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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Nov. 7, 1934)
I Simmons Addresses c Freshmen Sunday in Prison System Talk L*e Simmons, Saporintcndent of th« Prison System of Tszss, de livered an address based on his work, to the freshman class ia the mess hall Sunday morning. He was introduced by U. I* Caahion, sec retary of the College Y M C A. Simmons is a graduate of Tex as University. He hsa been doing his present work for some twen ty years. ~ In hi* speech Sunday he stated, “Over 3000 men enter state prisons in Texas each year and as many leave. Ninety per cent of these are in prison because they are afraid of work. Citizens must Isarn that they may only live by the ‘tweet of their brow' and obedience to constitutional authority. “The home, the state, and the church are three agencies for the - buidling of citizenship. When citizen fails to respond to agencies, hs is sent to our ‘school’. It is our duty to show thorn that they can, and most, work honest ly to get by in life. n Little Theatre Club Produces Two Plays ■■ i Booth Tarkington's ode act farce, “The Trysting Place,” . one act of the ancient Greek drama, “Agamemnon,” by Aoochylua, presented by the A and M little theatre club at its meeting Tliars- day night in the As bury room of the library. The first play, “The ' Trysting Place,” dealt with the mix-up which occured when three different coop- lea,’ all anxious to avoid discovery, used the same spot as a meeting place. The play featured amusing dialogue, clever characters, and fare is 1 situations. The cast includ ed Mrs. A. R. Emery. R. E. Eris- man. Miss Ana bells Barnes, Miss Dorothy Doens, Harold Bray, W. S. McCalley, and Prank Shipman. Mr. McC alley directed the produc tion. The “Agamemnon” was sn en tirely different type of play. A sombre tragsdy.-it showed the vic torious return of the Greek king Agamemnon (R. L. Murray) from the siege of Troy, and his death at the hands of his wife Clytemneetra (Mrs. L G. Adams). The greater part of the play consisted of a dialogue between Cassandra (Mrs. Elizabeth Cook), a captive Trojan princess and prophetess, and an elder of the cit? (C. L. Coleman). Cassandra prophecied the death of Agamemmon, and the remainder, of the play carried eut the fulfillment of her prophecy. THC BATTALION AGGIE FISHES' TO M RICE ■ E FRIDAY Tutu red here to A. rDwT) Elliott, affectionally known to thousands of col lege students as a broadmind ed lecturer on campus re ligious problems. He will be at A and M Sunday, November 18,’to begin a week of active aenrice among the members of the Corps. \ Short Course For Police Officers Held Big Success ! • Prominent Peace Officers in Attendance; Various In structkxM Given Glee Cltlb Considers Houston Engagement Plans for a trip to Houston are being formulated by the Glee club, L. D. Cox, Houston, business man ager, stated Sunday night. With n few more practice meetings of the clnb Cox said that more def inite arrangements would be made as to the date of the trip. Cox added that other trips for the year included Galveston, Beau mont, San Antonio, Huntsville, Caldwell, and several to Bryan. Most of these tripe will be made to high schools and churches and a set program ia to be followed in each presentation, w This years work will be devoted mainly to popular music although different arrangement of classical and semi-classical pieces are to be presented from time to time. Cox added that there were only forty- five active members at ths present time, but that Iprtopsd to have a much larger and mere representa tive group before the club started its spring tour. Many prominent men in police circles wore ia attendance at the recently concluded Short Course for Peace Officers, which was declared huge success by E. W. Steele, professor of municipal and sanitary engineering, who was a member of the advisory committee that spon sored the short courae Some of the notables included: W. W. (Bill) Sterling, former Ad jutant General and ex-Aggie; L. G. Pharos, Chief SUte Highway Patrol; R. D. Thorpe, Chief of Po lice, Austin; H. B. Lewis, Chief of Police, Fort Worth; Frank Mills, Sheriff, Coleman County; Jim In gram. Chief of Police, Ranger; and Owen W. Kilday, Fhe and