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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (July 7, 1916)
Friday, July 7, 1916. THE BATTALION 5 MOST OF LAST YEAR’S FOOTBALL SQUAD WILL RETURN THIS SEASON “JIGGER” HARLAN Football Wizard. PREPARATIONS COMPLETE FOR OPENING VET. SCHOOL (Continued from page 1) ranged in the form of a semi-circle. There will be a basement in this building also. Just East of the Veterinary build ing is the hospital. This building will be so remodeled that elevated seats may be placed around the clinic and the operations on stock witnessed by large classes. The work in hog cholera serum production, now being carried on in that building will be transferred to the new hog cholera serum plant, to cost $10,000.00 and which wil be located just East of the present hospital. This will make the four veterinary buildings of easy ac cess one to another and will center the activities of that school in one complete area. The lands around the dairy barn will pass into the hands of the veterinary department, also, and that school will have ample room for further growth. Faculty Will be Strong One. Six men will comprise the faculty of the new school. Dr. R. P. Mars- teller, who holds a D. V. M. degree, from Ohio State, and who has finish ed work in German schools will be in charge of the division of medicine and surgery. Dr. Marsteller’s record as a teacher at A. & M. is an envia ble one. Dr. R. C. Dunn, also D. V. M., from Ohio and who has been directly in charge of the hog cholera serum pro duction will be another member of the veterinary teaching staff. Dr. B. O. Bethel, a graduate of the A. & M. College, and who later grad uated from the Ohio State also will have teaching duties. Dr. Bethel has been working with hog cholera serum for the past year. Two new men have been retained and will report for work early in September. “Dough” Rollins Optimistic Over Assurances of Old Guard that They will be Back in Septem ber Varsity Game the Climax. “Jigger” Harlan, the man who made posible the 13 to 0 defeat of the University of Texas on November 19th last, is due to report early in September and with “Dough” Rollins, half back and captain-elect enthusiastic and impatient for the opening of the season it looks like the Aggies will have some joy ahead of them during the football season of 1916. This year will mark the begin ning of the Freshman rule and no new men will be allowed to par ticipate in inter-collegiate athlet ics. However there is a likely looking bunch of youngsters left over from last year to fill the va cancies caused by the graduation of Eschenberg and the failure of Collins to make his work. Harlan will report early in Sep tember and the candidates for berths on the eleven will arrive soon afterwards. “Tell the men to keep their eyes open for good football material,” Harlan wrote this week. “We need to keep adding Freshmen each year who have the stuff.” The Varsity game is the big game of the year of course and all eyes will be turned Austinward on Thanksgiving Day. Dr. H. L. Wright, a graduate of the Cornell School of Veterinary Medi cine and who has been teaching for the past three years in that institu tion will have charge of the division of Pharmacology. Dr. C. C. Whitney, a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, and who has been teaching at that insti tution for the past three years will be in charge of the instruction in Pathology. The four major divisions of Anato my, Medicine and Surgery, Pharma cology, and Pathology will be taken care of by men who have had ad vanced instruction and wide exper ience as teachers in those lines. Demand for Veterinarians. The school will meet the require ments of the United States Civil Service Bureau. With $500,000,- 000.00 invested in livestock in Texas there are less than 100 licensed vet erinarians in the state. A loss rep resenting about two per cent of that total investment occurs annually, says Dr. Francis, and this loss, too, is caused by diseases that may be prevented once there are skilled vet erinarians to cope with the problems and the stock raisers have been edu cated to methods of prevention. The demand for skilled veterina rians clearly justifies the establish ment of the school and it is expected that this new division at the College will meet with a rapid growth. The fact that much work is being done in Texas Fever and Hog Cholera serum production on the College grounds will give the students opportunity to study, first hand, methods of com bating these two most important dis eases in Texas. Every city has its veterinarian, the United States Bureau of Animal Industry employs hundreds of veteri narians, the cavalry and artillery employ another 1,000 men. There is a call for men. GREAT IMPROVEMENTS PLANNED FOR SUMMER. (Continued from page 1) opening of the first term will be rushed to completion soon after. Probably the most welcome news to the students will be the informa tion that the basement of the Y. M. C. A. building is to be completed as planned. The swimming pool will be placed in order first and the bowling alleys, barber shop and other im provements planned for the basement will be rushed to completion. The swimming pool will be standard size. Shower baths and lockers will be pro vided for the use of the swimmers. Days will be set aside when the pool will be used by the ladies, exclusive