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T h e F i r s t C o l i e g e D a i l y 

I n 

t h e S o u t h

V O L 46

Price Five Cents

AUSTIN, TEXAS, FRIDAY, DECEM BER 22, 1944

Four Pages Today

No. 76

McCloskey Five 
Nips Herd, 46-44, 
In Overtime lilt

Templemen Outlast 
Steers After W a r d 
Tied Foe at 38-Al I
r - p . - m 
01 
T, 
T E M P L E , Dec. 2 

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I 

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F ig h tin g an uphill b a ttle all th e J C 
w a y , th e T ex a s L o n g h o rn s finally
tie d the score a t th e end of the 
r e g u la tio n g am e only 
lose a 
h e a r t b r e a k e r w hen th e McCloskey 
H ospita l q u in te t s u r g e d ah e a d in 
th e closing seconds of th e five- 
m in u te o v ertim e perio d to win a 
th rillin g 16-44 victory.

to 

I t w as T e x a s ’s second s tr a i g h t j 
loss a g a in s t f o u r v ic to ries 
in a , 
r o w th e S te e r s had rac k ed up u n til J 
B lac klan d d o w ned th e m in A ustin 
W e d n e s d a y n ig h t— a n d in all six \ 
g a m e s Coach Bully G ilstra p 's 
y o u n g L o n g h o rn s have been f o r c ­
ed to come f ro m behind.

T o n ig h t it was th e sa m e story. ;
T ra ilin g th r o u g h o u t th e gam e, j 
took a 32-31 ; 

t h e S te e rs fin ally 
le ad w ith seven m in u te s 
le ft on 
s o u th p a w Jo e C ro w le y ’s long shot. ;
T h e 
fo u r , 
tim e s a f t e r t h a t u n til s u b s titu te ■ 
f o r w a r d Jo e W a rd dro p p ed in a 
f r e e 
th ro w w ith seconds 
k not the count at 38-38. 
I n c S te e rs s u rg e d a h e a d 

le f t to •

cha n g ed 

h an d s 

lead 

o v e rtim e p erio d only 
M cCloskey c r e w rally t o tie th e 
score a t 44-all an d th e n chalk up 
See T E X A S C A G E R S , P a g e 2

to see 

rU/Uat Qaei 

O h eMete.

F R I D A Y

M o r n i n g

1 2 :2 5 — M.K.T. tr a i n to Dallas. 
1 2 :4 0 — G re y h o u n d bus to Dallas. 
2 ; 3 7 — Bowen bus to Dallas.
3 : 4 0 — G re y h o u n d to Dallas.
5 :3 0 — G re y h o u n d to H ouston. 
5 :4 0 — B ow en to H ouston.
6 :3 0 — G re y h o u n d 
8 :1 5 — G re y h o u n d to H ouston. 
9 :25-—M.K.T. to Dallas.
9 :4 0 — Bow en to H ou ston .
9 : 5 5 — G re y h o u n d t o Dallas.
1 0 :2 7 — Bow en to Dallas.
1 0 :4 5 — G r e y h o u n d to H ouston. 
1 1 :1 5 - 1 1 :3 0 — R adio H ouse B r o a d ­
c a s t: “ Music Is Y o u rs ,” WO AL

to Dallas.

A f t e r n o o n

1 2 :1 5 — Bow en to H o usto n.
1 2 :4 5 — G re y h o u n d to Dallas.
I — G re y h o u n d to H ou ston .
2 : 0 5 — S o u th e r n P a c ific to H o u s­

to n .

2 :3 0 — M.K.T. to Dallas.
2 :4 0 — Bow en to H ouston.
3 :10— G r e y h o u n d to Dallas.
4 :1 5 — G r e y h o u n d to H o uston .
4 : 1 5 — U n iv e rsity Club C h ild re n ’s 
P a r t y f o r child ren of club m e m ­
bers.

5 :1 5 — Greyhound to Dallas.
5 :3 7 — Bowen to Dallas.
6 :3 0 — G re y h o u n d to H ouston.

N i g h t

7 :4 0 — Bowen to H ouston.
9 — G re y h o u n d to H ouston.
9 . 4 0 — G re y h o u n d to Dallas.
1 0 :3 7 — Bowen to Dallas.
11:30— S o u th e r n P acific to H o u s­

ton.

1 1 :40— Bowen to H o usto n.

G u s Schlitzkus Returns; 
S a m Schlitzkus Prisoner

in the Pacific, is th e j 

M a j o r G u t W , S c h l i t z k u * . 1938- 
1939, who has re c e n tly r e t u r n e d 
f ro m d u ty 
l.T.R.U. a t Camp 
i n s t r u c to r of 
L aw nin, a t T y le r. 
F i r * t L i e u ­
t e n a n t 
S c h l i t z k u s , 
B.A., 1941, is now a p riso n er in 
S ta la g L u f t I , G e rm a n y , P .O .WU 
is 
se ria l 
Cam p. 
072 9113 a n d his P.O.W . n u m b e r 
is 2302.

n u m b e r 

S a m u e l 

His 

C. 

A Serviceman C an 
$1,000 for a Book

W in

T he A m eric an F o re ig n Service 
has a n n o u n c e d a p rize c o n te s t f o r 
a book of fictio n o r n o n -fic tion I 
on any s u b je c t o f in te r e s t to the 
g e n e r a l r e a d e r , w r i tte n by a m e m ­
b e r o f th e service. The a w a rd is 
to be $1,000, $500 of which is to 
be r e g a rd e d as an a d v a n ce ag a in st 
book royalties.

fo r 

in sp ira tio n 

The c o n te s t g re w o u t of the be­
that m a n y F o re ig n Service 
lie f 
sple ndid m a te ria l 
o f f i c e r s have 
a n d 
s ig n ific a n t 
books. T he ju d g e s a r e P earl S. 
Buck, a u t h o r ; H e n r y S. W illard, 
c h a ir m a n of the edito rial board on 
T he A m e ric a n F o r e i g n Service 
J o u r n a l ; 
a n d V in c e n t S heean, 
a u t h o r a n d fo re ig n c o rre s p o n d e n t

F o re ig n 

F u r t h e r d etails m ay be obtained 
f ro m 
Service C o n test 
E d ito r , The J o h n Day C om pany, 
40 E a s t F o r ty - n in th S tr e e t , New 
Y o rk , N. J .

Haynes Resigns 
As Secretary 
Of U.T. Regents

Accepts Position 
With Oil C o m p a n y 
As Accountant

E n d in g a quiet yet f r u it f u l c a ­
r e e r a t the U niversity, Mr. Leo C. 
Haynes, s e c r e ta ry of th e Board of 
R egents f o r th e p a s t f ift e e n y ea rs, 
resigned effec tiv e J a n u a r y 13, to 
tr a v e lin g 
accep t 
th e position of 
j a u d ito r w ith t h e Texas Com pany. 
H aving served as se c r e ta ry to th e 
tw o 
board u n d e r t h i r t y reg e n ts, 
p reside nts, a n d tw o ac tin g presi­
dents, Mr. H ay n e s is also associate 
p r o fr e s s o r of accoun tin g.

a 

sp ecialty 

Mr. H ay n e s cam e to the U niver- 
j sity in 1928 to g e t his m a s te r ’*
! degree in Business A d m in istra tio n , 
with 
in p e tro le u m 
acco u n tin g . In S e p te m b e r of 1929, 
j a f t e r a su m m e r a t Sui Ross T e a c h ­
ers College, Mr. H aynes r e t u r n e d 
to the U n iv ersity as s e c r e ta ry t o 
the B oard of R egents and in stru c - 

: to r in Business A d m inistra tio n. 
back 

L ea n in g 

his 

n u m b e r 
d e n t s .”

N ot only th e s e c r e ta ry o f th*
bo ard an d associate professo r o f 
is also 
a c counting . Mr. H ayn es 
e d u c a tio n a l su p e rv is o r fo r several 
ac co u n tin g courses in the E.S.M. 
W.T. p ro g ra m f o r San A ntonio , 
H ouston, Longview, a n d T e x a r ­
kana. He also te ac h es e le m e n ta ry 
ac co u n tin g by corresp onden ce.

I n d u s tr y T ax 

As a hobby, he edits and p u b ­
lishes a m on th ly bu lletin en title d , 
“ P e tro le u m 
a n d 
C o u r t S ervice .” His o th e r pub lic a­
tio n s include a t e x t “ E le m e n ta r y 
A c c o u n tin g ” w hich he co -a u th o re d 
w ith Dr. G, H. Newlove and Dr* 
J o h n A rch W hite. An article o f 
f o r Leasehold 
his. “ A cco u n tin g 
Costs in the P e tro le u m I n d u s tr y ” 
a p p e a re d in the m onthly publica­
tion “ J o u r n a l of A cc ou ntanc y.”
to 

Road Hom e Is Still Long at Christmas, 1 9 4 4

f o u r th 

T h re e days b e f o r e 

th e w orld em p h asized 

this co u n ­
f ig h tin g C hristm as, 
t r y ’s 
th e b a t t l e f r o n t s 
d ispatch es fro m 
of 
to a 
w e a ry A m erica T h u r s d a y n ig ht 
t h a t a w a r t h a t w as supposed to 
have ended had r e a lly only begun.
A swelling c a t a r a c t of G erm a n 
ta n k s a n d m otoriz ed i n f a n t r y was 
re p o r te d b l a s t i n g d ee p ening 
w edges th ro u g h th e c e n te r o f th e 

j u g g e r n a u t of Nazi p a n z e r u n its 
ru m b le d on to w a r d historic Sedan,
to 
classic 
F ra n c e .

i n v a s i o n g a te w a y 

0 ... .. .

On the “ Von S c h lie f f e n ” ro u te 
twice

ta k en by G erm a n a rm ie s 

m g in
feet.

1941— was having its ef

b e f o r e — in 1870 and 1940— the 
a rm ie s of th e T hird Reich w ere 
sw eeping th r o u g h A merican lines 
on to w a rd th e h e a r t of F ra n ce .

M others, 

frie nds, 
the E u ro -
t h e a t e r — com placen t with
Thick w in te r fog b la n k ete d th e j th e r o llin g ease of e a rlie r vic- 
mud-slow b a ttle fie ld s a n d r e n d e r- I torie s— w ere being jolted by th e 
ed Allied a i r m ig h t all but useless 
to stem the Nazi m arch. 

a n d re la tiv e s o f men in 
pean 

in c re asin g ly om inious
of th e Nazi push.

sw e e th e a rts, 

★ 

The 

la te s t h e a d q u a r te r s com- * 

*

a n d 

in- ! w ere 

th e Allies placed 

m u n iq u e fro m 
th e G erm a n s some 33 miles 
side Belgium 
a h e a d with
m o u n tin g . 

S to ries th a t th e G erm an a rm ies 
th e 
to r t u r e a n d 
rolling rules o f w a r f a r e in 
A m e ric a n c a su a ltie s m a ssa c rin g o f Allied priso n ers
added to th e em otional tensio n of
th e hom e f ro n t, 

this— the 
m o st d isa stro u s C h ristm as since 
D o rm itories and so rority houses 
the tr a g e d y of B a ta a n w as shap- , of the F o r ty A cres w ere m a rk in g

th e home f r o n t, 

f la g r a n t ly 

f la u n tin g 

still 

On 

te le g r a m s 

the rev e rse in w a r w ith lo n g - f e a r ­
ed 
c a s u a ltie s — 
w ounded, m issing, or killed in ac­
tion.

of 

★
th e D rag, 

On 

th e d r u g ­
sto r e s w ith ju k e boxes, one two- 
headlines j year-old r e c o r d was s trik in g home 

in 

W hen 

r e c o rd in g 
th e C rosb y 
s ta r t e d two girls b ro k e into open 
sobs, a n o t h e r 
le ft, still a n o t h e r
opened h er purse, pulled o ut a 
p h o to g r a p h o f a soldier a n d sa t 
s ta rin g a t it.

★

M e rc h a n ts 

th e 
o c c u rre n ce was h o u r ly — or each
tim e the r e c o rd w as played.

r e p o r te d 

t h a t 

A rm y ’s E R.C. w ere being shipped
into battle.

F o u r C h ristm ases ago s tu d e n ts 
at toe U n iv ersity were w o n d erin g 
w hat w ar would m e a n — th e re 
t h a t th e J a p s and 
were r u m o rs 
Nazis w ere a t ta c k in g 
the 
Gulf.

fro m 

b itterly.

Bing C ro sb y ’s lulling r ec o rd in g 
of “ I ’ll Be Home fo r C h r is tm a s ” 
w as the m o st p o p u la r n u m b e r — 
ra n k in g j u s t a h e a d of a J o h n n y 
A ch -ce n t-u ate 
M ercer
tiveCY 

T oxical o f the r e a c tio n w as a 

seem' y e s te r d a y 
D ra g eat-shops. 

in one of 

F o rty Acres.

The T ow er lights w ere c u t off,
W a r in E u ro p e was close to the air raids expected, b u t they never
came. Boys r e g iste re d and w a it­
ed and w ond ered fo r one C h rist­
mas a n d m a n y w ere still h ere fo r 
a n o th e r Christm as.

Only last m o n th the W a r De- 
th e Posi- j p a r t m e n t a n n o u n c e d th a t 18-year- 
old men in service w ould be se n t
it 
th e f ro n t, a n d along with 
to 
th a t 
t h e cam e 
th e

re a liz a tio n h e r e 
I boys who had gone w ith 

the 

But now th e y are in the fight. 
C hristm as. 1945, 
th e n ext 
hope on the calendar.

is 

/ Crmn' n B e lg ia n -L u x e m b o u rg 

f r o n t as a

Poll Shows Faculty Still Pro-Rainey
Resi9natl0n
More Education, 
May Have Drouth O ' Certain Regents
Early and Late

O n the Forty A cres- 'Med School Soon 
Itll Be Quiet Xmas 

_ 

Prof Urges Grad, 
Pre-School W ork

U n iv e r s ity a c tiv itie s w ill o f f i c i a l l y c lo s e a t I o 'clo ck S a t- 
u rd ay a ft e r n o o n w h e n civ ilia n and N a v y s tu d e n ts s c a t te r in 
th e fo u r d ir e c t io n s fo r ('h r is tm a s v isits a n d c e le b r a tio n s 

J 

_ 

R e tu r n in g serv ic em en a r e ere- until classes begin F rid a y , Decern-* 

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. 
Fewer Pre-Meds
To Choose From
Medical schools in T exas may 
—— - — ^ ave difficu lty filling classes w ith

in the a t jn g a new t r e n d — th a t 

of con- 
th e tin u m g ed u c atio n beyond g r a d u a - S tu d e n ts who re m a in in A u stin 

b e r 29, 

Men’s a n d W o m en 's G \m s , 
\ aVy do rm s e x c e p t Hill Hail*, 

all high q u a lity s tu d e n ts in com ing who w as fired on 
th e years, if th e low total of 403 

p r e - ; the Board of Regents.

N ov em b e r I 

t ; ^

chair,
sm oking his pipe and smiling in his
„ 
R e n o r t s t h a t t h e I n i v e r s i t y f a c u l t y w a s n o l o n g e r p r
R e p o r t s t h a t th e U n iv e r s ity fa c u lty v.a.s no longer p ie -: am iable way, he s ta te d t h a t though 
d o m in a n tly p r o -R a in e y w e r e h a n d e d a d e c is iv e s e t-b a c k 
th e re w ere ’rum bles and ac tu a l o u t- 
T h u r s d a y w h e n th e ta b u la t io n o f a poll of fa c u l t y a tt it u d e s i b u rsts of factions in th e U n iversity 
r e v e a l e d th a t o n ly s e v e n t e e n p r o fe s so r s — less th a n 5 p er d u rin g his f if t e e n years as secre- 
c e n t — w e r e d e f i n i t e l y o p p o s e d to th e fo r m e r p r e s i d e n t I ta r y , “ th e p le a sa n t things far o u t­
inci­

d isagreeable 

th e 

in 

tion, Dr. J. G. U m s ta ttd , profes- will see the ca m pus in an alm o st U n iv ersity “ Y ” aud all buildings 
so r of s e c o n d a ry e d u c a tio n , point- com plete s ta te of desertio n a f t e r J except, th o se essential in w a r 
ac-
ed o u t y e s terd ay .
th e Commons, 
w hen 
S a tu r d a y w hen 
th e Commons, t i t t i e s close th e ir doors.
Main L ibrary , P o st O ffice, w o m ­
en 's dorm s and board in g houses,

Polled on unsigned b allo ts— I n : _ — L J I 1 

Some who m ust rem a in n e a r th e colleges a n d u n i v e r s i t i e s 

s tu d e n ts a t te n d i n g 

medical 
the 
U n iversity a t p rese n t is a n y in d i­
cation o f th e e n r o llm e n t in o th e r

mailed by 
th e F a c u l t y ’s special
E le v e n ” — 240
“ C om m ittee 
m e m b e rs of th e f a c u lty v oted fo r
A census! o f pre-mecftt**! s tu - j resig n a tio n o f “ c e r ta in R e g en ts” 
the

on t h e U niversity c a m p u s ; who have “ seriously 
rec en tly By m e m b e rs of the U n iv e rsity .”

. . .
th is j
prem e d ica l f ra - s t a te m e n t presu m a b ly w e r e 'Vt be j 
this Board m e m b ers who v in e d fdjfc-Dt. ; 
te rn ities. — 
to ta l t h e r e a re 213 civjHah men, R a in e y ’s dismissal including D. JC j

Jt8j|fcfT?s vcfdTXtfti 

r e v e a le d 

in ju r e d 

to ,hv 

of 

, 

dents 
ta k e n 

c a m p u s f o r th e holidays m a y miss 
't h e 
tu r k e y a n d c r a n b e r r y sauce
of th s’iv fam ily g e t-to g e th e rs, b u t , 
r 4$Q8 r c e f u l N ew m a n C lu bbers have j A lpha E psilon I elta a n d T a u Lieu Cd *. 
p l a n n e d . to cook th e ir own Christ-* Alpha, h o n o ra ry 
m as d fnner a t th e N ew m an Club, 
N a v y ’* only celebration p la n n e d 
is a C h ristm a s d in n e r a t Hill Hall 
'M onday a t noon.

15 v e te r a n s. 

t h a t o f 

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Rice Editors 
Attack Wallace

‘W e l l Settle Rice 
Problems at Rice’

1 97 w omen. 78 Navy stu d e n ts , aud . fcuuekland. VV. S c o tt 

th -ii: ehpw, \ g h a r p editorial c riticism — first

A ta b u la t io n by classes w v c a l f j JduJ3kngton, 

215 fre s h m e n , 89 sophom ores, 7, 

t. L u tc h e r S ta r k , an<\ O rt 

k | n<jj f rom collegiate sources
A O T a s bee n leveled a t the actions
Since the ac tio n by th e Yaculty ' o f s tu d e n t p re sid e n t Mac W allace 

( ju n io r s , a n d 25 seniors. T h e high j s e v e r a l days a f t e r Dr. R a in e y ’s ’ by Rice U n iv e r s it y ’s new sp a p er.

“ E d u c a tio n ’s f u n c tio n is the es­
tablishment. a n d p e r p e tu a ti o n of 
d e m o c r a c y ,” Dr. U m s ta ttd 
e x ­
p lain ed in c iting 
th r e e expected 
tr e n d s o f p o s t- w a r e d uc ation.

F irs t, ed u c ativ e processes m u st 
begin ea r lie r th a n th e age o f 6. 
Second, th e ed u c atio n al p ro g ra m 
f o r a d u lts m u st c o n tin u e beyond 
the c u r r e n t a g e of g r a d u a tio n 
fro m high school o r college. T hird, 
social stu d ies a r e of inc re asin g im ­
p ortanc e.

“ Pre-school e d u c atio n 

is valu- 
am ble as a socializing process an d 
in rea l tr a i n in g f o r th e child.” Dr. 
U m s t a t t d said.

P o st- w a r ed u c atio n , he believes, 
calls f o r a philosophy which views 
See U M ST A T T D , P age 2

Returning Exes May 
Double School Rolls

“ l f only five p e r c e n t of th e 
men a n d w om en r ele ase d fro m th e 
a r m e d f o r ce? ta k e a d v a n ta g e of 
t h e g o v e r n m e n t's e d u c a tio n a l aid 
f o r v e t e r a n s , e n ro llm e n t 
in col­
leges in the U nited S t a t e s will be 
says Dr. A. Caswell 
d o u b le d .” 
Ellis, 73-year-old a d u l t education 
c ou nsello r f o r th e U n iv e rsity Divi­
sion o f E x te n sio n .

H e p o in ts o ut th a t a d u lt e d u c a ­
is not only f o r u n e d u c a te d 

tion 
people.

“ A college co u rse is a n y course 
which has some im p o r ta n c e fo r the 
lives o f hu m a n beings and w hich j 
r e q u ir e s a m a tu r ity of 
th in k in g 
a n d re a so n ,” Dr. Ellis sta te s. He 
em phasizes th a t tile kind of course 
which ad u lts need a n d a r e in te r ­
ested in are d i f f e r e n t fro m those 
t a u g h t 
in 
colleges.

f o r y o u n g 

people 

Y a n ks Learn 
Post-War Trade 
In Spare Time

A t L ib e r a to r a i r bases in E n g ­
land the o ffic ers a n d enlisted m e n j 
a re p r e p a r in g f o r r e a d j u s t m e n t to ; 
t h e p ost-w ar w orld in a m a n n e r 
ty p ic a l o f serv ic em en a r o u n d th e 
w orld.
T he 

tim e that, th e 
m en have o f f fro m th e ir duties,
I they spend in le c tu re s a n d studies 
I of th e ir own accord. The in te r- j 
est is very high a n d all a llo tte d 
tim e is filled on th e e d u c atio n al 
p r o g ra m .

little sp a re 

 p a r ( |e s f r o m 8 ;3 0 t0 1 1 :8 0 T o m . Medical School, 23 p e r 
a b o u t 

Will . e t out b ulg in g ly tow ardI B ig I
,
D a t 9 :2 5 in t h e m o r n in g , 2 :3 0 in | 0 ,cj0 c ic f o r servicem en on C hrist- i a r e 
th e a f te r n o o n , and 12:25 a t night. 
S o u th e r n P acific tr a in s to Big H 
leave at 2:05 in the a f te rn o o n and 
11:30 at night.

mas Eve a n d New Y e a r ’s Eve 
nights. U n iversity girls a r e in v it­
ed by th e Rev. Jo se p h H a rt, rec- i 
tor. G irls w ishing to a t te n d th e se 
p a r tie s should r e p o r t to th e Dean 
of W o m e n ’s o ffice as soon a s po s­
sible.

W ith th e buses, one has more 

variety.

Dr, Ellis h^s made an extensive 
to u r o f T exas colleges ex p lain in g 
th e need fo r ad u lt educ atio n . “ You 
d o n ’t have one m e n t a l you th as
y ou have one physical you th , b u t a 
series of m e n tal y o u th s each dec- j Fou r<^ hea ded 
ade of y o u r life ,” Dr. Ellis says.

in 

Students Prefer 
To Ride at Dawn

Ticket A gen ts Say 
Try Another Time

B y M A R I F R A N C E S W I L S O N 

T e x a n A » * o c i a t e E d i t o r

“ M ost of th e tim e I can te ll you 
th a t the early m o r n in g buses w o n ’t 
be crow ded, b u t th ese U niversity i 
s tu d e n ts — th e y ’ll ta k e a n y t h in g . ”

Th is h ara ssed tic k et a g e n t ’s ex- J 
clam a tio n in one A ustin bus te r - j 
m inal w as echoed in h a ir-te a rin g , 
s n o w ed -u n d er f r u s t r a t i o n by most 
t r a n s p o r ta tio n em ­
o f th e o th e r 
ploy ees -especially w hen 
asked
a b o u t w ays and m e ans of going to ­
w a rd Dallas o r H ouston.

M issouri - K an sas - T exas 

tr a in s

S everal o r g a n iz a tio n s will e n ­
t e r t a in U n iv e r s ity girls d u r in g th e 
holidays:

The A.W .Y .S. 

J u n i o r C a d e t 
H ostesses will give a dance S a t­
u r d a y a t th e A ustin C adet Club.
J u n i o r H ostesses who will be 
in 
A u stin have been asked to n o tify 
th e ir council hostesses as soon as

. . . 

P0SSl •) t ’ 

Miss F a y e Jo h n so n . C am p S w ift 
service club hostess, has 
invited 
U niversity girls to a t te n d tw o in­
fo rm a l d an c e s fo r servicem en on 
C h ristm a s E v e a n d New Y e a r ’s 
Eve fro m 3 u n til 5 o’clock. Buses 
will pick up th e girls in f r o n t of 
C a r o th e rs a t 2 o’clock and r e t u r n 
th e m a t 6.

G re g g H o u se will have tw o for-

A u s tin ch u rc h e s will hold spe­
c i a l services and e n t e r ta i n m e n t s 
before and on C hristm as a n d New 
Y ear's.

F r id a y n ig h t a t 6:30 o'clock the 
y o u n g people of the F ir s t English 
L u th e r a n C hu rch will go caroling. 
A C h ristm a s Eve candlelight se rv ­
ice will be held a t the church S u n ­
d ay nigh t.

St. P a u l's L u th e ra n C h u rch on 
S ix te e n th a n d Red River s tr e e ts 
will hold a ch ild ren 's service with 
See H O LID A Y S, Page 2

A Gift Idea: Blood 
To Brackenridge Hospital

G rab y o u r suitca se a n d baseball 
bat an d s t a r t on y o u r priv ate blitz­
k r ie g on Bowen buses a t 2:37 a n d 
the m orning, or 2:37,
10:27 
° r 1 0:3. o clock at n ig h t if
to w a r d Dallas or 
F o rt W orth. G re y h o u n d buses to ­
w ard Dallas leave a t 12:40, 6:30, 
o r 9:55 o’clock 
the m orning, 
a n d 12:45. 3 :10 , 5:10, or 9:40 
o ’clock a t n ig h t.

in 

T o w a rd H ou ston , Bowen leaves 
a t 5:40, 9:40, o r 12:15 o ’clock 
in th e m orning, a n d a t 2:30, 7:40, 
o r 11 :40 o’clock at nigh t. 
The 
G re y h o u n d schedule fo r H ouston 
is 5:30, 8:15, a n d 10:45 o’clock in 
th e m ornin g, a n d I, 4:15, 6:30, 
an d 9 o’clock a t night.

A nd you can alw ays c h a r t e r a 
plane from one of the fly in g se rv ­
ices. F or th r e e people or m ore th e j 
cost 
is a b o u t $23.24 each f o r a 
r o u n d tr ip to Dallas and $20.80 
each f o r a ro u n d tr ip to H ouston,

The Weather

F r id a y will be ju s t as cold and 
w in dy as T h u rs d a y , ac co rdin g to 
the w e a th e r m a n : The t e m p e r a ­
t u r e in the m o rn in g will prob ab ly 
be dow n to 24 degrees.

| o th e r fields o f w ork a t th e end of 
I the f i r s t college y ea r. 

“ m o rta lity r a t e ’’ a m o n g fre sh m e n dismissal in which m e m b ers voted The T h resher,
prevails, f o r m a n y s tu d e n ts t u r n to u nan im o u sly f o r Dr. R a in e y ’s re- 
in s t a te m e n t t h e r e have b een cir- 
c u la te d — edito rially a n d a t some
T he a v e r a g e age of p rem edical j of th e m e e tin g s of e x -stu d n ts— 
stu d e n ts is now con sid erab ly less c h a rg e s t h a t th e f a c u lty was n o t 
th a n in p r e - w a r years. M a n y s t u - 1 a c tu a lly so a n a n im o u s in s u p p o r t
i den ts a t te n d i n g medical 

school of the ousted presid e n t.

! usually low en ro llm e n t of premeds- c e n tr a te d 

should 

still 
school. H ence, 

be 

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th e re 

cal stu d e n ts. 

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prem e d ica l 
is an u n - j Opposition supposedly w as con- 
in th e so-called “ prac- 
tic a l” schools a n d colleges of th e
th e “ lib e ra l”
th e College o f A rts 

th e p a s t only 400 o u t of I U n iv ersity outside 

In 
1.500 
ob- b ra n c h e s o f 
s tu d e n ts 
ta in e d d o cto r of medicine degrees, a n d Sciences.

prem edical 

T hirty -seve n per ce n t of tho pre- 

S ev era l m e m b e r s of the U niver- 
meds p r e f e r T he U n iv ersity of j gjty’s “ old g u a r d ” hav e been be-
to be ac tive in opposition 
to Dr. Rainey since his arriv al 
here a n d rallied o p p o n e n ts d u r in g 
th e S e n a te 
in v e stiga tion of c a m ­
pus a f f a i r s .

cent Hexed 

the
u n d e c id e d 
school to a t te n d , 13 p e r c e n t p r e ­
fe r T u la n e , 6 p e r c e n t pla n 
to 
a t t e n d S o u th w e ste rn Medical 
F o u n d a tio n , and 4 per c e n t have 
selected B ay lor Medical School. 
m a n y 
S m aller g roup s, 
of the Naval s tu d e n ts at the Uni­
in 
versity, will seek a c c e p ta n c e 
tw e n ty -fiv e o th e r medical schools 
in the U n ite d S tate-,

including 

Baylor lo Observe 
Centennial in 1945

B a y lo r U n iv ersity , f o u n d e d at 
I n d ep e n d en ce in W a s h i n g t o n 
C ou nty 
in 1845, will hold open 
house to e x - s tu d e n ts a n d frie n d s 
th ro u g h 

its c e n te n n ia l y ea r.
B aylor will honor her fo u n d e rs 
with a F o u n d e r s Day C erem ony 
F e b r u a r y 
I, which will precede 
the C e n te n n ia l C om m en c em e n t 
May 25-29.

The fa c u lty poll, how ever, te n d s 
to discredit ru m o re d es tim a tes of 
the opposition bloc s tr e n g th .

An e x c eption ally high p ro p o r ­
tion of replies w ere received, Hie 
C o m m ittee m e m b ers p o u n d out, 
w ith 361 a n s w r in g o u t of 435 
queried.

Not all of th e an s w e rin g f a c u lty 
f a v o r ­
m em bers, how ever, were 
able to w a rd f u r t h e r action to w a rd 
r e in s t a te m e n t of the deposed prs- 
ident.

the 

F ifty -tw o voted th e ir s u p p o r t of 
th a t th e y 
Dr. Rainey, but added 
fa c u lty should 
did not 
feel 
f u r t h e r action at p resent. 
ta k e 
S ix ty -eight voted 
th e y did 
not feel Dr. R a in e y would be r e ­
in state d a n d the fa c u lty should no t 
See F A C U L T Y , P age 2

th a t 

to study 

R e p o rtin g 

the Texas Com­
p a n y J n a u a r y 15, Mr. H aynes will 
spend six or eig h t m onths in H ous­
ton as tr a v e lin g au ditor. T hen he 
will be sent to th e home office of

In an editorial last week, T h e ]
T h re s h e r took exception to 5' a1- 1 
la ce’s activity 
in u r g in g colleges 
of the s ta te to con vene h ere for 
a session 
the p ro b lem s! 
c o n f r o n tin g education in the state, j 
Tile e d i to r ia l— which did not 
rea ch A ustin until 
this w ee k — ' 
came on the eve of a p relim in ary 
**j have had only the most h a r ­
c o n fe re n c e last S a tu r d a y of s t u - J 
d e n ^ from se veral 
lead in g uni- m onious r e la tio n s w ith the presi- 
versities and j u n io r colleges of the d en ts u n d e r w'hom I have bee n 
privileged to serve and with every
sta te , 
In view of the increased activity m e m b e r of the B oard of R egents, 
th o r- 
of stu d e n t g o v e rn m e n ts in influ- pa st an(j p rese n t. 
ence of school policy, W allace has oughly e n jo yed this o p p o rtu n ity o f 
been com m u n ic atin g w ith stude nt w orking 
f o r The U niversity of 
le a d e rs in T exas and th e South- Texas, and I shall always r e ta in a 
w est f o r th e past m o nth proposing v ery vital in te r e s t in it,'' he said.
discussion of th e ir “ m u tu a l prob- j
lem s.”

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W allace's la te s t le t t e r — th e one 
which the Rice edito rialist a tta c k s
— pointed out th a t these problem s 
include 
s tu d e n t 
of 
th e ex te n t of se lf­
n ew spa pers, 
g o v e rn m e n t, an d w h e th e r or not 
stu de nt# or a d m in is tra to rs should 
en fo rce ru les a g a in s t hazing.

censorship 

using 

C h a rg in g 

th a t W allace w-as 
to 

con tro versy here 

th e 
See RICE, P age 2

Educator To Be 
New Baptist Pastor

Dr. W. R. W hite, f o rm e r p resi­
d e n t o f H ardm -S im m on s U niver­
sity. will become th e new p a s to r 
fo r the F irst B aptist C hu rch 
in
A ustin som etim e in J a n u a r y .

St. Peter or N o t — 
He Still Decides 
Who Gets Through

S a in t P e te r is no more.
B. B. Neans, w h ite -h a tte d t r a f ­
fic o ffic e r who has been p a r o l i n g
& j the g atew ay to th e ca m p u s for fit- *

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the 
in F o rt W orth, and 

Dr. W hite has been p a s to r of 
| the F irs t B a ptist C hurch a t„ L u b - 
B roadw a y B a ptist 
: bock, 
C hurch 
the 
F irst B a p tist C hurch in O klahom a 
City. He has re c e n tly been sec­
r e ta r y of the Sund ay shool b o ard 
, of the S o u th e rn B a ptist con ven­
tion w ith h e a d q u a r te rs in N ash­
ville. He was p resid e n t o f H ar-
, , din-Simmons fro m 1940 to 1943,

title 

stric tly u n o ffic ia l 

but 
as
“ S ain t P e te r o f the F o r ty A cres” 
is fo rg o tten .

yea ; says t h a t his ftaint!y ^ The new clerg y m an Will r e p l i e s
th e 
Dr. S. G. Posey, who 
A ustin church late in O ctober a n d 
is now p a s to r o f th e Temple Bap­
tis t C hurch in San Antonio. U ntil 
Dr. W hite arrives, Dr. J o h n W. 
will 
Inze o f W a shington, D. 
a c t as supply pastor.

