United States Military Academy West Point - Howitzer Yearbook (West Point, NY)

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Prank S. Bowen (Bohiinkus) (Banner). Cedar Rapids. Xeb. My tongue Is singed with buttling word . A ranting, cavorting anarchist. Steps roughshod on the manners of our time and refuses to be civilized. Belongs with Amos. Rockwell and Birnic. high in the ranks of the Knights Hospitallers and has invented a mysterious illness which he claims is worse than Bryanism and more effective than Synovitis. PKESSI.KY K. BRICE (I . K.) . . W lNNSItORO, S. C. Corp., Serg’t.. Lieutenant. •• Must henrd the minor then. Gontnmo? Xny ! then let me tclt it thee. A modern Macchiavelli. Tells most preposterous stories with a most innocent and engaging air. and would make an excellent confidence man. Rivals I . Runty in starting base less rumors. Is president of a mysterious secret society which numbers Pillsbury among its members, and he spends his few spare hours of each day proselyting in the Corps. Pkederick L. Bixk (Buck Saw). . . Brie. Pa. Scrg't.. Acting Serg't.. Lieutenant. '• To err In—Ruck. To forgive—the Com Mas a history of continued hard luck that would have made Job ashamed of himself. Has birthday parties hy tits and -.tarts, and is hail fellow well met. with the lamp post opposite the first div. A great pet of the Com. He is confidential in the extreme and even Corporal Brauigan knows his troubles. Has bit the tan bark once or twice, also the bark on the trees, at the foot of the company streets Has designs on his napkin ring, also on the other rings in the class. 2 3

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JosKi'H A. I’.vkk «i tniiii i t JoA • II akhimh •. I C «»rp. i t Scrg’t . C |»t. It. A . July tj. w Hop Manager q ; Howitzer. lyuu liiw me •cough «h if mr • «!»«• •. m| I II I»k you » Unf • .««. o help mr. by «um Rom with tlir gilt of tinging. but not »ong In hi gayest moment he whittle hi young hie away and m hi hour oi criou nc read Kipling to the girl . I per feetly entrancing company ami adapt him elf to the crowd In real loving, however, lie ha found hi life work and lu string «.f broken heart , like I S currency laid end to end. would reach three time around the world Ha huilt road in IVuu ylvatna ami ha %onte good idea on the subject Jl I.ian I»i | i i i Kami jail l (iaknimix. X. V. Blue Kihhoii ai Beauty Show Ciiml « H» nuiv glotloitety • JTrmI I worth fahuloti um of money ami i believed by man) lo have originated the heautiful old maxim: “A penny saved i« a |m'iiiiv gamed Benjamin ha oinc endearing |tialitie and can tell charming grind at reveille lie coached the winning team in our game on Franklin Field and ha made the training table two year m ucce ion I la a -mile o nnti and cherry that even the (’hem Department lia bnn known to unbend benc.ith it wcc»nr I flux HlKMI Iptollt t I trull I rim. Mill.fill A. I'a. i t Svrg't . Vet i t Serg t.. B V . July u. '«»; Hop Man ager; Indoor Meet. ’« A ll ti Imll I m«Mi .lmi|jrr»ii thing A transplanted flower «» frail that the ltgbc t hock would be deadly I la to be kept in the lio |ntal at a uniform temperature lor fear of premature dissolution. I affectionate, even trmpcrcrl and truthful and can wm a girl purely by I lie yuipitliy lie excite lie live with Ve ou and thu contrasted « t m« to lw a marvel of virtue 73

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C i.i i i ri C. C arson (Cosine) (Wheels). .Mr.vc ik. I no. Corp.. Scrg’i.. Act. Serg't.. (Colors). Captain. •' They Knmhiin :i wheel and nvvry he went. Speeding ntong to his henrt's content. Shows sadly the effect of “Corps Josh on the human system. Is muchly harassed about a set of wheels which some of his friends claim he has in place of brains. This, of course, is a pleasing fiction—there arc no wheels. While in the city on leave he brought forth the plan of a cavalry charge in Central Park—just to surprise the people, you know. Can always depend on him as a man of sound ideas and his plans lack only the possibility of execution. (iKOKCiK 11. Co.mi.y (Marguerite) (I)‘Aubcr). Ixm.w.M'ous, Ixn. Corp.. J. M. Serg't.. Lieutenant. “Seven mul eight—seven and eight. The keystone of West Point social life. Me. together with the Post Adjutant, arranges for the introduction of the many strange-looking femmes” which always show up on the nights of large hops, finding transportation accommodations and a more or less unresisting cadet for each and every one. As hop manager his experiences are strange ones, hut he bears them in a most remarkable manner Kdwin (i. Davis (Daddy) . . Samaria, Idaho. Corp., Serg’t.. Lieutenant. B. A.. July 12. ’99: Howitzer. 1900: Address 4th July. ’99; Toasted Our Future. New Year’s, 1900. Here rillK of oily eloquence in soft Meanders lubricate the course they take. The official father of 1900. though there are doubters who shake their heads when Buck Manus hobbles by with all the signs of decrepit age. Was horn without the sense of humor and is said to have frowned when he first heard a scrcechingly funny grind. Is an oratorical wonder and spouts forth eloquence of marvelous quality with convincing manner. 24