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

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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

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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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? Wmjgfi. THE SKIRMISHER Y :pa 5 Y 37- -, John uincy Adams - .f Hli divine principle of individual freedom so long confined in dungeons began to assert itself in the Revival of Learn- ing-the Renaissance and the Reformation. This was the fvaf life-giving principle of the Revolutionary lYar, and had its best expression in the Declaration of lndependence. l 'i f'4 'f4? E lt was a principle which inspired john Quincy Adams for a half-century of public service lt enabled him as Senator. as Minister of State, as President, but most of all as a Representative to teach the Amer- ican people obedience to the state and personal independence. Believing duty to be above everything else, and true to his own teachings. although he had filled two continents with his fame. although he was at that age when most men seek repose, he forgot his own personal comfort and stepped down to the level of a representative. In 1331 when he entered Congress his first utterance was a protest against all party affiliations, which he justly considered a crime. Not caring whether a question before the House would benefit a political party. he would say lVill it benefit the whole worldu? Nothing, however, so well shows the conscience of the man as his rela- tions to the slavery question. Although slavery was deeply rooted among the people, although it was supported by the Constitution. sanctioned by the re- ligions, he saw and declared its utter destruction. Already an old man with gray locks and wrinkled brow but with the vigor of youth, he gave his last remaining powers for the final struggle. The slaveholders for the protection of their interests had put in the rules of the House, the resolution, that all petitions referring to slavery should be laid on the table. Consequently when Mr. Adams arose one day and asked the Speaker if a petition, which he held in his hand from the slaves, came under the rule of the House, the southern members were very much surprised and became involved in an angry debate. They demanded that this honorable gentleman who had presented the petition for slaves should be publicly con- demned. For three days the storm raged. lYhat a sight to see! An old man turning away from the quiet and rest so much needed, not thinking of the 111