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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (May 12, 1939)
PAGE 6 Campus Physical Plant,; Valued Higher Than 12 Millions, Is Well Developed I THE BATTALION of Gttkrif ht Hall „ by Austin Hnll in fer Ball in went on and r* The Scientific monthly students of the jj FRANK PHKL4N In the ten years from IMS until 1W». the campu*; physical plant of A. A M. has increased from 6U 122 buildings, with the fiscal «a U ^'«' ro I*- * ««■ k—™ • 12,34b,5JO OX These buildings Roes (188* 1 end eosor approximately 225 acres and ' ^ •*% so situated as to give the ut- n»oot convenience to studenU. Not only are the buildings well-built and serviceable, but ,fkey are per manent sources of beauty in their aurrouadbtgs of well-kept shrubs •ml neatly trimmed grate. The School of Agriculture is •quipped with a physical plant valuetl at more than A million and one quarter dollars. A few of the more recently constructed build ings ere the agriculture building (1122), which includes administrs tiwe offices, classrooms, and lab oratories for the study of all kinds of farm machinery; the animal hus bandry pavilion (1916), which con tains a id rtr, judging arena sue- sounded by concrete seats for 1600 spectators, besides classrooms and offices; the animal industries build ing (1933), which provides offices, classrooms, and laboratories for the departments of animal hus bandry, genetics, and poultry hus bandry; the college creanery (1925), which contains the dairy laboratories and creamery, la equipped for the manufacture and distribution of ice cream, cheese, and market milk; and the dairy barns (1916) provide facilities for the handling of various classes of livestock. The School of Engineering, which has a physical plant valued at ap proximately two million dollars, in cludes such modern buildings as the petroleum building (1952), where the geology, modern lang uages, and petroleum offices, class rooms, and laboratories are located; the chemistry building (1927, ond wing 1929), which contains the classrooms, offices, and laborstor lea for the teaching of all phases of chemistry; textile building, which provides classrooms and lab- «•. oratories far the teaching of the handling, classing, and manufac ture of textiles; the physics build ing (1910) is equipped with all . the apparatuq necessary for the thorough study of the subject; the electneal engineering building (1912) houses the campus radio station, WTAW, offices, class rooms, and laboratories; and the N civil engineering building (1909), - which contains the oldest engineer ing department of the college, fe thoroughly equipped for evi branch of,the civil engineering pro. -'Isasion—-highways, structural, and hydraulic* eagineermg The athletic plant has grown from the open field of 1903 to the present day stadium on Kyle Field -.bidh will seat 35,000 spectators. Memorial Gymnasium which has i seating capacity of 3,500, a swim ming pool which will accommodate 6Q0 spectators, and an auxiliary gymnasium for use chiefly in in tramural activities. There are aev era! tennis courts, both clay and concrete, baseball diamonds, ai fields for football and speedball. The Y. M C. A. has a rending and writing room and a parlor where various club meetings are held, and in addition a fine nation room with four bowling alleys, billiard tables and ping pong tables. Plans are now being formulated for the construction of a new 1500,000 Y. M. C A. build ing near the new dormitories and for the expenditure of $50,000 for repairs on the present r Y*\ The new “Y" wfll contain a 4,000 square foot floor for dancing, reading and writing rooms, recreation room and 50 guest rooms. j The history of A. A M. dormitor lea goes back to the construction 4- Then as time student body of sod larger, J 0 ^ Scientist Increases Athletes’ Endurance With Gelatin Drinks i) built; from this time on the dor mitories have r greater both ill Ale and until at present 1 a*« halls in aae •nd 12 new ones u ider construction, besides 12 project (cc-operstive) bouses. Sbisa Hal , the largest din ing ball in the i arid, serves the original 11 halls. A complete i dining hall is for the new doniitories. The new living quarters, w ich will be ready for occupation by the beginning of the next school ; ear, are modern in every respect; |n>«*ibly the most ouft—dfcig one o: these new build- ings is the hall w hich will be by