Fork Union Military Academy - Skirmisher Yearbook (Fork Union, VA)

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:Y , W , 5 'Pg ' Y-if Wig all LL +ii Vi 'T of .,,i .A Q, X, PAA? ip. f i- -15 N P , :L ' in- '- f-' ' A Faculty Meeting HAYIZ been thinking a great deal about the professors 'WU V xr., lately-as one does about the end ot the term?-and the other night I dreamed I was in a faculty meeting. hot as a culprit, f X mind you, only as a spectator: and no one paid any attention :QQBAQJ-js, to me or seemed to know I was there. So I have no doubt T the proceedings were just as they usually are, and, thinking it might be interesting and instructive to the cadets, who have never witnessed one of these awful conclaves, I determined to write my experience for THE SKIRMISIIER. The meeting was called to order by Col. Perkins. He gazed about and said: lVe will use in this service this morning Hymn No: One. Ch, I beg your pardon. lYill some one state the object of the meeting? Capt. lYildman jumps to his feet. Object of the meeting-general business. he snapped. Move we pros ceed at once to general business. The first order of business, said Col. Perkins, is the report of De- partments. Major Bartle, how is the military work moving along? lYell, Colonel, I am having the time of my life with the Commissioned officers. They have got it into their heads that they are running the military department of this school. I feel like busting every one of them and let the buck privates take command of the companies. XYell, said Col. Perkins, you can handle the military end without any suggestions from the faculty, so we will let you take care of it. Capt lVildman, what is there of interest you can bring before the faculty. said Col. Perkins. There is one thing that has given me great distress and that is the actions of some of these overseas men. They take too many liberties and do as they please in classes and during study hoursf' he said. That is true, said Major Bartle. I find Davis in other cadets' rooms so much at nights I tell him to report to his own quarters. He disappears from my presence and soon I go to another room and find him there: and it continues that way until I detail a squad to take him to his own room. I 108

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-5 , .1 5 ffzk S42 THE SKIRMISHER it? fi if QZAQKJEL 1 AP 3 5 y 5 ia, i - itunking Backmarn Backward, turn backward, O Time, in your Hight! Take me to school again, just for tonight. Back to F. U.. on that same old green hill. Xlfhere the streams of cadets are climbing it still: Back to that ridge with its halls in a row. Xlihere yearnings for knowledge once led us to go. Classmates, come back from your hurry and care, The business that brings silver threads to your hair. lYe are so tired of the world and its strife: Let us go back to our happy school-life. Don't you remember those benches so worn- The teacher who had for fresh air such a scorn? Ulntelligis, tu, how each said Adsum, Because they all had such good times in that room? And then there was one, a hne graceful form, XYhose face was so bright he made every heart warm. He trained us in Phys toward the end of each clay, And to laugh, shout and cry, in the usual way. Another old room, where we met each day. And studied, in passing, of times far away: You know, from that class, not an hour we stole, From there the sequential oft played quite a role. Jolly XVoodson, full of story and joke- Equally fond of peroxides!and Polk! One singer whose voice we'll remember for aye. He blessed all our hearts. singing, Just For Today, O, you remember those faculty chairs, Those rows of teachers with brains and nne hairs. XVhose faith in our school taught us loyalty, too, And made us resolve that our best we would do To uphold its name for truth and good order- And truly we did try, but oft reached the border Of stampede and riot. when some smiling fate lVould give us victory in some hard-fought debate. Those chapel hymns! but words are too few To tell how we longed for one that was 1u'tz'.' By that long stay in chapel we all felt abused: How eager we listened for the Major's Excused! That windy old chapel-what mem'ries still cling! VVhat echoes of school days around that name still ring! The faces and forms, now scattered and gone, Come back to our vision. and leading them, one XYhom we counted a blessing, whose wise words still ring NVhose gray locks were surely a crown for a king. Backward, turn backward, O years, in your-flight, Take us to school again, just for tonight. A MEBIBER or Cmss or '20

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rg V as 'Zi f S11-' 'L K 7-j f i THE SKIRMISHERFS5' ,f-fl 34, . - S' i 421- gg I YY- ,:!:- fl 'D' - v, - - cannot figure it out. I can't tell if he is off in the upper story or if he is still in a nightmare. I-Ie acts like a doughboy jumping from one trench to another, until the last room I find him in he has the cadet on the cot and he is after him like he did the Huns over there. .Ns soon as I step in the room all come to attention and Davis smiles as though he added another German to his long list. He salutes and passes out. Something must be done to these menf' Coach Pitt said something I could not hear and the subject was droppped. Capt. Lavender stated that he was having a great deal of trouble with certain young men in English Bible. Their conduct was so bad that it was necessary to send them out of the classroom. Capt. Vernon said: XVhen I was Dean of an Xgricultural College I had no trouble with the men. But the cadets here are a great problem as to know just what to do with them. I have come to the conclusion after my long years of college experience to give Major Bartle a list of these young men and recommend so many hours to walk and I can see it is doing the work. I ' I I-ieut. Charles Saunders then shouted out: Give me the brats: I will take them on a hike and walk them until they will see stars and I will bet they will he tamed down. -Inst then Major Battle returned, having been called out to settle a little difficulty between some cadets. with I.ieut. McDonough, and the discussion was explained to them. Major Bartle spoke forcibly and to the point, as always. I-Ie said 1 VVe want to make these young men noble and upright in the best sense of the words. IV:-3 want to see them leading the white life. VVe want them to stand 'four-square to every wind that blows' Now. to temper the wind of the unshorn lambs is illogical and unscriptural and such things I cannot agree with. I.ieut. McDonough, being urged to express an opinion. stepped to the blackboard and wrote the following formula: C12 H22 OH l VVhile I was trying to recall enough chemistry to understand this, Coach Pitt was telling about the great work on the athletic field. Yes, sir, we are going to have winning teams. The faculty must lay aside all class work and give me support and show up school spirit. VVe must do something to keep 109