THE BATTALION
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4,272 Graduates Of
A & M Since Founding-
Since the opening of its portals to
students in the fall of 1876, fifty-five
years ago, the A & M College of Tex
as has sent out a total of 4,272 grad
uates to join the ranks of those hold
ing college degrees, figures compiled
in the office of the college registrar
show. This total does not take into
consideration master’s degrees confer
red on graduates from other institu
tions by the graduate school at A &
M.
The first class to graduate was
that of 1878, made up of two mem
bers. The latest class to graduate,
that of 1930, made the fifty-third.
The total of 4,272 graduates gives
an average of 81 graduates a year
over the fifty-three year period.
The preponderance of graduates
has been from the schools of agricul
ture and engineering, the school of
engineering showing a total for the
fifty-three years of 2,323 and the
school of agriculture a total of 1,527.
From the opening of the college
in 1876 to its organization in 1880,
the reorganization went into effect
was 26. Of these, two graduated in
1878, nineteen in 1879 and five in
1880.
Since 1920, the number of gradu
ates each year has been in excess of
100. Three classes prior to that of
1920, the classes of 1913, 1916 and
1917, numbered more than 100 each
also. Since 1922 the number of grad
uates each year has been in excess
of 200 with the exception of 1023
when the class numbered 198. The
two most recent graduating classes,
those of 1929 and 1930, numbered
more than 300 each. The 1930 class
of 367 was the largest in the history
of the college.
Discover Prehistoric
Engraving-s In Spain
NEW HAVEN, Conn.—(IP)—The
story of the trip made to prehistoric
regions in Europe duirng the past
summer by Gen. Charles G. Dawes,
ambassador to England, is related in
detail by Professor George G. Mac-
Curdy, of Yale University, in an
nouncing the discovery of two pre
historic engravings on bone excavat
ed in Spain by the ambassador and
others of the expedition.
The engravings date from the Mag-
delenian epoch of at least 20,000 years
ago, according to Professor MacCur-
dy, who is director of the American
School of Prehistoric Research and
also research associate in prehistoric
archeology at Yale University.
In describing the trip Professor
MacCurdy, says: “General Dawes ask
ed me, on the occasion of his visit
to America last June if I could not
take him with me on a prehistoric pil
grimage in France and Spain.
“Together we studied in museums
and in the field, digging also in caves
and rock shelters both in France and
in Spain.
“We had been fortunate, too, for
in caves of El Pendo, in Northern
Spain, where we dug as guests of
the Abbe Carballo, we found two im
portant engravings on bone.”
Four of the sections of thick pal
eolithic deposits and their contents.
Professor MacCurdy relates, which
were seen by the expedition, if super
imposed so as to form a chronological
sequence, would result in a composite
section including every epoch of the
stone age and covering a period con
servatively estimated at a half mil
lion years.
Babyloniian Tablets
Presented To College
Original Babylonian tablets bearing
innumerable legal records written in
cuneiform characters and several
statuettes of Ishtar, the ancient Bab
ylonian goddess of love and beauty,
have been presented to A & M by
Dr. O. M. Ball, professor of biology.
These pieces were among the findings
of an archeological expedition spon
sored by the University of Pennsyl
vania and are known to be between
three and five thousand years old.
The subject matter of the different
inscriptions is varied in nature, one
lists the provisions stored in the tem
ple, another a record of a bill for
sheep and cattle slaughtered by a
butcher, and still another a contract
for grain. An extremely rare and un
usually perfect tablet is one that was
used by a school boy for his writing
exercises.
Tiny statuettes of gods and god
desses were made by the priests in
the temple and given to the people
so that they might worship the same
in their homes. It was the popular
belief that these minute images kept
evil from the household. So sacred
were these objects that t6 steal one
was a crime punishable by death in
accordance with the code of Ham
murabi, who was a contemporary of
the biblical Abraham.
This collection is the permanent
possession of the school and is on
display in the book delivery room on
the second floor of the library. The
cuneiform has been deciphered and
an English translation is attached to
each piece.
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Stage Battle In Ohio
DELAWARE, O.—(IP)—Delaware
police were called upon recently to
disperse a class fight between 400
freshman and sophomore women on
the campus of Ohio Wesleyan Uni
versity.
Freshman girls for several days
had refused to appear in their fresh
man berets. Then one evening the
sophomores organized and swooped
down on the freshman cottages.
The freshmen likewise were soon
organized and a hot battle ensued.
Hair was pulled, dresses torn and
faces torn and faces scratched in the
melee.
Sophomores succeeded in ducking a
few of the frosh co-eds under the
showers.
The first policeman on the scene
mistook lipstick, smeared on the faces
of the freshman girls, as blood marks,
and sent in a general alarm. The cops
soon separated the combatants, and
no one was seriously hurt in the con
flict.
The unsubdued frosh co-eds later
marched through downtown streets in
snake dance formation, shouting to
the world that they would not wear
the prescribed freshman headgear.
The Signoreni, a valuable water col
or, has been stolen from the Uni
versity of Utah art gallery.
ROYALTY DEATHS ORDINARY
LONDON, Eng.—(IP)—Dr. G. W.
James, who has been diagnosing fa
tal illnesses of kings of England, has
made the discovery that Charles the
Bold died of an ingrowing toe nail
which infected his foot. Histories thus
far have revealed only that Charles
he declares, was a victim of the “flu.”
died in 1477.
Dr. James also has found that
Kings Stephen, John, Henry V and
Edward I died of typhoid. Mary I,
Dr. Paul Douglas, of the economics
department of the University of Chi
cago, believes that the only answer
to the unemployment situation in the
United States is the dole system of
Great Britain.
STEPPING INTO A MODERN WO RED
6-ton reels of cable distributed
with the speed of perishable food
A carload of telephone poles laid down a thou
sand miles away within 36 hours after getting
the order! Rush calls of this sort must fre
quently be handled by Western Electric, dis
tributors for the Bell System.
But even more remarkable is the regular day
by day flow of telephone supplies. The Chicago
warehouse—one of 32 in the national system—
handles 1,400 orders a day. In 1929 more than
$400,000,000 worth of equipment and materials
was delivered to the telephone companies.
Distribution on so vast a scale presents many
interesting problems to Bell System men. The
solutions they work out mean much in keep
ing this industry in step with the times.
The opportunity is there l
BELL SYSTEM
A NATION-WIDE SYSTEM OF
INTER-CONNECTIN G TELEPHONES