Contents of Series 1, Volume 2, Number 9

The Gray Jacket.
Blacksburg, Va., July, 1877.
Published Monthly by the Literary Societies Of the Virginia Agricultral [sic] and Mechanical College.

Written after seeing the ladies of Chester, S. C., decrorate [sic] the graves of the Confederate dead.
Ye sleep at last our dead, Beneath a ransomed sod;
The State for which you freely bled
Is free again, thank God!
Your brothers do not…

I left Washington yesterday evening at 4 o'clock, arrived in Harrisburg about the middle of the night, but totally ignorant of the fact, this morning when I awoke we were in the midst of the Alleghany Mountains. They loomed up on either side and…

After eating our fill of strawberries at the Academy we availed ourselves of an invitation extended to the public, and repaired to the African church to listen to a debate given by the colored club of Blacksburg. At the request of the speakers, four…

I am aware of the objections that have been and ever will be raised against revivals by a certain class of persons. They condemn them on account of the excitement which is so frequently created. By some they are thought suitable only for the…

"Jim" introduces me to Messrs. D. and H., compagnions de voyage, as a country boy going to see the sights of New York city. It was 7 o'clock Wednesday evening, May 16th, when three hoarse whistles from the huge steamship Old Dominion, the mammoth…

The ladies of the Baptist church gave a strawberry feast on Thursday evening, June 14th, at the Academy. Strawberries, strawberry—cream, lemons, lemonade, cake, in short, everything that the taste and fancy of man could desire was here to extract…

"A sorrow's crown of sorrow
Is remembering happier things."

So Alfred Tennyson says, and is it not true? Would any sorrow be half so hard to bear if there were not lurking behind it a memory of "happier things?"

Human nature is a strange…

The first grand ball of the season came off on Wednesday 13th, at the Gitt House. Your correspondent
tried to get a few items by peeping through an open window, but the calm and dignified frown of the lady in charge, the terrific brow of "Rob,"…

On the night of Wednesday the 13th, a party of persons, having be come disgusted with the elegant workings of the patent lamps in Blacksburg, proceeded to demolish said lamps in a very effective manner. For some minutes the cries of the mob and…

Clapper, Mo., May 11, 1877.

Editors Gray Jacket: Thinking it possible that some of your readers would like to read a letter from the "Great West," I have determined to accept your invitation, extended in the April number, and write you a letter…

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Roster of Officers :
Commanding Officer, Gen. JAS. H. LANE.
STAFF.
Adjutant, A. R. Heflin.
Quarter Master,…