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Baseball and other games have been the rage with us for several weeks past but are being brought to a close, by the form that near approaching Commencement always assumes.

In speaking to our fellow students we might write a column. or so upon…

COMMUNICATED.

DEAR EDITORS.-Among the many pleasant occasions of the spring, it was your humble correspondents good fortune to attend the public exercises of the Lee Literary Society a few weeks ago. The weather favoring the occasion, it seemed as…

REMINISCENCE OF PRESIDENT MINOR.
I intended to write this letter about President Minor but in writing, other things suggested themselves so naturally [illegible] it may strike a sympathetic chord in old students and be not uninteresting to others.…

"THE MILLS WILL NEVERGRIND WITH THE WA-TERS THAT HAVEPASSED." The above quotation seems true enough, yet nearly nineteen centuries have passed and the human race has failed to realize its truth. Mankind has thought, acted and lived as though it…

The Virginia Agricultural and
MECHANICAL COLLEGE
Board of Visitors
HON. JAMES C. TAYLOR, RECTOR. HON. R. RFARR, SUP. B. INSTRUCTION III
ANDREW BROADDUS, ESQ., Page, W. E. HUBBARD, ESQ., Buck’gh’m, DR. I. A. SLATER NewKon? HON. J. C. TAYLOR,…

LOCALS.

The final exaninations [sic] are rapidly aproaching [sic] and the midnight lamp burns low.

Mr S wants to know if there is an Aluminum (Alumni) Society connected with this institution.

One of our students Mr. MaHaffey fell a few days…

WHEN 'YOU WANT TO BUY
Periodicals, jewelry, Fine toilet articles, Confectionaries, Stationery, Tobacco, Cigars, Coal Oil, Lamps; Chimneys, Notions, &c., &c. call at
Dr. W. B. Conway & Co’s Drug Store
Blacksburg Va.
Thanking the students and…

A NOCTURNAL SCENE.
A few evenings since long after the King of day had buried his burning face behind the Hesperian hills, and all nature seemed to be locked in the quiet embrace of Morpheus, and gentle Luna was stealing from behind the Oriental…

PERSONALS.

J. H. Pigg, class of '76, is county Surveyor of Pittsylvania.

R. N. Howard, class of '76, is farming in York cnunty [sic] Va.

R. Taylor Gleaves, class, of '78, is a Civil Engineer in Southwest Va.

J. H. Goodridge, class of '81…

WOMAN.
In the remote ages of antiquity, woman knew not the protection of civil laws and it was only by special favor, that she was allowed to enter the temples of the Olymphian deities. But during the Middle Ages, that fruiting season of modern…

THE GRAY JACKET
Blacksburg Va., May, 1883.
EDITORS.
Lee Society
G. H. SPOONER, Albemarle,
R. J. NOEL, Montgomery,
H. L. WATSON, Washington,
Maury Society
J. W. CARSON, Appomattox,
C. E. GILBERT, Pittsylvania
E. ANDERSON, Pittsylvania

Enthusiastic professor of physics, discussing the organic and inorganic kingdoms- “Now, if I should shut my eyes-so-and drop my head-so-and should not move, you would say I was a clod. But I move, I leap. I run; then what would you call me?" Voice…

SELF MADE
‘Do you see that man near the frog-pond on the common?'

“Thirty two years ago that old man came to Boston with one suspender and a sore toe. He also had a basket of apples which a farmer in Lexington had given to him. He peddled the…

SOLITUDE.
BY H. L. MAYNARD of PORTSMOUTH, VA.,
PRIZE ORATION DELIVERED AT THE COMMENCEMENT OF 1880.


In reviewing the reords of the past we find that the greaest [sic] and best works of man are those wrought in solitude, for there have been…

PROGRESS
Steadily, steadily, step by step.
Up the venturious builders go;
Carefully placing stone on stone-
Thus the loftiest temples grow.

