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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 4, 1931)
2 THE B ATT ALIO N CCLLCeiANA Notable Happenings in, the College World Glee Club To Appear In Pair Of Concerts The A & M Glee club, composed of 38 members under the direction of K. H. Beache of the horticultural department, will give a concert at the First Baptist church of Bryan Feb ruary 15 and one at the Bryan high school auditorium on February 28, according to F. G. Sleeper, business manager. Tentative arrangements have been made for the club to give concerts in Fort Worth, Dallas, Waco and Denton, beginning March 25 and continuing through March 29. CHAPEL SPEAKER Dr. Fred Eastham pastor of the Mc Kinney Avenue Baptist Church, Dal las, will be the speaker for chapel Sunday, January 8. INVENTS NEW TYPE BUDAPEST—A youthful Budapest printer has invented a new type print ing process by which ordinary print ing methods are combined with a pho tographic process which, it is declared, produces a finer print than ever se cured heretofore. UNIVERSITY GARAGE SALT LAKE CITY.—Erection of a four-story, $200,000 ramp garage for housing all student and faculty auto mobiles on the campus of the Univer sity of Utah, has been proposed by the senior civil engineering students. No cars would be allowed parked on any other portion of the campus, accord ing to the students. Each automobile owner would pay a yearly fee of $20 for use of the garage. COME TO NEW YORK CAFE For A Good Square Meal ‘Famous For Its Food 1 BRYAN, TEXAS Intramural Golf Will soon be here Is At Your Service ON OLD CAVALRY DRILL FIELD College Heights Golf Course Wm. B. Cline, M. D. EYE, EAR, NOSE & THROAT Refraction and Glasses Phone 606 Res. 1 Office over Jenkins Drug Store Bryan, Texas INGENIOUS AT THAT! The picture below shows Bobby Car michael, U. of North Carolina soph omore, and the so nof the vice presi dent of Liggett & Myers. He pre sented 200 copies to his friends as a Christmas card. The caption reads, “Bobby Car michael yesterday went crazy work ing on an idea for a Christmas card. His last words were: “Merry Christ mas and Happy New Year!” You see him as he appeared in a padded cell at Bellevue, to which he was rushed and in which he was photographed.” Last year, Carmichael sent burlap bags full of ticker tape on which were print ed the words, “Good News.” KING OF GOLF TAKES TO AIR Bobby Jones, former Georgia Tech student, is now telling the golf bugs every Wednesday eveninghow he did it. Some Tom Thumb course in Cin cinnati is advertising “Come here on Wednesdays and let Bobby teach you.” A WORLD’S RECORD University of Pittsburgh debaters recently engaged in four contests in one day. The same team, too. The idea was to give the team more variety in the type of audiences it faced. SOME SMOKE Not long ago, New York University was sued by a man who claimed the smoke from the university chimneys turned his white poodle dog black in five minutes. That he had some jus tification comes from the supporting statement of the editor of the New Yorker, who says he has had Cream of Wheat turn to Grape Nuts in four minutes in the same district. IS IT POSSIBLE? Every college has its freak, wheth er it be in low. cost of living, scholar ship, athletics, or something else. Yale University has one that ranks wi T the best. He spends three and one-half hours going to and from the univers ity each day, works eight hours every day, and still finds enough time to at tend classes, study, and pass his wotk with the school avei’age, in addition to getting a few hours sleep now and then. What a lad! When we make a chaos of the home, as we do by divorce, we do the same thing eventually to the government.— Rev. T. L. Graham. CO-ED BETRAYS HIDING PLACE A> cherished bell clapper, used to peal forth the token of victory for the Oklahoma Aggies over their neighbor ing rival, (_ klahoma University, was mysteriously spirited away, supposed ly by O. U. s'udents. Some time later, a university ;o-ed had a date with one of the Aggie boys. Her con versation unconsciously revealed the hiding place of the bell clapper. A juick search was made by Aggie stu dents with no results. But dire threats of terrible punishment to a captured university student brought his col leagues on a run with the desired clapper. And now, the object ot all the excitement will repose in a ecure hiding place, known to a select few, to be brought out only on very special occasions. From The Ubyssey, U. of British Columbia, Vancouver, comes this en joyable sketch:— The Editor sat is his cane bottom chair, Ran all his fingers through all of his hair, And wildly implored in a voice of dis- pair For copy. Printers and ’phone were both sizzling hot “That blankable copy has got to be got! We want it right. What we want is a lot More copy!” But still, the reporters all fervently swore That they’d got all the news in the country and more, The Editor raved as he traversed the floor “More copy!” The issue is out. Now we hear people tell Of a maniac held in a lone padded cell. The poor ex-editor only can yell, “More copy!” PAGE MR. CAPONE We notice with interest and amuse ment a news item relating that ex criminals are to teach their arts at the University of Chicago. This should bring out a novel course of study, what with a different night life to pursue, exams on the rifle range and probably only a third degree upon graduation. QUOTH THE RAVEN! Little known to college folks is the fact that Edgar Allen Poe was a student at the University of Virginia in 1826. On Monday, January 19, many visitors were present for his 122 anni versary. The room in which Poe lived is kept as nearly intact as possible. A&M Debaters Defeat Washburn Team Taking the affirmative in the ques tion, “Resolved, that the Nations Should Adopt the Policy of Free Trade”, the A&M debate team de feated Washburn college of Topeka, Kansas, Wednesday night in the phy sics lecture room. W. O. Alexander, Bryan, and H. A. Lang, Dallas, represented the local society. Charles H. Stevens, and R. B. McEntire were contestants for the Kansas institution. Vice President Curtic, who cele brated his 71st birthday Jan. 25, has spent more than half of his life in Congress. IT’S A FACT Neatly typewritten papers bring the best grades. They are easier to read and more pleasing to the eye Only well adjusted typewriters turn out neat work Reliable Typewriter Service Harry Jacobs Commerce Building PHONE 342 BRYAN, TEXAS Ask Increase in ROTC Appropriation At A&M A questionnaire has recently been sent to all graduates of the 1925 ROTC class in an effort to show the War Department that graduates of A&M retain their commission in the Officers Reserve Corps to a larger extent than those of many other simi lar institutions, a report from Major J. E. Sloan, indicates. According to the military depart ment, government appropriations for the advance course are proving insuf ficient to meet the demand, and there is danger of curtailment in the num ber that can be enrolled for this course in the future. Dean F. C. Bolton and Major Sloan were instrumental in conducting the investigation. HARD-BOILED PROFS POPULAR BATON ROUGE, LA.—An article in the Reveille, undergraduate news paper of the Lousiana State Univer sity, declares that all the types of instructors on the campus, the most hated, and at the same time the most popular in the end, is the so-called “Hard-boiled prof.” Y M C A SECRETARY Harry Bone, one of the internation al student secretaries of the Y M C A, will be at A & M for two weeks, beginning February 16. Mr. Bone is a student leader, and will meet with various groups to discuss current student problems. REPAIR CHAPEL ACOUSTICS OBERLIN, O.—Because students accused of disorder in chapel told col lege authorities they were not able to heai' the lectures, officials of Ober- iin College hired an acoustical engi neer and repaired the chapel’s aceous- tics. 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