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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (April 22, 1908)
Junior Nnmhrr ,o* BATTALION. _ Published Weekly by the Students’ Association of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas. V VOLUME XV t , \ COLLEGE, STATION, TEXAS, APRIL 22, 1908 A ;—td —_ NUMBER 2(5 lof Wj | ) ' i, i . . 4 Junior Banquet Annual Bdnquet of the Junior Class Held on the Night before San Jacinto Day. Closer Ties of Union Cemented. Ten Elegant Courses Served. Rousing Toasts Given and Speeches Made. .A 4 f There is one event in the Junior year which makes it a memorable one in the lives of all the members of that class. This is the Junior banquet and those who were present on the night of the 20th can testifv to its being the most enjoyable event of then’ whole, college career. At 10 o’clock the doors to the hotel D’Sbisa were thrown open and the crowd of impatient Juniors filed in and were assigned seats at the four different tables. At each plate was a handsome menu card, which contained the following courses: Chicken a la Marengo Thick Green Turtle a L’Anglaise Sweet Pickles Celery Olives Salted Almonds > ^^Stuffed •Cva&fi a la Creole M™ew‘TE r otTiW ^ Persillade J Croutades of Sweetbread a la Reine Asparagus Tips a la Cream Souflle of Bananas a la Maraschino Roman Punch a la A. and M. Stuffed Turkey, Oyster Dressing Currant Jelly Waldorf Salad Royal Ice Cream Strawberries a la cream Assorted cakes Fruit Nuts Coffee Cigars Cafe Noir It would be useless to say that ev eryone did full justice to the repast: Few words were exchanged for all were busy with the subject in hafid. During the feast the menu cards were passed around and signed by the mem bers of the class and later on several cards belonging to absent members of'the class were signed. After the cigars were passed around the following toasts were given: The Class—R. E. Huckabee. Our Sweethearts—T. A. Van Am- berg. Comradeship of A. and M. Cadet- Si. H. We,inert, , v , Cias§ Future—j) S. Williaips. Sir. W. R. Gilbert, the popular toasi master, introduced? each speaker with a few appropriate remarks, which were received with much applause. Each speech, well gotten up and de livered, was the source of much en thusiasm and there were many pauses on account of the rousing applause. but!’ Owing to lack of space ail speeches can not be published, this, should not be taken as a sign thaj those left out were in any way in ferior to the ones published. The'Class. Gentlemen: The subject chosen .for my brief address this evenirjil j.s— “The Class.” subject and this body is hard • to^jtm^dle, propf of my statement may be : v obtaimed from , , and they gjef prepared to swear to it. Since first we entered the iron gates of A. and M. we have been, are and al ways bill be, the class ’09. It is re ported that twenty thousand of the VHLs of Texas are knocking at our Three- yec.rs eg-o-th ** w ei'e-n s-t so numerous so we have today the r ' most notorious, most gentlemanly and the most determined class that ever graced the halls of A. and M. Some of us have fallen by the way- side, some have joined the class 19*10, but we hope that none shall eVer graduate in 1911, although at present we bid fair to graduate the majority in 1910 or 1911, let us hope not however. As a class we are th4 class of A. and M., the junior class, the class’09. Gentlemen, when old A- ,and M. has become world famous, ^when our mighty republic is an empire !the class ’09 will be reverenced and hon ored and well-thought of for the men of grit and iron determination that composed its ranks in the school year 1907 and ’08. . • 'sV. y But besides this, we. have a right ^to be proud of ourselves, for since the ^ nativity of the class ’09, not one man from our ranks has “peached.” What class has a record for not sending one man to the Bull with a tale of woe of how the old boys treated him, to straps and bad language. None that 1 kudw of,'TT tiierV "Ts" su^ll a class, let one of the members stand forth and proclaim it with a loud voice for we wish to hear it. But for more than this or anything else when the times were dark and lowering and when indignation, re- sentrhent and strike stalked abroad, we like |nen of old, stood up as men and as gentlemen. When the mightiest \ t ■< v' .n T M \ . . 7.: .. ■ / ^ s** ******** *•*•***- , ;... > ' . * .7 _ * , .. ... . i; WMiSa ^ 4 K.m w^ u&t ■MW*#***/!*-™*** .'■& ■ftSSr ... "• * , ' “~ - . . .... ■^tlE.INltl HI , I — . . . —S« ' .• *— ■ ■’ '*■<* ‘ ~ -fe »»+' ^-.i * — '•* . --w* ' .. *■' • - •• "-av.'w'-.-. ‘ Y* 4 ... ■ ■ ' ■ -. V 7 —.V. >, 'V-, yy ; .. ' ~ m s, : . V ■m || *■ R . A: ft v: , 7t.Sgi| . ^ - f * ' i ,• : • i ^ J* * .dl.l .5: -i -- v , A r r ; ■■ V -y. & W2 ’’-'i . ■/ •- i '»■ as-, w ^jfiiiinrii '.i w ^ ' -h 1 : f' ■ !v». • ■ V'4* j f %.4' ' ■4^44^ ff-7 . ■ iv J*C» !**. 1* " ' ^ ■ ' ■ - ' F •• £ mi ■