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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Nov. 29, 1933)
» i U d . ’ A THE BATTALION LS • When Words Fail You^ " SAY IT WITH FLOWERS —AND WHY NOT OURS? J. COULTER SMITH, FLORIST Between t olJe^e and Bryan We Wire Fl^rere Phone 172 A\ .11 BEAT TEXAS! THE AGGIE CLEANERS Where Every Garment Receives Individual Delivery Thigpin Attention NORTH; GATE Baildinf. W. S. Scarborough, Abi- ikfent of the •oeioty, in- | troduccd the ■p—htr. The talk, concerned chiefly with DI l/ll. UlDuCuAfi water orer .team heating Waa o< apparent timeMnea., aa borne oat by its enthusiastic reception. Dr. Giesecke took particular adrmn- tace of the local aitoatlon, explain* inf that the new system had been favored because of its elimination of pipinf depreciation. Certain chemicals, the lecturer explained, decompose at the hifh temperature afforded by steam and reacts with the iron pipe. Dr. Giesecke la engafed in heat ing research. MERITS OF STEAII r HEAT NSCUSSEH Members of Local A S M E Hear Advantages of Hot Water Heating Over Steam Heat; Speaker College Situation AGGIES SET— (Continued from Page 1) ] Dr. P. E. Giesecke, College Ar chitect, lectured to the ASME on the .abject of domestic hasting at a meeting held Thursday night at eight o'clock in the lecture room of the Mechanical Eiyincering Phone $08 Rapp r NO THANKSGIVING IS COMPLETE l[T T r Without A lr TURKEY DINNER and -t MRS. PARKHILL’S CAFE < \ i I *\ 1 Jri Is The Right Place To Get It Just-One Block East of North Gate Mrs. Parkhill Open Til After the FOR YOUR CONVENIENCE The CAMPOS BARBER SHOP 11 . . • . WILL REMAIN OPEN LATE WEDNESDAY AND ALL THURSDAY MORNING THANKS Bert Smith, Prop. In the “Y* GIG ’EM AGGIES THE AGGIELAND GROCERY (On the Campus) The best place to get T . -. ^ 1 \ Eats — Drinks — Tobaccos S. D. HUGHES, Mgr. -ft have met la aa many year*. Al though there have boon two break, hi the achodule of yearly game, the fear. 1900, *01, *07, '08, and *09 «ew two games each U make the number of battles equal to the nunibbr of years of play. This great apectade started thirty-nine year, ago when “Var- .iyt”, as Texa. was then known, and “College” aa A and M was call ed, met on the grid-iron for the first time. Little did the players in that game and the email crowd of mine three hundred realise that they were starting a pree that would lead up to one of the moot traditional and eolorfal ath letic ohent. of the whole year for the Smthwest, but year by year tradition and glory wore added to that stent until it has now grown to a thing looked forward to from the time the final gun shoots end ing one game and adding .noth« r niche to football history until the time when the opening whistle is blows the next year. For the first seventeen games, it was the usual thing for “Var sity” to taka over the game to their majority of wins came dur ing this period when they took fourteen of the 17 games, two end ing in ties and the Aggies win ning the other in 1902 by taking the second game of a series of two for that year by a score of 12-0. In 1909, things begin to happen for the Aggies. They won two games daring that year in rip id succession and then in 10, took the third successive game by a 14-8 margin. The game in 1911, whan Texas boat 8-0, caused such a high point of student feeling and tar- bulence which had been growing continually, that a three year truce was cafled between the two sides. The next game and the first to he played at College Station took place in 1918, and although the Longhorns were highly favored to win. the “Fighting” Aggies took Over the game 13-0 and started tradition that has lasted to this day; nsrtiely. that the Steen do Old Gathright Hall to Be Missed By Ex-Students; Was Shrine of * sir’ 1' 1 Ja ‘ A Many Treasured Early Traditions Building T>>ra Down During Summer After Having Become So Weak a Structure Aa To Be Dangerous. mm iv r 4• u < *. I « Gone from Texas A and M ped agogical horizon is Gathright Hail, the “Bat Roost" where many ca dets spent their happiest days. The building wes rased during the sum mer when its condition became so weak as to be dangerous Gathright Hall was the origins! ilding that the started the in stitution in September 1878. Tex as A and M was established by act of the Legialature of Texas on April 17, 1871. The location of the College was selected on June 20, 1872, and the first faculty was ap pointed July IS, 1878, with The- 8. Gathright