Mr, Neap#, who guides tr a f f ic 
each day from 7 o’clock u n til 4 : 3 6 
o’clock, a t th e n o r th gate to the 
campus, got his title from a U ni­
versity co-ed.

le ft 

N .I.S.A. Seeks N am es

W hen he re fu se d to le t th e girl 
drive into th e cam pus while classes 
w ere in session, Mr. N eans was O f C old Star Members 
te rm e d — with no in te n d ed compli-J 
m e n ts— “ S ain t P e t e r . ” The nam e ; 
stuck.

th* 
N ational In d e p e n d e n t S tu d e n t As- 
But now Mr. N eans r e p o r ts th a t s e d a t i o n N ew sle tte r urged all in­
to send 
d ep e n d e n t o rg an iz atio n s 
n am es of the Gold S ta r m em bers, 
those who have been killed 
in 
action, so the N e w sle tte r can give 
them proper rec ognitio n.

he hears the n am e only on rare 
occasions— a n d then fro m a f a c ­
ulty member.

T he D ecem ber edition of 

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• 
Get Your Rainey-Regent 
Letters for Home Today 

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l f you have the C hristm as spirit 
Am ong the o r g a n iz a tio n s which 
an d w a n t to give a really w o r t h ­
will hold t h e i r 1945 session on the 
while g if t, stop in a t B rac k en rid g e
the 
H ospital b e fo re going home f o r " a c c ca m p u s in honor of Bay lot
R a in e y -R eg en t 
and 
th e holidays a n d d o n ate y o u r blood are tho T e x a s H istorical A ssocia­
tion, March 6; S o u th e rn B a ptist 
special le tte rs f o r s tu d e n ts to ta k e 
f o r th e civilian supply.
home C hristm as will be available
E d u c a tio n Com m ission’s C onfer-
ence on the F u t u r e of th e C h urch- ! at the booth in f r o n t of the Texas 
Related Colleges, M arch 22-23; • U nion F rid a y 
I 
an d th e B a p tis t G e n e ra l Convell- o’clock, Phil Klein, assista n t chair- 
in No- m an of the booth com m ittee, said 
tion of Texas, som etim e 
vem ber. 

M a n y U n iversity stu d e n ts, civil­
ian em erg en c ies, a n d soldiers owe 
th e ir lives to quick 
tr a n s f u s io n s 
given a t th is blood donor ce n te r. 
I f t h e r e is no im m ediate use for 
the blood, it is made into pla sm a .

discussing 
co n tro v e rsy 

T h u rs d ay .

9 until 

le tte rs 

M ore 

fro m 

Ghosts M o v e Out, Rats M o v e In

Historic Doom House Loses Horror

to w orld | 

The cia •• 

Old Doom H ouse, 

By H E N R Y A L S M E Y E R

T he s u b je c ts t a u g h t r a n g e f r o m \ 

t h a t eerie 
looking house in th e so u th w e st cor­
n e r of the g ir ls ’ a r c h e r y field d i­
the E n g in e e r in g 
rec tly back of 
its gla m o u r, 
firs t 
Building, 
an d now its h o r ro r .

psychology to m e teorology, fro m 
business m a n a g e m e n t 
history. T h e ir supplies a r e new 
a n d u p -to-da te , w ith a t t r a c t i v e 
l e v hook.-. 
a re or­
g an ized by th e base special se rv ­
ice o ffic er, who a r r a n g e s class­
room 
in ­
s tr u c t o r s a m o n g q u alified p erso n ­
nel. T h e r e is no cost a tta c h e d to 
th e courses. 
I t is all m a de possi­
ble by 
the A rm ed F o rc e s I n s ti­
th e 
tu te . T hese classes a r e n o t m an -
d a t o r y ; it is sim ply an o p p o rtu n - i w eird houses in h o rro r pictures, 
th e old home was f o r m a n y y e a rs
ity. The stud ies m u s t be p u rsu e d 
j a popular sp ot fo r organizations to I until 1917.

th e 
1850’s, is one of the oldest build­
ings on th e cam pus. It is a good 
ex a m ple of th e an te-bellum style 
t h a t was used so m uch in p a r ts of 
th e old South.

T he M a tt R ay m o n d family lived j 

hold in itia tio n services. This popu-1 
la rity is seem ingly declining, since 
only one h as been held 
th e re 
reeently. 

The S ta te L eg islatu re au th o r- 
ized the Board o f R e g e n ts in $917 
to p u rc h a se the house an d a con- 
siderable t r a c t of land a d jo in in g it.
Since the house ha# becom e Uni­
in th e house fo r m a n y y e a rs a f t e r versity p r o p e r ty , it has been used 
it was built. A fte r the R aym o nd as a sto r e r o o m fo r w o m en 's P.T,
classes a n d as a la b o ra to r y . P a rt 
fnmily cam e G eneral W alker, who 
of the house has been to r n aw ay 
lived t h e r e while supervising th e 
and m oved a sh o r t d ista n c e from 
c o n s tru c tio n of th e S ta te Capitol.
the back to be used as a sto reh o u se 
fo r p ow erm ow ers.

th e re a b o u ts , the 
T he d o w n sta irs p o rtio n o f the 
house was sold by the R aym ond 
house is used f o r P.T. sto rero o m s,
heirs 
t o Mrs. A rm a n d a H orne .
Mrs. H o r n e ’s d a u g h t e r becam e the a la b o ra to r y f o r th e stu d y o f root 
bride o f J u d g e Doom in this house ! rot by the D e p a rtm e n t of Zoology 
and th e couple made it th e ir home and Physiology a n d a roo m for

facilities a n d eng a g es 

Tin- old house, built 

L ooking quite a b it 

classes in sculptoring.

In 1892, or 

like 

lost 

in 

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[ i n o ff-d u ty hours.

r 

fo r 

T exas 

editors 

o p e n in g 

U p sta irs a 

; 
scientific e x p e n -

N e w s Service Greets

la b o ra to r y is filled 
A m o N owotny, executive secre-
w ith cages w h ere w hite r a t s are 
k ept before disse tion. T hese r a ts T e x a s N e w s p a p e r Editors u r -v ot the Y k-A., also asks f o r
the nam es of new officers and ac­
r 
a r e used
tivities of all in d e p en d e n t associa-
m ents. 
tions.

th e n
Despite the fac t th a t the house mail fro m The U n iversity o f T exas
F e a tu re d in this edition is “A 
ha - b ee n used f o r these various i N ew s Service this w eek will find
F lier Sm iled,” a le tte r th a t m ight 
purpo ses since 1917, it is listed by 
f l y e r ’s 
have been w ritte n by a 
Miss L o re n a D ru m m o n d and 
the Historic A m eric an Building 
wife who has 
is 
Mrs. A nnie Lee S h elto n o f the 
S urvey as one o f 
its m e a su re d
‘missing in a c tio n .’ Also included 
p ro jec ts. D raw ings w ere m ad e, News Service compiled th e cheery 
in the issue a re " F r o m the A lum ­
l e t t e r of holiday g re e tin g s. It ex­
p h o to g rap h s 
ni C o r n e r ” plans fo>- the y e a r a n d 
m e a su re m e n ts m ade 
the 
nam es o f s tu d e n ts listed in W ho’s 
corded in th e L ib ra ry o f C ongress frie n d ly and g e n e ro u s tr e a tm e n t 
in A m erican Colleges a n d
Who 
in W ashin gton and 
the U niver- o f th e U niversity by T exas news- 
sity was p re se n te d a ce r tif ic a te p a p e r ed ito rs in th e ir colum ns and I I niversities. Joe Mahk and Mar- 
stu d e n ts
com m ending it f o r the preserve- • ex ten d s best wishes fo r the New 
tion of this historic building. 

vin W i s Uni versi ty 

ta k e n , a n d various 

ju s t heard he 

I w ere listed,

ap p re cia tio n 

re- presses 

g ree tin gs.

to be 

^Y ear.

f o r 

 ( C o n t i n u e d f r o m T a p e I ) 
t h e winning: p o i n t w i t h 30 s e c o n d s 
l ef t w h e n c e n t e r Red W i l l i a m s 
d r i b b l e d t h r o u g h t h e d i s o r g a n i z e d 
T e x a n s t o si nk a n e a s y cri p. 

Mi nu s 

G u y Ruccol a. w h o 
b r a i n c o n c u s s i o n 
n i g h t ' s 

t h e s e r v i c e s o f s t a r t e r 
s u f f e r e d 
a 
in W e d n e s d a y 
B l a c k l a n d ,

g a m e wi t h 

T e x a s l a c k e d m u c h o f its s c o r i n g 
p u n c h , T h e S t e e r s f a i l e d t o s c o r e 
d u r i n g t h e f i r s t six m i n u t e s o f t h e 
g a m e a n d 
t h e f i r s t 
t h e n d u r i n g 
e i g h t m i n u t e s o f t h e s e c o n d h a l f . 
M c C i o s k e y 
i n t e r m i s ­
sion, 22-16.

led a t 

t h e 

Do n W o o t e n a n d J o e C r o w l e y , 
t w o h u s t l i n g , b a l l - h a w k i n g ,

t h e 

G o o d T e ach in g Jobs 
A v a il a b l e at M id -T e r m

Umstattd

T e a c h e r s a r e still s c a r c e , e s p e ­
c i a l l y t h o s e f o r m a t h , s ci ence, a n d 
c o m m e r c i a l s u b j e c t s , a c c o r d i n g t o 
Mi ss Mi r i a m Do z i e r , s e c r e t a r y t o 
t h e T e a c h e r s ’ A p p o i n t m e n t C o m ­
mi t t e e .

Go o d 

t e a c h i n g 

j o b s will 

be 
a v a i l a b l e at m i d - t e r m , sai d Miss 
Do z i e r , w h o s e o f f i c e is in S u t t o n 
H a l l 21 9 . Sh e 
t h a t 
t h e r e w a s also a n e e d f o r U . S. O. 
w o r k e r * , b u t o n l y w o m e n b e t w e e n 
t h e a g e s o f 28 a n d 45 n e e d a p p l y .

a n n o u n c e d 

( C o n t i n u e d f r o m P a g e I ) 
s u b j e c t s a t e l e m e n t a r y a n d s e c o n d ­
a r y s c h o o l l ev e l s a s i n s t r u m e n t s f o r 
d e v e l o p m e n t 
d is c i ­
r a t h e r 
p li n e s f o r m e m o r y wo r k .

t h a n 

D e c l a r i n g t h a t a n e w d e f i n i t i o n 
o f s c h o l a r s h i p 
is e m e r g i n g , Dr. 
U m s t a t t d sai d. “ O u r sc hool s m u s t 
give 
t o p r o b l e m s o f 
r ea l i s t i c p r e s e n t - d a y living. H e a l t h 
a n d p h y si c a l 
e d u c a t i o n d e s e r v e 
c r e a t o r a t t e n t i o n , t o o . ”

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h a r d - f i g h t i n g L o n g h o r n 
g u a r d s , 
w e r e l e a d i n g s c o r e r s f o r t h e n i g h t 
wi t h 14 a n d 15 p o i n t s , 
r e s p e c ­
ti vely. Wi l l i a m s , a t a l l r e b o u n d 
a r t i s t , c a p t u r e d h i g h - p o i n t h o n o r s 
f o r t h e h o m e t e a m by s i n k i n g 12 

j p o i n t s.

F o r t h e s e c o n d s t r a i g h t n i g h t , 
t h e L o n g h o r n s w e r e s l o p p y a n d 
r a g g e d in t h e i r p a s s i n g , b a l l - h a n d - j
ling, a n d s h o o t i n g .

A l a r g e c r o w d o f w o u n d e d sol- J

d i e r s f r o m t h e M c C i o s k e y H o s p i ­
t h e 
tal w i t n e s s e d 
I t w a s 
a p p e a r a n c e 
c o u r t 
l a s t 
T e x a s ’s 
u n t i l a f t e r 
t h e C h r i s t m a s h o l i ­
days.

tilt. 

Rice

( C o n t i n u e d f r o m P a g e I ) 
“ f u r t h e r his o w n n a m e a n d f u t u r e 
p o l i t i c a l c a r e e r , ” t h e Rice e d i t o r i a l 
w a r n e d 
t h a t “ we c a n , a n d will, 
s e t t l e t h e p r o b l e m s o f Ri ce a t Ri ce, 
t h e 
on o u r o w n c a m p u s — n o t on 
c a m p u s o f T h e U n i v e r s i t y 
o f 
T e x a s . ”

“ O u r o n l y i n t e r e s t in t h e p r o b ­
l e m s o f T e x a s U n i v e r s i t y 
is t h a t 
of c i t i z e n s o f t h e s t a t e . It is a d e ­
t a c h e d v i e w , W e h o p e t h e y c o m e 
t h e y c a n , d e sp i t e 
o u t 
se l fi s h s t u d e n t l e a d e r s h i p , r e g e n t s , 
a n d a h e a d s t r o n g p r e s i d e n t . As 
s t u d e n t s o f Rice, h o w e v e r , w e 
t o do w i t h T e x a s ’
h a v e n o t h i n g 

t h e b e s t 

; t r o u b l e s , ” t h e e d i t o r i a l d e c l a r e d .

T h i s e d i t o r i a l w a s t h e f i r s t c o l ­
t h e 

l ege 
n a t i o n t o t a k e s u c h a s t a n d .

in T e x a s o r 

e d i t o r i a l 

T h e 
e d i t o r i a l w a s 
d e v o t e d 
in a p e r s o n a l a t t a c k on 
l a r g e l y 
W a l l a c e , t e r m i n g h i m a “ K n i g h t 
in S h i n i n g A r m o r , c h a m p i o n o f t h e 
c o l l e g e 
o p p r e s s e d , 
s t u d e n t s , 
t h e 
d r a g o n o f P r i v i l e g e a n d A u t h o r ­
ity-”

d o e s b a t t l e w i t h 

d o w n t r o d d e n 

. . t o m a k e t h e p o i n t q u i t e 
c l e a r , Mr . W a l l a c e , w e p a r t i c u ­
l ar l y d o n ’t w a n t y o u r g e n e r o u s 
aid, o r t h a t o f T e x a s U n i v e r s i t y , ” 
t h e e d i t o r i a l e n d e d .

A g g i e S a y s U.T. D e a n 
H a s ‘Lecture Interest’

N o t t o o m a n y y e a r s a g o a U n i ­
l i k e a c o u p l e o f 
a 

v e r s i t y s t u d e n t , 
h u n d r e d 
c o u r s e u n d e r D e a n B a n t e l . T h i s | 
o n e - t i m e g o o d L o n g h o r n 
a t A- & M.

o t h e r s , w a s 

is n o w 

t a k i n g 

H e w r o t e , “ I r e m e m b e r t h e i n ­
t e n s e i n t e r e s t y o u c o u l d p u t i n t o 
t r a i n i n g w h i c h 
t h e 
a l e c t u r e a n d 
you g a v e 
t o y o u r cl asses. T h e 
p e r s o n a l c o n t a c t s wh i c h I h a d w i t h 
you h a v e h a d a p r o f o u n d e f f e c t o n 
m y l i f e . ”

So s p o k e Gibb Gi l c h r i s t , p r e s i ­

d e n t o f A. & M.

C. B. A r c h e r t o o k t i m e o u t f r o m 
his d u t i e s a s p r e s i d e n t o f L a m a r 
Co l l eg e a t B e a u m o n t 
B a n t y f o r his c o n t r i b u t i o n to t h e 
t r a i n i n g o f t h e y o u t h o f A m e r i c a .
in 
r u n - ' 

“ Y o u h a v e a l w a y s 
‘f u l l m e a s u r e 

i n s i s t e d 
a n d 

t h a n k j 

g i v i n g 

t o 

I n i n g o v e r ’ t o e v e r y t h i n g y o u a r e 
c all ed u p o n to do . . . I c a n h a v e 
no h i g h e r a m b i t i o n t h a n t o h o p e j 
t h a t w h e n I r e a c h y o u r y e a r s o f 
; s e r v i c e , m y s t u d e n t s c a n t h i n k o f 
r e g a r d : 

s a m e w a y 

t h e 

in 

I 

m e 
you . . . "

Sports Review

B y G E O R G E R A B O R N
T e x a n S p orts W r it e r

R a n d o l p h N o t N u m b e r O n e
B e t t e r l a t e t h a n n e v e r a r e o u r 
! f i n a l c o l l e g i a t e a n d s e r v i c e t e a m 
| r a t i n g s , w h i c h w e w e r e f o r c e d to 
d e l a y u n t i l R a n d o l p h F i e l d h a d 
| p l a y e d it s t w o p o s t - s e a s o n g a m e s 
a f t e r all t h e o t h e r t o p e l e v e n s h a d 
c o m p l e t e d t h e i r s c h e d u l e s .

t h a t 

A n y w a y , R a n d o l p h Fi e l d, 

a l ­
t h o u g h c o m p l e t i n g a n u n d e f e a t e d , 
u n t i e d s e a s o n w i t h t w e l v e s t r a i g h t 
v i c t o r i es , c o n v i n c e d u s 
is 
n o t t h e n u m b e r o n e t e a m o f t h e 
n a t i o n . T h e R a m b l e r * h a d t r o u b l e 
I b e a t i n g 
u n d e f e a t e d M a r c h 
I Fi e l d a g g r e g a t i o n , 20-7, in W a s h - 
. i n g t o n a n d t h e n a we e k l a t e r w e r e 
o u t - 
I t h o r o u g h l y o u t g a i n e d 
: p l a y e d by t h e S e c o n d A i r F o r c e , 

a n d 

t h e 

it 

b e f o r e b a r e l y w i n n i n g , 13-6.

M i g h t y A r m y , by v i r t u e o f its 
s m a s h i n g 23-7 v i c t o r y o v e r N a v y , 
p r o v e d t h a t it is b y f a r t h e best. 
J t e a m in t h e n a t i o n . W e d o u b t if 
a n y o t h e r c o l l eg e e l e v e n w i t h t h e 
i poss i bl e e x c e p t i o n o f Oh i o S t a t e 
: c o u l d b e a t t h e p o w e r f u l Mi dshi p- 
: m e n . 
A n d w e ’r e p o s i t i v e R a n - 
; d o l p h c o u l d n ’t d e f e a t N a v y by 

m o r e t h a n o n e t o u c h d o w n .

r e s t o f o u r 
h a s b e e n o v e r 

I t ’s t oo l a t e t o c o m m e n t on t h e 
r a t i n g s — t h e s e a s o n 
t h r e e w e e k s 
| n o w — so w e ’ll j u s t p r e s e n t o u r t o p 
I t h i r t y t e a m s w i t h o u t f u r t h e r a d o :

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Norman Navy
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Iowa S e a h a w k s
Southern California

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21.
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T exas A. & M,

A r m y a n d O h i o S t a t e f i n i s h e d 
t h e s e a s o n a s t h e o n l y m a j o r col­
t e a m s w i t h p e r f e c t r e c o r d s , 
l e g e 
w hile T e n n e s s e e a n d 
S o u t h e r n 
C a l i f o r n i a , R o s e Bowl , o p p o n e n t s - 
t o - b e , w e r e u n d e f e a t e d b u t 
ti ed. 
R a n d o l p h Fi el d, B a i n b r i d g e N a v y , 
N o r m a n N a v y , a n d F o r t P i e r c e 
w e r e t h e se r vi c e t e a m s w i t h f l a w ­
less r e c o r d s .
A f t e r all 

t h e i r g r i p i n g a b o u t 
h o w we d i d n ' t like t h e M a r o o n s , 
A u s t i n H i g h s t u d e n t s will h a v e to 
a d m i t t h a t we g a v e t h e h o m e t o w n 
t e a m a b e t t e r d e a l o n t h e all -di s­
t r i c t s e l e c t i o n s t h a n d i d “ T h e M a ­
r o o n . ” A u s t i n H i g h ’s b i - m o n t h l y 
n e w s p a p e r .

The A u s t i n H i g h s p o r t s w r i t e r s , 
D i r k Mc I nt i r e a n d O s c a r Ma y s e l , 
t h r e e M a r o o n s on 
i n c l u d e d onl y 
t h e i r a l l - d i s t r i c t 
t e a m a n d 
f o u r on t h e s e c o n d . O u r “ S p o r t s 
Revi ew' ” o f t h r e e w e e k s a g o h a d 
f i v e M a r o o n s on 
t e a m 
a n d f o u r on 
t h e s e c o n d . W h a t 
a b o u t t h a t , A u s t i n H i g h ?

f i r s t 

f i r s t 

t h e 

A n d n o w her** a r e o u r p r e d i c ­
t h e t w o s e m i - f i n a l hi gh 

t i o n s on 
sc hool g a m e s :

is 

t e a m 

the o n l y 

T h e Ye l l o w 

L U F K I N O V E R P O R T A R T H U R ,
J a c k e t s will be
j 
I. f i r e d - u p t o w i n thi s o n e b e c a u s e 
t o d e ­
L u f k i n 
f e a t P o r t Arthur all y e a r . 
T h e 
P a n t h e r s won o v e r 
t h e J a c k e t s , 
20 - 6 , w'hlle n i n e m e m b e r s o f t h e 
P o r t A r t h u r s t a r t i n g l i n e - u p w e r e 
o u t w i t h 
i t a p ­
p e a r s P o r t A r t h u r a t f u l l s t r e n g t h 
h a s a b e t t e r 
t h a n L u f k i n , 
t e a m 
e s p e c i a l l y si n c e L u f k i n b e a t L a ­
m a r ( H o u s t o n ) o n l y 2 0 - 1 5 , while 
t h e J a c k e t s t w i c e w a l l o p e d L a m a r 
b y 40-0 a n d 21-0.
B u t L u f k i n 

is a g r e a t l y 

i n j u r i e s . 

T h u s 

t o o m u c h 

i m ­
p r o v e d t e a m , anti C a r s w e l l ’s p a s s ­
i n g will be 
f o r P o r t 
A r t h u r t o st op. A f i r e d - u p t e a m 
a l w a y s r e f l e c t s i t s s t a t e o f m i n d 
w i t h a 
t e r r i f i c d e f e n s e a g a i n s t 
r u n n i n g pl ays , b u t a g a i n s t p a s s i n g 
li ke L u f k i n ’s, t h e f r e n z i e d J a c k e t s 
will go h a y w i r e . 
L u f k i n s h o u l d 
g o on t o d e f e a t S a n A n g e l o in t h e 
f i n a l s t o win 
S A N A N G E L O O V E R H I G H L A N D
T h e p o w e r f u l B o b c a t s will be 
d o u b l e t o u g h t h i s w e e k - e n d a f t e r 
b e i n g g i v e n s u c h a s c a r e by A m a ­
rillo l as t S a t u r d a y b e f o r e w i n n i n g , 
2 0- 13, a n d s h o u l d w h i p t h e Scot - 
t i e s w i t h o u t 
t r o u b l e . 
H i g h l a n d P a r k is a n u p - a n d - d o w n 
t e a m , b e i n g t i e d b y w e a k G r e e n ­
l i ck i n g 
vil le o n e w e e k a n d 
t o u c h ­
( D a l l a s ) by 
S u n s e t 
d o w n s t h e n e x t .

t h e n 
t h r e e 

t o o m u c h 

t h e s t a t e .

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T H E T O G G E R Y
J. L. ROSE 
2 3 1 0 G u adalupe

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near with a pack of gifts . * 

and you'll soon be on your 

way home. Merry Christmas 

„. and we'll see you next year.

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F r e e t h r o w s m i s s e d : H o r n c y e r , 
C l e a r y , C r o w l e y 2, W o o t e n , F i t z ­
g e r a l d , O ’S u l l i v a n , W i l l i a m s 2, 
G r a h a m 3.

S c o r e a t h a l f : M c C i o s k e y 22, 

T e x a s 16.

O f f i c i a l s : L u i s e t t i a n d H a r m o n .

Faculty

( C o n t i n u e d 

f r o m P a g e 

m a k e f u t u r e p l a n s w i t h 
si bi l i t y in m i n d .

I ) 
thi s p o s ­

I n a d d i t i o n , t h i r t y - n i n e f a c u l t y 
m e m b e r s a g r e e d t h a t Dr. R a i n e y ’s 
i de a l s f o r t h e U n i v e r s i t y a r e s o u n d 
b u t q u e s t i o n e d t h e w i s d o m o f his 
r e i n s t a t e m e n t .

T h e v o t i n g w a s c o n d u c t e d on 
t h e ba si s o f six q u e s t i o n s — wi t h 
a n a l t e r n a t e o f a s e v e n t h in wh i c h 
i n d i v i d u a l o p i n i o n s m i g h t be e x ­
p r e s s e d .

T h e s e q u e s t i o n s a n d t h e v o t e s r e ­

c e i v e d f o l l o w :

“ I . I be l i ev e 

t h a t c e r t a i n R e ­
t h e 
i n j u r e d 
g e n t s h a v e s e r i o u s l y 
U n i v e r s i t y a n d 
f a c u l t y 
t h e 
t h a t 
s h o u l d r e c o r d i t s d e s i r e t h a t t h e y 
r e s i g n — 2 4 0 .

“ 3. 

“ 2, I b e l i ev e t h a t Dr. R a i n e y ’s 
r e i n s t a t e m e n t is a b s o l u t e l y e s s e n ­
ti al t o t h e w e l f a r e of t h e U n i v e r ­
t h a t t h e f a c u l t y s h o u l d 
s i t y a n d 
s t r i v e c o n t i n u o u s l y by e v e r y p r o p ­
e r m e a n s t o a c h i e v e t h i s e n d — 230.
I s u p p o r t Dr. R a i n e y b u t 
f ee l 
t h a t t h e f a c u l t y s h o u l d t a k e 
no f u r t h e r a c t i o n a t t h i s t i m e — 52.
“ 4. I f e e l t h a t Dr. R a i n e y ’s r e ­
i n s t a t e m e n t 
t o be 
is n o t 
a c h i e v e d a n d s h o u l d n o t g o v e r n 
t h e f o r m u l a t i o n o f f u t u r e p l a n s — 
68.

l i ke l y 

f o r 

t h e U n i v e r s i t y 

“ 5, I b e l i e v e t h a t Dr . R a i n e y ’s 
i d e a l s 
a re 
s o u n d , b u t I q u e s t i o n t h e w i s d o m 
o f his r e i n s t a t e m e n t — 39.
“ 6. I n m a g a i n s t Dr. R a i n e y a n d 

his r e i n s t a t e m e n t — 1 7. ”

Holidays-—

( C o n t i n u e d f r o m P a g e I ) 
t h e g i r l s ’ 

s i n g i n g b y 
C h r i s t m a s E v e 
d a y 
C h r i s t m a s 
m o r n i n g a t l l o ’clock.

c h o i r on 
a n d 
s p e c i a l 
a 
s e r v i c e M o n d a y 

C a r o l s i n g i n g wi l l f o l l o w a s u p ­
p e r 
a t 4 0 4 E a s t T h i r t y - f o u r t h 
S t r e e t , p l a n n e d b y t h e U n i v e r s i t y 
C h r i s t m a s 
P r e s b y t e r i a n C h u r c h . 
c a r o l s will he s u n g f o r s e r v i c e ­
m e n a t t h e S u n d a y m o r n i n g s e r v ­
ice f r o m 8 u n t i l IO o ’clock.

A C h r i s t m a s p l a y , “ T h e y T h a t 
S i t in D a r k n e s s , ” will b e p r e s e n t ­
ed a t 
t h e F i r s t B a p t i s t C h u r c h 
S u n d a y n i g h t a t 7 :30. A C h r i s t m a s 
t r e e f o r t h e s e r v i c e m e n is p l a n n e d 
f o r t h e u s u a l F e l l o w s h i p H o u r .

U n i v e r s i t y g i r l s w h o r e t u r n on 
t i m e f o r N e w Y e a r ’s E v e will be 
g i v e n a d e l a y e d Christm as p resen t 
by t h e D e a n o f W o m e n , w h o a n ­
n o u n c e s t h a t b o a r d i n g h o u s e s a n d 
d o r m i t o r i e s will close a t I o ' cl o c k 
i n s t e a d of 
on N e w Y e a r ' s E v e 
t h e u s u a l 11 o ’c l o c k e v e n t h o u g h 
c l a s s e s will m e e t N e w Y e a r ’s D a y . 
T h e e x t e n d e d t i m e will a l l o w s t u ­
d e n t s t o a t t e n d m i d n i g h t s e r v i c e s 
a n d w a t c h e s g i v e n by m a n y A u s ­
t i n c h u r c h e s .

N o A p p l e * — J us t H a n k i e s

in E n g l i s h 

I t w a s n ’t “ a p p l e p o l i s h i n g ” t h a t 
p r o m p t e d Dr . L. W . P a y n e ’s all 
gi r l class 
t o "want to 
r e m e m b e r h i m w i t h a C h r i s t m a s 
is o n l y t e a c h i n g o n e 
g i f t . As h e 
t h e s t u d e n t s 
c l a s s 
e l e c t e d t o h o n o r o n e o f t h e E n g ­
lish d e p a r t m e n t ’s m o s t p o p u l a r 
p r o f e s s o r s b y g i v i n g h i m i n i t i a l e d 
l i n e n h a n d k e r c h i e f s .

thi s s e m e s t e r 

Fraternity, Navy M en 
Lead Mural Team

B y B I L L J O H N S O N

A s s o c i a t e S p o r t s E d i t o r

*
a n d 

F r a t e r n i t y 

n a v y 

t e a m s , I 

w h o s e d i v i s i on a l 
r e p r e s e n t a t i v e s 
h a d b a t t l e d W e d n e s d a y a f t e r n o o n 
f o r 
t h e 

t h e c h a m p i o n s h i p , d o m i n a t e d 1 
t o u c h 

f o o t b a l l a l l - i n t r a m u r a l 
i n t r a ­

, f i r s t t e a m r e l e a s e d b y t h e 

m u r a l o f f i c e y e s t e r d a y .

Bo b F r e n c h , S i g m a A l p h a E p - j 

j u d g e s . N e v e r a 

i-ilon’s f i n e t a i l b a c k , w a s a u n a n i ­
m o u s f i r s t - t e a m c h o i c e a m o n g t h e 
n i n e 
s e e k e r , b u t c l e a r l y a vit al c o g in 
t h e m a c h i n e r y o f t h e 
t h a t 
w o n 
c h a m p i o n s h i p , F r e n c h 
w a s p a s s e r , s i g n a l c a l l er , a n d o n e 
o f S. A. E . ’s b e s t r u n n e r s .

t e a m 

t h e 

s p o t l i g h t j 

★

f i r s t - t e a m choi ce s. 

O u t s t a n d i n g v i r t u e o f t h e f i r s t 
t e a m w a s t h e w e l l - r o u n d e d c o h e ­
r e n c e o f 
I n 
o n l y o n e o f t h e n i n e p o s i t i o n s w a s 
t h e r e a close c o u n t . C a r l e S h a r p , 
c e n t e r 
f o r D e l t a K a p p a Ep s i l on 
d u r i n g t h e f i r s t h a l f o f t h e s e a ­
son a n d l a t e o f t h e a r m e d f o r c e s , 
e d g e d o u t N i n t h C o m p a n y ’s R. L. 
W h i t e w i t h IO p o i n t s t o t h e l a t- 
t e r ' s 8. H a d S h a r p b e e n h e r e f o r 
e v e n o n e o f t h e p l a v - o f f g a m e s , 
i t h e c o u n t m i g h t h a v e b e e n m o r e 

o n e - s i d e d .

t r a e k s t e r 

L i t t l e Mi ke C a l l a s o f N i n t h 
C o m p a n y ' s r u n n e r - u p a g g r e g a t i o n 
J o h n B u r r u s of 
a n d 
! S i g m a N u , w h o m S. A. E. d e f e a t ­
t i t l e , w e r e 
ed f o r 
s e c o n d a n d 
t h i r d h i g h - p o i n t me n 
w i t h s c o r e s o f 16 a n d 14, r e s p e c - 
i i vely.

t h e f r a t e r n i t y 

R o u n d i n g o u t t h e b a c k f i e l d w a s 
P r e s b y t e r i a n ’s o n e - m a n g a n g , A. 
E. “ H a p p y ” Ellis, w h o s e 14 p o i n t s 
wa s b e t t e r t h a n a n y o f t h e l i n e ­
m e n ' s 

t ot a l .

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T w o n a v y m e n , G. D. C a u s e y 
o f N i n t h C o m p a n y a n d J . J . R o b ­
e r t s o n o f F i f t h Co., L. C. D., hold 
d ow n t h e e n d b e r t h s , e a c h h a v i n g 
11 p o i n t s . O f t h e t w o m e n R o b ­
e r t s o n h a s p r o b a b l y b e e n a m o r e 
vit al f a c t o r in his t e a m ’s su c c es s . 
A s well as b e i n g a f i n e p a s s r e ­
c e i v e r , R o b e r t s o n 
s p a r k p l u g g e d 
Li t t l e C a m p u s w i t h his f i n e d e ­
f e n s i v e a b i l i t y.

P a y t o n A n d e r s o n o f P h i K a p p a 
S i g m a wa# n a m e d a l l - i n t r a m u r a l 
r i g h t t a c k l e f o r t h e s e c o n d s t r a i g h t 
y e a r . H e h a d 9 p o i n t s .

