Evening capital and Maryland gazette., 1915-05-26
THE LUCKY BAG FOR 1915
A POETIC TRIBUTE.
The Official Annual That Reflects
Academy Life in Genera" "

he has been sent a copy of The Lucky |
Bag" of 1915 for review. The editor of |
the service paper says:
THE maiden with freeAblowing laces
Adorns these pages of today,
AS with her smiles and many graces
She decorates life's dullest day.
This is a poetic tribute that the
reader might ind himself seduced into
paying 10 the editors of the Lucky
Bag of the 1915 class at the Naval
NavalAcademy for permitting so much
of the eternal feminine TO show thro'
the pages One of the many beautiful
pages in colors is by Howard Chand-
Ter Christy, entitled The Christmas
Girl" representing handsome young
Navy officer (but are not all Navy Off
GERS. young or old. Handsomely bend
ing gallantly over a young girl whose
eyes seem to indicate that she is about
to frame reply in three letters.
Another picture that viii be pop
ular with the clasmen-until they
marry--is the one named 'Masquerad-
ers. by G. c. Hill. There is a combi-
nation of bathing beach and tango
dance about this that cannot fail to
make its appeal to the pulses Of youth.
Art with big A is plastered all over
this Lucky Bag and Capt. Guy H. Bur-
rage, Commandant of Midshipmen. to
whom the volume is dedicated. ought
TO feel proud at having had a part in
so artistic production.
THE editors say that TO add TO the
interest of the book they have tried to
| tell as much in a picture as possible,
and modestly add that if they have sue
/ ceeded-as they certainly have-the
| chief credit should go TO Edward
/ Breed and G. c. Hill. This is the
twenty-second isue of the class volume
| and no one who goes through its pa
ges will deny that it lives up to the
i purposes expressed i'm the foreward,
to reflect Academy life in general for
if there is any phase of life that es-
capped depicting with the editorial pen
or the artists pencil, it must have oc-
| cured in the midnight hour after taps
AN unusual feature is the class
picture set in a framework of auto
graphs There is a fine eulogy of
class cheering at the football game.
Praise for the cheering, the spirit and
the unfiagging support displayed by
the regiment at the game with the
Army says the Bag. is a direct trib-
ute TO the work of Parkinson. Robert
Moody Parkinson, the cheer leader.
Cheering like that is more than or
ganized noise-making; il is the ex-
preston by the regiment of Midship-
men of their appreciation of that team
out there in the field.
And into every yell are put the
same snap and volume when every
smashing attack and grinding defense
is greeted with the same deep-throated
roar-always aggressive, never per-
functory-then the climax of good
cheering is reached,an end to be attain
ed only by cheer leader oblivious of
all save one purpose, to put the most
intense fight into the regiment. Just
such cheer leader was Parkinson
/ That is a noble quintet pictured on
page 267, Parkinson, Assistant Cheer
Leader William Morton Smelling and
James Potter Brown. Keeper of the
Goat II. F. Grimm, Jr., and Mr.. Goat
SO proud is the class of Captain Over
esch. of the football team. that he has
the whole of page 27O reserved for
himself, and he fills it well with his
fine physique. Among the many pleas
ant things said about the different
members of the class in the long rec
ord OF their virtues and frailties, there
is one enconium that every Midship-
man should seek to deserve.
1T is said of Allan Ramsay Wnr-
tele. of Minneapolis, Mimi: We are
proud of you! You fill the bill. You
don't play on the varsity, you don't
stand one i'm grease, you are non-rafv
P. o. i'm the first three battalions. but
you are one of those who make Acaa-
emy life what it is
Whatever you do, YOU do whole
heartedly.whether it is a Sunday base
ball game with the plebes or knocking
four-point double-no on an ordnance
exam..' The class song by Louis Ram
sen de Roode must have been written
before hte Secretary's much talked of
order went into effect, for it reads
tnus; Fill up your glasses high. and
well rink toast to the class of old
ilfteen, the one we love most
Drink hearty. Years have passed and
cares have come, but true we have ALI
been, so let your glasses clink and
drink to ninteen fifteen.
"A telling effect is obtained bv tho
composer by having a hold mari
placed over each of the last four svI
lables. To show that the spirit Of
eonyiyiality suggested in the song has
not injuriously affected the school
work of the class,on the page facing !,
Is reproduction of the notice to the
class by Capt. W. F. FulIam. II \
superintendent complimenting the
members of the high standard attained