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COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, TUESDAY MORNING, NOV. 23, 1939
Bonfire and Dance
Scheduled For
Wednesday Night
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Aggieland Set For Thanksgiving Festivities
Many Events Are On
Schedule For Days
Preceding Holiday
Facilities
Arranged
For Crowd
Both Mess Halls
Will Be Open For
Visitors Thursday
The first sell-out crowd ever to
witness a game on Kyle Field and
one of the largest in the history
of the Southwest Conference will
be on hand Thursday for the forty-
sixth renewal of the annual battle
between the Texas Aggies, un
beaten and untied this year, and
the Texas University Longhorns,
who have had their most success
ful season since they won their
last championship back in 1930.
All of the 38,336 seats, 5,000
more than the normal capacity of
the stadium, have been sold, and
no more tickets will be available,
according to E. W. Hooker, secre
tary of the Athletic Department.
With limited facilities for car
ing for such an overflow of hu
manity on the campus, certain dif
ficulties are bound to arise. Some
of the problems which will be con
fronted by visitors here are crowd
ed streets and highways, limited
eating facilities, limited parking
space and lack of proper facilities
for the orientation of the thou
sands of visitors who are unfa
miliar with the campus.
' To cope with these and other in
conveniences, several rules and
regulations were adopted by a com
mittee formed for the purpose,
which met in Col. Ike Ashburn’s
office Thursday.
To help keep the traffic situa
tion from getting out of hand. Col
onel Moore has requested that all
College Station residents who own
automobiles to refrain from driv
ing them on Thursday, except in
cases of emergency. In addition,
approximately seventy A. & M.
students have been appointed tem
porary military police to direct
the heaviest traffic at strategic
points.
To help solve the parking prob
lem, there will be four large park
ing spaces: the drill field, the area
just west of Law Hall, the area
between Kyle Field and the pro
ject houses, and the area south of
the new mess hall.
Lunch will be served to visitors
in both dining halls on Thursday,
beginning at eleven o’clock, with
a charge of 35^ per person. In ad
dition, two or more lunch stands
will be set up and operated by stu
dents under the supervision of O.
R. Simpson. Kegs of drinking
water will be distributed over the
campus for the convenience of
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Vanity Fair
Pictures Must
Be In By Jan. 1
Dormitories To Be Dedicated Thursday Morning
O’Daniel Will Accept New Dormitories In Behalf
Of State At Dedication Ceremonies Here Thursday
Senior Favorites To
Be In At Same Time
All
Must Be On Glossy Finish
Costs and specifications for
pictures to appear in the Senior
Favorites and Vanity Fair sections
of the 1940 Longhorn were an
nounced today by Mick Williams,
who is in charge.
Entries for the Senior Favorites
section must be a glossy finished
6x7 photograph of bust length
without hat and without by-line.
The cost for printing will be $1.50.
Vanity Fair entries may be ei
ther an 8x10 bust length or 8x10
full length standing photograph.
Both types must be made in formal
clothing and gloss finished. The
printing cost will be $3.50.
All entries for both sections with
amount required for printing must
be turned in by January 1 to Wil
liams at 98 Law.
Dedication of perhaps the larg-'
est number of college buildings at
a single ceremony which ever took
place in this country will be held
Thursday morning at 10:30 on the
new campus preceding the annual
football classic between Texas A.
& M. and the University of Texas.
A total of fifteen buildings will be
dedicated and officially named.
President T. O. Walton will pre
side as master of ceremonies, and
music will be furnished by the Ag
gie Band.
The dedicatory address will be
given by F. M. Law, president of
the Board of Directors, and W. Lee
O’Daniel, Governor of Texas, will
accept the twelve new dormitories
on behalf of the state of Texas.
Homer P. Rainey, president of
the University of Texas, will intro
duce the honoree of the occasion,
the honorable Jesse H. Jones of
Houston, to whom the Aggie-Long
horn football game has been dedi
cated.
The new buildings will be offi-Tof the Board of Directors; 3'
cially named as follows: 1. D. W. Charles P. Fountain, former head
Spence, former dean of engineer- of the English department; 4 Rob
ing; 2. Edwin J. Kiest, member ert W. Briggs, member of the
Let’s Show Visitors The True “Spirit
Of Aggieland” Thursday, Say Leaders
An Editorial Expression
Thanksgiving Day will bring to our campus the largest
crowd of visitors ever to honor the Aggies with their presence
here. People are coming from near and far for two reasons:
first, to witness our football team in action; and second, to
visit our campus and get a close-up of our cadet corps. Never
during the history of the college has there been such an op
portunity to impress upon the people of Texas and neighbor
ing states the genuine hospitality, greatness and worth of our
school and our student body.
Our facilities will, quite naturally, be overtaxed in trying
to accommodate this huge gathering, but that gives us an even
greater opportunity to help and to serve our visitors and to
show them the “Spirit of Aggieland.”
We, as students, fail to realize fully the impression vis
itors form of our courtesy or lack of it; so let’s do everything
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Board of Directors; 5. C. S. Gain
er, former state senator of Bryan;
6. Walter G. Lacy, member of the
Board of Directors; 7. L. L. Mcln-
nis, former chairman of the fac
ulty; 8. Henry C. Schuhmacher,
member of the Board of Directors;
9. Byrd E. White, former mem
ber of the Board of Directors; 10.
G. Rollie White, member of the
Board of Directors: 11. H. H. Har
rington, former president; 12. Joe
Utay, member of the Board of
Directors; new dining hall, W. A.