Al so w i t h 9 p o i n t s a t t h e o t h e r 
t a c k l e w a s N i n t h C o m p a n y ' s V. R. 
S mi t h . S m i t h r o u n d e d o u t t h e t r i o 
o f P r a t h e r b o y s m a k i n g t h e f i r s t 
t e a m .

t e a m 

W i t h t h e e x c e p t i o n of o n e s e c ­
o n d - p l a c e v o t e , e v e r y m a n w h o 
r e c e i v e d p o i n t s w a s a m e m b e r o f 
i n t r a m u r a l
a 
p l a y - of f s . T w e n t y o f t h e 
t w e n t y - 
f o u r t e a m s t h a t q u a l i f i e d f o r t h e 
e l i mi n a t i o n s e r i e s r e c e i v e d v o t e s 
f o r a t l e a s t o n e o f t h e i r m e n .

t h a t e n t e r e d 

R e p r e s e n t a t i o n w a s e v e n m o r e 
l o p s i d e d f o r t h e n a v y on t h e sec ­
on d t e a m . It is c o m p o s e d o f fi ve 
n a v y m e n , o n e 
t w o 
MI C A , a n d o n e club.

f r a t e r n i t y , 

All-Intramural Football Team

First Team

P o i n t * O r g a n i z a t i o n

N a m e

P o s . 
L E — G. I). C a u s e y
L T — V. R. S m i t h
C — C a r l e F. Silas p
R T — P. Y. A n d e r s o n
R E — J, J . R o b e r t s o n
Q B — M. A. ( a l i f s
L H — R o b e r t L. F r e n c h
R H — A. E. Ellis
F B — J o h n B u r r u s s

N a m e

Po*. 
L E — J . D. W a l l n e r
L l —-N. (., C o l e m a n
C— R. L. W h i t e
R T — I). A. B a k e r
RPI— W. H. E p p e r s o n
Q B — H a r r y W h i t t i n g t o n
L H — W. L. Mo o r e
R H — L, J . Ti n r to cho
F B — L. C. S l a p e

W . H. A r n o l d
G u s W a l l a
J . A. K e n n e l l
F . W. H o o v e r
C. E. L o v e
E d M o o r e s
W . G. A n d e r s o n
B. E. Gi l l e sp i e
R u s s e l l B a r b o u r
J . H, A m m e r m a n
R. B, Mi l l e r
J a c k C a r t e r •
E r n e s t D u e s t e r h o e f t
J . P. S c h n e i d e r
T o m B a r r o w
S. L. N e w m a n
W. R. E s l e r
D. V. P a r s o n s
E. P. M a u k
Ph i l (>a*pp
H. L* H o n e y c u t t
G e o r g e R a b o r n
A . D. F r i c k e
R. L. S h a r p
p i c k W e h n e r
P a u l m e r Be c k
G e o r g e M c l n t i r e
W , P. A n d r e w s
R o b e r t M a n o g u e
R, A. A n d e r s o n
D o u g a s P i e r c e
R. T. M e l l a r d
S. M. F i t z p a t r i c k
H o w a r d F e d e r e r
J . T. B i g b y
G. M. H o o p e r
C l e m R o b e r t s
B. R. C a r l i sl e

Second Team

P o i n t * O r g a n i s a t i o n

H o n o r a b le M e n tio n

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18
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5
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9 t h Co. , P r a t h e r
D. KL E.
Phi K a p p a S i g m a
5 t h Co., L. C. D.
9t h Co. , P r a t h e r
S. A . E.
P r e s b y t e r i a n Cl u b
S i g m a N u

T, L. O. K.
9 t h Co., P r a t h e r
9 t h Co., P r a t h e r
P r e s b y t e r i a n C l u b
9 t h Co. , P r a t h e r
R e l u c t a n t D r a g o n s
S. A. E.
9t h Co. , P r a s h e r
1 s t Co. , R o b e r t s

P r e s b y t e r i a n C l u b
S i g m a N u
3 r d Co., R o b e r t s
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S . A . E .
D . K . E .
S i g m a Chi
P r e s b y t e r i a n C l u b
K a p p a S i g m a
P r e s b y t e r i a n C l u b
S A E.
S . A . E .
T e j a s C l u b
D . K . E .
A . T . O .
K A .
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P r e s b y t e r i a n C l u b
S i g m a N u
S i g m a C h i
R e l u c t a n t D r a g o n s
B a r n s t o r m e r s
1 0 t h Co., Hill Hal l
S. R. D. D a r k H o r s e s
S i g m a Ch i
6 t h Co. , L. C. D.
A . T . O .
B S . U .
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A . T. O .
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T . L . O . K .
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Brat Colonel
And R O T Cee
Are Engaged

U. T. Contest Yields 
Top Fight Songs

Mr. 

c o s t u m e C h r i s t m a s 

and Mrs. S a n ta Claus, 
r ea lly A nnelid Sarrell and B e t t y 
the Grace
C ulb erson, a tt e n d e d 
Hall 
party 
l l o ’clock.
W e d n e s d a y n ig h t at 
Mr. and Mrs. S a n ta C laus won 
th e prize fo r th e b est c o stu m e and 
F a th e r T im e and th e N e w Y ear, 
h o n ora b le m en tio n .

A t th e C hristm as tr e e to y s w ere 
e x c h a n g e d w ith a poem w ritte n 
to b urlesq u e som e ch a rac teristic 
o f the rec eiv er. T he to y s w ill be 
to All Saints* Chapel 
(riven 
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th eir 
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party.

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Th* W o m e n ’! Gym is all Christ-
m a s y w ith a red and silv er d e c ­
orate!! C h ristm a s 
ta te, and c o n ­
trib u tio n box fo r C hristm as d in ­
n ers fo r u n d e rp riv ileg ed girls.

The b u lletin boards, th e lock er 
room s, and th e stair lan d in gs are 
g a y w ith red and g r e e n C hristm as 
posters.

This w eek , g ym classes ha ve 
m e t to g e t h e r for g ro up g a m e s and 
ca rolin g, and F rida y classes, as a 
C hristm as p r e s e n t , did n o t m ee t.

The Lane board ing h o use. 2 103 
i N u eces, is u n iq u e ly d eco ra ted fo r 
It has the 
the C hristm as sea son . 
usual 
holly 
S a n t a C lau ses, 
w reath s, a nd C hristm as trees, but 
on doors and w in d o w 
panes wdth w ash a b le paint. 
In ­
side d e c o r a tio n s are pa in te d on 
the w o od w o rk , but th e C hristm as 
tree and th e m is tle to e are re a l! 

j pain ted 

*

An 

“ a f t e r 

c lo sin g 

hours" 
C h ristm a s p arty w a s held at the 
J. D. Co p e l a nd b oa rd in g hou se, 
1907 U n iv e r s i ty A v e n u e , T u e s d a y 
night.

J erry H a e g e lin , p rogram ch a ir­
man, 
in tro d u ce d P e g g y D ixon, 
who read a p oem , Hell Johnson 
and Jea n R a t li f f , w ho dan ced, and 
B e tty J a n e T a y lo r p layed th e har­
trio, A g n e s K olos, 
monica. 
Ruth B o u t w e ll, and M arjorie Dari- 
lek. sa n g C hristm as carols. Mitty 
the N ig h t 
B a r n e tt read “ ’T w a s 

A 

I B e fo r e C hristm as."

I 

P e g g y C u m m in gs w a s S a n ta 
(*laus and distribu ted 
th e g i f t s 
which will be g iven to the dow n - 

* town t o y c e n te r .

N e w m a n Hall held 

its an n u a l
C h ristm as dinner T u esd a y n ig h t. 
A f t e r the dinner, th e girls sa n g 
Christm as carols, and e x c h a n g e d 
g i f t s which w ere 
to 
und erp r ivile ged children.

la ter g iv e n 

+

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The Baptist St udent Uni o n w a s
h o stess to a gro u p o f u n d er p riv­
ileg ed girls a t a C hristm as p a r ty 
T u e s d a y n ig h t 
the B a p tis t 
Goodw ill C enter.

a t 

Bill Pittard, ed u ca tio n al d ire c­
th e U n iv e r s ity B a p tis t 

tor o f 
Church, a cted as S a n ta Claus.

T u rk e y dinner w as g iven Alpha 
Del ta Pi sor ority by their h o u s e ­
J. H. M itchell, 
m oth er, Mrs. 
W e d n e sd a y night. 
Red c a n d les 
a n d a c e n te rp ie ce o f red w r e a th e s 
t h e 
and g r e e n 
tab le.

lea v e s ad orn ed 

Red and g ree n s tre a m e rs and 
a h u g e C hristm as tr ee will d e c ­
o rate the e n tr a n ce hall and liv in g 
room o f th e Sigma Nu h ou se fo r 
a C h ristm a s party, F rida y n ig h t 
at 8 :3 0 o ’clock. A m oss g a te will 
le ad in to th e rock room .

o f 

R e sid en ts 

th e Lo n g ho r n 
House, 
f o r m e r ly P ierce H o u se , 
g a v e a C hristm as party T u e s d a y 
night.

G u ests w e r e Ervin A rch ie, Sam 
Carrao, Harold F a r rin g to n , R o b ­
ert F u e r st, Lee Goodm an, C lifto n 
H olt, A rnold Matthai, M ason M a t­
th e w s, E r n e s to D el Paso, J ack 
J a m e s 
Phillips, David 
S h elto n , Mr. and Mrs. R o b e rt 
0 . T h o m as, J a m e s T ip p ett, J im ­
mie W a lker, Calvin W ilson , S e y ­
m ou r W is e n fc ld t , Jack W ood, and 
B erry Y a n tis.

Seibert, 

Mrs. Joe B e r l o w i u ’ b o ar d in g 
h o u se, 1 9 05 Rio Grande, e n t e r ­
tain e d w ith a fo rm a l p a rty S u n ­
d a y e v e n in g .

P o in s e t tia s and m istle to e w ere 
d e c o r a tio n s for the d an cin g , sh o rt 
p rog ram , and b u f f e t supper.

Shangri Le co -o p e ra tiv e h o u se 
had a pajam a party at l l o ’clock 
W e d n e s d a y n igh t.

A f t e r severa l C hristm as caro ls, 
sk it w a s p re se n te d b y L eis 
a 
T h iem e, J im m ie C lay ton , E d n a 
P e te r so n , and B e tty Graham . Jo 
g a v e
and Lois T h ie m e 
F u lle r 

] variations on the w a y s in which 
I college c o u p le s d an ce, As Santa 
Claus G e n e v ie v e N e lso n distribut­
ed the gifts.

Delta Phi Epsi l on held a fa r e ­
well p arty fo r h o m e - g o in g pled ges 
the y e a r 1 944 W ed n esd a y 
and 
| night at th e c h a p te r house. A f t e r 
I b u f f e t dinner, p led g es, a lu m n a e, 
and a c tiv e s s a n g Christmas and 
sorority songs. G u ests were Mes- 
and Milton 

j dam es A l B e r le r 
I Smith.

★

*

Mr*. W. H. Sa t t er f i e l d, h o u s e ­
mother at 2 3 0 1 Rio Grande, ga ve 
her 
p arty 
W ed n e sd a y n ig h t a t 9 o ’clock.

a C hristmas 

girls 

G ifts w e r e e x c h a n g e d . A round 
the Christmas 
t r e e w ere P e g g y 
McDonald, A n n e P orter, B e t t y 
Shepherd, M inta P olicy, Carolyn 
W ilson, B e t t y J o B ou ercn , B e tty 
Brown, B illy 
J o y c e M cK enzie, 
J ea n n e Miller, M arilyn D au gh t- 
rey, and J e a n B o yd .

D u n h a m Tells P. E. Group 
H o w to Choose Vocation

D eterm in in g th e r easons w h y an | 

colleg e 

a t t e n d s 

individual 
and 
a n a ly zin g o n e ’s st r o n g and w eak 
points are e s s e n tia l in choosing a ; 
v o c a t i o n , Dean C harles V. D u n ­
ham told S ectio n B o f the F resh- J 
man F u n d a m e n ta ls class Friday 
morning a t th e W o m e n s G y m n a ­
sium.

An 

in tere sts, p erso n ality, and 

an I 
individual m u s t have 
u n d er sta n d in g o f his g en era l abib-1 
ties, 
special a p titu d e s. W a y s o f a n aly z- j 
in g these q u a litie s are by ap titu d e ; 
tests, 
ta k in g p art-tim e em p loy- j 
m en t b efo re g r a d u a tio n from c o l - 1 
le ge, tak in g c o u r s e s related t o a 
in terest, and 
vocation o f sp e cia l 
in 
reading as m u ch a s possible 
tex tb o o k s and p eriodicals a b o u t 1 
th a t vocation,

A d iscu ssion o f v o c a tio n s fo l- I 

low ed Dean D u n h a m 's talk.

Et t e Grace Park*, a F ine A rts 
g rad u ate 
in J u n e , 1 9 44 , v isited 
the cam pus T u e s d a y and W e d n e s ­
day. An art s t u d e n t while a t th e 
U n iv ersity , M iss Park s has been 
doing a n im a tio n w ork 
fo r W a lt 
D isney since hei g ra d ua tio n.

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All Feminine Cast 
In 1945 'Revue'

T w e n ty -o n e fem in in e e n te r t a in ­
ers will com pose the ca st o f th e 
Curtain Club's “ C abaret R evu e o f 
1 94 5."

S p e cia lties 

for th e prod u ction 
fe atu re Martha S to n e , d an cer; 
B e tty Jo W in e s e tt, v oc a list; A b b e y 
Rae A le x a n d e r , a c c o id ia n is t; Jean 
Black, Mary Lee L inscom b, and 
G len na Lea Couch, trio ; J e a n n e t 
Clist and Corin ne H an over.

B e tty J e a n F la n n ery w ith va ria­
toe" w ill be 
tion s o f “ tap and 
for a ch oru s o f 
dan ce d irector 
ele ve n girls 
in cluding E m ily Mc- 
N e e lv , Margaret H en d e rson , Jo 
Cabaniss, J a n e Cole Carter, B e tty 
Blanchard, Lulu Starnes, B e v e r ly 
Ellis, B e t t y Jo W m e s e t t , D ix ie 
Oliver, A nn Y annam an, 
a n d 
Triein Raleigh.

Both tu n es will be used during 

the gridiron sea son and at other 
school events. T h ey w ere ju d g e d I 
b y a co m m ittee o f both stu d en t 

and fa cu lty. B e fo r e the son g s w ere 

p resen ted to 
the c o m m ittee, the 
n a m es o f the com p osers w ere torn 
o f f and replaced by a number. ’ 
T h e n am es o f the com p osers along 
with their resp ective nu m b er w a s I 
record ed for fu t u r e id en tificatio n .
T his co n test to fin d new songs 

in stiga ted by Jo h n n y Barn- j 

w as 
hart, head ye ll lea d er, in order to 
s in g in g and 
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the 
w r itin g m elod ies 
fo r 
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In the r e c e n t ca m p u s c o n te s t to 
find new fi g h t s o n g s t o arrouse 
more school spirit, first place w e n t 
to D oroth y F lo w er s, K a t h e r i n e • 
B uckley, an d L u cy Grey and th eir 
m elod y to th e t u n e o f “ P ack Up 
Y our T rou b le s 
in Your Old Kit 
B ag."

I 
D ick S a r g e n t, G en e S tin n e tt,
I and Jea n F in e hailed seco n d place 
with an origin al m elo d y , “ F ig h t 
On For T e x a s UY*

I 

T h e fir st p la cer w as p resen ted j 

th e public by 

to 
the L onghorn 
Band and w or d s distr ib u ted to the 
st u d e n ts a t the p a st T ex as-A . & M. 
pep rally.

T he so n g with o r ig in a l m elody 
had no o r c h e str a tio n a l a r r a n g e ­
m e n t s and co uld n o t be p resen ted 
until such a r r a n g e m e n t s w er e ob- i 
ta in ed . T his so n g will be p resented 
a t th e f ir s t c o n f e r e n c e basketball ' 
g a m e ,

Feet Hurt? Try 
Books for Xmas

| 

If y o u ’re a d e lin q u e n t Christ­
mas shopper ju s t brow ze around
th e boo ksh elves 
caninus 
bookstore:' fo r a w h ile, and ideas 
o f what to g iv e m a y cry stallize j 
into books.

th e 

in 

The e n g a g e m e n t o f E dn a Ori­
so n o f V ictoria t o R o b ert E dward 
W a lto n o f Gary, In d ian a, has been
a n n ou n ce d . B oth are st u d en ts in 
the U n iv er sity . W alton is a m e m ­
ber o f the N av al R.O.T.C. u n it on 
the cam pus.

Miss Colson 

is a m em b er o f 
A lpha Chi O m ega sorority, A s s o ­
ciate J u stice o f th e S tu d e n t Court, 
O ra n ge J a c k ets , co lo n e l o f 
the 
B rat R e g im e n t, an d Who's W h o 
in A m er ica n C o lleg es and U n i ­
v ersities.

On the fictio n s h e lv es y o u ’ll find I 
Dr. A, J. C r o n in ’s “ T h e G reen | 
W a lto n is a m em b er o f S ig m a 
Y ears." Y o u ’ll add R obert S h a n - j 
A lpha Epsilon 
fr a te r n ity , chair­
non to Dr. M anson o f “ The C ita ­
man o f th e N a v y D a n c e C om m it­
del" and F a th er F ran cis o f “ The : 
tee, a m e m b er o f th e A ll-U n iv e r ­
K e y s o f th e K in gd om ." The story 
sity D an ce C o m m ittee, A m e rica n 
o f his e x p e r ie n c e s with his fa m ily ,
A s s o c i a t i o n 
n eers, and w a s F r e sh m a n Sp o n sor | Triends, a n d a m b itio n w ill recall
o f th e “ Y

o f E lectr ia l Engi

'Gossip Columnist’
Santa Visits Kirby 
Christmas Party

t h e 

spread 

S a n ta C laus v is ite d at Kirby 
Hall W e d n e s d a y n ig h t, a nd h elped 
la t e s t gossip on 
to 
w hich of the c o u p le s a t th e pa rty 
w e re e n g a g e d , a n d w hich w e r e 
j u s t “ alm ost." B e f o r e S a n t a ’s a r ­
rival 
th eir d a te s 
heard T o m m y B ev er sd o rp h p la y 
‘i ’ll Take You H om e A ga in ,
K a t h le e n ” and “ E v e n in g Star" 
fro m “ T a n n h a u ser " on th e trom - 
bone.

th e g ir ls a n d 

s o m e th in g personal to all readers. I 
It is spiritual and h u m o rou s all at 
th e sam e tim e.

“ I f it ’s fo r a N a v y m an, you 
m ig h t ch oose “ W h ere A w a y " by I 
G eorge S ess io n s P er ry and Isabel i 
L eighton . I f s a b o u t the men o f 
the U .S .S . M arbleh ead — 6 7 5 men 
who w ere lifte d from q u iet lives ; 
into action, and ab o u t each man 
th ere is a story. T here is a lo t o f 
screa m in g death, tw is te d steel, and 
b u rnin g oil, but in g en e ra l it re- i 
fl e e ts the spirit o f th e m e n at sea. i 

it

fa m ily , tw o o f th e best are 

I f i f s n o n -f ic tio n y o u ’re looking 
fo r , e sp e cia lly f o r th e f a t h e r o f j 
th e 
E d g a r S n o w ’s “ P e o p le 
Side." and “ T im e 
by S u m n er W elles.

fo r D e c isio n ” 

on Our j 

“ P eople on Our Side" 

is c o n ­
cern ed w ith th ree g r e a t co un tries, 
China, India, and Russia, and g iv e s 
th e ir political outlook . It u n w in d s
.

The red-auited g e n tle m a n did 
his usual job o f d is trib u tin g g i f t s 
to all o f the girls, and p rese n ted
Mrs. B. M. C o rlette, director o f
Ki r b y Hail, 
err! Miss E s t h e r 
C h n , t e n , . i i , b u n n , , , m . n . g . r o f | t h . m y . t e n « . n d _ b .ck,rou rid _ rn
th e s e cou n tries— it 
the 
the dorm, with their gifts from 
c o n fl ic t b e tw e e n th e n a tio na l g o v ­
the girls.
e r n m e n t an d th e co m m u n ist g o v ­
e r n m e n t in China, and th e e f f e c t 
it h a s had on the w ar, it tells o f th e 
c o n f l ic t in India b e tw e e n the Hin

T h e gifts the g irls e x c h a n g e d 
were those that can later be given
t<* th e poor ch ild ren. T he girls
also marie a money donation for a dug and Mogle 
n eed v fa m ily.

tells o f 

and w ith Gr„ t ;

f f l W l I S ? 

tA A A / * f t 

. 

, 

, 

, 

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I 

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A f t e r th e g i f t s w ere d is tr ib u t­
ed, P rivate F irst Class L ee W e l­
lin g to n and P r iv a te F irst C lass 
H ow ard W illiam o f Camp S w if t 
p la y e d d u ets 
T he 
p arty w as p reced ed by a Christ­
m as d inner fo r th e girls o f th e 
dorm.

fo r d an cin g . 

From Nuts to Noodles
In Red Cross Cook Book
“ You A sked fo r It!" a coo k book 
th e 
com piled 
o f 
by m em b e rs 
th e 
T r a v is C o u n ty C hapter o f 
A m erica n Red Cross, 
lists grill 
m en us, recipes, w a y s to cook f o r 
a la rge n um ber o f people.

S ou p recip e s in clu d e those fo r 
sou th ern bean sou p , cream o f p o­
ta to , shrimp bisque. S u b titles su ch 
as “ or w h a t to do w ith s t o c k ” and 
“ this is rea lly a sh o w p iec e" fo llo w 
the proper n a m es o f the recipes.

T he salad se c tio n g iv e s s u g g e s ­
tio n s fo r salad bow l com b in ation s. 
A lso given are recip e s for sa u c es 
and salad d r e ss in g ; m ea t and main 
dishes, v e g e t a b l e s and side dishes, 
and cakes and c o o k ie s fo r d esserts. 
S a n dw ich ed b e tw e e n are ca n dies 
and san d w ich spreads.

A side lig h t o f th e book are the 
pen and ink sk e t c h e s o f the Red 
Cross A u stin h ead qu arters.

“ You A sk ed f o r It" m a y be o b ­
ta in ed at Red C ross h ead q uarters, 
S e v e n th and Guadalup e and a t th e 
cash ier's 
th# Chuck 
W a g o n .

desk 

o f 

Baptists to H a v e Candle 
Service for Servicemen

C andles will be lighted fo r e v ­
ery serv icem a n fr o m th e U n iv e r ­
sity B a p tist Church a t th e c h u rch ’s 
N e w Year w atch party sta rtin g 
at. 6 :3 0 S u n d a y e v e n in g , D e c e m ­
ber 31.

in 

t o be 

lighted 

A t l l o ’clock in the Main A u d i ­
torium service w ill be held fo r th e 
boys who are a w a y , and the c a n ­
dles are 
th eir 
m em o r y by e ith e r a m e m b er o f 
th eir fa m ily or a frien d. 
In a 
sp ecial serv ice fo r fo u r boys w h o 
ca n d les w ill 
killed 
hav e been 
sh in e dow n 
th e 
in 
fro m high 
church. S e r v ic e s clo se a s th e n e w 
y e a r co m es in.

B erg stro m and S w if t s e r v i c e ­
m en will a tt e n d th e w a tch p a rty 
which b eg in s w ith 
th e reg u la r 
T ra in in g U n ion h ou r in the d o w n ­
sta irs a u ditorium . A b o ut 8 o ’clock 
m em b ers will ad jo u rn to th e M ain 
A u d ito riu m w h ere Dr. Sm ith will 
m a k e his a n n u a l report 
the 
church. A f t e r th is will co m e th e 
L o r d ’s S u pper.

to 

The d ow n sta irs w ill be open fo r 
* a period o f rea ctio n and r e fr e s h ­
m ents b efo re th e l l o ’clock serv- 
1 ice begins.

Britain, and it g iv e s an e x p la n a ­
tion fo r R u s s ia ’s rise to p ow er and 
her p o te n tia litie s.

“ Tim e f o r D ecisio n " em p h asizes 
that A m eric an people m u st d e te r -! 
mine the co urse to ta ke, and th at j 
the tim e is now. Mr. W e lle s cov ers : 
the m istake o f th e t r e a t y m akers 
at V e rsaille s and 
th e blindness 
th a t fo llo w e d . H e ta k e s up th e 
prob lem s o f o th e r c o u n trie s, tn d 
su g g e s ts w'hat t h e y w ill w a n t out 
o f this w a r — a p oin t e f vital con - j 
cern to the U n ite d S ta tes. F in a lly j 
Mr. W elles sets forth his plan fo r j 
a post-w ar world, so m e th in g like 
D om b arto n Oaks but d i f f e r e n t j 
en ou g h to be in t e r e s tin g fo r com - j 
p a n son.

B u t if y o u ’re sho p ping fo r th at
li e u te n a n t on th e w e ste r n front, 
y o u ’d b e tte r try so m e th in g like the 
biography o f “ Sad Sack," 
the 
typ ical a rm y little g u y w ho a lw a y s 
g e t s all o f the work and none o f 
the rank. The story is told in 115 
cartoons, and t h e y are h ilarious!

Y ou m ig h t g e t Bob Hope's “ I 
N ev er L e f t H o m e" als o, b ecau se 
it’s ju s t as fu n n y . It's th e story o f 
B o b ’s jo u r n e y a m o n g th e armed 
forces, and it’s t h r e e - fo u r th s pure 
H o p e h um or an d o n e -f o u r th sin ­
ce re trib u te to th e work our sol­
diers are doin g.

Senior Artists Teach 
15 in City Schools

Senior a rt m ajors are co n d u ct- J 
ing Sa tu rd a y m o rn in g ar? classes 
fo r f i f t e e n stu d e n ts from A ustin i 
public scho ols in preparation fo r 
a ctu a l p ra ctice teach in g. An art 
ex h ib it 
for 
F eb ru ary .
In ez 

S im m o n s 

pla n n ed 

te a c h e s 

b e in g 

t h e 

is 

from 

th e e i g h t h 1 

y o u n g e r grou p 
and ninth g rad es, and Ina Jan e 
C hase assists. For the older group 
M argaret S tites 
teach er, and 
Mrs. A n n e tte T y le r assistant.

is 

six -w eek 

T he p resen t 

course 
en d s D e c em b e r 23, and a t th a t 
tim e Miss Cha*e and Mrs. T yler 
will heroine tea ch ers, with J u n e j 
D ickin son 
assista n ts.

J a n e D u n n 

and 

as 

A C ap p e lla Choir Sings 
A t Rotary Luncheon

T h e U n iv ersity A Cappella 

Choir received 
ap p reciation 
fro m 
R otary Club a f t e r s in g in g a t the 
R otary L uncheon T u esd ay .

i sta n d in g v o te o f I 
th e A u s t i n : 

D irected by Dr. Archie Jones, 
the choir sang “ Gloria Patri," by j 
P alestrin a , “ E v e n in g P r ay er," by ; 
T e st, “ E zek iel Saw th e W heel," a 
N egro spiritual, “ C herubim S o n g," j 
by Tkach, “ L ullaby on C hristmas 
E v en in g," by C hristianson, and 
“ T h e S h ep h erd’s S tory ," by D ick­
inson. 

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 PASE FOUR

Ids Ult 

fyeuu NiaUU S ilen t, 04. 

Off The Record - By Ed Reed

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Phons 2-2473 — T H E D A I L Y T E X A N — Phons 2-2473

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1944

M ajor J a m e s A. E vans, College 
in ’35 and 
of A rts a n d Science 
lieu­
’36, has bee n p ro m o te d 
t e n a n t colonel a t H endric ks Field, 
F lorida w h ere he has been d ir e c to r 
of fly in g 
tr a i n in g since A u g u st 
1943 in th e F ly in g F o rtr e s s pilot 
school.

to 

C o r p o r a l D a v i d G. C o l m e y , A r t !
a n d Sciences s t u d e n t in 1942-’43, 
who w as a m edical te chnic ia n in 
re c e n tly 
the F if t h A rm y , w as 
awarded th e B ro n ze S ta r. 
Two 
weeks a f t e r the ac tion in Italy f o r 
which he w as d e c o r a te d he w as 
pro m o te d fro m p r iv a te to corporal.

G . S. C L U C K

M R S . G . S . C L U C K

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m e m be rs of th e faculty, and both 
old and new friends, for y ou r 
pa tro na ge.

2 0 Y e a r * Y o u r U n i v e r s i t y 

J e w e l e r "

C h r is tia n ity r e v e a ls God as 
e v e r -p r e s e n t T r u t h a n d Love, 
th e 
to be utilized 
sick, 
in 
r aisin g th e dead,

in c a stin g o u t e r r o r, 

in h ea lin g 

— M a ry B a k e r E ddy. 

C h ristia n ity is n o t a th e o ry 
or spe cula tio n, b u t a lif e ; n o t 
a philosophy o f life, b u t a life 
an d a living process.

— Coleridge.

A f t e r r e a d in g th e d o c trin e s 
of P lato. S ocrates, o r A risto tle , 
we feel t h a t th e specific d i f f e r ­
ence b e tw e en th e ir w ords a n d 
C h r is t’s 
th e d if f e r e n c e b e­
tw e e n a n d in q u iry a n d a r e v e ­
la tio n .— Jo se p h P a r k e r .

is 

is 

th e 

C h ris tia n ity 

co m ­
p a n io n o f lib e rty in all its con­
flic ts— t h e cra dle o f 
in-, 
fan c y , a n d th e divine source of
its claim s.— De Tocqueville.

its 

M a teria lly m in d e d m e n a n d
w om en d o n ’t re a lly u n i t e ; only 
th r o u g h 
can 
people p ro g re s s .— L ad y A stor. 
★

s p iritu a l 

u n ity 

does 

I t is mind, a f t e r all, which 
th e w orld.
— C han n in g .

th e w ork o f 

ta lk , b u t 

L e t y o u r religion be seen. 
L am ps do not 
th e y 
do shine. A lighthouse so unds 
no d ru m , it b e a ts no g o n g ; y e t 
f a r o v er th e w a te rs, its frie n d ly 
the m a rin e r .
light 
— C uyler,

is seen by 

★

★

★

★

★

★

He who sees m o st clea rly a n d 
en lig h te n s o th e r m in d s m ost 
readily, keeps his own 
lamp 
tr im m e d a n d bu rn in g .

- - M a r y B a k e r E ddy.

S e a A x m i

70S C O N G R E S S

Your store - The University 

wishes you happiness 

in 

the 

coming 

year . . . and to all of you, 

a very

M erry Christm as.

U N I V E R S I T Y
CO-OP

You call it Xmas.
You call it Xm as because th e “ X ” is 

short.

If someone as ked vyou w h a t the “ X ’* 
stood for. you'd p r ob ab ly answer, “ The 
Christ. . . ”

Yet, a more common me an in g of “ X ” 

is “the unknown quantity. . . "

An un fo rtu na te coincidence perhaps, 
but in a y e a r when few nights ar e silent 
and fe w e r nights are holy, can Christ be 
the “ unkown q u a n t i t y ? ”

In a season w hen soldiers of free dom 
sing and d r ea m of being “ home for 
Christmas,” but kno w th ey me an th e 
ne xt Christmas or th e Christmas a f te r 
th at or only a Christmas of th e ir dreams, 
can th e Son of Life be the “ un kn ow n 
q u a n t i t y ? ”

. . . W he n the girls at home send gifts 
in S ep te mb er to re a c h a Fr en ch or G er ­
man or Philippine ba tt le f r o n t by Decem­
be r and h a n g mistletoe on the hall light 
only as a memory or a wish, can th e 
Receiver of the First T h r ee Gifts be the 
“ unknow n q ua n ti ty .”

. . . when the citizens stand before a

d a r k e n e d T o w e r an d g az e a t a s ta r in­
side a cr es ent moon in th e W e s t as t h e y 
sing of a br igh t s ta r once rising in th e 
East, can th e Symbol of Light be th e 
“ u n k no w n q u a n t i t y ? ”

. . . w h en stude nts th in k of t h e five 
days of vaca tion f ro m a sp ee de d- u p job 
on a mixed-up ca m pu s only as a relief 
or an op p o r tu n i ty to see th e folks or a 
time to “c a t c h - u p " r a t h e r t h a n as a time 
of joy and fr iendship can th e Giver of 
Hope be an “ un kn ow n q u a n t i t y ? ”

. . . w h e n the little child sees red on 
w h ite and thinks of D a d d y in a S an ta 
Claus suit and his m o t h e r th in ks of blood 
on a snow-covered battlefield, can th e 
promise of peace be 
th e “ u nk now n 
q u a n t i t y ? "

T o u r use of “ X" in a w or d to sho rte n 
t h a t w ord is uni m po rta nt . But does y ou r 
use of t h a t “ X" indicate, too. the s h o r t e n ­
ing of th e m e an in g of t h a t w o rd ?

The sh or ten in g of a m e an in g by f o r ­
getfulness or neglect can even m a k e th e 
Christ— the Son of Life, T he Receiver of 
th e First Gifts, the Symbol of Light, the 
Giver of Hope, and the Promise of Pe ac e 
— an “ un kno w n q ua nt it y .”

JleAc 9 l a Recipe fyn. Gh/Ultmai: 
S leep -- <7hen *1alk ta *7excel

Recipe for the Christmas h o li d a y s :—
In gr ed ie n ts: — Railroad reservation 
and ticket. One sizeable portion of 
sleep.

A University s t u d e n t ’s aw ar en es s 
of the situation a t T h e Univer­
sity of Texas.

J o b ’s Patienc e in listening to the 
questions of 
folks back 
th e 
home on “ W h a t ’s going on up 
t h e re a n y w a y , s o n ? "

The reason ing po w er of a young 
a du lt in a ns w er in g th es e ques ­
tions so those folks b a c k home 
w o n ’t 
th in k y o u ’re spe nd ing 
f o u r y ear s a t th e best coun try 
club school in the state, an d so 
t h e y ’ll believe you w he n you 
say y o u ’re serious a b o u t “ all 
this.”

P r o c e d u r e : — T a k e each in its p r o p e r 
order. Do the nec es sa ry p r e p a r a ­
tion for each. Mix well fo r five or 
six days.

R es u lt s:— One b e t te r infor me d State 

of Texas.

