Battalion
PUBLISHED IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE
Volume 48
COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, TUESDAY, MARCH 15, 1949
Number 143
Aggieland Then and Now .
. 1919-20
Dethroning Of Sully Plus Outstanding
Athletic Teams Mark Post War Era
By CHUCK MAISEL
In the spring of ’19, a campus
landmark was added with the un
veiling of the statue of Lawrence
Sullivan Ross, the great ex-presi
dent of the college. All of Sully’s
family, including his widow, were
down for the unveiling. The gov-
pernor of the state spoke before the
assembled cadets, then pulled the
.flags from the statue himself.
That lyght, before the digni
taries had left the campus, there
was a minor student uprising.
One of the ringleaders was
the grandson of the late prexy,
a certain Lawrence Sullivan
Ross Clarke. The next morning,
Sully’s widow and the governor
were shocked to find the knight
ly gentleman reclining on the
steps of the .Academic Building
with a bottle in his hand, a cig
arette in his mouth, and carry
ing a sign saying: “I am against
compulsory chapel and prohibi
tion.”
The uniform of the day was pat
terned after the “doughboy brown”
with campaign hat. Senior Boots
were first worn in 1920 as a part
of the uniform. The non-reg vet-
1 erans of the World War were re
ferred to as the “conscientious ob
jectors,” “Casuals,” and “Sons of
Rest.”
Despite recent propaganda, the
Cavalry is not 30 years old and will
not be until next January 20. On
that day in 1920, A Troop Cavalry
was born.
For years after 1919 and 1920,
Aggies referred to the period as
being the “good old days.” There
were many reasons for this, but
probably the most outstanding was
the football teams produced by the
Maroon.and White those two years.
The - Cadet Corps were behind
the team win or lose all the way
that season much as they have
been in the past. This wasn’t so
easy for them as they weren’t used
to losing. In fact, by the spring of
’20, the various Aggie athletic
teams had won 35 consecutive
games including the basketball
championship for the first time
since the sport had been played at
A&M.
' The ’19 team will probably go
down in school history as being
the greatest team ever to take to
Kyle Field sod. It equal
ed the undefeated, untied, and un
scored upon recoi’d of the ’17 team;
but while doing so, the Aggies of
T9 amassed a larger total score
even though they played against
tougher opposition than the T7
equad.
But the 1920 team holds a
deeper spot in the hearts of
Aggies of those days. Not be
cause of its scoring record — it
wasn’t anything above mediocre.
The footballers of '20 didn’t
even win the Southwest Confer
ence Championship or beat the
University. It was the unbounded
spirit of the team which makes
it stand out in the history of
Aggieland.
The start of the season saw the
conference officials declare ineli
gible the player on whom A&M had
pinned her championship hopes. He
was A. B. Knickei’bocker, a half
back. The outstanding player of
the fabulous T9 team, R. G. Hig-
genbotham, had enrolled in Baylor
Medical School and had already
bought his books and equipment.
When he heard what had happen
ed to Knickerbocker, he withdrew
frdm the med school and came back
to play another season for the
Maroon and White.
Higgenbotham’s return to the
College was kept a secret — so
he thought. But when his train
arrived, the entire Cadet Corps
was on hand to meet it. This bit
cf personal sacrifice set the pace
to be followed by members of
one of the hardest fighting Ag
gie teams ever to take the field.
There were many physical chan
ges to the campus. Construction
was started on the) Mechanical En
gineering Building nnd the Physics
Building. The old M.E. Shops bur
ned the night of December 5, 1920.
Military Walk was paved and ligh
ted.
Freshman had started giving X-
mas parties to their outfits and
presenting their upperclassmen
with the well-known 1 presents. This
was also the year of the first RO-
TC Summer Camp.
One of the mysteries of this
period is the Case of the Miss
ing Hide. It seems as though
some rather rambunctious Ag
gies visited the state university
one night and branded the score
of the 1915 TU-A&M game into
the hide of the TU mascot, a
longhorn steer named Bevo I.
In 1920, the Teahounds slaugh
tered their beloved mascot and
fed him to their football team.
