Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute - Transit Yearbook (Troy, NY)

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JOHN CASPER AVAKIAN, Q l J ANNWJG N- Y' Born March 1, 1875, at Harport, Armeniag prepared .at Colgate Universityg entered the Institute in November, 1898. 4' ve If he had only been massacred. cc VAK, the terrible Armenian, this real name is Dikran Harootune J. Casper Avakian, but we cutoff the first and the last and call him Avail so as not to be late to recitations every time we have to mention his namej, is the real thing. VVhen he gets mad and stutters and talks Dago throughhis nose, it is some- thing awful. He fell off his wheel the other day and what he said raised the temperature in the immediate neighborhood sixteen degrees and that afternoon there was a red sun set. For some time past Avak has been seriously contemplating matrimony and has been reported married as many as three times in a Week, but as yet the fatal knot has not been tied. Perhaps he will get up courage before he graduates. JAMES WARTELLE BILLINGSLEY, Jkfentorc, Ohio. Born January 29, 1880, at Arcadia, La.g prepared at Allegheny College, Meadville, Pa.g President of Y. M. C. A. Junior yearg entered the Institute September, 1898. 998' The flower of R. P. I. --Troy Press. VERY great man has his peculiarities, and, if eccentricity is to count for anything, here is the eighth wonder. The most extraordinary trait in Bill's character finds expression in a peculiar superstition. He thinks it bad luck to step on the cracks between the stones of the sidewalk. It was a regular circus to watch him dancing about New York Dewey Day trying to see the sights and miss the cracks at the same time. Bill has delved in every occult science you ever heard of, from hypnotism and mind reading down to palmistry, handwriting and phrenology, not to mention tricks galorel Bill's love for music finds expression in this little ditty-HI Went to the Animal Fair, and you can hear him whistling it at any hour of the day or night within two blocks of the Rankin House. 30