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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 12, 1930)
mm the battalion UNDER PBEXY'S MOON r > T: :^=(J! ,M W0f%' ''' UNDER PREXY’S MOON This is a good column, interesting and all that—but really it couldn’t very well be otherwise when you con sider that the subject matter is, “Professors and their Characteris tics,” and when you consider that our campus is fairly teeming with very interesting professors possess ing very interesting characteristics. And the column will continue to be of interest if I go right on doing a “prof a week”—BUT, there are only sixteen more weeks of school, only sixteen more publications of this col- losal epic of the press, and there are sixteen times sixteen more interest ing profs. So, I am making a change, and instead • of picking out (or on) just ONE dispenser of knowledge per week, I’m going - to joad my pen with buckshot and cover a Depart ment a week. The only trouble with this idea is that I’m not in every department and don’t know all the profs and their peculiar traits. The C. E. building being my mill of knowledge—and oh what a column that staff of profs | READY | •f' & I WE ARE READY FOR THE f | NEW TERM WITH A f | COMPLETE STOCK I Uniform Goods OF ALL KINDS t Herman Shoes i T T * AH Sizes, in Drill or Dress Jj Overcoats and Raincoats & % £ f Athletic Goods ❖ | Waldrop & Co | FLUSHES FROM EVERYWHERE An automatic apparatus with which the colors of transparent and opaque objects can be analyzed with scien tific accuracy in ten seconds has been developed in the graduate lab oratories of the University of Penn sylvania. ❖ * * A referendum of student opinion at San Jose State College, Calif., re vealed the majority of students in favor of retaining the short skirt. Professors agreed with the students. * * * Harry Burns Hutchins, 81, presi dent-emeritus of the University of Michigan, died at Ann Arbor, Janu ary 25. The junior college plan is bound to grow into a more inmportant place in American education, accord ing to Dr. Walter T. Marvin, dean of the college of arts and sciences at Rutgers University. Tex. Smith-Hughes Contest Planned will make!—but I’m going to save them until the last week of school, just before grades are posted, for a final impression. (Impression may be substituted by a four-letter word beginning with ‘S’). Anyway, I’m go ing to count on lots of help from everybody to put this new idea over. So just jot down a note or two on a prof or so and send it to Sam Roelofs, Box 539 S. E., or 306 Biz- .zell and I’ll thank you lots. Many Agricultural Schools Are Ex pected to Enter Contest. Plans are well under way for the thirteenth annual Texas Smith- Hughes contests to be conducted by the faculty of the school of Vocation al Teaching and School of Agricul ture on April 21. Judging from the past contests there will probably be 1,700 to 2,000 contestants entered in the various contests. Difficulties arising because of the limited facilities for caring- for such a large group are planned to be eliminated by using the space under the stadium as sleeping quarters. The program includes dairy cat tle judging, poultry and egg judging as well as contests in farm shop, en tomology, plant production and plant propagation. Nearly (every vocatic/naji agricul ture school in the State is expected to enter. I The Poet’s Corner | *** ♦!» •I-v >!* -*• -1* v-I- \* -!- •!- -h -I- A ♦!- v -I* -v - v- On a bright January Sunday day. Company “A” had inspection and hell to pay. From shack to shack, solemn and grim. Went Lieutenant Siebold iand his men, Pie rammed for dirty shoes till he was sore. And in this frame of mind came to “Colonel” Fortson’s door. Here he knocked, opened the door, and stepped inside, Stood a minute then broke into a smile he couldn’t hide. For there stood the “Colonel” by his bed With his number one cap upon his head, At which sight the Lieutenant says, says he, “What, no side-arms today?” With that he strode from out the door, Leaving the “Colonel’s” face like a red-painted floor. The “Colonel” still swears till this day That there’ll be lote more hell to pay, If he ever catches the K-det that wrote this ditty. Parker’s New Streamlined Shape Sets Low in the pocket . . . Feels "At Home” in the Hand Parker’s new streamlined Duofold Pens (and Pencils to match) look neater and set lower in the pocket than others because the clip starts at the TOP—not halfway down the cap. The smart, perfectly poised shape feels “at home” in the hand — the hand-ground, heavy gold point writes with our famous 47th improve ment— Pressureless Touch. Like 2 Pens for the Price of One An exclusive convertible feature makes all Parker pens actually like 2 Pens in One. 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