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THE BATTALION.
BATTALION, ATTENTION!
I wish to announce a few things con
cerning our monthly magazine. It is
gotten out by the members of the Austin
and Calliopean literary societies, and
changes hands each year. The Battalion
is now entering upon its eighth year of
publication, and under the management
of Mr. H. E. Elrod, and by the assistance
of the other officers, will no' doubt be as
interesting as ever before. Rest.
THE Y. M. C. A.
The College Young Men’s Christian As
sociation holds its regular meeting in the
chapel every Sunday evening at 4 o’clock.
Some one of the members has a subject
selected and is leader for the evening,
but all who are present are called upon
to tell what impression the passage of
scripture under consideration made upon
them, and in this way we have the op
portunity of seeing several views of some
of the beautiful pictures that the apos
tles have left us.
There is also a bible study class in
connection with the Y. M. C. A. The
students who belong to this class have
their meeting in the barracks every Sun
day night, and are using Sharman’s
Studies in the Life of Christ.
I take this opportunity to thank the
officers of the College and the students
of the past session for their generosity in
helping to send me to the Southern Stu
dents’ Conference at Asheville, N. C., last
summer, and in the next issue of this
paper I will endeavor to tell them some
thing of my trip.
M. F. Thomas,
President of Y. M. C. A.
CIVIL ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT.
The department of civil engineering has
entered upon the session of 1900-’01 under
very auspicious circumstances. It has a
larger number of students than it has
ever had before in its history. They are
all excellent fellows, and show by the
earnest manner in which they have be
gun work that they have fully deter
mined to make the best of their oppor
tunities.
The increasing demand for graduates
of this department affords very gratify
ing evidence as to the character of the
work it is doing. The majority of the
students who went out from us last year
are occupying positions of more or less
prominence. The chief engineer of the
largest railway system in Texas stated
a year ago that, excepting himself, the
college men in his department all came
from the A. and M. College. Another in
teresting fact that may be mentioned in
this connection, is that sixty per cent
of the graduates of the past six years in
the Civil Engineering course are now en
gaged in civil engineering.
If one may judge from present indi
cations, before the weight of years be
comes burdensome to the stalwart frame
of the energetic, enthusiastic, and learned
professor of this department the great
enterprises of constructing railways, high
ways, and bridges, of straightening and
deepening the channels of our rivers,
and improving the sanitary conditions of
our cities, will be largely under the su-