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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (April 15, 1920)
THE BATTALION 3 WRESTLERS WORKING HARD. The wrestling candidates are round ing into great form and the first in tercollegiate match in the history of Texas A. and M. Athletics will be a meet at Austin on April 24th. The following men have been working faithfully under Coach Jones for the last six weeks and the improvement has been wonderful: King, Sanders, Gardner, Hilton, Maxwell, Garrison, Boone, Fletcher, Ashworth, Purdue, Roland, Miller, Smith, McLeary, Ram sey, and Kubena. The final tryout for these men will be on April 17th immediately after which time the team will be picked to go to Austin for a meet with the Longhorns the following Saturday. The tryout on the 17th in conjunction with the box ing will be held at Bryan so that Bry an people as well as the cadets will get an opportunity to see the calibre of the men who are to uphold A. and M.’s colors on the mat. All weight classes are represented in the 15 men and it is simply a question of training and practice from now until the first meet. If conditions warrant the same, Texas University will come to A. and M. for a return engagement on May 3rd. A YEAR AGO. There was a time in my young life When I could stand the constant strife Of chasing cooties up my spine, As in the mud I lay supine And fought them off with tooth and toe; Oh, how I itched a year ago! There was a time when I could stand -Te—eat my_sirloins neatly canned, And drink my java from' a tin That once had antiseptics in; How many flies, I’ll never know, Fell in my slum—a year ago! There was a time when I’d arise Before the dawn had touched the skies And, ah, with what unseemly haste I fought to get my trousers laced. You folks at home will never know, For that was all a year ago! There was a time when I’d salute And make it snappy for a “loot.” I’d cringe before a hard-boiled “top,” Or peel potatoes for a wop Who loved grease like an Eskimo When on K. P. a year ago. LITTLE GOLD CHEVRONS Little gold chevrons on my cuffs, What do you mean to me? “We to the left mean hike and drill, Trenches and mud and heat and chill— And I to the right for the blood ye spill Where the Marne runs to the sea.” Little gold chevrons on my cuffs. What is the tale you tell? “We to the left of the long months spent Where the somber seasons slowly blent— And I to the right, of the ragged rent That took so long to get well.” Little gold chevrons on my cuffs, What do you say to me? “That ye not trade us, master mine, For ribbons or cross or rank, in fine That you are ours and we are thine Through all the years to be.” —Erwin Clarkson Garrett. More than 400 students of the freshmen and sophomore classes of Clemson College (South Carolina) “struck” and departed on special trains, according to a press dispatch, as a protest against certain restric tions imposed on a cadet who rebelled against “kitchen police.” The girls at Milwaukee Normal School are taking an active interest in the science of “Leap Year propos als.” They have leaped to the Leap Year opportunity en masse, and their study of “how to pop” may change the course of many lives. Boys—be ware! The University of Kansas, which has had in the past one of the most successful examples of student gov ernment, have recently voted to have two governing bodies hereafter in stead of one, the two to co-ordinate as the two houses of a legislature. The students at Dartmouth recent ly refused to adopt the Honor Sys tem by a vote of 578 to 436. Students at Columbia University have recent ly been debating this same question. “One-third of the college students go to the devil; one-third are just average; and one-third rule the world.” mXIF/SATURPAY The Best Picture Program Ever Screened EUGENE O’BRIEN In a Classy, Original, Peppy, Made-to-Order Play 66 Sealed Hearts” Also one of the Seasons Funniest Two-Reel Comedies A1 St. John in “SHIP AHOY!” Q U E E N SATURDAY Bigger, Better Than “The Miracle Man” It’s “EYESifYOUTH” Greater, More Beautiful Than “Male and Female” “EYES OF YOUTH” The Picture of Pictures—“Eyes of Youth” With CLARA KIMBALL YOUNG Special Music. Adults 50c, War Tax 5c, Children 25c College Tailor By Boyett’s Store First-Class Tailoring and Repairing WILL MAKE YOU ANYTHING Phone No. 93 What I did then I won’t do now, I’m darned particular as to chow; I get up when I dang well please And get into my cits with ease; I wouldn’t salute my own C. O., For I was discharged a month ago! —J. Eugene Chrisman in the Amer ican Legion Weekly. WHITE SOX YANNIGANS SUP PORT SULLIVAN POORLY WHILE FAILING TO HIT. There are games that make you hap- py, There are games that make you sad There are games that cheer the bleachers And a few that make ’em glad; There are games of brilliant playing That occasionally you see, But the best, no matter how you won it, Is the game that’s a victory. The seven theological seminaries of Chicago report 662 students this year. This is an average of 100 per cent over last year. There are 4,000 students of law in the schools of Brazil. The National University of Athens, the largest higher institution of learn ing in Greece, has an enrollment of 2,800. “If a young man kisses a girl she does not want him to tell it—but she is disappointed if he doesn’t repeat it.” * * •f* BOYS! WHEN YOU COME TO TOWN EAT AT THE 1 WHITE FRONT1 CAFE ❖ ❖ I HOLMES BROS. | THE HOME OF THE BEST MALTED MILK | ON EARTH Candies, Cigars, Fountain Drinks. 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