Image provided by: Texas A&M University
About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (April 26, 1933)
n* Is i 1 1 1 Published Weekly By The Students of The A« A M. of Ttxss XXXII COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, APRIL 2«, NUMBER 30 i v cmti’s J BILL TO BE i HELIMIYS ( ostumes To Be Worn By Chib Members and Their Goests At Annual Dance. Sponsored by the Saddle and Sir loin dab and aided by the Kream and Kow KIul>. the annual Cattle- men*. Ball will be held Friday night. May 5, in the college mean hall, according to H. A. Fitzhngh, Tolar, president of the club. Junior member* of the two cluba who are to be in charge of carry ing out tlae decorations, which have a western theme for a motif, are: G. V. Holmes, Gonzales; A B. Kyle Whitney; H. K. Westerman, Llano; H. F. Barnhart, Gainesville; F L. Hansen, Cleburne. S. C. P. Vosper, architectural designer of the col lege architect’s office, ha* agreed to draw the design. The program committe com posed of the following men: F. M Marshall. Ennis; R. H. Wright, Al fred; E. L. Williams, Carriso Springs; G. W Coleman, McKin ney, and E. W. Dobbs. Grandview, will telort either the Aggieland orchestra or the Campus Serena des to play for the occasion, FHs- hogh said. Costumes to be worn by mem bers of the cluba at the dance will be colored shirt*, sashes and scarfs, white pants, and black shoes. White pants, white shirts, and black ties will be worn by other juniors and aaniors. Any junior or senior enrolled in the college is eligible to attend this dance. [\ if Reception Honoring Mothers And I! Fathers Will Begin Program For Entertainment of Parents May 14 Texas Schramm is pepalar twa hear coa-ert la the Ase+mMy Hall Friday thirty-miaate vaudeville act state•'<! hy pre-orient. Geraldine Slaughter, mist, and rillow Haltom May S, aft 7 o'clock. The of the dab Gilbert mangger of the or- “DOPE” For the benefit ef students studying late daring the week in which final examina tion* will be held, the college mess hall will furnish coffee for .Mem at all hours of the night At a meeting of the Stn- dent Welfare Committee it was decided that Mr. W. A. Duncan, supeviaar of subsint- ence, would be requested to keep the Aggieland Inn open •• that students atadyiag late could boy cot fee. In re ply Mr. Duncan said the Mess Hall would be able ta fur nish free coffee to students Aggie Baseball Team To Meet Texas University Nine Friday And Saturday On Clark Field it Senior Prom To Be Staged Here Friday, May 12 ♦Conference Standing: of A and M Depends On Resu’ts of ABCIES SPLIT WITH BiYLOR; LOSE TO T.C.U. Old Buildings Being Down; Gatbright, Foster Austin, And Pfeuffer To Stay Gannett In Austin. remain a* Whether the Aggie ser ous contenders for the confer ence baseball title or fall by the Fanners !.<»« 11-5 and 2-1 Against Bears; Lone To Frogs. ! Having been'-set buck in their first encounter Fridey, 11-8, the roadside will probably b«* <i«-cided Texas Aggie ttin* came back in ma/ Orders For Invitations Will Be Taken Friday Invitations Should Be Ready for Distribution In About Three Weeks. 1 If' For the benefit of those senior* who have been unable to place or der* for invitations to the graduat ing exercises, orders will be taken aU day Friday and the additional order will be wired in to the print er, R. E. O’Connell, Waco, chair man of the cotftmittee on invKa- '-tions announced yesterday. ■“ Proof of the printed matter to appear inside the invitations is ex pected soon for the approval of the invitations committee. When the proof is returned to the en- jpavefs, the invitations will be made up In the final form. All de tails should be complete and the 4 knritaiions ready for distribution fan about three weeks, O’Connell said. Thu Charles H. Elliott Company of Philadelphia has been given the contract to furnish the invitaitons this year. Efforts Are Being Made To Secure A Banquet To Pre cede The I’rom. A senior prom will be given in the mess hall annex Friday even ing, May 12, from 9 til 2, accord ing to an announcement made to day by T. CL Morris. Forreston, President of the senior class. Admission to the prom will be to members of the class of ’83 and have lost one to the latter and one preceding classes only. There will to the T C U Homed Frogs. In Austin on Friday and Saturday when Coach Higginbotham’s Tex as Aggie nine meets Unde Billy piach’s