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

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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

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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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IvEVIN BOWLAND BROUGHTON Chemical Bachelor, a peacock; betrothed, a hon; wedded, an ass. — Spanish Proverb BANG ! goes the stopper. Up starts a boiling stream of H2SO4, and the days of Frantz and the water bottle are with us again as the great Levin, the busy man of M. A. C, takes a speedy departure for the shower bath. Land, I reckon that took the roof off all right, chuckles his irrepressible partner, for he has heard Hubbie unconsciously humming, Last Night as I Lay on My Pillow, for the past half hour, and, as usual, the expected has happened. In running a determination, Hubbie had strayed from the beaten paths and indulged in the doubtful pleas- ure of planning a cottage for two, with the unavoidable reaction related . But Lev is not always thus, for he can use his brain to good purpose whether in Deutsch or Organic. Indeed, if by accident he should get into a tight fix in the latter, he has only to stir up his magnificent head of hair, snap his fingers imperiously, and presto! the Genius of Chemistry fetches up another ten to add to his valuable collection. And when it comes to using German references in his practical work, he invariably pre- fers the original language to the translation. So noticeable is his scholastic superiority that he has already been appointed professor in embryo of elementary chemistry to the Shorthorn ' s, despite the fact that Paradis loafed about in citizen ' s clothes for nearly three weeks in hopes of cornering the job. Dr. Broughton daily reminds us more and more of his worthy predecessor of happy memory, Prof. Wharton, whose living image in physique and mental acquirements he is. Indeed, when Lev, resplendent in dress suit and spotless tie, appears on the ballroom floor, we doubt if even the redoubted Buck ever equaled him in grace and dexterity. Lev ' s future is assured, for he has happily harmonized profession with pleasure; and in due time, upon the retirement of Woodpecker and Chicken, we confidently expect that Duckie, in con- junction with the Crown Prince, will succeed to the O. C.-ship, in which coveted position he will, we hope, lead a charmed life against bottles, bombs and other such impedimenta. 30