Personals
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Personals
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Alumni
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http://addison.vt.edu/record=b1775388~S1
Publisher
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Date
April 1877
Contributor
Josh Dobbs, Jenna Zan
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Permission to publish images from The Gray Jacket must be obtained from Special Collections, Virginia Tech.
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Language
English
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Miscellanea
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LD5655.V8 L4, ser.1, v.2, no.6 (April 1877), p.5
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Not a year passes but that our institution is visited by some philosophical orator, who gives us advice in words of soberness and wisdom. Each year we have the same old story, "Do not let education make you foolishly proud, but go home and apply your knowledge of Agricultuture and Mechanics to your daily employment. By no means go West, but stay in Virginia until you die, even if that later event in your life is hastened by so doing. Marry early; in short, increase and multiply throughout the State."
We advise all persons who are fearful of our graduates losing their common sense, to read our personals for this month, and to visit our Alumni meeting next August and inquire of each member as to his employment.
J. W. Lawrence, graduate of '76 and editor of The Gray Jacket for that year, is doing well as bookkeeper for Jones, Savage and Lee, commission merchants, Norfolk, Va. "Nansemond" was a member of the "Immortal Book-keepers" of '76, and we of that brotherhood shall not forget a brother soon. Success to you, Nansemond. We have received your subscription and would also like to have a contribution in the form of a letter from your pen. Do not forget us.
Wm. E. Ewing, graduate of '76 and orator from Maury Society for the same year, was, when last heard from, burning a brick kiln. That job done, he intended going to the centennial while the house was being built. Wonder if he went alone? Bill is a practical boy. He drew the plan of that house while here, and employed by contract, men to make the brick. These persons having failed to make good their part of the contract, he, it seems, made use of his mechanical knowledge and manufactured his own brick. Brick made, house built, the wonders of the centennial seen in company with Mrs. E., another crop made and gathered, and then—well, "hush a bye" Bill. If we have exagarated, remember that our productions have more than once shaken rain from the clouds. Let us have a letter from Bedford and several subscriptions for The Gray Jacket before long, old friend, and your memory refreshened by greenbacks, shall ever keep green on our roll.
Secretary A. B. Davis, graduate in agriculture and mechanics of '76 and one of the first editors of The Gray Jacket, was, when last heard from, teaching a public school. When we heard from him last Autumn, he was burning a coal kiln to get the coal wherewith to cure a crop of tobacco. If the crop was a good one, we are sure that there was some nice tobacco sold from Pittsylvania, for Abner, though neither a chewer or smoker of the abominably disgusting weed, knows how to cure it in first rate style. We wish Abner success. May all of his crops yield at least seven fold, may he be married in much shorter time than seven years to a wife possessing at least seven virtues and accomplishments, and not less than seven tens of thousands in money, and then may he have at least seven fine years of plenty, and never seven of famine. Now, Abner, don't get mad at my impudence, and mark me seven, because you know I have ceased to follow the military course, and the boys might laugh at us. Good bye, Abner, I wish you were hear to-night, I want to talk to you about the Society, the officers, the faculty, and last, though by no means least, about the ladies, who, like Summer birds, have flown long since from the mountains, and left so many of us to mourn in sadness that these same ladies we ere had known.
Capt. Dan. Walker, graduate of '75, Mechanics, is in business with Mr. Charles T. Palmer, of Richmond. Mr. Palmer is the head of a large and long established house for the manufacture of agricultural implements, and has done well in choosing our Capt. as one of his agents. Capt. Walker, being from a grass country, and having by his residence at college made the acquaintance of young men from nearly every county in the State, is most aptly fitted for his present position, especially so, as one of Mr. Palmer's best implements is a reaper and mower, which he offers to the grain and grass growing part of the country on very reasonable terms, "warranting satisfaction on trial, or no sale."
C. A. Byrd, Class '73 and '74, writes from Clapper Station, Monroe county, Missouri, to inquire if the Gray Jacket is still published. We have sent the only two back numbers that we have, and will continue to send the paper. We are happy to say that the Gray Jacket is still published, and if all of our friends would send us a dollar, we wonld be enabled to publish a much larger paper and never be pushed for money.
We had the good fortune, while in Richmond, last Autumn, to meet our old and highly esteemed friend, "Aunt Hix," who is still a student of Richmond College. Aunt seems to be perfectly happy with her Baptist friends, and to enjoy her religious privileges very much. She seems devoted to the College, the students and especially to the faculty, and gives a fine account of the moral tone of her Alma Mater.
Messrs. Baum, (the irrepressible), and Baily, formerly students of the College, are also attending Richmond College, and are most cordial in their greeting to all who wear the gray.
E. G. Bagley, graduate of 1875, is clerking in Petersburg. He must be kept quite busy, as he writes us he has not time to read the Gray Jacket, and consequently cannot take it. Oh! we editors, how encouraging!
