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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (May 1, 1898)
THE BATTALION. 19 lievoes were the kings, princes and generals, and all brave war riors who were distinguished for strength, courage, wisdom and experience. In the middle ages departed saints were believed to watch over the interests of particular persons, places and trades. Old England had her St. George, Scotland her St. Andrew, France her St. Dennis, and Erin’s Green Isle her St. Patrick. In all times there have been heroes and heroines, and hero worshippers, and there will be so long as youth and romance exist among us. The greatest historians and poets have employed their talents in recounting their deeds, in sing ing of arms and a hero. A gorgeous panorama—they pass be fore us: Caesar, Alexander. Napoleon, Washington, Colum bus, Sir Philip Sidney, Joan of Arc, “the Light of Ancient France,” Isabella, Madame Boland, Charlotte Cor day, Cornelia Hypatia, Florence Nightengale. “In every land, I saw where’er light illumneth. Beauty and anguish walking hand in hand The downward slope to death.” Texas, too, can sing of her heroes; of the brave patriots “who triumphantly unfurled and waved aloft the banner of the Lone Star, who wrenched asunder the iron bands of despotic Mexico, and wreathed the brow of the queen State with the glorious chaplet of civil and religious liberty.” Her people Avill hold in grateful remembronce the heroes of Goliad, Alamo and San Jacinto, and they will tell their children of those old Spanish monks who went forth to self-imposed labors, desiring and expecting no reward. “Uncrowned heroes,” they have been truly called, for having no object in view save the aggran dizement of their church and the conversion of the Indians they pushed their way between the years 1690 and PlOO into the wild country they called the “New Phillippines,” They were starved and massacreed by the Indians, but so soon as one fell another sprang eagerly forward to till his place. They have