the band. It wl 1 contain regular study moms, • pfaetke room, and a broadcasting room. A few other tnmpus buildings are the Admini^rat.on Building, the Museum, thd Cushing Memo rial Library, witl tx tween 56 and 60 thousand volqi les and seese 550 fxTiodicals, and the Academic building, which ontain# the mili tary offices, various classrooms, sod the architectural department. Proposed Co-op Dormitory 4 SCIENTIFIC REVIEW COMPOSED OF TWO OLDER MAGAZINES magazine published Engineering schools to further ftchnical know edge concerning subjects in the magatine is the btnatioa of twe published here. Countryman and Review is a Agricultural and two fiaida.. This emit of the eom- magazines once the Texas Aggie the Technoscope The Texas Aggie Countryman ss published by the sindents in the School of Aiticulture with the aid and instruction of faculty ad visors. The first issue was printed in February 1930 and carried in formation of inlarebt.to Agrieul tural students. It was organised partly for the purpose of allowing undergraduate studeata to voice their opinions m print) on subjects in their field. Tins proved an aid to the students in promoting leader ship for work ifter graduation. The (Technos ot* was a quarter ly magazine published by the stu dents in the school of engineering with the advic# of their acnlty meiabers. Its publication was be gun in March <tf 1931 and served the same general purpose as the Texas Aggies < lountryman, except tfcal Rs. contents referred to the technicalities of engineering rather than ag-u ultur,. The Technoscope and the Coun tryman ■ were combined in March of 19144 to form a single msgastee, the first copy of which had • title formed by a combination of the two original titles, while the next issue WH* today's magazine called The Scientific Review.' Tw * MMfcHfcT Review still con tains the objectives of the two origin*! JBagazjms. the Techno- scope and the Texas Aggie Coon hryimM. ] Close on the heels of the an nouncement that an eastern scient ist has increased physics! endur ance by use of gelatine drinks, E. C. Callaway, biochemist at Oregon State College, has revealed that for more than five years be has been conducting experiments with Beav er athletic teams that indicate • striking relstionsh.i. between phy sical endurance and alkali** re serve in body tissues. Tomato and orange juices sup plemented with certain ehendeal al kalies have been Prof. Qallawfy'a method, used in cooperation with team physicians, of k-ping men in shape to “do for dear old Alma Mater” without dying of fatigue. Properly applied, Callaway finds that this system will clip i seconds from the time of distance runners and swimmers, and win delay serious fatigue in basketball, football and rowing by 10 to 20 per cent. Prof. Callaway and those with whom he has worked say the pro cess is still in the experimental stage, and they caution against the “shot-gus” use of excess alkali without regard to other nutritional factors. Damage to the body may result from the use of too much alkali or alkaHne salts in unbalanc ed proportions. * The present research had its origia in 1953 when Dr. R. L Boe- worth, team physician at that time, kept the men of the famous “tron- man” football team full of tomato juke as one means of keeping up their endurance. This was the team that first Stopped the winning streak of the U. S. C Trojans. Since then Prof. Callaway, work ing in his spare time with physi cians, trainers and coaches, has run biochemical teste on athletes be fore and after athlet ic contests, and correlated their p«fformance with degree of alkaline reserve. "Other things being equal, an - FRIDAY, MAY 12, 1989 *HE N I’M BBS OF WIDOWS IN college towns is 10 pm cent above th* nu in the average United States city. The University of Wisconsin Deily Cardinal was the first college newspaper to set its type oa a liaotypc machine Ohio have o Abeive is *ewa the architect's sketch of the proposed American Legion ewy be erect.d here in the near fature. 