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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (June 8, 1908)
THE BATTALION 13 “But don’t you overestimate the amount of work to be done when you talk of needing ‘a score or more of hydraulic engineers each year?’ ” ques tioned the Englishman. Several men laughed softly. ‘.‘Un derestimate the amount of work | would be more like it,” said the en gineer. “Here are a few of the jobs we have to do in the next ten or fif teen years: “The Brazos, Colorado and Rio Grande rivers need levees for about 100 miles of their length. Undoubt edly the total minimum flow of these rivers, as well as that of the smaller ones, will be used for irrigation. So far there are but two or three plants on the Brazos, Rio Grande and Guad alupe; yet the Brazos is said to flow one-third more water than the Colo rado, which must have twenty large canals. “The bayous and lakes along the coast need to be made navigable for light-draft boats, as well as the rivers the Government is now at work on. “Each of the larger cities of the State—save one—has a water prob- lem. f • . ;| j | “The whole territory shown on the Sunset Route maps as the ‘rice and oil belt’ needs to be divided into drainage districts, ditched and drained,” “And this work,” said the banker, ) as the other paused, “should be done j by our Texas boys, trained in Texas schools, rather than by out^id^rs.” “It should, and it would be -If our boys were given the chance to get the necessary training,” the engineer agreed. “But it is training that counts in this work; and it’s going to be the man of trained energy and capacity; whether outsider or Texan, who will be most welcome in South Texas among the men who are helping old Mother Nature create a land for folks to live in.” Next year students at Wisconsin who are conditioned will not be per mitted to compete in intercollegiate debate or oratory, be members of the editorial board of any student publi cation or be members of any musical or dramtic organization giving enter tainments outside of the university. Campus Views. L®CA3L MIEWS Mrs. Alvord and children also leave on the 10th for Chicago. Dr. and Mrs. Fraps and children will spend the summer in North Caro lina. Mrs. J. A. Lomax and children will go to Austin on the 13th to spend ten days. Miss Tissier of Alabama is with Mrs. E. J. Kyle for the commencement exercises. Capt. and Mrs. Moser and daughter will go to Burnet to visit shortly after commencement. Mrs. Lomax expects Miss McKay and Miss Van Ordin of Longview as guests this week. On the 10th of June, Mrs. T. P.. Junkin and son will go to Mexia to spend the summer. On the 12th, Mr. and Mrs. Wier and son leave for Starksville, Mississippi, to spend the summer. Mr. and Mrs. H. M. Rollins of Hous ton and their children will visit Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Hutson this week. Last Sunday’s band concert was much enjoyed by both the Campus people and the people from Bryan. Miss Marion McClellan of Hillsboro and Miss Sears of Houston are Mrs. J. C. Nagle’s guests for commencement. Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Rollins of Beau mont are expected here for commence ment. They will be the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Mitchell. Mr. Fermier entertained the Senior mechanical engineers last Saturday night at his home. Delicious cream and cake were served, and the young men report a pleasant evening. The Senior Class gave a dance Thursday night at the skating rink in Bryan. The young ladies from the Campus, the visiting young ladies, and many of the young ladies from Bryan, were there, and all enjoyed the even ing exceedingly. On Monday night. Dr. and Mrs. Brown had Miss Mary Hutson and the Senior electrical engineers down to a delightful course dinner. The even ing was spent in much merriment, in spite of the fact that the guests were asked to “stand an examination.” But this proved easy, as the answers could be given in two words only, and Cap-, tain Bower deserves especial mention, as his examination was so satisfacto ry he was at once presented a “diplo ma” and a (toy) sheep—skin and all. The young men were Messrs. Brund- rette, Bower, Foy, Ellis, Munson, Lee, Skaggs and Telfair. There are a number of visitors on the Campus this week, and many of them are visiting the professors’ fam ilies. Some of these are: Mrs. Mil ler of Postoak Point, visiting Mrs. Giesecke; Miss Milner of Austin and her guest, visiting Mrs. Ness; Mr. Worthing of Houston, with Mr. and Mrs. Heff; Dr. W. L. Dazey of Hills boro, with Dr. and Mrs. Gilbert; Miss Annie Lee Green of Yoakum, with Miss Emmie Fountain; Miss McClel land of Waco, with Miss Carson; Miss Armstrong of Georgetown and Miss Christian of Houston, with Mrs. Junkin; and Mrs. Hanney and niece of Hempstead, with Mrs. Spence. On the 21st of May, Miss Emmie Fountain, assisted by Misses Davis and Carson of College, and Miss Fan nie Fountain of Bryan, gave a smok er to B company, of which she has been the popular sponsor. Pillows and rugs and easy chairs made the lawn attractive. The guests were served fruit punch and cream and cake, and afterwards cigars and pipes were cir culated, and a pleasant and informal evening was spent. The souvenirs of the occasion were tiny white clay pipes, letter B in the A. & M. red. Call at M. H. James’s Drug store for Lowney’s fine chocolates. Fresh ship ment just received. Miss Gertrude Eaves of Bryan gave an unique entertainment last Monday afternoon, from 2 to 4 o’clock, in hon or of Miss Florence of Dallas and Miss Peeler of Houston. The guests were Miss Mary Hutson of College, a number of Bryan’s charming young ladies, and about twenty young men from College. Tickets were sold for “A Trip Around the World,” and each couple visited Japan for a glass of iced-tea, where they were served by a little lady in a kimonas. Then, as they continued their tour, a senorita in big sombrero served them tamales. Later, they found delicious punch in Alaska, and great “nuggets” of gold; but back in our own United States, they found cream and cake, with a “bonnie red, white and blue” souvenir on the plate. It was a delightful aft ernoon, and many pretty compliments 1 were paid Miss Eaves as a charming i hostess.