The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, January 28, 1931, Image 3

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    THE BATTALION
GOING
HOME
Let
The Battalion
Follow You
Just Because You Are Going to Lay
Out a Term, Don’t Forget the School
and Your Old Friends—
The Battalion Offers You The Best
and Easiest Method of Keeping in
Contact with Them.
Proposes Limiting Football Schedules
And Reducing Period of Eligibility
CLEVELAND, O.—Limitation of in
tercollegiate schedules, reduction of
intercollegiate athletic eligibility to
one or two years, organization of
two or more teams in each sport, and
endowment of college athletics were
proposed as possible means of reduc
ing emphasis on intercollegiate foot
ball by Prof. Joseph E. Raycroft,
speaking before the American Asso
ciation of University Professors
here.
Prof. Raycroft, chairman of the
association’s committee on student
health and athletics, admitted none
of the proposals were original with
him, but said he believed them the
best of the many solutions being of
fered in the widespread discussion of
the problem.
He indicated little alarm over the
situation, saying there was a general
decrease of interest in intercollegiate
football on the part of the under
graduates themselves, who often pre
ferred other diversions while big
games -were going on.
“I think the next five years will
find considerable improvement in the
condition,” he said, “ as is already
being evidenced in a number of in
stitutions.
“The plan of Dr. Nicholas Murray
Butler, of Columbia university, to
have the alumi endow undergraduate
sports, both intercollegiate and intra
mural,” the Princeton professor said,
“ was an old plan 30 years ago. It
was then proposed by Dr. Charles R.
Harper, the first - president of the
University of Chicago.
Although the organization took no
official action on Prof. Raycroft’s
suggestion, there was considerable in
formal discussion of the entire ath
letic situation.
Discover Dinosaur
Tracks In Canada
OTTAWA, Canada-—Discovery of
footprints of dinosaurs along the
Peace River in British Columbia,
among the foothills of the Rockies,
is believed here to throw new light
on the life and habits of these prehis
toric monsters.
The footprints were of five different
species of the animals, the animals
ranging in size from 12 feet long to
35 feet long.
At that time, when the animals liv
ed, the section in which their foot
prints have been found, was tropical
in climate, and was on the shore of a
great salt water sea which stretched
northward from the present Gulf of
Mexico to the Arctic Circle.
The discovery was made 475 miles
north of the international boundary
line.
Sixteen Student Clubs
Meet In New Library
It was learned from a statement
recently made by Thomas F. Mayo,
librarian, that sixteen different stu
dent organizations, all with an intel
lectual purpose, meet in the Asbury
room of the new library. Dates for
club meetings were drawn for by the
presidents or a representative from
the various organizations. The clubs
are as follows: The Press Club, Arch
itects’ Club, The Hillel Club, Engineer
Seminar, Scribblers Club, Round Ta
ble, Industrial Arts, Junto Club, De
bating Club, Accounting Club, Scholar
ship Club, The Fortnightly Club, The
Agricultural Administration Club, The
Agricultural Engineering Club, The
Pre-Med Club, and The Dramatic
Club.
PHILADELPHIA, Pa. — James
Bond, of the Department of Vertebrate
Zoology at the Philadelphia Academy
of Natural Sciences, has started on
a trip to the West Indies where he
is planning to collect birds for the
museum here.
A Wellesley student can now invite
a Harvard man to “in” dances at the
college, and can smoke in a canoe, but
she cannot own an automobile accord
ing to students.
A new course in government at Bar
nard College for Women will allow
students in the course to go to all
parts of New York City to inspect at
first hand the manner in which vari
ous phases of government operate.
The chief lesson of history to those
who have eyes to read is that history
throughout is the history of freedom.
—Senatore Croce.
Plants for the assembling of Ford
cars and trucks are being built by
Henry Ford in Bombay, Calcutta,
Madras and Multan. Indian natives
are to be added to the sales staff of
the company in India.
RIVER SCENE OF COLLEGES
MIDDLETON, Conn.—That the
Connecticut River has on its banks
more institutions of higher learning
than any other in the world, includ
ing the Thames, in England, is the
claim set forth in an article from
the Boston Transcript, reprinted in
the Wesleyan Argus here.
From north to south, on the banks
of the river, these institutions are:
Dartmouth, at Hanover, N. H., Nor
wich University, in Vermont; North-
field and Mt. Hermon Seminaries in
Massachusetts; Amherst College,
Massachusetts Agricultural College,
at Amherst, Smith College, Mt. Holy
oke, two colleges at Springfield, Trin
ity College and Hartford Theological
Seminary at Hartford, and Wesleyan
at Middletown.
Until recently the Berkeley Divinity
School was on the banks of the riv
er, and for the first fifteen years of
its existence Yale University also was
so situated, at Saybrook.
LOOK FELLOWS
Call by and get that Gift
for your Girl during mid
term
Your Credit Is Good
Caldwell’s Jewelry
Store
FOR THE
NEW TERM
Everything- in
Correct Military
Equipment at money
saving prices—
All sizes in Dress
And Drill Shoes
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Bryan and College
Memories Fade — Photograph Stay!
Someone You Know Wants Your Picture
Aggieland Studio
PHOTOGRAPHS OF DISTINCTION
Picture Frames — Films — Kodak Finishing
The Campus Cleaners and Tailors
HENRY LOCKE, Manager
Alterations, Cleaning, Pressing and Repairs
Hats Cleaned and Blocked
Caps Cleaned. Ties Cleaned and Pressed
OYER THE EXCHANGE STORE
Start The New Term Right By Saving Money
On Your Toilet Articles
50^ tube Ipana tooth paste 29^
50^ tube Pepsodent tooth paste 29^
25^ tube Listerine tooth paste 17^
60^ jar Pompeian message cream 46^
60^ bottle Glostoria hair oil 39^
4 bars Palmolive soap 25^
50^ Williams shaving combination 29^
$1 pkg. Super-Duro razor blades for Gilette razors 58^
MONTGOMERY WARD CO.