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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 14, 1948)
I 1 ' .V ■ ■ I 't ! & M- 1 > h * / i i 7r 7r« ■ ( - 4 ■7 ^ 11 ■r> .r N i. -7 : : ' /' . . !' 7 L'V / 'll! . i / "w [! ■ ] pi ■; 4 ! S v ■ * [*] 7 s lyt : i >1 7 ! ;:^h ;:ai ' ■ X ITi I ■ / / X a : a a ■4|| '•I m m, . PUBLISHED IN THE INTEREST OF A CHEATER A & M COLLEGE i . 7. i, nr V m i t f47 -AM •;■• • 7 x ■/Mm " • A .• Rlji i lix i.ii : 4: A 5iA , : - 7-x ‘r •Kiri ''iX ■v '.X .X !ii Xtrr I :! j 7 •4. /"i Welcoming l*roup ^ JL- A i. jXT JjlTx t To Meet TCU Train gi «■ '■'4 ■4 • 4 • Jh’f *| , V r!v' '' 'XX 4 ! Special Information Booth Will Be Located on 6 Y’ Steps for Visitors .. 4 ‘ h tr •4; r /?!/ r03/ CARTER / 4 . 4 .vlf i{ : !* m - h ■ f .j,, ; i-1 , ^ B : ; r 'I ■'■fi '['7 -v T-m «ia| ■t;! ai 'Xv. -J' i y s* « ■. -M-Jr ‘ ‘ ■■" - • -w i Jr ■ Ai-- s - „ • i L • * - • ,vJ(Lv : ' L d r ■ ix- ". X X-.; ® ^ - v f ■ j • JV- I { ex.. • Expansjioiii Fla Mi A , THIS M THI5 TJ The StidhrtfiJ wlj||h „„ v —- Ponefful prir UffMfi for ni^ht paints have also been added r r X' J STADIUMfduring the TCU-A&M football game of 1917. renovated and enlarged this year, now seats 33,500 people. ■ i » • ‘ » ST ; i in t\h Hart This is fijiuiMomf tithii^elyeur at Texas Chr stjlan 4 wv||jslty,’ and jinnlver- j.noo.otto progress n Begbn Celebrates 75th Year fiig\Building Program wtrld War II. . lOtHt rataar eplnelilont tie ry colebr »tti>n hi nuslon tro|rrnni t /! \tho^cntnp|h. 10 ‘bullditur ot^oi fljicili \ to put the veratty on a enrollment, tlon of 21 \iew dormitiorh?s hivlb alji^ ‘ ! 'Mihe-A'itt t ii|]rUuli'S l&W rip 1 built, and p mew ing is Under jponsir TCU is Ihe old university in '[he gi-t empire and ofie of Aiisarati.' r w^ti thfclli in the State. It <|ne Axi jti iTejtas 4q| liviljWar and ijature. fla^t College, '||, , i fi|r<} iin Waco main feuilding, t Wtjrlth after the .city had nade a^gift of $200 000 and a 5<$-acrej Uiiivjersity. Today, it a s mately 6,000 studen •19 enrollmen, is t?: j elude about Students and I 2,00jj) lege student j. Gm approximate!:! 200: the years injlmedM i surviving the many foi|ndet jade followin t th< inly one of miajor s Founded «.■, .'iviu.A,au in 1837 in Thorp: 5 prirtit{, Texas. TCU was eslhblish d by Addison and Randolpii Cla^j 1 —“ *■ school but ! vas tu the' Christian Chtir t ip 1889. It wlis moved to![4aco in 1895, .and tlhere 'ills npme was changed to ' ? exas uhriitisin Uni versity in 1902. : In 1910, fol lowing which destroy fed the it Was moved! 1 to Fbijft Ma ■pji 'i-J 7 1 m 7 • .‘A. HI ildT i «ts< jlfbnsti-uc. ittsL Three iei^dy been ... 3 Build-* !St nit he Holh vetenuis and iton-veler- \ dns have contributed to TCU’s uost-wnr growth. From oiu^tbird in one •half of the Universitya drouth each year has resulted Itrona Increased civilian enroll* ipent.xSo popular is TCU; with ItcternrHi, on the other hand, that ^his year marks the peak to dat^ ih veteran attendance—dit. Con- i;rast to many colleges and uni* veraitlea, wtu^jh report the: peak faa reached at year ago. !While serving all of Textis and tlie Southwest, it is primarily a Fort Worth institution serving Ft. Vlforth eiitizens and Ft, Worth pr The delegation from Texas Christian University Will be met at the train station Saturday morning by the Welcom ing Committee of the Student Senate. Coach Dutch Meyer of TCU and his team will be poet Friday by Monte Moncrief of the Welcoming Committee, In an effort to promote better relations between the two schools, plans are being made to make the visitors stay on the campus as pleasant as possible. [When the special train from Fort Worth arrives, a loud speaker system will be in operation to give information, di rections, and to locate people. As another service to the visiting students, an informa tion booth will be set up on the steps of the YMCA. This booth will be open Saturday from 9:30 a. m. until game time. It will reopen immediately after the game and will close