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

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I N . W La o 32114 'F' ,, , . Iv fs' .- Department of Natural and Experimental Philosophy PROFESSOR COLONEL WILLIAM B. GORDON: class of 1877g Professor of Natural and Ex- perimental Philosophy, U.. S. lVl. A., 1901. ASSISTANT PRQFESSOR FIRST LIEUTENANT Joi-IN C. HENDERSON, Coast Artillery Corpsg class of 1906. INSTRUCTORS FIRST LIEUTENANT LUCIAN D.' BooTH, Coast Artillery Corpsg class of 1907. FIRST LIEUTENANT JAMES A. BRICE, Coast Artillery Corpsg class of 1909. FIRST LIEUTENANT HENRY I-I. MALVEN, JR., Coast Artillery Corpsg class of 1909. FIRST LIEUTENANT CHARLES B. MEYER, Coast Artillery Corpsg class of 1909. FIRST LIEUTENANT EUGENE R. HOUSE- I-IOLDER, 26th lnfa-ntryg class of 1907. FIRST LIEUTENANT FRANCIS C. HAR- RINGTON, Corps of Engineers: class of 1909. SECOND LIEUTENANT l-loIvIER I-1. SLAUGHTER, ,14th lnfantryg class of -1908. . SECOND LIEUTENANT HERBERT O'LEARY. Coast Artillery Corpsg class of 1910.

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