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THE BATTALION
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Did You Know
Ball playing started about 4,000
years ago ?
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There is a star in the universe
which if put in place of the sun
would raise the temperature to 7,000
degrees Centigrade; another would
lower the temperature of the earth
enough to liquify the air ?
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There are only about 3,000 mem
bers of the Ex-Students Association 7
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About 750 students were granted
passes the last week-end we had no
inspection ?
There is one valve in the Colelge
plant which weighs 3,200 pounds ?
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A new circulation pump in the
College awter plant system pumped
1,650 gallons of water per minute?
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The total tractive power of all the
steam locomotives in Class 1 rail
ways last year was 1,289,898 tons?
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A railroad train 5,740 miles long
could be made of the equipment re
turned from service by Class 1 rail
roads of the United States in the
last seven years ?
FLASHES FROM
EVERYWHERE
A straw vote on the Eighteenth
Amendment held by the Targum, un
dergraduate weekly at Rutgers Uni
versity, revealed that the majority of
the students at the university, while
they are themselves abstainers, are
against the Amendment.
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The annual Shakespeare birthday
festival at Stratford-on-Avon will
commence April 21, and continue for
five weeks. The regular summer fes
tival of Stratford-on-Avon will be
gin July 7, and • continue until Sep
tember 13.
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The results of a vote among New
York State students at Vassar Col
lege (for women) on the Albany Bill
to abolish capital punishment, result
ed in a vote of 160 in favor of the
bill, 130 opposed and 55 undecided.
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HARTFORD, Conn.—At least two
“college degree mills” are at present
operating in this state with full au
thority of the law, according to Al
bert B. Meredith, State Commission
er of Education, who has made an
investigation, pending an effort to
have the state legislature take an
interest in the matter.
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ALL KIND OF BOYS
There’s the ugle boy,
And the witty boy,
And the jellybeans who dance and
pet,
The boy that’s a flirt
And the boy that “does you dirt,”
And the boy who’s hard to get.
There’s the “dumb” boy.
And the “rum” boy,
And the boys who imitate the Shiek,
There’s the boy who offers a smoke,
And the boy who is always broke;
And the boy that’s “seemingly” so
meek!
There’s the blase boy
And the passe boy,
(The kind who comes up to the door
for you)
There’s the candy boy,
And the handy boy,
And the boy to whom “we say” we’re
true!
There’s the “cave type” boy,
And the “rave type” boy,
And the boy who’s just a pal,
There’s the boy who’s athletic
And the boy who’s a “stick”
And the boy who’s “looking - for a
gal.”
There are many “Misters,”
Oh girls and sisters!
Than are named in this hymn,
But the best of all,
And the ones for whom we fall,
Are the boys of Texas A. and M.!
A. & M. SENDS MEN
TO A. i. E. E. MEET
Five Representatives Attend Inter
esting Convention of Seventh
District of A. I. E. E.
At the annual meeting of repre
sentatives of all the schools of the
seventh district of the A. I. E. E. last
Friday and Saturday at the Univer
sity of Missouri in Columbia some
of the latest developments in tech
nical electricity was learned. Those
attending the meeting from Texas A.
and M. were H. C. Dillingham, as
sociate professor of electrical enign-
eering; P. M. Honnell, Sam Mosely,
T. M. Sowell and T. G. Banks, Jr.
The convention opened at nine
o’clock Friday morning with coun
selors meeting; and continued during
the afternoon with the presentation
and discussion of seven of the four
teen technical electrical papers pre
pared for the convention. Among
the subjects of the papers may be
mentioned “Corona Losses in High
Power Transmission Lines,” “Prac
tical Problems of Sound Reproduc
tion in the Theatre,” and “Telephoto
Experiments,” the second named sub
ject winning the trophy for the best
paper of the convention and being
written by Eldon Peek of the Okla
homa A. and M. College.
The remaining seven papers were
presented and discussed Saturday
morning, the convention being con
tinued on into the afternoon and ad
journing after the meeting of all stu
dent branch officers - and after the
decision that the convention would
be held in Kansas City had been made.
A very colorful event new to the
representatives from A. and M. was
the St. Patrick Knighting Ceremony
Friday evening wherein old St. Pat
rick knighted the candidates for en
gineering degrees, and after the last
candidate had passed, the Saint pass
ed from sight amid a camouflage of
dense smoke and was not to appear
until the St. Patrick’s Ball Saturday
evening.
It is hoped that those attending
the convention will remember the en
gineering displays well enough to
give impetus to our coming Engin
eering Day with a reproduction of
some of them.
Your good deed
for today
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