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

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IT has become a recognized and highly appreciated custom at the Naval Academy, for the graduating class of each year to issue an annual which shall be a repository for “ pomes ” and literary efforts, a monument to their athletic prowess, and, all in all, a pleasant souvenir of their career while members of “ Uncle Sam’s nursery.” “All things come to him who waits,” and so, after patient waiting, the glories of first class year have become ours and it devolves upon ’96 to issue the Lucky Bag. Therefore, we pre- sent to you this volume with the hope that it may find due favor in your eyes. The high standard of previous productions and the thorough way in which they have thrashed over the ground of our work, make our task doubly hard, but we have endeavored to repro- duce, in this volume, all their good features with additional ones, which we hope to have classed in the same category, and which will make our effort an improvement. It is for you to decide if we have succeeded in our labors. If we can feel that we have amused you and have given you a welcome remembrance of your cadet life, and something to show your friends elsewhere the strange ways and pranks of the worthy successor of “ Mr. Midshipman Easy,” then we shall feel that our efforts have been more than rewarded. 13