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

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X . 1 A..,..A......-..,........,ssh-.Masq Department of Mathematics PROFESSOR LIEUTENANT-COLONEL C I-I A R L E S P. ECI-IOLSQ class of I891g Professor of Mathematics, U. S. M. A., 1904. ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR CAPTAIN JAMES F. BELL, Corps of Engi- neersg class of 1902. ASSISTANT PROFESSOR FIRST LIEUTENANT ALEXANDER G. PENDLETON, Coast Artillery Corpsg Class of 1906. INSTRUCTORS FIRST LIEUTENANT RoYAL K. GREENE, Coast Artillery Corpsg class of 1907. FIRST LIEUTENANT HALVOR G. COULTERI Coast Artillery Corpsg class of 1908. FIRST LIEUTENANT SANDERFORD JARMAN, Coast Artillery Corpsg class of 1908. FIRST LIEUTENANT GoRDoN R. CATTS, lnfantryg class of 1904. FIRST LIEUTENANT HOMER R. OLDFIELD, Coast Artillery Corpsg class of 1909. FIRST LIEUTENANT DANA I-I. CRISSY, Coast Artillery Corpsg class of 1909. FIRST LIEUTENANT FORDYCE L. PEREGO, Coast Artillery Corpsg class of 1909. FIRST LIEUTENANT STUART C. GODFREY, Corps of Engineersg class of 1909. FIRST LIEUTENANT EARL NoRTI-I, Corps of Engineersg Class of 1909. FIRST LIEUTENANT FREDERICK T. DICK- MAN, 2d Cavalry: class of 1906. FIRST LIEUTENANT GEORGE W. DE- ARMOND, Cavalryg class of 1906. SECOND LIEUTENANT DONALD M..BEERE, 3d Field Artilleryg class of 1909. SECOND LIEUTENANT HAROLD E. MINER, Sth Field Artilleryg Class of 1909. SECOND LIEUTENANT JACOB L. DEVERS, 4th Field Artilleryg Class of 1909. SECOND LIEUTENANT ELMORE B. GRAY, Coast Artillery Corpsg class of 1910.

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, ffl'- WQ3f'fQ-:V , - iw N ' ' -'rug .742---N ' tw, t 1 T191- ?-i'f ' f if 'RIF' -thi WT: f llll 5512. - was wage L ' .-ralfmli 5 bt haf? My w ail, gram' f fr if wry r -. ii 536 .digg rag G W saga - ff Aw L fvsrrzg .sf.,.1:is, sea., mf J cf, , it ,lgszf 'X . W A y . , V ZATH was one of the three original departments of the , H Academy and its first professor took his chair in V 1 1812. Soon after this date the department must have made supernatural efforts, for we find that in 1840 it had succeeded in accumulating most of the , . . Q threatening array which to-day confronts the plebe 1 5 and the yearling. Davies, Bass and Church were all well-known and successful eliminating Professors. Q Church's influence is still felt, and his Descriptive gif Vpytr - H Geometry, now heavily burdened with interpolations, continues to weed out those poor souls who lack the requisite imagination, and successfully reduces each class to its graduating limit. - Its century of- experience has taught the Department all the fine points of the game of elimination, and every class that enters knows that a goodly proportion of its membership will-go back to cit life or the next class, discharged for deficiency in Mathematicsf, During Hwritsu the goats toil lustily and the mathy men are often seen assisting at these nocturnal seances up into the wee-hours. The sense of relief and satisfaction which every man feels when he puts the Math Department behind his back makes his never again for this subject the best of them all. If it were not for the strain of worry, one would learn many weird and inter- esting things from the Science of Mathematics, On a starry night how easy it is to conceive of. the infinite, but in the section room you are told to consider that un- attainable place called infinity as the intersection of parallel lines or as the rendezvous for hyperbolas and their asymptotes. Doesn't that make it clear? No! Well, it's where plus and minus swap names and all our carefully specked laws of math fall down. But to the fertile imagination of some, Descriptive Geometry offered amusements second only to Coney. Revolving points and lines traveling along a peculiarly shaped' road called a directrix generated at R f , ,fe P ER A -4 . THE an ' r will warped surfaces, parabolic hyperboloids, ellipsoids or helicoids. When you started you never could tell what 'WRlT5'K 1. was-going to happen next. The trip through Calculus and 0523, 1 1' I Q 'Least Squares seems like a bad dream now, but even with X 142 that, from our retrospective viewpoint, we all agree that the -:N 5 , Department always gave us a good square deal. Egg- ,,42:1W.,, j- 5vnne- 19