The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1910-11-10
Agricultural College, Miss,
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Agricultural COllege, MISS,
October 8, 1910.
Ny Dear Editor:
On October End the Ran
kin county boys in A. & NJ. College
met and organized Rankin county
club, with the following officers:
E. C. Baker, Pres, J. E. Patrick, V
President, E. Everett, Sec-Treas., R.
H. Lane Sport, E. E. Laird, d. L.
Williams, C. d. Night, w. F. Be-
thune, C. L. Miley, and w. N. Man.
gum, members.
Rankin shows up well, not only in
quantity, but in quality. We are
proud of our boys here, for they
are to be proud Of. We expect
something great of them in the fu-
ture. We expect them to go home
next June, stronger men, better cltl-
zens, and more able to care for
themselves in the future than in the
past. Every boy from Rankin is a
member of the Bible class. This
school is represented by some as be-
| ing a rendezvous for the toughs. 1t
is told that initiating and haZing
are rampant and that the provisions
are not what they should be. Please
disabuse your minds of this. Hazlng
and initiating are not allowed at all.
The boys have plenty to eat and
| it is cooked nicely. The fact that
the boys who come here gain from
ten to- twenty pounds before Christ
mas IS sufficient proof OF the same.
The Christian influence is good. The
Y. NJ. G. A. is doing good work among
the boys. It had over four hundred
members last year.
This is a great school and we have
about $50 boys here now from every
section of the south and parts OF
the north. We have student from
Brazil. one from South Africa, and
we are expecting one from Siam III
few days. A Yale student from
India has asked to be admitted here.
THE graduates from this school are
taking an active part in the upbulld-
| ing Of the south. Their influence
| is felt III every vein of scientific
work through the whole country.
Fifteen of her graduates are IN the
Philippines engaged IN teaching,
engineering and constabulary. The
minister of Agriculture to the king
| of Siam is graduate Of the A. d
M. College. The agricultural ex-
port OF the English government IN
Rhodessia, South Africa, is an al
ummus Of this school. DR.. Hull,
president of Millsaps College, and
DR.. Evans of Chicago, the greatest
/ living authority in the world on
Tuberculosis, are graduates Of this
school.
The salvation of the future south
depends upon the agricultural train
ing and scientific education of our
boys. The A. & M. Colleges of our
lcountry will be her Savior because
they reach the masses, and further,
because they give. something that
will be of practical benefit in after
life. The A. g. M. College of Missls-
Isippi leads all others of like ma
/ ture in Mississippi. There are four
schools here, the Industrial peda-
gogy, agricultural, engineering and
textile. The buildings and other
property is we'll worth one million
dollars. Board is at actual cost,
| tuition is free and other expenses
are reduced to minimum.
| A great many Of the boys are
working their way here. Rand, who
won the alumni medal here last ses-
1 sion and then took the Chautaqua
medal at Crystal Springs last sum
mer will represent the college in
the intercollegiate contest next
spring. He has worked his way
j here thereby demonstrating Whree