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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 8, 1904)
THE BATTALION. Published Weekly by the Corps of Cadets Under the Management of the Austin Literary Society. Volume XII. COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, OCTOBER 8, 1904. Number 1. EIXGH AIMGEk ^having [^arlor J. E. GRICE, Prop’r. j-l©T and {?©Ltl Next door to Exchange Hotel BRYAN, TEXAS. A. Ix. 21I1NIAXTT ^hoe Repairing Solicits cadet patronage. CHARLIE ADDRESS OF CAPT. H. H. SARGENT TO campus. They take note of the THE GRADUATING CLASS OF 1904. j drill and discipline; they compare | the present with the past, and are Having been requested by the 1 pleased if there be no backward Seniors to say a few words to them step. They belong to the days of on the eve of their graduation from Mallory and Morse and Bartlett- this College, I take pleasure in so to the days when a high state of NEW FALL WEARABLES .TflE.. TAILOR Shop east of City National Bank. Repairing and cleaning clothes a specialty. doing. The ■ power at this College that makes for good discipline rests largely with the Seniors; and though I am well aware that the military department at this College will still adfnit of much improve ment; yet, on the whole, consider ing all conditions and circum stances, I feel that we have had a very successful year; and I wish to say now that a great deal of this success is due to your hearty co operation. In my efforts to do good work I have been greatly encouraged by your support, loy alty and good will. I thank you; and yet I would impress upon you, and upon the lower classes following in your footsteps, that this is your Col lege, and that you are the ones most vitally interested in good dis cipline and a high standard of ex cellence. Look at the worthy alumni and ask them how deeply they feel on the subject. They love their old College , many of them are with us today. They have come back here to renew the old associations, to tread once more discipline and the excellence of the military department were known far and wide. And every fiber of their being thrills when they see good progress made in the military department—every fibre thrills when they see that you are making a strenuous effort to equal or sur pass the records of their day. I do not wish to overload the class of 1904 with advice, which is always easy to give, but often dif ficult to follow. Indeed, the place to obtain advice is not from one person, but from several. If you wish to be advised upon business matters, go to a successful business man; if upon money matters, to the banker; if upon legal matters, to a good lawyer; if upon the negro question, go to some brainy men of the south, who have lived with the negroes and know them. In other words, if you want advice upon any subject, seek it from the suc cessful man who has made a study of that subject. • I will touch briefly on only two points: first, that in winning suc cess in life character is almost ev erything. Honesty, steadiness, our stock of Rain coats is by far the largest in Bryan. We are showing the very newest and swellest patterns, in the genuine cravenette coats, made like this illustration, either with belt back or without, 52 inches long at prices from $12.50 to $25.00. Mackintoshes, all wool, uaranteed rain*proof, ox ford, grey or black . . 5.00. Mackintoshes, extra fine quality, in small black and white check, a beauty, at 6.50 Rubber rain coats at $2.50 - Leggins, regulation army, extra heavy, a pair . 3.00 S * ii ^ ' Mfaiti ] <1 Douglas Shoes, Hamilton Brown Shoes, Table Covers, Curtain Poles, Window Shades, Lace Curtains, Combs and Brushes. A/so the swellest line of Clo thing in town. A cordi?.l welcome is hereby extended to all Cadets to make our store head quarters when in the city. BURT NORWOOD the old halls, to view again the old J reliability are what the great cor- -porairsK/;., Lhe gfeacbtrsiaoC nouses', ( the great employers of men, arc looking for. You all hive brains enough to succeed, and you will succeed if 3 t ou go out out into the world with the determination of making a reputation for honesty, steadiness and reliability. If you learn to do small things well, and become thoroughly trustworthy in the different positions in which you are placed, it will only be a short time till your efforts will meet with a reasonable, if not a great, success. In this connection it may be noted that, having the brains, character can be acquired; and that, as a rule, character, with an average amount of brains makes for suc cess more powerftally than brains with an average amount of charac ter. When both are combined we obtain our great men—our Wash ingtons and Lincolns and Grants and Lees and Stonewall Jacksons. One other point. Your educa tion has just begun; j^ou have laid foundation, that is all. You know little; for that matter none of us knows much. One man per haps a little more than another; but in the infinite universe, with mind and matter and force every where about us, of which we our very selves are but a part, the wis est man is profoundly ignorant of himself and h i s surroundings. Whence do we come ? whither do we go ? no man knoweth. With all the recorded wisdom of the ages; with the accumulated knowl edge of the centuries before us, we are yet governed by unknown laws, yet surrounded by undiscovered phenomena. We are sailing the ocean of the unknowable; and to day the chief proof of a man’s real greatness lies in the perception of his own smallness—in the fact that he knows that he knows not. Man is largely the product of his environment. The schools that he attends, the books that he reads, Attention Cadets! We have on sale the follow ing indespensa- ble articles: Stetson Campaign Hats. Regulation Shirts Regulation Col lars. Wilson Bros’ Shirts and Underwear. Wilson Bros’ Hosiery walk over Shoes Over twenty swell Fall styles to select from, in patent vici, patent colt,vici kid, velom^JLlf and be calf, with light heav y solei^J Pk in leathers. $3.50. Pa tent leathers, 4.00. The best shoe for the price in America. PARKS & Clothiers and Furnishers. the men and women that he meets, are influences which are constantly affecting and changing his individ uality and character. Even the personalities of his associates are partly absorbed by him, while his own personality is more or less re flected in them. He is like a sieve, daily acquiring and daily losing knowledge. If, therefore, even with the good start you have made, you forget faster than you learn, your knowledge in a short time will be represented by zero; perhaps even by a minus quantity, for there are those who once knew some thing, whose knowledge now, or what passes for their knowledge, is so full of error and ignorance that they may be said to have become a minus quantity—to have, so to speak, passed through zero. Though all of you feel glad that your college days are about ended, I would remind you that as time passes, these days will become brighter and brighter. You will ^c)on forget the hardships, the re ports, the demerits, and perhaps even the “mess hall war talks” of your commandant, as they have been aptly characterized by one of your number; but you will not for get the pleasant associations, the friendships and the successes. The memories of the old halls, the old dormitories, the old campus, and of the officers, professors and in structors of your old College will like vines cling to and wind them selves about you in the daj^s to come. And now, as you go forth from this institution, I wish each of you great success; and I hope and be lieve that j-ou will make useful cit izens, live upright and worthy lives, and thus be ax honor to your college, your site, your country and your God. NOTICE. A prize of $5.00 will be awarded to the student who composes the best college 3 T ell and song—$2.50 for the best j-ell, and $2.50 for the best song. The yells and songs are to be original or some original combina tion of yells already in use. The j’ells and songs submitted will be turned over to a committee com posed of Profs. Lomax and Potts, Coach Platt, Manager Church, and W. A. Price, who will judge which is the best. Students who wish to enter this contest will turn in their yells or songs, signed with a non de plume, to Mr. Wilson at 41 Foster Hall not later than Wednesday night, Octo ber 12th, 1904. These j^ells and songs, with others, will be published in a small pam phlet and sold at a moderate price. This offer is made by Cadet Wilson and it is hoped that many students will enter the contest. The A. and M. College ought to have some characteristic and force ful songs and yells, and they natu rally ought to come from the student body. Everybody try.