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‘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.