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

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24 TH 1913 REVEILLE Drum Major George Byron Morse, 3c1 Omaha, Neb. General Corporal, Sophomore Year. Sergeant; Chairman, Floor Committee; Junior Prom; Junior Year. Historian; Associate Editor of the Reveille ; Senior Year. Byron. ' Here conies onr band. Wait jii.st a mintite until it pas.ses. The tall man in front with the big ' stick is our friend in question. Isjin ' t he some military. Byron is really a military genius — no kiddin ' . Birthplace — he has none. His father is a bacteri- ologist in the Department of Agri- culture, and as a result poor B)yron has been dragged through Philadel- phia, New Jersey, Ohio, New York City, Cambridge, Riverdale, Omaha, Guel])!!, Canada, .and numerous other large cities too ntuiierous to mention. He has suffered torture at the hands of the pedagogues of these various places. His early training was re ceived at Lima, Ohio ; lience. his big bean. X otice the high intellectual brovv ' . Byron says, he sees the humorous side of everything, and no one can gainsay him, for he is a veritable Mark Twain. More than once he has turned away wrath with a soft an- swer, and quite often one of his fool questions or remarks has set the class in an uproar. This same good sense of humor saved Morse much in his rat year. For a while he had them pretty well bluffed. Quite a number of the old boys advised him not to be so rash if he was a rat. Evidently, the sunny countenance which he wore did not seem relative to the cold pessimistic thoughts of a rat. This progeny of the four winds of heaven is one of Commy ' s pets, and it was due to his drag with the Big Chief that Byron obtained his present job as Drum Major, which, however much it may .appeal to some, does not by any means satisfy his Napoleonic ambitions. Last, but not least, Morse is a social man, as you will see in the heading of this biography. He and Sy work together in a manner very satisfactory to the student body. These, however, are but a few of Byron ' s qualities.

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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.

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MARYLAND AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE 25 Alfred Nisbet Baltimore, Md. Chemical Senior Year, Assistant Business Manager Reveille; Treasurer, Senior Class; Chairman, Programme Committee, Rossbourg Club; Secretary and Treasurer, Chemi- cal Society. Nebby ' No, this is not our Mellin ' s Food Baby. It is a member of the Senior Class, otherwise known as Nebby. Nebby made his appearance on this planet in 1889, and has developed into some orator — his first sentence being ' , a bo-at, pa-pa; a bo-at ! He later became enthusiastic over wild animals, and as a result was able to recog nize the different kinds. He turned over to his father and said : Make an elephant mit a chizel, pa- pa ; wit a chisel. Nebby joined our ranks in the year of 1 911, and has worked hard for the interests of the class, especially in the pennant line. I wonder why? Ask A. N. IMeyer Company. Socially. Nebby is some fusser, but althoui; ' h his correspondence is very limited, his chubby little face and bright blue eyes cause hearts to flutter and doves to soar from the Avenue and alight in Georgetown. Incidentally, the magnetic attraction of one of the aforesaid doves draws Nebby to Georgetown during some of his leisure hours. Since the terrible catastrophe, Nebby ' s place of abode has been College Arms. He seems to have acquired much popularity there, for every morning the land- lady, on awakening him, replies to some of Nebby ' s fool remarks with All right, my boy. In the Military Department, Nebby with his company of busted aristocrats is surely some genius, for Captain ( ?) Nisbet is the only one who is the eye of Com- my ' s heart. Nebby has worked hard and diligently in whipping his company of done fors into shape, and can enter into competition with any of the regular companies of the battalion. We must not, however, overlook the fact that his star drillers are Sammy and Leo. and he has shown his confidence in their ability by promoting them to the rank of lootenants.