St Johns College - Yearbook (Annapolis, MD)

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Hatched in a bird's nest in the Rocky Mountains. Caught up in a whirl- wind and dropped in Harford. REED. Little Sandovvf' The man Q FD who has to get on a chair to reach his bed. Une of the choicest selections of Mrs. Jarley's Wfax Wforks. Soak 'em! Soak 'emi Soak iem, Lew! The pet of the Seniors, the friend of everybody. ROHRER. Easfj201't ami R0ar1'e1', Rough House cmd 'ffz'11ez,,,' These, and a few more, are what we call h.1'11rz.. If Work and zeal, combined with ambition and good humor, can make life a success, he is all right. - Fools rush in Where angels fear to tread. Wl1o vvants to play marbles P TILGH MAN. A Mellin's Food enthusiast, he also consumes a deal of Mrs. Wi11sloW's Soothing Syrup. Sarearstie ahd fhjv, Therefore called Big Spends his .money very freely, Often treats his friends to ice cream CPD. It is hard to tell Whether he vvill be a philanthropist or a barber. Continually svviping SeWard's hair-oil. Woob. , The bookful blockhead, poorly read, With loads of learned lumber in his headf' Looks as if he was sent for and couldn't come. Been going to school for nearly 4.7 years. Crack-brained about girls. Wooncock. i A loud and dangerous critic. Let such teach others who themselves excel, And censure freely who have Written well. 159

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x .:11: small' T1 SIT I I 1 I I I I I I I I 'T- I 1 I I I I I I I I I I 'I I I .1 I I I I I 1. I If .1 5 'I L I I A I As We Know Them at . JAMES IVV. CAIN. To this remarkable individual belongs the distinction of bearing the name of the elder brother of the human race, his ancestors have carried this name for generations. The string of Cains is unbroken. The original Cain was not his great C?j grandfather, but the brother of Abel, as is well known. But there is another fact which had escaped the authorities, or some of the author- ities, until the present Rat Tat board was created. Through almost unheard of labor we have been able to establish the fact conclusively, that after Cain had killed Abel, the latter decided to name his eldest son in honor of his brother to show that he QAbelj could forgive, and so the great family of Cains was originated. The present representative was born somewhere in the great State of Connecticut. After going through Yale, where he distinguished himself by his moral and tem- perate qualities, he made his appearance as a member of our Faculty at the head of the English Department. Lately he has contributed largely to the field of liter- ature, his chief works being A defence of the use of slang incompositionf' IGI-TN L. CHEXN' was born in the verdant depths of old Ireland., In his early youth, his mathematical qualities distinguished him. At the age of three, he solved to his great delight, the cubical contents of a cylindrical ar of jam. Soon after, it was his privilege to have the opportunity to calculate the acceleration of a slipper in the hand of an irate mother towards a small boy-the original speed being given. In the shadowy past he becameudisgusted with Ireland, because a green surface resisted his efforts to calculate its thickness. He came to America with the inten- tion of making pins g but being unable to calculate the number of molecules on the point of a No. 4 pin, he accepted a professorship in this venerable college. His mathematics are his own delight, the pride of the faculty and the dread of us-the plebians. We close this sketch with an earnest wish that it may never enter into his head to solve the exast number of lives in this edition of the Rat Tat. We are sure he would fail, and then we might lose him. B. V. CTSSEL has the distinction of being not only the most energetic man in the faculty, but in the whole city of Annapolis, where the speed of the inhabi- tants is remarkable. It may seem improbable when we assert that on January 2, IQO2, at 8.16 A. M., in the physical laboratory, he thrust his hand into his pocket, on the left side of his coat, and drew forth a key in exactly six minutes, thirteen and three-fifths seconds. Now we would not ask you to accept this fact about a 161