Duncan, former supervisor of sub
sistence; Electrical Engineering
building, F. C. Bolton, vice-presi
dent of the college; and the Civil
Engineering building, James C.
Nagle, former dean of engineering.
The two latter buildings are not in
cluded in the group of recently
completed structures, but are lo
cated on the old campus and were
previously unnamed.
Freshman Game, Bonfire And Dance
On Wednesday; Dedication Of New
Dorms, Varsity Game On Thursday-
Probably the busiest and most history-making day-and-a-half
ever seen on the campus will begin here on Wednesday afternoon and
will close late Thursday night as the last of the 6,000 students leave
for their respective destinations.
The Aggie Fish and the Texas University Shorthorns, freshman
teams of the two schools, will begin the Thanksgiving program Wed
nesday afternoon, in a preview of x •
the varsity clash to follow the next
afternoon. The fray will take place
on Kyle Field if the weather is
dry.
Wednesday night after supper,
the annual bonfire rituals will be
held. The largest bonfire ever built
here, one on which the 2,000 fresh
men have been laboring for over a
week, will be set off, and in its
glow the last regular yell practice
of the year will take place. Coach
Norton will introduce the seniors
who are to play their last game
for A. & M. on Kyle Field the next
day. Other members of the team
will also be introduced, and each
of them will say, in a few words,
exactly what he intends to do to
Texas University on the following
afternoon.
Following the bonfire, cadets
and their dates, as well as visit
ing students from the University,
will attend the Bonfire Dance,
which begins at 9 p. m. Tommy
Littlejohn and his Aggieland Or
chestra will play for the occasion.
On Thursday morning at nine
o’clock, one of the oldest traditions
of A. & M., the Elephant Walk,
will take place. It will extend from
the Y. M. C. A. along Military
Walk to the old mess hall and back,
as in former years. The seniors,
boots and spurs on, shirt-tails out,
will march in single file, in a
twisting line which portrays the
last journey of an old or wounded
elephant, that realizes he is of no
further use to younger members of
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TWO DANCES ON
SCHEDULE FOR
AGGIES, VISITORS
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Tommy Littlejohn To
Play For Bonfire Dance
And Thanksgiving Prom
Gala Thanksgiving holiday spir r
it will reign at the colorful Bon
fire Dance to be held in Sbisa Hall
Wednesday night and the Thanks
giving Prom Thursday night.
Mingled with the cadets will be
thousands of visitors—University
of Texas students and coeds, re
turning ex-students, and hundreds
of others here for the classic Aggie-
Longhorn tilt. Gay football crowds
and spirit of the Thanksgiving holi
days will make these functions by
far the most colorful of the fall
dance season.
The Bonfire Dance will be held
Wednesday night following the
bonfire and will last from ten to
one o’clock. The Thanksgiving
Prom will be Thursday night from
nine till twelve.
Tommie Littlejohn and his Ag
gieland Orchestra will be featured
on both occasions, playing swing
music in the same manner that has
been so pleasing in the past. In
addition the new hit song by Jack
Littlejohn, “I’d Rather Be A Texas
Aggie,” which has proved a dis-
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NORTON, TEAM WILL SPEAK AT
TRADITIONAL BONFIRE WED. NIfiHT
Following the last regular yell-
practice of the season on the Y
steps Wednesday night, the largest
bonfire in the history of A. & M.
will be set off on the drill field
where the fish have been working
for 10 days.
Coach Homer Norton will ad
dress the corps, telling them what
to expect on Kyle Field Thursday
afternoon. After his own address,
Coach Norton will introduce the
eight seniors who will play their
last game, as well as the other
members of the squad. Each of
these men will tell the corps just
what he is going to do to the
Longhorns the next day.
The seniors playing their last
game Thursday are Joe Boyd, all-
American tackle; Cotton Price,
back; Herb Smith, end; Joe White,
end; and Bill Audish, back, all of
whom have lettered for the last
two years; Bill Duncan, end, who
lettered last year; Frank Wood,
back; and Gus Bates, end.
Senior yell leaders Bodie Pierce
and Bert Bums will make a last
appeal to the cadet corps to sup
port the team, though this will
probably be unnecessary. Junior
yell leaders Buster Keaton and
Foots Bland will also take their
turn on the stand, preparing for
next year when they will take
over the reins and lead the Aggie
yells for a year.
As the huge bonfire becomes
only a pile of embers, and the last
yell dies away, the Aggies and
their dates and guests will adjourn
to the old mess hall for the annual
Bonfire Dance.
Season Tickets
Will Be Good For
Symphony Concert
Contrary to a rumor now in cir
culation, the Houston Symphony
Orchestra will appear at College
Station under the auspices of Texas
A. & M. Town Hall on December
12, and season tickets for the same
will be honored. It is believed
that the rumor is based on the fact
that they could gain admission to
mission prices was set up by the
Student Activities Committee,
which caused many people to think
that they could gain admission to
the performance only by paying at
the door.
The prices will be as follows:
For students, either of A. & M. or
high schools, 50 cents; for adults
attending the performance with a
holder of a season ticket, $1.00;
for other single admisisons, $1.50
All who pay $1.00 or $1.50 will
sit in the reserved seat section.
The reason for allowing season
ticket holders to take guests for
$1.00 is that the management
wishes to make a concession to
those who have supported Town
Hall from the beginning of the sea
son, and who have guests they
would like to have attend the con
cert.
Prices stated 'above are for the
concert only and not for the rest
of the year.