Virginia Military Institute - Bomb Yearbook (Lexington, VA)

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Carl Wheeless Blomquist Port Gibson, Mississippi Puss Matriculated 1908 Fourth Class Private Company C Third Class Private Company C Second Class Private Company D Class Football Team Class Baseball Team Marshal Final Ball First Class Private Company D Class Football Team Class Baseball Team Marshal Final German B.B.A. 7 HERE ' re you from, Mister? Port Gibson, sir. Wherein H is that? And he ' s been explaining ever since the exact locality of that thriving burg. From all accounts it has the usual country store, one church (col.), and no saloons. This last fact may have been a movmg spirit behind his decision to matriculate, or it may be that the 241 other inhabitants down theie thought a Virginia climate suited him. During his stay he has entertained thousands with the most hair-raising accounts of Mississippi lynchings in which he has taken the leading part. But he has calmed since then, and now strings hearts instead of niggers, attaining even a greater degree of success. Puss has never had time for athletics, devoting all his spare moments to Piggy and the ladies, bufthe Institute has no more loyal supporter in lung power. Here lately, however, he is causing us much worry, and if strenuous means are not employed, he ' ll start off with a dog-gone and that HiUsville ■gang won ' t be in it at all.

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Warren Miles Amerine Montgomery, Alabama Mike Matriculated 1908 Fourth Class Private Company B Third Class Private Company C Class Baseball Team Class Football Team Second Class Corporal Company A N.RA. Team; Class Baseball Team; Class Football Team Marshal Final Ball First Class Private Company C; Class Baseball Team; Class Football Team; Marshal Final German V , T ZHEN first seen in Lexington the subject of the above picture was pursued by a mob of indignant citizens, who captured him and immediately notified the head keeper over at Staunton. During Blick ' s ravings Auld Nick chanced to be mentioned and finally it was found out that he was bound for V. M. L After profuse apologies on the part of the Lexington police, he was turned loose and shortly after ambled into the Main Arch. His career as a Rat was inclined to be uneventful. At one time it was thought that he had deserted, but while sweeping out, the following Sunday morning, one of his roommates found him down under the radiator where he had fallen after getting in the way of one of Old Satchelback ' s fists. Blick is a huge success socially, and always has a never-failing supply of funny stories to tell. He is a shin- ing light in Military Science and has already compiled an L D. R. of his own. He has done so well in Civil Engineering here that he intends to open up a tailoring shop in Montgomery, unless he can secure a job as artist ' s model.

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Henry Pretlow Boykin Suffolk, Virginia Dingley Matriculated 1909 Member Episcopal Church Club Third Class Private Company C Second Class Corporal Company A Marshal Final Ball First Class Private Company C Marshal Final German COMPLETE set of general information, beautifully bound in hard muscle and decorated with pink skin of the softest shade. Henley! (now you know that ' s a coy name) come, now, goo-goo for papa. We were able to get this specimen of Suffolk peanuts only by grabbing him from the mighty Coach Warner, who had him picked for the Carlisle fullback. Even yet, if the abnor- mal development doesn ' t cease, he may (ill the position of head of the Physical Culture Department at the redskin school. Hackenschmidt is not in it, and if it were not for race, color and previous condition of servitude, the mighty Johnson would be met and the title would again revert to the paleface tribe. Theoretically, all this is so, ' cause the proper equations lead to the selfsame result. But he ' s not all theory by any means, since his name is to be on the dips of all who are fortunate enough to pass in French by his valuable aid. He can polly voo like a real Parisienne, and if the gaieties of this earthly existence, of which he is partaking quite freely at present, so avert his mind as to make him unfit for the Chair of Modern Languages at Oxford, he may be seen at Maxim ' s in the future, putting the old scouts to shame.