadets had a 10-1 la^d in
the early stages of the game but
the Oilers came to life andi held
their hustling opponents to a 26-21
advantage at the half.
With the beginning of the' sec
ond half the visitors hit their
stride while the Aggies seemed to
weaken. Throughout the < o- ^
minute# of the game the irore
favored first one ’<-an a H th. r
the other and was tied at 10-39
stout three minutes before thg fin
al gun sounded. With
play and the score board sho
s 44-44 tie “Shiro” Hoke mi
rrip shot but the ball fou
he back-board into the ha
Lodge who sank it for two points.
Joe Merka recovered one of tpose
points by making good a free throw
but the Texacos still had a (one
point lead and the g*me endetj too
soon for the Aggies tn do any )Tur-
ther scoring.
Showing remarkable team hlay
for a group of all-stars, the Texaco
matched the Aggies speed | for
speed and hustle for hustle and
should go far in the state A. Al-U.
competition.
Aside from Captain Moody f ho
is easily the individual star* of
the game, and the vctera«is v Mar
cum and Merka, shou..:
promising performers and flMa
ranks of the sophomore candidates.
Hutto at forward a <1 Dalton £nd
Terrill at guards gave .indication
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(Continued on Page 4)T
THIS. MR. RIPLEY
d^Vom the sports page of
(fea Washington State Ever-
grqen coipes the believe it or
story of the Washington
$0te vs.-'U C L. A. football
gjthoe of this past season. In
tj}e last half-second of his
collegiate game. Johnny
ik of Washington State
47-yard place kick
;h gave his team a throe
Mthing victory. The ball
in the air when the final
MHKflre4
Influenza Epi<
Hospital To
lie Fills College
icity; No Cause
For Alarm Says Hospital Officials
CAPTAIN
H
irie View Ties
Texas College On
kyle Field Friday
r
Colorful Game End* In 6-6
Tie As Negro Elevens Clash
Hbra.
In>their annual game on Kyle
Fieldj the Prairie View College
foot&UI team played a 4-6 tie with
the Texas College of Tyler last
-=Cummings
Charlie Cummings, Bryan.
Frid^t afternoon. The game
contmet to Prairie View’s over-
whelming defeat of the Arksnsas
Statg cham pions last year, was a
hard-fought tussle between two
team|.-thet were evenly matched
13
as th^t score indicates. Each team
mana^pd to score one touchdown
in that first half but both failed
to c«
been
the 1933
team.
named
A and
captain of
M football
in
Mechanical Engineers
See Picture Shows At
Meeting Thursday
Senior Committee
Awards Contract
For Invitations
contest weip: J. O. Beasley, who is
now connected with the Experi
ment Station, T. M. Drew, now
managing a farm at Lufkin, and
H. B. Horn, who js at^resent work
ing on his master's degree and i>
also assisting in the textile engi
neering department.
American junior and senior stu
dents who have had one term of
any cotton course are eligible for
the cotton -contest which is td be
held in the spring term. Those stu
dents who plan to enter the contest
may obtain » revised set of ques
tions at the beginning of the sec
ond term from J. S. Mogford, as
sociate professor of agronomy. In
anticipation of the coming contest
at least one speaker at each meet
ing of the Agronomy Society is in
vited to choose same subject bear
ing on the contest. “Dad” Short,
who is well known in agricultural
circles and is connected with the
Federal Land Bank in Houston,
and W. T. Killough, Cotton Breed
er of the Experiment Station, have
both talked to the group at recent
meetings The society reports that
cotton firms ofver the state are
well pleased with the results of
last year's contest and have pro
mised their assistance in assuring
the success of the coming Contests
Cavalry Squadron in the annex of Worthr B. M. Irwin, Kosse; Joe
the mess hall Tuesday night The Love, Shermanj Stapp Maxwell,
supper was attended by approxi- Leonard; Ray Murray, Mercedes;
mately 40 seniors. Hudgins, wigi I Willis Nolan, Santa Rosa; Ted
for the extra point.