again at 6 p. m. when the special train leaves. Members of the TCU band will be met at the station by a group from the Aggie Band. The visiting band students will be escorted to Duncan Mess Hall where they will be guests of the A&M band members for dinner. Arrangements are also being made for male members of the band to wash and clean up in Dorm 11, the band dorm. Accomodations will also be available for those who wish to stay overnight. ill [Free admittance to the Western Dance Saturday night will be granted to all students from TCU who stay overnight. Proper identification is all that will be required of them. The Cadet Guard Hoorn in Dorm 12 and the Housing Office in Room 100, Goodwin Hall, will also be open to give information and locate people for the visitmer students. The Welcoming Committee of the YMCA Cabinet has completed arrangements for students to wash and take show ers in DeWare Field House. Soap and towels will he made available for those taking showers. The Field House will be opeik Friday and Saturday until noon,- Visitors will be allowed to eat in either Duncan or Sbisa Mess Hall. Both cafeterias will be open and guests may be taken to eat family style with the Corps in Duncan Hall.' Restrooms for lady guests will be made available in Kiest Lounge, Goodwin Hall, Cushing Library, Anchor Hall, Sbisa Hall, and the Music .Hall. j i /j [ Parking areas for the game will he on the main drill | W, THIS IS A VIEW ef the TCU Administration Building tlom across the lawh of the TCU Campus. * % eokt. $li,MO,<loj)i. Tm4 construction Tr *L 7 TCU is undergoing * building program that will ultimate will prpvide adequate space for the increased enrollment. Co-eds Especially Hr: If \< u -■ ”3 •r- purvey Shows Aggies Favor Better Relation ,.i. 'Hilege or LjiJfes and industry. year 72 st Texas ! PJ» r cent of ‘its students were from oldest [the two: legdjsj I artiong urihg! the de- w tile- immediate Fort Wortlr area. ]Texas Christian University is .n •ljurch school dedicated to the democracy but also an essential element in any complete and con structive educational experience. While maintained by the Chris* tian Church, it carefully avoids all forms of sectarianism. Last year Its 5,749 atudents represent* ed 31 different denominations. TCU is a co-edueationnl school offering a curriculum stressing thd liberal aits and sciences, the fine arts, and professional training in several fields. The University is Organized intoi eight schools and colleges including the Add^Ran College of Arts; and Sciences, Brito College of the Bible, Harris Col lege of ^Nursing, School of Busl-i; ... f .. f j ._.. S Pin?Artl. Schodt.'S * i " W ^ Evening College. There are no fraternities, soror ities, or social clubs of any kind HjJ. CHARLIE KIRKHAM J fri«nd$ who go tolTCl^ My bud*. Frofri i; tho sninpling of student opitnon taken earlier this week, it! appears that the welcome ex- jU> 4ba Student j Body of a fHcitdly campus.” TU’ ^ " tud#n ‘ CRt ‘“ dard Gernll Aggie nes with It the sanction ami sup- Speaking for both hm port tjf id most every Aggie. This Reporter went about tlie cahipi^i stnjvplng students and fac ulty members and noting their comnilnta. "iWhnt is your reaction dies and everybody else u come down here,” tX “I! went to Tech, and what it moans to ho a vlsi Mfee. fife Speaking for both herself ni husband she ndiled, “Wo wijleonio them all down here.” K;; T, Looh^p, senior jfl'on Hall, when stopped while ca a bundle of laupdry, answorei comments. "iWhat is your re« to having TCU students down here welcome good honest eptn . , r _ .ns gulstf, ami whnt wlttipo yopr field south of J^aw and Purvenr and the infantiy drill field attitude toward them?” was tho welcome good honest eotnp tittoi with n fihe school fiko Tmi. Thel BOUt h of Duncan Hall. Lounpres in Donns 2, 9, 10, and Hart Hall will be open olfy °nf todiSLlif?Jor S5 j bcine Cely !!»