THE B ATT ALIO N
Questionnaire Figures
To Be Completed Soon
Whether the ideal girl of the A
& M cadet corps is a brunette or a
blonde, whether she has blue eyes or
brown and just what her other char
acteristics are will be made public
as soon as a check has been made of
the demands made by students of the
college in the deluge of questionnaires
which flooded the office of The Bat
talion this week.
Although the response of the stu
dent body has been unusually good,
it hoped that those students who have
not yet returned filled out question
naires to The Battalion will do so at
once. Blank questionnaires may be ob
tained from the first sergeants of each
organization by those who have lost
those carried in The Battalion last
week.
DR. COHEN, HILLEL SPEAKER
Dr. Henry Cohen, Galveston, gave
an informal address to the Hillel Club
Monday night, December 8. Religion,
Humanism, and the status of the mod
ern college student in the circles of
society were the topics covered in Dr.
Cohen’s lecture.
An open forum was held afterwards,
the lecturer answering the questions
asked by members of the club.
INSURE COLLEGE EMPLOYEES
The Board of Directors recently
authorized the college authorities to
take out group insurance for all em
ployees of A & M according to S G.
Bailey, executive secretary to the pre-
id ent.
This program is in line with the
practices of the leading financial, in
dustrial and educational institutions
in the country.
Although several policies are now
under consideration, the plan will not
be effective until next fall, Mr. Bailey
said.
Work On Radio Cable
Nearing Completion
Under the direction of Lieutenant
P. L. Neal,Signal Corps tactical offi
cer, the work of laying and connecting
the new cable which is to run be
tween the radio room in the Y M C
A, and the transmitting station of W
T A W is nearing completion. The
latest type of cable has been secured
from the Western Electric Co. by
Dean F. C. Bolton so that the equip
ment of the local station may be mod
ern in every respect.
This particular design of cable has
a feature which eliminates the use of
a container or conduit by means of a
special flexible steel wrapping which
covers and protects the weaker lead
sheath. Another feature is the fifty
circuits which the cable contains.
Only twenty-three of the fifty, how
ever, will be utilized in the campus
work. Five of these will compose the
circuits now running between the ra
dio room and transmitting station
whereas the others will carry the tel
ephone lines from the Y M C A.
Elimination of the unsightly over
head conductors will add to the beau
ty of the campus and although the
primary purpose of the work was to
counteract weather interference due
to exposure of the lines, improvement
of the campus appearance was a con
sideration.
Ex-Students Express—
(Continued from Page 1)
Burns, San Antonio; C. S. Krueger,
San Antonio; C. A. Thanheiser, Hous
ton; B. N. Wadley, Dallas; C. H.
Flemming, Fort Worth; L. C. Doney,
Houston; A. C. Love, Ennis; Johnnie
Garitty, Corsicana; E. S. Moseley,
Dallas; Nestor M. McGinnis, College
Station; C. D. Watts, Dallas; Nor
man Dansby, Bryan; H. K. Deason,
Port Arthur; Ike Ashburn, Houston.
Chapel Speaker
Dr. Elmer Ferguson, pastor of the
Central Presbyterian Church, Hous
ton, Texas, will be the speaker for
chapel Sunday, December 14.
Hot Water—
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the heat loss for that day would be
28,800,000 B. t. u., since the load for
that day is 70 minus 25 degrees times
1 day, or 45 degree-days ,the heat
loss for Hart Hall is 640,000 B. t. u.
per degree-day or 814,080,000 for the
average heating season if based on
1272 degree-days according to the
American Gas Association rule. How
ever, it will be 2,378,000,000 if based
on 3731 degree-days as proposed
above.
The next step in our calculation is
to determine the cost of 1,000,000 B. t.
u. The fuel used at the College is
lignite which has a calorific value of
about 7400 B. t. u. per pound and
costs about $1.57 per ton. If we
could secure perfect combustion in
the furnace, utilize all heat produced
and be supplied with the necessary
eqiupment and labor free of charge,
the cost of 1,000,000 B. t. u. would be
about 11 cents. Since these condi
tions do not exist, the cost is higher
than 11 cents. Mr. B. D. Marburger,
the Superintendent of Buildings and
College Utilities, estimates the actu
al cost to be 29 cents. Since our
former calculations were based on a
cost of 30 cents per 1,000,000 B. t. u.,
that price will be used throughout
this series of articles.
The cost of supplying heat needed
by Hart Hall for the average winter
will then be $244, if based on 1272
degree-days.
