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53 Seniors in RamshornAssociation Begun By Dean T. U. TaylorFifty-three seniors from the College of Engineering will be presented with certificates of membership in the Ramshorn Association Monday night at 7 o'clock in Geology Building 14. Engineers who will get degrees this semester are eligible for membership in the association.Julian Montgomery, engineering graduate in 1912 and now a consulting engineer, will speak on “What the Engineering Profession Expects of the Young Engineer.”The Ramshorn Association, one of the oldest campus traditions, Was established bv the late Dean T. U. Taylor of the College of Engineering, who used to use the ramshorn to mark “perfect” on engineering students’ papers.The tradition began in 1904,: when Dean Taylor, leaving a classroom after handing back some quiz papers, overheard a student remark, “Say, Billy, look at this ram’s horn.” After that time Dean Taylor always used the ram’s horn as a sign of perfection, and from 1913 until 1996 he always presented watch fobs, which had an engraved ram’s horn on one side and the engineering college yell on the other, to all graduatingSee 53 SENIORS, Page 8
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Austin Daily Texan
Austin, Texas, US
Sun, Jun 11, 1944
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