They sent a large piece of the
hide including the “13-0” brand
to A&M.
Coach Bible suggested that the
Aggies use the hide - as a sort of
rifle stock, but, instead of cutting
notches, each time a game was won
from TU by the Farmei*s, the score
be branded into Bevo’s hide. This
tradition was followed for many
years, but there is no record of
what has become of the piece of
steer skin. Anyone knowing its
whereabouts is asked to notify the
Battalion.
Wayne King To Play
In Guion Saturday
SULLY the day after his unveiling. Note bottle in hand. Sign
says: “I am against Compulsory Chapel and Prohibition.”
Science Bill Goes to Senate;
House Passes Measure 93 - 43
AUSTIN, Texas, March 15—UP)—Fate of the strife-
torn Basic Science Bill today was in the hands of the state
senate.
The House late yesterday wound up 20 hours of debate
on the bill, finally passing it 93 to 43. This wrangle was
“♦■stretched out over thi'ee legisla
tive days, including two last week.
A similar bill requiring all
practitioners of the healing arts
to pass examinations in six basic
sciences has been approved by a
senate committee. It has not yet
been debated in the senate.
The basic science bill requires
examinations in chemistry, physi
ology, anatomy, pathology, bac
teriology and public health and
hygiene.
Chiropractors opposed it, say
ing the examining board would
be made up of professors from
colleges offering those courses
as they apply to medicine. The
chiropractors said they would be
discriminated against on exam
inations because their views dif
fer from those of the medical
profession.
The State Medical Association
backed the bill, saying it was nec
essary to raise standards and pro
tect the health of the public.
Opponents said the bill was de
signed to “wrap a tight fence
ai'ound the healing arts” and eli
minate some kinds of competition.
Rep. Jack Ridgeway of San
Antonio, who piloted the bill
through the house, replied the
bill as written would permit chi
ropractors to practice. He said
many aspects of it objected to
by opponents are already in the
law, and that chiropractors are
not hindered.
House members put in one of
their most strenuous days of the
session, a number of committees
coming back to work until past
midnight.
It recommended house passage
of a one million dollar appropria
tion for expansion of Lamar Junior
College at Beaumont to a four-year
technological college; another mil
lion dollar measure for a medical
branch of the University of Texas
at San Antonio; and $3,600,000 for
a similar bx-anch mex^ged with
Southwestern Medical College at
Dallas.
Saturday Matinee
And Comedies To
Raise Rodeo Funds
A special matinee for children
will be showin at the Campus The
ater, March 19, the proceeds of
which will go to the Texas Aggie
Rodeo Association. This money is
to be used to send the Aggie Rodeo
Team to San Francisco for the
National Intercollegiate Rodeo As
sociation’s annual rodeo Earl Guth
rie, president of the local associa
tion announced today.
There are 15 schools entered in
the rodeo at San Francisco includ
ing Texas Tech, the University of
California, and the University of
Wyoming.
The matinee begins at 10 a. m.
Saturday and Shirley Temple’s first
movie—Little Miss Marker—plus
three cartoofis and a serial will be
shown, Gutherie said.
Free refreshments and baloons
will be given to every youngster
attending, he added. #
McQuillen, Hervey
Attend Conference
E. E. McQuillen, director of the
A&M Development Fund, J. B.
Hervey, executive secretary of the
Association of Former Students;
and Jack C. Hollimon, editor of
the Texas Aggie, former student
publication, attended a three-day
confei’ence of the fourth district
American alumni council in Dallas
last week.
The conference, an annual meet
ing of x-epresentatives of colleges
and universities in Texas, Okla
homa, Louisiana, and New Mexico,
was held on the campus of South
ern Methodist University.
By HANK MICHALAK
Local Guion Hall fans will have
a chance to find out for themselves
whether Wayne King’s music is
“out of this woi’ld” as his press
releases state, when the maestro
plays two concerts this Saturday.
At 6 p. m. and ag&in at 9 King
will play a variety of music X’ang-
ing from modern to old time fav
orites. His entire radio and con
cert orchestra of 32 persons, will be
present.
