Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-04-10
Y. N. c. A. ELECTS
NEW OFFICE Rs At
STATE COLLEGE
Interesting News Notes From
New Mexico Agricultural
Institution; Student Body to
Picnic Today

ESPECIAL coRREsPoHpgNcs MORNING JOURNAL
State College, n. NJ, April 9-The
annual election Of officers Of the
Young Mems Christian association at
the association building has resulted
in the election Of the following: Q Is.
Jackson, l6, president; Earl Taylor,
is, vice president Chester Garrett
Is, secretary, and Prof. S. S. Hook
land, of the department of commerce,
treasurer. The officers-elect took of
flee this month and will serve until
the first of April 1916.
The annual student body picnic Will
he held on Saturday April 10, at the
famous Dripping Springs camp OF Ma
ior Van Patterns, fifteen miles dis
tant from college, The party will
leave early saturday morning and
will return the evening of the same
day.
Cadet Inspection.
The annual cadet inspection will he
held on April 20 by Captain Merry
United states army, the inspector who
has conducted the examination on
the college battalion for the past two
years The cadets are well trained
and are in excellent shape for the in
speetion having profited by five
| days encampment at Fort Bliss,
Texas The battalion is under the in
struction OF Lieut.. 5. =. Herien, Unit
ed States army and the cadets have
| had better instruction than for many
| years
The Engineers club of the school of
engineering will give a promenade on
! April 16 at the college gymnasium
| Many novel features, characteristic OF
! their department, viii be Instituted in
the dance. Van Surdam's orchestra,
of FL Paso, will furnish the music.
The engineers of the junior and
senior class of the college will take
an overland trip to the elephant
Butte dam ON April H. returning the
following day. The trip is required
of all engineers before they are per-
mitted to graduate, and they Will re
ceive credit for a report of the visit
which they are required 20 write
Girls to Stage PLAY.
The Young ladies' of the Y. w. c. A..
have chosen "In the Vanguard by
Katrina Trask, as play to be staged
during the first few weeks in May.
The cast. has been selected and the
members are at work at present
memorizing their parts.
The freshmen class has submitted
to the sophomores the question for
the annual interclass debate for the
privilege of engraving the class
numerals on the loving cup donated
by the class of 1910. The question
has to deal with the selling of arms
land ammunition to the belligerent ma
tons Of Europe by the United States.
Fhe freshmen class will be upheld by
Miss Margaret Buvens and Miss Anna
Berrier As yet the sophOmores have
not chosen their representatives,, nut
will no doubt put out a strong team,
as they were easily the victors in the
debate last year The date FOR the
contest has not as yet ben decided.
The Alpha ri Alpha fraternity will
stage a minstrel and a play I'm a short
time. The members of the two casts
are now memorizng their parts and
rehearsing for the finals The date
has not been decided definitely.
College Notes.
The senior class will hold a smoker
at Hub club on the evening Of April
Donald Young, 10, and later a
graduate of Yale, has been elected
treasurer of the New Mexico Yale
Alumni association, which was re-
Gently organized in New Mexico.
Raymond Frenger has been select
cd class valedictorian by virtue of his
having the highest class average grade
for the four-year college course.
In a recent letter to faculty mem
Der. r. L. Clayton, a former student
of the college, tells of his work in
ocean Grove, oregon, where he is en-
gagged in educational work.
The presdent-elect of the Y. NJ. G..
A. has announced his cabinet chair
man for the year l9l5-l6.