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

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 Linked .sweetness, 1-o-n-g d-r-a-w-n o-u-t.” ME artistic temperament is u necessary attribute of one who would describe the Drawing Academy as “a thing of beauty and a joy forever.” To the uninspired who plod their weary way along, it spells work with a capital “W.” At first the perversity of all created things seems to he concentrated into one set of drawing instruments and every finger turns into a thumb. But, • as nothing is eternal in this mortal life of ours, finally the last plate is approved and slop work (well named, indeed) occupies the attention. This proves but the “stepping stone to higher things” and the yearling year terminates with a map of West Point, drawn, usually, in the friendly shelter of some rock on “Fort Put.” Furlough over, the “student officer” completes his artistic development. Deprived of the helping 'I' square and triangle he relies on the modicum of genius that God gave him to produce something remotely resembling a straight line. At this time the perennially youthful grinds concerning “the HI pencil” and “the clean, sweet line” make their appearance. From the first attempt to portray the infinite variety of a cube to the final despairing effort to draw a monkey wrench which shall not be mistaken for a pair of manicure scissors the progress is rapid. The appearance of the warm spring days brings a series of lectures on the great and near great in Art. intended to prepare the auditors ( ?) for the annual trip to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. 'This is the season of the “post prandial nap.” Those who cannot resist, lapse to unconsciousness during a discussion of tin architecture of ancient Egypt and awake centuries later among the splendors of Rome,—latter-day Kip Van Winkles. And last of all comes landscape sketching, which serves only to produce a conviction of the error of not making the adjacent landscape a thing of straight lines and angles. This completed, the great day arrives when the implements of the craft are collected and farewell—a long farewell—is bade to “the counterfeit and counterpart of nature reproduced in Art.” — 2'J —

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a H CUVfK BVT 15 IT ART? Department of Drawing PROFESSOR Colonel Charles W. Larnkd, Cadet, l S. M. A., 181)6-1870; appointed from New York; graduu-ted 58; Second Lieutenant :kl Cavalry, June to October, 1870; transferred to 7th Cavalry; Second Lieutenant 7th Cavalry, 1870-1876; First Lieutenant, 1876; Professor of Drawing, U.S. M.A., 1876. IN’ST It I’CTO RS Caitain Piehiick W. Lewis, 59 th Infantry; class ’96; graduated 18. First Liectexaxt Pelham I). GuiotMiD, 5d Field Artillery; class ’01; graduated 18. First Lieutenant Henry M. Nelly, 50th Infantry; class ’05; graduated ti. Second Lieutenant Richard J. Herman, 93d Infantry; class Ot; graduated 41. Second Lieutenant Frederick W. Manley, 13th Infantry; class 05; graduated 65. — 28 —

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 ikfiiiiVJ .jl wY ASSOCI ATE PROFESSOR (’aitain George B. 1 11.1 111 hv, Corps of Fngim ers; class ’00; graduated I. A SS 1ST A NT PROF F,SS() R First I.ieitenant James F. Bell, Corps of Engineers; class 02; graduated I. INSTRUCTORS First I.ieitenant Sami t:i. Fran keniikkc.kh. 3d Field Artillery: class ' ». ; graduated II. First I.ieitenant Frederick II. Smith. Coast Artillery Corps; class 03; graduated 15. First I.ieitenant Charles It. Alley, Const Artillery Corps; class 04; graduated 12. First 1.11:1 tenant Ciiai’ncky I.. Fenton. Const Artillery Corps; class 04; graduated 15. First I.ieitenant William Biiyden, 5tl Field rtil-lery; class 04; graduated 19. First I.ieitenant Francis W. Honkycitt, 5th Field Artillery; class 0t; graduated 23. Second I.ieitenant ('iiaki.es Tkikord, 12th Cavalry; class K4; graduated 5. Second I.ieitenant Vacoiin W. Cooper, 19th Cavalry; class 04; graduated 14. Second I.ieitenant Roi.i.axd W. Cask, 10th Infantry; class 05; graduated 10. Second I.ieitenant Ciiaki.es S. Donavin, 27th Infantry; class 05; graduated 18. yf urt 15 ONE. DEMttED HORfcIO Department of Mathematics PROFESSOR I.iki TKN ANT-O01.0.NK1. Ciiaki.es P. Echols, Cadet. L’. S. .M. .. 1887-1891; appointed from Mahama; graduated 3; Instructor of .Mathematics, U. S. .M. A.. 1891; Assistant Professor of Mathematics, lT. S. M. A., 1897; Vssocilitc Professor of .Mathematic-. I . S. M. A., 1898; Professor of Mathematics, L.S.M.A.. 1904. — 30 —