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Published Weekly By The Students of The A. & M. College of Texas
VOLUME XXXIII
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, NOVEMBER 1, 1933.
NUMBER 7
AGGIES ENTRAIN FRIDAY FOR SHREVEPORT
State Supreme Court Very Likely To Decide Co-ed Question
Proceedings Begun On Petition
Tuesday Morning; Officials Of
College Are First To Take Stand
Byrd E. White Testifies That*
Letter From Attorney Gen
eral States That Constitu
tionality Involved Does Not
Exclude Women Students.
Mandamus proceedings on the
petition filed in the 85th district
court last September by Bryan
citizens to compel the admission
of women students to the A and M
College of Texas began Tuesday
morning, October 31, at ten o’
clock with Judge W. C. Davis on
the bench. Further postponement
of the proceedings was not grant
ed by the court.
The entire morning session was
taken up with the testimonies of
the following people who were
called to take the stand by the
plaintives in the case: H. H. Wil
liamson, vice-director of the A and
M Extension Service; Mildred Hor
ton, state home demonstration
agent; F. C. Bolton, dean of the
College; C. H. Winkler, dean of
the school of vocational teaching
and director of the summer ses
sion; Byrd E. White of Dallas, a
member of the Board of Regents;
and Dr. T. O. Walton, president of
the College.
The questions asked by Colonel
C. C Todd, attorney for the plain
ly? "■es, were- of prefunctory nature
and related mostly to courses of
fered at the College. Questions
concerning the present situation of
allowing daughters of college em
ployees residing in Brazos County
to attend A and M for the period
of one year were asked Dr. Wal
ton. At the time of adjournment
for the noon recess, Dr. Walton
was on the stand; his testimony
was resumed during the after
afternoon.
Mr. White was questioned on the
reply he received from the Attor
ney General regarding his opinion
on the legality of allowing women
students at A and M College. Mr.
White testified that a letter stat
ing the constitutionality involved
did not exclude women students
from the College had been re
ceived, but further testimony re
vealed that all members of the
Board of Regents were not cogni
zant of the letter.
Late Tuesday afternoon the pro
ceedings were still underway. At
the end of the trial Judge Davis
may render a decision or he may
find it necessary to take the case
under advisement, thus delaying
the decision temporarily. Regard
less of the outcome in this court,
it is popularly believed that the de
feated side will appeal the case to
the Supreme Court of the State.
W. G. Perrin And
Gladys Gray Wed
In San Antonio
Ceremony Takes Place Night
Following Texas A and M—
Texas A and I Game In San
Antonio.
LaRoe Selected To
Head Palestine Club
D. M. La Roe was elected presi
dent of the Palestine Club at the
initial meeting of that group on
Monday night, October 30. Other
club officers for the year are G. E.
Wyse, secretary-treasurer, and L.
J. Reagan, reporter.
Plans for dances during the
Thanksgiving and Christmas holi
days were discussed but no defi
nite dates were set for the affairs.
The club voted to have their pic
tures in the club section of The
Longhorn and all members were
urged to cooperate in this measure.
The following students from
Palestine and Anderson County
are club members this year: D. M.
LaRoe, G. E. Wyse, T. R. Cely,
J. W. Compton, Jr., J. C. Hughes,
J. G. Murphy, M. W. Porter, G. J.
Kohler, R. L. Elkins, L. J. Reagan,
C. A. Johnson, H. W. Woodard,
and J. G. Halbert.
Boy, ain’t I got personality?—
King Levinsky, fighter.
Students and friends of W. G.
Perrin, senior mechanical engi
neering student from San Antonio,
will be surprised to hear of his
recent wedding to Miss Gladys
Gray also of San Antonio.
The ceremony was preformed by
the Pastor of the First Baptist
Church of San Antonio October
14, the night following the Texas
A and M—Texas A and I football
game which was played in San
Antonio.
Mrs. Perrin has been employed
by the Southwestern Bell Tele
phone Company for the past few
years and is a graduate of the
San Antonio Public Schools.
Definite plans for the future
have not been announced by the
nf-wly weds, but The Battalioi’
joins a host of friends in wishing
them a long and prosperous life
filled with happiness.
