THE BATTALION.
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appointed dinner. Six courses were served. Covers were
laid for Cadets Abbott, Crow, Martin W., Robson, Harrison
W., and Scherer.
Texas Independence day was celebrated by a holiday.
The day was ushered in with music by the cadet band. The
sleepy cadets awoke to hear such tunes as Dixie, Star Span
gled Banner, etc. The artillery detachment fired a salutei
and a baseball game was the chief attraction in the afternoon.
The seniors on war:
Abbott—“Let’s don’t be rash.”
Tracy—“Let her go Bill.”
Crow—“I’m afraid I’d be angry should a Spaniard kill
me before I had used them as a target.”
Rawlins—“Wake me up early; I must be off at sunrise.”
Kerr—“I want to go home.”
Robson—“I’m going by Columbus to tell ‘Edna’ good
bye, first.”
Newton—“ ‘Cnby’ or bust.”
Barnes—“Let me be stationed at Bryan.”
Donaldson—“I’ll go with my kodak.”
Giover—“Let me take a Shield.”
Harrison—“I’ll toot the horn.”
Scherer—“I have Spanish troubles of me own.”
Wanted—A cheap rank Captain “L.”
We regret to announce the ill health of our editor-in-
chief.
We regret to say thot Cadet Chambers was forced to re
sign on account of sore eyes.
Martin, W. C., is writing his thesis on sugar; he gets all
his samples at the mess hall. Why is that?
March, 14, 1898.
Report:
Hulton, bathing in natatorium during study hours. Sir: