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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 28, 1931)
8 THE BATTALION Annual Barnyard Hop To Be Held On Friday The yearly barnyard dance will be held Friday night, January 30, Tom Bagley, social secretary of the senior class, has announced. Prizes will be given to themo st typically dressed boy and girl present as is the custom. “In the past this event has attract ed a number of students, and has been the source of much fun. “We are striving to make this year’s dance no exception to the rule,” said Bagley. Music for the event will be furnish ed by the Aggieland, and the Campus Serenaders. Regular corps dance will be Satur day. Good Coffee And Sandwiches anytime— Day or Night to 12 p. m. Mrs. ParkhilPs Across from Aggieland Pharmacy SHOE SHOP Serving A & M CAMPUS Dentist OFFICE OVER 1st STATE BANK. PHONES: OFFICE 276 RES. 635 BRYAN, TEXAS DR. A. BENBOW DID YOU KNOW THAT ? ? ? ? ? There is one teacher for about every 29 students in the United States pub lic schools including her possessions while there are 12 students for every teacher in A & M College? ? ? ? ? A peanut is a fruit? ? ? ? ? Both the modern elephant and camel originated in North America? ? ? ? ? The shortest distance between the Atantic and Pacific oceans in the United States is 2150 miles. It is measured from Charleston, North Carolina, to San Diego, California? ? ? ? ? It is claimed that the modern do mestic fowl originated from a reptile ? ? ? ? ? There is a key to the rifle range? Utopian Civilization Predicted For Future CHICAGO, 111.—A future in which man will live in urbanized communi ties surrounded by forests, speaking one common language and many spe cialized languages; where poverty is abolished, and “plumbers will discuss Aristotle,” and where morals have lost their force and the home its su premacy, is pictured by Dr. William F. Ogburn, professor of sociology at the University of Chicago. “The future society of man,” says Dr. Ogburn, ‘‘will be one where the number of inventions per year will be larger and larger and where the accumulation of civilization and ma terial culture will be greater and greater. A person could once get pret ty well acquainted with his culture at 16 or 17 years of age, but in the future it will require 40 or 45 years. “Most persons will not try to learn at all, but will become specialists and will speak, in addition to their spe cialist’s language, a common language popularized by the great agencies of communication, the talkies, the radio, newspapers and literature. “There is no period of quiet and peace ahead, but rather one of con tinual change. This condition of change will change our code of morals, for the past cannot offer guidance for an ev er-changing society. Right and wrong will give way before social expediency. Also the majesty of the law will lose its prestige, for laws are difficult to build up in a changing society.” Produce Radium Rays By Artificial Means CLEVELAND, Ohio—Artificial pro duction of radium rays capable of penetrating three inches of lead won the annual $1,000 prize of the Amer ican Association for the Advancement of Science, in session here during the holidays. The award went to M. A. Tuve, L. R. Hafstad and O. Dahl of the de partment of terrestial magnetism of the Carnegie Institute of Washington. The three presented a joint paper, “Experiments With High Voltage Tubes,” before the American Physical society. The rays described by the scientists were produced in a carefully annealed pyrex glass tube, looking like a string of small fishbowls, which was sealed in an iron tank of compressed oil. Next to the tube was placed a huge Tesla coil for producing a 2,000,000- volt current which jumped the tube. Extraordinary precautions were tak en to protect the observers from stray bolts of electricity and from the pow erful rays. The short wave length radiations called Gamma rays, were measured on a Geiger counter, shielded by six- inch plates. The rays were filtered through lead plates, one, two, and three inches in thickness. The + bicker the filter, the shorter, or “harder” the ray struck the measuring instrument. The ultimate object of the experi ment is to produce another sort of radium emanation, Alpha rays, which are the heavy nuclei of helium atoms shooting into space at the rate of 12,000 miles a second. When