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HONORED WITH A
BANQUET SUNDAY
F. M. Law, Chairman of the
Board of Directors Ad
dresses Members of Club
After Banquet.
Members of the “T” Association
were entertained in the banquet
room of the mess hall Sunday,
October 29, by W. A. Duncan,
supervisior of subsistance. T. W.
“Red” Akins, Marshall, presided
over the meeting which followed
the banquet.
Twenty nine of the thirty seven
members of the club and all of the
coaches except John Reid, varsity
basketball coach, who was away
on a scouting trip, were present
at the banquet. F. M. Law, chair
man of the board of directors, was
also a guest.
A number of short impromptu
speeches were made Coach Matty
Bell encouraged the association to
do everything they could to pro
mote a more friendly feeling be
tween the athletes and other mem
bers of the -student body. He in
troduced Mr. Law who made a
short talk to the athletes.
The club plans to hold a meet
ing every two weeks until after
the Christmas holidays.
FIRST ISSUE TEXAS
AGGIE COUNTRYMAN
OFF PRESS_MONDAY
To make the magazine more in
teresting, several new features
have been added this year to the
Texas Aggie Countryman, the
first issue of which came off the
press Monday. Though it is the
official publication of the School
of Agriculture, articles that have a
general appeal are being pubilsh-
ed.
Members of the staff will canvas
each dormitory for subscriptions
within the next few days. The
rate is fifty cents for the five
issues to be published this year.
Vef?MOt4
Stacks -
Coach Matty Bell’s Texas Aggies will attempt to ».op these Gentlemen
from Centenary who have held two Southwest Conference teams to
scoreless tie and defeated another so far this season.
Rhodes Scholarship
Candidates Will Be
Selected By Nov. 16
Rhodes Scholarship candidate
appointments for the school must
be made before November 18,
T F. Mayo, College Librarian, said
Friday.
To be eligible a candidate must:
(1) Be a male citizen of the
United States, with at least five
years’ domicile, and unmarried.
(2) By the 1st of October of the
year for which he is elected have
passed his nineteenth and not have
passed his twenty-fifth birthday.
(3) By the 1st of October of the
year for which he is elected have
completed at least his sophomore
year at some recognized degree
granting university or college of
the United States.
Anyone desiring further infor
mation or desiring to apply should
see me right away, Dr. Mayo con
cluded.
Pritchett Lectures
To Science Seminar
At Initial Meeting
Dr. H. L. Pritchett, professor of
sociology and counselor on mental
hygiene at Southern Methodist
University, lectured to the Social
Science Seminar on the subjct,
“Mental Hygienen in the College
Program,” at eight o’clock Monday
evening in the lecture room of the
Physics Building. It was the first
meeting of the Seminar this year.
The speaker’s address was con
cerned chiefly with an analysis of
the mental ills of collegians, lay
ing particular stress on the idea
of emotional maladjus t m e n t.
“Temper,” Dr. P itchett said in
closing, “is the most destructive
thing to pprsn-hality ’>
At the next ' ^Mimlifl^ of the
group, two weeks lienee, Dr. J. D.
P. Fuller will speax on “Calhoun’s
slavery in the Mexican War.”
COSMOPOLITAN CLUB RE-ORGANIZED
AT MEETING SUNDAY; M. A. HADDAD
ELECTED PRESIDENT FOR 1933-34
Purpose of Club Is To Pro
mote Congeniality and Fel
lowship Between Foreign
and American Students.
Following several years of in
activity, the Cosmopolitan Club,
met Sunday afternoon at three
o’cock in the Asbury room of the
Library. Reorganization, the elec
tion of officers, and defining of the
purpose of the Club was made at
the meeting.
Officers elected to conduct the
business of the club for this year
are M. A. Haddad, Transjourdan,
president; M. E. Martinez, C. Vic
toria, Mexico, vice-president; J. F.
Hilliard, Rosebud, secretary; R. K.
Adwany, Karachi, India, treasurer;
and V. K. Sugareff, professor of
history, was selected as faculty ad
viser as he was instrumental in
the reorganization of the club. At
present there are twenty-four stu
dents who will be listed as charter
members.
