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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 1, 1899)
THE BATTAEION. 23 The biting- Carlyle says, speaking- of American heroes: “You have Georg-e, the surveyor.” Yes, I answer, we have Georg-e, the surveyor, and Uncle Robert Eee, and we of Texas have Sul. Ross, the ranger; yet the three were three princes. ***** Ideals are the true and regnant sovereigns. In the old, old days, in the dear old south, there were other great and good, loyal and trustworthy, yet in a well deserved pre-eminence towers above all his illustrious com peers the majestic form of a man who because of the singular fidelity and perfection with which he fulfilled the obligations which the idea represents, will ever be recognized as the reverend exponent of the formative ideal of the south. The beauty of this ideal abides the crucial test of time. But more, again it takes on flesh. We find it in carnate. What words can fitly paint the mighty, the peerless paladius of the south? But for purity of contour, perfection of form, grace of power, elegance of mode, adorable, heart-winning southern dignity, the world inevitably singles out Robert E. Bee. I shall not attempt to paint the light, the radiance streaming forth ever from our ideal, our hero, from Rob ert, our king! We still have with us those who knew him. Let them speak. But one I knew. To him I can bear witness^ to Lawrence Sullivan Ross. Too modest he was in his g-en- tle dignity, his innate elegance, his polished courtesy; yet
