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THE BATTALION Published Weekly by the Student's Association of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas VOL. XXIL COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, NOVEMBER 25, 1914 NUMBER 10 THE DOliS OF OTHEB COLLEGES COLLEGE PRESS SERVICE TELLS INTERESTING HAPPENINGS ELSEWHERE. T. 0. U. AND TRINITY T. C. U., Nov. 23, 1914.—Colby D. Hall, Dean of T. C. U., will hold open . house at his home for all of the stu dents of the University on Thanks giving night. The annual president’s reception which is usually held on Thanksgiving will not be held on ac count of the President’s absence from the University. The affair at the Dean’s home will be informal and for all students. T. C. U., Nov. 23, 1914.—The con tract for the Horned Frog, the T. C. U. year book, has been let to the Ex- line-Ramiers Company of Fort Worth. The staff for the annual are hard at work planning the details and arrang ing the material for the publication. A prize of $5.00 will be given to the student subhitting the best kodak scene of college life for the book. T. C. U., Nov. 23, 1914.—T. C. U. will play her hardest and last game of the season on Thanksgiving Day, when she ties up with the winning Trinity eleven at Panther Park. The purple and white men have had two weeks’ rest and are preparing for the clash. Much pep is in evidence in anticipation of the close game. T. C. U., Nov. 23, 1914.—An under classmen’s choir is being organized at T. C. U. among the first and second year men, whihc only those who are able to sing will be allowed to join. Another requirment is that they must desire to learn to sing. One of the professors will coach the singers. T. C. U., Nov. 23, 1914.—Two mem bers of the faculty locked horns in the chapel last week on the war in Europe. One of the professors of history and given a le'eture summariz ing the events of the war, and in his talk he mentioned the German inva sion of Belgium and its effects on the movements of the French army. When he finished a professor of Ger man and a native of Germany arose and questioned some of the speaker’s remarks, giving the German side of the situation. University of Texas, Nov. 16.—Hel- len Keller, the most remarkable blind woman of the world, will deliver her address on “Happiness” in March of this year. This will be the first visit of the well known woman to Texas University and also to the State. University of Texas, Nov. 20.—Four students of the University were for- maly installed as stewards of the Meth- odistt Church here last Sunday. More students are enrolled in the various church activities this year than ever before in the history of the University. L-M DEFEITS E-f oy SCORE OF 7-0 TURNER CHASES TURNER—-THE TOUCHDOWN CAME IN LAST QUARTER. TOUCHDOWN IN TWO PLAYS L-M won from E-F Saturday by a score of 7-0. It was the speedy L-M backfield that did the trick. Once Turner of E-F got away with the ball and had a clear field between him and the goal line, but Turner of L-M caught him before he had gone 40 yards, altho he had a 10-yard lead to overcome. L-M’s score came in the fourth quarter. Hausser of E-F tried a place kick. The kick went wild and hit almost on the side line. Abernathy picked up the ball, and by the time E-F had recovered from their surprise he had carried the ball well down into E-F’s territory. Then the ball was carried over on a forward pass. Both sides fought hard, and as in all the other company games this sea son, the teams were evenly matched. Abernathy was one of the shining lights of the game. The score was the direct result of his run down the field after recovering Hausser’s kick. He made several more long runs and he did good work on the defensive also. Turner saved the day for L-M when he overtook Turner of E-F. Gil liam played a brilliant game at end for L-M. Duncan’s work on the defensive was the best seen in a company game this year He was sure in tackling and he was a wonder at getting thru and breaking up plays before they were fairly started. Lockett played a good game, too. His kicking was good and he carried the ball well. Temple played a good game. He gain- ed a good deal of ground altogether. The lineup: L-M— E-F— Gilliam . . Right End. Smith . .. . Right Tackle. Copeland Right Guard. Zuehl . ... Center. Hodgson . Left Guard. Clarkson . Left Tackle. Morgan . . Left End. Turner ... Quarter. . . Hausser Olson .... Right Half. . . Conway Fleming . Left Half. Abernathy Fullback. Prof. Leavell — I don’t understand all I know about this. Is a man sup posed to come to class when he is on a