The primary purpose of the club
is to promote congeniality and fel
lowship between students from
other countries and American stu
dents. In order to accomplish this
each member will acquaint him
self with the customs, traditions,
and historical background of the
other countries. At each meeting
one speaker from one of the ten
countries represented will speak
on his country.
The club is planning to make
the program as versatile as pos
sible so that members of each
nationality will have ample chance
to study and learn of their fellow
countries. At the end of each
meeting there will be a general
fellowship meeting for those who
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Mears Selected
For Ringmaster
Of Annual Rodeo
Steer Riding, Bronco and
Mule Riding, Wild Cow
Milking, and Horse Jump
ing Contest To Be Fea
tured.
E. L. Mears, Menard, will act as
ring master at the Annual Rodeo
and Pageant to be presented by
the Saddle and Sirloin Club Fri
day evening, November 10, in the
Animal Husbandry Pavillion.
In the way of deviation from the
set form of pageants given in past
years, the display to be presented
next week is being worked around
a theme of major and minor sports
in the schools of the Southwest
Conference. Mrs. W. A. Orth is
the director of the pageant. Mem
bers of the corps and representa
tives of the other schools will take
part, with A. B. Kyle, Whitney,
and Miss Margaret Higgs, Bryan,
in the roles of king and queen.
The tentative program promises
entertainment in the form of steer
riding, bronco and mule riding,
wild cow milking, finals in the
Cavalry and Field Artillery annual
jumping contest, a greased pig con
test, and a citmp fire scene featur
ing C. T. SjTprague singing “The
Last RoumSr Up”. County agents
from twenty-nine districts, who
will be visiting on the campus at
the time, will take part in the wild
cow milking contest.
The pageant and rodeo is an
affair staged each year by the
juniors of the Saddle and Sirloin
Club as a means of raising funds
to finance the National Livestock
Judging Team on its trips to
Chicago and Kansas City.
Farmers Journey To Shreveport
For Fifth Game Between Teams;
All Players Will be Available
Commutation of subsist
ence, amounting to $15.70,
will be paid to seniors en
rolled in the second advanced
course R O T C, in room 101
Academic Building between
4:30 p. m. and 5:30 p. m. on
Thursday, November 2. This
payment covers a period of
ninety days.
Hughes Relates
Metamorphoses
Of Electricity
Science Seminar Addressed
By Head of Electrical En
gineering Department At
Meeting Last Week.
SENIORS EXEMPT
IN FINAL EXAMS
NEXT SEMESTER
Will Be Required To Take
Final Examinations In Jun
ior Courses.
Changes in the examination
schedule will effect only the next
semester, according to Dean F. C.
Bolton. The most important change
and one that will be welcomed by
the seniors, is the institution of ex
emptions for those whose grades
merit it. The seniors whose grades
do not justify exemptions will be
given regular final examinations.
This changes senior week, as it
will offer only those who have been
exempt a week off.
In event of a failure in a regu
lar examination the senior will be
allowed to take one special or re
examination. Circumstances other
than this will be subject to the
ruling of the executive committee.
Seniors taking junior courses will
nit be exempt in those courses but
will have to take the examinations
with the regular sections.
One of the latest rulings of the
executive committee deals with the
re-examinations for under-class-
men. Re-examinations in condition
al work from the second semester
will be offered Tuesday of the
opening week of the first semester
following. This will not only give
the student an opportunity to re
move the conditional grade, but
will enable them to schedule this
course in event of failure.
M. C. Hughes, professor of el
ectrical engineering, addressed the
Science Seminar on “A Historical
Sketch of Central Station Indus
tries” at eight o’clock Monday
evening in the lecture room of the
physics building.
Mr. Hughes’ talk dwelt chiefly
with a history of the developments
which have aided the electrical in
dustry, such as the incandescent
lamp, the electric motor, the al
ternating current, and the steam
turbine for generating purposes.
He discussed the establishment of
the first electric-lighting company
in Chicago as indicative of the in
fluence of these developments.
In closing, Professor Hughes
stressed the idea that develop
ments in the electrical industry
have by no means reached the
point of saturation. He estimated
that the market for electrical en
ergy has a capacity four times as
large as the present demand.
