Millersville University - Touchstone Yearbook (Millersville, PA)

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T () U C II S T O N E Hamblcton, of Bucks County. Pa., and they have six children: Anna May, Arthur H., Horace M., George K., Ruth S. and Charles Wesley. Dr. Hull is held in very high esteem, both as a man and as a teacher, by the bovs and girls of this school, and is one of the most popular members of the Faculty. In testimony whereof, we, the Class of 1910, have unanimously decided to dedicate to him this work.

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T O U C H S T O N E is still holding. In 1885 he took the post-graduate courses in the University of Illinois, Bloomington, III., and received the degrees A.M. and Ph.D. Then, heeding the call of the church to assist men in leading better lives, he decided to make valuable use of the few spare minutes that he may find by studying the gospel, so he took the regular lines of study prescribed bv the General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and in 1885 was ordained a minister of that denomination by Bishop Warren, of the Quaker City. Though Dr. Hull has never accepted a regular charge, he has done considerable preaching and is a very influential member of the denomination. He is a very staunch supporter and an active member of our school Y. M. C. A. We have, at all times, found him ready and willing to do anything in his power to assist in the good work of the Association. He has frequently led our Sunday morning and the Sunday evening prayer meetings and has always enthused us with his stirring words. He is an active member of the V. W. C. T. U. and has strong convictions on the subject of temperance, and has made this the theme of some of his best lectures. He has, both by precept and example, been influential in causing hundreds of students who have attended this Normal School to make more valuable use of their time, to lead better lives and to prepare themselves to do better than “to board around and furnish their own fuel for thirteen dollars per month.” Dr. Hull is widely known, especially among teachers. For many years he has been a lecturer at county institutes in all parts of this State and adjoining States and has far more demands upon his time than he can possibly fill. He lectures on Mathematics and various other general educational topics. That he is an expert mathematician and a capable teacher is proven by the fact that he has published by the American Book Company the following text books on Mathematics: Mental Arithmetic, Elementary Arithmetic, Complete Arithmetic, Elementary Algebra, Complete Algebra, and Plane and Solid Geometry. All of these books are widely used in public schools, high schools and normal schools in many parts of the United States. More than half a million are now in use. AugustT. 1880,he married Miss Anna, only daughter of Thomas 5

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T () U C H S T O N E Proface In preparing this, the eleventh volume of the Touchstone, we have tried to give to the Alumni, our parents, friends of this school, and the remaining classes, a record of the events and pleasantries of our Senior year, and to give to that large host of boys and girls who are considering attending this school a true picture of normal life, including both its pleasures and its difficulties. From the time of the organizing of our class at the beginning of the Junior year we have had the interests and welfare of Millersville Normal at heart. While guided by our motto, “Desire to Do Well.” we have striven to make this era the brightest and most prosperous that this school has ever experienced. We have enrolled in our class men and women who have been a rank and a power in every phase of Normal life. By reading this book you will learn of the marvelous successes we have made in class-room work, athletics, society and religious affairs. We trust that as time rolls on and finds the members of this class grown old and gray from the exercises of the different occupations they may be engaged in. and finds them turning again and again the leaves of this book, that it may bring back to them fond thoughts and remembrances of their good old normal days, and that it may ever keep fresh and new before their minds the faces of their classmates and Normal friends. We trust that every reader will consider the nature of the work he is reading and will prove himself a lilxrral thinker bv believing that the matter herein published is presented with no feeling of malice or animosity. Though we are prepared to parry all possible attacks, yet we hope and pray that our efforts and words will Ik received in the same kindly manner in which they are given and, if so, our book will till its mission. In conclusion, we wish to thank all who have in any way helped to make this book a success. We are, The Editors.