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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 18, 1933)
f©eD PAP- From out the vast hall a food parade of of the college mess le extent proceeds 11 daily. It is a one-way parade, however, a parade that ends in annihilaf as they come to rest rooms. The cadet corps ively. But the food parade , > a a yea es it : vr *• i the food phalanxes ly in the huge dining to that rather effect- ntinues, three times and more. Under the In the ranks daily rolls, 1,400 pounds of meat, 150 gallons of sweet milk, 8 pounds of tomatoes, not to vegetables, beverages, sweets, etc., etc. In a week, 600 pounds of coffee go into the big coffee urns that brew this beverage for the cadets. Within a year more than 23,000 gallon cans of vegetables are used as well as thousands of pounds of fresh vegetables. In a week, 1,200 pounds of cabbage alone arp served in salads and other food items. It is, indeed, a big parade and one whose staging and directing require consid erable attention. a day, nine banners of are nearly 4 pounds of crates of 1 mention o PAVING NC The scrape of the shovdl and the grind of the concrete mixer are abroad ip the land. That is to aftV thftap aoiinHa nf inrlnatrv ftnH nmcrrpaa ar*» to nd they are pleasant sounds, notiinlthe aesthetic sense, perhaps. But in practical improvements, decidedly. They mean pavement for several of the cardinal thorough fares of the! campus, st traffic of arriving and itors, and cimpus resi that serve a heavy rting employes, vis- All told, approxi mately $27,000 is being spent on the new paving pro gram. Work at the west entrance, from the state, highway to the main boule vard, has been com pleted. Other thor oughfares on which paving is to be la ; d include Lama \ from its juncture with the main boulevard to Houston, thence past Guion Hall to its intersectioi with Coke at the Experiment Sta tion building; Coke, from the Experiment Station to the rear of the Academic building; Jones, from its juncture with the main boulevard at the west entrance on past the President’s residence to Houston; Clare, from its juncture with Lamar to the entrance :o Kyle Field; Lubbock, from the { Kyle Field entrance past the athletic office build ing to its intersection with Houston; Houston from the intersection with Lubbock to the offset in Lamar at t)ie north-west corner of the Guion Hall lawn. As some astute readers, provided they