The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, February 10, 1915, Image 3

Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page. It is also available as plain text as well as XML.

    x>x>i$O}£^:£^OO^$!0[S> :$!$!$ $000 4*^'? *>:$<* <*:$*><'
OO OO
■0-0 o-o
•a-«-
•EXI-
•H--E}-
•&-C3-
&■&
•R--0-
•O-P-
iJ-f-
•a-«-
tK 1 -
•»-H-
•a-H>
<K>
■H--0-
<}<l*
•a-«-
00
00
•&<}-
■S--0-
&<*■
•a--»
«--i>
•&«•
{J-H-
&&
■&-B-
{3--C3-
<>«■
O-0-
OO
•s--a-
{3--0-
O-H-
•&-D-
&&
OO
OO
OO
«••&
{3--H-
<3--&
0--U-
■H--0-
The Newest and Best
WEN’S WEAR
Will Always be
Found
At
A, M. WALDROP & COMPANY
The Home of Good Clothes for Men
and Young Men
•&-0-
00
00
oo
<H>
•D--0-
OO
•&•»
OO
•a-#
00
•0--0-
oo
00
•H--0-
•a-o-
00
00
00
00
•»-»
i3-o*
•a-«-
■a-«-
•0--H-
&&
-a-o
00
&■&
-a-o
-»■•«•
00
-ct-o
00
•CH}
O-H-
■no
»«■
00
00
•a-o
o-a-
oo
00
Who knows the big fellow from
Eagle Lake? The man with hair re
sembling that of a porcupine, the
man with the broad shoulders who
held Moran’s line intact after others
had failed, the man who stopt those
fierce tackle around tackle plays
made by Campbell, the 210-pound
tackle of Oklahoma University, the
big chief whose fighting face never
wore a friendly smile, the man who
wore a dejected look for the greater
part of last year just because a fair
damsel selected a Varsity man in his
stead.
which interested him; in fact, the
only semblance of a Waterloo which
he has ever confronted was Chem. la.
As a Sophomore, Bennie was the
proudest corporal to be found upon
the campus. In fact, he became so
proficient in military that he has
since risen to the rank of sergeant,
and from that to first lieutenant of
the band, which rank he now holds.
Other honors justly bestowed upon
him are too numerous to mention,
some of the most important of which
are president of the Students’ Asso
ciation, associate manager of the
Long Horn and secretary of the Y.
M. C. A. He was with the delegation
sent to Kansas City in 1913-14. Here’s
hoping that his future has in store
for him a just recompense for all his
past work.
IDE BATTALION
Published every Wednesday night by
Students of the Agricultural and
Mechanical College of Texas
Subscription price $1.25 per year.
Advertising rates on application.
Member of Texas Collegiate Press
Association.
A. E. BURGES, '15.... Editor-in-Chief
J. F. HADEN Business Manager
P. A. HOMANN, ’15. .Associate Editor
W. L. RUTAN, ’15....Asso. Bus. Mgr.
E. McR. CLAYTOR, ’15...Ex. Editor
MISS LOUISE PROCTOR..So. Editor
M. T. GARRETT, ’16 Agr. Editor
UEL STEPHENS, ’16 Eng. Editor
S. P. McPADDEN, ’16...Sport. Editor
G. C. MOPPET, ’16. .Y. M. C. A. Editor
D. H. KIBER, ’17 ’Frisco Editor
Cartoonists
P. T. CROWN, ’15, J, M. BURKETT, ’16
Assistant Business Managers
S. B. HAYNES, ’16, J. B. ROBERT, ’16,
Reporters
J. R. BARNES, J. B. JOYCE, T. W.
TEMPLE, P. W. HALSEY.
All material for publiication should
be signed and turned in not later than
Monday night.
Entered as second-class matter at
College Station, Texas, February 17,
1905.
College Station, Tex., Feb. 10, 1915.
A PLEA AGAINST VANDALISM.
The college which we are attend
ing has, so far as the buildings are
concerned, practically been built with
in the last four years. - We now easily
have the most extensive and magnifi
cent set of buildings of any school
in the State, yet so careless have we
students been that many of these
buildings now show well-marked evi
dences of abuse. A stairway in one
of our newest dormitories is so black
ened and stained that it is scarcely
surpassed in this respect by “Bat
Roost’ itself. Let us take more pride
in these buildings while they are new,
the Main Building in particular, and
act more like gentlemen and less like
“roughnecks.”
In a few days the Y. M. C. A. Build
ing will be formally opened. It has
easily the most costly interior of anj
building on the campus, and those in
charge intend to spend thousands o’’
dollars more in further beautifying
it in order to give us a “social cen
ter” whose very magnificence will ex
ert an uplifting influence. The main
room on the first floor will be fitted
up with attractive furniture and sup
plied with games at one end and with
tables and reading matter at the
other. We will then have a place to
which we can invite our kinfolk dur
ing commencement and other formal
occasions and at which we may meet
our friends at all times during the
year. It is planned to have the young
ladies from Bryan come over as often
as possible and make this room their
headquarters while here. We can
then meet them and residents of the
campus without any unnecessary for
mality, talk as long as we like, and
then leave.
