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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 3, 1939)
i f f kJ ■ •p-"-'-- 1**m 4 fHEW DORMITORIES ARE GONG UP [FAST; TO BE READK FOR FAll TERI. By K. A. SHIELDS ''ft* n*w dormitoriet arc really toinf up in good fashion. There Mo around 250 men working on th.-m The weather has been fine, V»d there have been no delays. Out of the 12 dormitories being built, footings and caps are in place )n 8 of them, columns have been powr- efi on 8. work has already been »**rted on the first floor of one, and two Others will be ready for the first floor work in a couple of • days. The mess hall is staked out, atHi work will begin on it soon. * It will seat 2COO students. The new dorms will all be de- * ! r mgned the same, excepting the ex- j tenors, which will be varied to make the dorms individualistic. A •ample ot the brick whfch will he used has been put up in the north- A west corner of the lot where the dorms are being built Anyone ta- • | tereated can go down sad look at The dorms are four stories high, k and are not the ramp type. Any student can see any other student ♦ la * n y one of them without having to go outside, as we have to do now in some of , our halls. The dorms are rectangular shaped. There are 21 rooms on each floor, making a total of 112 rooms, which will take care of 224 students with two in n room. ; . • RADIO REPAIRING Parts and Tubes ** * j ] ,^ * t. STUDENT CO-OP Phone College 139 North Gate HAPPY NEW r d "u*i' YEAR! We wish to take this op portunity to thank our many friends at A. A M. for their valoed patron age and loyalty at both of our stores. r - . It is our sincere wish that our pleasant asso ciations will continue during your years at A. A M. ” I-’ . ' ' | Make our two stores your headquarters for regula tion equipment. Craddock Blouses Craddock Slacks Craddock Made To Measure Uniforms Maler Caps ♦ .j l Dobbs Hats ' Nunn Bush, Fortune and Edgerton Shoes fllaklrop«(8 Two Convenient Stores’* Bryan College Station I— r r There will be four entrencea in each dorm, and a nUirwey it cacn ead. There Will be. a ahower and toilet warn at the end* of each floor. The shower rooms ere 9 eqoare feet, and the toilet rooms contain five toilets each. Each roost Wi8 have two closet*, one for each occupant, giving stu nts plenty of There will be room; also hove the room for clothes, a lavatory in each cabinet m- mkrrer. *0 a medicine cab waahbdwl with a The rooms are 1 wired for radio antenna. The aerials are on the roof and are w red to each room An occupant aerial into the i rail socket. One of the dormitories will be for the hand, and another will be for the football for football rub-down rw The dormitories will the 1939-1940 e esiorv. Civil Serv ce ely plug his playere. The dorm players will conUin am) a Steam room be up for Open Civil Positions Information Service Examinations may be ob tained from Ottn E. Teague, Sec retary of the United States Civil Service Board of Examiners, st the College Station poet office. will be given lead ing tb the positions of chief, mu seum division; chief •r; principal artist-designer; •or arthO lislgiW; and junior me teorologist, until Jan. 9, 1939. Ex amine tiots for associate physiolo gist; htowtrhpt; amorists bio metrician; asaixtan biometrician; and assistant parasitologist until Jan. 10, I93|jr NOTICES SCHEDULE Of EVENTS: January 6—Picture Show, Bene fit A. S. C. £., Assembly Hall, 6:30 p. m. January 6—faculty Dance, Mess Hall, 9 p. m. Until 12:00 midnight January 13—Picture Show, Bene fit Accounting Society, Assembly Hall, 6:30 p. H.J f January 20—Picture Show, Bene fit A.S.M.K., Assembly Hall, 9:30 p. m. - The President’s Office has re ceived from tbe Burke A James, Inc., Company, one camera (mov ing picture). Will tbe party to whom this belongs please call for it