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

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Jay I . Hopkins (Oom Paul) (Si) • Cassopoms, Mich. Serg’t Major, Act. Scrg’t.. Lieut, anti Q. M.: Track team, 97. 99. '00: Foot Ball team. '99. and Annapolis A.” Such hnrtnony of colors I ne'er before had hccii. The thing was ml nrouml the head the other parts were green,” A rare exotic, dainty as a fairy queen and graceful as a gazelle. Has a voice like a canary bird and a smile like the break of day. His face and bead, in repose, remind one forcibly of an autumn sunset anti his manner suggests that winning ease of a Southern Cavalier. We do not wish to dispel any illusions that the above may create: we were paid to write it. All we ask is that you turn to the photograph of George Conily and use it as an illustration in place of the one adjoining this advertisement. Arthur I . S. Hyde . . . New York, X. Y. Corp.. B. A.. Serg't. (Colors). Act. Serg't. Major. Lieut. Misses ' the talc that I rrlntc this lesson seems to carry— Choose not alone a proj er mate, hut proper time to marry. A combination of all the oratorical effects of the Texas Norther threshing machine and bazoo-phone. Has a predilection for the dramatic in recitation and waltzes like—er— Hyde. Is “class cup committee.” gold medallist ami was instrumental in obtaining solid silver instead of heavy plate napkin rings for our class—a bit of wonderful forsighted ness. Roiikrt I- . Jackson (Electricity) . Middleton. Conn. Corp.. Serg't. (Colors). Lieut, and Q. M., B. A., July 12. 99: Hop Manager: Foot Ball team. ‘98. 99; Annapolis A.” God bless the mini who first invented sleep. A Philosopher of the most benign sort—leads an absolutely frictionless existence and believes that one small display of energy would ruin his life. Is mild mannered, even tempered and no one has ever noted in him a trace of excitement. He belongs together with Wood and Grant to a society for the suppression of summer spooning and promulgation of sleep—is in fact a star member. 29

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. Kknu. Xkvada. Stanley B. Hamilton (H'S'y) . Serg’t.. Act. Serg’t. You Ixmu your jmtc mid fancy wit will conic. Knock at you plouw, there's nobody fit home.” A degenerate. Mis puns beyond the faintest shadow of a doubt arc among the most pathetic phrases in our language. He plays upon every word that he utters with the dismal hope of once in a great while saying something worth remembering. Most of the grinds that our readers will find left out of this hook are from his master mind Ciias. G. Hakvky (Goat) . . . St. Louts, Mo. Leader of Choir. jq and 1900. So swell cacti wiudpi) c ; ass intones to ass. Harmonic twang of leather, liom and brass. He is a leader of the choir, hence one is quite naturally prejudiced against him. Outside of his trade he presents some points of interest if not of occasional amusement. He is pitifully irresponsible, loves where his glance falls and has the pleasant quality of dancing well. As leader of the choir he possesses the pleasing power of converting himself at will into a calliope, siren or combination of cavalry bugle calls. Leroy T. Hillman (Shorty) . . Indianapolis. Ind. Serg't.. Acting Q. M. Serg’t.. Lieutenant. “ From the ngc that children tread thi worldly stage. HrooinstnfTor |x»kcr they l»o tride. and round the parlor love to ride.” A Lilliputian wonder who rides like a buoy on the troubled sea and who swears he shall lake the cavalry. Shorty performs on the piano (usually hack hand springs and hurdle races) and knows a few things about spooning. To the smallness of his size he owes his safety, if not to a great extent, his life—there being a charitable bit of fiction in the Corps that we should not kill any one smaller than ourselves. 28

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Gloucester, .Mass. Charles R. Lawson Lieutenant. Capt. Three stories high—long, bright and cold.” In the words of that good old man. This specimen tends more to longituditiality than to embonpoint. ’—So long that the difference in potential between his head and feet causes a continuous current of spec to flow. Knows descrip when he sees it. but never saw it.” Has many hours of hallucination in which he imagines himself to he the very oblique projection of Sal. Nones on a warped surface. Gustave R. Lukesii (Gussie) . . Akron, Ohio. Corp.. 1st Scrg’t.. Act. 1st Serg’t.. B. A.. July 12. 99. A heard ttmt would make n razor shake Unless iti nerve were strong. A Dutch person of the most malignant type, so Dutch that he looks it. Has a tender spot in his heart for waifs and homeless orphans and is very easy” when one has several of Comly’s girls to take it the next hop. He is not voluntarily a spoonoid. but can be impressed with no great amount of trouble. Had to shave twice on furlough. but refuses to tell who objected to his beard. This shows latent possibilities—for a beard. Charles F. M artin (Piggie) (Polly», Clarendon, Ark. Corp., Serg’t. Act. Serg’t. All, let me close my eyes and dream—sweet. Fauci fill, vagrant dreams of love. An idealist of most malignant type. Has impossible views on the subject of love and its attendant evils. This man has been known to sit hours upon a deserted pier in speechless rhapsody over the power that binds two loving souls together. Believes absolutely in love at first sight and always becomes hopelessly entangled upon mere acquaintance. We find in him a musician of no small worth—he •dugs as well in one key as in another and usually accompanies himself upon the foot tub. 30