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

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A. C. VALMIER, M.Accts. Professor of the Commercial Branches All the graduates of this department expect to be generals in the Quartermaster Corps as soon as they have had a chance to show the government the remarkable-results of the instruction given them by Mr. llalmer. On the other hand, Mr. Palmer is of the opinion that if any one of them gets a job as high private he will be luckyg for, he says, they all wander in their minds as well as in their bodies, and couldn't sell ice cream on a hot day in Havana. 'Perhaps he is prejudiced, and fails to recognize the many future merchant princes now passing as cadets in his classes. As to their wandering proclivities, the artist supports the professor, and shows what happened to McAulilTe when he carelessly strolled on to the grounds of the mili- P? 7 farm-lg. tant lady who lives on the other' side '1?'?i5f -'i'T 'fiiif of the Newburgh Road. McAul1lfe .kit now goes up a tree like a squirrel X lx -Y -- ' ' . it A ,154 whenever the lady comes m the range L, , YL 1 of his eye. '-, WI5f,qi-N - Speaking of squirrels makes us X .-4 --5 'I -V X A ff - ' rg- think of nuts, and nuts makes us think , M- ' H il' l .r 'f l l fly! of aviators and automobiles and--but illllill l W V t , ' idf don't let's be personal. ' ll l ll lil ll lllimi if 'll' li Iifycilfifizir I If VM .'. ' 2 Wig? gf ff . . , 4 ff ' V W P ,- ,Zffif fl 'i'i5'-tif ' ,f p,,,,:7j 20

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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

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J 3,-ef qt 4 15 Q a L-.H 221555. V ' :ffm 1, l .I w-,155 I , Yi A 1: wwf. ' Hi ...fri sf .Q .. ' . 1 v ,, M -im 1 1 A tl W . L5 I as .n Eli bf SU . , , , , i F1 .. in get ,s.aaaasa wwwniwa, fa K f.w.,J.ivrf.- M1I.'roN F. Dixvis CNVest Pointj Colonel, U. S. A., Signal Corps Professor of Military Science and Tactics H9095 Commandant IXRTILUR F. Cuivris, Captain CNVest Pointj Assistant Commandant Q1917j SAN.Foun B. linwixizns, Captain CN. Y. M. AQ Commanding Infantry The work of the Military Department in the past has been magnifi- cently justilied by the alumni who have entered the service by the hun- dreds ancl who in one way or another have already won distinction for themselves and for their school. Again it has been demonstrated that it is the long, grinding years of training and discipline rather than the short mechanical drill of the training camp which makes real soldiers. Recognizing this fact, the department has made few changes in its methods of work on account of the war, but is going ahead giving its cadets the same thorough course of training which has made the school famous. So forgive A I us, if for the moment we turn to I y fi ,. . 4 A iiffhtei- things f . r i. '2 Rm- if il ti A, Z, .. tr ' l ' nb yi C,,,:3 ffift 'LA iii -5' KU 5 1 I er gl , 1 .f - I 3 5 ' 'tint - ' 'l ' . : Captain Leone Cgrudlyjz f'NVhere is the I V -1 lllil'-db I balance of your rille ? I3 'f D 1 Wfgwi ' ' ii' i Private .lilanigan Cmeeklyj: I Clon't Fil X li' fzf.l ll,'nl, know, sirg it was all here this morning. VN , 5 lkll .1 4 fl X' Yfi .'v,ni' ' 5 :l j ' V 'ldv ., ' fi .1 H , p, 5, f -xi ,L-if fa k If rl- .fsrnaui-,.f,.f