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INTRAMURAL ATHLETIGSI
POSSIBLE FOR EVER!
PARTICIPATE IN
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ILLEGE SPORTS
Some people hare the erroneous
idea that to participate in
athletics, one must hare
physique, cat-like muscles and a
tough constitution. But this is not
<o at the A and M Collefe of Tex
as, for Kyle Field, known ortr the
• country as the home of the great
Aggie athletic teams, might well
- be called the home of Texas Ag
gie Intramural sports and physical
education work. Of course the Ag
gie tatercollogiate teams bring
fame and financial aid to the de
partment of physical education of
the college, but the main aim and
work of the physical education de
partment is to prepare students to
serre as physical education in
structors ;in high school, to better
the physical condition of the stu-
dent body as a whole and to pro
vide healthful and pleasant recrea
tion, exercise and competition for
eVery student who desires it. '
There is some kind of athletics
for erery student and the facili
ties of the giant athletic plant of
the college are turned over to the
intramural department during the
year. How well the department’s
intramural program has succeed
ed in reaching all the students is
shown by records during the past
years. This year has been the best
that has ever been enjoyed by the
intramural athletic ,department
with the largest number of boys
to take part in some phase of in
tramural competition than in any
previous year in proportion to the
enrollment of the student body.
There has been approximately
eighty percent of the student body
that has taken active work in six
teen intramural sports offered.
Last year, the figure was only
slightly below this when 1317 dif
ferent boys took part in the intra
mural sports of a school enroll
ment of about 2000. The total
number of entries during the prog
ram last year was 4008. This com
parison shows that the boys who
yearly
is run in such a
mankier as to crants wholesome
competition among the different
orgamtations on the campus thus
arousing interest among the stu
dent* to such an extent that they
are anxious to participate in the
contests. The work is carried on
by interested students as much as
possibk in the following way.
A* the beginning of each new
school year a call is issued to all
EX-AGGIES BOAST
ASSOCIATION 20
THOUSAND STRONG
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Twenty thousand brotaers Is a
big family, but that’s the number
of Former Students aad Graduates
who have passed through the
portals of the A and M College of
Texas. Like any other group of
brothers there occasionally arise
r.K-k-throwing disagreements, but
these are strictly private and woe
unto him who interferes as an out-
sophomores who care to come out aider. The Association of Former
Students is the organised effort
and ekpression of these former
students.
While a majority of the men
who have attended A and M since
its doors were opened in 1876 live
in Texas and its bordering states
and pork for a place on the staff.
At the end of the year medals are
awarded to the four boys whose
work has been outstanding and
these tour are carried over to the
next year as junior managers. The
junior managers receive heavy in
tramural numeral sweaters at the ( of Oklahoma, Louisans, Arkansas,
end of the year and the two whose and New Mexico, there remain
work has been most meritorious hundreds of its sons who make
are selected as senior intramural
managers for the year to follow.
The two senior managers receive
beautiful gold watches at the end
of the year as a final reward for
their laibors.
There is a company intramural
manager in each of the twenty-six
different organisations on the cam
pus whose duty it is to look after
the intramural activities of his or
ganization. The organisation com
mander selects the intramural
manager for his company on the
basis of his ability and interest.
As an added stimulus to eliminate
forfeitures to as large extent as
possible a handsome pen and pen
cil set is presented to the company
manager who has the smallest
their homes in nearly every city
of the United States and without
exception in every state of the
Union. Foreign countries and ob
scure posts of the world find
their A and M representatives.
'Wherever engineering or modern
agricultural work is to be done
there can usually be found an A
and M man.
The purposes of the Association
of Former Students are roughly
three-fold; to be of service to their
Alma Mater and its student body,
to be of service to each other, and
to keep fresh the bonds of friend
ship between A and M men. No
school of equal sise and rank in
this country has the deep feeling
of friendship and the conscious-
President of the Board of Directors
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BATTALION SPORTS EDITOR PAINTS
A VIVID
FAMOU!
[CTURE OF THE
IG DAY GAME
waved to the corps to “talk to
the team.”
, A« the “twelfth man” in the
stands is screaming “com* bn ole
away,” something strange seems
to be happening to the eleven Ag-
r>es on the field, their weary
muscles that had long before spent
their energy seem to be strength
ening and the lagging spirit of
the players seems to .be renewing
its will to fight on and on. Some
thing more than the sound is cora
in the wind. This day there ln f from those straining voices—
was an orange and white banner something..that sends a tingling
marked Longhorns on the pole down the back of every one nf the'
next fee the maroon banner mark- players—something that the ex-
ed Texas Aggies. It was the last students are feeling when bears
game of a season which had not come in their eyes as they think
been so good, but still the cadet of the days when they were
corps had victory in their minds students. But soon the old “exes’*
and fight in their hearts. forget about the old days, they
. To one observing the small are looking at the eleven fighting
groups moving to the stadium, a i men out there on the field and
To one not inspired by the fc>re
shadowing of a great struggle,
that November day was cold and
drab and dull. The chilling wind
was conducive for on* to stay in
doors sitting comfortably before a
warm fire—but not so for those
two thousand cadets who were
anxiously treking toward the
stadium—tdarard Kyle Field with
its many banners and'tags flew
number of forfeitures during the ness of a common bond that exists
year.
