Denison University - Adytum Yearbook (Granville, OH)

Text from Pages 1 - 328 of the 1908 volume:

The Adytum Volume XV. By The Class of Nineteen Nine Denison University To be a man is a bigger thing than to be a scientist. 4 TO HIM WHOSE ENERGIES HAVE BEEN POTENT IN ACHIEVING THE LARGER DEVELOPMENT OF DENISON UNIVERSITY; WHOSE PURPOSEFULNESS AND INTEGRITY OF LIFE HAVE BEEN AT ONCE AN IDEAL AND AN INSPIRATION: TO DR. C. JUDSON HERRICK, NOW PROFESSOR OF NEUROLOGY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO, WE DEDICATE THIS BOOK. 5 And only the Master shall praise us, and only the Master shall blame; And no one shall work for money, and no one shall work for fame; But each for the joy of the working, and each in his separate star. Shall draw the thing as he sees it for the God of Things as They Are. 6 Apologia THE earth has once more swung around its orbit. Another Adytum is here. In some respects this year has been unique in the history of Denison. Every man here, as he contemplates the Denison of Preparatory and Fresh- men years, feels that, somehow, a change has come. He misses the grip of older influences; but he feels the throb of new impulses. If there is less of that surface enthusiasm so peculiar to college life, yet we believe that the deeper currents of loyalty to our institution are strong and steady. If there is less of shouting, there is more of thought. College spirit may express itself in places other than the athletic field. These things will probably be reflected in the Adytum of ' 08. They ought to be. Our aim is to give a faithful presentation of our college life. As the following pages come beneath the scrutiny of student, professor, alumnus, each will be variously impressed. In life, we look at the same thing, and we see different things. For instance, herein the student ' s mirth may be the professor ' s chagrin, and the alumnus ' disgust. Again, different phases of our college life appeal to different minds; so that the best we can hope, is that each will find some little corner of interest in this book. College life is a mosaic for variety. Its presentation, therefore, must be various. From grave to gay, from lively to severe. We would your kind indulgence then bespeak. The pearl that glitters on the golden bracelet is the product of pain; and into the silken fabric is woven a myriad lives. Yet the jewelled bracelet glitters on the lady ' s arm, and her flowing silks shimmer with rainbow colors without any suggestion to her of the agony represented. We would not designate our book a pearl ; nor hyperbolically afKrm that into its texture the lives of this staff are woven. Yet we do remind our readers that it represents additional toil amid the unrelenting strain and stress of college life. As a class, this Adytum is our memorial in Denison University. Next year you find our pictures on the Senior pages; then — separation, and the world. The Class of ' 09 is one which has done things in this college; and among its various members is the strongest of fraternal feeling. When the other visible symbols of our activity have crumbled, may this volume continue to remind each member of his fellow classmates of the long ago; and to recall to strangers that the Class of 1909 was no mean factor in the progressive life of Denison University. THE EDITOR. 7 Emory W. Hunt, D.D. LL. D., a A $ B K, President and Maria Theresa Barney Professor of Intellectual and Moral Pfiilosophy. A. B., University of Roch- ester, 1884; D. D., Denison University, 1900; LL. D., University of Rochester, 1902; Crozer Seminary, 1884-1887; Pastor of Ashland Avenue Baptist Church, Toledo, O., 1887-1900; Pastor Clarendon Street Baptist Church, Boston, 1900-1901; President of Denison University, 1901 . ■f -31 -31 John L. Gilpatrick, A. M., Ph. D., Benjamin Barney Professor of Mathe- matics. A. B. Kalamazoo College, 1867; A. M. Kalamazoo, 1871; Ph. D., Univer- sity of W. Va., 1890; Teacher in Public Schools, 1867-1873; Instructor in Mathe- matics, University of Michigan, 1873-1874; Professor of Mathematics, Denison University, 1874-. -31 -31-31 Richard S. Colwell, D.D. A K E, cE- B Professor of the Greek Language and Literature. A. B., Brown University, 1871; D.D., Brown University, 1891; Newton Theological Seminary, 1872-1875; Royal University, Berlin, 1875-1876; Pastor of Roger Williams Baptist Church, North Providence, R. I., 1876-1877; Professor of Greek Language and Literature, Denison University, 1877-. -31 -3 -3« George F. McKibben, A. M., Ph. D., A Franklin, Professor of Romance Languages. A. B., Denison, 1875; A. M. Denison, 1876; Ph. D., U. of Chicago, 1905; Instructor in Greek and Latin, Denison, 1876-1879; Morgan Park Seminary, 1879-1881; University of Leipzig, 1881-1882; Professor of Modern Languages, Deni- son, 1882-1901; Professor of Romance Languages, Denison, 1901-. .3 -31 -3 ' Charles L. Williams, A. M., Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature. A. B., Princeton, 1878; A. M., Princeton, 1881; Professor of Rhetoric and English, Pennington Seminary, N. J., 1878-1883; Crozer Theological Seminary, 1883-1884; Pastor of the Baptist Church, Upland, Pa., 1884-1893; Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature, Denison University, 1893-. -31 f William H. Johnson, A. M., Calliope, Eliam E. Barney Professor of the Latin Languages and Literature. A. B-, Denison, 1885; A. M., Denison, 1888; Instructor in the Baptist Indian University, Muscogee, I. T., 1885-1886; Instructor in Latin and Greek, Granville Academy, 1886-1893; Graduate Student, Johns- Hopkins University, 1893-1894; Professor of the Latin Language and Literature, Denison, 1894-. H. Rhodes Hundley, Sc. D., K 2, Dean of Doane Academy. A. B., Rich- mond, Va., College, 1888; Sc. D., Bucknell University, 1900; Instructor in Lan- The guages, Johnston Male and Female Institute, 1888-1892; Principal of Batesburg Baptist Academy, 1889-1892; S tudent, Crozer Theological Seminary, 1892-1895; Faculty Instructor in Modern Languages; Peddie Institute, 1895-1900; Vice-Principal, Ped- dle Institute, 1898-1900; D ean of Doan Academy, 1900. -f 4t Clark W. Chamberlin, A. B., r A, Calliope, Henry Chisholm Professor of Physics. A. B., Denison, 1894; Instructor in Western Reserve Academy, 1894- 1897; Graduate Student, University of Chicago, 1897-1899; Fellow, in Physics, Uni- versity of Chicago, 1899-1900; Professor of Physics and Astronomy Colby College, 1900- 1991; Professor of Physics, Denison, 1901-. -j -f f Willis A. Chamberlin, A. M., S X, Franklin, Professor of the German Lan- guage and Literature. A. B. Denison, 1890; A. B., Harvard, 1891; A.M. Denison, 1894; Instructor in Modern Languages, Denison, 1891-1892; Assistant Professor of Modern Languages, Denison, 1892-1901; Student at Berlin, Leipzig and Paris. 1896-1897; Professor of the German Language and Literature, Denison, 1901-. ■H -jl Charles E. Goodell, A. M., A ®, Professor of History and Political Science. A. B., FrankHn College, 1888; A. M. Franklin, 1890; Graduate Student, Franklin, 1888-1889; Instructor in Modern Languages, Franklin, 1889-1890; Graduate Student, Cornell; 1890-1892; Principal of High School, Mankato, Minn., 1892-1894; Professor of History and Pohtical Science, Franklin, 1894-1900; Professor of History, Kansas State Agricultural College, 1900-1903; Professor of History and Political Science, Denison, 1903-. f -f f Frank Carney, A. B., Professor of Geology and Mineralogy. A. B., Cornell, 1895; Principal, Starkey Seminary, 1894-1895; Professor in Kenka College, 1895- 1901; Vice-Principal, Ithaca High School, 1901-1904; Graduate Student, Cornell, 1901- 1904; Professor of Geology and Mineralogy, Denison, 1904-. 4 it BlRNEY E. Trask, C. E., B ® n, Professor of Civil Engineering. B. C. E., University of Minnesota, 1890; C. E. Minnesota, 1894; Engineering Work, Minne- apolis, 1890-1891; Instructor in Mathematics and Civil Engineering, Clinton Liberal Institute, New York, 1891-1893; Graduate Student and Instructor in Drawing, Minnesota, 1893-1894; Instructor in Mathematics and Engineering, Northwestern MiHtary Institute, 1894-1901; Assistant Engineer, C, M. St. P. R. R., 1901- 1903; Professor of Civil Engineering, Denison University, 1903-. 9 Malcolm E. Stickney, A. N., Assistant Professor of Botany. A. B., Bates College, 1898; A. B., Harvard, 1899; A. M., Harvard, 1900; Assistant in Botany, Harvard and Radcliffe, 1900 1903; Instructor in Science, Denison, 1903 1904; Assis- tant Professor of Botany, Denison, 1904-. Fellow in Wisconsin University, 1907- 1908. ■ BuNYAN Spencer, A. M., B. D., Calliope, Associate in Philosophy and In- structor in Greek. A. B., Denison, 1879; A. M., Denison, 1882; B. D., Morgan Park Theological Seminary, 1885; Instructor in Latin and Greek, Granville Acad- emy, 1879-1882; Student, Morgan Park Seminary, 1882-1885; Baptist Pastor, Cali- fornia, 1885-1890; Vice-President and Professor of Greek, California College, 1890- 1894; Pastor of Alexandria, O., Baptist Church, 1894-1902; Associate in Philosophy and Instructor in Greek, Denison, 1902-. 4 H Harriet Maria Barker, A. M., Instructor in History of Art. A. B., Young Ladies ' Institute, 1884; A. M., Shepardson College, 1901; Teacher, Mt. Auburn Institute, 1889 1891; Teacher Shepardson College, 1891-. Dean of Shepardson, 1899-. -jt f Anna Brown Peckham, A. M., Instructor in Mathematics. A. B. Wellesley, 1893; A. M. Denison University, 1901; Teacher Kingston Public Schools, 1893- 1894; Teacher, Rhode Island State College, 1894-1897; Student, University of Chicago, summer of 1896; Student, Leland Stanford University, 1897-1898; Student, Gottingen University, 1898-1899; Instructor, Denison, 1900-. 41 .n .f Fannie Judson Farrar, Head of Piano Department. Pupil of Constantin Stem- berg, Philadelphia; Bertrand Roth, Dresden; J. Emil Ecker, Toledo; Mrs. Mary Gregory Murray, Philadelphia; Mrs. Fannie Church Parsons, Chicago; Student in Vienna in 1894; Denison, 1904-. n f Nellie A. Montgomery, A. B., Instructor in Enghsh Literature and History. A. B., University of Cincinnati, 1901; Instructor, Denison, 1902-. 4 Clara Anne Davies, M. S., Instructor in Science. B. S. Denison, 1903; Instructor, Denison, 1900-. .ji 41 Elizabeth M. Benedict, Organ and Piano. Pupil of Harrison Wild, Chicago, 111., in Piano and Organ; Denison, 1903-. 10 Arthur Marion Brumback, A. M., A. B. Denison University 1892; Princi- pal of Grace Seminary, Centralia, Washington, 1894-1896; Professor of Physics and Chemistry, McMinnville College, Oregon, 1896-1903; President of same 1903-1905; Professor of Chemistry in Denison University 1905-. A. M. University of Cali- ornia, 1903. George Ellett Coghill, Ph. D., A. B. Brown University 1896; M. S. Uni- versity of New Mexico 1899; Ph. D., Brown University 1902; Assistant Professor of Biology, University of New Mexico 1899-1900; Professor of Biology Pacific Uni- versity 1902-1906; Williammette University 1906-1907; Professor of Zoology, Deni- son University, 1907- . Warren Huddleston Roberts, A. B., Denison University 1903; Sup- erintendent of Public Schools, West Carrollton, 1902-1905; Graduate student Uni- versity of Chicago 1905; Instructor in Latin, Denison University 1906-1907; Assist- ant Professor of English, Denison University 1907-. -it William Gear Spencer, A. B., Denison University 1907; Instructor of Latin Granville High School, 1907; Instructor of Latin Doane Academy 1907-. 4 AuGUSTE Odebrecht, A. M., Ph. B. Denison University 1906; A. M., Deni- son University 1907; Instructor in Modern Languages, Denison University 1906-. ■a 4t .n C. D. Coons, Superintendent of Granville Public School; Instructor of Mathe- matics, Doane Academy 1905-1906, Instructor in Physics, Denison University 1906 -. ji W. E. Woodard, a. B., Richmond College 1907; Instructor of Mathe- matics Doane Academy 1907-. 4t E. L. Lauer, a. B., University of Michigan 1906; Instructor in German, University of Michigan 1906-1907; Acting Professor of German, Denison University, 1907-1908. ji Carl Paige Wood, A. M., A. B. Harvard University 1906; A. M. Harvard University 1907; Instructor in ' Theory, Conservatory of Music Denison University 1906-. The Faculty 11 Kate Shepard Hines, H. M., Y. L. I. 1872; Taught in Granville Public ' PJjg Schools 1872-1879; A. M. Shepardson College 1900; Instructor in Pennsylvania Col- lege for Women, 1901-1902; Librarian, Denison University, 1903 . Faculty -Ji n Elizabeth Thompson Wilson, Pupil of Herman Schirner and Harry Brovifn Turpin, Columbus, Ohio, George Magrath, J. S. Bierck, A. Buzzi-Peccia, New York. . -a Howard Waring Marsh, Purdue University, 1907; Assistant in Voice, Deni- son University, 1907-. ■n f ■ Arthur L. Judson, Professor of Violin. Private pupil in violin of Le Roy McMacken, Cincinnati Conservatory, and Max Bendis, New York; Pupil in Theory of Dr. Henry G. Hanchett, New York; Professor of Violin, Denison 1900, Dean of Conservatory 1906; On leave of absence 1907-1908. -ji -f Dorthy Kibler, Teacher of Piano. Graduate of National Conservator of Music under Rafael Joseffy and Max Vogrich; Teacher of Piano, Denison 1906-. f f Reginald L. Hidden, Instructor of Violin. Student in Leipzig Conservatory under Sitl and Berker; Royal High School of Music Berlin under Holir; Private pupil of Sencik in Prague; Instructor of Violin, Denison 1807-. s ■ Frances E. Jones, A. B., Physical Culture, Oberlin 1906; Instructor in Phys- ical Culture, Shepardson 1907-. s ■ Fannie F. Adams, B. L., Instructor in Algebra, Denison 1902; Teaching in Miami Commercial College; Assistant Librarian in Public Library, Dayton, Ohio; Instructor in Algebra 1907. ■f - Jacob W. Rohrer, D. D. S., Director of Athletics. Graduate of Ohio Dental College of University of Cincinnati; Practicing Dentist in Dayton, Ohio; Coach of Steele High School, Dayton, Ohio; Director of Athletics, Denison 1907-. 12 . ■ AlJli SN.:rn. It is vyith sincere regret that we omit a portrait of Prof. Roberts, but it is absolutely impossible to reduce his head to a size which would permit us to place it on this page. Were it not for the fact that his feet might be mistaken for VanAllen ' s, one would have substituted them for his countenance. 13 IT is a fact the world in general knows that the raison d ' ctre of Denison Profs is twofold: to be smeared, and to get their names in The Adytum. Inasmuch as they always spurn our assistance in the accomplishment of the former of the altruistic designs for which they have been created, we take special pleasure in effectuating the latter. Hence this treatise. If our blithsome and sprightly Prof Kibby were to have his hair trimmed at the tonsorial parlors, the artist would probably begin at the bottom and work up. How the analogy between Dr. AIcKibben ' s back hair and any treatise explain- ing a picture of the Denison Faculty is so marked that we shall in the present case begin at the bottom and work up. The pose which Prof Kibby has taken in the accompanying cut is very characteristic of him. It is generally believed that he assumes it not only to kill serpents but also to scare away sober and serious thoughts and that this accounts for his accustomed levity and glee. An eminent critic has remarked that the accompanying portrait of Pro- fessor Williams resembles a cross between Don Quixote and the Connecticut Yankee at King Arthur ' s Court. It is easily understood why he is charging with a pen if we consider that he believes the pen is mightier than the sword. Otherwise he would have armed himself with a sword when he was locked down cellar. But he knew a sword would be powerless to release him from such a uxorial prison. Gill and Dick are here shown at their best. In Dr. Colwell ' s case, how- ever, there must be some mistake, for Uncle Dick is surely always at his best and he spends too much time exercising both his merry sides and his healthy vocal cords to be able to buffet the buoyant globule all the time. But that Professor Gilpatrick is at his best when playing ball is a foregone conclusion. Trulv, we are sore afraid lest in the dim and distant future instead of seeing the name Gilpatrick engraved among the heavenly constellations, we shall find it rather heading a list of baseball stars on the sporting page of the Chicago American. Now we humbly suggest that, in view of his superiority at the bat, he substitute baseball for archery in making out his grades, and knock up flies at his target. We believe it would be an improvement over the old systern. As a polo-player Prof. Johnny is unexcelled. (This follows because he is unexcelled at everything else he undertakes.) And he is not without illustrious precedent in riding a pony, for such great men as Theo. Roosevelt and Warren Roberts have ridden ponies in their day. Coons, the Treasurer of the Triumvirate of Topspinners, is commonly sus- pected of being in love. This is sufficient to warrant us in passing him by. What a noble character is hidden behind the classic countenance of Herr Spiegelberger ! Did ever a more inspiring specimen of manhood (except Pinkey Marsh ) set foot on our sacred campus? Of what a different stripe is Wood- ward ! For actually, just before entering Denison, at the enlightened age of nine, our handsome young hopeful descended so far towards the depths of degradation as to smoke one whole corn-silk cigarette! But he may improve with age. , Those odd-looking Belgian Hares are perfectly docile and will not bite. This is because they have been fed so many jokes about rabbits that they have indigestion. Prexy comes last but far from least. His dressm.aker positively refuses to publish his linear dimensions. But since he is valued at $8.75 and the market price per lb. is zV c, he must weigh about 250 lbs. Amen. 14 Ololbg? JftiBtttuttonH 15 16 The Finished Product UNBLUSHINGLY we present them: Denison ' s contribution to the world ' s progress. Some, you will find, have borrowed a little from both ends of the night, and thus come out with a year to their credit; others entering amid the war-whoops of the Freshman year, have remained with the ranks through- out; still others have plodded laboriously from the lowest seats in the realms of prepdom upward to the lofty sphere of tasseled cap and gown. And here they are. That tender associations have been formed each will admit. The old books with their thumb-worn pages, the table with its promiscuous litter of scribbled tablet paper, the desperate pictures, and all the humdrum of dormitory life, wear now the charm of poetry. Yes, there is poetry everywhere — in the classrooms with their whittled chairs, and creons compact with inert possibilities of revelation; poetry in the Seminary, poetry in the woods and winding walks — poetry everywhere. But college days are over. The more earnest curriculum of life commences. Hence- forth contribution of the human best to the Human Whole — Service. The old ideas of life are changing. The days when pampered princes and drunken lords were taken as ideals have passed. The day when greatness or status will be measured by such appendages as wealth is passing — indeed to the highest type of college man it has already passed. Greatness is inherent. Wealth, riches are to him not material dross but the treasures of the mind. He bows to no Baal. He goes forth to the sordid world not to join the hoards. He lives out his life on a higher plane. His horizon is cosmic in its circumference. Yet is this all? No; such were polished selfishness. We venture to honor our brethren, the Seniors, by designating them as Servants. Today they are with us; tomorrow they are severally swallowed up in the whirl of humanity. But hence- forth each becomes a factor in achieving the ideal human life. We present them — Denison ' s contribution to the world ' s progress. 17 Dorothy Helen Budde, A. B., Philomathean, Vice-President of Philo- athean Literary Society 1907-1908, Class Poet 1906, Denisonian Staff 1907-1908. Nay her Foot(e) speaks. Gertrude Louise Phillips, A. B., Philomathean, 2, Vice-President of Class 1904-1905, Denisonian Staff 1905-1906, Secretary of Philomathean 1906. With eyes that looked into the very soul. Amorice Montgomery Wilson, A. B., BAA, Calliope, Varsity Foot-ball 1905, 1906, 1907, Member Board of Control 1907, Member Talbot Debating Team 1908. Of all the garden flowers The fairest i« the rose. 18 The Seniors Chin Yin Liu, B S., Graduate of Liang Hu College, Hupeh, China, 1902, Prepared for Denison at Ithaca (N. Y.) High School and Elmira (N. Y.) Free Academy, Member of Franklin Literary Society. To take up Mining Engineering as a profession. Most of the eminent men in history have been diminutive in stature. Ruth Spiger, B. Ph., Euterpean Literary Society. Critic of Euterpe 1907, Senior Girls ' Play 1908. By a tranquil mind I mean nothing else than a mind well ordered. Olive Marie Rusler, B. S., Granville High School, Euterpean Literary Society, Finance Committee of Y. W. C. A., Vice-President of the C. L. Herrick Geological Society of Denison University, Senior Girls ' Play. The smith a mighty man is he With large and sinewy hands. 19 The Seniors John Criswell Swart ., A. B., J r A, Class Foot Ball Team; Class Base Ball Team; Varsity Foot Ball, ' 06- ' 07; Vigilance Committee, ' 07- ' 08. It would talk; Lord how it talked. Addie May Slack, B. Ph., Philomathean, Graduate Granville High School 1904, Recording Secretary Philo, Art Committee of 1907 Adytum, Senior Girls Play. Could I love less I would be happier. Frank AsHMORE, B. S., Swatow, China, Morgan Park Academy ' 04, Franklin. Tennis Championship ' 07, Class Basket Ball Team; Track Team ' 05- ' 06. Presi- dent Denison Camera Club ' 07- ' 08. Care will kill a cat. 20 t ' v ' l If- The Seniors Mary Edna McNeil, B. Ph., Philomathean. Kind hearts are more than coronets. ' Clearbon Clyde Holloway, B. S., Calliope, Class Treasurer Sophomore year, Y. M. C. A. Cabinet Junior and Senior years, Business Committee 1907 Adytum, Manager Tennis Association, Manager Book Exchange Junior and Senior years, Vice-President of Calliope. But by the Lord, lads, I ' m glad you have the money. Ula Mae Johnson, B. Ph., Euterpe, Y. W. C. A. cabinet. Senior Girl ' s Play. Speak gently! ' tis but a little thing Dropped in the heart ' s deep well. 21 Eleanor H. Chaffee, B. Ph., Philomathean, K Secretary to Dean 1906- 1908, College Chaperon, Adytum Board 1907, Vice-President Philo 1903-1904, President of Student Government 1903-1904, Senior Girls ' Play. Self reverence, self knowledge, self control — These three alone lead life to soverign power. Robert Foss Hamilton, B. S., $ r A, Prepared at Dresden High School, Will take up rail road work. Too low they build who build beneath the stars. Marguerite Mary Jones, B. Ph., Euterpean Literary Society, X A, Vice- President of Senior Academy class 1904, Secretary of Euterpe 1904, Critic of Euterpe 1907, Stunt Committee of class 1906, Adytum Board 1907, President of Euterpe 1908. Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety. 22 Bertha Anna Fetzer, B. Ph., Philomathean, Vice President of 1909 class in 1905, Chaplain and Treasurer of Philo, Y. W. C. A. Cabinet 1906-1908, Vice-Presi- dent of Student Volunteer Band 1907-1908, Senior Girls ' Play. Life is not so short but that there is always time enough for courtesy. Earl Rankin Bull, A. B., Member of Franklin, Graduate of Doane Academy, Sherwin Prize 1905, Freshman President of the class of 1909, Lewis Prize debator 1906, Debating Team 1907, Captain of Debating Team 1908, President of Vol- unteer BandPresident of Franklin 1908, Member Adytum Board 1909, Student for the Ministry. I have found you an argument I ' m not obliged to find you an understanding. Ruth Pickering, B. S., Euterpe, Vice-President class of 1909 in 1906, Vice- President Student Government 1907, Vice-President Y. W. C. A. Thy modesty is a candle to thy merit. 23 Raymond Spencer Carmen, B. S.; Calliope; Manager Conservatory Music Store 1905-1907; Chairman Calendar Committee 1907 Adytum; Member Senior Memorial Committee; Business Manager Denisonian 1907-1908; Captain Marsh Intercollegiate Debating Team; Chairman Denison Interscholastic Debating Com- mittee. If I chance to talk a little while forgive me; I had it from my father. Ada May Dinkleman, B. Ph., University of Cincinnati 1906-1907, Member of the Blue Hydra, Philo. Give me a look, give me a face, That makes simplicity a grace. Marion Lamb, B. Ph., Secretary and Vice-President of Class, Social and Devo- tional Committee of Y. W. C. A., Secretary of Student Government and member of Board of Control, President of Euterpe, Senior Play. Those only are happy who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness. 24 Charles Holland Kesler, B. S., l r a, prepared at Urbana High school. Above the vulgar flight of common souls Ivy Ordilla McNeil, B. Ph., Philomathean, Treasurer of Philo 1906-1907. Her looks do argue her replete with modesty. Milliard F. Meadors, A. B., Calliope. At Williamsburg Institute Williamsburg Kentucky until Junior year; Instructor in Mathematics in Doane Academy during Junior year; out of college second semester of Senior year teaching at Williamsburg Institute. Manners make the man. ' 25 Clyde Wareham Irwin, B. S., Graduate Newark High School; President of Engineering Society Senior Year; majority of work done in Engineering department; expects to attend some technical school after graduation. I had rather excel others in knowledge than power. Bertha Heacock, A. B., Philomathean, Corresponding Secretary of Philo, Vice-President Philo 1907, Senior Girls ' Play. An essential of the true woman is common sense. William B. Storm, B. Ph., Graduate from the Joliet Township High School 1903, President of the Class of 1909 during Sophomore y ear, Vice-President of Ora- torical Association 1906-1907, Vice-President Athletic Association 1906-1907, Chair- man Handbook Committee 1907, Chairman Fall Campaign Committe 1907, Member of Calliope, Member of Debating Team 1908, Member Adytum Board 1908, Pres- ident Calliope 1908, Will do Educational Work. His mind, his kingdom, and his will his law. 26 Elsor Heater, B. Ph. BAA. Graduate of St. Paris H. S. 1903. Entered Denison as a member of the Senior Preparatory Class. Prominent in Academy literary work; member of Cicero. Captain of the Inter-collegiate Debating Team, 1907-1908; successful in two debates. President of Franklin Literary Society, first semster, 1907. President of the class of ' 08 in its Senior year. Will enter the pro- fession of law. What every skeptic could enquire for; For every why he had a wherefore. Fred. R. McArthur, A. B., Classical graduate of the State Normal and Training School, Oneota, N. Y., Assistant in Geology, Member of CaUiope, Vice- President of Y. M. C. A. 1907-1908, Second honors, State Oratorical Contest 1907, First prize oration Lewis Prize Contest 1907, First prize Mahony Contest 1907, Second prize Adytum poem 1907, Studying for the Ministry. Keep cool and you command everybody Anne Sorensen, A. B., Philomathean, Chairman Philo Extra Committee 1906, Y. W. C. A. Cabinet 1906-1907, Denisonian Staff 1906-1908, Adytum Board 1906, President Student Government 1908, Association 1907, Manager Senior Girls ' Play 1907, Chairman Philo Extra Committee 1908, President and Critic of Philo 1908. Ambition has no rest. 27 Blanche Audrey Black, B. Ph., Philomathean Literary Society, Y. W. C. A. Finance and Devotional Committees, Corresponding Secretary of Philo 1906, First Prize History Thesis 1907. Senior Girls ' Play. Have I caught my heavenly jewels? Raymond Clyde Ditto, B. S., Calliope Trustee; Recording and Correspond- ing Secretary Calliope; Class foot-Ball, Base-Ball and Basket-Ball teams; Captain class Basket-Ball teams Junior and Senior years. I to myself am dearer than a friend. James Harold Thomas, B. Ph., Prepared at Steel High School, Dayton; Member Mandolin Club, Class Treasurer 1906-1907, Recording Secretary Y. M. C. A. 1907T908, Member Washington Banquet Committee, Leader Granville Methodist Choir 1906-1908. The man that hath no music in himself, And is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treason, strategems, and spoils. 28 Lottie Claribel Grandstaff, B. S., Granville High School, Philomathean Literary Society, Chairman Y. W. C. A. Hand-book Committee 1905, Adytum Board 1907, President of Philo Senior Year, Senior Girls ' Play. Represented Philo in Debate 1907-1908. Nothinggreat was ever achieved without enthusiasm. ' ' John Howard Maloney, B. Ph.; Calliope; Graduate of Township High School, Savanna 111.; Treasurer, Vice-President, and President of Calliope; Member 1907 Adytum board; Treasurer Herricic Geological Society; Class Treasurer during Senior year; Treasurer of Y. M. C. A. 1907-1908. A merry heart goes all the day, Your sad tires in a mile-a. Lottie S. Graham, Class Historian 1907, Member Y. W. C. A. Cabinet, 1906, Member Board of Control 1907, President Philomathean, President Y. W. C. A. 1908, Senior Girls ' Play; Philomathean. ' ' As frank as rain On cherry blossoms. 29 The Seniors Joseph Howell Lloyd, A. B. B A A. Graduate of Doane Academy. Prom- inent in all the literary contests of the Academy Societies. In 1903, represented Denison in the State Oratorical Association; Also, Denison ' s orator at the State Oratorical Contest in 1906; Won the following prizes: 1906 and 1907, the Decla- mation in the Lewis Prize Contest; 1907, Samson Talbot Bible Reading Contest; 1907, Moss Prize for Ministerial Students; Member of Glee Club; President of Baptist Young Peoples ' Union, 1907-1908. Love understands love; it needs no talk. Millard L. Lowery, A. B., Calliope; Recording Secretary and President of Calliope; Y. M. C. A. Cabinet Sophomore and Junior years; President of Oratorical Association 1906-1907; President Athletic Association 1906-1607; Editor 1907 Ady- tum; Editor of Denisonian 1907-1908. It is not wealth or birth or state; It ' s ' git up and git ' that makes men great. Lela Burnelle Montgomery, B. Ph., Euterpe, 2, Vice-President of Euterpe 1907, Vice-President of class 1906, Board of Control 1907, Y. W. C. A. Cabinet 1907, President of Euterpe 1907. Anything but history for history must be false. 30 Arthur B. Chaffee, Jr., B. S., B® n, Vigilance Committee, Member Glee Club 1904-1906, Manager Glee Club 1907-1908, Denisonian Staff 1906, Manager Denisonian 1907, President Class 1907, Adytum Board 1907, Secretary Oratorical Association 1907, Manager Basket Ball Team 1908, Franklin. When I am dead let fire destroy the world; It matters not to ine for I am safe. Beulah Rector, A. B., Euterpe, X A, Class historian 1905, Adytum Board 1907, Secretary class 1906, Vice-President of Euterpe 1907. Adytum prize story 1905-1906-1908. Second prize story 1907. Winner of story Philo-Euterpe Contest 1907-1908. Thoughtless of beauty, she was beauty ' s self. Theophilus Rees Williams, B. S., B © n, Vigilance Committee, Member Glee Club 1904-1906, Manager Glee Club 1907-1908, Denisonian Staff 1906, Manager Denisonian 1907, President Class 1907, Adytum Board 1907, Secretary Oratorical Association 1907, Manager Basket Ball Team 1908, Franklin. It is soon that I am done for, I wonder what I was begun for. 31 The Seniors Theodore Sedgwick Johnson, B. S., Calliopean Literary Society, I r A, Junior Banquet Committee, Chairman of Washington Banquet Committee, Chair- man Fall Campaign Committee Y. M. C. A. 1905, Double Champion in Tennis 1907, Assistant in Physics Department 1907-1908. Let me have audience for a word or two. Irene Conley. B. Ph., Euterpe, X vl ' A, Vice-President Euterpe 1906, Den- isonian Staff 1907 and 1908, Adytum Board 1907, President of Senior Girls 1907- 1908 Senior Play, Chairman of Euterpe Extra Committee 1908. See where she comes, Appareled like the spring. Alexander Hegler Ballard, B. S., r a, Manager ' 07 Adytum, Manager Varsity Foot Ball Team 1907, Field Day Committee 1906 and 1907, Toaster, Junior Banquet. Still to be neat, still to be drest. As you were going to a feast, Still to be powder ' d, still perfum ' d. 32 Fred. G. McCollum, B. S., 2 X, Franklin, Class Base-Ball Team; Class Basket-Ball Team; Captain Class Foot-Ball Team; Varsity Foot-Ball Team, ' 07; Vigilance Committee, ' 07- ' 08. And in short measures life may perfect be. Horace M. Huffman, B. S. 2 X, Member of Second Foot-ball Team, ' 04; member of Varsity Track Team, 1905-1906; Manager of Track Team, 1906-1907, 1907-1908; Manager of the Inter-Scholastic Association, 1906-1907, 1907-1908. Vice-President of Franklin Literary Society, 1907. Graduate of Steel High School, 1905. The soul of this man is his clothes. 33 Officers of the Junior Class W. Robert Taylor President, W. Robert Taylor Treasurer, Charles A. Carman J ice President, IrEne Chambers Historian. Linn W. HaTTERSLEy Secretary, Alva R. Edwards Colors: Gold and Dark Blue. Flower: Blue Violet. Tells: Rickety Rack! Rack! Clickety Clack! Clack! Gold and Blue! Blue and Gold! Wet or Dry! Hot or Cold! Hurrah! Hurrahl Sis Rah Boom! Naughty Niners! Give Us Room! Kero! Kero! Kero Kine! Denison! Denison! Nineteen Nine! 35 I HAD just finished preparing my last lesson. Tired, I leaned back in my easy chair and soon sank into a deep sleep. Presently I heard my name called. With a shudder I turned and saw a ghost. As no harm seemed to be intended I asked falteringly who he might be, and what he might want. The rattling and creaking of his jaws, as he answered, chilled me, but in spite of my trembling I managed to comprehend that I was receiving a visit from the shade of Solomon, and that he wanted me to follow him. As we took up our journey together Solo- mon confidentially whispered to me, Note carefully all you see, for I shall entrust to vou truths which the world must kpow or forever rest in the shadesof ignorance. At length we came to our destination and I saw a noble sight. A powerful Eagle stood before me on a nest. One of its wings was blue and the other gold, and on its breast glowed the numerals ' 09 in lines of fire. In the nest were three eggs. Standing about the nest I beheld three creatures which repeatedly prostrated themselves before the Eagle, and which, from their actions, I took to be the Eagle ' s thralls. Their names, Solomon told me, were, in order of importance, Green- :- White, Red- -Grey and Black White. While I was looking toward the nest a marvelous thing happened! A lamb was hatched out of one of the eggs! It looked into my face and bleated three times; and then, seeing that I could not understand the thoughts it wished to con- vey, it turned and looked entreatingly at Solomon. Solomon caught the suggestion and interpreted the message for me. The lamb had said, The class of ' 09 is mighty in the spiritual realm. Her religious influence permeates the institution of which she is a member, and from her ranks shall go out spiritual forces, not only to all sections of the ' Land of Liberty, ' but also ' unto the uttermost parts of the earth. ' When Solomon had finished his interpretation my wonder was increased by the new scene that greeted my eyes. A second egg had hatched, and out of ic had come an immense owl! It held in one of its talons a lighted lamp, and it rolled its eyes in its wise old way. Presently the owl hooted and in answer to the summons a dignified gentleman of middle age, whose shoulders and brow are broad and whose power lies in repose, took form before me. Resting his arm lightly on a stump he nodded his head gently and looked me squarely in the eye. I felt that something worth hearing was about to be spoken and I was not disappointed. He said, The Keros are a mighty class in the intellectual realm. For originality in doing stunts I have never seen their equal. Whenever we want a man to represent our college in debate or in oratory we draw from their ranks. When we need men of business discretion as managers of our teams, and men of fairness and honesty for our Athletic Board we call upon the Blue- -Gold for help. Then taking the lamp from the owl ' s talon, he continued, I predict for this class a brilliant future in the intellectual world. The dark and unexplored corners of science, politics, business and religion shall be illumined by members of this class. My mind had no time for questioning for immediately the third egg hatched with a pop and out rushed a powerful lion which Solomon said represented the strength of the Blue- - Gold. At the sight of the lion one of the thralls, Black- - White, fell in a dead 36 swoon without making the sh ' ghtest effort to defend itself. Then ensued a struggle between the lion and the Red- -Grey. The poor thrall struggled courageously, but what could it do but flee before the lion which had been hatched out by the marvelous Eagle? The lion seemed to recognize in Green- -White a faithful and valiant friend and so offered it no violence. I was puzzled by this third apparition, and was trying to think what it could mean when my surroundings seemed to change very rapidly three times. I was on Beaver Field. Our college football team was rushing the opposing team off the field, and I noticed that nearly all of the men representing Denison were Keros. My questions died on my lips, for now I seemed in a trice to be in the gym. watching a game of basketball. I said to myself, This must be a class game; but soon I noticed that one of the players was not a Kero and then 1 realized that a varsity game was in progress. A third time the scene changed and I was on Beaver field again. A baseball game was being played, and again 1 thought a class game was in progress until I noticed that two of the least important positions on the field were occupied by men who were not Keros, and then 1 realized that Denison University was playing another college. I asked Solo- mon what all this could mean, and he said, The class of ' 09 has furnished more athletes for Denison ' s teams than all the other classes together. During all the time that these scenes had been shifting, Black- -White had lain prostrate from the terrible shock it had received at the first sight of the lion. Now the Eagle, in pity, bends over the prostrate form and opens one of its own veins and injects into the cold body of Black- -White some of its own life-blood. Solomon saw my perplexity over the significance of this act and he volunteered, ' The class of ' 09 has yielded both of the presidents and vice-presidents who pre- sided over the first two years of her life, and others of her most powerful members, to the class of ' 08. But even this self-sacrificing act of the Eagle did not seem to revive the corpse — for that, alas, it had now become. And then I seemed to see the body placed in a casket and carried off to its final resting place, and to hear the strains dying away in the distance: Naughty-eight ' s body lies smouldering in the grave. While the Blue Gold goes on. L. W. H. ' 09 37 Juniors Group I vv. a. ashbrook Ada Alexander Ada Chrysler Grace Duboc A. C. EarlEy R. C. Jacobs J. L. Jones W. S. Willis L. E. Moore Leontine Owex G. W. Phillips Susie Quick Carl Rock wood Minnie Shaffer H. J. Walker 38 39 Juniors Group II P. W. Al EXANDER Ruth Carlin E. H. Chittenden T. G. Erlek Paul Fox H. H. Gibson L. W. Hatterseey Beonda Watt G. L. Hershberger MitDRED Hunt P. R. Jones K. F. Mather Shirley Slack h. d. svvygert Addie Tudor 40 41 Juniors HiLDRED Blake; W. C. BOLIN E. O. Bradshaw Irene Chambers Alva R. Edwards Celia Edwards j. h. forsythe Group III K. L. Jewett C. VV. Kemper Clarence Keyser J. D. McLaughlin C. W. Thomas Katherine Trimmer R. O. Zimmerman 42 43 Juniors J. D. Adair T. D. Allen S. G. Bridges C. A. Carman LB. Crandall G. H. Growl E. H. FooTE Group IV Bertha Fulton W. J. Livingstone H. L. Pine H. E. Rodger s Ella Roberts L. D. Sargent Elsie Studor Gertrude Wright 44 45 Helen Snow live in hearts we leave behind is not to die. — Campbell. 