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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 1, 1900)
erar (® ( KT%^ '-C'^</^) ‘STRONG THE WARD, STERN THE GUARD.” They drove the burgher northward From Cape and Natal’s shores To where the Bushman wanders, To where the Lion roars. He found the land a desert. He won it by his toil; The men who till will keep it Or die upon the soil. Echo the strain from hill to plain, Wherever the burghers stand. Strong is the ward and stern the guard— The guard of the burghers’ land. —From a Transvaal War Song. cf;llioPe7^ sociejy'. WO MONTHS have swiftly passed away since we have published our “College Paper ” It is well, however, for a young man (or woman, for that matter,) to learn no later than the end of his scholastic career, at least, “Time waits for no one.” However, it is evident that we have not neglected the realization of the meaning of these few words altogeth er, in so far as our Society’s work is concerned. In the last two months greater inter est has been manifested, not only by the members of the Calliopean Soci ety, but by the student body at large. As I have said in a previous number that our Society would be what we as members made it,so it will; but judging the future—that is, the next four months—by what seems already to be in sight, the record we will leave be hind us can favorably be compared with those of previous years. If the members of the Society will abide by the new constitution, which has recently been drawn up and is to be put before the Society for adoption, and I am sure that they will, in a few years the Calliopean Society of the A. and M. College will be able to com pete with any College Literary Soci ety in the State, and when I refer to the State of Texas in this way I don’t except those of any other State, be cause Texas can compete with any State in the Union in this work, as well as other things. The idea that the work of “Literary Societies,” as some people have it, is only for the further training of those that have already started, is an enor mous mistake. It is, if anything, more of a place to begin, and realizing that everyone has to make his first at tempt, our doors stand open, full of encouragement,, etc., to all that have any desire to take advantage of work that they will never regret, but vice versa will always be glad of. C. P. ROGERS.
