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THE BATTALION
7. COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, /AARCH, 1900.
NO. 6.
THE BATTALION.
Entered at the College Station Post Office as
second-class mail matter.
Published monthly by the Austin and Calli-
opean Literary Societies of the A. & M.
College.
Subscription—$1 00 per annum in advance.
try and reach a plane in this world far
higher than man has yet ascended to.
We wish those that have left us to al
ways remember that every boy who
wears the grey they have an eternal
friend and if in after life trouble and
sorrow overtake you, come to us and
we will do our best to give you conso
lation.
STAFF.
R. B. Boettcher. ’00 Business Manager.
C. P. Rogers, ’00 (
Hal Moseley, ’00 i Assistants.
O. M. Simpson ’00. Editor in Chief.
J.' A. Carter,’ ’00 j Editors Literary Dept.
Wm. Walden. ’00 Editor Agricultural Dept.
F. K. McGinnis, ’00..Editor Horticultural Dept.
W. S. Bryan, ’00 ....Ed. Mechanical Eng. Dept.
W. C. Luhrsen, ’00 Ed. Civil Eng. Dept.
T. W. Griffiths, ’00 Ed. Military Dept.
i; 1L ‘Boettcher, ’00 (Editors Exchange Dept.
Hal^Moseley , , O ’0b 00 \ -Editors Athletic Dept.
C. E. Story, Editor Local Dept.
J. C. Harrison Editor Social Dept.
F. Marian Law, Editor Alumni Dept.
Address all communications to Business Mgr.
Once more the Battalion makes its
rounds and hopes to And everyone well
and in good spirits. Since our last is
sue there has been a great deal of sick
ness, mumps and measles mostly, yet
a few cases of pneumonia, but we are
glad to say that none of them have
proved fatal. Some few of the boys
have quit school on account of sick
ness which we are very sorry of; we
wish them a speedy recovery and suc
cess in whatever vocation of life they
may pursue. Those that are still here
struggling with the many problems
that arise in one’s school days we can
encourage personally and inspire to
“In boyhood school days pass slowly
by;
In old age we wish them back. Why?”
The spring term has come at last.
Soon it will be gone. The boys have
already begun thinking of those happy
times in the summer—a pleasant walk
or a cool drive by moolight. Beautiful
visions haunt their dreams and they
seem almost in the land of the blest,
but they awake to find that the beauti
ful beings around them are only imag-
ary, and with a sigh turn over to go
back to sleep and drift again into the
sweet illusions of dreamland, where
sorrow seldom casts its shadow but
peace and rest reign supreme
Work on the Agricultural Building is
still progressing nicely. It will add a
great deal to the accommodations of
those taking that course and the pro
fessors in that department will be bet
ter equipped to teach their various
branches. We hope within the next
few years to see the M. E. and E. C.
departments equipped with appliances
for a more extended field of practice in
their respective courses.
This is the last edition, of the Battal
ion I will figure in. I resign my posi
tion as editor to another who I hope