Virginia Military Institute - Bomb Yearbook (Lexington, VA)

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Editorial. ■ E venture a daring infraction of the rule which seems to bind editors of college annuals to deprecatory appeals to the critics of their work. In rendering our account to the readers of The Bomb for 1900 of the charge committed to us we will simply relate a little story, trusting that its application may be apparent to all. In a certain new-made city of the wild and woolly West a dis- tinguished rough, of the Buck Fanshaw type, closed his mortal career. The usual town meeting was held, appropriate resolu- tions of regret passed, a gorgeous funeral ordered and a sum sub- scribed for the erection of a handsome monument to the deceased. To another equally distinguished rough was intrusted the task of composing a suitable epitaph; and in due time he reported the results of his labor as follows : He done his durndest ; angels could do no more. We are far from claiming that our record as cadets has been quite angelic, but in our endeavor to prepare a Bomb whose explosion shall have all the energy of its pre- decessors, sending an echo through all the land, into the hearts of old cadets, of the life at the Institute, we do declare that we have fol- lowed as closely as may be the ex- ample of angels, in that we have done our best. The Editors.

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cat»enttc Staff- General SCOTT SHIPP, LL. D., Superintendent. Colonel JOHN M. BROOKE, Emeritus Professor of Physics and Astronomy. Colonel THOMAS M. SEMMES, Professor of Modern Languages and Rhetoric. Colonel E. W. NICHOLS, Professor of Ma thematics and Mechanics. Colonel R. A. MARR, Professor of Engineering and Drawing. Colonel HUNTER PENDLETON, M. A., Ph. D., Professor of General and Applied Chemistry. Colonel N. B. TUCKER, C. E., B. S., Professor of Geology and Mineralogy, and Associate Professor of Chemistry. Colonel FRANCIS MALLORY, C. E., Professor of Physics and Astronomy. Major B. B. MORGAN, C. E., Acting Commandant of Cadets, and Professor of Military Science. Major C. B. SLEMP, B. S., Adjutant Professor of Mathematics. Major H. C. FORD, B. S., Ph. D., Adjunct Professor of Latin and English. Captain H. E. HYATT, B. S., Assistant Professor of Chemistry. Captain C. W. WATTS, B. S., Assistant Professor of Mathematics and Tactics. Captain G. P. MARROW, B. S., Assistant Professor of Drawing and Tactics. Captain T. MILTON, Assistant Professor of Physics, Astronomy and Tactics. Captain R. C. MARSHALL, B. S., Assistant Professor of Mathematics and Tactics. Captain H. STOCKDELL, Assistant Professor of Modern Languages. 9