The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, January 01, 1894, Image 11
THE BATTALION. 9 'Therefore there is no serious error in •considering this earth round. For all practical purposes .it is so. We notice that some enterprising news paper writers have recently been criti cising the College severely. They want to know what benefit the farmers receive for the large amount of money expended in running the institution. These criti cisms show how easy it is for some peo ple to talk a great deal about things they know nothing about. The College is not operated “for the benefit of farmers,” but to educate young men in such branches as will make them to become successful farmers and mechanics. And we would also add that the operating expenses of the College are chiefly paid by the pupils W'ho attend it, and not by the critics who seldom, if ever visit it, and who show by their writing that they "know very little about the institution or its work. If these dissatisfied persons wish to have a broad basis of observed facts for their future remarks on the subject will visit the College, they will he welcomed by the faculty and afforded every opportunity to learn just what the college is doing, and how it is doing it. Some of them even had the manhood to publicly acknowledge their former error. The college courts investigation and fair criticism, but we claim that those who really know nothing about its work have no right to expose their ignorance to the detriment of a noble institution, and a faculty, each one of which is doing a grand work for the State without telling it through a fog horn. The Engineering News Publishing Company offers the following prizes for the best graduating theses presented by students graduating in 1891, from any engineering course of any college in the United states or Canada: First prize, $75.00 ; Second, $50.00 ; Third, $25.00. There is also a special post-graduate prize of $100.00, which is open to under- draduate competition. The conditions of the competition are as follows : 1. Competing theses must be sent in by the college authorities, not by the authors. They must be sent in anony mously, both as to author and college, indorsed on the outside, “For Engineer ing News Thesis Competition,” and ad dressed in care of the Secretary of the American Society of Civil Engineers, 127 East Twenty-third Street, New York, whp has kindly consented to re ceive and open the packages. They must be accompanied by a sealed en velope indorsed on the outside with the title of the theses, and containing within the name, address and college of the author, and a certificate from some one of his professors to the effect that the thesis has been examined and is i"dors- ed as in all known respects worthy of entering such a competition. (Blank forms of certificates will be sent to any person on request.) These sealed en velopes will be retained and opened by the Secretary after the announcement of the awards has been made to him. (It is particularly requested that all marks or words giving any clue to the origin of the thesis be erased, so far as possible.) 2. Theses by post-graduates must have the word “Post-graduate” conspic uously and permanently attached to the manuscript. 3. The examinations and awards will be made by the editors and associate editors of Engineering News, assisted by such experts in the several branches of engineering as they may select to aid them in reaching a just decision. 4. The basis of selection for premiums will be the same as that used in selecting