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-
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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
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