Yet it is a safe prediction that be
fore three months have past some
vandal will seriously deface some por
tion of the building. Already several
thoughtless yet costly acts have been
committed by visitors to the building,
one ox wmcn we win mention, in tne
course ox one of tne receptions dur
ing the nolidays some person care
lessly threw some chocolate on the
tiling or the hearth at the north enu
of the room. The tiling was red hot
at the time and the result was that
a portion of the tiling was cracked
and a much larger part was hopeless
ly stained. The Y. M. C. A. has no
funds to replace such losses, for, in
deed, every dollar that it has has been
raised from those connected with the
college.
Now that the “Y” Building is about
to be opened, let us resolve before
we enter to show ourselves worthy
of it.
ASHBURN’S MODESTY.
Last week being examination week.
The Battalion was turned over to Ike
Ashburn to get out, as most of the
corps knows, but he, in his modest
way, made no reference in print to
the fact that he was due the credit
for the issue. It was a thing to be
proud of, too. The front page was
attractive, the headings nicely bal
anced and the contents of the issue
appropriate. The publishing of the
panoramic view of the college was an
especially happy thought.
The Battalion box may now be
found in the Main Building on the
pillar corresponding to the one to
which the mail box is attached. After
4 o’clock on Mondays material for
publication should be brought to the
editor instead of being placed in the
box.
QUIZZES.
The Senior Class has a grievance—
a very grave, insidious and obnoxious
grievance—against fate. It is not the
Freshmen, for this pest has become
less offensive with the process of
time; nor yet is it the prevailing
financial gloom, for most Seniors are
“uncommon” wealthy during the first
week of the month. It is reported to
be the greatest bane of the Senior’s
existence, and is said to be largely re
sponsible for the grave, reverend and
pedagogical air so characteristic of
the 1915 Seniors. In its earlier stages
it is known as quizzes and it some
times develops into examinations
Quizzes are a sort of parasitic insect
of the genus students’ goat. Thej
breed in the brains of teachers and
infest the Normal campus in great
quantities. They live chiefly on mid
night oil and cold prespiration. Their
greatest danger arises from the fact
that they frequently give off a ver\
poisonous gas in the form of “P’s’
and “E’s.”
Quizzes are divided into many
species varying from the practically
harmless oral quiz to the dealy fina 1
examination. As yet there has been
found no effective method of reducing
their numbers, and only one or two
Senior young ladies seem to be whol
ly immune from their poisonous
gases. They have even been known
to attack and completely destroy
diplomas and certificates, and are
especially dangerous in an atmos
phere of parties and picture shows.
Without quizzes the life of the Senior
would be a pleasant and carefree ex
istence. The Senior Class of 1915 is
willing to offer a reward of all the
silver sheckels it possesses to the
discoverer of a sure and effective
“rough-on-quizzes.”—Houstonian.
WANTED—To buy, a pair of “reg”
trousers. Apply Mitchell 64.
B. H. FABER
President Students’ Asssociation
This man can be no other than
Bennie Faber. Bennie is an ardent
and devoted deciple of “Ivory Top.”
C. E. work has long been his hobby
and it is to be hoped that his fondest
hopes will soon be fulfilled, for soon
after that long looked for day in June
he will be found in the jungles of
South America developing her rich
mines (trucking coal out on a hand
car).
Big Chief has been an ardent
worker from the sounding of the first
gong. As a Freshmen he put in all
his spare hours studying and soon
had enough credits to enable him to
branch out in other lines of work
ENGINEERING MEETING.
On last Friday night the Mechani-'
cal Engineering Society held a joint
meeting with the local A. I. E. E.
Prof. Bolton gave a very interesting
and instructive talk on power costs,
explaining thoroughly the reasons
for the differences in the prices for
the various classes of power or light-
! ng service.
Dean Davis presented a very pleas
ing and instructive set of slides on
the Pacific coast, including some well
known water front projects.
O. R. Olsen gave an excellent ad
dress on Ford cylinder rings, illus
trating the efficiency of manufacture
and the perfection of the workman
ship.
There being no further business,
the meeting adjourned.
Quite a number of visitors were
present. Everyone enjoyed the ad
dresses and went away with a clearer
conception of the rates charged by
electric plants.
If you happen to know anyone who
is going to attend the Y. M. C. A.
convention, and would like to have
them stay with you while here, the
same can be arranged for by seeing
or writing to Dr. Fountain or Mr.
Steger.
That line of samples at Charlie’s are
winners.