Virginia Military Institute - Bomb Yearbook (Lexington, VA)

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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

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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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sw Physics Hit ' saWhut? A WHUT?? Hit ' s uh nuhlectron, uh goshawful small nuhlectron ... Enlighten ' em, Sam, because what they (and us) don ' t know about Physics is mighty much. This is the one that every- body gets, through their Second Class Year. We have swallowed so many Physics lectures that we swear by Newton ' s name; and we fully expect to be waking in storms twenty years from now, worrying about that Heat and Light jobbie due next Thursday. Still, too much credit cannot be given our boys Sam, Buck, Iggy, and Pete . . . for their batting average is relatively high. It is some job to lead young cadets from F = ma all the way up to a dim look at Einstein, but they get surprising results; you may be sure that any cadet who has completed the long journey has a comprehension of General Physics which will compare favorably with anybody ' s on the collegiate level. Colonel Samuel L. Hellin Department Head Mt. Peters, Captain Tobey, Mr. Parker, Mr. Miller, Colonel Weaver, Colonel Heflin (Department Head), Major Foster [25] cxiHftoK, inftHia.