Virginia Military Institute - Bomb Yearbook (Lexington, VA)

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04n6 Liberal Arts BY GEORGE, that lad . . . : and College Bill is off again, to the complete delight of another L. A. section. This is the place wherein culture may be had, where artistic souls flower, and where fa First Class Civil suggests cadets with sleeping sickness get well. No grimy labor, no slipstick suppression of higher expression for these boys . . . Oh, no! They are con- tent to contemplate the ramifications of barracks life from the sunny side of a hay at any time between 1300 and 1600 on any afternoon, when they are not doing their nails. But, strange as it seems, many of the hay-hounds who have toiled not, neither spun under the guidance of The Master, College Bill, Whiskey John, The Unclean One and the others do remarkably well in life ' s busy stream. Perhaps these dilettantes of culture learn more from Greek drama than just a speaking acquaint- ance with Morpheus. Certain it is, in spite of a displayed somnambulism so profound as to be pathological, that our Liberal Artists avail themselves of many of the invaluable lessons to be learned from a study of the Humanities with our Department of Liberal Arts. Colonel William A. Hunley DepaTtment Head Colonel Carroll, Mr. Jackson, Mr. Nelson, Major Tuiwiler, Colonel Townes, Colonel Bates, Colonel Hunley (Department Head), Colonel Read, Major Lipscomb [23] . exUt toH ' , In uti

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7 e m. Electrical Engineering NOOO-oooo . . . it ' s not a Noahth paole; it ' s a Noahth-SEEKING paole! ! ! ! That line is common- place to our highbrow Brother Rats, to those ambulatory clumps of thought-ganglia and plus-forty specs, to those embryo Steinmetzes with the insulated nerves and the high-resistance brains who would wrest victory from the grim clutches of the Four Horsemen: The Foot, Lightnin ' Bill, Buruiy, and the Senator. These fearless Four combine to make the EE course the Ultima Thule; and they delight in doling out the zips-over-three to the sleepless wrecks who face them, invariably at 0800, after a night of peering over smoking slipsticks to watch that The Man doesn ' t dole out a few demos. In between bouts with D-operators, these boys amuse themselves in the lab by constructing motors which burn quietly when started, lighting circuits which don ' t light, and the like; when last seen, they were collaborating on an electronic still. Maybe they aren ' t so impractical at that . . . Easily the hardest-working, most-poorly-rewarded group at the Institute, these little Einsteins should find it a snap to whittle out a niche in History ' s Hall, after their most thorough and rigorous preparation vmder the direction of our efficient Electrical Engi- neering Deparbnent. Biigadiei-Gen. Stewart W. Anderson Depaztiaent Head Mr. Eklund, Major Home, Mr. Gladden, Colonel Trinkle, General Anderson (Department Head), Colonel Jamison [22] j TftciitdfUf K4tUc te

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74e i947 Colonel Biaxton D. Mayo DepaTtmeni Head Mathematics Easy? Duck Soup! Just like falling off a log! Or so B. D. tells the boys as they integrate their way to better things. All cadets are required to complete the rudiments of college mathematics, but the Liberal Artists, Pre-Meds and the like get out while the get- ting ' s good, some time B. I. ( ' Before Integral ... as contrasted with the hapless EE ' s, who after their end- less math courses find it hard to express themselves by any other means than a second-order differential equation. Thus it is not hard to see why every cadet considers that B. D., Phee, Blandy, and Bobby have one of the most efficient departments at the Institute. But what matter these things to me, Whose life is full of indices and surds? X- + 2k + 73 = 4 3. — Lewis Carroll. Colonel Knox, Mr. Paxion, Mr. Long, Mr. Underwood, Mr. Lee, Colonel Clarkson, Colonel Byrne, Colonel Mayo (Department Head), Colonel Purdie [24 J ci tCHca TfUlCUifUf KMCute