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
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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-