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

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MARYLAND AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE 23 Senior Private Earl R. Burrier Electrical Engineering A Noisij Man ' ' Baltimore, Md. Sophomore Year, Corporal. Junior Year, Chief Trumpeter, Band; Treasurer Rossbourg Club; Vice President Rifle Club. Senior Year, President Rifle Club; President Rossbourg Club; Treasurer Reveille Association. Honest though, we didn ' t intend to supply Darwin ' s missing link on this page, but merely to furnish an ordinary illustration from Ernest Thompson Seaton ' s book, Wild Ani- mals; I Have Met. This particular brute is Earl Roscoe Burrier, dubbed George and called Erb for short. Born a musician, educated to know that his music is a silent vibration of the constituent parts of one Heinze tomato can, aged to produce that qual- ity familiar to us all as discord; anc finally culminated by a throne at the Senior Private ' s table, are cold facts for which he should now be do- ing time. Although possessed of a strong, reverberating, richly modu- lated voice, eloquence is not Erb ' s forte. Noise is his specialty He has more brands of excruciating noises tucked away in his anatomy than was ever heard in a 4th of July celebration. The worst of it is he is always looking around for new acoustic fields to conquer. In pursuance of this occupation, we wish to take this opportunity to state that he has played at one time or another every instrument of torture in the band, and as yet none has quite come up to his ideal. Last year Erb was elected to the presidency of the Student Strap-hangers Association. This fraternity held its meetings every Friday night, and some- times on Saturday also. This year however the weekly meetings are held in Baltimore and thus he is relieved of the inconvenience of paying his fare, a nickel at a time. Needless to say, it is a Co-ed association.

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22 THE 1912 REVEILLE Lieutenant Adjutant Earl V. Benson Horticultural So sweet and gentle arid yet so prim. Sophomore Year, Color Sergeant. Junior Year, Secretary Y. M. C. A., ' 11, ' 12. Treasurer, Rossbourg Club: Social Editor, Reveille. Baltimore, Md. Senior Year, This inoffensive youth with the face of a Fisher girl is the possessor of the temperament of a two-year-old kitten and the grim faithfulness of an English bulldog. As a society man Earl V., better known as Sister, is an up-to-date success, so we are told. Continually lamenting the fact that his time is so taken up with social duties; brass but- tons to polish, hair to cut and pumps to shine, ' tis no wonder he does not miss an opportunity to indulge in frivolity, and that the girls all love him. Oh! how distressing is cruel Fate to the deserving. As a military man Sister cannot be beaten. This year he was Com- mandant of Cadets and had for his valet Johnny Upham and for his sec- retary Jimmy Elbel. It is seldom that two dogs will obey one master so faith- fully, yet it is the case, and all that is needed is the first note of the whistle. Generally speaking, Earl has a countenance that isn ' t so awfully bad to look upon. Now, gentle reader, don ' t interpret that to mean that we consider him handsome. Far be it from. However, his beautifully plastered blonde hair really does give him a comely aspect. Notwithstanding these facts we have to give it to him that he is some gardener. We predict that it will not be so many centuries before he will be growing sweet lemons and peeless oranges on the same tree. Still Earl modestly denies any such intentions but, To say why gals act so and so or don ' t, Ud be presumming. For maybe to mean ' j ' es ' and say ' no ' Comes natural to woman.

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24 THE 1912 REVEILLE Lieutenant Nokman L. Clark, Companj A Laurel, Md. Electrical Eng neering Is he great because he speaks large words? Junior Year, Sergeant; President Glee Club; Class Poet. Senior Year, Assistant Busines Manager Reveille; Secretary Boxing Club; Secretary Rossbourg Club. Yes, that telioligical Avord Spar rhymes with Laur — , afar, and car, but gentle reader take it from me, they used to be connected not only rythmi- cally with Spar but very intimately also. Nuf Sed about the past. Spartails modestly says he will be a Great Engineer, get wise to the capital G, and we believe he has already secured an option on several tablets in the Hall of Fame, or perhaps on the Prof ' s Hall. Did you say Family? Now let me tell you the secret about the Family. You understand, The more a fellow eats the Moore he wants to eat, and there is but one way around it. You know, cause and effect — action and reaction. Spar is the action but — there must be a reac- tion somewhere. ' Tis all right. When it comes to music — well, Norman is there. If you ever heard him ' rag ' it, You would shout, ' Quick fellows ' ' bag it. ' For he ' s as precious as the wallet of a multi-millionaire! A debater. Ah, the very pillars of the Senate-chamber have never heard the voice equal to the one of this man, verily I say unto you, if you have a barn to sell or a patent medicine to vend call on our only and original. Of prospects we can say nothing, he does all the saying himself when he predicts that his first job (nothing smaller than bell-boy, janitor or valet) will produce a change of momentous importance. What it is we cannot guess, but someone said an endowment to an Orphan Asylum — no, not a financial one. From the way he downs the hash we will say that it had better be a charitable offering to a chop- hoase.