ly- Lake to Be Provided. The provision of a lake, about one- half mile in length and 200 or 300 feet wide for amusement purposes and for the use in hydraulics prac tice and fire protection is another contemplated improvement which will make life more pleasant for the ca dets and college employes. This lake will be stocked with fish and eventu ally boats will be provided. The deep ravine which runs through the little clump of trees just West of the railroad tracks, and just back of the target range will be dammed near the roadway, leading to the 600 yard range, and cleared and excavated. This will give a lake of approximately a half mile in length, about 250 feet wide, and almost any depth desired. The water wil be used for run ning hydraulic tests and also as a reservoir for fire protection. The little grove there will form the basis of a deer park. This park is to be fenced in and President Biz- zell has been given several deer and two bison from the Goodnight ranch. It is planned to start a collection of animals in the park. The roadway which extends North and South through the Experiment Station main farm and the Feeding and Breeding station will be extended South, skirting the lake, passing thru the deer park and direct to the dairy barn where it will connect with a driveway to the Main building of the college. The grounds in front of the new hospital are to be cleaned and beau tified according to a landscape plan of F. W. Hensel, of the landscape de partment of the College. This ground in front of the hospital also will be utilized as a park or beauty spot. A street will be opened, graded, and graveled from the street running West of the Mess hall, by Leigh’s in front of the Hospital and connecting with the. thoroughfare running North and South, just West of the Hospi tal. To Park Hospital Grounds. The grounds in front of the Main building also are to be beautified. Dirt from the excavations for new buildings and the lake will be used to fill in front of the Main building and a system of concrete walks and landscape gardening as planned by Mr. Hensel will be carried to com pletion. Here are the other improvements planned: Level and grade area in front of Leigh’s store and Shirley hotel. Extend steam tunnel from flag pole to chapel, providing steam heat for Ross, Godwin, Pfeuffer and the new chapel. Construction of concrete walks as follows: Continue walk from flag pole to chapel. Continue walk from President’s home West to driveway East of Dr. Ehlinger’s residence, con necting with new hospital. Contin ue walk North from front of Y. M. C. A., to the I. & G. N. railway spur back of mess hall, following drive way all the way. Extend sewer line to accomodate all new buildings. Paint woodwork outside of Tex tile building and Gathright. Occasional showers have kept the campus in beautiful condition and has kept the gras alive and growing beautifully. It looks like great days are ahead for the College, doesn’t it? CONTRACTS TO BE LET FOR TWO BUILDINGS (Continued from page 1) occupied by Mr. Garner, will be mov ed soon. The new building will be construct ed of reinforced concrete and gray brick. The working out of the plans has been left to the architectural de partment. Dr. Bizzell has insisted, however, on four main details: a seating capacity of 2,500 and so planned as to take care of 3,000 per sons when special occasions demand; a stage large enough and with suffi cient equipment to accommodate any kind of operatic or dramatic produc tion that it might be deemed wise to have at the College; a system of cool ing pipes, by which the temperature of the building may be kept comfort able, even in the warmest weather; and the arrangement of entrances and exits so that the crowds can be handled with dispatch. Under the present plans the building can be filled in four minutes and emptied in ten minutes. The structure will be an attractive one and will add greatly to the ap pearance of the campus. It is planned to install a pipe organ in the new building, when completed and to bring musical organizations and other attractions of merit to the college. The veterinary science building, which will house the offices, laborato ries and class rooms of the veterinary school will be located on the site of the present infirmary. The old in firmary will be torn away soon. Under next year’s appropriations funds become available for a number of new hot houses for the horticultu ral and entomological departments and work on these will begin after school opens. SUMMER SCHOOL DECIDED SUCCESS. The first session of the Rural Life School and Summer Normal, in ses sion since June 16, has been a deci ded success from every standpoint. The enrollment reached the 150 mark. While that is a small attend ance compared to the older, better established summer schools, it is a splendid start and it is expected that there will be at least 300 in attend ance next year. The students are thoroughly satis fied, they say. A number of outings have been arranged in their honor. McGREGOR GOES iO HOUSTON I* OR JOB. J. I. McGregor, ’16, in dairy hus bandry, returned to the College last Saturday after a two weeks tour of Southwest Texas inspecting big dai ries and testing cows in that coun try. He visited Falfurias, Kingsville, and Yorktown. He will begin work this week as assistant county dem onstration agent in Harris county, headquarters at Houston.