RIP VAN WINKLE.
O! Rip Van Winkle was a lucky
man,
Rip Van Winkle was a gent.
He lived twenty years on another
man’s land.
And didn’t pay him rent.
He never went to A. and M.,
He knew nut what it was
To go to math, and go to chem.,
And hear professors buzz.
He was forever in a coke
And in a reverie,
And now they say he never spoke
Of answering reveille.
Lucky man! Now aint that fine?
More luck? Weil I should say,
He’s never rammed for “shoes not
shined”
By the officers of the day.
He didn’t have to eat the stuff
That we have here; but when
He got hungry on his bluff
He’d breathe some ox-y-gen.
O! yes he had a gun, all right,
But he didn’t go to drills
Nor guard mount, with it polished
bright,
Nor take salts for all his ills.
Wasn’t Rip Van Winkle a lucky
man?
Didn’t Rip have a cinch?
As the words in that old proverb
goes,
“Better born lucky than rich.”
Listen! You hear Kelley speak.
Listen again! You hear a gurgling
sound. That’s C company laughing.
“I bet that you don’t know what’s
the matter with my heater,” says
Gaston as he chucks some wood in.
“Why no, I do not believe I do.”
“What is the matter with it?”
“All stove up,” says Gaston as he
turns on the damper.
EN=
The boys on Fatty Corrigan’s ta
ble say that they wish he would fall
in love and lose his appetite.
Prof.—“Mr. Cruse, how are the
leaves situated on a wheat plant?”
Cruse—“I think so, but she didn’t
say.”
Walker—“This chem. says that
bismuth is found in the original
state. Now, which state is that?
I DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL
QINEERING.
The department of electrical en
gineering of the A. and M. College,
although it has only been in ex
istence two years, has made re
markable progress. Prof. Brown
has shown that he means business
from the start, and has developed
a course that, taken together with
the fifth year’s work, is considered
the equal of the courses offered by
the leading institutions of the
country.
The first two years’ work is al
most identical with that of the
Mechanical Engineering course,
and the student is instructed in
the elements of machines and ma
chinery. Here, too, he gets con
siderable shop work, and learns
the use of tools. He is abo
“started off right” with such fund
amental subjects as English, His
tory, Mathematics, Physics, and
Drawing.
In the Junior year special work
in Electrical Engineering is taken
up under the subjects of Electrical
Measurements and Electricity and
Magnetism. Extended laboratory
practice is given in connection with
the theoretical instruction.
Finally, in the Senior year, Elec
trical Machinery and Electrical
Specifications are taken up. The
practice work of the year is in
testing electrical machiner}', and
electrical design and specifications.
The student is required to draw
People on the campus were start
led by hearing peel after peel pierce
the still atmosphere Thursday after
noon. Foster Hall was the place of
disturbance. What was the matter?
Why nothing at all, only the banana . . , • i ^ .
man from Bryan had been on thej wmn g diagrams both for interior
and exterior wiring. He is also
campus.
Gugy—( in military science de
scribing the position of a soldier) —
But, Captain, all men can’t touch
their heels together.
Captain—What kind of men can’t,
Mr. Gugenheim.
Gugy —Bow legged men can’t.
And when he saw his mistake
Gugy. blushed.
Potts says he is downcast because
he can’t hear from his girl. He is
so blue over it that every time he
sits down he makes a “blue print.”
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Con s, and for Students of Col
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Estimates
Furnished
required to design several pieces of
electrical apparatus, such as gal
vanometers, voltmeters, ammeters,
dynamos or motors, and trans
formers.
While the department is fairly
well equipped with apparatus, a
great deal more could be used to
advantage. It is to be hoped that
this legislature will appropriate
money to purchase more apparatus.
Probably the greatest need of the
department is a new building. The
Physics department has occupied
Gathright Hall from time immemo
rial, and it would seem almost a
sacrilege to have it moved; but,
nevertheless, it must be apparent
to everyone that more room is
needed, now that thq E. E. course
has been added. If the same rate
of increase of students continues
that there has been in the last two
years, Gathright Hall will soon not
be large enough to accommodate
them.
It may not be out of place here
to state that the successful launch
ing of this course is due very
largely to the efforts of Prof. Brown,
the head of this department. Prot.
Brown is an electrical engineer of
wide practical experience, and has
held important positions in the de
partments of physics and electri
cal engineering in several large col
leges of the country. He is to be
congratulated on having two such
efficient assistants as Prof. Shaw
and Mr. Hill. An E. E.
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STOCK JUDGING CONTEST.
Thousands are called but few are
chosen to become successful live
stock judges. To see and judge
every point accurately and to pos
sess the clear judgment necessary to
balance them is a gift. Great judges
and breeders are born, not made;
but those who possess a “spark of
the divine” have it most quickly
kindled into flame in the great insti
tutions of agricultural knowledge,
where they are brought in touch
with animals of all types and breeds,
and with other enthusiastic animal
husbandry students.