46 In Memoriam On August twelfth, nineteen hundred and six, from her home in Erie, Pennsylvania, the gentle spirit of Helen Snow went to its eternal rest. Helen was a member of the Class of Nineteen Hundred and Nine for one year, and during that ti me won the confidence and af¥ection of all who knew her. Her gentle and unassuming disposition was an inspiration to manv. The influence of her Christian character still lives among us. Thy form now nestles neath our common sod, Thy memory lives with us, thy soul with God. 47 48 Officers of the Sophomores Carl Duerr President, Carl DuUrr T rcasurcr, Victor H. HoppE Vice President, Elva Brakeman Assistant Treasurer, EuzabETh Ford • Secretary, Anna Rockwood Historian, Mary Dickerson Colors: Red and Grey. Flower: Red Carnation. Yell: Chic-a-poo! Wal-o-poo! Chica-la-ca-len! Denison! Denison! 1910! 49 L of the Sophi Class ET us first look 1)ack over those yi(kll} k ' reshman (la_ s and see what History I 1910 did to gain a reputation. The result of the eane rush, of the girls basket ball game, of the first party has already been recorded. Nothing, however, has ever bfen said concerning the last event of the Freshman Sophomore year — the class picnic. The date finall - set for this was May 9th, and the social committee quaked and trembled for fear the rain would pour down in torrents. Strange as it may seem it turned out to be a beautiful da_ -. Prof. Willie, out of the goodness of his heart, let out the English classes for the afternon, and promptly at three-thirty, three hay wagons drew up in front of King Hall — girls, bovs and picnic baskets were piled on, and off we started. It was first intended that the destination should be Cat Run, but there was time to go no further than P.unkers Woods. Here, after the supper was enjoved to the full extent, many harmless sports were indulged in, the ' ' irginia Reel without gloves ' being voted quite a success. This was the last class stunt of the season, but a word should be said con- cerning the school w ' ork. The Professors of various departments have found this class to contain some especially brilliant minds and fertile brains. With such a basis to start upon the success of the next year was ensured. The class of 1910 returning to Denison after the summer vacation, — spent by some in peddling books, selling soap dishes ; by others in taking a few lessons in domestic science, etc., — elected officers for the ensuing year and pro- ceeded to business. Their first thought was to barricade themselves from the furious onslaught of the bloody-minded Freshies. All was in vain, however, for one dark night the honored president was captured and forced to spend a few quiet moments in the lonely hours viewing the casement windows of Stone Hall. We often wonder whether his reflections at that time, if not revengeful, weren ' t at least improving to his vocabulary. Instead of the usual cane rush, a remnant of barbarism, this illustrious class decided to erect a flag-emblem of liberty for protection against the savages who had just entered College. Accordingly one fall evening at the stroke of twelve, six of the mightiest crept cautiously down to Beaver Field and hoisted the flag on the well greased pole. All night they guarded, the numbers increasing toward daybreak. But, alas, when the Freshmen got on to it! For leading their ranks were a few hayseeds whose only knowledge of the world was gained at country fairs, in obscure villages, where they had already become experts in climbing greased poles and chasing greased pigs. AAdiat wonder is there that the Sophomore flag came down? The first class party of the year was given by the girls and was the event of the season. The elegant costumes rivaled and surpassed the splendors of the recent Vanderbilt wedding or any other society function of the royalty. The spirits of all assembled ran high, and after the elaborate menu of pumpkin 50 pie, etc., the jollification ended. In every way it was a complete success, for the attempts of the mischievous Freshmen to render the festal hall a gloomy abode were forestalled. The class basket ball games have begun, but it is not known yet what the final record of the Sophomores will be. Two members of the class, Flack and Little, were on the Varsity team this year, while Bellevue Brown and Green were subs. On the football team we were represented by Stilwell, Hill, Hart, Pos- ' sons and Walker. The Sophomore women on Washington ' s Birthday were entertained at an informal tea given by the Sophomore women of Burton Hall. All brought their workbags and thimbles, altho neither were used, so strenuously or con- stantly as the tongues and vocal chords of the guests. It was c uite apparent, too, that not one giggling appartus was out of order, and the little grey and red hatchets given as souvenirs will always be the symbols of one jolly good time. Admirable as has been the record of the Sophomores up to tflie present time, there still lingers in the hearts of the loyal, the hope of a more brilliant future. All the readers of this are asked to stop ! look ! ! and isten ! ! ! for the time when we shall distinguish ourselves and Denison University by some act of strength, valor or wit. Then in the meanwhile as we are waiting for that time to come, let each give a few rousing cheers for the class of iQio. M. D. ' lo. History of the Sophomore Class 51 Sophomore Class Walter Welsh Frazier Robert Cline Gill William Oliver Greene Rosco Dean Hart Pearly Henley Charles Edgar Hill Victor Hugo Hoppe Florence Pearl Horner Laura Elizabeth Hosick Wilbur Alden Hunt Helen Kendrick Hunt Claude Jacquart Betty Albertina Jones Clarence Richard Jones Harold Augustus Keslek Edwin Robert Little Emily Frances Maloney Asher King Mather Pearl Bicker Mercer Lloyd Vesper Minear John Mitchell Warren Leland Morris Julia Irene McClure Clarence Junios McGee Ray Cleveland McMillan Roy Neee Judith Gieford Nichols Ester Christine Nixon Grace Elizabeth North Thomas Marston Norton 52 Sophomore Class Ruth Akers Bessie. Marie Billman Charees Bagnael Bebb XiNA BiNGNER Eeva Brakeman Harriet Neweee Briman Clarence Edward Brown (B.) Clarence Edward Brown (R.) HuGLi Samuel Campbell Floyd D. Carlock Harry Enzor Chilcote H. P. ConnablE F. R. Cleveland Bertha Crilly Ester Josephine Crooks Walter Emery Davies Evangeline Davies Albert Watson Davison Albert Milton Dixon Mary EllEn Dickinson Carl Frederick Duerr Robert Con ant Dunn Eleanor M. Dye Frances Reeve Edmonson Ida Louise Ferguson Robert William Flack Elizabeth Ford 54 Sophomore Class Harry Eldon Orr Robert Dwight Owen E. Pattengiee Alma Burnett Polk Marie Porter Milton Howlet Possons ' Anna Quick Anna Rock wood Austin Parker Read Harry Thurman Reeves Fred Judson Rupe Dee Ferguson Shuman Betty Spencer Fred Guy Smith Cornelia Spencer Hazel Spencer J. Stewart Charles James Stilwell Susie Theobald Dee Thornton BiRNEY Ray Walker A. Walsh Fae Mary Webber Thomas Howard Wick- Enden Chester Caldwell Win- ter 56 I Two hours more of mental pain, Before I dare to sleep; Why should I tax my burdened brain, When horses are so cheap? I ' ll ease this psychologic stress, I ' ll cast myself astride, Eureka! now to sleep and bless Hinds Noble for the ride. 58 Officers of the Freshmen President, Robert B. Whyte Treasurer, Horace H. Hunt J ice President, Marjorie Witter Secretary, Eudora Spencer [7c(? P;t . 7? Grace McClelland Class Poet, Maud M. Miller Historian, R. M. Arnold Colors: Green and White. Flower: Yellow Daffodil. Tell: Rickety, Rackety, Zip, Za, Zee 1911, don ' t you see? We ' re the class without a flaw 1911! Rah! Rah! Rah! 60 So many events have been crowded into the few months ' existence of the Freshmen Class, that it would be impossible to enumerate them all. How- ever, a few of the principal ones should be mentioned. The stoi-y of the first victory over the Sophomores at Beaver Field is too well-known to be more than recounted. It is sufficient to say that they were completely overwhelmed. This victory was only a forerunner of many others ; in the class room, and in the social world, as well as in athletics. The first event in order of time was the stunt held at Doane Gymnasium in the latter part of October. None of those present will ever forget this first social meeting of the Freshman Class. Everyone enjoyed himself thoroughly in playing games and getting acquainted with the rest. It was indeed a fitting opening of the social life of 1911. On the gridiron the Freshmen continued their success. The football team worked faithfully during the entire season, and were able to give the ' Varsity hard practice. In their one game, that with the Preps, they won a compara- tively easy victory. The usual game with the Sophs was not played owing to the inability of the teams to agree upon a date for it. The Freshmen, however, felt very confident as to the outcome. Then came the basket-ball season. In this line 191 1 proved to be just as strong as in others. They commenced with a rush and they ended with a rush. The first game with the Seniors was forfeited owing to the non-appear- ace of their team. The next game was with the Sophomores. This proved an easy victory for the Freshmen. At no time did there seem to be any danger of defeat. The game ended with a score of 40 to 16 in favor of ' 11. Next came the game with the Preps. This was not such an easy one. The first half ended with the Preps way ahead, but the Freshmen started in the second half with their old-time vim and soon passed their opponents, outplaying them at every point. The final score was 17 to 13, in favor of the Freshmen. The last game was not such a successful one from the standpoint of ' 11. Playing against the Juniors, composed of four Varsity players and one Varsity substitute, the Freshmen could hardly expect to win. However, their team showed great form throughout, and succeeded in holding the Juniors down to 28 to 18. The season was a very successful one for ' it and it brought out some good material for the ' Varsity for next year. But it is not only in athletics that the Freshmen have been so successful. In the class-room many have shown marked ability. In Latin and Greek they have won honors. In all departments of the University they have come to the front. Even Freshman A, the Waterloo of most first-year students, has proved no great obstacle to the progress of 191 1. In the literary societies the Fresh- men have taken an active part, displaying their ability in all phases of literary work. In every walk of college life, they have been up and doing all the time. With such a class beginning its career, is there any need for Denison to worry about its future? Ought she fear that her standards will not be upheld? No! She can always look to the class of 191 1 to do its utmost to keep her to the front. O. M. A., ' il. 61 History of the Freshman Class Freshman Class T. R. ALI.BRIGHT A. E. Baldwin R. F. BUNKIELD C. A. Blake B. E. Bruce J. E. Carver Gladys Clay G. Cochran T. COSLEY A. G. Adams H. D. Anderson O. M. Arnold T. J. Baggs R. E. Baugher H. N. Beattie D. N. A. Blacet J. R. Board Z. D. Brown R. D. Bingett N. H. Carman H. W. Chamberlin P. W. Cleveland J. B. Clissold J. Critchfield 62 Freshman Class W. C. CoE A. B. CONLEY R. D. Dean H. H. DiEBEE Sadie Davis A. A. Dick H. M. Dickerson R. J. Eevin W. E. FiNDLAY C. D. FiFlELD p. D. Fleming S. Frazier T. B. FrizellE W. D. Fulton M. A. Gantz M. K. Geach H. Z. Good HART I. Harrison T. A. Hatfield R. M. InglEr O. A. Jenkins A. E. Jones M. M. Jones R. B. Jones 64 Freshman Class C. C. Gibson C. F. Gibson H. C. Gillespie F. B. HOLDEN H. D. Holler R. Pj. Hooi ' EK J. C. HOSKINSUN H. H. Hunt K. Jones C. F. Kemper C. H. King A. Klanfoktii A. M. LAi iB Helen Lam son D. L. LEiniGLE H. McClelland .M. M. Miller F. F. Montgomery L. F. Moore T. E. MacEw an Leila Porter H. L PiGG M. Powell L. R. AViLSON 66 Freshman Class M. H. Rank H. M. Redmond A. M. Richards L. A. RuGG I. M. Sargent L. B. Sefton J. C. MUNN H. A. Nixon N. B. Norpel H. E. Nottingham A. C. Neyman J. W. Parker W. J. Peets E. J. Phillips W. A. Peeifeer W. W. Plummer R. B. Priest C. F. OUEISSER W. E. Rankin H. D. Ross H. D. Scott H. D. SiMKINS F. S. Sperry A. Z. Stoner 68 Freshman Class F. A. Tennant H. E. Thurston G. D. Upson C. B. Vance H. Van AllEn W. E. Walker C. J. Ward A. A. Whitely G. B. Williams M. M. Winterstein R. B. Whyte , A. M. Zell M. C. Settle H. E. Smith B. H. SOMMERS E. Spencer E. G. Stewart Joy Tracy M. E. Witter M. K. McKiBBEN 70 72 73 Roll — Calliopean Literary Society J. D. Adair P. AV. Alexander T. D. Allen 0. M. Arnold S. G. Bridges C. E. Brown (B.) C. E. Brown (R.) H. S. Campbell R. E. Carman 1. B. Crandall A. A. Dick R. C. Ditto R. C. Dlnn A. C. Earlev R. W. Flack E. H. FooTE T. B. Frizelle R. D. Hart L. W. Hatt] ' ,rsi,ey C. C. HoLLOwAv V. H. HoppE K. E. Jewett T. S. Johnson C. W. Kemper C. F. Kemper 74 Roll — Calliopean Literary Society H. A. Kesler C. Kevser J. H. Lloyd M. L. Lo ' ERY I . R. McArthur R. C. McMlLEAN J. H. Maeoney M. P Meadors L. V. ] ' Ieinear H. A. Nixon lAI. NoRPEEL F. F. Patrick G. W. PniEEiPS W. E. Rankin T. D. Rees L. D. Sargent H. D. Scott C. J. Stjewell W. B. Storm J. H. TiioiiAS C. W. Thomas H. J. Walker A. AViLSON L. R. A ' ilson C. C. Winter 76 Franklin Literary Society List of Members, March 20, 1908. A. G. Adams E. O. Bkadshaw C. A. Carman C. F. DUEKK C. C. Gibson J. C. HuSKINSON W. A. Hunt K. F. IMathe;r J. D. McLaughlin C. A. Nevman J. W. Parker H. T. ReE ' ES F. G. Smith L. F. Thomas R. ]!. AViiYTE W. S. Willis F. ASHMORE Z. D. Browne W. E. Da -ies R. Elvin H. H. Gibson H. AL HuEEMAN C. G. Jacouart A. K. Mather 78 FranRlin Literary Society List of Members, March 20, 1908. J. MlTCHEIvL H. E. Orr R. B. Pkiest H. D. Ross A. Z. Stoner H. Thurston T. H. WiCKENDEN R. O. Zimmerman E. R. Bebout E. R. Bull A. M. Davison T. G. Ereer E. Heater H. H. Hunt C. Y. Liu C. J. McGee VV. L. Morris R. D. Owen W. A. Pfeifeer F. J. RuPE W. R. Taylor C. B. Vance T. R. WiEEIAMS 80 Earl R. Bull, Captain. Amorice M. Wilson. George W. Phillips. H. A. Kessler, Alternate. Question : Rcsolrcd, That the government of the United States should aid in the building up of the American merchant marine by granting subsidies to ships sailing under the American flag and engaged in foreign commerce. Debate at Tiffin, O., March 17, 1908. Heidelberg University, affirmative ; Denison University, negative. Negative won. Question : Rcsoli ' cd. That all corporations engaged in interstate commerce should be compelled to take out a Federal charter on such terms as Congress may by law prescribe. Constitutionality conceded. Debate at Granville, O., April 24, 1908. Washington and Jefferson, negative ; Denison University, affirmative. 82 Raymond S. Carman, William B. Storm. Samuel G. Bridges. Captain. Heber H. Gibson, Alternate. Question: Resolved, That the g-overnment of the United States should aid in the huilding- up of the American merchant marine bv granting subsidies to ships sailing under the American flag and engaged in foreign commerce. Debate at Hiram, O. March 6, 1908. Hiram, negative; Denison University, affirmative. Negative won. Debate at Granville, O., March 17, 1908 (same question). Otterbein, negative; Denison Universitv, affirmative. Negative won. Question : Resolved, That all corporations engaged in interstate commerce should be compelled to take out a h Hieral charter on such terms as Congress may by law prescribe. Constitutionality conceded. Debate at Meadville, Pa., April 24, 1908. Allegheny College, affirmative ; Denison University, negative. 83 Philomathean Officers First Semester, 1907-1908. President Lottie Grandstaff Vice President DORTHY BuDDE Recording Secretary Grace North Corresponding Secretary Anna Rockwood Treasurer Bertha Fetzer Critic Anne Sorensen Prosecuting Attorney Leora Norris Second Semester, 1908. President Annf. Sorenson Vice-President Grace North Recording Secretary Elizahkth Ford Corresponding Secretary Betty Jones Treasurer Marie Porter Prosecuting Attorney Emily Maloney Critic Irene Chambers 84  5 Euterpean Literary Society Officers President. Lela Montgomery Vice President, Beulah Rector Recording Secretary, DeE Ti-iornTon Corresponding Secretary, BESS Bileman Treasnrer, Eleanor Dye Critic, Ruth Spiger Chaplain, Ri ' TH PickivRING Prosccntiiig Attorney, Frances Edmonson. 86 87 88 89 A sense of delicacy can be possessed by tbe strong- as well as tbe weak. Let us have our wits about us when they are needed. We should teach others to lie controlled by the donnnion of love. I ' ll advise you all to £ o and conduct yourselves so you can go again. Let each fellow stand up where he sits. ■ With Our Prexie ' in Chapel We ought to get into the main currents of life. Love for the truth is a characteristic of the best character. If the conditions are faultv we must not be surprised that the experiment does not work out. To be clever and educated without being true makes us a dangerous element in society. The normal thing is for us to grow truer and more reverent as we go. Our fundamental heresy is over-confidence in sheer ability — genius. Genius is the capacity for concentrated labor. Too often we let our minds go wool gathering. The college is to help us get possession of ourselves. What a fool a fellow is who fools himself ! College ' Oung■ men are apt to be below par when there is a body of them together. I believe in college voung men for they are of higher standard and purpose than ordinary fellows. Mistakes come from going too far in one direction. Don ' t be pompous be- cause vou have been awav from home. Don ' t give the home folk an extreme illustration of college slang. Your people will be wondering what has happened to you. Higher education is on trial every time a student goes home and your actions will help them make the decision. JNIake the people at home happy. We can ' t mix our principles. Part of the time we are following the star, and part of the time we are following our own low-er, selfish principles. Hence our difficulties. A Prayer. God, make us larger than our work! 90 O, Master, I have labored all the night, And, as the watches dragged their lonely flight, Wearied with toil, I plied the watery main, I labored, failed, and failing toiled again. And now, behold for all the labor fraught, An empty boat: lo, I have toiled for naught ! And dost Thou bid me launch upon the deep? — Me on whose feverish eye the touch of sleep Now gently presses? — Me whose calloused hands Appeal a respite brief from toil ' s demands? — Me on whose soul is fixed the cruel curse Of disappointment? Must I now rehearse The fruitless toils of midnight? Such as me Bid ' st Thou, again launch out upon the sea? The Toiler and The Christ By G. W. P. Thou sayest. Enough. These lips shall wake no more Discordant murmers on the peaceful shore. Thy will unerring all I ask to know; Back to the task abandoned. Lord, I go. Let failure freeze my heart; let toil benumb These lagging members; let the blood-drops come Slow oozing from these blistered palms, I brave Them all. Again my craft shall seek the wave. The oars, the nets, the toil, the pain are mine. The pity, comfort, strength, O Christ, be Thine. 91 The Y. M. C. A. Cabinet President, Clakj ' .ncK W. Kemi ' Kk J icc President. Fki ' .d R. McAkthur Correspdiidiir Seeretary, W. I:!. S ' rt)KM Reeordiii i;; Seeretary, J. H. Thomas Treasurer, ]. II. JMalunKv Chairmen of Committees Bible Study. FrEu I . MCx- rthuu Mission Study. E. O. Bradshaw Relii:;ious Meeting, A. C. EarlUy Meniberstup. W. R. Taylor Pali Campaign. AV. B. Storm Pinanee, J. H. MalonEv Summer Sehool. W. R. Taylor Soeial. C. C. H(jLLo AY Building, H. E. Orr Self Help, Carl DuErr 92 The Y. W. C. A. Cabinet President, LdTTiE Graham Vice President. Ruth Pickp:ring Dei ' otioiial, Ann vSorenson Bible, Mildred Hunt Mission, Bf,rtha FetzEr IntercoUci ian, Irene Chambers Social, Marion Lamb Hand Book, Anna Rockwood Fall Caiiipaii n, Lela Montgomery Treasnrer. Alva Edwards Secretary, Ula Johnson Calendar, Irene ConlEy 94 95 96 THE Ministerial Student! Poor ministerial student! He who goeth about in the same shiny garments from year to year and who cheweth his mustache to get the requisite nourishment ; he wdio burneth the midnight natural gas and electricity in a panic-stricken endeavor to keep the mental temperature up to 80 and thus warm the heart of the O. B. E. S. He it is who furnisheth the theme for this classic dissertation. Some men deliberately choose hard lives, directed along lines of greatest resistance ; others don ' t. To the former class belongs the ministerial student, the boy who goes to school (for his purpose is almost always fixed when he enters) to prepare for one of the most dangerous, discouraging, and richly profit- able occupations of life. If he falls into the latter class, out with him entirely ; he will never make it. But we will say he is genuine. That granted, you have before you one of the most interesting varieties of the king of beasts — one wdiose ideal it is to stamp out everything that ' s beastly and replace it with all that is kingly. We ' ve all heard of, possibly we have entertained the idea of the preacher as a man of leisure. How nice it must be to rest six da} s in the week, and labor but one. It ' s a vile insinuation, a lie on the face of it. The busy hive of men has no room in it for drones, not for pious drones anyhow. All such get stung. Speed the day when the public at large will understand the minister as one who labors incessantly six da}s in the week, and then on the seventh when he needs rest, is compelled to pour out of his own soul the sweet unction of spiritual comfort and sustenance upon the souls of others, at a tremendous expenditure of nervous energy and precious vitality. No, no boy who has cut his wisdom teeth ever went into the ministry with a selfish motive in his heart. Better aim at the presidency of some combine, my dear sir. But we are speaking now of the ministerial student, of him who is just getting his first sniff of the battle powder of tribulation. He has weighed Self and the World in the balance and found the woes of the latter the heavier. So off he packs to Denison (why elsewhere?) and takes up the brieily novel round of college life. He finds the welcome of the Y. IM. C. A. replaced by the Del. Com. of the faculty. Being ambitious, he desires to do some- thing, — and he gets exactly what he wants. If his acquaintances size him up as a capable chap, be thev friends or merely teachers, he ' ll get all that ' s a-comin to him, and a little bit more. So the days roll merrily on. But winter brings a panic. Oh, it may resemble a cyclone in shape, big at the top with the point concentrated upon the immediate region in which he resides, but it gets him just the same. He begins to realize that his fussed- ness about getting rid of his hands and feet at the general jam is as nothing to the throes of financial embarrassment. He pinches his wallet and gulps hard. Then it occurs to him that the very thing he has been thinking about will furnish the solution of the problem, and he sets about it to adopt the motor method. No, no, I didn ' t say anything about his purchasing an auto. Just wait a minute. Now, this is the point at which the ministerial student will be most likely 97 Sky Pilots in the Making •to congratulnlc liimsclf — tliat while Ik- is absorbing day l)y day, the opportunity is offered Iiini to provide an outlet for the overflow of learning. There ' s vour motor method — exercising and strengthening the sinews of Irod} ' , mind and spirit while they are growing into maturity. So he takes his first preaching trip, one of the epochs of his life. Funny, isn ' t it? Hut ])eople will sit and take most everything he says — and never smile. There are four great professions, the law, education, medicine, and the ministry. Imagine if you can a young chap in college jileading a case before the bar. Simpl_ nothing to it. Does a young man who aims to teach get an opportunit}- to combine any of that work with his college course? Rarely. And then think — oh, think of a young would-be doctor going out to administer pellets or cut U]) according to his professional predilections. Horrors!!! Hut the young aspirant for puljjit honors goes abroad and pounds the desk in the church at Jacktown, or I ' rospectville , or Swallow Hollow, while the audience sits in open-mouthed wonder and admiration. No time for quaking knees — head up, chest out is the command. That fellow is getting steel in his backbone; the stern but wise teacher called Experience is implanting her lessons deeply. The future mover of men ' s souls is being developed. Monday morning sees him returning wilted and worn. The loafers on the platform at Newark, observ- ing how numerous he is, may laugh about the string of empties being returned to the college at Granville. Lesson hours may see him snatching a few sweet winks in the arms of Morpheus. Recitations may go smash pretty badlv that Monday. But all is lost sight of and full recompense is made wdicn he contem- plates a duty done, a step taken in advance, an increment of strength added to his slender store. That is the ministerial student. No finer or more powerful microscope should be used in examining him than in observing his fellow students. But watch him if you will. See him on the athletic field once in a while, don ' t } ' 0U ? Catch him at the Sem, about as often as the rest of ' em, methinks. Literary societies and contests chuck full of him, it seems. College annual and weekly get to him once in a while or more. And in the class room he takes nobody ' s dust. The short of it is that out of the i4 ' ' r of the men of the school who go to make up the ministerial association, you will find about as many all around good fellows as in any other class of men in Denison. And manly men are at a premium everywhere. M. L. L., ' 08. 98 T HE most vital integrating band in the Christian Student movement of world, i s the volunteer movement for foreign missions. Not yet twenty-five years old, it has spread from its beginning at a convention of delegates from eighty colleges at Mt. Herman, Conn., through the United States and Canada, through Great ' Britain, Europe, Africa, and even the countries of the Orient. Largely this is the influence of this world movement, today no class of men and women believes in missions and gives to missions as do students. Its purpose is four fold. First. To lead students to a thorough considera- tion of the claims of foreign missions upon them as a life work. Second. To foster the purpose of all students who decide to become foreign missionaries, by helping to stimulate them and guide them in mission study and work for missions until they pass under the immediate direction of some board. Third. To unite all volunteers in an organized aggressive movement. Fourth. To create and maintain an intelligent, active and sympathetic interest in foreign missions among students who are to remain at home in order that they may back up this great enterprise by their prayers, their gifts, their efforts. Thus it is evident that this movement is not a missionary society, or a board in the sense of being an organization to send out to the foreign field its own missionaries. It is rather a recruiting society for the various missionary boards. Its highest ambition is to serve the church. In America a committee of six representatives of the Young Men ' s and Young Women ' s Christian Association constitute the executive board. Through its activity about a thousand colleges and theological seminaries have come effectively under the influence of the greatest missionary movement of the age. Under its auspices some four thousand volunteers have already gone into foreign mission work. The policy of the movement is to so effectively stimulate interest and action on the part of the young people of the churches and colleges to the end that the ideal of the organization may become an accompished fact — The Evangeliza- tion of the world in this generation. The Student Volunteer Movement for Foreign Missions 99 100 101 Beta Theta Pi 1908 Arthur B. Chaffee, Jr. T. Rees Williams 1909 George H. Crowl Walter J. Livingstone WiLLARD S. Willis 1910 Walter E. Davies Wilbur A. Hunt Warren L. Morris 1911 Harold D. Anderson Adelbert B. ConlEy Judson B. Clissold Ralph G. Elvin Richard B. Hooper William A. Pfeiffer Ralph B. Priest D. A. 1908 Thomas B. Smith Robert C. Gill Clarence R. Jones Charles J. Stilwell 102 Phi Gamma Delta ' Faculty C1.ARK W. Chameeklain CYarknce; D. Coons 1908 Ai exander H. Ballard Theodore;. S. Johnson Robert F. Hamilton Charles H. Kesler John C. Swartz 1909 James D. Adair Paul C. Fox Kenneth h. Jewett William A. Ashbrook William B. Goddard Le Roy D. Sargent Howard W. Marsh 1910 Howard P. Conn able Robert C. Dunn Harold A. Kesler Thomas M. Norton BiRNEY R. Walker Harry E. Chilcote Robert W. Flack Lloyd V. Mi near Milton FI. Possons Victor H. Hoppe 1911 Oscar M. Arnold William D. Fulton Max B. NorpEL Homer M. Beattie Harold E. Lamson Walter E. Rankin- George D. Upson 1C4 Sigma Chi Resident Members Dr. J. D. Thompson, Ex. 76 Prof. W. A. Chamberlain, Prof. A. M. Brumback Active Members 1908 H. M. HUFI ' ' MAN H. Ferris A. M. Dywison C. Jaouart H. E. Orr F. B. HOLDEN 1909 H. L. Pine 1910 T. FX. WiCKENDEN 1911 H. D. Ross F. S. McCoLLUM L. E. Moore C. E. FIiLL E. R. Little H. T. Reeves W. P. Huffman 106 Beta Alpha Delta 1908 Joseph H. Lloyd Elsor Hivatcr A. M. Wilson 1909 E. H. Chittenden E. EI. Foote T. D. Rees G. L. Hershbekger 1910 VV. O. Green John Mitchell A. S. Orcutt W. C. CoE T. B. Frizelle M. C. Hill 1911 R. B. WiiYTE A. M. Davidson H. H. Hunt W. F. Walker lOS Vigilance Committee Colors: Green and White Flower: Pillsbury ' s Best Roll Reduction 19. Art 20. Ferdie 24. Huff 26. Perce 27. Livy 28. Billy 30. Ching 31. Tuck 32. Bill no Ill Kappa Phi Stella Cask Esther Field Adeline Fleming Ruth Akers • Louise Ferguson Alma Polk Josephine Carver Helen Cosley Mamie Geach Resident Pearl Ferguson Faculty DoKuTIiV KiBLER 1908 Eleanor Chaffee 1909 Addie Tudor 1910 Agnes Walsh 1911 Ann Da ' is 112 Helen Case, ' 05. Ella Roberts Jessie Street Dee Schuman Elizabeth Spencer Sue Theobald Leila Porter Margaret McKibben Marion Rose V i 113 Chi Psi Delta Resident Members Edna R. Thornton liicssi , Tkujiper Graduate Student i [ARV LoUISJi McKlBBEN 1908 Irene; Coneey Marguerite; M. Jones Bel ' lah Rector 1909 Aeva R. Ed ' ards RuTii Davenport Bertha Fulton Ajiy H. Jones GERTRcnE E. AVrigitt Bess M. Billman JMary E. Dickenson Maude L. Thompson 1910 Nina G. Bingner Frances R. Edmonson Delia Thornton 1911 Claire D. Fifield Zorelda H. Goodhart H. Grace McClelland 114 « Sigma 1908 CxKRTRUDK L. PhIU.IPS LKI.A I IonTCOMI; RY 1909 Blonda p.. Watt L. Hildred Blaku Leontink L. Owen Sue Quick 1910 Hazel Spencer Anne Quick Pearl P. PIenley Julia P McClure 1911 iNP BEL C. Settle Peila F. Moore Art Department ] Iarv Alice Smith 116 117 118 M R. RUSKIN after elaborating upon the beauty of lower ani- mals proceeds to discuss Human Beauty. He opens his chapter as follows: We come at last to set ourselves face to face with ourselves, expecting that in creatures made after the image of God we are to find comliness and completion more ex- quisite than in the fouls of the air and the things thas pass through the paths of the sea. But his aesthetic sense is rudely disappointed for he finds that bodies consumed with sloth, broken down by labor, tortured by disease, dis- honored in foul uses. And he con- cludes with the sharp statement. Wrecked we are, and nearly all to pieces. The truth of this worthy author ' s statement is incessantly impressed upon every lover of human beauty. The ideal is rapidly disappearing. The exquisite types that inspired all early nations to create their gods ' after their (jwn image is almost lost, and in its place we are evolving a tvpe which more than all God ' s creatures debases the Creator ' s handiwork. Of all God ' s works, which do this world adorn, There is no one more faire, and excellent Than is man ' s body both for power and form While it is kept in sober government. But none than it more foul and indecent Distempered through misrule and passion base. I once heard a preacher say Show me the effect of a man ' s religion on him and I will tell you what his religion is worth . I at once came to the con- clusion that the man ' s religion was worth very little for he was no better looking than a plaster-of- Paris monkey. jMy friend, however, was quite satisfied with his physical beauty. So twiste.l has public opinion become. Our ideals of the Physical Man have descended and consequentlv a degen- erate physical type is being evolved. The anthropophagi who develops his skypiece at the expense of his body is our hero, and sickness is now the greatest of human virtues. However, the truth is, as Dr. Johnson tells us, The sick man IS a rascal , for as another remarks It is a greater disgrace to be sick than to be in the penitentiary. In the first place we break a God-made law, in the second only a mandate statue . The individual who allows the Physical Man to retro- grade commits an unpardonable crime against the human tvpe. And now to a consideration of the Physical Man from the standpoint of the individual. Why should the individual for personal reasons develop the Physical Man ? Man is a trinity composed of bod_ , mind and sjjirit. The spiritual processes depend upon the condition of the mental processes and the mental processes de- pend upon the physical processes. What I mean is that the man who is undevel- oped mentally cannot ascend the spiritual Sinias. Otir spiritual views enlarge 119 The Physical Man with our nicntal views. In like manner the dsspeptic with shattered nerves is menlah}- hanchcapped. Tlie folks who do big ' things are not in bondage to their bodies . Here is the proportion : physical development is to mental development as mental development is to si)iritual development. ( It is understood, of course that any one of the trio can be over-developed at the exijeuse of the other two, in which case failure is inevitable. A good l)ody is the battle of life half won. I ' .efore it all l)arriers fall and we join Walt W hitman in his merr ' song on The ( )pen Road . iV-foot and light-hearted 1 take to the open road. Healthy, free, tlK ' world before me, The long- brown path liefore mc leading wherever I choose. Henceforth 1 ask no good- fortune, 1 myself am good fortune; Henceforth I wimper no more, ])ostpone no more, need nothing. Strong and content I travel the open road. Man ' s ph)sical self is the most easily developed of all his i)arts for the simple reason that man was once all animal. ( )bedience to the laws of nature is all that is reijuired. Since, however, advanced civilization makes such unreasonable demands upon us it is necessary to use precautions that will make up for their demands. Vor instance, the sudent does not continue his farm diet all through the year. It is not wise to lav down any cast-iron rules of health to which all .should conform. No two nien are exactly alike physically. Such man, however, pos- sesses a self-repairing body which will serve him faithfully ami well as long- as he does not overtax it. The sin-iple maxim of Socrates, Know Thyself, is worth more than all the Peruna and Nervine that has ever been manu- factured. Dr. jean Charcot, in his article, How to Live a Hundred Years, sa3S, To know what is good for one ' s self and wdiat is Ijad, and to cleave to ' the good and avoid the bad, in the main is not difficult. The trouble is, as a people, we have never tried it. We deliberately violate all the laws of health and depend upon doctors to cure us. He recommends the formation of clubs corresponding to the liite Ribbon Clubs which are organized to stop the sale of strong drink, to block and banish disease that travels by the ' Goi-ge Route. ' He gives as a formula for health : First: Deep breathing in the open air with _ -our mouth closed.. Second : Moderation in eating, sim]:)le dishes, ITetcherize. Third : Exercise at least an hour a day in the open. Fourth : Sleep eight hours a night in a tho ' oughly ventilated room. Fifth: Drink all the water between meals you care to. Sixth: Don ' t bother to forgive your enemies — just forget them. Seventh: Keep busv — it is a beautiful world, and we must and will and can leave it more beautiful than we found it. Much praise is due to our educational institutions for tlhe stress they are la}ing on physical culture, and the teaching of the sin-iple laws of health. Denison has not been backwar l in this respect. Her athletic tean-is have piled honors on her nan-ie. And with her well equipped gymnasium and competent physical director each student is enabled to develop wdrat we should all be proud of, The Physical Man. E. J. P. 120 DR. ROHRER If there is any one in Denison today who is thorou. hl} ' interested in Denison ' s Athleties it is Dr. Rohrer. Doc has transformed the gymnasinm and has not spared any energy in his efforts to ])nt ont winning- teams especially in foot- ball. Aim high and yonr shot will hit the gronnd somewhere. Doc did not fully accomplish liis aim this year in football, but his shot hit the gronnd for we had a successful season from many standpoints. The Athletes LIVY Livv has been the most prominent in all kinds of athletics since he came to Denison. His work in football during his Freshman and Sophomore years made Livy the on ' )- logical candidate for She captaincy th ' is year and the Board of Control thought enough of his wo k this season to re-elect him. Livv stars in executing the forward pass and he is never out of the game. Re- ceived honorable mention for tlie all state team. 121 DAVIES Davies, our plucky liltk ' (|n:irtcr, cruuc tn us from Elyria H ( h School where he had •a s ' ood record in football. This year was his first one on the arsit ' and his work gives promise of a brilliant future. In the Reserve game he stopped ' r ler time after tiiue when it would have meant a touch down if he had failed. He was also one of the best giound ainers on the team. SWARTZ Swartz has Ixen a hard worker during the three years he has been on the varsity and has earned two D. ' s. He was the utility man this year playing either end, guard, or halfback, and hi knowledge of the signals never failed him. He leaves us this year and on account of his genial s])irit will be missed by all on the gridiron. 