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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Nov. 30, 1927)
THE BATTALION DO YOUR CHRISTMAS BUYING EARLY — and Remember— We are showing many new Gifts to help you in your selections. WEEK’S NEWS (Continued from Page 1) plates were taken back to Dallas by airplane. Capt. Howard Woodall, well-known Dallas pilot, was employ ed to fly to College Station and bring the pictures back Thursday afternoon. The trip was made in a little over two hours and the plates rushed from Love Field to the News by automobile Where prints and zinc etchings were made in time for the pictures to ap pear in all editions of the paper. The tenth International Student Volunteer Convention will be held in Detroit from December 28 to January 2. These conventions are held every four years, the last meeting being in Indianapolis. The purpose of the meet ings is to promote not only a forum of student thought but an organ for missionary enterprise on the part of colleges and universities. Texas Christian University has an nounced its intention of sending ten student delegates and one faculty rep resentative to the convention, and Rice will send its full quota of ten dele gates. Support is being sought in Houston from the downtown luncheon clubs, the churches, and student or ganizations at the Institute. The convention will bring together between 3000 and 4000 college students from all over America and Canada, and speakers are being brought from all over the world. Some of the topics to be threshed out are: “Why Chris tians of other lands criticize our Chris tianity and our efforts to give Christ to them”; “If the time has come for Westerners to withdraw from the work of the church in other lands”; and “Why we have not been successful in presenting Christ to the world.” Speaking of the student convention reminds us that a religious census has been completed here, the number of IVfethodists giving them the lead with 718, and the Baptists next with 588. Students of other denominations are: Presbyterian 261, Christian 153, Epis copal 144, Catholic 129, Church of Christ 73, Lutheran 39, Jewish 15, Christian Science 12, Congregational 6, Protestant Methodist 6, Mohamme dan 4, Evangelical 2, Unitarian 1. The census is made by the Y. M. C. A. and was begun at the first of the year, when each student was asked to indicate his preference at registration. The census shows a total of 2,151 stu dents with religious affiliation or pre ference out of the total enrollment of 2,400. We have on hand a letter written to Prof. Fermier of the M. E. Depart ment from the Dallas Aggies, express ing their appreciation of the A. and M. shield recently presented to the Dallas Club. The letter concludes, “The shield is beautiful, different from the others, in that it is solid, and we appreciate the fact that it was made at A. and M. College. The other shields are mostly stamped and are much lighter in weight.” The Club voted that a note of thanks be sent to Thu. - Fri. - Sat. PALACE Thu. - Fri. - Sat. ‘ 6 '\7\/ r I'lSa - lES ”—A picture of the pace that kills. And don’t forget that Clara Bow plays the wild, madcap Flapper! Matinee Thurs.-Friday 1:30 p. m. Carl Laemmle presents LARA IEB UNIVERSAL PICTURE Friday-Saturday Friday-Saturday WALLACE BERRY and RAYMOND HATTON I3XT ‘‘Now We’re In the Air” Nothing on “Earth” to match it. Good enough for Dad— good enough for you Edgeworth ft i GHAS. NITCH (Formerly the Campus Tailor; now in Bryan.) All Suits Cleaned and Pressed . . . 75c All Suits Pressed 40c All Pants Pressed 25c New Seats ..... $1.25 Give your Clothes to our Agents. THE EXCHANGE STORE f Welcomes all Old Boys Back to Aggieland and Extends the ” Freshmen a Cordial Welcome < ► THE EXCHANGE STORE IS YOUR STORE 3 ► Everything New and Modern ►♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦see ♦#♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ Prof. Fermier and Dean Bolton. The Pathe Exchange, Inc., and Har vard University, have made a contract for the preparation of a series of pic tures dealing with different scientific subjects, to be known as the Pathe Science Series. These are designd primarily for university, college, and school uses, but will be appropriate for the theatre, the church, club and other social organizations. The series will be made from films selected by the Harvard committee from Pathe’s vast film library which includes fif teen years of the Pathe News, nine years of the Pathe Film magazine, The Review, and eleven travel feature pictures. The Science Series will be of a dual nature. One set of pictures of a high ly technical nature and under the su pervision of the heads of the various departments, will be for use in uni versities and colleges and will follow closely the corresponding courses in Harvard. The second series will be for use in grade and high schools and will be used in connection with school courses in geography, dealing wth the physical conditions of life, the differ ent types of man, and the adapta tions to environment. The film selected for these series will be classified, cut, assembled, and titled by graduate students at the Uni versity. MACHINE GUN MOUNTING RECORD BROKEN On Tuesday afternoon, November 22, a machine gun crew of juniors, | IT’S TIME Hi To Begin Thinking HI of those 1 CHRISTMAS | GIFTS! We have a well as- =§ sorted line of Quality == Gifts for any member === of the family. | COME IN m and let us help you | HI with your Gift prob- j == lems. I THE I SMITH DRUG CO. =1 “On the Busy Corner” composed of D. H. Beaty, C. G. Al bert, and B. L. Smith, and coached by P. C. Harris, broke all records for mounting and dismounting a machine gun. The team mounted the gun in 22 seconds and dismounted it in 16 seconds. This is the best record ever made at the college by amateurs.