Fr om 

simple 

recipes d u ri n g 
little 
Christm as m a n y mysteriously delicious 
foods ar e concocted. F ro m this simple 
little recipe a mysteriously large piece 
of good will be done th e University an d 
every University s tu de n t t h a t follows it.
Even s tu de nt s m a y become “t ired and 
in school. However, a 
q u a r r e l s o m e " 
proved r e m e d y for this f ati gue has been 
rest. T h a t first. Then a fortification, as 
it were, of th e facts of th e cross-fire con­
flict at th e University.
^ The ste ering committee on Academic 
F r ee d om h as p r e p a r e d informative m a ­
terials for stude nts who wish 
to fill 
t h a t p a r t of th e recipe, if t h e y do not 
a l r e a d y have it.

F ig ht i n g as we are a ga i n st suppression 
of learning, t h e r e is no reason for ignor­
ance w h en facts ar e available.

Time is w h a t stude nts s ay t h e y could 
use most of all. Five days at home with 
th e folks of Texas is a lot of time to do a 
lot of god fo r a University youlove— if 
you do.

! 

L i e u t e n a n t W i l l i a m H . P a t r i c k
of C orsicana, A r t s a n d Science 
s t u d e n t fro m 1939-41, has been 
a w a r d e d th e D istin guish ed F ly in g 
C ross 
r e c e n t 
a e r ia l a c hie v em e n ts.

r e c o g n itio n o f 

in 

★

J e s s e M. G u l i e t t e . e n g i n e e rin g 
s t u d e n t in 1932-34, h as been p r o ­
m ote d fro m f i r s t l i e u t e n a n t to th e 
r a n k o f ca p ta in a t B r y a n Field, 
w h e re he is an in s t r u m e n t f ly in g 
in s tru c to r .

F i r s t L i e u t e n a n t E d w i n B a i l e y 
M o o r e . U.S.M.C., s tu d e n t in 1934- 
42 in th e College of E n g in e e r in g , 
i is in A u stin on a th ir ty - d a y f u r ­
lough a f t e r serv in g tw o y e a r s in 
the S o u th P acific, w here he to o k 
| p a r t in th e b a ttle s o f G u ad a lca n al, 
j T a ra w a , an d S aipan. He is a f o r- 
th e S t u d e n t s ’ 
j m e r m e m b e r o f 

Assembly.

*

S e c o n d L i e u t e n a n t E m e r y L e e 
T a y l o r , 1941-42 A rts and Science 
s tu d e n t, is now s ta tio n e d w ith th e 
E ig h t A ir F o rc e in E ngland.

'lo d ayi GnodsUuoid

’ I ii jjst take them hom e with me, Sanfa- 

know how uncertain

d ehveries are ? Hese d a y s."

Parade of Opinion

'Wnancj, S h a ll fyail, d i p t Pn&wul' 
/I i W e Ccha the /J*ujeh Qgao-1

”
" I h e a rd the bells on C h ristm as day 

" G O O D W I L I 

T h eir old f a m i lia r carols play,
A n d wild and sw ee t th e w ords r e p e a t 

O f p eace on e a r th , good will to men.

" A n d in d e s p a ir I b o w ’d m y h e a d :

‘T h e r e is no p eace on e a r t h , ’ I said,
‘F o r h a te is s tr o n g , a n d mocks th e song 

Of p eace on e a r th , good will to m e n .’

" T h e n pealed 

th e bells m ore loud and d ee p :

‘God is n o t dead, n o r d o th H e sleep;

T he w r o n g shall fail, th e r ig h t prevail,

W ith peace on e a r th , good will to m e n .’ . . ’’

W h e th e r it’s G. I. Jo e in a foxhole o r his pu gnosed sis te r in th e 
S ta te s, a r o u n d D e c em b e r 25 th o u g h ts will t u r n to holly, bells, S a n ta 
Claus, snow, w re a th s, choirs, tree s, p r e s e n ts , stockings, popcorn, 
m istle to e, candles, p e p p e r m in t cand y, c a r o ls — in endless succession. 
"V isio n s o f s u g a r p lu m s " d an c e in th e i r heads.

f or J o e it is a p le a s a n t m e m o ry of a w hite C h ristm a s last y e a r. 
o r th e y e a r b efo re, o r th e one b e fo re t h a t To him it signifies also 
th e f u t u r e ‘‘C h r is t m a s e s ” he hopes to have w ith his fam ily w hen he 
will help trim th e ir own t r e e in his ow n living room. O nly f r o m 
his d e e p e r conviction and b elief in th e u ltm a te tr iu m p h o f r i g h t 
could such a d r e a m evolve in this tim e o f crisis. No one realizes
b e t t e r th a n he t h a t o u r best A m eric an tr a d itio n s a r e only 
symbols
o f a g r e a t e r f a it h in th e d e e p e r th in g s th a t C h ristm as sta n d s f o r 
toda y , a n d has alw ays stood f o r in p a s t era s since t h a t f i r s t C h r is t­
m a s in B ethlehem .

W h a t w o n d e r fu l th in g is this!!
A tove the din of b a ttle , the ♦ 

sc re a m in g of bombs, a n d 
th e 
r o a r of big g u n s th e m essage 
o f th e bells re-echoes the f i r s t 
C h r is tm a s carol of th e a n g e ls —
"G lo r y t o God 
in th e highest, 
a n d on e a r th peace, good will 
to w a rd m e n .”

— T he E to w n ia n , E liz a b e th ­
to w n College, Pa. (A .C .P.)

' 

a f f a i r s 

...... ............. 

..........
have e n o u g h sense to ta k e on 
some d e fin ite resp o n sib ility in 
a n d g o v e r n ­
s t u d e n t 
m e n t on this cam pus. 
S o m e­
day soon, w e ’ll be doing th a t in 
o u r w orld o f to m o rro w . L e t’s 
g e t o u r t r a i n in g in it now! T h e 
f u t u r e o f d e m o c ra tic A m eric a 
the balance.
h an g s in 
" W h e n will ge gro w u p ? " — 
T h e W ild c a t a t L o u isia n a Col­
lege u rg e s g r e a t e r s t u d e n t p a r ­
tic ip a tio n in college a f f a i r s as 
p r a c tic a l t r a i n in g f o r a d u lt r e ­
sponsibilities.

P r i v a t e W i l b u r R o p e r , w ho r e ­
ceived his m a s t e r ’s deg re e in c h e m ­
is t r y 
f o r m e r 
in 194 i, a n d w as 
c h e m is tr y in s tru c to r , w as in A u s­
tin r e c e n tly . He is n o w sta tio n e d 
a t C a m p B a rk ley , Texas.

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46. symbol for 
tellurium
47. pike-like fish
48. sustenance 
51. dismiss

(archaic)
53. cooking 
utensil

54, vex
56. single unit 
57 unit of w ork
58, type of 

m otor car

59. g row old

V E R T I C A L

1. h int
2. slanderous 

report
3. w eepy
4. gash
5 indefinite 
article

6 connecting 

body of w a te r

7. c r a v a t
8 river in 
G erm any

9. model

A nsw er to y e s te rd a y ’s puzzle.

H O R I Z O N T A L
I. feline
4 Hindu social 

class

9 soft food

12. employ
13- to the time 

when
14. wing
15. excess of the 
solar year
IT. deductions
19. geological 

age
2 0 .fa th e r
21. consume food
22. lever, as a 
bar, for 
prying
23. filament
25. n etw ork
28. bone (anat.)
29. conquer
31. p rim a ry color
32. s ta ir p a rts
34. supplied

w ith men

36. pedal digit
37. degrade
39, n ote in the 

scale

40. clip
42. cloy
43. observe
44. knock

10. m a lt drink
11. dance step 
16. symbol for
calcium 
18. river in 

Switzerland 

20. goes by
22. havens
23. difficult
24. d ista n t
26. aee-sawing
27. dim inutive 
for E dw ard

29 personal 
pronoun 
30. d evastate 
33. b lasting 
35. wind direc­
tion (abbr.) 

38 stroked 

caressingly 

41. k nave of 
clubs 
43. group of 
Pacific 
islands 
45. vigor (pl.)
47. goddess of 

e a r th
48. im itate
49. E tru sc a n god
50. born
51. lair
52. golf mound 
55 southern
- 

s ta te (abbr.)

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" I f we a r e to be le a d e rs in 
th e w o rld o f 
to m o rro w , c e r ­
ta in ly we a r e going to have to 
know how to c a r r y on the f u n c ­
tions o f a d e m o c ra tic f o r m of 
g o v e r n m e n t. B ut, if th e p r e s ­
e n t tr e n d is allow ed to c o n tin u e 
to hold sw ay, w e will be tu r n e d 
loose w ith a bac h elo r of a r t s 
o r b a c h e lo r o f science d e g re e 
— a n d 
t h a t ’s a b o u t all. Yes. 
w e ’ll know w h a t the book said 
. . , b u t book le a r n in g is n o t 
enoug h. We m u s t p u t it into 
S tu d e n ts m u s t be 
p r a c tic e ! 
o p p o r tu n ity — the 
given 
t h a t 
o p p o r tu n ity 
in a d e ­
m oc ra cy, even on a college 
cam pus. 
S tu d e n ts n ee d m ore 
voice in th e a f f a i r s o f the col­
le g e— a f t e r all, 
s tu d e n ts 
m a k e up 
the g r e a t e r p a r t of 
it. D em o c racy g u a r a n t e e s th e 
r i g h t o f m a jo r ity , 
th e 
t h a t d ic ta to rsh ip 
is 
te n d e n c y 
m a y 
T he 
in. 
c re e p in g 
be 
m in o r ity m u s t n o t be allow ed 
to rule.

live 

b u t 

th e 

to 

" M o s t o f us are p ra c tic a lly 
C e rta in ly , we should

a d u lts. 

Ojjjjccial h o lie r

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Tuesday m o r n in g . December 26. a t 9 
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re ceipt 
filed.
week a f t e r 
E 
R e g is t r a r

J . M A T H E W S , 

If any g irls b oardin g house* plan 
to a la y open d u r i n g t h e holidays a n d 
would he able to t a k e girls unable to 
b o home an d whos e h ouse s are c l o s ­
i n g . please call the Dean of W o m en 's 
Office.

DOROTHY G E B A U E R , 
Dean of Women.

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AUSTIN, TEXAS, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1944

No. 76

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W oolrich S a y s 
C o lle ge R a n k s 15th

Dean W. IL Woolrich of 

the 
College of E ngin eering 1 predicts 
that E.C.H. B a n te r s contribution 
to 
th*- en S n e e r i n g pro gram of 
T exas will rem ain a p e rm a n e n t 
influence in th e a g e s to come.

“ Dean E. C- H. Bantel has had 
one o f those unusual o p p o r tu n i­
ties of guiding the educational and 
tra in in g p ro g ra m s of eleven g e n ­
eratio ns of The U niversity of 
Texas Engineers. The life span of 
the College of E n gine e rin g is only 
fourteen gen eral ions.

“ In 

th a t 

time 

the College of 
E ngineering has g ro w n up from 
one of 
least 
known in its field to its p re se n t 
day position. I t is rap id ly fo rg in g 
ahead to a fr o n t line place.

smallest and 

the 

“ G rad uate degrees were p ra c ­
tically unknown in the College of 
E ngineering before W orld W a r I. 
Today it rank s fifte e n th 
the 
U nited S ta te s in n u m b e r of g ra d u ­
ate* degrees awarded.

in 

“ E n d e r normal conditions 

its 
ranks 
u n d e rg ra d u a te a tte n d a n c e 
f o u rte e n th in a field of one-hun­
dred and fifty recognized in stitu­
It has more 
tions of the nation. 
c urricula approved by 
the E n ­
accred itin g 
curricu la 
g in e e r in g 
agency, th an any o th e r college of 
Texas.

“ D uring the p resent w ar period, 
I he College of E ngineering has 
probably co ntrib uted more to a d ­
vanced e ngineering and science 
tra in in g and education th an any 
oth er college in th e entire S o u th ­
west. E n gineering instruction has 
jjiven to large num bers of 
been 
Navy, to civilian resident ami to 
civilian extension students. When 
the final count is made these n u m ­
bers will total m any thousands of 
men and women. Th«*y are r e n d e r­
ing o u tsta n d in g service in every 
c o rn e r of 
in a wide 
the globe 
classification of war and civilian 
services,

“ Dean B a n t e r s c o ntribution to 
the e ng in e ering pro gram of Texas 
will remain a perm an en t influence 
in the ages to come. He entered 
the march of en gineering college 
progress when the institution was 
most susceptible to the influences 
of its mentors. His fine sense of 
values and his ability 
think 
through the proposed pro gram s of 
the d e p a rtm e n ts have been in stru ­
mental in bringing the College of 
E ngineering of The University of 
Texas 
its p re se n t high posi­
tion in A merican e ngineering e d u ­
catio n.”

to 

to 

*

Dean Woolrich has been a t the 
U niversity since 1930. He 
r e ­
ceived a degree in mechanical e n ­
gineering from the U niversity of 
Tennessee, a bachelor of science 
degree 
in electrical engineering 
and a m a ste r of engineerin g de­
c r e e a t 
the University of Wis­
consin,

In M o d ifie d Service
Since Septem ber

The story of E.C.H. Bantel, as­
sistant dean em eritus of the Col­
lege o f E n gineering, can n o t be 
told w ith o u t telling the story o f 
the 
eleven gen eratio ns of en­
gineers t h a t have paraded before 
him in his p a st forty-two years o f 
service a t the University.

L ast week a t th e reception held 
in his honor. Dean Bantel received 
abo ut fo ur h u n dre d letters fro m 
ex-students and friends and th ey 
all stressed the same t h i n g s —-hon­
esty, kindness and sincereity.

Dean B anty is ab out five feet, 
six inches, and talks with a dis­
tinct and characteristic drawl, al­
th o u g h he is a New York Dutch­
man.

has 
fe w e r enem ies 

It is said th a t this meticulous, 
probably 
grey-haired m an 
made 
than any 
oth er person in th e history of tho 
campus.
This 

twelve-page 

section 

is 

a b o u t such a man.

In accordance with the re tir e ­
ment plan now in operation a t tho 
University, when a f a c u lty mem­
ber r e a c h e s the age of 70, he is 
relieved of adm in istrative duties 
and goes 
into modified service. 
Professor Bantel is continu in g his 
in S a n ita ry E n g in e e rin g 
work 
which he has 
for m any 
years.

ta u g h t 

His academic and professional 
honors are many. He is a m em b er 
of Tau Beta Pi. Chi Epsilon, Sigm a 
Xi. A m erican Society of Civil En­
gineers (life m e m b e r). Society fo r 
the Prom otion of E ng in eering 
Education, American Association 
of U niversity Professors, T exas 
Philosophical Society, and a fellow 
| of the Texas Academy of Sciences.

Mr. E c k ha rdt has many volume* 
of 
the works o f Shakespeare, 
W ordsworth, Byron, Browning, 
and T hom as Paine. He keeps a 
scrapbook of good writing.

tru e 

P ro fesso r E ckh ardt has m any 
h isto ry books on the colonization 
o f early Texas. 
(Xne of his favor­
tale o f 
the 
is 
ite stories 
Josiah W ilbarger, Texas pioneer 
who was scalped near the p re se n t 
site of Austin in 183 ?. But th e 
pioneer did not die, and an a r ti­
ficial covering was put over the 
the pioneer lived fo r 
scalp and 
many years 
to amass a small 
fortun e.

to 

Dating back 

the Esue o f 
1857, Pro fesso r Eckhardt 
ha* 
bound copies of a technical m aga­
zine called Scientific American. 
He also has E ig h te en th Century 
technical an d m athem atical book*.

Assistant Dean Emeritus Bantef 

★ 

*

In the N e x t 12 P a g e s

Page 2— B anty tries his hand at 
football arid ends up in the glee
club.

Page 3— B an ty goes south of the 
b o r d e r 
railroads 
to wind his 
a round m ountains. The story of 
the beginnings of th e E n g in e e r­
ing' D epartm ent.

Page 4— B an ty 

lands 

in Texas 
and he and th e D e p a rtm e n t of 
the 
E ng in eerin g go 
first decade o f the T w entieth 
Century.

throu gh 

Page 5— Alec Frederick Claire vs.
♦

The Mart B e h in d the Scen e

P eregrinus. B anty as a mason.
Page 0 — Banty in the w ar years. 
The shack era a t the University.
Page 7— B anty as Mr. Dooley in 
the hectic tw enties in which b e ­
gan the construction period th a t 
is still booming.

Page 8— Banty c o m e s 

smilin* 
thro u g h the last fourteen years 
and sees his baby, the College 
into a 
o f Engineering, grow 
full-fledged giant.

Pages 9-12— l e t t e r s from Iceland 

to South America,

Eckhardt Rhymed Banty s Life ^

Carl J. E ckhardt, professor of 
mechanical engineering, was 
the 
man behind last week’s reception 
honoring Dean Bantel. He wrote 
over two thou san d 
letters, drew 
the c artoons used fo r the slides* 
telling B a n ty ’a 
life, and wrote 
the poems to m atch th e slides.

The m a jo rity of “ The Life of 
B a n ty ’* was ta k e n directly from 
from one of 
Mr. E c k h a rd t are 
his suggested sources of 
in f o r ­
mation. John A. Focht, p ro fe sso r 
of highway engineering, told m any 
little anecdotes ab out Banty.

Hobbies 

is one o f Mr. Eck- 
h a r d t’s manias. 
collects 
He 
s t a m p s , historical documents, 
coins, and good lite ra tu re .

Among his historical collections. 
Pro fesso r Eckh ard t has docum ents 
of and a b o u t his g ra n d f a th e r, 
a Civil W ar soldier.

 P A G E TW ELVE

Phone 2-2473 — T H E D A I L Y T E X A N — Phone 2-2473

FR ID A Y , D E C E M B E R 22, 1944

Even Love Has Mathematical Formula

B a n ty ’s L a w of Love: “ M a id ’s Affection 

For Adm irers V aries Inversely As Square 

O f the N um ber of Adm irers She H a d ’*

E . S S a v a g e N e w Y o r k :

M a c k E l l i o t :

in 

in s tru c to r 

“ D u rin k the one y e a r th a t I w as 
an 
in the U n iv e r s ity , 
and had a desk in y o u r o ffic e , I 
could n ot help b u t h e ar the dozens 
in w h ich you assisted 
o f cases 
tro uble. 
students w ho w e re 
I>ater as the school g re w , and y o u r 
re sp o n sib ilities 
the 
students in creased , I am su re you 
c a rrie d fo r w a rd y o u r same sym ­
th e ir 
p a th e tic u n d e rsta n d in g o f 
problem s. E v e r y t im e I h ave v is ­
ited A u s tin in the la st fe w ye a rs , 
th e re has been a lin e o f students 
outside y o u r door w a itin g to get 
y o u r help and counsel. . . . ” 
L o w b e r D. S n o w :

f o r he lp in g 

“ . . . T hus, y o u r in flu e n c e did 
not cease w hen I le f t school and

w e n t o u t 
in to th e w o rld on m y
ow n, but has co n tin u ed on and
I am su re th a t I am o n ly one
on. 
o f m a n y w ho can say the sam e
thing, and who on th is occasion are 
tu r n in g aside as I am fro m the 
te c h n ic a l lan g u ag e o f o u r p ro fe s ­
sion, to g rope fo r the p ro p e r w ords 
to express w h a t is in the h e a rt.” 
★

E d B l u e s t e m :

s e rv ic e .’ 

“ . . . It w as w ith a fe e lin g o f 
both s a tis fa c tio n and re g re t th a t 
I le a rn e d o f y o u r b ein g placed on 
‘m od ified 
S a tis fa c tio n 
because yo u a re n o w g e tt in g a 
most d eserved re st and re g re t be­
cause possibly the 
in co m in g e n ­
g in e e rin g students w ill n ot be 
able to p r o fit as m uch as those o f

us privileged to have been ta u g h t 
by you . .

I t 

in flu e n c e d . 

*
E. M . M o l e . worth. B . S . in 1 9 2 3 : 
“ . . . A sid e fro m the t r u ly fin e 
in struction 
th a t a lw ay s m ark ed 
yo u r cla sses, there w as yo u r fine 
c h a ra c te r b y w h ich we could not 
is with 
but be 
pleasue th a t I re c a ll little discon­
nected in cid e n ts ab o u t yo u. B lo c k 
S m ith , w ho la te r d ire c te d th e ‘Y / 
a sk in g i f ‘ B a n t y ’ w as s till th<’ m ost 
p o p u la r man on the cam p u s; the 
nig h t clas^ w hen we w ere to le a rn 
to shoot po laris, and y o u r good 
fa il even w hen 
hum or did not 
som eone's g irl, w ho had been 
bro u g h t along, stum bled o v e r the 
trip o d ju s t as you w ere ta k in g the 
last o f a series o f re a d in g s ; th e 
hot a fte rn o o n w hen I fe ll asleep 
d u rin g y o u r le c tu re to be a w a k ­
ened b y y o u r B ib lic a l qu o tatio n , 
‘he is n ot dead b u t slee p in g .’ ”

L. IC. D e l ' H o m m e :

“ . . . yo u rs is a n o th e r one o f 

those cases w h ere y o u r efforts! 

and the re su lts o b tained a re n o t 

f u lly a p p re cia ted , since you h ave 

a lw a y s been c o n te n t to re m a in in 

the background and lo acce p t as 

com pensation the fe e lin g o f sat­

is fa c tio n , w'hieh you m ust h ave, 

as a re s u lt o f a w o rth w h ile se rv ­
ice s u cc e ss fu lly p e r f o r m e d .. . ”

★
D r . S a m u a l R o b i n s o n , O p to m e trist, 

A s h e v ille , N . C. I 

“ . . . I can n e v e r fo rg e t y o u r 
in im ita b le m a n n e r o f gapping y o u r 
head w ith the fo r e fin g e r o f y o u r 
rig h t hand and a d v is in g students 
w ith 
y o u r 
in ju n c tio n 
bean.’ 
T h is cam e up m a n y a 
tim e w hen a stu d e n t w ou ld ask 
yo u a question in v o lv in g the use 
o f in d iv id u a l ju d g m en t. .

‘use 

the 

“ I b e liev e th a t the f ir s t tim e I 
Baw you w as a t th e end o f S e p te m ­

b e r in 1912 w hen you told us o f 

th e d iffe re n c e b e tw ee n high school 

b o ys and U n iv e r s it y m en. T o this 

d a y I re m e m b e r how' a t th a t mo­

m e n t I su d d e n ly f e lt g ro w n up.

le tte r 

f o r a 

“ I rem e m b e r the d ays and days 
th a t w e n t b y th a t a u tu m n w h ile 
m y m other, b ro th e r, siste r and I 
w a ite d 
fro m O hio 
w h ich w ou ld co n ta in some m oney 
f o r us. W e w e re stra n g e rs 
in 
'A u stin and o f course had no c re d ­
i t nor a n yo n e to whom w e m ig h t 
tu r n 
fo r help. W h e n w e w ere 
do w n to less than a d o lla r, I cam e 
to yo u. Y o u told me th a t e a r ly 
a u tu m n w as a poor tim e to get 
m o n e y fro m a schoolm an but, you 
said . 
ten d o lla rs d o ”” ' 
T h a t ten d o llars w h ich you tu rn ed 
o v e r w ith o u t a n y h e sitatio n to a 
b o y w ho w as a ll b u t u nkow n to 
y o u was a re a l “ life s a v e r / ' fo r it 
tid e d us o v e r u n til th a t le tte r w ith 
th e m oney in it a rriv e d . A ll o f the 
p eo p le w ho w ere concerned in th at 
e p iso d e a re dead now' ex cep t you 
that k in d act 
a n d m y s e lf,— b u t 
w h ic h yo u did then w ill n o t be 
fo r g o tte n as lo n g as I live.

“ W o u ld 

re m a rk s 

“ I rem em b er th e n ig h t o f F e b ­
r u a r y 21, 1913, a t the cele b ra tio n 
o f T . U . T a y lo r ’s 25th y e a r c e le ­
b ra tio n w hen yo u w e re in tro d u ce d 
b y D ean B e n e d ic t in “ a new and 
d if f ic u lt ro le ,— th a t o f T r u th fu l 
U eem s’’ and a fte r the e ffu lg e n t 
p h ra se s w hich had been heaped 
up on the O ld M at:, I p a r tic u la r ly 
r e c a ll y o u r 
‘I 
o p e n i n g 
com e 
to w o rry T a y lo r ,— not to 
p ra is e h im .’ 0
I. 

* .
“ I re m e m b e r v is itin g you at y o u r 
borne one a fte rn o o n , p ro b a b ly in 
th e sp rin g o f 1916, w hen you w ere 
r e c o v e rin g from a sick sjn ll arni 
in 
lis te n in g to y o u r ex periences 
M e x i. o, upon w h ich you told me 
‘m ingled 
y o u 
looked back w ith 
fa s c in a tio n and h o r ro r.’ 
I re m e m ­
b e r o f the co n ten ts o f some o f 
those w re ck e d fre ig h t tra in s down 
in M e x ic o ,— ‘fo u r 
carlo ad s of 
au g u r and a ca rlo a d o f b eer,’ and 
t h a t other carload o f 
‘sard in es 
a n d p ian o s/

in 

“ I rem e m b e r o f a n o th e r episode 
w h ic h you described as ‘the t r i ­
u m p h o f the hum an m ind o v e r a 
le s s e r 
in te llig e n c e ’ w h ich re la te d 
t o the c a p tu re and ex ecu tio n o f a 
In va d e d y o u r 
m ouse w h ich had 
b ed room one nig h t. Y o u told o f 
M r s . B a n t e l’s dem and 
th a t you 
fo r t h w it h abandon sleep and cap ­
t u r e and k ill th a t mouse w hich was 
so m ew h ere in the room and th o r ­
o u g h ly a w a re o f w h a t w as im pend­
in g fo r him. Y o u said M rs. B a rite ] 
stood up 
the 
bed and d ire cted y o u r a c t i v i t i e s ; 
w h ile you m oved 
fu r n itu r e and 
iehased the mouse fro m one re tre a t 
t o a n o th e r b e fo re 
the b rillia n t 
id e a stru ck you W’hieh proved his 
u n d o in g . M y re co llectio n is th a t 
y o u fin a lly m an e u ve re d him u n d er 
a wood box w hich you then p ro ­
ceeded to drop on him .

the m iddle o f 

★
*’ *‘I rem em ber o f y o u r ta lk s to yo u r 
classes on the honor system ,-—a f 
th e im p o rta n ce to each o f us o f 
k e e p in g th a t p led g e and o f seeing 
jto it th a t each o f o u r classm ates 
a ls o kep t 
it,-— o f how o th erw ise 
W ‘‘ w ere cheap ening o u r own d i­
p lo m a s f o r w hich we had been 
s t r iv in g fo r years.
< 
I-aw o f
f a r e — the a ffe c tio n o f a m aid fo r 
tie r a d m ire r v a rie s in v e rs e ly as the 
s q u a re o f a num b er o f a d m ire rs 
sh e had. T h a t la w . . . 
is p a rt 
arui p a rce l o f the ex p e rie n ce o f 
a lt o f us, but it took E , C . H . 
JBante! to fo rm u la te it !

*‘f rem em ber o f th a t 

“ I re m e m b e r o f m y d e lig h tfu l 
flrisit w ith you in O cto b e r o f 1941, 
I re tu rn e d to the cam pus 
Irb e n 
a f t e r an absence o f m ore 
than 
t w nty-one ye a rs, o f y o u r c a iim g 
rjup M rs. B a n te l and te llin g her 
R |ro u w ould n o t be home fo r lun ch 
b e cause ‘one o f the O ld B o y s has 
l> me b a c k ’ and you w e re g iv in g 
f o u r tim e to h ira ,Ma

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con gratu late s Asst. Dean E. C. H. Bantel for

his ou tstand in g work in the C o lle ge of E n gr

neering during the past forty-three years.

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a l w a y s #N K V t n
Uta l w a y s

N P V E R

r in g 
som e a d v e r s e criticism a t 
t im e s ; b u t d u r in g th e t h i r ty - e i g h t 
y e a r s of m y c o n n e c tio n w ith the 
U n iv es ity of T e x a s a s a s t u d e n t 
n e v e r 
a n d 
h e a r d a n y t h in g , on o r o f f 
th e 
c a m p u s, b u t p r a is e f o r y o u a n d 
f o r y o u r wok. .

e x - s tu d e n t, 

have 

I 

it

A ri B uy H «•!•*, D allas:

is 

“ E x a m p le 

“ I th in k it w as E d m u n d B urke 
who w ro te , 
th e 
school o f m a n k in d , a n d th e y will 
le a r n a t n o o t h e r . ” F o r 
f o r ty -
t h r e e y e a r s you have sto od as
an e x a m p le a n d a n in s p ira tio n to 
e n g i n e e r s a t T e x a s
t h e y o u n g 
F ew m en a r e given
U n iv e r s ity . 
an o p p o r t u n i t y 
so 
m a n y o v er so long a tim e.

in f lu e n c e 

t o 

T w e n ty y e a r s a g o you w r o t e 
o f D ean T a y lo r, ‘In him th e e n ­
g in e e r s fin d a s y m p a th e tic te a c h ­
er, c o u n s e llo r a n d f r ie n d . ’ W ith 
eq ua l t r u t h th is could hav e b e e n 
said a t a n y tim e a b o u t y o u r s e lf .” 
*

I**f. A » u « » * R o d r i q u « i :

. . A s I look in to m y s t u d e n t 
days, I can n e v e r f o r g e t y o u r sym ­
p a t h e ti c g u id a n c e s, te a c h in g s a n d 
advices specially a t th e b e g in n in g 
of my college d a y s w hen I a r r i v e d 
into y o u r c o u n t r y w ith v e r y little 
kno w led ge o f 
la n g u a g e a n d 
th e 
A m e r ic a n w ay o f te a c h in g , f r e s h 
fro m my M exican high school b o t 
to o b ta in a p r o f e s ­
d e t e r m in e d 
sional d e g re e a t 
t h e U n iv e r s ity 
o f T e x a s . ”

life w ork has 
som e D ungs o u r 
k e p t us fro m doin g , a n d now you 
will be ab le 
th in g s , 
a n d y e t kee p in to u c h w ith y o u th . 
T h e y o u th w hich s e e m s 
to kee p 
all u n iv e rs ity m en youn g. 

to do th o s e 

. .**

P . J . R u d o l p h , S a n A n to n io :

“ . . . I e n t e r e d th e E n g in e e r in g 
School f r e s h fro m th e b r u s h y rock 
hills o f J a c k C o u n t y w h ere p e o ­
ple w ere n o t g iv e n too m uc h f a n c y 
th e m ost 
ta lk, a n d w h e re a b o u t 
a d m ir in g s t a t e m e n t 
to be m a d e 
t h a t t h a t he w as 
a b o u t a fellow 
‘a r e a l m a n . ’ 
I w ish yo u to know 
this 
t h a t in all s in c e r ity I a p p l y 
to you, b u t w ould also a d d ‘a rea l 
t e a c h e r ’ a n d *a r e a l e n g i n e e r . ’. .

P a l m e r M a s s e y , C h i ld re s s :

“ . 

th o se 

. You h elped a l o n g an d 
. 
id e as 
a l r e a d y 
c r y s ta liz e d 
b e g i n n in g to f o r m 
in my y o u n g 
m ind o f w h a t w as r ig h t a n d w hat 
was w ro n g . You t a u g h t m e h a b its 
to m a k e my w ork 
t h a t 
m o r e 
ex a m p le , 
‘S a n d w ic h one look a t th e b u b b le 
b e tw e e n tw o a t th e r o d . ’. .

a c c u r a t e . 

t e n d e d 

F o r 

*

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W . A . S m ith , A u s tin :

t h a t 

l e a r n e d a 

“ T h i r t y six y e a r s a g o I h it th e 
in ­
c a m p u s as a gre**n f r e s h m a n 
I 
t e n t on g e t t i n g som e ‘l a m i n g . ’ 
am s u r e 
little 
I 
a b o u t g r a d e s a n d c u r v e s b e c a u s e 
you could p u t th e m o u t in such 
a w ay t h a t e v e n th e g r e e n e s t of 
us c ould 
th e 
H o w e v e r , 
le a r n . 
g r a d e s a n d c u r v e s a r e now 
j u s t 
a f a in t m e m o r y , b u t th e in f lu e n c e 
a n d th e 
life 
of th e m a n w ho t a u g h t th e m have 
r e m a in e d vivid a n d rea l 
t h r o u g h 
th e y e a r s . .

im p r i n t on my own 

*
T h o m a s C. C o t t i e r , T e x a c H ig h ­
A u stin , 
D e p a r t m e n t, 

w ay 
T e x a s :
. Y ou w e r e a l w a y s c o m ­
. 
**. 
in m a s t e r y o f y o u r s u b ­
p le tely 
je c t, held 
t h e u n v a r y i n g r e s p e c t 
o f y o u r s t u d e n t s , h ad th e g i f t of 
tim ely h u m o r a n d even s u c c e e d in g 
in liftin g to a d e g r e e th e veil t h a t 
o b s c u re d th e in tr ic a c ie s o f s u r v e y ­
ing a n d d e s c r ip tiv e g o e m e tr y . .
*

H . H . F o x , K a n s a s C ity, M o.:

. I n e v e r shall f o r g e t my 
f ir s t im p r e ssio n of you in my f ir s t 
f r e s h m a n class. W h e n you b eg a n 
to s p e a k 
t h a t slow d e l ib e r a t e 
m a rin er, t h a t you m o s t be p a r t of 
I w o n ­
th e P e n n s y lv a n ia D u tc h , 

in 

to sa y . 

if you w ould e v e r 

fin ish 
d e r e d 
w h a t you had 
I soon 
f o u n d o u t, h o w ev e r, t h a t th is d e ­
l i b e r a te n e s s had its m e rit. 
I t c e r ­
th e e f f e c t o f d r iv in g 
ta in ly h a d 
I t also 
hom e w h a te v e r you said. 
t h o r o u g h n e s s w ith 
p e r m i t t e d 
th e 
w hich you g a v e y o u r 
i n s t r u c ­
tion. 

