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

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Samuel Dent Cray, First Lieutenant, Company A. Agricutlural Nanjemoy, Md. Sergeant Junior year. 3 Chairman board of directors, Agricultural Society. Biographical editor Reveille. ' T WAS back there a little way in — . The scene was Charles County, the land of fair maids and chivalrous men, of sunny skies and beautiful landscapes, where man and Nature attain their highest development — the Eden of Maryland, (no sooner said than disputed). What? Oh I almost forgot. A dyed-in-the-wool republican was born, Samuel Dent Gray at your service. Sam ' ' couldn ' t help being born. We can ' t equitably hold that against him. But why wasn ' t he a prohibi- tionist socialist, a mug-waump — anything but a republican? However, Sam has and has had other ambi- tions foremost among which is that to be a great agriculturist. He entered M. A. C. in 1906. Since then M. A. C. has been slowly entering him. He started out as a general science man, but had not been here very long, when he discovered that there was even an easier course than that, and he accordingly promptly turned to agronomy. He is already quite a specialist on things agricultural and a bright future behind the plow no doubt awaits him in Charles County. Much of his time while here has been devoted to the investigation of The Effect of Lime on Clover and Sheep Sorrel, and he has gotten a very able paper on the subject of his system. In the near future he says he expects to further investigate the subject of lime, this time The Action of Lime WhenBrought in Contact with a Pine Fence at a Temperature of 98 Degrees in the Shade. We predict a very interesting paper. Gray also shines as a debater, and if you want to know the opinion of Charles County on anything from politics to whooping cough start an argument. Sam will let you know about it. But such a gift is not to be smiled at. It is said of this expert agronomist that his ability comes into good use when he has occasion to approach Professor Taliaferro ' s regions unpre- pared. He informs us that a few ideas on how to elaborate just nothing are worth a good deal in a pinch. Now when it comes to the other variety of human beings, the kind that rattle like a dozen rolls of wall-paper when they go down the aisle in church, ' ' Sam is right there with the goods. Unfortunately ' the other person usuallj ' isn ' t there. She eludes him, she gets out of the way. But God bless you says Sam it won ' t always be so. And for his sake we hope it won ' t. These are days of specializing and if a woman can ' t marry a specialized farmer she may as well get a rock cracker and be done with it. Surely in Gray she has a specialty, and we wish him the best of success when, after the manner of those of the tribe of Benjamin, he captures her. 26

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Jackson Piper Grason, Drum Major Civil Engineering. Tovvson, Md. President Class ' 08, ' 09, ' 10. M , in baseball ' 06, ,07, 08, ' 09, ' 10. Captain baseball team, ' 07, ' 08, ' 09, ' 10, M in track ' 08 Member student conference com- riiittee, Chairman reception committee, May ball ' 09. Chairman reception commit- tee June ball. President Rossbourg Club ' 10. fACKSON, alias, Sus was born in Baltimore county, but strange to say very little of his time has been spent there, for he has resided so long at M. A. C. that Prince George has at last begun to claim him by adverse possession. None of us can remember the time when Sus wasn ' t there, in the words of one of his admirers thatdated back to the time the college was a pup. Sus ' s versatility is remarkable. Hisfame as an athlete is well known all over the state of Maryland. One cannot imagine a baseball game at M. A. C. without Sus behind the bat, and when he begins to talk it up, and that well-known grin of deter- mination comes over his face, woe betides the oppos- ing team, for Sus has decided to win. In social circles also, he has held a prominent position, having carefully piloted the Rossbourg Club, through the most successful season of its existence. But Sus is at his best, when on some long winter evening he has gathered in his room a coterie of choice friends; and when pipes are filled, every one carefully snuggled up, he begins to spin yarns of the olden days at M. A. C. How he and Rat Mackall broke into the pantry, and of the dire wrath of Knux, and how Sus all but got away, how large and lucious the straw- berries used to grow, how the old boys used to give rats h — . what large fat springers Doc Mac used to keep; all these and more too are favorite subjects of conversation, and prove delightful indeed to the listeners. Of late years Jackson has taken a strange liking to the Eastern shore, and invariably pre- fers to spend his vacations there. To hear Sus describe a moonlight night on the beautiful Choptank, and then sigh and gaze out of his window over the eastern hills, one would almost believe there was a maiden concerned, but when to a query he replies a strongly negative No! all illusions disappear, and we know Sus is as he claims, a confirmed bachelor. Sus hasasplendid opinion of Doc Tolly also Myron, and never fails to expressit when an occasion arises. He is and has been for all times a strong upholder of M. A. C. tradi- tions, and the terror of the rats. As president of our class we naturally feel a pride in his acquirements, and we are confident that his recognized executive ability will insure him noteworthy success in anything he under- takes, and the best wishes of 1910 go with him. 25

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George Ernest Hamilton, First Lieutenant and Adjutant. Civil Engineering. La Plata, Md. Chairman refreshment committee May ball. Secretary-treasurer June ball organization. Secretary-treasurer, class. Secretary, athletic association. Manager tennis team. Secretary-treasurer, Reveille. H legs. ADIES and Gents: on your right kindly ob- serve that winsome smile attached to that good natured face surmounted by a shock of tawney hair and raised aloft by two slender That is Georgie Hamilton, the only white citizen of La Plata, and the only man in Southern Maryland who can vote a democratic blanket ballot without a compendium of instructions that would make Webster ' s Dictionary look sick — and the seeing College Park auto rolled Majestically onward. W-w-well-well-wh-wha-what the, — I saj - Hello! articulated Georgie at last. George Earnest Hamilton was born in 1887 at Brentland, Charles county, Maryland; a light spot in a dark wilderness, a tiny daub of whitewash in a vast expanse of coal tar. He received his early instruction in the neighboring schools and studied further at McDonough Institute, matriculating at M. A. C. in 1906. Studious lad that he was he elected the Civil Engineering course and proceeded to throw vocal convulsions in the left side of Science Hall, floor tw o. In these manoeuvers he was aided and abetted by the versatile Sus and I say fellows it ' s something awful. Mild in ways and courteous in manners he was not widely known till in his junior year he developed a sudden streak of flashiness and exhibited his exceptionally Gibson-like person in a brilliant orange and black sweater, principally orange. As a passive musician Georgie glows most phosphorescently as the original person- ification of that decrepit love ballad, Wouldn ' t You like to Have Me for a Sweetheart. He has the reputation of having made love to more girls in twenty-thi ' ee years than most men would dare assail in a lifetime. Fortunately he is never taken badly, and though quite ardent at times a new flame is ever his objective point. In ways and manners Georgie is a typical Southern Maryland gentleman. Outside of this — well, he ' s a democrat. And though Charles countj (gol dern ye) never produced another she made a good one here while at it. He expects to spend the rest of his political existence voting for Bryan and no doubt politics in general will have much to do toward shaping bis future career. It is to be hoped that the duplicity usually coincident with them will over- look Georgie, for at present no one can impeach his veracity in the slighlest. Whatever the as yet unseen holds in store for him, we wish him success. 27