BELIEVE IN YOURSELF AND OTHERS WILL

BELIEVE IN YOU TOO.

Published Weekly by the Students of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas

VOLT XXVf" ~ BRYAT^rTEXX^OCTOBER 12," 1927: NOUA

WEEKS’ NEWS BAT SUBSCRIPTION CONTEST CLOSES

SUNDAY, OCT. 16

CHARLIE PADDOCK COMES TO A. &M.

NEXT TUESDAY

FT. WORTH TO RECEIVE CADET

CORPS NEXT WEEKTemporary seats are being erected

at the T. C. U. stadium to accommo­date the crowds expected when the Horned Frogs play the Texas Aggies on October 22 and the Mustangs on Thanksgiving Day. The entire stu­dent body of A. and M. will be pres­ent for the Aggie game, which will reserve 2500 seats for cadets alone, while the Thanksgiving game will be the first Homecoming game for all T. C. IT. alumni. Seating capacity of the stadium is only 7500 and a much larger crowd is expected at both games mentioned. The construction is well under way and is expected to be completed about ten days before the Aggies and Frogs clash.

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The plans for the memorial project of the Ex-Students Association of the University of Texas have been com­pleted and are on display in Austin. It is a three-unit building project and the estimated cost will be about one million dollars. The Association now has S100,000 of the amount needed and a new drive for funds will begin in a few weeks. Construction work on the building is expected to begin within the next year.

The first unit will consist of the auditorium and gymnasium and will be located on Jordan field. The audi­torium on the main floor of this building will have a seating capacity of 8500 and will be surrounded by a runway. The balcony will contain rooms for athletic classes and tro­phies, and the showers and lockers will be in the basement. A 150x75 feet swimming pool will adjoin the men’s gymnasium and will be glass covered and heated in winter.

The second unit will be the stu­dent’s building, which will be divided into two sections. One of these will contain offices for student organiza­tions, committee rooms, etc., and the other a smaller auditorium of 1200 seating capacity. The third unit of the project will consit of a woman’s gymnasium, a smaller swimming pool, and rooms and offices for wo­men’s activities at the University.

❖ ❖The debaters of Texas Christian

University have arranged for twelve debates during the present school year, if sufficient interest by other schools is shown. The men debaters

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B Company, Signal Corps, Leads in Extra Subscription Contest.

With subscriptions turned in up un­til Monday night gave Company B, Signal Corps, the highest percentage of subscription:- for, the. company en­rollment. However, there is still a chance for some other company to come out on top. The campaign for extra subscriptions to the Battalion is nearing its close, as October 16 is the last day to get in your subscrip­tions. Everyone who intends to sub­scribe should do so at once so their subscriptions can be turned in and the first sergeants given credit in the percentages for their organization.

The standing of the companies is figured on a percentage basis, with the number of men in the company as the basis. Thus, the smallest company

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I& M. LIVESTOCK AT STATE FAIR

Many Head of Champion Stock to Be Exhibited

A. and M. has an extensive live­stock showing at the State Fair of Texas this year including horses, cat­tle and sheep in addition to a picked dairy herd.

Exhibit stuff from the Animal Husbandry department of the college includes fourteen horses, six steers, one heifer and nine sheep, according to an announcement by Mr. D. W. Williams. The animals made two car loads of exhibit stuff.

The horse division includes eight Percherons, two Morgans, three American saddle horses, and one standard bred. In the Percheron group is Dunham’s Pavia, grand champion Percheron mare at the State Fair in 1926.

In the steer division are three Here­ford, two Angus and one Shorthorn steer. One of the Hereford steers was third at the Fort Worth and first

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Holder of Worlds Record in 220 Dash to give Exhibition Run.

Nothing Being Spared in Efforts to Entertain A. & M. Aggregation.

We are to have some FAST com­pany in our midst on October 18. Charles Paddock, who has broken 17 world .sprint records since 1.92ft, is to be our guest and entertainer- Grantland Rice calls him “The Fas­test Man of All Time,” and Harold Di ble, member of the Olympic Games Commission said of him: “Paddock can answer the reason for athletics better than any other American.” In 1920 Paddock won the 100 and the 220 yard dashes at the Olympic Games. At that time he had not grad­uated from the University of South­ern California. He used to spend his summers as a cowboy on a Western ranch; he saw overseas service dur­ing the war; he has taken part in

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aT&estudentsLEAD NATION

Fourteen of Last Year’s Graduates Offered Commissions.

Announcement has been received by President Walton from the War Department that of the 120 honor graduates of distinguished colleges last year, Texas A. and M. leads with a total of fourteen, or more than 11 1-2 per cent of the whole. The hon­or students were selected from thirty- three colleges, and the University of California had ten, the next highest number. Other ranking colleges in number of honor graduates were Vir­ginia Polytechnic Institute with eight, Clemson Agricultural College with seven, and Georgia Tech with seven.

Honor graduates are those whose attainments in scholarship have been so marked as to receive the approba­tion of the head of the college, and whose proficiency in military training and intelligent attention to duty have merited the approbation of the head of the department of military science

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When the cadet corps arrives in Ft. Worth October 22 for the A. & M.-T. C. U. game, it will find that a continuous program of entertainment has been arranged by the students and alumni of T. C. U. and the citi­zens of Fort Worth. The Fort Worth A. & M. Ex-Students and the junior class of T. C. U. have been planning since mid-summer on the various phases of entertainment to be offered. The headquarters of the corps while in Fort Worth will be at the Texas Hotel.

Breakfast will be served in the mess hall at 4:00 a. m., October 22; sack lunches will also be given out. South­ern Pacific trains will convey the corps to Fort Worth; the first train leaving- at 5 o’clock, and the other three at ten minute intervals. The first train will arrive in Fort Worth at 10.15. The parade will be formed on 14th St. At eleven o’clock, the band will lead the parade up Main Street, past the reviewing stand, which will be at 5th and Main.

Automobiles for taking the cadets out to the T. C. U. Campus will be found on Jennings Avenue, near the Viaduct. At 12:30, the Junior class of T. C. U. will give a barbecue for the corps on the campus, with T. C. U. girls serving the cadets. At the same hour, a luncheon will be given by the A. & M. Exes to the presidents and faculties of A. & M. and T. C. U., and the A. & M. Mothers Club and the P. T.-A. will entertain the wives of the

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CORPS DANCE SATURDAYNIGHT IN ANNEX

There will be a Corps dance in the Mess Hall Annex Saturday night af­ter the Arkansas University football game. The music will be furnished by the Aggieland. It is expected that there will be a large crowd out, es­pecially girls, from Navasota, -Bryan, and surrounding vicinity. This time there are going to be shorter inter­missions and longer dances.