Virginia Military Institute - Bomb Yearbook (Lexington, VA)

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Zhz IRew jfrancis lb. Smith Memorial Building. HERE is in course of erection on the grounds here at the Institute, a handsome academic building which is to bear the name of the Francis H. Smith Memorial Hall. This building when complete will furnish recitation rooms for all the departments of the Institute with the exception of those of Civil Engi- neering and Chemistry, which will continue to be taught in their present well-fitted and spacious quarters. It is proposed to finish this building by August 15th, 1900, in time for the session of 1900-1901. This new building completes the quadrilateral formed by the barrack and the Jackson Memorial Hall, and faces the arch of the barrack. It covers a ground space of about one hundred by seventy-five feet, and is to be three stories above the basement. It is to be built of brick with Indiana stone trimming. The basement will be used for heating and electrical apparatus. The building will be heated and ventilated by the Peck-Hammond system of hot and cold air driven fan and gas engines. In the basement there will be storage rooms for fuel. The first story will contain besides ample hall room and stairs, the various rooms for the Department of Physics, — a lecture-room for one hundred students, an office, an apparatus room, an optical room and laboratory, and lecture rooms for Latin and Military Tactics. The second story will contain one large mathematics room, accommo- dating one hundred students, and four smaller rooms for the same department ; one large room for Modern Languages, and two smaller rooms ; and there will be private offices for professors. The third story will contain all the necessary rooms for the Department of 13

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Our Officers. H, the Lexington calics all cry For the subs at the V. M. I. They clamor for Ducky, For Tolly so plucky, And fight for our Bev., so shy. Little Stocky must not be left out, With his square, curly top and his pout ; But the calics declare He will never get there, Till he ties down the point of his snout. But there is one who will win any wager : It ' s our spotless, immaculate Major. When he gets on the ice, He ' s snapped up in a trice — They all skate with the lucky old stager. Now we come to the main guy of all : Old Billy, the pride of the ball. May the sun never set On this popular pet. Good-bye, now, the curtain must fall. Wait a minute, we must not forget The most militaire one of the set ; Tou want to look out, When old Puck is about ; He ' s a foxy old geezer, of that there ' s no doubt. Good-bye once again — Cadet.

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Geology and Mineralogy, consisting of a large museum, lecture- room, two laboratories, a storeroom, private office, and a military museum. In the tower of the building it is proposed to put a large electric clock. For this clock our artist makes this suggestion : Suggestion for the New Tower Clock. The building when furnished and complete will cost twenty-five thousand dollars. Over the front door will be a memorial stone bearing the inscription, 1839 — Francis H. Smith — 1889, the fig- ures signifying Francis H. Smith ' s term of service as superintendent of the Institute. 14