Virginia Military Institute - Bomb Yearbook (Lexington, VA)

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Ebitonal lEi ' iKi-; submitting to ' ou the modest result of our labors, The Botib of ' 95, we the editors, beg leave to claim your attention for a moment, while we enumerate the difficulties that have beset us in its preparation. Our object has been to revive the old Bomb, the pioneer of Southern Annuals which in ' 85 assailed the public for the first and last time. During the inten-ening ten years the Institute has been without an Annual, and we undertake this second edition with no experience and many misgivings as to its ultimate success. The first difficulty encountered was the securing of adequate funds for our enterprise, the second, the selecting from a body of men pursuing an almost exclusively technical course, a staff of literati to whom might be entrusted the preparation of a book worthy of the Ins titute. The first, despite an unsuccessful appeal to tlie Board of Visitors for aid, and the difficult)- of reaching our Alumni, we have in some measure surmounted ; the second, we know only too well we ha e not e are conscious, however, of having made an honest effort and of having done our best. To the Faculty- we are indebted for the several contributions which lend our book the only literary merit to which we can lay claim. To succeeding classes we hope our efforts ma - prove an incentive, and that profiting b - our errors and short comings, they may in future be more successful.

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2)c icatc Cadets who Fell in Battle at New Market, Va.. May 15, 18 Sleeping, but glorious. Dead in fame ' s portal, Dead, but victorious, Dead, but immortal ! They gave us great glory. What more could they give ? They have left us a story, A story to live—.

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bc lENtors of tibc 36omb Leigh Robinson Gigxilliat, ' 95, Georgia Editor-in-Cliiif John D. TwKKis, ' 95, Georgia Maiiagiii;:; Editor John S. Vim:, Jr., ' 95. Xe ' Vork Assistimt Editor and Cirni atioii and AdrcrtisiniJ H. Bacon, ' 98, California Illustratins: Editor