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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 15, 1894)
THE BATTALION. 19 Applied. An esteemed contributefThas spent much valuable time in ascertaining the person or occasion the author had in his ^nn^ when he wrote each verse. VVe give -fcete quotation^} below with the name of the person annexed to whom it is supposed to refer: “First in the council hall—to steer the state And ever foremost in a tongue debate.’’ —Watkins. “A thing of beauty is a joy forever.” —McMillan. “O, so light a foot Will never wear out the everlasting flint.” —Sergeant Major. “And melanchol\v marked him for her own.” —Mills. “I am nothing if not critical”—Hutson W. “Help me, Cassius, or I sina.”—Stewart. “One blast upon his bugle horn Were worth a thousand men.”—Jenkins. “One may smile and smile and be a villain.” —Jordan. “I would sleep for awhile, lamweay”—Porter “How angel like he sings.”—Bittle P. “Never, never, oh, never! earth’s luckiest sinner Hath unpunished forgotten the hour of his dinner.”—Wells,'entering Mess Hall after Battalion. “By Heaven, i^s a splendid sight to see, For one who hath no friend, no brother there.” —The Football Game. “The tendon azure of the unruffled deep.” —Duggan’s eyes. “Sport that wrinkled-care derides.” —Dinwiddle. “And laughter holding both his sides.” —Mouser. “I am never merry when I hear sweet music.” —Macdonald. “Soft stillness and the night Become the touches of sweet harmony.” —The Serenaders. “Yon Cassjus hath a lean and hungry look.” —Goldberg. “I would the Gods had made thee poetical.” / , —Gross. . “The breezy call incense breathing morn.” —Reveille. “Anywhere, anywhere, out of the world.” —A. & M. C. Silent upon a peak of Darien.”—Burns in chemistry. “A noise like of a hidden brook In the leafy month of June, That to the sleeping^pods all night Singeth a sweet song.—Mosquitos. “0, call her fair, not pale.—Rohrebacher. “He was as fresh as is the month of May.” —Burgheimer. They mupmen That Duggan is in love. That Barnum is the shamrock. That Moore has taken the third degree as a squabbler. That Martin has no mercy on poor women’s hearts. That Polk and Adams went partnership on one night. That Coulter lost A. and P’s bird—ie. That McMillan wants the first class to step joshing one another. That Hildebrandt or Park will be our next commandant. That the band still continues to play “annie” thing they want to. That the Bryan people enjoy football equally as well as the college people. That Belden intends rushing society for a year. Go it, Sam. That Fitz gave all the girls the measles at the ball. That tne wild man from Borneo has just came to town. That it takes a good eye to play football, but Mike Bloor can't see it that way. That '‘playing hands” is getting to be quite the rage about College now-a-days. That everyone about the campus is waiting with great expectancy the Christmas holidays. That, notwithstanding the warm weather, -overcoats were considered quite stylish here on Thanksgiving day. Why? Ask the boys. That men who wear seersucker coats, white socks and chew tobacco will never get mar ried, quoth she. . That Watts A. P. plays football in his sleep with a wash basin for a ball and Alli gator Hill for a half-back. That Coulter H., Martin and McMillan, have taken the degree of “0. S.” That second stoop, Austin Hall, had a Christmas celebration on the night of the 8th. For particulars apply to Dinwiddie and Law. - That the bass drum solos rendered by Pe De Gerstemann during the late football gc me was very fine indeed.