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

Text from Pages 1 - 188 of the 1895 volume:

(UtJA Sj ec. Ca I v s ' oTI A? DEDICATED With Many Various Emotions to Our lma Water 32731 time to time books written exclusively by Naval Cadets have been published, not only for personal glory, but sometimes for pecu- stituents of worldly happiness, we were not induced by either of these motives to produce this small volume. During the first part of the present academic year we were driven out of the paternal wigwam, and were told that we could not return unless accompanied by a memento of our adventures. Thus driven forth to a hunting ground well stripped of its game by ’94, we have endeavored to satisfy our persecutors. While on the chase we have fallen on all that might seem dear to our fellow men. sparing neither tender or spicy marvels. We were warned, however, not to poach or trespass, and now, with what we have been able to gather and what has come to us ungathered, we offer the whole, our Lucky Bag, as a peace offering. niary benefits. Being satisfied with our portion of the above con- Thk Editors. WE WERE WARNEO EAR reader.—as we launch this small book on the sea Of public opinion, we beg you will be Most lenient and kind, as you read the work o'er, And if faults there are many—we ask—“ Please ignore.” All the philosophy, science, and art of our class Not to mention wit, humor, and nonsense “ cn masse ” ), Have been gathered, condensed, and writ out with a pen, To be read and criticised by all classes of men. If, in your estimation, we do not compare With the world’s greatest authors—immortal Shakespeare, Lord Byron, or Milton,—’tis hoped you will find To a certain extent, we’ve enlightened your mind On all subjects pertaining to a Naval Cadet; — Love, science, athletics, the ” 2.5 ” we get In “ exams ” : or the many pleasant hours we spend On board dear, old “ Santee ”—making amend For our pranks which our officers cannot view, as do we). And from all the other contents of this book, you will sec We’ve put forth our best efforts, that we might keep alive Your interest, while perusing the Lixky Bag of ’95. 5 rff. 7| S!A . X V'‘J'OM.CtA. SAauA {a . Oulla Chancellor c£ «cTie ijen A ClAA'OXX 3 M ? J I FOUNDED 1845 yv James K. PoWt President ot the united States ACADEMY COLOR5: OLD CiOLD AND NAVY BLUE George Baxicroit Secretary ot the jftatiy Rah ! Rah ! Rail ! Hi! Ho! Ha! U. S. N. A. Boom ! Sis ! Bali 1 Navy! Academy Yell : ATTACHED TO THE United States Naval Academy Superintendent, CAPTAIN P. H. COOPER. Assistant to the Superintendent and Secretary of the Academic Board, Likutexant W. T. Potter. Assistant to the Superintendent in charge of Buildings and Grounds, Lieutenant-Commander A. Ross. Commandant of Cadets and Ibcad of Department of Discipline, COMMANDER W. H. RROWNSON. Lieutenant C. E. Colahax, Assistant. Lieutenant T. Porter, Assistant and Drill Officer. Lieutenant Hugo Osterhaus, Assistant and Drill Officer. Lieutenant D. Daniels, . Issistant and Drill Officer. 9 Seamanship� ittaval Construction, and iRaval (Tactics. Head of Department, LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER W. T. SWINBURNE. Assistants, Lieutenant-Commander J. D. Adams, Lieutenant F. E. Beatty, Lieutenant R. M. Doyi.e, Lieutenant DeWitt Coffman. Instructor in Boxing, Swimming, and Gymnastics. MATTHEW STROHM. Ordnance and Gunnevx?. Head of Department, LIEUTENANT ALEXANDER McCRACKIN. Assistants, Lieutenant J. H. Gi.ennon. Lieutenant F. J. Haesei.er. Ensign J. M. Ei.licott. Sword Master, A. J. Corbksier. Assistant Sword Masters, J. B. Retz. G. Heintz. astronomy. navigation, and Survcgin . Head of Department, LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER B. F. TILLEY. Assistants, Lieutenant J. A. Norris. Lieutenant John Gibson. Ensign J. W. Oman. io Steam Encunecriiui. Head of Depart meat, CHIEF ENGINEER C. W. RAE. Assistants, Passed Assistant Engineer T. H. Eldredge. Passed Assistant Engineer F. w. Bartlett. Passed Assistant Engineer L. I). Miner. Assistant Engineer H.W. Jones. Assistant Engineer II. O. Stickney. Ibccbanics anC Spplicb Mathematics. Head of Departments LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER CHARLES BELKNAP. Assistants, Lieutenant M. L. Wood. Lieutenant w. H. Au.en. Lieutenant Harry Phei.ps. fl b ?sics anb Chemistry}. Head oj Department, PROFESSOR N. M. TERRY, A. M., Pn. D. Assistants, Lieutenant S. C. Paine. Lieutenant T. B. Howard. Lieutenant A. M. Knight. Ensign W. H. G. Bullard. Professor Paul J. Dashiell, Ph. I). 11 ftatbcmatics. Head of Department, COMMANDER ASA WALKER. Assistants, Lieutenant A. W. Grant. Lieutenant W. V. Bronaugh. Ensign B. W. Wells, Jr. Ensign S. R. Hurlbut. Ensign A. H. Robertson. Ensign L. H. Chandler. Ewilisb Stubics, Ibistorg, anb Xaw. Head of Department, LIEUTENANT PERRY GARST. Assistants, Lieutenant J. P. Parker. Ensign E. W. Kberle. Ensign E. H. Durell. Ensign J. E. Hubbard. Ensign F. M. Bassett. Professor w. w. Fay, A. M. fccbcrn Xanfluacics. Head of Department, LIEUTENANT G. L. DYER. Assistants, Professor Jules Leroux. Assistant Professor Henri Marion. Assistant Professor Samuel Garner, Ph. D. Assistant Professor Des Garennes. 12 fcecbanical Drawing. Head of Department, LIEUTENANT G. P. COLYOCORKSSES. Assistants, Lieutenant C. N. Atwater. Professor Marshal Oliver. Assistant Professor C. F. Blauvei.t. JBrancb of physical Craimmi. In Charge, SURGEON HENRY G. BEYER, M. I)., Ph. D. Professor of Mathematics, Y. W. Johnson. A. M. Officers IHot Httacbeb to Bcabcmic Staff. Lieutenant-Commander Uriel Sebree. Medical Inspector, T. C. Walton, M. I). Surgeon W. R. Du Bose. M. D. Passed Assistant Surgeon S. S. White, M. D. Passed Assistant Surgeon A. M. D. McCormick. Pay Director James Fulton, Pay Officer. Pay Director W. Goldsborough, Commissary and General Storekeeper. Chaplain Alfred Lee Royce, D. I). Assistant Professor A. N. Brown. Libraria r. J. M. Spencer, Assistant Librarian. R. M. Chase. Secretary. Gunner R. Sommers. Santee and Shi pa, Boatswain J. S. Sinclair. M ales, Samuel Gee. C. J. Murphy. w. G. Smith. .Marine Officers. Lieutenant-Colonel McLank Tilton, Commanding Marines. Captain J. M. T. Young. First Lieutenant C. A. Doyen. academic JGoard. The Superintendent. The Commandant of Cadets. The Head of THE Department of Tactics. The Head of THE Department of The Head OF THE Department OF The Head OF THE Department OF The Head OF THE Department OF The H EAD OF THE Department OF The Head OF THE Department OF The Head OF THE Department OF The Head OF THE Department OF The Head OF THE Department OF 14 cidei ©ffieers @f (ffhe (United States P aval .sadennj Cadet Lieutenant-Com mander, STUART FARRAR SMITH. Cadet Lieutenants, FRANK PARDEE BALDWIN. PHILIPS MICHAEL BANNON. WILLIAM GHRARD GROESBECK. HENRY VARNUM BUTLER, Jr. Cadet Lieutenant and Adjutant, WILLIAM HARRY STANDLEY. Cadet Lieutenant and Commissary, FRANK HARDEMAN BRUMBY. Cadet Passed .Assistant Engineer, THOMAS MERRITT DICK. Cadet Junior Lieutenants, Harris Laning. Arthur Tremaine Chester. Walter Rockwell Gherardi. James Joseph Raby. Cadet Ensigns, Samuel Curtis Vestal, William Christopher Davidson. US Michael James McCormack. Albion James Wadhams. CaSct jpcttv Officers of tbc tfirst Class. First Division. I). W. Todd. R. Z. Johnston, Jr. S. P. Dknnktt. N. H. Hall. First Division. R. H. Robinson. G. S. Lincoln. H. S. Kimball. D.W.Wurtsbauch. Cadet Chief Petty Officer, W. BAGLEY, Second Division. Third Division. W. B. Izard. V. R. Cushman. J. C. Brkckinridgk. K. M. Bennett. J. E. Walker. O. S. Knepper. J. D. Savers, Jr. G. H Mann. J. V. Klkmann. Cabct pctt Officers of tbc ScconC Second Division. C. L. Poor. R. Earle. T. A. Kearney. A. V. Marshall Third Division. C. L. Lei per. A. K. Kalbach. C. E. Gilpin. E. McCauley, J Fourth Division. J. R. Monaghan. E. H. Watson. C. B. Barnes. M. Takasaki. Class. Fourth Division. J. H. Holden. T. T. Craven. L. C. Palmer. t. J. H. Jones. 16 THE CLASS OF NINETY-FIVE ( 1 ass of p inctvj-fS' i rc Class C«Jlv r : lpalc 35Iuc .ini' tClbite Class Ykll. Boom Rah ! Boom Ray ! U. S. X. A.! Who's alive ? Ninety Five ! Navy! Bag lev. Worth, Baldwin, Frank Pardee, Banxox, Philip Michael, Barxes, Cassii s Bartlett, Bexxett, Kenneth Marratt, Breckinridge, Joseph Cabell,Jr., Brumby, Frank Hardeman, Butler, Henry Varxum, Jr., Chester, Arthur Tremaine, Cushman, William Reynolds, Davidson, William Christopher, Dennett, Stanley Pullen, Dick, Thomas Merritt, Dunn, Edward Howard, Eckhardt, Ernest Frederick, Freeman, Frederick Newton, Garrison, Daniel Mershox, Gherardi, Walter Rockwell, Groesbeck, William Gerard, Hall, Newt Hamill, Izard, Walter Blake, Johnston, Rufus Zen as, Jr., Karns, Franklin D., Klemann, John Valentine, Knepper, Orlo Smith, Laning, Harris, Mallory, Charles Kino, McCormack, Michael James, Mann, George Hiram, M ANSFIELD, X EWTON, Marshall, John Francis, Jr., Merritt, Darwin Robert, Monaghan, John Robert, Morton, James Proctor, Raby, James Joseph, Sayers, Joseph Draper, Jr., Smith, Stuart Farrar, Staxdley, William Harry, Takasaki, Motohiko, Todd, David Wooster, Vestal, Samuel Curtis, Wadhams, Albion James, Walker, Charles Henry, Walker, James Krling, Howe. Watson, Edward 19 Vv 's’,'0 . j ISTORY repeats itself.” At least Class History does, and if you know one, you know all : but each class imagines it is a little better than the others—at any rate, a little different;—hence these pages. We first became Neptune’s proteges in the Fall of’91, and were received by the small band of May Spartans that had been hardened by the Summer cruise, and who prepared us for the welcome accorded the verdant “plebes,” when the youngsters return with dreadful mien from September leave. But why dwell on these harrowing details ? All classes go through the same ordeal ; all have these little unpleasantnesses to pass through; and ’twould be but the reiteration of experiences undergone by every class since the founding of the institution, to recite the tale of that first meeting between the two under-classes. We were mildly submissive like all the rest, and endured the stings and arrows of our outrageous fortune as thousands of others had done before. Having ascertained early in the game that our list of “stars” was to be very limited, we set our minds toward other goals, and dreamed of other things than studies. Though contrary to all customs of plebeian propriety, we aimed at the Inter-Class Base Ball Championship, and it was ours ; fur- thermore we did this for the two succeeding years. We saw to it that the foot ball and base ball teams should be fittingly accommodated with repre- sentatives from our members. In track athletics, too, our worth was recog- nized, and wherever skill and strength could have their sway, the pale blue and white waved triumphantly. 20 The plebe year passed swiftly, and before we could realize it. w e were on the threshold of youngsterdom, with its coveted joys and “rate.’’ How we had looked forward to its changes, and to that promotion in June, that should transform us from unknown, belittled, despised and long-suffering plebes to gaily, conceited and pompous youngsters. What pen can fully describe the tumultuous, feverish, maddening joy that seizes a cadet at this sudden step? He is no longer a nonentity in the little world of academic life; he is an absolute and existing feature in it. (And in justice let it be said, he feels it.) But alas! every rose must have its thorn, and while we went up a round, some of our well-beloved left us. and the sanguine band of ’86 was sadly reduced in numbers. The names of many of our cherished ones were in the lists of those found wanting. Our youngster cruise wras made on the old Constellation, during which we visited New London and Newport. There, as usual, we vied with the envious “ Cit in social matters, and began to “spoon” with youngsters' characteristic zest. We learned a thing or two on that cruise, and went home in September with the satisfaction of knowing what difference exists between a Turk’s head and a Granny knot. It was on this leave that we sported our uniforms—a thing we could not have been bribed to do on the two succeeding leaves. We returned to be quartered in stribling row. far from the madding crowd, and to bone Trig and Stereo, with Skinny and Conics in the dim future. We had not yet reached the time when the struggle for stripes and buzzards worried us. and all went merry as the proverbial marriage bell. We sailed between the Scylla of Skinny and the Charybdis of Conics, but sacrificed a few more of the grand old class. But the second class Summer was the dearest period of our career. Twas then we would creep out oft in the stilly night and bring apples from the government farm, or go canoeing on the silent Severn; twas then the tragic episode was enacted in which “ Flop-ity-flop told the story of a love-lorn youth’s sad fate, and we thought to ourselves. “How are the mighty fallen.” Then eight weeks of joyous leave:—but this was the calm before the storm: it was over all too soon, and we returned to battle with the three arch-fiends—Math, 21 Skinny and Steam. They stormed our ranks in vain for the long list that forms their annual tribute, for but three succumbed. Now we weighed the Line and the Engineer corps in the balance, and meditated on Pay vs. Rate. The result was that thirteen were lured by the siren dance of the engines, and became knights of the oakleaf. The remain- ing thirty-three entered the lists in a mad rush for stripes. Some were sur- prisingly successful, while others contented themselves with the gaudy birds. The first and second classes were together given a taste of Bancroft life, in order that the prophecy might be fulfilled, which saith, “And the lion and the lamb shall lie down together.” But the Bancroft was in reality for the Engineers, and they indulged in the luxuries that the Monongahela’s cruise would not allow. Some museless bard even went so far in his efforts to eulogize the corps as to make “engineer rhyme with “beer, although his cause was groundless, surely. The Line won their honors on the historic old wooden ship, and succeeded in handling her in a manner truly masterful. But it's all over now. The cruise, with its ambitions, its successes and its “busts,” is a blessed memory. On our return we were greeted with a new administration; and if that homely adage, “A new broom sweeps clean, ever impressed itself on us, it was then. But we can accustom ourselves to almost anything, and the appear- ance of this little book finds us about to wind up our accounts as slaves of academic discipline. That our record is unsullied is conceded, and we point with pride to a group of twenty-one second class buzzards of which not one was disrated, and with the same sweeping gesture we hope to include our stripers and buzzards of the final year. In passing we must mention the little struggle at foot ball in the Fall of ’94. We were the inter-class champions after humbling the “ Lion ” in all his righteous wrath, and affixed our name to the foot ball banner with not a little triumphant glee. Now we are at peace with all the world; our brows are bound with victorious wreaths, and we turn the deck over to ’96 with every assurance that she will with competency and distinction stand her watch. May her run through first-class waters be as free from shoals and shallows as has been ours. 22 We step down and out. feeling that we have little to regret and much to look back upon with pride. Of our mistakes we are cognizant.—may they be of as much use as a warning to succeeding classes as we hope our suc- cesses will as a stimulus. With the Jap we bid you sayonara. 23 Class Color: Crimson Class Yell. V. S. N. A.! Rah ! Rah ! Rah ! Rah ! U. S. N. A. ! Rah ! Rah ? Rah ! Rah ! Who-rah ! Who Rix ! Navy ! Navy ! Ninety-Six ! OFFICERS. President, R. H. M. ROBINSON. Secretary, RALPH EARLE. Arthur CRenshaw, Amox BrOxson, Wat TyLer Cluverius, Kenneth GaLleher Castlemax, Duncan MahOx Wood, Henry SwiFt Kimball, Hexry OversTreet Bisset, Edwix CHauncey Blaxdy, Charles PErry Burt, Ralph EriC Walker, Hexry MeLville Doak, Jr., Ralph KArle, Mark St. Clair Ellis, CharleS Edward Gii.pix, George JacOb Havexsteix, Edward Fitzgerald, Earl PErcy Jkssop, Andrew EdwIx Kalbach, Robert PaGe Cooke, James BucHaxan Hexry, Jr., Thomas Albert Kearney, Junius HExry Jones, Charles LEwis Lei per, Jonas KanNibal Holden, Gatewood SaNders Lincoln, Dudley WrIght Knox, Frank EugeNe Ridgely, Albert WarE Marshall, Thomas Tingey Craven, Richard GraY McConnell, Henry CroSkey Mustin, Daniel WIlbert Wurtsbaugh, Charles MaXsox Tozer, ArthUr McArthur, Jr., Jr., Charles LoxgStreet Poor, George BkNjamin Rice, WilliAm Lord Littlefield, Roland IrVin Curtin, Leigh CAryle Palmer. Richard HaLlett Robinson, Pope Washington, Walter SChuyler Volkmar, George IzArd Middleton, Russell Andrews Deane, John Holi.Ey Roys, Edward McCauley, Jr., Ivan CYrus Wettengel. ------—r 24 THE CLASS OF NINETY-SIX KfcPd of j [ir)cty- ix LANK. '96. closed his Calculus with a slam, took off his eye shade, and tilted back comfortably in his chair. The lesson for the morrow was as easy as it is possible for “Calc. to be. and he had practical work in Skinny : so that he felt justified in giving himself a good, long thinking spell. If he had been elsewhere he probably would have smoked to assist his thoughts, but this is the Naval Academy, so we'll pretend that he didn't on this occasion. As he tilted back, his eye caught sight of a Lucky Bag on top of the wardrobe, and this set him to thinking about what he and the class had done since it came out. It was only six months back, but it certainly had seemed longer than that. About the time of its appearance he and some kindred spirits were hunting around under the quarters for some fabled underground passage. They found a steam conduit, along which they made their painful way to a standstill under the Lyceum. He remembered how those, who later emulated this feat, were nearly drowned by their classmates as they crawled out of the man-hole. How hard it was to bone that Spring, with such magnificent nights that a fellow could not help stealing out and walking around the yard or sitting on the Santee's wharf in the moonlight. And in those days Madame s crimson sweater used to be seen flying in front of quarters, and the crew men would go out on the river and acquire callousness to blisters and to abuse at the same time. Then “Boone sallied forth to