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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (May 1, 1919)
L 1 i!- WWTT T 1 ?■ * I f I i r • , .Sv 1919 ROSS VOLDRTEER DANCE i rAMMrrr crrrrcc K:nk’ of the Carnival. •'■Ko qi Neva- Brad^ A fAMNrTF CnrrPCS K,n * r of th * Carnival. «o qaeen ol ^vru IJilL aUl/lLOO history haa ever i^ceived the hoftja^ | |[| I'j jof more loyal aabjecta than did Mist iwj mi - a - i 00 • v «9»n« , w|* n * thf>u *- * n w ^v° at ^® r j a|»d students of A. and JI. ^r. pt. d g the Occasion her as their sovereign. Far aito the Girmatt Swroaa jwee small hours of the morninj? did the revalr>- ai#d merriment continaa. LION IL V/S EXCELLENT HOSTS TT iH " j : ■ i The day of miracles is still in the present! Water is hot changed into wine. The blind are not made to • See. The lame do not take up their beds and walk. But as a gray win ter garden miMtif oven-night buret into the m ilti colored florescence of Bpring, sprinkled with sparkling dev/ and bathed in the iridescent rays sf a morning sop, the campus of this old institution became vo transform ed on Aprif 14, 1919. On this event ful date the college community re- . * M V li 3 With am excellent Jaas band MOd-ll y A TALI. ing oat melody from the mess hall ■! > t . ■' T“*““ bark in doors and with the faint giggle of | In the wonderful days of yora. •KJ M\ Egl some female, several cadets, who did not attend the dance, task time to write letters—ContenW strictly sec- rat 1 ' * 'ir Horaj. I w i wu at. T« '1 ! M w fill r. he College bqilt a stately hall When none hurt stood before. it ended for a* dormitory, St sheltered hat-cords blue, out its portals Seniors strcdai To show the world a thing or two. it as the days and yearn went on, And all its wain wars mended, ie old hall bowed its head in shame When would this curse be ended? is sparrows heard its tale of woe. And <j|fered sympathy, red a shame fer the gear * To ho ^poearoed witfe.Infajttrf. ,'1 M ,' ’ T J year the Infhntgp Aoved out, Her sotdd leaped to the eloudh,. Srhea she sSWUm ttgaal Corp-, W) i M IV t J v 4v.> > 'ft came the Navy, sailors bold. Their uniforms srers few, [f all Foster left tbh vale Of" tears, I And the “Good Ship“ sailed the I iey scrubbt-<1 her decks} they scrub bed her walk, <But listen between you and meV t j*. t-grace bund o'er the poor old fhip. Her sailors never saw the aaa.iT an I- binge undred of the' most itifol young ladie* land of lovoly Was the triune i period—the Queen’s olunteei < uph and Blue glory were rivalled Company in their visible expression joy to which they lunteeiV Hop, and ceivsd aa its of some three chaitning and in all this far-f woman. The Springtime f< Ball, the Rose the Carnival The campus Bells in all only by the attempt to makfc s sf the heights of were ascended. Never before in the history of the echool ware visitors quite so gladly received. Throur-i many weeks , tl)e foremost thought? by day and dreumt by night of every cadet in the corps had been given un- dividely to this mom or to us occoaion. Their joy at realization was un- W. THOheVlK OOW HoUMDi pr$L A ibltshed ono memo: rabl? The Spirit of the Cemival ehft giHl Joy was supremo. the entr'acte was ths U. sad T*- A and M. Track Meet and the Rom Volunteers ware hosts Friday night to the largest assemhl**? that has evsr attended a college hop. The most pleasing grand march ever wit nessed in the Hall was led by Mias Hortense Randall, of Houston, and Captain George Humphrevilla of the R. V. ’a. The unavoidably, adsence at insiqf R. V. “whites*’ and sabers did not detract in the slightest from the beauty of the march. No hop has evod been more successful in the history of ths Volunteers. The Long horn efectiato was held during the in tertmasion. T On Saturday bight the farasrelb were spoken at tke Carnival Danes. After Wedi can look the whole world I and know it has nothing to face, order pul dey. A little bird whispered the news. heart of the ship leaped again 114 ths sky. For she never again was to crpise. | i I l-, I it day was Fort Foster born to the She was ta house the Artillery. i : 4 V/iy, r, «i FvfUn ; •: k» * »i 0 ftT-AGb ■ • £| ,iv LMMTiv AFTtR. THE iNTE‘abioa^ —i 7- L<, ‘ i { bounded. Words are inadeqaate to i Ths old-time carnival was not held express ths exhilaration of ipIritsJtM* y«*r but the evening festivities Let it be enough to say that they wcr * mor * ■ ucc «** ful th * n • y * t h ^ Let it DO noagn to sag urn tasy for% With the of these wets joyous glgd, gay, happy, pleased thnM d&y , in ^ the stu- and satisfied.* j [ deats can tighten up and work for About two hundred couples attend- the rsmaining time before June 21 #d the first dahee of the series, the with no diverting thoughts other than Queen’" Ball,' given by the student s desire to’ see the time for the Final body in honor of the Queen of the Ball draw hear. >»I>«»mV«Vhh7**4*V4 a. McKenzie Howard, Hath fan. Waltham end Elgin Watches. , mF' , ‘ 5AVKHAPPY BLY-VSS 1 - yt iM if.’ 14 ! PR! w K have unloaded a car of tfce latest model Buieka. Call jlnd aee these beautiful cars Jl’>r Phone 207 and-ask for o r. Cannon* Z ! who will be strate* them 50n id to demon- ironf^hly for IT \l fk-1 H > '•CL ■M 'll .. t/i!
