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

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Howard Roland Devilbiss, Second Lieutenant Company B . . . . New Windsor, Md. Civil Engineering. Sgt. in Band Junior year. Member Students Conference Committee ' lO- ' ll. Manager Baseball Team Senior year. Vice-Pres. Rossbourg Club. Member Athletic Council. A lion among ladies is a most dreadful thing. — Shakespeare. I am Sir Oracle, and when I ope ' my mouth let no dog bark. — Shakespearre. Confound it all, who says I ' m bowlegged? ?r OOK acomin ' ! Quit your fooling Pop. fMU f Shut up and sit down you fellows or Tj , I ' ll be to drive you all out. Don ' t you know Ford lives under here? This is f what may be heard in 36 Old Barracks, where f the Devil resides and reigns supreme. Roland hails from the great City of New Windsor, Carroll County, situated on the Western Maryland Railroad. It was in this town and in the preparatory department of New Windsor Col- i, lege that he laid the foundation for a higher ed- j ucation which he later elected to obtain at M. A. j C. and accordingly matriculated here as a Prep in 1906. H. Roland by his attractive ways soon had all society at his feet and since then his chief f occupation during study hours has been writing letters of regret or acceptance; but in the major- i ity of cases, acceptance, for Sunday afternoons ' i, have seldom found him in M. A. C. To attend , dances on Friday nights has been his rule with few exceptions. In his early years at M. A. C. ' (, Roland would always terminus at Hyattsville but after having become more accustomed to the city ' or for some other unknown reason Wash, has . been for some time passed his accustomed desti- — -- - s«- - - ' ' ' nation; and at last he has explained to us that she had moved to town. In the Senior year he was given the privilege of holding his own in the file closers of Company B as Second Lieut, and having been elected manager of the Baseball Team he has given much time and energy to the requirements of this office. One has to be very careful in speaking to Manager H. R. Devilbiss when acting in his official capacity or no reply will be forthcoming. However his most intimate friends could manage once in a while to break down this barrier of self importance and to get a glowing account of some of his miraculous exploits in town, which always terminate in some one kidding him about taking so long to say good night and giving him the following advice: If you love the girl, why don ' t you marry her? Devilbiss is one of Doc. Tollies most dutiful proteges and immensely enjoys (?) playing lackey whenever His Highness desires reference books and other official paraphernalia brought from class room to office or from office to field. As an instru- ment man Devil has become both accurate and expeditious; when there is a precise line to run by the Senior C. E. ' s he is always there to do the work. Yet it has been noticed that he is not particularly fond of a rodman ' s job especially when there are ferocious bovines snorting about the premises. We think that after a few years of travel and adventure as an engineer Devil will settle down as a Carroll County farmer and politician, with a Carroll County lassie for his bride. He loves to tell his credulous classmates of the marvelous amount of hay he can pitch on a hot summer ' s day, and his long evening drives up the country. 23

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Thomas Davidson, First Lieutenant and Quartermaster Davidsonville, Md. Civil Engineering. Corporal Sophomore year. Sergeant Junior year. Vice-President Senior Class. Asso- ciate Editor Reveille. Genuis wins sometimes, but hard work always. For thy sake, Tobacco, I Would do anything but die. — Lamb. m HE SUN is just rising, and as attention sounds for reveille a tall, slender, dignified individual with spectacles, and wearing a gray sweater, with towel thrown across his shoulaer and a cake of soap in his hand, takes his station on the front steps and peers around for the O. C. — On time to the dot as always. A half minute later the occupant of 48 appears upon the scene, also in gray sweater, and is inevitably greeted with Wie finden Sie sich, mein Herr, by the brag German scholar of the Senior Class. Say, wait a minute. Got a cigarette? Gimme a match. I haven ' t anything ' cept the habit. It is thus that many a poor unfortunate who courts the goddess nicotine is approached by the Preacher, otherwise known as Thomas Da- vidson. The Preacher first opened his eyes to the light of day in the town of Davidsonville, Anne Arundel County, Maryland, on November 14, 1887. His first spoken word was not Mamma, as is natural with most children, but immediately upon recovering from his bewilderment at being ushered into a new planet, he set up a howl for something to smoke. Tom received his early education at public and private schools in his own town, but was then forced by ill health to abandon his educational pursuits until the fall of 1907 when he alighted at M. A. C. Since making this his headquarters Tom has shown a pronounced talent for study, and becomes very much disgusted if he discovers anyone in the class putting more time on his studies than himself. Thus he has gained high esteem among his class mates, who come to him with many of their scholastic difficulties. Tom is a great favorite of Doc Tollie ' s and the only one in the class with whom the latter will condescend to argue. Dr. Davidson is a stanch advocate of the Conley Regime, and has been a necessary adjunct to the military department both in the tactics class room as an authority on the theory of drill, and as a medical reference book when first aid to the injured is being discussed, and also on the field as Commy ' s chief marshal. Tho Tom has had a most propitious college career he avows that he shall be glad to settle down as an Anne Arundel County engineer and politician; yet we suspect that a subtle influence in the shaping of his future plans is exerted by certain of the fair sex, whose marvelous beauty Anne Arundel County has long been noted. May his path thru life be smooth, and Dame Fortune take him for her own true son. 22

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Charles Raymond Drach Sam ' s Creek, Md. Mechanical Engineering. A glass is good, and a lass is good, And a pipe to smoke in cold weather; The world is good, and the people are good And we ' re all good together — O ' Keefe. Laugh and grow fat — Taylor. N n - C) HURRY, gentlemen, no hurry. Take your seats. Have a smoke! Golly day! Did you see that article in yesterday ' s ' Sun, ' about that split between the Dem- ' •■, ocratic leaders? Goodness Gracious! Why, I J never saw such rotten politics. If you ' ll take my word, the next election is going to bring some l sweeping changes in this state! And Raymond, jolly Dutchman that he is, in all his portly dignity is settled comfortably in his arm chair, heels on ' ■, the table, cigar in his hand, beneficently beaming with soft brown eyes upon his ever welcome vis- itors, prepared to entertain them as long as they may wish to stay. , C. Raymond Drach (often corrupted into Drake or Drack) made his entree into human so- ' ciety in 1889. He has had a number of homes, but for the last six years has had his home at Sam ' s Creek, Frederick County, on the border of Carroll. After capping his public school educa- tion with a year at New Windsor College, he de- cided to become a mechanical engineer and ma- triculated at M. A. C. Upon entering college our industrious Ray- mond joined the retinue of Johnny Green, and finding service at his court profitab ' e from the standpoint of exercise and recreation as well as of remuneration, he has continued in faithful service to the numerous potentates of M. A. C. culinary affairs, rising higher each year in esteem and rank until for the past two years he has been Commander-in-Chief of the commissary department, and right nobly has he ruled his wayward yeomen. Raymond has succeeded in making the military department keep hands off for this year, having donned his much despised uniform but twice in the whole year. Commy has not agreed with him entirely as to his drilling ability, however, and they have ex- changed many heart-to-heart confidences regarding the same. Had he been aware of the sweet naps that Raymond enjoyed during chapel exercises, and his frequent busi- ness excursions to town, he would probably have coaxed still more strenuously to make the erring one see things as they ought to be seen. As a scholar, Raymond is due a prize as a writer of forceful themes, and he excels as a mechanical draftsman, though in Deutsch he and Boohoo seldom agree as to the proper translation, nor did he fall deeply in love with foundry work. In social affairs, our gentle Raymond seldom fails to charm the maiden ' s hearts, and we believe that he will soon be a rising young mechanical engineer in Philadelphia, with a fair Frederick county damsel for his Frau. 24