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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 18, 1905)
Christinas Goods We are opening up something new for the HOLIDAY TRADE every day. Gifts whose attract iveness and useful ness will readily ap peal to a gentleman. ARE NOW SHOWING A NICE NEW LINE OF SMOKING JACKETS, BATH ROBES, ETC Prepare for your trip back home for the holidays by purchasing your From us. 98T tiT Our purchases of Suspenders, Mufflers, Handkerchiefs, Full Dress Protectors, Hosiery, Neckwear, Gloves Jewelry, and other articles too numer ous to mention for the holiday trade, are coming in by almost every , express. 0 0 Do not forget that ^ JUST WRIGHT SHOES % are the best made at the price. Don’t put off making your Chrristmas pur chases. DO IT NOW. SPECIAL—Owing to the heavy expense of advertising, and donations we have to make to the College, we find that we cannot afford to continue the 10 per cent discount to Cadets. HUNTER & CHATHAM ^Loca.1 Subscribe for The Battalion. Mrs. Cain was ill a few days last week. Cadet Hooper left Saturday for home, having resigned. The Junior C. E.’s had their first chemical practice Tuesday. T. C. U. says she has brilliant prospects for a baseball team. So have we. Mrs. Ball returned Saturday from Galveston where she has been under treatment. Mr. T. G. Moore of Abilene is here visiting his nephew, “postmaster” McLellan. The members of the track team should be getting in shape these warm days. The question is now, why does Welboan wear his overcoat to mili tary science? The library is improving steadily. Its latest feature is a new revolving globe in the north room. The High schools of the State are going to have a tracii meet in Austin sometime in the spring. Mr. B. L. Durst,our editor-in-chief, was called home last Wednesday on account of the illness of his father. W. J. Battle, professor of Greek in the University, spent several days on the campus during the holidays. Prof: What are some of the crops which will enrich the soil? Mursch- iedt: Cow slips. (He meant cow peas. Prof: Mr. Foster if you pass Hy drogen gas over copper what does it give you? Foster: It turns the cop per to iron. “Mogue” Robinson, the brilliant half-back veteran, has been made captain of ’Varsity’s football team for next season. s The English department wishes to announce that the Seniors are ex pected to write one composition every month from now until June. The Junior monthly compositions are expected not later than the 25th by the English department. Many students were marked deficient last month on account of no composi tions. J. W. Carson, who has been up about Waxahachie holding Farmers’ Institutes, was driven in by the cold weather. He left Monday for places on the Frisco where he will be en gaged in the same work. The meeting of the athletic coun cil to be held last week was post poned. It is at this meeting that the question of the athletic field will be decided on. Let’s have the field by all means, for it means much to our standing in the athletic world. Most of the cadets are watching the Bryan people concerning the proposed electric railway between here and town. We hope that this line will be built, for we see no rea son why it should not. Every line yet that has been built in Texas has proven a glorious success, and there can be no doubt that this line, if built, will be an immense help to both Bryan and the college. Do not let us forget our company football games, for in so doing, we forget the College team of 1905. P RINTING The Bryan Eagle Letter Heads Note Heads Invitations Cards, Etc ... Elain and Fancy 2000 Samples of Vie Latest Styles of Fine Programs, Invitations, Etc., to select from. Bryan, Texas.~ Printers of The Battalion, A glaring notice appeared on the bulletin board during the cold spell Saturday. It was this: “Foster Hall needs wood. We are freezing.” Below it was this consolation for Foster. “Pfeufler is in the same fix; we do too.” This cold weather is not as pleasant as a day in June if you are limited as to wood. Company D assembled in front of Foster Hall Thursday after dinner and for the third time this year elected a football captain. Mr. Tuttle and Mr. Williams were voted on, and the results showed that Mr. Jack Williams will lead D com pany’s team on the gridiron. The Battalion hates to pose as a chronic kicker,but when our laundry comes home to us looking like the laundryman had forgotten himself and run our shirts through a sausage mill instead of a laundrying ma chine, then we rise up and say that it is time to kick. The State legislature is in session and we hope that they can see their way clear to give the Texas A. and M. college what she asks for. In no other way could the money of the citizens of Texas be better appropri ated. In helping this institution they help the State of Texas. The K. K.’s are planning a mas querade ball to be given sometime in February. This is to be the swel- lest affair that the K. K.’s have so far given, which is saying much. The K. K.’s started out to make their society an organization of the first class, and they have done so. Anything that they give is a success. We are sorry to announce the res ignation of Mr. V. H. Stubbs, our late business manager. Mr. Stubbs resigned on account of his studies. Mr. Leary takes his place as busi ness manager. He comes well fitted for the place, having served as asso ciate business manager during the first of the term. The “Veterans of the Lost Cause” held their first meeting, in the guard room Sunday night. Mr. G. L. Reese was elected chairman of this organization. He was called upon for a speech. He responded beauti fully by saying he had rather be chairman of the “Veterans” than the highest ranking sergeant. The “Veterans” determined to have their picture in the Long Horn as large as that book can make. The picture is to be taken with the men dressed in drill shirts and campaign hats. In fact everything is to be first class. Hurrah for the “Vets!” The Battalion learns with regret that our popular English instructor, Mr. Lomax, burnt two pair of twelve dollar trousers by putting them too near the stove. But could it be said that the professor should be arrested for “scorching.” THE K. K. DANCE. Last Saturday night the members of the K. K. club gave the second of their regular monthly dances. For the convenience of tjie young ladies, the dance was given in Bryan, in the armory. The hall, though not nearly so large as our mess hall, was sufficiently large for the crowd pres ent and was by far cosier than the mess hall would have been. Though the thermometer was down very low, in the hall it was very pleasant. The large open fire place was kept well filled with wood and the flames as they sparkled and shot up into the chimney shone upon a scene of much merriment. Aside from the inconvenience in getting to and from the hall every one had a very enjoyable evening, marred, as it was to some extent by an unlucky accident which occurred to one of the visiting young ladies. Miss Eddy of Brenham, by an un lucky chance managed to get her finger entangled in the folds of her dress in such a way as to wrench it in a very painful manner, probably fracturing the bone. Of course it necessitated her leaving the dance. Barring this accident the dance was in every way a success. The chaperones for the occasion were Mr. and Mrs. McQueen, Mr. and Mrs. Bradley, Dr. and Mrs. Oliver, Prof, and Mrs. Kyle. The guests were Misses Eddy of Brenham, Bessie Herndon of Wei mar, Fant of Houston, Mclnnis, Sadie Cavitt, Ethel Cavitt, Nellie Smith, Hattie Smith, Garth, Keel ing, McConnico,' Winnie Thomas, Emily Thomas, Harbers, Watkins, Robinson, Wilson, Rhodes, Sophie Hutson, Mary Hutson and Horetzky. Besides the members of the K. 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