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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (May 31, 1912)
THE BATTALION Do You Know Why L* System Clothes Have a Place All Their Own? Why they are not thought of or compared with other clothes for young fellows? It’s because they’ve got the pep, the personality; because there’s notja common feature in them except common sense quality. It’s becausefihey are light and gay in fabric and modeling and trustworthy in value IF YOU KNOW the! system C^lo^/ies /or C> t/oujngr (jen tlemen like we do, you'd hu r ry in here and take a look at them* BEAUTIFUL SPRING PATTERNS $18.00 to $25.00 A. M. WALDROP & CO. The Store for Values In Men Apparel. Main Building Burns. (Continued from page 1.) were included in the collection. There were current publications of the pe riod of fifty and sixty years ago, such as the American Almanac, which was published in the forties. In fact, one number of this almanac was so far back that it foretold the coming ‘‘the next year” of Halley’s comet on its journey seventy-five years ago. There were files of technical magazines run ning back for many years; a complete bound set of Harper’s Magazine start ing with Vol. 1 in 1850; bound vol- French. The libi'ary included also full sets of messages of the president pub lished by the government, records of the Civil war, a government publica tion; and thousands of federal govern ment bulletins, many of which are out of print. There were included also files of the daily papers of Texas run ning back several years. The library of the college is a depositary for federal government publications, but many of the old hound'volumes were not in the fire as they had been stored during the past year in a basement room in one of the dormitories. There were no casualties, although Egar McCullough came very near be- BRYAN POOL HALL A pleasure resort for gentlemen. Good music and perfect order Accommodation check room. Lank Hank COX & EDMONDS. 12™!HOTEL BRYAN FOR SUNDAY DINNER The Place Within the Reach of All Fortunes THE WALLS OF MAIN BUILDING AFfER FIRE. umes of the Atlantic Monthly, the Cen tury, Political Science Quarterly and Popular Science Monthly going back to Vol. 1. There were many books of history, literature, art and biography which can nqt be replaced and which were priceless, and many books of lit erature in the original German and mg severely injux-ed by a falling em-j her. The Main Building was one of the j oldest buildings on the campus, its j only rival in point of age being Gath- right Hall. Both were erected in 1876 ! and originally comprised the whole! college. The Main Building was a' SAM’S OYSTER PARLOR Fish, Oysters and Short Order Restaurant Sam R. Ybarra, Prop. P O B ™ WE HA ve THE 1 — Embossed A. & M. Stationery, Note and Tablet E. R. EM MEL Pure Drug Dispenser PHONE 66 Bryan, Texas Spend Your Summer Vacation where you can keep cool and comfortable and take a business training in a school indorsed by Texas Bankers. This training will prepare you to make your expense money while you are in school next year. For free catalogue and summer rates, Address, Draughon’s Business College GALVESTON 1 TEXAS.