Beloit College - Codex Yearbook (Beloit, WI)

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OL, musical drawl are a dead give-away everytime. Oh, yes! ‘“‘Pa? has a car named “Calpurnia,” in honor of Caesar’s wife. The car is treated with regal attention, getting the best of oil and gas and a lot of publicity in “‘Pa’s” classes. No story of Professor Calland would be complete without a mention of the gigantic Roman baths of which ‘‘Pa” speaks so frequently. Roughly they cover the campus and a large section of the city adjacent to the campus, and the stories of their history are embellished with tales of pretty blue-eyed and fair skinned damsels of the days when Rome was in her hey-day. You’ve neglected your education and missed half the fun of college if you haven’t taken a course in history from Prof. R. K. Richardson, known to be a friend to students since his coming to Beloit in 1901. ‘“‘Dickie”’ for many years has lec- tured to Medieval history students at 8:40 o’clock three times a week, and we'll never forget those lectures which we attended in the basement of Science hall prior to the erection of Morse-Ingersoll hall. ‘Dickie’ gave us the inside story on St. Augustine, Charlemagne, Louis XIV, the feudal barons, the Crusades and the Huns who roamed Europe before the Pilgrims or their ship were dreamed of. With- out a note in his hand ‘“‘Dickie” lectured and lectured, revealing the private lives of saints, warlords, queens and diplomats. ‘There were times when his jokes led him to stray and meander for centuries as students chuckled and listened long after passing bells had rung. We've heard of few students cutting “‘Dickie’s”’ lectures. They’ve become a Beloit tradition! Professor Richardson doesn’t confine his activities to the college alone, but is a man of affairs in the community. He is a member of the First Congregational church, has served as president of the Mens’ club of the parish, and was for a time chairman of the fashionable SixO’Clock club of the city. He is also a supporter of student activities and a supporter of athletics. His hobby is bicycling. If you’ve ever been confined to Municipal hospital by an illness of any kind you probably appreciated the visit of Prof. John Pitt Deane, who makes it a part of his business of living to cheer up other folks. Professor Deane, or “Johnnie Pitt” as he is called, came to Beloit college in 1907, and since that time has taught Biblical Literature and Classics in an attractive manner. It takes a good man to recreate the past in an understandable and interesting manner and Professor Deane can fill the bill. Professor Deane reminds us of Norman Thomas and his life in several incidents has been similar. Both “Johnny Pitt”? and Thomas were ministers and have come to be strong advocates of liberal thought. We’ve learned a lot from Professor Deane in the matter of looking at social problems and creating a world with the maximum amount of happiness for the greatest number of persons con- cerned. Professor Deane fills pulpits in the vicinity from time to time and is called on to do considerable speaking. He, too, is a member of the Six O’Clock club, and is prominent in community affairs, having taken an active part in the presidential campaign last fall. “Ah! Did you get it? Did you see the point? That’s all right—let the bell ring, but stay just a moment. I’m teaching all the time, I’m still teaching. Be scholarly and comprehensive in what you say, and remember the glory of the government which has never been guilty of collusion with any band of undesirables. | Look at the boy in the third row. We'll call on him and see if he knows.” A A