***»&* Committee to be as, helpful as possible: to the the education of citizens for a I activity. ™ • n - 1 —--H--ATr - available. Ever: welcome, and students have been asked- by the Student Sen ate Executive C *“ * 1 ’ * * * " TCU^ students. Every effort is being made to give the visitors a warm, :6me ; as a private rned; tfver to hes pf Texas IF " | j i i : | (vi 1 ' Polliwog Travelogue i ampUH to the I Lost Frog Views Aggieland After Trying Tunnel Tour By CHUCK FROG ! lil AH ppproxi- ttjal 1948- tin- _ day t. Col- been dfeht since rtjrecqding ‘ i -1 | j , T Tr— .; ' (Ed’s Note: This story: was ritten by a TCU visitor down lor the game. He prpenteihis eas on Aggieland herein^ ! jSay, this Covi' College is! $hore uijhig place. Why, the Admipistra- , n Building is even bigger .than |mon Carter’s summer home. And at AH Pavilion just falls short o|f the Will Rqgers Coliseuni. / -I arrived in College Station’s v/’ ' •‘ , I ■ )■» > . 11 _ 'r*-\ V \ • 7 4 ) * 7 4 ;) ■ I'j-' V A 4 Ul ■'jtd \ I i • •• .1.1 • version of Times Square, the North Gate, this morning and, after ad miring the skyline of the lovely city, I asked the first person I saw how to get to the football Stadium. His name ' Was Pinky something : or-another. He made some remark about ‘stick ’em Ag gies’ and then told me to walk in the direction of the P. L. Downs 4r .Natatorium. \]\| ± j As I strolled down a street on which cadets are not allowed to run (the sign said “Military, Walk"), I felt as if I were still in friendly old Fort Worth. Everyone that passed me smiled and said “Howdy.” I am puro this is done before the TCU game only to make us feel at home, / Suddenly I realised I didn’t have the slightest idea where that swimming pool was and be sides, I didn’t want to go gwlm- ining. Bo I stopped a young took* ing kaydet and once more asked question tasked. President F. C. Bolton, lleaning back> in ibis! chair, said, “Wo al ways look forward to a good, clean gnmo , with TCUAiWe are always glad to hives them, as oue guests.” Fish Rurdett, B Athletics and a Hart Hall man. straightened up a id told this reporter, *Tm from id Pve gpt a lot of Wl knew «: said d hei Law m tltlon students nr.e welcome.” George Edwards, Consolidated Band Commander, expreaked him self in this manner: “We’re glad to harp them doWn, and wi will try to make them feel fit lome. The Aggie band is going to hive the; TCU band down as their special guests and their Bail rday dinner is on ns.” Barney Welch, intramurnlj man- i R t| ugur ami , two snason* p/un, khiu, Tomce wjo liv/kplinig wi try to pnompto bottof' ppiUiritiitMiig, inU'i’-schfiol rida*. Hoirthips,!; imla is lust, theAWng. . * Let jtpe'Jikiyn on ti e bul) .field he (“flie only omus to i«et rough w 1 !!!! TCU,. Thfy|[ are oi(r guosjn, and 'We’ire.glaW Hiophottii F AilrForc shin hafe and we start it. welcome ifl i have i.hen) n William II. White, , commemefl, i“Frlend- tu start * somewhere, should be the ones to tell them they are I I !'' '|f. . i it a tradition in friend*; j r . iave it among our Htu-ihj: dent*, so why whouhlirt we be: i friendly to Visiting students?” saiil “AAAI in lino**. We mmm director’(jif Student Activities. 11 Roiy Dealt Carrol • 'if Jar ., Purycar Hall Id pn { the whole klo* idea.” be Dd4 Will Fly Again 19 Livestock Show Snowballs Into Full Blown Ag^e Rodeo m^ question. man's tmnie whs Trout of Hass orj Carp4-t forgot which- - |one*. 1 ' i; / '•] 'Tm aorta dowrt ami out," say* I, “how do you jfet to—” tunnel,”/ I , 4 | did *" I was directed and picked my w«y through a hall underground, obviously for the , Aggies to use to go to clam on Ij fold daya. Why don’t we get I something like that at TCU? dm n j - • • 1 V NS^ IUSTER CANATA, and EMMETT IN- docoratfbiM for the OoUege Employees fj S! Tho group living there—I believe they were in the Quartermaster* as they all had a little pair of tailor’s scissor’s bn their Ipft col* . lar—was really glad to see me. They blew a call on a bugle and the whole dormitory fell out tp greet me. In the dormitory area, I noticed (See LOST fROG, Page 6) | py