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Henry Ford Building’
Industrial University
DETROIT, Mich.—Henry Ford is
.building the world’s first industrial
university at Dearborn on the theory
that discoveries. which may revolu
tionize, in a test tube, the economic
importance of a carrot or a cabbage
will point the way for industries next
great advance.
Students at the Edison Institute of
Technology, the “higher college” of
the Ford trade school, already are try
ing to find new uses for raw materials
of the earth, Ford has revealed.
“We all know how to make a drink
from the coffee bean,” Ford said, “but
'who knows how many better uses the
coffee bean may have? Almost every
day men find new uses for rubber. A
long time ago our engineers learned
they could make good steering wheels
for Ford cars out of straw.
“When we can separate the kernel
that is pure food from straw, leaves
and husks of wheat, and make good
use of whatever is left over, we can
solve the farmer’s financial diffi
culties.
“Nature wastes nothing. Civilization
wastes more than it uses. That ac-
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The coffee bean and the potato, the
osage orange and the thorn apple al
ready have yielded some of their se
crets under the probe.
Garbage reduction and disposal is
receiving due consideration. Seven tons
of Dearborn garbage are distilled daily
at the Rouge plant of the Ford Com
pany where ethyl and methyl alcohol,
refined oil and tar oil, and a gas suit
able for burning are removed.
What remains in a carbonic form
is pressed into briquets and sent to
the industrial university. Records kept
by the students indicate that, mixed
with sand that has been burned to kill
all living matter, it will produce bet
ter greenhouse plants than most fer
tilizers on the market.
Where only about 50 students are at
work today, according to Ford, in time
there will likely be 500 or 1,000 work
ing in 100 distinct lines. Ford’s indus
trial museum, costing millions to as
semble and including virtually every
mechanical contrivance ever devised,
will form one tremendous workshop for
the industrial university.
Ford’s ancient Greenville Village,
where man’s early crafts and trades
have been resurrected, will constitute
a second great laboratory and the Ford
factories will form a third.
117 Enter Boxing’ And
Wrestling Tournament
With a total of one hundred and
seventeen entries the intramural box
ing and wrestling tournament which
got underway Monday afternoon,
when eight wrestling contests in the
first round were completed, is making
rapid progress with an unusually small
number of forfeits.
The tournament, sponsored by the
department of intramural athletics, in
cludes virtually every class known in
the two fields, since the weights which
may be entered range from 115 pounds
to the heavyweight class in each sport,
and up to the present date there have
been entries in all of the various class
es in both sports.
One of the unusual features of this
year’s tournament is the fact that of
the 117 entries 55 are members of
Company A Signal Corps, which is the
largest number of participants ever
entered in one tournament by a single
unit.
The contests, with W. L. Penberthy,
intramural director, officiating, are
held daily in the intramural gymna
sium. Contestants are urged to be pres
ent on time for their matches in order
to avoid unnecessary delay in complet
ing the tournament.
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the militant atheist.—Arnold Toynbee.
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Bryan and College
THE BATTALION
Dr. Charles W. Morris
Is Seminar Lecturer
Reviewing the historical concepts of
mind and discussing the intimate con
nection between mind and matter, Dr.
Charles W. Morris, professor of phil
osophy of Rice Institute, Houston,
spoke before the Social Science Sem
inar, Monday, February 23. His sub
ject was “The Symbolic Theory of
Mind.”
“The mind is an enduring object, an
immaterial object, and is connected to
the body temporarily at least,” Dr.
Morris said in introducing his subject.
He then reviewed briefly the substance
theory, the process theory, and the
theories of Russell and Alexander of
England.
In commenting on the symbolic the
ory he said that it held that a per
son’s mind is not necessarily in the
brain, and that there could be no mind
without symbols or substitute stimuli
chat remind and suggest the original
stimulus.
Louisiana Team Prac
tices On Local Herd
Six members of the Louisiana State
university stock judging team spent
the first three days of the week here
practicing judging before entering
into competition with other colleges
at the Ft. Worth Fat Stock Show
next week. They are coached by M.
G. Snell, a graduate of A & M in
1921.
The team left here Wednesday for
an inspection of the Singleton farm,
Midlothian, and the Lillard stock farm
at Arlington.
Besides Coach Snell, the visitors
were J. F. Harbet, Jennings, La., C.
E. Sack, Leslie, Ga., Aven Graham,
Colfax, La., E. I. Roberts, Pollock,
La., J. O. Fitzgerald, Baton Rouge,
La., and J. L. Kemp, Varnado, La.
Library To Distribute
Periodical Articles
Thomas F. Mayo, librarian, has re
cently devised a plan whereby he may
distribute interesting articles taken
from back numbers of the foremost
magazines and periodicals. In order
to have complete copies for filing, the
library has found it necessary to sub
scribe for two copies of twelve of
America’s leading intellectual maga
zines. Mr. Mayo clips the best articles
from the extra magazines and mails
them to students on the campus. Mr.
Mayo explained that this idea is in
no way associated with a course of
study but is merely a gift which may
prove beneficial to the student.
Anyone desiring to be added to the
already large mailing list may do so
by request to Mr. Mayo.
Charles E. Danforth
Speaks To Ag. Students
Saying that the business world is
in need of men who will meet their
best, Charles E. Danforth, president
of the Purina Mills of St. Louis, spoke
at a banquet of the students of the
school of Agriculture, Friday, Febru
ary 27. His subject was “ I Dare
You”.
“In order to meet his best”, said Mr.
Danforth, “a man must live a four
square life, that is, with physical, men
tal, social, and religious development”.
He believes that none of these attrib
utes can be left out of the successful
life. His dare to the students, there
fore is to meet their best in their
chosen fields, no matter what the ob-
stakles are.
Following the talk the names of the
three students who will be recom
mended for the Danforth Fellowship,
a summer training given to a junior
of the school of agriculture each year,
was announced. They are: R. J. Von
Roeder, Yorktown, C. A. Rechenthin,
Waring, and F. B. Lester, New Or
leans, La.,
Senior Ag. Engineers
Plan Inspection Trip
Plans for an inspection tour to Aus
tin and San Antonio for seniors of
agricultural engineering have been an
nounced by Dan Scoates, head of the
department. The trip will be from
April 12 to 16 inclusive.
One day will be spent in Austin vis
iting the state reclamation, sanitary
engineer’s, and board of water offices.
The remaining three days will be spent
in San Antonio inspecting irrigation
and cement plants, farms, and other
places of interest.
The party will travel by automobile
and will be accompanied by Professor
U. S. Allison of the agricultural engi
neering department.
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