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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 11, 1929)
THE BATTALION S LETTERS TO SANTA CLAUS (Editor’s note: Have you taken advantage of this opportunity to let Santa know of your wants and those of your friends ? Better send them in this week, for it won’t be long ’till Christmas. Address communi cations to Santa Claus Editor, The Battalion.) Dere Sainta: Please bring me your latest de velopments in Patent-Leather Hair Oil and some of your best Moustache Wex. Love, Mike T. Halbouty. P. S. I have been a good boy. My Dear Saint Nicholas, You will no doubt be surprised to hear from me, since you know that I get almost everything I want around the College, but Friend Nick, I would certainly appreciate it if you would bring me some means of pre venting these horrible Cadets from listening to the awful music which Mr. Casey’s radio brings daily. Anything you can do for me will be highly appreciated. Very sincerely yours, Tommie Mayo. * * * Dear Sanny Clause: I have a secret—at least, it use to be a secret but now all the boys The Campus Cleaners and Tailors HENRY LOCKE, Manager Alterations, Cleaning, Pressing and Repairs Hats Cleaned and Blocked. Caps Cleaned. Ties Cleaned and Pressed. OVER THE EXCHANGE STORE THE CAMPUS BARBER SHOP IN THE “V” Where Service and Friendship Meet BERT SMITH, Prop. UNIFORM TAILOR SHOP TAILOR-MADE SHIRTS, BREECHES, BLOUSES AND SLACKS Mend! & Hornak, Props. CIjum Pina Senior Rings *' t EVERYTHING FOR COLLEGE IN THE JEWELRY LINK. WB <> PUT YOUR NAME ON ALL FOUNTAIN PENS A PENCILS BOUGHT FROM US FREE. CALDWELL’S JEWELRY STORE | Belt Buck lea Fobs T Pina .» R. V. Pina U “razz” me about it—but I know, Santy, that you will see my side and won’t think it strange for me to have this desire. In order to keep up with one in whose tracks I am trying to follow closely, I want you to bring me a guitar for Christmas. Please do this, Santy, and I won't want anything else. Ralph Howe. * ❖ * Dear Santi Claws: I believe in looking ahead—far ahead—and in keeping with this be lief, I want to ask you to bring me a baby carriage for Christmas. Lovingly, Clifford Brown. Mr. Santa Claus, Esquire: I arm having much pleasur-r-r-e in teaching the childr-r-en of Aggieland the histor-r-r-y of their count-r-r-y but ther-r-r-e is something mor-r-re that I ask. Please br-r-ring to the English language mor-r-r-e wor-r-ds like br-r-r-r-anch so that I can r-r-r-r-oll mo-r-r-r-e “r-r-r-’s.” Sincere-r-ely your-r-r-s, Count Sugar-r-r-eff. SOTO-HALL UPSETS BELIEF That the word “America” was de rived from the ancient mountain of Amerique and the city of Americo- pan rather than from the explorer and geographer Amerigo Vespucci, is the belief of Dr. Maximo Soto- Hall, Gautemalan historian. Dr. Soto-Hall declares that the name “Americopan” given to a city near the fabulous El Dorado, meant in the Mayan language the principal city in America, the Mayan suffix “pan” meaning principal city. THREE WEEK-ENDS In order to allow members of the student body to be at home on three week-ends during the Christmas hol idays, dates of the Yuletide vaca tion have been changed so as co extend from December 21 to Janu ary 6, it was announced following a meeting of the faculty last week. According to the original plans students would have left school on Thursday and returned on Thursday two weeks later, but under the present plan, the holidays will start Saturday and school will be reopen ed on Monday, allowing a normal re sumption of classes at the beginning of the week. The champion Rambouillet wether at the recent international livestock exposition at Chicago was bred by the animal husbandry department of A. and M. according to professor A. K. Mackey, who accompanied the livestock judgers to Chicago. According to a letter written to the student body of New Jersey State College for’Women by Miss Mildred Schroeder ’31, who is studying in Berlin, when a German professor lec tures overtime, his students create a racket by shuffling and stamping-. When you first begin to feel a little low—dash up to the bar and recharge the old energy! Dr. Pepper does it quickly, but it’s nourishment, not "nerve whip” that gives you the "gun.”