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

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Charles Atwell ChaNEY, First Lieutenant Company B Mechanical Engineering. Reistertown, Md. Sgt. Junior year. Pres. Rifle Club Senior year. Associate Editor of the Reveille. A reasoning mule will neither lead nor drive — Mallet. He is in logic a great critic, profoundly skilled in analytic. — Butler. ill hall. Y GOSH, what a meal, but never the less Rooster Chaney otherwise known as the Chicken, can be seen grinding away after every one else has left the mess This is no singular occurrence for he can be seen every day in the same situation. Rooster first saw the light of day July 15, 1890, at Glyndon, Balto. County, Md. From Glyn- don he moved to Reistertown, from Reistertown to Glyndon and from Glyndon back to Reister- town. The last we heard he was still living in the last mentioned pl ace, but we would not be at all surprised if he had moved back to the other place — which ever one it is. He received his ear- ly education from the public schools, graduating from Franklin High School with honors. Chaney came to us in the fall of 1909, and entered the Sophomore class. He stands well in his class and is perhaps one of the best mathematicians that has gradu- ated at M. A. C. in years. Every one looks upon this white haired youngster as an expert track and lacross man. Abe True says Chaney is one of the fastest men he ever knew, for on their , , trip to Philadelphia he made a tour in five min- ' utes that would take any ordinary man two or three hours. Chaney has had many wonderful experiences for no one can relate an adventure but that he has had a more marvelous one of similar character. Chicken is a great marksman. He holds the highest record in the battalion this year and won the medal on the range in 1910. When not playing lacross or shooting he can be found on the pike in running suit with handkerchief tied about his head hit- ting the grit for a short distance run to Hyattsville or perhaps taking the ten mile circuit to Beltsville when he wants to whet up a good appetite. When time grows stale on his hands he takes a turn at sliding off the chapel roof under the mild delusion that it is the cellar stairs of his childhood. When it comes to snoozing Chaney needs no soporific charms. On one occasion in his Junior year it required the united efforts of all A company, half the band with their noise boxes and several pitchers of cold water to lure him back from slumberland. Chaney is a trained vocalist. His voice is one in a thousand and we are sure that he would make a grand success of Hindoo dirges. Chaney is a model of consistency. He takes much care to be equally proficient in all his studies and will not show partiality to his favorites by putting more time on those than others. He is Catfish ' s brag engineer and will have completed a broader course in math than any previous graduate of this college. 20

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Paul Ridout Barrows Berwyn, Md Biological. Chief Bugler ' 08- ' 09. Company A Basket Ball Team ' 09- ' 10. Let the world slide. — Beaumont. Of their own merits modest men are dumb. — George Cohman. THE door opens carelessly, a light foot fall I ' I is heard on the laboratory floor, no one looks up — no one needs to look up. Every one knows it is Reds, and the first thing he is going to say is, Hey Little, got your notes? Give me a match somebody. And Reds set- tles down to work with the aid of his usual morn- ing smoke. On July 21st, 1893, in the flouriehing city of Berwyn tliere came into existence a queer little specimen of humanity, and there was a strange sound coming o ' er the world: a crying of dead prophets from their tombs, the songs of dead poets coming from their graves, and all seemed to prophesy the coming of something new in the line of a botanist, and Barrows was the result. At the age of 5 he made his first appearance inside the Berwyn School and there he remained until he was 13, when he decided that he had re- ceived too much education to remain there any longer. The first place he noticed was M. A. C. and so in the fall of 1906 he made his debut as a College student. Paul belonged to the Oggelets and as a gun was too large he was given a bugle, and as an M. A. C. bugler right valiantly did he toot. Finally he overcame a bugle in size and was given a gun which he has trailed around the campus for the past two years. Paul is the only boy of our class who has hair that can be told from a distance, and strange to say in making his selection of the fair sex he always seems to choose those, who have hair of a similar color. You would never think this boy to be a ladies ' man, but really he is at the head of the class when it comes to things of this kind. He is one of our day students and as a rule is away from his home almost every evening, but it is impossible for his mother to tell where he is because Paul is very popular in the social world and has a different place to go every evening in the week. As he is taking the Botanical course it would be perfectly natural for his first choice to be the Woods and so on Sunday evenings he can be found among the Woods of N. E. Washington. 19

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Harry Speake Cobey, Second Lieutenant Company A Vienna, Va. Civil Engineering. Sergeant, Junior year; Secretary of class, ' 11; Senior Y. M. C. A. Editor-in-Chief of Reveille, ' 11. Associate Editor of Triangle. Instructor. ' 11; They judge him not aright; if he ' s fair faced, They say the gentleman should be their sister. — Shakespeare. A capacity for hard work may not be a talent, but it is the best possible substitute for one. — Proverb. m ENTLEMEN, observe this shining example of virgin innocence, meekness, and mod- ' esty. A tall, pale brother, carrying himself as if he had swallowed a ramrod and was having trouble with the digestion tliereof. He brings with him, wherever he may be, an atmos- phere of pure, unspotted sanctity. This is Harry Cobey, another of the various and wonderful products of good old Charles Coun- ty. Born June 21, 1890, of a good old Southern Maryland family (originally from Ireland) he has had a varied if not exciting experience. He has been tutor, farm manager, teacher, and, in an amateur way, an actor, and now he has turned editor. His early education was received at Friendship Academy, in his native county. En- tering M. A. C. in 1906, he continued here for two years, at the end of which time he was compelled to leave on account of sickness. He returned in 1909 to complete his course. While Harry is not a brilliant scholar, he is a hard, steady worker at whatever he determines to do, and in the end such tactics always bring him thru. His original theories for the solution — --. ---- - - = ' of calculus problems are the despair of Doc. Tollie, and as for his opinion of that instructor, we will not repeat it here, for fear of ruining Harry ' s reputation for saintly meekness. English Composition is, however, the great- est load on his mind, and in this he is not alone in his class. Der Wissen Schaftliche Deutsche is another of his foes. But to see Harry at his best, one should be with him on a surveying trip or one of Commy ' s map making expeditions. There he is in his element, and the neat work he can turn out is surprising. His ambition is to become an expert civil engineer, and on leaving this college he may enter some university to complete the education he has so well begun. 21