Virginia Military Institute - Bomb Yearbook (Lexington, VA)

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The Virginia Military Institute. FOUNDED NOVEMBER 11th, 1839. INSTITUTE, COLORS. Red, White and Yellow. INSTITUTE YLLL. Rah! Rah! Rah! Virginia! MiHtary Institute! Rah! Rah! Rah! Rah! Hoc! Ri ! Rah! Hoc! Ri! Ri! Ri! V. M. I. 13

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ILditorial. T has been the custom from time immemorial for those bringing out any literary production to make an apology, not, dear reader, because they think their work poor or that excuses are, in any way, necessary. Such an idea would never occur to them, it matters not how readily it would to others. The real explanation is a desire common to us all for praise, or, in plain United States, they are fishing. We are not at all modest, but even with our exaggerated ideas concerning our own importance along most lines, we can put forward no claims to literary merit, as you doubtless will observe in your perusal of the following pages. The time honored and almost hoary excuse, that of lack of time, is in our case valid, as we were forced to crowd all our work into a very short period, and we, therefore, hope that you will look upon the more glaring faults with lenient eyes and try to forget the others. With this brief apology, itself an evidence of our lack of the devine afflatus, we submit this volume, hoping it will afford you some pleasure and amusement.

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Board of Visitors. Term of Office Reckoned From January isl., 1902. rOR THRLL YLARS. HON. J. M. HOOKER Stuart, Va. HON. LLOYD T. SMITH Heathsville, Va. W. T. SHIELDS, ESQ Lexington, Va. rOR TWO YLARS. HON. ALEXANDER HAMILTON, President .- ■ • ■ Petersburg, Va. COL. L. C. BARLEY Alexandria, Va. CAPT. JAMES L. WHITE Abingdon, Va. FOR ONE YI:AF. HON. HENRY FAIRFAX Aldie, Va. HON. PHIL F. BROWN Blue Ridge Springs, Va. THOMAS W. SHELTON, ESQ Norfolk, Va. MEMBERS or THE BOARD EX-OITICIO. GENERAL W. NALLE, Adjutant General Richmond, Va. UO ' i . :i . N . SOUIU, Sup ' t Public Instruction Richmond, Va.