United States Naval Academy - Lucky Bag Yearbook (Annapolis, MD)

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 MAT M. Oil, Math ! Come creep into my shallow brain, And help me in my efforts to succeed I seek not 3.5 s. No, I am not vain. But help me get the two-five that I need. SKINNY. The Elec, theory and the waves of heat. Rack through my brain and help to make me sad. Oh, may my efforts end not in defeat! And all my classmates say, Alas ! Too bad ! STEAM. Escaping steam I hear in all my dreams And try to stop it: my attempts so frail Arc nothing, yet how hard to me it seems That after two long years I go and fail. ALL hard battles with my math and steam, And with my skinny arc complete at last For me, of Hope there is not half a gleam, The second-class exams, I failed to pass.

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After the send off we scattered to the four winds and came back to enjoy simple harmonic motions. Cranks were also our pastime, and for lighter recreation, calculus. So here we are in the middle of the year, and so much behind us that we forget how much is still to come. But we have changed in the two years ; we are not particular about looking to the front when we pass upper-classmen, for arc we not of the elect? Above the first floor, we yield the balusters to no one, there is a gay abandon in our manner, and we swagger some- times. We can go to dances, and most of us do. In fact there are only four left who have never been convicted of talking to “ femmes.” Then we have learned lots of things ; have looked upon the water when it was rough, (and felt it too); knots, splices, rings, bolts, nuts, patches, chipping, signals, boats, steam-launches—all these mysteries are explained and the Department of “plebe” Math, is behind us. Many of us have fallen by the wayside and been trodden down, and the rest of us are inclined to believe that we have fallen among thorns. In the beginning we were eighty-five and Dejarnette; then we grew a “ little one for a cent,” but now we are down to forty-seven and Taka-saki. But we know all about those forty-eight ; we know where to go for a postage-stamp or dances, and where to go to have “ probs ” done; we know further that forty-seven men are ready to help us if they can, and this is the best of all. Some of us, I regret to say, have fallen so low as to wear “ buz- zards,” but, poor things, it is not entirely their fault, and some of them seem to be doing their best to redeem themselves. The next thing on the programme is the “ Semi-ann.,” and after that begins, if it has not already begun—the great and exciting rush for stripes. About sixteen poor fellows will be chosen, and about ten others will be heart-broken, but their sorrows and “buzzards” will all be for- gotten in the haven of First Class Year. With the hope that our career may go on as gloriously as it has begun, we make our bow and turn you over to the tender mercies of Matii., Skinny, Steam.

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of CLASS OFFICERS. Richard H. M. Robison, Ralph Earle, .... President. Secretary. MEMBERS. Bisset, Henry Overstreet. Blaxdy, Edwin Chauncey, Bronson, A.mon. Jr.. Bryant, John Jay, Jr.. Burt, Charles Perry, Castleman, Kenneth Galleher, Cluverius, Wat Tyler, Jr.. Cooke. Robert Powf.l Page, Craven, Thomas Tingey. Crenshaw, Arthur. Curtin, Roland Irvin, Deane. Russel Andrews, Doak, Henry Melville, Jr.. Earle, Ralph, Ellis, Mark Saint Clair. Fitzgerald, Edward Thomas, Gilpin, Charles Edward. Hauenstein. George Jacob. Henry. James Buchanan, Jr.. Holden, Jonas Hannibal, Jessop. Earl Percy, Jones, Junius Henry, Kalbach, Andrew Edwin. Kearney, Thomas Albert, Kimball, Henry Swift, Knox, Dudley Wright. Lei per. Charles Lewis. Lincoln, Gatewood Sanders, Littlefield, William Lord, Love. James Monroe. Jr.. Mac Arthur. Arthur. Jr.. Jr. McCauley. Edward, Jr.. McConnell. Richard Gray. Marshall, Albert Ware. Middleton. George Izard. Mitchell. Mason Edward. M US I IN. I I EX RY CROSKEY. Olsen. Mack Herman. Palmer. Leigh Carlyle. Poor. Charles Loxgstri.i t. Rice. George Benjamin. Ridgely. Frank Eugene. Robinson, Richard Hallett. Roys, John Holley, Spitzer. Max, Taussig. Paul Edward. Tozf.r, Charles Maxsox, Volk mar, Walter Schuyler, Walker. Ralph Eric. Washington, Pope, 24