play foot ball “all on account of Eliza, and Curtin and Burt made lightning shifts after drill to go spooning, and a noble array went down to the track to practice 2; for the track events. Then came the day of the events, and how happy he was as he saw the wearers of the ’96 caps and sweaters capture the medals, win more points than all the others put together, and have one of its men cap- ture the “ individual excellence ” medal. And he remembered how, as the days grew longer and warmer, the officers gave a concert at the club, at which ’96 were interested spectators, and how some very enterprising souls drank dish-water by mistake for punch. Then came the “annual ” and we had to lose the “ Baron,’’ “ Windy,” and “Jimmy,” and but 48 were left. Then visions of June week came before him in a confused mass of hurrah, heat, drills, girls, and fond parents. Then he thought of the final day when as second classmen they turned into the homestretch of their cadet life, and that having no benches to capture, they got out their beautiful crimson banner, and forming “company square” marched the “four-striper” around. Then came second-class summer with its fun and heat. He used to pound iron or file all the morning; shoot, eat cherries and throw sticks at the officer in charge all the afternoon : and in the evening read or spoon, or go sailing. He smiled as he thought of that hilarious 4th of July launch party, of the visit of three classmates, attired in “ cits,” to Bay Ridge, of the arrest of two others of his most decorous classmates for ‘ ‘ fast riding ’ ’ at Bay Ridge. A host of scenes in the machine shop came before him—Poor perspiring to nothing in one corner, Rice screwing up his vise, Bronson posing as a “professional sitter,” Wurtsbaugli and Kearney inventing a patent “ greasing ” machine, Washington and Palmer trying to decorate each other's work, Wood cleaning filings out of the back of his neck, and Mustin being “ insulted ” by a “ subordinate,” and as a background for it all, the slow music of the Rogue's March with file accompaniment. At this point in his reveries tattoo sounded, the music of the carroussel over by Marine Barracks stopped, and was immediately succeeded by a worse evil, in the shape ol a song from Building 4, and the fellows came pouring into the corridors for a “skylark.” Blank heeded none of these though, for he was thinking of the last night of second-class summer with its strange noises, its volleys of packing-boxes in front, and of lamp-chim- neys in the rear, with alarm-clock choruses at frequent intervals. Then came the cruise with its two parts, oh, so different! What fun on the Ban- croft ! What a jolly hop that was at Norfolk ! Then there was Philadel- phia, where he filled his brain with “ garboard strakes,” butt-straps,'’ “T 28 bars,” etc., until it was ready to burst; became wild at the sight of the “Arasapha,” and took in the “ Bijove.” Then came the good times in New York, where Kllis displayed his vast knowledge of ship building, Ridgely got left, and Castleman went to the hospital. Then there was Newport and its brain-puzzling torpedoes, Bronson’s “ affaire de coeur,” and Jamestown. Then there were darker memories of the Monongahela with its time- sights and signals. He remembered how Rice went to the mast head imme- diately upon his arrival, how Lincoln “digested” the regulations, how Poor lived with a time-table in his hand, how Doak and McCauley took marvelous time-sights and located the ship in Richmond or Louisville. At last though, there was an end to it all, and they were scattered on leave throughout the country. What good times they had and how hard it was to return once more. How proud the new “ buzzards ” were and how the tailors were rushed so that all might be able proudly to rest their arms on the backs of the seats in church the following Sunday. And now began the battle with “ Math,” “ Skinny ” and Steam, and foot ball resumed its sway, while “ spooning ” was begun as vigorously as before. And now Blank’s thoughts had led him to the present. Then the welcome sound of “ taps ” blown only as a “ gyrene ” bugler can blow it, floated softly in through the open window. Raising the window he looked out on the moonlit scene before him, and thanked his fortune that he was still in the Academy, surrounded by true-hearted classmates, with two happy years to look back upon, and with the hope of a year-and-a-half more before the great class of ’96 should be finally scattered far and wide. lass of p incty- )c cn Asm sc,, Sheldon Wkbb, Asserson, William Christian, Baghy, Robert Colkman, Boyd, David French, Jr., Bryant, Samuel, Woods, Chase, Gilbert, Collins, Henry Lafayette, Day, John Arthur, DuBose, William Gunnell, Duncan, Oscar Dibble, Eggert, Ernest Frederick, Falconer, Walter Maxwell, Giles, William Pinkney, Graeme, Joseph Wright, Graham, Andrew Thomas, Hart, Thomas Charles, Henderson, Robert William, Hepburn, Arthur Japy, Herndon, Henry Raymond, Hilleary, John Francis, Holman, Frederic Ralph, IIoopes, Edward Trimble, Houston, Victor Stuart, Jenson, Henry Norman, Jones, Needham Lee, Kautz, Austin, Keenan, Ernest Clinton, Kempfk, Clarence Selby, Landis, Irwin Franklin, Leahy, William Daniel, McCarthy, Albert Henry, McDowell, Willis, Mac.ill, Samuel George, Jr., Mahony, Daniel Sullivan, Miller, Cyrus Robinson, Morse, John Wise, Murfin, Orin Gould, Naylor, Charles Jacob, Overstreet, Luther Martin, Owen, Alfred Crosby, Owens, Charles Truesdale, Perrill, Harlan Page, Powell, Joseph Wright, Pratt, Peter Lloyd, Pressey, Alfred Warren, Reynolds, William Herbert, Richardson, Louis Clark. Roehle, Clifton Charles, Sargent, Leonard Rundlett, Sexton, Walton Roswell, Sheffield, Fletcher Lamar, Smith, Arthur St. Clair, Jr., Terry, Joseph Dandridgr, Theleen, David Elias, Van Orden, George, Webber, George, Wessels, Arthur Lewis, White, William Russell, Williams, Hilary, Yarnell, Harry Ervin. 30 THE CLASS OF NIN ETY- SEV E N. Vs™ ’- FAMOUS English author has said that American cities are all alike, with their streets crossing at regular intervals like squares on a checker-board. The same might be said of the more or less checkered careers of the classes in the Naval Academy, for the history of one is the history of all: yet there are a few things in '97's career that are worth recounting. Polly and thirty-three others entered in May. After a few weeks of setting-up drill came the cruise. If all we have heard from the May Plebes is true, this was a most wonderful cruise, the Constellation a most wonderful ship, and Funchal a paradise. On the way acioss, the ship ran into a heavy storm : the wind blew one hundred and twenty miles an hour: the waves were eighty feet high : the thunder rolled: the lightning flashed, and “it seemed all hell had rose to rent the earth asunder.’’ The faithful Constellation turned over on her side, filling her quarter-boats with water, springing a leak at her bow. and tearing loose her main mast. This was, without doubt, the worst storm that was ever upon the ocean. The trip back was blessed with plenty of beans and sunshine. The May part of ’97 were either possessed of evil, or else they were hazed: for when they returned, they were duly qualified liazers. In September, fifty- eight others entered the earthly paradise. The month on the Santee was one continual round of pleasure for the “ Sep. Plebes. The May Plebes were so kind and considerate, so ready to instruct their ignorance. When a Sep. Plebe attempted to go through a port ahead of one of the May autocrats, or drink at the cooler before him, how quickly was he shown the error of his ways, and given a gentle reminder. The officers, however, did not appreciate all this kindness: they called it hazing. It was a question whether or not several “Sep.” Plebes did not have to stand on their heads, slide down gangway ladders, answer to nows dc guerre, etc. A court-martial decided that these things had been, and, as a result, several May Plebes languished on the Santee. Nothing of importance happened during our first term in quarters. We were good Plebes, kind and obliging to the upper class-men. Early in the second term “Coxey's Army,” consisting of four men,—three privates and a sergeant,—was organized with great gusto. Soon the entire class, under the title of “Ship's Company,” rose as one man to oppose the Army. The soldiers were bruised, bumped and beaten, and yet retained their boldness. During the small hours of night some rear admiral of the Ship’s Company would awake from his happy dreams to find himself and bed soaking wet. A fire bucket on the floor told the tale. All was quiet;—who did it? The Army got the blame, but in spite of opposition and hatred, it still survived. Bombs were invented, and Plug devised a means of transferring water from the room above to the room below, which greatly facilitated the operations of the Army. As May approached, our gall became unlimited, and before we reached the “Annual ” no plot or scheme daunted our head-long career. Words fail us to describe our youngster cruise. But one man of our acquaintance has the requisite flow of language. We quote from the diary of Hungry Joe, the foremost litterateur of our class,—the only man in the Academy that can write four pages of standard English without putting a verb in it. “ Then came that offle cruise. We again prepared to go, to no sivil- ized place, no land of honey and milk, no Hands of corals and pearls, but far from it,—to a landless region,—where the eye, if searching the horizon from day to day, would find only mad—dashing—rolling waves—mountain 34 =� r high—rise—break, and settle silently back into the bed from which they rose. “As the days rolled on our miseris increased, the cliease were condemned, the chikens died, ants carried off the sugar, cadets ran off with the ‘plum- duff,’ and the cat walked overbord with a belaying pin. “All this with having to pull on ropes,—a dis- gusting ockupation,—had a tendensy to make us able seemen. Hoary handed sons of toil never had hands so hoary as ours. Some did grease and gain boners and dishonors thereby. Davy did turn out, and by the light of the moon work on a sword mat that re- turned to him an hunderd fold.’' The last part of the cruise was more pleasant than the first. There were no night watches to stand, and we were resigned to our fate. When homeward bound, fortune favored us with a few coppers, and fewer days of liberty at Fortress Monroe, both of which we enjoyed exceedingly. Coming up the bay the weather was beautiful,—the sunsets were surpassingly gorgeous. Again we must quote from the Sergeant: “After supper all cadets went to the rail to see the beautiful sunset. There were just enough clouds in the beautiful sky to make the seenery more beautiful. The rays would make their edges appear as gold. The beau- tiful rays intermingled with the different shades of the water—all this was indescribly beautiful.” Our month’s leave went all too quickly, and when we returned we knew what was home without a mother But our woes were soon crushed beneath the Juggernaut of discipline, and we are now all hardened sinners. One morning while Annapolis was still in its customary comatose con- dition, the eyes of the few people that happened to be up were startled by a piratical flag flying from the staff on New Quarters. Visions of Captain Kidd marching through town floated before their befuddled brains, and the 35 Governor got up and loosed his dog. Their fears were groundless, for the attack began and ended with the flag. Ended? Yes, ended. We read in the Baltimore papers that several cadets were implicated. HO! ho! what queer things get into the papers. Several nights after this, nineteen buckets fell down the well (over the balustrade), nearly waking the gyrene. Rumor says the third class did this, and a competent authority said, “ By George! somebody’s going to hit the Santee.” Then a few of the leading lights of the class turned their atten- tion to archaeology, and an interesting art exhibit, dug from the rubbish of the attic, rewarded their explorations. Strange to say, their artistic spirit was not appreciated, and art for art’s sake has suffered a relapse, owing in part to the fact that the attic windows are now nailed down. Discouraged by this oriental indifference to the beautiful, the class turned their attention to zoology. Having heard that two cats would fight if hung together by their tails, the experiment was made with an eminently satisfactory result. Zoology, however, was too expensive a fad, for cats come high. Soon after this strange things happened, — the work of Coxey’s Army,—generally supposed to have been extinguished. Bill awoke one morning, his face painted with red and black streaks. Reliable eye wit- nesses say he strongly resembled Tecumseh Giles. The rooms of Youngsters on the first floor were deluged nightly, and any time after nine-thirty Alfred Crosby might be seen standing on his table clothed only in rubber shoes and coat, and endeavoring, by the help of perseverance and a boat hook, to fish a few clothes from the flood, while words of patience and resignation fell from his cold, blue lips. Tamp chimneys rose in value, and piracy in this line became profitable. In order that their victims should no longer have need for lamp chimneys, the pirates generally poured sealing-wax into the gas- burner. “These and many other things were done, which, if they were written every one, the world itself could not contain the books thereof.” “And 36 those in authority saw that the wickedness of Youngsters was great and that every imagination of the thoughts of their hearts was evil continually.” The highest in authority saw these things and marvelled greatly thereat; and they took counsel and considered, saying that the laws of the Medes and the Persians had been broken and infracted, with impunity, for the first time since the foundation of the empire ; and that these things must cease, or dire and mysterious punishment would be visited upon the heads of the doers thereof. Notwithstanding the impending disaster, a few of those turbulent spirits that have been the curse of every age and of every clime, by careful economy at artillery drill, managed to save a quantity of blank cartridges from which they made several bombs. With these bombs a desperate attempt was made to blow up a table in the corridor. However, the dastardly plot failed. Only one bomb went off, for on the appearance of the gyrene the fuses of the other three went out, and the table is still there. Once again righteous- ness was its own reward. This was the straw that broke the camel's back, but the noble animal got up and humped. The flood-gates of wrath were opened upon the devoted class, and they were made to stand guard duty even until the hour when Brode turns out to bone. And now gentle readers (we say 4 4 gentle readers’ ’ because of our disin- clination to break established forms) we have told you our troubles,—to say nothing of the writing of this history and its probable consequences, which are personal matters—and we feel we have your warmest sympathy in our hour of trouble. We need it. In writing this history we feel obliged to acknowledge our obligations to the authors of the following works, which have greatly aided us in our laborious task : Reveries of a Bachelor, by A-st-n Ka-tz ; Stepping Heavenward, by I). 1 . B-yd : How to be Funny, by W. M. F-l-c-n-r; Agriculturist’s Handbook and Sporting Manual, by Jeremiah L-nd-s: Grease, Manufac- ture and Vse, bv Prof. I'r-ss-v; Good Form, or Howto be Spooney, by W. R. Wh-te : How to Tack in a Tidal Wave, bv Sweet-spud Luce R-ch-rds n Life in the Wigwam, or Ten Years a an Apache Pappoose. by Geronimo G-l-s ; The Steam Man. His Rise. Fall and Decay, by H R. H-rnd-n : Two Years in the First Section, by P. I.uvius K-mpffff. Abele, Clarence Arthcr, Applewhite, Scott Carter, Arnold, William Wood, Babcock, John Franklin, Boone, Charles, Briggs, Wilbur Gerheart, Briggs, Zeno Everett, Brockway, Benjamin Little, Brown, George, Jr., Brown, Josephus Jarvis, Brown, Morris Hamilton, Constien, Edward Theodore, Gotten, Lyman Atkinson, Cronan, William Piggott, Dinger, Henry Charles, Durham, Raymond Ewing, Elson, Herman Jacob, England, William Herbert, Evans, Franck Taylor, Paller, Guy William, Farrin, Thomas Benjamin, Jr., Gilmer, James Blair, Gleason, Henry Miller, Graham, John Sisson, Halligan, John, Jr., Hand, James Alexander, Hanrahan, David Carlisle, Hord, Oliver Saunders, Hunter, Charles Milton, Huntington, Arthur Franklin, Johnson, Thomas Lee, Kress, James Chatham, Lehkeldt, Henry August, Love, James Monroe, Jr., McIntyre, Edward William, Macy, Ulysses Samuel, Madison, Zachariah Harvey,. Mannix, Daniel Pratt, Marble, Ralph Norris, Jr., Mitchell, Alexander Neely,. Moore, William Augustus, Nelson, Charles Preston, Peterson, Roscoe Li.oyd, Pettingill, George Tilford, Pinney, Frank Lucius, Purse, Henry Ashby, Roper, Walter Gordon, Rutledge, Carl Clyde, Schofield, John Anderson, Shane, Louis, Shockley, Augustus Wroten, Smith, George Leonard, Sweet, George Cook, Tardy, Walter Benjamin, Tarrant, William Theodore,. Taylor, Hugh Kirkpatrick, Thorpe, George Cyrus, Turner, Laurin Hamilton, Watts, William Carleton, Wells, William Benefiel, Williams, Henry, Williams, Yancey Sullivan, Woods, Edward, Wright, Henry Tutwiler. 3« THE CLASS OF NINETY-EIGHT i tor-y of l [i Dd'y-Rlil)! HE Plebe historian is one to be pitied, for his woes are many, and much is required of him. He has to write a class history when his subject matter is a disjointed and disconnected mass of green humanity, whose main function is to furnish amuse- ment for upper classmen and fill the “pap, but whose next object in life is to keep from “bilging, more often unsuc- cessfully than not. as to the latter; and as the first two are easiest, so are they not the most pleasant. To be successful in them requires only the evincement of that greenness with which Plebes are naturally endowed; the rest follows. This is not a recital of the woes of Plebes, yet the author cannot refrain from giving vent to his feelings on one or two subjects that are particularly unpleasant to them. The first and the worst of these is that most pernicious habit of the officers in trying to catch him being hazed. The Plebe naturally does not want to be caught being hazed, and especially by one whom he views with great respect and awe. For this reason it is not an unusual occurrence for a couple of Plebes to get a youngster and take him off to some secluded spot, post many sentinels who shall give warning of the approach of intruders, and then proceed to be hazed : not that they enjoy it, but they know that it is for their welfare, and they take it as they would quinine. How much better it would be if a Plebe could walk down to first class floor with an easy air, as he could go to the hospital for his evening dose of medicine, and say, “ I think that last time did me good : I should like to try another. Then the operation would be gone through with quietly and in order, and 41 there would be no alarms of “ Sail Ho” and consequent “ disappearances ’ ■ of Plebes. Another bane of a Plebe's life, and one that is continually held up to him is the prospect, and in some cases, certainty, of “ bilging.” Now, who wants to “bilge?” Even the name has a disgusting sound. Why is not the system abolished ? Why can’t a poor Plebe, after he has passed the ordeals called entrance exams, and proved himself worthy of naval honors, be allowed to rest in peace ? Ye furies that invented it, tell me, I pray you, why is it thus with us poor mortals ? What have we done to merit such treatment ? There is yet one more, and you, foul fiend, that invented it, may the rest of the foul fiends make mince meat of you ! This is—fair reader prepare to shudder—the necessity of the Plebe sweeping out his room and making his bed. Can anything more horrible be conceived ? Imagine, if you can stretch your imagination so far, the Plebe sweeping out his room ; oh, horrors, I smell the dust and hear the suppressed oaths of my room-mate now as I write. And this is for his good. Oh, vain and foolish fancy. We can imagine the need of it to the first classmen : and by stretching our imagination a little, to the Youngsters. But who could imagine the benefit of it to a grave and dignified Plebe ? What could compensate for his loss of self-respect ? What for the fearful cuss-words which some of them have been known to utter upon such occasions ? My feelings grow too strong for me. % Jjc ;jc %L And yet with it all the Plebe is happy; from the ones that have accepted bilging as necessary and have “ knocked off boning ” and those that have not, and are happy in their ignorance, to the much envied “ savez ” people: all are as happy as the day is long : and many are the good times which the old rooms on the Plebc floor have seen ; and the old wardrobes, of how many plebe classes that have clambered up their sides and reefed top-sails on their tops, could they tell ? But this is not class history. The real beginning of this class history was, as usual, on the 15th of May, last, when a lot of seedy and green countrymen reported at the Super- intendent's office to place themselves on recoid as being candidates for Naval honors. Little did those that passed the exams, which followed know what 42 was in store for them in the months to come, of the awful trials and tribula- tions which they should undergo. At first life seemed easy. They were quartered on board the U. S. P. S. Santee, and had a special guard every time they went abroad to see that they were not imposed upon. This was the beginning. They had not reached the state of plebedom, they were as yet only “functions.” But when the day of the June ball came and they became Plebes, they were embarked on the U. S. S. Monongahela, in com- pany with the late Plebes, and then was it that their troubles commenced. First they became inverted by orders, then when the ship began to roll they thought that they should be turned inside out as well. Oh, the dreadful feelings of that lee gangway. And then how they did have to work ! They did their own share, which was by no means small, and a greater part of the upper classmen’s. The only thing that made his life worth living was the prospect of what he should do in September with his future classmates, the “Sep. Plebes, and he spent his time making up awful stories of hazing, which he should tell to the “ Sep. Plebes ” to make them stand in awe of one who had undergone such awful trials and tribulations, and make them willing to undergo the same at his hands. The second chapter of this history dates from the first of September last, when a second installment of green humanity reported to the Superin- tendent's office. Then followed in an aggravated form those ordeals, both mental and physical, which are posed as exams. A small percentage having passed them, these lucky (?) ones proceeded to obtain the money which is one of the necessary requisites of Naval honors. In the meantime they wandered around the yard and gazed from afar on their future classmates, and thoughts of how glad they should be to know them, and other such conceits natural to ‘ ‘ Sep. Plebes ’ ’ passed through their minds. But when they went aboard the Santee and met these future classmates, how rudely were their thoughts dashed, and with what different feelings they regarded them ! But it was all for the best. After a week of wishing that he had never heard of the Navy, the new “Sep. Plebe ” becomes reconciled to “ life on the deep, and takes a pleasure in it, even though he rates only one side of the deck and has to wear his hat squarely on his head. But this is the same with all classes, and to tell it is a mere repetition of an old story. 45 There is one thing, however, that is especially worthy of note, and that is the amount of good fellowship existing in our class. It is not often that a crowd of Plebes is seen among whom such general good feeling existed as exists in our class: and we went through September with the ‘ May Plebes lording it over the “ Seps. with never a fight, and no ill-feeling after it was over. AA Hn flbemortam. Paul JEfcwarfc Caudio. Cias� of '00, x . s. itt. a. JBorn December, 1874. DicO 3ulo 23,1804 at J6roofc(gn Havv; IjavO, HA. 1’.. while attaebeo to tbc 11. S. . S. Bancroft. 45 ccidcnuj ©hapel 0hcir. Leader, E. F. ECKHARDT, ’95. first Tenors. E. F. Kckhardt, ’95. V. L. Littlefield, '96. J. A. Hand, ’98. First Basses. H. S. Kimball, '96. C. E. Gilpin, ’96. A. W. Pressy, ’97. Second E. H. Dunn, ’95. W. C. Davidson, ’95. Newton Mansfield, ’95. Tenors. Worth Eagley, ’95. R. H. M. Robinson, ’96 L. A. Colten, ’98. Second Basses. E. P. Jessop, ’96. W. R. Sknton, ’97. Austin Kautz, ’97. 46 NAVAL ACADEMY CHAPEL CHOIR. (gj. £)■ ftaial eadermj Athletic ssc£iation. EXECUTIVE President, .... Treasurer, ............... Captain oh Foot Bai.i. Team, Captain of Base Ball Team, . Captain of Boat Crew, Manager of Foot Ball Team, Manager of Base Ball Team, Manager of Boat Crew, Manager of Field, Track and ) Gymnasium Athletics, ) COMMITTEE. S. P. DENNETT, ’95. . L. C. PALMER, ’96. M. J. MCCORMACK, ’95 . V. B. IZARD, ’95. H. S. KIMBALL ’96. . S. F. SMITH, ’95. F. H. BRUMBY, ’95. C. E. GILPIN, ’96. F. D. KARNS, '95. P mj uxiliarvj thleti£ soliciticn. EXECi 'TU E BOARD. President, Treasurer. Secretary, . COM. C. M. CHESTER. LIEUT. COM. W. R. SWINBURNE. . LIEUT. F. J. HAESELKR. SURGEON H. G. BEYER. PROF. P. J. DASHIELL. 49 OOTBALL stands at the head of all the athletic sports and relax- ations that interest the undergraduates and the alumni of our institutions. It is, in fact, the contest par excellence, and at no place can this be more truly said than at the Naval Academy. Since the introduction of this game, the interest of the battalion has always centered itself on the team, and the suc- cess of the teams was in no small way dependent upon this interest; for in the early years of football histon.’ at the Academy there were very few concessions made to the players. The points of the game were thus only learned after indefatigable practice and self- instruction, and under these circumstances the encouragement of the enthu- siastic battalion was very acceptable. Of late years more time has been secured for practice without in any- way affecting the interior discipline or the efficiency of the institution, con- trary to first intention, that is as a training and probationary school for future naval officers. 51 On the other hand, it lias served to assist all departments in developing those traits most essential in a military character. Among these may be mentioned courage, coolness, strength, a spirit of self-sacrifice for the good of the cause, a proper appreciation of the maxim: “ Never underestimate the prowess of an enemy, and an admiration of an opponent worthy of one's steel. ’ ’ The football traditions of a college are often some of many things that help to make successful teams. Nothing so stimulates a candidate for a position on the ’Varsity as the stories of some noted captain and his exploits on the “ gridiron. It is also a well established fact that, in tlios ecolleges where the football traditions are carefully handed down, and records and trophies of past victories are kept, there is more enthusiasm shown and the players have greater incentives to conscientious work. One of the most pleasant features of the past football history at the Academy (and it is to be hoped of the future), was the record of the Army- Navy series. This was the game on which the attention of both arms of the service was directed the Saturday following Thanksgiving Day of each year. With the introduction of these games was established the precedent of securing a coach for the team, and the marked improvement in team work showed this to be a change for the better. Here again is a fact supporting the generally received statement that the College having football traditions is more successful. For, while we have rarely had more than two coaches, and at most, three, the larger Colleges have generally at least one experienced man to look after each player and one or more in charge of the general team play. Not only these, but as many more that could be called on in case of necessity, each one knowing the system and methods that have come to be recognized as indispensable additions to football work. One good feature of this system is that it takes less time to weed out the indifferent material. The reason of this is that one coach would, perhaps, line up the team for a week before he had fully studied each man’s capabili- ties, while with more coaches, this time would not l e necessary. Of course we know of the “cooks and the broth,’’ but taking that for all it is worth, it will surely be a step forward in football at the Academy when some of her own alumni are able to take charge of the coaching and help plan the season’s campaign. 52 The efforts of the Navy Auxiliary Athletic Association, whose constitutional intention it is “ to promote the interests of athletics in general and football in particular, ’ have always been appreciated, and thanks are due them for the very proficient coaches they have secured for us : and now while the discussion is on regarding inter-service games, let it be remembered that there is nothing, in the way of athletics, that more develops the manly qualities of the individuals or the esprit de corps of the institution, than the game of football. (ffhe fS cotboll fearri. gcog McCormack, ’95 ... Merritt, ’95..................... Karns, ’95....................... Marshall, '96.................... Halligax, ’98.................... Castleman, ’96................... McCauley, '96.................... Davidson, ’95.................... Izard, ’95....................... Kimball, ’96 •� Raby, ’95 Bagley, ’95 .................. Right End Right Tackle Right Guard Centre Left Guard Left Tackle Left End Quarter End Right Half-Back Left-Half Back Full Back (Results cf (Janies. October 6.—Elizabeth Athletic Club. 6 U. S. Naval Academy, 6 “ 20.—Georgetown University, 0 Cl Cl cc 12 “ 27.—University of Pennsylvania, 12 c c c c (t 0 “ ji.—U.S. Indian Industrial School, 0 Cl cc C 4 8 Xovcmber 3.—Lehigh, 0 CC 4 C €t 10 0.—Pennsylvania State College, 6 c c cc Cl 6 U. S. N. A. FOOT-BALL TEAM, 1894 “ [l u-stlers,” 1694 Schofield, ’98. Peterson, ’98, 1 Smith, ’97, Shockley, '98, Bisskt, ’96, Lehkeldt, '98, Graham, ’97. Thorpe, 98. Rick, ’96, Craven, '96, Standley, ’95, } Powell, ’97, McCarthy. '97. Mustin, ‘96, Raby, ’95, Knkppkr, 95. Palmer, ’96, Tozer, ’96, Williams, ’97, amc |3 la jed November , ' •—Baltimore City College, 6 Centre Guards Tackles Ends Quarters Backs Hustlers, 30 rm j versus |5 cmj Laws, ’91. Ferguson, '92. McCormack, '95. Dennett, 95. Macklin, ’92. Macklin, ’92 (Cap .). Reeves, ’94. Reeves, ’94. Lane, ’91. Trench, ‘93. Trench, ’93 {Cap .). Karns, '95. Irwin, ’91. Holsinger, ’93. Kavanagli, ’94. Kavanagli, ’94 {Cap . Trench, ’93. Pearson, ’93. Wells, ’93. Morris, ’97. Ward, ’93. Beuret, ’92. Lang, 93. Moody, 94. Althouse, ’91. Symington, ’92. McCauley, ’96. McCauley, ’96. Johnson, '94. Bagiev, ‘95. Bookwalter, ’94. Bookwalter, ’94. Etncrich, '91 {Cap .). Johnson, ‘94. Johnson, 94. Davidson, ’95. Hartung, ’91. Hasbrouck, ’92. Izard, '95. Kimball, ‘96. Smith, H. E., '91. Webster, ’94. Bagiev, ’95. Bagiev, ’95. ARMY. NAVY. 1890 . 0 . 24 1S91 • 32 • l6 1S92 4 12 ii 93 4 • 0 1894 SO GAMK. Totals, . 40 ... • 58 5« •wvsi nva-iooj ssvid-nuni NoidwvHO jntcr-class f cctbcill Championship November 2S. ’9 December . ’9 . December 5, 9 Class '96—16 Class ’95—22 Class ‘95—12 Class 'qS—o Class ‘97—o Class ’96—o V mnin cjm 25 Standley. Vestal, Gherardi. Merritt, . Karns. McCormack, Baldwin, Davidson, . Izard. Rabv. . Bagley, . Lett End Left Tackle Left Guard Centre Right Guard Right Tackle Right End Quarter-Back Left Half-back Right Half-back Full Back 61 (c|. '§). P cmil eadeimj f ase (l ull fcom Izard, ’95 (Capt.). 1694. Pitcher Tozkr, 96, Catcher Barnes, ’95, . First Base Henry, ’96, . Second Base Standley, ’95, Third Base Littlefield, ’96. . Short Stop Monaghan, ’95, Right Field Asskrson, ’97. Left Field Henderson, '97, Centre Field Powell, ’97. SUBSTITUTES. Mayo, '97. March 24,’g . l luvjcd. Columbia College—iS . Navy— 8 March 28, ’97 Yale—3 • Navy— 4 . r 7, ’9. Georgetown—: . Navy— 9 April 4, ’9 St. Johns—12 Navy—14 April 2 , ’97 . . Kendall—3 . Navy— 5 April 28y 97 . Columbian University—0 Navy— 4 May ’9- ... Y. M. C. A. (Balto.)—16 . Navy—17 Percentage ok Games Won . . 85.7 62 U. S N A. BASE-BALL TEAM ntep-(©lim (i)ii-sc (f!)ull (Championship 1634. (§,amc (Dialed1 May g,’94.........................Class ’97—11 May 26, 94 Class ’96— 8 June 2,'94........................Class ’95—10 Class '95—20 Class ’94— 5 Class '96— 4 Vanning feam. (NINETY-FIVE.) Izard (Capt.), - Monaghan, Barnes, . McCormack, Standley, BannON, Raby-Bagley, Hah, . M ARSH ALL—Ben N1-. 1 . Pitcher Catcher First Base Second Base Third Base Short Stop Left Field Centre Field Right Field 65 v (5)3 ■h jfs long with the other branches of athletics, the National game has (level- °Pe yery greatly within the past few years. When the present first class entered the Academy in the fall of ’91, very little enthusiasm over base ball was manifested, but since that time the teams have steadily improved, and the interest taken in them has vastly increased. As an instance of this increased interest, among officers, it may be men- tioned that they have organized a nine in each of the three years of ’93, ’94 and ’95. Until this year the base ball games between the officers and Cadets have been very one-sided, but the officers bid fair to have a team the coming sea- son that will make the Academy team work hard to beat it. The Cadets show their increased interest in base ball by the number of them that go out now to practice for the nine. The number doing so has increased every year during the last three years, and this year there will be about twenty-five to start practice. There is very little time to devote to practicing, because base ball is a game requiring daylight, and the drills generally last so late in the afternoon that not more than a half hour a day can be given to practice, while loot- ball, track athletics, and rowing maybe indulged in after dark. The greatest improvement that has ever been made in base ball at the Academy was that shown in ’94 over the work of the previous year. At the beginning of the latter season the outlook was not at all encouraging. We had no pitcher, and it looked as though we should have no team, but in this we were most agreeably surprised. The difference between the first and sec- ond games of '94 was very marked, and the whole team showed, to indulge in racing parlance, a reversal of form that has rarely been equalled, and probably never surpassed. The first game was with Columbia College, and resulted in a disastrous defeat for the X. A. The next game, played four days later, was with Yale. Every man on the team, with one exception, played a good game, and after a very close and exciting game the X. A. team won by a score of 4 to 3. From that game until the end of the season the team played a good, steady game, and showed that they were made of the proper material for base ball players. Base ball at the Xaval Academy owes its present high standing to Y. B. Izard, and Prof. P. J. Dashiell. The former has played brilliantly at second base, behind the bat. in the pitcher s box, and, when a necessity arose, at any other place on the nine. Prof. Dashiell has devoted a great deal of his time to coaching the team, there being no regular coach, and every one who has any interest in the welfare of the Academy base ball nine owes a great many thanks to him. It is to be hoped that the game will be fostered in the future, for, if it is, there is no reason why the nine should not hold the position it has taken, as there is plenty of good material, and by proper training it can be developed. 67 HE Track and Field events, as a general rule, have not received the attention that is due them. The cause of this is, perhaps, not hard to find, for it is only by constant practice and training that any of the now established Inter-collegiate Records can be ap- proached . As far as the Naval Academy is concerned, the above require- ments, as well as the limited means at our disposal for fulfilling them, preclude any phenomenal performance. At the same time, with two world’s records among our past trophies, it would be poor policy to consider this the limit of our capabilities. The annual spring meeting under the auspices of the Navy Auxiliary Atiilktic Association should arouse more enthusiasm among the cadets and thus became one of the most important events of the year, at once a recreation and a benefit to the mental and physical man. It is to be hoped that in future more interest will be shown this depart- ment ; and in furtherance of this it is proposed to establish an equitable sys- tem of handicapping. By this means more men can be brought out, and, although we have not as many to work upon as have larger colleges, we ex- pect to establish a higher standard in our own records, at least. 