Junior Nnmhrr
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Published Weekly by the Students’ Association of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas.
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VOLUME XV
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COLLEGE, STATION, TEXAS, APRIL 22, 1908
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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.
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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speeches can not be published,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
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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
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