^LTJjNOSTI DEPARTMENT.
Any alumnus or ex-cadet who receives a copy of the Bat
talion, will please consider it an invitation to subscribe for
same and will please promptly forward his address on a
postal to the business manager.
It will be our purpose to make those columns as interest
ing to the alumni as possible; nothing more interesting to
them can be conceived than news of one anohter. And as no
one member can possiblj 1, keep posted as to all the others, it
behooves each alumnus to send for publication notes about
his fellows, if it be nothing more than their post office ad
dresses. This will give members an opportunity of hunting-
one another up when they happen to be in the town.
Rn Address Before the Alumni Association.
Delivered by Hon. Tully A. Fuller of San Antonio, June 1896.
Mr. President, Fellow Alumni, Ladies and Gentlemen :
I am sure that I but echo the sentiments of every alumnus-
present when I acknowledge the interest and courtesy with
which we have been received by the President and faculty in
seeking this short return to walks once familiar, but now
scarcely recognizable because of the beautiful transformation
that has taken place under careful hands. However, the
scenes are still dear and we are dwelling for a few days in
halls, some of which are unchanged and are hung with many
memories and mentally inscribed with many a story, both
grave and gay. Clustering about the hearts of no other
places are attachments for these spots that have known our
school days and where we have imbibed those lessons and
teachings that have made and shaped our manhood. This is
true of the little log school house at the foot of the hill, with-
the old fashioned sweep bending over the well, the play
ground worn smooth by many a friendly tustle, and the dog
wood bushes growing thick and threatening on the branch-