University of Maryland College Park - Terrapin / Reveille Yearbook (College Park, MD)

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NORMAN EARLE BRICE Mechanical Engineering His head is as full of quarrels as an egg is full of meat. — Shakespeare Ape, the origin of this, his well-known nickname, is shrouded in mystery. Some say that it arose from his wonderful likeness to the tribe of Simians, and will cite you chapter on chapter from Darwin ' s Descent of Man to uphold their argument. Others as stoutly contend that no stigma attaches to the personage who bears this epithet, but that it is only an indirect method of comparing ye ancient town of Annapolis to a Congo jungle. Be that as it may, the worthy sub- ject of this sketch has always been known as the Ape. Ape kept very quiet dur- ing his first two years at college, never participating in any social amusements, but in his Junior vear — oh, mv ! Someone whis- pered to him that he had the making of an excellent dancer, and so to develop this trait he charged down upon the class of ' 07 for dancing lessons. By his proficiency in this line he won the enviable title of Tanzboden- koenig, beating Rube out by at least twenty points. Everything went well with Ape until his Senior year, and then it was Why in the world did I ever leave Newark? I cannot surmise what happened there that summer, unless, unless — pshaw! Unjust accusation! I have often heard of indiscreet young men who occasionally fall into duck ponds and mill dams, but who under the sun would be so foolish as to fall in love? I think Ape has an idea that some day be will be a great engineer, as we have heard him talking of putting on his finishing touches at Cornell. We all wish him a bright future, yet I ' m afraid that the last we shall hear of him is that he is traveling straight to — ruination? bankruptcy? No! but to Helen (a). 28

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GEORGE GROVER BECKER Horticultural A snapper up of unconsidered trifles. — Shakespeare How such a tender infant came to survive the crushing congestion of crowded Baltimore is certainly at first sight a miracle to all. But we once hear that incon- gruous jabber of low German and high English and the problem is solved. Georgie ' s Germanic instincts have hitherto shown a marked preponderance over his culti- vated English propensities, in- asmuch as, like many another would-be scientist of the Fatherland, he is constantly busy collecting well-known bugs, common river pebbles, bum jokes, pointless mottoes and other inconsiderable trifles that happen along — all in the hope that some day the spirit of Poe may descend and lead him to the discovery of the Gold Bug, and thus his name shall be written in the Hall of Fame as M. A. C. ' s foremost scientist. We gasp as we think that twice he was almost lost to the entomological world! First, the stage claimed him, for Georgie was perfection itself in his droll imitation of ' ' Dick, the Cook and the Roll- ing Pin a la Uncle Remus. Then, again, he was threat- ened with the most incurable of maladies, the terrible disease of love; but our cute little boy never got any decided results, for the maiden herself decided. So Georgie went back to chasing bugs and she was left to another ' s tender care. The telling of what he will do at Cornell next year occupies all his hours of leisure ; and suffice it to say that, tho he is always late, always studying the wrong lesson, and always asleep when his turn comes to recite, Georgie has more college spirit to the square pound than any cadet living, besides possessing that ideal state of the Cabbite mind, a Senior sense of responsibility. 27

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REUBEN BRIGHAM Agricultural High houses are usuaUy empty in the upper story. — German Proverb Whom have we here? A youth of some nineteen summers, with dull, blue eyes, tallow hair, the dimensions of a lath and remarkable quantities of voice. His nomadic childhood was spent in learning to speak German, and later he tried to Germanize the Japs, for which he was exiled by that warlike nation. Shorty, as his name implies, had been destined for a small man, but his violent ejection from the country of his heart caused him to pro- long his upward growth until his head was hid amidst the clouds, thinking, like the ostrich, that if his head was covered his body , would be safe ! After the Yankee arrived at M. A. C. he gradually outgrew his timidity, and soon became famous T- —— s candidate for the football ., . . H HjJHH team, where he rose and fell in H T - HB H three days, as a writer of criti- ™ cisms, expositions and portrayals for a certain high-school girl, who forgot him as well as his writings after her graduation, and again as a dancer, only to be eclipsed bv the Dancing King, our old friend the Ape. Reuben (that is what the girls call him) is a specialist in fine writing, and it imdoubtedly gives him a great mental shock to write a word of one syllable where he can use one of eight or ten. Such a sentence as ' ' Mv cerebellum is a continuous and homogeneous mass of palpitating proto- plasm void of anv anatomical differentiation or systematization is common conversation for this walking enclyclopedia. Looking forward we can see our friend Brigham living in isolated Montgomery, where, as a no-profits entreprenneur, he is engaged in raising pigeons and breed- ing bumble bees, while there appears weekly in the Sandy Spring Gazette this ad.: Wanted — A Wife. Needless to sav, this will never be answered. 29