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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 3, 1920)
r 0 THE BATTALION MENAGERIE OF TEXAS COLLEGES -UNIVERSITIES All Schools of the State Have Suitable Names Except A. and M. Which Clings to “Aggies” A very peculiar condition exists among the universities and colleges of Texas. Practically all of the schools have some kind of an animal as a totem. Texas U has their Long horn; Bayloi - , the Bear; Rice, the. owl; S. M. U., the mustang; L. S. U., the tiger, and T. C. U., the horned frogs. The pseudonyms of A. M. are Farmers and Aggies; neith er of which represents a real totem. A. & M, should have a totem. The totem should really represent A. & M. The characteristics of this ani mal are that it is both carnivei’ous and predacious. It is a fierce and aggressive fighter. The laurels of' victory always rest well upon its bi’ow. With all of its fiei’ceness, and carniverous habits, the animal is eas- illy tamed by women. Rough treat ment induces pugnacious actions. The habits of this animal ax-e very peculiar. It is capable of riding a Mustang. The anixxial doesn’t hate Tiger's, but they don’t agree on a number of things. This year the Horned Frogs have not had a formal intx'oduction to the x-are specimen, bxxt in the days of yox-e the Horned Frog coxxld always find a bunch of grass to hide behind. Most people consider Bear as a vei-y dangex-oxxs animal, but Bx-uin has learned many tinxes that one more mighty than the walks over the eax-th’s sxirface with a keen eye for sxxch prey as Bear meat. Owls are sometimes hax'd to handle; for they can fly. This animal caxx t fly, but he never encountex-s any se rious difficulties in plucking feathers from the Owl. The animal is mex-ci- fxxl to Owls, for they ax-e rax’e bix’ds. However the animal’s most favorite dish is Longhorn T bone steak. When deprived of a satisfying meal of this delightful dish, the animal never rests until the addition is made to its menu. The longer the fasting pe riod, the heartier the meal. One of the most pex’plexing px'ob- lems known to modexux zoologists is the naming of this rax - e speciman. Up to date they have failed to name this animal, for it is the only one of its kind known to man. Can you name it? ♦J* ^ *4? '*4*‘ -*4* ^ *4* *5* * ❖ EXCHANGE * * ❖ ♦’* »$• •$* *j- »;* *i* *!• Reflector. Said the sugar bag to the sugar, “Do you love me?” Said t}ae sugar to the bag, “I’m just wrajxped up in you.” Said the bag, “You sweet thing.” The Beacon Harry—“Say Ike, how loxxg can a man live without bx - ains.” Ike—“1 doxx’t know, how old are you?” * * * Rocky Mountain Collegian. The Coloxxxdo Aggies have sent their first stock judging team to Chi cago. Two of the men on the team wex’e winners at the Western Nation al show last year. Congi’atulations C. A. C., come on in; the more the merrier. The Colorado Aggies claim that the Hartshorn brothers have made their berths on the All-Rocky Mountain team. Chemically speaking even theii‘ name shows they are the original lads with the Biffy-wiffs. (12 midnight, Monday). Seven to nothing. Anybody Who Can Write Memos When Feeling As Blue As We Are Tonight, Can Have The Job. SURVEYIN -Thresher. (Friday night). Seven to Three. Boy, Y ou’re Not Blue At All! Add on the longtitude Subtract the latitude- Add 4 divide by 62 The result? Damfino OZARK IKE ’24 P. S. Px-of. Johnson has me all mix ed up On punktuation nxarkk , So I ajffY usilx none iilathis pome fellows around here seem to love ...A,-... themselves; st., , you unsophisticated , HERE AND THERE. It is peculiar how some of these fellows around here seem to love Us Freshmun Is exposed to Surveyin But most of us Is immune The fix-st few days Wuz nice We went walkin But after that Cxxm chainin The chainin itself Wuz ezy But the figerin Korrecksions That sumthin else agin Then cum levelin I learned so I could Set up a level In 20 mixxutes That wuz ezy enuf But them gol-durn notes They wuz always rong I got the KA house Boxxt 15 feet higher Then Parker Hall Then the transit oh boy Thats a lulu of a job Settin up one of them things An readin angels etc But I leax-ned sumpin about it I wuz gettin along