122 FOX Fox began playing football o nly last year and altbongh be did not get bis D be stnck to tbe practice and tbis year won bis D at guartl. Toward tbe entl of tbe season be played remarkably good football. We need more men wbo are willing to stick to tbe practice even if tbey are not playing a regnlar position. We are glad tbat be will be witb ns next year. WALKER Walker, one of tbe fastest men on the team, after nearly winning bis D bad tbe misfortnne to get bis ankle burt ])ntting bim ont of tbe game for tbe rest of tbe season. In tbe Otterbein game be sbowed remark- able ability both in carrying tbe ball and in making interference for tbe man with tbe ball. Tbe Varsity felt the loss incnrred by bis misfortnne and we hope tbat next }ear be yill have better success. 123 POSSONS Possons, the find of the season. Poss never played foothall until this year but he won his D at right end in such a com- mendable way that we have reason to ex pect great things from him in tlie future. He is a fast man and tackles well. PINE Harry can play quarter, half or end equally well. This year he was our best end and received mention in the all state line up. Pine ' s presence always adds ginger to the team and he is recognized throughout the state as one of the best college athletes. 124 WILSON Ringer is one of the two seniors on the team. He eamc to us from VVooster where he won a VV at guard, and he has earned three D ' s in the same capacity for Deni- son. He plavs a good steady game and has made a place for himself on the team that it will take a good man to fill. HART ■ Dean is the best tackier on the team. He looks as if he were too small a man to pla}- center but he has made many a foe realize that what he lacks in weight he makes up in grit. We are glad that he will be with us two more vears. 125 CROWL George is one of the three Dayton men ■ on the team. Althongli the smallest man on the sqnad he is one of tliose fellows vhose football spirit overcomes this to a great extent. He is a fast man as all will tell you who have tried to get aroimd right end when he was ])la_ ing that position for Denison. He will be with us next •ear. STILWELL Stilwell came to us with a football repu- tation which he gained as guard and tackle at Central High, Cleveland. This ear he played right half the whole season and although he never played behind the line before he came to Denison his abilit ' and hard work made Livy a very valuable man in the back field. He is especially strong on defence and we are glad that he has two more years with us. 126 CHITTENDEN Chittenden is a man who plays a good, consistent game thrciuglK )nt the whole sea- son. If the Varsity needs a few yards they always feel safe in calling on him. In many games this season he was the best ground gainer we had. He pla s a good defensive as well as an aggressive, offensive game. RODGERS Leather was in good condition when the season opened and he played star football in every game. He made his reputation in the State game and maintained it through- out the season. Rodger ' s kicking ability, especially in be- ing able to kick over the goal line on the kick off was a great advantage to Denison. No man on the Denison eleven has work- ed more faithfully than Rodgers. 127 HILL Bunker is the largest man on the squat save one and that is Ringer, who pla}ccl the other guard Although this was his first year on the team he was pla3-ing a good game and all were sorry that he was out of it during part of the season on account of a sprained ankle. Here ' s hoping he will have better luck next year and be able to play the whole season. 128 HERSHBEKGER Hershberger was a star during his Nigh School da ' s and would lia ' e been in the DcnisdU linc-U]) bcfdre had he not received a severe injur - in his l ' ' reshnian _ ear. He is a man with ner ' e and ])la} ' s good football at left half and right tackle. W ' e are glad he will be with us next year. The Managers 129 The Varsity Base Ball Team. Captain, F. G. LaRue Coach, J. W. ROHRER Manager, W. E. FoRSYTHE Catcher, F. G. LaRue H. C. Tyler R. E. Hunt First Base, W. J. LIVINGSTON Pitch ers. Second Base, H. C. PiNE Third Base, C. Keyser Short Stop, V. R. Turner I J. H. FORSYTHE Right Field, i C.A.ROCKWOOD Center Field, H. G. Pamment Left Field, W. B. GoDDARD Games Played 1907 April 18 , . . . . Denison 3, Ohio Medics 4 April 20 Wooster .... Denison 5, Wooster 3 April 27 .... Denison 8, Ohio Wesleyan 15 May 4 .... Denison Ohio (Rain) May 11 Granville .... Denison 4, Wooster 1 May 17 Granville 16, Wittenberg 0 May 24 Yellow Springs . . . . .... Denison 9 Antioch 3 May 25 Springfield Wittenberg (Rain) May 29 Granville . . . . Denison 1, Ohio Wesleyan 3 May 31 Granville .... Denison 10, Kenyon 2 June 6 Gambler Denison 1, Kenyon 2 June 10 7, Alumni 4 June 11 New Concord Denison 0, Muskingum 3 130 Varsity BasKet Ball Team Forwards H. L. Pink, ' og. RoBiiuT Little, ' io. RoiiiiRT VV. Flack, ' io. C. E. Brown, ' id. Center VValtkk J. Livingstone, 09. Guards H. E. RoDGERs, ' 09. Carl Rockwood, ' 09. W. O. Green, ' io. Coach J. W. ROHRER Captain Walter J. Livingstone, ' 09. Record of Games Played 1907-1908 Denison Newark Y. M. C. A. Denison 39 Columbus Mutes 16 Denison 31 Ohio VVesleyan 29 Denison 33 Ohio State 43 Denison 45 Otterbein 22 Denison 33 Kentucky University 11 Denison 23 Western Reserve 14 Denison 25 Hiram 24 Denison 22 Wooster 33 Denison 17 Ohio Wesleyan 36 Denison 32 Kenyon 25 Denison 29 Miami 20 Denison 19 L niversity of Cincinnati 27 Denison 30 St. Marys Institute 14 Denison 24 Western Reserve 31 Denison 31 Otterbein 24 Denison 45 Kenyon 27 132 133 Junior Basket Ba.ll Team Inter-Class Champions, 1908. Harry Pine. Carl Rockwood. H. E. Rodgers. Walter Livingstone. James Adair. Lee Moore. George Hershberger. — Manager. 135 Cross Country Team The first Cross Country Team Denison has ever had. Alfred Orcutt Chas. A. Carman AsHER K. Mather Carl Rockwood Roy Neff Meet with Ohio State University at Columbus. Team. Orcutt Neff Mather Rockwood Score. O. S. U., 23 D. U., 13 Meet with Ohio State University at Granville. Team. Orcutt Carman Mather Rockwood Score. O. S. U., 20 D U., 16 Winners in Cross Country Run. Newton Carman J. W. Peets A. M. Dixon 136 Track Athletics Capt. Possons AT this time it is early indeed to say anything very definite regarding the track outlook for the coming season, especially so this year for most all of the material is new and it remains to be seen what it will turn out to be. All that is said therefore in the way of prediction is based upon hearsay and the reported experience and attainments of the candi- dates before coming to Denison. This we do know, however, that the squad has been working hard and faithfully since the beginning of February, and from the interest shown and the condition of the men Denison need not fear for a successful team. Every man on the squad seems enthused, ready for hard work and can be relied upon to give to Denison on the track this Spring the best be has in him. The team seems to be especially well fortified in the distance events, judging from the fact that the entire cross-country team of last fall which made such a magnificent showing, is out and working hard. The country surrounding Granville is particularly well adapted to the devel- opment of distance men, as its hills and valleys and roads provide the most ideal cross-country courses. 137 A good jog cross country is on? of the best methods of getting the entire squad into condition that can l e found and the fine weather is being taken .vantage of to the fullest extent. The abundance nf .slidrt distance men makes things look pretty bright for those events also. Although there are no stars left over from former years who have anything cinched in thise ' events yet there are quite a number who have been faithful in the i)ast and who can be depended upon tn make some of the new men step some to keep. up. This will also apply to the low liurdks, while for the high hurdles nothing definite is known. All that is accomplished in this event must be b_ a new man. Several are out for the event but as yet have not begun to specialize so no line can be gotten concerning them. With the number of men anil their excellent condition and aljilit}-, tr_ ing for the pole-vault, the Denison record for this event is sure to go this year. Denison has never had a pole vaulter, as the school record of !) foot 3 inches would indicate, but it is predicted of at least two men that this figure will be overcome by them both this spring. No one need worr - concerning the hammer, as Denison has at least one man who will win more than one first this year. It may be that another will also be found to throw a good second in this event. In the jumps Denison ' s team will like ' v be weakest of all this year. Oh! if we could only use the freshies, goes up the cry, wouldn ' t we clean ' em up on the running broad jump, but no, it ' s no use to wish. In the high jump we can f:el a little better at least, for we have some prospects in this event. In the shot-put the old reliable Leather will no doubt not heave in vain. This event is fortified with several new men and it is hoped we may see some of them come forw ard with some valuable goods. The discus will be thrown this yea! and no doubt wid contribute somewhat to our total, at least if hearsay concerning the ability of one of the candidates is to be depended upon. With the handicap of a poor, wet field like that on which the Denison teams have to be trained it is not to be w ' ondered at that more men do not come out to try for the team and that those wdio do, get discouraged before the season is over. A wet, muddy track about 50 per cent of the time is rather discourag- ing and anything but conducive to success. On the other hand, considering this handicap Denison is to be congratulated on her team and its accomplishments and it is good to think of wdrat could be done on an ideal field close to the gymnasium and bathroom. At all odds Denison has a team this year and it is predicted a good one, with a good captain and a bunch of lo}al, faithful workers who are ready to do or die to assist in vanquishing our most worthy opponents Wooster, Wesleyan and Otterbein. Here ' s good luck to them and may they never wdsh for better support and backing than the student body will give them this season. 138 139 Oenison Glee Club J. Harold Thomas, Director First Tenors H. W. Marspi F. C. Kent R. R. RocKW ' oon First Basses J. H. Thomas T. D. Reus W. C. CoE R. B. Hooper B. R. WaekEr Soloists Howard W. Marsh, Tenor. J. Harold Thomas, Baritone. Karl Esc h man. Piano. Quartette Howard W. Marsh, First Tenor. Charles W. Thomas, Second Tenor. J. Harold Tliomas, First Bass. Clarence R. Jones, Second Bass. Arthur B. Chaffee, Jr., Manager Second Tenets C. W. Thomas E. H. Foote F. E. Wolf C. A. Carman Second Basses P. C. Fox J. H. Eloyd E. W. Hattersley C. R. Jones W. J. ElVINGSTONE 140 Shepardson Glee Club Director, Mrs. A¥ilson First Sopranos Maudk Thompson Emily Malonlv Carrie Howland Elizabeth Si ' encek Stella Case Blonda Watt Ann Davis Marion Rose ' Nina Binger Orga Dickerson Marjorie W itter Eeora Norris Bertha Fulton Irene Conley Helen Coslev AlLIERETTE Cinn ' SLER Margarii:t Lovi) Inez Winders President, Blonda Watt Second Sopranos First Altos Edith Pattengill Second Altos Grace Duboc B?ENE Chambers Officers Business Manager, Bertha Fulton. Librarian, Elizabeth SpEnceR 142 Denison University Band M. H. PossoNS Musical Director R. M. Albaugh Business Manager Alfred Lee. SOLO cornets : R. M. Albaugh. H. W. Marsh. first cornets : C. W. Thomas. L. D. Sargent. second cornets : F. D. Carlock. R. Dean. clarinets : B. R. Walker. P. S. Bradford. altos : A. W. Davidson. M. H. PoSSONS. trombones : J. H. Thomas. baritone : Carl Ashton. TUBA : J. A. Baker. TENOR drum : Thos. Wickenden. BASS drum : H. E. Lamson. C. 0. Huffman. 145 Satire Among the Romans 3Y W. H. R. OUINTILIAN in his Institutions of Oratory makes the categories of Greek and Latin poetry identical except that to the latter he adds satire, which he claims as entirely Roman. Long before his day Varro had defined satire as carmen maledicum ad carpenda vitia hominum, abusive verse for the purpose of assailing the faults of men, a meaning that, in generally, we assign to it today. Dovs Ouintilian mean, then, that satire was a quality unknown in literature until invented by the Romans? Surely he could not have been unmindful of the biting huuKjr of Aristophanes, the discom- forting rcductio ad ahsurdum of Socrates, or the scathing denunciations of Bion of Borysthenes or of Menippus of Gadara. Perhaps the discrepancy would be resolved if we should reflect that the Greek and Roman categories were based on metrical form and not on content and that satirical passages occur in the epic hexameters of Homer as well as in the gay iambics of lighter poets. In Roman literature, on the other hand, there was a form of poetry essentially satirical in its content which, although written in hexameters, was of sufficient importance to be considered in a class by itself. Therefore, there is ground for the conclusion that Ouintilian means that the Romans were the first to employ satire as a distinct literary form. The first writer among the Romans to be recognized as a satirist is Ennius, who wrote about 200 1 ' . C. Only a few fragments of his works remain, and from them we get very little that reminds us of Varro ' s definition, so that we are impelled to wonder whether the meaning of the term satire did not change in later times. In the days of Ennius, the center of learning and culture was at Alexandria, and men of letters had come to be mainly lexicographers, com- pilers and critics. A hint of this condition is found in the fanciful titles of the writings of the time, as, Xoctes Atticae, Silvae (timber). Collectanea INIfis- cellanea and so forth. It is possible, though not certain, that Ennius, as Pro- fessor Hendrickson thinks, gave his poems, written on various subjects and in a variety of meters, the title, Pocmafa (?) per Satitraiii. in which per saturam has about the force of our English pell mell. If this is true, tbe term as used by Ennius has nothing to do with literary form. As he was the com- manding genius of his time, however, the bulk of writers both in his own and in succeeding generations imitated him. The next prominent writer of whom we have record was Lucilius, of some- what uncertain date, but a friend of Laclius and Scipio and writing about 150 B. C. It was a time of great political unrest at Rome when the nobles were divided and the reform party led by Scipio opposed both the conservatives and the plebs. Lucilius so vigorously supported his fri ' md Scipio with his scathing verse that his whole writings are marked by humorous attack and virulent in- vective directed against the foes of his party. His poems are written for the most part in hexameters and here we have a definite literary form with a definite content and by later authors, if not by Lucilius, called satire. Thus we see that, though its name was furnished by Ennius, by Lucilius its char- acter was determined for all time to come. 146 Among- the later Roman writers of satire there is one whose works are free • from the iU-natnred and violent eritieisni that is otherwise universally charac- teristic of this kind of literature. Horace, except in one or two of his so- called satires and in some of his epodes, shows a kindly feeling for his fellow- men and deals with their faults in a mildly humorous way, sometimes even going so far as to say that the author himself has not been entirely free from the foibles he laughs at. He counsels his brother satirists to be lenient with the shortcomings of mankind, but in vain, ior not only their writings but also those of all who have essayed this kind of literature down to the present day have been marked by extravagant abuse or unfriendly ridicule. THE phvsical laboratories of educational institutions have made large con- tributions to the wealth of the world. Imagine ourselves suddenly de- prived of the results of the physical investigations made during the last lOO vears and we get some conception of the important part taken by the laboratory in our modern civilization. Without the electro magnet of Prof. Henry of Princeton scarcely a single modern application of electricity would be possible. The telephone of Elisha Gray, the electric arc of Davy, the trans- former of Faraday, the electric waves of Hertz, the mariner ' s compass and ocean cable of Kelvin and the X-rays of Roentgen are contributions of tireless workers in phvsical laboratories of educational institutions. It is safe to say that the methods of physical research are little known to the layman. It is popularly supposed that the investigator accidentally blunders upon some hitherto unknown fact, or says to himself Go on, now, I will make a discovery, and forthwith proceeds to juggle his apparatus until some for- tuitous but happy combination results in a great discovery. One hundred years ago, when the sum total of physical knowledge was small, such methods might have produced some small result. Many of nature ' s secrets were not deeply hidden and were easily and rapidly uncovered. The surface, however, has been thoroughly worked over and the investigator who would bring to light nature ' s more carefully guarded secrets must be willing to search long and systematically. Lord Kelvin once said, The great discoveries of the future wiU be found in the fourth decimal place. The physicist relies upon the science of exact measurement to interpret the answers he receives to questions put to nature. Fortunately for him all physical quantities may be expressed in terms of three fundamental magnitudes. Those commonly chosen are time, length and mass, or quantity of matter. AVhatever the investigation may be it is reduced, in the final analvsis, to the measurement of one or more of these three quantities, mat- ter alone is directly cognizable by the senses, and for our present purposes may be defined as anything which has weight, i. e., is attracted toward the earth. It follows then that w ' e must have accurate methods for measuring time, length and weight, if physical investigation is to proceed. 147 Contribution from the Barney Physical Laboratory BY C. W. C. The exact measurement of time has for ages received the attention of the most skillful workers. The rotation of the earth upon its axis, which gives the solar day, and its revolution around the sun, the solar year, are natural divis- ions of time, which are indicated with minute jjrecision hv the heavenlv bodies. The Julian caleuvlar was too long by eleven minutes and fourteen seconds, and in sixteen hundred years the error had amounted to ten da}s. March ii, 1582, Pope Gregory ordered ten days to be stricken from the calendar. Th e deter- mination of the length of the year by the astronomers of his time was so accurate that our present calendar, with its intercalations, will continue for a thousand years with an error not to exceed one hour. The subdivision of the day into hours, minutes and seconds, necessitates the use of some elaborate mechanical device. As civilization has advanced the instru- ment makers have provided in succession the sundial, hour glass, clepsvdra or water clock, and the modern astronomical clock, surrounded by a glass case from wdiich the air has been exhausted and wound once a minute by means of electricity. There are now in use clocks wdiich will run several months with an error not exceeding one fiftieth part of a second per dav. The accurate determination of weight has taxed the skill of the instrument maker to the utmost. The principle employed is identical with that used by the ancients, i. e. the balance beam with equal arms. So complete has been the investigation of the problem by means of mathematical analysis that the mod- ern balance maker can so proportion the parts and distribute the mass of his instru- ment as to produce a sensitiveness capable of detecting the difference in weight of two small gold standards when placed side by side in the balance pan and when one is placed on top of the other ; the dilTerence in weight being caused by the fact that in the second position one mass is one inch farther from the center of the earth than in the first position. The accurate determination of length, whether that length can be along a straight line, the subdivision of a circle or the measurement of an angle, has been the most difficult p-oblem the astronomer and physicist has had to solve. Nine hundred }ears ago the .Vrabians built a sextant with a 60-foot radius. Its large size enabled them to make the subdivision of the arc with a fair degree of accuracy. Tycho llrahe first constructed instruments having small circles and graduated with sufficient precision to give the positions of a large number of stars with an area no greater than one nfinute of arc. Automatic ci-cular dividing engines of high accuracy were built by Henry Hindle} ' of York, Eng- land in 1740 and by Ramsden in i . The latter engine is still preserved in the Smithsonian Institute at Washington. Ambrose Swasey of Cleveland, a trustee of Denison, has probably produced the most perfect dividing engine for the graduation of circles sufficiently accurate for astronomical instruments. The greatest accuracy attained with this engine is one second of arc, or the angle subtended by one inch at a distance of three miles. The radius of the revolv- ing plate of this engine is twenty inches and the graduations are made on a 148 silver ring- around the edge of this i)late. Perhaps the aeeurae_ - of the engine ean he hetter understood by saying that a hne one tliousandth of an inch in width drawn on this silver ring subtends twelve seconds of arc, or twelve times the accumulated errors of any number of divisions. The most important linear dividing engine is that of Prof. Rowland of Johns Hopkins University by means of which Rowland ruled 160,000 lines upon a plate of speculum metal six inches long. All lines are of the same width and the same distance from each other. Rowland ' s gratings have enabled the astronomer and ph} sicist to enter fields of optical and electrical re;search hitherto unexplored. The production of surfaces upon which the lines are ruled call for a skill possessed by but; few men. Brashear of Allegheny, Petitdidier of Chicago, and Hilger of London, produce surfaces accurate to one millionth of an inch. One of the most important instruments used in length measurements is the compound microscope, which unfortunately has a theoretical as well as prac- tical limit of resolution. Objects smaller than one three-hundredth-thousandth of an inch can not be studied with a compound microscope, however great the magnification employed. Prof. iMichelsen has devised an instrument, the interferometer, capable of making measurements as small as one millionth of an inch. Many important researches have been carried out with the ' aid of this instrument, and yet vast unexplored fields lie beyond its range. During the last year an instrument has been designed which is capable of extending our knowledge of this hitherto unknown field. The compound interferometer was first built by Ernst Keil, mechanician in the instrument shop of the Barney Physical Laboratory. With this instrument it is possible to make measurements as small as one twenty- millionth of an inch. This minute quantity is the apparent size of the head of a pin viewed at a distance of two hundred and twenty-seven miles, the size of a silver dollar viewed at a distance of nine and a half thousand miles, or the size of a human face viewed from a distance equal to twice the circumference of the earth. It is hoped that this contribution from the Barney Laboratories may be the means of solving many new problems and adding to the further enlightenment and welfare of mankind. 149 £.ngineering Department OFFICERS. C. W. Irwin President T. S. Johnson Vice-President W. C. BoLiN Secretary and Treasurer EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. B. R. Walker Drafting I. B. Crandall Electrical E. H. Chittenden Sanitary J. D. McLaughlin Land Surveying A. M. Davidson Railroading and Topography R. C. Dunn Structural IN the last ten years there have developed all over the world a tremendous impetus along engineering lines. The rapid industrial and social develop- ment has necessarily involved a great deal of engineering work, and so there has come about an advance in the educational institutions of the country in the amount and character of the courses offered for engineers. Al- most every college of any note has developed an engineering course, and to meet the very evident need a like dvelopment has taken place in Denison Uni- versitv. Todav Denison is able to offer to students a course in engineering ecjual to that of any other school of like size in the state. The headquarters of the department is found in Science Hall. On the first floor of that building is the instrument room, opening directly on the campus. Here are placed the various instruments used by the parties engaged in field work. 150 I The most important work of the department is done on the third and flourth floors of Science HaU, where are found recitation rooms, laboratories, the engi- neering hbrary and drafting rooms. The drafting rooms are well supplied with the most up-to-date drawing- tables, map-cabinets and all the appurtenances of a complete drafting equipment. The rooms are well lighted by skylights and electric lights. The recitation rooms are large and pleasant ,with facilities for the use of lantern slides. On the north side of the building are found the cement-testing labratories and the offices of the head of the departments. On the fourth floor is to be found the Freshman drawing room, well fur- nished for its purpose and almost completely under skylights. Courses are offered in all the important branches of engineering courses in plane, topographical and railroad surveying, both elementary and advanced are offered ; with complete equipment for field work and a splendid reference library. Special attention should be called to the facilities for cement testing, which the department offers. This branch of engineering has lately been developed very greatly and knowledge of the standard testing methods for cements and concretes has become an essential part of an engineer ' s education. Facilities are offered here to conduct investigation along this line, and this course has become one of the most important parts of the engineering curriculum. In the courses offered in Plane Surveying the class is divided into squads of convenient size, and work of all kinds is assigned for them to perform under the supervision of competent instructors. The adjustments, care and use of the transit, level and all other appliances of plane surveying are taught; and surveys are made of the campus and other tracts, maps being made by each student from the notes obtained on the survey. In the topographical surveying course, the use of transit, level and plane- table, in the making of complete topographical survey is shown, and actual sur- veys are made by the various squads of different sites in and about Granville, with making of plans for the location of dams and drainage systems. The hills and valleys in and about Granville offer difficulties to the student that are com- parable with those of all ordinary engineering practice. In the railroad surveying a short distance of railroad line is surveyed and complete estimates and specifications prepared for the construction of a first- class railroad. In the courses in structural details there is on hand for reference purposes, over six hundred working drawings of buildings, roof-trusses, bridges, etc., which offer to the student abundant examples of the practical every-day methods of work. The tremendous municipal improvements in water supply and sewage dis- posal plants in Columbus, the reconstruction and construction work of the B. O. R. R. and the Pennsylvania Railroad offer unexcelled advantages for comprehensive study of actual engineering problems and frequent trips are taken to these places by the classes. Among the students of the department an Engineering Society has been formed, conducted by the students under the supervision of the department and valuable and instructive programs are given from time to time. The con- stant advance in the amount of work done, shows that it will not be long until still larger quarters and still more complete equipment will be needed. T. S. J. 151 C. L. Herrick Geological Society E. R. ScHEFFEL, President N the twenty-first day of October, 1907, the C. L. Herrick Geological Society of Denison University was organized by a band of students interested in the science of Geology. The Society felt that it could not presage a brighter future for itself than by taking the name of one who in the earlier years of scientific activity at Denison was a most potent factor in its support and encouragement, giving thereto a stimulus and impetus b_ - his own enthusiasm and investiga- tions that is at the present time bearing a heavy fruitage. The purpose of the Society is to foster a spirit of incjuiry, to stimulate an interest in Geologic studies independent of class w-ork, and to emphasize the pleasures to be found by the pursuit of knowledge in nature. As yet no attempt has been made to affiliate or correspond with similar Societies among other colleges, but it is hoped that as the Society passes beyond the period of infancy and has proven its stability, efforts will be directed to- ward realizing such benefits. Throughout the school year a regular monthly program is given, and these are so arranged that each member will appear each semester. AH the programs to date have been marked by an exceptionally high standard of individual effort. A careful system of electing members is followed to prevent the subversion of the original purposes. For the same reason the number of active members is limited to twenty. List of Members honorary : Prof. Fr. nk Carney. ACTIVE : President Earl R. Scheffel Vice-President Olive M. Rusler Secretary Blanche A. Black Treasurer J. Howard Maloney Roy E. Baugher. Asher K. Mather. Charles A. Carman. Kirtley F. M.-xther. Howard Clark. Madge C. Mossman. R. Clyde Ditto. Charles W. Thomas. C. Yiu Liu. Lewis F. Thomas. Charter Members. 152 THE histo: - of Denison Univcrsit - has echoed the progress of Natural Science — that broad subject wliich for so many centuries was forbidden by ignorance, presumption and corruption to the consideration of men. Within the last century several of the sciences have practically had their birth. Within the last seventy years practically all that is known of the com- mon ground of all the Natural Sciences, Geology, has been learned. Yet we find in the earliest Annals of The Granville Literary and Theological Institu- tion, as the University was first called, as far back as 1836, Geology and its dependent science, Mineralogv, scheduled as a part of the Classical Course for the Junior Year But science was not taught in those days as it is now. I aboratory work was not apjjreciated if even considered, while the question of expense presented a difficulty which alone would have precluded an ecju ipment of any great value. Then, too, the teaching profession required that the instructor should be a Jack of All Trades, ' a recjuirement diminishing his efficiency in any one branch in proportion to the number he was expected to be proficient. Under the date noted may be seen the name, George Cole, with the title Professor of Mathe- matics and Natural Philosophy. Among the wealth of subjects possible to in- clude under the heading Natural Philosophy it is presumed Geology and Mineralogy had their place. Eighteen hundred and fifty-three may be given as one of the significant dates in the history of the Institution. It was in that year the name was changed to Denison University in consideration of a gift of ten thousand dollars by Wil- liam S. Denison. In the same year the Rev. Jeremiah Hall became president, and a Scientific Course of three years was introduced. How closely these three items are interdependent is difficult to determine, but the money, doubtless, was very acceptable at the time of the introduction of new subjects. During the suc- ceeding decades changes were gradually made. Individual courses were strength- ened by increasing the number of professorships, thus permitting specialization. Additional sciences were given place from time to time and sub-divisions were made to meet demands. Though progress in science was continually made it was left for Professor L. E. Hicks, in the early part of the seventies, to intro- duce Geology on the modern basis. Indeed, his assumption of the professorship may be equally significant with regard to the other sciences. Dana was used as a text-book, and courses were scheduled as follows : Determination of Mineral Species and Kinds of Rocks ; Dynamical Geology ; Field Excursions and Local Geology. While occupying this chair Professor Hicks contributed two papers to his chosen science ; papers representing probably the first published research work at Denison. In this connection it may be mentioned that during the suc- ceeding years over seventy new titles have been contributed to Geology by pro- fessors and students. For these. Professors C. L. Herrick, W. G. Tight, T. L. Watson and the present head of the department, F. Carney, have been directly or indirectlv responsible. The Bulletins of the Scientific Laboratories have served for publishing nearly all of these papers. They have also been well rep- resented in the foremost Geological magazines. 