Texas Military Institute - Crusader Blue Bonnet Yearbook (San Antonio, TX)

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Graduation School life is very much like a stage; and the students, young and old, willing and unwilling, play many parts. A boy, in his time, makes many entrances, trotting off at first, holding his nurse’s hand, to the kindergarten, where he cuts pictures out of books and colors them with crayons. But the most fearful entrance is that awful time when he lets go of his mother’s apron strings and starts out to be a real schoolboy. Here he learns the world’s a battlefield with big boys to “beat him up” and strange teachers bore into him with accusing eyes. In his next entrance, he’s become a whale of a boy with a swagger, one of the regular fellows, plays marbles and ball and other things. Next he reaches a dizzy pinacle of greatness, perhaps the highest in his long career, he enters S. A. A. and wears a uniform. He is a soldier now with a strut and with a gun bigger than himself. He loves to do “about face”, and salute, and goes to bed with a “forward march.” But just as he thinks he knows it all he has a great shock and finds himself at T. M. I., an ignorant freshman, looking up with timid awe at the grave and reverend seniors. Anon he gets to be a sophomore, foolishly wise in his own conceit; for when some professor with a vision gives him a glimpse of what science has revealed of the Amazing Scheme of Things, he imagines he has acquired the sum total of human knowledge. At his next entrance he is a junior, beginning to suspect that there are things in heaven and earth not found in his philosophy. Meanwhile some have made sudden exits, perhaps unattended by applause, except in secret by the faculty. The last entrance of all, the senior with cares and duties thick upon him. His voice now is deep and rough, and his stride is soldierly. Publicly he has considerable satisfaction in being called a man, privately he has his doubts upon the subject. As Commencement approaches, he suddenly wakes up to the fact that school life, especially student life at T. M. 1., is a kind of era in his life. He begins to feel that the boys he has drilled with and entered contests with have become his friends and that they have shared together experiences that will never come to them again, as they travel down life’s highway. He discovers, with a sort of sinking feeling in his stomach, that Commencement is really the commencement of a new life, the opening of new strange doors to college or to business, and he sets his teeth over the grim thought that his spurs are yet to be won. Pane Sixteen —JOHN C. CARRINGTON.

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ERNEST LEI.AND ANDERSON “Chubby” Entered S. A. 1923. Corporal Co. B. Drill Team ’27, 28. Tennis Team ’28. Tug-of-W'ar ’28. Liter ary Society ’28. College Preference: Colorado School of Mines. RICHARD RUDOLPH ATKINSON “Dick” Entered T. M. I. 1927. Private Co. A. Literary Society '28. Editor of “Panther” ’28. College Preference: Texas A. M. H. Y. BAILEY “Olsen” Entered S. A. A. 1924. Private Co. B. College Preference: Washington Lc . WALLACE H. BOHART “Shick” Entered S. A. A. 1925. Drill Team 27, '28. Corporal Co. A. College Preference: Boston Tech. PHILIP ARTHUR BURNETT “Blue Eyes”, “P. A.” Entered W. T. M. A. 1924. 2nd Lieut. Co. C. Drill Team 26. 27. 28. Rifle Team ’28. Individual Soldier '21. College Preference: Sewanee. JAMES HERRON CAMPBELL “Major” Entered S. A. A. 1923. 2nd Lieut. Assn. Supply Officer. Literary Society '24, '25, '26, '28. College Preference: Texas U. ROBERT NEIL CAMPBELL Bob” Entered W. T. M. A. 1923. Captain Adjutant. Hockey 28. Drill Team 25, '26, '27, '28. President Lit. Society '28. Publicity Committee 28. Vice-Pres. Class '26. Annual Staff '28. Class Secretary ’28. College Preference: Princeton. JOHN CLAIBORNE CARRINGTON “Jack”, “Goofy”, “Calhoun” Entered S. A. A. 1923. Captain Supply Officer. Drill Team '27, '28. Literary Society '23. '25. 26. '21. '26. Secretary '21. ’28. Scholarship ’24. 25, '27. Commencement Debate '21. Class President '26. Annual Staff '28. Publicity Committee ’28. Valedictorian. College Preference: Princeton. JOE STEPHEN CAVAZOS “Steve” Entered W. T. M. A. 1922. Captain Co. A. Rifle Team '28. Drill Team ’25. '26. '21. 28. Literary Society '28. Sgt.-at-Arms Lit. Society ’28. College Preference: Texas A. M. GEORGE WINZEN DAVIS “Wuz” Entered S. A. A. 1925. Corporal Co. A. Drill Team ’27. '28. Literary Society ’26. ’28. College Preference: Texas A. M. NED DePUY “Ned” Entered S. A. A. 1924. Corporal Co. B. Drill Team '27, '28. Tennis Team '28. Hockey ’27. '28. Tug-of-War ’28. Literary Society ’26, ’28. College Preference: Texas U. Page Seventeen