13 Oft KOBE HIGH SCHOOLS WILL REPRESENTED IN SWIM MEET which Thirteen or more Texas high schools will have entries in the State Swimming Meet in the Downs Memorial Pool of Texas A. A M College Saturday, according to Arthur Adamson, Aggie swimming coach, who it in charge of the event Last year only 11 teams were entered, but this year two more leading Texas cities will be repre sented since Highland Park, Dal las, and Waco high schools have signified intention of participating. Three Fort Worth teams are ex pected, representing Paschal, Pbly- TWWTY- and Ihiivarsities in States ipwgL RmM •MMm.I > L— (i ES the United | owe > broad-! State University 'Co-eds organised a personal appear dink to teach correct dress make-up. 4 Mug Penn College student is plan- the construction of the world's rat pendulum. It’ll be til fe*, T J ^ EYE EXAMINATION AND GLASSES CeasnK + DR. J. W. PAYNE .! OPTOMETRIST , " Maaesdc Bldg, Phene Br. K Next to Palace Theatre -— FORMER STUDENTS DISCUSSING TWO NEW PROGRAMS !/ Proposals of the Former Stu dents Aisociation to establish a Placement and Personnel Bureau and to establish a Thanksgiving Home Folks Plan—whereby exes, faculty members and studs* ts would voluaitarily give the choice scats at Thanksgiving games to visitors -are being considered by athlete’s ability to stay in a severe-1 the Association, ly contested game and perform at The proposaVof the Thanksgiving top effkiency is roughly propor tional to what might be termed his optimum alkali reserve in his blood and muscles,” Prof. Callawny con cludes. “That is to say, it requires more alkali reserve to perform at technk and North Side high school*. Last year Polytechnic ear- ried off major honors, j San Jacinto and Lamar teams will represent the Houston high schools, while Brackenridge and Vocational and Technkal high schools of San Antonio will have finmen in the competition • Austin, Beaumont, Bryan, and Den tori will represented by teams and it is likely that last minute entries will swell the list! Preliminary heats will be run off during Saturday afternoon and the finals will be started at 7:30 p. ra. Events will include the 180- yard medley relay, 160-yard free style relay, 10O-yard free style •wim, 50-yard free style, 220-yard free style, 100-yard backstroke. 100-yard breaststroke and fancy diving contest from the 1-meter board. It is expected that a record crowd will witness the meet inasmuch as the Southwest Conference track and field meet urill be held here on the same day, and the advance guard of thousand* of Aggies’ par ents will be on hand for the annual Mothers’ and Dads' Day celebra tion Senday. / ■4* MAKE MINE Cocoanut Fruit ICE CREAM »« I HANK BOROWty FORDHAM Univeraity pitcher, baa won four teen straight games in two years of intercollegiate competition./ ( MW-KSITT. OF VERMONT co-ed* have formed a new dub to promote improvement of their per sonslvtics. ‘ iT TAKE MOTHER Out For DINNER SHE DESERVES THE BEST \ ■ •' FT And Will Gat the Beat of Food When Yoa Bring Her Here for Mother’s Day COLLEGE plan has already been approved by the Former StudenU Board of Di- pmMM. The Thanksgiving Home Folks' program seeks to ease football . .ticket troubles when Thanksgiving top speed in a basketball game or are played at Kyle Field In the plan being considered, volun teers will be asked to follow the lead of the Board of Directors of the Association and of the College in voluntarily requesting that their tickets for this game be pieced in the Thanksgiving Home Folks' eec- tiea at the end of the field. Other groups who will be asked to volun test will he the faculty, student body, Bryan and College citisens, and A. A M. men. Officers of the Association have set as a goal 200 volunteers from the ranks of A. A M. ex-student*. The results of such a proposal will allow a greater number of the more de sirable seats to be taken by visitor* w race than It does to walk along the street. There is abun dant physiological explanation for this fact. i . *1 ROANOKE COLLEGE HAS been the educational starting place of more than 20 college president*. Wayne University has received a special grant to finance research into the causes and treatment of Peptic ulcers. Barnard ollege next year will offer a special course on the his tory, economics and arts that char acterises a democracy. - 4- MAY 16-17-18 Norik .tiRtp! Mr. Ltiecfcese will be in the Y. M. C. A. Chapel oa these t . days to measure yon and take your order for— ‘THE PERFECT ANKLE-BREAK BOOT’ A Lucchese Boot Co., Inc. 191 W. Travis Stoat San Antonia, Texan BEFORE VISITING— I ill' ? j Phone or Write COLLEGE illRIS FOR RESERVATX IS -♦4- iN MODERN - Cottages — Simmons Inner-Spring Mattresses 25 25 Baths ‘ ! 44- 4 t. HIGHWAY 6 4- OPPOSITE MAIN ENTRANCE ' , ' j t Jl [ TO A. & M. CAD(PUS L Box 365, ( ollege Station, Texas - telephone College iv Ml •I 1