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

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CLASS OF '02 C OL 013.84 Cworrjf mm' Blark CLASS I 'ELL Boom, jig' zz Boom! Boom, jig' zz Boom! Boom, fzg ra Rig' fly! 'Oo1'zz!z! 'Oomlz! Rip, Ray, Ri! Rip, Ray, Ri! Nazfghfy Two! Afazfghiy Two! R. P. If Officers FIRST TERM THOMSON . Prosidem' .T UDD . . . Vice Pmfsideazi . SCHUMANN . T 1'eas1u'e1' . FIRTH . . . . Sccwfaljlf . . . Hisio1'ia1z-G. R. SOLOMON. Toasf-IWzzsz'e1'-T. F. GRATTAN. SECOND TERM N. A. TAYLOR L. F. RABE. J. P. LELAND. F. W. FIKTH.

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JOHN HENRY BURGOYNE, JR., Fall River, Illzzss. Born August 5, 1878, at Fall River, Mass.g prepared at B. M. C. Dui-fee High School, Secretary R. P. I. Union, Sophomore year: Vice-President first term Sophomore yearg President second term Sophomore yearg Member of the Polytechnic Boardg Member of Gymnasium Com- mitteeg Sophomore Track Team: played end on 'Varsity Football Team Sophomore year and tackle during Junior yezirg centre on R. P. I. Basket Ball Team Sophomore and Junior yearsg Calculus Cremation Committeeg entered the Institute February, 1899. f 6' VB' The filthy weed-I would not spend another such a night though 'twere to buy a world of happy days. OHNNY says he knows he knows nobody will know his nose now that his nose is broken-but that hasn't anything to do with the Calculus Cremation Smoker. When Burgoyne passed Calculus he thought he would give up leading a strenuous life and try and hit the pipe in amanner like Daddy. So when Old Gold was being passed he helped himself bountifully, and that night, after Judd and Grid had given up hope, he made his willy and after distributing his earthly possessions among his friends reached under the bed and pulled out a crucible, two test tubes and a beaker, and said: Give these back to Kelley and send for the undertaken Johnny recovered, however, but even now holds his nose when he passes a cigar store, or sees Casey giving away Pittsburgh Stogies. E PRENTICE HALE BURLINGHAM, X Q Clzczrlestofz, W. Va. Born October 14, 1881, at Baltimore, Md., prepared at Woodberry Forest High School, Orange, Va. Member Hop Committee Sophomore year. President R. P. I. Union, Junior yearg entered the Institute September, 1898. 4' ve In making love and winning hearts he leads us all. 4 5 AM, we are not referring to that vulgar article of food which goes to make a Saturday dinner, a Trojan Saturday dinner, but to Prentice, who is not so innocent as his picture Would lead SOH16 of our fair readers to believe. I-Ie is warranted to crush any feminine heart at sixty paces and in strenuous times like we experienced in Ballston has been known to exert his marvelous powers at even greater distances. For the benefit of Juddy and Rabe and the other men in the class who run whenever they see a woman, we will say that the secret of I-Iam's success lies in his mar- velous ability to bluff. Even the Director has a time with I-Iam's answers, 'so no wonder that the young ladies are wont to listen, and then to sigh and then to believe and then to love and then to regret. ' 31