6S U. S. N. A. TRACK AND FIELD TEAM f ceerd of Sprint] thlcti£ |T eetinc) -§jturduy, |T a ) 24. 16 4. ’ Name. too Yards, Deaxe, ‘96, tunning High Jump, Palmer, '96, Hal Mile Run, Ward, ’97, 120 Yards Hurdle, Taussig, '96, Putting Shot. 6 Pounds. Karns, 95. Throwing Hammer, 6 Pounds, Karns, ’95, 220 Yards Dash, Ward, ’97, 1 MHe Run, Henderson, Running Broad Jump, Taussig, '96 Pole Vault, Mustin, ’96, Quarter Mile Run, Ward, ’97, Swimming jo Yards, Izard, ’95, Records II sees. 5 ft. 3 ins. 2 min., 21 2-5 secs. 20 1-5 secs. 32 feet 5 Yz inches. Si ft., 10x t inches. 24 4-5 secs. 5 min., 33 4-5 secs. iS ft., 11 inches. 10 ft. 56 3-5 secs. 37 secs. y. s J q qI eadcm j (g)pew. 1694. How—Craven, ’97. 2—McCauley, ’96. 3—Palmer, ’96. 4—McCarthy, ’97. 5—Overstreet, ’97. 6—Reeves, ’94. 7—Churchill, ’94. Stroke—Kimball, ’96. Coxswain—Hart, ’97. On June 2(1, 1894, U. of P. won a three mile race on the Severn Course, by seven lengths ; time, 19m. 33s. 7? V. S N A CREW. 1894 Tt e MONO all athletic sports in which the Naval Cadet should especially excel, that of rowing would first suggest itself to the mind. But the fever of football and baseball has been allowed to predominate, and at times has completely crowded out the interest in the crew. There have been times when the Naval Academy crew ranked with the best in the country: and occasionally some cadet with almost superhuman energy and perseverance brings it into prominence in these later days. Within the past three years the crew has been more of a factor in the training than for a decade before. This is to be attributed to the efforts of Churchill. '94, who so skill- fully captained the crew that rowed with Pennsylvania last year. The training table has a score of our best athletes now getting in trim for the three races arranged for the coming season. A coach was secured last year, and negotiations have been made to obtain one this year from Vale's veterans. Aside from the skill obtained in this exercise, it is with- out doubt the one most calculated to fully develop a man. without the dangers of fracture and mutilation attendant on football. It is gratifying to note the rise of the crew in general estimation : and it is to be hoped that ere long it will hold its proper place in the list of the Academy athletics. 75 “ fhe d)ilgep’$ (©ament. BUST I Bust! Bust ! By the cold, bleak shores, O Sea ! And I would that my tongue could utter, The thoughts that arise in me. O ! well for the plebe who is sat.. As he shouts with his friends at play O! well for the candidate, Who may even yet stay away. And the stately ships went by, As my brain I tried to fill. I can see that I needed another mark. In the lessons that I hate still. Bust! Bust! Bust! At the Xaval Academy : But the chance of getting a bare 2.5. Will never come back to me. §team qain. Help me with my boning Ere I bilge in Steam : Xauglit but cranks and slit-bars Can my mark redeem. If I fail in passing Here shall be my end : And on Watt and Whitworth, May my curse descend. “Cco Anxious. T t only was a bottle With a patent-stop ; It only held salt-water, But Kenneth thought it pop. He quickly grabbed that bottle Lest he should not get it all, He swallowed all that water Before the truth did pall. t feu-st. 0 ©reuse. r vaniel, my son. art happy, O'erflows thy soul with joy, Now that thou has captured That buzzard sweet and coy ? For two years hast thou labored, Long weary years of grease, At last that wooden chicken Upon thy sleeve is seized. J! v Re Fra. in Staccjtc -f 1 - — Hfr-f J r- —j H =3= ■J —! 1 •j n J Uhc, Uvo. three. (oor; One, two. l h ree, pir, One, two, three our. 01 Uwe; w«. p vW.x, I K 'i ,yc ooiV'F Man $ Bvr iji u5V o 6ofujb uforK$ c� a y | r r ,fi a j£ d' A- Jl o-fpiujer n y c«ti]jc ot( |,oaji, $ -- 3cm i yVJ'a vf 13aIT H a ujIto j 77 p w f f c fkr t yc .B 2 jg T;?, |h.c 4 So Tvjpi-sul xsuses. U. S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md., Jan’y 14, 1895. Report: Not turned in at taps. Reporting Officer: N. C. Soaker. Statement: §240 of the regulations says that Cadets shall not lie on their beds except on Sunday afternoons. Respectfully submitted, W. O. Oden, Naval Cadet, 4th Class. U. S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md., Feb. 16, 1895. Report: Feet on table. Reporting Officer: Lt. Spotemall. Statement: I respectfully state that my room-mate’s feet were on the floor. Respectfully submitted, Poor Plebe, Naval Cadet, 4th Class. U. S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md., Feb. 30, 1895. Report: Allowing an officer to pass within six feet without saluting. Reporting Officer: Lt. Damfino. Statement: I did not know that an officer was required to salute when passing within six feet. I shall see that this regulation is enforced in the future. Respectfully submitted, T. Ough, Naval Cadet, 1st Class. U. S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md., Mar. 4. 1895 Report: Light burning and smoking after taps. Reporting Officer: Cadet Lt. Comdr. Monk. Statement: I knew my light was burning, but did not notice that it was smoking, and do not think it was. Respectfully submitted, H. Ahm, Naval Cadet, 3d Class. 81 fhe Icum friend. I. O HISSING steam, thou harrowing dream ! Why dost thou haunt mv life ? With mangle-racks and lifting-jacks My every thought is rife. II. I see thy form, long ere the dawn, I feel thy scorching breath ; And as for rest, from thee, thou pest,— I welcome any death ! III. In vain I try, when thou art nigh To dream of far away; For in my brain, there is a train Of bevel wheels at play. IV. I see, in dreams, thy pinioned fiends In place of maidens fair ; The smiling face, thou dost erase, And put’st a face-wheel there. V. Thy rattling gear will rattle e’er, Thy problems lives will wreck; And when I die, thou wilt be nigh,— At last—to disconnect! S2 S3 uld (§rang §kinn j. T saw a “ tree ” the other day, Of branches it had many ; Its'foliage was rich and rare, I think its name is “ Skinny.” This “ tree ” is found in Building Five, Its origin’s not known ; I’m always on the highest branch. But then I’m not alone. Should all the “ Skinny” be forgot Before the semi-ann. ? Yes! we can “biff” it when we try, Cit T-rr- knows we can. I had a dream last Friday night, I never dreamt before, They told me I was on the tree, My mark was just 1.4. Theyfsay that it is very “ sux,” To them it may be plain, I’ve studied it so very much, I’ve corns upon my brain. I wish I’d never seen the stuff, I wish it were in—well ! I wish Ganot were by its side, The same for A. Daniell. 84 -omr fSr 'V yX 1{ t X S5 f cur f elU. I. A Lh is silent in New Quarters, Save the watchman’s steady tread. And a snore of great contentment Comes from every middy’s bed. II. Gray and cold the morning lowers, On the silent, sleeping yard ; Slowly pacing by the gateway, Is the watchful gyrene guard. III. On a sudden, from the tower, Comes the deep stroke of the bell, Waking up each sleeping middy With its loud and echoing swell. IV. ‘'If it only will stop striking, And not sound the awful four—” But the fourth stroke now is clanging, And they hear the cannon’s roar ! V. Now the fiendish, maddening bugler. Breaks out with his brassy notes Sounding like the mocking laughter From a million demon throats. VI. Merciless, he ne’er stops blowing. Till lie’s passed by every door: While the middies, slowly rising. Jump out on the cold, cold floor. VII. Shiveringly they light the gas, While they long with feeling deep For that greatest of all blessings— Half-an-hour’s extra sleep. 86 A .VERRY CHRISTMAS EYE. And yet his record is not so had, after all. 88 The S middy I’m a noble i, And pretty savez, 2. But never can my math. 3.5. 4 math. I ne’er could do. It makes me 6, so many probs, They won’t explain just so. If this is 7, I'd like to see The place where sinners go ! I 8 to hear each day in math., With Naval smile be 9 ; “ You’ll have to 10 to business more. Or you will get behind.’’ (Model’s ©ream. s9 ( Juesticn cf When the First Luff and the “ sergeant ’ ’ met on our youngster cruise, Twas a question which in the other should the greatest fear infuse. The First Luff he was hard to bluff, but “ sergeant,” had great cheek, And the crew believed—but were deceived—that at last had “Greek met Greek.” When the ex-Ivxec.. as punishment for having thumped the floor. The “sergeant ” placed upon a chair, where he'd never sat before— When these two foes, in grimmest pose, sat side by side in pique, It seemed to all, within the hall, that again had “ Greek met Greek. ’’ Hut the facts I ve traced by many means—as physiognomy— And with my last conclusion. I trust all will agree, That, joking aside, it can’t be denied, for the proofs you need hardly seek, Though they both are the same, in birth as in fame, that neither one is Greek. W)ln, he [i it the free. “ Be sure to laugh at all M'sieur Jack's jokes, mister, and laugh hardest when he looks saddest,” says jovial Charley Youngster to the Plebe. Mr. Plebe takes advice to heart. A few days later Monsieur X returns from Baltimore. Instead ot the usual short joke, he recounts a long anecdote. The Plebes, under the instruction of a bilger that “knows” French, laugh for a “two-five.” Monsieur X looks surprised, shocked. “ That is but his way,” thinks Mr. Plebe, and he laughs even harder yet, as he feels the “ two-five ” slipping. “ Gentlemen,” said Jack, “ I have just told you that for the past few days I have been attending my cousin’s funeral. Let the section leader take charge. ’ ’ 90 I. T)OXK, bone, bone, Till my eyelids slowly close. Bone, bone, bone, Till I fall off in a doze. Then I wake up with a start, Of nav. I’ve read but part. I forgot about the chart, Hear my woes. II. III. Bust, bust, bust, As cold as cold can be : Bust, bust, bust, And I find I’m on the tree: For 2.5 I made a bluff: What I said, was simply stuff. And 1.3 it was enough. He said to me. Bilge, Bilge, Bilge, These words I now can hear. Bilge, bilge, bilge. They are ringing in my ear: With new effort I will strive, Some magic means contrive, That, in June of ’95 I 'll be here. 91 (Reverie feet upon the table, And tilted in my chair, I am far away from studies. Building castles in the air. I muse of future “billets,” Of stripes that may be mine : Or, if I shall cast in my lot With “greasers” or the line. Of heroic deeds of glory, To win me lasting fame; Of many acts of courage. To add luster to my name. Of dazzling social conquests, Of a gay and brilliant life, Of some very charming girl That I hope to make my wife. Alas ! my airy musings Receive a fearful shock From my room-mate loudly crying— “Wake up! you “wooden ” block. You had better get to “boning,” And cease that idle dream. For you have 1.5 in “Skinny,” And are way “unsat ” in Steam.” No more I dream of glory: But study all I can, Still I know that I am slated To bilge on the “ semi-ami.” 92 93 i -salm cf § team. NOT BY LONGFELLOW. znP‘KLL me not in mournful numbers ■ - Steam is but an idle dream, For the man is bilged who wonders If its probs are what they seem. Steam is real, steam is earnest, And the arbor is its goal. If to get a two thou learnest, Thou canst thank thy very soul. In the world be not a croaker, Xor be like a driven cow, For thy manhood, with a poker, Up and smite down Johnnie G— Steam is long and Time is fleeting And the semi-ann. is nigh. Those infernal pistons beating, Knocked my chances to the sky. Lives of bad men all remind us. That Goodeve this fate must meet. Heaven grant his death may find us All alive to wish him heat. HOC) TM. ) 50 PM. A RECENT NAVAL ENGAGEMENT. l us-sled |T oiicn. I. Now harken, ye people of wisdom, And list closely unto my tale ; For my heart is all put in a flutter By a letter I got in the mail. II. You know I'm a simple young maiden In fact, but an innocent dove, I’ve only been out for a season, And I really have not been in love. III. I know a fine, handsome, young middy, Who is now at the U. S. N. A., It is he who has written the letter— The letter that I got to-day. IV. He writes, “ I been spotted for fuming, And am languishing on the Santee.'' Now what kind of spots put they on him, And heavens ! what can fuming be ? In math, he declares he has busted— On the Ann. he will bilge without fail. Oh, which of his bones has he broken, And why should a girl make him quail ? VI. He says he has knocked off all spooning, Except with the femmes in the yard. [These words are just driving me crazy, And “ femmes is especially hard.] VII. He calls me his darling—his sweet heart— The prettiest girl in the land. And of all of his horrible letter, It's the only part I understand. 96 (g|n feo ct P av� ui. I. ( V'AXI) je parle Fran ?ais, iw A tous mes amis, C'est un Frangais honnne Ou'il pense que je suis. II. Mon accent est belle, Ma grammaire est tres bon. Et je suis l’envie, I)e Monsieur Marion. III. S'il-y-a un chose (Jueje frapperais, C’est dans l’exam La question sur dictee. VI. J 'ai finis ma course A l'ecole naval C'est assez pour aucun, De parler aussi belle. V. Quand je sues enseigne, Je retournerais bien vite Et teacherais les Plebes La langue Fran ais de dite. 97 @n fuming @u1. COME ! Turn out and relieve me !” Sounds faintly in my dreams : Rude hands are laid upon me And I see the white deck beams ; But a sense of desolation. Mixed with nausea, fills my soul, And I wish I were in heaven. As we give a heavy roll. ’Tis the Moke, who, tired of watching, To his slumbers would return, ’Tis I that must relieve him, And on deck, a two-five earn : So I sit up in my hammock. Showing that I am awake : Then, when he has climbed the ladder, One more little nap I'll take. But that man of many watches, Straight, to catch me at my tricks, Comes and turns the hammock over. Mercy on us ! What a fix ! So at last with feet reluctant Up I get and go on deck. While reports of “ late relieving,” Settle on my precious neck. Upperclassman (in a harsh voice :—“Here you, Mister, let me see you stand on your head.” Pic be (in a weak and pitiful voice) :—“ Please, sir, the Doctor says I am ‘excused from drills.’ ” 98 p ome TJ 0 V doth the busy ‘ ‘ plebe ’ ’ Improve each shining hour ? He drills with all his might, And “ bones” with all his power. How doth the righteous plebe Avoid the ‘ ‘ pap' ’ each day ? lie bones his own “ Plebe's Bible ’ And walks the narrow way. How doth the “savez” plebe Get four each day in math. ? He “boot-licks” the instructors At every chance he hath. How doth the gaily “plebe” Repent of his offenses ? He smiles at nothing far too much. And takes the consequences. The “ %ruel f cite. np'WAS ever thus, a fate untrue, Doth always get a whack at me. For my “right guide” is six feet tu'O, And I am next and five feel three. 99 ( xt Facts from u glebes August i—Arrived here to-day, and entered school at Bobbie's. I walked out to the Naval Academy grounds this afternoon. They certainly are beautiful. Just think ! in a month I shall be enjoying all the privileges of a Naval Cadet. August 4—I am tearing things up at Bobbie's. I am standing 1 all right. I bet I shall stand 1 at the Academy. Jones certainly is dull. He is going to bust on the entrance exam. August 15—Took a sail to-day. I suppose I shall learn how to sail the “ Monongahela by the semi-annuals. A man at the wharf told me that I managed a boat well. August 20—Bobbie complimented me on my neatness and accuracy to-day. lie says he can see no reason why I should not stand very high. August 29—The “Monongahela'' came in to-day from the cruise. Jones and I went out to the Academy and saw her with all the Cadets on board. They seemed to take a great deal of interest in us. I suppose we shall get very little running. September i—Reported to the Secretary to-day. Only a few more days more before I enter the Academy. Jones is sure that he is going to bust cold. September 3—Had English examinations to-day. I am sure I got through all right. Jones busted. September 4—Jones got through all right yesterday on his English. He was sure that he busted, but he got through fine. Am sure that I passed Math, all right all right this morning. September 5—Made a foolish mistake on my Arithmetic examination and have to take the re-examination. Jones got in on the first examination on everything. Who would have thought that such a dull fellow could even pass those examinations at all, much less knock the first examination like he did ? September 6—Passed Mathematics re-examination all right to-day. I must have made nearly a 4 on that examination. It was easy as dirt. Shall take Physical to-morrow. 100 September 7—Passed Physical all right to-day. Shall enter the Acad- emy to-morrow. I wonder what we shall do this month. I hear that we don’t begin lessons until October. We must learn howto sail boats this month. September 8—Entered the Academy to-day. Have told my name and State I am from about a hundred times. Have been run a great deal, but I expected that for the first week. Skptkmbkr io—Am tired to death. We have drilled all day. Every time I sit down to rest, I hear, “ Fall in on the dock ! ” We have drill light after dinner to jolt our dinner dozen. I have not rested three minutes to-day. I can't sleep in a hammock at all. I am trying to get in a comfortable posi- tion half the night, and as soon as I do get to sleep, I hear reveille. Skptkmbkr 20—I am getting a little used to the work, and can sleep a little better. But goodness! the May men run me to death. When I am not working, I can’t rest on account of them. Skptkmbkr 28—We are going to move into quarters to-morrow and will start to studying on the 1st of October. I am glad we are going to work on lessons. I will show these May men a thing or two about Mathematics. Octobkr 8—Great goodness! I never saw such lessons as they give here. A fellow doesn’t have half enough time to study them. I am not hitting Mathematics at all. October 30—The first month is over. I stood 70 in Mathematics ; 39 in English and 48 in French. There are eightv-five in the class. Jones is tearing things. He stands sixth in Mathematics; fourth in English and tenth in French. I am shamefully soaked this month. I am going to stand way up next month. November 9—I am hustling all over myself in everything. I never saw such a place. A fellow never gets credit for what he does. I work all the time and then bust cold. November 15—I am tired of this place. I have written home for per- mission to resign. November 20—Received a letter with permission to resign. Have sent in my resignation. November 22—Resignation was accepted to-day. Am going home to-morrow. I am glad to get out of here. Ah ! I shall soon say good-bye to the Naval Academy. 