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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (May 1, 1919)
’w- - - —- THE BATTA A' HOPK IN S I |J 'Jri (Continue4 from Pa^e 1.) States ' bmpectir ^ Officer, Colonel Honeycutt, renlarked that Battery A wu* one of <h«* best batteries he ever saw in action. In 1916 Hop join*! the ranke of the *19 Fish over in I> Compan]. He made the football .tnd basketball teams o fthat company and was al ways a yreat asset to those teams. ■ ' At the end of ids junior year Ed ward entered training camp at Fort Sheridan, wherej|le was commission ed in the Artijlfcfy «hich necessita ted his transfer to Camp Zachary' _ «/• a. i -a : , 11 „„„ Taylor, Kentuc Sam kept him war. Ho officer to hia more not a man In would net fight ing has drawn his wonderful be with sad friends will bid i • : a i Li I post Uneie r of the “AS YOU ARE* BY “ORE OF US. “Thir« president man whc re are*' said one great college t, “four classes of mefi—the o know and knows that he knows; the man who knows and does not know that ha* knows; the man that ddes not know and knosm that he doe# not know; and (fool of the lot) the man who does not know and does not know that he does not know.” Colk|re students may he classified likewise. There is the guy who knows and “blows”; small in number, large in preshnce; ever ih evidence. He .. ... L announces himself everywhere. Re cognition is instaat. Hid target is nothing in particular and hia occupa tion is “gold-bncking.*’ So he blows all he knows. i,: J j. Happily we have the silent type He arrived entirely unannoanced. endeared himself p or , q U |te a while we were uncon- Hop”. There is af his presence. He rose in battery n<s wthat our opifiion just as often as he ro»e him. Al^Moth- wn ca j| m class. As his course be- men to him but came more difficult, and the ex plan mality. It will j a tioas more complex, he stood ready that-“Hope” many on ca || clarify the situation. Such farewell in June. a man become a leader of men. His I opinion^ is sought, and his ^dvice CAPT. WINTHROP'W. LEACH. h ”jjT ll A . .. . , Q F; “To the rear, March! By the right (Cont,nu.d from P««« 1) j <rur th | r<l ‘JP 0 j greets Us. He stalls around. Hts relieved, after having taken a very shou|dem are stooped. . (Did you aetivd part in the defense of, and ever thigh just how much the position isive in this sec- j of the shoulders and the nap of the j eye decided your judgment of a thh. States, pro- | man's mental ability?) .You necog- of Captain and nise him at once. His type is pr?- F. A. at Weat dominant, whether ‘?in** or ‘/ooty. Be September 22, j follows meekly, quite content that he is alive,, whieh condition of mind is definition later the Allied < tor. Ordered - back moted to the assigned to the Pointy 1 KontmHqL | •1918. This regiment was mustered out of the service in February 1919. j contmijf to' the accepted of the true A. and M. spirit. I tie brings ut> the rear of the-“Push, Pull Jr Assigned to the 83rd F. A., Camp Knox, Kentcky, in February 1919, ax»4 finally ordered to A. and M. Col- and Pep*’ Brigade lege, March 11, If 19, as assistant in- j Then there is the fourth class, structor of Field Artillery with the j he got here we R. O. T. C. unit at that College. i i ■ i •Oh, the happy, scrappy Always snappy, Battery A is here 5AVKHAPPY BbY-VS.S. Its pieces front or counter-march An dkeep the trgees clear And every dirty driver And bloody cannotiger . Is here to say That thece’s hell to pay When Battery A is here. The mriiT, tarin’, cussin*, swear in' Bateery A is here. The illin’. drillin’. Made |for killin’ Batted A is here^ For wg strike like flashing lightening Then its limber front and rear And clean the way Or there’s hell to pay. When Battery A is here. • I " • * 0 0 pi.* • • • • HOME FOLKS ATTENTION * “---the craving* for sweets that always comes with exercise.” {Fgnna . statament by Maj. Cmne, F. A., y. 8. A. do not know ^ who sent him we would like to know; | where he is headed wp all knew when we first saw him. • Hip'salute re sembles the letter “X’J; his courage a question mark, his ifientall processes that 'bf .a certain Species of prolific parasite/which ^>gs recently been dis covered in wholesale quantities near the vicinity of “Fort” Foster. If you want yoi to be tailor-i tailor; • WJ! 1 il ' ! 1 Spring Suits ade by real THE SHAfttKED SIGNAL CORf- PLATOON. CAMPUS BARBER SHOP The Best Equipped Shop in the South. The best Barbers the trade affords. ▲11 Barber Supplies for eal^. v i j» x t xj m J. F. LAVINDER We monkey with the buzzer i alidade sight. We try them, both a thousand times and ngVer get them right. We get low marks ii* Semaphore Its a ciaga we hate like h -l;; An out Upon the drill field We’re smelly S. 0. L. Chorus Glory, glory, to the Signal Corjw platoon, In memFy of our honored de We sign this mournful tune. Our rollg are on a postage stamfl); We haven’t got asquad. ’ ‘ > For nature made us by the inch. But they grade us by the* yard.