THE BATTALION
Published Weekly by the Students’ Association of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas
VOL. XXII. COLLEGE, STATION, TEXAS, MARCH 17, 1915 NUMBER 23
THE CIVIL ENGINEERS
HOLD ANNUAL RECEPTION
Music and Meriment Reign Thruout the Occas
ion-Delicious Refreshments are Serv
ed to all Members
TASTEFUL DECORATIONS
DEFINITE NEWS
ABOUT ’FRISCO
ASHBURN GETS LETTER FROM
MILITARY AUTHORITIES
STATING CONDITIONS.
ONE BATTALION NEEDED
Ike Ashburn has received the follow
ing letter from the military authorities
at San Francisco. A meeting of the
corps will be called in a few days to
decide finally whether the corps or
any part of it shall go as a body. Ash
burn figures that the trip can be made
very cheaply, and he sees no reason
for being discouraged. The letter fol
lows :
Cadets from agricultural colleges in
vited to San Francisco by the Panama-
Pacific International Exposition may
have the privilege of occupying a can
tonment provided by the Exposition,
and situated very conveniently just
outside the Exposition grounds at the
foot of Van Ness Avenue. This can-1
tonment will be supplied with running
water, showers for the men, and bath
tubs for the officers; rooms will be
provided for field officers and a club
room for the men; double deck bunks
with mattresses and pillows will also
be provided for the men, single bunks,
mattresses and pillows for the officers.
The cantonment will be lighted and
heated. Blankets, towels, sheets and
pillow cases must be supplied by or
ganizations. A mess hall will be main
tained, at which board may be had at
the rate of 75c per man per day. No
kitchen nor dining room facilities for
the maintenance of separate organiza
tion messes can be provided..
In addition to the above arrange
ments there will probably be available
after August 1st a model camp which
may be occupied by those organizations
which would rather be in camp than in
cantonment. This camp, if construct
ed, will be on the Fort Scott Military
Reservation about a mile and a half
from the western entrance to the Ex
position grolmds; it will be a strictly
model camp, with running water and
all necessary conveniences, except
blankets, towels, sheets and pillow
cases.
We will be in position to care for at
least 2,500 men in the cantonment, anci
if the camp becomes available, we will
have room for 1,400 additional, or 3,900
altogether; therefore, by arranging
dates in advance, we expect to be able
to accommodate every organization
which desires to attend the Exposition
in this way. You are therefore in
vited to send as many companies as
you will.
As to the most convenient time to
come, you are requested to notify this
office at the earliest possible date the
period you would like reserved for
your troops, also you might state your
second choice, and if possible, your
wishes in the matter will be respected
Cadets from agricultural colleges
will be entitled to free admission to the
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One of the most enjoyable social
treats of this year to the corps and
campus people was the annual recep
tion given by the Civil Engineering
department Saturday evening, March
13, in the Civil Engineering building.
Promptly at 8:30 the receiving line,
headed by Mr. Denton, president of
the C. E. Society, was formed in room
22, which the Senior Civil Engineering
students had decorated very appro
priately with pennants, banners, Cu
pid’s hearts, transits, levels and va
rious insignia of their military ranks.
The line was composed of the C. E.
faculty and their wives, President
and Mrs. Bizzell, Lieutenant and Mrs.
Hill, the Senior civil engineers and
their visiting lady friends.
After leaving the reception room
the guests were ushered into the
punch room, which the Junior civil
engineers had decorated most artisti
cally. Misses Spence and Love ably
presided over the punch bowls. From
here the guests went into room 28,
where they observed a most appro
priate scheme of decoration which the
Juniors had carried out.
From the Junior room some of the
AUSTIN LITERARK
SOCIETT REfflES
OLD-TIME MEMBERS MEET, REOR
GANIZE, AND START WITH
ENTHUSIASM.
OLDEST CORPS INSTITUTION
The Austin Literary Society, which
tradition says was founded the year
the college opened, has been reorgan
ized. The permanent organization
was completed Monday night, follow
ing the temporary organization which
was effected Wednesday at noon as
the result of a call meeting, at both
of which meetings A. E. Burges acted
as chairman.