Police Commissioner, San Antonio. The instructors far ths short course consisted ofmen outstanding in their fields from .the police de partment personnel* of the var ious cities. ASSEdhHLY HALL BORN TO BE BAD with "LiT Owls’* Are Considered Strongest Freshman Team In Texas With the hardest gam* of ths season only two days away, Coach Roswell Higginbotham has been drilling kiis Aggie freehmen at full speed for the game Friday at Kyle Field against the Rice Freehmen. The Aggie Fish have no certain individual star, bat are believed a well balanced, well drilled unit that will give the Rice Slime* prob ably more than they are expecting when they come here Friday. Among the outstanding men on the fish team that will likely see action Friday are: Horne, Young, Moore, Drennan, Edwards, Broden- beam. Blunt, Wilson, Cook, Cox, Lindsey, Ehnendorf, Church, Smith Morrow, Fletcher, Puryear, Nance, Stngner, Seago, Hallmark. HiU, Shockley, Schrader, Powell, Pot- thast, Duncan. Jones, Vitek, Peer- son, Boyd, Jockson, Williams, Nss- resta, and Mills. Mills is a brother of tbs oaa who starred for the Aggies a few years ag$. ('nminoloify Subject of Addrrs.H by Dr. I Russell Ths Industrial Arts Club met at 7:90 Sunday night in the Agricul tural building and was addressed by Dr. A. M. Russell, Professor of Sociology, upon criminology and its bearing upon the study of sociol ogy. The address was bassd upoa Dr. Ruasall’s studies in ths larger cities and especially upon condi- ns ia Chicago as Dr. Russell found them this past summer. The address by Dr. Russell was on* of a series which the officers of ths club have arranged and will be presented every two weeks There is an inscription on ths bulletin board outside n Church on ths Northwestern University Cam pos which mys, “do yen know what hell to?* Underneath is written in saaall print, “com* in and hear oer organist.” ' Olivet College, Olivet, inch, has innovated a new system *f study ing that would be well received by a lot ef students at other-colleges Under the new system the student will be allowed to pursue bis stud ies in any way that he sees fit, under ths guidance of a faculty tutor. The class** will be merely group discussions of current topics at which papers will be tend and the topics discussed in a very in formal way. In fact some of the class** are so informal that the students smoke in class. Sport* and various kinds of athletic will constitute the program \ Compulsory military dfill, for many years a thorn in the side of I 1 students at the University of Min nesota, ha* been abandoned main ly through the efforts of tho daily collage newspaper, is hue The t*p*r Waged n long fight against the regulation and in spite of tremendous administration op- positiorLffeMr ’ »ucceeded > in bringing enough pressure to beer on the board at regents to cease it to take derisive action in the matter. It is Said on the campus that the victory of this long drawn oat fight is s feather in ths cap of college journalism. No freshman caps will be worn at the University of Utah this year. They cost too much and the second year students can’t force the Frosh to V*sr them. There most be considerably more fresh men than sophomores at Utah. The staff of 9>* Spectator, Miss issippi State College for Women, goes back isto the flies of ths col lage humor paper dated March 22, 1924 to dig this one up: “Dr. Bailey had been giving the Schik test ts girls in bar classes when she re ceived a note from one of the pupil’* parents: ‘Me and my wife have both rend “The Sheik” apd w* don’t thing the test would be good for Mary. Please excuse her.” Iowa State students voted that dancing ability ia the prime re quisite of a date, male or female, with money running a close sec ond. If you are broke and can’t dance you may ns well go shoot GRUNWOOD COURT Modern TWarist Quarters South Side Courthouse Bryan. Texas DR8. LAWRENCE and YORK Dentists Offices: Greenwood Courts Bryan, Texas For Style, Comfort, Service PETERS SHOES ~ i :! will stand comparison with any shoe you ever saw near this price. ALL THE NEW LEATHERS IN RROWN A TAN . $3.95 $4.95 GUARANTEE SHOE STORE ’ QUALITY FOOTWEAR When la Deebt About Your Byes or Your Glasses CpapdR J. 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