Texas Uniyersity Long horns, now the only undefeated team jin the loop as the result of s win over the Homed Frogs and a clean sweep of the two mustang games. The Aggies are still in second place with four wins and two losses. They have won two games each from the S.M.U. Mus tangs and the Baylor Bears, and EXHIBITION BOUTS WIU BE STAGED BY INTRAMURALSTABS ( hampions of 125- and 135- Pound Intramural Class Will Meet Thursday Night. Tl be no charge for admission. Music for the prom will be play ed by the Aggieland Orchestra. The Campus Serenaders will play for a corps dance in the mess hall annex the night following the senior bamtuet. Saturday, May IS. - Csauakteemen selected by the senior Class president for the senior prom arc; P. B. Reed. Bow ie; W. W. Mitchell. Longview; T. B. Goodrich, MSrlin; Don Elliott. Kellar; and Doug Howder, Fort Orockett. Kfforts are being made to se cure a banquet to precede the prom for th< members of the present senior Uasa and their dates. Should the banquet be secured, it will be given in the banquet room of the Mess Hall between • and 8:80 Fri day afternoon. May 12. Intramural Track Preliminaries To Be Held Saturday W. Li Penberthy and Frank Anderson Are Official for A boxiag exhibition will be giv en Thursday night at the banquet for the county commissioners and judges in the mess hall by four stellar intramural boxers. The feature bout of the night will ba between H. S. (Bloody) Bnnsssade of Mexico City, winner of the 126 pound class intramural championship and R. E. (Png) Storms, of San Antonio, winner of the 115 pounds class. Omar Smith, ' Saq Antonio, winner of second plate in the 185 pound class, will battle J. T. Hauk, Sanford, win- ' ner of second place in the 125 class, in a preliminary bout Intramural Track hi Nofhing hypnotises t a woman mors speedily than noble senti ments from the mouth of a man. —WMiam Lyon Phelps. Prelftninacy Daces in intramural track Will begin at four o’clock Saturday afternoon on Kyle Field for aU! agees except the half mile and the mile. These races will not r<*<|Uir,» preliminaries TUs] final runs will start at four Sunday afternoon. No definite time will be set for the field events, but they will be held during the entire meet, any contestant having three trials at his own convenience in order that he may enter both field and track Officials for the meet will bet W. L. Penberthy, director of intra mural athletics, and Franft Ander son, coach of the track team. They will be assisted by the intramural The pick of the conference base ball stronghold will meet when the two teams clash on Clark field, stronghold of Unde Billy Diach for many yeaVs. The Texas team features Captain Ernie Koy, foot- hall luminary for three years, twice All-Conference baseball star and voted All-American honors in the diamond sport last year by College Humor. AJyrays a hard hitter, Koy started the season slow, but has developed back into bis previous year’s form ia knocking the ball where the outfielders have the most trouble catching up with il. It was Koy and Captain Raymond A ter of the 1*132 team that put such a crimp in Aggie plans on the Kyle Field grounds here last year The former captain is now in the Texas League, and Koy seems to have lost none of his sffectivene The Steers will present t strong pitchers in the persons of Vernon Taylor, AU-Conferer Hurler of last year, and Charlie Winto, also a veteran moundnu who will oppose Bob Scheer and probably Bugga Moon of the Ag gies. To take the place of A ter at shortstop, the Steers have Anken man, a brilliant sophomore hitter and fielder. A list of sophomores make up the most outstanding of the Aggie * mmmmmmrn (Continued on Page 8) CONFERENCE STANDING the game Saturday under the ef fective hurling of Bob Scheer to defeat the Baylor Bears 2-1 at the Katy Park in BUyior, and even the series. The Farmers held the edge in the first fray until the fifth inning when Marshall Shaw, Aggie Hurl er who had relieved Moon, allowed the Bruins to score 1 runs includ ing a homer by Kroney, Baylor pitcher. £<>b Cohnelley, Aggie third seeker, hit a homer late in the first game Bob Scheer, Aggie hurler, and Parks of Baylor staged a pitching duel in the second game. Scheer holding the edge. The Cadets scored first in the second frame when Bob GarVey’s mingle stored Connelley. Connelley scored again tn'Ahe fourth on an error. Baylor