Taking three-quarter time music
as his trademark, King appeals to
bobby soxers and sedate eldecs a-
like.
Music planned for the entire
program will include favorite se
lections from Schubert, Irving
Free Concert Will
Be Played by Band
■ The Aggie Band, under direction
of Lt. Col. E. V. Adams, will pi’e-
sent its annual spx*ing concert in
Guion Hall March 18 at 8 p. m.
“For the last six weeks the
band has been practicing three or
four times a week in pi’epai’ation
for this concert,” said Col. Adams.
“We will be x’eady to present a
well rounded program that is
meant to please all.”
Music for the concert will con
sist of marches, popular tunes,
classical and semi-classical pieces.
Some of the pieces have been
played by the band to audiences
before. Others have not, Colonel
Adams said.
An innovation available to the
band this year will be risers. These
place the band on a hill-like level
above the audience. This aids the
accoustics of the building, and
makes listening easier, Colonel
Adams said.
Open to the public, the concert
will be free, he added.
Berlin, Victor Herbert, and Je
rome Kern, plus some of King’s
own composition.
Maestro King has a leading so
loist in the person of gorgeous,
golden-voiced Nance Evans. She
has been a stage and radio per
former since she was seven.
A new discovery, Fred Kendall,
will be the leading male soloist.
One of the special attractions in
both concei’ts will be the “Double-
Daters”. This foursome, so the
story goes, got started on a sing
ing career while they were on a
double-date of their own.
They appeared on such radio
programs as “Make Way for
Youth,” and were heard by Wayne
King while they were rehearsing
a show in Detroit.
The “Meadowlarks,” who also
appear with King, are three girls
who grew up in the same block,
went to the same school and be
longed to the same clubs.
The Grenadiers group, another
King feature, is composed of sing
ers all of whom wei’e music stu
dents at Wayne University in
Michigan.
Admission to either perfox-mance
will be 70 cents for students and
$1.50 for non-students.
Statue of “SULLY” just before it was unveiled in the Spring
of 1919. Photos courtesy of A. D. Martin, ’21.
^
Three A&M Students Win High
Honors at Floriculture Show
Sociology Group
Selects Duchess
Miss Jane Millikan of Avalos,
Mexico, has been selected Sociology
Club duchess for the Cotton Ball
April 29.
Miss Millikan is secretary of the
student body at Trinity University
San Antonio, whei’e she is a jun
ior majoring in Spanish. She won
the Saunders Freshman Prize for
highest academic standing at Trin
ity University last year and is
past president of Theta Sigma So
rority.
Three A&M Floriculture students
journeyed to St. Louis last week
end to enter the 10th Inter-Colle
giate Flower Judging Contest
which was a part of the flower
show held in that city. They com
peted with teams representing 9
schools whose departments are con
sidered leading in the field of flor
iculture. The three Aggies amass
ed enough points to earn second
place in the event.
William Zelsmam, senior from
Amarillo, Richard Green, junior
from Tyler, and Sow Kunihiro,
junior from San Antonio are the
three honor-winning students.
All of them are majoring in the
floriculture division of the land
scape art department. They were
accompanied on their trip by C.
G. Milne of that department.
The final standing of the com
peting schools was in this ox*der:
Pennsylvania State College, Texas
A&M, Purdue University, Cornell
University, Ohio State University,
Univei’sity of Missouri, Michigan
State College, Oklahoma A&M,
University of Illinois, and the Uni
versity of Maryland.
The flower judging event was
sponsored by the Society of Amer
ican Florists and Pi Alpha Xi,
which is the honorary floriculture
fraternity.
Since this was the first time A
&M entered the inter-collegiate
contest, the team was doubly hap
So You Know A&M?
EDITOR’S NOTE: “Ha!”
py over winning second place hon
ors.
An extensive pi'ogram of pre-
pai’ation for this event was star
ted prior to Christmas. Many floi’-
iculture students, with an eye on
their chances of winning a posi
tion on the judging team, spent
long hours after class with Coach
Milne to sharpen their abilities.
