THE BITTILIOM
Published every Wednesday night by
Students of the Agricultural and
Mechanical College of Texas
Subscription price $1.25 per year.
Advertising rates on application.
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Association.
A. E. BURGES, ’15 Editor-in-Chief
J. F. HADEN Business Manager
P. A. HOMANN, '15. .Associate Editor
W. Li. RUTAN, >15 Asso. Bus. Mgr.
E. McR. CLAYTOR, T5...Ex. Editor
MISS LOUISE PROCTOR..So. Editor
M. T. GARRETT, '16 Agr. Editor
UEL STEPHENS, T6 Eng. Editor
S. P. McFADDEN, T6...Sport. Editor
G. C. MOPPET, T6. .Y. M. C. A. Editor
D. H. KIBER, '17 'Frisco Editor
Ca rtoonists
P. T. CROWN, '15, J. M. BURKETT, '16
Assistant Business Managers
S. B. HAYNES, '16, J. B. ROBERT, '16,
Circulation Manager.
H. A. SAWYER, T6.
Reporters
J. R. BARNES, J. B. JOYCE, T. W.
TEMPLE, P. W. HALSEY.
All material for publication should
be signed and turned in not later than
Monday night.
~ Entered as second-class matter at
College Station, Texas, February 17,
1905.
College Station, Tex., Feb. 24, 1915.
AT THE SOUNDING OF THE LAST
“RETREAT.”
The sounding of the last “retreat”!
What will it mean to you? To you,
the Freshman, it will mean the clos
ing of your “fish” days; to you, the
Sophomore, it will mean that you have
advanced another year; to you, the
Junior, it will mean that the honors
and responsibilities of the student
body have fallen upon your shoulders;
hut to you, the Senior—ah, it will
mean far more than any of this to
you!
When the battalions are drawn up
in formal array on that quiet after
noon which is to close your college
career, when the corps sways back
ward a step in unison at the command,
“Parade rest,” and the bugle corps to
your right sounds “To the colors,”
there will come to you the thought
that this brief rest is symbolical of
the one which separates the labors of
your college life from the more stren
uous and serious labors of the life
which you are about to enter.
When the battalions are called to
attention and the melodious notes of
the “Star-Spangled Banner” rise from
the silver throats of a score of instru
ments and reverberate among the
avails of the college buildings and echo
back again, when the folds of “Old
■Glory” flutter in the breeze and the
flag begins its slow and stately de
scent from its dizzy station, there will
come to you the same patriotic thrill
which you felt as a Freshman so long
ago when you first heard the “Star-
Spangled Banner” played at “retreat.”
But on this occasion this thrill will
be mixed with a kind of sadness such
as you have seldom felt before.
While the flag sinks lower, and ever
lower, down its great white staff, there
will race thru your mind the experi
ences of the past four years. You will
recall the day when, as a timid Fresh
man, you first came up the long
driveway before you, you will remem
ber the many kinds of strange expe
riences that first year, you will live
over again the troublous times of
your second year, and you will call to
mind your ambitious strivings of the
third and the honors, responsibilities
and daily grind of the fourth.
The massive gray buildings around
you will lose their uninviting aspect,
and you will come to regard them with
a trace of affection and regret that the
day has come when you must leave
them and the friends of your college
days. Far in front of you to the west
the sun, a great red orb of fire, will
be slowly setting amid all the rose-
tinted glories of a summer sunset. The
end of your college days will have
come. Then, when the first corner
of the descending flag touches the
ground and the last silvery note of
the music lingerinly dies away in the
distance, you will know that real life
has begun.
The visitors to the Convention were
repeatedly heard to express surprise
at the number and magnificence of
the college buildings and the com
pleteness of the equipment. But the
things which pleased the men of A.
and M. more than this were the freq
uent expressions of pleasure at the
cordiality and hospitality of the people
of the college. Students from the
State University were the ones who
most frequently made comments of
this nature.
In justice to Dr. Fountain, we feel
it our duty to state that the article
in last week’s issue, giving the his
tory of the Y. M. C. A. building, and
in which several complimentary things
were said about Dr. Fountain, was not
written by him, as stated—in fact, he
never saw the article until it appeared
in print—but that it was written by
Ike Ashburn. His name was put at
the close thru a mistake of the
printer.
Again we remind our readers that
the colums of the Battalion are open
to the expression of their opinions on
matters of local interest. Articles of
from 100 to 500 words will be welcom-
The Y. M. C. A. edition of the Bat
talion last week provoked much favor
able comment. To G. C. Moffett is
due the credit of getting it out.
RESOLUTION OF THANKS.
A Resolution of Thanks to the Agri
cultural and Mechanical College of
Texas:
Be it resolved by the delegation of
students from the Rice Institute, that
we extend to the several members and
organizations of the Agricultural and
Mechanical College our sincere thanks
and appreciation for the courteous,
friendly and hospitable reception
which we haave received from you;
and
Be it further resolved thc*£, if at any
time a student or students of the A.
and M. College be visiting in Hous
ton, we shall consider ourselves slight
ed if you do not make the Rice In
stitute your headquarters, or at least
pay us a visit while there; and
Be it further resolved that, again we
thank your splendid organizations,
your splendid student body, your splen
did faculty and your more than splen
did president, Dr. Bizzell, for the kind
treatment we have received during our
stay as your guests. Signed:
THE RICE INSTITUTE Y. M. C. A.
DELEGATION.
February 21, 1915.
College Station, Tex., Feb. 21, 1915.
We, the delegates from the Young
Men’s Christian Association of Bay
lor University, wish to express our
most sincere appreciation for the gen
uine hospitality extended to us by our
hosts of the Agricultural and Mechani
cal College of Texas. We feel greatly
indebted to them for the friendly re
ception we have received, and we wish
to state that the “latch-string” to the
door of Baylor hangs on the outside
to any A. and M. man.
BAYLOR DELEGATES.
A CORRECTION.
In last week’s issue of the Battalion
there appeared an article headed “His
tory of Our Y. M. C. A. Building.” The
article was signed “Dr. Fountain.” But
the article in question was not writ
ten by Dr. Fountain, butTby our college
publicity agent, and the former had
nothing to do with it. In justice to
him we make this correction.
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