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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 12, 1927)
6 TgB BATTALION THE CODE OF GOOD SPORT. THE RICHEST UNIVERSITY 1. 2. 3. ing. 4. 5. Thou shalt not quit. Thou shalt not alibi. Thou shalt not gloat over winn- Thou shalt not be a poor loser. Thou shalt not take unfair ad vantage. 6. Thou shalt not ask odds thou art unwilling to give. 7. Thou shalt always be ready to give thine opponent the shade. 8. Thou shalt not underestimate an opponent, nor overestimate thyself. 9. Thou shalt root with all thy might, but in rooting a good sport will root right. 1. Honor the game thou playest, for he who plays the game straight and hard wins even when he loses. WORLD’S BIGGEST MACHINE With the labor and skill of more than a thousand men, the actual work of constructing the world’s most powerful machine has begun at the plant of the Brown Boveri Elec tric Corporation at Camden, N. J. Their labors will be converted into energy equivalent to the man power of 6 million men working eight hours a day. The machine is a 60-cycle turbo generator ordered by the United Electric Light and Power Company for installation in Hell Gate station of the New York Edison Company, New York City. In all phases of con- struction, cost, weight of castings, degree of efficiency and capacity, this machine represents an enterprise more than twice as great as any similar enterprise ever attempted. A volume of water greater than the 5,000-gallon-an-hour low-water flow of the Deleware River at Port Jervis will flow through the generator sys tem and forty carloads of coal per day will feed the boilers supplying steam for the turbine. The generator, in turn, will develop power sufficient to illuminate all the streets and three quarters of the homes of New York City. The generator will have rated continous lead capacity of 215,000 horsepower. —Exchange NOTED OPERA AND BALLET STARS TO APPEAR HERE (Continued from Page 1) It is planned to bring several more entertainment^ to College with the Senior Class receiving a major por tion of the profits. The next enter tainment will be on January 21, when the Davis Opera Company, of New York City will present the popular- play, “The Mascot,” here. Tickets for Thursday night’s enter tainment are on sale at the Y. M. C. A. and at Haswell’s Book Store at Bryan. All seats are reserved at prices ranging from $1.00 to $2.50, which will be considerably less than is charged in the regular appearances of this company. The performance will start promptly at eight o’clock. A Full Line of Drugs, Magazines, Candy and Cold Drinks REED & POWERS 1 Confectionery and Draff* :: The public has scarcely awakened to the significance of the acquisition ! by Duke University at Durham, N. i Carolina, of the great endowment of- ! fered by James B. Duke. The initial j donation is $40,000,000, which places the Southern school at once in the , front rank of endowed institutions of 1 learning. But this is not all. Through j co-ordination of development and in- ! vestment programs in the endow ment’s stipulations, the fund will have ! reached $80,000,000 by the time the | full construction program of the Uni versity has been completed. The work t now under way is costing $300,000 a | month. The grounds of the institu tion total 5,100 acres. —Exchange. “How much you gif?” inquired Beck. “T’ree t’ousand six ’undred dollars,” replied Isaac. So Beck took the offer. (I know,! but we’ve got to conserve space.) North—That girl is a daughter of the revolution. Hall—Why, she just came to this country. North—You see, her father owns a merry-go-round. Between Two Fires. In No—They say that a single fish will lay from one to eight million eggs a year. Sense—And I suppose the married ones will lay twice as many. “I never thought that anyone could stoop so low,” mourned the cow to the enterprising milkmaid. “I could not marry Gertrude be cause of her past.” “And what is wrong with her past?” “It is entirely too long!” Good Hardware: Mrs. Jones— What’s the matter, Mrs. Leary? Mrs. Leary—Why, my son, Tom my, has swallowed a cartridge and I can’t wallop him for fear it will go off. Ouch! Cincinnati Enquirer: “I am afraid you are like a rundown business,” said the discouraged beauty specialist to the woman who had come in for treatments. “I don’t think I understand you,” said the woman. “Well, the only thing that would do you any good would be to have a new head,” she retorted. One type of wife expects things of her husband. Another type expects things. The apple that rocked the earth ‘T wonder why?” In Isaac Newton’s mind that question clam ored for an answer. Many men had seen apples fall, but this man with the question mark mind found out why they fall—and his answer has helped us to understand the workings of a universe. 1 i - Would that we ail’could get a bite o| thf| apple if it would inspire us too with the ‘T ? wonder why” attitude! ^ Intellectual curiosity is a great and moving force. It mobilizes reluctant facts. It is the stem drill-master which whips into shape that most invincible of armies—sure knowledge. Curiosity, with the will to sweat out the answer, is the greatest asset you can acquire in your college course. This attribute is needed by industry today more than ever before. Number 65 of a Series