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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 11, 1905)
THE STEWART & STEEN CO. College Engravers and Printers. 1024 ARCH ST., PHILDELPHIA, PA. Makers and publishers of commencement, class-day invita tions and program, class pins and buttons in gold and other metals, wedding invitations and announcements, at home cards, reception cards, visiting cards. Visiting Cards: ^ Plate and 50 Cards # OC v3i J K.or a La Diqooun't -to ©'tudehm'ts. The Battalion. PUBLISHED BY THE CORPS OF CADETS UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF THE AUSTIN LITERARY SOCIETY. B. L. DURST - - Editor-In-Chief J. R. TABOR - Associate Editor-in-Chief E. M. LEARY - - Business Manager T. C. BORN - - Local and Exchange Editor G. C. STREET - _ . Athletic Editor assistant editors. P. H. Welhausen, F. Hensei. Jr., G. T. Haitom, A. T. Potts, B. Gleason, V. Ehlers, R. Trenck- mann. Miss Sophia Hutson, Miss Mamie Hutson. Entered at the Postoffice at College Station, Texas, as Second Class Matter. Price Per Annum - - $1.25 JANUARY 11, 1905. A SAULTE FOR GIRLS. The January number of The Ladies’ Home Journal devotes a good part of the space in its editorial page to the question of “How a Girl Should Salute the Flag.” The opinions of the lead ing men in the army and navy circles were sought. The result shows various and interesting methods. Gen. A. L. Mills, super intendent of West Point Milit/ary Academy, says: “I would suggest that girls make a courtesy to the flag at the moment it passes.” General Nelson A. Miles gives a more artistic salute. This is his, “I do not think a military salute would be suitable. I would sug gest placing the right hand across the breast with the middle finger directed toward the point of the left shoulder, tha head at the same time being slightly lowered.” A large number think that the salute for women should be the same as for men. Admiral Dewey is of that opinion as well as “Joe” Wheeler. Robley Evans thinks a courtesy very effective. General Fitzhugh Lee is summoned from the South and gives his unique but chivalrous salute, “I think an appropriate salute for a girl to make to the flag would be to stand ‘Attention!’ and kiss her right hand.” General Fredrick Grant favors simply bowing the head. Admiral Schley’s method is per haps the most sensible as well as the most effective. He speaks as follows: “I believe a salute b}*- mothers and daughters of our land should be made with the right hand on the heart, and the head reverently bowed; the reason be ing that the heart is the home of love, respect and reverence—the seat of all that is purest, highest, noblest, best in our nature. With the right hand placed over the heart and the head reverently bowed in homage to the sj’mbol which guards the home they honor, and the modern Knight protects,would seem to me to bring the salute to the flag made by each into that happy accord of strength and gentleness.” With these var ious methods at hand we see no reason why the American girl can not select a salute which will do honor to “Old Glory.” A BOY AGAIN. “I’d like to be a boy again, without a woe or care, With freckles scattered on my face and hayseed in my hair. I’d like to rise at 4 o’clock and do a hundred chores, And saw the wood and feed the hogs and lock the stable doors. And herd the hens and watch the bees and take the mules to drink, And teach the turkeys how to swim, so that they wouldn’t sink; And milk about a hundred cows and bring the wood to burn, And stand out in the sun all day and churn and churn and churn; And wear my brother’s cast-off clothes, and walk four miles to school, And get a licking every day for breaking some old rule. And then get home again at night, and do the chores some more, And milk the cows and feed the hogs, and curry mules galore; And then crawl wearily upstairs and see my little bed, And hear dad say : ‘That worthless boy—he isn’t worth his bread!’ I’d like to be a boy again—a boy has so much fun!