Patiently, patiently, day by day;
The artist toils at his task alway;
Touching it here and tinting…

THE GRAY JACKET,
An Organ of the Literary Societies of the Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College.

Devoted to English Composition.

EDITORS:
MAURY SOCIETY,
C. E. GILBERT, Pittsylvania, ,Senior.
J. R. WILSON, Pulaski, Associate.
J. J.…

AGRICULTURE AS AN ART.
Agriculture, in its most extensive, sense, may be defined as "the cultivation of the earth with reference to the production of vegetables, and the conversion of portions of them into animals and a variety of forms which are…

THE GRAY JACKET.
BLACKSBURG, VA. No. 2.
THE SEVEN COMPANIONS.
In the cruel years, when our land was scourged with battle shock and flame, Seven gallant youths from a mountain vale to JACKSON'S army came; They marched, and ate, and slept together,…

LITERARY.
ORATION
Delivered by J. R. Wilson at Commencement of '83.
PASSING AWAY
Change has been fingering with restless hands upon all the ages. It began when the thunder tones of an unseen spirit cried for "light," and the clouds which had…

NORFOLK WESTERN RAILROAD
Time Table in effect Jan 3, 1884.
[Time table not reproduced]

VIRGINIA AGRICULTURAL AND MECHANICAL COLLEGE.

LOCAL MATTERS.

ODDS AND ENDS.

No children allowed!

Who hit “Billy Barker"?

What's the test for aluminum?

We patronize those who patronize us. "Seven" has departed, and quiet is once…

VIRGINIA AGRICULTURAL AND MECHANICAL COLLEGE. 5
ORATION
Delivered before the Maury Society.
MISFORTUNE.
Mr. President, and Gentlemen of the Maury Society :
The pictures of fancy inevitably carry us far beyond that which can ever become real or…

OUR EXCHANGES.
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We acknowledge with much pleasure the February number of the Delaware College Review. It is neatly gotten up, and reflects much credit upon its corps of editors. "A contrast between ancient and modern civilization" is good. We…

CENTRAL HOTEL,
CHRISTIANSBURG, - - - VIRGINIA.
S. G. FARLEY., PROPRIETOR.
This Hotel is very conveniently located, and has just been refitted and refurnished, and is now one of the most comfortable Hotels in Southwest Virginia. Terms moderate.
C.…

VIRGINIA AGRICULTURAL AND MECHANICAL COLLEGE. 7
IMPORTANCE OF THOUGHT.
If anyone be not accustomed to reflect, they cannot understand how much knowledge supplies our necessities, mitigates our troubles, and increases our happiness ; but if they be…

AGRICULTURE AS AN ART.

Agriculture, in its most extensive, sense, may be defined as "the cultivation of the earth with reference to the production of vegetables, and the conversion of portions of them into animals and a variety of forms which are…

March
1884

The Gray Jacket

PUBLISHED MONTHLY
BY THE
LITERARY SOCIETIES OF THE VIRGINIA
AGRICULTURAL AND MECHANICAL COLLEGE.

BLACKSBURG NEWS PRINT,
BLACKSBURG, VA.    

Through the courtesy of our much respected and highly esteemed friend, C. L. C. Minor, President of the V. A. M. C., we have received a catalogue of that institution. Being a student of said institution we received the handsome present in common with…

February
1884

The Gray Jacket

PUBLISHED MONTHLY
BY THE
LITERARY SOCIETIES OF THE VIRGINIA
AGRICULTURAL AND MECHANICAL COLLEGE.

BLACKSBTTRG NEWS PRINT,
BLACKSBURG, VA.

All interested in the College are requested to subscribe to the Gray Jacket.

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CHEMIST AND ASSAYER.

FLOYD DAVIS, C. E., M. E.

Prof Mech. and Metallurgy,
Va. Ag. and Mech. College.

WILL ANALYZE ORES, COALS, WATERS,…