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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Sept. 23, 1920)
6 THE BATTALION FOR BUILDINGS AT A. AND M. Engineering Shops Building and Ag ricultural Building Are Begun. College Station, Texas, Sep. 11.— The building sites at the A. and M. College of Texas for a new agricul tural building and mechanical engi neering shops building, to be erect ed at a total cost of $425,000 have been cleared and ground is about to be broken for their construction which will begin at once. Both buildings will be modern in every respect and their completion will mark a great advancement in the efficiency of the two departments of engineering and agriculture. The agricultural building will fill a long felt need of the School of Ag riculture, the administration staff of which is still quartered in one of the first buildings erected on the cam pus. It will provide office and class room space for the various depai’t- ments of horticulture, agronomy, pomology, landscape art, entomology, floriculture, vegetable gardening, etc. and in aldition a number of lab oratories in the ground story. The building will be the central or ad ministration unit of the group of structures used by this school and is so located that future buildings will be conveniently located around it. The cost of this building com plete will be $250,000.00 and it will be in all respects modern and fire proof. Toilets will be provided on each floor and rest rooms arranged for both stenographers and students. The engineering shops building is designed to house the carpentry, pat tern, machine, forge and foundry shops as well as class rooms and dem onstration rooms in connection there with. An enormous amount of steel sash, properly ventilated will give an abundance of light and air circula tion in all parts of the building. Am ple toilet and locker rooms are loca ted in the basement, which is well lit and easily reached. In addition the basement provides storage room for the various shop units. The cost of this building will be $150,000 with an additional $25,000.00 for equipment such as machinery and shop supplies. This group of shops will replace the old ones destroyed by fire last spring and they will give to the A. and M. College one of the most modern and carefully laid out shop plants in the entire United States. Plans and specifications were pre pared by La Roach and June of the College Department of Architecture. THANKSGIVING ON THE RIVER To a little Ethiopian, who was swim ming in the Nile, Came up quite unexpected a hungry crocodile. And with that chill politeness, that makes the warm blood freeze, He said, I’ll take a little dark meat without the dressing, please. I saw her standing in the car, Old, bent, and gray, I could not bear to see her stand, I looked the other way. HASWELL’S BOOK STORE • +$• •%* *%* ♦£* *%* ♦£* I i $ l 1 I V 1 ❖ DRAWING MATERIAL Agency Eastman Kodaks VICTOR Talking Machines and Records ^ *$* *** *** HASWELL’S BOOK STORE •S><S><S><e><S><e><8><8><S><S><S*S><8*8*8><e><S><S*8*S><8*S><$><e*S><S><S*S><S><S><S><S><S><S><$^^ JAMES DRUG STORE JAS. VV. JTIMES, Manager The Leading Druggists Established 1880 BRYAN, TEXAS The College Drug Sfore