153 A Brief History of the Present Status of the Geological Department BY E. R. SCHEFFEL, ' 07 The third memorable date in connection witli the Scientific Department of the University is marked l.)y the erection of Barney Memorial Hall in 1893. This building with its splendid equipment has greatly increased the interest in science. In Geology many new courses were added. It was not until the appointment of Professor T. L. Watson, however, that any instructor was able to devote himself exclusiveh ' to this subject; an advantage which has been enjoyed to the present time bv his successor, Professor Carney. In 1905 the almost complete destruction of the Memorial Hall l y fire threatened to retard progress, but through the lil)eralit_ - of the original donor, ] Ir. E. J. Barney, the building was reconstructed in accord with the most advanced ideas. The Geological Depart- ment, which was especially fortunate in saving practically all of a new equip- ment from the fire, now occupies the entire third floor of the rebuilt structure. As the present concerns us most, a somewhat detailed description of those new and enlarged quarters will be apropos. No expense has been spare l in meet- ing all the modern demands of this subject. The Lecture Room situated on the east end of the floor is thirty-seven by thirty-two feet. This room is equipped with a stereopticon and permanent screen, and the slides, arranged in drawers, already number about thirty-six hundred. Relief and roll maps conveniently arranged serve in the lecture work. The room is also used by the course in General Geology for the elenientary study of minerals of which there are two large cases containng 230 drawers of specimens. The large room, thirty-two by thirty-three feet, at the west end is used for laboratory work in Physiography and Geography. It is well equipped with tables, maps, minerals, etc. The latest addition to the equipment is a case fitted with one hundred and forty specially designed drawers to be used for filing topographic maps. The north room, twenty-eight by twenty-six feet, is designed for miner- alogical work. Each desk is piped for gas and compressed air for blowpipe work. Several valuable sets of natural and artificial crystals are kept in this room as well as a large assortment of rocks and minerals for experimentation. Microscopes and other instruments are also available. Adjoining this room to the west is the conveniently furnished office of the department. The main south room, twenty-seven by thirty feet, is devoted to the Gilbert Library. Here about fifteen hundred books pertaining to Geology are arranged. Nearly one thousand of these represent the gift of one man, G. K. Gilbert of the LTnited States Geological Survey, for whom the library is named. Current Geologic and Geographic jNIagazines, twenty in number, English, French and German, are distributed over the tables. The room is unusually well lighted and cheerful, and is particularly adapted to the purpose it serves. In connection with the Department also is a workshop, sixteen by twenty- seven feet, and a dark room. With the facilities afforded by these rooms all the photographic work of the Department is provided for. It is doubtful if a better equipment for work in Geological photography can be found in the country. The workshop contains also a specially designed table, six and one-half by ten and one-half feet, used for mounting maps on cloth to secure permanency. The entire floor is lighted with electricity controlled by conveniently placed keys. Because of this effort to secure the best and most complete equipment for the Scientific Departments together with competent instructors, Denison ranks among the foremost colleges encouraging the noblest scientific eft ' ort. 154 Department of Sanitation IF we wanted to choose fit subjects for burlesque we should have turned our attention elsewhere. Humorist and satirist alike could find abundant scope for the exercise of their art in depicting some of our social li ghts ; but here we intend no ridicule. Be it known that the spirit of ' 09 is the spirit of democracy. It is beneath our ideal to leer at labor. In the economy of things, drudgery is as divine as poetry ; and the divine Afldatus can be lured from realms ethereal only after the rough hand of toil has prepared and purified her temple. These men and the dear dog that stands in the midst are not in school, although they are an essential part of the school. When the snowflakes pile thick upon the campus, when ice congeals upon the walks, they are the unseen ministers who make possible our acrobatic performances on high heels, and keep the Shepardson plumes from the ignominy of the dirt. When we step out of the class-room, it is they wdio step in and mercifully mop and erase. Tomor- row we return to find our blunders wiped out, — to find the clean slate. And so quietly and smoothly the physical machinery of the institution moves on. But their hands do the lubricating. Year after year they have felt the throb of college life, and the loneliness of the summertime. Year after year they have seen the ingress of new re- cruits, the progress of class rank and file, and the regress of senior veterans. Faces have become familiar to them, kindly feelings have been engendered, and we suppose that even the old dog has felt sad over the departure of his friends. Men may come and men may go, but these go on forever. 155 ITOCPS o OoNQuzn J}t C iLUOPC uraf.fHY Socicty Sr PnlLOMATHSfllY !jrLF HR1 SociETr Senior Academy Class AVii,i,ia: i Frederick Becker MlodwEn Evans James Raymond Board W illiam Edward Fi ndlay JuANiTA Stevenson Bond Samuel Frazier, Jr. Ruben Carl Bowers Paul Lamson Gifford Joseph Denniston Boyce Hugh Clarence Gillespie Tho.mas Wolf Boyce Eva Grandstaff Carl King Boyer Mildred Alice Hawk Philander Sheridan Bradford Clyde J. HazEn Orin Robert Burgett Fred jNIunn Higgins William David Byard , FIoRACE Mann Hill Mary Louise Chamberlain Willard Demock Hill Ho vard Clark William Evin Huffman Emily Kerr Colwell Donald Newton Jewett EsTELLE DearDORFF Ruth Louise Jolinson William Clarence Deer Waldo Warren Johnston Carl Henry Eschman Kenneth Jones 158 Senior Academy Class Frances Clair Kent Harold Edgar Lamson Donald J. Leidigh William Evans Lewis Edward Payson Linn ell George William Lord Robert Franklin McCann ThomasAngus MacEwan W RREN Dempsy Miller W ' Endell Zerbe Miller John Mitchell j L ' rguerite McNutt Thomas Emory Patterson Edgar John Phillips Harry Thurman Reeves John Samuels True Wallace Thomas Byron Smith Henry Walter Stevens James Robinson Stewart Walter Scott Stewart Ernest Goihart Stevenson- Carl Swisher Dexter Jenkins Tight Jennie Grace Tracy Myrtle Bell Walker Charles Emerson Warner Carmi Lewis Warner Ruth Watkins Edgar Waybriglit Warren Welsh Weiniger Robert Burns Whyte Fred Ellsworth Wole Yale 160 Cicero 1907- 1908. THE present year of literary work is perhaps the most encouraging of late years to those interested in Cicero. The society began the year with a membership of fifty-tv o, the largest known in her history. With over half a century of achievement during which her roll has been filled with the names of some the world calls great, Cicero has a record she may justly be proud of. It is safe to say that some of her present members in time to come will make remarkable careers and reflect credit on the Society which afforded the means for their thorough training in literary work. Our alumni probably have a very distinct remembrance of riding into Cicero on a most uncomfortable seat. This year, however, the goat was exiled be- cause of its many objectionable features, and the First Annual Initiation Ban- quet of Cicero was given. One hundred sat down in a beautifully decorated hall to an excellent menu, followed by several toasts. The banquet was given entirely by the old members, and the departure from the former methods of initiation proved a great success. The regular programs of the society have been especially good this year. Cicero is fortunate to have as members seven foreigners, representing as manv 162 different foreign countries, and during the year each one of these brothers from abroad has given an oration on Why I am proud of my native land. Descriptions of scenery and adventures are very interesting, especially when they are expressions of patriotism. Of the many things we might mention about the year, the work of the committee on Hall Improvement is particularly commendable. The hall has been repainted and numerous other improvements made. The committee has at present a growing fund with which it is intended to reseat the hall. Another matter of which Cicero may be justly proud is her part in the establishment of the first Academy Debating team. Of the four places on the team Cicero holds three, among which is the captaincy. Truly the year has been a most successful one. Cicero Forever. K. A. E. 163 i Cicero Officers President Edgar J. Phillips Vice-President Edgar vV. Waybright Recording Secretary Carl H. Eschman Corresponding- Seer. tar}- W. En ' in Huffman Treasurer Warrkn D. Miller Chaplain Waldo W. Johnston Critic Phil. S. Bradford Parliamentarian. • Louis Lohrey Prosecuting Attorney Harold H. Tracic ' i- 164 Cicero H. C. Abels F. C. Kent G. E. Black L. Lohrey R. C. Bowers Q. A. Main H. A. Bowser J. D. Marack J. D. BOYCE R. A. Miller T. W. BoYCE W. D. Miller P. S. Bradford L. E. Mitchell R. O. BURGETT C. W. McLees J. G. Carlin E. Patterson J. W. Carlin E. J. Phillips J. A. Case J. H. Ralston VV. C. Deer G. Richards H. F. Dresbach H. F. S hello w H. G. Dumbauld R. Stevenson K. H. ESCHMAN H. W. Stevens W. E. FiNDLEY E. G. SVENSON G. F. FiNNIE S. J. TORR H. C. Gillespie H. H. Tracy AI. H. Godfrey S. USUEGI R. J. Goldberger F. A. Unger C. C. Hedrick L. L. Wagner H. D. Hopkins C. L. Warner C. H. Howell R. M. Warner W. E. Huffman E. W. Waybright W. W. Johnston G. B. Williams H. I. Jones M. M. Winterstein 166 The Irving Literary Society has now completed a quarter of a century of history, Tlie having heen organized March 16, 1883, by the followi ng nine men who withdrew J . roni the Cicero Society: J. C. Burns, J. S. Buckles, J. M. Caldwell, E. S. Irving Ferris, U. G. Pursell, A. £. Relyea, C. L. Seasholes, J. C. Smith, R. B.Smith. SocietV ' ' P reason for the withdrawal of these men from the older Society was the fact that up to this time, owing to the lack of the spirit of rivalry, there had been little encouragement toward literary work, but with this new spirit which was thus created, the Societies were both spurred on to greater activity. The reason for naming the new society Irving , seems to be somewhat obscure, but it so happens that Washington Irving, after whom the society was named, was born just one hundred years before this date and we may safely conclude that it was at least partly because of this fact that it was so named, and perhaps partly because that as Wash- ington Irving was the greatest literary man of his time, so the new society should aim to accomplish the highest grade of literary work. For several years no suitable place for meeting could be obtained, the society meeting sometimes in recitation rooms and sometimes in the rooms of its members, but in 1894 when the Doane Academy building was completed, both Irving and Cicero were given permanent quarters. About the same time an annual contest was inaugurated and by this stim- ulus still greater zeal was put into the work of the society. Altho a contest was held in 1893, the annual system was not established until 1895 and since that time one has been held each year. Of these fourteen contests which have already taken place Irving has been victorious in ten of them, losing to Cicero only in 1897, 1901, 19U4 and 1905. Recently the Uni- versity has offered scholarship prizes to the winners in these contests, and great enthusiasm is shown in trying to win them. It is said by almost every alumnus that nowhere in the University can such a lively and friendly spirit be found as that in the Academy Societies and it is especially to this spirit of friendship and hard work that Irving attributes her success. While the contests speak well for her, she knows 168 that these victories are possible only by having her standard of regular vi orlc up to the best, and this she ever aims to do. By carrying out the thought of her motto, EIS ESMEN, every man feels that he is a part of the body of the society, and that unless his work is performed w ell, the society as a whole must suffer. If one were to search for all the men that at some time have signed Irving ' s roll, he must look in all parts of the world and in all the higher walks of life, for of these five hundred and twenty-one men, many have attained to the highest eminence. Some are in foreign lands, some sre eminent in the business and po- litical worlds, many are in educational work while scarcely an honorable vocation can be found in which some one of them is not actively engaged. It is but fitting that at this time we should look forth into the future for another quarter of a century and in view of Irving ' s present opportunities, compared with those won she was founded, picture in our minds the untold possibi ' ities that await her. Surely the future holds greater things in store for her Alumni than the past has brought forth! It is certainly a great stream of pleasant memories which flows back to Irving from those who have left her care and who thru her help became better able to fight in the battle of life. | The following sonnet which was composed by one of the present members no doubt shows the attitude that every alumnus has toward the society. When twilight shadows flit as fantasies Across the darkening landscape everywhere; When pines with weirdest note of deep despair Are moaning at caresses of the breeze, And bygone scenes my wandering mind oft seize, Recalling distant friends o ' er land and mere; Then in a purer mood my mind doth wear A robe of purest thoughts and memories. Tis then my wearied, careworn heart desires To steal into that wondrous visioned past. Where life ' s cool stream flowed by with gentle fall. And there from Memory ' s bank to view those fires Which burned in youthful hearts so light and fast. Upon that glorious hill, within thy hall. (H. M. H.) 169 Irving Society Colors: Old Gold and Red. Motto: EIS E2MEN. Yell: Zip, Za! Zip, Za! Zip, Za! Zee! We Are Irving ' s, Don ' t You See? Irving ' s, Irving ' s, Bim, Bam, Bern! We Are One, Yes, EIS E2MEN. President, C. K. BovER rice President, T. B. Smith RecordiuLi Secretary, li. S. Fisk Corresponding Secretary, W. L. Jordan Treasurer, W. C. Sw ' EET Critic. C. E. A ' Varner Chaplain, E. P. Linnell Prosecuting Attorney, D. J. Tight J Member Ex. Com.. F. E. WoLE i ' rf Member Ex. Com., R. M. Alluaugh Sergcant-at-Arms, C. J. Hazen Officers Roll S. B. Carlin W. F. Becker C. K. BoYER E. L. Atw ' Eel H. B. Carney F. C). Chrysler F. R. Dann R. M. Allbaugh E. G. Carney C. E. Clymer P. W. GiFFORD H. S. FisK M. K. Read E. P. LiNNEEL ' V. E. Lewis H. E. Lamson W. L. Jordan D. N. Jewett PL F. PIenthorn C. J. Hazen W. d. Hill H. M. Hill T. B. Smith W. S. Stewart C. E. Stoner W. C. Sweet D. R. Thomas D. J. Tight J. Samuel T. W. Yale F. E. Wolf C. E. Warner 170 Doane Debating Team Edgar Phillips, Captain, William Lewis, George B. Williams, Carl Eschman. Probably in no other respect has Doane Acadeni) ' given more convincing- evidence of her marked development than in entering into interscholastic literary contests with secondary schools of the state. During this year the first debating team to represent the Academy was formed. The team is a result of preliminary contests held by the Cicero and Irving Literary Societies. Its initiative year has been marked b}- debates with Miami Academ_ - at Oxford April 3, and with Wooster Preparatory School at Granville April 10. The question debated in each case was — Resolved, That provision should be made in our State consti- tutions for the exercise of the Initiative and Referendum. 172 First Doane Academy Athletic Association President. Phil. S. Bkadi ' oru I ' icc President, Gi ' ORGi ' ; B. Williams Seeretary. W. Lekuy Jokuan Board of Control From the Academy Charles E. Warner Carl K. Boyer From the College W. R(_)I!] ' RT Taylor From the Faculty Clarence D. Coons John B. Woodward Graduate Manager. W. Gear SpEncer THE time was when a student of Doane Academy was eligible to the athletic teams representing Denison University, but when the confer- ence rules went into effect Academy students were deprived of any participation in the endeavor to make the college team. Not satisfied with existing conditions, and having a desire for such sports, the students organized a baseball team in the spring of 1907 and thus launcl:ed athletics in the academy. Doane was new on the athletic map and it was with difficitlty that dates were secured in baseball and football. These teams too could only be partially equipped by the Denison University board of control. However, each man on these teams, having participated in a required number of games, received a D. A. monogram. Seeing that a desire for these sports was real, and that athletics had be- come a permanent fixture in the Academy, it was decided to put the manage- ment on a more substantial basis. Accordingly a short time after the close of the football season the Doane Academy Athletic Association was formed. This was modelled somewhat after the Denison University Athletic Association, and provided for a graduate manager of all teams in addition to the student manager. Then it was that athletics progressed with leaps and bounds. The basket ball team made a remarkable record, winning almost every game. A track team is now organized and has a bright outlook. Academy boys — yes, and girls too — are bubbling over with enthusiasm. Scores of the fellows are trying to make the teams, and all are ready to back every team to their utmost ability. Certainly one is safe in forecasting for Doane championship teams in all branches of athletics. A cademy ' s Debut in Athletics BY G. S. B. 173 First Foot Ball Team to Officially Represent Doane Academy Season of 1907 Names and Positions Read from left to right. Upper row— P. S. Bradford, Manager; W. D. Hill, 1. t.; W. W. Weininger, r. t.; C. L, Warner, r. e.; W. D. Byard, q. Middle row— P. L. Gifiord, 1. g.; F. R. Dann, r. g ; E. Watkins, 1. h.; W. E. Lewis, c; G. B. Williams, 1. e.; T. W. Boyce, 1. t. Lower row— H. E. Lamson, r. g.; F. A. Unger, f. b.; Captain, R. C. Bowers, r. h.; W. L. Stevenson, 1. h.; R. E. McCollum, q. First Base Ball Team to Officially Represent Doane Academy Season of 1907 Names and Positions Upper row, reading from left to right— P. S. Bradford, Manager; R. C. Bowers, rf.; C. K. Boyer, p.; W. D. Miller, 3b.; W. C. Daniels, If.; R. B. Whyte, ss.; Principal H. R. Hundley, Faculty Adviser. Lower row, reading from left to right— J. W. Parker, cf.; A. McMillan, c; W. W. Plummer, If.; Captain A. Z. Stoner, 2b.; E. Watkins, cf.; J. F. Still, 2b.; C. H. King, p. 174 Doane Foot Ball Team 175 First Doane Academy Basket Ball Team 176 Cicero Irving Contest 1907-1908 Declamation— Claudias and Zynthia Christy E. Stoner (I) The Death of Minnehaha W. Clarence Deer (C) Won by Cicero Essay— The King of Beasts Karl H. Eschman (C) China ' s Awakening W. Cary Sweet (I) Won by Cicero Oration— Firm Foundations Edgar J. Phillips (C) Centrahzation of Power and Wealth Wm. E. Lewis (1) Won by Cicero Debate — Resolved, That an amendment should be made to the constitution, giving congress exclusive control over marriage and divorce. Affirmative, Charles E. Warner (I); negative, Edgar W. Waybright (C). Won bv Cicero 177 Publications THE ADYTU.VI. Geo. W. Phillips Editor Alva C. Earley Manager Published Annually by the Junior Class. THE DENISONIAN. Millard L. Lowery Editor Ray E. Carman Manager Published Every Week During the College Year. THE UNIVERSITY CATALOGUE. Prof. W. H. Johnson Editor BULLETIN OF THE SCIENTIFIC LABORATORIES OF DENISON UNIVERSITY. Published by the Denison Scientific Association. THE STUDENT ' S HANDBOOK. Published Annually by the Y. M. C. A. and the Y. W. C. A. THE DIRECTORY. Warren L. Morris and George H. Crowl Publishers 178 179 Adytum Board Udilor in Cliicf, GiioRGK Priirjjps Business Staff Al -a C. EarlUy L. R. Ilrr.r, T. D. Ad mr G. H. Growl G. L. Hl ' USIlBl ' RGER Literary Committee Clarence W. Kemper ' Bertua Fl ' lton HiLDRED Beake Rl-th Carein E. O. Bradsiiaw Francis F. Patrick Joke Committee Paue W. Alexander Kenneth Jewett Beonda Watt . N . R. Taylor Art Committee W. S. Willis Ella Roberts Irene Chambers Calendar Committee W. B. Storm Harry Pine Dorothy Budde Al ' a R. Edwards 180 Our college paper has received such attention hy the management during the past ' Pllg year as to mark a growth which we all hope to see perpetuated. The hrst thing was to change tlie form of the paper from the previous size, DeniSOnian ' ' ° ' ' present, 0x12, thus doubling the cost hut bringing it nearer to Magazine size, and by that promoting looks and convenience. With the present form, the student anxious to keep a file of college papers for future reference and satisfaction, will hnd it a much easier task than with the former size. It is hoped that future editors will recognize the marked improvement of this year and utilize the impetus thus afforded. The staff has been enlarged to fifteen, all of whom have done faithful work. The management has justly aimed in the first place to follow the ideal of a college newspaper and furnish news. But this has not prevented the frequent insertion of numerous interesting articles by alumni; stories written by students: essays, and stories submitted to the English department in the course of regular college work. The subscription list has been enlarged, due to loyalty of alumni, students and friends. One of the most serious drawbacks is that the paper has to be printed in Newark in order to get the advantage of the linotype. This fact hampers the work of the editors very seriously, consuming a good bit of time and money. We need a college press. Altogether the work of the present management has received a great deal of com- mendation, both from local and outside circles. The measure of success is due to un- ceasing efforts. Much credit is due those who have pushed the Denisonian up to what it is today. The management has during the year endeavored to put our college paper upon a higher plane. They could have been satisfied with the old form as other editors have been, but they set their eyes upon something better. They took a new ideal for the Denison weekly paper, and having set their eyes upon a new ideal, they pushed it throughout the year. Mr. Paul Wm. Alexander has been elected to the position of editor for the coming year, and Mr. Lynn W. Hattersley receives the position of manager with him. The staff for the past year is as follows: THE DENISONIAN. Published weekly, on Wednesday, in the interests of Denison University. M. L. LowERY, ' 08 Editor-in-Chief R. E. Carman, ' 08 Managing Editor ASSOCIATE EDITORS : V. H. HoppE, ' 10 Granville College Anne J. Sorenson, ' 08 Shepardson College DEPARTMENT EDITORS: P. W. Alexander. ' 09 Alumni Agnes C. Walsh, ' 10 Society P. S. Bradford, D. A., ' 08 Athletics K. H. Eschman, D. a., ' 08 Conservatorv W. B. Storm, ' 08 ' Y. M. C. A. Irene M. Chambers, ' 09 Y. W. C. A. LOCAL and news REPORTERS : A. C. Earley ' 09 Dorothy H. Bu dde ' 08 W. A. Hunt ' 10 L. V. Minear ' 10 C. Jacquart ' 10 182 183 THIS fine ]M:ture was a gift to the Library from :Mr. William Evvart of Chicago. It was given in memory of his father, the late Air. Thomas Ewart, a Trustee of Denison from 1883 until his death in 1892. The tablet on the picture reads : Dandola, Doge of X ' enice, ni honor of Thomas Ewart, Trustee, D. l , hy his children. It is the work of Senior Barbudo, a Spanish artist of high standing, who has w orks in several of the European gal-cries. He lives in Rome, where the picture was purchased. Dandola, whom the picture represents, was Doge of nice, in i ()2. He was engaged in the Eourth Crusade 1201-1204. When he took Constantinople, he greatl)- enlarged the A ' enitian territory. At that time he was, at least, ninety } ears old. 184 Unlike alinnsl all of the famous lectures nf llv; ' cnitiaii Doj ' es, he is nOt rc])rcsciitc(l in the ducal rei alia. lie is sitlin; , ]ir()bat)l , in the ducal palace, the .q reat licauty of which cannot make up for the extreme discomfort of thv winter ' s cold. W ell rai)])cd as he is, he wouM lie ve ' W uncomfortable, were he not so lost in thout ht. This fact akriie, his intense application makes the picture an appi opriate one for a lil:!rar ' , as it rcjiresents a jierson so lost in his stud}-, that he kmows nothing; ' of what is i ' oinj ' on aroun.d him. Perhaps he is w orkin,i ' out his ] lan fo the takins. of Constantinople. The l)ack!4a-ound. the chair and the box, are of var ' inj:; ' tints of brown, the floor is brown-g ' re.n. the coat Idack. the fur cape wdiite, and the lap-roVjc red, all dull shades ; and }-et wdien the sun is shinino ' the picture fairh ' s ' lows wdth colo ' , althou!4 h there is nothing brigdit in it, except a few high tones of red and of wdiite. To have a picture of such quality liefore one, is an art education in itse ' f. It grows on a.])er. on, until, before he knows it, he is quite converted to that style of painting whatever ma_ ' ha ' e l)een his jirevious l -.lief. LIIiR.-VRlAN. Library Staff Ld ' rariaii, ? [ks. Kati-; Si i iCr ' AKo Hjnics, A. I L Sfiu ctits ni Librin y IVojk -Miss Fi ' KN .Adams M iss . iiin (■AiiKiiq, IMiss Saoii ' ; 1Ja is Cdtologuers ie i ' ()R H. hloppK Wj.mjam Ik Stok.ai Francis F. Patrick Thomas B. Smith Hkcek H. Gibson Linn W. IIatti ' RSlev Cari ' A ' Swi ' ET 1S5 The Fusser ' s Union BY BUELAH RECTOR FIRST PRIZE IF HE could have found one person in whom were centralized the qualities he most admired in girls he would have spared himself and society complications. But he was not built on that plan. His affections were mercurial. They not only shifted readily but shifted over goodly areas. His thermometer could register at once, at either blood or fever heat, Agnes, Adah, Julia or Polly. By the time he had b.een in college two years people began to understand him and knew what to expect, and foolish indeed was the girl who would allow herself to stake too much on the words or actions of William Palmer Buffum. He was too willing to lead a girl to believe that he would live or die for her. Generally it is well for a girl not to fall in love until she has been asked, but in the case of W. P. Buf?um it was better not to do so even at request. After his first few af?airs it came as natural for Billy to say nice things as it was for him to tie his neck tie every morning, and he did it with no more concern. Billy was a Junior and in several ways no discredit to his class. An animate Hart, Schafifner and Marx could not have made a better appearance. He was medi- umly tall and lithe of figure with eager blue eyes and light hair. You would not have stopped to analyze his features; you knew that they were well selected and well arranged and that was sufficient. His carriage was individual and striking, and was the pride of campus, track or drawing-room. Billy ' s grades would have been satisfactory if he could have found time from outside work to devote to his studies. But where is a college youth who can manage a basketball team, chairman social committees do the society honors for four girls and still draw A ' s from the meager supply that professors have on hand ? If there had been no petticoats about to be- witch his ear with their gentle rustle Billy would have done admirably. Many of the fellows agreed that he should have chosen a men ' s college; yet at the same time they were glad he had not done so for Billy was generous with the senior Bufifum ' s monthly allotments and always free with an excellent brand of tobacco. Take it all in all Billy was a good fellow. The girls liked him for his masterful way; his worldly wise airs; and the extravagance with which he lavished the favored with flowers and confections was not exactly to be discouraged. At the close of the first semester Buf?um was dividing time and attention be- tween Agnes Lathrop, Adah Westcott, Julia Long, and Polly Weeden. That trouble might possibly arise from such a course had indeed occured to Billy but just how to avoid it was difficult to determine. In a serious moment he had once at- tempted to reduce his list but he found it an impossibility. Agnes with her pretty, velvety ways and natural attractiveness he decided he could not very well drop. She was a sort of luxury like Huyler ' s and he needed a certain amount of sweets. How about Adah? No, that would never do. Burnham Westcott, her brother, was one of his closest friends. And Adah was so delightful anyway. She could play like an angel and her fame as a mistress of the chafing dish might well have captivated any man. When club fare grew monotonous it was convenient to run up to Wescott ' s. Adah he connected with his comforts as he did a cheerful fire and the evening paper. Then there was Polly who could h andle a racquet and a paddle as well as W. P. himself. She was a racy, happy-go-lucky of nineteen and an amazing good 186 comrade. For horse back rides in Spring time and Fall and for long country jaunts he preferred Folly. He wouldn ' t part with Polly. She was another luxury, — a lemon phosphate with a little sparkle and a faint flavor of lime. And there were times when such a mixture could delight Billy to an ecstatic point. As for Julia Long she was not to be debated for a moment. Julia was a neces- sity. She was the gray eyed philosopher who camly smoothed the wrinkles out of the troubled soul. Get Julia to read your palm and she was irresistable. You were always finding out something new about Julia. And she was also an admirable person to take out. She never failed to make a good impression and wherever she went people turned to look at her. At the Komian luncheon this quartet happened to occupy one table. It also happened that Polly asked Julia if she had been invited to the Kneisel Concert. No, she hadn ' t nor had any of the rest. None of us invited! Polly gasped. Well I guess Mr. Buffum ' s invitation is not out yet. No one seemed offended and Polly kept on. Whose turn is it anyway? With a little calculation it was decided in favor of Adah. Polly dropped a lump of sugar in her coffee with a splash. Girls, don ' t you, don ' t you get-er-sort of tired of Billy ' s way of doing thing ? I do. You can ' t help liking him though, can you? Yet it vexes me so. A pair of grey eyes, a pair of soft brown eyes, and a pair of blue ones all agreed with Polly ' s wrathful assertion. Well, why do we allow it to go on? He ought to spend more time with the boys and over his books. But you tell him that and he won ' t believe it, Adah smiled. He ' ll just catch hold of your hand and tell you how unhappy he should be if he never saw you. Yes, Agnes breathed, that is precisely what he would do. I don ' t quite see how we could discipline him, Julia. Polly ' s cheeks burned. It isn ' t as though any one of us had lost our hearts. No, they assented, not at all. Then let ' s do something. All right, let ' s. So it was over the Komian coffee that the association called the Fussers ' Union was organized. These rules were adopted: (1) Each member of the society shall be alloted a day on which day only shall she accept invitations from William Palmer Buffum. (2) On no other day than the day alloted shall any member of the Union pro- vide any entertainment for Mr. Buffum or have any dealings whatsoever with Mr. Buffum. 187 (3) Each member shall assist Mr. Buffum in extending to herself an invitation to the Hanover Banquet. The days of the week were then divided between the four, no dates being al- lowed for Monday ' s, Saturdays and Sundays. Schedule of the Fussers ' Union. Tues. Wed. Thurs. Fri. Adah Agnes Julia Polly At ten o ' clock on the following morning Adah received a telephone call. A pleasant masculine voice announced that Mr. Buffum was talking and would be de- lighted to have the pleasure of Miss Adah ' s company to the Kneisel Quartet. What day was the concert scheduled for? Oh! Wednesday. Well, that was unfortunate but she would be unable to accept any invitation for that day. A message later showed that Agnes had received the second call and as she was Miss Wednesday, had accepted. During the coming week Billy was baffled more than once. It seemed as though he had to run through the entire list of favorites before he eould make any engagement. Even Agnes whom he thought could never be anything but sweet and gracious was quite capable of changing her warm, sunny smile to a cold little nod that made him think of turning up his overcoat collar. On Adah ' s day he called at the Westcott ' s to sip tea in the music room. Adah played for him and his susceptible nature was so wrought upon that he did a very rash thing. He brought up the subject of the Hanover Banquet. That earl} ' in the Fall he had as much as asked Julia for the Banquet date had quite slipped his mind. Did you know the date had been changed, Adah? Adah expressed surprise. ' In two weeks, do you say Billy? Why that is pretty soon., ' Yes, Billy looked reminiscent and then that quality of responsiveness got the better of him. Do you remember whom you went with last year? Indeed I do Billy, and we had a splendid time too, didn ' t we? At least 1 did. Say we, Adah. Don ' t you think it is almost worth trying again? Adah blushed and Billy caught her hand. If he weren ' t so frckle and fluctuat- ing, — for a moment she almost thought it might be possible to think a good deal of Billy. They were returning from a walk in the country, Billy and Polly, and had paused to rest a while on a stile. William P., was picking Spanish needles out of Polly ' s skirt. Here is my chance, thought Miss Weeden. Her tone became confidential. Did you know I was to go to the Hanover Banquet with Roger Conway and he has had to leave school. His family are moving South and he has to go along, too. Buffum looked into Polly ' s troubled face. Oh, you think I am asking you to take me, don ' t you Billy Buffum! Polly exclaimed with feigned hauteur. But what she predicted happened. 188 You will go with me, Polly if I ask you, won ' t you? Tru t him to do it up with all the dramatic touches. On the second week of the Union ' s exhistence, Billy met the quartet at Clough ' s. Agnes looked up when he came in and favored him with one of her best quality smiles. But Julia paid not the slightest attention; Polly was absolutely in- different and Adah might not have known he wa present. Billy was disconcerted and his good spirits were not restored until afternoon when he chanced to meet Agnes returning to Pillsbury Hall. Under her soothing manner he forgot the morn- ing ' s discomfort. He suggested that they drop into the Tea Room before going back. Poor Billy! before the tea and the chat were over he had inadvertently pledged himself to the fourth girl for the evening of the twenty-seventh of January. The twenty-seventh was at hand and no member of the Union had heard any- thing more definite from their victim. Perhaps he was unaware that he had fallen into the trap. At all events he must not continue in such a state of ignorance. That the matter might be brought more forcibly to his attention, an informal even- ing was arranged at the Long ' s and Billy with a few of the other boys was invited in. That night the Fussers ' Union played its last stroke, and Bul um learned by four different methods and from four different girls that he had made four engage- ments for the Hanover Banquet. He returned to his room, nervous, but with a purpose in his heart to bear it through with an easy grace. There was just one thing for him to do. In the morning he made a visit to the florist ' s and selected four varieties of flowers. Even that critical organization the Fussers ' Union bore testimony to the fact that in cer- tain lines Billy ' s taste was unimpeachable. For Adah, violets; for Agnes, hyacinths; for Julia, American Beauties; for Polly spicy red carnations and with each he ex- pressed his regrets that it had suddenly become necessary for him to leave town, in all probability not to return until after the twenty-seventh of January, thus making it impossible for him to fulfill his engagements for that evening. However a sub- stitute had been arranged for each girl. With the opening of the new semster Billy B. was once again stepping across the campus with his old time grace and favoring the community with his good looks. And strangers once more asked who might be the young man of the eager blue eyes and smiling mouth. But Billy had changed. The society column less frequently reported Mr. William Palmer Buffum Jr., among those present, and at the same time the professors were caused to agree that Buffum ' s work was im- proving. Indeed Mrs. Buffum wrote her son, We are delighted with the grades that have been sent home while the senior Buffum added, Your expenses have decreased this semester and are now more within the limits of a young man not yet on a payroll. How are you economizing? 189 J -y pJ lg Dreams elusive, ever fleeting, Come upon me in the gloam, FIRST PRIZE POEM Faces of the long past greeting. Dreams elusive, ever fleeting, V. H. HOPPE Shapes of old familiar meeting- Twilight, and the thoughts of home. Where art thou, my Alice, Alice With thy soul of melody, Lips as sweet as flowers chalice — Where art thou, my Alice, Alice, Ah, the years with bitter malice Heaping ruins over thee! Come yet nearer, it is lonely, Thy dear face so pale and dim Once it blossomed for me only. Come yet nearer, it is lonely — Shadows, had I never known thee I would deem this fancy ' s whim. Haunt me then the loveliest vision Ever given to calm and bless, Time, we mock thee in derision — Haunt me then the loveliest vision Soothe life ' s weary indecision. Every zephyr thy caress. 190 B Y Tove, exclaimed Stant, if I ' m going to catch that 4:07 train, I ' ll have to move on! He made a hasty change of clothes and grabbing his suit case rushed for the depot. Within a block from said depot he thrust his hand into his pocket, then came to a sudden standstill. Ye Gods !