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OT . or helter-skelter—whether or not daily quizzes are his habit and especial delight— and perhaps if we have listened particularly attentively we’ve been able to discern what other courses he has taught in the past. But we do not really know members of the Beloit college faculty. The students of Beloit need an introduction to the faculty! High in the ranks of favored and honored sons of Beloit college who have either remained or returned to Beloit to teach succeeding generations of students is Prof. Hiram Delos Densmore, oldest member of the faculty in point of service. Professor Densmore, or “‘Denny”’ as he is popularly called by his pupils young and old, began wearing his pedagogical robes in 1889, long before many mothers and fathers of present graduating seniors were born. [or forty years ‘““Denny” has been a familiar figure on the Beloit campus and has endeared himself to thousands of students, many of whom are sending their sons and daughters into his sphere of influence today. For forty years Professor Densmore has held sway as director and head of courses in Botany before and since a department was established, and few courses or professors have equalled his popularity. His advanced y ears and long service should not be misconstrued as indicative of mustiness and old-fashioned ideas. Beloit’s peer of education has kept abreast of the times by the use of the latest in textbooks and by contributions to the science by his own pen. ‘The text now used is one of Professor Densmore’s publications. Nor does “‘Denny” confine himself to the classroom and the laboratory in Science hall; the fields and woods in the vicinity of Beloit and Lake Delavan are his lab- oratory. Seated in his Ford, which he considers the most luxurious and satisfactory form of transportation, Professor Densmore rambles here and there collecting specimens. Most surprising is the fact that ‘‘Denny”’ not only examines trees and plants, but stops to scrutinize every fence post and telephone pole. His interest lies in the kind of wood, the animal life inhabiting every crevice, the amount of decay, and the resistance to the elements. Beloit college athletes have a faithful supporter and ever admiring faculty rooter in ““Denny’’. He not only cheers but gets into athletics himself. It has been a hobby with him to play tennis and there was a time when he and Professor Forrest EF. Calland held the faculty tennis championship. ‘These old timers know the game and play it with enthusiasm. Professor Calland, affectionately known as “‘Pa”’ Calland, is second in point of service among faculty members. Professor Calland has a great deal of faith in the younger generation and admits that his son is a better boy, and a better tennis player than he was. “Pa” operates the Book store and heads the department of Classics, occupying his place on the campus since 1900. Going backtothe Bookstore reminds one that “‘Pa”’ makes it a habit to “‘treat”’ his students with candy bars and small packages of advice for life and the struggle after college “which is a greater course than any you'll take in college’. Those little impromptu lectures which ‘“‘Pa” delivers on the stairs around the corner from the Bookstore or on the steps of Old Middlecollege will long be remembered by students when the classroom prep- aration and recitations are forgotten. Gardening is ‘‘Pa’s” delight on a Saturday afternoon and he takes great pride in his lawn and trees. In spite of his dirty blue overalls, canvas gloves, soiled felt hat and wheel-barrow in hand one can’t fail to recognize “‘Pa’”’. ‘That smile and WA

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A Perhaps you’ve already guessed. But if you haven’t the above statements come from the daily classroom lecture of Prof. Royal Brunson Way, head of the college department of Political Science. Ona fair day, after a good meal and a visit to the bootblack’s stand across from the postoffice, “R. B.” can talk any student or member of the faculty into oblivion. His annual lecture on Peggy O’Neill attracts cutsiders from the business district and an occasional student from another college. “R.B.” is the “Carl Russell Fish” of the Beloit campus and knows his politics from A to Z with sanscrit and cuneiform thrown in for good measure. No political convention of the Grand Old Party is complete in the state without the presence of the scholarly “R. B.” He still debates the birth-place of the Republican party, requires each student to write a paper on the causes of the Revolutionary war, and is known far and wide for his parenthetical meanderings. It is not uncommon for him to begin his lecture on a phase of the administration of Andrew Jackson and find himself telling the class how the holes are put in Swiss cheese in Monroe, Wis., when the bell rings. “R. B.” is a great golfer and takes time out several times a week to demonstrate his mashie stance or the way he holds his little finger on his niblick shot. There’s always a smile and a twinkle of the eye with Professor Way’s side remarks and injections of humor which make him dear to students and make his courses ever popular. “‘Clancy falls short of being a genius by inches.” This is the high tribute that a Beloit minister paid Professor George Carpenter Clancy recently. Professor Clancy, or ‘“George Carpenter” in more familiar terms, had been an inspiration to aspiring students of better writing and a higher appreciation of literature since IgII. Prof. Clancy heads the department of English, is the author of two text books and has a vast knowledge of literature and details concerning playrights and poets. This Beloit professor understands students—their little love affairs and broken romances, their fire and enthusiasm which bursts into a bright flame and later smolders and dies out. All these things make “‘George Carpenter” smile his sardonic and all- knowing smile. Yes, he can be sarcastic and his satirical tongue and verbosity of manner can rip a theme or term paper to shreds. It’s a pleasure to study modern plays and novels with Professor Clancy—he reads bits here and there—enacting one of Ibsen’s heartless women—or one of Barrie’s whimsical heroines—or Wilde’s fantastic Yank—and you should see him do “Strange Interlude”’! Syllogisms flow like a rhapsody—complicated philosophical concepts radiate like soft light—hair-splitting differentiations in thinking processes ebb like music from the personality of Prof. John Forsyth Crawford, Beloit college’s best read and most widely informed teacher. There’s a close friendship and warm understanding between “J. F.”’ and his students akin to nothing on the campus. He’ll go without his meals to discuss a current problem with an earnest student, and his seminar groups meet in extra sessions evenings because of the keen intellectualism and elevating thought of which they smack. Professor Crawford is a liberal thinker and is identified with the state LaFollette movement. He has risen high in educational circles and community affairs since his birth in far off Syria and his entrance into the faculty in 1913. “J. F” has his lighter moments, however, and he likes to fuss with a garden and ride in his car. His car isn’t an ordinary automobile but is called respectively A