— His life is just a round of mirth, from rise to set of sun. I guess there’s nothing pleasanter than closing stable doors, And herding hens and chasing bees and doing evening chores.” —Galveston News. THE M.' E. LABORATORY. Some of the senior M. E.’s have gone into the M. E. laboratory ! Wouldn’t that jar your constitu tion? , Now, really, wouldn’t that take the place? You have heard how the smart boy got around his teacher’s north pole question by telling him that imaginary men could go to an imaginary pole. But here we have a pure case of real men going to an imaginary place ! How can it be done? I say real men—every one of them are real, are they not? I say imaginary place, for where is the M. E. labo ratory? Some day when you have time, take a stroll through the M. E. building. Go through the joinery, the wood turning, the iron turn ing, the blacksmith shop, and see if you can find an M. E. labora tory. Then go to the old black smith shop and tell us what you see. Then go into the turning room again, go by the engine, leave the planer to your left, and after having passed the miller be fore you get to the shaper turn to the left, enter the door and tell us what you see. That is what they call the M. E. laboratory ! Think of it, a laboratory ! But let me tell you what they are going to do. Those boys who are through with the iron work are going to make a laboratory. Those boys who are still working in iron will assist them as soon as they get through, and with a little help from the state, both pecuniary aid and advice, mostly pecuniary, we are going to have an M. E. labora tory. The following was handed to the editor by some one who had found it on the campus: Mr. Editor, please let me know in your next issue what we, the September fish, must call the Xmas fish. Respectfully, V. W. King. SCORE ONE FOR YOUNG GOULD. Kingdon Gould, the eldest son of George Gould, has raised a commo tion in the school which he is at tending. He must be something like sixteen years old, and, judging from the newspaper reports, is a member of the freshman class. He seems to have imbibed the old- fashioned idea that a boy went to school to study and improve his mind, and that the fact that he be longed to the lowest grade in the school or college did not deprive him of any personal rights, or give the members of any other class the right to subject him to any trespass or indignity. He did not see any reason why he should be pulled about over the campus by his ears or his heels, or be tossed in a blanket, or be strapped with a strap like a convict, simply because such barbaric usage had pre% r ailed aforetime .in the school. Such process of initiation seemed to him, as it does to every man who possesses a proper sense of decency and regard for the rights of others, to be humiliating and brutal, and an outrage upon the highest and most sacred rights of a free born gentleman; therefore when the sophomores gathered to seize and haze him in the tradi tional brutal way he declined to submit to the indignity, and in order to resist overwhelming num bers he drew a pistol. At the sight of it consternation arose in the ranks of the hazers. They were possessed of that meas ure of courage which nerved two score or more of them to jump on a single boy and inflict humiliat ing and painful indignities upon him, and call it hilarious “fun” (for them), but before the gleam of a pistol in the hands of a young fellow possessed of^fchat pride and courage which ever adheres to a gentleman, they scattered like mice before a lion, and with “gall” far in excess of their courage com plained to the faculty against young Gould because he had dared stand upon his rights and resent unlawful and inexcusable assault. The hazers were astounded and wildly indignant that their right(?) to kick and cuff a freshman at pleasure should be disputed. The old story is told of a little boy who complained to his mother that his brother “hollered every time he hit him on the head with a hammer” fits the case exactly. The sophomores complained be cause young Gould would not sub mit to be treated like a Russian serf might be treated by a grand duke. His act of drawing a pistol was pronounced “cowardly,” and the hoodlums who were eager to assault him declare he will be ostracised and that he can get no class honors. They will have noth ing to do with a fellow who has the manhood to resent insult and indignity. The cplleges over this country need a few more Kingdon Goulds. The true gentleman always re gards the rights of others. He is considerate and kind. He finds no pleasure in humiliating others and inflicting indignities upon them, and it is a part of the mission of colleges to train up gentlemen, and the sooner the brutal custom of hazing is abolished the better it will be. If moral suasion and threats of expulsion do nonstop it, a six- shooter will. Its use should be a dernier resort, but if used a few times hazers and their brutal traditions will both soon dis appear. It is to be hoped young Gould will keep his pistol.—Hous ton Chronicle. 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