The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, February 05, 1930, Image 5

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    THE BATTALION
BATTALION PICTURE
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the burns on his hands though those
in his shirt are expected to rankle his
conscience for some time, and the
lustre of his locks has been perm
anently destroyed. No insurance was
carried on the rug - , L. W. Johnston,
the editor-in-chief, and Lester Hanks,
business manager, informed the re
porters after the fire had been ex
tinguished beneath the heroic feet of
Joe Sosolik, campus photographer.
AG. MAGAZINE
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The cover for the February issue
of The Countryman is a view of the
Academic Building of the A. and M.
College. Articles in the issue are
entirely agricultural topics and were
written by members of the faculty,
heads of departments and members
of the extension service and experi
ment station staffs as -well as by
students of the College.
The Battalion takes this opportu
nity to congratulate the staff of The
Countryman and others who have
worked to make the first issue a suc
cess which will surpass even the
dreams of the most ardent boosters.
SIXTH CONTEST
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States.
Constitutional Ideals.
Constitutional Duties.
Constitutional Aspirations.
The Constitution and the Supreme
Court.
The Place of Constitutional Law in
American Life.
The Constitution and National
Progress.
The Constitution,, and Contempo
rary Executive Practices. '
The Constitution and American
Economic Policies.
Constitutional Incentives to In
dividual Initiative.
Constitutional Guarantees to All
American Citizens.
The Constitution and Internationa]
Affairs.
American Youth and the Consti
tution.
The Constitution and it’s Found
ers.
This contest was inaugurated and
is conducted by the Better America
Federation of California. Last year
542 colleges and universities entered
the contest. Every college student
in America is eligible to compete.
The finals will be held June 19 at
Los Angeles. The entries close March
Frontiers of telephony—
old and new
Yesterday the natural course of tele- telephones are being installed. People are
phone expansion was to penetrate the learning that there is added utility in
nation’s frontiers, building newlines and convenient commumcaXAon.
adding new subscribers. This new field of activity was conceived
Today finds many new “frontiers” for by commercial development men of the
telephone expansion — among them the Bell System. Just another example of for-
homes of present subscribers. Upstairs ward planning to make telephone service
and downstairs, wherever needed, additional more valuable.
BELL SYSTEM
f nation-wide system of inter-connecting telephones
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25 and each college or university
should have selected it’s orators by
April 15. Information concerning the
details of the contest may be obtain
ed from P. Caspar Harvey, Contest
Director, Liberty, Mo.
Say Bo were you ever called on
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To serve your College as a manly
Officer of the Day
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And while watching the K-dats at
the
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Door of the Main Mess Hall catch one
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Trying to get away with a table
cloth
And while executing your authority
did
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One slip out with a chair, a Signal
Corps Fish.
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Then, at supper, didja keep watch
over
The Annex, thinking that you would
have
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An easier job.
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And after coming out of a trance
from reading
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A letter from the “wife,”
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Didja find that some Engineer Fish
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Had almost gotten by with
A TABLE?
He He H«
Say Bo, Didja Ever?
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Well, H. W. “Willie” Hillis, First
He He He
Lieutenant of
He He He
Battery B, did!
A Confidential
Letter to a Friend
Dear Pete:
I pause for a few moments from
a contemplation of a treatise on the
effective growth of current in cir
cuits of negative temperature coeffi
cient of resistance to tell you a story
of the strangest thing that ever hap
pened to a man.
The other night as I was studying
the radiation of the electric theory, a
sudden pain struck me and I fell to
the floor in a cycloidal fit. The old
lady sent a rush call for the Doc,
and in the meantime took the prop
er steps to inoculate me against the
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“OUR PIONEERING WORK HAS JUST BEGUN