THE BATTALION
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Valued Steer Head
Given To College
The mounted head of a steer, who
in his life time, became famous be
cause of his enormous size, has been
received by the department of agri
culture as a gift from the heir of
the late Col. Driscoll, well known
ranchman and prominent Texan. His
torically, it is of considerable value
in the narrative of events of the cat
tlemen of past days.
The steer was born in Hayes coun
ty on the Blanco river in 1875. It was
the property of Col. William Good,
who sold it when a yearling for the
small sum of three dollars to Col.
Driscoll. He took him to Kansas in
1876, when he drove 3000 head of
cows across the country to market.
The steer was allowed to run on the
open range in Kansas until he was
four years old. At this time, he weigh
ed about 1,600 pounds. •
His size at that age, attracted such
attention that he was shipped to Chi
cago, where he was put in the stock
yards, and exhibited. He spent the
rest of his days in the stock yards,
and grew until he weighed over 3,000
pounds at the age of ten. When he
was slaughtered, the head was mount
ed, and presented to Col. Driscoll at
Austin. It hung in the Driscoll home
for several years, and was later re
moved to the lobby of the Driscoll
Hotel.
It stayed there until some years
ago when the hotel was sold. Then
it was taken by the Colonel’s grand
son, to Speairfish, N. Dakota, Where
it was apparently forgotten. Revival
of interest in it by Col C. C. French,
led to its location there, and Mr. Dris
coll kindly consented to give it to
the college with the understanding
that it was to be displayed in the
Memorial Live Stock building when
it is built.
Although it has been over fifty
years since it was mounted, the head
is still in excellent condition, and is
very impressive of the unusual size
of the animal. The exact breed of the
steer is unknown but the tint of the
hair, a very deep red, indicates that
it must have a slight trace of Brahma
blood. The horns are very beautiful.
Long and gracefully curved, and high- |
ly polished, they are five feet, ten
inches from tip to tip, and are a great
deal longer, actually, measuring along
their curved surface. It would be al
most impossible to tie the steer with
the ordinary calf-rope, for the small
est part of his neck measures forty-
eight and one-half inches.
The mounting at present is in the
office of Dean E. J. Kyle, of the school
of agriculture and may be inspected
at any time.
Plans indicate that the Memorial
Liyp Stock building mentioned is to
b§ built following the completion of
the Chemistry building, and the erec
tion of the Agriculture Engineering
building.
Mothers’ Day
Honored with
Many Events
Sports And Ceremonies Combine
For The Event
Flowers, colorful, early summer
frocks, ideal weather and numerous
visitors made for the past Mothers’
and Dads’ Day one of the most com
plete and most successful that the
college has realized since the inau- i
guration of the day some years ago.
A complete program was arranged to |
entertain the Sunday visitors and
and special features were arranged
for those who arrived Saturday.
Saturday afternooon a horse show
on the drill field and a dual tennis
meet between Texas University and
A & M on the courts northeast of
the campus offered to the visitors
two interesting activities lasting the
entire afternoon. During the early
part of the night open house at the
mechanical engineering department,
where interesting mechanical work
was going on in all of the shop’s divi
sions, held the attention of the moth
ers and dads, as well as those stu
dents who chose to attend, while a
corps dance in honor of the many
visiting parents and loved ones en
tertained until midnight.
The flowers pinning ceremony, in
which the cadets in formation were
priviledged to be decorated with
flowers by visiting ladies, began at
ten o’clock and was followed by a
review of the corps by the guests as
the corps went to pay homage to
their mothers at chapel. This com
pleted the morning program.
In the afternoon dinner with the
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HATS CLEANED AND BLOCKED. CAPS CLEANED
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cadets in the mess hall, campus in-
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drill and a band concert by the Ag
gie Band gave to the visitors a full
afternoon and the last ended a week
end of activities to be long remem
bered for its completness.
Germans are building a new plane
believed capable of rising ten miles
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