THE BATTALION.
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Nor do we wish to disclose the storm tossed waves of life’s
tempestuous sea for just over the bar you may reef your sales
and drift within the smiles of your attainments.
You go not into a world of indifference, for kind friends
will be ever near and bear with you the lessons you have
learned. And as you rise in the long successions to fill the
places you are destined to fulfill, may you advance them as
a precious heritage and to be transmitted with undiminished
force and beauty to those that succeed you. Cease not to
remember these walls of brick and stone for unto them you
owe your fostering care.
Standing as they do, a monument perpetuating the
memory and incomparable statesmanship of those who laid
the foundation of this our A. & M.
And though oppressive waves around her may roll, she
stands and will stand magnificent, immovable and sublime;
reflecting with radiance her twenty-one eventful sessions
glorified by the connection and crowned by the laurels of
Ross.
And as you now go forth into the untried experiences of
another world, cast from you all binding ties, let your
pure and ambitious motives ascend unto the skys and in the
oncoming years of life you will shine not as lingering stars
but as the brightest stars in the constellation of true manhood
devotion to God and respect for women.
In conclusion may you ever associate with kind words
and grateful thoughts, the junior class of ’97.