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

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26 THE 1912 REVEILLE Senior Private Allen B. Duckett Bladensburg, Md. Horticultural A divinity in disguise {well disguised). Sophomore Year, M in football, and in track. Junior Year, Captain Track Team; I in baseball, and in track. Senior Year, ' ice President Boxing Club. This l ristle-haired gink is one of the Burg ' s choicest blossoms and they sure did hate to let him go; so much so that ihey made him promise to come home every evening for fear that those bad rah! rah! boys would ])e rude to him, or corrupt his morals. But take it from the scril e, kind reader, you can ' t un- rotten a rotten egg. Yet he of the ministerial aspect and entle voice, is by nature an athlete. He can run well, any bad debt can do that; he can play ball, any grass-eater can do likewise; finally he can play football and is more or less one of ' ' Boo- hoo ' s favorites. Yea bo, but how the Duke does love the Deutcher Stu- dieren. He can detect Boohoo ' s cough a mile off on a foggy day, so look for the usual formula, late car. A fair dame once accused Sonny of looking like Duke, so Sonny hasn ' t spoken to her since? Can you blame him? Study the picture carefully girls and give us your candid opinion. Send answers to the Puzzle Editor. Still, the girls are just crazy about him and simply will not let him alone. They say that he has such a bunch of their photographs in his room that he has often to sleep on the roof so as not to disturb their quarrels over him. For a long while we were doubtful as to whether this class would get him or whether he would go with that maudlin crowd — the class of ' 11. But fortune smiled on us and he gives promise of graduating v ith one of the best classes that ever entered old M. A. C.

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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.

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MARYLAND AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE 27 Senior Private Walter A. Furst Baltimore, Md. Electrical Engineering i e is a good Electrical man, but of Calculus he knows nichts. Junior Year, Chairman May Ball Floor Committee; Sergeant. Senior Year, Chairman Floor Committee Rossbourp; Club; M. A. A. in football. This saintly visage here exposed to view is the exclusive property of Walter A. Furst, known to all of us as F uzzy. Such a perfect example of contentment one rarely sees, notwithstanding the fact that his troubles are not few. W. A. F. has grown very popular with the Profs since he entered these grim walls, and his popularity is still gro ' wing. Doc Tolly says, Men may come and men may go, but Calculus conditions stay on forever. One of his greatest accomplishments and the pride of his heart is his walk, which to the casual observer is a most perfect imitation of an intoxicated duck. Fuzzy likes it, and we almost believe admires it, so for that and vari- ous other reasons we endure it. Did you say Art? Believe me this specimen is right there on the art stuff. Such an artist in fact, that his signa- ture is an exact duplicate of Harrison- Christy. Even Myron has begun to realize that he moves in a world different from us human beings, and has gone so far as to allow him, on a number of occasions, to use his pet lathe. A deep baritone voice, which is the closet human approximation to a dying calf, still another of his proud accomphshments; and his classmates are unanimous in their opinion, that if he lives long enough, and a sufficiently great change takes place in his vocal chords, it is just possible that some day he may be able to attract Caruso ' s attention (by disturbing the peace). After considering the kind offer of the B. O. Railroad to supply him with the necessary appliances to become an electrical engineer, he decided upon the course in that science; hence the infliction of Fuzzy upon us as a freshman in the fall of nineteen hundred and nine.