— left it in my other pants! He pulled out his watch — 4:05, he groaned, and not a cent within shooting dis- tance. Confound my blundering wits! Now I have just one minute to get some money and one more minute to catch that train, or Jack West will have a wedding with his best man fifty miles away. He tried to concentrate his mind on some plan and viciously snatched up a whirling paper fragment which distracted his attention. Then he drew a long whistling breath — A five spot as I live! he gasped. That fool girl there on the curb with her pocket-book wide open lost it, I ' ll wager. .Well, she look s as if she could aflford to do without for a day or two. Say, that ' s Fan Winter ' s cousin, Marjorie Vance. Well, I ' ve just got to have this now, and I ' ll mail her a fiver tomorrow. And he made a dash for the train. Marjorie Vance had left home in plenty of time to do a little shopping and then catch the 4:07 train. Things would hinder though and finally she found she had but two minutes to catch the train. She was within a block from the depot and was opening her pocket-book to get out her ticket money ready. Why! she exclaimed under her breath, Why how could I have been so careless! Oh, dear! Now I ' ve not a cent and not five minutes to get any, and Madge ' 11 never forgive me if I ' m not at her wedding! She stood still in a frantic efifort to plan some way out. She was about to give up in despair when her eyes inadvertantly fell upon a slip of paper fluttering on the breeze. Well! of all things! she exclaimed, frantically closing her hand on it. Here ' s my help right out of the hand of providence. The one who lost that bill did mankind (and incidentally, womankind) a favor. There, that man lost it. He ' s standing like a silly with his pocket-book wide open. Well, judging from appearances, he can afford to do without it temporarily. I ' ll find out from cousin Madge who he is. She knows everybody that is anybody and he evi- dently is somebody. I ' ll mail him the amount tomorrow but I simply must have it now. And she raced for 4 107 train. Of course they saw each other at the wedding, but each felt assured of the other ' s ignorance of the circumstances, so no embarrassment was suffered by either. By the next morning ' s mail Stant dispatched the following note : My Dear Miss Vance : Enclosed is the five dollars wdiich you lost on N. St. yesterday afternoon. Please pardon my delay in returning it. Very truly, Stanton Gill. 191 A Matter of Money SECOND PRIZE STORY BY MILDRED THORNE Stant didn ' t realize that only an uneas cimscience cimld lia e dielaled such a ridiculriusl}- inconsiteiit missive. ( )n the evening ' s mail he received the follow ing- note: My Dear Mr. Gill: iMielosed is the five dollars which 1 found on N. St. esterdav afternoon. I knew it was }-ours hut was liindered from rAurning it to -ou earlier. Trul -, Makjorii.: .S. V. kc l. He read the note tliree times in I ' apid succession. Then u itli the expression of one who might he seeing things he addressed the chandelier: Now, what in thunder can this mean? What do you suppose — ? Who- ever could have — ? Then his face changed from passive to active. He rubbed his head as if searching for an unusually soft spot, then pointed out some facts to a projected self. Well chappie, you have done it. You have planted your foot squareh- and firmly in it. You have acceptably proven to the young lady your kleptomaniacal propensities. You have introduced and e.xhiljited before the world a new and prodigiously attractive genus. You have — ! ( )h, Lord - ! She knew all about it then. She naturally supposed I picked it up to return it to her; then, when I calml} ' walked oft with it, she took this way to show me mv horoscope! All the way to the Hotyn-Warbury dinner he racked his brain for a possible decent phase in which to regard his unfortunate action. Stant ' s subconscious mind led him to greet his hostess Init the obvious pre- occupation of his thoughts ]:)elied his cordial remarks. J lr. Gill, I want you to meet i Iiss Vance, she was sa ing. He bowed deeply to cover his confusion. It afterwards occurred to him how wonderfully easily he had succeeded in fading from that part of the room. Marjorie was dressed in pink. Stant noted to himself that he generallv liked pink but that that shade was certainl_ - unbecoming to Aliss Yance. He had been vainl}- daft to meet said young lad} ' previous to this miserable monev aft ' air, and now he ' d met her twdce since it. How charming and entertaining- she must think him! Nice promising beginning to an ac(|uaintancc wdiich lie had once hoped might be more than friendship. The rest of the evening was a series of dodges and perigrinations. The moment Miss Vance appeared on the horizon — Stant sought occupation in far distant scenes. His friends noticed his uneas} mein and several suggested con- fidentiallv that he was in love. W ' hatever was his trouble, his social nature had suft ' ered a marked blight. He had at last taken refuge behind some high palms. He glanced waril} around then relaxed for a few moments. Ten more minutes and I can leave this infernal place, he muttered, then smothered a groan. Oh, unkind fate ! there she is and. Horrors ! she dropped her fan ! That means I ' ve got to pick it up. I was a cad once, but I won ' t be again. He braced his nerves to face tlie music and stepped up to her with the fan. 192 She had just at that moment missed it, and as she turned to look for it, came suddenly face to face with him. Oh! she exclaimed, with a little intaking of her breath. Her thanks died in her throat, and when she again found voice she said with a despairing little wail : Oh, dear! I ' ve been hiding from you all the evening, and here in the very last minute I ' ve plunged right into you — ! Why, Miss Vance! he stammered, You ' ve been hiding from r ! You ' ve been hiding from Jiicl Why, why should you hide from iiic? Now me, he floundered hopelessly, me, I ' ve been hiding from you all the evening! Really I couldn ' t look you in the face. I ' ve run from every pink dress here dozens of times tonight. You see it was like this — But Marjorie ' s surprised voice broke in — But you see I was so mortified about that affair the other afternoon, and when your note came this evening and I couldn ' t understand it — ' But, Slant interrupted, you see, when your note came, I knew that you knew, and I knew what you must think of me, and — But I was the one in the wrong, Marjorie began again — I was the one who took the money and I knew it was you who had lost it — But I hadn ' t lost any. It was I who took it when I knew it was yours, Stant began to utter bewilderment. Well I hadn ' t lost any either, answered Marjorie, you see I didn ' t have any money and I had to catch that 4 107 train. Why that was just my fix, said Stant. Well, wasn ' t it your money? Then whose was it, she asked in a troubled voice. Oh, blessed if I know whose it was, the poor man replied. At any rate I ' ve got the five dollars, and don ' t want it. I have too, said Marjorie, I won ' t throw it away, but I certainly won ' t use it again. What shall we do ? Stant ' s spirits began to revive with surprising rapidity. After a moment of consideration, he suggested: I ' ll tell you, why not compromise? Say we spend it in partnership, will you? Yes, she agreed slowly, then stopped a moment. Let ' s see, I ' ll take you to the theater Wednesday night. Now what are you going to do ? O, that ' s easy, then I ' ll send you flowers for Wednesday evening — how ' s that? She laughed lightly — It ' s all right, I guess, she said, only I think I have the best of the bargain. Your welcome to it all, then he lowered his voice — and me into the bargain, he continued in a tone Marjorie thought inappropriately earnest. Don ' t be silly, she remarked, with cooling inflection and started off to- wards the door. Stant stopped being silly, then, but before many days, he began again. And then he was very silly ; but Marjorie didn ' t seem to mind it. Indeed, as the passing days became passing weeks, she was increasingly inclined to be just a little silly herself. 193 At twilight when I sit within the room The Lflnd of where everything is silent, and it all Takes on new shapes and meanings in the gloom, Used=To=Be I see within the shadows distant scenes ( )f long past days, the ever dear, the far SECOND PRIZE POEM BY MAUD MILLER That In my fancy dwell — so sweet they are. The moonbeams glimmer and I seem to see Within their gentle radiance, the eyes Of long remembered friends that speak to me. Ah well, the world may frown, the days dawn da But from their cares and troubles I can flee To that dear twilight land of Used-To-Be. For only fragrant memories remain To fill that shadow land with thoughts as sweet As if mv heart had never suffered pain. Old faces smile and loving hands clasp mine And in the trees without, that whisper low Sound the soft voices I loved long ago. Old griefs are healed within that hour at eve. And restless longings cease beneath the spell That Nature and my fancy round me weave. For in the silence of the starry world Night after night there is revealed to me The beauty of the land of Used-To-Be. And though in life my spirits may be tossed By every troubled wind — though all my hopes Mav fall like leaves in Autumn and be lost, One thing I love the world can never harm, Secure and treasured it abides with me. The silent shadow land of Used-To-Be. 194 King Hall BY KARL H. ESCHMAN FORTIFIED, as it is, by many guards and the redoubtable Miss Barker — who is a host in herself — King Hall is a fortress to be assaulted only by a very brave man. Forced by necessity, and thinking myself as brave as any man, I determined to make the attempt. HO IH© I say, I was forced by necessity, and dire necessity indeed it was. Why « PT t) should the guards of the fair ones enforce such rigid rules? Why shut them up behind iron bars of discipline? A day or so before I had just found out to my sorrow and the other one ' s delight, I suppose, that — Before we girls can have company to a stunt, the gentleman must call, so you see }0u must — three thirty to four thirty Thurs- day, and all this with such a pretty smile and look that I was caj itured, and said that I would die in the attempt. Whereupon she gave me another smile that smote me to my heart of stone and I resolved by all that ' s lovely, — ( this was not too sacred, for there she stood before me) — that next Thursday I would make the attempt. This was Monday. How I ever lived through those three days was a miracle. The fellows were in for giving me a dose of spirits, I was so in need of them. You see, I was writing out my speech (I am no hand at extemporaneous talks) and I spent all the time cutting out here and adding there until Wednesday evening I had some talk I reckoned equal to any kings. Wednesday night my sleep was troubled by visions terrible. The maid who answered the door was a demon and dragons hissed and spouted on every side. Of course I bucked my 2:30 Latin and I ' ll swear to any one who is incredulous that I spent just two hours and thirty-three minutes dressing. Also, on same oath, to-wit : that I tied my tie just thirteen times. Thirdly, that I shined my shoes until the flies played toboggan on the polish. At last came the supreme moment. Up the Sem walk, to the very domain of the demon, I went. I felt as if I were in another world. Everything looked so unnatural from my strange viewpoint. There I stood before the portals, wondering how soon the demon maid would come. After some five minutes I remembered that I had not rung the bell. At once, I made a lunge at the nearest one ; for here was a group of laughing Sem girls coming down from Burton. They very prettily asked me if I was waiting for some one. But their voices seemed to me as the sharp tones of a cross-cjuestioning, tangle-you-up lawyer. I told them I had just rung the bell. What, that bell ? and the whole crowd became a sea of convulsive laughter. Now you ' ve done it. That ' s Miss Barker ' s bell. She ' ll be down in a minute. And thus they left me. On came Miss Barker. I gave her my card and told her the name of the fair one. She said that she would see her, but asked me very sarcastically if I took her for the maid. After being set right on this point she led me inside the Castle walls, through the courtyard and into the reception room and left me to my fearful thoughts. Far above me, on the third heaven, a row 195 of cherub-like faces peered over the raihng at me. Finding me an interesting sight, as you know, they told the same by wireless to the other floors and soon other faces were enjoying my plight — poor mortal that 1 was. Down came my Arabella like a queen, condescending to talk with her pet fool ,and led me, out of pity, from their laughing eyes. By this time, everything was in a whirl. My speech had left me and my thoughts were scattered as the driving leaves. How I ever finished the call, I never knew, but one thing I can tell you — ■ My girl was the fairest of the fair and she looked so pretty at the stunt, that I forgot all the troubles of my first besiegal of King Hall. 196 Bright shines the sun on the hillsides brown, On the wayside that ' s bitten with frost. Brightly, coldly, it shines on the fields, And the woods by the north winds tossed. The trees stand naked; the flowers are gone; The meadows and pastures are bare ; And the tints of Autumn on Nature ' s garb We see no longer there. The sun grows dim and the wind blows west, And the sky looks gray at night; The signs of a storm are felt in the air, And seen in the moon ' s pale light ; The pine trees whisper, the hemlocks sigh. As their branches come and go ; And the snow-birds twitter with great delight At the thought of the coming snow. And soon the silent snowflakes fall, As the east winds gently blow. Thicker and faster they hurry down To the desolate fields below. They fall on the meadow and pasture lands ; On the walk and gravel drive, They cover the withered clover leaves, And keep the grass alive. Bright burns the fire on the family grate, With a warm and cheering light; Glad are the hearts that gather ' round On a cold December night; Merry the laughter that rings through the house. As the children are busy at play ; Warm is the love in the mother ' s heart For her dear ones far away. The sleigh bells ring on the frosty air, With a glad and merry chime. Telling the message we love to hear, Of the coming Christmas time. Ringing sweet music of heavenly love. Sweet as the tones of that morn, — Tones that burst from the angels ' lips. Proclaiming that Jesus was born. Happy are we as the time draws near For turkey and Christmas pie ; Happy to go to the dear, old home Where our loved ones wait and sigh. ' At last we are there, united as one. In that home so beloved and dear. Welcomed and greeted a thousand times : Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. 197 The Twentieth Century Individual BY FRED R. MCARTHUR, ' 08 t4 ' ' Jp] HE man who lives for himself alone lives for a small purpose. There is no problem of more importance to the individual of the twentieth century than that of his own relation to the social world of which he IS a unit. lAlan ' s essential nature and his real place in society must be realized before he can intelligently apply himself to the material ends of life. There are two oene-al conceptions of the individual ' s relation to society. The first is, that he lives not as a segregate being but only as a member of the great social organism of which he is a part; that he is utterly incapable of determining the mighty external forces which he resists or obeys ; and that the laws of existence are independent of human will and hopelessly crush all who willfully or ignorantly oppose them. ( )pposer to tliis theory, is the conception that the individual is dominant in human affairs ; that he has power within him- self to turn the tide of his social surroundings; and is capable of realizing his own personal desires if he has the inclination and energy to struggle for them. Though directly opposite, it must be granted that both of these concep- tions are true to a certain degree; but to discover wherein this truth lies we must study the individual in history as well as the individual of the twentieth century. There can be no doubt but that the life of one man has given color to the entire age in which he lived, as a drop of blood must color the basin of water into which it falls; and it is beyond question that the prevailing charac- teristics of a social community as a whole characterize the individuals who make it up, just as the attributes of saLness and wetness characterize each drop of water which enters into the composition of the mighty ocean. In this re- spect the individual is a distinct being and his influence, whether positive or negative, must essentially modify the age in which he lives to the fullest extent of his characteristic tendencies. While on the other hand, since he is only a small unit in the complex whole, the brilliant color of his own life must of necessity be dimmed as it diffuses into the deeper color of the age. But if we consider the place which the individual has occupied at different stages in the development of the race, we will find that his power to direct the course of human events depends entirely upon the spirit of the age in which he lives. There have been periods in history when the individual has been so completely lost sight of that his influence as a personal being has had no more significance than the snow flake which falls into the running stream. The in- dividual of the Middle Ages was himself no factor in determining his own destiny. He was carried away and swallowed up in ignorance and superstition by the greed of Feudalism regardless of his personal desire or power to resist. On the other hand, we may point to times in the history of the world when opposing forces were so equally balanced that the life of a single man has turned the whole trend of civilization. Martin Luther .is supposed by many to have been the instigator of the Reformation, but he was not. Had the same Martin Luther lived six centuries earlier, his life and his influence would have perished forever under the supreme authority of Medieval Scholasticism. But 198 the spirit of the age in which he Uved was in his favor. Preparations for a Reformation were in process long before Luther was born. Hundreds and hundreds of Hves before his had been turned against CathoHcism and its in- creasing evils until there existed a hidden force nearly as strong in the op- posite direction. Luther ' s life was simply the weight which turned the balance. The same prnciple can be applied to the lives of all men who have turned the trend of history. The dominance of the individual in human affairs depends upon the spirit of the age in which he lives. We are living in an age of complex forces. The twentieth century is by no means an age of dominant authority. It is an age of freedom, intellectually, spiritually and sociologically. It is an age in which the individual is free to work out his own salvation. Yet, in the past two decades, we have seen marked tendency towards the combination of forces. J rge enterprizes of every description have swallowed up the small. Trusts, labor-unions, and combinations of all sorts and sizes have been formed, and all this has been done at the expense of individualism as a social force. This should be a signal of warning, for if historv is true it indicates a coming condition of society which is not only to be feared and dreaded, but which in other ages has proved fatal to the development and prosperity of the race. The individual of modern society holds a position peculiar to his own age. In a broad sense, he is free to get what he wants if he has the energy to struggle for it. But there rests upon him a tremendous responsibility. He is not only free to mould his own personal character, and to realize his own personal desire, but he is also free to influence the community in which he lives. Forces are so complex and so evenly balanced along numerous lines that the individual of to- day, as never before in the history of the world, is permitted to exercise a do- minating influence. This influence may be either for good or for evil. The man who uses his freedom to fulfill his own selfish ends is usually blind to the needs of society and his influence contributes to the side of evil rather than to that of good. As parasites thrive on the nourishment derived from their wither- ing hosts, so such men prosper at the expense of the community in which they live. On the other hand, the man who chooses his place of life as a servant of all and uses his freedom on the positive side contributes an influence towards the fulfillment of the needs of the social world. The world prospers because such men are in it ; but its progress is slow because such men are few. The individual, in America at least, is free to choose his own calling in life. Education from the lowest to the highest is within reach of all. Nothing but ill health can prevent a determined man of the present day from getting the best education that our country offers in whatever line he may choose. And when his education is completed, the world holds out to him a thousand vacant places into which he has but to step to lay hold upon the realities of life, leaving him still free to choose the place which serves best the interests of humanity at large, placing no limitations upon his own individual powers. 199 Thus far we have shown the significance of tlie indivichial in the present age. Let us now consider his moral obHgations to the social organism of which he is a part. Christianity and man ' s moral obligations to his fellow man from the standpoint of the teaching of Jesus has introduced a new feature into his problem ; but this is a phase of the question with which we are not dealing at present. Man is under moral obligations to society in a sense entirely apart from the principles of the Christian Religion. He is one unit in a mighty whole and his life exerts a positive influence in the growth and development of the race only in so far as it stands for the principals of truth and right. Uriiess the individual has something to contribute which will positively add to the bet- terment of humanity, it were better for the race, that a millstone be hanged about his neck and sunk in the depths of the sea. We believe in a conscious immortality of the soul and the future life in another world, but there is an immortality in this world which is no less im- portant. We not only live and wield an influence in our time, but we continue to live and to wield an influence in the lives of prosperity. Thus our moral obligations are increased in geometric ratio. We are responsible not only for the progress of our own age but for the progress of all future ages. Our children both inherit our tendencies and are moulded in chao-acter by the environ- ment which we place about them. The latter is true with reference not only to our own children but to all others as well. The influence of one life upon the younger lives of its time cannot be over estimated. On the basis of the two propositions upheld, namely ; that the individual of the twentieth century is free to choose his calling in life ; and is morally bound to contribute to the healthy growth and development of the social world, let us draw our final conclusions as to what should be his position in modern society. To serve the ends for which we have argued, he must first of all have a fixed purpose and a determination to carry it out. That purpose, in the most general sense, must be to oppose the forces which tend to deminish the value of the mdividual life; to uphold the principles which promote a healthy moral tone; and to render some service to humanity which will positively add to its better side. In the second place, to carry out such a purpose he must be willing to fight, willing to fight his own selfish nature as well as external forces. No man is under obligations to anyone to apologise for his own existence. He must have courage to stand alone. The man who dares to be somebody, and who dares to do something as an individual is the man who exerts a positive in- fluence for right. We need more such men. They are fewer than they ought to be. We need them at bars of justice, we need them in legislative chambers, we need them in the business world, and we need them in the common walks of life. In a land of free and liberty-loving people, we need them most of all at the polls. The citizen of a country which gives him the very freedom which he enjoys is duty bound to live for its welfare and honor. If on election day be allies himself with political despotism instead of principles of freedom, he 200 I casts a vote which drives a nail in the coffin of his country. The responsibility of the individual in modern society cannot be over estimated. Let him be positive. Let him stand for his own convictions of right, even if he must stand alone. Let him live a clean life with an honest purpose to up- lift humanity, to increase happiness, to purify politics, to stamp out evil, and, above all else, to value the individual life at its true worth. The man who lives with such a purpose will himself attain to the highest realms of material hap- piness and will render to the world the best service that it is possibe for a man to give. Nothing can count more for the advancement of civilization than the position of the individual on the side of the truth and right. 201 Why stranger, I ' m mighty glad you stopped — Wantin ' some dinner you say ? Miles to town an ' you might a dropped. So hot on the road today ; Step right ' round to the kitchen door We ' re homely folks you see, No one livin ' here any more — ' Ceptin ' jes ' mother an ' me. Want to be restin ' out here in the shade? Dinner is dishin ' I guess, You ' ll be tastin ' the biscuits ' at mother made An ' chicken — you smell it, yes Nothin ' like biscuits an ' gravy when You feel like a holler tree — Why, ain ' t had a visitor, dunno when — No one but mother an ' me. Purtiest farm ' at a heart could ask, Why yes, we ' re a keepin ' her neat, Tell you it warn ' t no child ' s task To get this ' ere land on its feet ; Forty year since I started in, Ten acres, mortgages three — Hard times I grant you it must a been. Hard days fer mother an ' me. Look at them hands as gnarled as a root, Blackened an ' thickened an ' tough. Look at these pesky old shoulders to boot, Years a been usin ' me rousfh ; Sue when I married her laughin ' an ' gay, Had curls jes ' as brown as could be, But the locks are gone an ' the scant hair is gray — Old folks is mother an me. Little by little the acres grew Orchard an ' meader an ' wood. We worked every foot an ' we loved it too An ' we praised the Lord fer His good ; Then arter while our Alice came, Dimpled an ' cunnin ' an ' wee — Seemed like the world warn ' t ever the same, But dif¥er ' nt fer mother an ' me. 202 C) those mornin ' s in spring with the dawn in the east An ' the smile of peace o ' er the hihs, With the lark all awhir an ' the leaves all astir An the sound of the tricklin ' rills. O those evenin ' s in spring when the twilight an ' moon Mingle soft as an angel ' s plea An ' our hearts were so young an ' our lives in tune — All mem ' ries fer mother an ' me. Fer Alice she growed jes ' as little gals will, Pinafores turned into frocks, Fillin ' the day with her childish trill, Saucily shakin ' her locks ; Growed up one day an ' went off to school ' Way over a far lyin ' sea — With a voice like she ' s got to stay hum would he cruel, ' Cordin ' to mother an ' me. Reckon she ' ll ever come hack to the farm? Mebbe, to visit a spell ; - But the folks she ' s a-meetin ' have larnin ' an charm, She ' s fine eddicated as well ; Seems tho as if it jes couldn ' t be true Never to set on my knee Nestlin ' so lovin ' — but yesterday, too, Prattlin ' to mother an ' me. O those days all adrift in their purplin ' cheer An ' the corn in its rustlin ' sheaf, O the fall of the year when our Alice war here An ' the dance of the f rolicin ' leaf ; The wine of the ortum astir in the blood An ' the future ' s all boundless an ' free — But gone is the hour of an incomin ' flood, It ' s ebb tide fer mother an ' me. 203 DEATH is a crisis which no one can evade. It may be regarded as the great- est of all the problems that confront the world of living creatures, and the fear of its advent has profoundly a ected the behavior of man and beast alike. At every threshold the shadowy spectre stands converting sunshine into sep- ulchral gloom and the thrilling melodies of life into funeral dirges. With all the advanced culture of our age, must we still maintain our primeval, instinctive concep- tion of death? May we not rather learn to die intelligently? The purpose of this paper is to suggest a more rational aspect in which to regard the subject, and to show in fact the popular idea of death is a misconception. Life may, in some respects, be compared to the intangible electric current. Scat- tered throughout the area of the city we may find a myriad electric lamps— myriad not only in number but in size, shape and color. Evening comes; the electric cur- rent is turned on, and suddenly each sombre globe flashes with light. The current may be expressed in a thousand different ways, varying from the glimmer of the tiny incandescent to the blinding blaze of the arc light — different expressions but the same current. Sever those lamps from contact with the current. Immediately they cease to be lights and may be reckoned as so much gross wire, carbon, glass, etc. Here is something analogous to the conditions that exist between life and matter. Life is the intangible, unseen potency. Matter is the medium through which that potency expresses itself. And how multiform are these expressions ! The flowers exude the incense of their perfume to the winds; the orchard yearly yields its mellow fruit; the bee laboriously plies its unending task; the feathered hosts go cycling through the nicities of bird-life activities; forest and ocean and ether are crammed with millions of forms, visible and invisiole; and among these hosts that constitute the pulsing world of life, and giving the grandest expression to this im- mortal potency is man. As in the case of the electric current we have a myriad modified expressions, but the same potency. Sever contact with the vital element and we have no longer plants, nor animals, nor men, but only so many gross physical and chemical constituents. But the alalogy does not hold throughout. To be perfect, our electrical system must be capable of progressiveness by means of resident forces. If the carbons and the fuses were capable of self repair; if the incandescent light at some moment of particularly high voltage could project a light of greater intensity; if the direction thus given could continue until the dazzling arc-light was evolved; if this in turn under stress of momentum could hurl forth the powerful blaze of the searchlight — if all this could be done, if the progressive trend could be continued throughout the series, and still the primative and intermediate forms remain established and typical — then our analogy should be more perfect. For these two elements are characte r- istic of life: First, life is persistent. It does not spring into being at the physical birth of the individual. It is a patrimonial inheritance reaching back through cen- turies and milleniums and millions of years — yes, reaching back perchance into the eternities, for who can say but that life is the immortal essence? Second, life is progressive. Evolution is a universal law, and the organic world trends upward. 204 The Philosophy of Death BY G. W. P. From the primitive, undifferentiated cell of protoplasm the spiral of life rises upward, ever upward, and at the apex is man. Now, the transmission of life is through the medium of heredity; and heredity operates through the medium of germ plasm. We know that all organic bodies are composed of two kinds of material; vis, body plasm and germ plasm. Body plasm is local and shortlived. It is the product of the clod, and its destiny is the clod. Germ plasm is the physical vehicle for the transmission of Hfe. It is immortal. The age of Methuselah need not astonish us, for every individual on earth is older. He is physically connected by the links of this organic chain to the very pristine germs of life. Nor is the grave its goal. Its sphere is Hfe— not death. Perfection not dis- integration is its finality. Let the last rose of summer shed its belated petals on the cheerless sod; next June will bring new roses. Let the wounded skylark flutter away beneath the clover to hide itself and die; next year new skylarks will carol the melodies of spring. Let generations of humanity be bourne away and placed in eternal quiescence beneath the silent marble; youths and maidens of the coming years will deck their sod with flowers, and whisper the loves and hopes of life where once did hang the gloomy pall of death. What we call death, therefore, is simply the working out of the metamorphic principle in the organic world. Life, not death, is the supreme element. Suppose we designate the first human being as Adam. Can we, in the more comprehensive sense, speak of him as dead? Not so; he has literally multiphed into what we call Humanity. Leaving the gates of Eden he has trodden the path of the ages, and is standing now at the threshold of the twentieth century. Our conception of death is erroneous because our conception of the individual is too hmited. Human- ity and not the isolated unit is the individual. The single cell in my body bears the same relation to me that I as a unit bear to the larger self, Humanity. Practically speaking, there is not a cell in my body today that was there twelve years ago. But am I dead? There is not a unit in the great Human Organism today that was there twelve decades ago. But has death occured? Never! There has been only the same metamorphosis on a grander scale, and as the shifting shadow on the dial plate of time marks the progress of the centuries humanity keeps on growing, and trending upward through rising series of generations, ever comprehending, ever ex- pressing more and more, the larger and more perfect life. Death may then be regarded as a necessary process of life. In the clover bloom each wosker in a colony of bees crawls from the hive and dies at the age of six weeks. Awful prodigality of life, it would seem but not so, for the workers ' great- est efficiency has been passed. Did they remain, the hive would become congested with effite workers, and the larger existence would be impossible. A nd may not this principle apply even to the human sphere? Life connot be more nobly expressed than in terms of service. Indeed, what is life? I give you this as my definition of hfe: Life is the ability to exert a potency upon the Human Whole. When the unit cell in my body ceases to exert its potency that cell is dead. In hke manner, what normal man cares to outlive his usefulness? Think of the possible results if multiplied generations of men, effite with age, should drag themselves through cen- 205 tunes. No, the natural course is to remove the imperfect body of the father. But he is not dead: his rejuvenated self f nds expression still through the medium of his offspring. And thus, in a perfectly literal sense, he remains intensely alive. Further, death alone makes possible progressiveness in human life. Does not the most cursory knowledge of history tell us that the human race is a growing organism of which the individual is but a miniature? Yet the individual can never attain development unless death keeps on operating within his body, old cells con- stantly giving way to new cells. And is the case any different with the greater Human Organism? Men do not retain their plasticity forever, but as the clay once pliant hardens finally into a definite, rigid shape, so every human life assumes grad- ually a state of fixity, and in time it would be quite impossible to effect a readjust- ment. Suppose death had ceased to operate in the time of Moses; then, obviously humanity would immediately have stultified, and modern civilization would have been impossible. The fact is that even the very old men extant with us are but sorry incarnations of a bygone age. No: Nature ' s plan is different. The goal of one generation is the starting point of another. The mortal and vital processes in the larger self move on in unbroken rhythum. Rigid senescence gives place always to pliable adulescence. Thu. there is uninterrupted growth, and human life with every cycling century becomes a nobler and a diviner thing. Unity, Continuity, Progressiveness— upon the basis of these great facts let us formulate our dogmas of life. Unity, Continuity, Progressiveness— then there is purposefulness in life. Then the terrible struggle for existence does not have its final interpretation in Tennison ' s bloody tooth and claw and Dragons of the prime, That tare each other in their slime. The awful spectacle is softened somewhat. The blood of countless victims be- comes, after all, the holy blood of sacrifice; for has not the unit perished in order to the perfection of the larger self? Unity, Continuity, Progressiveness— then human brotherhood and service and altruism are terms that wear a new meaning. Then death itself becomes a less formidable crisis. Then the failing mortal need not join in Job ' s doleful complaint, I have said to corruption thou art my father: and to the worm thou art my mother and my sister, but rather emphasize with a more optimistic patriarch I shall not die but live. Yes, live! for though no child- life spring from him to perpetuate his own, and like some withered bud he falls again to the primeval sod, yet that of which he is an integral part— the Tree of Live — keeps on casting its branches skyward. Until the last mortal shall have breathed his last breath and this beautious orb that has bourne our race onward through the vistas of time shall have relapsed into primeval chaos; when heaven no more shall breathe the matin of dawn. Let there be Light , or cheer the vesper hour with softe r lights whose filtered rays steel peacefully within the holy shrine of eventide; until the final wreck has come, and this shattered earth like some blackened hull shall drift about the ocean of space, Life not Death shall prevail, and what we call death shall continue simply a meta- morphosis incidental to the achievement of the highest life. 206 Though the day be thick with shadows, And no friendly beam of Hght ToUlOrFOW Struggles through the murky blackness, by c w p To illume thy darkened sight, Woo a promise from tomorrow, Hope beyond the falling rain. For each lowering cloud will lighten — Sunny days will come again. Do the toils of life roll onward, And like boulders block thy way? Are thy prospects all beclouded, Does there come no hopeful ray ? Rise in strength, nor be despondent, Though thy fortune seems to wane. There is promise in the future — Happy days will come again. When we haste to pluck the rosebud. But the thorn doth pierce our hand. Hasten panting to the mirage. Nought to find but glowing sand : When our aim in life deludes us, When our star of hope has fled. Shall we then of life grow weary. Long to rest among the dead? Never : this be still our solace ' Mid the sorrow and the pain : Evil cannot last forever — Happy days will come again. 