101 Thc “ fl)ilt)cr.’' Air :—“ Clementine DEDICATED TO TilK DEAR DEPARTED. |N a bed-room, o'er a table, Excavating for two—five. Sat a “Jonah,” hard old boner. To be “sat” he had to strive. Then it came, that hard “old annual, And he could not live it through. So he “busted, all disgusted, And he joined the “biding few. After it, that dread old paper. For which middies often pine. “ Resig. accepted, if presented. Then he left the place behind. Now he's in a good old business, Way out West lie's in a mine, And the money he is making Will enrich him all in time. We, his classmates, still toil onward, Striving hard to gain the end. While he sits in ease and ponders : For his “bilge he'll soon amend. Is it best to be a citizen, And to live on your own hook. Or to bravely save your country. Grinding slowly o’er your book ? While his money he is making, We in slavery sit and pine: But the “semi-an. is coming, When by force we may resign. 102 fjvVc v.'is : 'U plcc , Wo � ll C)i 0 i lioy; «i T t IJ?okc Ll p fooiltali tyd}t{ '}fp pop:j M 'l . -puO r? '.voul iJV 'o fii’ V y'aj7 oo: ,o ; flathl'palj'i :;«h lo C)� l 'y v r-t. a «?oylj? f' frto «vj? yi, wjli njti Oj 'f if� }ouoj?p ;w v i 'cy v “- ii';': toy n i, . ««V fj,? !,-:Moon? |? { vcu l vf. u 'a c( i;ai • a ©iigwj i)j ; ou• Uj atfial quilty oui a;u v |ota 1 V Kp Uf poi tl iycp, by r{ . Ej?e Vo ? j viraooutyy oui V ut oy wVyl lojail, i •filii. fu lyifttly suoc dt. «IjoiC loWc, y p;fiVoiy i [■ • - i -i u rtf� r'? yyf aay youilyot o aiouyh No: i -i, T3uf tob fil IOu ! iyay. j?io Oabay, c� u il kw f U- o f uj? ;; )i;oif? ij7 j. Annual Examination in kimuj, |T u |. 1694. Second (7d ss. 77me Allowed, ■ Minutes. I. (a) Given the temperature of the sun and the pressure of fluidity of steel, find error of Greenwich chronometer, keeping mean local time with compensation balance (b) Given the velocity of sound as 2000 feet per day ; find the velocity with which a ship must sail to boil the water in contact with her keel and leave a wake of nine hours per night: assume latent heat copper 366, total heat evaporation six kilowatts. II. (a) Assuming the existence ol three states of matter prove the exist- ence of a fourth by means of the three laws of thermo-dynamics, taking Joule's equivalent as 296,340,325 per cent. (b) Assuming the volume of water on earth's surface to be unknown, calculate same by means of the dew point hygrometer and Apjohn s for- mula : find number of thermal units necessary for complete evaporation; express result in terms of Joule's equivalent, then reduce to watts, kilo- watts, ohms, volts, gramme-centimeters, dynes, ergs, liorse-power and torque. III. (a) Prove molecular theory of gases: then, assuming above theory, prove it to be incorrect, and prove a more plausible one to exist, basing cal- culations upon relative size and strength of Clerk Maxwell s Demon, to con- trol action of molecules. (b) Design Wheatstone bridge-span 200 feet X girders, taking resist- ance of flanges at three Acme Halls per square centimeter, web to l e of ellipsoidal section, with parabolic planking resistance to torsion six watts Find stress on each bar by calculation and by reciprocal diagrams. 104 IV. (a) How, when, why, and by whom was electricity first discovered. Give a brief account of its progress up to present time (not less than twenty- nine pages). Give reasons for each statement made in the above question. (b) Describe all cells, dynamos and electrical apparatus so far invented, giving chemical reactions for cells : find resistance of all parts of dynamos and uses of all apparatus. V. Find number of shots that must be fired by a Gatling gun against an iron target six feet in diameter to melt same in fifteen minutes, velocity of projectiles one foot per minute : specific heat iron, 2.5 : melting point lead, 4: temperature air, 3.5: co-efficient friction lead. 1.5: density mercury. 2 49‘_' : atmospheric pressure, 3.00 per square centimeter: specific gravity HCL, 1.00. Determine number of heat units expended, and find what cur- rent could be produced by expending same on a perfectly reversible engine, coupled up to a compound dynamo, and thence determine number of million candle-power search lights said dynamo will run. Xote.—All questions required. I)o not write more than 250 nor less than 200 pages on any one question. Lesson for Monday : First three volumes Stewart and Gee : next 800 pages Thompson. Review work of last three years, and hand in solution of all problems on previous examinations. iee tc [Glebes. Keep your Bible on your shelf. For if you do, no one will suspect you of having a pipe in it. When an upper class man comes into your room, welcome him with a pleased smile. Place a cushion between your wardrobe and the bed. For so your top hamper will not be chafed. A man whose cap is on the back of his head is a youngster, therefore, beware. Lend not your lisle gloves or neckties, for they do not come back of themselves. Argue not with an upper class man. Take rather an axe, and argue with the brick wall. Sing not “Sweet Marie,’’ nor “ Daisy Bell,’’ lest you die. Play not loudly on the mandolin, or the guitar, and talk not, but re- member that while “ speech is silver, silence is golden” and, though you may not speak well, in silence, you will be the equal of any. Play not with cards, or the dice. Whist and draw poker is not for you. But amuse yourself well with dominoes and tiddle-de-winks. Expect not a stateroom on your plebe cruise, else a disappointment awaits you. All that glitters is not gold, therefore salute not the gyrene. Raise not your hands in ranks, for so you will not pull the squad. Obey all these laws, that you may live long, and prosper, and become a youngster. IllUSTRATED SEAWa $miP TE . EASE OFF THE WAIN SHIE ' ic6 PHRENOLOGICAL DIAGRAM OF THE HEAD OF AN AVERAGE NAVAL CADET. —Propensity to hit the tree every week. 2—Anxiety lest he should star. J—Hump of love of football. 2— Love of skinny probs. 3— Hump of desire to go on leave. 6—Hump of eagerness to turn out at reveille. 7— Hump of desit e to do nothing. 8— .-I mbit ion to be good. ,—Love of good gt ub. to—Hump of desit e to dull and bone 1—Spoon iit ess. ■ Tlii-. Iiump i' ontcfilial dwarfed because • ! denial uou-gratiflcaii' u. 107 cleric III AD a dream, I dreamed I was alone, Alone; And oh ! it was so sad, Away from home, From home. Upon the sea My cares I bent, I bent: Upon my hands My head I leant, I leant. I thought of days Gone by, and things, And things: And pieces of Salt pork, and strings, And strings. 11 USTRATE0 NAUTICAL TERM 1 W TCM ON OFC ” loS fdsupha. T N the flowing Delaware, ' A swinging to the tide The noble tin ship Bancroft, Did at single anchor ride. Near by great Philadelphia, Lay wrapt in heavy sleep : A solemn town, where time, With leaden feet, doth creep. Longing for the shore, We sat idly round the deck, Waiting for permission From our generous “ exec.’’ Suddenly to starboard There came upon our sight, Such a crazy boat, We thought we saw not right. We hastened to the rail. To see this vessel pass. And the captain on the bridge Gazed at her with his glass. 109 She was squarely cut before And likewise built abaft : Never was there uglier thing. Than this uncanny craft. Upon her dark red sides, Was writ a fearful name. Tis not in any history, Nor is it known to fame. That name “ Arasapha,” Is blazoned on my brain : Never saw I it before, And I hope I won t again. From Jersey Camden. Where runs the racing horse, Unto the Quaker City She held her steady course. Morning, noon, and night. She journeyed to and fro ; Till at her apparition. We mad with rage did go. Not even Charon 's shallop Which on Styx's water floats. Was by us so dreaded As that worst of ferry-boats. Four days we lay at anchor. Before that quiet town. And every fifteen minutes That boat went up or down. And well am I aware That we'll with life be done Before that awful scow Will make her final run. IIO f (Qabe $ flil. I. AT the hop last night I saw a girl, And a beautiful femme was she : Of womankind she was the pearl, That middies seldom see. II. She was tall, and had a heavenly form ; She carried herself like a queen : Her eyes would put a gazelle's to scorn With their depths of brown serene. III. Her auburn hair was in a knot. Atop of her lovely head : Caught with an arrow that Cupid shot To bind each glossy thread. IV. She tripped the dance with smiles so gay, With face so sweet and fair : She quickly stole my heart away, And heartless left me there. V. I followed her with a longing eye, That live-long evening through. And how I wished as the time went by, That lovely girl I knew. VI. Hut, then, alas ! it is ever so— In city, lane or street, That the charming girl you are wild to know Is the girl you never meet. 111 Respectfully dediealed lo her. | Slu-stivitcd LU)iiU)� s GOiNO I Hf t (grinds. Instructor.—Define “ Figure of speech, ” Mr. Dunn. rnclc.—Ahem, well sir, the remark “ I’ll give you a four” might serve. Editor.—(scratching head ).—If we leave out a roast on any fellow, he'll feel hurt. Other lid.—Yes, and if we put it in, we’ll feel hurt. Gunnery Instructor.—“ Proceed with your recitation on funeral cere- monies, Mr. Mann. ” Cadet Mann.—“As I was saying, sir. the remains now go ‘ Four’s Right. ’ and follow the hearse. ” Cadet (fishing for enough data to solve a prob.)— “Anything else given, sir. ” Instructor (curtly).—“ Chalk. Sections to right of them, Sections to left of them, Worked problems unnumbered : But the wooden section Ate chalk and blundered. The electricity of the earth is generated by the friction of the earth on its axis. J. E. W. M. Marion.—“ Une anecdote, M. Klemann, Une anecdote.” M. Klemann.—“ Un jour, un jour, er er.” M. Marion.—“ Du reste, M. Klemann, du reste.” M. K.—“ Pas du reste, monsieur.” 1 3 fhe fP iddie s f uccpites I- IT was dinner in the mess-liall; They were clearing things away. Kach cadet said to his neighbor ■“ Well, what’s dessert to-day ?” II. They are not long kept waiting. From below a boy escapes, And they see upon his waiter. What they dearly love—that's grapes. Ens.—(Shaking out reefs;—“ What’s the matter on the starboard yard- arm ? ' ’ Bluejacket—‘ ‘ Head earing's fast, sir ‘' Ens.—“ Well, cut it ! ” —l :t Instructor (explaining sin —“ Well. Mr. Jones, what is the name of the man whose name is Jones?” Jones (reckoning up probable mark).—“ Dennis, sir ! 114 TWINKLE, twinkle, little star, We don’t wonder what your are On the youngster’s collar, blue. Worn a twelve-month proudly through. In the Register thy rays. By his name elicit praise : Thy beams allured him from afar. Now his ownest own you are. But twinkle, twinkle while you may ; Soon there comes the awful day, With second classmen’s marks unfurled : Then, into space you will be hurled. Ens.—“ Bear a hand on the port-yard arm ! Blue-jacket.—“ Reef-tackle's jammed, sir ! ” Ens.—“ What’s foul ? ” “ Lucas. —“ There’s a sheave in the block, sir ! Instructor in English: Mr. Mayo, define the word perigee. Mayo: A small animal, extinct since the flood. 115 NAUTICAL T£ fiv : COG WATCH a relic op the glacial period. 5U'� :‘lO TO HAVE tecs IITmE A «tFSIC.IRATOK OS A MUSICAL ISSTRUWCHT. •• wav up VONDE� . mow I WONDER -WHAT T-OSE ANGELS THINK or Mr. fhevj uvj |t ( £,i?er j fime. Those Cadets not recognizing the authors of these quotations will be informed of same by reporting in room S immediately after dinner. “ Not quite ready yet, forward, sir ! ” “ Come ! Bristle up, gentlemen.” “ Herp, perp, perp, perp, topsles ! ” “Just a bust in your Math.; next lesson is to Art. 116.“ “ Shove right along, gentlemen : only sixty minutes in this hour.” “The spirit doesn't seem to move vou this morning, does it. Mr. J-------?” “ Let us consult the author. ” “ So much for chlorine : we will now pass on to nitrogen. ” “ Yous pouve . lisez. M----- C'est sufli, sit down.” “ The spirit of the regulations, Mr.-------, seems to say-----.” “ Take the er-er-er boards, gentlemen.” “ Now if this is right around, the other must be left around.” “ L‘ examen s' approche, messieurs, rexamen s' approche ! ” “Condemned, i nite-shirt.” 4 Now you’ll never understand this ; I never did.” “ Assume the proper position of parade rest.” 4 4 What is the name of the man whose name is Smith ?' ’ “ Go a board.” “ Now allow me to do this for you.” “ Music ! ” “ Very good, Mr. I)------, take your seat, Mr. I)----I’ll give you a four, Mr. D-----.” 44 Unsatisfactory marks at the last recitation : Bagley, Baldwin, Bannon. Barnes, Bennett, Breckinridge, Brumby.” “ Or, if you please, take it this way.” Upperclassman (to plebes): Here mister. I want you to learn to say the parts of the anchor frontward and backward, and all the rest of you viee- 117 versa. ©ensitxj. AS youngsters, in our Skinny, Our old and common foe. We found a little letter And they said that it was Rho. What it really stood for Find out we never could Until we struck in Math. Our “old friend ” fatty W-----. n Incident. The night was dark, and the chilly wind howled coldly among the trees along the main walk, that stood like ghostly sentinels, freezing to death at their posts. If the eye of an acute observer had been wandering about on this dismal Winter night, it might have discerned, near the bandstand, the tall figure of a cadet, walking briskly, seemingly intent on reaching some destination. If the eye had sought among the ghostly shadows and moaning limbs of the trees in the opposite direction, it would have become aware that a tall man, of uncertain, though military appearance, was approaching. Undoubted an occurrence was about to occur ! Nearer, and yet nearer, ap- proached the two figures, the distance between them decreasing at every step they took. Suddenly, when but ten short feet separated them, the right arm of the cadet shot suddenly up, and his straightened fingers ap- peared rivited to his cap vizor. The other mysterious figure bowed awkwardly, muttered a few words that were drowned by the night wind—the cadet's arm fell disjointedly, he staggered, almost collapsed, but struggled bravely on and was lost in the darkness of the night. He had saluted a “ moke.” iiS 111 ii st rate £ 4) a j i n (js. • FIRE QUARTER .'• • STATIOs FOR STAYS • a good Tendency •• Our personal Column. A S. '. P.—If Cadet Cheatem will call at Mrs. D’s grocery store any afternoon, he may receive a bill. 5.45 a. in.—“ Will Cadet Sleepyhead, who was reported for not turning out at reveille, please call at the office at 5.45 a. 111., for the next two weeks.” O i- i-ickr-in-Ch a rg k . A’.—“Laning makes some good jokes occasionally. Y.—“Well, he practices enough. Instructor.—“ Mr. K., what pumps would you use to pump out the coal bunkers ? ' ’ Towge.—“ To pump the water out ? ” Mark time ! A new order for boat drill introduced by a member of the fourth class. Plebe’s question : Where do you mark your stencil ? “Jeii'. —(On the Bancroft.) “Go ahead full speed astern both engines ? ’ ’ Spike (to instructor).—“ I don't quite understand you, sir. Instructor.—“ Neither do I. O Georgie Mann, with manners wild. Pray listen while I talk to thee: Be not forever thus beguiled By thine o'er stretched philosophy. Less thou would'st ever grace some tree. 120 @n ' t ip. oni | uth ( urce in (general. One day on the cruise, a crowd of first classmen were swapping yarns on the half-deck when one of them cut in with: “ Did you people ever hear the story of Zip and the Math, curve? A general negative cheered him up and he went on: One day, just after an exam. Zip went down to recite, and Sissy showed the section their papers corrected. When he came to Zip’s, he said: Mr. I).---, you traced the curve properly in the third question, but you didn't letter the axes : and in this department we are more apt than not to give zero as a mark when the axes are not lettered.’ Zip considered a moment and then asked Mr. K.--------. if I should leave out the curve but draw the axes, would I get a four?” I lieutenant ..—“ What is your answer, Mr. P. P-—Log (-), sir.” I, Z.—“ Wrong ! It should be log a—log b.” Lieutenant O.—“ I tell you sir, you are a drivelling idiot, sir ! Can't you tell me the difference between the differential of a cow. and the differential of that door, sir ? ” .Ur. A. . C.—“ What are Blair’s rules, Mr. ----“ P'irst: Avoid Perspicuity.” Curtain. The piles of grease ! The piles of grease Ambition prompt Yelgab to use! Why should bold heroes such as these That play football, their fame abuse? Oft he (and we praise Heaven's high dome That of this type there is but one. 121 eeord niivriiuo —OK— THE CLASS OF NINETY-FIVE. Bagley................................Line. C. C. P. O....................Raleigh, X. C. lam no! in the toll of common men. Quarter-back and Full-back, Navy Football Team. 1S91, 1892, 1893, 1894. Captain Class Football Team, 1S92, 1893, 1894. Class Baseball Team, 1S92, 1S93, 1895. Chapel Choir. Holds Four X. A. A. A. Track and Field Medals. June Ball Committee. Toast at Class Supper. Baldwin.........................Line.......................Three Stripes. Newark, X. J. “ He has good abilities, a genial temper and no vices. Class Football Team, 1894. Sub., N. A. Football Team. Second-Class Buzzard. Ban non..............................Line.........................Three Stripes. Jessup, Md. His face is good and comely, and though he much may rue it. However it squit m and twist, there's the Irish sticking through it. Xaval Academy Baseball Team Short-stop, 1893. Class Baseball Team, 1892, 1893, 894- Class Football Team, 1893. Toastmaster Class Supper. First-Class Buz- zard, Second-Class Year. Barnes..............................Line. Buzzard........................Guthrie, Okla. For thv sake. Tobacco, would do anything but die. X. A. Baseball Team, First Base, 1893, 1894. Class Baseball Team, 1S92, 1893, 1894. Hop Committee, 1892-3, 1893 -4, 1894-5. Second-Class Summer and June Ball. Class Supper Committee. First medal given by “ General Society of Sons of Revolution.” Bennett.............................Line. Buzzard..................Hackensack,X. J. “ He can distinguish and divide A hair twixt South and Southwest side. Class Baseball Team, 1894. June Ball Committee. Editor of ’95 Ll'CKY Bag. Toast at Class Supper. 124 BRECKINRIDGE.......................Line. Buzzard.........................Lexington, Ky. Hath a Iran and tangi y look. Substitute N. A. Football Team. Class Football Team, 1S92, 1893, 1894. Treasurer N. A. A. A., 1S93-4. Class Supper Committee. June Ball Committee. Toast Class Supper. Brumby.............................Line. Three Stripes.......................Athens, Ga. Ifeducated means to he drawn oat, Prithee, kind sir, what can he learn about. Manager N. A. Baseball Team 1894, 1S95. June Ball Committee. First-class Buzzard, Second-class year. BUTUSR........................ Line. Three Stripes........................Paterson, N. J. “ .inked sweetness tong drawn out. Second-class Buzzard. Chester........................Line. Two Stripes.......................Washington, D. C. Too good, too line, or this had wicked world. Second-class Buzzard. Cushman ...........................Line. Buzzard............................Buffalo, N. V. With voice like fog-horn bellowing from a rocky coast. Substitute Class Football Team, 1894. Davidson...........................Line. One Stripe.......................Sioux City, la. .1 noble youth with toil prodigious His fault—he's almost too religious. Navy Football Team, 1893, 1894. Chapel Choir. Class Football Team, 1893, 1894. DENNETT................................Line. Buzzard.........................Bangor, Me. He cometh unto you with a tale that holdeth chit Iren from their play, and old men from the chimney corner. Navy Football Team, 1S93. Substitute Navy, 1S92. Class Football Team, 1892, 1893. Chapel Choir. Hop Committee, 1892, 1893, 1894,1895. Summer Hop Committee. June Ball Committee. Received at June Ball. President N. A. Athletic Association, 1894. 1895. Bronze Medal Target Practice, 1893. N. A. Athletic Association. Constitution Com- mittee. Second-class Buzzard. Dick.......................Engineer. Three Stripes........................Columbia, S. C. “ e gentle boy, with soft and silken locks. Hop Committee, 1894. 1S95. Gold Medal Target Practice, 1S93. First-class Buzzard. Second-class year. Stood “ I ” in the Engineer Corps for the course. � 25 Dr xx Westerly, R. I. Engineer.................... He loves to wind his mouth up and then let it go again. ” Sub N. A. Football Teani 1S93. Class Football Team 1892, 1S93, 1S94. 1895. Direc- tor Chapel Choir. Song at Class Supper. Eckhardt...........................Engineer . . . “ Bette� late than never. Leader Chapel Choir 1894, 1895. Freeman................................Engineer............ Of modest mien and grat eful in his gait. Sheboygan, Wis. Fort Wavnc, Ind. Garrison...............................Engineer....................Borden town, N. J. A modest young Apollo he- Of music full and poetry. Ghkrardi............................Line. Two Stripes.....................Brooklyn, N. Y. “ Still what a royal aspect it retains. Sub N. A. Football Team, 1S92. Class Football Team, 1892, 1893, lS94- Second- Class Buzzard. Groksbeck.........................Line. Three Stripes........................Cincinnati, 0. “ lie's not the man totamely acquiesce. Class Ring Committee. Substitute X. A. F. B. Team, 1S94. Sub Class Football Team, 1894. First-Class Buzzard, Second-Class Year. Ham...............................Line. Buzzard.............................Cleburne, Tex. “ A 'ever heard he an adventure, but himself had met a greater. ” Class Baseball Team, 1894. Izard.................................Line. Buzzard....................Charleston, S. C. “ U'e could have spared anotha man. X. A. Football Team, 1892. 1S93. Class Football Team, 1S92, 1S93, 1894. X. A. Baseball Team, 1S91, 1892, 1893. 1S94 (Captain). Captain Champion Class Baseball Team, 1892, 1893, 1894. Holds World’s Record 50 yards swim (plunge start). Holds 5 X.A.A.A. Track and Field Medals. Summer Hop Committee. June Ball Committee. Toast Class supper. Johnston..................................Line. Buzzard................Lincolnton, N. C. He doth, indeed, show some sparks that arc like wit. 126 Karxs Carrollton, O. Engineer............. Full big if Teas of brawn, and eek of bones.” X. A. Football Team, 1893. Sub. X. A. Team, 1892. Class Football Team, 189?. 1893, 1S94. X. A. Crew, 1893. Holds 4 X. A. A. A. Track and Field Medals. Manager of Field, Track and Gymnasium Athletes, 1894, 1895. Second-Class Buzzard. KlEMANX...........................Line. Buzzard.....................Xcw York, X. Y. “All the great men are dying, and I don't feel very well myself.” Knepper ... Line. Buzzard.......................Somerset. Pa. “A met t ier man never spent an hour's talk withal. Sub. X. A. Team, 1892, 1893, 1894. Class F. B. Team, 1892, 1S93. 1S94. Lanixg..........................Line. Two Stripes....................Petersburg, 111. Fat and fait, and ever smiling, A feature that ts most beguiling. Class Team, 1893. Hop Committee. Second-Class Summer, i893‘94, i894-’95. June Ball, 1895. Second-Class Buzzard. McCormack.......................Line. One Stripe................Lake Linden. Midi. If much you note him. you shall offend him. X. A. 1'ootball Team, 1S92, 893, 1894 (Captain.) Sub. X. A. Team, 1891. X. A. Baseball Team, 1891, 1S92, 1893, 1894. Class Football Team. 1892, 1893, 1S94. Class Baseball Team, 1892. 1893, 1894. Manager Field, Track and Gymnasium Athletics. 1894, 'resigned). Holds X. A. A. A. Record Base Running. Second-Class Buzzard. Mallory...........................Engineer.............. Would he were falter. Stood “I.” First Class Year. Second-Class Buzzard. Jackson. Tctin. Manx...........................Line. Buzzard...................... Port Huron. Mich. As restless as an infant in its play, IVeeping and laughing in his wayward moods. June Ball Committee. Class Supper Committee, 1895. Editor of ’94’ Lucky Bag. Editor of ‘95’s Lucky Bag. Toast Class Supper. Mansfield................... Engineer Ashland. O. “ His talk is like a stream that 1 uns. With rapid change from politics to puns. Editor of Lucky Bag, 1S95. Second-Class Buzzard. Chapel Choir. Marshai.i. Engineer............................Waco, Tex. “ Thete is a pleasure sure in being mad, that none but mud men know. Hop Committee, 1893-4, 1894-5. Summer Hop Committee. Chairman June Ball Committee. Class Baseball Team, 1893, 1894. Class Ring Committee. Mkrritt............................Engineer...............................Red Oak, la. “ A plain, blunt man. Substitute N. A. Football Team, 1893. N. A. Team, 1894. Class F. B. Team, 1893, 1894. Silver Medal Target Practice, 1893. Monaghan........................ Line. Buzzard..........................Spokane, Wash. “ I’ve got a drop of the Irish blood in me mesilf. X. A. Baseball Team, 1S92, 1894. Class Baseball Team, 1892, 1893, 1894. Morton.............................Engineer................................Clarksburg, Mo. Fair-haired and tedder than a windy morn.” '95 s Ed. of 94’s Lucky Bag. Ed. 95's Lucky Bag. Toast at Class Supper. Won First Essay-Medal given by National Society of Sons of Revolution. Won Second Essay- dedal given by General Society of Sons of Revolution. Rabv........................Line. Two Stripes.........................Bay City, Mich. “ do proclaim one honest man ; mistake me not—but one. Substitute X. A. Football Team, 1S93. Class Football Team, 1S93, 1894. N. A. Football Team, 1894. Second-Class Buzzard. Saykrs..........................Line. Buzzard..........................Gonzales, Tex. The very hairs of your head are all numbered.” Class Supper Committee. Toast at Class Supper. Smith..........................Line. Four Stripes................Philadelphia. Pa. ■' The Smith, a mighty man is he. Manager N. A. Football Team, 1895. June Ball Committee. Hop Committee, 1894, 1895. ’95's Kd. ’94’s Lucky Bag. Ed. ’95’s Lucky B ig. Class Ring Committee. Stood “ 1 ” First, Second,Third and Fourth Class Year. First-Class Buzzaid. Second-Class Year. Standi.KY......................Line. Three Stripes.....................Ukiah, Cal. “ Skill ’d teas he in s orts and pastimes. Substitute N. A. Football Team, 1894. X. A. Baseball Team, 189;, 1894. Class Baseball Team, 1892. 1893, 1894, 1895 .Captaini. June Ball Committee. Class Football. Team, 1894. Second-Class Buzzard. 128 Takasaki . . Line. Buzzard . . Tokio, Japan With just enough teat ning to misquote.” Cadet Ju-goi. Imperial Japanese Navy. Designed Class Ring. Toi� D................................ Line. Buzzard . . San Francisco, Cal. •• neautifu! and childlike is he.” Second-Class Buzzard. Vkstai............................. Line. One Stripe . . Greene Castle. Ind. As monumental bronze—unchanged his look.” Class Football Team, 1891. Second-Class Buzzard. Wadhams............................ Line. One Stripe . . ... Andover, Mass. ' A ud still they gazed, and still the wonder grew. That one small head would cany all he knew. Second-Class Buzzard Walker, C. H. . . Engineer . Mass. His silence is more eloquent than words. Class Baseball Team, 1893, 1894. Walker, J. E..........................Line. Buzzard . . Charlotte, N. C. His worst fault is to be in lose. Watson.............................. Line. Buzzard . Frankfort. Ky. I'd lather live With cheese and garlic, in a windmill, far, Than feed on cakes and have him talk to me. In any Summer-house in Christendom. June Ball Committee. Hop Committee, 1895. Second-Class Buzzard. 129 T hc of ’95. M afraid ’twould not appear to be quite modest, The praises of our glorious class to tell, Twould be too much like the jokes we’re told by Cushman, Where lie’s the first to laugh and loudly yell. However, I am sure that you will pardon. If, to write a verse or so, I can contrive To say a word about those lucky fellows, Who compose our dear old Class of ’95. Each one’s character is different from another’s, Each one’s faults we all so intimately know, That if lie's not convinced that they are present. It's not because we did not tell him so. How could Jo-Jo ever doubt that he’s a player ? How could Butler ever dream he cannot sing ? How could Alliion know we’d often heard the story, Till the gentle chestnut bells began to ring? Now, why should Walker think that lie's not'graceful ? Or Brumby that he has a girlish voice ? Or Morton, when he rushes several maidens, That it does not rest with him to make a choice ? How could Bannon ever dream that he is lazy ? Who told Dennett that he looked well at his best ? Why should Watson ever think that he is favored With a tongue that never stops to take a rest ? Can Breckinridge believe that he is skinny ? Doesn’t Worthless know he has a doggy walk ? Or who says that Todd has trouble standing upright. Or thinks that Charley Walker cannot talk ? 130 Warty Barnes must understand that he is spoony. And the ITam will not believe he can keep quiet, Takasaki knows he parleys pretty nicely, And George Mann insists lie’s always on a diet. Who first gave out that I)ad was going to Congress. And that Dutchey has been asked to join a show ? Or that our Darling Mary’s to be married ? Though I hardly can believe that these are so. I am told that Orlo Knepper has insomnia, That the other day Touge Eckhardt was not late. Some one said that on Thanksgiving, in the morning, Johnny Marshall put a hair brush near his tete. Is our Rufus Zenas Johnston so conceited That his pride is in his first and middle name ? Coonus Standley is quite sure he holds as adjutant, The only office not extremely tame. Thus I overhaul a few of our small number, The rest I must leave out for want of time. But in truth, their faults are so bewildering varied. That I cannot make them jig into a rhyme. Four weary years together we have struggled. Two-five and cash are all we’ve tried to get. But now the longed-for end is close upon us, And New Quarters will soon hang out “ Rooms to Let.” A farewell we say to all hard boning, Good-bye to the Santee, where we have staytd ; Adieu unto the pap and its demerits ; Au revoir unto the debts we have not paid. 131 ©up gliris. Written at Christmastidc.—111 those days so dark and dreary. Dedicated to ’95’s loyal friends among the fairer sex. I. CHARMING maidens we must thank you For the only thing this year That has kept us from despairing And has filled our hearts with cheer. II. While all others were against us. Trying hard to bilge and spot. You were loyal as young Trojans. Xever once were we forgot. III. Every night at hop or party You would walk a mile or two. Just to give cadets the pleasure Of a dance or so with you. IV. In coldest weather, after drill. You met us on Main Walk, And though half frozen with the cold You amused us with your talk. Y. For being little martyrs here Of you we are much fonder. But you'll not get your just reward Till angels “way up yonder. 132 f ew f ublisciticn-s. Mv Career as a foot Hall Fiend : or, Four Years on the Gridiron. By Worth Bag Icy. Land Office Tales; or, Smoke Pictures. By Barty Barnes. The Water-Melon Rater's Manual. Including a dissertation on the proper pronunciation of “ Lawdigrashus ” and “Gollee.”) By Four Hundred. On Being Spoony. By “Kiss Me. A Ticklish Undertaking. By Kid. Formation of a Battalion and Adjutant’s Manual. By I a m. On the Pleasures of Being in Love; or, How to Cut a Man Out. By Spuds. Lines to My Diploma. By (7ncle. An Investigation Into the Habits and Characteristics of Peacocks, Pullman Engines and Coffee Beans. By Touge. On Prehistoric Maryland Villages. By Phill-Mikc. Stories Told by a Tin Soldier to the Marines. By fo. fter the burial. IGIDLY had the Officcr-in-Chargc finished his last inspection of the day. and New Quar- ters was wrapped in quiet for the night. Not long before this, “ Math, and Skinny ” had come to their timely end at the hands of the Class of '95. Shortly after their death, the usual honors had been performed and the celebrities had been laid to rest with all regard and respect due them. As I was saying, the Officer-in- Cliarge had gone to his room for the night and the Officer-of-the-Day, having finished the reports of the day. was only too willing to commence his short night’s rest. I had been thinking over the long days and sleepless nights “ Math. ” and “ Skinny ” had caused me and was congratulating myself on having had a hand in the interment of our illustrious friends, when I heard a low groan followed by a short chuckle and the sound of footsteps in the corridor. This I thought must be some youngsters ” up to their old tricks. Being the senior cadet in the building. I considered it my duty to see what the row was. Jumping out of bed, I pulled on a pair of working trousers, my slippers, and jumped into my sweater, all of which were at hand and a good uniform for a chase. I stepped into the corridor and started in the direction from which the sounds came. Scarcely had I gone two paces when I heard footsteps in the other end of the building and before I had time to turn, my friends had evidently reached the end stair and were making good progress to the upper floors. I started up the centre stairway to the second floor. Now the noise seemed to be in the opposite cud of the building from that in which I first heard it. Rushing along the corridor to the end of the building near the hospital, down the stairs I flew and seemed to be gaining on my prey, who were making for the basement as fast as their legs would carry them. It was not long before I was rushing along the basement. The lights in the kitchen and hall-way were turned low, as usual, but with their aid I managed to keep my feet fairly well over the rough brick floor. I thought it strange that I did not sec my friends ahead, but decided they must have gone up the stairs to the main corridor instead of keeping straight on through the kitchen. Just then I heard the rattling of pans and hurrying of feet, so on I ran into the kitchen, through the darkness, up into the mess-hall, over chairs and tables, so was picking my way very quietly and carefully. On looking around I saw the door leading into the office open. How long it had been open I do not know, but it was open, and my cun- ning friends had evidently left for a new tour of the building. Frantically I rushed out through the office and almost into the arms of the orderly, who was walking up and down in his usual quiet manner and almost fainted when he saw me. Stammering more from � 34 excitement than from want of breath, I asked him if he had seen anyone pass through the hall a moment before and which way they had gone. I could get nothing out of the or- derly, and I decided that the man had been asleep on post, when we both listened and could hear very plainly the words : “I never could bear these functions, they seem to go on without limit, and do you know, I am afraid that too much of our current has passed through the field coils, for the field magnets arc unduly excited.” This was spoken in a broken, feeble voice, with the same little laugh at the end. Like a flash I started up the centre stair-way. How they did seem to fly, up and up, gaining on me all the time. Where were they going? Not up into the drawing room. Yes, sure enough straight up ; then a general scattering, a titter, and dead silence. By this time I found myself in front of the door leading into the drawing room, completely without breath and the door locked. This had ceased to be a joke, so setting my jaw for business, I threw my weight against the door, and tumbled door and all into the room. In a mo- ment I picked myself up and looked around. Something surely had gotten into me, for every bit of fatigue had left me, and I could plainly see all my surroundings, although the light was very dim. All the drawing desks were fitted carefully together in the centre of the large room, the straight stools arranged around the wall, each with a strangely shaped figure seated upon it. The moon shining in through the end window, struck the floor, ami the rays seemed to be reflected a thousand times, giving a light which cast no shadow. On the platform in the centre of the room were a few figures, very probably the most graceful, moving each in its characteristic curve. There were, the