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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (June 1, 1900)
30 THE BATTALION. your mark. If you will till the soil or hew the timber, do it with ho^or to yourselves and your school. If you enter the learned professions, follow them with the same high purpose. Ee earnest, be true, love your country End your God and fear no man, and may your course in life be such that we who come after may follow in your wake with the same confidence that it will ever lead to the front and to the thickest of the fray, as did the follow ers of the White Plume of Henry of Navarre. And now, in behalf of those you leave behind, I deliver to you the:r parting words, “Good-bye,, boys,’’’ and may God bless you, and to that let us also add those words of strangely min gled pathos and humor that James Whitcomb Riley puts into the mouth of the old hoosier farmer, as his son Jim goes forth into battle, and again as that same son, stricken with shot and shell, closed his eyes for the last time upon the beloved face of his father. So we to-day to each one of you, as you go forth Into the battle of life, say: “Good-bye, Jim, take keer of yeselves.’ r COMMENCEMENT PROGRAMME. PROGRAMME—SUNDAY, JUNE 10. 9 a. m,—Inspection of Cadet quar ters by College officers and visitors. 11a. m.—Commencement Sermon by Rev. W. Truett, of Dallas. 8:30 p. m.—Address before the Col lege Young Men’s Christian Associa tion. MONDAY, JUNE 11. 9 to 11 a. m.—Inspection of Depart ments including exhibition of Live Stock, Farm Machinery, Apparatus and Appliances for instruction—Dis play of Products of Students’ Work— Students at Work in Snops. 11 a. m.—Joint Celebration of Liter ary Societies. 4 p. m.—Individual Competition Drill for Company Medals—Individual Com petition Drill for ’Battalion Medal— Sham Battle. 8:30 p. m.—Public Meeting Alumni Association—Alumni address by E. L. Bruce. Mineola—Oration by Hon. Ru fus Hardy, Corsicana. COMMENCEMENT DAY—TUESDAY, JUNE 12. 10 a. m.—Prayer. Reading of Thesis by First Honor Graduate. (Best three years grade, all courses.) Valedictory Address—C. P. Rogers, of Kyle. (Elected by the First Class.) Response to the Valedictory—A. E. Story, Lockhart. (Elected by the Sec ond Class.) Commencement Address by the Hon. J. W. Blake, of Sherman. Conferring Degrees, by the Presi dent of the Board of Directors. Announcement of those distinguish ed in the several Classes and Depart ments. Benediction. 4 to 4:30 p. m.—Drill by Foster Guards. 4:45 p. m.—Battalion Drill, followed by review of the Battalion by the Gov ernor of the State. Graduating Dress Parade.
