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THE BATTALION
more facilities—she is alright for her size, but is not growing
as she ought. It is a state institution—a school for the
masses. A thousand young men ought to receive their train
ing there instead of three hundred. Let us get together and
consult about this and consider if we cannot help her out of
this difficulty. Let us make at least one effort to so direct
public opinion that neither legislature nor governor shall
hereafter presume to deny her just and reasonable requests.
And also let us get together and renew and strengthen the
ties of good fellowship that should subsist among the children
of the same nursing mother. The faculty and officials of the
College will be proud to greet you, whether of 1879, or later
years ; and the younger members of her hopeful family will
be glad to meet those who have trodden the same paths that
they are traveling now r —conned the same lessons, struggled
with the same problems and suffered the same discipline.
In conslusion : let us have a rousing meeting next com-
nseneement Every one of you would enjoy it. The College-
will open wide her portals to receive you, and Prof. Sbisa will
kill the fatted calf, and nothing but staying away can prevent
you from having a good time.
Our A. and M. graduates seem to be sufficiently versatile
to fill any honorable calling in life. Among them are farm
ers, horticulturists, machinists, civil engineers, contractors,
land surveyors, stock breeders, lawyers, physicians, dentists,
merchants, book-keepers, stenographers, journalists, druggists,
insurance adjusters, insurance agents, drummers, lumber
dealers, brick makers, and so forth, and so forth, and we are
happy to state, that as far as known to this writer, they have-
uniformally taken high rank in their callings. And those
who have taken post graduate courses at polytechnic schools
and universities have generally taken high honors.
PERSONAL.
Prof. W. A. Bittle, ’94, is teaching the young how to
shoot ideas at Washington, La., where he is principal in the
public school. Having taught there last year, and again this.