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THE BATTALION
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Entered as second-class matter at College Station, Texas, February 17, 1905.
P. C. FRANKE, JR.
R. E. BRIDGES . . .
J. R. STRANGE . . .
A. P. LANCASTER .
M. P. MIMS
M. B. GARDNER . .
L. C. JINKS
J. M. REYNOLDS .
W. T. STRANGE . . .
H. L. TUCKER
L. STALLINGS
H. L. ATKINS
C. W. HURLEY
T. R. STRANGE . . .
J. C. MAYFIELD . .
A FRIEND.
We say that so-and-so has a host of friends. Are we being as care
ful as we should of the English language when we make such a rash state
ment?
No one has a host of friends. According to the common every-day
use of the word, many people have. But what does “friend” mean? Web
ster says that it is an intimate acquaintance, and he also says that it is a per
son attached to another by the ties of affection and esteem.
There is a broad shade of difference between these two definitions.
Many people have a host of intimate acquaintances, and fewer who are at
tached to them by affection, in so far as it does not inconvenience them.
A really true friend me.jtns more than this.. It means one who will
stick by you at all times, sharvmg equally your happiness and your sorrows,
sympathizing with and helping you in your darkest hours of need. So-called
’. T-wilb-back the limit when you don’t need it, but just fall
down into the gutter of despair—into the mire of sin and shame and pov
erty—and see how many of them will admit that they ever knew you. That
is the only real test of real friendship.
It doesn’t cost anything to be kind and affable, but it does cost to ren
der moral and financial aid which, in all probability, will never be repaid ex
cept in the love and devotion of a true friend, which after all gives the
greatest satisfaction.
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Nothing expresses the significance of true friendship quite as well as
the following poem:
He may be six kinds of a liar;
He may be ten kinds of a fool;
He may be a blooming high-flier.
Without reason or rule.
There may be a shadow above him.
Of rain and woes that impend;
He may not be rich, but I love him—
I love him because he’s my friend.
I knock him, I know; but I do it
The same to his face as away.
If other folks knock him they rue it.
And wish they’d had nothing to say.
I do not make diagrams of him;
No maps of his soul have I penned.
I don’t analyze, I just love him
Becaus—well, because he’s my friend.
A.M.C.-
REYERSE.
Do you remember if ye olde days when the sweet little things were
wont to take a few hints from mother on the usefulness of the cook stove?
At the ripe young age of eighteen they could turn out tantalizing dishes
that would cause one’s eye teeth to shed tears of joy.. And, in addition, they
could swing a wicked needle and thread.. Every night mother would warn
her little flower against the wiles of the slick young dude.. If only given
part of an opportunity he would prove to be no gentlemen, and was not to
be trusted at all.
Since then we have progresed. We have given women the vote
and she has taken with it bobbed hair, short skirts, the lip stick, powder,
rouge and other necessities. No longer do we see the sweet young thing
who looked as if she had been kissed by the dew from heaven. Instead we
have the sophisticated girl with the lure of a siren.
Is it a wonder that every night the mother warns her son against
the wiles and seductions of the modern flapper?
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A green little freshmen in a green
little way
Mixed up some chemicals for fun
one day.
The green little grasses now tender
ly wave
O’er the green little freshman’s
green little grave.
a.m.c.
Lots of girls can take jokes. Just
look at the men they married.
A chilly reception doesn’t cool one
off on a hot day.
The Stamp of Knowledge.
“Pa, what’s a post graduate?”
“A fellow who graduates from one
of those correspondence schools, I
suppose.” —Ex.
a.m.c.
Yes, Alfred, the ambitious girl is
ambitious to make a name for her
self, but she usually ends by accept
ing some man’s.
a.m.c.
Even So.
Motor and the girls motor with
you, walk and you walk alone. Ex.