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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (June 1, 1900)
THE BATTALION. 27 chosen by their fellow countrymen to fill the highest places of trust. When the farmer can sit with equal grace and power in the legislative halls hold ing up the interests of the tiller against the attempted monopolies of the cor porate manufacturers. The time is now upon us when the farm must be stocked net alone with an improved cattle, a better breed of hogs, a stronger draft animal, but a higher order of brains and energy must hang the gates and direct the fur rows. Ah! young man of the Caliopean and Austin Literary Societies, your very name of literary societies has been synonymous with the desire for pro fessional success, for oratorical train ing, for professional contests in your future. But let me tell you the most paying eloquence to-day in Texas is the lowing of the cattle and bleating of the sheep on the grass fields, and the whirring of the reaper and thresh ing machine. The most convincing ar gument in the great contest of life is the clink of the honest dollar, and the most alluring attraction in all the world to-day v is a Texas black-land farm run by an intelligent farmer. Then in the strength of all my being and in the light of all my experience and study, would I point your vigorous and ambitious minds from the enticing and glittering gates to city life and h r professions to the manifold and exten sive fields of opportunity in Texas white even now unto harvest and bid you to enter to reap the rich rewards of brain and labor united. - VALEDICTORY ADDRESS - C. P. ROGERS, of KYLE. On Distinguished Governor, Honor able President, Gentlemen of the Board, Members of the Faculty, Ladies and Gentlemen: One more scholastic year has swiftly glided by, and on this its last day, in the presence of this larg? number that has gathered here, 25 youn men shall, after four years of hard and earnest work, receive thei 1 ’ diplomas. We realize that these diplo mas that we are about to receive are merely written and signed certificates evidencing that we have met the re quirements of this institution and are now prepared to battle with the strug gling masses of the world. But, “fellow classmates,” let us not think for a moment that our life study is over and our work done. We hare just reached a firm basis upon which to build. The most able men that America has yet produced, and Amer ican products have no superior, were students through their entire lives. So it is to-day, the most able men are not those who are safsfiei and de eye of deep interest and the Faculty, learned, but those who use their brains constantly. A horse can be trained to do many things, but when his training ceases his ability to accomplish more is at an end. So with many other ani mals, and the only reason why man rules the world to-day is because of his power of intellect; let us use ours. When we entered college we stood at
