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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 15, 1893)
THE BATTALION, College Station, Texas AVhat first-classman said that he was going to help Francis “bisect” a horse? • Hoes Lieutenant Morse enjoy “fish” stories? The Morse Regulars met and organized on the 7th. failed to learn the names of the newly elected officers. First Sergeants Tips and Nuken not returning to the col- Lee this, year Sergeants A. N. Smith and Lessie Brown were m emoted fo fill the vacancies. The College string band is finer this year than it ever has bee^^^^^b. a WhcVe did Lieutenant Luckett get his fine suspenders? They tell us they Eva.-poratecl from the Highlands. Mr. Laurehee Burckltof Galveston, a graduate, paid College a pleasant visit. The ice factory hais been completed and has proven to be a great success. On last Saturday the first class were employed in arranging the machinery for the laundry. Cadet P. R. Mills went home on a visit to spend a few days. Cadet Adjutant B. C. Pittuck raises quite a racket with his flute in Austin hall here of late. Of course the Adjutant didn’t try to blonde his mustache. Why is it Lynwood doesn’t write as many lettera^as he formerly did? Jt Carver (to new waiter)—Waiter, bring us some sawdust and axle grease, quick.- Waiter—He great laws, mister, do you eat dem things here? A. men. Gilbert, Oltorf, Bittle'A and Sims make a swift set of base- *1 - >1 Hard-hitting little Charlie Oltorf is stationed at second base for ’94. Who said Luckett could not play ball? Ha! Ha! The onlv Pedcocke is back and will guard the left garden for ’93-4. Prof. Ness is carrying on irrigation on a large scale. We wish him much success and hope he will remember us when his vegetables are ready for the table. Miss Maggie Kerr of Corsicana paid the College a pleasant visit, \ Mr. E. D. Stedman visited his two sons, Tom and Jerry, on last Sunday. Cadet Chas. Oltorf spent a few days at home last w r eek. . Mr. Frank Bittle has left for yn-gmia-tu attends^UaoI. The fair is on and the R isS ' Volunteers' are anxiously awaiting the faculty’s permission to attend. This body of young men lias been selected from among the best drilled ca dets of the College and has been in constant practice ever since the beginning of the session. Why then that it should not re ceive the support of the College authorities in this natter we will not venture in the least attempt to ascertain. Tt certainly cannot be doubted that the College will be greatly benefit ted in the way of advertisement, for when the representative people from all over this great state behold the company in its dazzling splendor and graceful movements on the field, and when they, with proud hearts and thrilling sensations, look upon such a body of model young men. bearing in their ex pressions the noble traits of true southern boys. What is. the result; what the natural consequences? If these people have sons, have brothers, have } T oung friends in whom they feel an interest, they will earnestly urge them to become cadets of the A. and M. C. of Texas. Following are the names‘of the gen tlemen who compose this excellent company. Read them over and then decide whether or not they are worthy to represent the College at the coming State Fair. Captain Joe Gilbert, First Lieutenant and Quartermaster J. H. Bocock, First Lieu tenant W. L. Dazey, Second Lieutenant B. C. Pittuck, First Sergeant R. M. Ward, Sergeants Mills, Jordan, Bittle P, Mar tin F, Privates Abbott G, Bittle A, Bloor, Brock, Brown, Bruce, Burleson, Coswell, Coulter H, Coulter W, DeStafeno, Dinwiddle, Ellis, Fitzgerald IT, Gross, Houston F, Japhet, Jonas, Luckett, Massenburg, Matthews, Moore, Morse, --Mc Donald, McMillian, Polk, Rose, Ross A, Ross F, Smith A, Smither, Steadman G, with Miss Bessie Ross as sponsor. Miss Sheets of Bryan, accompanied by Mr. Derdin, an ex cadet, visited the College last week. Prof. Smith took a flying trip to Madison county on busi ness last Friday, returning on Wednesday. Gov. L. S. Ross went to Hempstead on business on the 4th inst. Mr. AVatts and wufe have moved into their new residence, which has been completed lately. A/IOIiM. The women that Shakespeare has conceived for us are never tenderer, sweeter, more womanly, than when they are disguised as boys. One cogent reason for this is that there is always moral preparation in the play for transhwmation. They have our sympathy from the beginning, and they keep it tnroughout. They do not assume the disguise as a frolic there'is in every case strong necessity for it. They all have some sense of humor, too, and there is a flutter of fun in their young hearts at the thought of the con trast between what seems and what is, to which they owe in great measure the courage which sustains them in their dif ficult part. Yet they are, in every case, timid about the du bious situation in which they find themselves, and glad to resume the habit of their sex. Viola, the subject of this in quiry, is even unable to rid herself of the physical cowardice which want o. experience in certain contingencies has made natural to most women. * But, before attempting to read Viola’s character, it will be proper to catch the general spirit of the play, for so best can we understand the nature the poet sets before us. The 6th of January, the twelfth day after Christmas, was observed in Shakespeare’s time ss a festival in-honor of the Epiphany—that is, the manifestation of the Savior of man kind to the Gentiles, in the.persons of tfie Three Magi, by tradition Kaspar. Melchior, and Balthazar. Twelfth Night was especially a famous time of re vels. It had for centuries been so observed throughout Europe; and it will be remem bered that the most characteristic productions of Hans Sachs in Germany were his Twelfth Night Comedies. The medi eval usage was still strong in England; and the man who was to continue the tradition of the Latin type of play in his Comedy of Errors, of Oh iiicer’s themes in his Troilus and Cressida, of the new learning in his Roman plays of Spencer’s fairy mythology in his Midsummer Night’s Dream’ as well as introduce new types of his own, did not leave this Saturnalia of Christian observance unadorned by his genius. The festive character of tire play is indicated by both its titles. It is called, you will remember, Twelfth Night, or \\ hat You AVill, the first pointing to the fact that it was composed tor representation at that merry season, the second adding to the definite character of joyousness proclaimed in the first an air of free choice and uncurbed liberty of will, fully borne out by the incidents of the play, tee characters grouped in it, and the general tone that pervades it. The' .IhyricUi land,, and Olivia’s house in particular, would seem to be freed frmn any entangling restriction upon irnL'vidual tastes, whims and sudden fancies. The impulses of every eimrueier are allowed to run their full career. Music, the language of passion, is the true atmosphere of the piece, from the subtle, dreamy, love-thrilled melodies wli'oh the Duke affect^, to the merry catch “that will draw three souls out of one weaver,” with which Sir Toby, Sir An drew, and the miseheii loving Clown so deeply offend'the Puritan, Maivolio. That curious release from the responsi- 'biiilies pf common life, which the world of music seems to share with the world of dream,’., run riot here. Yet the dream-world is but a passing phase of life. The 'realities are victorious in the end over the unrealities. The Duke’s — ^ _