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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 4, 1925)
THE BATTALION B Battery Battaltion To appear Next Week The next issue of the Battalion will be a special issue to be published by the organization that won the extra subscription contest at the beginning of the year. During this contest Bat tery B, Field Artillery, sold the larg est number of extra subscriptions to the Battalion and obtained the hon or of publishing a special edition without the aid of the regular Batta lion staff. The staff which is to publish the special edition was selected at an early period and has worked for some time in a effort to make the edition a big success. W. H. Wendler, cap tain of Battery B, was selected as editor-in-chief and John Wilson, First Sergeant of the Battery, as business manager. Other capable men have been chosen to round out the person nel of the staff. The special edition should prove a splendid surprise. The object of the staff is to make this edition an en tertaining one, devoting practically all of its thirty pages to jokes and cartoons. Contributions have been re ceived from every member of the Bat tery and several spicy articles have been sent in by C. I. A. girls. This last fact, in itself, promises a desir able feature. Since this same Battery put out a successful special issue last year; since the sources of material are numerous and varied; and since the issue is to be entirely humorous, the staff feels that it is justified in for- casting a very interesting and very novel edition. OUR FOOTBALL HERO. The following letter was found on the floor of Casey’s Confectionary by one of the members of the staff. Be lieving that it will be of interest to our readers, we are submitting the following copy: “Dear Darleng Jemmus: Sense first mi I’s rested on yore fase mi mine has bin in a termoil an mi hart has bin beeting with rap- tur. I no that you were maid for me. Therefor mi solemate, I take this means to tel you that I will wate ! for you because their is no wun else for me sins I have sene you. Anxiously awaiting yor repli, ^ ■J* ♦f' -** SAY BO, DIDJ’A! * •J* ■*$+ ■*%*■ ■*$+ ■»$* Say Bo didja STEWED-IOUSLY struggle For four and one-half years In quest of that SKIN YOU’LL LOVE TO TOUCH! L>id the end draw nigh And was your heart Filled with JOY and ECSTASY In the anticipation of that GRAND and GLORIOUS DAY When you’d become an EX Of the Animals and Mechanic’s COLLEGE ? Didja wait and wonder If the people had forgotten Your written invitation Which in part had read, “YOUR PRESENTS ARE REQUIR ED?” Finally, didja Receive notice informing you That a PACKAGE awaited at the STATION? Didja DETAIL two “FISH” In great haste and hurry To deliver your FIRST GRADUATION PRESNT TO YOUR DOOR? Didja wait expectantly To see your HANDSOME GIFT? Was your reverie broken By something BUTTIN’ BUTTING GENTLY AT YOUR CHAMBER-DOOR? Didja open wide the door And did the “Fish” usher in A FRISKY LITTLE NANNY GOAT ? Did she bear this inscription: “I GOT YOUR GOAT LONG AGO SO I AM SENDING YOU ONE FOR GRADUATION?” Didja rush over to CASEY’S Drink great DROUGHTS of COCOA-COLA and CHERRY BLOS SOMS? Ir utter dissipation and abandon Trying to forget that someone HAD LITERALLY GOTTON YOUR GOAT? Say Bo, Didja ? “Dolly” Magruder did! JOKES. ❖ * * Prospective Employer—Is there anything you can do better than any one else, Caldwell ? Bill Caldwell—Yes sir; read my own writing. ❖ ❖ 5H 1st Cadet—If I loan you this money will you pay it back. 2nd. Ditto—Oh yeh. If I don’t have the cash I’ll pay by check. Winning the S. K. P. S. I aint never seen you but oncet when I was waiting on tables at a restorent en Wako. I got a pik- tur of you what I got out en a paper but I got it pasted over my bed where I kin see it every nite.” Since this letter was dated Thorn- dale, January 15, “Jimus” must have been carrying it around for several weeks. Now we know who that good looking girl Jimus has been raving about, is. May true love never be de feated, Jimus. SECOND SEMESTER OPENS WITH 100 NEW STUDENTS The second term opened Monday morning with approximately one hun dred new students, increasing the tot al registration for the scholastic year to 2340. Although the enrollment on the opening day numbered 1715, sev eral hundred students who were off the campus between terms are ex pected to register later during the week; and the total enrollment may reach 2000. Thirty co-eds are includ ed among those registered for the second term. The General Electric Com pany provides for agricul ture little motors that do the farm chores and great ones that operate mammoth pumps to irrigate vast stretches of arid valleys. If you are interested in learning more about what electricity is doing, write for Reprint No. AR391 con taining a complete set of these advertisements. Irrigation by electrically driven pumps has made hundreds of thousands cf acres of desert land in the Intermountain West blossom like the rose. For a few cents a month per acre, electricity—the giant worker—brings the life-giving water from distant lakes and rivers to rainless valleys, producing rich harvests of fruits and vegetables, cereals and forage. What electricity is doing for the farmer is only a counterpart of what it is doing for Industry, trans portation, City and Country life or any c f t he profes sions. It is a tool ready for your use and which, wisely used, will make the impossible of today an accomplished fact tomorrow. How electricity does these things is important to the student in a technical school—but whet electricity can do is important to every college man or woman, no matter what their life’s work may be. 7-17DH GEtsCRAL ELECTRIC COMPANY, SCHENECTADY, NEW