purty good When long cum Dooc Axunsby An give us a lecture On shootin the sun An now the stuff’s all off I guess he knew What he wuz talkin about But us Freshmun Didn’t He sez its ezy To shoot the sun An it is ezy jest To look at the durn thing But the figeerin—!!! You add the declination To the suns mean hourly hite An multiply by the refraction An then divide by 2 DATE OF CONTEST EXTENDED. The closing date for Ax’thur Mur ray’s Essay Coxxtest has been post poned to December 20th. This will give students more time to compete for the $75 in prizes offered for the best 500 word composition on “Five Ways of Earning Money at College.” Any one may enter. The prizes will be awaxxled for the best ideas x-athex; than on the use of good Eng lish. If a contestant wxdtes a 100 per cent essay, as far as composition is concexmed, and spends his tixxxe telling how to be a first-class wxiter, his chances of winning a prize are not overly bright. Eight prizes are beixxg offered by Arthur Murx'ay, who eaxuied $15,000 a year while wox'kixxg his way through Geox’gia Tech by teaching dancing. Mr. Muri-ay is especially anxious to hear from studeixts who ax-e now) eax-ning money at college. Manu scripts should be sent to him at 143 East 39th Street, New York, N. Y. Already a mxmber of rather unique expexdences are told in the essays. One fellow in Texas bx-ought a number of cows to the college and made money selling milk to the stxxdents. Another relates that he raised white mice in the basement of his boax-ding house. In writing the essay, the contest ant should give at least two orig inal ways of making money. The other thx-ee methods may be based on the expex'iences of othex-s. $25 will be given fox- the fix-st prize; seven other prizes, scaling down to $5.00 are offered. The winning es says will be published in one of the leading national magazixxes. , T ENUS PENCILS v'r'OR the student or prof., * the superb VENUS out rivals all for perfect pencil work. 17 black degrees and 3 copying. American Lead mm g iliifs boob, don’t you know that you don’t amount to so darn much, after all ? Whenever you run around here thinking that you are the whole cheese just stop and think how everybody is laughing at you. GENERALLY TRUE “All the News staff gets for putting- out a paper every week iix the school year is a banquet at the end of the yeax-.”—The Terrill School News. REGRET. Judge—Don’t you regret having- killed the pedestrian with your golf ball? Golfer (regretfully—I certainly do, judge. If he hadn’t got iix the way, I’d made that hole in one xxnder par, —Michigan Gargoyle. STUDENT MAKES $15000 A YEAR ARTHUR MURRAY TELLS HOW HE WORKED WAY THROUGH COLLEGE Realizing that many students would like to profit by my experience and eax*n money while going through college, I have arranged especially fox- college students a system which will show you how to eax-n from $25 to $100 a week by teaching dancing dur ing spare time. To the right person, one who is willing to work, a splendid opportunity for making money and gaixxing valxxable experience presents itself. If you can dance fairly well and want to earn upwards of $25 a week during spare time, inquix-e at the of fice of The Battalion. Write today to ARTHUR MURRAY, 290 Broadway. New York, N. W. To break a cold take 666. WM. B. CLINE, M. D. Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Specialist 4th Floor City National Bank Building, Bryan, Texas $btm Minex-. REFINEMENTS'OF GOLF. ) The weight and sizelof the golf bal is going to be stand-pdized. You can still, praise Heavenv xse a ball that floats, but in Gx-eat x&iitian the Royal and Ancient Golf chib has decreed that after next April tS golf ball must not weigh more than 1.62 ounces, axxd the size must not be less than 1.62 inches in diameter. Now that conser vative England has led the way ixx this more ox- less radical concessioxx tp the efficiency experts, sonxething ought to be done to standardize the profanity. The daxxms and hells should be regulated so that they will do the greatest amount of good for the least amount of moral enex-gy ex- pended. —Life. COMMERCIALLY SPEAKING Japaxxese advertisers believe in a lavish use of