THURSDAY, NOV, 9, 1939-
THE BATTALION
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World’s Most Celebrated Choral Organization To Appear at A.&M.
Serge Jaroff’s Original Don Cossack Chorus Will Present a Program Of
Stirring Folk Melodies and Soldier Songs of Old Russia for Town Hall Series
FORMER ALL-AMERICAN
STAR TO VISIT HERE
A. J. “Dad” Elliott former All-
American football player, is coming
to A. & M. November 21 for the
Y.M.C.A. and will remain on the
campus for five days. Elliott is
probably one of the most dynamic
and influential welfare leaders
among college students in the Unit
ed States. He has worked with
students for the past forty-five
years and today is the oldest ac
tive man in the student Y.M.C.A.
Dad was an All-American foot
ball player in his day and never
leaves a campus without several
talks with the football players.
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Donahue To Speak
For Plant Science
Seminar on Ecology
Dr. Roy L. Donahue, associate
professor of agronomy who has
worked on soil surveys and ecology
of forest and prairie lands, will
address the Plant Science Seminar
Thursday evening, on the subject
“Forest Ecology.”
Dr. Donahue was born in Ring-
gold, Texas, was reared in Kansas,
attended the State College at East
Lansing, Michigan, taught in the
Department of Agronomy in Mis
sissippi and obtained his Ph. D.
at Cornell. He has worked in the
soil survey in Michigan and Mis
sissippi.
The Plant Science Seminar meets
in the Experiment Station assem
bly room at 7:30 Thursday eve
ning, November the 9th.
The public is invited to hear
this discussion.
Beloit College has scheduled two
Thanksgiving holidays this year.
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Concert Will Be
At Guion Hall
Next Thursday
THE WORLD’S MOST CELE
BRATED CHORAL ORGANIZA
TION APPEARS AT TEXAS A.
& M. NEXT WEEK. Last surviv
ing remnant of one of the most
colorful peoples of European his
tory, now almost extinct, and
unique exponents of some of the
most stirring music ever conceived,
which, but for their justly celebrat
ed interpretive powers, might like
wise have been doomed to extinc
tion, the world-famed Don Cos
sacks pay their first visit to Col
lege Station for a concert on No
vember 16, at Guion Hall under
the auspices of the A. & M. Town
Hall. The thirty-six giant “sing
ing horsemen of the steppes,” un
der the leadership of pint-sized
Serge Jaroff, celebrated this year
the sixteenth anniversary of the
organization, which today holds
the record of having sung more
consecutive concerts and appeared
in more cities than any other
choral organization of the world.
With more than 4,000 triumphal
concerts in every country of Europe
as well as in the United States,
Mexico, Australia, New Zealand,
and the Orient behind them, the
Don Cossacks offer for their con
cert here a rare program of the
colorful folk songs and mighty
liturgical music of a Russia that
is no more. The marvelous
sonority and phenomenal compass
of the Don Cossacks, unmatched
by any other chorus in the world,
and the startlingly contrasting
dramatic effects they are able to
achieve by an altogether uncanny
use of the voice, are eagerly antic
ipated by music lovers of this city,
as the most thrilling event of the
season.
Descended from those fiery
brigands of the past who slash
ed through forests and over moun
tains, across swamps and rivers, on
their reckless steeds, to plant the
Russian flag over new and bound
less territories—lusty adventurers
preferring death to subjugation,
and fighting alike for their own
freedom and for Czar and country,
the members of the Don Cossack
Chorus were first organized as
a musical unit in the notorious
“Camp of Death” at Tehelengir
near Constantinople, after the de
feat of General WrangeTs White
Army by the Bolsheviks. (The
Don Cossacks (so called because
they come from that part of Rus
sia through which the River Don
flows), almost all of them former
officers in the Imperial Army, of
fered the last resistance to the
Red Army. Herded into wire cages
like so many beasts, weakened by
cold and hunger and with many of
their number succumbing to the
dread cholera, they sought to for
get the miseries of prison life by
gathering at night about the open
campfire and singing their songs of
the “homestead.” One of the im
prisoned Cossacks, Serge Jaroff,
had ben a choirmaster before the
war. His trained musical ear noted
at once the natural but untrained
beauty of the voices of his fellow
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prisoners, and the idea of the Don
Cossack Chorus was born. On re
lease from the “Camp of Death,”
as exiles to Bulgaria, the “Prison
Chorus,” which Jaroff organized
and trained, drilling them night
and day for more than two years to
an almsot superhuman harmonic
perfection, was permitted to re
main intact. The men were oblig
ed to go to work in the factories
and mines of Sofia, but they con
tinued to carry on their choral
practice at night and the fame of
their wonderfully blended singing
began to spread rapidly. They
were invited to form the choir of
the famed Orthodox St. Sofia Ca
thedral, and soon crowds from all
parts of Europe were flocking to
hear their unique musical ritual.
