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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 15, 1924)
THE BATTALION S SCIENCE SEMINAR ANNOUNCES THE YEAR’S PROGRAM Many Noted Scientists and Educators Are Listed for Lectures in the Near Future. The complete program of the year to be followed by the Social Science Seminar in its study of social prog ress and scientific improvement has been announced by the program com mittee. Members of the committee are Dr. F. E. Buechel, Dr. B. Young- blaad and Professor W. H. Thomas. The program will be opened Monday evening with a lecture by President W. B. Bizzell on the subject of “Ob servations on Social Conditions in Europe.” The complete program for the year is as follows: October 13, “Observations on So cial Conditions in Europe,” President W. B. Bizzell. October 27, “Observations on Eu ropean Educational Conditions,” Dean Charles E. Friley. November 10, “Railroad Consoli dation,” President Walter • W. M. Splawn, of tjie University of Texas, Austin. November 24, “Analysis of the November Election,” Perry C. Pat terson of the University of Texas, Austin. December 8, “The Farmers’ Prob lems and How to Solve Them,” Hon orable John T. Orr, president of the Texas Farm Bureau Cotton Asso ciation, Dallas. January 5, “Psychological Aspects of War,” Professor R. C. White. January 19, “Co-Operative Mar keting of Livestock,” Honorable E. B. Spiller, secretary, Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers’ Associa tion, Fort Worth. February 2, “Co-Operative Mar keting of Cotton,” Honorable Carl Williams, president of the American Cotton Growers’ Exchange, Oklahoma City. February 16, “Comparative Relig ion,” Dr. George Summey, Jr. March 2, “Some Tests of Human Progress,” Dr. B. Youngblood. March 16, “Agricultural Economic Surveys,” L. P. Gabbard. March 30, “Contemporary Ameri can Literature,” Professor W. H. Thomas. April 13, “The Farmer and Indus trialization of the South,” Dr. F. A. Buechel. April 27, “Adult Education in the British Isles,” Elmer E. Scott, of Dallas. May 11, “European Diplomacy Pre ceding the World War,” V. K. Sugareff. If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once a week; for perhaps the parts of my brain now atrophied would thus have been kept ac tive through use. The loss of these tastes is a loss of happiness, and may pos sibly be injurious to the intel lect, and more probably to the moral character, by enfeebling the emotional part of our na ture.—Darwin. * ❖ DERE RUMMITT * * ❖ ♦J. -ijl- ■•Jt ♦$<••*$<• -ijl- ♦ft' ♦3«- ■!$•■■»$♦ ■!$••• ■•$► Aggieland, Oct. 14, 1923. Dere Rummit: This makes the fourteenth letter I have written tonight, Tom. I wrote thirteen others and all them to one girl too. I want to break down and confess to you in most flooent phrases that I have met the ONE girl. You oughta know her like I do—Ya see I met her in that big country town north of here called Dallas, and boy she is the berries. She is the kind of a girl that Young Lochnivar rode cut of the West after and didn’t get. Why if the Prince of Wales had seen her before I met her, England would have lost one of her titled nobility and America would have gained another henpecked husband. And she even affected me and you know I’m pretty hard to jolt to the point of emotionalism. If that sweet little thing had looked at me though with them powerful little blue eyes o’hers and told me to fall off the Magnolia building backwards, I wud have star ted right then and there lookin’ for the office of the elevator boy. The only thing I can say against her is that she has a pet monkey. Once there in Dallas we was walkin’ down the main drag—she was bangin’ onto my arm and I had a hamburger in one hand and the monkey in the other. Well she said somethin’ to me—it must have been a compliment, because when she stopped talking and turned them big eyes away I found myself about to chew the monkey’s ear off and the hamburger, onions and all, was scattered across the street for several feet behind us. I’ve sworn vengeance on the monk tho. But to return to the subject of this voluble discourse—she sho is the Queen of my Kingdom. You, no doubt, have heard the poets rave thusly: “She’s fairer than the flowers, She is sweeter than the rose.” and continuing, “Altruistic—without sinning— She’s an angel from the sky (For above my earthly winning) She’s engaged—and so am I.” Oh by the way, I must address all her letters and send them special be fore I finish yours—”%!