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SENIOR CLASS - '
VALEDICTORIAN
WILL BE THOMAS
The Lad From La Grange Is Extend
ed Further Honors By the
Senior Class.
C. W. Thomas, 1922 Longhorn Ed
itor and commander of the Shock
Troops, was recently elected Vale
dictorian for the Commencement Ex
ercises by the Senior Class. Thomas
has made a very enviable record since
coming to Aggieland in 1918. He has
been a distinguished student some
several times, has been a prominent
member of the Dramatic Club, a mem
ber of the Ross Volunteers the pres
ent and past year.
The selection is undoubtedly a good
one and it is felt that the address to
be delivered by Thomas at that time
will be one worthy of mention.
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Didja
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Ever go to a dance boy
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That was more than a
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Dance. On the ceiling enough
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cloth- of many different colors
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Had been draped to reach
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From College to Bryan
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And part of the way back.
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Intertwined with this were
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Streamers, balloons and lights
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That added to the beauty
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Of the place.
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The music could not have
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Been surpassed by
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Paul Whiteman, himself—
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The floor was like glass—
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And above all
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There were four hundred
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Of the snappiest looking
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Girls
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Ever assembled under
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One roof.
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Gosh! boy, if you didn’t
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You had better take in
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This Year’s R. V.
A.M.C.
DRS. LAWRENCE & ZACHRY
DENTISTS
4th Floor City Natl. Bank Bldg.
Phones—Office 348 Res. 558
BRYAN, TEXAS
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ELECTRIC CLOCKS IN BIG
HOTEL.
Installation has just been made by
the General Electric Company of the
Warren electric clock system in the
annex to the Plaza hotel in New York.
This represents the first hotel in New
York in which this system of regu
lating clocks has been utilized. It is
the second installation of the sort in
any hotel, the first having been made
last year in the Ritz-Carleton Hotel
at Atlantic City, where the clocks
have been thus regulated with much
success for the last seven months.
In the Plaza installation there are
about 50 clocks, located in the main
rooms, in the foyers, salons, draw
ing rooms and dining rooms. They
are operated by small generators
which convert the direct current of
the hotel’s lighting circuit into al
ternating current for the clock sys
tem. The converters, the master
clock and the control panel are all
located in the telephone exchange of
the sotel, on the first floor.
Tiny motors, so small that one of
them easily nestles in the palm of the
hand, are geared to the dial hands of
each of the secondary clocks con
nected with the system. These small
motors, which take the place of the
usual intricate clock mechanism and
which are of the synchronous type,
will operate the hands of clocks of
any size. Big clocks with dials five
feet in diameter and little clocks with
dials whose diameters are only three
inches are regulated equally well by
these smallest of motors, none of the
dimensions of which exceed three in
ches.
Absolutely uniform time is shown
by every clock of the system at a giv
en moment. The system is also self
regulating and therefore independent
of voltage or frequency fluctuations
incident to the power lines from which
it draws its current.
The master clock exercises constant
control over the power generating ap
paratus which drives the individual
motors of the secondary clocks. This
control by the master clock enables
all the secondary clocks to keep ac
curate time. They are never more
than three seconds slower of faster
than the master clock.
The reliability of this system, as re
vealed in actual service, is believed to
bring prominently to the front this
novel idea of thus electrically operat
ing clocks for hotels, office buildings,
manufacturing plants and institutions
where it is desired to have a large
number of clocks and to insure that
they will all keep accurate and uni
form time.
RECORD SILK TRAIN.
Four million, eight hundred thou
sand dollars worth of silk, one of the
most valuable single cargoes of
freight ever transported over an
American railway, has just been sent
over the electrified lines of the Chi
cago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Ranlway.
This shipment was contained in the
longest exclusively all-steel baggage
train ever operated between Seattle
and Chicago. The journey of 2174
miles was made on scheduled time.
The train contained fourteen bag
gage cars and one coach, the latter for
employees. The weight of the train
QUEEM SPECIALS
MONDAY, TUESDAY—A BIG DOUBLE BILL
Ramona, The Great
IN PERSON—HIS GREAT MAGICAL ACT
Wanda Hawley
In a Peach of a Picture, “Love Charms”
Wednesday, Thursday—Extra Special Cosmopolitan
"Just Around the Corner”
Friday, Saturday—Wallace Reid in
The World’s Champion
COMING—Mae Murray in “Peacock Alley.” William S.
1 % Hart in “Traveling On.” “Black Beauty”
was 1325 tons. This is equivalent to
23 express refrigerators, and made it
possible for the shipment to be made
in one special train instead of two.
The “silk special” contained 448
cases of manufactured silk, and 4008
bales of raw silk.
This cargo was bound from the
Orient to New York, and it reached
Seattle on the Japanese steamer
Arabia Maru. It was hauled up the
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Cascade Mountains without a helper
by one of the powerful 3,000 volt
General Electric locomotives, and was
lowered down the heavy grades on the
other side by electrical breaking.
With the electric locomotive the air
brakes are held in reserve, and re
generating braking is used in descend
ing grades.
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OBSERVATIONS
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A. STRANGER
At a recent corps dance recently
which I was a visitor, I was attract
ed by the natural beauty of a Bryan
girl. She seemed a very graceful
dancer, appearing to be unusually
light on her feet. She shook her bob
bed hair gracefully out of her face,
it being cut in an ideal Talmadge
bob. Her slender form caused the
youthful canton crepe dress wh'ch
was a beaded affair, low waist line
with a decorated girtle, to hang per
fectly—In fact, it looked draped on
her. Chiffon hose and a unique pair
of patent leather Grecian sandeL
furthered her charming appearance.
She passed close to where I was
standing and her voice, although
strikingly feminine, impressed me as
egotistical immediately. Furthering
my close scrutiny, I quickly realized
that she failed to have a large host
of admirers eager to “Beak In” sim-
1 ^ many other local prides. Af
ter a brief deliberation, I asked a
friend the cause of her not being
so popular and without hesitation he
said “Her disposition” and several
others assented.
It was for the first time impress
ed upon me that any girl with an
uncomparable disposition regardless
of her beauty was in Aggieland like
a sailship in an Indian Ocean Moon-
soon.
A.M.C.
Crescent moon
Situation
Ruby lips
Slight mustache
rar,b.
Maiden breathes
Whene’er she can
Softly gurgles
Hesitates
Whispers then
“Be a naughty man
Again ! ! ! ”
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“Does she dress well?”
“Dunno. I never watched her.”
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WM. B. CLINE, M. D.
Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat
Over A. M. Waldrop’s Store
BRYAN, TEXAS
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