.

“ . 

. You a r e 

♦
H e r b e r t W . E l d e r , S e n io r R e si­
d e n t E n g in e e r , T e x a s H ig h ­
w a y D e p a r t m e n t, H o u s to n :
. 

in te r n a t i o n a l l y 
b elo v e d ’ as I know f ro m e x p e r i ­
t h a t w h e r e v e r T e x a s E n g i­
en c e 
n e e r s m e e t 
f o r e ig n c o u n t r i e s 
th e c o n v e r s a ti o n a lw a y s o f c o u rse 
rev o lv e s a r o u n d U n iv e r s it y days, 
a n d a l th o u g h th e y m a y n o t a g r e e 
th i n g upo n 
on all p o in ts , o ne 
w hich 
is t h a t 
‘B a n t y ’ 
‘r e g u l a r g u y ' a n d
th e g r a n d e s t , w h ite s t ‘p r o f ’ who 
e v e r g r a d e d a quiz.

th e y a lw a y s a g r e e 

in 

is 

a 

r ic h e r 

“ O ne bit o f y o u r s o u n d p h ilo s­
oph y I will n e v e r f o r g e t. . . ‘Y ou
a r e 
y o u will
to d a y t h a n 
e v e r be a g a in b ec a u s e you h a v e 
a g r e a t e r c a p a c ity t o g a t h e r a n d 
s to r e up k n o w led g e th a n you will 
a n d e a c h day
e v e r have 
you do n o t use 
is t h a t 
m u c h lost fro m th e g o ld e n s t o r e ­
house o f o p p o r t u n i t y . '

to le a r n 

a g a in , 

“ E v e ry boy who e v e r c a m e in 
c o n t a c t w ith you h as g o n e aw a y 
r ic h e r f o r h a v in g com e w ith in th e 
o r b it o f y o u r in flu e n c e . .

N e t P a c e , H o u s to n :

r e m a r k s 

t o y o u n g 

. . Y o u r as id e s a n d o f f th e 
r e c o r d 
a n d 
e a g e r m in d s h a v e d o n e im m e a s u r ­
a b le good in r a is i n g th e s t a n d a r d s 
o f c itiz e n sh ip a n d e th ic a l c o n d u c t 
long y e a r s o f 
t h r o u g h o u t y o u r 
u se fu l service. 

Sr

.
A

H e n r y C. P o r t e r , T e x a s H ig h w a y 

D e p a r t m e n t , A u s t i n :

f o r 

“ N ow 

‘b a l l’ a n d blocked 

t h a t you have c a r rie d 
t h e 
th e 
c a r r i e r f o r th e p a s t tw o sc o re a n d 
o n e y e a r s , arid th e S u p r e m e C oach 
h a s ca lle d you to th e b en c h , f o r 
no o t h e r re a so n th a n th e book o f 
ru les, we w ho k now 
th e u n t a r ­
nished g a m e yo u hav e pla y ed , 
rise to c h e e r you f o r th e e x c e p ­
tio n a lly 
have 
d o n e on th e C ollege of E n g i n e e r ­
in g U n iv e r s it y o f T e x a s 
te a m . 
T h e r e a r e v e r y few w ho ca n se rv e 
as m a n y w ith d i f f e r e n t id e a s a n d 
dee d s a s you hav e , w ith o u t i n c u r ­

g r e a t w o rk 

you 

C ongratulations 

Dean E.C.N. Bantel

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'D e a n B a u l d a s o n e e n g i n e e r 
t o a n o t h e r , I wish yo u 
to know 
t h a t som e o f y o u r tr a it# a r e th e 
th e e n g i n e e r i n g 
basis on w hich 
p r o f e s s io n is f o u n d e d . 
I wish to 
d isc u ss a few. H o n e s t y : I do n o t 
r e m e m b e r o f e v e r m e e ti n g a m ore 
h o n e s t m a n in o r o u t o f th e p r o ­
In my h u m ­
f e ssio n . 
I n t e g r i t y : 
ble o pin ion you a r e o n e o f 
th e 
n u n o f in te g r ity in th e p ro fe ssio n 
a n d th e s ta te . S e r v ic e : A lth o u g h 
you a r e a m b itio u s I know th a t you 
h a v e s u b o r d i n a t e d y o u r a m b itio n 
to f u r t h e r th e a d v a n c e m e n t o f the 
u n iv e rs ity .

th in. 

In y o u r 

th e d i r e c t c re d it. 

“ h o r m a n y y e a r s I n o tic e d t h a t 
m a n y o f th e p o licies o f th e U ni­
v e r s it y o f T e x a s E n g i n e e r i n g De­
p a r t m e n t w ere f o r m u l a t e d by you, 
a l th o u g h you did n o t a lw a y s r e ­
ceive 
I know 
t h a t m a n y tim e s you c ou ld have 
s t e p p e d o u t 
in to b e t t e r p a y in g 
t h a t w ould have g iv e n you 
jo b s 
g r e a t e r p o w e rs, b u t you 
stu c k 
th e boys a t T e x a s th r o u g h 
w ith 
long 
thic k a n d 
t e n u r e 
a t T e x a s w o rk in g w ith 
D ea n T a y l o r I w ould d e s c rib e you,
in a b aseball t e r m , 
th e Lou
th e E n g i n e e r i n g De 
G e h r ig of 
In o t h e r w ords you 
p a m n e n t . 
a l w a y s p la ce 
the 
p r o fe s s io n 
th e U n iv e r s ity 
a b o v e t h a t o f y o u r p e r s o n a l gai* 
to appl, 
t o y o u o ne p h r a s e t h a t I w ould 
like 
l a t e r d a t e 
T o 
a r e 
e n g i n e e r w ould 
e n g i n e e r to be. .

f o r m y c o m p a t r i o t s a t a
o f me, i.e.,
th e E n g i n e e r s o f T e x a s you 
t h a t ev e ry 
th e ty p e o f m a n 
like e v e r y o th e r 

“ I do wish h o w e v e r, 

th e w e lf a re o f 

to th in k 

a n d 

a s 

J . K. J o h n s o n , T e x a r k a n a :

“ Much w a t e r h a s go n e o v e r th e 
‘d a m ’ since you took o v e r a s in ­
s t r u c t o r 
in 
l i l t ) I. . .

in ‘T r a c t m a n s T r a c k ' 

ou w e re y o u n g t h e n . . . r e d ­
f a c e d , sm a ll of s t a t u e a n d (puck 
o f m o tion. .

H e n r y H a r k le ro a d , A s s i s t a n t 
B r id g e E n g i n e e r , S t a t e H ig h ­
w ay D e p a r t m e n t , A u s t i n :

*\ . . y o u 

im p a r te d to m e th e 
to m a k e a 
c o n f id e n c e n e c e s s a r y 
B ut 
few o f 
r e p a ir s . 
th e b r a in 
m o st o f all t h e r e w as o n e 
th in g 
you fo rc ed into my brain th a t has 
c o m p le te ly — 
o u t 
n e v e r 
y o u c o n c e p tio n of h o n e s ty a n d 
f a i r d e a lin g s w ith fellow m e n . .

le a k e d 

. 

**. 

R o i c o t W t l a n e t k , S p rin g f ie ld , 111.: 
. On a b r ig h t F e b r u a r y 
m o r n in g a b o u t 1915, I w as d o s s ­
in g 
T he 
th e c a m p u s w ith you. 
g r a v e l u p o n which we w alked a n d 
t h e law n beside ii w e re f ir m an d 
t h a t people 
d r y . You r e m a r k e d 
in T e x a s did n o t know how f o r ­
t u n a t e th e y w ere in t h e i r sp rin g s, 
f o r in th e n o r th th e f i n e r »t was 
o v e r h e a d th e r o t t e n e r it w as u n ­
d e r f o o t.

th e 

t h a t 

tim e 

r u m o r s 

“ Now a t 

t h e r e w ere 

la n d s 
r e m o t e , 
b e y o n d T e x a s w e re 
th o u g h 
o f 
g r a d u a t e s d r i f t i n g o f f to S c h e n e c ­
In an y 
ta d y a n d E a s t P itts b u r g . 
case, w h a te v e r th e f u t u r e , I w as 
to be a n e le c tric a l e n g i n e e r a n d 
rid e u p o n p a v e m e n ts . B u t d u r ­
in g ea ch o f th e tw e n t y -s i x s p r in g s 
th e n o r th 
lived 
t h a t 
I hav e been r e m i n d e d o f t h a t ob ­
s e r v a tio n , a n d e a ch 
tim e I have 
t h o u g h t o f you.

I h a v e 

in 

t h e r e 
it 

this 
“ I f 
t h a t no w o rd of 
a n e c d o t e 
a g r e a t m an is too slig h t f o r him 
to be r e m e m b e r e d b y .”

is a m o r a l 
is 

to 

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G e o r g e C. K n a u r , D e n t o n :

to me 

". . . S o m e m e a s u r e success by 
d o lla r s a n d t h a t w as m y m e a s u r e 
f o r a period, b u t a s 
th e y e a r s 
h a v e g o n e a lo n g I have c h a n g e d 
to o n e o f h u m ility 
my m e a s u r e 
fe llo w m a n . 
to o n e s 
a n d s e rv ic e 
t h a t you have 
I t se e m s 
given h u m b le 
to m a n y 
h u n d r e d s o f y o u n g m en a n d have 
le f t y o u r m o n u m e n ts of success 
o v e r th e b r o a d fa c e o f th e e a r th . 
I a t t e n d e d 
tw o U n iv e r s itie s a n d 
at ea« h o n e m a n le f t his im p r in t 
in my m e m o r y — m e m o rie s 
d e e p 
of 
f a i r play, c h a r a c t e r b uild in g 
a n d love. O ne of th o se tw o men 
i> o u r beloved ‘B a n ty .'

se rv ic e 

“ No good m a n can nit a n d be 
No r o o d m a n would, but 
to do

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rhe

Li f

of

learned about 

the m orning to IO o ’clock at night 
on Saturdays. All this for $2 a 
week. At first he w as an errand 
later on he w.is tran s­
boy, but 
ic p air departm ent 
ferred to the 
ami 
fin ish in g and 
repairin g pianos and organs. A fter 
a few years, his m other decided 
that he had b etter go back 
to 
school, and so he did. When he 
began, he began 
in earnest b e ­
cause he knew that he wanted an 
education.

Aft cr tw o years in Troy Mili­
tary A cadem y preparing for col­
lege, he entered R ensselaer P oly­
technic In stitu te, the oldest en g r 
n cering colleg e in America.

A

H e n r y had never seen a ga m e of 
football, and one day the captain 
o f the team looked at him and re 
marked, “ You look pretty chunky; 
better com e out and practice this 
a fte r n o o n .’’

B a n t y

back to the gym for our wind.” 
And they sprinted. Banty was so 
sore for the n e x t two weeks that 
he cou ld n ’t have played if he had 
wanted to. Ile n ever tried football 
again.

P rofessor Carl Eckhardt has 
w ritten a poem about the occasion: 
A t R ensselaer he longed 

A 

to play 
footb all 
Turkey Day;

gam e 

on 

The ga m e was rough, 
the action fast 
How long think you, that 

he could last?

With practice hard and 

Our 

tactics rough 
loved 

hero 

sterner s t u f f ,

this 

B u t far behind ran our 

ath lete 

With sp eech less aw e and 
tired “ d e” feat.
A

Highly flattered , Henry strutted 
over to the gym , got a u niform —

R* nsselaer alw ays had organized 
rushes in those days b etw een the

o f the sleigh, the first yea r men 
would win the rush.

B a n t y ’s team n ever won a rush, 
and w hen he was a jun ior and a 
senior he stood around and en­
joyed the rushes.

advanced 

there would 

Many of R ensselaer's w ays were 
modeled a fte r W est P o in t, on© 
being the grad in g system . A stu­
dent w as graded every day, and 
that daily average was called the 
advanced grade. A fte r a w eek 
be 
of 
a day 
review 
review, 
grade. And then there was the 
final; each su b jec t ha d one d ay o f 
exam and the p rofessor could take 
as long as he liked. The a v erag e 
o f 
the stu d e n t’s 
g r a d e ; 75 or m o r e was P a n d loss 
t h a n t h a t was a D. B a n t y bad a 
P m e ve r y course.

three was 

the 

the 

o f 

Henry had promised his m other 
faith fully that he would work dili­
gen tly and hard. He g o t up and 
started school and didn’t go to bed 
until he had finished his n ext d a \ ’s 
lessons. He did everything* as it 
cam e up. Banty has said, “ That 
is what I have preached to tho stu­
d ents since I have been assistan t 
d ea n .”

He was in the glee club as long 
as he w as at Rensselear. 
The 
club made trips up and down the 
Hudson River and in the A d n o n - 
daks where the snow was fiv e and 
six f e e t deep. There were 
two 
gre at ev en ts that 
induced m e m ­
bers into the club: the trips and 
the con cert given at the end o f 
each year. The club worked with 
a mandolin and guitar group, and 
usually one musician would g iv e 
a solo.

At the end o f each y e a r w ben 
t h e ‘juniors had finished their pure 
applied m athem atics, they hind a 
dance and celebration with 
th e 
cremat ion o f calculus. There w ere 
the w et and the dry celebrations. 
When the w ets had it, the n a g s 
w e n there with plenty of stomach- 
w arm ing r e fresh m en ts; and w hen 
the drys had it, the ladies, parents, 
and faculty w e r e allowed to com e.
e n ter tain ­
ment* for B a n ty ’s college d a \ s —- 
sledding and to b ogg an in g w e n th© 
favorites

There w ere 

other 

mmi\

shin guard, nose gear, can va s suit 
which had to be laced up like a 
pair o f shoes, and all the other 
paraphernalia. The team g o t into 
a carry all, a vehicle with seats 
alon g each side and draw’n by tw’o 
horses, and were o f f for the p lay­
ing field. The t w e n ty -fiv e passen ­
gers jiggled from Eighth S treet 
to the river and ov er to the field.
How to tackle was the first item 
on the coach ’s list for Banty. The 
coach believed that the best way 
to teach a person how to do som e­
thing was to illustrate, so he told 
the new com er to take the ball and 
run past a big, heavy 
fellow . 
Henry didn't know what had hit 
him until every bone in his body 
felt like so m any cracker crumbs.
It w asn ’t long (only too long for 
B an ty) until it was his turn to do 
the tackling, and this was worse 
than the first shaking. Henry was 
still w oozy when he w as told to 
“go ou t with the scrub team and 
run sign als.”

The 

He didn’t know w hat 

that 
m eant, but he soon found out arid 
ran signals until his ton gu e was 
hanging out and then they said 
that they were goin g to have a 
"little” scrim mage.
team was 

lined up. and 
Henry was center. All he had been 
told to do was to throw the ball to 
a man 
in back o f him and then 
push t h e men in f r o n t o f him. In j 
those days a team had to go five 
yards in three downs and almost 
an yth in g was 
le g itim a te— hurdl­
ing, dragging, and an y th ing short 
o f murder.

Banty threw the ball and sm ack! 
the line in front o f him was push­
ing. Smack! the line in back had 
hit. And 
there Banty w as— not 
pushing an ybody and ev e iy b o d y 
pushing him. It didn’t take long 
for the varsity to take the ball 
awTay from the scrubs.

A

(the 

form ation 

The varsity decided to use the 
pl a ye r s 
w edge 
were lined up in a “ V ” behind the 
center w sth the ball carrier in the 
ce n te r) ; it was nothing less than 
mayhem. “ T u bb y” was the oppos­
ing center, and scrub Henry knew 
it w a ' tim e to pu-h when “ T u b b y” 
rolled over him. T h a t l asted for 
the next one and a half hours.

F i nal l y 

t h e pr a c t ic e w a s o ve r 
for the day. Out of breath and 
worn 
to a rag, Henry groaned, 
“ Where is the carry-all?”

“ Carry-all n oth ing!” replied the 
to sprint

cap*ain. " W e ’re goin g 

freshm en and sophomores. They 
were annual a f fa ir s and had rules 
and regulations about how they 
had to be done. T h e classes with 
odd num bers w ere opposed 
to 
those with even numbers. B a n t y ’* 
class was a sm all one, and the 
sophomore class his freshm an year 
and the freshm an class his sopho­
more year gave his class “ de 
woiks.”

There were three regular rushes 
each year. 
First w as the cane 
rush battled o f f the first Saturday 
o f each sem ester. The two classes 
w’ere lined up opposite each other, 
and at a g ive n signal th ey would 
dash for the cane and see how

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m any hands they could g e t on it. 
The c on testa n ts were smeared with 
v ase lin e because the theory was 
a greased eel could wriggle 
into 
a tight squeeze. The freshm an had 
their heels and t h e i r s e a t a of t h e i r 
t r o u s e r s p a i n t e d g r e e n 
t he y 
c oul d be i de nt i f ie d . Be si de s t h e 
greased students, 
there was the 
yan kin g g a n g; “ Yo h ea v e,” and 
a man was jerked out of the pile 
of hum anity.

so 

The f l ag r u s h w as the s econd 
annual mix-up o f the two classes. 
The freshm an m a d e a f la g about 
2x3 fee t, put their class number 
on it, a n d h oi st ed it up f r o m some 
accessible place within five mile? 
o f the Main Bui lding. They posted 
no t i c es i n vi t in g t he s o p h o mo r es to 
find t he f lag. 
I f t he sophomores 
d i d n ’t find it and bring it back to 
the 
t w e n t y - f o u r 
ho ur s, the freshm en would win.

cam pus within 

In the dea d of w i n t e r t he y had 
a sleigh rush. Wh e n s now was on 
the ground, the freshm en arranged 
to h av e sleds d r a w n by hor ses out 
in the country. They invi t ed t he 
to have d i n n e r but 
sophom ores 
failed to t< ll 
it was 
The sophomores 
to 
had to find o ut w h e r e t h e banquet 
was and w ay la y t he “ g re en ie s” on 
l f one f r e s h m a n 
the wa y home, 
to w n on one bob
into 
could g e t 

th e m w h e r e 

t a k e place. 

As a result o f his grades, H enry 
was elec te d a m em ber o f Sigm a 
X ); at that tim e it was the Phi 
Beta Kappa for scien tists and a 
stu d en t did not have to show an 
inc l i na t i on fo r r e s e a r c h o r publish 
som ething as he does now. Dean 
Bantel has that little gold award 
on his watch chain today alon g 
with his Tau B eta Pi and Chi 
Epsilon awards.

In 1897 Bantel received his 
chemical en g in ee rin g degree, and 
w ith his diploma under his arm. he 
hopped o f f to Canada looking for 
work.

A

His 

n ext position, 

in spector of a 

He received his first e m p l o y ­
m ent on a railroad project, serv­
ing as topographer for a line being
constructed near t he St. Lawrence 
a 
River. 
n\p»onary 
track 
under construction from Ottaw a 
to Cornwall 
furnished him with 
excitin g ex p er ie n c es aplenty. On 
one occasion, his life was barely 
saved when 
torts o f 
c r u s h e d r o ck ac ci d e n ta l l y c r a s h e d 
down on a spot from which he was 
only one m inute removed.

f o r t y - f i v e 

The y ou ng grad u ate got up w ith 
the sun and want to bed a fte r 
dark, 
let 
up at all.

including Sun days— no 

A cousin of the chief of B a n te r s

The nigrht was young, and the bird w as old ; 
His flight w as erratic and the w e a th e r cold. 
The moon cam e up, and his flig h t w en t d o w n 
His burden w a s great, and of greater renown.

He left yo u n g Ed, in th;:- land of tin free 
On Septem ber tenth, in seventy three.
The Bantels all lived in Troy, N ew York 
And the wise old bird w as our Mr. Stork.

a?
ru n f t 
c h a m *

Kau! o f his m other, “ She w as a 
whole lo t better man than I am .”

Y oung Henry becam e a real boy 
when the barber cu t o f f his golden 
curls; now he w as ready 
for 
school. His favorite pastime was 
fishing, and many a day he’d “ for- 
g e t ’’ the correct way to school and 
som ehow 
end up at the river. 
When he w a sn ’t fish ing or going 
to school. Banty was 
tinkering 
with m achines to 
find ou t just 
how’ and why things ticked.

A fte r finishing the elem en tary 
that he 
grades, Henry decided 
didn't need anym ore 
education 
and he got a job at the local music 
to 6:30 
store w orking from 
o ’clock on w ee k d ays and from 7 in

7 

Edward H e n r y Christian Bantel 
— nicknamed H enry— w as on bis 
w a y ! His mother, Frederika Lutz 
Bantel kept him and bis two older 
rioters pretty wtdl 
tow. His 
fath er had died shortly before his 
birth, and the Mrs. Ban tel had to 
be a fath er as well as a m other to 
the three y ou n g ’uns. Bantel once

in 

for loyal service

Dean E.C.H. Bantel

deserves the commendation of af! 

friends of education.

H em phill’s Book S tore

O pposite Law Building

Interstate 

Theaters

Extends Greetings

to

Dean E.C.H. Bante

O n the occasion o f his 

43 years service to The University of Texas

L. Novy

Cif y M a n a g e r

mmmsam rn tm * . . mm

 Under 3 

Flags—U.S.A.,Mexico, Canada

(Continued from Page 2.) 
party was superintendent of * rail­
road in Mexico and wanted some 
powng engineer to grow up with 
WM company. Banty went down aa 
aupervisor o f track between Mon- 
torroy and Saltillo. It was his job 
to >ee that his division kept the 
tracks, water towers, freight plat­
intact. Four months later 
f o r m s 
the Spanish*American War broke 
• a t . and boys back in the home 
stole were enlisting; 
four com­
panies were raised from his neigh­
borhood, and Banty “ had to go 
to.”

four 

these 

Wh-ri 

companies 
which were made a part of the 
Second Regiment of New York’s 
Volunteer Infantry had gone as 
far as Chattanooga, T ennessee, 
Banty threw up his job and went 
to Chattanooga to enlist.

★
Banty, oh Banty, come tell us 

now true 

Just how many Spaniards 

iii 

Cuba you slew.

We hear all the campaigns that 

Were fought in the war zones of 

you ever saw 

old Florida.

Wruh wild rally calls and mad 

It 

battle cry,
is said with profusion the 
m issiles did fly.

You 

looked, oh, so grand 

in 

fierce battle suit,

But tell u.-,, please Banty, what 

shots did you shoot?

When he got to Chattanooga, 
they had gone to Tampa, Florida, 
so he had to buy another ticket 
arid chased them to Florida, and 
there he found them under orders 
to go to Cuba. He told the officers 
he wanted to enlist; because of hts 
training at Troy Military Academy 
he was taken in immediately. He 
was put 
in Company A with a 
group of his form er schoolmates.

The next da^ 

they received 
orders to remain in Tampa until 
further notice. A senator father 
of one of the boys in his company 
had pulled the wires so the com­
pany wouldn’t have to go across. 
He was in the United S tates Army 
from April until December and 
never 
fired a r ifle — even at a 
tat get. He had sentry duty one 
tune. One morning from 2 until I 
o ’clock, he had a musket on his 
shoulder walking up and down his 
lonely beat; he was so sleepy. The 
night was peaceful and a big 
yellow moon was in the sky; by ail 
the rules of poetry and romance, 
his thoughts should have reverted 
to the loved ones at home and the 
dear ones le ft behind. But Banty 
didn’t admire the heavens or the 
beautiful m oonlight; Banty didn't 
have tender thoughts of love about 
the >ne^ at home, He wondered

ISF
a t t.

“how long would it be until that 
damned relief would com e.”

About that tim e one o f his 
schoolm ates who was the son o f an 
army officer suggested that if I 
would accept a position with the 
chief engineer of the Fourth Army 
Corps, it might lead to a commis­
sion. Banty was willing, and 
it 
wasn’t 
received 
long until he 
orders to report to general head­
quarters on “detached duty.” He 
stayed with the general sta ff on 
through the summer. A short time 
after his friends had been mus­
tered out, he asked to be sent 
home too. That was the end of 
Banty’s army life.
★

A fter receiving a 

letter from 
the Mexican railroad asking him to 
come back, Banty went to Mexico 
again and worked with the rail­
road for one and a half years. This 
time he was deeper in the Repub­
lic— Acamboro and Morelia, close 
to Mexico City.

The region was so mountainous 
that the engineers had to wind the 
tracks in and out ravines so the 
grade would not be too grea t. A 
legend 
is out that some of the 
tra c k s B a n ty constructed were so J 
circuitous that 
it caused a feud 
between the engineer and condue- 
tor. The e ngineer took a delight in i 
dropping a piece o f coal on the I 
conductor’s head whenever the en­
gine was above the caboose.

One day when Banty had som e­
thing to tell the foreman o f a par­
ticular track, he was busily scrib­
bling out a note when he saw the 
foreman across the ravine out o f 
caboose window. B a n t y 
the 
train, sprinted 
jumped o ff 
across the ravine, explained the 
situation 
forem an, aud 
the 
jum ped on the engine as it came 
around.

the 

to 

★

There were few entertainm ents 
for that period of Banty’s 
life. 
Many impounding reservoirs fur­
nished good duck hunting (Banty 
admits he isn’t a very good sh ot). 
Then there was music; an orches­
tra formed by well to-do’* and

peons played in the band-tand on 
the plaza every Sunday night.

One of 

the conductors was 
mighty blue after hearing of his 
discharge. Banty to the rescue! 
He decided to make the conductor 
in debt to the railroad and then he 
couldn’t be fired! They got into 
one of the cars and drank a case 
of wine, and 
the empty 
bottles out the door. The conduc­
tor was not fired.

threw 

caused B a n t e I 

Foreshadowing of intrigue and 
revolution 
to 
“gravitate” up north again. He 
had also come to recognize three 
types of men working on the M exi­
can railway: 
incompetents,
( I ) 
who wandered from one railroad 
to another, 
criminals who 
were in Mexico to avoid the sher­
iff, and 
(3 ) those who thought 
the railroad furnished a good op­
portunity to make lots of money. 
Banty didn’t want 
to associate 
with the-e kind of people for the

(2) 

f e c i

Banty became the second mem­
ber o f the engineering faculty in 
1901.

Banty eame to Texas at the
close of the Victorian period; the 
Gay N ineties with its barbershop 
quartet and high-wheeled bicycles 
was at an end.

He was born at the beginnin 
of a great awakening— up to 1873

the laws of hygiene were utterly 
ignored in the living habits of the 
poorest people 
tile Eastern 
cities; the first board of health 
was organized rn M assachusetts, 
and the first trained nurse was 
graduated in Boston in 1873.

in 

of Wales, 

Elaborate interiors and elabor­
ate 
clothes— when Banty was 
three years old Albert Edward, 
the 
Prince 
United States and made fashion­
able 
long, double-breasted 
frock coat. Americans soon threw 
aside their beaver hats and took 
up silk ones.

visited 

the 

By the time Bantel had grad­
uated from college, the majority 
of men wore the 
informal sack 
coat and used the same color for 
(unlike 
coat, vast, and trousers 
their gaudy ancestors who dressed 
in a dazzling variety of colors and

Dean Banty—

rest of his life, so back to toe
U.S.A. 

.

His next job placed him in the 
o ffice of the chief mining engineer 
o f the Cambridge Steel Company 
at Johnstown, Pa. The revere win­
ter was a sharp contrast to the 
weather in Mexico.

The general manager believed in 
buying a machine and wearing it 
out and buying another one. 
Banty became assistant supeiin- 
tendent on the railroad and had 
charge of floating labor. He had 
to have a string attached to him 
day and night 
in case anything 
went wrong. There was no such 
thing as a holiday; it was only an 
opportunity 
to do som ething a 
little extra.

It was here that rn surveying 
exploded mines Bantel risked his 
life in perilous passages filled with 
gas each day. He was also 
in 
charge of a survey for an eighteen 
mile 18-inch cast iron pipe line.

Bantel was ready to come to 
Austin when he was offered the 
job to teach at the University. 
told by 
President Prather was 
someone im whom he had confi­
dence that the best engineering 
school in the country was Rens­
selaer, and he wanted to employ a 
some 
instructor who had 
new 
knowledge of mining. K. C. H. 
Bantel was the answer.

from one e x ­
fab rics). Going 
treme 
they wore 
the other, 
to 
starched shirts of heavy linen with
detachable collars which were coo-, 
sidereal elegant as was jew elry ok 
wrist, neck, and chest.

two 

This was the age of inventions.
One day 
in March, 1876, Alex­
ander Graham Bell was testing hie 
machine in a Boston garret. His 
floors below dis­
assistant 
tinctly heard a voice over 
tho 
wire, “ Mr. W atson, please corno 
here; I want you.” And in Oe-« 
tober 21, 1897, Thomas Alva Edi­
son watched a piece of carbonized 
sew ing thread in an airtight glass 
bulb; the longer the lamp burned 
the more fascinated Edison be­
came; he didn’t go to bed for 
forty hours.

In Banty’s younger days it was 
indeed scandalous for women to 
participate in sports. Toward the 
end of the nineteenth century a 
few wives and daughters of the 
members were grudgingly admit­
ty to some of the golf courses of 
the land. Beatrix H oyt was na­
to 
tional champion 
1899.

from 1896 

Victorian grandpapa of the lux­
urious console radio-phonograph 
of today was an elegant grapha- 
its way 
phone which squeaked 
through 
the “ flogging scene o f 
Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” or “ Rocked 
in the Cradle of the Deep” (with 
saxhorn solo).

That was the setting for Banty’s 
early life. and when he came to 
Texas 
in the early part of tho 
Twentieth Century he was to sos 
a t (Hiving United States became 
in 
one o f the 
the world and a young U niversity 
grow up in this age o f transition.

leading countries 

A s It Was in the Beginning -

When young Banty was more 
in picnics aud sleigh 
interested 
r i d e I n Troy, New York, than 
s lid e r oles and mathematics 
in 
Texas, the University began teach­
ing subjects in engineering.

It was in the spring of 188 4 that 
the College of Engineering had its 
beginning. Dr. A. U. Lane, instruc­
tor, had clashes in applied math in 
the College of Arts and Sciences. 
On a June morning th irte e n young 
men with perspiring brows and 
quaking knees sat on the stage of 
the Millet Opera House— the first 
g ra d u a te s of The U niversity of 
T exas. But it wasn’t until 1888 
that Dr, Lane graduated his first 
student, H. P. H unnieutt.

T. U. Taylor was elected to suc­
ceed Dr, L a n e . Engineering 
courses were still taught under the 
name of applied mathematics in 
one room, and Professor Taylor 
held all of the engineering c l a s s e s 
— drawing, field work, and labora­
tory work. A snorted “ 278 stu­
dents” tells impurity what Taylor 
thought of the University. When 
be first came, the campus con­
sisted 
.solely o f the Main Budd­
ing, of which only the west wing 
was completed. The rotunda and 
Hie east wing were not completed 
until 18'JJ.

leg isla tu r e 
for equipment, and 

In 1890 a School of Applied
Mathematics was created. The 
appropriated 
1893 
$4,000 
two 
years la te r out popped a rival o f 
the D epartm ent of Law and Medi­
cine— the Department o f Engi- 
neei mg.

Twenty-three U.T. s t u d e n t s 
w anted to be engineers back 
in 
1 8 9 5 , and the enrollm ent was in- 
ei ca.-od by one the follow ing year.
In the Gay N ineties the engi­
ned mg students had favorite yells 
and songs to pep up their morale 
during dull moments rn descrip­
tive geom etry classes.

“ Moments, stresses, strains, aud 

shears,

weirs,

V iaducts, aqueducts, canals, aud 

Cantilever, trusses, girders, and
piers,
Texas, Texas E ngineers!”

That’s what the engineers blared 
out at their big affairs in 1897.

The first engineering club was 
organized— E ngineering Associa­
tion whose motto was, “ Pinch in 
everything, pinch pretty rough; 
Stick it to everyone, been stuck 
enough.”

Engineering Department enroll­
ment dropped to fifteen .

When Taylor returned the fol­
lowing year, the Taylor yell was 
born:

“T. U. Taylor 
T. Y. Tie 
X*, Y*
X plus Y.”
In 1900 Engineering Depart­
ment had the amazing total of 
thirty-one 
the class’s 
students; 
motto was “Shovel dirt,” and Pro- 
fessor Taylor was 
the butt of 
many a joke. One of that year's 
favorites was about his m ustache: 
“The wonder was

Aud still the wonder grew 

How one small lip

Could carry all that grew .” 

The west basement of the old 
Main Building was the m eeting 
place o f the engineers, It was there 
that the 1901 seniors thought up 
their yells: “ Our exams are draw­
ing nigh; le t’s knock out Taylor’® 
goo-goo eyes.” Another one was 
Rah, rah, rah, beer, beer, beer— 
Texas, Texas Engineers!” The De­
partment was so overloaded with 
that spring, Professor 
students 
Taylor decided 
to get another 
teacher. And so the next fall, F. 
(', H. Bantel came to the Uiuvot 

Robert A. Thompson substituted 
for Professor Taylor in 1898. The

I a n y .

Robert Mueller & 8ro. 

wishes 

you 

cont nued 

good health and happi­

ness 

In 

your 

chosen 

profession.

■Leo O. Mueller

G reedmgs

to

for

Dean E. C. H. Bantel

Devoted Service to the University

W«* have
served .students 
and faculty for 
12 year*

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Letters From 'Old-Timers Tell History...