—@?!!— Curses—loud, varied, and discordant courses. Oh! Sulphur water where is thy odor which brings only death? I NEVER ASKED HER NAME. Suffocating slowly, LES. LOVE. Sweetheart, when I go to bed, But wake up in the tub instead With hat still resting on my head You’d say that I loved. And when I sit all day and dream And pour the coffee into the cream And try to milk the mule, t’would seem To you that I loved. But yet, when I come home so late, With several hats astride my pate, And place my shoes upon the grate, That isn’t love. Or sleep upon the railroad track, Or wear my tie with a knot in the back, And fasten my shirt with a pin, Sweetheart, I swear it’s Gordon’s Gin, It isn’t love. QUEEN - FRIDAY And Saturday—Another One Equal to “Wine of Youth/’ With the Same Star Featured ELEANOR BOARDMAN More charming than ever with a big cast. Conrad Nagle, Adolphe Menjou, Miss Dupont in “Sinners in Silk” The kind of a picture that every human enjoys with big i comedy and Queen Orchestra PALACE— Friday-Saturday f A Comedy So Funny That Buster Laughed “THE MAVHGATOR” Buster Keaton’s New Million Dollar Comedy Riot DIXIE — SATURDAY JACK HOXIE IN “WESTERN WOLLOP” Three Big Ones! Come to See Us Saturday! THE MORNING TIMES. . Chorus. October 15, 5000 A. D. This piece of prehistoric poetry was found among the ruins of some quaint old buildings which Professor Doo little is excavating. These buildings are very curious specimens of ancient architecture which date back prob ably as far as 1914 A. D. The study of these excavations are proving of great interest to present-day archeol ogists, as the interior arrangement and decoration of these ancient struc tures are most remarkable. They consist of a number of stories of small cells or cubicles, each con taining a queer specimen of three-lay ered couch or bed. It is assumed that this was the harem of some sheik of that period and that the buildings were used for housing his wives. The bed arrangement was no doubt for the purposes of keeping the women from fighting. The walls of these cells are covered with many quaint inscriptions and hieroglyphics such as “Cy owes me 40c,” “Only 20 days more,” and “A and M. 40-T. C. U. 0,” which ex perts are trying to decipher, and two evidently valuable specimens of the art of that period entitled “Holeproof Hosiery” and “Luxite Underwear.” Professor Doolittle claims that this poetic work is an excellent example of the literature of the early Flapperian Age and it will no doubt throw light on the curious local phenomenon— namely, that it has never been known to rain in this section of the country on a Thursday morning. The poem follows: Fish Chant. It rains on Friday morning, An’ it rains on Wednesday nite; But Thursday morning always finds The sunshine shining bright. Chorus: It aint gonna rain no mo’, no mo’, It aint gonna rain no mo’, I could punch the nose of the guy who crows That it aint gonna rain no mo’. If I make a date with my Bryan frail And we stagger out to roam, It rains until I hock my coat To rent a taxi home. But Thursday mornings when I need A little extra rest, The sun is making faces at The whing-doos in their nest. Chorus. On Sundays when my rummit swipes My underwear and coat, I have to march in rain and get The T. B.’s in my throat. Chorus. Perhaps some Thursday it MAY rain. Then back to bed I’ll leap, And thumb my nose at my top-kick. And sleep and sleep and sleep. Chorus: . It aint gonna rain no mo’, no mo’, Aint rained since I was born. But I’ll soak my shoes when I hear the news That it rained on Thursday morn. WOOD—Buy your winter wood now. Tom G. Suber, Phone 121, Bryan. STACY-ADAMS SHOES FOR MEN THE TOWNE A Young man’s tan calf oxford. Flexible shank. $12.50 DEPENIDfLR 1 LIT Jr* HRYflft, TEXAS.