maintenance The pay me st <rf $24.75 cover ing board, room rent sad laundry for tbe month of January must be paid by not later than Friday, January 6.19H. , FISCAL DEPARTMENT WANTED: Roommate to share comfortable room with graduate assistant, single bads, adjoins bath. Graduate student, graduate assistant, or bachelor professor preferred. Arrangeaaenta can be made now for second term. Loca tion just off campas. Telephone College 244 after 7 p. m. Tuesday. LOS j ji r : LOST: One black overcoat with passport ii one of pockets Finder please ret* m to P. G. 2d for re ward. '! [ i , LOST: Two Service Hats in Mesa Hall Friday, Dec. 16, 1998 If found p ease return to $7 Good win for FOUND: L L. Slide Rule, Student Duplex CLUBS All club secretaries whose or ganisations are having their pic tures put in the Longhorn STS asked to turn in a complete, alpha betised club roster with the chib officers listed at Law 105. —J. Wayne Stark AGGIES: — Am always, w« are behind you and with you in making 101 ( ) one of your best yuan. AGGIELAND PHARMACY North Gate — ■ T THE BATTALION CONSTRUCTION ON DORMS GETS UNDER WAY COPIES OF THIS ISSUE OF Tbe Battalion arc to be mailed to 1,200 high school midterm gradu ates, E. L. Angel), manager of student publications, said today. Editors pointed 'out that no ef fort was being piade to turn the newspaper into a propaganda or gan because they felt high school students would much prefer to see A. A M. as it ls;in everyday life. Above are scenes shot bjTStaff Photographer Phil . jColman of work now under way on A. A M.’s $2,000,000 building program, whick will give the college 12 new dor mitories and a new mess hall i NEW STUDENtB— i (Continued from page 1) occupies ijnew and larger dormi tory. FirsUsemester work of the regu lar session is offered again during the second semester for the bene fit of mld-tsrm wdnrtB. Research and experimentation in agriculture, foreefry, and all branches of science and engineering are Continuously maintained by tbe Texas Agricultural Experiment Station, the Texas Agricultural Ex tension Service, tbe State Engi neering Experiment Station, the Texas Forest Service. Branch col leges under! Texas A. A M. are N.T.A.C., John Tarleton, and Prairie View Negro Normal. ■ About 2,500 students are given part-time employment to enable them to attend the college. Fifty- five coeperativsly operated project houses on or off the campus offer room and board at extremely rea sonable rates to those unable to meet dormitory’ rates. However, the cost of living in the dormitories to only about $9M for the fntire wsaion for aew students. This in- dudoa all fees, room, board, J.un- dry, books, m.dical[ mmml'mI uniform. About $45 Jo aaeddd on entrance. Accredited school |chol- art hip to good for the roatifcahl' tion fee of $50 for the first" long •««rion after graduation from.high •chool. The admission r-cr.. Hwnta art graduation from ab ac- eredited high aebool, with B ac ceptable units compleL’d 48 CANDIDATES— » - (Coatinned from page lh Grady 0. Murray, WiBia4 H. Nuckols, Jr, William C. O Richard R. Prewitt, A Prugel, Valentin Ramire^ Jeaa M. Russell, Raymond R. Saxtain, W. D. Seay, Elbert D. Sleek, Woodrow W. Stephenson, Sidney S. Stone, Royal P. Teal, Jolto H. Thaxton, Roy E. Torrance, Clin ton W. Uhr, J. Travis Wmren, Roberi A. Willa, Edgar H \|hor- ton Jr, Don A. Windrow, Q. Gor don Wisen baker Jr, Roger: W Wright r {The five candidates for matters are Philmpro 1 L CxndovnU, Etrt Richard Marts, Wf Moore, Carl Sain, Rkbprd aad Marion W. Williamson 1925 BRYAN Buchanan, ^ i tisi939 ;; ll | • ■ | •nil- • J} 11 ( J We Want Te T|ke ’Hiia Otiport unity Thank Y«a for Your Bastaew And May We Conthme to Help You CALDWELL’S JEWELRY STORE 1 . Hnan. Yexns To TRY OUR SPECIAL i I 4 Scalp Treatment Y. M. .ft A. 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