Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1913-03-14

| enemlc, bitter and world-soured, in
the person of E. G. Senter, was a
potent factor in awakening the News
to it's long neglected duty of mis-
informing the public as to the true
status of the college?
Certain it is that this same Senter-
whose chief regret in life is that his
name was not Center" so that he
could have classed himself as the
Center of the universe in name as
well as in fact-set his continuous
performance mouth going about the
time his son was dismissed from the
college for INSTRUMENTATION and has
kept it running overtime ever since in
vitriolic denunciation of everything
connected with the college?
In searching for motives it is we'll
to give calm consideration to little
circumstances like these.
The News, in an attempt to BAN
boozle" the public into the belief that
the farmers of Texas favor its pro-
posed vandalism, parade with roll of
drums and fanfare of trumpets, one
h. A. Calvin, an ex-president of the
Farmers Union, as an advocate of the
change, doing him the honor to make
his public utterances upon the subject
the text of it's editorial.
Does the News know the official
record of this Calvin as the executive
head of the Farmers Union, or does
it consider it that class of informa-
ton that requires forty years of sea-
soning before being served up to its
readers?
Let us particularize. The signifi-
cant prefix of lex" to the title of this
embryotic statesman who broke into
the Legislature by default in the alb
sence of any opposition, was acquired
at the date Calvin was incontenently
booted, bag and baggage, out of the
Organization because of a stunt in
frenzied finance pulled off by the said
Calvin in Houston by means of a
warehouse and cotton Storing and
holding scheme. Members of the Farm
ers' Union who shipped him their cot
ton have not yet forgotten the diff
Guilty they had to get an accounting,
and will not now be misled by him in
this fight against the Agricultural and
Mechanical College.
The News in the role or organ and
mouthpiece of the farmers, is about
the most groteque piece of assininity
| in Christendom.
Does it know that since the mem
orable days when it fought the great
est champion of the farming element
that Texas ever produced, with the
same reckless disregard of truth
which characterizes its present raw
ings, the agriculturists have been
gun shy" of its hypocritical and in
sincere protestations of unfaltering
devotion to their dearest interests.
The charge of the inefficiency Of
the college as an educational institu
ton is a self-evident and palpable
falsehood within the knowledge of
every ran who has taken the trouble
to even casually investigate its record.
A greater number of its graduates
hold high position in the great enter
prises in the United States and in
foreign countries than those of any
other institution of learning in the
State of Texas. At this writing the
Argentine Republic has filed applica |
tons to procure the scientific services |
of twenty of the forthcoming grad
yates of this college.
The isolation of the college is an
other criticism INDUCED by its en-
emies. Since when has isolation be- |
NOlllG al ullu0oll dDlC lllll5 lOi NOl
leges? Heretofore it has been one
OF the principal advantages, conducive
to study, and the safeguarding of the
of students from contaminat-
ing contact with the vices of an effete
civilization.
The enemies of the college profess
to see its only salvation in its removal
to Austin, where the only facilities for
study and experiments in soil, ayr
culture and stock-raising are perforce
Of natural conditions restricted to
rock-ribbed hills, cactus, spike-tailed
'dobies" and spawned jackasses.
The Agricultural and Mechanical
College was located in Brazos County
ecause of the admirable facilities for !