New York Military Academy - Shrapnel Yearbook (Cornwall on Hudson, NY)

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. .A -' fi i i ll gli t .AF l7 :.1' ii . . ' l-- Ctinouczii I . A. R1I.13v, AB. Qlirownj Professor of History Cl9lOj lout is W. BLAK12, MA. LiNew York Univcisi 'Xssistant Professor of History C1917 History is being written today in a great, bold hand, and in words which dwarf the story of the ancients. Yet, since we wouldn't be here at all if there was no history to study, we must not forget the deeds of our fathers, and Colonel Tim is determined that we shall not. 1-Ie certainly is a field marshal in lining up facts and dates and driving them home like nails. Here is a picture of one of his classes studying American history in the field, seated on the Forge Hill tablet rock, and enjoying the lesson. NVhat a dif- ferent place school would be if all les- sons could be studied in the same way. Fond Uncle to Cadet Kenny D.-- Are you studying Ancient History? Kenny D.- You bet, I started with Egyptian Deities. ' 18

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mumlm 1-UM!! ' ' F-. ze fill! Q L K . ..,.,.-....q '4 N ri-vyj lllllhztv-?-2 vllllllllllllllllllF15-T .lilllllllll..lllll'll:,.. L lllllti .lllllll .... ....., - .... t .g1!ir'Q1'ggQ'r 1 cgi... ...,, '-'EFYV' 'vQs........... ..-. V1.5,sv....,Z0't?---.....,,....f gay' t1l1lll'5Q2filllllr1 t:l.1l'lllii3Sfit-illllr ilzlllisiiilli tllllnilggf ..... .... 1 l ..u,,,.u' I :, '- -ull A A. I -un ....... -fc: -----w ' ---1 ,,,,,,, Q lllinm' S. Nowrn, .X.l'3. tSyracusej fllrofessor of Latin l1916j XN hy is it that when boys play school the youngster chosen to act as teacher Hrst and at once equips himself, as a part of his masquerade, with a whip or ruler which he sticks under his arm and displays proudly as the emblem of his authority? Is it a survival of the days of the old Latin School when it was thought that the only way to get that beautiful though moribund language into the heads of boys was to beat it in with regular applications of the birch ? If so, how ditferent is the method of the gentle and scholarly head of our department. Perhaps the results are not as brilliant--perhaps our Latin classes are not as soundly grounded in the mysteries of the grammar as the classes of old,-but certainly there is more humanity in his method and his pupils as they grow toward age will be able to hear a Latin phrase without an involuntary tingling of the l7Z1l1US or a sympathetic movement of the hands toward the seat of their trousers. Not that he hasn't his own methods-a tongue polished by scholarship may often sting-and there My are times when he neatly outlines a 5 cadet's frailties in a word or phrase ' .Q which cuts, and sticks. But, if it does, , , ,. it should, and no one kicks. Latin is no joke-that may be the .-lV Ziggy, 1 reason we have no joke for this page W? .X-Q' -and to get a decent mark in one of ix Mr. North's classes means a lot of a ff - hard work, and then some, as illus- ,..- trated by our brilliant artist. who fggwi -ltftl t'u.m,,,,,,,,Qij22Qf' 'Lf shows a senior calculating when he . f can write 1inis to his work in the 3 ig yffiligijlimaii 'xx classics. f u ,-'K fi SM 51'vdyHwR.-dv 19