207 BY THE EDITOR 208 H E of homiktic or philosophic turn may often pick up potential germs of thought in the precincts of the classroom. Miss Barker in her His- tory of Architecture was the other day speaking about the dli erent kinds of furniture, and th- methods of their ornamentation. She em- phasized that ornamentation worthy of the name must be inherent. She pomte.l out the superficiality of the pretty things pasted on. Just then I forgot that a o was waiting to engulf me. I thought of life. As from realms of crudity — from gross utilitarianism — architecture has aspired to gran.leur : as the grotto, hut. or tumulus has at length found nobihty of expression in loftv column, arch and dome, so r o from the sphere of sav- ao-erv and animal struggle man aspires to the beautiful, the aesthetic, the ideal. The hovel and the gothic cathedral may suggest some analogy between the savage and the cultured man. Now in man, as in buildings and furnitun-, there are two kinds of beauty — the inherent and the superficial. Physically, socially, religiously, we observe these elements. In Physical Life: Not much comment is needed here. To look well is a natural and wholesome desire. Are not the various adornments of the human form expressions of the search after the ideal? The savage besmears his body with paint, cuts holes into his cheek and ■ ' beautifies his visage with scars; en- circles his limbs with metal bands, bores holes into his nose and ears for the re- ception of rings and what not. Indeed, from the time when Eve and her husband spliced their vernal o-arments esthetics corporeal have engaged a large share of human thought. To-dav even among civilized peoples are not some of our oToss abuses in dress due to a prinntive and false idea of beauty? Why does the enlightened woman deform and devitalize herself to conform, to a Parisian modeP Is it not the relic of the barbaric ideal? But what is beauty_? The scarred visage of the African? The bandaged foot of the Chinese? The ampli- fications of forms and fashions? No : beauty if it be anything, must be inherent. The human form in its normal, symmetrical development gives the most perfect example of loveliness. If artistic perfection was characteristic of Grecian archi- tecture it was also characteristic of the Grecian form. We to-day refer to the Greek Parthenon as the model of inherent architectural beauty; may not the Greek Venus serve also as a model for the human form of our modern age : The fact confronts us that if one-half the attention given to the decoration of the bodv were given to the body itself, not only should human happiness be argumented, but the highest type of beauty should be achieved— a loveliness such as comes onh with the bloom and vigor of health. _ Now, as to Social Life : Here again ve observe expressions of the esthetic element. Life has enough of the sombre, the unpleasant, the tragic, and in human society the effort is to present only the auspicious and the pleasing. When the great poet compared life to a stage he struck upon a happy simili- tude Over the crude, preparatory, laborious the curtain is mercifully d ' -awn, while we step out upon the social stage, nerved to our best, and give the world 209 Simplicity Reality Integrity icsults. We play a part. Whether that part is an actual presentation of our very selves, or whether we simply conform to a role, we play a part. Hence we have our forms of etiquette, and what not. Every country, every age has had its social codes and customs. And what conditions ! How often has that splendid thing called Life been degraded to a farce ! The history of social methods implores the passing tribute of a sigh. Even to-day, is not the popular social ornamentation simply a matter of gloss and tinsel ? Are not the pretty things simply pasted on? Take some of our socially distinguished; pick off the appendages, and what have we left? The call of the day is for inherent beauty. Etiquette should begin with soul culture. It should not be derived from externalities, but rather be the spontaneous expression of innate refinement. I believe it entirely possible, and regard it as the ideal state that the persona! self and the social self should come together and coincide, and form one grand, indivisible personality. Give us simplicity, reality, integrity. O for a social Phidias ! O for the principle of the Parthenon in modern life ! Now, as to the Religious Life : How the world ' s religious ideals have expressed themselves. Every coherent religious system has had its ritualism. The sekos, the naos, the shrine have conserved and localized the element of divinity among men. Taking our own Christianity, observe how the spiritually beautiful has been sought. Religious ornamentation has too long been regarded as a thing of paint and varnish. The eucharist, the cloister, the cowl, the ritual, baptism in prescribed form, and all the other humdrum of creed and dogma have been thought inseparably associated with spiritual perfection. But we are coming to a different conception ; for beauty in religion as in art must be inherent. The saint is he who toils with integrity in the busy marts of life. Holiness consists not in monastic stagnation, but in the living out of this strenuous life on the higher plane of personal purity and social service. Christianity is not a cowl, or a creed. It is Christlikeness of character. Here again the call is for simplicity, reality, integrity — a religion whose beauty is fraught into the very fabric of one ' s being. A Parthenon. A creed that lives. A theology incarnate — men — women. But I don ' t know whether Miss Barker thought of these farfetched matters when she spoke about furniture. The Realm of Laws Men in the dormotories, did you ever consider the changed conditions that exist at the foot of the hill? You who breathe the atmosphere of freedom, did you ever imagine an existence circumscribed by inflexible rules ? For years previously the Spring Vacation has seen a relaxing of the rigid discipline of Shepardson. The students that spend the holidays in Granville have known the charm of the woodland ramble, and the romance cf a hundred in- nocent stunts which no one but the overwrought student can fully appreciate. This Springtime, alas ! a germ — evil or good, we say not — germinated in some- body ' s brain and the Vacation Regulations blossomed forth. Read them (fac- simile of the rules). 210 All rules for Term time are operative during the Spring vacation with the following exceptions:- No student government regulations - hence upper class-men register at the office on going to Newark. No rule regarding ' ' lights out ' ' providing the halls are quiet in the evening. All walking parties must be chaperoned. This includes visits to the Sugar Camp. The halls may be opened to young men callers every afternoon from 2 to 5 and every evening from 7 to 9 o ' clock. Sun. excepted. There may be attendance upon the evening sessions of the Conven- tion, and Sunday night services with escorts by reporting same to the office. Permissions may be obtained on the day they are used, but calls for a chaperon should be given the day before. Attendance at the Sunday morning service will be optional. Office Hours — forenoon — 8 to 8:30. Office Hours — afternoon — 1 to 1:15. For some beneficent reason Nature has endowed womankind with a sense of the decorous finer than that in man. The normal woman is keenly sensitive to anything approaching impropriety ; and this finer sensibility is her strongest safeguard. It does not need a physicist to calculate etheral vibrations and in- form the musician of a discord. It does not need the prospect of a prison — or any threat of punishment — to let womanhood assert itself. We say woman is more nicely strung than men. Yet what of the men ' s dormitories? With the exception of Robert ' s Rules of Order — a system that has to do rather with furniture and feather pillows than with morals — the men are bound by no rules. According to the Shepardson hypothesis every man here ought to be a villain or approaching the same as a finality. Yet, strange to say, no cleaner, purer type of fellows can be found. Do they need printed or type- written codes to keep them straight? No: Manhood is at once its own law and its own protector. What then ; are the women so far inferior in morals and intellect that they can be restrained only with bars of brass ? We make no protest. Our sisters are as happy as caged canary birds. We only wonder. 211 Vacation Regulations The Problem of the Prof A fellow classman dcc ' arcfl tlic other dnv : T have ni j ronndwork : hence- forth 1 look not for the stud hut for the man. Justin Xixon, the bril- liant I), r. ' o er, remarked at Christmas time that in his opinion the most pn ifita] le |)erio(l of stu(h- was that s])ent in contact w ith a cultured, sympathetic soul. Instructor Stickne - told it in the ])athror)m one morning ' that his best work in the stud of C om])arati e 1 ' s cho ' o_o-y was done as he and Dr. f-ferrick rambled the fields and talked. The jirofessor is a prolilem. To think that the man who received the high- est honors in the scholastic world is the l)est ))re])ared to teach is from the undergraduate ' s standpoint, a sjilendid fallacx. The abilit ' to inspire a man is vasth ' more important than the aliilitx to cram stuii into him. Dnce let an instructor engender a spirit of hostilitx or even apath - in his students anrl he has lost his opportunit -. Education is a thing that must largely be self-acquired. We look to the professor ' s cliair for impetus, inspiration, entluisiasm : and if we fail to find these elements inc-irnated there, then, for laity ' s sake put a jjhono- graph with educated records in the gentleman ' s i .ace ! Many of us are leaving Old Deuisnn different men and women from the creatru ' es who entered some ears ago. 1 ong after the text-books have passed into the anatomv of moth and Ijookworm the jiresence of a |)crsonality will abide. We know the m n and women who have cliicafcd us — led us out. We love them. We think of them and say God bless you! ' ou ha ' e helped me find niv powers, mv possibilities, my life! The professor who simplv sits in his chair and picks holes in the best ei orts his pupils can make, who wields the examination over their heads, much after the manner of Roosevelt and the big stick in the cartoon, who tries to find out how much the stu.lent doesn ' t know and gra ' les him accordingly, who keeps open telephonic conimunic ' ition with the office of the Delinquent Committee — such an individual had better go West for his health. He is a drag and a hindrance to a college. Dr. Herrick used to consider the hour of final examination an hour wasted if the student didn ' t leave the room with a better grip of his subject than when he entered. His examinations were planned with a view to assisting the student to correlate what he did know. The most profitable period of ;:tud - in f)r. Herrick ' s work was frequentlv the period of the final test. Such a method is more or less characteristic of the Denison professor. Let us have more of the more and ' ess of the less. HopKins= ShylocK $ w U he due on this account on or before ! larch i8th, ' o8. If not paid, a fine of 5iOc will be added to it on the following day, 75c the second dav, increasing each week thereafter by 25c. Please give this matter vour attention. I liereb} subscrilie to the alrove on duplicate slip. (E. E. Hopkins.) ' ■ ' 212 ' Tliis kindnvss w ill I show : Go with me U) a notary, seal me the e Your single Ixmd; and, in a merr_y sport, If you repa) ' me not on such a day, In such a place, such sum or sums as are Expressed in the condition, let the forfeit Be nominated for an equal pound Of your fair flesh, to be cut off and taken In wdiat part of vour body it pleaseth me. (Shylock.) WHAT more fitting than that from its very center light should radiate? What is the unspoken motto? Lux fiat. Let there be light. The Hebrew poet with a few master strokes sketches a picture. Darkness. No stars bejewel the encircling dome, but blackness like a Th© pall enshrouding stretches itself across the lapses of space. And blackness thicken- ing into fogs hover mid air like demon pinions; and blackness condensing into tarry oceans rolls in crestless billows round a Godless world. And darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved on the face of the waters. Then suddenly a Voice— and Silence vibrates the primal echo. Let there be light! And from the Great Mysterious, the flashing beam unsheathed cuts like a blade the infernal curtain and bursting through the widening rift the shekinah illumines fo angelic visions the opening panorama of life. And God said, Let there be light — and there was light! Day and night, seen and unseen, patent and obscure — twin characteristics of human life. Part of the way we advance by deductions and syllogisms then we use the interrogation point. Half of our creed is dogmatic and the other half agnostic. Yet man must master the mysterious. His intellect must wring the secrets out of the unknown. His will must triumph over fate. His spirit must compel the fortuitous into the realm of law. Human life must be elucidated; man must solve for himself the problem of his destiny. Ignorance is the putrid soil in which the deadly Upas grows. Ignorance is the atmosphere of the demoniacal. Ignorance is blackness — let there be light. Is it too much to say that ignorance is the sin of sins? Look at the horrors of the heathen world today! See the Indian devotfe holding both arms to heaven, until robbed of power of movement they remain above him, fixed, rigid, bony stumps. Ignorance. Or the African with unmentionable cruelty consigning dead and living to a common mould. Ignorance. The barbarities of the mediaeval ages — the Inquisition. Ignorance. The dark spots upon our own generation — the sin, the poverty, the suffering. Ignorance — above all, perhaps, a miscomprehension of the supreme fact — God. Think of what night must mean for the savage. Think of the solemn stillness broken by the weird canticles of the wood. Think of the sombre and gloominess of 213 Denison Seal the forest or the still more alarming shadows cast by the shimmering moon. Death may lurk in every shadow, and darkness be but the shroud of danger. And so the savage invests the night with all that is spectral and portentious. He observes pale faces moving about in the moonlight; ghost forms tracking his steps hither and thither; burning eyes staring upon him through every crack and crevice of his hut; and finds the spectral even in his dreams. Night — mystery! portent! Some evenings ago I boarded the east bound train at Urbana and in a few min- utes we were covering the many miles that connect that city with the state capital. The night hung heavy around us. But as we cleft the darkness we could observe more and more clearly a broadening streak of gray upon the eastern sky. Was it dawn? Yes, indeed; a dawn which man had wrought for himself. Here was the city of Columbus, and here from ten thousand blazing arcs electric energy held back the invading darkness. I could observe in those illuminations a history as well as an analogy of man ' s struggle with the night. The evolution of light — think of it. See the West Indian slave collecting fire- flies to mitigate the gloom of his hovel; or watch the fitful glare of the Zoroastrian ' s fire; observe all the flicker and flare of savage torch and flambeaux; see the holy tapers glowing in cloister, shrine and vault; trace the evolution of the species of luminaries up to the searchlight that rolls its floods of flame in billows on the sky. Man fighting the night! And so man must master the mysterious. If he does ' nt who is going to do it for him? Night is the established condition, and only persistent endeavor can beat back the billows of blackness. As in ancient Greece, there have been periods of greater illumination; as in later barbaric Rome, there have been times when the all encircling dark has swept in to quench each struggling flicker. But the dark is receding. Civilization marks the triumph of the light. Less of blind faith; more of reason. Less of superstition; more of rational god- liness. Less of the supernatural; more of the natural. Less of tradition; more of truth. Less of creed; more of the Christ. I am the light. I am the truth. Error is blackness — Let there be light! So here we are with this indivisible something — this eternal entity — Life. Here we are groping after the Infinite Intelligence. God is light and in him is no dark- ness at all. The more nearly the human reason approaches the Infinite Mind, the more lucid becomes life. The more fully we incarnate the truth — be it, live it — the more nearly like God we become. Denison we love thee! May the fires never smolder on thy holy crest, but may we, like the friends of Caesar, kindle our faggots in thy sacred flame and bear them broadcast to enkindle new illuminations on this darkened world! -S -1 To be a man is a bigger thing than to be a scientist. These words are printed on the Dedicatory page and are quoted from Dr. Herrick ' s speech delivered in the college chapel during the week of prayer two years ago. Any attempt to descant upon them must in the end be bathos. Dr. Herrick ' s speech follows. It was published in the Denisonian soon after the chapel exercises. We consider nothing in this book more worthy of permanent form. 214 RELIGION, as I look at it, is not a theology; it is a life. It cannot be judged by anv creed or formal confession of faith, and yet, just as we find that physiological life may be strengthened and improved by an attentive study of its basis (biology), so possibly the religious life may be helped by an analysis of its basis. First, the question can fairly be asked of me, as a man of science. Do you find religion necessary to your own full development as a man? To this I answer without qualification, in the affirmative. The question then immediately follows, What kind of a religion? No general answer can be given to that question. Religion to be of any value as religion must be personal ; i. e., it must be adapted to meet the indi- vidual needs of each one. And since no two persons are alike in mental and moral fiber and environment, no two persons can have identically the same religious life — provided it is genuine and efficient. I cannot therefore lay down a religious creed for any one else to subscribe to. But I am ready very cheer- fully to outline my own confession of faith at any time. Some elements of it may be useful to someone else. My creed can be expressed in three proposi- tions which I shall have time now to state with oaly the briefest commentary. I. Believe in Myself. My religion must be personal, and it must adjust in an effective way, to my past, my present and my probable future life. As a biologist I recognize that my past is linked with the whole of organic and inorganic nature. I am the heir to all the ages in a perfectly literal sense, and my religious life, like my physiological life, must strike its roots deep down into nature and nature ' s God. In a word, religion for me cannot be an unnatural thing. It may be super-natural, but only in the sense that its laws transcend the known laws of nature, not that they transgress these laws. The laws of the higher life do not destroy, but fulfill, those of the lower life. An irrational religion is impossible. Something must be wrong with such a religion or such an intellect or both. Religion is something more than senti- ment and gush. Nor, on the other hand, is pure reason of itself religion, or even a possible basis for religion. Deep as is my devotion to science, I have no sympathy with the so-called religion of science. Science is not all of life, and to be a man is a bigger thing than to be a scientist. As the God of nature must be imminent in all nature, else he is no God, so my religion must permeate my whole life to be of any value to me. And the higher life of sentiment, of sympathy, of faith — that which separates us from the brute creation — must receive the largest possible culture, along with the development of the intellectual life, if I myself — the whole man — am ever to attain to true culture. I place, therefore, as my first article of faith, I believe in myself — my whole self — and I look to religion for the keystone of the arch of self culture, which alone can give it either symmetry or stability under the stress of life. 215 2. bclic-i ' c ill God. This, of course, is the carcUnal ])oint on which both of the other articles depend, and I shall not undertake here any defense of it. I merely remark in passing;- that to have faith in ( lod as our h ' ather it is not necessary that we understand his nature completely. Such a demand is not impossible ; it is absurd. I f we with our limitations could understand all about God, he would necessarily be as limited as we are and not the Infinite. Of what possible use to us is such a God? We know plenty of people who worship such gods, whose god is their btlly, their reason, their ambition, their purse. Do we wish to imitate them ? But, while much of the nature of God is unknown to us and he is shrouded in mystery, he is not himself unknowable. And we insist that what we do know of him shall be consistent with the rest of our knowledge. Our con- ception of God, though necessaril)- very incomplete, is not irrational. 3. believe ill Jesus Christ and His cliitreli. I believe in Jesus Christ as an historical person of whose career on earth we have reliable records. I believe in His work and spirit as the most potent agents for the uplifting of humanity that this world has ever seen. Other great spirits among men — Buddha, Confuscius, Mahommed, Socrates, Luther — these all pale into insig- nificance when judged by this standard in comparison with Jesus Christ. It is not necessary in defense of this thesis to construct any elaborate theology regarding Christ or his mission. We frankly recognize that on these points there is honest diiTerence of opinion among those most competent to judge. Conclusions in this field must be based on documents v duch (whatever their origin) have been transmitted to us through the hands of fallible men, and it is quite possible to leave the discussion of such matters to those whose special province it is without detracting in the slightest degree from our appre- ciation of Christ as the most perfect exponent of the character of God and of his relation to man whom the world has produced. The Christology in the theological sense is a very important theme ; but belief in Christ as I conceive it is not necessarily dependent upon any theological dogma, any tradition, any document. It is a belief in a life, which is more virile, more vital and vitalizing to-day in our midst than it has ever been before. Jesus Christ needs no other credential or vindication than what his spirit is doing to-day incarnate in men and women throughout the world to draw out the highest and best expressions of that divine life which has been implanted in each of us. The test for us to use in deciding whether we can believe in Christ are not matters of creed or of theology. The living issues are such questions as whether Christianity is able to make better men and women in daily life, to check self-indulgence, to save the fallen, to protect the family, to promote temperance, peace and active co-operation in philanthropy and spiritual culture. I believe in the Christian church because it stands as the invisible expo- nent of all of these things, and despite the mistakes and crimes beyond number which have been perpetrated in the name of the church, the Christian church 216 has been and still is the ag ' enc ' which pla s the leading- role in the progressive advancement of the human race. 1 believe in the Christian church. You ask, Which Church? Why, simple! there is but one! Any organization which is actively, eiTectively, vital!}- work- ing out into human conduct the spirit of Jesus Christ is a Christian church. If this life is a genuine, personal thing with us, its manifestation, as we saw at the beginning, will not be the same in any two persons. I tell }0u frankly, I do not believe there is a church organization in existence to-day whose creed, if fullv expressed, I could without qualification or reserve subscribe to. Shall I then isolate myself from all other believers? Nothing could be further from the spirit of the age. No, I find that body wdiose sectarian peculiarities are nearest like mv own and without sacrificing one of my own principles en- deavor to combine with them on the more essential points wherein we agree for the sake of more effective organized power in fighting the forces of evil in the world. And I commend to the careful consideration of any man or woman with a lofty purpose in life the question, whether he can afford to dispense with the advantages of church fellowship and organization either for his own sake or for that of the community in wdiich he lives. 217 Fishing A Michigan BY VV. H. JOHNSON ' Do your scales weigh truthfully? No, they were not made to weigh truth; PjJ 0 they weigh fish fully. — Anonymous. N angler with a few fine bass in the bottom of his boat will turn up his nose at the mention of pilce, and no one who has ever played a two pound small- Jj mouthed bass, at the end of suitably delicate tackle, will blame him. But under the stimulus of Dr. Hcnshall ' s radiant enthusiasm bass angling has Northern become so popular as to endanger its own existence. If for no other reason than to give the bass a rest, then, one might well devote a portion of the summer ' s irre- ducible minimum of angling to the pike. But there is something to be said for the pike on his own account. We mean, of course, Esox Lucius, the great northern pike, and none of his poor relations such as E. Vermiculatus, E. Reticulatus or E. Americanus, all of whom fall much farther below him than he ranks beneath E. Nobilior, the one undeniable aristocrat of the entire genus, known under various spellings and varieties of pronunciation as the mascallonge, muskellunge, etc. In the gaunt elongation of his infancy one can- not deny something of that reptilian look which leads his traducers to call him a snake; but give those ravenous jaws time to put fifteen pounds weight along that backbone, and take him from fairly clear and cold water, and you really have a very fine looking fish, to anyone not offended by his huge mouth and the wicked gleam of his eyes. Bring him to the table, and it is merely a question of where he was caught and who did the cooking. If from warm, shallow water, with muddy bot- tom, you had better ask for cold mutton instead, unless your ethics of sportsman- ship forbids you to take the rather strong chances that the so-called mutton was carved from a deer, clandestinely shot out of season in the cedar swamps across the lake. Take your pike from better water, however, where the reeds about which he feeds are on the edges of deep holes, on the cool bottom of which a fair portion of his time is spent, and if he does not make a palatable dinner it will be because the cook does not know how to bake him, and to concoct the proper sauce with which to serve him. To fry him is to spoil him, with one exception. When out for the day, with frying pan in the bottom of your boat, you may accidently hook a little fellow of not more than two pounds in weight. Ordinarily you would throw him back to grow up, but it is about lunch time, and the chances are that you must go ashore without the bass on which you had calculated. Take your baby pike ashore immediately, and kindle up your fire while the guide is dressing it, strictly enjoining him not to remove the skin, as he would of course have to do if it were older, or longer out of water. Throw a slice of bacon from your lunch basket into the pan, and when the fat is sputtering nicely all over the bottom put in your pike, split down the backbone and cut crosswise into half a dozen pieces. Fry it well done, with a nice brown all over the surface, and as you take it from the pan hold each piece on the fork until the excess of hot fat drips away. If you do not like it, head your guide for home; either something has gone wrong in your stomach or you were not made for lunching in the woods. But catch your hare before you cook it. If you have ever handled a rod and reel you will of course loathe the hand trolling line which the guide has put into the 218 boat, on the apparent supposition that you are cither a novice or lazy. Any woman may use a hand line if she chooses, legibus soluta, but no man who wants to be an angler, and with the anglers stand. To bring your pike up to the boat hand over hand on a dead pull, with a line heavy enough to tow your boat, and then yank him in over the side before he regains sufficient possession of his surprised faculties to execute even one strategic effort for freedom is for a man, who can stand up in his boat and handle a reel, more nearly allied to the butchery of market fishing than to the sport of angling. If it is merely to handle fish, go down on Atlantic Avenue, in Boston, and load haddock into a horse-cart with a pitchfork! But here is Mike with the lunch basket, and we must be off. It is two miles over to Black Point, and you make a few casts on the middle bar, for one of those fine bass that Mike says are occasionally picked up in transitu, but in vain. It ' s a little too still this morning, Mike tells you. Certainly. Otherwise it would be a little too windy. Who ever saw the guide at a loss for a reason why the fish do not strike at any given time and place? But we are nearing the extremity of the outer reef, off Black Point, and I pick up the shorter of my two steel rods and adjust a large and brightly burnished spoon. The finest sport in playing a possible capture would call for the longer and more phable rod; but a weak shoulder calls for the shorter, which will deliver the heavy spoon at the proper distance with much less muscular effort. Mike pulls slowly along, about a dozen yards from the weeds which line the edge of the reef. I rise to my feet and with a back-handed swing which I find easiest to my own arm, though not perhaps diagrammed in any of the books on casting, I begin dropping the spoon into the margin of t he weeds and reeling it rapidly in again. My own experience is that a pike likes best to strike at something which is apparently trying desperately to get away from it. Mike says there are bass here, but I have fished the spot annually for several years and have never seen one yet. Bass are as remote from practical consideration in my mind as tarpon or yellowtail, when suddenly I feel a surge on my tackle, followed by an instantaneous slackening of the line for which I was wholly unprepared, then a flash of a three pound bass in the air, a rattle of the spoon as a violent shake of the head threw it free, and then — silence, except for a few words from Mike not here to be repeated. A few casts more and a typical pike takes the lure. He has darted at it side- wise and as the hook strikes into his jaw and pulls on, he throws his body into a half circle for resistance. I give him a bit of line, which enables him to whirl around and start down the edge of the reef on a mad run, necessitating the loan of a dozen yards more before I can persuade him to turn. When he does turn it is of course into the weeds and right to the bottom. Mowin ' hay, Mike grunts, as bunch after bunch of weeds comes floating to the surface, cut off by the sawing of the strong silk line. At last he gets into a tangle of weeds and sulks. Mike backs the stern of the boat nearly over his lair and a few gentle pulls, taking the line in my hand, start him out again. This time he makes a rush into the deeper water, beyond the weeds, and now we have him out of danger. Round and round he circles, always near the bottom and trying desperately for the weeds now and then, 219 but I have him far enough away to check him before he can reach them. At length, from the end of a pretty long dash, I reel him straight in, ascending as he comes, till suddenly those w d eyes come into view and catch mine, only a few feet distant. A sudden plunge throws the water into my face, and under the boat he goes, but fortunately I get the tip of the rod down and pass it round the stern in time to save the line from fouling the rough bottom of the boat. In a moment I have him checked and reel him up to the side again. This time he lies motionless at the sur- face, and a novice would think him utterly exhausted, but there is fight in that eye yet. Mike ' s firit motion with the big landing net brings a wild plunge that would have meant ruin if for a fraction of a second I had kept the pressure of my thumb upon the reel. A third time I bring him near, and then in a way of his own, not described in any of the books, and too forcible and awkward to be defended on any other ground than that he always gets his pike and never upsets the boat, Mike doubled him up with a swoop of that heavy-handled, heavy-rimmed net and laid him floundering at my feet. A ten pound pike loose in the bottom of a boat is some- thing like a tipsy Ohio River roustabout at a country dance on a loose board floor. Black Point gave us nothing more, and the reefs from there to ' ' the neck were barren. At the neck we lunched, taking advantage of some of the resources of a little log cabin, the winter headquarters of Frank Boedne, a guide, trapper and hunter who figures in a way he does not quite relish in one of Mary Hartwell Catherwood ' s stories, and gets his revenge by continually varying caricatures of her interview with him when she was at his cabin searching for her local color. After lunch I leave Mike dozing at full length on a moss covered knoll and cross the neck to the huckleberry hills just beyond. On the summit of one of these hills, or sand dunes, I lie on the warm moss and eat all the huckleberries and wintergreen berries I feel capable of digesting, merely rolling over two or three times to get within reach of new bushes. To the southeast I can see the Straits of Mackinac, and south and west Lake Michigan broadens to the view, with a few little islands in sight which I cannot name. It was on one of them, perhaps, that Miss {you know her name) laid the scene of that pretty little story of the nerve-exhausted physician, getting control again of his apparently irrecoverable skill under the stress of the dire necessity of a pretty little French-Canadian girl, whose life seemed doomed to fall a sacrifice to the presentation of a longed-for heir to her young islander husband. The water looks calm in the distance, but the mufBed roar that comes up through the sparse second-growth pines, balsams and tamaracks indicates that the waves are beating pretty heavily on the shore of the big lake, three miles away. Shut in by the hills, the little lake behind me is smooth as glass. At Black Point, Deep Hole, and Green Point, a half dozen boats, filled with the transient anglers who have come up from the Island or St. Ignace for the day, like the famous swan of St. Mary ' s, float double, boat and shadow. At length I rouse from my reverie at Mike ' s shrill thumb-whistle signal, for he has promised to do his best to bring me into contact with a mascallonge during the latter part of the afternoon in the basin above the neck. I had hoped to see a bear from my hilltop, or at any rate one of the deer whose fresh tracks are so numer- ous in the sand along the shore, but the wild animals have never recognized my 220 latent power as a nature-faker, and persistentl) ' refuse to perform for my benefit. A little porcupine, bunched up on a cedar log, chewing lily pads in so thoroughly conventional a way as to make an admirable witness for Burroughs vs. Long, was the best I could record for that day. Mike rows me slowly round and round the basin and I cast my brightest spoon right where Mr. A hooked his twenty-three pounder, and where Mr. B got his thirty pounder, and where the biggest one ever seen in the lake struck at Mr. C ' s spoon and missed, right within twenty feet of the boat; but apparently the Mascallonge family are all dining out today. I am ready to give it up and cross over to Deep Hole, where the pike generally bite well in the evening, but Mike ' s dogged persistence is good for a half dozen rounds yet, and I let him go, making a cast at a likely spot now and then and letting the spoon trail along some fifty feet behind between times. I am a trifle drowsy, and a sudden heavy surge nearly takes the rod out of my hands, but I recover my grasp and turn in time to see that silvery flash in the air which gives to the mascallonge the indubitable right to be styled a game fish, whatever may be said of the lesser species of the genus Esox. The defici- ency in strength and activity usually credited to the great northern pike in compari- son with its close relative, the mascallonge, is greatly exaggerated from failure to take into account their different modes of fighting. The mascallonge does a great deal of his fighting near the surface, and almost invariably leaps into the air once or oftener before the struggle is over, while the pike fights almost always near the bot- tom, encumbering the line with weeds whenever they are present, and seriously deadening the effect of his movements to the perception of the angler by the fact that so long an extent of line is sawing heavily through the deep water. The writer once hooked a fifteen pound pike in only three feet of water, and with a bottom practically clear, except the one bunch of lily pads under which he had been hiding. After the first direct run, in which I was obliged to give many yards of line to save my tackle, he rose into the air with all the grace and agility which could be desired, and I doubt very much whether any mascallonge of equal weight could have given any better account of himself in speed, resourcefulness or endurance. Suffice it to say that I never got him to the side of the boat until he was so limp that the guide took him in with one hand by the back of the neck. But what has become of the mascallonge which was on my line? Well, his leap for freedom was successful, and so there is no more to tell. By this time a heavy line of clouds overcasts the sky in the west, and the boats are gathering in towards Frank ' s cabin, apprehensive of a shower. And their apprehensions were not disappointed. Oh, how the thunder roared and the wind howled among the hemlocks! And when the wind and thunder would lull temporarily, a steady downfall of heavy rain made the four mile passage across the lake to the hotel equally impossible. Frank ' s cabin measures not over one hundred feet of floor space, one-fourth of which is covered by his rude bedstead, and the ceiling, or roof, to be accurate, is only seven feet high. Into this small space, besides the four guides, Mike, Frank, Oliver and Johnnie, were packed eleven excursionists, including three women and two little children. When dark came on and there was still no sign of respite, Oliver and Johnnie took the best boat and went across about a mile to the cabin of Charlie Brown, another of Mrs. 221 Catherwood ' s characters, for a supply of bread and bacon which they knew to be in his larder. Sitting on Frank ' s bed or standing around the wall, the air thick with vapor of smoking fat and fish, we ate a supper that tastes good in memory still, and then one of the women who had tact and a college experience at Ann Arbor to draw on started a running fire of college songs and stories, on which delightful perform- ance the curtain was finally rung down only when at full midnight Johnnie came in with the announcement that the wind was down enough for the lake to be safe and the rain was over, with clear sky across the western horizon. None of us would have ordered the storm in advance, but in memory it figures as not the least part of the day ' s enjoyment after all. 222 EVERY town has a species of personalit} ' , with quahties which often persist throughout its entire history. The seaboard town has its specific characteristics and the inland river town is a variant upon the type, while both differ markedly from the railroad center and the manufac- turing town. Political and social tendencies, architectural and topographical types and certain denominational aptitudes will combine in a community to give it wdiat a physician would call its diathesis. In certain towns these dis- tinctive qualities are still more marked than in the average American town. There has come into being for example a distinctive type, the resort town, where perhaps for three months of the summer or winter the community is in the height of activity, its streets thronged with temporary residents, and then the community lapses into the somnolence of a nine months ' period of hibernation, or aestivation as the case may be. One of the most distinctive community types is the college town, although it is a somewhat rare one, for colleges are not often founded in these days in a community where the educational institution is the dominating feature of the town life. The university idea, with its professional and technological schools, has in America come to involve in most cases an undergraduate school, and all of these seek some prominent center of population or are sought by ambitious towns with special financial inducements, just as some new manu- facturing plant is sought to be added to the manifold facilities of a city. The distinctive type of the college town must be sought in some community where a college has had a successful career of many decades at least, and where the community was originally established for the sake of the college or where for some reason the community has failed to develop along any other line of growth. In these cases it is found that a flourishing town may be developed around and out of the college life, very much as the old English town devel- oped around the feudal castle. At Ann Arbor, for example, a town of fifteen or twenty thousand people has grown up about the University of Michigan, with its four or five thousand students. There is little or nothing of manufacturing or other business save as it is induced by the presence of the university, with its thousands of students and scores of faculty families bringing probably a million dollars annually into the town. Oberlin on a smaller scale presents another example of a typical college town, founded indeed in this case with a view to the inception of a religious and educational movement of which the college is. the most notable result. Granville is perhaps one of the most typical of American college towns, and it is not difficult for us a century from its inception to see that it was fitted alike by its heredity and its acquired characteristics for the mission it is so nobly fulfilling, yet for all of its first quarter century Granville cherished, and apparently not without reason, hopes of distinction along quite other lines. Indeed the appeal for funds with which to secure the location of the institution at Granville in 1831 was made upon the basis of the following presentation of the resources and outlook of the town from a material point of view : It had a 223 Denison and the Future of Granville BY AUGUSTINE S. CARMAN navigable branch of the canal which then formed the single great artiticial thoroughfare in the state. It possessed three flourishing mills, one of them ver ' large f(jr its da_ -, a furnace, a foundry, two saw mills, two woolen fac- tories, extensive (|uarries of free stone, and it was believed to have extensive dei)osits of coal near In. Abireover it was situated on the main ro d from Zanjsville to Colunilnis, with a dail_ - line of mail coaches from the city of Washington to Cincinnati. This measure of attainment in a time when Colum- bus was but a village of four thousand people and Cincinnati numbered but about twenty-five thousand inhabitants, and before a single railroad traversed anv part of the state, justified the high hope held by its citizens for the material ])rominence of Granville. Indeed when, twent} ' years later, the destiny of Gran- had sharply changed, wdien with the coming of railways, the completion of the great national road through from Wheeling to the West, and the pushing of the canal beyond its temporary terminus at Newark to the Ohio river, it was seen that the once flourishing town was left high and dry upon a shore Hue from which the tide of material prosperity had permanently receded, the call for its removal became loud and insistent The centennial observances of 1905 added in a subtle yet positive way to the influences which constitute Granville an ideal college town. The most obvious efifect has been in the stirring of civic pride and the consequent securing of improvements of permanent value. A certain community pride has been aroused such as will hardly be allowed to die out, and already evidences are seen of the carrving out of purposes stirred by the Centennial celebration. But in a less tangible wa} ' the Centennial has affected the community and the college life by bringing out into clear consciousness the record of the origins of Gran- ville life, and bv revealing how important a p ' ace in history the little community bore for its first quarter centur} ' , before the college was born. It has shown us, under the influence of the new interest aroused by the centennial commemo- ration, wdiat are the strands of that earliest influence still to be seen woven into the W ' -arp of our (jranvire life to-day. It has given us in the whirl of our rapid Western life, where commercial valuation furnishes the basing rate for the esti- mate of so nearlv everything, a consciousness that we have in this village treas- ures wdhch a metropolis might well envy. An old burying-ground with the dead of our earliest wars, a decayed mansion with its wealth of family history, a building converted to some common use but which has as a part of its structure the framework of an early church or school building or o ' f the first bank building or the first Masonic lodge, can be no longer looked upon as incumbrances upon our town life with its ambition for modern improvements, but these relics of a past are reckoned among our assets of highest value. It wdll mean more to the student as well as to the citizen that his lot is cast in Granville. As Dr. Francis W Shepardson of the l niversity of Chicago has suggested, the college student may well find the materials for a thesis in American History in a studv of the development of Granville from its namesake town in jMassachusetts, or of the war record of the heroes lying in its cemeteries, 224 or of the efifect of the various popular movements for temperance, emancipation and the like upon a relativel - stable community life like that of Granville. We have then a community life rich in historic associations, with the high ideals of its New England ancestry still persisting amidst the changes of the century since it was founded. It has remained, amidst the swirling flood of an almost unparalleled development in the great West, like some islet preserving the characteristics of its origin. If this wondei ' ful century of its life, which has witnessed more of a transformation and acceleration of life than any ten cen- turies before it, has suffered the survival of the early Granville spirit and ideals in so large measure, we may take it for granted that this spirit will have the hardihood to persist throughout any changes that future years may bring. And what of the Universit} ' in years to come? It is an accepted fact that an institution of learning once firmly established has a vitality almost indestruct- ible. Denison has passed its first great testing time in evincing its vitality throughout the crises of its first generation and the disrupting influences of the civil war. It proved itself victor in the struggle for a definite and perma- nent endowment fund, and has added thereto until in endowment and equip- ments it has accumulated a million and a quarter of dollars. Moreover, half a million of this has come in the first few dozen years of the twentieth century, proving that Denison has an accelerating momentum of progress, such that its development may be expected to proceed on a far larger scale and at a swifter rate than ever in the past. The university has solved its coeducational problem which the fathers ' found so difficult in a way that combines the advantages of healthful competition in the class room with sufficiently separate social environ- ment. Most significant of all is it that the alarming problem caused by the sudden development in the last decades of the nineteenth century of state univer- sities, a development which promised to relegate all institutions of denomina- tional or private foundation to dissolution or obscurity, has been met and found not so formidable as it at first appeared. When the craze for expansion in numbers and for the inclusion of graduate and professional and technological departments, often of questionable thoroughness and grade, had spent itself, it was found that while there would always henceforth be demand in America for the large university with its inclusive program of preparation for the life work, and while in the instruction provided by the state there would always be most urgent demand for the so-called practical branches of instruction, such for example as engineering in its various forms, medicine, law, dentistry, pharmacy, agriculture and the like, there was still to be a place, perhaps with a more appreciated function than ever before, for the distinctively collegiate type of institution. Denison has already found this marked appreciation of its mission, and with its more than six hunderd students, its faculty of forty-five teachers and officers and its sixteen buildings, it is attempting to give the best cultural equipment to the mental faculties and character of the students who come to it. It is not that these ideals of education afford no preparation or an inade- quate one for life. On the contrary, so excellent a preparation is it, that the 225 general fitness and development of personalit - which it yields, the command of one ' s powers whereb}- it renders the mind an instrument of precision which may be applied to any task, and the preparation for successful mingling- with the world of active life such as is provided in the social attrition of that most perfect of all democracies, the college, give the man who has had a thorough college course an unequalled training for life. Indeed while his college course fits him to take advantage as no one else can do of a professional or technolog- ical course, } ' et if he cannot have the collegiate and professional course both, it is usualh ' the case that his own etTorts will with the college training fit him better for the profession than a course of professional training directed specific- ally toward that end will do without the self-mastery and development of a proper college course. This of course acknowledges that there are conspicu- ous instances of failure among men who hold college degrees and of success among those who have had neither college nor professional advantages, but taking the field as a wdiole and eliminating exceptional cases, what has been asserted of the college will be found to hold good. Great commercial estab- lishments are recognizing it and, abandoning the old-time sneer of the practical man at the college theorist, are seeking college men for their employ. Care- fully compiled statistics as to the percentage of successful men in life, reckoned by the verdict of popular suffrage as shown in the rolls of Congress, the Presi- dency, and the Supreme Bench, or computed in the lists of notable names found in the encyclopedias, show that a college education tends to increase the chance of efficiency of its graduates three-fold, ten-fold, and in some classes of profes- sional life, fifty-fold. And thus in a multitude of ways the town, expanding somewhat in its valley and along its hilltops, adding new conveniences and beauties as the years go by, will reflect the prosperity and influence of the noble institution which is, so to speak, the soul of the town. The interests of town and college will be seen to be coincident. The name Granville wherever spoken will to the hearer connote Denison, with all the composite influences which enter into its splendid and ever-enlarging life. 226 A PROANTITRANSSUBSTANTIATIONISTICAL POETICAL EXEGESIS Recently Delivered Before One of the College Literary Societies. Edward Lear, an English poet of great genius and intellect, belongs to the same class of writers as Lewis Carroll, W. S. Gilbert and Gelett Burgess. Lear was an artist-draughtsman, his subjects being mainly ornithological and zoo- logical. Alfred Tennyson was one of his warmest friends and admirers. The Pobble is a fair example of Lear ' s most characteristic work. It is not familiar to the average American reader because of its abstruseness. Indub- itably it is one of the most occult poems ever indited. Yet after delving into its transcendental and recondite profundities one is copiously remunerated by the affluence of grace and erudition which emanates therefrom. The aforesaid metrical composition is scrupulously didactical in design, but nevertheless there are interspersed throughout innumerable scintillating gems of comeliness and in the aggregate it is a surpassingly calamitous and disconsolate bit of poesy. The Pobble who has no toes Had once as many as we ; When they said, Some day you may lose them all ; He replied, Fish fiddle de-dee ! And his Aunt Jobisca made him drink Lavender water tinged with pink ; For she said, The World in general knows There ' s nothing so good for a Pobble ' s toes. The Pobble who has no toes Swam across the Bristol Channel ; But before he set out he wrapped his nose In a piece of scarlet flannel. For his Aunt Jobisca said, No harm Can come to his toes if his nose is warm ; And it ' s perfectly known that a Pobble ' s toes Are safe — provided he minds his nose. The Pobble swam fast and well. And when boats or ships came near him. He tinkledy-binkledy-winkled a bell So that all the world could hear him. And all the Sailors and Admirals cried When they saw him nearing the farther side, He has gone to fish for his Aunt Jobisca ' s Runcible cat with crimson whiskers ! 228 The Pobble But before he touched the shore — The shore of the Bristol Channel, A Sea-green Porpoise carried away His wrapper of scarlet flannel. And when he came to observe his feet, Formerly garnished with toes so neat. His face at once became forlorn On perceiving that all his toes were gone ! And nobody ever knew. From that dark day to the present. Whoso had taken the Pobble ' s toes. In a manner so far from pleasant. Whether the shrimps or crawfish gray, Or crafty mermaids stole them away, Nobody knew ; and nobody knows How the Pobble was robbed of his twice five toes ! The Pobble who has no toes - Was placed in a friendly Bark, And they rowed him back and carried him up To his Aunt Jobisca ' s Park. And she made him a feast at his earnest wish, Of eggs and buttercups fried with fish ; And she said, It ' s a fact the whole world knows, That Pobbles are happier without their toes. Let us now make essay to unravel this lugubrious poetical selection and to elucidate its all but unfathonable intricacies. The Pobble, as you are all aware, is an exceptionally noteworthy creature, perhaps from a biological standpoint, the most extraordinary of all sentient beings. In spite of the gruesome fact that his pedal extremities are not emblazoned with terminal members he is remarkably debonair. I deplore highly that I can refer you to no animated specimen of this engaging genus. Yet after all this distressing fact in itself gives rise to one of those beautiful lessons which impart to the poem its excellence from a preceptive scandpoint. It teaches one to keep his visionary organs continually unenclosed, for who can tell at what moment a Pobble is liable to cross his path ? How often have we, when admonished of some impending catastrophe, such as an imminent bedaubing at the hands of an erudite preceptor, vociferated in disdain, Whatsoever within the abode of departed spirits is it of consequence to myself! How similar to the Pobble ' s haughty retort, Fish fiddle de dee! And we have seen what manner of castigation befell the indiscreet Pobble. Ah ! mv friends, how inevitable is that antique maxium, Superciliousness proceedeth in advance of a descent. 229 The first stanza embodies still another lesson of unsurpassed practical worth. Let me beseech 3 ' ou, my brethren and sisters, the next time you are overcome with the alarming sensation that you are aljout to be bereft of your toes, proceed straightway and procure a few sips of lavender water tinged with pink. Accept no substitute but quaff this beverage zealously and I guar- antee that nothing short of a one-armed dentist will ever be able to extract your toes ! How full of practical value is this little ditty ! In truth, it bids fair to rival that far-famed, renowned, celebrated, stupendousl}- marvelous and prodigious masterpiece of the intellectual acumen of all human mentality — vul- garly called Dr. Chase ' s Receipt Book. Upon a minute investigation of the right hand toe of your left hand foot you will readily ascertain that the terminal members of your pedal extremities are constituted in precisely the same manner as are the Pobble ' s. This astound- ing fact oft ' ers an excellent opportunity to make a direct personal application of the most valuable of all the practical lessons which grace this poem. Nay more ! It is your bounden duty to seize the opportunity ere it is too late. Ladies — Gentlemen ! I maintain that every single one of you owes it not only to himself and to his country, but also to his professors, to be the happy possessor of a set of bright and glistening toes ! Therefore let me entreat you, let me adjure you, before another day rolls by, envelope your olfactory organs in enfolding wrappers of scarlet flannel. Why let your self-sufficiency prevent your possession of vigorous and ablebodied toes? But in your zeal do not overlook the fact that a nasal extremity scarlet from internal causes will by no means serve the purpose. And if, my beloved brethren and sisters, a hundred years from now we should happen to gaze gleefully on our sleek and well-groomed toes, let us fill our hearts with gratitude and our mouths with praise for the timely experi- ence afforded us by the poor unfortunate POBBLE WHO HAS NO TOES. 230 A TRUE STORY OF POOR HUGH-BOY ILLUSTRATING THE JOYS OF MARRIED LIFE. Funnygraphs Campbell (reciting in law) — The governor can adjourn both houses of the legislature in case they disagree. Good} ' — Now, you don ' t mean that, do you? If the house passed a bill and the senate irejected it, wouldn ' t the houses disagree? In that case could the governor adjourn them? Campbell (ruminating gloomilv) — I suppose not. Goody — Now that brings out a point I want to emphasize. It is brought out by your examination papers also. The class doesn ' t pay enough attention to details. You read a page over and get a general idea of what the author is talking about, and the language flows along smoothly, and then _ ou think you have your lesson. (Turning to Campbell.) Now you read this over last night and every minute you were reading it your mind was down in town. (In the meantime Campbell ' s countenance assumed a most beautiful crimson hue. ) When the hilarity ceased Goody remarked quietly, Now I kiwi ' it was. As Campbell resumed his seat, Joe Lloyd was heard to heave a sigh of relief and he leaned over and whispered in Campbell ' s ear, Thank the Lord he didn ' t call on me! Moral — Married life is not what it sometimes seems. ANOTHER ONE OF GOODY ' S. It was at the close of the last recitation in law before the Christmas holidays and Goody had just finished assigning the lesson when Hattersley asked, Professor, what will our next case be? That ' s rather hard to tell, ireplied Goody mischievously, as I suppose a good many of you will go home for your vacations. There was a young widow named Flannagan, Who concluded to marry a man again. The gent, tho ' a boozer. Quit, so he ' d not lose her ; But, alas, he ' s now rushing the can again. Sue — - I do hope some Dutchman will ma rry me some day. John — Why, my dear? Sue — ' Cause I want to be a Duchess. Clara F. — Oh ! I ' d just give anything to be cross-eyed. Mabel H. — Why, you crazy thing! What for? ' Clara F. — Why then I could make Hooper and Connable each think I was winking at him. 231 YE PRISTINE AND ILLUSTRIOUS ORDER OF ' AnrefjOL ' AyyeAot COMMONLY CLEPT WINGLELSS ANGELLS A lotto: Btos av€v Tupa)(yj OavuTO ' i ioTiv Colors: Ash Grey and Jet Black. YE ANGELS OBIQUITOUS His Seraphic Majesty. (Void of all beplumed pinions.) EX ERBE Bingo Bob Prep Pinky Warty Williams Chubby Chunk IN LUDO Archangel of Celestial Ministrations Silent (?) Sam Cherub of the Quill Cigarette Charlie Paramount Pummelers of Angelical Neophytes Gaspipe Gogs Red Ruffian Heavenly Choristers and Angel Serenaders Curly Cupid Nuts Noodle Musty Mike Dippy Dick Seraphic Archagitator of the Nocturnal Atmosphere Yap Yorick Supreme Exhaler of the Azure Fumes Birdseye Bill Cherubic Inverter of the Crystalline Vessel Ignorant Ike Zealous Searcher for the Lost Wings Peter Pork Aspirant to Pay Homage to His Seraphic Majesty (Void of all beplumed pinions) Dusty Dan 232 Wingless Angel Hymn Tune, Serenity. (This is a misnomer when applied to the Angels ' rendition of it. ) 1 he butterfly has wings of gold, The firefly wings of flame; We Angels have no wings at all. But get there just the same. E ' en though our handsome wings are lost, Our shoulder-blades are bare, We still have hopes of their return. Just like a bald man ' s hair. Of all the birds that haunt the air There ' s not a one e ' er sings With such a heavenly melody As an Angel (minus wings). Ah! fain would we deny the fact. But alas, ' tis plainly true, That when our pinions disappeared Our brains were stolen too. Amen. 234 David, do you love me? Yes. Do you adore me? I ' spose. Will you always love me? Ye, — look here woman, what have you been and gone and ordered sent home now ? It was on a Newark street car. Bert Fulton came to the door of the car, and, as it stopped, started toward the gate which was hidden from her by the men standing before it. Other side, please, lady, said the conductor. He was ignored as only Bert Fulton can ignore a man. The lady took another step toward the gate. You must get off the other side, said the conductor. I wish to get ofif on this side, came the answer in tones that congealed that official into momentarv silence. Before he could explain or expostulate, a gentleman came to his asssitance. Stand to one side gentlemen, he remarked quietly. The lady wishes to climb over the gate. SHOCKING. Said the shoe to the stocking ' , I will wear a hole in you. Said the stocking to the shoe, I ' ll be darned if you do. Said the bank to the river, I will cave in on you. Said the river to the bank, I ' ll be dammed if vou do. Funnygraphs DISGRACEFUL. Who was the first person that ever swore? Eve, when she said, T don ' t care A-dam if you do. As told by a prominent young society girl it was, Eve, when she said, ' I don ' t care a dam Adam if you do. ' Elvin sat on a moon-lit porch. His head was in a whirl. His eyes and mouth were full of hair And his arms were full of girl. Beware — the microbe in the kiss! Cold-hearted science cries ; Alas ! Where ignorance is bliss ' Tis folly to be wise. 235 A COPY OF THE MINUTES OF THE LAST MEETING OF THE Funnygraphs annanias club. May I, 1908. — The meeting was called to order by President Wilson and the minutes of the last meeting were read and approved. The agony of the evening was begun by Donald Jewett, who spoke in substance as follows : In South Dakota once a muskrat pawed the lid ofif a milk can, crawled in, and, after feasting to the full, pawed around so frantically that he churned the remaining milk into butter and climbed out on it. Wild cheers followed and it was voted that Air. Jewett ' s case was very hopeful. Fae Webber continued the agony with the following: One of the girls went into Miss Barker ' s office the other day, to ask a special favor. No one seems to know what happened for a few minutes, till the inmates of Burton Hall became alarmed at the icy stillness. They broke into the office and found Miss Barker with eyes fixed on the girl. They knew instantly what was the matter (it seems that the phenomenon was of quite frecjuent occur- rence) so they speedily procured hot flat irons with wh ich they thawed the edges of the unfortunate girl ' s shadow and then they pried it up with chisels. After the shadow was entirely removed from the carpet the girl was carried to her room. She may recover. Roars of indignation were heard and Miss Webber was unanimouslv ex- pelled from the Annanias Club for telling what was so transparently false. This action of the club vexed Davison very much, and he thought to soothe the ruffled feelings of the assemblage by telling his favorite story of Alexandria Ants. We ' ve got ' em as big as crabs over there. I ' ve seen ' em fight with big horns which they used as lances, charging each other like savages. That ' s nothing, retorted Sam Bridges. They don ' t compare with the ants I saw in the East. The natives have trained them as beasts of burden. One of them could draw a ton load for a mile with ease. They worked will- inglv, but occasionally they turn on their attendants and kill them. This was ' most too much and Sam was on the point of expulsion for telling a falsehood, but just as the vote was being taken Pat Maloney serenely asked : What kind of ants were they? Eleph ants, replied Sam and he was saved. Edith Pattengill had a good one to tell and was granted leave to speak. I was talking with a Scotchman once about cold weather. I told him there was a certain College in the Middle West that was very peculiar. A girl went into the Dean ' s office once and found the Dean picking her teeth with the mercury she had taken out of the thermometer. Then the Scotchman told his. He said that one time a cold wave swept over Scotland so suddenly that a goat jumping from one mountain crag to another became suddenly frozen and re- 236 mained hanging in mid-air. ' But that is impossible, ' I interposed, ' the law of gravity wouldn ' t allow that. ' ' Oh! ' said the Scotchman, ' we don ' t do things by Fuiinygraphs halves in Scotland. The law of gravity was frozen too. ' Miss Patty was immediately voted a life member of the club, free of charge. Then Hoppe took his innings. A one-armed Frenchman was walking the streets of Paris in the revolu- tionary period. Napoleon happened to meet him, and asked him how he lost his arm. (This conversation took place in French) ' Sire, at Austerlity. ' And what reward did you receive. ' Sire, a gold medal. ' Ah! what a pity you didn ' t lose both arms, so you could become a mem- ber of the Legion of Honor. ' Would that be sufficient sire? ' asked the soldier. Certainly, ' replied Napoleon. Whereupon the old soldier immediately drew his sword and cut off the other arm. ' By this time the agony was so intense that the meeting adjourned without further ado to the outer air. All the participants will recover. TAKE WARNING YE GUILTY ONES. He who inside his watch-lid wears His sweethearts pretty face, Is sure to have a time for there ' s A woman in the case. Oh ! the Thomas boys are witty And always full of fun, But when they sing a ditty Just watch the people run. (To hear them we mean.) As Geo. was going out one night • His room-mate questionel Wither? And Geo. not daring to deceive With blushes answered With er. Have you read Hoppe ' s latest play? The Tragedy of Atlantic City, or Why Was the Ocean Built so Close to the Shore. Ruth Spiger : When I go out to promenade. I look so fine and gay. I have to take the dog along ...To keep the boys away. 237 238 T EING a Revelation of the Past, an Exposition of the Present, and a Prognostication of the -L Future Lives of our Worthiest Representatives, as told by the Princess Pompilia Popspinooza, assisted by her compeer J. Lord Gilpatrick, from the ascendant constellations. AQUARIUS. Arch-Beta Chaffee. — You were born under the sign of the water-wagon and on this vehicle you will always re- main. Persons born under Aquarius have a disposition mild and meek and a gentlemanly temper. They are also characterized by a love for the beautiful. In your case this craving will not be fully satisfied for some time, but cheer- ful perseverance will help you out greatly. Your partiality to brunettes will be very marked, and it is recommended that you gain first the approbation of the paternal ances- tor. This can be best accomplished by a thorough mastifi- cation of several dictionaries and by persistently avoiding the study of French. If these means should fail you have the world ' s consent to jump off the water-wagon. In all you will marry but three times, and you will be blessed with somewhere from two to three children. PISCES. Married Soon Lamb. — You were born under the sign of the Fish, though your appearance would never indicate such a thing. All persons born under this sign are good anglers, and once the victim is hooked he rarely escapes. Your favorite study Avill be science (teachers ' ). Although a true patriot of Denison, you have for a long time had your heart set upon one of the larger Western Universi- ties. All girls born under this sign manifest an early craving for bright gems, especially diamonds. This is also characteristic of girls born under the sign of Aquarius, Leo, Aries, Sagittarius, Libra, Virgo, Capricorn, Cancer, Gemini, Taurus and Scorpio. Your future will be happy and though you will use your intellect some you will be guided in most cases, let us hope, by your Will. Your most fatal afiliction will be Cerebral Menengitis, although , you will have several other fatal diseases. VIRGO. Elfish Lump Brakeman. — You were born under the sign of the Virgin, and accordingly your disposition is coy and winsome. Your favorite study is the Acts of the Apostles (of Dr. Carman). But your love affairs will be molested by a serious rival. This rival will be much older than you, and she will be high over you in authority. On this account you should be very discreet about all your schem- ing, for if you should be discovered she would campus you and thus gain a great advantage over you. If you should ever settle down to just one man your success would come about much more quickly. The favorite an- imal of girls born under the Virgin is the most fleet-footed of quadrupeds, but you will incline more to the biped va- riety. Your most serious afiliction in life will be a merce- nary escort and a sprained left eye-brow. 239 A Horoscope of Denison Celebrities GEMINI. Marriageable Witter. — You were l;oni lunler the con- stellation of the Twins, l)Ut there is not the slightest sign of duplicity in your nature. Although boy babies born under this sign are good money makers, the opposite is true of girl babies. However, as age increases they be- come very proficient, and if they are so fortunate as to possess a good voice their success in life is assured. In your case, however, although you possess a most charmmg voice, there is a fatal weakness. Unless you instantly bend all your energies toward averting it, you will in the future never be able to keep the Wolf from the door, (unless he can ' t find the key hole.) You will have heart trouble in the left ventricle, but can overcome it by exercising all parts of the heart at once.. The editors were especially requested to make no mention of your tendency for midnight graveyard walks with a solitary escort, and therefore we omit it in passing. SAGITTARIUS. Church Encumbrance Hill.— You were born under the sign of the Archer. It is on this account that you are so susceptible to the shafts of Cupid. Persons influenced by this sign are usually specialists in culture studies. This characteristic is evinced in your case by a cultivation of Learned people, (perhaps one in particular). If you study and mingle with them much longer the world at large must needs believe you have become one of them. So keep it up and you will accomplish your aims. All Sagit- tarius men are great athletes and are likely to be heavy and a trifle corpulent. Your favorite food is stolen tur- key, but you will soon get enough of this kind of victuals and are apt to become enamoured of some other bird. LIBRA. Eternally Rampant Bull.— You were born when the constellation of the Scales was in the ascendency, although both your personal appearance and your name would tend to indicate that you had been born under Taurus. Yet that you were born under Libra is quite certain, for no other constellation produces so many kleptomaniacs. Men born under this sign are apt to be domineering even to such an extent that when they sleep they are called bull- •dozers. They are also very determined, and once their minds are made up they cannot be cowed. Politics will be your most profitable occupation, and the ministry should make a very delightful avocation. Your love affairs have always been happy while they lasted, and have terminated amicably, but m the present case you may be successful. 