scored in the sixth on two walks and a single and lost a > golden opportunity to tie the tallies in the eighth frame when Bolger .T" R V’s. Give Dances, Banquet, Drill; At Annual iFestivity + Protests By Former Students Prevents Tearing Down of Old Dormitories. Several old and unsightly build ings that have been in service at A and M for many years as class- rooms and laboratory buildings will be raxed in the near future as another step in the building and beautifying program now in prog- Bmith’s Orchestra Fur reSs on the campus. Dr. F. E. Music for Past Week Giesecke, college architect, an- Danceg, j 1 nounced today. Removal of the old horse barn FoJ another year the Ross Vol- I that was located in rear of the unteer festivities have come to an Agriculture Building has already end. frith the souigling of Ups last be9n completed and the structure Saturday night a, whirl of three th * 1 »« rv *d “ • dissecting labora tory for the Veterinary depart ment is being Uken down at this time Other buildings to be torn down include the old natiUrium which was used as a veterinary hospital, the agricultural engineer ing building, the agricultural en gineering shops, and several other frame buildings which are unsight ly and will become -uaslsm when the proposed new structures are completed. Despite current rumors, Dr. Gie secke sUted that Austin and Pfeu- ftorias '"Events Include Flower Cere mony, Addren—^ Drills, md Other Features. Honoring mothers and fathers of the students, the weekend prog- gram for Mothers’ and Fathers’ Dag, Sunday May 14, will begin with ^ reception'for the parents of the students at the home of Pres ident and Mrs. T. O. Walton. The reception will fa# followed by • corps dance in the Mess Hall an nex. | . ' . Girls chosen by the commandars of the various organisations will pin flowers oil frie cadets Sunday morninjf in accordance with the traditional ceremony. The corpa will then march to Guion Halil where an address of welcome will be delivered hy President Walton to the mothers and fathers. Am ad dress to the mothers will be given by I. A. Handler, Galveston, and J. W. Wells, Aransas' Pass, will address 'he fathers. Mrs. J. M. Glean San Antonio, mother .of ca- det D C. Glam, first lieutenant. Company “A” Engineers, will de liver an address to the motheqkj Also on the program are numbers by the A and M Glee club and invo cation by R. L. Jackson, Metho-- •list pastor on the campus. . uknilanavation in the annual pro gram will be the opening of the dormitorice to the visitors so that mothers and fathers may visit the boys in their rooms. Program for the afternoon in- rladee aa exhibition drill by the company of Ross Volunteers at 3:30 and s concert by tlie Aggie Band at 4:30. The program committee for the weekend ia composed of Don El liott, Ft. Worth, chairman;- Guy Hutcheson, Denton; R. E. O’Conr nell, Wacq; and Eugene Buie, Grandviewt followed hy a dance that was caught off second with hut one Sl Results Last Week A and M 5-2, Baylor 11-1. Taxas 21-8, S. M. U. 2-8. T. C U. 1, 8. M. U. 0. T. C. U. 5, A and M 4. Games This Week Friday and Saturday, A and M at Texas. Monday, T. C. U at Baylor. Tuesday, T. C. U. at Texas. out. With two outs , in the ninth in ning and the score tied, the T.C.U. Frogs scored on an error to defeat the Texas Aggie nine 5-4 on the Purple diamond Monday afternoon in Fort Worth. Kinxy, first man up in the ninth popped out. Donovan walked an*’. Walker singled him to second. Hsr- ston’s bunt adVanoed both runners and then Myers slashed a hot liner to Mitchell, Aggie shortstop, who (Continued on Page 8); Texas Tech Professor Speaks On Novelists At Seminar Meeting A. B. Cunningham of the de partment of EwgHah at Vfcaas Technological College spoke on the •‘Novelist as a Philosopher*!Mon day night at the regular meeting of the Social Science Seminars ia the Physics lecture room. After giving the reasons f or the medium of the philosophical teach ing changing from the formal works oa philosophy to the novel. Dr. Cunningham explained several examples of the modern novel in which there is a philosophical out look. Some of the examples were: “The Old Wire’s Tale” by Arnold Bennett, ‘The Glory Hole” by Ste wart Edward White, ‘The Green Bay Tree” by Louis Bromfield, and look. H of dining and dancing was to a finish. Th« festivities began with th* coronation of the queen and king