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

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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.

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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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MARYLAND AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE 25 Senior Private Showell C. Dennis Chemical Ocean City, Md. Be a sport if you only last a minute. Sophomore Year, Corporal; Secretary and Treasurer Class; Member Imperial Order Muti- neers. Senior Year, President New Mercer Literary Society. Just look again at the face in the upper right-hand corner of this page and see how much is there that you had not noticed before. Note the sparkle in those eyes. Ireland can well be proud of her donation to American man- hood. Why even his hair is blessed with a ruddy complexion which is much more apparent in real life than the picture would lead one to believe. Reds is one of our chemical men and he has really made some marvelous discoveries along the line of chemical research. For instance, he has ascer- tained definitely, that when a red head, an Irish temper, a nd unruly chemicals are brought into combination, an ex- plosion is the inevitable result ; and the only wonder to us is that the lid has not been blown off the Chem Lab long ago. Thus far however, the damages have been confined to blown out sinks and shattered glassware; except one day when he spilled a tube of sulfuric acid on his stool and got up with the map of Ocean City etched into the bosom of his trousers, but luckily it went no further than that. But if the chemicals in the compound mentioned above are replaced by peanuts, then there is another phenomenon which can be appreciated only by those who have witnessed it. If you wish to see him in his glory however, just give him a pipe and an attentive audience and then be prepared to hear some of the most miraculous tales that the Eastern Shore can produce. Because Dennis certainly handles the truth in a careless manner, even for an Eastern Shoreman. For if you ' ll believe it (but very few will) Ocean City is the most wonderful spot on the map — outside of Charles County.