DAVE COSLETT Leather-bustin’ Aggies Will risk their life, liipftbs, and Lervi; britches trying - to jputlast some frisky Double; S oroncs in the Animal Husbandry ‘ Pavilion tomorrow night for the twPhty-sevehth an nual Akgio Rod ft,. Tl/is; fundus contest between man apd boftst will be a far cry TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY CAMPUS OF TOMORROW of 0 ™m th^pjSeceMO^ ' To Plan Trophy Award... ) j SWC Sportsmanship Meeting. Convenes on Campus Friday the kickoff meotinjr for preMentihir The B^tUlion’s an al Southwest Conference SportshtaiiMhii) Award will got derway Friday afternoon when representative* from each the seven SWC school* meet on the A&M campti*, C. C. Hy TOM CARTER nual South un of thp st r . r _ .. Munroe, program chairman, announced today Thej purpo*e °f tb* meetihijf wlll^ bo tpii draw tip « Ci/d** of Sports- mtniHip to mi followed by all of tho cqnforeUcd schoolk. Tbl* code, Munrqe said, Will be used a* the baid* ifor awarding the three-foot k9, the predecessor , of the presenjday Aggie Rodeo. The most daring! event* of the original rodeo was a goat-roping contest. The re mainder of tjie contest comjisteid of a musical chairs conte$t, a greas ed pigjchasc, and a potato race be tween jthe faculty member* of tho Animu| HusViindry Department and the Seijiior A* H. student. Before long, however, the an* came a oteller cam* complete with a lint at {which a king, queen, led. The firat few queens Were chosen from the female populations of Bryan and College Station. Thtf 1926 ft sot a proe chote /Rose addle and Sirloin club when they IL nnlvna. 4-4. . nove| twjst with the add/t oh of some feminine pulchritude* o the program. Fourteen cow-girl i iPep resenting that many Tcxa i j col- TarlCton, Texas A AI. Bayloi, Bull Ross, Texas Tech, TSCW, 'ITSC, SMU, University of Housto i, Me* Murry,Aand Rioc, This yoar, the rodeo pro niaea , (See AGGIE RODEO, Paj e 6) Junior, of: fJrienjUyjj relations uchobls. “Itfii a dni*n •aid, ‘T Juk hom* . here cmmesji any troubleXaml give* the whole school a bad nhjino.”. Roy Blnn|ion, Senior Ck/ss .So cial Chairnian, who blush thought ft ttiim/to after beini. hi*,;.statCMnefit would be, quot the press, commented, “Lot’s the TCU students and eye that comes!; down hero feel friendliness jof tho Aggieland cam- x pus." | if +■■■': Caught n ring between tho demit* Build ng and Goodwin Luke Harri loin, Brjfan Field An;* nex dean of men, stopped m minute and said, ‘IWe welcome them to Little Aggieland ais Well as toflj the Main Campus.” bird ye£r freshma aod Thiird .jfokt freshman Joq Mac 1 ; Carpenter, p “day dodger” claipj*. V L ed that he wonts even unescorted H 1 Women down; “Duhhh! Course 5 ! BteyVe welcome. And*I’d like to wolcomd a jpretty girl down here!! that don’t ‘navo a date. My girl sent me a Djear John, and I’m date* Joss.’ 1 ’ the Code of Bportsmanihip to preuent to the student body of (Hoe AWARDS, Pago 8) \ Queer Sportsmanship trophy donab* Tho Battalion last year In the interest of better relations be tween tho conference school*. Tht^ee representative*— n yell leadey, a student government mem ber, and the editor of the -pchool pnpi*r—will cqmpose tho commit tee from each school. f They will arrive at noon Friday, and the meeting will begin with a luncheon. Head! Coach Harry r a short talk, the group, which namber about 35 students, meet to discuss and draw up r 500 Battalions Going to TCU Approximately 500 copies of this issue of The Bhttaliion will be sent to Texas Christian Uni versity for distribution among the Student Body there, Ken neth Band, co-editor, has an- aiGttb ton bmiuty content winner; as * for that year. »r, Rosebud [ chant fee to Joan and step* lollywood career that rh the ped into a ha} llaitodtl Irouth the years. 11*26 that thq rodeo luore In the mannet* ’ I . ...i, . vl , .. ILkL L.i. i L. . I which were used 1 wlle^bief «t3 d!l '*1 ’ it and horse show re* liSS's M i .jmwm t : /i 1 ^ , m '• •4 A .'Mic i- At jl; | 4Y ... I r:
