Daniel Baker College - The Trail Yearbook (Brownwood, TX)

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TUT TRAIL 1916 - 11 v

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THE TRAIL 916 and teased them, thereby making himself an object of fear and wonder among them; on the other hand these same deeds were the cause of many fights with the boys. The teacher was mean to him and he vowed an oath of vengeance which he stored away in his youthful heart for later years. Omitting the dark- est part of his school days we see him going with martial tread into the halls of Daniel Baker, armed with an A. B., to teach Latin and Greek. His time for revenge had come, and verily I say unto you, he took advantage of it. Often he made many poor Freshmen deny that their brains were ever intro- duced to a Latin Grammar,—yea, they often denied that they had a brain— just to please him. Outside of school hours he entertains a certain lady friend upon whom he has been exercising the arts of persuasion for several years. It is feared that he uses a Latin text in his persuasions, hence the lack of visi- ble success. It is likely that this man will never “grow up” for it was only a few days from the present writing that he was seen throwing stones at his mother in the back yard. Every time she looked up he would dodge behind the fence. Horace Bullc was also a product of Arkansas. He manifested his first symptoms of becoming a chemist when he was a mere child by desiring to know what was in castor oil. Also, when he was told that it was gravity that made him fall down, be became very angry and said he didn’t see why gravity didn’t mind his own business. After many long years of toil and tribulation we find Mr. Van a professor in Daniel Baker. He has a veritable Charlie-Chap- lin-like-disposition, in spite of the burden of trying to teach Physiography students how to predict the weather in West Texas and trying to work out the problem of making money out of the Co-op. Mrs. Morris had an ordinary childhood and married when she was very young. After she became an Art teacher she established herself in Daniel Baker. When she lived in the Dormitory she was very popular with the girls. She has been known to help construct great white dummies to take down stairs to scare the matron. She used to enjoy painting and perhaps she does yet. David was a born musician ; his earliest recollection was a piano stool. He has been safely to Europe and is now back in native Texas, where he struggles with a few choice genuises of the rising generation, trying to instill in them his conceptions of music. At any time he can prop himself back and give you anything from Bach on down through the ages to the modern rag- time, with the greatest ease. If he contracts a head-ache or a nervous chill from the exertions of teaching, he repairs to his home, a few miles distant, for a holiday. Between times his attention is divided between the “oldish” young ladies, and keeping up with his dog, Dammit, in which he finds great solace. H. B. Van Valkenburt Mrs. Morris David Wendell Guion