Besides the intercollegiate sports
of football, basketball, baaeball,
track, cross country, swimming,
tennis, golf, and rifle shooting, the
intramural department adds six
teen sports to this list. They are:
intramural football, baaketball.
playground baseball, tennis, speed-
ball, rifle shooting, cross-country,
handball, volleyball, horseshoe
participate are entering the dif- pitching, boxing, wrestlyg, intra-
ferent sports as they become in mural golf, intramural track, in-
season, thus allowing students the tramura! swimming, and ping
benefit of all year round adequate
physical training.
Under the leadership of W. L.
Penberthy <director of the intra
mural department, the intramural
department is very efficient in its
organisation, records are kept of
the participation of every student
and their advancements, and the
pong. Close watch is taken of the
intramural contests and when a
boy seems to have natural ability
among the great family of A and
M men.
An outstanding feature of the
organised work of the sons of A
and M is the development during
the past 10 years of its student
loan funds. Now totalling over
$100,000, these funds have made
possible the college attendance of
thousands of students.
A and M men have been noted
for “sticking together,” and this
quality has proved of immense
personal value to hundreds of
them. To maintain that quality,
to cement the brotherly and friend
ly feeling among the sons of the
Editor’s Nqte: This short artidle take ^was made. A young man can
was written by F. M. Law, preti- get jbst about all that he needs'at
dent of the Texas A and M Board that institution to prepare him
of Directors) president of tie 1 for life.
First National Bank of Houston. Th* Class of 1896, with which I
and president of the American j graduated, will have ita Fortieth
Bankers Association which ia 4$* ; Anniversary 'next year, so it will
highest office to be held in the be I have been out of college
banking profession. ; for a long time. Never have I re
gretted my choice, and if I had it
to do!over again. I would not hesi
tate to apply for membership in
the famous Aggie Freshman Club.
—F. M. LAW
When as a seventeen year ohi
high school graduate I decided to
go I* the A land M Oofteg* <jf
Texas for collage training, no mia-
New Petroleum and Geology Building
in any p( the intramural sports,, institution, and to make them-
he is invited to try out for the
varsity spert. Some of the great
est athletes of the school have
been found and trained in ' this
man nqt.
selves helpful to their College, are
the ambitions and the hopes of A
and M men as expressed thru their
organisation, the Association of
Former Students.
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COLLEGE YMCA IS New Chemical Engineering Building ”
A RECREATIONAL
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CENTER AT A & M
The YMCA building is sit
uated practically in the heart of
the campus. It is a center of stu
dent recreation and is regarded as
a general meeting place by every- >
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The first noor of the building
contains a spacious lobby that ex
tends across Che building, a chapel ^ o, ein | atry Building, erected in 1929-1933 at la coat of $500,000,
with seating capacity of about 2fi0, contm j na laboratories, class rooms, administrative qffices, auditorium
and the Y M C A offices. On the and 9tore for the department of Chemistry and Chemical En-
second floor there is a large par
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llillMI
once again they become part of
the corps as they can no longer
back their own yells—and
those boys on the field, their
jaws are set and they plant their
toe* in the ground, they’re moving
forward—they're gaining. Again
•M.again they crash inte the
heavier enemy—again and again
they gain. The “something” that
is coming from the Aggies in the
stands is strengthening the nerves
of the Aggies op the field. Some
unseen power seems to be coming
from the stands as the players
push closer snd closer to the goal.
Soon they are over, the goal is
kicked, and when the game ends,
the score stands Aggies 7—Long-
boras 6. The miracle has happen- -
ed snd the tradition of Kyle Field
favoring the Longhorns. Sport | >• again upheld as the carets pour
writers and dopesters had looked ont ') the field and carry all players
forward to this game with a ques- off—both friend and enemy, be-
tion in their hearts—they knew cause now they are all friends
the Aggies were hard to beat on »lf*in. Again the “spirit of Aggie-
their h<}me field, but still the ■••'d” has made a real showing of
Longhorns had a powerful team its presence .
and they did not see how anything The * tradition of Kyle Field i*
short of a miracle could cause the widely known and wherever there
thin red wall of Aggieland to stem ia ap ex-Aggie, the spirit of Ag-
the charging line W a heavy Tex- gieland lives on. Over the yean
as University team. Now the that men spend at A aid Me
Longhorns were leading 6-0. They spirit grows and fuses the Student
had crossed the sacred goal line body together in a fashion that ia
of Kyle Field. For a second a not known at any other institu-
pause had come in the Aggie yell- tion of higher learning. This spirit
ing that made an ominous silence has been termed the “Spirit of
cover the field. But this silence Aggieland” and everyone who has
flashing of the eyes and a quicken
ing of the steps of the boys in
their uniforms was the only out
ward evidence of the quick beat
ing of the hearts of the cadets.