Surveying Class Catches Prof 
Peeking Through a Knothole to See 
Baseball Gam e at Old Clark Field

M . B. H o d g es,

th e 

. . . back in th e d ark age* of 
th e Spring of 19IS, when I was 
u n de rgo in g tile ordeal of survey­
ing u n d e r you* a n d also F r a n k 
(Po n ch o ) K ebelm aa, 
small 
p a r ty to which I was a tta c h e d but 
n o t w orking a pp ea re d aro u n d the 
s o u th e a st corner o f old Clark 
F ield and in tim e to find ‘B anty' 
peeking th ro u g h a knothole in th e 
fe n c e 
to see a baseball 
gam e that was in progress. As 
was my custom at the tim e I h ap­
pened to have a small kodak with 
me and while in th e a c t of slip­
pin g up to snap a pictu re o f you 
in 
the U ni­
versity o u t of four-bits, you m ust 
have realized w h a t was going on.

the act of be a tin g 

tr y in g 

please 

ta k e n 
give me 

Anyway, you tu r n e d a ro u n d a nd 
t h a t 
rem arked, ‘l f y o u ’ve 
picture, 
the 
c a m e ra ; if not, go on y o u r way, 
Fish, and 
t h a t you 
j u s t f o r g e t 
saw me as otherw ise y o u r grade 
in S urveying wdl be j u s t exactly 
NIL.’

★

“ And again on a r a th e r b e a u ti­
ful m orn in g a t te n o ’clock your 
class in ra ilro a d en gineerin g sa t 
and s a t an d s a t until well a f t e r 
the usual ten m in u te s allowed for 
walking a class when 
the p ro f 
did n ot show his som etimes smil­
ing counten ance. 
I th in k it mu->t 
have been abou t ten -tw en ty when 
I recall 
we finally walked out. 
in the vestibule
th a t I m et you 

of the E ng in eering Building and 
really gave ma a sidewise 
you 
glance or maybe 
ii could have 
been a look. Anyway, two days 
la te r when we a p pe a red f o r the 
usual 
the 
lectu re, we fo un d on 
blackboard an e x a m ination— no, 
it was not a quiz,— consisting of 
the 
(30) questions with 
th irty 
cha ra c teristic expression a t 
the 
bottom , ‘A nsw er Thera All,’ when 
it 
you knew d a rn e d well 
would have been 
to 
answ er even f o u r or five of them 
within an hour. 
I do not recall 
w hether or not you were ever late 
for a class again b u t I do know 
the g a n g who happened to be in 
th a t p a rtic u la r class did not ever 
again walk one of y ou r lectures.

th a t 
impossible 

VO roo w o w t i

P etty. 

“ Then again during a class in 
m asonry and while lecturing full 
blast on this or th a t, you happened 
to glance in the direction of O. S. 
A pparently, 
(Scottie) 
Scottie had had a hard evening 
the day before as he was e n jo y ­
ing a very nice nap. W ithout any 
w a rning you made this s ta te m e n t, 
or r a t h e r asked this question, ‘Mr. 
P etty, w hat is a p o in t? ’ At h e a r­
ing 
‘P e tty ,’ S cot'ie 
awakened j u s t enough to h e a r the 
la tte r p a r t o f 
the question and 
w ithout so much as blinking an 
eye, he replied, ‘A point 
the 
intersection of two stra ig h t lines. 
Good enough but not the co rrect 
answ er as it so happened.

the word 

is 

. 

in 

the 

th e 

time 

thought. 

lib rary . At 

. you were on 

“ And well do I rem e m be r the 
jam I got into when a bunch of 
seniors did a ra th e r thorou gh job 
of using a belt on a Fish Academ 
rig h t u nd er the eyes of the a c t­
fr o n t 
ing prexy, Dr. Battle, 
of 
I 
was a ju n io r and only walked over 
to see the fun. During the ensu­
ing fracas, or paddling exhibition, 
one Lloyd (R ed) T aylor requested 
the 
loan of my belt so th a t he 
could p u t fo rth his efforts. N a tu r ­
ally, his re q u e st was g r a n te d and 
the m a tte r 
without once giving 
the 
a 
Discipline Com mittee along with 
C. S. P otts and H. Y. Benedict 
(God rest his soul!) and f u r th e r 
both Lloyd and I had a claS' under 
th e 
you 
class before Lloyd but when he 
came rn he handed me my belt 
directly un der your nose. 
Be­
the hour was up you had 
fore 
telephone c ads and 
a couple of 
each tim e you r e tu rn e d to the lec­
tu re room, you would give Lloyd 
and me a r a t h e r severe and stern 
look. To m ake a long story short 
four of us. Taylor, Smith, Penny- 
backer and I sp ent th e e n tile a f ­
ternoo n facing the above named 
three gentlem en. 
I ve forg o tte n 
what the others were assessed but 
I recall very vividly t h a t I was 
placed on probation for a m onth 
or so merely because I loaned a 
belt for the whipping o f a Fish 
Academ for w earing a Senior E n ­
g in e e r ’s uniform ! • 

t h a t hour. 

I was 

in 

.

Vt

. 

to a s t: 

is my 

L. C . W a g n e r . 1 9 0 8 ;
. here 

‘To
Banty! His memory will ever be 
th e nam e of 
long as 
green as 
A lexander F re d e ric k Claire 
is 
known to T exas Engineers. And 
th e re will never be a n o th e r one 
like you, for the Chief E ngineer 
I broke the mold!'

J u l i a n M o n t g o m e r y , A u s t i n ;

it 

in 

. . The Engineering D epart­
m e n t— as we called 
those 
days— was a fine agg reg atio n of 
cheerful, lusty, ha rdw orking stu ­
dents and faculty. You and the 
Old Man were the eream of the 
crop. The white plume is yours! 
‘We know w hat M aster planned 

W hat W orkm an w rought 

thy 

th y f a te ,

destiny,

his 
lectures, p ronouncing with 
g r e a t deliberation e e rta ia words 
with which he wished to make a 
point, and even a t time* r e p e a t­
in th e same de­
ing some words 
liberate m anner. 
Ie this way he 
was able to fix ideas in ou r minds 
much more vividly 
thaw eould 
many of the teachers who spoke 
with more vitality and more em ­
phasis. And his instructions were 
always given with a twinkle rn his 
the 
eye. He was constantly on 
lookout 
rn 
those m om ents 
which he could in je c t a touch of 
hum or an d with 
this drive his 
instruction home. • .**

fo r 

G. H . B r u s h , A u s t i n :

“ . . . I like to think of you in 
the words of the Old Man, as on** 
of those ‘Choice Spirits who are a- 
square as 90*, who are as stra ig h t 
as a bee line, who are as up rig h t 
as a plumb pline, who love God, 
who hate 
the devil, who revere 
the honor system, who keep th eir 
word.”

W. I . P o w e l l , D a l l a s

to 

“ One Incident of 

those early 
days has been bright in my m em ­
ory all of these years. One a f t e r ­
noon in ou r field work class you 
had us divided up into level p a r­
ties with 
ru n a 
instructions 
line from a bench m ark on the 
cam pus to a bench m ark a t the 
Capitol an d back. 
I closed my 
circuit within .02’ and beat it as 
f a st as I could to re p o rt my e x ­
cellent work 
to you, whereupon 
you said, ‘T h a t’s too d a m n close; 
go back and run it over a g a in .’ 
T h a t sage re m a rk o f yours has 
checked incipient swelling in my 
head many times th ro u g h o u t the 
years a n d 
the 
splendid influence which you have 
on the host of us who have had 
the privilege of your advice and 
association d u rin g our e a rly years 
in the profession. T h a t influence 
will not cease with th e change in 
your s ta tu s and I think tha t, while 
you may not have realized all th a t 
you had hoped for, you can count 
yourself one of the most succ»-->»* 
ful men in our profession. . .”

illustrative of 

is 

R. A . W o o d , G * l v e * t o n :

“ ‘Be a good A ssistan t r a th e r 
than a poor C hief’ 
is an o th e r 
B antel lesson th a t stayed with me 
and has probably saved me plenty 
of grief, gripes and gray hairs 
thro u g h the years. . .**

*

W a l t e r B . P r e s t o n :

. 

. 

In 

the 

light of re ce n t 
events, this f a c t is all the more 
obvious: t h a t the individuals who 
have made 
th e University of 
Texas really go, who have tra in e d 
and directed hundreds of students, 
and who have added most tow ard 
the U niversity upon a 
building 
those 
solid fou nd ation a re 
indi­
consistently 
have 
viduals who 
worked day a f t e r day and not 
those ‘blow hards,’ some of whose 
names ap p e ar all too freq uently 
in the daily press.”

Banty - -

All hail to E. C. H. Bantel 

W h o ’s never cross or ranty;
For when you know him very 

well

s h e l l ;

scanty,

In w hat a forge and what a heat 
I Were shaped the anchors of thy 

To you he will be “ Banty’'
He never draws within his 

I Our h earts, o u r friendship are alt 

faith.

With thee,* **

I W i l l i s D . P. W a r r e n : :

, I recall y our arrival at 
the University and one of 
the 
early inform al S unday a fte rn o o n 
I smokers when you kindly Invited 
! some of the en gineerin g stu d e n ts 
to your residence where we en­
joyed 
long - stemmed 
pipes. Fra n k ly however, I never 
did quite learn to smoke a pip** 
I still make an occa­
although 
sional e f f o r t .”

smoking 

a

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I L . M . C h o k ! * , D a l l a s :
I 

“ I 

rem e m be r vividly 

im­
pression t h a t Dean Bantel made 
on me when I was in his cia-*. 
I p a rtic u la rly Eked 
slow, 
leisurely m a n n e r rn which he gave

th e 

th e 

His 

faults are 

less 

than 

This friendly E. C. H. Bantel 
Whom we all know as 

With knowledge deep as any 

“Banty."

well,

H e ’s 

never 
sh an ’t he?"

“shall 

he? 

That Roes for E. C. H. Bantel 
And also Roes for “ Banty."
It mav be he could “give ’em 

hell,"

Dante)

(The kind described by 

When he is E. (*. H. Bantel, 
he a
never w hen 

But 

“ Banty."

GOLDWLN GOLDSMITH

Regards to:

Dean

E. C* H. Bantel

W h o has helped 

to build 

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The University

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Naughty-Five Graduate Describes 

Banty’s Com ing, Engineering Banquet 

And the Birth of “ The Eyes of Texas"

H e r b e r t D . M e n d e n h a l l C .E .B .S ., 

T allah assee, Florida:

"The news, o f your retirem en t 
flood o f p leasan t 
aw ak en ed a 
m em ories o f h app en ings 
the 
U n iv ersity , 1 9 0 0 -1 9 0 5 , m ost o f 
them touchin g you 
in som e w ay 
and m any o f them now estab lish ed 
trad it ions.

in 

fo rtu n es 

to 
join ed 

ta y lo r an nou nced 
t h a t you had 

"I I v o n m her d istin ctly the day 
the 
P ro f. 
class 
the 
f a c u lty , g iv in g a b rief sum m ary 
o f y o u r train in g and exp erience. 
We w ere ai! curious and tim orous 
ab ou t the new P rof. for w e knew 
t h a t our 
the n ex t 
four y e a r s would largely be in ter­
P p 
w o ven w ith his p e r s o n a lity . 
to th a t tim e o u r en tire exp erien ce 
had been w ith P rof. T aylor and 
Mr. P a r k e r , a n 
i n s t r u c to r , and 
we w ere decidedly nervous. Y our 
g en ia lity a n d com m on sen se soon 
d ispelled 
th a t n erv ou sn ess and 
you soon w ere a belo ved p a r t of 
th e furnitu re.

for 

is m arried.' 

"S tan d in g ou t d istin ctly also 
w a s an an n ou n cem en t m ade to the 
class one day by Prof. T aylor dur 
lu g your ab sen ce. He read a tele­
gram sta tin g b riefly : ‘The deed 
is d on e.’ He exp lain ed sim ply, 
I think 
'Mr. B an tel 
som e o f us may have been a little 
jea lo u s fo r we th ou gh t you be­
lon ged to us, but such th ou gh ts 
w ere not voiced and the class as 
to g eth er for a 
a w hole clubbed 
w ed d in g p resen t. 
I was on the 
com m ittee to se le c t it, and if my 
m em ory serves me right, we pre­
sen ted you w ith a carvin g set.

in 

It was held 

th in gs m oving 

"It w as during your fir st y ear 
th a t the fir st E n gin eers' banquet 
w as held. T h at w as q uite an oc­
casion and crea ted a lot o f e x c ite ­
m en t am ong the en g in eerin g stu ­
the old 
d en ts. 
D riskill H otel. Dr. B en ed ict, at 
th at tim e p rofessor o f E n g in eer­
in g M athem atics, was to astm aster 
and kept 
in his 
c h a r a c t e r i s t i c hum orous m anner. 
I r e m e m b e r that I was the s p e a k e r 
fo r 
th e Sophom ore E n gin eerin g 
class. The only others I can re­
m em ber on the program w ere Dr. 
Sc hoc h, w ho spoke to a hum or­
ou sly 
in G eology, 
and Ju d ge Clark, who had to re­
cou n t his tilt w ith C arrie N ation. 
From th a t d ate, the A nnual En­
g in e e r s’ B an qu et becam e • a p er­
m an en t a f f a i r .
"I b elieve 

it w as the year be­
fo re your arrival th at "The E y es 
o f T e x a s’’ saw d ayligh t. A s you 
reca ll, Dr. W rn. Lam bdin P rather 
w a s p resid en t o f the U n iversity

titled su b ject 

D e v e r E. Wood*, B S. in 1920:

. . In our talk s o f th at day 
in 1919 you m ade it clear th at you 
th ou gh t I could accom plish tw ice 
as much w ork as I had ever done 
b efo re. For th e fir st tim e in my 
co lleg e c a r e e r I was fu lly aw are 
o f the fa c t that there w ere pro­
f e s s o r s who w ere g en u in ely in te r­
ested 
in p r o d u c in g " e n g in eers” 
rather I.ban g iv in g exam in ation s 
and b u s ti n g out th ose w ho did not 
m ake the required p assin g grade.

"I 

"Y our plain, blunt ta lk in g m an 
to man then and later g av e me a 
m uch clea rer con ception o f e n g i­
n eerin g th at I had had previously. 
I learn ed th at en g in eerin g w as not 
ju st a plain scien ce but that it was 
a group o f scien ces,
lo a m ed 

to 
•v a lu a te the various com p onents 
o f you r work sep arately and fit 
them to g eth e r so that the finished 
stru ctu re w ould 
I 
learn ed th a t th e hum an elem en t 
w as one o f the m ost 
im portan t 
in an y u nd ertak ing, 
com p o n en ts 
en g in ee rin g or oth erw ise.

th at you had 

sound. 

be 

"I learn ed th at th ere are a few 
co lle g e p rofessors w ho can com e 
dow n from the ped estal o f h igher 
lea rn in g to th e stu d e n t’s level and 
then w alk w ith the stu d en t back 
up the tortu ou s path o f learn in g, 
p o in tin g o u t th e good and bad as 
Choy proceed in p lace o f sta y in g 
throne and coldly e x ­
on 
p oun din g on th eir id eas o f what 
th ey b eliev e is n ecessa ry fo r the 
stu d e n t to learn. • ,

th eir 

you.' 

So on 

ca u tio n : 

im pressively 

la n d a t every op portu nity w ould 
‘R em em -
| ber, you ng men and y o u n g w o- 
i men, th e ey es o f T ex a s are upon 
the occasion o f a 
I trip to D allas to see a footb all 
gam e— w ith S ew a n n r- I b elie v e— 
there w ere d istrib uted to the stu- 
| d en ts in th** train m im eographed 
th e now w ell 
sh eets co n ta in in g 
known 
o f 
T ex a s,’ com posed by the w aggish 
stu d en t poet John I>ang S inclair, 
and to he su n g to th e rythm ic tu n e 
o f ‘Eve been w orkin' on de rail­
road.’ 
L ittle did we know th at 
th at w him sical parody w ould be­
com e one o f the best known U ni­
v ersity son irs in t h ’s cou n try.

‘The E y e s 

parody 

"D uring your ,a>*. ye^rs a t the 
U n iversity the ob strep erou s ‘H ick­
e y s’ o f the class o f ‘N au gh ty Five* 
origin ated the now fam ou s ballad 
I 
to A lex an d er F red erick Claire. 
d on ’t know e x a c tly w here 
the 
words and tu n e cam e 
from but 
I ’ve a lw a y s cred ited them to the 
im pish ta le n t o f ‘S un ny Jim ’ S im s, 
aided 
‘C o o t’ 
few o th ers w hose 
A ntsier and a 
It was g o tte n 
nam es I 
lo t get. 
up as a cou n ter-irrita n t 
the 
the Law s and 
‘P e r e g r in e u se’ o f 
was a com panion p iece 
the 
‘M egath ; * > ' • • u 
o f Dr. B en e­
dict.

ab etted my 

and 

to 

to 

fam o u s 

^ W * “ O mf ' ** + %.%+*, i J 

J c w t & C . i d r -
n e N ation began to appear a t the 
She had alread y be­
U n iv ersity . 
com e 
fo r her h atchet 
fo ra y s a g a in st the saloon s in K an­
sa s, and o ccasion lly visited her 
in A u stin . From som e 
d au gh ter 
underground sou rce the boys o f 
the U niversity w ould alw a y s know 
o f ber p rosp ective arrival and 
would m eet her en m asse at the 
railroad sta tio n to esco r t her to 
the m ain building o f th e U n iver­
sity . Her p resen ce w as a bi.v 
ru p tin g elem en t and a source o f 
g re a t a n n oyan ce to Ju d ge Clark [ 
who w ould p rotest veh em en tly but 
d idn ’t seem to be ab le to do an y ­
thin g ab ou t 
A t each visit 
the boys w ould try to g e t ber to 
sm ash ‘F a t’s ’ saloon a cross from 
the cam pus, but she n ev er w ould 
agree to it.

it. 

to 

ju n ior 

th e 
year. 

f o r grad u ation . 

th at year 
from 

‘P robably my ch o icest m em ory 
o f you had to do with an ex a m ­
in ation 
in railroad m ain ten an ce I 
given by you to N ed Shantis and 
me th e day w e w ere to be cer- j 
tille d 
As you 
in en g in eerin g 
know , th e course 
was p retty s t if f and 
th ere w as 
very little room for sh iftin g su b ­
je c ts around. W hen w e arrived, 
r a i l r o a d m ain ten an ce, b etter 
know n as ‘T ratm an ,’ w as schedu led 
It so hap­
for th e ju n ior year. 
I 
p e n e d 
t h a t N ed Shands and 
had 
to s t a y o u t a y e a r b e tw e e n 
the so p h o m o r e and ju n io r y e a r s , 
th e cou rse w a- 
a n d 
sh ifted 
the 
both 
"ophomore 
S in ce 
Shands and I w ere 
\e r y b u sy— 
he as a star baseball p itch er and 
I as a s t u d e n t in stru ctor— n either 
o f us f o u n d 
th e 
tim e 
to m a k e 
ju n ior o r s e n io r y e a r s 
th e s e n io r 
u p ‘T r a t m a n ’ a n d 
year a ctu a lly 
it. 
Cam e the d ay to be ce rtifie d for 
grad u ation and P ro fesso r T aylor 
in no u ncertain w ords 
fella us 
t o p ass an 
t h a t we w ould h a v e 
{ e x a m in a t io n i a t h e s u b j e c t , o r n o t 
g r a d u a t e . A sked w h a t w e cou ld 
do a b o u t it, he told u s t h a t you 
would g iv e us th e exam . A ll cla ss­
in g re a t con fu sion , 
room s w ere 
d u e 
e x c ite ­
to 
m ent, and 
th ere w as no place 
q u iet enough fo r an exam in ation 
but th e fr o n t step s o f th e E n g i­
n eerin g B uilding. 
B oth o f us 
w ere scared w hite w hen we faced 
you , b u t th ere w as no ‘o u t’ for 
us.

com m en cem en t 

fo r g o t ab out 

in e i t h e r 

in 

"The exam in ation w as ap p roxi­

is a

" M r. S h a n d , w h a t 

m a te ly a s fo llo w s:
B a n t e l : 
p u sh c a r ? ”
S h a n d s : " W h - w h - w h a t ’s t h a t P r o ­
f e s s o r ? ”
B a n t e l : “ W h a t is a p u s h e a r ? ’1 
S h a n d s : " I t ' a sm a ll p l a t f o r m on 
ste e l w heels used by a track repair t

‘W hile Teaching Youths to Build Bridges, 

You Were Building M en With Character 
A nd Reflecting the Art of Living.

E. S . B l a c k b u r n , F ort W orth:

tea c h e r’s 

**. . . A nd w e both realize that 
largely 
rew ard 
a 
is 
sp iritu al. W ith this 
in m ind, I 
think you d eserve and will appre- ■ 
cia te th ese con clu d in g lin es from j 
a trib u te to an old teach er. 
‘G od’s rich est b lessin gs on thee, 

fa ith fu l one 

O f th a t vast throng, w hose skill 

and p a tien ce mold 
A n a tio n ’s d estin y — a service 

Im m e a s u r a b le , n o t b o u g h t with I 

thin e

p altry gold.

W hen school is out, and ev e­

n in gs first stars shine, 

T h o u lt hear the M aster’s voice: 

W ell d o n e ! '”
★

O s c a r E. F i n l a y , H o u s t o n ;

. . S cattered over th e globe 

are the m any en g in eers w hose a c - | 
tions and p row ess r e fle c t so w ell 
the in spiration o f you r teach in gs 
both 
sc ien ce s and 
m ore, the a rt o f livin g. . . ”

in a rts and 

*

R o b e r t D . C a m p b e l l , D allas:

"For m ore than fo u r decades 
you ta u g h t the youth o f th is sta te 
to build stru ctu res o f stee l and 
ston e w hich last but a g en eration 
th e w hile you
or so. 

B ut all 

w ere b uildin g th in g s o f a m ore 
p erm an en t n a t u r e — ch aracter, 
love o f you r fe!Iow -m an, and a 
fu lle r appreciation o f life 
its e lf. 
You h elped to build m en o f char­
acter. .

P e r c y P e n n y b a c k e r :

. . You helped to launch m any 
a you th on th e sea o f p rofession al 
life w ith ad eq uate m oral and in­
tellectu a l b allast 
in his hold so 
that he w as ab le to keep an even 
keel and to w eath er the storm s 
which crossed his path. Those o f 
us w ho w ere, as stu d en ts, asso­
ciated w ith you knew only th at we 
love you and adm ired 
to 
grew 
sen se and philo­
you r com m on 
sophical view o f life. 
It w as not 
until we had been m any years 
aw ay from school that m ost o f us 
sen se o f 
realized w hat a 
valu es we had acquired by our 
association w ith you .

true 

. ”

.

. . you h ave con trib uted so 
much to the d evelopm en t o f th e 
U n iv ersity . , . ”— J. P. Woods.

*

*

. , T he g re a t trio o f Taylor, 
B a n tel, and B en ed ict. The peo­
ple o f T exas are etern a lly in d eb t­
ed to all th ree. . — A. F. D aniel.

w5s95m-t 

A i
tools 

to haul 

g a n g 
track .”
B a n tel: "Mr. M endenhall, w hat
is a hand ca r ? ”
M endenhall: " It’s a car, sim ilar
to a push car but propelled by a 
crank op erated by tw o or m ore 
m en .”
B an tel: "Mr. Shand, w hat 
spike m aul?”
S h an d s: " I f s a ste e l m aul used 
to drive railroad sp ik e s.”
B an tel: "V ery w ell, g en tlem en ,
I ’ll turn you r grad es in to the o f ­
fice .

is a

into 

"M any m ore ep isod es su rge into 
my m em ory as I p ro ject m y self 
back 
su ch as 
those days 
S un ny Jim ’s cartoons on the black­
board 
each m orn ing; P ro fesso r 
Taylor** tragic habit o f g ivin g a 
quiz each M onday m orn ing a fte r 
a big fo o tb a ll ga m e; the feu d b e­
tw een the fresh m en and the ju n ior 
L aw s; the H ickey In itiation s. . .”

In Appreciation

Dean Banters Services

a

o f

to

The University o f Texas

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since 1893.

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'G e t on, G et on, G e t on the R oad of (J. T.

W estern lo c h in v a r W in s H is B lu sh in g Bride 
In N e w O rle a n s a n d Then W ires D e an T aylor 
“The Deed Is D o n e ”

W hen B an ty cam e to the cam ­
pus in IPCI there w as a w ooden 
fe n c e on th ree sides o f the cam pus 
to keep th e cow s o u t — Speedw ay 
A ven u e w as just a w agon track 
b etw een borders o f sui flow ers— 
th e E n glish C hannel w as the nam e 
given the 
long hall on the first 
flo o r o f the Main B udding flanked 
•ti eith er side by m ain o ffic e s of 
th e English fa c u lty — and th e Peri- 
patos. a Greek word m ean ing 
•walk around,'* was the m ile-lon g 
■ade w alk en circlin g the cam pus.

hack 

For the first few- sum m ers he 
to N ew York and 

w er t 
w orked in the m ining en g in eerin g ' 
o ffic e . It w as at th is tim e th a t an 
exp losion at th e rollin g m ill killed 
115 m en; B an ty w as am ong those 
w ho cai l ied out the m angled men 
and cared fo r those who had a 
•h a n ce to live.

He form ed a p a r t n e r s h i p and 
th e 
tw o began su rv ey in g m ines 
over the sta te ( s ta t e law requires 
th a t coal m ines be su rveyed and 
brought up to date tw ice a y e a r ) . 
P anic and d epression cam e along 
and the b usiness v e n t down w ith 
a crash.

At three d iffe r e n t tim es P ro fes­
sor Panted served on the A th letic 
C ouncil, which is resp onsible for 
th e o rgan isation and m anagem ent 
o f In terco lleg ia te A th letics. The 
fir st o f th ese term s w as from 1903 
to 191 1 ; he w as chairm an o f the 
C ouncil for the la st tw o years.

B an ty w as a ctive in school a f­
fa irs. He w as elected p resident o f 
th e E n g in e e r s ’ Club for the 1902- 
OS session.

In O ctober, 1904, B an ty asked 
to be excused fo r a short “ business 
trip ” to N ew O rleans. He sent 
back a telegram an nou ncing his 
m arriage 
to Mrs. Lillian M. 
Da niels.

The first day a f t e r B an tel got 
m arried, a cla ss o f sen iors hid 
the corner and w atched 
around 
him w alk in to a p erfectly em pty 
room . Then the boys file d in, shook 
his hand, properly con gratu lated 
him , and solem n ly w alked out o f 
his class en m asse! They took a cut 
to celeb rate.

In th ose days th ere w as a 
li­
brarian nam ed B enjam in W ye he 
(pronounced w itc h ), and the girls 
“ Mr. B. 
prom ptly nam ed him 
W’y ch e.”

P rofesso r B an tel has this to say 
exp la in in g the p resen ce o f the em ­

i t w as Ju n e, 1901. A n oth er 
school y ea r over, p rofessors and 
stu d e n ts 
re fle c tin g 
alik e w ere 
o v er th e su cc esse s and fa ilu re s o f 
th e p ast year.

In had been a good y ea r fo r th e 
en g in ee rs, observed T. U . T aylor
Sn th e U n iv ersity o f T ex as R ec­
ord. R eg istra tion in th e D ep art­
m en t o f E n g in eerin g w as a t the 
h igh est le v e l in h istory. T w en ty ­
sopho­
n in e 
m ores, nine 
tw o 
sen io rs m ade up th e to ta l en roll­
m en t, and sev era l stu d en ts had 
lack of 
to be turned aw ay fo r 
room .

fresh m en , 

ju n iors, 

six te e n 

and 

th e 

im portan ce. A t 

E n g in eerin g stu d en ts oi'ganized 
s club which m et every S aturday 
s ig h t to d iscu ss su b jects o f prac­
first 
tica l 
m ee tin g th e creosotin g o f w ood 
w as discussed and N orm an T. 
R obertson , freshm an stu d en t, read 
a paper, 
illu strated by diagram s 
and sk etch es o f the creosote w orks 
o f the S outhern P a cific railroad 
a t H ouston.

D ean T aylo r concluded his re­
th e y ea r’s work w ith 

v ie w o f 
th e fo llo w in g com m en t:

“ S en tim en t o f the en g in eerin g 
stu d en ts, w ith the ex ecp tio n o f a 
sm all sectio n o f th e sophom ore 
class, has been fo r th e h ighest 
id ea l o f an en g in e e r ’s life — m axi­
m um accu ra cy and m axim um e f ­
fic ie n c y . N o m an w ith o u t a fixed 
purpose can rem ain in th e E n g i­
n eerin g classes. T he atm osp here 
w ill eith er develop his purpose or 
elim in ate him . To th is is la r g ely

U n iv ersity , alm ost w on the sta te
c h a m p io n s h ip a t S a n A n to n io se v ­
eral tim es.

Banty** o f f u e in th e new E n g i­
n eerin g B uilding (now the J o u r­
nalism B u ild in g) w as on the first 
floor, and he could look out the 
w indow and see a grove o f trees 
w here t h e (.leolo g y B u ild in g now 
stands. In th a t grove th ere w ere 
tw o sm all buildin gs 
co m fo rt sta-
lion'; nam ed G eorgetow n and B ay­
lor a fte r tw o o f the U n iversity's 
rivals.

l f any im portan t in itia tio n s or 
banquets cam e up, Banty* w as 
called upon to “ g e t b u sy.” One o f 
his fa v o rite in itiation t r i c k s was to 
m ake the new com er pat his head 
and rub his stom ach, tellin g him 
that he cou ld n ’t g et in the org a n ­
ization if he d idn ’t su cceed. This 
cared the boy so badly he pi ob-I 
ably co u ld n ’t do it. To con clu d e a 
I cerem on y, B an ty w ould throw in 
a ju d iciou s m ixture o f hum or and 
com m on sense.

*

banknm nt around the U n iversity 
j today. C olonel P rather w anted to 
j grad e the cam pus so that an yone 
stan d in g at any p oin t on the cam ­
pus could see the Main B uilding 
from the top righ t down to the 
bottom . A t the corner o f S p eed ­
.Streets 
way and T w en ty-secon d 

| th ey dum ped m ost o f the dirt th ey J 

had grad ed , 
fen ce and 
bankm ent.

cov erin g 

old 
lea v in g the high em ­

th e 

The 1906 C actus had a poem 
about the en g in eerin g fa cu lty , and 
one stan za read:

Mr. B an tel 
frien d ,

is th e sop h s’ tru e 

A s he certain ly treats him right.
lots o f 
Though he g iv es them 

problem s,

And they have to work a t night.
He loses not tim e w hen he calls 

From A nderson to W right h e’ll

And he sen d s them out to fie ld ­

the roll

fly.

work

W hen th e w-eather’s w et or dry. 
W om en began join in g the en g i­
n eerin g cla sses, and one day at 
the close o f the fir st decade o f the 
centu ry tw o g irls ju st cou ld n ’t get 
their readings on th eir su rveyin g 
in stru m ents righ t b ecau se o f the 
a ttra ction o f th e ir ste e l corsets. 
In structor B an tel didn't know e x ­
actly w hat to sa y ; he hum m ed and 
hawed and fin a lly at th e end o f 
the period, he blurted out, “ Girls, 
w ill you please leave you r arm or at 
borne the n e x t tim e .”

it. T he 

T en n is was con sid ered the only 
ideal and eth ical sp ort 
in those 
days b ecau se o f 
th e m en who 
ten n is p layers 
p layed 
b ough t their en tire o u tfits, played 
for the lo ve o f the gam e, and paid 
for the up-keep o f 
ten n is 
courts out o f their own pockets. 
A lthough B an ty w as n ot a ten n is 
fan , large num bers o f the faculty- 
played regu larly. Dr. B en ed ict, 
who la ter becam e president o f the

the 

T here are those who rem em ber 
the “good ole d a y s” ; m any re­
m em ber the en g in eer-la w scrap s 
and A lex a n d er F red erick C laire’s 
birth l ack in the “ n augh ty e ig h ts” 
and m any o f th ese have w ritten 
B anty.
C. E . M c C a.h j n, C h a t t a n o o g a , 

T e n n ,:
“ T his le tte r 

is w ritten to one 
tw o p eop le w hose kind ness, 
o f 
and 
u n d erstan d in g, 
sin cerity , 
fo r 
gracio u sn ess are resp onsible 
th e 
m y fin ish in g my cou rse a t 
U n iv ersity and ob tain in g m y de­
g ree. The other person w as Miss 
Oasis. M any tim es I have g r a te ­
fu lly thou gh t o f you r k ind ly m an­
ner which, w ith you r natural ab il­
ity, m ade 
it p ossib le fo r you to 
con vey to an o th er you r th ou gh ts 
in su ch a way th at the recip ien t 
o f th e k now ledge w as en tire ly at 
ease and thu s in the p e r fe c t mood 
to reeive 
in stru ction s w ith 
the m axim um o f b en efit. . .” 

this 

it

W . W . M c C ullough, P ittsb u rgh , 

P a.:

“ My brother te lls me I w ou ld n ’t 
th e U n iv ersity o f T exas 
know 
a fte r ail 
I 
th ese years. 
w ould know D ean B an tel and I’d 
from 
like 
T roy, N ew York again. 
Sorry 
it isn ’t in th e cards to be pres­
en t D ecem ber 1 4 .”

th a t Y ankee 

B u t 

see 

to 

The First E n g in e e rin g B uilding

attribu ted the b rillian t su ccess o f 
our form er stu d en ts n otw ith stan d ­
ing th e handicap o f th e lack o f 
apparatus, q uarters, books, and 
help.”

The school y ear o f 1901 opened 
w ith 82 stu d en ts en rollin g fo r en ­
g in ee rin g cou rses, but ed u cation 
w as held back by a lock o f sp ace, 
th ere b ein g d raw in g accom m oda­
tio n s fo r on ly 4 2 . 
In his report, 
D ean T aylor stressed th e n e e d s 
fo e a b u ild in g costin g $ 5 0 ,0 0 0 to 
be used fo r civil, m ining, and e le c ­
trical en g in ee rin g . “ A b u d get o f 
g en ero u s p rop ortion s is n eed ed ,”

in ­
he said, "to provide fo r an 
stru ctor 
in­
in draw ing, various 
stru m en ts, su nd ry w oodw ork, tw o 
stu d en t a ssista n ts, and co n tin g e n ­
cies in g en er a l.”

fa c u lty . 

