Baltimore Polytechnic Institute - Cracker Yearbook (Baltimore, MD)

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Mechanical Department WILLIAM G. RICHARDSON, Machine Work and Engineering Materials THOMAS G. FORD, Pattern-Making and Wood-Turning. WILLIAM A. JONES, Forge and Sheet Metal Work. GEORGE M. GAITHER, Carpentry and Wood Carving. ri

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Head FACULTY J' WILLIAM R. KING, U. S. N., Principal and Head of Department of Engineering. RICHARD H. UHRBROCK, Ph.B., Vin'-Pri11c1'pa1 and Head of Department of Mathematics. WILLIAM H. HALL, Head of Department of Science. SAMUEL M. NORTH, of Department of English, including History and Language .A .sv Staff J. WARD NVILLSON, M. D., History, Physiology and German. SAMUEL P. PLATT, Mechanical Drawing and Descriptive Geometry. OLIVER BACHARACH, Assistant in Mathematics. .WARREN S. SEIPP, Free-hand Drawing and Carpentry. JOHN H. BRAMBLE, Assistant in Mathematics and Science. J. EDWARD BROADBELT, Secretary, and Assistant in Science. IRVING C. HESS, Graduate Assistant in Physical Laboratory. 2

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Introduction .w HE reader is invited to the perusal of this very original book, wherein he will doubtless find painful evidences of the immaturity of its contributors. There is, however, the sweet consolation that too much will not be expected, and if, in years to come, those who are now pupils find any pleasure in reading what is here offered, the editors will feel amply repaid for the time and trouble expended in its preparation. Discernible here and there is a vein of gentle satire which the authors proudly proclaim to be the results of the greatest efforts of their lives, and the well-meant sallies will, it is believed, do much mutually to preserve the recollections of teacher and pupil concerning the events of this period in the existence of the Polytechnic Institute. The secondary school period is critical in the life of a boy, for the propo- sition of a higher educationifaces him, and it is not too much to say that the seriousness of the question is fully appreciated and causes him a greater mental disturbance than that with which he is usually credited. Then, too, it is the impressionable period when the effects of apparently triiiing incidents in the course of his instruction take deep-rooted loclgment in the mind, to reappear opportunely to supply missing links in the solution of serious prob- lems. . l Little wonder, then, that the desire is strong in the boy to chronicle school experiences of this important epoch, for in no better way can he contribute to their preservation, and it is with this suggestion of intent that these unpolished pages are submitted. A VV. R. K. 4