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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (May 13, 1931)
THE BATTALION 3 Valued Steer Head Given To College The mounted head of a steer, who in his life time, became famous be cause of his enormous size, has been received by the department of agri culture as a gift from the heir of the late Col. Driscoll, well known ranchman and prominent Texan. His torically, it is of considerable value in the narrative of events of the cat tlemen of past days. The steer was born in Hayes coun ty on the Blanco river in 1875. It was the property of Col. William Good, who sold it when a yearling for the small sum of three dollars to Col. Driscoll. He took him to Kansas in 1876, when he drove 3000 head of cows across the country to market. The steer was allowed to run on the open range in Kansas until he was four years old. At this time, he weigh ed about 1,600 pounds. • His size at that age, attracted such attention that he was shipped to Chi cago, where he was put in the stock yards, and exhibited. He spent the rest of his days in the stock yards, and grew until he weighed over 3,000 pounds at the age of ten. When he was slaughtered, the head was mount ed, and presented to Col. Driscoll at Austin. It hung in the Driscoll home for several years, and was later re moved to the lobby of the Driscoll Hotel. It stayed there until some years ago when the hotel was sold. Then it was taken by the Colonel’s grand son, to Speairfish, N. Dakota, Where it was apparently forgotten. Revival of interest in it by Col C. C. French, led to its location there, and Mr. Dris coll kindly consented to give it to the college with the understanding that it was to be displayed in the Memorial Live Stock building when it is built. Although it has been over fifty years since it was mounted, the head is still in excellent condition, and is very impressive of the unusual size of the animal. The exact breed of the steer is unknown but the tint of the hair, a very deep red, indicates that it must have a slight trace of Brahma blood. The horns are very beautiful. Long and gracefully curved, and high- | ly polished, they are five feet, ten inches from tip to tip, and are a great deal longer, actually, measuring along their curved surface. It would be al most impossible to tie the steer with the ordinary calf-rope, for the small est part of his neck measures forty- eight and one-half inches. The mounting at present is in the office of Dean E. J. Kyle, of the school of agriculture and may be inspected at any time. Plans indicate that the Memorial Liyp Stock building mentioned is to b§ built following the completion of the Chemistry building, and the erec tion of the Agriculture Engineering building. Mothers’ Day Honored with Many Events Sports And Ceremonies Combine For The Event Flowers, colorful, early summer frocks, ideal weather and numerous visitors made for the past Mothers’ and Dads’ Day one of the most com plete and most successful that the college has realized since the inau- i guration of the day some years ago. A complete program was arranged to | entertain the Sunday visitors and and special features were arranged for those who arrived Saturday. Saturday afternooon a horse show on the drill field and a dual tennis meet between Texas University and A & M on the courts northeast of the campus offered to the visitors two interesting activities lasting the entire afternoon. During the early part of the night open house at the mechanical engineering department, where interesting mechanical work was going on in all of the shop’s divi sions, held the attention of the moth ers and dads, as well as those stu dents who chose to attend, while a corps dance in honor of the many visiting parents and loved ones en tertained until midnight. The flowers pinning ceremony, in which the cadets in formation were priviledged to be decorated with flowers by visiting ladies, began at ten o’clock and was followed by a review of the corps by the guests as the corps went to pay homage to their mothers at chapel. This com pleted the morning program. In the afternoon dinner with the BRYAN NURSERY & FLORAL CO. BEAUTIFUL FLOWERS FOR ALL OCCASIONS Bryan Phone 266-R1 THEM GOOD MALTED MILKS We Still Make Them! King’s, Whitman’s and Pangburn’s Candies Holmes Bros. Confectionery Bryan Phone 221 ALTERATIONS, CLEANING, PRESSING AND REPAIRS HATS CLEANED AND BLOCKED. CAPS CLEANED TIES CLEANED AND PRESSED THE CAMPUS CLEANERS & TAILORS HENRY LOCKE, Manager Over The Exchange Store CAMPUS BARBER SHOP in th§ We are betting' on the Aggies for the Baseball Championship SHAVES HAIR CUT SHAMPOOS Bert Smith, Prop. cadets in the mess hall, campus in- ii-cclion, a Ross Volunteer Company drill and a band concert by the Ag gie Band gave to the visitors a full afternoon and the last ended a week end of activities to be long remem bered for its completness. Germans are building a new plane believed capable of rising ten miles in the air. SERVING AGGIES Campus Shoe Shop Over Exchange Store MAKE YOUR HEAD QUARTERS WITH US WHEN IN Navasota Colonial Cafe While passenger airplanes were travelling 30,000,000 miles in 1930, only eight passengers were killed in airplane accidents. Harvard has broken a 48-year-old football custom by booking only seven games for 1932 instead of the usual eight. 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