An astute concert manager, visit
ing the church and envisioning
the countless box-office possibilities
of so unusual an essemble, per
suaded Jaroff and his singers to
give their first recital of secular
songs. Their story from then on
is a record of international suc-
able because of time and travel-
year.
With the exception of the
liturgical music, some of which
has been preserved for posterity
in the works of Gretchaninoff and
Tchaikowsky, the songs of the Don
Cossacks have never been set
down in writing,, but passed along!
vocally from generation to gener
ation in the families of these stal
wart sons of the Don. As a few
Cossacks remaining in Russia to
day are prohibited by Soviet law
from singing the songs of the old
regime any longer, the concerts of
the Don Cossacks are the whole
means by which this once proud
musical heritage is preserved. To
have this amazing Chorus here
with its almost unbelievable basses
descending to incredible depths,
its tenors soaring to heights of
lyrical enchantment and the incred
ible haunting beauty of every num
ber they sing, is certainly the rar
est of musical treats.
The program the Don Cossacks
will present here on November 16
is divided into three parts—the
first devoted to church music, the
second to beautiful and haunting-
folk melodies of Russia, and the
final group to stirring Cossack
soldiers songs accompanied by
shrill calls, barbaric shouts, and
frenzing dancing. v
Both season tickets and single
admission tickets will be available
at the entrance to Guion Hall.
Southwest Conference Football Statistics
(Through Games of Nov. 4)
(Compiled by H.
B. McElroy Texas
A. &
M., from (
official
statistical
summaries
submitted
by
team
representatives.)
A&M-Opp
Ark-Opp
Bay-Opp
Rice-Opp
SMU-Opp
TCU-Opp
Tex-Opp
Games
7
7
6
6
5
6
6
First Downs
.. 84
44
89
53
54
39
75
65
57
32
66
52
46
76
Net Gains Rush
..1022
338
798
729
699
409
705
922
841
424
495
734
927
923
Net Gains Fwd. Pass..
.. 656
286
779
652
467
514
687
564
338
273
885
353
275
557
Net Gains R. & P
..1678
624
1577
1381
1166
923
1392
1486
1179
697
1380
1087
1202
1480
Fwd. Pass Att
.. 132
129
169
114
77
111
145
129
84
63
173
83
82
99
Fwd. Pass Comp
.. 54
36
61
40
28
43
61
56
26
25
89
34
37
41
Per cent Completed
.. .409
.273
.361
.351
.364
.387
.421
.434
.310
.397
.514
.410
.451
.414
Own F.P. Intcpd
.. 14
21
20
8
9
13
13
12
12
8
P
10
9
12
Avg. Punt
.. 37
36
38
37
36
35
40
35
36
35
35
36
33
37
Yds. Lost Pen
.. 426
234
248
375
165
180
158
276
113
194
155
206
222
212
LEADING BALL CARRIERS
(Carried at least 28 times)
Times
Yards Yards
Times
Aver.
Player-School
Carried
Gained Lost
Stopped
Gain
Crain, Texas
66
553 50
1
7.62
Moser, A. & M
55
290 19
2
4.93
Bearden, S. M. U. .
40
171 2
3
4.22
Johnston, S. M. U..
53
239 16
3
4.21
*Cordill, Rice
24
115 14
1
4.21
Conatser, A. & M. .
33
144 ° 20
4
3.76
Mallouf, S. M. U.
33
137 20
0
3.55
John Kimbrough, A. & M 89
317 11
8
3.44
Lyon, Arkansas
41
148 12
3
3.32
Witt, Baylor
58
248 63
6
3.18
Clement, S. M. U. .
33
125 21
2
3.15
Pugh, A. & M
34
116 10
3
3.12
Atwood, Arkansas
35
128 20
6
3.09
Wilson, Baylor
64
234 44
10
2.97
*Lain, Rice
52
165 11
4
2.96
*—Rice-Fordham individual figures not reported.
LEADING PUNTERS
Punted at least 14 times)
Player-School
Punts
Total Yds.
