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

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22 THE 1913 REVEILLE Lieutenant Adjutant Mercer B. Mavfield Washington, D. C. Chemical Sophomore Year, Historian, Corporal; Junior Year, Sergeant; Senior Year, Mana- ger of Lacrosse Tiam. Pat. Pat stood for law and order when he first entered the mystic portals of M. A. C, but many things have hap- pened since that eventful day. ( Some of the fellows in our class always did think they were Fresh- men. ) Pat soon settled down, when he reached his Senior Year, however, to his duties as Adjutant. He thought that he had a harrl job when Johnnie S. was here, but — Our new Commandant arrives on the scene and Pat ' s troubles immediately begin. It seems that Commy isn ' t satisfied with r at as an Adjutant alone, but wants him to be private secretary, clerk of the court and assistant orderly com- bined. Pat complains that he doesn ' t have time to eat his lunch, but is told that when the Commandant was an Adjutant he only ate one meal a day. Pat says his appearance doesn ' t bear that statement out. Pat did have hard luck with his thesis. He was planning to have it completed by Easter, but our little fire spoiled that by destroying all his notes, and now he has to work clear up to the last day just like the rest of us poor unfortunates. Did someone say ladies— that ' s where Pat shines, especially in the ballroom. He knows all the new dances (with variations) at least a month before they are invented, and maybe he doesn ' t make some use of his knowledge. What spare time Pat has had outside of Commy and dancing, he has spent to good advantage in the Chemical Laboratory, and has made quite an enviable record in that branch. But that is only natural with Pat, .and we are not surprised at all as he has made a habit of getting good marks ever since he entered here. Well, Pat has already s ecured a position which he will fulfill as soon as he graduates. May he have every success.

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MARYLAND AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE 21 Lieutenant Nathaniel Alan Le Savoy, Company C. . .New York City, N. Y. Animal Husbandry Junior Year, Assistant Manager, Lacross; Tracl , ' 11- ' 12; Senior Year, Art Editor, Reveille; Winner of Laurel Sweepstakes in Stock Judging Contest. NlTZ. ' Lamp that map, kind friend. Dost wonder how any thing- with a topo- graphical survey like that could bear the handle of Nathaniel Alan? It is as much of a mystery as his nick- name, Nitz. The writer can ' t ex- plain either, but it is possible that he was so yclept because of the fact that whenever a friend of his takes the role of the Governor of North Carolina, and repeats the old but ever welcome formula, Nat al- ways replies in the negative. Being an admixture of Teuton and Bronx- ite. his reply possibly took the form of nit, and from its constant use, the plural form nits or nitz be- came a synonym for N. A. L. S. INIind you. I said it was possible — no more. Nitz is an athlete — one can tell that by the bump on his nose, and his at- tainments along that line are not wholly confined to the muscular va- riety. Why, he ' s beaten every cop in New York. The biggest race of his life is now on. He and Pop are on the homestretch of the race for the Bovine Engineering Medal, carrying with it the degree of C. F. Although not generally known, the boob is some navigator. He holds the title of blaster Alariner, and has steered to a safe haven nearly every schooner in New York. In addition to being a fusser, Ignatz can get fussed .at the slightest provo- cation. On one memorable occasion he acquainted the mother of a very well- known M. A. Caesarine with the fact that her daughter couldn ' t dance enough to keep warm. Since that time he hasn ' t been quite so eager to enter into polite (?) repartee with the mothers of his friends. But here ' s to you, old Rummy. Thirteen expects great things of you, and come what may, Nitz with his bum jokes, volatile disposition and big heart will never be forgotten.

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MARYLAND AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE 23 Sudlersville, Md. Chief Tru: ipeter Ezekeiel J. Merrick Civil Engineering Sophomore Year, Corporal; Junior Year. Sergeant. Zeke. Zeke is one of the members of our happy family who hails from the Eastern Sho. but for all of that, he has ,a soft spot in his heart for the Western part of the State. This is especially noticed whenever one of our teams go to Westminster. Zeke never misses one of these trips. He is also fond of spending ])art of his holidays at P.ill Hull ' s home. (Rill lives at Westminster.) Another fa- vorite stunt of Zeke ' s has been to be a month or so late every vacation, but he has always managed to makv up the work, and as one of Doc ' s boys has always managed to hold his own with the rest of the class. Sure, Zeke has had his troubles with Doc, but that never worried Zeke ; the only thing that ever has caused him worry was the fact that he couldn ' t oversleep some morning that the O. C. did. Even if he did mis- calculate rather often, he always man- aged to keep one demerit below the margin. While Zeke has never taken the trouble to particularly shine as an athlete, he has been going after the medal in the tennis tournament for three years now, and at present it looks as though he stands a good chance of getting it this year. This is Zeke ' s only hobby, but if he could get anyone to play tennis with him at four o ' clock in the morning he would willingly go without his three squares and stay on the courts all day. Zeke is the most happy-go-lucky member of our happy bunch, and his smiling face will be sorely missed at M. A. C.