Thursday evening at ten o’clock, and #as nigh* Th* banquet given to the mem bers of the canfany and their ladie4 Friday evening in the mesa done in a night club style scattered tables. Dane- featured between courses, for all the dances and the fursished hy Ligon ’s .orchestra from the Baker at Dallas, f tea dansant Saturday after- the gdvantage of per fect weather for. the occasion. It was At this daned that the favors nonsisted of small black en- vaaities With the hand-en- graWwl company . seal attached, werq presented tq the ladies. Tfc drill presented Saturday af ternoon oa the college parade ground was a success and one wit nessing college official said “it was; the best R. V. drill that I have seen in the'five years that I have been here.”. The R. V. Company will probab ly present an exhibition drill here Pother’s ~ ffer Halls, dorm which an Day. May 14. ; ipnations et I napproved By Legislature Is Still Expected for Summed School T> of funds for the suOmer school this summer has not been made by thd State Legislature ! for A and M or any other school to : dafr> hut, according to F. 0. Bol ton, dsan of the college, a provi- Rosamond Lehman’s book, ‘The sioft ia still expedted for school this Dusty Answer." 7>J j- snpssst. At jV meeting of the Sera- It is probable that the legislature ihar election of officers will be wil make no Appropriation for bald and O. B. Martin, director of sulbaMr school S it will make the the agricultural extension service, fe# high enmighfto make the sum- will speak. • y J . Jmejr school here self-sustaining. not used to house students at pre- it, will not be taken down as they serve aa quarters for those attending the various short cours es held on the campus throughout year. Neither is it anticipat ed that Gatbright hall will be done away with an any time soon as the alumni of the college objects to sack a step, Dr. Giesecke added. • Old Horse Bam Is Replaced By , -trick Buildings $25,000 1 r- Structure Replace* im* Bam Used By Husbandry Dept. DEADLINE FOR ONE ACT PLAY CONTEST MS MONDAY, MAY 1 j ! .1 Fixe Cash Prizes Offered Te Student* and Member* of Theatre Club. Hoping to encourage creative writing among the students and slid members of the Campus Thea tre club, this organisation offer cash prises for the five best ori ginal one-act plays to be written by those named above. This con test for amateur authors closes next Monday, May 1. These plays need not ha actable, but may be actable or "closet'’ dramas, the choice being left te the contestant. It is hoped, J- Q- Hays. English professor, stated, that the plots for the plays will deal with native themes andiMfrMf iences either seen or undergone by the writers. ' , Prises for students include'tw enty dollars, first prise; ten i"' Mrs, second prise;. 87.50. third and 82.60, fourth prize will be sn additional prize horse division of the animal husbandry department has moved ^ Into the new 826,000 brick barn located south-east of the animal husbandry pari 11 ion. . This new building replaces the* old frame barn that has been used by the da- pertMUft|siace 1902, D. W. Wil,. hams, head of the animal hu»- bandry department, said today. Tha frame building was recently nm-l* ed to make room for the new ad ministration building now under* The new barn has a Ibbby with builtilu trophy cases on either side. There are fifty-six stalla, fourteen of which have concrete flooring and the remainder have clay- The building is equipped with a blacksmith shop, carriage room, «agon shed, wash rack, and sev- • ral storage room*. Feed storage facilities are provided on the sec ond floor and chutes to the lower floor afford the minimum ef hand ling. Whem proposed wings art ad ded, the building will face a court . with a 126 yard exercise and ex hibition track. Wrought iron grills used on «x- h.hition stalls were outstanding. The grill work and the two weath er van*-* on the roof were designed by B. C. P. Vosper, of the college architect’! office, and hand-made by fhco.k> r .- (Continued on Page 4) Voss Metal Company WINS HONOR Word was recently received from Fort Worth that Miss Sarah Orth, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Ortfc.of CoL lege Station and a freshman student at T.6.U., has been Selected hy her.classmates as one of the four candidate^ to •nter tjhe contest for the most popular freshman student on the T.C U. campus. x