On Saturday, Nov. 26, 34 men met
in the judging rings at the Interna
tional Live Stock Exposition build
ings. Iowa, Kansas, Texas, Ontario,
Michigan and Ohio were represent
ed, each by a team of five men.
Minnesota had three representatives
present, and one farmer’s son, who
had no agricultural college traili ng,
elected to contest with the college
men. These 34 men were to contest
for the beautiful bronze trophies ot
tered by tne Union Stock Yards and
Transit Co., illustrations of which
appeared in the Gazette of Oct. 26
last, and for the $500 in cash prizes
offered by a commission firm at the
Chicago Stock Yards,
Victory meant not merely the
winning of prizes; it meant that the
ability to win them rested with the
victors. Perhaps It),000 students in
agricultural colleges were interested
in the result of this fifth annual con
test.
Robert Miller, Stouffville, Out.,
was superintendent; he gave three
classes of cattle—Shorthorn bulls;
Hereford heifers and Red Polled
heifers; three classes of horses—
draft. geldings, Clydesdale mares,
and Siiire stallions ; three classes of
sheep — Cotswnlds, fat sheep and
Shropshires; and two classes of fat
hogs, to judge and assign reasons for
j udgment.
Twenty minutes were allowed the
students to place a class of five an
imals and give written reasons for
such placing, and as each class was
finished competent judges of na
tional repute placed the animals
that the students had passed on, and
later corrected the papers.
John Robbins, Horace, Ind., tied
the cattle classes; R. B. Ogilvie of
Chicago the horse classes; Robert
Miller Himself placed the Cotswold
sheep; William Hamner of Ontario
the Shropshire sheep, and John
Campbell, Woodville, Ont., the fat
sheep. A. J. Lovejoy, Roscoe, 111.,
tied the ribbons in the hog classes.
The work progressed rapidly and
without delays, which have marred
some of tha former contests. Super
intendent Miller deserves credit for
the businesslike manner in which
the contest was carried out; and the
judges who gave so freely of their
time and energj^ in placing the
classes and correcting the papers
displayed that broadminded and
helpful spirit so characteristic of
American stock breeders—the spirit
which is encouraging young men to
embark in the live stock business.
The Ohio team under Prof. S. C.
Plumb’s training won the Spoor
trophy, offered for the team of five
men doing the best work in judging
cattle, sheep, and swine. The Iowa
team under Prof. W. J. Rutherford’s
instruction won the trophy for the
five men doing the best work in
judging horses.
Instructors whose students were in
the contest are thus listed: Prof. (J.
S. Plumb of the Ohio State Univer
sity, Columbus; Profs. John A. Craig
and F. R. Marshall of the Texas Ag
ricultural and Mechanical College,
College Station; Prof. W. J. Ruther
ford, Iowa State College, Ames;
Pr«>f. M. Gumming, Ontario Agri
cultural College, Guelph; Prof. R. S.
Suavv, Michigan Agricultural Col
lege, Lansing; Prof. R. J. Kinzer,
Kansas Agricultural College, Man
hattan, and Prof. Andrew Boss, Min
nesota School of Agriculture, St.
Anthony Park.
The ranking of the individual men
who landed in the prize list and the
name of the college represented are
thus listed :
Value Pis. in
Place. Name. of prize l,0u0
1— W A. Martin. Ohio..$lt)0 520
2— VV. C. McKillican,On-
tario
75
618
3—B Griffin, Ohio
60
6' 0
4—H. E Hanna, Texas.
50
4-8
5—L. Daily. Minnesota..
45
486
6—W. J. Lennox.Ontario
40
468
7—F. L. Allen, Ohio....
35
468
8—R. K. Bliss, Iowa....
30
464
9—C. O. Moser, Texas...
25
458
*10—J. Bowditch, Mich...
20
458
11—P. R. Birch, Kansas .
12
450
12—W. C. Moore, Mich ..
8
446
•*Tied.
Tne trophy offered to the college
whose five men should do the best
work in judging cattle, sheep and
swine, the judging being done on the
basis of 2,500 points for each team,
was won by the University of Ohio,
with an aggregate standing of 2,186
points. The Texas Agricultural Col
lege stood second with 2,150 points;
the Iowa Agricultural College third
with 2,135 points; the Ontario Agri
cultural College fourth with 2,100
points; the Michigan Agricultural
College fifth with 2,032 points; the
Kansas Agricultural College sixth
with 1,900 points; the University of
Minnesota (three men) seventh with
1,178 points, and R. McKee (farmer’s
son division) eighth with 280 points.
The trophy offered to the college
whose five men should do the best
work in judging horses fell to the
Iowa Agricultural College, whose
five men had an aggregate standing
of 26 points out of 34 (33 points for
reasons and 1 point for correctness of
placing). Ontario won second with
20 points; Michigan third with 18
points; Texas and Ohio fourth and
fifth with 15 points each; Kansas
sixth with 14 points, and Minnesota
(three men) 6 points.
The Union Stock Yards and Tran
sit Co., and the commission firms
whose names have been connected
with these contests, are stimulating
interest in live stock judging.—Breed
er’s Gazette.
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