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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 15, 1894)
10 THE BATTALION. this branch. To that end a subscription list . was circulated and something like $500 was subscribed by the faculty and students of the College. The board of directors made an appropriation of $500 to assist in the erection of a store room for the College, the building to be used by the Y. M. C. A. as a gymnasium until sub stantial and permanent buildings could be secured. Not only has no progress been made toward securing this perma nent hall, but from neglect, even the little nucleus of apparatus around which it was hoped to gather material for a first class gymnasium, was fast going to ruin, much of the apparatus having been broken or otherwise injured, and some also have taken from the hall. This session a strenuous effort has been made toward repairing and ^im proving the place. Over $135 have been expended in the care, and repair of old apparatus. A nice lot of Indian clubs were made in the College machine shop, a peg-hole, jump stands, kick-stand, a hand-ball wall and drum for striking bag were also made in the College shops by students. In addition to this a new trapeze, a rope ladder, medicine ball, vaulting horse, two striking bags, fenc ing foils and masks, boxing gloves, dumb bells (wood and iron) and bar-bells have been added, go that it is now fairly well equipped with good apparatus, and itis sincerely hoped that sufficient inter est will be manifested by students and faculty to keep up repairs and pay some one to keep up the hall. Of the 300 students only about 100 have paid the small fee charged for the use of the gym nasium. Very few of the professors manisest any interest in either branch of the association. It is certainly very discouraging to the few students who struggled so manfully for several years past to maintain this organization. While on the subject of athletics I would like to ask what became of those field- day exercises which were announced last session to take place monthly? It ap pears that they might be made quite an interesting feature of College life. They are at other institutions, why not at this? R. F. S. I^EVEIIiLiE. The morning is eheery, my boys, arouse! The dew shines bright on the chestnut boughs, And the sleepy mist on the river lies, Though the east is flashing with crimson dies. Awake! awake! awake! O’er field and wood and brake, With glories newly born, Comes on the blushing morn. Awake! awake! You have dreamed of your homes and friends all night, You have basked in your sweethearts’ smiles so bright; Come, part with them all for a while again,— Be lovers in dreams; when awake, be men. Turn out! turn out! turn out! You have dreamed full long, I know. Turn out! turn out! turn out! The east is all aglow. Turn out! turn out! From every valley and hill there come The clamoring voices of fife and drum; Aud out in the fresh, cool morning air The soldiers are swarming everywhere. Fall in! fall in! fall in! Every man in his place! Fall in! fall in! fall in! Each with a cheerful face. Fall in! fall in! M. O’Connor. , + , Only the actions of the just Smell sweet and blossom in the dust, —Shirley.