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THE BATTALION
filing's for civilization and civil liberty, and it lias been well
said that the young men of the country are watch towers.
"I thank you for the kind reception you have given me
here, and I assure you my heart is with you in this great
work. In my present position my conduct may have been
criticised, but when you take into consideration that I
represent not one institution alone, but all of them and all
the people, I think you will see that I endeavored to act
for the best, and that all things will work together here
after for the upbuilding of this splendid institution. Again
I thank you and say that I am glad.
“ I was interested in the stirring and patriotic address of
Governor Koss and the most able address of Mr. T. A. Ful
ler and the most admirable addresses of our two young
friends who spoke afterwards.
“I say again my heart is with you in this work, and after
a while you will see things possibly different from what
you look at now, and .you will rather praise than condemn
what I have done in the past.-’
The Governor’s remarks were received with much favor
and applause.
The inimitable Judge Bchultze painted “Texas Boys”
in chivalric, independent and daring heroism, with quaint
and humorous sidelights and reminiscences.
"The Ladies” was assigned to Judge Kittrell, who paid
to them a succession of glowing tributes like the links in a
golden chain, closing with an eulogy to the women of the
South, “our women,” as the judge expressed it, which al
most if not. quite ascended to the atmosphere of purity,
sweetness, gentleness and nobility of heart and mind in
which the Southern women reside.
Hon. W. II. Cavitt, Secretary of the Board of Directors,
responded to “Our College.” Having been a membdr of the
Board of Directors for fourteen years his remarks were
fraught with great interest and he made a strong plea for
more room and better equipment to accommodate the young
men who so much desire to enter this institution, and who
Hock here in such great numbers at each successive opening,
only to fill the institution up, run it over and go home disap
pointed. As a possibility of the future he eloquently sug
gested a female industrial school, to-be erected and con
ducted in connection with the agricultural and mechanical,
and the suggestion was received with great favor and en
thusiasm. Major Cavitt expressed the warmest feeling for