Som e o f th e se re q u ests w ere 
m et in 1902 w hen several addi­
tio n s w ere m ade to th e E n g in eer­
in 
An 
in g 
draw in g w a s hired and provision 
w as also m ade 
fo r a p rofessor 
o f electrica l en g in eerin g , lectu rer 
on railw ay p raetie, and a stu d en t 
a s s i s t a n t in civil e n g i n e e r in g .

in stru ctor 

A prophecy w ritten by e n g i­
n eers fo r th e 1902 C actus pre-

Engineers Number O n ly 5 6 in 1901

T. U . T a ylo r S ta rte d B enty in U. T. E n g in e e rin g

The ' 

Grand Man

W ith 

the death 

o f Thom as 
U lvan T aylor, w hose very in itials 
w ere th ose o f “ T exas U n iv ersity ,” 
on May 28, 1941, w en t much o f 
the past h istory o f the U n iversity.
The 83-year-old D ean was a true 
T exan , born in 1858 in a cabin on 
B ear C reek in Parker C ounty, the 
son o f a p ion eer cou p le. The first 
ten y ears o f his life w ere sp en t 
on his fa th e r ’s farm . He atten d ed 
school 
lo g school house 
nearby. Fam iliar to him w as the 
task o f sp littin g rails, for which he 
earned tw -enty-five ce n ts a day in 
a brick yard. H e never fo rg o t the 
thrill o f m eetin g the stagecoach .

th e 

in 

a 

fitte d w ith all o f 

loom in g up 
dieted "w e can see 
fin e E n gin eerin g 
b efore us 
B u ild in g 
the 
m ost approved m odern eq u ipm en t.
It w as the fo llo w in g year, how ­
ever, th a t the m ost p rogress w as 
m ade. T h e D e p a r t m e n t o f E n g i ­
n e e r in g m oved in to its new b u ild ­
ing— a 4 -sto ry s t r u c t u r e o f A u s­
tin y ellow p ressed brick w ith 
lim eston e t r i m m i n g t h a t w a s the 
It w as a 
pride o f the cam pus. 
large b uilding, 125 by 65 
fe e t, 
and a d eq u ately e q u ip p e d w ith the 
la test m ach inery fo r civil, m in­
en g in eerin g 
electrica l 
ing, and 
cou rses.

E n g in eers c e l e b r a t e d this 
ach iev em en t at a banquet at th e 
D riskill H otel atten d ed by 220 
g u ests. Dr. H. Y . B en ed ict, p res­
id en t o f The U n iv ersity o f T exas, 
served as to astm aster.

saw 

other 

C onclusion o f th e school year 
1904 
im provem en ts 
m ade, th is tim e in curriculum . It 
was then decided th a t en g in eers 
would all take the sam e required 
co u rses th eir freshm an year. R eg­
istration show ed an 
in crease o f 
43 over the preced in g sem ester 
and 
th is year 
reached 251.

to ta l a tten d a n ce 

An a n n u a l a f f a i r w as m a d e o f 
en g in ee rin g banq uet which 
the 
w as held 
this y ea r w ith even 
g r e a t e r success. A t t e n d a n c e w as 
larger and it w as n o te d that "the 
t o a s ts w e r e s u p e r io r to a n y h e a r d 
up o n p revious sim ilar occa sio n s.”
T h e fir« t e le c tric a l e n g i n e e r in g 

d e g r e e w a s a w a r d e d in 1904.

In 1867 his fa th er died, and his 
fam ily m oved 
to C leburne. An 
uncle fin a n ced him through ( a iie - 
ton S em inary in Bonham for one 
year, but then the you ng m an w en t 
to Sam H ou ston N orm al at H u n ts­
v ille, w here he w on a scholarship 
and grad u ated w ith honors 
in 
1880. N ex t Dean Taj lor w orked 
h is w ay through the U n iversity o f 
V irginia.

A fte r his m arriage to Mess D aisy 
M oon in 1888, he cam e to The U ni­
versity o f T exas w here < ivil E n gi­
n eerin g w as o ffe r e d in the School 
o f A pplied Math o f the C ollege o f 
ex ­
A rts and S cien ces. T aylor 
panded the curriculum , and 
in 
1895 created th e D epartm ent o f 
sep arate 
E n g in eerin g w ith 
fa cu lty .

a 

In 1936 the Grand Old Man be­
cam e D ean E m eritus of the Col­
lege o f E n g in eerin g . D uring his 
few y ea r s as dean, only 
fir st 
tw en ty -tw o stu d en ts w ere grad u ­
ated* but th ree o f them served 
fifty -tw o years in T exas co lleg es 
as d eans.

f i r s t c a m e 

In D ean T aylor’s 50 yea rs on 
the U n iv e r s it y c a m p u s , an ac­
c u r a t e history o f th e D e p a r t m e n t 
o f E n g i n e e r i n g can be told. W hen 
he 
t h e c a m p u s con­
sisted solely o f t h e Main Building, 
o f w hich only t h e w est w ing w as 
com p leted . The rotunda and th e 
east w in g w ere n ot c o m p le te d u ntil 
1899.

D ean T aylor saw the sta rt o f 
th e an n u al P ow er Show 
in 1909, 
w*hen one stu d en t exh ib ited an 
electric marshmallow* 
t o a s t e r 
w hich he had m ade. Each g u e st 
w as given a toasted m arshm allow 
until 
ran ou t o f m arsh­
m allow s.

th ey 

is 

The p resen t R am shorn A ssocia­
tion which 
to keep g ra d u a ls 
en g in eers in touch w ith each other 
and w ith the U n iversity w as or­
gan ized in honor o f th e Grand Old 
Man. It d ates back to D ean T ay­
lor’s quiz papers w hich w ere 
m arked with the p ecu liar sym bol 
when th e y w ere p erfe ct.

o f 

W hen Dr. H om er P. R ain ey, 
p resident 
t h e U n iv ersity , 
learn ed o f h is d eath, he said : "Th# 
U n iv ersity ’s ‘Grand Old M an’ liv e s 
on and on .”

. . C ertainly no man in oat* 
tim e rode herd on us u nruly chib* 
dren w ith such a fin e and gen t is 
, — B rigad ier
hand as yours. 
General Jerry* V . Mafcejka.

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A lec Frederick Claire vs. Peregrinus

L a w -E n g in e e r B a ttle
A ll B e g a n o n A p r il Fool s D a y
In F ro n t o f Beer G a rd e n

I 

ry fire begins from a tiny J 
Sp i. v, and the sp ark th a t set off I 
the I iw -engineering feud here at 
iVcrsity created a blaze th a t j 
the J 
the smoke o f 
fo r years, 
w i ■■ i 
wh 
ti still smolders in the strained j 
re la tio n s of the law yers and th e ; 
en gineers and th e re v e re n t w o r­
ship of the p a tro n saints Alec and i 
IV r< grin us. The real sp a rk oc­
cur?. I one n ight in f r o n t of J a ­
co b y - > Beer Garden on Lavaca \ 
S tr e e t. T h a t is where the p atro n j 
the E ngineers, n am ely; 
s a in t of 
“ A le 'cander F re d eric k C laire,” was j 
discovered.

At 2 o ’clock on the morning of j 

April I 
in the year 1908, Engi­
n e e r s O. K. Green, Banks Mc- 
Latirin, W. W. M cAllister, Cy 
Jones, and one or two others de­
cided to cml it all— with beer, at 
Jacoby’s, Some more practical 
souls said that quizzes and such j 
had become too burdensome, but j 
those who knew attributed their; 
sorrow to their jealousy of the: 
patron saint o f their arch rivals. I 
the law students who had a revered J 
patron saint, P eregrinus, embroil!- ! 
ered on a great banner. As these I 
men were parting at the gate o f 
th-* beer garden, their eyes fell 
upon a wooden statue. Inspiration 
dawned, and 
statute away with them.

they carried 

the J 

Dawn found the notice for a; 
called m eeting of the Engineers; 
and a 
likely rumor of a patron 
saint. Later in the day, a big pa­
r a d e was staged and all engineers 
declared a national holiday— at 
lease in the College of Engineer­
ing 
and cut classes. In the midst 
o f the parade, a veiled figure was j 
brought to the foreground. With j 
great ceremony the wooden statue j 
was unveiled and christened A lex­
ander Frederick Claire, patron 
saint of the Engineers. Old “ A lec,” 
as ( laire came to be known, was 
as tall as the average man and had 
a long, white, flow ing beard, He 
was first placed in B, Hall, at that 
tim e a boys’ dormitory, but later 
be was moved to the E ngineering 
Building.

A lec’s life was doomed to be e x ­
citing, even before his arrical be­
cause his jurisdiction was danger­
ously close to the patron saint of 
the law stu d e n ts — Pereg rinu s.

Like the law he represents, Per- 
egrinus is based upon ancient acts. 
A queer looking bird, he was born 
in equity class back in 1902. 
in 
One student, Russell Savage, 
in 
said class was an h a b itu a l sleeper, 
especially in classes. Now a lawyer 
In Corpus Christi, Savage was 
asleep as usual while Judge Sim­
o n s 
lectured on the history of 
equity courts.

“ Back about four hundred years 
ago, the Romans set up a court 
to care for cases involving for­
eigners.

Th*' presiding 

traveled 
over the country, hearing cases in­
volving foreigners. This judge was

judge 

known as Praetor Peregrinus.”

Savage, when asked about the 
judge Peregrinus the next lecture 
hour, was naturally at a loss. Yet, 
even if he c o u ld n 't g et the legal 
answer correct, he answered the 
law student’s need for a patron 
saint. For, the next class m eeting 
found a weird figure of a surrealist 
Pe reg rin us on the blackboard. This 
grinning fig u re had the bushy tail 
of a fox. the body of a donkey, the 
head of a stork, and its bulging 
eyes were the eyes of an eagle. 
One hooted foot was stretched fo r­
ward as if to boot an engineer. 
Three hairs flowed from his head 
and an open beak displayed rows 
of sharp teeth.

His popularity as saint spread 
rapidly and even Judge Simkins, 
in whose class he was born, praised 
him with “ This fiery mouth is to 
fight injustice, this bushy tail to 
cobwebs o f complication 
brush 
away, so all people can clearly see 
just ice.”

I'eregrinus was embroidered on 
a banner and carried through the 
-greets in wild acclaim. His fam e 
was short-lived, however, because 
in an inter-class football game be­
tween 
the 
frisky freshman academs, the en­
gineers rushed the law students 
and tore Peregrinus to bits. Alex 
was later to su ffer from that cruel 
act by the engineers.

the senior 

laws and 

For two years Alec 

lived re­
motely 
locked 
in peace behind 
doors, till the p lo tting law yers de­
cided Alec was a m enace to their 
saint, so they stole him, mocked 
him, a n d s p a t upon him. The e n ­
gineers were infuriated over this 
first offense, but tempers calmed 
when Alec was re tu rn e d after two 
weeks a t the legal ruling of Ju d g e 
Townes of the School of Law. Then 
in 1912 still with big engineering 
chips on th e ir shoulders, five of the 
engineers captured Peregrinus, cut 
him into six piece?, and mailed him 
to the corners of the State. That 
started the law -engineering feud.
Alec disappeared from the En­
gineering Building a second time 
on February 21, 1913. This tim e 
he was taken to a pig sty, and 
standing there knee-deep in hog- 
waller, he was photographed by 
the law students.

“ This,” said the law students, 
“ shows Alec in his true elem en t.”
the engineers, 

re to rte d 

“ No,” 

“ th a t is Alec feed in g the law s.”

Pig-stied, stymied, a n d still p a ­
tro n saint he was, f o r th e sons of 
Alec came to the rescue.

Resorting to a bogus bill of sale, 
the laws again cap tu red Sain t Alec 
on June 12, 1916, when they le ­
gally bought the statue from the 
widow of Pacoby, w ife o f 
the 
original owner. The cleverness was 
discovered and again Alec was re­
c aptured by force.

Then in the summer o f 1 9 1 8 , T. 
i lh Taylor, dean o f the College of 
Engineering, 
am putated A lec’s 
right lef, cut it into 1,000 thin

pieces, marked each of these “ Cel- 
afotrap,” meaning “part of A lec,” 
spelled backward, and gave one to 
each University engineer who en­
listed in the World War, or who 
served overseas.

Such sacrifices, the giving of 
his right leg to his sons, merited 
his compulsory retirement. There­
fore, 
in 1922, a new Alec was 
carved by the late Peter Mansben- 
del, Austin woodcarver, and the 
statue was then placed in a vault 
In later years 
of an Austin bank. 
more of the old Alec was cut into 
pieces and sent to ex-engineers as 
souvenirs. Still later a new leg 
was made for the original Alec, 
and joyously the engineers parad­
ed the streets with their “real” 
saint. Today “ Old Alec” is in the 
hands of an ex-engineer far from 
the stom ping grounds of the Uni­
versity campus.

The first “ real” Perry was con­
structed of papier mache in 1913, 
and he was kept safely until 1921, 
when he was captured by the engi­

in 

It was in June of that year 
neers. 
that Perry was taken 
from the 
vault by four law students and put 
into a car to bring him to the first 
law banquet ever held on the U ni­
versity campus. Unnoticed, strange 
cars stuck behind Peregrinus’ es­
corts, and as they were passing 
through the capitol grounds, the 
front turned across the 
car 
drive. Out of the two suspicious 
autom obiles rushed fifteen engi­
neers. They grabbed Perry, and 
he was not seen again by the law 
students until 1925, when Dean 
Taylor returned his wastebasket 
pieces to Dean Hildebrand after 
a Sunday tea at Dean Taylor’s; 
house. Perry was carefully put 
back together, and there was much 
rejoicing.

Years passed. And then on the 
night of the engineers* banquet, 
February 26. 1927, sixteen lawyers 
kidnaped Alec, carried him to a 
distant hill, sawed him to bits, and 
hanged him from aloft a cotton­
wood tree on the University cam- 
put. Am ong those receiving sawed- 
o ff portions o f Alec were former 
Governor Dan Moody, and Dean 
Ira P. Hildebrand.
By this tim e 

the engineering 
students felt peeved over the lit­
tle rest their saint waa getting, 
and several of them plotted to kid­
nap Peregrinus during the banquet 
of the law school in 1927. Foiled 
in this attem pt to capture Perry 
in the wake of the whole body of 
law students, the engineers were 
out of the five dollar bribe they 
paid a negro porter who was to 
steal the statue in the darkness. 
His failure was due to the fact 
that at the appointed hour one 
of the engineers failed to find the 
hotel light switch.

(the 

Shorter years passed. And then 
on December 6, 1930, law students 
fourth 
sneaked Peregrinus 
in line of saintly images by this 
tim e) from the vault of an A us­
tin bank down the rear alley to­
ward the Driskitt Hotel, Lying in 
wait, several engineers pounced 
upon their prey, took Perry cap­
tive again, and 
later destroyed 
him com pletely. Court proceedings 
were begun by the lawyers to re­
cover their property, but the pa­
tron saint was lost because su ffi­
the case was
in 
cient evidence 

lacking, and the defending engi­
neers naturally knew nothing o f 
what happened 
the m issing 
saint.

to 

But came the year 1934, m ors 
trouble. It was explained by Dean 
Hildebrand long before that tim* 
that the “real” Peregrinus haji 
never been taken from his hiding 
place. And in this year, a hint 
to the engineers was su fficien t. 
The banquet o f the !,aw School 
was being held in the Texas Union. 
While scores o f engineers beat 
and hammered against the locked 
doors and barred windows outside, 
Peregrinus sat at 
the place o f 
honor on the center table. Cau­
tiously, the law students watched 
over the saint between m outhfuls 
of food. And then it/happened—-
A waiter, unnoticed before, 
reached out from behind the head 
table, grabbed Peregrinus by tb s 
head, and ran. A mob of laws, 
who no longer knew formal legal 
procedure, 
th* 
pounced 
waiter. Then came the rains—- 
of fists. The waiter threw th s 
statue to the floor, and sat on its 
scattered remains.

upon 

The offender was Ralph Immel, 
an engineering student who bad 
disguised him self as one of th* 
waiters an.I had gained entrance 
to the banquet hall through th* 
Immel had gone around 
kitchen. 
the 
front of the banquet tab!* 
and there before the entire law 
school grabbed the bird by th* 
gills. And Peregrinus was minim 
a few teeth.

“ It broke easily,” Immel later 
said when Dean Hildebrand had 
restored order and bad released 
the student from the hands of th* 
threatening 
they 
caught me, I threw it down and 
sat on it.”

“ When 

laws. 

U ndefeated in the destruction of 
their god, the 
lawyer? gathered 
$ 1 0 0 and had Peter Mansbendel 
carve another Peregrinus, this on* 
a four-foot statue out of hard­
wood. This work was completed 
in 1935 and the patron saint ha* 
since been kept in a downtown 
bank.

Shortly before this Dean Taylor 
took Alec over to the Texas Memo­
rial Museum to insure safekeeping.
And tilt today, peace and good 
will toward saint? for a changa* 
baa been the order of the day.

Present H om e o f A lexander Frederick O a u e

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F R ID A Y , ''D E C E M B E R 22, 1944

'Modified H is Service-Not His

mmssm iwmm-

Dean B an tel w as a to a stm a ster 
at the en g in eerin g a ffa ir s fo r the 
m ajority o f his reign . A t one o f 
in th e early ’3 0 ’s, 
th e banquets 
B a n te l w as 
in tro d u cin g D ean 
Taylor.

A fte r 

recou n tin g 

th a t D ean 
T a y lo r was a great stick ler fo r the 
Jhonor o f system , tru th , in teg rity , 
an i ju stice, B an tel rem arked that 
T a y lo r also b elieved 
th a t boys 
should abstain from all b everages 
alcoh olic.

“ In fa c t, D ean T aylor says th a t 

M>‘-or is slop’ I”

B a n tel added under his breath, 
b u t loud en ou gh fo r everyo n e to 
I d on ’t agree with 
hear. “ But 
him P

o f 

fa cu lty 

In 1933 B an ty w as appointed to 
th e 
the G raduate 
S ch ool. D urin g m ost o f th e tim e 
th at he has been h ere, P ro fesso r 
P. intel has served as secreta ry o f 
th.' e n g in e e r in g fa cu lty .

A side from his regu lar d u ties o f 
tea c h in g and “ d ea n in g ,” P ro fesso r 
B in tel has held m any responsible 
p —u tion s on th e cam pus. For a 
to n g tim e he w as a ctiv e in m aking 
arra n g em en ts fo r C om m encem ent 
ex e r c ise s fo r six teen years,

In 1936 a vote w as taken o f the 
d e g r e e 
to d ecide 
ca n d id a tes 
w h e th er diplom as should be pre- 
ated p ersonally or by proclam a­
tio n at th e com m en cem en t ex cr­
em es.

if 

B an ty said that he w ould be
w illin g to stay up all night June 9 
(com m en cem en t n ig h t) 
in so 
d o in g he could p lease everybody. 
*‘VVe are try in g to arrange this to 
su it 
I 
know th ey en jo y that 
little m o­
m en t o f glo ry , b u t it is a m atter o f 
tpp roxi-
ch oice b etw een 

the can d idate prim arily. 

sittin g 

F rederick C laire and has seen tho 
U n iv ersity at work during 
tw o 
W orld Wars.

P r o f e s s o r B a n te l w as s u c c e e d 'd 
as a s s i s t a n t d e a n by C. E. Row e, 
who f o r m a n y y e a r s c h a ir m a n o f 
t h e D e p a r t m e n t o f D ra w ing. Mr. 
Rowe h a s b ee n w ith th e Un i vers ii y 
since 190 4. H e holds t h e d e g r e e s 
o f B S. in civil en g in ee rin g from 
th e U n iv e r s ity o f C o lo ra d o ( 1 9 0 0 ) 
a n d m in in g e n g i n e e r f ro m C olo­
I le
r a d o School o f Mines (1 9 0 2 
gi -
has also bee n e l e c t e d by the 
n e e r in g f a c u lty to ta b.' o v e r the 
d u tie s o f s e c r e ta r y .

A t 

f i r him 

th<* r e c e p tio n 

la st 
w eek , B an ty w as n o tifie d that th e 
R egen ts had m ade him a ssista n t 
p re­
dean e m e r itu s . And the 
sen ted to him at th a t tim e perhaps 
describe the tru e Banty.

“ . . . I can e v e n see you as you 
stood w ith th e old ten n is bail st irk 
on a p en cil, try in g to g et som e 
idea o f ‘sid ereal tim e’ and such 
into our heads, or as with chalk sn 
hand, you exp lain ed how to g e t a 
railroad around an 
‘im passable 
o b je ct,’ or again as you e x p o u n d e d 
the 
in trica cies o f ‘con tracts and 
sp ec ifica tio n s’ and so o n ,” w rote 
Ward N\ H ardem an o f Junction.

P a u l W o o d w a rd , C.E. ’14, said,
. .N ow th ey say you are assum ­
ing ‘m odified se rv ic e’ fo r the U ni­
versity. This perhaps is w ise f ir 
th e body o f even an en gin eers 
w ears out. E ven A lec fin a lly laid 
dc wn his balls. Y ou m ay m od ify 
your service, but n ever can m odi­
fy your in flu en ce. It will continuer 
to circle the earth in the lives o f 
‘you r b oys’. ”

u. . . from you I learn ed th at 
e n g in eerin g 
the b etter­
in volved 
in g o f life fo r m any peop le. » .** 

— C harles P. Kerning.

T he n ex t m orning the oak tre e 
w as g o n e! 
It w as found a t th* 
lib r a r y , now th e Main B u ild in g. 
Badly dam aged by ropes used to 
drag it, th e oak w as Im m ediately 
th at 
replanted , w ith 
it w ould su rvive, w hich it d idn ’t.
In 1935 W. R. W oolrich w as 
m ade dean o f E n g in eerin g w hen 
T. U. T aylor retired and becam e 
dean em eritus.

little hope 

“ A 

Jou rn al o f A rch itectu re, 
E n gin eerin g, and In d u stry,” th e 
E n gin eerin g Jou rn al, w as 
first 
published S ep tem b er, 1934,

To m eet the in creasin g en roll­
m ent in th e d ep artm en ts o f th e 
C ollege o f E n gin eerin g, tw o n ew 
E n g in eerin g b uildings, P etroleum 
and C hem ical E n g in eerin g , w ere 
begun in 1940, and c o m p le te d in 
1942.

The C h e m ic a I E n g i n e e r i n g 
Building, a “ fa c to r y -sty le ” struc- 
! ture, is equipped w ith u n it parte 
o f p lant op eration foun d in Texa* 
ran gin g from te x tile m an u factu r­
in g to oil refin in g .

T he $ 2 0 0 ,0 0 0 P etroleum E ngi­
n eerin g B u ild in g, appropriately 
placed in the sta te w hich leads th* 
world 
is th e 
in oil production, 
in A m erica ex c lu ­
on ly b uildin g 
sively d evoted 
th e stud y o f 
p etroleum .

to 

A

A nother p reced en t in the his­
tory o f E n gin eerin g w as esta b ­
lished when th e en gin eers elected 
their fir st sw eeth ea rt, P olly Sm ith , 
on April 27, 1941.

Second 

stu d en ts 

tra g ed y — E n g in eerin g 
h istory happened when th e back 
h alf o f E n g in eerin g B u ild in g 204 
in 1942. 
crashed to th e ground 
Shocked 
gaped w hile 
slide rules, T -sq uares, and french 
cu rves fille d 

th e air.
T he n eed s o f a nation at war 
led to the creation o f the A ero­
n autical E n gin eerin g D ep artm ent 
in 19 43 which began w ith an en­
rollm ent o f 150 stu d en ts.

T he U n iversity is a b o train in g 
em p loyees o f the S ignal Corps, 
and has been giv in g a se rie s o f 
cou rses in in du strial s a fe ty en g i­
n eering. 
In addition to teach in g, 
the C ollege o f E n gin eerin g is also 
carryin g on m ore than a do*en 
research p rojects, all o f which 
are exp ected to con trib u te to th* 

I war e ffo r t.

1930 — Eve of a Era Building

QUITE A W A Y from 

th e o n e room 

in the O ld Main Building 

in 1884.

★
mat cly tw o hours fo r 1,000 candi­
d ates to cross the p latform .’*

He asked L utcher Stark, chair­
man o f the Board o f R egents, w hy 
he and th e rest o f the R e g e n ts did 
n ot com e as th ey used to. Mr. 
Stark asked him w hat there w as at 
the com m en cem en t ex e rcises fo r 
the R eg en ts 
en jo y and de­
scribed the occasion as b ein g ju st 
lin e o f be­
a seem in g ly en d less 
capped g rad u ates, having 
their 
in a u d ib ly ca lle d ou t, and 
n a m e s 
w alk ing across th e sta g e.
* “ W hat w ould you 
S ta r k ? ’’ asked B an ty.

lik e, Mr. 

to 

“ S om eth in g to appeal to o n e ’s 
said Stark. Then 
in te lli g e n c e .” 
later, “ Send us an in vitation and 
we w ill c o m e .”

So the R eg en ts received an invi­

tation .

The stu d en ts voted down 

the 
y ear o f re ceiv in g th eir diplom as 
by p roclam ation ; ab out h alf the 
class voted and th e fin a l to ta l w as 
417 again st and 96 fo r B a n tel’s 
p la n . The grad u ation by proclam a­
tion w as 
tried rn A ugust, 
1937.

first 

A

A

A bout six or seven years aga at 
the op en in g o f 
th e O. H enry 
H ouse, Mr. and Mrs. B an tel and 
one o f th eir neighbors had gon e 
down to O’H en ry’s hom e and r e ­
turned to tow n late. T hey decided 
to stop arid g e t a bite to ea t, so 
they stopped over at E isen b e ise r’s 
fo r supper.

T h ey w ere en jo y in g th eir sand­
w ich es and 24-ou n ce schoon ers, 
w hen th ey heard a com m otion at

the door. B an tel w ondered w hat
w as goin g on. In a few m inu tes, 
in 
about tw e n ty en g in eers filed 
the door and each on e w alked 
solem n ly by B an ty’s 
tab le and 
said, “ Good even in g, Mr. B a n tel,” 
and w alked by.

A fte r th e boys had had th eir 
beer, ^hey filed ou t again , w alking 
by the B an tel tab le and each one 
said, “ G ood-bye, Mr. B a n tel.”

W hen B an ty told th is story to 
som e o f his colleagu es, be draw led, 
“ Those d evils w ouldn ’t have taken 
$10 fo r th a t!”

Then 

la st S ep tem b er B anty
w en t on m od ified serv ice; he had 
w atched the en g in ee rin g facu lty 
grow 
from one m an to six ty . 
B anty m ean s as much to the C ol­
leg e o f E n gin eerin g as A lexan d er

A

A

to a grand guy —

Dean E. C. H. Bantel

Best wishes and 
good health

from

E n g i n e E R ! n o

£ W P P I . I C S

DLUB P R i N t p q

PHA* HHS

JOHN D. MILLER

greetings —

to a prince o f a " g o o d fellow "

Dean E. C. H. Bantel

C o n g ra tu la tio n s on your 43 years 

o f inspiring service to H ie 

U niversity o f Texas.

D uring th e C hristm as holidays 
o f 1930, the electrica l en g in ee r­
ing 
to 
lab oratories w ere m oved 
the new M echanical E n gin eerin g 
Shops from the attic o f Garrison 
Hall, th u s b egin n in g an era o f 
building and exp an d in g n o t only 
o f the C ollege o f E n gin eerin g, but 
o f th e en tire cam pus.

E n gin eerin g stu d en ts and fa c ­
u lty m arched in a parade from the 
old E n gin eerin g B uilding, now the 
Jou rn alism B u ild in g, 
to Clark 
F ield F riday m orning, March l l , 
o f 1932, to the b reaking ground 
cerem on y on th e site o f th e new 
E n gin eerin g B u ild in g. The first 
spade o f earth w as sh oveled by 
D ean T. U . T aylor, then dean of 
the C ollege o f E n gin eerin g. Com­
pleted in 1933, th e new building 
is the ce n ter o f the en gin eerin g 
layou t and m akes a horseshoe 
around 
th e E n gin eerin g Shops. 
T his brick stru ctu re at one tim e 
housed the civil, ch em ical, p etro­
leum , and m ehanical en g in eerin g 
d ep artm ents. A large part o f it 
was occupied by 
lab oratories in­
eq u ip ­
clu d in g dynam os, 
ment, eq u ip m en t for oil p rosp ect­

radio 

in g, mud te stin g , and w ater tur­
bines.

I E n gin eerin g was 

Its library w ill u ltim a tely hold 
40,000 books. A nother 
in terest­
in g fea tu r e is the arcade th at ex­
ten d s around a cou rt which 
is 
200 fe e t by 68 fe e t.
E rected d uring 

the 1 9 3 t - ’33 
b uilding era o f the U n iversity, the 
A rch itectu re B uilding w as d esign ­
ed by arch itectu re stu d en ts and 
is con sid ered by m any as the m ost 
b eau tifu l b uildin g on the cam pus.
One o f the m ore tragic ch ap ters 
o f th e history o f the C o lle g e o f 
the short lived 
oak tree o f the en g in eers. 
In har­
m ony w ith cam pus b eau tification 
plans, and with P resid en t R oose­
the 
v e lt’s 
sen ior en g in eerin g class planted 
an oak by th e E n gin eerin g B uild­
ing, March 6, 1934. The on ly 
su rviving 
th e 
C ollege o f E n gin eerin g shoveled 
the dirt on 
the. tree which was 
planted over a few sou ven irs in­
clu d in g a sp r u f o f ivy from P a t­
rick H en ry’s grave and slivers o f 
ston e from th e step* o f th e E n g i­
n eerin g B udding.

fir s t grad u ate o f 

re fo resta tio n 

e ffo r ts, 

Best W ishes

Dean Bantel

from

O. M. D A V IS

Home Steam Laundry

1 2 0 E . IO 

P h o n e 3 7 0 2

T H E A U S T IN N A T IO N A L B A N K
5 0 7 C ongress

Bes# of Luck—

Dean Benty

from

M em ber F ed eral Deposit Insurance 
C orporation

W. F. Gorlin
“20 Year* Your University Jeweler"

 FR*DAY DECEMBER 22,1944 

Phone 2-2473 — T H E D A I ll Y T E X A N — Phone 2-2473 

P A G E SEVEN

Engineer Get-Together and Banecdotes

D e a n E d w a r d C. H. B a n t e l h a s b e e n a n a c t i v e m e m b e r o f the M a­
sonic Lodge in Austin since 1904— York R ite Mason, Scottish Rite 
(33rd degree h o n o r a r y ) , K n i g h t T e m p l a r , and a Shriner.
M a so n 
Blue- L o d g e :

H e w a s a m e m b e r o f H ill C ity 
L o d g e N o. 4 5 6 p r io r to C h a r t e r o f 
U n i v e r s i t y L o d g e N o . 1 1 9 0 , o f 
which he w a s a c h a r t e r m e m b e r .
H e s e r v e d a s W o r s h i p f u l M a s t e r 
in 1 9 2 5 a n d is now C h a p l a in o f the
L odge.
S c o t t i s h R i t e :

D e a n B a n t e l r e c e i v e d the S c o t ­
tish R i t e d e g r e e s A p ril 21 a n d 2 2,
1 9 1 9 , a n d w a s e l e c t e d b y th e S u ­
p r e m e C o u n c i l O c t o b e r 18, 1 9 2 1 .
H e w a s K n i g h t C o m m a n d e r o f the 
C o u r t o f H o n o r , a n d e l e c t e d by 
S u p r e m e C o u n c i l O c t o b e r 2 1 , 1 9 2 7 
t h i i t y - t h i r d d e g r e e I n s p e c t o r G e n ­
e r a l H o n o r a r y , a n d r e c e i v e d 
the 
t h i r t y - t h i r d d e g r e e on D e c e m b e r 
2 8 , 1 9 2 7 . H e s e r v e d a s R e u n io n 
D i r e c t o r o f S c o t t i s h R i t e B o d i e s in j 
A u s t i n f r o m 1 9 2 4 - 2 8 .

f o r 

H e w a s a m e m b e r o f the E x e c u ­
tiv e C o m m i t t e e 
f iv e y e a r s , 
fr o m 1 9 2 5 t h r o u g h 1 92 9. H e w a s 
e l e c t e d D e g r e e M a s t e r o f S e v e n ­
t e e n t h D e g r e e 
th e s p r i n g o f 
in 
1 9 2 0 a n d s e r v e d c o n t i n u o u s l y , e x ­
c e p t f o r o n e r e u n io n , a s D e g r e e 
M a s t e r . H e h a s s e r v e d on v a r i o u s 
c o m m i t t e e s d u r i n g his m e m b e r ­
sh ip , su c h a s F r a t e r n a l C o u r t e s y 
C o m m i t t e e , M e m b e r s h ip C o m m i t ­
te e , a n d A t t e n d a n c e C o m m i t t e e .
Y ork R i t e :

S e l e c t M a s t e r s d e g r e e s 

D e a n B a n t e l r e c e i v e d the R o y a l 
A r c h d e g r e e s 
t h e L o n e S t a r 
in 
C h a p t e r in 1 9 0 4 , a n d the R o y a l 
a n d 
in 
1 9 0 4 . H e s e r v e d a s E m i n e n t C o m ­
m a n d e r o f C o l o r a d o C o m m a n d e r y 
d u r i n g the y e a r 1 9 0 8 , a n d f o r a 
n u m b e r o f y e a r s s i n c e a s P r e l a t e .
B e n H u r T e m p l e :

H e w a s c r e a t e d a N o b l e o f th e 
M y s tic S h r i n e in B e n H u r T e m p l e 
l l , 1 9 0 4 , and h a s b ee n a c ­
A p r il 
t iv e 
th e T e m p l e a f f a i r s sin c e 
t h a t d a t e .

in 

M rs. B anty W it h the Se rv ic e Flag

★
a n o t h e r 

U p o n 

o c c a s i o n 
t r y i n g 

t h a t 
to g e t 
D e a n T a y l o r w a s 
s o m e b o d y to d o s o m e t h i n g no on e 
w’a n t e d to do, a ll o f the p r o f e s s o r s 
w e re m a k i n g up g o o d e x c u s e s why 
t h e y c o u l d n o t d o 
it. B a n t y e x ­
c u se d h i m s e l f b y s a y i n g t h a t all he 
k n e w w a s 
lin e b e ­
t w e e n his o f f i c e a n d his h o use 
sin c e E i s e n b i s e r ’s had c lo s e d .

s t r a i g h t 

the 

A g r o u p o f U n i v e r s i t y m e n w e re 
d i s c u s s i n g b o o k s o f th e d a y . B a n t y 
r e m a i n e d u n u s u a l l y q u ie t . T h e y 
p r a i s e d a n d s l a n d e r e d th e l i t e r a ­
t u r e t h e y h a d r e a d in the l a s t few' 
m o n t h s a n d e v e n b r o u g h t into the 
c o n v e r s a t i o n b i t s a b o u t th e a u t h ­
o r ’s liv es. F i n a l l y B a n t y p ip e d up, 
“ Y o u k no w , 
t h a t T a r z a n 
I 
b o o k s a r e q u ite i n t e r e s t i n g . ”

fin d 

p a r a d e s ) . 

