United States Military Academy West Point - Howitzer Yearbook (West Point, NY)

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Ss ii X ik li ' - .. . - ..: :?::::: 1 fl . xiii: ' - 1 iiiiim' ' i ::::' !j N ' 1i:' 'iiiiiii' PROFESSOR CoI.oNIaL SAMUEL E. TILLMANV, M. A., Cadet, U. S. M. A., 1865-18695 appointed from Tennesseeg graduated 3 in a class of 395 Second Lieu- tenant, 4th Artillery, 18692 First Lieutenant of Engineers, 18722 Professor of Chemistry, Mineralogy and Geology, U. S. M. A., 1880. ASSISTANT PROFESSOR CAPTAIN RICHMOND P. DAVIS, Artillery Corps, Class '875 graduated 6 in a class of 64. INSTRUCTORS CAPTAIN WIRT ROBINSON, Artillery Corps, Class '875 graduated 9 in FIRST LIEUTENANT IULIAN A. BENJAMIN, 3d Cavalry, Class 'oog Il class of 64. graduated 35 in a class of 54. CAPTAIN lVlILTON L. MCGREW, IItlI Infantry, Class '955 graduated FIRST LIEUTENANT WILLIAM P. STOKEM, Corps of Engineers, Class 24 in a class of 52. 'oo5 graduated I5 in a class of 54. CAPTAIN CIIARI.Es B. CLARK, 5th Infantry, Class ,QQQ graduated 18 FIRST LIEUTENANT WILLIAM R. BETTISON, Artillery Corps, Class 'OI' in Z1 class of 72. graduated 36 in a class of 74. 24

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DEPARTMENT OF PHILOSOPHY IN THE OBSERVATORY ANNEX. 4 Naw, dis ain't no telescope. Quit dat guf- farrinl, Mr. Rockwell, and stand 'tention. And X' 5 you man, over dere in de corner, I didn't bring gpg! ye up here ter play wid de dawg, Now, den, if dis PQ Mm here instrument ain't ever used, wat's it doin' here? N, etc.. etc., etc. THE HORRID THINGS! DRAIN-The first experiments for hnding the velocity of light were made by Galileo, but his instruments were so rude that he was not very successful. INSTRUCTOR-M r. Ellis, how do you determine the specific gravity of mercury? ELLIS-WYOLI place a mercurial thermometer in a bottle of mer- cury and then measure the height of the column in the tube, and that gives the specific gravity in inches, sirg and if you want it in feet. all you do is to multiply by twelve. :vs 'Xi A v rg: ll, l ff' .- , A xx I fx tl' :Ll XXV l f Q - tllf l lv 5 .r ,GF 4 ill , ' W i R: ' tl ' 1 'tl' lil . f 'N tl 2 fi Nl: -M 00 EWTMM A Couple A Moment of lnerlia A If LECTURE. You gentlemen found some difficulty, perhaps, in obtaining a clear idea of the equatorial telescope from the description in the text, so I brought you in here this morning to see if I could give you a better understanding of the instrument and its workings. This is it. This is the eye-piece and this is the object-glass. Return to your section rooms. ' WVEIGHT A MINUTE! I don't see how it is that you men get so mixed up about pounds weight and pounds mass! It is very simple. just remem- ber that a pound mass is a weight that weighs a pound, while a pound weight is a mass that Weighs the same amount on a pair of scales as a pound mass does. And a mass of a pound is the weight that a pound of any material would have if it weighed the same as a pound mass.

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DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY ON THE ROCKSi 3? Z PoLLi '-'Well. Mr. Selbie, haven't you de- cided what that is yet? SELBIE-Yes, sir. It is a piece of micaceous. P.-Micaceous what. S.-NVhy, just plain micaceous, sir. ali? ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE. INSTRUCTOR-Alf. Whitley, what does it mean if the mercury in one side of a U -shaped tube is thirty inches above the other? NVHITLEY-Er-ah-it-ahem-thirty inches above sea-level, sir. NATIONALITY CORRECT. PTANSON-TlllS is a piece of gypsum. INST.-VCTQ' good. What do we get from gypsum? S1-Paris green. TO THE PLIOCENE SKULL. Speak, O thou less recent fragmentary fossil, Primal pioneer of Pliocene formation! Hid in lowest drifts below the stratum Of volcanic tufa. Older than the beast, the oldest Palaeotheriurng Older than the trees, the oldest Cryptogamig Older than the hills, those infantile eruptions Of Eartlfs epidermis. Eo-Mio-Plio-whatso'er the -cene was That those vacant sockets filled with awe and wonder Wlietlier shores Divonian or Silurian beaches, Tell us thy strange story. Wert thou true spectator of that mighty forest, When above thy head the stately Sigillaria Reared its columned trunks in that remote and distant Carboniferous epoch? if 16,5 ioiffff W 1 A 'QT QW '- 'fi '- - -'.4fff -,Eg-ji . A Q sw . .i rf 5l l f il We f' ll A J rig' , ' t f iffy.: ' L 7 ..... 413 .9555 IE - Z. 1 ' A , , .V A,s.NsH ' ..11FLQ - -d- Zeer i EER. Observation Conclusion E Experiment 25