To this cost must be added that of
transporting the heat from the power
plant to the buildings, i. e., the cost of
operating the circulating pump. The
pump is motor driven and requires
about 7500 watts. Placing the cost of
one K. W. H. at 1 cent and assuming
that the pump must be operated dur
ing 75 per cent of the seven-month
heating period and that 22 per cent of
the total cost is chargeable to Hart
Hall and the remaining 78 per cent to
the other six buildings served by the
pump, the total annual cost of pump
ing the water from the power plant
to Hart Hall and back is $62.80.
Adding this to the cost of the heat,
$713, the larger of the two cost esti
mates, the total cost of heating Hart
Hall will be $776, or $2.66 per student
per year, if Hart Hal is occupied by
two students per room.
This will be the cost if the building
is heated by means of hot water and
the temperature of water leaving the
power plant regulated so that it will
continuously supply the quantity of
heat sufficient to maintain the tem
perature of the building at 70 degrees
under all outdoor temperatures. If
a larger quantity of heat is sent to
the building, the cost will be corres
pondingly larger. For example, if a
temperature of 75 degrees is main
tained in the building instead of 70
degrees, the cost will be increased
from $2.66 to $3.36 per student and
year. According to these estimates,
the cost of transmitting the heat
from the power plant to the building
to be heated is about 8 per cent of
the total cost.
The next article will include a pre
liminary report on the actual cost of
heating Hart Hall.
(To be Continued.)
Fire in Hollywood.
Combustible material placed near
the stove caused a fire in shack 3,
occupied by C. A. Tracy, Houston, and
Maurice Sessions, Austwell, last Fri
day morning. Clothes and other
contents of the room received the
greater part of the damage which
was done mainly by smoke and
water.
CAMPUS
SHOE SHOP
Serving" A & M
Since “91”
Landscape Art Dept.
Given Care Of Campus
Care of campus improvement main-
tainence has recently been put under
the landscape art department, ac
cording to F. W. Hensel, head of the
department.
A large part of the student labor
has been allotted and it is the plan
of the department to do as much
planting around the dormitories as
funds will permit. To aid in this work
of beautifying the campus, the col
lege has purchased a transplanting
machine which is capable of moving
full grown trees without disturbing
the main roots. Pot plants and cut
flowers will be supplied to the Hos
pital, the Library, and Guion Hall,
when a sufficient quantity has been
grown.
Change Professor’s Title.
Professor T. A. Munson’s title of
“Professor of Railroad Engineering”
will soon be changed to “Professor of
Hydraulics,” word received from
Dean F. C. Bolton, of the school of
engineering reveals.
The reason given for this change is
the greater importance of hydro
electric and flood control problems
in the civil engineering program.
Corps Dance Saturday.
There wil be a corps dance in the
mess hall annex Saturday night at
nine o’clock. The Serenaders will
furnish the music. Number one uni
form will be worn and script will be
one dollar.
Advocates Five-Day
Week For Colleges
ATHENS, Ga.—Believing that the
five-day week is just as important an
innovation in college life as it is in
industry, the Red and Black, under
graduate newspaper at the Univer
sity of Georgia, has started agitation
editorially to keep Saturday’s free
from classes at the University.
“We admit,” the Red and Black
says, “that there are certain visible
advantages to be gained in going to
classes six days a week. . . more work
can be accomplished for one thing.
But we question whether the quality
of work is as high as that done dur
ing a five-day week. Most experts
agree that it is not. Henry Ford has
experimented with shorter hours and
fewer work days. His tests show that
the average man does a higher qual
ity work laboring over a short period
than he does over a long one. His
tests are not too irrelevant to be
applied to the University of Georgia.”
The newspaper further admits that
various other difficulties would arise,
especially that of completing the
week’s class scheduled. It suggests,
therefore, that students attend classes
in certain subjects each day until that
course has been completed, and then
SURE
You will want a pair of new
oxfords to wear during
the Christmas Holidays.
To select a pair here will
be easy for we have so
many good looking ones
to select from.
PRICES
$5—$6—$6.50—$8.50
W. F. Gibbs & Son
Bryan, Texas
MANY FOREIGN STUDENTS
WASHINGTON, D. C.—The col
leges and universities of the United
States play schoolmaster to some 10,-
000 students from foreign nations, a
recent survey revealed.
Most of these, however, no longer
are undergraduates, but are graduate
students. Foreign educators no longer
believe it important to send their stu
dents here for undergraduate work.
take up work in other courses, study
ing in that every day until it is com
pleted.
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