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THE BATTALION.
The Ross Volunteers are making arrangements to visit
Houston on the 21st of April to participate in the battle of
San Jacinto. Many new members have been admitted into
the company, and the A. & M. will be represented by forty
strong.
The mock trial to be given by the Calliopeon Literary So
ciety at their annual celebration March 19tb, promises to be
an interesting event. Mr. C. P. Rodgers is to assume the
part of the prosecution, and Mr. Robson that of the defense.
Both men possess great oratoracal powers, and the corps of
cadets should turn out and give them a hearty welcome.
Upon looking over the subscribers of The Battalion it is
gratifying to find that only a very few, and we would say,
God pity that narrow contracted few, of the cadets are not on
the rolls. This certainly indicates a true college spirit
among the boys, and in return for their liberality the man
agement proposes to give them a commencement edition that
they can well be proud of.
Capt. Todd, our popular senior, received a valentine with
the following pretty little poem under the picture of a very
gallant (?) looking soldier:
As a warrior bold you masquerade, -
While ot your shadow you’re afaraid.
You’d face a lion with martial rage—
Were he chained up safely in his cage;
If a fight were “sham,” you’d bear its brunt,
And battle nobly in the front;
But if real bullets began to fly,
To some safe place you’d quickly hie.
The 22nd dawned as bright and clear as a morning in May,
and the cadets were awakened from sweet dreams of home
and sweethearts by the booming of eannon and inspiring
strains of music from the college band. The mere mention
of the name of our great Washington sent a thrill of patriot
ism through the heart of the average cadet and caused them
to bless the day that he was born—for if he had not been we
would not have had a holiday.