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THE BATTALION. 21 conditions of the weather. The plans accepted for the building embody most of the ideas and ar rangement worked out between Prof. Connell and Prof. Price. When the building is completed it will be about the best Agricul tural and Horticural building in the South, as well as an ornament to the campus. The Forestry division of the U. S. Department of Agriculture has made Prof. Price a special offer to undertake some forestry work for the U. S. Department of Agriculture in Texas during the winter. The Horticultural department has received a request from Dr. H. P. Armsby, chairman of the station exhibit of the experiment stations for the Paris Ex position, to prepare an exhibit showing the scientific classifica tion of varieties of the peach which was worked out here sev eral years ago and published in Bulletin No. 39 from the experi ment station. The exhibit is about ready and will be forward ed to Washington. Arrangements are being made to organize a “Natural History Club” in the College, with quar ters in the Horticultural section rooms. X. Y. Z. Passing. Put away the ice cream freezer, Take the hammock from the shade, Shelve the oozing: lemon squeezer— We no longer need its aid. —Exchange. In the Same Class. “I’m a plain, blunt man, Marga ret, and can frame no honeyed speeches. Will you marry me?” “I’m a little on the plain, blunt order myself. No!”' The Baylor Literary as it comes to us this month certainly de serves credit. Baylor University can justly feel proud of it. We noticed especially in the contents the “New Era” for Baylor, and we are glad such a change has taken place. Besides other changes, Baylor has at last thrown away her foolish and poor opinion of the great college game football, and is now ready to receive chal lenges from her sister colleges. Hurrah for Baylor! A New Way to Propose. He: “Can you keep a secret?” She: “Certainly I can.” He: “Then I’d like to tell you that I want to get married.” She: “You don’t say so!” He: “Yes, and I don’t want .nybody but you to know it.”