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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…

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…

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.…

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…

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,…

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…

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…

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,"…

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…

"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…

"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 Maury Society threw open its doors on Tuesday evening, March 21st, to admit its friends and the public generally to its exercises. Now the Maury always does honor to its name, and this time the bill of fare for this "feast of reason" was…

It having been generally known that the Lee Society would have a public debate and, that with a fine corps of speakers, the old Chapel was, sometime before the hour of the exercises, filled to overflowing with an intelligent audience eager for the…

THE GRAY JACKET.

BLACKSBURG, VA., APRIL, 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…

Many years ago, when lucifer matches were yet unknown, and the tinder-box, with its flint and steel, formed the only domestic instrument for obtaining a light, a little old man used to walk about in one of the suburbs of London holding in his hand a…

First game of the season. "Tuscarora" B.B.C. of Roanoke College, Salem, vs. "Alleghany" B.B.C. of V.A.M.C. Played at Blacksburg, score 53 to 13 in favor of Alleghany.

Second game of the season. "Crescent" of Christiansburg, vs. "Alleghany." Played…

THE GRAY JACKET

BLACKSBURG, VA., APRIL, 1877.

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…

[For the Gray Jacket.

LINES

sent to a young lady with a withered rose pinned upon the paper.

Go, drooping flower, to Laura go,
And to the fair one say
That Beauty boasts a trasient glow
And blooms but to decay.

Tell her, adorn'd with…

"Aunt" Hix and "the Irrepressible Baum" are at Richmond College studying for the ministry. We mean that "Aunt" Hix is studying for the ministry and Baum is studying devilment. They belonged to different societies here, but have both drifted into the…

A day's rambling in the woods; who does not enjoy it? I know there are some who profess to look down in lofty disdain on any such childish amusement; but I know that in their heart of hearts there is nothing they like better; provided they have a…

What is the difference between one divided by the cosine and a blind man? One is the secant the other can't see.

We are undecided whether Blacksburg is a chill-blany country or a blame-chilly one.

Pg. 5
A. HOEN & CO.
LITHOGRAPHERS and FANCY PRINTERS,
73 and 75 SECOND STREET.
Baltimore, Maryland
Special attention given to Diplomas, Invitations, and other College Engravings.

Pg. 5
W.H. THOMAS J.H. THOMAS
Baltimore,…

Fat-man's soliloquy—Tubby or not tubby, that is the question.

In a dimple of the mountains, there nestling, lies a town,
A little, quiet place it is, of no great renown;
But it has one attraction, there is a College there,—
I'll tell you how the boys in gray went marching to the Fair.

in the good old…

The Gray Jacket.

VOLUME II. BLACKSBURG, VA., APRIL, 1877. NUMBER 6.

THE GRAY JACKET.

PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY THE
LITERARY SOCIETIES
OF THE VIRGINIA

Agricultural and Mechanical College.

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…

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…

ENEMIES TO FISH.

It is a well recognized fact that man is everywhere breaking down and retarding the works of nature; partly through ignorance but oftener through personal cupidity. I shall attempt to give a partial illustration of how the fishing…