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

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t Ik English Department d They reckon ill who leave me out When me thy fly I am the wings this is what they give us after two years of studying english as she is spoke nobody has yet discovered what it means its all in the book and yet we still get a two five it is surprising though how many casualties are due to the evil machinations of this department and it is no uncommon thing to see a man who has a higher mark in the study of modern languages than he has in the study of the queens own one thing we learn is to punctuate and capitalize and paragraph our sentences and thanks to the afore men- tioned department none of us ought to make busts on official correspond- ence we also learn how not to make after dinner speeches even though jeff ross did bust up one of those parties instructor seat your men , B section leader men seats 25

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■I Why Dago is taught us leaves us in a quandary. Why we waste one hour and forty minutes (?) every time we have a Dago recitation, who knows? Perhaps, it was put in our path as a stumbling block (good idea, Henry, because it has certainly been that), or, perchance, it is to make us become acquainted with the chivalry of France and Spain. Whose nose? Plebe year we started out with Turlututu, chapeau pointu, French, I be- lieve. Thence, after various transitory periods, one half of us studied French, another half Spanish, and the other third, who knows? Some of the best exponents of the stuff can actually make up words in either lingo, a truly remarkable state of affairs. Moreover, some of us can now really distinguish between a, e, i, o, and u. l . Oh you! Anyway, if there be anything else that we y g L desire to know in the way of languages, all we have fcl S ' ' ' ° P g 461 of the grammaire, and B H |! there it is all before us! Don ' t forget the fricative GpP V sound of 1 in Dago!! 27