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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (March 19, 1930)
THE BATTALION 3 Did You Know The inmates of the State School for the training- of juveniles wear the overseas eap ? * * : i : There were 297 students last term who made 22 grade points or over? ❖ :!< * It is a tradition at Kansas State Teachers’ College not to smoke on the campus ? Some of the most prominent mod ern writers use the word “neck” as a verb now instead of a noun? :{; 5|: * “Prexy’s Moon” is a 500-watt lamp ? ❖ ❖ ❖ The tile of Captain Billy’s “Smoke House Poetry” came from records of the court ? * * * The elevation of the quadrangle is ten feet hig-her than the elevation of the railroad station ? sk sic The cables of the Brooklyn bridge stretch about four feet when there is a full load on it? ❖ * * Aron Witherspoon of the Artillery is in love with a Prairie View co-ed ? FLASHES FROM EVERYWHERE More than 500 educators, jurists, authors and scientists have petition ed Congress to retain in the tariff bill the Cutting amendment to abol ish censorship by customs officials of literature imports. Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz, chief of the German navy during the world war, and one of the most important of the Germans still hoping for a re turn of the monarchy, is dead in Germany. A portrait of George Washington, for the purchase price of which pub lic school children donated pennies and nickles amounting to $75,000, was sold in Baltimore 42 years ago for $2. A diplomatic breach was narrowly avoided recently when Gov. Huey P. Long, of Louisiana, received the commander of a German ship at New Orleans in green pajamas. The ship’s officer, who was reported highly in dignant, later treated the matter as a joke. Educators gathered recently at At lantic City, inspected talking movies with an eye to making use of them in public school instruction. Students at Berea College, J£y., earn 75 per cent of the cost of tbeir education. I The Poet’s Corner | * % •1* v % - -!• v *1* *!* -t* *!♦ *’.• !♦ -I- •!”!—!■• -> -h DUSK Fading brightness in the West, Tangled branches of silhouetted tree-tops reach upward. ... spreading .... grasping, Peaked roofs : chimneys—sifting their thin Indian-like wisps of smoke through the half light; Pale lights struggling—anxious for darkness—giving them power. Feathered choristers gathering . . . noisily waiting . . . flitting . . . feeling safe in their numbers. Darkness blankets the West. Tangled branches of tree-tops blend with the darkness and vanish Peaked roofs: chimneys.... no longer discernable—assuring aroma —Ah! The unseen smoke still sifts upward. Lights glittering; brighter now . . . .haughty with power in the dark ness. Feathers ruffled—wings folded —resting.... awaiting the morrow. Darkness has fallen; But the calmness of dusk still lingers. WESTINGHOUSE PRESENTS FORD WITH EXHIBIT The great Ford Museum at Dear born, Michigan, will represent every phase of American industrial, agri cultural and domestic life. The ac cumulation of exhibits is already vast and, when complete, will repre sent a vivid and authentic record of American progress. When Henry Ford visited the East Pittsburgh works of the Westing- house Electric Company, recently, he was presented with the most com plete exhibit of pioneer electrical in ventions in existence. This entire collection will be placed in the Ford Museum as a permanent industrial exhibit. Approximately 600 different arti cles comprise the exhibit, most of them being important inventions of the “gay eighties and nineties.” Al though containing historical pieces of direct current machinery, this collection is almost entirely an ex hibition of the development of a. c. machinery. It is appropriate that Westinghouse should contribute large ly to this phase of electrical de velopment since George Westing house, the founder of the Westing house Electric & Manufacturing Com pany was the first man to introduce alternating current in this country. Dr. Allvn K. Foster J Lectures this Week Noted Speaker to Deliver Address Every Evening Through Friday. Dr. Allyn K Foster, student sec retary of the Board of Education of the Northern Baptist Convention is on the campus this week to deliver a series of lectures on scientific, social, and religious subjects. Having spoken in colleges and uni versities of every state in the Union, Dr. Foster enjoys the distinction of being one of the most widely known student lecturers of the universe. He spoke at the convocation services Sunday, to the Sophomores at the class banquet Monday evening, in the Assembly Hall Tuesday evening, and is to speak in the “Y” chapel Wednesday, and in the Assembly Hall Thursday and Friday evenings. There is no admission charge to the lectures. Professor Churchill, of Bei’ea Col lege, became interested in looms while a missionary in India. Con structing some of them in the Ken tucky college town, he has developed a weaving industry which is netting him large sums of money. Drink Delicious and Refreshing There’s a Silver Lining tk i3> m. L1STEIV I!V —- Grantland Rice — Famous Sports Champions Coca-Cola Orchestra Wednesday 10:30 to 11 p. m. E. S. T. Coast to Coast NBC Network »— that refreshes So many unhappy things can happen to increase that old inferiority complex. Deans and Doctors, Mid-years and Finals, all dedi cated to the cause of making life a burden. Coca-Cola was made for times like these. Here’s a drink that will quickly invest you with some of its life and sparkle. Give you exceeding joy in its tingling, deli cious taste. And leave you with that cool after-sense of refreshment in which a right eous megalomania may wax fat and prosper. 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