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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 1, 1900)
20 THE BATTALION. we don’t; there is the difference. Let us, then, take this for a thought: “Heights of great men reached and kept, Were not attained hy sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night.” What we need to realize is that there is something for us to do. That we are not created merely to exist a short while. Then let’s begin right now to seek a purpose in life. When are we to begin it? Now, or will we wait until the golden morn has passed? A good way for some of us to do would be to stop finding fault. Some find fault with everything their fellow- cadets do. They find fault with their board, and with those ini authority and with those who succeed. Turn the searchlight on yourself, and see if Ba con was not talking to you when he said: “He who hath no virtue in himself, ever envieth virtue in others. When we look for good, we’ll find it. The more we find, the more we want to find, and we will find it. Now, we are doing ourselves good, we are doing good to those with whom we come in contact, and it will multiply until no one knows where it will end. We are all pattern ing after some model. While we are picking a model, why not pick a good one? Then make a good one of our selves. What will be the result if this line of life is substituted for the care lessness which is abroad to-day? This will become a College where boys will become men with a purpose, who will be worth something to themBelves, their neighbors and the world. “Be to others’ faults a little blind, Be to 'Uieir virtues a little kind.” No one knows how much a word of encouragement will stir up a lonesome heart. “Error is not the better for being common, Nor truth the worse for being neg lected.” H. G„ ’02. New Yorker—How would you like to be the ice man? Bostonian—Well, to consider the matter from a standpoint of temper ature, I deem it excessively undesirable in view of the frigidity of the atmos phere to become a vender of any con gealed substance whose solid condition is brought about by the withdrawal of its latent heat.—Ex. £ ^ “The Harp Which Nature’s Advent Strung Has Never Ceased to Play” is an interesting article in the Coresoph- iap Journal^ which has been recently established by the students of Emi nence College, Oak Cliff, Dallas, Tex. We heartily wish the Journal great success. £ 6 Is it right for a man whose father was hung for stealing to brag on his ele vated family?—Ex. £ £ The watermelon is admitted without question into our best society, although it is always very seedy.—Ex. £ £ He asked a maiden: “What is a kiss Grammatically defined?’’ “It’s a conjnnclion, sir,’’ she said, ‘‘And hence can’t be declined. ’ ’ --Ex.
