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

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Department of Marine Engineering and Naval Construction ■i If you can sketch and describe, you and the Mech. Department gybe very well. Otherwise, one might just as well throw up both one ' s hands and shriek, It can ' t be done. We have sketched and described everything from a rivet to a battleship, and now that we have rounded the last lap with a good lead, almost everything has been forgotten with the exception of that most elusive W. B. A. boiler. After Plebe year one ' s trials in the Mech. Department really end. With the passing of Mech. Drawing, descriptive geometry, and a few plebes (relatively speaking), sailing is not so rough. There are those, however, who find their path other than a bed of roses when they strike incidentals like mechanisms and turbines. The main s. drain is a 15 inch line of wood. Oh, my!! 19

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T T I Department of Mathematics Brown and Capron ' s Calculus, page 6 (bottom) It will be understood, of course, that in this article the letters y and x have been used for function and variable merely for convenience and brevity; all sorts of letters may be expected in various problems. For instance, time is almost invariably indicated by the letter t, and distance (or space) by s. It may all be true, old boy, but who told you it? The Math, and Mech. Department satisfies itself by wreaking vengeance upon a resistless mass of helpless plebes, airily snatches a few from our midst Youngster and Second Class years, and even after solemn burial, it isn ' t content to die. Every time we go over to Nav. and Ordnance, Math, turns over in his grave, and it is the same all the way through this continual m L. round of pleasure. We have scraped and racked B ° ' ' brains for a few jokes and puns on the Math. R | Department, but nothing has been forthcoming. ' H ' ' ° j ■ 21