as President. Gathright Hall, which was named in honor of the College's first president, was constructed at a eoet of £18.500. It served aa the a cost of $25,000. The nineteenth annual catalogue of the College, published in 1894, carried this des cription of Gathright Hall: “The building stands on the highest point of the grounds. It is four stories high, made of brick, with mansard roof and towers. The rooms are all of high pitch and well ventilated. There are forty-five rooms in the building.jj On the fourth story nearly half the space to occupied by the large room as signed to the drawing department. Two society halls, the armory, and one small room are also on this floor. On the third floor are the section rooms of tha departments of English, languages, horticul ture and botany, the library and reading room, end eight rooms oc cupied by officers of the College. On the second floor are the Pres ident’s office, the business office, the book store, the chemical lab- 'oratory and section room, the mu seum, the agricultural section room, English section room, the office of the Director of the Agri cultural Experiment Station, and the janitor’s room. On the first floor are chemical private labora tory, furnace room, section room, instrument room of the Depart ment of Civil Engineering and Physics, store room, dark room, ; mathematical section room, guard room, commandant's •room, and ? section room end laboratory of the Department of Veterinary Science. There are broad halls running through each story at right angles to each other, and two sets of stairways, one in the middle, the other at the end of the building." At one time Gathright Hall boused the Extension Service of the College. Its last active uee waa a dormitory for the band. Dur ing part of the 1932-38 session, the student post-office waa locat ed in the back end of the building. Many prominent ex-students of A and M vigorously protested the demolition of the building. The following paragraphs are except* taken from an editorial appearing in “The Texas Aggie”. “The end of Gathright Hall, old est building on the campus, brings vividly to mind the rapfcHy chang ing character of A and M’s phy sical plant Only Pfcoffer and Ana- tin Halls remain of the really old and original buildings on the cam pus. They are landmarks; revered statutes of an earlier day. If mem ories and evidence of the anti quity of the institution are to ba retained, some thought must be given to the preservation of his torical aspects of the campus." ’\ ii not win at Collage Station. Not to be outdone, however. University started a like custom the next year by trouncing the Fanners 21-7 and havt also kept up thto record with only one exception. In 1922, King Gill forward passed the Aggies to 14-7 victory la Austin but then. ia order to even up the score, Tex as came back the next year, and laid down the Aggies 8-0 when they covered a fumble in back of the Cadets’ goal line. Besides these two exceptions, the teams have been playing a “you take thto one" and “I’ll take that one" affair. HERE’S i'/ FOR YOU I C IGARETTES are made of tobac co, wrapped in paper, and they may look alike; but that doesn’t mean that they are alike. ' ’ . Chesterfield Cigarettes are not like other cigarettes. The tobacco is not like the tobacco used in other ciga rettes. It is mild, ripe—not harsh, or strong. 1 Then again, Chesterfields caste bet ter. They are seasoned in the right way with the right kind of Turkish Tobacco. There is nothing flat or tasteless about them. You’re telling me ’They Satisfy”! L este • if)). Lwunrr a Urmt Tob^xq Ga> J / tk cifttnefo l/talh Muraa • tk ciyofette V a A COURT OB CAMPUS, you’ll find the lively ooes keep in trim with the help of Shredded Wheat. For forty years, these golden, crisp-baked biscuits have been the favorite pick-up food of active folks. Taste alone would win you. But Shredded Wheat has a lot more to offer. It brings. you ml/ the essential elements of whole wheat... the pro- ' trios, vitamin*, carbohydrates and minerals. And bran, meas- sured for you by Nature. Just 100% whole wheat with nothing added, nothing taken away. Eat Shredded Wheat for at least ten days and see if it doesn’t put a new spring in yanr step. No waiting * l when you order, for it’s I ready cooked, ready to ’ cat. Just pour oo milk or cream and top with your favorite fruit. At all campus eating places. TNI VITALLY DIFFERENT FOOD SHIEDDED WHEAT •* NATIONAL BISCUIT COMPANY “1