But there was more, there was
something unseen coming from
these groups as they were stream
ing into the gates of Kyle Field.
Some strange foSce seemed to be
surging out from the anxious
faces that put a tenseness in the
air and sent shivers down one’s
spine.
The whistle has blown for the
kickoff and a mighty roar comes
from the Aggie section as the
corps yells as a unit. No wonder
they have been nicknamed the
"leather-lunged cadet corps.” But
before long the tide of battle is
The PetrolOum Engineering, Geology,j and Engineering Experi
ment Station Building, erected in 1113.3, contains offices, class rooms,
drafting rooms, and laboratories.
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did not last long for in rapid suc
cession the yell leaders Ifd the
corps in yells. K-Y-L-E
F-I-E-L-D, Farmers fight, gig ’em
Aggies rang over the field and
was followed by a continuous
rumbling yelling as the leaders
attended the school has felt it at
some time or other to such an
extent that it seems to be some
thing tangible, and those who
have felt it seem never to forget
it, so the term has arisen “Once
sn Aggie. Always an Aggie.”
Agricultural Administration Building
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TECHNICAL AND RE8BARCH SIDE OF
ENGINEERING BEING STRESSED BV
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lor in which a number of club
meetings are held and which ia
open for the use of students and
their viaitors, the studio of A and
M College’s radio station. W T A
W, is also located on the second
floor. The top floor is taken up
with rooms and apartments for
professors and graduate students.
In the basement there are seven
billiard and pool tables and a 20 X
50 foot swimming pool. The Y M
C A building also houses Casey’s
Confectionary and an eight-chair,
modemly equipped barber shop.
The “Y” lobby ia adequately fur
nished with large easy chairs and
sofas. Space is provided for ping
pong, dominoes, checkers, and
chess; telephones are available for
local and long distance calls; and
a radio is provided for entertain
ment. Besides several magazines,
two copies daily of eight leading
Texas newspapers are provided.
The lobby also contains a general
information desk froifi which
stamps and stationery may be ob
tained and outgoing mail is col
lected three times daily.
Three years ago the YMCA
built a cabin on an island in the
lake near the dairy. It is an ideal
place for picnics and other gather
ings. Any organisation that is do
ing constructive work on the cam
pus may obtain permission to use
the cabin from th* YMCA sec
retary-
Throughout the year campus res
idents desiring student labor for
yard work or odd jobs list their
names on the labor book in the
“Y” office.
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CHEUCAL ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT
OFFERS PRACTICAL EXPERIMENTS AS
PART DP MODERN PLAN OF INSTRUCTION
“A department of teachers,
whose business is the study of
Muih-nt Instruction- nut merely
research.”; Thus, Dr. C. C. Hedges,
head ef the department of chemis
try, describes the objective of his
staff members, all graduates of
noted‘American colleges.
The Ch^mis^ry department al
present is forging to newer effi
ciency, wiih its modern building,
better equipment, and lately ac
quired facilities. Dr. Hedges be-
w ell-equipped stock-
000 cottonseed oil
by the Texas Cotton-
’ Association, aad a
th* evaluation of
natural gas are all
ich help permit thor-
n of stodentr «-
chemical engineer-
lie ves.
room, a
mill, givi
seed Crui
refinery f<
crude oil
features
ough i
chemistry Und
ing.
Seven graduate students are at
present engaged in research in th*
problems < J cottonseed oil milling,
petroleum defining, vitamin study,
and other pelaUd questions.
On* of [the other experiments
of chief interest
at present) is th* mineralisation
of cottonseed meal. L. W. Huebel.
Glidden, who graduated last year,
is in charge of this project. Ground
lime, ground oyster shells, manga
nese, copper, and iron are the five
minerals which are separately in
troduced into the cottonseed meal
container, preparatory to a final
manufacture of cottonseed meal.
The individual meals are then ob
jectively fed to white rata, and
their food qualities determined.
Another experiment, somewhat
comparable to the other, consists
in the analysis of certain mater
ials, of known vitamin content, for
the determination of substituent
minerals. An effort Is made to
correlate the vitamin and mineral
content of each compound studied.
Also under study, among the
graduate students, are problems of
the photo-cell, thermal conducti
vity, and the sulphur consti
tuents of gasoline.
