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

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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

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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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air' It I I III I 5 Q 5?xyf2:- , C A THE SKIRMISH ER 7749+ - I 2 i, -E-.- - Q j yi Hottie and H0 from going to too many dances, fur un the baseball diamond they forget the signals and are dreaming of the fair ones. I say something must be dune. .Xt this juncture Capt. Nxvllillllilll jumped to his feet and said: Gentlemen, we are getting nuwhere. I would like to be excused to meet with the band. Capt. Snead began tu tell the faculty about the jwyl ?J he was having in his Math classes, and when he was warming up to the subject the banc began to play XYait till the clouds rull by, and swine rag-time music. Swinething interrupted the strains nf dream music. I thought at mst it was I.ieut. Stone crying Hniiwe we adjourn, but in an instant I recugnifet the familiar whirr of my alarm clock, so I aruse. dismissing the strang visiun uf the night, and sat dfvwn tw cram. USLEEPY 110