Beloit College - Codex Yearbook (Beloit, WI)

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vA TA good luck on “‘taps”’ last Armistice Day, but his other solo work has made amends. “Ralph” is the gentleman who knows his math, and is also acquainted not only with the exterior of the heavenly bodies but is called upon almost weekly to lecture on “The Inside of a Star.” Then there is Prof. M. D. Brode, who teaches his students to cut up helpless frogs, earthworms and cats—the old meany! His home is in the west and his hobby is mountain climbing. He doesn’t wait until he gets home to do his high- stepping but limbers up here now and then. In the spring you’ll catch him capturing frogs along a creek, or breeding a batch of fruit flies for his students to study. Have we mentioned Prof. Paul N. Nesbitt? He’s the fellow who tells those tall yarns about the Fiji Islands and dishes out the dirt on the private life of the Amer- ican Indian. ‘‘Paul” is young enough to associate with pupils and pass as a student. He’s the last of a succession of swains on the Beloit campus who ran the century in 1o seconds flat, and is a booster of Gold athletics. You’ll never be the same if you ve taken one of his Anthropology courses and you’ve missed a lot if you haven’t. On a cold winter’s day, when the mercury was hovering around twenty-five degrees below zero and you were nearly frozen stiff, have you seen a fast stepping man walk down the street toward the campus without a coat or hat? That man was Prof. Darwin Ashley Leavitt, assistant professor of history, who is perhaps the warmest blooded homo-sapiens in existence. We're told Professor Leavitt roams the fairways of the Municipal golf links with that same stride and can cover the required eighteen holes in less time than any five individuals who have ever tried to combine cross-country running with whacking the pellet. We could go on to mention Prof. Max Miranda, the suave organist; Prof. Lewis I. Severson, who knows economics like Jonah knew the whale (from the inside out); Prof. H. H. Conwell, who solves polynomials with ease; Prof. William J. Trautman, who knows where you sit in chapel and if you sit in chapel every day of the year when you are required to sit in chapel;Prof. Ivan M. Stone, Miss Catharine Wins- low, director of Smith gymnastic emporium for gals; Dashing George B. Schick, immaculate James B. Gage, and Bill Bledsoe; Prof. Ole N. DeWeerdt, and Prof. Vernon A. Suydam, who is forever sniffing and snuffling. Let’s conclude with President Irving Maurer, a gentleman and a scholar to whom all Beloit students can point with pride. ‘“‘Prexy”’ has this year served as president of the American Association of Colleges, and is recognized throughout the nation as one of the foremost educators of the day. He is a friend to every student, he believes in Beloit students, and is making Beloit greater by his presence. A AT

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