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THE BATTALION
Long Horns Now
All Distributed.
Corps Declares 1912 Long Horn Supe
rior to All Previous Annuals.
Book Contains Many New
and Novel Ideas.
The Long Horns are all now dis
tributed and everyone from the frogs
up to the Seniors declare themselves
delighted with the work of the Long
Horn staff. The most striking feature
of the volume is the absolute original
ity prevailing throughout. In no in
stance have the channels followed by
preceding issues been adhei’ed to. On
the contrary, ideas which are entirely
new have been used in the pictorial
as well as in the literary divisions.
The major portion of the volume is
devoted to pictures of the campus, the
faculty, military life, the classes and
clubs. In fact, the volume is nearly
all pictures, the only literature being
the Senior write-ups, a few stories,
the section “Folly,” and the Long
It was hot weather that summer,
and I was forced to idle much of my
time and waiting for work, and ad
vertising as best I could in a country
town. Discouragement at length over
whelmed me; and casting about for a
place to go and something to do, 1
wrote Waddell & Harrington of Kan
sas City, Mo., for a job. They gave
me work, and I landed in K. C. the
13th day of August.
There I “buckled to” on a small
stipend for over a year, resting one
month in the summer of 1910, almost
a nervous wreck, due to my ignorance
of the proper care of my body under
this new mode of living. (I was born
and reared in the country, under plen
ty of sunshine and fresh air. This
city life and office drafting was some
thing new.)
The Almighty God seems to rule
men by fair women and hard circum
stances. I w'as working hard in Kan
sas City in the summer of 1910 look
ing forward to marrying one of old
Missouri’s fair daughters that coming
Chfistmas. But a fair maiden of
sunny Southern California came upon
Horn number of The Battalion. There ^ ie scene an d stole away my heart,
are fewer cartoons in this issue of l ern i n 8' 1110 a restless ro^r. So when
the Long Horn than in any other of canie I went West, to Los An-
the previous issues. geles, Cal. There I found two months
The members of the 1912 class are 'voik and more of forced idleness,
proud of the flag pole which they, ' h eai 't 8 affair leaked out, and T
when Sophomores, presented to the '' as rea dy t° <5° anything. Being al-
college, and they may well indeed re- read > r an ordained minister, I went
gard this gift one of the greatest, if k ac k to Kansas City and on to La-
not the greatest, of their achieve- mon b la., where I attended a general
ments as a class at this college. This cor| t erence from which I was appoint-
pride is reflected in the splendid col- e< t as a missionary to do evangelical
ored reproduction of the polfe at the wor ^ ’ n California. Then I came track-
first of the book, a work to which 1 in - ba0 lL this time to Northern Cali-
there is no parallel in previous an- f° rn i a v i a T- 108 Angeles, and made
nuals, and in the frequent occurrence
of the flag pole in the decoration
throughout the book.
Previous issues of the Long Horn
have had leaves to fall out, or the
binding to come in two. A few of the
1912 annuals have had some of the
leaves to come out, but the manage
ment has generously offered to re
place any volume having loose leaves,
provided it was the fault of the bind
ers.
Taken as a whole, there is little to
criticise in the Long Horn and much
to praise. The staff well deserves the
unbounded praise which the corps is
unrestrainedly bestowing upon them.
Sacramento, Cal., May 19, 1912.
To the Editors of The Battalion and
College Friends, College Station,
Texas.
Dear Friends—The time is near for
a new bunch of men to go out from
my alma mater, as I once left her, to
seek the unknown and ever mysteri
ous vales of the future. Part of what
was their future is past, and it may
interest some of you to know what
has come into the life of the “sober
lad” since he last saw A. & M. in
June of 1909.
Having received the degree of civil
engineer, I was determined to wrest a
living from the engineering feats of
my home country in East Texas, but
I was too soon discouraged.
Stockton headquarters for a time, see
ing San Francisco, Oakland and Sac
ramento.
And that last place, Sacramento;
how it trapped me! There I met a
flaxen-haired girl who seemed to be
the one that I had been looking for
so long a time.
But, to my sorrow, she was engaged
to be married. However, circumstances
alter cases, and if the other fellow
may be sorrowing fthough I hope he
isn’t), I am the happinest man in Cal
ifornia today, having been wedded the
2nd of September, 1911, at San Jose,
Cal., while she and I were at a chvirch
reunion at Irvington, Cal.
I ceased to be a missionary soon
after marriage, and began to look for
work as I had never looked before. I
held down two short jobs until finally
I am draftsman now for the California
State Highway Commission at a fail-
salary and under very agreeable con
ditions.
This is the future that w r as, but is
not, yet ever more shall be; for noth
ing can efface what has been.
Your friend,
Benjamin Bean.
Prof. Wright—Mr. Poetter, why is
alcohol not used in refrigeration?
Poetter—The workmen would drink
it all up.
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