View scored first on an
by one of her elusive
t the lead was short liv-
xas Colled tied a few
later by means of a cotv-
'orward pass plus s run of
aboutpfirenty yards by tho receiv
er. TM second half of the game
was ffton K ss hut it wa* not de
void bf thrills and awkward sit-
fdMa^B ' * >4
Tn^’to exportations, the Prairie
Viewjcp-eds were out in full
to chaer their team to vic-
aithough their support did
nplish its intended pur-
ir presence added much
the occasiop.
‘in Denies
imor That He
With the epidemic of influenxe
that teems to be prevalent over
thia section of the state making it
self felt on the A and M campus,
the college hospital was nearly
filled to capacity Tuesday. Today
approximately 130 students were
confined to hospital cots and
reports indicate that that-number
is decreasing daily. According to
the hospital officials, no serioua
caaes have been handled, nor has
the situation reached an alarming
state, but as a precautionary meas
ure the college authorities have dis
continued all student assemblies
with the exception of classroom ac
tivities for the. remainder of this
week. It is anticipated that the
advent of clear, warm weather will
bring about a noticeable change for
the better as the present conditions
are attributed to the damp weather
that has prevailed for the past two
or three weeks.
In the fall of 1928 an epidemic
of much larger proportions swept
A and M. and at one time there
were approximately two hundred
students ia the hospital, however,
the college enrollment at that time
was coaeiderably larger than at
present. , i
The rumor that there is a state
law stating that any educational
institutioa having ten per cent of
its student* sick must be turned
out is completely unfounded Col
onel Mitchell, Commandant of A
and M College, stated today.
The A and M Chapter of the
American Society of Junior He-
chanical Engineers met last Tn#-i«-
day. night in the lecture room! of
the' Mechanical Engineering Bold
ing Building with fifty-three nupn-
bert present. Moving picture* w*r<*
shown the club entitled “The Me
chanism of Lubrication” by Ihe I I
Standard Oil Company, and “Motel Casts of Augustus Caesar, Bee-
Metal'’ by the Monel Manufarttr- rhover, a manikin by Michelangelo,
ing Company. | (land a number of moldings to be
. The subject of whether or dot | UMH j jn the study of architectural
Architects Add New
Casts To Collection
ornament were added to the col
lection of casts owned by the archi
tectural department last week. Thia
shipment was received from Ca-
proni Brothers, Boston, and is now
on exhibition on the fourth floor
a M^y of hunters killed the limit
while at home last week-end and
brought some fifty of them back
for the supper
Bryn Mawr Students
Criticised By College
Papers for Mussiness
Spencer, Gilmcf; W. B. Williams.
Greenville; Sully Woodland. Edna;
and R. H. Wright, Alice.
Cross-county letters were award
ed to Roy Cook, Lampasas; Foy
Cook, Lampasa*; Hector Fuentes.
Saltillo. Mexicc; and Harry Smith.
Fort Worth.
Freshmaa football players to re
ceive numeral awards are: F. B
Rayless. Houstob; A. P. Callahan,
Dallas; G. J. Clark. Breckenridge;
Philadelphia. Pa. — ( I P ) -f
If some of tha girls at Bryn Mawr
College were late to classes last W,II “ m foU * #r * Breckenridge; N
! C. Cowsert, Rock Springs; Marion
Invitation* To Hate Raised
Maroon Leather, (over.
Contract for Senior, tlass invh
tions to the graduation ceremo
es was awarded to William Ligl
representative of the Charles
Elliott Company, last week. Fi^e quark’^'tfieoriee
designs were presented by the rep- LasPwyek Prof. Albert Einstein
resentative but went rejected aiiri found ^ fjecesspry to deny that he
the student* of Mechanical Engi
neering at A and M would t nM* a
series of debates with Mechanical
Engineering students of neighbCr-
ing schools was discussed and rat
ed upon. The vote indicated the
disapproval of the majority of tj^e ■ 0 f the Academic Building
members present regarding the en
trance into such a series of debat
es; however, the question is 4k*
pected to arise again at the next
meeting, which will probably be
after the Christmas Holidays
lieves In Spirits Coleman Named Head
of Freshman Speech
Vien(||i-(IP) -Great men aro
kept biiiy aA a rule denying beliefs v lub for v OlTling I eHI'
attribU rd to tjiem by quarks who '
misquote/them; in support pf the
Campus Theatre
Club To Present
, Play Next Week
Elene Wilbur’* Christmas
At a meeting of the Frewhmaii! Play To Be Given By Local
Forensic Club recently the follow- Talent.