Aver. Yds.
* Cor dill, Rice
18
767
42.6
Eakin, Arkansas ...
44
1780
40.5
*Lain, Rice
14
556
39.7
Johnston, S. M. U....
.17
659
38.8
Conatser, A. & M. ...
27
984
36.4
Grumbles, Baylor ...
27
980
36.3
Crain, Texas
14
504
36.0
*—Rice-Fordham individual figures not reported.
LEADING PASSERS
(Attempted at least 40 passes)
Attempted
Net
Had
Player-School
Passes
Compl. Yds. Intex-cpd.
Compl.
Odle, T. C. U
55
31 242
4
.560
Pugh, A. & M
75
38 436
10
.507
Cowart, T. C. U.
99
48 589
5
.484
*Lain, Rice
101
47 534
7
.465
Eakin, Arkansas ..
122
50 639
14
.410
*—Rice-Fordham individual records not reported.
Editors: See footnote on Crain’s record.
LEADING PASS RECEIVERS
(Caught at least 9 passes)
Player-School
Passes Caught
Yds.
Gained
Clark, T. C. U
17 '
248
Looney, T. C. U.
15
118
Horner, T. C. U
13
172
’•‘Brandon, Rice
12
155
H. Smith, A. & M.
11
154
Adams, Arkansas
9
213
Ware, T. C. U
9
145
Buchanan, A. & M.
9
140
S. Taylor, T. C. U.
9
46
*—Rice-Fordham individual records not reported.
STEEL ADDRESSES
SOCIOLOGY CLUB
E. W. Steel, head of the Depart
ment of Municipal and Sanitary
Engineering, addressed the Rural
Sociology Club on “Rural Sanita
tion,” at its meeting Tuesday night.
The intense interest exhibited in
the subject was evidenced by num
erous questions the club members
asked Mr. Steel.
The club is now formulating
plans to send a group of students
and a department professor to Nova
Scotia this summer for the purpose
of studying the fishing and hous
ing cooperatives there. Students
have shown much interest in the
prospective trip. Anyone interest
ed in sociology is invited to the
next club meeting at which time
further plans for the trip will be
discussed.
ASSKAXJILY
University President
Believes Students
Should Aid In Policies
Franklin Bliss Synder, North
western University’s new presi
dent, believes that students should
contribute their ideas to his insti
tution’s educational and adminis
trative policies and procedure.
And to prove his belief in this
idea, Pres. Snyder recently address
ed an open letter to the student
body asking all undergraduates to
give him advice “as to how the
university can best contribute to
the happiness and welfare of its
students, alumni and faculties, and
of the society which they repre
sent.”
LEADING SCORERS
Player-School T-downs Conver.
John Kimbrough, A. & M 7 0
Crain, Texas 6 5
Conatser, A. & M 5 0
Witt, Baylor 5 0
Moser, A. & M 4 0
Adams, Arkansas 4 0
Johnston, S. M. U 3 0
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Field
Goals
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
Total
Points
42
41
30
30
24
24
21
TEAM STANDINGS
(Full Season)
Team
Won
Lost
Tied
Pet.
Points
Opp. Pi
Texas A. & M 7
0
0
1.000
153
16
S. M. U
3
1
1
.700
68
27
Baylor
4
2
0
.667
93
47
Texas U
4
2
0
.667
81
66
Arkansas
2
5
0
.286
66
105
Rice
1
5
0
.167
51
68
T. C. U
1
5
0
.167
53
80
Conference Season
Team
Won
Lost
Tied
Pet.
Point Opp. Pts.
Texas A. & M. ...
3
0
0
1.000
67
6
S. M. U
1
0
0
1.000
10
0
Baylor
2
1
0
.667
46
27
Texas U
2
1
0
.667
40
35
Arkansas
1
3
0
.250
34
73
Rice
0
1
0
.000
12
26
T. C. U
0
3
0
.000
19
61
Barger Addresses
Brenham Club With
Economic Bases Talk
J. Wheeler Barger, head of the
Department of Agricultural Eco
nomics at A. and M., addressed the
Fortnightly Club at Brenham last
week. His talk dealt with the
economic bases of world peace, and
stressed the growing economic re
lations between the United States
and the Latin-American countries.
The program for the meeting was
arranged by Senator Albert Stone.
On last Thursday evening,
Professor Barger gave an address
at a banquet of the A. & M. For
mer Students Association at Hous
ton.
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