furlough? C-D TIES WITH G-H oy SCOHE OF 0-0 TEAMS EVENLY MATCHED—DE FENSIVE PLAYING GOOD BY BOTH. TOUCHDOWN ALMOST MADE C-D and G-H fought each other to a standstill Saturday. Neither side was able to score. Once it looked as if G-H had a touchdown. Clarke in tercepted a forward pass and ran down the field for a touchdown, but he went about a foot out of bounds and the ball was brought back. This was the closest either side came to scoring. “Bullet” Moses made some of the prettiest tackles seen in company football this season. The whole C-D backfield, the Moses brothers. Turn- age and MeCullom, all played airtight ball on the defensive. In fact, the whole team played good ball on the defensive. “Bullet” Moses played the best offensive game for C-D. G-H’s team was just about the same as the C-D team on the defen sive. That was the only trouble with the game. Both sides were equally good on the defensive and neither side could carry the ball any distance at all. Smith. Runge, Clark and Japhet played the best football for G-H. Japhet’s work at end was ex ceptionally good. The lineup: G-H— C-D— Smith .... Left End. White Left Tackle. Haines-Patterson Left Guard. Sanders . .. Center. Heldenfels Prell Right Guard. . . . Baccus Leary ...., Right Tackle. Japhet .... Right End. McFarland Right Half. Bull Moses Clark Left Half. Galliford . , Fullback. Runge . .. . Quarter. . MeCullom FET2ER & CO. OFFERS PRIZE. For the purpose of awakening an in terest in the advantages of! drilling rows of grain three inches apart in stead of six, seven or eight inches, Fetzer & Co., of Springfield. Ilinois, offer $25 in cash for the best article showing the advantages of the narrow drilling. Those interested may secure full information from Dean Kyle or Dr. Morgan. CAMPUS PEOPLE INVITED TO HOP The corps of cadets cordialy invites residents of the campus to attend the Thanksgiving hop to be given Friday evening, November 27. W. T. BfiyiT ACHIEVES SUCCESS THE ORIGINAL WORK OF POPU LAR INSTRUCTOR WHILE IN MEXICO. INVENTS NEW METHOD The Battalion is in receipt of a clipping taken from the Oil City Der rick, which tells how one of the in structors in the chemistry depart ment, the popular Mr. Bryant, per fected a method of separating water from the oil of the Topila field of Tampico, Mexico. Below we give a portion of the clipping, in the original of which a lengthy description of the Bryant plant was given: “The presence of water in the pro duction of some of the wells in the Topila field has been a matter of mo ment for a long while to the operating companies that are producing other than pure oil, and numerous attempts to separate the oil from impurities have been made. In these columns recently the system of flumes, with cross-section ripples, constructed by the Mexican Fuel Company at its big well on the Santa Fe tract, was re viewed. Another experiment, and one which did not work out satisfactorily, was the atempt to heat the oil in close'd pipes to a temperature suf ficient to cause it to separate from the impurities. W. T. Bryant, chemi cal engineer and an assistant in chem istry at the Agricultural and Mechani cal College of Texas, has a theory that solves the question at bar practi cally and, apparently, economically. “Mr. Bryant has been at Topila the past three months, having been sent to Mexico by the East Coast Oil Com pany, which has a large producer in the Topila field, the fluid from which tests 38 per cent roily oil and water. The experiments made by Mr. Bryant were conducted with this fluid. He has succeeded in demonstrating that he can sufficiently separate the water from the oil, the latter testing less than 1 per cent of the impurities in question after being subjected to the treatment. Mr. Bryant’s theory is based on the following: “Heating the oil in inclosed pipes has been proved a failure because of the fact that when a body passes from a liquid to a gaseous state, its tempera ture during the operation remains stationary at certain boiling point depending on the pressure of the va por produced; and in order to make evaporation go on a quantity of heat must be transformed to the substance evaporated, whose amount for each unit of weight of the substance de pends on the temperature. Heat does not raise the temperature of the sub stance, but disappears in causing it to assume a gaseous state. “Apropos of the closed pipe theory which did not prove satisfactory thru inability to raise the temperature of the substance treated above 218 de grees F. (214 degrees F. is said to have been the more normal working temperature secured), the tempera-