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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 1, 1903)
THE BATTAEION 17 tion, both new and old; its patriotism; its suffering's, during and subsequent to the civil war, and its rapid recuperation since. Instead of permitting them to believe that their fore fathers, “the old South,'’ were either imbeciles or traitors, let us teach them to love and to hold sacred the history, val or, patriotism and conscience of the Old South. I am glad however, thac the South is waking up from its lethargy ; that men and women of ability, of genuine patriot ism and love for the truth, are, in modest tones, asking the world to consider the true history of the South. “The Old South,” and “Old Virginia,” by Thomas Nelson Page; “The New South,” by Henry Orady ; “Free Foe,” by Joel Chand ler Harris; the poems of Sidney Eanier and Father Ryan, should be taught to every Southern youth. “Southern Lit erature,” by Miss Louise Mauly, is worthy of a place in every Southern school, and I think that the citizens of the South should see to it that their literature fi~ds a place in the cur riculum of every school in the land. The reason for teaching this literature to small children is, that it is so full of parental love and filial devotion— themes that delight them. It magnifies the home, where mother is queen and sister sacred. It delights in the por trayal of farm scenes; of waving fields, yellow with grain, or white with cotton; of green pastures, made more cheerful by frolicking lambs; of the perfect order and system of farm work; of the merry contented slaves as they went to their work in the morning with songs on their lips, or as they made their quarters lively at night with the banjo and that “double