Clemson University - Taps Yearbook (Clemson, SC)

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GEORGE TUCKER CASSELS, De Soto, Ga. could a tale unfold whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood, Mafye thy two eyes, tilfe stars, start from their spheres. Agriculture and Animal Industry; Y. M. C. A.; Senior Dancing Club; Junior Animal Industry Club; Senior Veterinary Science Club; Class Football, 3; Junior Tennis Club; Senior Tennis Club; Lucky Thirteen; Senior Private. Tuck, the Suture Doctor of the Veteri- nary Hospital, won his degree by means of his brilliant recitations in veterinary science, his ceaseless attentions to Buster, and his ability to meet every possible exigency with a suitable explanatory theory. Tuck formerly hailed from Fairfield, but has since migrated to the fertile fields of south Georgia, where the natives have not yet learned all of the wonderful contents of his well-stocked brain. and where he is thought to be a man of wonderful attainments. He is being depended upon to revolutionize the agricultural and live stock interests of his adopted state. He may disappoint everybody by becoming a veteri- narian ALMO DEW1TT CHAPMAN, Liberty. am in charity with the world. Agriculture; Sergeant-at-Arms, Censor, Reporting Critic, Palmetto Literary Society; Y. M. C. A.; Sophomore, Junior and Senior Tennis Clubs; The Subsoilers, 2; Senior Agricultural Science Club; Senior Private. In this little piece of humanity, we find two sterling qualities — independence and an innate satisfaction with the correctness of his views. His most intimate pals never question his whims, for it is understood that he is to have In- own way. To the girl who submits to bis indomitable will, he will give the most affec- tionate attention. Almo, A. D., or (to those on the inside). Bill, hails from Liberty, and believes in freedom. Confinement behind the barred windows — of a bank — resulted in his being somewhat dwarfed in his later youth. He is. however, rather a heavy man with the ladies. Being a firm believer in his home town. and in the blissful state of matrimony, Almo has adopted for his motto, the immortal words of Webster. Liberty and union, now and forever ! 19

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LADSON DANTZLER BOONE. Rowesville. His very fool has music in I. Corporal, Color Sergeant, Captain. Agriculture and Chemistry; Critic, President, Chief Marshal, Calhoun Literal) ' Society; Business Manager The Chronicle, 1 ; Y. M. C. A. Cabinet. 1; Class Football, 2; Scrub Football. I; President Junior Alchemist Club; Senior Chemistry Club; Senior Dancing Club; Colillirn Club; Pendleton Guards. This bud of Renins (?) and flower of chivalry ( ! ) sprang into being in the pleasant hamlet of Rowesville, and grew up among the rosebuds of that flowery land. In the fall of 1907, he was transplanted to Clemson. to blossom forth, and waste his sweetness on the ' ' esert air. That is the way the poet puts it. His roommate, however, would say that he wastes his desert air on Sweetness. ' ' Fill him with oysters, stick a good cigar in his receiver, call the name of some pretty girl, and you have the jolliest Laddie in barracks, and a true Boone companion as well. SAMUEL LESLIE BRITT, McCormrk. A plain, blunt man. Corporal, Sergeant, First Lieutenant, Cap- tain. Agriculture and Animal Industry; Class Football, 4; Scrub Football, 3; Varsity Football I; Sopho- more Dancing Club; Junior Animal Industry Club; Senior Veterinary Science Club. Our vocabulary does not contain words of sufficient variety and exactness to enable us to give a fitting description to this blue-eyed, fair-haired Saxon. It has been suggested that we allow the man to speak for himself. Toots has had that privilege ever since he has been at college, but has never yet availed himself of it. lie believes that actions speak louder than words, and acts accordingly. To test him upon this point, poke two fingers suddenlj into his ribs. Although he looks to be the perfect type of Mellin ' s Food boy. take him any way you please, Toots is a man. There is onl} one person who can handle him. and she dors it w ith her eyes. 18

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WILLIAM ROBERTSON CONNELLY, Chester. bear a charmed life. Corporal, First Sergeant, Captain. Textile Industry; Art Department, Taps, 1911; Class Football, 4; Scrub Football, 3; Varsity Foot- ball, 2, I; Varsity Baseball, 3, 2; Captain Baseball Team, I; Senior Textile Science Club; Senior Dancing Club; Cotillion Club; X Club. Vgain has Clemson polished the raw product of Chester into the finished athlete and the brazen fascinator of femininity. But Bill is a live wire all the time. Life seems to be an ever-present characteristic with him. As a side line, Bill has adopted the investigation of the mysteries of spinning and weaving, with special reference to these sciences as applied to the whims and frivolities of the weaker sex. He is a very useful person for a lady to have around : for Bill can tell, at a glance — or a sniff — whether a sample is real silk or guaranteed silk, whether the dye will run or merely take fright, etc. HERBERT PRESS COOPER, Ridgeway. Your face is as a bool(, where men may read strange mailers. Corporal, Sergeant, Lieutenant. Agriculture and Animal Industry; Vice-President Calhc Lite rary Society; Y. M. C. A.; Vice- President Junior Animal Industry Club; Senior Vet- erinary Science Club; Senior Dancing Club; Pen- dleton Guards. ( ooper, sometimes called Press by those who have the advantage of knowing his com- plete nomenclature, began his adventurous career near the sleepy village of Ridgeway. He came to Clemson for the sole purpose of studying agriculture, and so far he has not deviated from his purpose far enough to seriousl) overburden his mind with useless facts pertaining to veterinary science, lie has. however, discovered the Coffee test, and computed the number of revolutions per minute of a Babcock tester. It is a verj rare thing for him to l„- scored on l the professor of history and political economy. Like everj other Senior whose sketch has been read so far. he is a veritable Beau l ' .rummel with the ladies. 20