THE BATTALION
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Committee, R. Elliot; Amusement Committee, K. R. Hooper.
With this efficient staff of officers, it is hoped and expected
that much good work for the Association will be accomplish
ed. It will be pushed forward in an aggressive manner and
the aid of all who are interested is solicited.
On Sunday evening, June 7th, Dr. B. D. Cockrell, presi
dent of the Trinity University, delivered a most eelilying ser
mon to the members of the Young Men’s Christian Associa
tion ond visitors. The sermon was highly appreciated by
all present.
The Association for the session of 1896-97 will be officer
ed by President C. C. Tood; vice-president, J. (x. Kerr; re
cording secretary, G. L. Sneed ; corresponding secretary, H.
E. Rawlins; treasurer, C. A. Johnson.
With this issue of the Battalion the present editorial
staff steps out of office and gives place to those who are to
look after the subscription list and control the sway of that
might} 7 weapon, the pen, for the coming year, some of them to
resign forever their connection with the Battalion. We
hope their success in life may be pushed forward and upward
by the same sturdy efforts that has made the Battalion what
it has been this year. We hope that, with the present com
mencement edition and the regular issue during the whole
scholastic year, the footing of the Journal has so been increas
ed as to make the task somewhat easier to those who follow.
Our paper has commanded no littje attention among the nu
merous exchanges and from this alone we may gather much
encouragement and strength for future efforts.
Commencement has come and gone and once more we
wend our way to our homes conscious of having learned many
lessons, and of the need of a vacation. The gay, laughing