College of Wooster - Index Yearbook (Wooster, OH)

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THE CORPORATION is organized like a real one. Last fall, shares of stock were issued to each of the club members. Meetings are a market place where members exchange ideas and questions about economics. Carleton Cummings is president. Front row: Wilkinson, Maxwell, Cummings. Second row: Lyle, Kuegle, Rugen, Perkins. Third row: McCarley. Blocher, Weaner, Meese. Fourth row: Gensbigler. Cox. Somers, Levers. Fifth row: Booher, Saddler. Geddes. Sixth row: Hudson, Singer, Harring. Big' Wooster's future Adam Smiths and Madam Perkins gain their lore from a trio headed by Dr. Alvin S. Tostlebe. He teaches the prin- ciples course, but his specialties are money and banking and public finance. At present, he is on leave of absence in Washington, where the government finds his counsel use- ful. He is directing a research project on agricultural taxation. Pupils Peruse Public Problems Most enrolled of the advanced courses are Assistant Professor E. Kingman Eberhart's labor problems and economic reform. Stu- dents of labor problems decide what should be done about insecurity of jobs, low wages, and long hours. Economic reformists com- pare capitalism with socialism, communism, fascism, and cooperation. This spring Eber- hart was appointed to the National Advisory Council of the research organization known as Consumers' Union. One day a week is all that Instructor L. Merle Hostetler spends in Wooster, but he v-ri 1, wil ... ... Seventh row: Mellert, R. Long. Standing: Mr. Eberhart, Mr. Tostlebe. THE TWO ELECTRIC calculators, one hand calculator. cmd one adding machine which belong to the economics department give economists a real work-out. In this picture, Walt Lyle is using the hand calculator. Last winter. Prof. Eberhart's statisticians calculated the mea:n, the mode, the standard deviation, the skewness and the kurtosis of the heights and weights of Wooster's freshman women. This practical experience was possible through cooperation with the women's athletic department. 'TQ f?5' .fx 'l fe Comet packs it with knowledge for the would-be bookkeeper and business forecaster. He teaches economic organization, as well as accounting and business trends. All work and no play . . . so the saying goes, and Wooster economists are no excep- tion. THE Corporation fnote that THE em- bodies the initial of each of the professorsj is the medium of expression whereby work and play are combined. ' DEPARTMENT HEAD Dr. Alvin S. Tostlebe, Assis- tant Proiessor E. Kingman Eberhart, and Instructor L. Merle Hostetler discuss the rapid rise ot the business index. They refuse to comment on the probable post-war economic situation, but they shake their heads pessimistically.

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1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 , 1 1 1 left: Kauke Hull, Woosier's main above: Typical Wooster class is classroom building. Dr. Ferm's Introductory Philosophy -- Departments - . Page French. 4l Art ....... .. .. 48 Geology ' Biology . ..... 54 Math. .. Classical. . .. . . 43 Music. . Chemistry .... 50 Physics Economics.. .. 30 Spanish Education .... 42 Speech.

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PHI ALPHA THETA is the Greek name for the new history fratemity, headed by Kay Sommerlatte. Only history majors of high academic standing may be elected. Front row: Kemp, Kingsley, Eisenberger, Sommerlatte, Ahrens, McClellan, Hart. Back row: Wheeler, Bollens, Mr. Ells- worth, Mr. Hail, Miss Dunham, Bone. MOST POPULAR COURSE is Miss Dun- hcn'n's World War. The class meets three times a week under compulsion, but on Monday mornings Miss Dunham has an informal discussion period for all interested. Students may bring up any current topic. At the discussion period this Monday moming were Cleft to rightl, Margaret Sherrard, Miss Dun- ham, Jim Berry, Alex Drysdale, and Paul Gruber. So that she can teach this course dynamically, Miss Dunham reads fifty books a year. HISTORIANS Dr. Clayton Ellsworth, Dr. William I. Hail, and Dr. Aileen Dunham discuss Enqland's chances for victory in the war. Ellsworth is cm authority on American history, Hail on Far Eastern history, and Dunham on European, past and present. This trio teaches sixteen courses. INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS CLUB is for those students interested in current events. Marilyn Iohnston headed the organization. Front row: Campbell, Bowman, Ellis, Hudson, Sallenbach. Second row: Coe, Wylie, Mr. Hail, Iohnston, R. Thomas, Sommerlatte. Third row: Merry, Chalfant. Strong, Mordhorst, Good, Grafton, Peters, Dutton. Back row: Mellert. lohnsten, Duffield, Robins, 1. Donaldson. Carroll, Lamale. History Department Correlates Past and Present A distinctly cosmopolitan quality engulfs the history department, for few students pass through Wooster without some experience among the archives of the ages. By turning back the clock, students relive epoch-making events which pass in quick succession. In the West wing of Kauke, department head, Dr. Hail, has covered all ages of British and Oriental history. Here the Tapping rebellion has been fought, here the 'Treaty of Shimino- seke has been signed. Second Hoor Kauke has seen the unfolding of the renaissance and the reformation. The French revolution has echoed cries of Liberate, Egalite, Fraternitef' from Dr. Dunham's room. Here also, under the pseudonym of World War, the history of the world since 1870 is reviewed. Dr. Ellsworth guides his students through the course of American history from Colum- bus to Roosevelt, socially and politically. His course is a mobile unit rambling all over Kauke and occasionally into the basement of the library.