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THE BATTALION.
liiterapy Societies.
Our college is an institution for the promotion of the agri
cultural and mechanical arts, this being the case, it is not sur
prising that our literary societies should languish for want of
proper interest. Should this be the case? We should say no.
A farmer or mechanic needs literary education and receives
much of it at this place. It is just as essential to eminent
success as a knowledge of the simplest rules of his trade or
profession. A well read man, an educated man, (and every
man ought to be so) should possess abundant literary knowl
edge, abundant literary spirit.
We have here two societies of the boys, societies for the
promotion of the literary spirit, to these societies the Battolion
owes its existence, yet, we venture to say that there are boys
that have been here a year or more and never visited their
halls. Now we claim that there ought to be a larger patron
age a greater showing of interest than heretofore. Two hun
dred boys ought to furnish two good literary societies, yet in
both we have an active membership of hardly a dozen. Come
along boys and help us out. If we are not interesting it is
your duty to help us make it interesting. You say you have
no literary talent, you cannot do anything. We say you can
if you will try, we repeat,
“Nothing is impossible beneath the sky,
Man only fails when he fails to try.”
If you are deficient in any of your mental facilities, it is
your positive duty to cultivate them, to try and bring them
toward perfection, in other words to be as near as possible the
perfect man.
Now boys this year we want a large active membership,
hands that are willing to do something, and there is nothing
to hinder us from having two of the best literary societies
ever at College Station.
Bo}^ bring along your article literary, scientific, or humor
ous. While we can’t promise to publish everything, we prom
ise to give everything a careful consideration and publish all
we can which must necessarily be the best.