The desired places on the traveling
ti’oupe were determined after com
petitive tests. Fi’om the final field
of 12, Zelsmam, Green, and Kuni
hiro were selected.
Cut flowers and pot plants made
up. the two main classes judged in
the St. Louis contest. Four speci
mens were inspected in each class.
The individual plant or flower had
to be judged on many points. For
example, the cai’nations were val
ued on the basis of color, size,
calyx, stem, substance, form, and
fragrance. Those competing had to
depend entirely upon their ability
to jjudge by sight. No handling or
touching of the flowers was per
mitted during the judging.
The Aggie team was subjected
to a complete weather change in
its journey. When the men left
College Station the temperature
was 85. Overcoats were necessary
when they xjeached their destina
tion, since the mercury hovered in
the mid-twentys. Eight inches of
snow completed the chilly pictui’e
in St. Louis.
The trip was not all work though.
The team took a tour of St. Louis
covering all lai’ge commercial
greenhouses and the leading whole
sale houses that handled flowers.
During their stay they also visited
the Missouxd Botanical Gai’dens.
Soph Sweetheart
Pictures Needed
Sophomores should have the pic
tures of their choice for Sopho
more Sweetheart in at the manag
ing editor’s desk of the Battalion
by Satui’day, March 26, De Loach
Martin, class pi’esident, said today.
No pictui’es will be accepted after
that date.
Each picture should be labeled
with the gild’s name, home town,
and the escoi't’s name. There should
be one portrait, 5x7 minimum, and
one full-length snapshot of any
size. All pictures will be returned,
Max-tin said.
The Sophomore Ball is to be held
April 8.
Market & Finance
Schedules Supper
The Marketing and Finance club
will have a bax-becue at 5:30 p. m.
March 24, according to Willis L.
Sutton, president of the club.
Sutton asked that all members
who wish to attend and who have
not contxdbuted their $1.25 submit
their money to him or Sam Rowe.
The group will assemble in fx-ont
of the Agricultux-e Building at 5:30
where transportation will await
them, he said.
Power Engineers
Hold Annual Meet
President Bolton Greets Delegates;
Conference to Last Until Wednesday
“The power industry is unique in that it is the only
extensive business in which competitive producers exchange
their product regularly as a standard operating procedure,”
said R. E. Hansen, speaking here yesterday at the second
Annual Conference for Protective Relay Engineers.
Singing Cadets
Plan to Make
Weekend Tour
The Singing Cadets, under
the direction of Bill Turner,
will appear in a stage show at
North Texas State College in
Denton, March 19, according
to Harold Eades, reporter-
historian for the Cadets.
Featured song for the evening
will be “The Battle Hymn of the
Republic.” The Cadets will be ac
companied in this number by the
North Texas orchestra.
Next day the musical group will
make a quick jump to Fort Worth,
whei*e it will offer a complete con
cert at 3 p. m. in Paschal High
School. The Singing Cadets will be
the guests of the Fort Worth
Mother’s Club of that city, Eades
said.
Their program there will be var
ied from “Glory to God” and
“Cherubim Song” to the popular
ballad “You’ll Never Walk Alone.”
Several spirituals including “Deep
River” and “Joshua Fit the Battle
of Jerico” will be offered.
The Cadets will retux-n Sunday
afternoon. Their next scheduled
concert is Max-ch 26 in Corpus
Christi, Eades concluded.
Mahan to Speak On
Need of Philosophy
At Meet Tonight
“The Value of Philosophy in the
Liberal Arts Curriculum” will be
the subject of an address by Pro
fessor W. B. Mahan of SMU at
the regular spring meeting of the
Arts and Science faculty, accord
ing to Dr. M. T. Harrington, dean
of the school.
The meeting will be held in the
lecture room of the Physics Build
ing at 8 tonight.
A native Texan, Professor Ma
han received his doctor’s degree in
philosophy at the University of
Chicago and began teaching at
West Texas State Teachers Col
lege in Canyon. In 1923 he was
made head of the Department of
Philosophy at the University of
Ai v kansas where he stayed until he
came to SMU in 1947.