Dr. Hedges aad his corps of
assistants have all foregone th*
attractive rewards of research in
their field, in order that they may
better apply themselves to teach
ing. Constant lookout is kept in
the department for new teaching
methods, and any expe d i * a t
measure for student instruction.
The last -half of thb year has
seen a change iathe type of course
taught by the Petroleum Depart
ment. Heretofore, the course has
been mainly descriptive, dealing
with elementary field work, in th*
sophomore work, but this semester
the technical, research side of en
gineering has been stressed. R. L.
Mills, B.S., head the Department
of Petroleum Engineering, has
done well in developing the depart
ment as th* science of petroleum
producing has been advanced.
Mr. Mills was <with the Humble
Oil Company for some time. Dur
ing his employment with this com
pany he saw many sides of the pe
troleum industry* which qualified
him for able charge of the depart
ment.
Assistiag him in the instrocing
is Dr. lonel L Gardescu, Pet. E.
and Ph. D M who Is consulting en
gineer for the Texas Company. It
was through Dr. gardescu that Dr.
Stephanescu, ChiSf ' Engineer for
a Roumanian oil company, cam*
to give an intending talk to the
club on Roumaniasi oil production.
Dr. Gardescu has been doing quite
a bit of research work lately on th*
behavior of gas in oil production,
and has several articles in the cur
rent oil periodical*.
The department boasts a fine ar
ray of equipment iwhich is em dis
play ia the Petroleum Geology
Building.
The Geology Department has
held quit* a few field trips this
spring, on which the students pot
into active use their newly-acquhr-
ed geological deducting ability by
eaaminidg the surrounding coun
try’s bedrock formations and geo-
lok'-icsl structure. The work has
i>r l-'dl admirably this year.
i Dr. J. ;T. Lonsdale. Ph. D., head
of the Ceology Department, has
given ov,er his laboratory equip
ment to (the use of research work
irt the historic field. The problem
of thb work b to determine under
exactly what conditions certain
tfrpe* of fish can live, in order to
more easily ascertain the climatic
conditions in certain epochs of th*
egrth’s ijistory, Bine* fosMIa of
these fis|| are in evidence in cer
tain forrqs lions.
fir. F.jA. Burt. M. S.. and Dr
FL B. Ste^sil, Ph. D^ assist in the
instruction and lecturing, both be
ing capable in their respective lin
es} of work.
Many interesting fossils, which
of plants and animal
ia the rock forma-
on dbplay in the Pet-
Geology Building, s-
with pertain curious rocks snd
ad miniatures repreaen-
sections in dsscrib-
of geology,
ing b new, being con
st riuctsd lapt year under that year’s
building program. Its walb are
decorated with significant fixtnres
and symbols of geology and petro-
InAib Thajhaseaent b devoted to
mechanical laboratories. The first
and second) floors comprise the lec
ture and jelaaa rooms, while the
third flood ia devoted to reaaarch
iabora 1 .>n«s It b of modern *r-
chiteetur*, : with a bluestone tower
over the center.
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The Agricultural Building, erected in 1922. contains administra
tive offices for the School of Agriculture, and offices, class rooms, and
laboratories for various agricultural departments.
Interviews With Freshmen And
Seniors Reveal Hazing Absent
On Texas A and M Campus
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After some students
were questioned on the subject of
hazing last week, one would draw
the conclesion that hazing, using
the term as it is generally applied,
as an institution in A and M b a
thing of the past. There were
about tea seniors, mostly battery,
troop, or company commanders,
and tea freshmen who were select
ed St random from practically
every organisation on the campus
that expressed themselves on the
snbjsct.
There has been n growing move
ment on the A and M campus dur
ing the past few years to dis
courage hazing. Some students
have been far sighted enough to
believe that hazing has reUrde.l
the growth of the schools since its
.ii<sdvantages outweigh Rs advan
tages and have used their in
fluence to aid in dropping Unng
from th* traditions of tbs institu
tion.
Contrary to the general belief,
there was no baaing on the A and
M campus before the war. Tha
reasons for thb sm
th# fact that tha
whole were older and more inde
pendent than the cadeta to follow
them after the war. Abo at this
Linve th* .school was small aad
under strict military discipline.
Following the war hazing became
a general practice and probably
reached its height about seven
years ago. Since that time there
has been a gradual but steady
change to the pther extreme—no
hazing at alL
After A and M had suffered
such a. decrease in enrollment in
1931, n number of changes were
made to^ encourage students to ,
come to X and M. On* of th* first
steps that was taken was to defi
nitely stamp out basing from the
tradition* of the students in A and ^
M. With the aid of the upperclass
men, the college officials have been
abb to remove hazing although
some seemingly drastic measurs#
were uaqd to accomplish thb act.
In order to bring th* facts about
basing before the people who «r*
. r' - cd ia Tma A and M, tha
following seniors have stated that
to tha bant of their knowledge tha#
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