Wow. What an awesome find. Thank you for sharing.

Hopefully the University will work with you on displaying and protecting some of these items.

Needs to be in a museum in the MSC.

I don't know what's more amazing: the find, the joke that Tyler made, or the fact that you got a Zoo thread to go ten pages in one day without posting a single hottie.

This is what I get for not checking TexAgs all day yesterday. Amazing story, just told mrs_agaholic and she couldn't believe it!

This is awesome!

wow, 10 pages! Glad that ya'll are enjoying this.

Here's a few more pics of an interesting item:
1. Book of Yells from 1917-1918.

2. Notice the yells on the left. I've often wondered where some of the phrases came from (Hullabaloo, Caneck, Caneck & Chick-gar Roo-gar Rum). It looks like they were actually yells at the time, so they were actually just incorporated into the song.......

3. Saw Varsity's Horns Off was also a yell at the time. Another yell added to the War Hymn.

4. Farmers Fight! Different that the modern version.

Dude. That is awesome! Please keep sharing more of your find. Honestly, this stuff should be in a museum somewhere on campus but I could understand not wanting to let it go.

Incredible. I am speechless..

Wow wow wow wow wow!!!

This is GREAT stuff, please keep sharing!!!!

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Dude. That is awesome! Please keep sharing more of your find. Honestly, this stuff should be in a museum somewhere on campus but I could understand not wanting to let it go.

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take your time on deciding what to do with it..

if you decide to keep it in your house go to a book curator and see what is the best way to keep them in your house to preserve them.

your dad knew how important your granddad was to A&M and the stuff he had left him. For whatever reason your dad thought it was important to keep that stuff in the family.

Amazing, thanks for sharing!

For Aggies everywhere, this is the mother lode, the Magna Carta, and it clarifies so much about the one thing that's quintessentially Aggie: The War Hymn.

First verse = only verse.

Is this the Aggie 'Book of Leaves'?

5X7 original photo of the Corp outside of the Academic Building in 1915. Final Review perhaps?


8X10 original photo of the FTAB from 11/5/1921.
We BTHO Baylor. Some things never change!


Photo of Pinky during his A&M days:

Very cool.

Rah! Chaw! Jay Haw! A.M.C.!

sounds similar to

Rock Chalk Jay Hawk KU.

From the "What?" yell above.

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This should be put on display in the reception area for the Legends Suites post-Kyle Field remodel, and of course one of those suites should be kept available for your personal use as compensation.

Trade the display of these items for a suite in Kyle.

Cool letter that my grandfather sent his parents from WW1 in Feb 1919:

Gone are the days when Texas had a team,
Gone are the days when Varsity was supreme,
Down in defeat before the Farmers bold,
We hear their roosters sadly moaning "take us home"

Poor Texas, poor Texas, for their heads are bending low
We hear the longhorns sadly moaning "Oh! Oh! Oh!"

You're very fortunate. Any day-to-day memos about corps life for your grandfather would be a treasure. I'm class of 65 and never put anything much about day-to-day.Recommend you save this for your kids and Aggie friends to look at and see what was it like in the Corps and life at A&M. Your dad-class of 63 had some stories I'm sure you can treasure.
gig em!

This is fantastic stuff! Thank you very much for sharing some amazing pieces of history from Texas A&M.

Seeing this makes me proud of Texas A&M and it's great history (like I wasn't proud already....WHOOP!)

As you can gauge from the reaction on just TexAgs, these are artifacts that all Aggies want and need to be able to see. I hope we hear back about your final decision about putting them on display. A treasure chest indeed.

last one for awhile, but I wanted to share a couple of photo's of Pinky's Aggie ring:

Now the yell boys will try to bring on of those yells back to solidify their "legacy" as a yell leader. Remember Kyle Field yell? Or Whistlie??

Great find WHA. I would love to have the pic of the corp outside the academic building! I love old photos!

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The good old U.S.A. is plenty good for me.

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Now the yell boys will try to bring on of those yells back to solidify their "legacy" as a yell leader. Remember Kyle Field yell? Or Whistlie??

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It's not like the Yell Leaders haven't seen these yells. They know plenty of the old yells.

For the record, I believe Skyrocket was interpreted wrong. I think the "whisteeeee" was an actual whistle.