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Rev. John A. W. Haas, DD., LL.D. President and Professor of Religion and Philosophy. Did you ever walk into the chapel and look at the architect’s drawing of the Muhlenberg of the future ? Dr. Haas is not an architect but when that Muhlenberg does arrive, it will in a large measure be the product of fundamental work done by Dr. Haas. The uninitiated outsider cannot appreciate the work that Dr. Haas has put into the college. Did you ever step into the library at four o’clock in the afternoon and hear Dr. Haas reading modern poems to an audience consisting of one Senior, one Junior and one Freshman? Modern poetry is never more fascinating than when interpreted by Dr. Haas. Did you ever go to a football game without seeing Dr. Haas on the sidelines in his black derby and pet cane? He likes to be there and he usually is. Did you ever feel your brains go whirling at some particularly abstruse philosoph- ical discussion and then be brought back to earth by a tailor-made concrete illustration ? Were you ever chased out of the college store by a chuckling panting little figure with pink cheeks and a white goatee, laughing at your unhappy attempt to be witty? If your answer to these questions is not affirmative you do not know our president in the way that most of the students know him. Born at Philadelphia, Pa., August 31, 1862. Prepared at Parochial School Zion’s Church and Protestant Episcopal Academy. A.B. University of Pennsylvania 1884. Mt. Airy Theological Seminary, Ordained 1887. A.M. and B.D. University of Pennsylvania 1887. Phi Beta Kappa. University of Leipsic 1887-88. D.D. Thiel College 1902. Fourth President of Muhlenberg 1904. LL.D. University of Pennsyl- vania 1914. 16
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1 1 — 1 — — 1 ( rm ,, rr ,, r ,.|v X ' ±— V xE? muhctscrg IfE? CLAP LA. Urs? 1922 Sri? Rev. William Wackernagel, D.D., LL.D. Chaplain and Professor of Modern Languages. One of the most impressive ceremonies of the college year is the annual presenta- tion by the Freshman class to Dr. Wack- ernagel of a Thanksgiving turkey. Pres- entation speeches are made in many tongues, by fluent linguistic Freshmen and Dr. Wackernagel sits in his accustomed chair on the platform in chapel and listens attentively. Few are the tongues that he does not understand. Dr. Wackernagel is the “grand old man’’ of Muhlenberg and for two score years he has watched the coming and going of men and boys who always look back with pleasure and gratitude to the hours spent under the influence of this fatherly philos- opher who teaches not only modern lan- guages but also a cheerful philosophy of life. “Wacky” seems to have discovered the proverbial Fountain of Youth for as he advances in years he seems to grow younger in spirit. Born at Basel-on-the-Rhine, Switzerland, September 25, 1838. Missionary in the Holy Land eleven years. Ordained a minister of the Lutheran Church 1880. D.D., University of Pennsylvania 1883. Acting Presi- dent of Muhlenberg College 1903-04. LL.D. Muhlen- berg College, 1918. George T. Ettinger, Pli. D., LL. D. Dean and Professor of Latin Lauguage and Literature. Possibly there is no better sportsman at Muhlenberg than Dr. Ettinger. Hardly a day passes that he does not witness a horse race. He has seen many jockeys fall from their mounts since he took up his work at Muhlenberg College in 1880. He has never neglected an opportunity to im- part sound advice to these erring jockeys. It is said that he grew his mustache and goatee for the express purpose of hiding the sly grin that comes to his face when a wily sophomore thinks that he is “putting something over” on the dean. As he sits behind his desk with right index finger crooked over his eye, he daily tries to break his own record in saying, “Yes, yes, yes,” whether he means it or not. The value of the “dee-un” is realized when it is necessary to announce deficien- cies in scholarship. On those occasions he takes a sort of fatherly sympathetic atti- tude toward the “weak brother” which something over” on the dean. As he sits without lessening in his mind the necessity of doing better next time. Born at Allentown, Pa., November 8, 1860. Pre- pared in Private School and the Academic Depart- ment of Muhlenberg College. A.B. (Valedictorian) Muhlenberg College, 1880. Phi Gamma Delta. Principal of Academic Department 1884-92. Presi- dent of the Alumni Association. A.M., Muhlenberg College 1883. Ph.D., New York University 1891. Professor of Latin and Pedagogy 1892-1917. Pro- fessor of Latin since 1917. LL.D. Muhlenberg 1920. 17
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