“Since many students, as well
as faculty members, have request
ed the addition of philosophy cour
ses, the meeting will be open to all
interested parties,” Harrington
said.
Gilchrist Tells
Air Force That
A&M Needs Annex
Chancellor Gibb Gilchrist today
notified the U. S. Air Force that
A&M College would need to use
Bryan Army Air Field next school
year as an annex for freshmen.
Notification was made in a let
ter to Major General William F.
McKee, assistant vice deputy chief
of staff.
The action was authorized by
the Board of Directors at their
meeting in Stephenville, March 11.
President F. C. Bolton had pre
sented figux-es to the board which
show that enrollment for next year
will be close to that of the Fall
of 1948, and that classroom occu
pancy at present is above the max
imum for efficient work.
Magee Eligible For
Scholarship Group
Aden C. Magee, son of Mr. and
Mrs. A. C. Magee of Bryan, is a
new member of the Tarleton Schol
arship Society according to John
E. Thompkins Jx\, registrar.
Magee, a geology major, was
graduated from A&M Consolidated
High School. He was salutatorian
of his senior class, a three-year
letterman in football, a two-year
letterman in baseball, a member of
the 4-H Club, treasurer of the
senior class, and sports editor of
the annual and school paper.
After leaving Tarleton, Aden
plans to attend A&M.
The first meeting of the confer
ence took place at 10:30 a. m. with
President F. C. Bolton opening the
conference with a welcoming ad
dress.
R. E. Hansen of the Leeds &
Northrup Company presented a
talk on “Load Frequency Control
For Interconnected Power System.”
Hansen stressed the importance of
using automatic regulation of fre
quency and power flows.
The conference reopened in
the afternoon with a talk by R.
A. Earner of the Texas Electric
Service Company. “The presence
at the conference of such a large
group of relay engineers is evi
dence of the progress made by
manufacturers in the develop
ment of switch gear and relay
devices,” Earner said.
V. B. Wilfley spoke on the pro
blems of reducing the number and
effect of faults in transmission
systems. He gave details on the
modifications of the high speed
method of attacking this problem.
The last speech of the afternoon
was given by L. F. Kennedy of the
General Electric Company. Ken
nedy discussed the modern relay
methods which are available to
day to provide high-speed fault
clearing.
“The purpose of this confer
ence is to provide an opportuni
ty for the discussion of joint
problems by persons interested
in the design and application of
relay equipment as applied to
electrical transmission lines and
electrical machinery,” L. M.
Haupt, chairman of the confer
ence, announced.”
The conference will last thi’ough
Wednesday with presentations of
similar programs today and -Wed
nesday.
A luncheon sponsored by the
wives of the EE Department staff
was held in the home of Mr. and
Mrs. M. C. Hughes. The faculty is
planning other entertainment and
tours for the visitors.
MR. FRITZ W. HENSEL, head
of the Landscape Art Depart
ment, died this morning in Tem
ple.
F. W. Hensel, Head
Of Landscape Art,
Passes in Temple
F. W. Hensel, head of the Land
scape Art Department, died today
at 10 a.m. in the Scott and White
Sanatorium in Temple.
Hensel entered the sanatorium
on Sunday, March 7 and under
went a major operation on Friday.
He was born in 1884 and lived
in and around San Antonio. He
graduated from A&M in 1907 and
completed work for his masters
degree at Cornell in 1914.
Coming to A&M in 1913 as an
instructor in the Horticulture De
partment, Hensel was named head
of the Landscape Art Department
in 1928, a position which he held
until his death.
He is survived by his wife, one
son, Billie who is employed by the
College Fiscal Department, and
one brother, R. L. Hensel, who is
connected with the Agricultural
Experiment Station.
Funeral arrangements have not
been announced.
WITNESS CONFIRMS CHARGE
DARMSTADT, Ger., — (A>) —
Witnesses waiting outside a coui’t-
roonx to testify against a black
market meat slaughtei’er were star
tled when a prosecution witness
offered to sell black market sau
sage.
When another witness imported
this inside the courtroom, the pro
secutor rushed out but the black
market salesman had left.