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By JODY BATES
S[~eclai to the Eagle
M ~m~ ~ ~e 192~
~, Red ~sh~on h~ a sch~e
acqu~u~ ~ee pe~u~ at ~e
I'd ~ to ~e ~sembly
pick up a peanut off the floor
~t ~ ~le," says Cashion. "U-
five A~les would ~w
~, and I wo~d put fo~ ~ my
mw ano~er ~. By ~e ~e
t~, I had apock~ofpe~-
the sum-
Drill Field.
· Jo~y Batss is an inde~er~denl joumalistand local
aryan-College Station Eagle Page
Campus
Fi'om D1
recalls ust ~n~ his bicycle to take
messages It:om the telephone
center to students in the dorms, A
round trip was worth a dime.
lied Cashion used his big wa.
~: rented it out to Aggles at
the end of term to load their
trunke for
grown
SAYS, "We
~r~in
~e~ who
be
the ~{ENSEL
for the
time to
wentdown.
the
FDR.
In 1940, Wal-
her says, it was
"Summers were qUiet and de- decreed that A&M faculty and
lightib3," says Mary Bolton Eck- staf~ would no longer be provided
SundaY, April 24, 1994
Lifestyle
withh0usingfor$i~permonth fore 1920 in tu
. t. was a_mad scramble to get and suits in the
nousl~,~ off campus," Walker
,says, Many bought the house and per-for~laric
they lived in and had It moved to sition, painting
the south edge ofc~mPus ' vislti~ were
. This m~rl~ed the eM of an era life in many
pu~ n.ou.s.es. 'rnese af~lrs campU, s corem
sere aRen~e(l by men in tails be- years,'
mdos in the 20s
{os,
music practice
~ in those