Beloit College - Codex Yearbook (Beloit, WI)

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BIALCOLM' XV. XVALLACE

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R. MALCOLM W. WALLAC E, who succeeded to the chair of English Literature and Rhetoric at Beloit in 1899, was born at Vtfindsor, Ontario, in 1873. Some idea of the breadth and liberality of his training for the profession upon which he has entered, may be gained from a brief statement of his work as an undergraduate and later as a graduate student. His preparatory course was taken at the Windsor Collegiate Institute, located near his home. After completing his preparatory studies he entered the University of Torontoiin 1892, and was graduated from that institution in 1896. While at Toronto he studied along the lines of his future work, specializing in English Literature and in Modern Languages. After graduation he pursued a course in pedagogy for one year in the Ontario Nor- mal College for teachers. ' In 1897 he received a fellowship in the department of English Literature at Chicago University, the appointment being based upon the excellence of his work at Toronto. His graduate work at Chicago comprised two years, at the end of which period he received the degree of Ph.D. from the university. His thesis on The Influence of Plautus on the English Dramatic Literature of the Sixteenth Century, is being published in book form by Chicago University. His call to Beloit came just at the close of his residence at Chicago and he entered upon his duties as professor in September, 1899. In addition to his thorough training, Dr. W'allace has demonstrated by his work at Beloit that he is a teacher and lecturer of unusual ability. He has entirely reorganized his department by the introduction Of new courses and new methods of instruction. The new impulse thus given to the study of English in the college has resulted in large acces- sions to the department in the number of students pursuing courses in literature, and in the growth of the department to one of the largest and strongest in the institution. The work of Dr. Wallace in bringing the English department thoroughly up to modern standards, is one of the marked features in the advance made by the college in recent years. Its importance to the future of the institution is recognized by all who have followed the great changes in the methods of teaching English in the past few years and the increased demands made for training in English by college students here and elsewhere. In addition to his department work, Dr. Wallace has shown his ability in dealing with matters which concern the broader phases of college life. His interest in athletics, in secondary education and in all matters pertaining to the general welfare of the institution, indicate that in him Beloit has not only secured an able and thoroughly trained department professor, but one who will do much to advance her interests in all spheres of college activity. 36

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Jamie Faculty Definitions JE CAPILLARITY-A simple but rather neat physical phenomenon, which usually keeps science teachers humping, to have their classes understand, all hands 'round. Place several glass tubes into a bucket of water. By tinkering with them a while We may assume three sets of surfaces-glass-air, glass-water, and water-air. If the temperature of the water is iniinity, a fourth interesting feature-hot-air-is introduced. Let O be the mean elevation of the liquid in the tube, above the liquid surface outside, and M the pressure. The entire surface tension LIJ around the interior of the tube where the film is attached is 2 11 w T, w being the water outside of the tube. Let 0 be the angle of contact which the perimeter of the meniscus makes with the water-glass surface, if it is clean. Then by hypothesis I 2l'IwT6059:g5z'n1Iffz Cooking this up, gives us zgssinfifvf-I-i25:QTOMj2t which is the amount of work performed by the water-air surface in cleaning the surface of the glass. Now, iz! a ray of polarized light be passed through the bottom of the tube, at an angle parallel to the arc of the meniscus, then by Avogardo's law the longitudinal vibra- tions Will prance around transversely until the force of the vviggler peters out, when the angle of inclination becomes negative acceleration and follows the regular law of motion on the plane of the ecliptic. Hence this is called capillary attraction, or capillarity. T. A. S. CHAPEL-A department of the college designed for the suppression of frivolous impulses, e. g., an impulse on the part of any professor to stand on his head or execute a somersault backward, is at once checked by his being assigned a place in the faculty row. G. A. T. IELIZABETHAN LITERATURE-A fziulezfesiing subject, really, but dontt you know, it's hardly just quite exactly absolutely accurately defined by any single statement. If you will pardon a personal reference, my edition of the Elivabethan drama will cover this point more fully. M. VV. W. A THEBIE-A more or less happy effort on the part of a student to write something intelligible and produce a literatesque effect at the same time. After being written, the production is analyzed by an expert, and all ambitious attempts and marks of genius rather carefully eradicated, and the student is warned. Sometimes one warning is sufhcient, but it is almost impossible to make a thing like this effective. L. M. P. tThis step, I presume, is evident enough to all who have taken Sophomore Math, 39