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Page 8 ■THE BATTALION ■MONDAY MORNING, SEPT. 21, 1942 Singing Cadets Of Aggieland WELCOME AGGIES SAVE MONEY ON YOUR A & M UNIFORM GUARANTEED STRICTLY REGULATION ★ ★ ★ Buy Your Sheets, Towels, Rugs, Pillows and Other Needs at Ward’s Regulation Cap . $ 3.95 AMC Cap Ornament .... .69 Rain Cap Cover .. .49 Regulation Hat ..... 4.95 Hat Cnrd .25 Thin Strap .25 Broadcloth Shirt ... 1.95 Poplin Shirt 2.95 AMC Collar Ornament, Pair .69 Collar Ornaments, Pair .79 to 1.00 Patches (Sewed on Free) .10 Fish Slacks (All Wool) 9.90 High Back Bombay Slacks ..... 3.25 Trench Coat (Regulation) .. 4.95 Gaberdine Trench Coat, Split Tail 11.95 Sam Browne Belt ... 2.95 Aggie Lab. 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If so, then your talents aren’t appreciated and you should join the nationally-known Singing Cadets, where for all the world you may sing, sing, and then if you want to sing a little, you" can sing! (They sing when things get monotonous.) This all-Aggie 100 voice group, under the very able direction of Richard Jenkins, is recognized as one of the finest male glee clubs in the country. It is made up of Well, the I) an 4wagon contest and show is over, except in the minds of those who attended the program and those that helped put the show over. From the mom ent the band left the campus un til it came back, every minute was filled with real excitement. Every time we turned around there was a former student to pat us on the back and ask how the school had changed. The boys stayed in the Adolphus Hotel where there also happened to be a squadron of Exes. Man-o-man, bull sessions were a dime a dozen for three days. Many have asked me if the station wagon really broke down and if the boys had to hitch-hike on in to Dallas. The answer is de finitely YES. First, a tire blew out at Marlin and the second time in Corsicana; however, it wasn’t over an hour before all the fellas were together in Dallas. Friday morning the band re hearsed in the WFFA studios and posed for pictures. At noon the orchestra was the guest of the A. & M. Exes Club in the Adolphus Ballroom, where we found out that the Aggies run Dallas. After more practice, the band was free until Saturday morning. (Don’t ask me where we were that night.) Saturday morning—more re hearsing, and at two in the after noon we went down to the train to meet ’ole F. W. himself. Of course, there was a photog on hand to record the memorable occasion. Saturday night—Curley called C. Q. at eleven, threatening everyone with Senior Court if they weren’t in their rooms—all three of them. Sunday we rehearsed until al most five o’clock, leaving an hour in which to get back up town, dress, and get back. The Fair Park Audi torium started filling up around five and at six, they were stand ing around the walls. All in all, there were around 6,000 people in cluding 300 Aggies. Tobe Reed be gan entertaining the crowd a few, minutes before the show started in order to get the audience in the proper frame of mind, and believe me fellas Tobe and the other men that composed the staff are really “down to earth” fellows. Just to give you an idea—he introduced himself to the boys in the band and before he left he knew every one’s name. The last thing he said to us before we left Dallas—“I’ll see you in Austin on Thanksgiv- ing Day for the football game of the year, and I’m betting my month’s salary on the Aggies. If I win, I’m going to buy four war bonds with the money.” Wisconsin University Modernizes Studies More than a score of changes de signed to modernize and liberalize the curriculum of the college of letters and science, largest teach ing division of the University of Wisconsin, were given the unani mous approval of the general facul ty of the state university recently. The changes were recommended in a faculty committee’s 14-page report containing 26 sections rang ing all the way from important changes in rules regarding present courses of study to provision for at least three new board survey courses designed to help students keep abreast of the times. 100 voices which have survived strict eliminations. Featured as a Town Hall attraction annually, they never fail to thrill the corps with their rousing choruses. Again this year, the freshmen will be given an opportunity to join this organization. You needn’t be prospective opera talent either, because all Dick Jenkins asks is that you can carry a tune. Fresh men have a special club within the Singing Cadets, and the new Freshman Club will be organized during Freshman Week, said Jen kins today. * Meetings and rehearsals are held three times weekly, and there is more to the meetings than work. The Cadets work as a campus club under the auspices of the Student Activities Office, and elect offi cers just like all other organiza tions. Officers for the coming se- We will never be able to thank everyone for putting us on the bandwagon, but to you the Corps— Thanks, fellas and we hope you enjoyed it as much as we enjoyed putting it on for you and spread ing the fame of THE MIGHTY TEXAS AGGIE just a little far ther around the world. mester are: Tommie Collins, pres ident; Marion Lyle, vice-president; Bernay Martin, business manager; Edward Kingery, publicity; and J. J. Hill, librarian. Divided into two groups, the Singing Cadets will meet from 6 until 7 on Mondays and Fridays and from 8 until 9 on Tuesday nights. Try-outs will be conducted Tues day afternoon in the Assembly Hall, with Jenkins supervising. Anyone interested in music, singing, or what have you, should come by the Assembly Hall any time this week for a try-out. Take it from me, brother, it doesn’t take a Crosby to hit the bell. Last year the Singing Cadets entered the Fred Waring Nation al Collegiate glee club competition and each man in the club received a sterling silver medal. Tours are made each year, and provided transportation can be se cured, no changes will be made in plans for the usual trips this year. However, this year’s iten erary will include army camps where the Cadets will sing for the boys in the armed forces. Jenkins says that membership in the Singing Cadets will mean more this year than ever before, because the club will have more activities than usual, and fun and experience will be had for the tak ing. So, if you like to sing while you scrub, save your voice for national defense and join the Sing ing Cadets. FRESHMEN WE WANT TO WELCOME YOU TO AGGIELAND Let Us Help Make Your Stay Here a Pleasant One CALDWELL’S JEflELRY STORE BRYAN WELCOME FISH... Contact Us For Standard Cleaning and Pressing All Kinds of Tailor Work PASLER TAILOR SHOP Phone 4-4264 Joe Pasler, Prop. West Park TAXI-CABS & IN A HURRY ? For Safe, Quick Transportation Ride One of Our Cabs s*JET way • TAXI • Smith & Burley Bryan Phone 2-1400 GET YOUR NEXT TERM SUPPLIES EARLY! School Supplies, Inks and Fountain Pens Electrical Supplies, Radio Aerials, Window Shades, Waste Baskets Brooms, Lamps, Tennis Shoes A-M-C Stationery, Shoe Polishes CAMPUS VARIETY STORE North Gate Musical Meanderings By BILL MURPHY