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

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kgfcHk. ' : ;; V i • r . •. i Bfif TE n ii - - - It is ... a small college, and there are those who love it. DANIEL WEBSTER

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. . . It is the common wonder of all men how, among so many millions of faces, there should be none alike. SIR THOMAS BROWNE

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m DR. LEWIS HERBERT CHRISMAN And gladly wolde he lerne, and gladly teache. CHAUCER A refinement through the medium of literature from Homer to Hemingway has been the heritage of students who have attended the classes of Dr. Lewis Herbert Chrisman. This Mav his nearly forty years of full-time service at West Virginia Wesleyan College will come to a close: however, he will continue to teach on a limited schedule. Born August 21. 1883. at Upper Uwchlan Township. Chester County. Pennsylvania. Dr. Chrisman is prominent as a writer arid lecturer. He has written John Raskin, Preacher, and Other Essays. The English oj the Pulpit, The Message oj the American Pulpit, and Ten Minute Sermons. He is a staff writer for church school publications of the Methodist Church, and has jointly edited Selections from Speeches oj Abraham Lincoln. He has lectured at W. Va. University, Drew Theological Seminary, and Garrett Biblical Institute. In 1908 he received a Ph. II. from Dickinson College. 1.1 . in 1909, and I. ill. I), in 1920. He studied at the I niversitj of Pennsylvania, I niversirj of Michigan. Univer- sity of Wisconsin, and. in 1948, received a 1,11.1). from . Va. Wesleyan. He has taught at W. Va. I niversity, was Professor of English at I nion College. Professor of English Literature al Baldwin-Wallace College, and came to Wesleyan in 1919, acting as dean in 1925-26. Dr. Chrisman. who i a member of the American Association of I niversity Profes- sors. Alpha Chi Rho, and Phi Beta Kappa, married Elizabeth Lash in 1914. They had two children. Esther Elizabeth and Margaret Lucille. The 1956 Murmurmontis is dedicated In Dr. 1.. H. Chrisman with ineffable appre- ciation, not solelj for tin ' knowledge be has imparted to us, but for the wisdom to use it.