these rays are produced in tubes of still greater power, it is the intention to aim the Alpha rays at atoms and possibly smash them. If this is done the age-old dream of the necromancer, the transmutation of elements, will become at least partly true. The physics section of the associa tion considered this contribution to the sciene of light radiation the most important announcement during the meeting here, as it brings physicists nearer the solution of the mysterious radium and X-ray emanations, and cosmic rays coming to the earth from interstellar space. Cosmic rays are so powerful they pierce six feet of lead. Same Old Custom But With Different Name The Time is at |Hand When Your College Supplies Are Needed Most LOOK IN OUR STORE OR ASK OUR CLERKS — THEY CAN ADJUST ALL YOUR NEW TERM NECESSITIES. NEW TEXT BOOKS NOTE BOOKS FOUNTAIN PENS DESK LAMPS RULERS STATIONERY ALARM CLOCKS UNIFORMS HATS — PANTS — BLOUSES — SHIRTS HAT CORDS The Exchange Store The Official Store of the College COLUMBUS, O.—According to a story published here in the Columbus Dispatch, Ohio State University stu dents have adopted as the latest rage that of “companionate engagements.” The plan, according to the story, is for the boys and girls to become en gaged, the boy pinning his frat pin on the co-ed. Then each is free to have dates with everyone else, just so he or she is available to the other for the important events on the campus, and for such other little events as one or the other may desire from time to time. All of which, the students said when they read the story, sounds like a new name for a very old custom. ELECTRIC STOP CLOCK STANFORD UNIVERSITY, Calif., —Basketball fans at the Leland Stan- for University no longer will have to wonder, when the score is tied in the last few moments of play, how many seconds are left. Always keen for innovations, the university has installed an electric clock in its basketball pavilion. Alfred R. Masters, general mana ger of the board of athletic control, has had the timepiece installed on the scoreboard. The clock is equipped with minute and second hands. Bootleggers are the only people in America who have adjusted them selves completed to prohibition.— Dr. James M. Doran. Scores Loose Use Of Term “University” NEW YORK—Defining a university as “an institution of higher learning where scholars of high competence guide students, who have been prepar ed by a liberal education, into advanc ed studies, with the aid of libraries, laboratories and seminars,” Dr. Nich olas Murray Butler, president of Col umbia University, speaking before the Associate Alumni of Barnard College here declared that there are only eight universities in the United States, and only eight others bearing the name which in some degree carry on the activities of a real university. Citing the fact that there are sev eral hundred universities listed in the World Almanac, the Columbia presi dent said it was all “nonsense,” and arose largely from the loose use of the terms college and university. New York and Pennsylvania pro tect the word “college,” he said, but it is possible in many other states to have a “College of Horseshoeing” if one so desires, and the term “univer sity” is protected in no state in the country. The university should be a “power house of wisdom,” he said. He did not name any universities or colleges in his talk. It is estimated by architects that the average life-span of a New York skyscraper is 30 years—no more. Detectives have uncovered a “rack et” in New York in which scores of school teachers, out of work, paid hundreds of dollars to a fake teachers agency which .promised them jobs without the necessity of taking ex aminations. Them Good Malted Milka We Still Make Them King’s, Whitman’s and Pangburn’s Candies HOLMES BROTHERS Confectionery The Greater Palace THURSDAY —FRIDAY— SATURDAY WHEELER WOOLSEY"; Heading the Parade in a Slam-Bang Circus of Nonsense! DOROTHY LEE RALPH HAROLDE Jobyna Howland Natalie Moorhead Directed By EDDIE CLINE LOOK WHAT’S COMING PREVIEW 11 P. M. SATURDAY DARING! You’ve never seen or heard any thing like it on the stage orscreen—it’s more than a pic ture—it’s an event —an experience— an unforgettable achievement HOWARD HUGHES’ Thrilling Air Spectacle HELLS ANGELS the first multi-million dollar talking picture ''MEAN HARLOW BEN LYON — JAMES HALL Also Monday — Tuesday — Wednesday