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c f t b ! ' b b b b I- b b b bb b b b b b b ask anything rgore. Early ig th|e year President Harringtog won all hearts by the t]earty declaratiog of his interest ig athletics, and of f]is desire to prorgote this feature of College life. He is with us in our stand for clean sport. In h)is chapel talks to tf]e corps f]e is particularly happy. He never speaks except wheg he f-jas sometf]ing to say. He is forceful; he commands attentiog; h[is advice is pointed and sound. Ig the last three years tf|e work of the College f]as beeg greatly extended; new de¬ partments have beeg created; gew laboratories and other buildings have been erected and equipped, and the curriculurg greatly extended. Ig his first public utterance Pres¬ ident Harringtog announced that his policy would be further to strengthen existing de¬ partments, rather than to add to their gumber; and to develop the College along indus¬ trial lines. And, somehow, he is getting things done. The physical conditiog of the campus is improving rapidly; there is little or go complaint of the fare at the Mess Hall; and even the ‘ ' Nat has lost some of its terrors. At go time during the past winter did we awake to find the rgercury at the freezing point and the wood-pile at the vanishing point. Tl ese facts may constitute merely “a curious concatenatiog of circumstances,’ but we believe there is a reasog. A fine spirit pervades the corps, and tlqe belief is general that witf| Sargent as Com¬ mandant and Harringtog as President tf]e above-mentioned Committee will ere long retire into innocuous desuetude, resolving itself, perhaps, into a rgoot court. Serious offenses against good order and discipline are obsolescent. Tf|e student whjo commands the respect of his fellows is thje student who studies; wf]o is gentlemanly ig his demeanor. And while tf]is conditiog has not come about wholly withig President Harringtog’s brief term of office, yet it is a conditiog in which) he takes pride, and which) h]e will do much to promote. His administratiog dates back only a few m on h s but h e h as beeg tried ig be lab¬ oratory of College life and we find “the elements so rgi xe d in h)irg ' as to proclaim his fitness for his gew work. The analysis shov s a h)igh percentage of Administrative Ability, Energy, Progressivegess, Zeal; Gray Matter ig Excess; with) only a “trace of Inexperi¬ ence, and this will be filtered out og adding a suitable quantity of Time. First the blade, theg the ear; after that the full corg in the ear. May his labors ig behalf of the College be rewarded by an abundant harvest of good things! ' • ' i ' -jv■ -1 ' ' ' ' ■i ' i ' b J i T ' T ' T 4 ' i T ' T b T T ' b T ' t-
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r an earnest effort toward the same end by every member of f]is class. The Chemical Department f[ere l]as never beer] a favorite field for the seeker after soft snaps, In the classroorr] quiz, Professor Harrington’s questions were pointed and searching, and rgany a Senior, even, f]as beeq known to tremble iq his boots and to quake before l]is piercing eye, admitting, finally, that he could not tell the difference betweeq an alcohol and aq aldehyde. But the student who showed that f|e was iq earnest and was rqaking an f]on- est effort felt sure of encouragement. In f[is work as Chemist to the Experiment Station, and as State Chemist Professor Harringtoq dealt largely witf[ matters of vital concerq to the farmers of Texas. He is the author of qumerous bulletins on subjects of economic importance, and has rqade valua¬ ble reports oq the soils and waters of Westerq Texas, and oq commercial fertilizers. He is a firnq believer in industrial educatioq, and he has been, for seventeeq years, thoroughly identified with this College. He is familiar witl] its l]istory, its aims, aqd its nqethods in every detail, And when, oq the 8tl] day of September, 1905, l]e was elected President of the institutioq f]e f]ad so ably served as Professor, there was a general feeling of confidence that the destines of the College had beeq placed iq safe l]ands; that its growtf], whicf] l]ad beeq so rqarked in the past three years, would go oq will] in¬ creased acceleratioq. This feeling was shared witf) the especial friends of the College by the public at large; and, already, events are justifying it. The Red Maq in America is qot yet extinct; qor is tl e tribe of those iq our College whose intercourse witf] nqembers of the Faculty is based largely upoq tl]e contact tl]ey f]ave witf] then] wheq they attend, by special invitatioq, tl]e sessions of the Discipline Committee. Impressions received at sucf] functions are qot apt to be of tf]e rqost pleas¬ ing character, Professor Harringtoq served for rqany years oq that Committee, and we violate qo confidence by declaring that tf]e same diligence in the searcf] for trutf], whicf] led f]im to probe to tl]e bottorq in rqatters scientific, caused f]im, sometimes, in rqatters disciplinary, to ask questions, whicf] were, to say the least, embarrassing. And tf]ere be graduates who, eveq unto this day, stammer perceptibly wheq recounting their personal experiences along that line. Sucf] things will get out, and students will f]ave their opiq- ions; and it was feared iq some quarters that under tf]e qew administration a certaiq quality of sternness rqight be transferred to the executive office, and tf]at we rqight all have to walk just a little straighter than tf]e regulations require. But tf]e corps fjas learqed that iq the President every student f]as a friend; that warrq Southerq blood flows iq his veiqs; that l]e is approachable, considerate, kind. Requests taken to f]im are carefully considered, and his inclination is to grant therq, if possible; wheq tf]is can qot be done, a good reasoq is assigned, Iq matters of discipline, f]is reprimands leave no sting; the delinquent feels tf]at f]e will get a square deal, and he is generally not in a positioq to V 8
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