The Citadel - Sphinx Yearbook (Charleston, SC)

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Department of History and Political Science From the gray dismal past of the ancient ages to the fiery active present we quickly glide as the Colonel and his cohorts attempt to teach us the happenings of our dear ancestors. Not contented with this, we also agree to subject ourselves to the deep politics and law that the Quizzem pushes out in incomprehensible lectures and unwanted Monday morning quizzes. Facts, dates, governments, and states- men, all dazzle the brain of the History student as he burns the midnight oil in an attempt to prepare for those quizzes and work up reports. However, this department gives liberal courses for the broadening of the mind toward the point of an educated man. Col. S. J. Williams Lt.-Col. C. L. Hair Department of Mathematics Just a word about the gents who insist on taking the joy from life and replacing it with a dash of algebra, a jigger of geometry, and a dab or two of this foreign substance they call calculus. We don ' t know exactly where it all leads or what it all means but we do know that the trail they blaze is no path of roses. Taking everything into consideration, with- out mentioning any names, Bunny and his boys have had a lot of patience. Maybe they still remember that they too traveled over the same road. Anyhow, we appreciate their efforts, but we hope the seed they have planted will not flower with some new theory to bring despair upon our children. Seated: Coleman. Williams, Skipper. Standing: Gentry, Moore. Seated: Myers. Hair, Saunders. Standing: Reeves, Dye, Holt, RoYAi.L, Barone. • • • • • • • • • • • • [17]

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• • • • • • • • • • Col. L. S. LeTellier Lt.-Col. R. C. Holliday Department of Civil Engineering Let us give way for just a moment of reminiscence to a group that for four short years, it now seems, guided a small number through the entanglement of facts and figures known to you folks as engineering. After leav- ing that period of adolescence, under the tutorage of Papa John, Colonel Bub assumed the task of enlightening the boys on the liberties enjoyed under our democracy, the fruits of which still hang unshaken on the t ree. As yet, no theorem has been suggested, of a printable nature, amply to describe the antics of the department during the senior year. Eventually the fatal day arrives when with dip in hand you venture forth to seek your fate. Alas, you find that Bub and John weren ' t so bad after all. Department of Military Science and Tactics Here we greet that rugged band of instructors who attempt to teach us the Tactics and Tech- niques of two branches of the service. Never wearying in their efforts, even after several re-quizzes, these men are to the military life of The Citadel what the Infantry is to the Army. Supervising Doughboy Drill and artillery gun drill, holding classes, keeping individual records, and making out appoint- ments are parts of their full routine. The longer that we remain at The Citadel the clearer becomes our perspective of what the military department strives to accomplish. But as a whole, we see that it strives to develop officers and gentlemen in fact as well as by Act of Congress. Scaled: JIaynes, LeTellikr, Anderson. Standiiui: Nettles, Williams Taylor. Scaled: Packard, Hbj.l.lDAY, Moore. Statidiiut: Hilton. Patrick, Kirk, Robinson. yy ■ ' ? «F TRBii j;aiyW - ' [16]

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• • • • • • • • • • • Lt.-Col. M. S. Lewis Maj. a. G. D. Wiles Department of Business Administration Our first experience with the Business Administration Department was to be informed by Lieutenant Bernfield that he was going to put us behind the eight ball. With the help of pop quizzes and long assignments by other members of the Department, he almost succeeded. But most of us were able to stay in the race by using such tactics as showering the instructor with questions whenever a stack of yellow paper foretold a quiz or by being able to list all important points in Captain Tibbetts ' courses, and by discussing trading on equity whenever we couldn ' t give Colonel Lewis a more specific answer. Department of English English!. . the cultural calamity of indiffer- ent freshmen, and the dreaded, though enjoyed requirement of sophomores. The hectic begin- ning of the Survey relegated some of our unfortunate classmates to depths which terrified, from which few emerged. We became familiar with the deeds of Beowulf, the romance of Gawain, the tales of Chaucer, and the works of Milton, Spenser, et al. Though some of us could not expand our knowledge of the musical, the fascinating, and the philosophical as Old Chap would have us, some of us could. There- fore, some of us went on to higher courses, finally attaining the goal of erudition for which so many have striven and failed. Scaled: Debnam, Tibbetts, Lewis, Whitman. Standing: Wilcox, Thornborough, Brown, Garland, Campbell, Clough. Seated: Achurch, Wiles, Harrison. Standing: Cook, Wilson, DeSipio, Linton, Sanders. 18]