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Volume VIII. COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, NOVEMBER, 1900. Number 3.
THE BATTALION.
Entered at the College Station Postoffice
as second-class mail matter.
PUBLISHED MONTHLY
By the Austin and Calliopean Literary
Societies of A. and M. College.
Subscription $1 per annum in advance.
STAFF.
H. E. Elrod Business Manager
R. J. Rhome Editor in Chief
H. Gleason Assistant
M.M. Carpenter [ Editors Eiterary Dept.
W. T. Garbade Editor Agricultural Dept.
C. B, Harrington Editor Horticultural Dept.
P. Dross Editor M. E. Dept.
T. Fountain Editor C. E. Dept.
M. F. Thomas f Editors Military Dept.
f: H. Simpson [ Edltors Exchange Dept.
W,' W- yJ Armstrong \ ••••Editors Athletic Dept.
V H 0< Fay 100 ^ Editors Local Dept.
r±SS?l»nS.„n f ..Supervisory Editors
Sol Gordon Poet
Address all communications to Business
Manager.
Colonel Foster has had the parade
ground greatly enlarged, nicely leveled
and well covered with cinders. We feel
quite sure this is by far the finest parade
ground in the State, if not in the South.
This and the improvements in the walks
add very greatly to the comfort of the
students.
Since the opening of this session con
siderable work has been done on the Col
lege grounds, and it is hoped the good
work will be continued. The campus
offers fine possibilities for skillful land
scape gardening and with proper care can
be made a marvel of beauty.
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Mr. J. W. Carson has shown his inter
est in society work by generously offering
to supply funds to pay for the prize arti
cles of the December number of The Bat
talion. They say money talks. If this
unsolicited generosity on the part of Mr.
Carson does not bring out a hearty re
sponse the existing conditions are indeed
deplorable.
The literary societies are rapidly im
proving, so that the prospect for good
work in literary lines is unusually bright.
The funds realized from the recent en
tertainment will be of great help to us
in more completely furnishing our halls.
New desks and window curtains will add
very much to the attractiveness of the
halls, and will help to arouse greater en
thusiasm in all phases of society work.
For once the students can not complain
of any lack of encouragement on the
part of the faculty and the ladies of the
campus. Every possible encouragement
has been given the members of the so
cieties to induce them to put forth seri
ous effort. Hereafter the responsibility
must rest with the members. Spasmodic
efforts will count for little, and listening