Muhlenberg College - Ciarla Yearbook (Allentown, PA)

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- i 9 1 T CIA II LA Sherlock Holmes to bring the culprit to justice, pointed to at least one young man, whose light summer trousers from that time forth bore divers marks or stains of axle grease. But Synod week, when the President and the ministerial members of the Faculty were absent, was a carnival season for the students. I still count as one of the greatest achieve- ments of my official life as tutor the capture of a large military drum, which an enterprising town student had, out of the fullness of his heart, brought with him one evening, wherewith to lead the procession through the long halls of the college building. The appointments of those earlier days, when compared with those of the beautiful and commodious college plant now occupying its magnificent site of seventy-two acres, were decidedly primitive, although they may have been ever so conducive to the formation of firm moral fibre. The bathtubs were buckets, in the natural hardwood finish or hand painted as the aesthetic taste of the students dictated ; our electric lights were lamps filled with coal oil at eight cents a quart at a time when the blighting tyranny of the Standard Oil Company had not yet developed to lower the price of oil ; and our steam heat was furnished by a stove in each room, often standing on three legs with a brick in lieu of the fourth. What a miracle that no serious fires ever occurred under these primitive conditions of heating and lighting ! Wh ile to the pampered collegian of today these accommodations may appear to have been decidedly crude, yet they also had their advantages. To be sure, the students were obliged to carry their own coal up to the fifth floor ; but think of the convenience of dumping the ashes down the winding stairway and the added gratification of the janitor. Think of those janitors, each of whom was sui generis ! Engelbert Zenger, the German ; Frank Dent, the cockney Englishman, and Adam Rau, the Pennsylvania German, who indulged in verba sesquipedalia because he was the janitor of a college. I need not tell you which one of this trio, having been sent to the lumber yard for a hitching post, asked for an ’itching post. Even if the fly specks on the ceiling indicated the location of Aldebaran and the Dipper on this improvised celestial map, yet the ideals were lofty; the efforts of students and teachers were earnest; the distractions were less numerous, and the things of the spirit were still considered of greatest worth. While we justly glory in the present and hopefully look into the future, let us not forget the past and, above all, the men in that past that have made possible the present. For, to the scholarship and the character, the loving loyalty and the self-sacrificing services of Frederick A. Muhlenberg, Benjamin Sadtler, Theodore E. Seip, Davis Garber and Matthias H. Richards, Muhlenberg College owes a debt of gratitude that eternity alone can pay. 110

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1 9 1 T CIARLA ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED OFFICERS Howard S. Skip, D. D. S., ’85 President Ira Wise Secretary Oscar F. BernhEim, ’92 Treasurer BOARD OF DIRECTORS Malcolm Gross, Esq. Rev. J. Chas. Rausch, D. D. Fred G. Lanshe Lawrence H. Rupp, Esq. Nathan Fritsch Ira Wise Dr. Howard S. Seip FACULTY MEMBER GRADUATE MEMBER William H. Reese, Sc. D. Prof. Albert C. H. Fasig STUDENT MEMBERS 1916 Gurney F. Afflerbach Ernest A. Weber 1917 Roland L. Rupp Corson C. Snyder MANAGERS OF ATHLETIC TEAMS Guerney F. Afflerbach, ’16 Corson C. Snyder, ’17 C. Luther Fry, ’16 Mark A. Bausch, ’17 Edgar J. Brong, ’17 Luther HartzEll,’ 18 Manager Football . . .Assistant Manager Football Manager Basketball Assistant Manager Basketball Manager Track Assistant Manager Track 112