Cadets B. M. Smith, and M. P. Jackson, are in business with the Messrs. Reynolds Brothers, Norfolk, and doing well. Smith is as succeptible as ever, and Norfolk must be a dangerous place for the tranquility of his affectionate heart; but we never expect to hear ill of him at least, and we say the same of Jackson.
C. D. Diggs, graduate of '76, and debater from Maury Society, is farming at his home in Cumberland county, and if he digs as earnestly at his crop as he did at his opponent on the final, he will undoubtedly be successful as a farmer.
We advise all persons who are fearful of our graduates losing their common sense, to read our personals for this month, and to visit our Alumni meeting next August and inquire of each member as to his employment.
J. W. Lawrence, graduate of '76 and editor of The Gray Jacket for that year, is doing well as bookkeeper for Jones, Savage and Lee, commission merchants, Norfolk, Va. "Nansemond" was a member of the "Immortal Book-keepers" of '76, and we of that brotherhood shall not forget a brother soon. Success to you, Nansemond. We have received your subscription and would also like to have a contribution in the form of a letter from your pen. Do not forget us.
Wm. E. Ewing, graduate of '76 and orator from Maury Society for the same year, was, when last heard from, burning a brick kiln. That job done, he intended going to the centennial while the house was being built. Wonder if he went alone? Bill is a practical boy. He drew the plan of that house while here, and employed by contract, men to make the brick. These persons having failed to make good their part of the contract, he, it seems, made use of his mechanical knowledge and manufactured his own brick. Brick made, house built, the wonders of the centennial seen in company with Mrs. E., another crop made and gathered, and then—well, "hush a bye" Bill. If we have exagarated, remember that our productions have more than once shaken rain from the clouds. Let us have a letter from Bedford and several subscriptions for The Gray Jacket before long, old friend, and your memory refreshened by greenbacks, shall ever keep green on our roll.
Secretary A. B. Davis, graduate in agriculture and mechanics of '76 and one of the first editors of The Gray Jacket, was, when last heard from, teaching a public school. When we heard from him last Autumn, he was burning a coal kiln to get the coal wherewith to cure a crop of tobacco. If the crop was a good one, we are sure that there was some nice tobacco sold from Pittsylvania, for Abner, though neither a chewer or smoker of the abominably disgusting weed, knows how to cure it in first rate style. We wish Abner success. May all of his crops yield at least seven fold, may he be married in much shorter time than seven years to a wife possessing at least seven virtues and accomplishments, and not less than seven tens of thousands in money, and then may he have at least seven fine years of plenty, and never seven of famine. Now, Abner, don't get mad at my impudence, and mark me seven, because you know I have ceased to follow the military course, and the boys might laugh at us. Good bye, Abner, I wish you were hear to-night, I want to talk to you about the Society, the officers, the faculty, and last, though by no means least, about the ladies, who, like Summer birds, have flown long since from the mountains, and left so many of us to mourn in sadness that these same ladies we ere had known.
Capt. Dan. Walker, graduate of '75, Mechanics, is in business with Mr. Charles T. Palmer, of Richmond. Mr. Palmer is the head of a large and long established house for the manufacture of agricultural implements, and has done well in choosing our Capt. as one of his agents. Capt. Walker, being from a grass country, and having by his residence at college made the acquaintance of young men from nearly every county in the State, is most aptly fitted for his present position, especially so, as one of Mr. Palmer's best implements is a reaper and mower, which he offers to the grain and grass growing part of the country on very reasonable terms, "warranting satisfaction on trial, or no sale."
C. A. Byrd, Class '73 and '74, writes from Clapper Station, Monroe county, Missouri, to inquire if the Gray Jacket is still published. We have sent the only two back numbers that we have, and will continue to send the paper. We are happy to say that the Gray Jacket is still published, and if all of our friends would send us a dollar, we wonld be enabled to publish a much larger paper and never be pushed for money.
We had the good fortune, while in Richmond, last Autumn, to meet our old and highly esteemed friend, "Aunt Hix," who is still a student of Richmond College. Aunt seems to be perfectly happy with her Baptist friends, and to enjoy her religious privileges very much. She seems devoted to the College, the students and especially to the faculty, and gives a fine account of the moral tone of her Alma Mater.
Messrs. Baum, (the irrepressible), and Baily, formerly students of the College, are also attending Richmond College, and are most cordial in their greeting to all who wear the gray.
E. G. Bagley, graduate of 1875, is clerking in Petersburg. He must be kept quite busy, as he writes us he has not time to read the Gray Jacket, and consequently cannot take it. Oh! we editors, how encouraging!
Cadets B. M. Smith, and M. P. Jackson, are in business with the Messrs. Reynolds Brothers, Norfolk, and doing well. Smith is as succeptible as ever, and Norfolk must be a dangerous place for the tranquility of his affectionate heart; but we never expect to hear ill of him at least, and we say the same of Jackson.
C. D. Diggs, graduate of '76, and debater from Maury Society, is farming at his home in Cumberland county, and if he digs as earnestly at his crop as he did at his opponent on the final, he will undoubtedly be successful as a farmer.