West Virginia Wesleyan College - Murmurmontis Yearbook (Buckhannon, WV)

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MUflMURMONTIS ? ten mml ymm m DEAN ' I mis. W. l;Ari;ilT

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MURMURMONTIS f Wallace : . Shmin , p[). . But 111 his duty pioniyit iii cvi ' iy call, He watchod and wept, he prayed and felt fci all. And, as a l)iid each fond t ' luleaunent tiicy, To tompt its now-fled jicrl offspring ' to the skies. He tried eadi art. reprovod eaoh d dl delay Allurt ' d to liii hter vatrld.s and led the wav. Our scholarly President is an impurted product, being a native of O hio. However, he lias admirably acclimated himself to Vest Virginia conditions, and we unreservedly ])ronounce him the ideal college president. Dr. Fleming is the possessor of four degrees of scholarship : A.B. .Muskingum College 1894 A.M. .Muskingum College 1897 I ' l.l). Drew Theological Seminarv 1897 I ' h.D. Columliia L ' nixcrsity 1914 After spending fourteen years in the active ministry of the Methodist Episcopal Church he accepted the chair of Hebrew and Greek iu Drew Theological Seminary. 1915 marks an epoch in ' esleyan history, for in that year Dr. hleming accepted the presidencv of this institution. In his char- acteristic way he has wrought miracles undreamed of by West ' irginia Methodists of a decade |)ast. In June of 1917 the campaign for a half million dollar endowment was achieved. This ]n ' esent vear will witness the success of the X ' ictory Fund of an additional half million. But our energetic presi- dent is not yet satisfied. With past performances for criteria we can but expect that his visions for the future will materialize. m! £ns

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ir J5I ' Amu MURMURMONTIS J rJci rn Obomas W. Ifaugbt J .yU. ' ' And we all praise famous men — Aut ' ieuts of the College ; For they taught lu- ' ' oi ' in.on sense — Tried to teach us common penso — Truth and God s Own Common Sense, Which is more than Knowledge. — Kiiiling. Progressive in nietluid, ijung in spirit, nniqiie in manner, and buoyant in hope is our Dean. It miglit possibly cause some needless embarrassment so we refrain from giving the year of his nativity. However, strain our memories as we will, they will not disclose his advent. Prof. Haught is a graduate of the old West Virginia Seminary. His .A.B. bears the seal of West X ' irginia I ' niversity ; his A.M. was conferred by our own Wesleyarj. He has done extensive post-graduate wcjrk in Chemistry at Harvard and Johns Hopkins -As a practical schol e.xecnti e he is without a peer, and is known through- out this and other slates in the best educational circles. Amid all the per- ]ilexities which arise in his responsible station, our Dean maintains a calm exterior and a judicious mind. Campus and college halls with all their accnutrement mav fade into oblivion, but the memory of our Dean will never be dimmed in our hearts. ' e can give no adequate verbal description of the thing we know as THE WESLIiY.VX .SPIRIT, but here we have the living embodiment of that spirit. Endowments may come and go but Wesleyan received her richest gift when Tommy came.