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A Rose for Reveille: A Faulknerian Tale of Lost Causes and Aggie Football

Miss Reveille Aggie is dead, and the fine people of Texas are looking into the matter. But whose body is that in the secret room deep within Kyle Field?

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When Miss Reveille Aggie died, we all went to her funeral: the men through a sort of respectful affection for a fallen monument, the women mostly out of curiosity to see the inside of the stadium, which was newly renovated and expanded.

It was a big, squarish stadium that had once been smaller than its counterparts in Knoxville and Ann Arbor, decorated with banners of former glories in the heavily lightsome style of the seventies, set on what had once been a most select campus.