Virginia Military Institute - Bomb Yearbook (Lexington, VA)

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1908-12; author of Wise ' s Gunnery, History of the Eastern Shore of Virginia. V. M. I. Papers, The Strong Arm of Lee. and of Gloria Victis, or the Virginia Military Institute as a School of Arms : First Lieutenant anil Battalion Adjutant. First X. V. Infantry. 1905-07; Captain and Adjutant. First Battalion Field Artillery. Virginia Volunteers, 1909-12; member of the Raven Society. Eli Banana Society, and I ' hi Delta Phi Legal Fraternity. West Vir- ginia: honorary member of the Phi Beta Kappa; since 1012, Commandant of Cadets and Professor of Economics and Political Science. Virginia Military Institute. COLONEL JENNINGS CROPPER WISE. B. S,. LL. B. Born Richmond. Virginia. September 10, 1881: student Phillips Exeter Academy. 1896-9S: entered the Virginia Military Institute in 1S98: graduating in 1902 with fourth stand in class of thirty-nine: mem- ber of Virginia Military Institute football team. 1899-1901: Second Lieutenant. Ninth U. S. Infantry. 1902-05; Secretary of the Carthage Machine Company, Carthage. X. Y.. 1005: with the St. Regis Paper Com- pany. September. 1905, to November, 1906; President of the J. C. Wise ami Co.. and of the Kamargo Supply and Brokerage Company. 1000: University of Virginia Law School, September. 1007. to June, 1909; member of the Richmond Bar Association.

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Church of the Fathers, and Theocritus in English Literature ; editor of Milton ' s Minor Poems in Johnson ' s English Classics; since 1910, Professor of English at the Virginia Military Institute. COLONEL ROBERT THOMAS KERLiX. M. A.. I ' ll. D. Born Newcastle. Missouri. March 22. 1800; M. A.. Central College, Missouri, 1890; Johns Hopkins University. 1889-90; University of Chicago and Harvard Uni- versity; Ph. D.. at Yale. 1906; Professor of English, Missouri Valley College, 1890- 94; in active ministry of the M. E. Church, South ' , 1895-98; chaplain of the Third Missouri Volunteers, Spanish-American War; Professor of English. Missouri Valley College, 1901-02, Southwestern University. 1902-03, State Normal, Warrensburg. Missouri, 1903-06; Instructor in English, in Yale, 1900-07: Professor of Literature, State Normal School, Farmville, Virginia. 1908-10; author of Mainly for Myself, Cam]) Life of the Third Regiment, ' The £ fc, i - Avfi S i k ' TJyj W£W si 3f ' . T

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mm rt£ T ® jim COLONEL RUSSELL JAMES, First Lieutenant Third Q. S. Infantry Born in Danville, Virginia, April 24. 1KK2; eleven years in the Danville Public Schools; entered the Virginia Military Institute in 1901, graduating in 1005 with seventh stand in elass of twenty, and as Cadet Captain of Company A : captain of the football team 1005; member of the gymnasium team and track team: Coach of the Hampden-Sidney football team, 1005; Army Appointment from the Virginia Mili- tary Institute; commissioned Second Lieu- tenant. February 12. 10117; promoted to First Lieutenant September 2, 1011; served in Philippine Islands, April 5. 1007, to May 10. 1008. and from April 5. 1010, to March 0, 1012; China Expedition, March 0, 1012, to August 4, 1912; Recruiting Service. January 1. 1913, to August 4. 1013: since September, 1013. Professor of Military Sience and Lictias, Virginia Military Institute.