The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, June 01, 1896, Image 68

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    THE BAT PA LTON.
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Lieutenant Emory, of J»ayloi- University, Lad followed tiie
company on the drill ground to see if there was anything
in the boast that the Rosses as a military company stood,
first, not only in Texas or the South, but in the' United
States. Although the boys were not aware that they were
being graded, the keen eye of a W est Pointer could detect
but one slight mistake out of one hundred and seventeen
movements., making a score of 98.3 out of a possible 100.
Gallant Captain Rittle deserves much credit for the great
success of the company.
The following officers of the two societies were elected
for the first term of next session:
CALLIOPEAX.
Kyle .V., President.
Todd, Vice President.
Barnes, Critic.
Greenwood, Censor.
Rogers, Recording Secretary.
Ragsdale, Sergeant-at-Arms.
Puckett, Librarian.
AUSTIN.
Bryan, President.
Solver, Vice President.
Rollins, Critic.
Harrison, Censor.
McCarthy, Recording Secretary.
McGee, Sergeant-at-A rms.
The following officers were elected by the two societies to
represent the Battalion next session:
A. J. Kyle, Business Manager.
Overshiner, Editor-in-Chief.
Todd, Greenwood, Harrison W. A., Associate Editors.
THE BUGLE CALLS.
To the casual visitor at the college one of its most inter
esting peculiarities as a military school is the custom of
summoning the students to their duties by bugle calls.
These are often very melodious, and no one who hears
•‘Taps,” “Adjutant’s Call,” or “Reville,” is apt to forget it.
For the cadet who is daily awakened by rattling notes of
“Reveille” or summoned to drill in his company or among
the Bartlett Regulars by the peremptory sound of “Drill,”
the bugle calls lose some of their charm; and he frequently