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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 22, 1905)
I THE STEWART & STEEN College Engravers and Printers. 1024 ARCH ST. f PHILOELPHIA, 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: ^EZ^ Plate and 50 Cards m nj C/ £3’ ©PELGIA-.U • DlSOOUJSJ-T t , • . 'TO S'rULJE.N'r©. tions. Editorial—Harrison. Story—Carrigan. Reading—Cornell. ‘ Oration—Caaey. ' Debate—“Should the Girls’ In- j dustrial School Have Been Placed I Here?” Affirmative, Minear; neg- ) ative, Edsall. I The Battalion. PUBLISHED BY THE CORPS OF CADETS OF THE AGRICULTURAL AND MECHAN ICAL COLLEGE OF TEXAS. UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF THE AUSTIN LITE RARY SOCIETY. B. L. DURST J. R. TABOR E. M. LEARY B. GLEASON T. C. BORN - W. A. GILBERT Editor-In-Chief Associate Editor-In-Chief Business Manager Assistant Business Manager Local and Exchange Editor : - Athletic Editor ASSOCIATE; Eft 1JTORS. P. H. Welhausen, H. S. ^Vo'ods, F. Hensel, Jr., G.T. Haltom. A. T. Potts. V.Ehlers, R. Trenckmann, Miss Sophia Hutson, Miss Mamie Hutson. Entered at the Postoffice at College Station, Texas. Second Class Rates Applied For. May, 1838. Houston : National Banner Office—Niles & Co., Print ers. 1838.” The library now contains about 14,250 volumes, including the De partment libraries and Govern ment Documents. A twenty vol ume set of the New International Encyclopedia has just been re ceived, and a shipment of about 500 new books is expected soon. It is very gratifying indeed to see how much the students use the library, reading room, and refer ence Works. Oh, if we just had that library building! Price Per Annum $1.25 FEBRUARY 22, 1905. SOME RARE AND CURIOUS BOOKS. On the shelves of our library one may see some books that might be called relics and curiosi ties. For instance there is a small sheep bound volume that looks like it had seen its best days long before there was an A. and M. col lege of Texas, and .indeed it. had. On its title page it reads, “Fables de Florian, A. Paris, Chez P. J. Gayet Librairie, Rue Dauphine No. 20, 1828.” Then in the case of Mathematics can be seen “An Essay Towards the Calculus of Functions” by C. Babbage, Esq., read June 15, 1815, and not far from it is another vol ume bearing this on its title page: “Quadratis Magicis Commentatio. Auctore Carolo Brandano Moll- weide. Lipsiae Sumtibus Caroli Cnobloch MDCCCXVI.” There is also “Philosophiae Naturalis Prin- cipia Mathematica; auctore Isaaco Newtono Eq. Aurato; . ...Coloniae Allobrogum, Sumptibus Cl. & Ant. Philibert Bibliop. MDCCLX.” The title page of another work of four large volumes reads, “Jobannis Bernoulli Opera Omnia, in quatour tpm.os distributa. Lausannae & Genevae, Sumptibus Marci-Michaelis Bousquet and So ciorum, MDCCXLII.” THE AUSTIN LITERARY SOCIETY. The rain fell and the wind blew last Saturday night, but the Aus tin society met at the appointed time with a large attendance. A very comical program had been arranged. The impersona tion of a typical negro speaker was so well performed by Mr. Glass who brought the house into re peated uproars of laughter that it was proposed, voted, and carried that the society give a negro min strel to the corps at some future date. The following program com mittee was appointed to arrange a program for the occasion: W. V. Glass, V. M. Ehlers, G. C. Street, G. L. Harrison, T. C. Webb. The societ3’- has a number of members who have participated in similar entertainments before, and we hope to be able to make this entertainment an interesting one to all. A committee had been appointed to choose colors to represent the organization, and the}' were ready to report. The method adopted by the committee in procuring the colors was indeed a novel one, and proved to be a matter of great in terest as there were others of the fairer sex who had their excep tional tastes of colors before us for approval. The two colors that at tracted the most attention were the purple and gold, and the pur ple and white. After much dis cussion the purple and gold was accepted. Both colors were indeed wisely selected, for the purple means imperial, regal, covering comprehending the history, theory and practice of the Science accord ing to the latest discoveries and improvements. Illustrated with copper plates. Extracted from the American Edition of the Encyclo- pa'dia; now publishing, by T. Dob son, at the Stone-House, in Second THE SUL ROSS SOCIETY. A meeting of the Sul Ross was held Saturda}' night, February 11, as published. The crowd was not large, but it was made up of the right kind of men, some who have the interest of the organization at heart and mean to stand by it. It seems as if there are lots of mem bers who wish to be in the society and enjoy all the privileges it af fords, but at the same time do not wish to bring up the part assigned them. It means that you are hit ting the society a hard blow when you fail to do your part on the program. If you cannot speak it could not be called unwillingness on } T our part if you should go to the program committee and tell them so, asking them to change your piece to something which you can do. The meeting of Saturday night, Februar}' 11, was a great success. None of the meetings have been more beneficial to those present, or more interesting and varied. The evening was spent in stump speak ing by candidates for count}'offi ces. You have all been to the country school house, to the pavil ions or the court }'ard to hear the candidates speak for offices they wish, speeches which are often full of humor, often made up of the worst English and ignorance possible. Well, the meeting was intended to carry out this kind of a gathering. But it failed inasmuch as the speeches were too good to be true to nature; they were not quite natural enough. But they were not anything of which we could complain. Mr. Rollins made the first speech of the night for judge of Brazos county. He did not get warmed up very much this time for his op ponent had not stepped on hi? toes enough to get him stirred up. Second came Mr. Church, posing as a candidate for re-election. He pounced on his opponent with a dash of such oratorical strength and soundness that it seemed an ill-matched race at the beginning. As the interest arose in the crowd it rose in him and vice versa. For ten or fifteen minutes he held the crowd with his unparalleled speech. The irony which he hurled at his opponent was something good and was worthy of a speaker with more renown than the one who gave it. The tide was partly stemmed when Mr. Rollins got up the second time and answered him, while he was yet smarting from the effects of the at him. In the Ohem IStl} 7 division Can t ... .-i 'vpI cim ai-t i n c* t mm the eti"V ...... ssrSbS ssrssrzz and refers to the Golden Age,when AU in a11 Mr - Rollin8 made a S !0od literature was at its best, while the white represents something noble; high aspirations. Who can decide questions better than girls? Sometimes the} 7 are slow to answer, sometimes they answer with sighs, again they mean no harm, but 1 Street, Philadelphia. M,DCC,NCI.” There is another volume that would likely be of interest to some of the old Texans. Its title page reads, “An Abstract of the Original Titles of Record in the General Land Office. Printed in accord ance with a resolution of the House of Representatives, passed 24th their answer decides many questions with a simple yes. See Webb’s book for information. The following program is to be rendered next Saturday night at 8 o’clock. All members and those wishing to become members are invited to attend: Roll call—answer with quota- * speech. He showed himself able ; to do something when worked up to the proper point. * ’Mr. Yakey deserves great credit for the talk he made for sheriff. It was the most typical speech of the evening and kept the house in an uproar all the time. He came to the point and stayed there until he stopped speaking. It is a sure thing that he could get the votes if he were really running for ’this office and made such campaign speeches as he made in fun at the society. All the other speeches were good. The speakers for the rest of the evening were Schultz W. W. Price and Trefry. 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