P r i o r to 1 9 2 7 it w a s th e c u s t o m 
f o r t h e e n g i n e e r s to t a k e a c u t on 
A p ril I 
( t h i s c u s t o m b e g a n b a c k 
in th e d a y s o f th e A le c F r e d e r i c k 
C l a i r e 
th e 
t e e n s , A p ril 
I w a s a l w a y s a b ig 
h o li d a y f o r the b o y s. F r e q u e n t l y , 
th e y w o u ld s t a y a r o u n d the c a m ­
p u s, a n d o n e y e a r t h e y d i s t u r b e d 
o t h e r c l a s s e s so m u ch t h a t th e r e 
w e re s e v e r a l c o m p l a i n t s .

B a c k 

in 

T h e n e x t y e a r . D e a n B a n t e l 
w e n t a r o u n d to all his c l a s s e s a n d 
s o le m n l y m a d e it p la in t h a t A p ril 
I w a s n o t a n o f f i c i a l h o li d a y f o r 
the U n i v e r s i t y , etc. B u t a f t e r ea c h 
l e c t u r e o f a d m o n i t i o n , he 
s h o r t 
w o uld wind u p b y s a y i n g , “ B u t 
if y o u ’ re g o i n g to c u t c l a s s , s t a y 
o f f the c a m p u s . ”

M a ke Way for the Engineering College

in 

f i r s t , 

C a m e th** 1 9 2 0 ’s.
C o r m a n y y e a r s B a n t y w a s o n e 
o f the m o s t p o p u l a r s p e a k e r s a t 
f o o t b a l l Ti*Mi* - : 
the obi 
A u d i t o r i u m which w a s in the n orth 
the old Main B u d d i n g 
w i n g o f 
( w h e r e 
s t a n d s ) ; 
the obi M e n 's G y m , a 
latt'r , 
in 
located a t 
l a r g e w o o d e n 
S p e e d w a y 
S w e n t y - f o u r t h 
( a b o u t w h e r e e l e c t r i c a l Kngin«'f*r- 
i n g I*ab 
in 
the arrand ne w Gr»‘e o r y G y m n a s - 
i um .

i.s n o w ) , a n d f i n a l l y , 

s h a c k 
a n d 

t o w e r now 

the 

His m o s t p o p u l a t r o le a t t h e se 
r a l l i e s wa*- a n 
i m p e r s o n a t i o n o f 
“ Mr. D o o l e y ” w h o w a s t h e h e ro 
o f o n e o f the c o m ic s t r i p s in th o se 
d a y s .

c o n t i n u o u s l y 

G o v e r n o r Pat N e f f m a d e B a n t e l 
c h a i r m a n o f his A d \ i ‘-<>ry C o u n c i l 
o f E n g i n e e r s .
B e f o r e 

s t u d e n t 
th e a d v e n t of 
si 11' yssvi a l i m e n t , P r o f e s s o r B a n t e l 
s e r v e d 
f o r m a n y 
the F a c u l t y D is c ip lin e 
y e a r s on 
in 
* ' a u m il t e e a n d w a s e a r n e s t 
t h e h o n o r 
m a i n t a i n i n g 
s y s t e m . 
I n d e r 
s y s t e m e v e r y e x a m 
th is 
p a p e r e n d e d with a p l e d g e s i g n e d 
t h a t he 
by 
h a d n e i t h e r r e c e i v e d n or g i v e n a id , 
n o r se e n a n y o n e e ls e d o i n g so.

t h e student, s t a t i n g 

th e 

E n m i t y o f the s o p h o m o r e s a n d 
I he f r e s h m e n c a m e to a n en d 
in 
s o p h o m o r e s k id ­
1 9 2 0 w h en 
n a p p e d t h e f r e s h m a n c l a s s p r e s i ­
d e n t on the n ig h t o f the f r e s h m a n 
b all. T h is p r e c i p i t a t e d a f i g h t at 
t h e K n i g h t s o f C o l u m b u s H a ll 
w h e re $ 1 , 0 0 0 w o rth o f d a m a g e 
w a s d o n e a n d e i g h t p e o p l e w e r e 
s e n t to t h e h o s p it a l .

it

O n e m o r n i n g D e a n T a y l o r a s k e d 
f o r v o l u n t e e r s f r o m the e n g i n e e r ­
i n g f a c u l t y to do a little j o b . T h e 
D e a n g o t to e x p l a i n i n g so f a s t a n d 
f u r i o u s l y t h a t no o n e co u ld u n d e r ­
s t a n d him. B a n t y r e m a r k e d , the 
t r o u b l e w ith the D e a n is t h a t he 
s t a r t s in t h e m id lle a n d t a l k s in 
b o t h d ir e c t io n s .

In 1 9 2 2 

th e E n g i n e e r i n g D e ­

p a r t m e n t b e c a m e 
i m p o r t a n t 
p a r t o f the U n i v e r s i t y w h en th e 

a n 

n a m e D e p a r t m e n t o f E n g i n e e r i n g 

w a s c h a n g e d 
E n g i n e e r i n g .

t o 

t h e C o l l e g e o f 

A s l a t e a s 1 9 3 0 t h e E n g i n e e r s 
h a d o n ly t h i s o n e b u i l d i n g to call 
t h e ir ow n a n d w e r e f o r c e d to hold 
t h r e e o t h e r b u i l d i n g s 
c l a s s e s 
o n 
the 
l a r g e e n r o l l m e n t .

th e c a m p u s b e c a u s e o f 

in 

O n 

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n o w st o o d a b u il d i n g 140 f e e t l o n g 
a n d 9 8 f e e t w id e w h ich is a p art 
o f th e e n t i r e e n g i n e e r i n g d e p a r t ­
m e n t a n d c o v e r i n g a n a r e a o f 
s o m e o n e h u n d r e d t h o u s a n d f e e t . 
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h o u s e a s m a n y a s s i x d e p a r t m e n t s . 
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it a r e d i v i s i o n s o f e l e c t r i c a l , 
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d r a u l i c s , m a t e r i a l s 
c r e t e , a n d h i g h w a y la b s. 
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n o r t h s e c t i o n a r e m e c h a n ic a l e n ­
g i n e e r i n g l a b s in c lu d i n g h e a t a n d 
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l a b , m a c h in e 
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la b s .

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t r i c a I 
l a b s — c o m m u n i c a t i o n s , 
s t a n d a r d s , p h o t o m e t r i c , t h r e e e l e c ­
tr ic a l c i r c u i t l a b s a m i illu m in a tio n 
d e m o n s t r a t i o n ro om s.
t h e s o u t h 

s i x ­
t e e n c l a s s r o o m s , t w e n t y - s i x o f ­
f i c e s in c lu d i n g t h e a d m i n i s t r a t i o n 
g r o u p , l i b r a r y a m i r e a d i n g ro om . 
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d e v o t e d to e s p e c i a l l y d e s i g n e d a n d

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In 

Miss Beal Directed 
Banty Script

’ T w a s a d a r k a n d s t o r m y n ig h t 
when th e st o r k c a m e w i n g in g o v e r 
in T r o y , N e w 
th e B a n t e l h o u s e 
Y o r k b u t the s t o r m c l o u d s l if t e d 
w hen B a n t y r a i s e d his v o ic e 
to 
a n n o u n c e his a r r i v a l .

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c o u n t e n a n c e so b rig h t.

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g r e a t l y to i n s p i r e th e r e s t

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t h u s p u t t i n g f o r t h t h e ir b e s t . ”

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eat h l a s t i n g a b o u t a m i n u t e , t e l l ­
in g o f th e l if e a n d d o in g s o f the 
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so u n d e f f e c t s a n d m u s i c a l b a c k ­
g r o u n d s , b y m e m b e r s o f the R a d io 
H o u s e W o r k sh o p . W ith e a c h p o e m 
w e re sh ow n h u m o r o u s s l i d e s a p ­
p r o p r i a t e 
to th e s u b j e c t m a t t e r , 
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m a s t e r r e c o r d s w e r e 
t r a n s c r i b e d 
u n d e r th e d ir e c t io n o f E l i t h e H a m ­
o f 
ilton 
a c t i n g 
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R a d io H o u s e to t h e re c e p t io n l a s t 
T h u r s d a y 
th e T e x a s 
U n io n when D e a n B a n t e l w*as h o n ­
o r e d u pon his n e w a p p o i n t m e n t . 
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him in a s p e c ia l a l b u m .

a n d p l a y e d 

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in 

B o b 

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in 
M e m b e r s o f th e W o r k s h o p 
t h e c a s t w e r e E d C o h n e , M a r g a r e t 
A n n e 
J o h n s o n , 
R o g e r A b b o t , H e le n C u n n i n g h a m , 
P a t s y B e a z l e y , E d n a B r e w s t e r , 
B r o w n i e M c N e il, F o r r e s t S m i t h , 
J a c k E d w a r d s , V a u g h n W il l i a m s , 
C h a r l e s B r o w n , D o r o t h y C lo u d , 
M illm a n R o c h e s t e r a n d B o b W h ite. 
E x c e r p t s f r o m a l e c t u r e by D e a n 
B a n t e l w e r e a l s o i n c lu d e d on th© 
r e c o r d s .

it

T h e m en in c h a r g e o f the r e c e p ­
t io n w e re C a r l J . E c k h a r d t , c h a ir ­
m a n ; M. J . T h o m p s o n , a e r o n a u t i ­
c a l e n g i n e e r i n g ; W a l t e r T. R o l f e , 
a r c h i t e c t u r a l e n g i n e e r i n g ; W. A . 
C u n n i n g h a m , c h e m i c a l ; 
J o h n A . 
F o c h t , c i v i l ; C. R. C r a n b e r r y , e le c ­
t r i c a l ; a n d H. H. P o w e r , p e t r o ­
le u m . T h e A u s t i n e x e s on th e c o m ­
m i t t e e w e r e J u l i a n M o n t g o m e r y , 
J o h n D. M iller, a n d H a r r i s B r u s h .
T h e s e n i o r h o s t e s s e s f o r t h e oc­
c a s io n w e re M e s d a m e s H a l C . 
W e a v e r , J . A . C o r r e ll , J . W. R a m ­
s e y , anil E. M. S i g e l . T h e f o r t y - 
f o u r g i r l s 
th e A s s o c i a t i o n o f 
W om en A r c h i t e c t s a n d E n g i n e e r s 
w e r e j u n i o r h o s t e s s e s .

in 

in 1 9 2 3 - 2 5 .

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n in g a n d c o n s t r u c t i o n o f th e Me­
m o r ia l S t a d i u m 
M i n u t e s o f 

t h e F e b r u a r y 26 
1 9 2 5 . m e e t i n g o f t h e C o u n c il r e a d 
“ It w a s m o v e d b y B a n t e l a n d s e c ­
o n d e d by K e y t h a t s t u d e n t s sh a l 
be a l l o w e d a b s o l u t e 
ir 
s e l e c t i n g s p o r t s in w h ich t h e y sh a l 
p a r t i c i p a t e 
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A s s i s t a n t D e a n B a n t e l when h< 
y e a r s 
h a d 
A r m o u r G r a n g e r m a d e a s p e e d 
d e c l a r i n g B a n t y ’s c h a r a c t e r “ t r a « 
b l u e . ”

t w e n t y - f i v e 

A B O V E — E r q m e e r 'n g S h o p 
R I G H T — S p ra y Pon d 
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e q u i p p e d d r a f t i e g r o o m s . 
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J a t t i c t h e r e is s p a c e f o r th e p h o t o ­
g r a p h i c d a r k ro o m a n d b lu e p r in t ­
in g r o o m a n d a n e le c t r i c a l l a b d e ­
vo te d to lig ht t e s t i n g .

th e 

In 1 9 2 8 m e c h t n ic a l e n g i n e e r i n g 
l a b o r a t o r i e s w e re 
in p r o g r e s s o f 
c o n s t r u c t i o n a n d f o l l o w i n g t h is in 
1 929 n e w s h o p s f o r the m e c h a n ­
ical. e n g i n e e r i n g d e p a r t m e n t s t a r t ­
T h e s e n e w u n i t s b r o u g h t 
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c l o s e r 
p r a c t i a l m e c h a n ic a l e n g i n e e r 
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th e w o rk , c l a s s ­
sib le 
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ro o m 
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l o c a t e d 
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th e d e p a r t m e n t o f 
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e l e c t r i c a l e n g i n e e r i n g .

l a b o r a t o r y , 
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t a g e s o f t h e l i g h t i n g e f f e c t p r o ­
d u c e d b y a s a w - t o o th r o o f whic h 
m a d e 
l e s s e x p e n s i v e 
t h a n t h a t o f a fla t r o o f c o n t a i n i n g 
s k y l ig h t s . 
T o o , w i n d o w s c o u ld 
be o p e n e d f o r v e n t i la t i o n a n d the 
su n w a s n ot a b l e to sh in e d ir e c t ly 
on a n y p a r t o f the b u d d i n g .

A e r o e n g i n e e r i n g d e g r e e s w e r e 
f i r s t g i v e n in 1 9 2 7 , a n d p e t r o l e u m 
e n g i n e e r i n g d e g r e e s in 1 9 2 8 .

H o w e v e r w ith a ll th is w o r k g o ­
i n g on th is w a s o n ly t h e e v e <ff 
t h e b u i l d i n g e r a 
t h e m o s t 
i m p o r t a n t o f the e n g i n e e r i n g p r o j ­
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f o r 

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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1944

O f Cabbages and Kings in the 'Shack Era’

Tn 1911 

I n s t r u c t o r B a n te l had 
a C ig h t c h a n g a in t i t l e — A sso c iate 
P r o f e s s o r Barite], 
if you ple ase 
T w o y e a r s l a t e r he w as m a d e a 
f u ll p r o f e s s o r a n d a s s is ta n t d ea n 
o f th e E n g i n e e r i n g C ollege.

th e U n iv e r s it y 

A t th e t w e n t y - f i f t h a n n i v e r s a r y 
c e l e b r a t i o n f o r D ean T a y l o r (th e 
f i r s t m a n a t 
to 
h a v e 
tw e n ty ' - f i v e y e a r s se rv ic e ) 
h a c k in 1913 t h e r e w a s a big b a n ­
q u e t a t th e D riskill H o te l. T o a s t ­
f e e t 
m a s t e r Barite! 
l’a y lo r.
a n d told a s to r y on D e a n 
“ In th e e a r l y 1 9 0 0 ’s w h e n th e 
in 
E n g i n e e r i n g D e p a r t m e n t w a s 
t h e old M ain Build ing, th e y h ad a 
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t o w ash hi s blue p r i n t - . But t h e 
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d r ip p e d d ow n on th e books iii th e 
lib ra ry below.

th e hydrant 

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“ T he n e x t m o r n in g w hen 

l i b r a r i a n c a m e dow n, 
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I t 
the w o rld . 
if 
t h a t 
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little w a r m t h a n d m o is ­
t u r e , will g e r m i n a te . D ean T a y ­
lo r d o ub le d th e k n o w le d g e o f th e 
w o rld by g iv in g all th o s e lib r a ry 
th e y 
b o o k s a 
sw elled tw ice th e i r n o r m a l siz e!” 
a

th e se eds o f k n o w led g e , 

little m o is tu r e so 

A f t e r th e g r a d u a t i o n ex e rc ise s 
in th e s p r in g o f 1914, B a n ty a n d , 
t a k in g 
bis w ife l e f t fo r E u ro p e , 
th e s t e a m e r Cassel o f N o rth G e r ­
m a n L loyd C o m p a n y 
f ro m G a l ­
v e s to n a n d la n d in g in H av e n , th e 
p o r t o f B re m e n . 
in 
M unic h w hen w a r w a s d ec la re d .

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th e 

in s p e c tio n 

“ T w e n ty - f iv e m e m b e r s o f 

1 
th e 
se n io r e n g i n e e r i n g class m a d e a 
to D a lla s a n d 
t r i p of 
th e y v isited 
F o r t W o r t h w h e r e 
som e of th e large pow. r p la n ts in 
th o s e cities. T h is t r i p w as m a d e in 
connection w ith 
laboratory- 
w o rk in w hich th e y a r e e n g a g e d . 
th e c h a r g e of 
in 
T h e m e n w e re 
H al C. W e a v e r a n d J. A. C o r r e ll, 
I n s t r u c t o r s in e le c tric a l e n g i n e e r ­
in g . T h e class w e n t up b e f o r e th e 
S u w a n e e g a m e a n d m e t th e ro o te r s 
in D allas f o r t h a t o c c a s io n .” T his 
bit o f in f o r m a ti o n a p p e a r e d in th e 
N o v e m b e r , 
th e 
A lcald e.

issue o f 

1913, 

in 

r e c e p tio n 

T h e E n g in e e r s held t h e i r t h i r ­
th e 
t e e n t h a n n u a l 
E n g i n e e r i n g B uilding th e d ay b e­
f o r e T h a n k s g iv in g . T his r e c e p t i o n 
serve*! a n a d m ir a b le p u r p o s e 
in 
s h o w in g th e d e v e lo p m e n t o f the 
E n g i n e e r i n g D e p a r t m e n t fro m its 
c r a m p e d q u a r t e r s 
th e Main 
B u ild in g to its c o m m o d io u s home 
on th e cam pu s. T h e b u ild i n g w ith 
its t h r e e s to rie s a n d b a s e m e n t w as 
fille d w ith c o n c r e te ev id e n c e s of 
th e p r a c tic a l w o rk w h ich th e s t u ­
d e n t s w ere b e in g t a u g h t .

in 

T he “ Old M a n ” m e t t h e g u e s ts 
at 
in 
th e d o o r a n d p la ce d th e m 
t h e h a n d s o f his loyal y o u n g fo l­
l o w e r w ho e x p la in e d all t h e m y s ­
t e r i e s to th e u n in it ia t e d . T he la b ­
o r a t o r i e s w e r e 
full o p e r a tio n 
in 
a n d th e in g e n io u s e n g i n e e r e s m a d e 
t h e m a c h in e s do all th e q u e e r c i r ­
th e y w e re 
c u s s t u n t s o f w h ich 
c a p a b le . T h e a p p lic a tio n o f elec­
t r i c i t y to tho hom e w a s f u lly d e m ­
all 
o n s t r a t e d a n d som e n o t a t 
b a c h elo r-lik e y o u n g m en 
to a s te d 
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th e 
f o r 
in c re a s i n g 
b r e a d 
c r o w d 
e x h ib it. 
t h e i r 
a r o u n d 
H y d r a u lic a n d s t r e n g t h 
t e s t s of 
e v e r y d e s c r ip tio n w ere d e m o n ­
s t r a t e d .

O n e class had a m odel P a n a m a 
C a n a l 
full o p e r a t i o n — locks, 
w a t e r , ship a n d eve n th e sc e n e ry 
w a s n o t o m itted .

in 

T h e a r c h i t e c t u r a l r o o m s w a s a 
p le a s in g f e a t u r e o f th e o p e n house. 
A class w as in session a n d d e s p ite 
t h e a m a z e m e n t of th e o n -io o k ers

BA R R A C K S WERE BUILT lo accom m odate the S A T.C. men on 

the campus d uring W o rld W a r I; they were later used as class-

rooms, a t which tim e they become known as the ' shacks."

“ T he G e r m a n people d es ire d 
w ar. T h e y h av e th e g r e a t e s t f a ith 
in th e i r own s o l d i e r s a n d believe 
t h a t th e resu lt o f th e E u r o p e a n 
th a n a 
c o n f li c t c a n n o t be o t h e r 
v ic to r y f o r 
th e ir s id e .” r e p o r t e d 
B a n ty s h o r tly a f t e r his r e t u r n to 
th e U n iv e r s ity .

by 

s t r a n d e d 

“ T h e A m e r ic a n c o n s u la te w as 
to u rists . 
b e s e ig e d 
W e a l th y p e rs o n s f ro m th e S ta te s , 
b e in g u n a b le t o cash t h e i r t r a v e l ­
e r s ’ checks, C o o k 's che cks, a n d 
o t h e r s im ila r p a p e r , w e r e 
fo rc ed 
th e R ed Gross 
to a s k aid 
th e m o re 
C o m m itt e e 
All c o m ­
f o r t u n a t e A m e r ic a n s . 
m u n ic a tio n , 
a n d 
o th e rw is e w as c u t off.

f r o m 
fo rm e d by 

l e t t e r , 

ca b le , 

“ T h e m obs did no d a m a g e . F r e ­
q u e n t l y th e y w o uld g a t h e r t o a t ­
ta ck a r e p o r t e d R u s sia n spy. b u t 
I n e v e r saw a n y violence done. 
I saw no F r e n c h m e n in th e c o u n ­
tr y . 
c o m ­
m a n d e d to leave th e c o u n t r y , w e r e 
n o t m o le ste d .

E n g lis h m e n , 

th o u g h 

“ T h e c o n s t e r n a t i o n among' 

f o r e i g n e r s w a s g r e a t . 

th e 
T h ey all

th e S t a t e s d e m a n d i n g 

s e e m e d t o h a v e p r e s s i n g b u sin e ss 
th e i r 
in 
p r e s e n c e . W e w e r e all obliged to 
t r a i n s b e g a n 
w a it u n til 
to 
m ov e a g a in . 
I t th e n took u s f o u r 
d a y s to g e t f ro m M unich to R o t­
is 
t e r d a m , H o lla n d , a t r i p w hich 
u su a lly m a d e 
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in 

“ O u r 

t r i p h o m e w as u n e v e n t ­
T w o B ritish m e n -o f - w a r 
ful. 
in sp e c te d o u r c l e a r ­
s to p p e d us, 
I a r ­
a n c e p a p e r s a n d le t us go. 
riv e d 
a n d cam e 
in N ew Y ork 
rig h t h a r k to T e x a s to g e t r e a d y 
f o r th e fall se ssio n .”

War Years and the Engineering D e p a rtm e n t

B a n ty w a s h a c k o n th e a t h le t ic 
to 1919 a n d

c o u n c il f r o m 1916 
c h a ir m a n th e la s t tw o y e a r s .

★

t h e 

la r g e 

t h e g r o w t h o f t h e U n i­
W i th 
in s t itu ti o n , 
in to a 
v e r s ity 
it b e c a m e 
in c re a s i n g ly d if f i c u lt 
to find f a c iliti e s f o r b r in g in g the 
f a c u lty t o g e t h e r socially. T o fill 
th o U n i v e r s i t y C lub 
t h i s nee d 
P r o f e s s o r B a n te l 
w a s f o u n d e d . 
h e lp e d 
to w e a t h e r 
club 
t h r o u g h m a n y c r itic a l p e r io d s a n d 
it u p u n t i l now' i t ow ns 
to build 
F r o m 1913 until 
its ow n h om e . 
1917 he w as p r e s id e n t. 
B a n ty 
p l a n n e d m a n y o f t h e i n a u g u r a t i o n 
ceremonies o f t h e in c o m in g p r e s i­
th e 
de n ts. A n old p r o g r a m o f 
i n a u g u r a t i o n o f his su c c e sso r, P r o ­
f e s s o r P o tts , h a s b e e n s a v e d : :

E x h ib it io n E x t r a o r d i n a r y 
C o r o n a t io n C e re m o n ie s 
D o m in io n o f D r o m e d a r i a 
A n n o D ro m e d i 13 

In th e R oyal T h r o n e H all 
A lias F a u l t y D in in g Room 
N o r t h o f T. U. T a y l o r , so u th 
o f J a m e s R. H a m i lto n , w e s t

w ie ld e d t h e T - s q u a r e a n d p e n . T he 
e x h ib it h a n g i n g on t h e w alls w as 
o f g r e a t a r ti s tic v a lu e , sho w in g 
th e p la n e u p o n w h ich P r o f e s s o r 
new 
G ie s e c k e 
school. T h e e n g i n e e r s ’ o p e n ho u se 
a n d r e c e p t i o n did m uch to in spire 
lo y a lty a n d c o m m a n d re s p e c t.

placed 

h a s 

th e 

c o s tu m e s . 

A bout th is tim e th e S e n io r e n g i­
n e e r s s u d d e n ly a p p e a r e d in t h e i r 
o ffic ia l 
T h e y w o re 
k h a k i t r o u s e r s , b lu e s h ir ts , bl&ek 
tie s a n d p r e f e r a b l y high boots. 
M o n d a y , W e d n e s d a y , a n d F r i d a y 
w e r e designate*! as th e d a y s fo r 
w e a r i n g t h i s g a r b . T h e ru le w as 
e n f o r c e d by se v e re p e n a ltie s .

U n iv e r s it y s t u d e n t s had som e 
r i p - r o a r i n ’ yells w ith p l e n t y of 
b o o m -ra h sp irit. O ne of th e m w a s: 
“ H u lla b a lo o , H o o ra y . H o o ra y 
H u lla b a lo o , H o o ra y , H o o ra y 
H u lla b a lo o , H o o ra y , H o o ra y 
V a r s ity , V a r s ity , U. T. A .”

T h e 

r e c e p ­
f o u r t e e n t h a n n u a l 
tio n o f th e e n g i n e e r s on N o v e m ­
b e r 25, 1914, w a s c e le b r a te d w ith 
a s m o k e r a n d d an c e. A f t e r th e s e 
fe s tiv itie s 
t h e m y s t e r i o u s black 
c u r t a i n h a n g i n g in one c o r n e r of 
th e hall w as d r a w n a n d a spotlight 
t h e m a je s tic f ig u r e o f 
r e v e a le d 
A l e x a n d e r F r e d e r i c k C laire, 
the 
b a t t l e seat red p a t r o n s a i n t o f th e 
e n g in e e rs .

T h e D e p a r t m e n t o f E n g i n e e r i n g 
w a s d e s c rib e d in a n old C a c tu s a s 
“ w h e r e D ea n T. U. T a y l o r holds 
p a t r i o tic s w a y o v e r th e u n s h a v e n 
w e a r e r s o f th e f l a n n e l s h is t. ”

C. L. O heim , a s e n io r e n g i n e e r 
p r e s id e n t a t th is tim e , w as “ a good 
fellow in s p ite of b e in g an e n g i­
n e e r . ” L a b r e p o r t s p r o v e d to be 
his only te r r o r s .

E d w a r d G. H. B a n te l w as t o a s t ­
m a s t e r at an e n g i n e e r s b a n q u e t on 
F e b r u a r y 21, 1918. H e w a s a id e d 
by D e a n T. U. T a y lo r. T h e S.M.A. 
e n g i n e e r s p r e s e n t e d a tr ia l o f th e 
f a c u l t y m e m b e r s a n d 
d e lin q u e n t 
a*lj u d g e d 
th e 
w ise st m a n on th e prem ises.

j a n i t o r 

t o be 

th e 

M e c h a n ic a l e n g i n e e r i n g d e g r e e s 
w e r e a w a r d e d fo r th e f ir s t tim e in 
1 9 1 4 ; c h e m ic al e n g i n e e r i n g d e ­
g r e e s 
in 1916, a n d a r c h i t e c t u r a l 
e n g i n e e r in g d e g r e e s in 1918.

o f W . T. M a th e r , e a s t o f 
R. T. G o fe r 

C o r a m v e n e r a t i n g v a s sa ls 
in v e n tio n s 
A p u d 

i n a u g e r a l 

I m p o s iti o n o f K a is e r P o t s d a m 
D e p o sitio n o f K in g B a n ty

S p e e c h f r o m 

S p e e c h n e a r th e t h r o n e

1. S p e e c h o f f t h e t h r o n e
2. 
3. S p e e c h on t h e t h r o n e 
4. 

t h r o n e 
r o y ­
r e s e r v e d 
a l t y ; on ly o f fic ia ls h o n o r e d ; 
N o d e c o r a tio n s , d e g r e e s , o r 
d e g r a d a t i o n s ; A c c o u n t H. C.
re g a lia .
O. L. a n d r e n t on 

R o a s ts 

th e 

f o r 

*

Mu si*1 M e lo d io u sly M a n ip u la te d 
F o o d F u lly F u r n i s h e d 

P e a c e 

to B a n ty 

L o n g L ive P o tts d a m .

A t another b a n q u e t , h o n o r in g 
D r. V inso n, p r e s id e n t o f th*- U n i­
v e r s ity r i g h t a f t e r W o rld W a r I, 
le a v in g t h e U n iv e r s it y , 
W'ho w a s 
B a n ty w a s called u p o n 
to m a k e 
th e g o i n g 
th e p r e s e n t a t i o n o f 
aw a y p r e s e n t. A f t e r th e m a s t e r 
o f c e r e m o n ie s h a d g iv e n a 
lo n g 
draw n - o u t 
i n t r o d u c i n g 
sp e ec h 
him , Mr. B a n te l s t o o d up a n d 
said, “ I a s k e d t h e c o m m itt e e w h a t 
in 
I sho u ld do o n t h i s o cc asio n 
m a k in g 
T h e y 
t h a t I s h o u ld p r e ­
in f o r m e d m e 
s e n t 
few w ell­
ch osen w ords. T h e w o rd s I h a v e 
chosen a r e ‘o r io n ; a r t e r i o s c l e r o s i s ; 
a s c o m c e to u s ; p a r e i r a b r a v a . A n d 
h e r e ’s t h e p r e s e n t ! ”

th is p r e s e n t a t i o n . 

th is g i f t w ith a 

th e 

B a n y w as a l w a y s in th e m id d le 
t h e e n g i­
th e f i g h t s b e t w e e n 
o f 
n e e r s a n d t h e law boys* 
I n o n e 
p a r t i c u l a r s c r a p b e t w e e n t h e tw o 
g r o u p s , 
s t u d e n t s h a d e v e n 
q u i t g o in g t o school.- T h e p r e s i­
d e n t h a d p le a d e d w ith th e m to go 
bac k t o class, b u t th e y w o u ld n ’t 
lis te n 
P r o f e s s o r B a n te l 
g o t b e f o r e th e m a n d a s k e d t h e m 
i f th e y w o u ld n ’t go b o c k to class 
as a f a v o r to him , a n d e v e r y s t u ­
dent. r e t u r n e d t<> * kiss.

t o him . 

B a c k in t h o s e day®, t h e r e w a s 
a b ig e le v a te d ste el w a t e r 
ta n k 
n e a r w h e r e t h e lily p o n d s by th e 
P h y sic s B u ild in g now s ta n d . No 
w a t e r t a n k in A u s tin w as a s l a r g o 
o r a s high a s th is p a r t i c u l a r c a m ­
pus ta n k .

t h e 

E v e r y y e a r 

th e 
it w a s q u ite 
th e e n g i n e e r f r e s h m e n 
th in g fo r 
to clim b up on 
t a n k a n d 
p a i n t t h e i r class n u m b e r up t h e r e .
O n e o f D e a n B a n t e r s f a v o r i t e 
s to r ie s c o n c e r n in g th e w a t e r t a n k 
is th e y e a r t h e f a c u l t y c a u g h t a 
b u n c h o f e n g i n e e r s u p on 
t h e 
ta n k . 
I t w as n ig h t, a n d B a n te l 
w as a m o n g th e f a c u lty m e m b e r s 
th e g r o u p 
s t a n d i n g h elp les sly 
t h e b o ys t o c o m e 
p le a d in g w ith 
dow n.

in 

Dr. B a n tle , n e a r sight cd a n y ­
how, w a s sp o k e s m a n f o r th e fa c ­
He h o lle r e d , “ N ow y o u 
u lty . 
I r e c ­
boys c o m e r i g h t on dow n. 
o g n iz e e a ch a n d e v e r y o n e o f you.
I kno w all y o u r n a m e s ; now j u s t 
com e r ig h t dow n h e r e 
th is m in ­
ute !”

B a n t e l 

chu c kle s, 

“ H e d i d n ’t 
r e c o g n iz e o n e o f ’em , a n d 
th e y 
d i d n ’t p a y him a n y m o r e m in d 
t h a n a n y t h i n g . A n d 
th e y s u r e 
d i d n ’t co m e dow n o f f th a t t a n k .

“ . . . O n e o f th e h ig h lig h ts a s a 
s t u d e n t w as th e A n n u a l E n g i n e e r ­
in g B a n q u e t w h e n yo u w e r e to a s t ­
m a s t e r , w ith o u r g r e a t p a t r o n 
s a in t, A le x a n d e r F r e d e r i c k C la ir e 
s t a n d i n g by a n d a p p r o v in g y o u r 
a c tio n s . ”

— A l b e r t L ee O ’R a m o n

FRESHMEN used to clim b this w ater to w er and p a in t th e ir class 
number on it, and Banty caught a bunch of engineers busily a t work 
in the middle o f the n ig h t.