Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-09-06
ALLEN ACADEMY READY
Much Work Done on Buildings and
Grounds In vacation-strons Fac
uIty for Coming Session.


For more than two weeks large
force has been at work at Allen Acad-
envy getting things in shape for the
opening on September 10. Saw and
hammer paint brush and securing mop
have been going busily, and every
thing is being made as neat and clean
as the passenger deck on a modern
steamer.
Some changes on the grounds add
very materially to the already attract
tive campus Barns which had stood
too near the dining hall have been re-
moved entirely, the ground has been
added to the campus and number of
fine oaks have been brought into pleas
ing view. There are thirty of these
great old oaks on the academy grounds.
Much care is being taken TO make
the boys rooms in the dormitories
neat and attractive. and sanitation is
a matter of chief concep in every
thing.
There will be three new men in the
faculty the coming year, Orville r.
Post. j. c. Snipes and n. B. Allen. Mr..
Post is from Tennessee, where he has
had several years experience in prepa-
ratory schools and colleges as teacher
of Latin. Mr.. Post received in June
the master of arts degree from Har-
ward, where he has been studying for
the past year.
( Mr.. ]. c. Snipes. A. B. Southwest
ern university, will have charge of
the courses in history. Mr.. Snipes is
considered one of the strongest all
round school men Southwestern has
turned out for years. He is a high
type of young Christian manhood, well
equipped and full of enthusiasm. He
had flattering offers from other promi-
nent schools, and the academy con-
siders itself fortunate in securing him.
Mr.. n. B. Allen, son of Principal ].
H. Allen, will be an assistant in the
department of mathematics. He grad
uated at the academy in 1907, took
year of special work in mathematics
and languages, and entered Southwest
ern with advanced standing in 1908,
where he has been a student for the
past two years.
Mr.. S. p. Williams has spent the
summer in the University of Chicago,
doing work toward the doctor of phil
osophy degree. At present he holds
the degree of master of arts from the
University of Texas. Mr.. Williams, in
the two years he has been in the
Academy, has won for himself'a very
high place in the regard of teachers
and students. He is man of the high
est ideals in school work and he
knows how to achieve results.
No man who ever taught in the
academy has, in the same length OF
time, more endeared himself to the
school than Prof. B. p. Bittle. Quiet.
scholarly, painstaking, and untiring in
his labors, he is unusually successful
in inspiring his pupils and getting re-
suits in classroom work. Mr.. Bittle
received splendid offer to do college
work next year, but he chose to re-
main with the academy. He has spent
his vaaction in North Texas and
Arkansas.
The academy will continue its policy
of encouraging athletics. Mr., Snipes
will be the principal coach. He is re-
garded as one of the finest all-round
athletic men in Texas. Interest in ath-
letic contests this year will center in
the great A. & M. college preparatory
and high school meet. Among prepar-
atory schools Allen has twice taken
first place in these great contests, and
in consequence has been the sole and
only holder of the championship cup.
Now, if Allen wins again in 1912, this
cup becomes permanently the property
of the school.
The enrolment of new students is
larger than usual and by the opening
bids fair to surpass all former records.
A noticeable fact is the unusual per-
centage of large boys among the new
students. Four recent enrollments are
Of young fellows measuring six feet
tall and weighing one hundred and
fifty pounds and up.