G. A. Saper was elected president;
S. K. Mason, vice-president; M. C.
Crisp, secretary-treasurer; R. R. Allen,
critic, and B. H. Dickie, sergeant-at-
arms. J. C. Collins, W. P. Martin, and
A. E. Burges are the remaining three
of the eight members who were mem
bers when the society suspended op
erations in 1912. The necessary ar-
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guests retired to the Sophomore room,
where they were pleasantly entertain
ed by piano music and by studying
the scheme of decoration that the
Sophomores had followed out. Others
went to the third floor and there
awaited the most appreciated event
of the evening. It was a solo by Mrs.
Marshall, accompanied by Miss Park
at the piano, and a reading by Miss
Park. Following this brick cream and
cake were served.
The remainder of the evening was
spent in dancing on both the second
and third floors. The college orches
tra furnished music for the dancers
on the third floor.
A very unique as well as an artistic
exhibition was found on the black
board in the dancing room on the
third floor. From the turns used and
the designs it was evident that some
Senior C. E. was the artist.
When “Home, Sweet Home” was
played at 11:30 o’clock, the many
guests, as they departed, declared that
they had spent a most enjoyable even
ing and that the civil engineers were
indeed hospitable hosts.
E. E. DEPJBTIENT
GETS MACHINERY
A 90-H. P. SYNCHRONOUS MOTOR-
2 30-KILOWATT DIRECT CUR
RENT GENERATORS.
DEPT. NOW WELL EOUIPT
Last week the E. E. department re
ceived a 90-horse power synchronous
motor coupled to two 30-kilowatt di
rect current 250-volt generators. The
new machinery is to be used in run
ning tests on railway motor equipment,
which consist of all working parts of
a street car except the body.
With this new equipment added the
E. E. laboratory ranks among the best
equipt laboratories in the United
States, not excepting those of Boston
Tech, and Purdue.
In a short time the elevator and the
necessary machinery for its operation
will be installed in the E. E. building.
A former A. and M. student, who is
now with the Otis Elevator Company
of Houston, will be in charge of the
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JUNIOR BANQUET
EXCITING AFFAIR
SOPHOMORES STEAL TOASTMAS
TER, BUT JUNIORS RECAP
TURE HIM.
CLASS SPIRIT RUNS HIGH
The Junior banquet, staged last Fri
day evening in Sbisa Hall, can be said
to have been, in every respect, a glo
rious success and a creditable tribute
to the men who planned it. The
service was well appointed, the speak
ers were exceptionally well suited to
their various subjects, and class spirit
and good fellowship ran thru the as
semblage with Niagara Falls magni
tude. At no moment during the his
tory of the T6 class was the spirit of
unity so paramount. Petty differ
ences were forgotten and a feeling of
fraternal love filled the hearts of all
present
It may be said, by way of para
phrase, that the Juniors enjoyed the
“ultimate giggle” over the T7 class.
After successfully capturing and ab
ducting the toastmaster and all speak
ers on the program save two, they
were unlucky enough to allow them all
to fall back into the hands of the
Juniors. What mattered a seven-mile
stroll into the jungles east of College
to Nick Braumiller, Clyde Slay, Lefty
McGilberry, Alex. Dickie, Captain
Johnnie and others, when as the re
sult of their creditable efforts the il
lustrious “Runt” presided at the head
of the board! Little did a three-mile
jaunt phase Jennings of “M” Company
when he was able to return and en
lighten his less fortunate class-mates
on the finer points of the society
game! All speakers were present at
the opening of the banquet and all en
joyed the evening better for the ex
periences of the several hours pro
ceeding.
To the alluring strains of Spanish
music, rendered by Villa’s Orchestra,
the banqueters filed into the west end
of Sbisa Hall and took their seats at
tables arranged in U-shape, and tastily
decorated with ferns and other potted
plants. Fluent speech told of the
numerous adventures of the afternoon
and early evening, but failed to defer
the assidious attention being paid to
the bounties of the board.
With the bringing on of the chicken,
the speeches of the evening were be
gun. P. H. Olson spoke of the T6
class, its honors and achievements,
both academic and athletic, of its past,
present and future, and of its aims and
inspirations. Following him at inter
vals were J. P. Garrity, championing
the cause and object of athletics; W.
J. Crocker, reveiwing A. and M. So
ciety; C. D. Stoner, eulogizing the
temperate man; G. C. Moffett, pre
dicting in a mysteriously accurate
manner the futures of several individ
uals and proclaiming the future pos-
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