Contents of Series 1, Volume 2, Number 7

BLACKSBURG, May 5th, 1877.

MR. HAW, MUCH RESPECTED SIR :- We, the members of the N. S. S., suppose it is to you we are indebted for the delicate attention shown us, by the presentation of a copy of your charming paper, the GRAY JACKET.
We beg you…

Hark! Do you not hear the thud of feet?
"Tis mules, they're coming up our street.
Two students ride them now; I see
But one is saddled, I know for me.
Oh! look what fun
Has now begun.
See doughty "Rob" in riding habit;
(Good gracious me, how…

CONCORD, N. C.,
May, 7th, 1877.

EDITORS GRAY JACKET : You will pardon an unreconstructed "tar heel" in taking the self-assumed responsibility of writing a letter—so to speak, to the…

The Governor of Missouri has signed a bounty bill, offering five cents each for rat scalps. Wonder if he means college " rats," if we thought so we would forthwith send a courier to Roanoke College for a detail of Indians to scalp some of the unruly…

Roster of Officers:

Commanding Officer, Gen. JAS. H. LANE.

STAFF.
Adjutant, A. R. HEFLIN.
Sergeant Major, JORDAN.
Color Sergeant, EMBRY.
1st Color Corporal, ALBERT.
2nd " MAY, B. F.
3rd " WARD.

Company "A."
Captain, Kilby.
1st…

Blacksburg has two dozen street lamps, we have seen them lit once since the first of April. But for Mayor Henderson's motto:

"Suaviter in modo, fortiter in re," and a consequent fear of his august, law-learned council, fain would we re-echo the…

Owing to a fit of carlessness[sic] on the part of one of our editors, whose thoughts must have been taken up by some passing damsel, only the last two verses of "What I Told You" were sent off to the printers in time for our last issue. We give the…

MR. J. R. H., EDITOR GRAY JACKET. - To-day's mail brought the April issue of that most impudent sheet, the GRAY JACKET, reminding me of the old addage, "Never too late to mend," so here's the "Almighty Dollar" by which I shall endeavor to mend.…

1, Chaucer; 2, Dryden ; 3, Pope ; 4, Taylor ; 5, Holmes ; 6, Moore; 7, Hood ; 8, Burns ; 9, Abbott ; 10, Southey; 11, Shelly ; 12, Coleridge; 13, Young; 14, Campbell ; 15, Lowell ; 16, Akenside, 17, Wordsworth, 18, Longfellow ; 19, Whittier ; 20,…

EDITORS GRAY JACKET :-Seeing in your last issue that you desire to hear from the old students, sometimes, I write to inform you that all of us have not forgotten you, as you suppose. We are always glad to hear from Blacksburg, and are much gratified…

The Gray Jacket
Blacksburg, VA, May, 1877.


EDITORS:

Lee Society,
H. M. SMITH, JR., RICHMOND, VA.
W. L. GRAVATT, PORT ROYAL, VA

Maury Society,
J. R. HAW, - - RICHMOND, VA.
A. R. HEFLIN, - - STAFFORD, VA.

Subscription Rates:
One…

The European war being the subject under discussion at the mess-house, several days ago, a gallant lieutenant remarked that, if some one would just Put a Turkey on the table, he for one, would certainly make a Rushin' attack upon his Mohammedan…

Blacksburg needs no standing army of blue coats to enforce the Civil Rights bill. We have had here a barber shop conducted upon strictly civil rights principles. White and black, rich and poor alike patronized this modern establishment. We are…

We clip the following item from the Richmond Whig as a Warning to "Vice-President," Andrew Oliver, of the V. A. M. C.: "Old Billy Parish (colored), who has been janitor at the Medical College for thirty years, and superintendent of the morgue for the…

W. B. Marks is book-keeper for Smoot, commission merchant, in Richmond.

J. A. Hall is with his father in Charlotte, N. C.

W. H. Harris is editor of the Concord Sun, in North Carolina.

D. P. Winfree is in Raleigh, N. C.

F. L. Smith and C.…

The following very touching poem was composed by R. W. Lyle, of Danville, Va., in the year of 1869. Mr. Lyle was a self-made man, of whom all true Virginians who knew him were proud. As a lawyer he hardly had a superior, and but few equals; as a poet…

For the Gray Jacket.

Wanted, a way to stretch short pants,
For a man six feet two as he stands,
Apply third floor of College, East end;
Expect to be greeted: "How are you, friend?"
There are the breeches behind the door,
Pray kind friend,…

EDITORS GRAY JACKET, GENTLEMEN: As essays are now the order of the day, and as you seem to be behind the time in this particular, I thought I would write you one on the "Trunk."

Had I the reputation of "Moziz Addums" I would try to say something…

House On The Hill

Dry Goods, Notions, Hardware, Groceries, Boots, Shoes, Hats, and Tickets to Christiansburg, per regular daily mail line, for sale by C. A. Deyerlie, assisted by James Lewis, formerly student of the Virginia A. and M. College, who…