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THE BATTALION
The Corps.
R. E. Schiller, ’06, returned to the
campus last Wednesday to finish up
his work leading to the civil engineer
degree. He will receive that degree
with the class of ’08.
G. N. Wheat, ’97, was at College
Station several months as superintend
ent on the new buildings, and is now
located in Houston with H. F. Jonas,
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The following clipping is taken
from a very interesting short story
can get along better without the en
gineers than without the common la
borers.”
“And I can prove that you are mis
taken,” rejoined the engineer. “When
a farmer undertakes to ditch a piece
of land with common laborers and
without the supervision of an engin
eer he will probably move
three times the dirt, at a cost
of more than three times the
money necessary to accom
plish the result he wishes. If
he were prudent enough to
have the work laid out be
forehand by a competent en
gineer skilled in drainage
work he could afford, if nec
essary, to pay three times
as much for his labor and
still spend more money, and
you know 25c or 50c a day ex
tra will soon bring all the la
bor we may need from other
States.”
“I was glad to hear you
say,” said the man who had
alluded to the drainage law,
“that your engineer, to be of
use to the farmer, must be
skilled in drainage work. We
need specialists. Many a
good civil engineer with years
of successful railroad work
behind him has made costly
mistakes on his first irriga
tion or drainage work."
“Yes, I believe the State
Agricultural and Mechanical
College should offer a special
course in ‘agricultural engi
neering,’ and not only teach
the students how to get wa
ter on and off the lands, but
also how much different
crops require and when it
should be applied.”
“Well, we do need a new breed of
engineers,” the other agreed. “I am
manager for a canal company, and our
engineer, a man of ten years’ exper
ience in railway work, made the mis
take of supposing that a scant growth
of tall grass would not affect the flow
in a canal!”
’88.
Tom Fountain, ’01, is working in
McKeesport, Pa., for several months
on a large civil engineering job. He
is still with Potter, civil engineer of
New York City.
J. W. Maxwell, ’04, graduates from
the Mass. Inst, of Tech, this June.
W. G. Moore is a traveling sales
man for an electric company, with
headquarters at St. Louis, Mo.
S. J. Fountain, ’01, has returned
from Paris, France, where he has
been studying for the past year, and
has entered a partnership with an
architect in Cleveland, Ohio. His ad
dress is 6008 Hough Ave.
F. M. Law, ’95, president of the
Alumni Association, has recently been
elected to the position of cashier in
the Park National Bank, at Beaumont,
Texas, and will leave Bryan about the
first of August to take up the duties
of his new position.
G. H. Pape, ’04, is head of the agri
cultural and industrial experiments
for the Colonial German government
at Togo, Africa. He spent a couple
of months during the early spring at
College, taking an advanced course
in chemistry and cotton growing.
University of Colorado students are
agitating a new Y. M. C. A. building
for their institution. An extensive
canvass among the business men and
other citizens, as well as among the
students, is to be undertaken soon.
The Y. M. C. A. officers and directors
propose plans for the building such
as have been established at the Uni
versity of Illinois at the cost of $100,-
000, at the Universities of Missouri
and Wisconsin at the cost of $100,000,
and at Ames at a cost of $60,000.—Ex.
written by H. L. Hutson of the class
of ’96 for the Galveston-Dallas News.
It is full of sense and should put those
“higher up” to thinking.
“You think, then,” said the Eng
lish tourist, “that having fallen heir
to a land only half finished, and be
ing unwilling to wait half a million
years to let nature complete her work,
you Texans can finish the job your
selves?”
“At least we can co-operate with
nature,” assented the banker who sat
beside him. “I have heard it stated
by men of scientific training and prac
tical experience that if the land own
ers would spend on drainage one-
tenth the amount they are putting
into canals and levees for irrigating
rice they could raise any of the crops
raised elsewhere in the Southern
States.”
“But,” objected the cotton buyer,
“where are they to get the cheap
labor necessary to dig the ditches and
drain the land?”
“Yes, cheap labor is the great need
of this country now,” agreed half a
dozen voices.
“We can use cheap labor, or any
other kind, to advantage,” the first
speaker admitted, “but I tell you what
we need more than labor, more than
capital, more than any other class of
men or means of development, is en
gineers.”
“If this new drainage law proves
effective,” spoke up another man who
had been listening in silence so far,
“Texas will be able to use at once a
score or more of trained irrigation and
drainage engineers.”
“Maybe so; but,” the Houston cot
ton buyer protested, “I still insist that
w T hen it comes to digging ditches we
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