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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (June 1, 1900)
THE BATTALION. 1? ■word and deed. This College sends you out with a mission to the people of Texas, not to be delivered in words, but enacted by honest toil and wrought in chivalrous deeds that shall stand a living monument to the char acter of the instruction you have here received. And may that monument forever stand, a mighty lighthouse at sea against whose base the fierce tem pests of time shall flash in vain. You go forth from this institution with my heartfelt sympathy, with my best wishes and with my prayers. “If I have committed any act, in words or deeds, that was not worthy of your emulation, I trust that you will pardon it, and I hope that in the fu ture you will remember the Faculty and myself only as those who have striven to perform such service as would best subserve your interests.” Col. Foster then made a few remarks concerning the Summer School and Summer Normal, which will open here next Monday, June 3 8. and stated that those students who wished to remain to take advantage of these schools would be provided with the usual ac commodation in the dormitories. The Hon. Marion Sansom, of Alva rado, President of the Board of Direc tors, then conferred degrees upon the Graduating Class. The name and sub ject of thesis are: Agricultural Course. J. Lewis, McKinney; J. D. Thrower, Mayhew, Miss.; “The Study of the Posterior Aorta.” A. K. Short, Decatur; Wm. Walden, Dickinson; “The Relative Feeding Values of Some Common Grains for Calves.” A Winkler, The Grove; “Feeding Values of Some Texas Hays for Work Stock.” Civil Engineering Course. S. R. Bierring, Hitchcock; “The De sign of a Six Panel Through R. R. Bridge.” T. C. Bittle, Jr., College Station, B, P. Melgaard, Brazoria; “Plans for Im proving the Campus Roads and Walks.” J. D. Carter, Kingston; S. H. Simp son, Hallettsville; “The Relative Strength of Concretes Made with Broken Stone and Rounded Pebbles.” T. H. Clement, Jr., Port Lavaca; Cary Hutson, College Station; “Effect of Fineness of Sand Grains upon the Strength of Cement Mortars.” C. W. Luhrsen, Stratton; J. S. Mon roe, Rio Grande City: “A Spur Track to Connect the A. & M. College with the H. & T. C. R’y.” O. M. Simpson, Jacksboro; “The Preservation of Building Materials.” Horticultural Course. M. S. Kahn, Hallettsville; C. P. Rog ers, Kyle; “The Sugar Cane Industry.” F. K. McGinnis, Terrell; “Poleniza- tion of the Peach.” Mechanical Engineering Course.” J. E. Abrahams, New Braunfels; H. Faust, New Braunfels; “The Westing- house Air Brake.” W. I. Bryan, Chambersville; “The Indicator.” W. A. Buhler, Victoria; “Lubri cants.” R. B. Boettcher, Weimar; 0. W. My ers, Josephine, “The Design of a Gym nasium and Natatorium for the A. & M. College.” Leonard Fitzgerald, Houston; “The Manufacture and Distribution of Illu minating Gas.” T. W. Griffiths, Jr., Dallas; “Evolu tion of the Modern Planer and Sizer.” Hal Moseley, Dallas; “Economy in the Use of the Gas Engine.” B. G. Scherer, Anahuac; “The Man ufacturer of Iron and Steel from the Ore.”
