The Citadel - Sphinx Yearbook (Charleston, SC)

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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]

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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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Department of Education and Psychology From the introductory pages of Human Behavior to the intrinsic facts of teaching we softly glide with the Colonel and Doc, sometimes sleepily, and at other times very much awake, but always learning the more important facts of life and education. Long shall be remembered Doc ' s research and pop quizzes; they did a lot towards keeping our interest. Oftentimes the Colonel gave us an example of pure wit, while Doc told us of his rough and ready escapades. We delved into the understanding of our fellow man and his reactions to certain stimuli; likewise, into the problems of teaching. Lt.-Col. L. a. Prouty Maj. J. H. Wilson Department of Modern Languages It was an unfortunate stroke of fate, a verit- able ill omen, when many members of the Class of ' 39 were subjected to French. We have never seemed to be able to shake off the shackles of that subject, especially those members that were exposed to it for three or four years. Likewise, Spanish and German have persisted among many of us. We experienced much as we became accustomed to the hustle and bustle aux tableaux to release our bulging (?) store of words, idioms, and sentences. We cannot help revealing that hearing ourselves and our classmates express themselves in Frog or Spic, although at times boring, was for the most part extremely fascinating. Prouty, Ralya. Seated: Wilson, Dufour. Standing: Brunjes, Fay, Price. • • • • • • • • • • • 19 '