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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (April 17, 1914)
O.TE^. "TT'EMSM. XvOCi=[Iv JFlT'T'jf2HCa 4 ION WHILE WE ARE STUDYIHG MATH. AND CHEM. OUR GIRLS ARE DANCIJTG WITH OTHER MEN. THE Bfimuom Published every Friday night by the Students of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas. JUNIOR BATTAUON STAFF. Editor-in-Chief, A. E. BURGES. Associate Editor, R. R. ALLEN. Business Manager, J. F. HADEN. Assistant Managers, C. W. WILLIAMS, W. L. RUTAN. Engineering Editor, F. A. HOMANN. Agricultural Editor, H. F. ELLIS. Society Editors, MISSES PROCTOR. Cartoonists, CROWN, BECKMAN, MARTIN, RUTAN. Entered as second-class matter at College Station, Texas, February 17, 1905. Price Per Annum $1.25 College Station, Tex., April 17, 1914. The idea oT consolidating C. I. A. with A. & M. is worthy of more serious consideration than it receives. So far as we can learn, A. & M. is the only State agricultural college in the Nation which is not co-educational. A. & M. and C. I. A. are both industrial colleges, and could be run with less cost and greater efficiency if consoli dated. The cost of moving C. I. A. would be comparatively small. The moral tone of the A. & M. corps would be much improved and the principal cause of past unrest—lack of social life—would be removed. Why shouldn’t the college require a five-dollar athletic fee from each cadet at the beginning of each year? It would really be cheaper for the cadets than the present system and would eliminate the many hours’ work now spent in collecting? It would put the Athletic Association on a better footing and give them a definite basis on which to calculate expenses. 2000 copies of this issue are being sent to the High School students and newspapers of the State. The moving picture machine belong ing to the M. E. department has been discussed rather fully in some of the regular editions of The Battalion, but the shows given by the M. E. depart ment deserve mention. All of the cadets and most of the campus resi dents have been enjoying the regular Saturday night shows to the fullest extent. The shows afford a pleasant hour of enjoyment and sociability each week. The pictures have always been interesting and well worth the time. One of the most pleasant character istics of the shows is the absence of delays. There have been no annoy ing delays in the starting of the per formance, and only the most unfavor able operating conditions will cause any, as the management has adopted a code of regualtions which include all the necessary precautions to insure satisfaction. It is the intention of the M. E. department to give these shows every Saturday night at 7:30 through out the entire session. The shows have aroused much favorable com ment, and it may be safely said that every cadet appreciates the efforts of Prof. Fermier and the M. E. depart ment in providing and financing these shows. Prof. Fermier has made arrange ments with several Northern manufac turing firms for instructive films, which these firms are supplying for the moving picture world. On account of the wide popularity of these films they are booked for engagements far in advance. Several of these films are due here before the end of the present session, which will be welcome news for the engineers, especially the me- chanicals. The mechanical engineering labora tory was lately improved by a fine piece of machinery—a turbine blower. It is an extra good machine, being of special design and best construction. Through rare circumstances. Prof. Fermier had an opportunity to secure this piece of machinery at a fair price. The turbine is of the well-known De- Laval type, and will develop seven horsepower. When running at the normal speed the turbine makes 30,000 revolutions per minute. At such high speed the seven horsepower are safely transmitted to a set of gears through a shaft which is hardly as thick as a pencil. By means of the gears the speed is brought down to 3,000 revo lutions per minute, which, by the way, is still going some. At the present time the turbine is connected on to a blower which is mounted on the same base. The blower is removable, which permits of the turbine being connected to other apparatus or being tested with a pony brake. The turbine is equipped with an extra set of nozzles so that it can be made to de velop three horsepower with an ef ficiency as high as when developing seven. The piece of machinery is in deed a valuable addition to the labora tory and is admired by all who have seen it. Prof. Fermier has at last been for tunate enough to secure for the M. E. department an iron foundry. The or der for the necessary equipment and supplies has been placed, and it is fully expected that the foundry will be in operation before the close of the present session. The temporary mess hall kitchen, which was abandoned by the culinary department at the opening of the pres ent session, will be used for the foundry. This room is of ample size and has a cement floor, which makes it very suitable for the work. Mr. G. W. Hanson, one of the in structors in the M. E. department, who has had much valuable experience as a foundryman, will be in charge of this branch. From now on the sopho more mechanicals will have pattern making and casting. The next year they will take their castings and fin ish them up in the machine shop, which will make the practical course much more interesting and at the same time the students will receive better training. As soon as the Main Building can be occupied, the Mechanical, Electri cal and Civil Engineering departments will occupy the rooms which under the present conditions are occupied by other departments. This will prove to be a very welcome change, as some of the departments at the present time have a very limited floor space. The students and professors will certainly enjoy the advantages and conveni ences of centralized class rooms after two years of inconveniences. aaggir.— An engineer is a combination of in genuity, common sense and mathe matics. Therefore, for a person to be a good engineer it is necessary that be have all three. If he has ingenuity only, he is up against a hard row of stumps; if he has neither ingenuity nor mathematics, he will never be anything but an honest man; if he has nothing but mathematics, he is fit only for a college professor; if he has no common sense, God pity him; if he has no one of the three, he is safe, for hell wouldn’t have him. Love is the river of life in this world. Think not that ye know it who stand at the little tinkling rill, the first small fountain. Not until you have gone through the rocky gorges, and not lost the stream; not until you have gone through the meadows and the stream has widened and deepened until fleets could ride on its bosom; not until beyond the meadows you have come to the un fathomable ocean, and youred your treasure into its depths—not until then can you tell what love is.— Beecher. RECONCILIATION. Old Billie Stavins said, wh§n his fourth wife (a strapping young coun try girl) died, and the boy (with whom old Billie played “short” cards) came over to condole with him: “Boys,” sobbed old Billie, burying his hickory nut face in a bandana as big as the maintopsail of an old-fashioned man-of-war—“Boys 5 I’m not only grieved, but I’m mortified,” and then catching sight of his wife’s twin sis ter, a buxom beauty, as she flitted through the room, he added, “BuL boys, I’m getting sorter reconciled.” Harry Mayo, trying to plow: “How can I hold this plow when there’s two horses trying to pull it away from me.”