The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, February 01, 1899, Image 9

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    THE BATTALION.
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there is neither an agricultural nor horticultural building-
illustrated in it, for no such building’s exist, nor have they
ever existed. Colorado contains less than half the area of
Texas, less than one-tenth the area of arable land of Tex
as. The faculty of the Colorado colleg-e contains thirteen
names; that of the great state of T exas, nine. Total of
professors and assistants, Colorado, thirty-one; Texas,
twenty-one. Colorado pays in salaries $62,829; Texas,
$39,570. Colorado’s assessed values amount to $187,000,-
000; Texas, $885,000,000—more than four times as much.
Colorado levies a tax of one-fifth of a mill per dollar for A.
and M. Colleg-e equipment—$40,000 annually. Texas levies
no tax for this purpose. A similar tax in Texas would
produce $177,000 annually. One-twentieth of a mill (or
one-fourth the Colorado rate) would yield a larg-er sum
than is yielded by the Colorado tax. The population of
Colorado is less than 600,000; that of Texas is about live
times as much. Texas, however, makes a better showing-
in this matter when compared with Colorado than when
the comparison is made with almost any of the agricul
tural states.—Earm and Ranch.
CONSTITUTION AND BY=LAWS OF THE ALPHA PHI
FRATERNITY.
CONSTITUTION.
SECTION I.
Article 1. The name of this association shall be “The
.ftlpha Phi Fraternity.”
Art. 2. Its object shall be to promote friendship