similes. “Step inside!” is the invocation of a big multiple shop in Tokyo. “You will be welcomed as fondly as a ray of sunshine after a x-ainy day. Each one of our assistants is as amiable as a father seeking a husband for a dowerless daughter. Goods are dis patched to customer’s homes with the rapidity of a shot from the cannon’s mouth.” A grocer proclaims that his “super fine vinegar is xnore acid that the tongue of the most fiendish mothex-- in-law.” Edinburg Ssotsman. With Her When fix-st I saw her she looked gooxl, And as I lost in x-apture stood, She gazed at me—I thought I would Wither When next we met one winter day, My foolish feax-s wex-e swept away, For she smiled when she heax-d me say “Whither?” Now summer’s here, oh happy time, Each day, I find, is mox-e sublime, Than I have known before—’cause I’m With her! —Penn State Froth. HOW’S THIS? The Christmas holidays begixx at 5:00 p. xxx. on December the twenty- secoixd. Fx-om 9:00 o’clock tonight (Friday) xxntil the holidays it is only 1,627,200 more seconds to wait. You Wear Your Clothes —of course you do. Then why not have us make them according to your own ideas ? Be individual — plan your clothes — you’ll then look right to yourself. Its a fore gone conclusion you will look right to oth ers. The knowledge that you are perfectly dressed can be attain ed only if you get clothes as you want them. You select the weave and pattern— pick out the style. We ll GUARANTEE clothes satisfaction. Have us mersure you now. One more important detail—we have big reduc tions on ail our Tailoring lines. These reductions apply to most every article in our store. A PLEASURE TO CONVINCE YOU BRANDON & LAWRENCE What Is Air?* EFORE 1894 every chemist thought he knew what air is. “A mechanical mixture of moisture, nitrogen and oxygen, with traces of hydrogen and carbon dioxide," he would explain. There was so much oxygen and nitrogen in a given sample that he simply determined the amount of oxygen present and assumed the rest to be nitrogen. One great English chemist, Lord Rayleigh, found that the nitro gen obtained from the air was never so pure as that obtained from some compound like ammonia. What was the “impurity"? In co-operation with another prominent chemist, Sir William Ramsay, it was discovered in an entirely new gas—“argon." Later came the discovery of other rare gases in the atmosphere. The air we breathe contains about a dozen gases and gaseous compounds. This study of the air is an example of research in pure science. Rayleigh and Ramsay had no practical end in view—merely the dis covery of new facts. A few years ago the Research Laboratories of the General Electric Company began to study the destruction of filainents in exhausted lamps in order to ascertain how this happened. It was a purely scientific undertaking. It was found that the filament evaporated —boiled away, like so much water. Pressure will check boiling or evaporation. If the pressure within a boiler is very high, it will take more heat than ordinarily to boil the water. Would a gas under pressure prevent filaments from boiling away? If so, what gas? It must be a gas that will not combine chemically with the filament. The filament would burn in oxygen; hydrogexi would conduct the heat away too rapidly. Nitrogen is a useful gas in this case. It does form a few compounds, however. Better still is argon. It forms no compounds at all. Thus the modern, efficient, gas-filled lamp appeared, and so argon, which seemed the most useless gas in the world, found a practical application. Discover new facts, and their practical application will take care of itself. And the discovery of new facts is the primary purpose of the Research Laboratories of the General Electric Company. Sox-netimes years must elapse before the practical application of a discovery becomes apparent, as in the case of argon; sometimes a practical application follows from the mere answering of a “theoret ical" question, as in the case of a gas-filled lainp. But no substantial progress can be made unless research is conducted for the purpose of discovering new facts. Gen General Office Electric dlLiriQp 5 ' Schenectady, N.Y. >6-873-0