resultant harmonic curves with their component parts, the Cissoid of Diodes, the Quadratrix of Dinostratus, which seemed to be trying to get closer to an Asymptote near at hand. The Witch of Agnesi i,Mmc. Yersiera) evidently a most respected member on account of her age, the Lemniscata of Bernouilli, the Spiral of Archimedes, an old hand at whirls, the Cycloid and its companion, the Hypocycloid and the Hypotrochoid, the Circle accom- panied by its Involute and the Loxodromc, with its projection commonly known as a “ rum line.” To-night was evidently the festival of the year, for every one was present. Besides those on the platform there was old Conic himself with his three sections dancing a jig of his own. The greatest deference seemed to be paid to the older members of the party, who, from their worn appearance, must have passed through several editions dur- ing their life-time. There were old Mass and Weight who could scarcely be told apart, yet. evidently, each was very sensitive on that point. Of course “ t played a principal part, seeming to be univesally admired and flattered : in fact he was the pet of the occasion. Chlorine was there with his family, as were Sulphur, Phosphorus, Nitrogen, Carbon and Hydrogen. Benzene, Toluene and Zylenc were there, but had l ccn suppressed, having had a superabundance of alcohol. In short, there seemed to be swarms inuu. mcrablc of this society, all making the best of their good time, and amongst whom were the fairest of all present. There were X, Y and Z holding a conference in the midst of the gaiety ; probably seeking traces of their lost comrade, the fourthdi.i ension. With them, and causing a great deal of confusion were “ d,” ”f,” and “g,’ the “big three,” who swept the floor as they tried their game between x and — infinity, at the same time ap- proaching almost indefinitely near to zero. There was Joule with his twin brother Watt, so alike that they could only be told apart by the fact that Joule was a little warmer than his brother. Mother Electric Unit was fussing about with her infant prodigy, keeping little “Capacity ’’ from over-charging and inducing “Unit Pole ’’ not to associate with the field magnets, while “ Unit Current ” seemed set on joining a crowd of big currents who had formed a ring and were shocking every one. Amongst the more dignified members were Tourmaline and Feldspar, whom every one looked at in the wrong light. These members seemed to fully appreciate their importance, suppressing the secondary rays and associating only with the more select polarized ones. I heard these dignitaries argu- ing with old Carnot himself, that they had given more trouble in their day than he had. The base of their argument seemed to be that no one had ever attempted to understand him, but almost everyone had bothered with them at sometime or other. Rushing about with a number in his train was Taylor’s Theorem, in company with the Exponential and Temvirere himself and Boisterous Binomial, the oldest of the crowd. Father Dynamo seemed to want to have a hand in running everything, and what he could not see to him- self, he said should be conducted by his leading wires. He considered himself the only potential member of the assembly and declared that iF.it were not for his presence the festi- val would have run “aground ’’ long ago. Clerk Maxwell’s demon was evidently floor director, and busied himself, here, there and everywhere. All this I saw, and although I thought myself unnoticed by the crowd of merry- makers, suddenly the air became filled with whirling wheels, belts and pulleys, spaiks were flashing and snapping back and forth, and I was snatched up, pulled, turned, twisted and thrown, I knew not where. The next morning I awoke, and luckily for me it was Saturday, with only a drill in the morning. SCHNRS 'ROM THU CRUSE ON THU C. V. .V MONONGAHE .A, SI M Mi. R OS'., . Welcker’s, Washington-. I). C. Coasts. 1. The Flag .... Dri nk Standing 2. The New Navy....................... Stuart Farrar Smith j. The Supe , :................Joseph Cabell Breckinridge 4. The Femmes . . Nat Macon—Marti n 5. Athletics at the Academy ... . Walter Blake Izard 6. The Second Class Summer . . . James Proctor Morton 7. “Deux—Cinquante . . . .Joseph Draper Savers, Jr. S. “ Them Buzzards, they fly so high .......Worth Bagley 9. “ He Spoony Men ..... Kenneth Marratt Bennett 10. Our Class.........................Edward Howard Dunn Toastmaster, PHILIP MICHAEL BANNON. Committee. Cassius Bartlett Barnes. George Hiram Mann. Joseph Cabell Breckinridge, Jr. «39 Answer to (gjcrre$pcndeivt$. J. V. K. Xo ! ! ! We are sure that fog would not affect the rate of the chronometers. Fogs are not built that way. Wack. Xo: absent-mindedness and mental aberration are not signs of genius. Truth forces us to this reply, though, at times, we ourselves are absent minded. Giraffy. We do not think that you were cheated on your dress suit case, merely because your trousers will not go in when folded once. The inventor of the dress suit case was only six feet four. Siiaxk. Xo : Admiral Porter did not write “The Clemenceau Case.” His only two works are Allan A. Dare and Hob, the Devil. grinds. Miss Gusher. “ How I love this place. I know every tree in the yard.' ’ Cadet McHii.gkr. “So do I.” Mann. “ Say, Gin-Block, who was Ibid ? ” $ Instructor. “ Mr. Izard, if I were to tell you to take a star-sight to-night, how would you go at it ? ” Walter. “ Could not take one to-night, sir ; I have an engagement for the hop.” ❖ “ Mr. McCormack, of what is cellulose made ? ” “ Sugar cane, sir.” Skinny Bill. “ Sir, is the equation-of-time minus when the longitude is Ivast ? Mackay. Why doesn’t Count Fours ever answer his muster? 140 (giecd £v,e (fetter je. Once upon a time there was a cadet with a good eye. Now it is the custom of Cadets to rise and uncover when an officer, whether “of the day ora real live officer, enters the room. If the time of entrance is between ten and eleven in the morning, they also open the wardrobes and the table drawers. Now on a fine Winter’s morning, the cadet with the good eye heard footsteps of the approaching officer as he made his inspection. So he opened his wardrobe, and saw that it was quite neatly arranged, then he opened the drawer and his eye fell upon a scene of horror. The bitterness of the ap- proaching demerits filled his soul, and lie hastily covered the chips and papers with two large writing pads. Enter the officer inspecting : “ Good morning Mr. B— — , ” “ Good morning, sir. ” All round the room goes the unsuspecting inspector and at last looks at the drawer. A fiendish grin plays about his lips as he pokes one of the pads, and the cadet-in-charge outside the door has an incipient fit. “ Sort of whited sepulchre arrangement; eh, Mr. B-----------? ” And as the officer with the better eye went out, he remarked with a chuckle “ Put Mr. B---------on the report for “ Table drawer in disorder. Now the soul of the cadet with the good eye was filled with rage, for that i on the conduct report meant third grade and no liberty, so he ignored the officer’s better eye, and arranged his table drawer beautifully. On top he neatly spread a layer of writing pads, and with joy in his heart awaited the inspection. Iinter the officer and the same cordial greetings are ex- changed. At last his better eye falls upon that table drawer. With a more fiendish grin than before lie remarks as he passes it: ‘ Fish are not biting. to-day, Mr. B----------: (more sternly): Report Mr. B. for dirty lamp shade. ” Exit. Curtain. Extract from conduct report. W-----, Dusty room-mate’s wash bowl. 141 “ ll the Starboard V ateli. A TRAGEDY IN ONE ACT. Scene:—The Gun Deck of the U. S. Practice Ship Monongahela. Time:—3.50 A. M. D R A M AT IS P ERSON Ai. THE HAM, . . . By Himself. THE COUNT, . . . Also by Himself. (The Ham discovered sound asleep in a hammock. Enter the Count). The Count (shaking the Ham).—Here, Ham, turn out! You've got to relieve me ! The Ham (sleepily).—Ugh ! What ? What time is it ? The Count (encouragingly).—Nearly time for you to stand the morning watch. The Ham (turning over to sleep).—There, that's all right: I'm not going to stand the morning watch ; I’m going to stand the mid-watch ! The Count (getting scared).—Really, Ham, you can’t: I've just stood it myself. Curtain. NAUTICAL TERMS: WEIGH ENOUGH 142 “ V hsj, ®hc | fl his? “ Only one of our ancestors.”’ “Not overloaded with clothes, is he? Should think he would take cold. Hut he doesn’t look like a consumptive, does lie? ’’ “ Oh no, he is used to it.” “ But what is that tiling he lias in his hands ? ’’ “ Looks like a bow and arrows.” “Can he shoot straight, do you think? “ Guess so.” “ But he doesn’t know anything about the accuracy and probability of lire, does he ? ” “Of course not, why should lie? ” “ But can he live and be happy without that? ’’ “ Well, he can worry along, somehow.’’ “ Well, well, and don’t lie know what a dyne, or a erg, or a watt is?” “No, I don't think he docs.” “ Couldn’t lie calculate a moment of inertia ? ” “ No, what would lie do with it when he got it ? ” “ Poor fellow, poor fellow. Just think how much better off the first class are. They know all these things.” “ I)o they ? ” 43 ©ur . A is for Allison, pitcher that broke : K is for Bagley, renowned as a bloke. C is for Cushman, creator of noise : I) is for Davidson, “ one of the boys. Jv is for Kckhardt, sweet voice and sweetheart : F is Kid Freeman, at spooning so smart. G is for Gheradi, his head in the skies: H is for Hall, in debate, calm and wise. I is for Izard, who’s still in the swim : J is Zed Johnson, of humor so grim. K is for Klemann, who bones up the sun : L is for Failing, whose hugs are no fun. M is for McCormack, renowned for his brace: N is for Noyes, who set such a hot pace. O is Prince Olsen, the heir to a throne : P is for pratt, who would ne’er deign to bone. Q is a quantity, unknown, like X : R is Jim Raby, whom nothing can vex. S is for Sayers, “ Saw it coming and ran : ” T's Takasaki, “ most craziest man. U is unknown and existence did spurn : Y is for Vestal, who watched the earth turn. V is for Walker, saluting No moon ! But X, Y and Z, I can't fit to this tune. Instructor (in seamanship).—Mr. E.--, if you were fitting out a boat for sea, what would be the first thing that you would put in her ? ;.—(after deep meditation). A bottom, sir. Fair Daughter of Annapolis (proud of her nautical knowledge).— Oh, look at those boats: all the stern sheets are flapping ! 144 ■ J. -N .v7 £ 1 H -) ) •y Cc:i ' .. ? ■ r' o 7 3 f 0 I v)- J J 1 i l y( v v � , , •� - ' ’ c ° . ) I „ £ - 1 i. S £ £ s o .o , vc iv- ., • ' +' ■ Q V $ v V-' « '■ •• from their blottersr ;V. B.—The reader way catch the weaning with the aid of a hand glass. Air—“ Susan Iit own. '1’nlcss you know the air, the verse will surprise you and perhaps so, in any event.i I. I know a little dark green book. Come off, dark green ? Yes, rather thin. I feel quite ill whene'er I look— Don't you mean glance? Xo, look, within. It has a title on the back ? What! on the back ? Yes, done in gold ; And when the problems I attack They make my blood run cold. CHORUS. Least Squares ! Least Squares ! Book that I abhor ; Slippery Math ! Crazy Math ! We hate you more and more. If fifteen hens lay eighteen eggs How many chicks will they hatch ? If A and B each drink two kegs How many fish will thev catch ? 146 II. Now, Mister Johnson wrote this book— Of Baltimore ? Yes, lie’s the one, I’d like to hang him on a hook— How that would hurt? I’d have such fun ! And I should then examine him— On his own book ? Yes. on “Least Squares”— Lastly I’d tear him limb from limb And chuck him down the stairs.—Chorus. III. The walls I then should decorate— Wouldn 't you catch it! What’s the odds ? And with his gore I cl integrate— Draw Pi’s and Rho’s? Yes, all his gods ; I 'd trace three “ Probability Curves ” For “ risk of error ” zero use. Yet far worse treatment he deserves— He ne'er will get his dues.—Chorus. It has been a question long left unanswered :—What is “ wet hash and how is it made ? At last the mystery is solved and the following paragraph quoted from Remsen shows us that we do not eat hash on Saturday evenings, but a compound called potassium ferrocyanide. “ When refuse animal sub- stances, such as blood, bones, claws, hair. wool, etc., are heated together with potassium carbonate and iron, a substance known as potassium ferrocyanide, or, yellow prussiate of potash, 4 K C X Fe « C X , 3 H .O, is formed.” M7 P avigatien I. OW I hate my navigation, And I in filled with consternation When I hear the order published— Sumner’s method—simply that, Too oft I’ve had that feeling, While at G------n’s foot-stool kneeling. And I pleaded like a culprit That this once I might be sat. II. Not so much that I am dense Unendowed with common-sense. For in some things I have fooled them for 2.9 But my hard and cruel fate Left a screw loose in my tete And in Nav. I can hardly find a sine. III. For two hours in dejection I can work an intersection: Taking pains that every figure Is just pat. When corrected in red writing I am desperate unto fighting. For there in gleaming letters Is “very poor—unsat. IV. I have tried all things obscure, From boning to mind cure: And Christian Science Only chills my blood. Sarsaparilla is a sell. So. watchman, toll the bell. For a luckless kid whose name Is surely “ Mud.” 14S ILLOSTRATEO V TH. Te M : BENDING MOMENT. f rcm ©ur (Exchange . A RED OAK BOV'S SUCCESS. We were very much gratified to hear of our friend, Dar. R. Merritt’s suc- cess at the Navy School. We understand that he was appointed section leader the first week of his naval career, and some days later, was given the position of squad leader, which is, we believe, much more important than that of section leader.—Red Oak Daily Whiz. A WACO BOY S RETURN. Johnny Marshall, our sailor boy, has returned for a few days’ visit to his friends in Waco. Johnny has been at the Naval College for nearly a year and has very much the air of an old seaman about him already. He has been amusing the little boys and girls with his tales of the ocean and all his thrilling experiences. We can hardly believe this young man with the brass buttons is the same little Johnny who used to throw mud and water on the editor each evening, as he passed down Washington Avenue. Johnny leads his class in discipline and all the other important studies� and we predict for him a career similar to that of Nelson and Farragut. — Waco Daily Daisy. HURRAH FOR WISCONSIN'! Sheboygan, and in fact the whole of Wisconsin, can point with the finger of pride to the noble career of Ernie Kckhardt at the Naval Military Academy at Indianapolis, Maryland. Ernie has a charming voice, and besides being the chief member of the Academy Choir and the leader of the band, is considered as one of the leading lights in naval society throughout the whole of the country. We are proud of the fact that before the end of his fourth year he succeeded in getting out of the awkward squad.—Sheboygan AWvs. 150 (ton uct IRcport Class i Merritt. Same. Same. Same. Same. Same. Same. Same. Smoking about io A. m. Pipe in possession about 10 a. m. Tobacco in possession about io a. m. Violation of the regulations introducing non- regulation articles into academic limits. Neglect of duty as cadet in charge of room al- lowing smoking about io a. m. Room smelling of tobacco smoke about io a. m. Evidence of use of tobacco in room about io a. m. Dust on grass in front of window and bark off tree. fhc (©.Q§t ff cnop§. OLEMNI.Y AT the stroke of the bell on Friday night last, a ceremony was per- formed in the venerable halls of New Quarters. Our interests in the Departments of Physics and Chemistry and Mechanics and Applied Matliamatics t all this makes only two dcpartmcntsi. had come to a timely end. Math, and Skinny were at last dead, of old age truly enough, yet by no means of inanition, for in dying, they struggled with us like the demons that they arc. And, alas, to some purpose, although we arc nearly all alive and kicking ion the sly i. So from each room, toward the table in the middle of the corridor, came a pair of mourners, eagerly awaiting a glimpse of the Skinny corpse (not to mention Math.) which, since decease had carried the soul away, had no longer power to inspire terror as of old. Grouped around the door of Brumby's room, they consoled themselves with adirge, until the rumor spread that the escort of honor was wanted, and six minions vanished into No. 69 to assist the chief mourners and the Reverend. A hush fell upon the assemblage and broke the dirge into bits, and a shudder could not be repressed, but ran around the crowd like a circus horse. At last the door opened and the subrcccivcr (in human parlance, the undertaker) appeared. He would have been button-holed by a score of anxious watchers, butlic had on a sweater. “How do they look?’’ “ Beautiful, and resting so nicely, thank you : I am now on the hunt for refrigerators to put in the graves. An ingenious person in the crowd suggested borrowing Carnot’s pair of refrigerators, and at the mention of that dread name, there arose a general chorus of sobs. Again the door opened, and this time it stays, so some unkind soul suggested tacks, but in a moment the chief appeared. His clarion voice pronounced the word “ Posts, and at this mysterious sound, all fled away, but about two grave diggers who had come up to watch the fun. Now appeared the immortal remains, dressed in robes of snowy white, except where the steam depart- ment had left rust on the front breadth of Skinny’s working suit and with appearance of the Eckhardt lamented, the purpose of the grave diggers became evident, for the chief, with a knowledge of their bravery in the presence of the unseen world, had mustered them in as choir. To the familiar strains of Susan Brown, they disposed of Math.; then, the biers being on the escort, the procession halted near the water cooler, while the crowd opened to let them pass. Here the chief started to change his mind, quite oblivious of the fact that his other was at the wash, and aftersome hesitation, it became necessary for the sub-receiver to whisper in his ear that it is usual to have inspection before church. The biers were set down instead of up, and the front rank marched past to the air of “ Skinny, come bilge your middy boy,” handsomely rendered by the grave diggers, with a solo accompaniment by Touge. As the last man embraced the last corpse, the chief com- manded : ti) Front rank, 12) Weep ! This, however, was performed with some difficulty as there were no squirts to be had at the store that afternoon, but with aid of the water- cooler and some sponges, a respectable basin of tears was Anally on hand. The past half formed as they had been, while the rear rank took turnsat the basin and at the corpses. “ Pass in magazine ! ” and up came the escort uniformly loaded, while Colonel Carter with his band brought up the rear which had hitherto been unnoticed. It proved to be badly brought up, being composedof youngsters and plebes, and Carter came near being disrated for neglect of duty, but as the wash had come back and thcchicf s mind with it. he halted, and was about to use street cleaning tactics, for part of his force was armed with brooms. The Irreverend, though, suggested a detail to guard the doors of the Draw- ing and “ Desc. Geom.” rooms, and eight plebes were hustled off with the understanding that they were to relieve every five minutes. “ That will do with the band ; Music! ” and the sad and solemn procession moved on. “ Where will they best rest, O my brothers ? ' wailed the chief. “ Hard to say, but start in with the third heaven,” answered the Reverend, so they toiled up the winding stairs north of east, and learned that the Xoali’s Ark dove had not been patented for nothing, for they issued one to find graves for two. He came back without them. Then the Irreverend spake : “ This is no place for the likes of the dear departed ; try the seventh heaven at once.” “ Dislikes rather than likes, and far more expensive than dear, but let it go at that. Shall they be carried to the skies? Yes ! Forward ! ” and as the chief said, so it was. They wound their way up the other stairs, but as they had got the “ Time ” and “ Alarm ” keys mixed, their way soon ran down to the basement. So the Irreverend gave them a piece of his mind, at which some of the crowd growled about asking for a piece of bread and getting a stone: but he was not so readily phased. “ They are not worthy, and I dare to say it. Try the first-class floor again, for only through Purgatory, may they attain to Paradise.” Down the main stairway came the band followed by the corpses and mourners, then, turning to the left, they reached the end. but an engineer lived there, and for him Math, was only taking a nap. So they all went to the rear, but at the other end of the corridor, they found another engineer. Proud and haughty, Math, had no terrors for him. “ Pray don't mind me, but go on.” Again they opened ranks, and the poor things went through the centre for the last time : then, the escort put down the burden and heat of many days, and all crowded back in disgust. But the Reverend kept a stiff upper lip and the Irreverend, a straight face- “ Reverend Brother, please pass over the Cherubim and Seraphim.” “What for?” “ They continually do cry, and we need fire extinguishers on hand to overcome the malign influence of Clerk Maxwell's demon, who has consigned these creatures to a warmer spot than the Naval Academy.” “ Where is that ? ” But he was interrupted by a steam heater objecting in anguished tones against such unholy neighbors. When quiet was restored, Cherubim brought Seraphim up, and kneeling, they wept. Then the Irreverend picked up his voice aud hurled it ringing down the corridor, “ Unto tlie great Twin Brethren, keep we this solemn feast; swift, swift the great Twin Brethren came spurring from the East.’ I do not like to give the source of my text, as the people from Down Hast might take it as a slam, to have the birth-place of our illus- trious friends worked off on them, but I wish to remark that, as you doubtless know, in the original Sanskrit, the phrase ‘ Great Twin Brethren ' was rendered by a single word signifying awfully alike, yet somehow dreadfully different.' This makes it the more appropriate, for Skinny used to masquerade in the steam building and confound the !53 wooden section with pendulums and lever, while Math, used to skip across to the Skinny Building and impress the same wooden section with the idea that a sixteen-pound ham- mer could not weigh anything but live hundred and twelve pounds, or else one poundal. “ Then, to show how prompt the great Twin Brethren were, the first call to recitations was at 7.55 A. M. on a balmy day in September, 1891, and we laid our offerings of two- fives on the hallowed altars of Math, at exactly two minutes past eight, as recorded by that watch, long since lost in the depths of the Severn, immediately thereafter dubbed a Waterbury by an envious darkey. • Brethren, Math’s better-half wasslower by a year and four months. When she once arrived, the old lady made up for lost time. Did she not toss the Knight of the Red and Gold Stripes into the arbor the very first week, and then fondly croon ‘ Rock-a-Bvc, Dickey?’ Ilis rapid down-hill course served to cast a pall darker than that of night over the joys of youngster year, and there had been a heap of them : and to mane matters worse, about this time, Math., feeling hurt at our abandoning these classic halls for a mere pile of red brick and mortar, aroused, shook itself, and roared horribly. If it has since left any of us a peaceful moment, I have forgotten it.” He then introduced the ever-famous Taylor’s Theorem, bv whose aid the new blouses are made, the stranger advanced, made a sweeping bow and began : “ My friends, I hold the ungrateful position of a prophet in his own country, for arc not the halls even now beneath us devoted to Math.?” “Yes, and there arc more several stories lower down,” growled the Reverend. “If I had not been interrupted, I should have told you that I was long employed by Mr. Taylor, and much abused by DeMorgan, Todhuntcr, and sons-of-guns. unlimited, tor my unswerving fidelity, but while eating one day, my unlucky patron got an asymptote stuck in his throat, and, glorious martyr to science, is the only mathematician that has yet reached infinity. “So,being at liberty to make myself obnoxious, I came to this spot and was early em- ployed in extracting roots by Horner’s method. I permuted and combined marks, chiefly by the formula, ‘' and with such success that several of your eighty-six of ninety-five saw daylight over their marks, awoke, and went about their business. But by juggling three red balls out of a hat containing two black and three white ones, I found an im- provement on Cardan’s method of reducing biquadratics, and promptly turned my atten- tion to plane Trig. Being already well versed in sines and functions, I was paid many compliments on my method of adjusting answers with the help of a key ; consequently, Napier and DeMoivre tried to remove me from this spot, and by every rule and analogy I should have bilged cold, had I not taken refuge on the plane of the primitive. Then, when they tried to project me on the prime vertical by roping me in with a time-sight, I slid down to an almucantar, and hid behind the hour angle. This fairly tired them out, and I began chasing latera recta over the undeveloped surfaces and eccentricities of par- abolic hyperboloids, firmly imbedded in two sheets, necessitating sundry nappes. Coming home one day on the ground line, I crossed the trace of a plane, and soon after found a copy of Aldis: I was much surprised to find that my old friends X and Y had lately included a comparative stranger, Z, in their partnership. The worst blow was when X came up one morning and announced that he had been differentiated ; of course I left at once for the steam buildingand found that it was only too true. There were 0 and X, 154 4 and dy, with many other marvels. The constancy of zdz had been proved, but when the differentials of logaritlius were shown to depend on the length of time you must square i to get 2.718, the wooden section made a wild effort to get loose, for, as they truly said, a two-seven is much more wholesome than a one. I happened in at that time, and dashed their hopes by swearing that they could not carry out their scheme till they reached infinity and they are still hunting for it. Max. and min. deduced the radius of curvature of Reuben by the method of McLaurin’s evolutes, and when the curve was traced on a Mercator’s chart, it came out a concatenation. Partially derived from these sources came the summation of series, but fundamental integrals were deprived their constant terrors by introduction of radii of gyration. Just about this time the Skinny Department received a fresh supply of B. T. I'.'s to warm up some cold busts, and we oj mathematical fame, not to be outdone, applied for mechanics, and got more levers, planes, centres of gravity, and gyroscopic effects than we could use in four months. Integral signs of the times were water pressures and the loss of Head by the Department, so the last time we greeted you, it was with marks adjusted by least squares and triangles so as to be well within the probable error in case of unusually bad exams. We had Hooke up to explain his system ol strains, but his joints were rusty, and at the wrong point in the girder, the shearing force was put out of office owing to a change of pull and the bridge broke down hurting Mr. Cotterill badly. lam sure that you arc sorry that my last piece of news is such a sad one, but as I am requested to attend the funeral services, I must say a long farewell and assure you that with Math., Skinny is not in it.” The Reverend picked up the song and continued : ‘‘As a champion of the lean and hungry fiend that is gone, I am hopelessly unsatisfactory, but there standctli one among you who has met Skinny on the war-path, and lie knows the ways of the beast.” So lie introduced Clerk Maxwell’s demon. The demon came forward, but was for some time hindered by an unusual number of swiftly moving molecules that had been excited by Cherubim’s shunt coil, and had escaped from the corpses which the resistance had raised to a dull cherry red. But when his temper was restored by a dose from a wet-and-dry hygrometer, compounded according to Apjohn’s formula, lie sat down near the bodies. “ I was brought up in a Bessemer Stahl Fabrikation, and so am in a position to speak knowingly of pig-iron and Karns muck-bars, but an apprenticeship as functionary of M. Carnot, served to increase my ambitions, and growing tired of hell, I moved to heaven and earth to get appointed demon to the great Professor Maxwell. Since lie died I have been useful in many ways, chiefly, however, in creating disturbing sounds in the hydro- gen machine. You all know that this produces an outburst of ‘ So much for chlorine; we will now pass on to—Tom! put that thing in the corner.’ After blowing up some phosphine and mixing H2 S O, with K Cl 03, I went into the dynamo room, connected the transformer to step up, and then started ringing bells at a hundred thousand volts. But while trying the effect of sitting on the brushes on the shunt dynamo, I made con- nection through myself with the alternator, which started off at such a rate that the motors averaged net efficiencies of 103 per cent. This naturally soon wrecked the engine, and seeing that an accident was imminent, I grasped the alternator firmly with my tail and stopped it. Then I ran for an ammeter and an oil can to straighten things up, but some one opened a double-pole switch to a multipolar dynamo, and so many cur- 55 rents were let loose that I fled to the dark room, where I amused myself by fixing the Head of Department’s undeveloped negatives, by opening all the boxes and then break- ing the window. • My first experience with the Physical Laboratory was sad. I took a ride down Att- wood’s machine, but set the catch wrong, neglecting to allow for the resistance to motion of my tail through the air; 1 consequently did not stop on the even second, and this retarded the clock, so that the next time a first class man plays with the magnetometer, instead of vibrations, he will discover the intensity of h---. The frictional electric machine proved fascinating, and I connected it to the siren with pleasing results. I made some interesting experiments with flames, both sensitive and stolid, and found that all of them would dissolve ice. The sounding board was a source of joy, and I used the loops of wire as spring-boards, traveling back and forth finely, but on one occasion the rider dismounted me, pitching me on the steep side of Nicol's prism. As I came down, I found that my feet had been doubly refracted in planes at right angles, and was so con- fused with the two extra feet that I could not walk until I got hold of a large lens and brought the real and virtual images into coincidence. It was shortly afterward that I was entirely decomposed by the spectroscope, and only saved my feet from being carried off on the ultra-violet rays by quickly interposing a solution of antipvrine. Its selective absorption was so great that the rays were reversed, and my feet came out all right, which was a great relief. I tested my temperature with a pyrometer, and found a large amount of deviltry still latent, and, as a specific, undertook further researches. I started to arrange the dip-circle for a toboggan slide, but when I went to get some mercury from the barometer, I unfortunately got amalgamated, and was obliged to go bathe in one of the storage batteries. This led to unexpected results, for, after a hasty journey through two arc lamps and a searchlight, I found myself at the Rancroft's switchboard, and a hor- rible disaster was only averted bv my presence of mind in using my amalgamation to become a dead ground. I was starting to bone up the Ardois system, when I met a megohm, who said that the Semi-An. was over; so I skipped up here to swear that Skinny’s hydro-carbons arc fifty per cent, more efficient (according to Jacobi’s law for motors) than Math's I). T’s. Here endeth the last lesson.” The demon retired to the basement to await his friends, and, after a chorus by the procession, the Reverend and the Irreverend raised the bodies and hurled them into lower darkness. The grave- diggers gave a sympathetic rendering of “ I am Dyne, Egypt, Dyne,” and after the band had played hookey the parade was dismissed by the chief. T H F l,c vcninq SUN ficginm. f. THK NEW YORK III: KALI) ■ _. -.-t,. . '“ 'JsSffigynnnorraf oUR@HOME. Tr r' ® 'i r ri ,,’ 'V ”C °'mT r“� « Nrwsg OBSERVER W(W[rainn[SenHn(L f,!f L!orih'«lown tttgjfaf Cuuricc ffiljc SSioux (Cvfn 3ounml. _ alu' 2JtUj (Citij (tribune. if €m'oU fopublicitn, f Pat otz: Richmond Co Herald, bm� 7’% THE CLE SHronicle. 3? „ -Y THE ASHLAND PRESS. HE SPOKESMAN.REVjew Oailfl Elate i v1,rTISER- ‘Wlin: nbwark jnmCv«ji't (Tomiti) fjcmoirat. '. .• nrr rnR lx FORMA TIO. . socrcf.s or oris mi-: ixforma tiox. ( Ittcran e. “ Any man who takes advantage of the darkness ” — (a pause ensues, during which the knees of those assembled knocked together spasmodically) — “ to indulge in such actions as were indulged in on your floor, last night, acts under the same impulse as “ the midnight assassin who stabs his man in the back. ” — The actions were the eating of crackers and cheese after taps. Mrs. Gush.—“ Pray, Commodore, what were you during your first class year at the Academy ? ’ ’ Commodore Cleanslccirr (curtly)—“ A naval cadet, madam, a naval cadet.” SPORTS AT THE NAVAL ACADEMY. I5 S We have some geometrical members of '95. For instance: Benjy. .—is a line. Having length,—but neither breadth or thickness.” Cihergy G.—is a plane. “ Having length and breadth,—but no thickness.” Dad S.—is a point. “ Having neither length, breadth nor thickness.” But here is where geometry is lacking, it has not told is what an object is that has breadth and thickness, but no length, so what are we to call B-----s L’-n-g? aitt£- - ILLUSTRATED NAUTICAL TERM : ” LET HER COV£ Uf 59 (P(cu fc 5 lllCutjfiu Vv ? isStZZ F. CV jLlA. hoxs VC - ! (j Wvw, O S-V. wi . , i Memcu H ■ Tijx vx . A: P $. kx 3l gjv_Ate'. ' % UX l o(X7s3 t + A$T' t A T ‘ f «c 'FB js-cuey 9 'i ' - f zffi’ 5 2 i4- C- sfL W’d s 1 c i a c 0-ofM s Cu£ - ust isi t - % 1 $aJp J t ' XfrUVL 4 Chtyjfo£,L (Zlu U. UXyiA oy J oyvLA Q 7-7??' SM- aa ciA a uAfo: £ ApZ W.C . THIS SCHOOL HAS BEEN ESTABLISHED SINCE 1880. STUDENTS ARE RECEIVED INTO CLASSES AT ANY TIME. St. (John’s Preparatory School FOR U. S. NAVAL ACADEMY ANNAPOLIS. MD. FREDERIC WILLING, Af. I. - - - - Special Instructor in Charge GENERAL VIEW OF ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE. ANNAPOLIS, MD. This Class, although under the personal supervision ot the President ot St. John's College, is a distinct ieatnre. apart Irom the usual College curriculum, tne pupils 'oeing in charge ot an instructor who devotes his whole time and atten- tion to this class cnly, so that each pupil receives ind.vidual instruction in those stud .es in which he is most delicient -, ana also is n addition caret-ally loohed alter in matters pertaining to his general comiort and weltare. The percentage ot students who have entered the academy Irom this Claes is very high, ana ail stand well in their respective Classes. Por circulars and particulars address the President ot St. John's College. THOMAS FELL. PH.D. { RICE ° ° DUVAL nmj and f5 avnj (Uniforms, ani fashionable ( mlicm ©rcss REASONABLE ...PRICES... 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AND HoLuell Automobile Tonpedos Bmcrican Division. Managing Office: 702 Seventeenth Street. Washington. I). C. Torpkdo Factory : i j Fountain Street, Providence, K. I. Gun Mount and Carriage Factory : 159 Aborn Street, Providence, K. I. Gun Manufacturers: The Pratt and Whitney Company, Hartford,Conn. Ammunition Manufacturers: The Winchester Repeating Arms Co., New Haven, Conn. .iGritisb Division. Director’s Office: 48 Parliament Street. S. W. Manufacturers: Lord William Armstrong, Mitchell Co.. Ncwcastle- on-Tyne. tfreneb Division. Manager’s Office: 21 Rue Royale. Paris. Factory: Rautc dc Goncsse, Saint Denis. Standard Naval Guns REVOLVING CANNON-1 pdr.. 2X pdr.. 4 pdr. RAPID FIRING GUNS-1 pdr.. 2li pdr.. 3 pdr.. 6 pdr.. 14 pdr.. 33 pdr.. 55 pdr.. 100 pdr. Standard JVIilitary Guns 1 pdr. Field Revolver. Three-inch Field Gun. 12 pdr. Rapid Firing Mountain Gun. Flank Oefense Revolver. 2 pdr. Rapid Firing Mountain Gun. 2 pdr. National Guard Infantry Gun. 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