ing oflirer* were elected for the K *■
coming year: C. L. Coleman. Al- “The Table Set foir Himself,”
a design drawn up by the commi(- believe! Ri spirits or spiritualism, pine. President; Alfred R.j Bml [ will be presented by the Campus
tee was finaBy spproved Tlie He that he would be very Terre!!, Vice-President; and H. JV, Theatre Club in the Assembly
leather invitationa will contai^i j hajipyj ff ode else did. Cartwright, Galveston. Secretary Hall Tuesday. December 13i at
from four to six cut* and will hav* Tho[|Mial was made in a letter A discussion was held at tjid 7:30 p. m.. according to an an-
a cover of railed maroon leather sddreMkl to g Viennese woman meeting on the current Pi Kapj>a nouncement today -by J. Q. Hays,
with a silver background. ] who hq^ Vritten him asking his Delta question: “Resolved that the farulty sponsor.
Crow, Milford; W. R. Phythian.
Taylor; P. R Raid, Corpus Christi;
F. J. Richter, Laredo; P. D. Rob-
Co-ed Is Slapped By
Lover Because She
Admired Movie Star
Cleveland. , O,—(IP)—Her boy
friead is so jealous he doesn’t like
her to look at a movie showing
Maurice Chevalier. Miss Florence
Glowsckie. a co-ed, told the pro
secutor’s office here last week.
This led to a dispute which
caused the bey friend to slap her
face in the midst of a crowd, caus
ing her no end of embarassment.
The prosecutor issued a summons
for the boy friend to find out why
he is so jealous.
week there was probably a very
good reason.
And the reason was that more
time was spent ssurgKi—if ® _ _ . ...
combing hair, poibkmg /iwr mm.n Au.t,n; 0«.r Sm»rd III.
imik. eradicating tpota (ram net- Am * rlllo; H **-
ly itraMci dreamt, nc tbe like. The ^ ,
Bryn MaVr OtOaga Wtt na tha " W
u° m Worth; J. L. White XcKtnn.,; E.
» boUhorad ita ramUra for .bet, H Wlck „ ( ^ u , Christ; W. T.
sss/s? “ d a *"”“
few blots oa an otherwise beauti
ful landscape has from time im
memorial been the student body.’*
Auction Sale
At the jewelry sale now in prog
ress at Sankey Park’s in Bryan
* purchasers may procure any ar-
Rcvision Says Butler tide in the stone at their own
— j, 1 prices by merely selecting the sr-
New York. — (IP) — Complete tide from the stock and bidding on
G. 0. P. Needs Radical
R. E. O’Connell, chairman, L. W.
Storms, R. H. McLemore, and It
Durst III are members of the conii
mittee and were appointed by T
C. Morris, president of (he Senioi
class. The committee is now work
ing on the materiafYor the Invita
tions.
Christmas Season
these subjects. The wo- 1 United State* should agree to t)i« This pla^. which is under the
s London spiritualist 1 cancellation of Inter-Allied war direction of Mrs. F.'L Thomas,
was written hy Elene'Wilbur and
beliefg
man .
who Mid that the famous scientist debts.
[believer ia spiritualism
liuiqs.
andpn statement.” said
ir, *tis utterly without
Offei
r
Long
[Mr Two ’
Student Musical'j Organizations
Series of Engagfemen
reorganisation of tbe Republican
party is needed to save it from the
fate of the old Whig parig, Dr.
Nicholas Murray Butler, president
of Columbia University asserted
last week. Said he:
'Tf the younger members of the
party o il! exert themselves to seek
and to produce constructive, for
ward-feeing end liberal leadership,
the party, despite its overwhelm
ing defeat, may be quickly reor
ganised and given new strength
and spirit for another generation
of public service.
