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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (April 8, 1920)
14 THE BATTALION THE BAYLOR-BELTON CHORAL CLUB lllllill! Illllllllllllllll! AT GUION HALL WEDNESDAY NIGHT APRIL 14 There are 35 members of the Club and claim have best in years. They are all good looking, attractive, and above all, noted for musical talent. Watch out for advertisement. ADMISSION - 35c FOR STUDENTS, 50c FOR OTHERS DON’T MISS THIS! F. A. D. R. REVISED FOR IN FANTRY OFFICERS. This piece of information is not written to criticize the infantry offi cers but as a source of information. The fundamental idea in riding a horse is to ride the horse and not let the horse ride you. To master a horse it is necessary to use the cor rect position while riding. The fol lowing positions should be in constant use when mounted: Sit well back in saddle (clasping the cantle with , buttocks. Clasp it suddenly while it isn’t looking. (The cantle is the rear dashboard of the saddle). Curve the back gracefully, allowing bread basket to hang on the pommel. Arms and hands most any old way. Left knee pointed toward the north star, with right directed toward Heli goland. In case North star isn’t shinning, drop the head and point nose toward the cdnter of gravity. Change positions (?) from one side to another in order to give the horse a little variety. This is unnecessary if you are nervous or subject to St. Vitas dance: : , Allow reins to hang loosely, permit ting horse to let head hang down. In this way horse will be in a convenient position to commence eating as soon as the grass grows tall enough. If the equine becomes docile and decides to dismount you, do not be stubborn and go against his.,,wishes, let the reins fall loosely to the side, disengage your boots and spurs and prepare to dismount. It is more spec tacular to volplane to the ground but if this cannot be accomplished with ease, get there in the most comfor table way. On striking the ground you should be in the position of a sol dier at attention or being thrown from a horse. This position is as follows and should be practiced at your off periods: Neck well bent and folded up in side your hat. Head on the ground and at an angle of 45 degrees—teeth loose and hanging naturally at the sides. Feet alert and sweeping the horizon. Knees shaking in cadence of 180 to minute. Reins somewhere in near vicinity. Back up and arched like an angry cat. Shoulder blades flat on the ground but not locked. Chest drawn in and breath knocked out. This position may be modified to suit varying conditions and unusual conformations. IN THESE DAYS OF EDUCATION In these days of education. It is pleasing to the nation To discern how man is ever storing knowledge. And, tho man goes off to school, One must surely be a fool If he thinks that man’s the only thing at College. There are insects here today That are smarter every way Than some men will ever be with all their striving. Well, it won’t be out of place If I sight a single case Just to illustrate the point at which I’m driving. f - ■ It was ’long about last Spring (Just a trival little thing.) Two long, gaunt, an! hungry Bolshe vik mosquitoes Just adopted me is seems. (Even now they haunt my dreams, Those two “never-let-you-from-my- sight mosquitoes.) I was going home one day, Had to stop off on the way ; So I went to get a room at a hotel On the book I found, the line, And was just about to sign When I heard a buzzing sound I knew so well. As I started in speechless rage. There alighted on that page A gigantic, gaunt, familiar looking insect He kept walking up and down it. Looking carefully around it, And each line I watched that Bolshe- vike inspect,' SoOn more buzzing reached my ear, And another lighted near, ‘ And I recognized those educated creatures They were looking'up the number Of the room where I should slumber, And I realized there was much those bugs could teach us. Yes, it’s pleasing to the nation In these days of education To see how man is ever storing knowl edge; And, the man goes off to school, I repeat, that he’s a fool Who thinks himself the only thing at College. THEY CAN’T EAT ’EM The goose that laid the golden eggs Must take a backward seat, For Sbisa’s artificial eggs Have got the “gold bricks” beat.
