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

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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

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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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Thomas Swann H vrding Laurel, Md. Chemical. w Biographical Editor Reveille ' ' WO big noises don ' t often happen together, but they did once. It was in Wyoming, Delaware, — now Philadelphia, and Chester- town, Still Pond and Laurel, don ' t say it wasn ' t. It was. Seven cities claimed Seneca and as many would claim this personage it would seem. But it was in Wyoming that a loud mouthed loco- motive screeched a parting wail, and a tiny, noisy, squally, red-faced, particle of humanity emitted his initial yelp. That was the other noise and it is to this noise that we would call your attention for a few minutes. Swann very promptly moved to Philadelphia and it was but a few months later that he added one and a half to the population, the unappreciative population, of the metropolis of Prince George county. He entered the grammar school and pene- trated the same, assimilating certain stray bits of knowledge, but he failed to take mathematics though most conscientiously exposed to it. He then entered the High School and was later graduated with honors and a swelled head. Neither one gratifying his ambitions he matriculated at M. A. C. and proceeded to astound his jcontemporaries with exhibitions of his head for chemistry. Vain ideas of literary supremacy once situated in his capacious Noodle vanished like the ethereal air and an attempt to delve into the science of what is, took place. Military things in general did not somehow appeal to his finer sensibilities and he succeeded in eliminating that species of slow torture entirely by permanently hitting the list. The Hows and Whys are to this day unknown, but Commy was foiled and — Nuff sed. At the beginning of his junior year S. very cleverly decided to flunk in physics. This matter of straightforward decision in the present, prevented virtue of necessity in the future, and the flunks were forthcoming. As might be inferred, a deep, heart felt, undying affection exists in his mind for Myron. Matrimony appeals to Swann in all its brilliant luster, but a very evident financial embarrassment and a very present when-she ' s-not-nee ' ded-mother-in-Iaw, have so far nipped any such projects in what takes the place of a bud. On graduation S expects to embark upon a career of mixed literature and chemistry. He says lucrativeness will speedily decide which shall be predominant, and we are sure that it will. If a proficiency in concocting noxious odors and mephitic gases count for anything we bet on chemistry. God ' s benison go with you. 28