Officers of the Seminar for this
year are: E. W. Steel, professor
of municipal and sanitary engi
neering, president; Dr. L. G. Jones,
professor of agronomy, vice-presi
dent; Norman F. Rode, professor
of electrical engineering, secretary-
treasurer.
❖Several Hundred Students and
Fans From East Texas To
Witness Contest Saturday.
Knowing now how the wine of
victory as well as the dregs of de
feat in conference football tastes.
Coach Matty Bell’s Texas Aggies
will entrain Friday afternoon at
1:30 for Shreveport to play Cen
tenary for the fifth time since
1928 with the avowed purpose of
never again tasting those bitter
dregs of defeat this season
The game Saturday will be the
play-off game between the two
teams, both having won two gam
es in previous meetings. In 1928
the Gents came storming to Col
lege Station and took over the first
defeat that the Aggies had been
given in their own back yard for
two seasons. The teams did not
play in 1929, but when Centenary
came back to Kyle field in 1930,
although they brought another
powerful team, it was an Aggie
day. The Cadets won the game by
the slim margin of 7-6 to give Cen
tenary her only defeat for the en
tire season.
In 1931, the Cadet Corps travel
ed to Shreveport for the first out
of state Corps trip to see the Ag
gie eleven beat a fighting Gentle
man team 7-0. Then in 1932 when
the Aggies again traveled to Shre
veport, Centenary came back with
a vengence to send the Farmers
home on the short end of another
7-0 score. According to after sea
son estimations, this was said by
Centenary followers to have been
the Gents hardest game of the
season—a season in which Cente
nary was neither tied nor beatdn
and let only 26 points be scored on
them during their entire schedule.
Although one of the Cadets best
friends off the football field, Cen
tenary is one of the bitterest ri-
SERENADERS PLAY
ALL COLLEGE HOP
FOR SAM HOUSTON
Dance On^ of Most Successful
the Teachers College Has
Had In Several Years;
Gymnasium Filled.
Little Willie Stockton and his
Campus Serenaders played an all
college dance for the Som Hous
ton State Teachers College in
Huntsville last Saturday night,
October 28, before a crowd of ap
proximately one hundred and
twenty couples that filled the
men’s Gymnasium.
Sam Houston students claim
that it was one of the most out
standing dances that the college
has had in several years.
The Campus Serenaders consists
entirely of students of A and M
More than 2,000 young men, in- I College. Members of the orchestra
eluding college students, former are W. L. Stockton, manager and
college athletes and men listed in saxaphone; H. C. Chamberlain,
the Social Register, have been or-I saxaphone; C. White, Saxaphone;
ganized in New York to watch the Earl Gray, trumpet; Hubert Dick
polls Nov. 7 on behalf of the Fus
ion ticket which is seeking to oust
Tammany from control of
city.
ey, trumpet; Jimmie McCarroll,
trombone; V. A. Foote, base; W.
that IH. Randow, drum; G. F. Cazell,
piano; and S. B. Archibald, violin.
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Fort Worth Hotel
Manager Commends
Aggies In Letter
Westbrook Hotel Manager In
vites A and M Students To
Visit Hotel While in Fort
Worth.
Dr. T. O. Walton, President of
the college, received a letter of
appreciation from E. F. Frerking,
manager of the Westbrook Hotel
of Fort Worth, last week on the
business of the hotel received from
the A and M students while on the
corps trip to that city for the A
and M—T C U game.
In the letter Mr. Frerking said
that the cadets conducted them
selves as perfect gentlemen while
guests at the Westbrook and that
he would appreciate the continued
patronage of the hotel by A and M
students while visiting in Fort
Worth.
This letter is very much to the
contrary of the news spread a-
mong the students by some of
the instructors, and was very good
news to Dr. Walton. The letter
reads as follows:
Professor T. O. Walton
President A. & M. College
Bryan, Texas
Dear Mr. Walton:
I am writing you this letter to
tell you how much we appreciated
the nice business we received from
your boys who attended the Foot
ball game here last Saturday.
In this connection I want to say
that you have a wonderful set, and
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