’If something of this sort can
not be done, then the party will
have gone the way of the Whig
party*
it at aurtioa. As an added incen
tive to A and M students to at
tend. valuable priaes are given
away free at each sale. Tbe sales
are held each afternoon at 2:30 and
each night at 7:90.
Famous Athlete Dies
While Umpiring Game
Philadelphia—(IP)—While um
piring a game betkseaii Upper Dar
by and Haverford High Schools
last week, John J. Greer, former
prominent athlete at Georgetown
aad Catholic Universities, fell dead
Physicians said death waa caus
ed by a heart attack.
Evidently ihe home town clubs
are not feeling the depre**ion a*
much as the pessimists would have
ius believe, since the ('hri»tma»
dance problem has reached a solu
tion Judging from the demand re
ceived for the services of the two
local orchestras ta play for the
cadet affairs, the followers of the
drum and baton sho«Ad experience
no trouble in forgetting the pur-
suit of knowledge while enjoying
the holidays.
7116 Campus SecMBdlM, under
the direction aad management of
Joe Dillon and employing only stu
dents as members, arc booked for
a series of dancee t ptatigally in
East and Northeast Texas. Their
first engagement carries them to
Houston, from where they go to
Sherman to play • dance for the >'
k Grayso|j CpontyiA and M Gub on
December | 3rd. On the morning of
the 26th, -t|>ey are to play in Hen
derson als Cooper Club on the
largest .<9|iire floor in Texas. They
then go McKinney to play on
the nigjiyy the 26th, followed by
a trip Wftt. Pleasant to play the
East Te*0k Club dance on Derem
are scheduled to,
*n December 29th,
The* Be
led i»
iBereaaders are ached-
play a dance this
eemii* Fridsy sight ia Cal
vert aVIlM City Hall ia boa-
or af ft* r-xM corps
jand then f trip to Kaufman on Dec-
I where they will play
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Architectural Club
Addressed By Norton
P. G Norton of the College Ar
chitect’s office spoke to tbe Archi
tectural Club last Thursday night
at their regular meeting held in
the Asbury room of the library.
His subject was “Architectural
Specifications” ahd in delivering
the lecture he told of the essential
requirements of a set of specifica
tions and the legal procedure that'
follows directly thefofrom.
Plan* were made at the meeting
for the annual club Christmas par
ty which is to be held on the nigh*
of Thursday, December 16.
is in keeping with the yuletide
spirit, pertaining to the Irish cus
toms at Christmas time.
Boatswain Who
Waited 58 Years for
V arsity Letter, Dies
Washington—(IP)—Henry Bei
Simpson, 80-year-old boat** sin,
who waited 68 years to receive
varsity letter, died here lent w
SimpHoa was a member of
crew ef the Massachusetts A
cultural College which defea
Brown in a sensational finish oa
the Connecticut River in 1ITL j
It was not until 1929 that athle
tic authorities voted a varsity letter
to each member of the *71 craw/ j present equipment
iff I t
Latest Developments
In Electrical Field
Viewed By Students
The newest wrinkles in the elec
tric industry that have originated
with the Geaeral Electric Company
were exhibited to electrical engi
neering seniors in the Petroleum'
Engineering Building Monday. The
display consisted of a truck fitta<L
with the individual items and was I
in direct charge of B. F. McKenzie
of the New York office of the Gen
eral Electric Company, assisted by
A. R. Mattes, ’21, of Beaumont, '
district manager for the company
New types of totalising dratt-
huur meters, fused circuit break
ers, underground cable construc
tion, new type* of small capacity
MpMlMaaNn-with mountings, and
the newer types of lightning ar
resters were on display. AU tha;
E rovement* of the equipment ov-
the previous design were ex
ited by Mr. McKenxie in his
lecture. The purpose of the dis
play was to show the student «n-
gineer* bow the General Electric
Company has kept abreast of the
by constantly improving
front basement