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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (March 24, 1976)
THE BATTALION MM M. wn N. MAIN 022-3110 DOWNTOWN BRYAN KEEPSAKE DIAMONDS PIERCED EARRINGS STAR OF AFRICA DIAMONDS KO A SULOVA-ACCUTRON WATCHES 14 *2- GOLO BRACELET WATCHES CROSS PEN & PENCIL SETS SPEIOEL WATCH BANDS DESK SETS SEIKO iEEa ism AMERICA'S FAVORITE PIZZA 0° Our regular Si .89 Spaghetti Dinner with meatsauce. served in true Italian style with garden fresh salad and garlic toast today. eee No. 2 Pizza Inn of Bryan Men to Sr yon H.*t 1M3 CrMntiotd Plot* No. 1 Pizza Inn of College Station 4)1 Teiot Avo WEDNESDAY Actuarial Science will hear a talk at 7 p m in the Math Office on th** third floor of Harrington The Biomedical Science Associa tion will host a party at the Lakeview Chib at 8 p.m. You don't have to be a bto-med major to go. Cost is S2 for men and $1 for women. The University Marine Fellows will sponsor a seminar in Room 607 of Rudder Tower at 1 p. m. The topk will he Determining and Designing for Hurricane Effects on Texas Coas tal Areas Cap and Gown will meet in 140 MSC at 6 p. m. Marketing Society will meet in 301 Tower at 7 p.m. Soccer team will meet in 130 MSC at 7 p.m. Tiawan Goodwill Group will meet in the Auditorium at 7 p.m. Galveston HTC will meet in Tower 308 at 7:30 p.m. Speleogical Society will meet in Tower 302 at 7:30 p.m. Chamber Orchestra rehersal will meet in MSC 229 at 7:30 p.m. Delta Y will meetinTowerSlOatS p.m. Industrial Education Society will meet in Tower 410 at 8 p.m. BLOW-UP will he shown in the Theater at 8 p.m. Class of 76 will meet in Tower 601 at 8 p.m. An Economics Departmental Seminar will lx* held in Rudder 301 from 3 to 4 p.m. Guest speaker w ill be Dr. Robert Fogel from Harvard University. THURSDAY The TAMU Horsemen s Associa tion will meet at 7 p.m. in Room 217 of the Animal Industries Building CWENS will meet in Tow er 501 af 5 p.m. Texas A&cM Auxilian Force will meet in Tower 308 at 7 p.m. Corpus Christie HTC will meet in Tower 410 at 7 p.m. Radio Board will meet in MSC 216-B at 7 p.m. Class of '79 Council will meeet in MSC 140-A at 7:30 p.m. San Angelo HTC will meet in MSC 140 at 7:30 p.m. Students for Responsible Expres sion will meet inTower 510at 8p.m. Professor Dik Vrooman will speak in Tower 601 at 8 p.m. ~ ^ ' * Staff photo hv Jim HenirirkMWi Chinese culture Rings Hashing and skirts aswirl, members of the perform the Golden Ring Dance. The entire Youth Goodwill Mission of the Republic of China program can be seen tonight at 7:30. Taiwan dancers perform The Youth Goodwill Mission of the Republic of China, touring the United States in honor of the bicen tennial. was introduced to area news media yesterday. At 7:30 tonight, the members of the Youth Goodwill Mission will pre sent a program of folk dances and songs, a native fashion parade, tradi tional festivals and a demonstration of Chinese Kung-Fu. The event is sponsored by the Chinese Students Association and the International Students' Associa tion. The proceeds of the performance will be donated to the Guatemalan Relief Fund as an expression of in ternational friendship. Tickets are available at the Rudder Tower and Woolworth in Bryan. Students and teachers from vari ous colleges and universities in Taiwan comprise the group. i Each member must compete for a place in the group, its director, Tieh-Cheng Liu, a professor of law at the National Cheng-Chi University, said. After the competition the mem bers spend about three weeks re hearsing for the performances. The group performed three selec tions yesterday. All male students who had less than 21 transfer credit hours before enter ing A&M and whose GPR after their first semester at A&M was 3.5 or better are invited to come to 237A Zachry, Wednesday, March 24 or Thursday, March 25 for the purpose of determin ing whether they are eligible for the Honor Society, Phi Eta Sigma. . e only good reason to get bigger is to get better. Liberty Bell rings out independence It was a warm day in July. Independence Square, as it is now called, and the streets of Philadelphia were {lacked with men and women who had waited for hours with faces lifted toward the bell, wondering if their representatives would vote to declare independence. A messenger hurried up the stairs to the belfry and the tones of the bell hurst upon the silent and waiting city. For two hours the sound of the bell was heard, proclaiming freedom to the col onies. The new Province Bell, later to be known as the Liberty Bell, was cast by Thomas Lister of Whitechapel, London, and ar rived in Philadelphia in August, 1752. It had been commis sioned by the Pennsylvania Provincial Assembly to hang in the new State House (later re named Independence Hall). Before the hell could be raised to the tower, a news paper report of the time said "it was cracked by a stroke of the clapper during a test without any further violence” and was recast by Pass and Stow, "two ingenious workmen,” of Philadelph ia. In the recasting, the bell was broken up and the same metal melted down to he used in the new bell. To the old metal was added one and one-half ounces of American copper to the pound of old bell metal to make it less brittle. However, so much copper was added that the bell’s tone proved too brassy, and still another bell had to he cast. The third Liberty Bell pre served the shape and lettering of the original hut substituted the names of the craftsmen and the place and date of recasting. Aonnd the crown was inscribed the Biblical motto "Proclaim liberty throughout the land unto all the inhabitants thereof (Lev. 25:10).” Historians say the quotation was probably chosen to recall William Penn’s Charter of Priveleges, but the sentiment fitted the American Revolution so well that few people now re member the earlier connota tion. Finally in June, 1753, the third bell was hung in the State House steeple where it re mained in use until the steeple was taken down on July 16, 1781. The bell was then lowered into the brick tower of the State House. Long before the bell was sing led out to proclaim liberty throughout the land, the State House bell clanged defiance of British tax and trade restrictions and announced the Boston Tea Party. As the British advanced on Philadelphia in 1777, the bell was moved to Allentown for safety. The following year, it was returned to Philadelphia and pealed joyfully for Ameri can victories during the re mainder of the Revolutionary War. Repair efforts were unsuc cessful, and the hell hung mute and almost forgotten until 1846 when it was taken down from the tower. After being shifted to various locations within Inde pendence Hall, it was placed in the base of the Tower. There the Liberty Bell remained until New Year's Eve, 1975, when it was moved to the new Liberty Bell Pavilion one block north of Independence Hall. Taste has come to light. Pi ■ 4 ■ i One third fewer calories than our regular beer, but all the taste you'd expect from SehBtx. It took Schlitz to bring the taste to light sL LiL