THE BATTALION.
25
The advice of The Battalion is to go at whatever you may do
with that same unfailing energy which you have shown at the
A. & M.
On account of the heavy edition (2500 copies) of the Janu
ary number was somewhat late in making its appearance,
however we hope that its contents may compensate its tardi
ness.
The question of a large commencement edition is being agi
tated among the students. And we would say that since we
are not to have our annual, we should by all means make the
commencement issue of The Battalion a suitable substitute.
In order to do this it is necessary to have the earnest co-op
eration of every cadet. Stir yourselves boys and let us make
the last issue of 96-97 be one in keeping with the year.
A close observer may have seen some grave senior running
his left hand through his hair, and closer observation will re
veal the fact that one of his fingers is adorn with a spark
ling class ring. The Battalion would remark that these
rings mean sometning more than ornament. They 'herald
the fact that you are a graduate of the A. & M. college and
whatever the wearer may accomplish, either good or bad,will
necessarily revert back to the college. They bind the hearts
of the wearers together with that esteem which cannot fail to
exist after four years toil; and lastly but not least they her
ald the fact that you are a member of class ’97 and it should
be the duty of every one who wears one to see that no dishon
or falls upon the record of the class.
Went to see the football game,
Thought that I could play the same,
So in haste I joined the ’leven—
I am writing this from Heaven.
—Ex.