240 TAURUS. Mather-matics Porter. — You were born when the con- stellation of the Bull was in the ascendency. The greater part of your activity lies in the hands and feet and espe- cially in the fingers and toes. Hence, your skill on the piano. A Taurus person as a rule is moody, but you can remedy this inclination by long strolls and Kirt conversa- tions. Your favorite study is Math. You will become so interested in this that you will pursue it in the second degree. Although this is a very delightful course to pur- sue, the Shepardson Faculty are prone to regard it as det rimental to your other studies; so be careful. Music f is a close second to Math, and your favorite piece is Love ' s Old Sweet Song. Your most serious affliction will be a congestion of the left fore toe-nail. LEO. Marketable Martinet Jones. — You were born under the sign of the King of Beasts. Hence, your marked ability as a leader of both beasts and men, and also women. The primary talent of Leo people is evident in your genius for debate. They are also marked by a fiery temper, but you can easily overcome this wicked trait of character by bathing the manual and nasal extremities daily in a warm solution of Sunday School golden texts and scrub-brushes. Your religious tendencies are remarkable. Li after life you will become a great club woman, CANCER. Rakish Example of Sanctimoniousness. — Carman. — You were born under the sign of the Crab, but in spite of this fact you can walk pretty straight most of the time. The cancer man does not usually pay much attention to his mental or spiritual training, yet some of them make very good foreign missionaries, because the natives posi- tively refuse to eat them. All men born under this con- stellation are very persistent in their love affairs, yet they change companions frequently. Your greatest ambition is to have a little home of your own just teeming with little Rays of sunshine. Parents of Cancer young men should be very careful how they treat their son during his first love affair or else they may have a Sore(n) son in the family. (This pun was not intentional. The printer put the (n) in by mistake.) 241 ARIES. Anomalistic Joke Sorcnson. — You were born umler tlie sign of the Ram. From this fact you derive your al:)ilily to forge aliead and make progress in all matters. All girls born under this sign are characterized by a spirit of self- sacrifice. They are very kind and tender-hearted when their sympathies are appealed to, but otherwise they are extremely ruthless in their treatment of the opposite sex. You will always be especially self-sacrificing. Aries girls are also great athletes, and many a man is sore afraid of them. They are excellent runners and their sprinting ability reaches its culmination near the hour of midnight. Your one marriage will never take place, but you will marry several times later on. The besetting disease against which you will have to fight is corns, so begin early less it gain too strong a grip on your constitution. CANCER. Beatific Rector. — You were born under the sign of the Crab, but this does not mean that you resemble the crab in any way. On the contrary girls born with cancer in the ascendency can walk perfectly straight and some can dance jigs, and it is even believed that some can sting. They also love bright things, and bright people. Red is their favorite color, and red-heads their favorite heads. So your present affliction is really quite excusable. Next to the study of red hair, writing stories is the favorite diversion of Cancer girls. Their stories always end prop- erly and so do their love affairs, but they should be careful not to hitch too many to the string lest the string break and they all get away. Your solitary marriage will not be the least bit romantic, hut will be happy just the sanv COLD CREAM WINTER. You were born under the sign of the Ram although your actions would not lead one to think so. Your dispo- sition is cold, probably on account of your last, name; — few people would expect a winter to be warm. The ground is your favorite study. Domestic troubles were so fre- quent that bachelor apartments have become your hobby. You seem to have an unnatural liking for the name Joshua, often noticed in persons born under Aries. Another ten- dency of people born when the Ram is on a rampage, is for dudishness. girl-fussing and dissipation in general. Sad to relate, you are a mournful example of such a course. The Powers That Be have discovered your attempt to make a mash on the Sem girls thru your regular attendance at church, and from henceforth you will be watched closely. 242 LEO. Heart Sick Campbell. — You were born under the sign of Leo. Thi.s accounts for your mania for rough housing, tho ' not for your love of currency, especially of the half- dime or Nichols variety. You have had frequent do- mestic squabbles, but they were not of long duration. Per- sons wearing glasses and born under the Leo have a tendency for speaking doggerel and singing tenor (?) — You are not an exception to the rule. Your most unlucky day is on the thirteenth of the month, and when this comes on Friday it would be advisable for you to remain indoors. Raining cats and dogs is not a circumstance to what might happen if this is overlooked. Your animal instinct mani- fests itself at times in barking and crowing. This may account for your numerous puppy-dog loves, though hens do not usually crow. Eligibly Handsome Chaffee.— You were born under the sign of the Scorpion. Persons so afflicted have a very strong liking for moonlight walks and drives, especialy with young professors. You have a very firm disposition and believe in abiding strictly by Roberts ' Rules of Or- der. Platonic friendships were very numerous in your College career. Your star seems to point toward the faculty, but this may result merely from the fact that you expect to teach in the near future. You are subject to chaperoning, but if you will take a moonlight stroll when this feeling comes on again, the attack may be successfully warded off. You have filled positions of great trust dur- mg the last few years, and a very bright future is pre- dicted, especially along the line of English study. GEMINI. Ace High Ballard. — You were born under the sign of the Twins, but your double has not been discovered up to the present time. A very pronounced love for Newark and its residents, especially the latter, has shown itself in recent years. Your favorite study is waving hair. Early in your college career you had a notion that Senior Circuses were held especially for the benefit of being broken up, but a meeting in which Prexy and Briney were the prime actors, did much to turn your ideas into an entirely different channel. Sometime during your Junior year, you were afflicted with a great responsibility in the form of a book — no mention is made of the outcome. The answer fades away under a blue and gold mist. 243 Mrs. Wilson — Sammy, where did you get that black eye? Didn ' t I tell Funnv raohs ' ° ' s ' ht? ° Penitent Sammy — Well mamma, I thought he was a good little boy till I hit him. GETTING EVEN. Emily Maloney — No, I will never marry a man who is not a hero. Alice Lamb — But you can easily convert any man into a hero. Emily — How ? Alice — By getting him to marry you. It was Gertrude W ' s first game. Pine had just made a superb sixty yard run for a touch-down. The crowd went wild, but when the cheers subsided, it was learned that the ball had not been in play. Oh dear, what does he have to bring the ball back for? asked Gertrude. I ' m sure I don ' t know, was the reply, unless he ' s got an encore. Wasn ' t it too bad that Miss Rowland disappointed the audience the other morning. Why, she didn ' t. She was able to appear after all. Yes, but it was generally supposed that she would not be able to appear. First Veteran Compositor — Here this ignorant Carman has went and spelled victuals, v-i-t-a-l-s. Second Veteran Compositor — Well, fix ' er up right and shove ' er in. In the Denisonian next day the story ran: The verdict was that the deceased came to his death from a pistol-shot in the victuals. Stella and Bob were on their honeymoon. He had bought a cat-boat and had taken her out to show her how well he could handle it. He had just put her to tend the sheet. Suddenly a violent puff of wind came. Let go that sheet! Bob shouted in no uncertain tones. There was no response. Let go that sheet, quick! he repeated. Still there was no movement. A few minutes later when both were clinging to the bottom of the overturned boat, he said: Why didn ' t you let go that sheet when I told you to, dear? I would have, sobbed Stella, if you had not been so rough about it. You ought to speak more kindly to your wife. CONCERNING SUE THEOBALD. She smiles and laughs the live long day ! Pray do not think her simple. She ' ll laugh at anything you say Because it shows her dimple. 244 My pa goes to the palmist to get his hand read, boasted Freddy. I don ' t know where my Pa goes, said Jimmie, but he gets his nose red. Freddie came in late the other night and accidently woke his room-mate by stumbling over a chair. The latter wanted to know what had happened and Freddie politely informed him that he didn ' t know whether it was the night falling, the day breaking, a shooting star, or a crash towel. Vic, what is a fancy dress ball? ' ' asked Keyser. A fancy dress ball, said Hoppe, is usually one where most of the clothes exist merely in the fancy. It pains me Mr. Duerr, to see you coming out of a bar-room, said the deacon. All right, deacon, said Duerr, anything to save your feelings. FU go right back in again. Maloney — What is the difference between an apple and a pretty girl ? Holloway — I couldn ' t tell you. Pat — One you squeeze to get cider, and the other you get ' side her to squeeze. If W. Huddleston Roberts were in heaven — a mere supposition — he would complain that his halo was a misfit and his cloud was damp. Joe ' s head had expanded to the limit and he was unmercifully lording it over his friends. Wa ! he exclaimed, Lottie told me last night that I was a model husband. Look here old man, said Heator, who could stand it no longer, do you know what a model is? Well I should rather think so, replied Joe haughtily. A model, my fine fellow, is just a little image of the real thing. Joe ' s head immediately shrank to 9 inches in diameter, its normal size. Stillwell Gee! what a pretty mouth you ' ve got, Billy. That ought to be on a girl ' s face. Pfeift er — Well, I seldom miss an opportunity. Helen Hunt — Gracious, my dear, I do hope you are not ill ; you look so much older tonight. Frances Dann — I am quite well, thank you, dear, and you — how wonder- fully improved you are ! You look positively young. Zoe. B. (sighing) — What have I got to live for? Gladys C. — I don ' t know. Is somebody making you? ' ' I Raspberries Raspberry Pie Chapter. Collars — Rubber and Celluloid Pin— Safet)-. Motto: — While one swallow may not make a spring-, Several swallows have caused an early fall. — Bill IVigglcstick. Big Guys : Chief Rusher of the Sacred Khan Ching High Lord of the Fiery Goat Giff Master Scribbler of Forbidden Secrets Josh Main Soft Soapcr and IManager of Filthy Lucre Fraze Author of the Flallowed Oaths Ash Other. Guys: Trusty Captain of the Roughers Bunker Haughty Rearranger of Furniture Bob Grand Hot-Airer of the Bunch Dug Prize K. M. Chaser and Poet Livy Supreme Slammer of Initiated Lord Honored Preserver of the Venerable Owl Bill Setter-L ' p of the Push Jimmie Frank Merriwell the Second ..Higgins Jester and ButToon ' • Greenie Horrible Example Van Free Lunch Maniac Tenant Literary Cuss and Summer Navigator Dean Last Guy : Everlasting Prep and Performer of Menial Tasks Goldie 246 Raspberry Calendar for September, 1907 Sept. II. — Ching and Gif¥ hold solemn conclave over the Sacred Khan. Prospects favorable for a flourishing chapter. Sept. 12 — First regular meeting held. J ' Iany names voted upon. Committee detailed to rescue Josh and Fraze with life lines and row boats from a watery ( ?) grave in Newark. Sept. 14 — Goldie goes snipe ' -hunting and has excellent luck. Sept. 15 — Boarding clubs have snipe for breakfast. Sept. 16 — Committee succeeds in locating Josh and P raze and the latter are brought back to school. Sept. 17 — Livy goes walking with two K. JM. ' s at once. Later on gets his signals mixed at foot ball practice. Sept. 18 — Raspberries buck classes to celebrate Milwaukee Day. Dean sprains ankle trying to catch 1 1 130 car, and football practice suffers blame for it. Sept. 19 — Chester Winter is unanimously blackballed because he is too tough. Also Hazen together with another girl. Sept. 23 — Raspberry Anniversary — pop ( ?) flows freely. Sept. 24 — ' Tis no time for mirth and laughter The cold gray dawn of the morning after. Sept. 26 — Great Excitement! Sugar Gibson wearing the pledge pin. Sept. 27 — Fxcitement dies down. Sugar merely tore his coat. Sept. 29 — Josh breaks banner record of attendance at church and- is expelled from Sunday School class. Sept. 30 — Raspberries swear off on Newark indefinitely. Several cafes go to the wall. 248 A COMEDY OF ERRORS. Dramatis Personae. Funnygraphs Entitled, This Is So Sudden ( ?) Bohe Lamson, Weezer Ferg, Mr. Ferguson. Billy Lewis, Scene — Ferguson ' s Parlor. Curtain — [ Bohe seated on divan in Parlor, waiting for Weezer who is up stairs.] Bohe — (Singing softly to himself) Because Fm married now. [Door bell rings violently.] Weezer (opening door) — Good evening. Billy Lewis — Good evening, is Mr. Ferguson at home? Weezer — Fll call him. Weezer — (Up-stairs.) Papa, there ' a young man down stairs who wants to see you. Mr. Ferg — (Entering parlor.) Good evening Mr. Lamson, Louise said you wanted to see me. Blonda — (Who used to take Astronomy.) This world is rolling round in space. That ' s what my teacher said. So now I know why, Monday night I tumbled out of bed. Marion Rose, once, while out in Des Moines, Had ordered a T bone Sir Loines. Said the waiter, No so, Unless you can show A sufficient amount of Des Coines. Prof. Colwell was touring Termopylae. He never did anything properly. And they say, If you choose To boil eggs in your shoes You cannot remain in Thermopylae. Curtain. C. P. Wood ' s definition of manners — A difficult symphony in B natural. 249 CHORUS OF GROANS. Funnygraphs A windy young fellow named Kent To Denison College was sent. But he knew far too much And learned that all such Find a dip in Raccoon not ill spent. A JUNIOR ' S LOGIC. All crows are black. Jim is black. Jim is a crow. MISS FULTON ' S LOGIC. Some Oak trees come from acorns. Oak trees are valuable things. Some valuable things come from small things. (This latter statement made Bob Taylor very hopeful.) ARNOLD ' S LOGIC. No Jackass is a redhead. Alec is a Jackass (colossal). ' ' ' Alec is not a redhead. EVERYBODY ' S LOGIC. Every bunny is a rabbit. Every rabbit has four legs. Bunny has four legs. HATTERSLEY ' S PRIZE POEM. Man ' s words to man are often flat ; Man ' s words to woman flatter. Two men may often stand and chat; Two women stand and chatter. Doctor — What ails you, sir? Walker — I don ' t know, Doctor; I have such a buzzing sound in my ears all the time. Would you like to look at my tongue? Doctor — No, never mind, bring your wife around some day; I ' d rather look at hers. We were first inclined to ascribe these beautiful and noble stanzas to Milton but internal evidence brings us to the inevitable conclusion that they were indited by Victor Hugo Hoppe, the modern Shakespeare and General Idol of the Stage- struck Public. 250 Professor Woodward was organizing his Junior Prep Arithmetic class. And what may your name be my boy? asked the kindly Prof, in a patron- FuiHiy raphs izing manner. Jule. Yes, but what is your full name? Oh! Julius. Thank you, and he went to the next diminutive urchin. And your name? Bill. No. I don ' t want that. I want your full name. Well, en I guess ' t must be Bilious. The good-natured Prof, was somewhat perplexed, but no words of a dis- tinctly Sunday School nature are known to have escaped his lips. Woodward waded bravely on, and put the same question to the next child. Tom, was the response. No! whv will you persist in giving me only your nicknames and not your full names? Please sir, ' tis Thomas, was the very meek rejoinder. And now yours, my little man, and give me your full name. Now the last youth was very conscientious, and was also very wise and he determined to profit by the experiences of Tom. So he proceeded accord- ingly and his name was Jack. We wonder if he was related to Alec. IN 1908, -sc-r -rn-ld, (at the Phi Gam house) — Hello central, firty-four, please. M-rg-r-t McK-bb-n, (at other end of the line) — Hello. -rn-ld — (Very urbanely imitating her father) — Good evening, who is this? M-rg-r-t — (Mincing) Oh! this isn ' t daddy. Would not you like to speak with dad ? -rn-ld — Help ! This is so sudden ! ( Hangs up the receiver and makes his way poste-haste to West Elm St. — The date is not yet announced.) Sam Wilson — Mamma, I got loo today. Mrs. Wilson — Why, how ' s that Sam? Sam — Oh ! I wasn ' t called on. Mrs. W. — That isn ' t the way to do Sam, you really want to get loo in something. Sam (next day) — I really did get a loo today. Mamma. Mrs. W. — That ' s fine, Sam. What was it in ? Sam — Fifty in Spelling and fifty in Reading. 251 Acknowledgements The Adytum staff desires to thank the many friends who have contributed to the success of this volume. Those who have helped in a material way we wish to thank especially. Among these we would men- tion Miss Edith Pattengill for her work in the art department, Messrs. Clark, Ash- more and Mather for the many photo- graphs furnished us. 252 eiNOEBITV CLOTHES COPYRIGHT URSTING leaves and bright sunshine should remind you of your Spring requirements in Clothing, Furnishings and Hats. Let us remind you not only of our ability to serve you, but of our extensive assortment in these lines — the quality of our offerings, and the exceptionally moderate prices. SINCERITY Suits and Overcoats $1 5 to $30 Spring Hats in all colors and popular shapes $3 All the newest and brightest novelties in neckwear - 50c THE GREAT WESTERN, Newark, O. 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Third and Main Streets Newark, Ohio FURNITURE From all parts of Ohio, and even from beyond the confines of the State, people come to our store to purchase furniture. Our extensive display, covering seven great floors, offers unequalled advantages to furniture buyers. Visitors always welcome. McAllister, Mohler Co. T the Ohio Bar Exan inations held on June 4th and 5th, 1907, every man from the Western Reserve Liw School passed, being the eighth class from the School, during the last nine years, to make this record. Of the First Honor Men in the last six June examinations, four were sent from Western Reserve. Columbus, Ohio The Calendar APRIL, 1907 April I — ' 07 Adytum goes to press. April Fool ' s Day. April 2 — Miss Fetzer and George Phillips take supper in the woods and at- tend Faculty meeting at the Sem afterwards. April 3 — Granville full of ministers. Leatherhead says, My but I am en- joying this Retreat after counting on it for so long. April 4 — Spring vacation over. Influx of new bonnets at the Sem. April 5 — Snow on the ground. Baseball practice begins. April 6 — Skating at Columbus bridge. Too cold to go walking. April 7 — On the seventh day they rested, but Sunday isn ' t the seventh day. April 8 — Mr. Roberts makes his first appearance in class-room after his vaca- tion fishing trip. April 9 — Gil in chapel — Down in Recital Hall last night some one opened a window wide enough to let in sixteen square feet of air. April 10 — Dutch appears mit einem neuen grauen hut! April II — Prof. Bowen gives a simple lecture on The Simple Life. Prexy goes to sleep. April 12 — Euterpe Extra. Xantippe. April 13 — Something new. Housecleaning at the Sem. April 14 — Blanche Bushnell gets to church on time. April 15 — Hosy Ferris recites in Latin. April 16 — Denison Glee Club Concert. Chief feature a duet by Mary Mont- gomery and Milton Possons. April 17 — Byron King cheers up the Town Hall plus a handful of spectators. April 18 — Juniors begin talking about the coming of their Adytum. April 19 — Lottie Graham reports in Philo, Miss Barker does not approve of having men or any other elaborate refreshments at our stunt. April 20 — Denison 5 — Wooster 3. April 21 — Prof. Carney leaves Science Hall long enough to go to church. April 22 — Miss took tea with Miss at the Sem. Permission of the Denisonian. April 23 — ErC? NewYork • me Clothes thai KEEP 7v cn r Tji.ng ' They combine the acme of style — extreme college style — with high quality and moderate price — $15.00 to $23.00 SOLD EXCLUSIVELY BY Mitchell Miracle EAST SIDE SQUARE Newark, Ohio Profitable Employment Every Summer for many years a number of students from Gran- ville have worked for F. B. Dickerson Company, Publishers, Detroit, Mich. A number of our students have earned enough during summer vacation to pay their way a whole year in col- lege. If you want profitable employment write them for particulars. Crandall Packings Are always up to the standard is because we make them of the best possible material. Piston Packing Sheet Packing Gaskets Pump Valves Engineers ' Supplies Write for Catalogue Crandall Packing Co General Office and Factory PALMYRA, N. Y. NEW YORK CLEVELAND 136 Liberty Street 805 Superior Ave., N. W. CHICAGO 32 West Washington St. April 24 — Prof. ( iil announces that there will be a faculty meeting in the after- noon at two and a half o ' clock. April 25 — Washington Jefi ' erson defeated in debate. April 26 — Signs return to Stone Library. The girls give their reception. April 27 — Sig Supper. Interrupted by farmer. April 28 — Svvartz and Jewett build walks for the Kappa Phis by moonlight. April 29 — Swipes decides not to return to Denison. Great joy among the Preps. April 30 — Ruth Spiger stops after class to tell Prof. Johnnie Billy Wright ' s address. MAY, 1907 May I — Girls ' Glee Club Concert. Slams on the Sem in song. May 2 — Bolin demonstrates how not to alight from a moving car May 3 — Sem reception. Johnnie beats Roberts in drinking punch. May 4 — May 5 — Kibble leads chapel. Wish Pd bucked. May 6 — Y. M. C. A., Y. W. C. A. May 7 — Denison Dandv Darkies. Still unsolved How long can without brains. DENISON UNIVERSITY FOUNDED IN 1831 Granville College, for Young Men Shepardson College, for Young Women The Conservatory of Music Doane Academy The School of Art When speaking of colleges among your friends remember the notable features of Denison : FIRST, ITS LOCATION Granville, beginning its second century, one of the choicest communities in America with a magnificent campus site. SECOND, ITS EQUIPMENT Sixteen buildings, nearly all of them fine modern structures, with gymnasiums, laboratories, libraries, pipe organ and other musical facilities, central heating and electric lighting plant and more than a million dollars of property and endowments. THIRD, ITS FACULTY Forty-five persons chosen for their special fitness to teach and inspire, with Dr Emory W. Hunt at the head. FOURTH, ITS CURRICULUM Denison has always had high standards of thoroughness. It may be harder getting through Denison than some other institutions, but it will be easier to get through life because of it. FIFTH, ITS VARIETY OF OPPORTUNITY Equal advantages for young men and young women. Best college preparation for teacher, physician, minister and lawyer, and in the sciences, in engineering, in all branches of music, and in art. Splendid athletic facilities. SIXTH, ITS INFLUENCES Refined and cultivated society. Strong moral and religious environment. Association with 600 choice young people from all America and from other lands. May 8 — Denisonian acknowledges having made a slight error. May 9 — Rice Pudding and Raisins at the Dining Hall. Addie Tudor asks to be excused. May lo — Farmers ' notice, High prices on Turkeys. May II — ' Burglars at the Sem. Denison 4 — Wooster i. T. J. Shepard ' s house goes thru a chemical change. May 12 — ' oSers put out posters announcing sale of Advtum. Lowery dis- tributes posters while Ballard goes to church. ] ,jay 13 — Joint meeting of Y. M. and Y. VV. ; ' 07 Parlor Book placed on sale. May 14 — Cicero extra. Wavbright appeals to the manhood and w omanhood of the judges. May 15 — Dr. Colwell in chapel humbly announces that on the day before he was called down by the faculty. May 16 — Dr. Hunt speaks at A ' Vashington. May 17 — Burton Hall Reception. Denison 17 — Wittenberg o. May 18 — High School track meet. Pouring rain. Visions of barefoot boys. May 19 — Burglar scare over. Miss Peckham returns Prexy ' s gun, and puts away her bird shot. May 20 — The Ouija Board tells Miss Adams who the burglars were. May 21 — Preps begin to get their traps together. B. 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May 28 — Calliope Banquet. Jewett gives a toast but not the one he had written. May 29 — Junior stunt. Carmen — Is that your hand Miss Phillips? Heater — No, its mine. May 30 — Girls ' Edition of Denisonian. Best number yet. May 31 — King Hall reception. Miss Parsons has to tell the Preps it is time to leave. Euterp and Philo picnics. JUNE, 1907 j ine I — The engagement of Margaret Chafifee and Kenneth Jewett becomes an established fact. June 2 — Last time the Preps have a chance to go to church in Granville for a while. June 3 — Senior-Eacultv baseball game. Dr. Hundley makes a home run. j me 4 — Bell rings at 10:40. Prof. Kibbie remarks, It sounds as if a fool was loose. June 5 — Adytum Staff for 1908 is announced. jyiie 6 — New Officers for Student Government elected. We ain ' t afraid of them. — Dorothy Buddc. June 7 — Splitting heads and racking brains. Make an effort for final gains. June 8 — Kate and Petruchio seen in Recital Hall. June 9 — Baccalaureate Sunday. lune 10 — Field Day. Prof. Johnnie says it ain ' t what it used to be. June 1 1 — Senior girls elaborately entertained by Miss Barker at the Dining Hall. HON. WILLIAM A. ASHBROOK Congressman 17th District He has been faithful to his promises and asks to be re-elected Summer GEACH SON Stoves, Hardware, Hunter ' s Supplies, Gas Fixtures Broadway Granville, Ohio W. P. Ullman Drugs and BooI s School Supplies Mouldings Up-to-date Picture Framing Granville, - Ohio REXALL STORE F. H. BUXTON JEWELER SOUVENIRS, ETC. On the Corner GRANVILLE, OHIO June 12 — President ' s Reception. It might be presumed, altho there is no authority for the statement, that the present students, feeHng respect for their elders, withdrew from the congested rooms to mal ' j it pleasanter for them. — Denisonian. June 13 — Commencement Day. June 14 — Miss Barker stays out too late, and is forced to enter by climbing thru a window. SEPTEMBER, 1907 5.pt. II — School opens. Cold blooded sympathy for new students. Cheer up, the worst is yet to come. Sept. 12— Imogene Critchfield, (half way up the hill). This is like ' Stepping Heavenward. ' Sept. 13 — Y. A ' V. C. A. Reception. Lily P.ell Sefton tells new girls that last year she felt just as they do now, but this year she is going to turn over a new leaf and be sweet and lovable. Sept. 14 — Liver and bacon for breakfast at the Sem as usual. New girls starting on the downward path get ham sandwiches at Casey ' s. Sept. 15 — Old girls make calls of sympathy on the new girls. Oh dry those tears. Sept. 16 — Things begin to look natural when Ruth and ' Toss come strolling up Broadway at 5:15- Sept. 17 — Prospect for 1907, according to new regulations, is all work and no play. Richards, McCarty Bulford COLUMBUS, OHIO Architects and Builders DESIGNERS OF Cleveland Hall, Doane Gymnasium, Stone Hall and Barney Hall of Denison University Sept. i8 — Denisonian appears in a new form. Thou hast done nobly, Ray! Sept. 19 — Prof. Odebrecht — You are getting along alright Miss Critchfield. Miss Critchfield — You can ' t make me believe that. Sept. 20 — Philo open meeting. The Burglar presented. The Burglar re- presented at 10:30 in Stone Hall. Ruth and Bertha play the part of Sher- lock Plolmes. Sept. 21 — Carl Duerr involuntarily spends the night in front of Stone Hall. Kent ' s first ducking. Sept. 22 — The whole Sem turns out at church. The girls nuist now apply to Mrs. Hunt for excuses. Ferris in History — Didn ' t get that far. Sept. 24 — First Proctor ' s meeting. Esther Crooks is reported for causing un- due disturbances. Sept. 25 — Freshman-Sophomore rush. Sept. 26 — Another Social Function.— Adytum board meets. Jimmie Adair — Why not meet oftener, we have a good time. Sept. 27 — Goddard ' s early rising proves fruitless — failure to arouse hostilities between Sophs and Freshmen. Sept. 28 — Muskingum o— Denison 6. A good beginning makes a bad ending. Sept. 29 — H. E. Buker addresses Y. M. C. A. Sept. 30 — Returned empties — Frizelle, Kemper, Bradshaw and Bridges. M M. King Jeweler and Optician College Pennants Emblems and Souvenirs Fine Watch Repairing a Specialty Granville, Ohio We take pride in calling your attention to our optical depart- ment. We use all the latest appliances in making an exam- ination of the eyes and mistakes are im- possible. No guess work. If your eyes need the care of a doctor we will tell you so. Figures don ' t he. Neither do photographs, but they may misrepresent. : : For photographs that are truthful pictures of your best pose and finished most artistically in the latest mode, go to McCahon ' s Studio Newark, Ohio RUSSELL ' S PHOTO STUDIO HIGH GRADE PHOTOGRAPHY The Best That Art Can Produce SPECIAL RATES TO STUDENTS 1 8i East Side Square NEWARK, O. OCTOBER, 1907 Oct. I — McArthur in Botany, — I don ' t know a thing. Oct. 2 — Denisonian exposes the past history of Dr. Hunt. Oct. 3 — Raspberries congregate for re-organization and more devilment. Oct. 4 — General Jam at the Gym. Nobody hurt. Hattersley, heartless, hat- less, and headless. Oct. 5 — Denison 15 — Heidelberg 6. The good beginning still continues. Serenades a la shingle on Broadway. Oct. 6 — Lauer not yet in love in Granville, goes to spend a Sunday in Michigan. Oct 7 — Prof. Gil spends a precious Math hour in expounding to Freshman the advantage of Granville church going. Oct. 8 — Goldberger expresses a long felt desire to become a Raspberry. Oct. 9 — Blacet goes snipe hunting. Returns a sadder but a wiser guy. Oct. 10 — Prof. Chamberlain learns something new about Physics; Sowers acting as instructor. Oct. II — Mass meeting for O. S. U. game. The team that does its best, al- ways wins, no matter what the score is. Oct. 12 — Denison o — O. S. U. 26. According to the score we lost. Oct. 13 — Stragglers still arriving- from Columbus. Oct. 14 — Lowerv gets 23 in History, and is seen no more in class. Oct. 15 — Dorm — police — regulations — begin to take form. Oct. 16 — Mr. Marsh presides over the water pitcher, and collects two cents a glass. Oct. 17 — Mr. Marsh gives out receipts — Two cents a glass for heavy drink- ing. Oct. 18 — Mr. Odebrecht in French. Miss Benedict once got a letter from a man in which he took eight lines to end it. Oct. 19 — Katherine Trimmer gets rip a petion for a hot plate in Burton Hall. Oct. 20 — Charles Carman sits on his hat in church. Explosion heard in the choir. Oct. 21 — Monday morning at 8:15 Ruth Davenport in logic — Why Mr. Wood hasn ' t gone by yet with his pink laundry bag. Oct. 22 — Sem Girls decide to take up a collection for Marjorie Witter, for the Wolf ' s at the door. Murktvt Tailors to Men of Fashion Golf, Tennis, Auto Garbs, and Evening Clothes Our Specialty SEE OUR REPRESENTATIVE Oct. 23 — Although this should be a legal holiday in celebration of skidoo ' s birthday, the school fails to keep it. Oct. 24 — Gil and Air. Crandall have their semi-occasional controversy on how to say it some other way. Oct. 25 — Mr. Odebrecht, If you should see his mother and her mother standing alone on the blackboard, you would not be able to tell which was which. Oct. 26 — Case, 16; Denison, 6. Anti-climax continues. Oct. 27 — Modern miracle — Sem girls on time to church. Oct. 28 — Prexy philosophixes on the Case game. Theoretically we won. Oct. 29 — Proctor ' s meeting! Now Pve lost my reputation. Oct. 30 — Great excitement at the Sem. Everyone pressed into service to help get the Dean off on her trip East. Oct. 31 — The Dean leaves. What will become of the Sem Hallowe ' en ? $12,000 loss on Beaver Field. Sem begins to feel effects of the Dean ' s absence. CIGARS TOBACCO Restaurant and Temperance Billiard Room E. W. BRICKELS lie, Oh 10 WHY DON T YOU BUY YOUR EATABLES AT Chrysler Owen ' s Grocery THEY PLEASE YOU IN QUALITY. PRICE AND VARIETY Phone 32 BROADWAY FUTERER The Baker A FRESH STOCK OF CAKES, PIES AND CHOICE HAND- MADE CANDY ALWAYS ON HAND NOVEMBER, 1907 Nov. I — Social culture meeting. Dr. Adam Swindle ' s Transformations. We heard wliat all the senior girls would like to be. Eleanor Chaffee ' s highest ambition is to have curly hair. Nov. 2 — Preliminary cross country trot. Nov. 3 — Oh Day of Rest and Gladness. Nov. 4 — Willie announces he has been taking quinine. Nov. 5 — Steady circulation of a book How to be Beautiful among the girls at the Sem. Nov. 6 — Willie announces the quinine has taken efifect. Deaf as a Post. Nov. 7. Nov. 8 — Miss Barker and Prof. Johnnie refuse to have their lives exposed by the Denisonian. Nov. 9 — The Seniors have a progressive dinner party, and according to the Denisonian they have a really successful time at last. Nov. 10 — Annual Fall Sermon. Nov. II — Bvron King arrives on the scene of action. Everybody gets ready to laugh. Nov. 12 — Ann Sorenson goes to sleep in Constitutional Law Class. Nov. 13 — An unheard of thing. Gill springs exams on all his classes. Some people begin to see things, e. g. Delinquent Svstem. Nov. 14 — Hooker puts it over Dick in tennis. Nov. 15 — Reformation started by the girls. Boys learn by expt;rience how it feels to run the gauntlet up the chapel steps. Livy gets fussed. Nov. 16 — Hattersley receives a letter from Aunt Hat. Nov. 17 — Nov. 18 — Family reunion at Miss Peckham ' s table. Ruth Davenport appro- priately plays the role of baby. Nov. i9 — Denison becomes stage-struck. The Obstinate Family, Stranded in Strasburg, Belshasser ' s Doom — all for a quarter. Nov. 20 — More stage striking — Othello offered to the theatre-goers of Gran- ville. Nov. 21 — Joint Phiterp-Eumathean meeting. ' Question: Who will make con- cessions ? Nov. 22 — Fred Wolf hears from the East. Nov. 23 — Elva Brakeman gives their room its biennial cleaning. The Granville Greenhouses CHAS. DUERR, Proprietor Choice Cut Flowers Ferns, Palms Blooming Plants Decorating and Floral Designing PHONE 26 P. O. BOX 523 Nov. 24 — Nov. 25 — Nov. 26 — Lent — season for footl all men ends, and desserts suffer. Horace and Beulah take their daily chapel walk. Sem rations cut down in anticipation of Thanksgiving dinner. Nov. 27 — Pearl Henley descending hill announces, Thank goodness I have only Gym. and Art. left. Nov. 28 — Church and feasting. Nov. 29 — General dissipation — King Hall girls play leap frog and it results in serious damage to several heads. Nov. 30 — Carl Duerr goes calling in Dayton, tells the story of 1910 achieve- ments. DECEMBER, 1907 Dec. I — Novelty in dessert at Dining Hall — pink and white cake. Dec. 2 — New mural decorations at Burton — Get your happiness out of your work or you will never know what happiness is, etc. Dec. 3 — Things begin to look natural at the Sem after ]Miss Barker ' s return. Miss Peckham wears a cheerful expression again. Dec. 4 — Mural decorations spread to Stone: It is what we think and what we do that makes us wdiat we are, etc. Dec. 5 — McGee after trying four town girls for the next lecture, resorts to the Sem. Dec. 6 — Basket-ball practice begins. are as individual as the individuals. Some want a fine steel pen action, some use a coarse stub, some want a free flowing pen ; others don ' t, but whatever the pen habit of each member, the whole family can find in Waterman ' s Ideal Fountain Pen The Pen with the Clip-Cap pens to suit each hand. The Waterman ' s Ideal is the family pen because it is neat, orderly, good natured and untiring. Your local dealer or his pen clerk is sufficiently informed to select you the correct pen for the use of any member of your family. For further aid write for booklet The World ' s Great Writer. L.E.Watermai-i Company, 1 73 Broadway,! . e SCHOOL ST., BOSTON a09 STATE ST., CHICAGO 136 ST JAMES ST. MONTREAl. 7-42 MARKET ST., SAN FRANCISCO laCOi-DEN LANE t-O NDON . E .C . Dec. 7 — Miss Barker pnmps for half an hour Ijcfore deciding that there is a leak in the pump. Dec. 8 — Ruth CarHn entertains a guest from Columbus. ]3ec. 9 — Attention of logic class diverted by cat and dog iight — cat victorious. Dec. lo — Junior Banquet — in keeping with all 09 successes. Dec. II — A Freshman announces that it is 6 days, 4,323 minutes, 86,497 seconds before starting for home. Dec. 12 — Calendar Committee meets. Dec. 13 — Full attendance at the lecture; Fred and INTarjorie skate home. Dec. 14 — Bill Lewis makes his debut as Academy basket-ball manager and stump speaker. Dec. 15 — Pinky Marsh carves the chicken at dinner. Dec. 16 — Illinois Club is organized. Dec. 17 — How to hold down a window blind — Gil. says — put your foot on the string. Dec. 18 — Sue Theobald ' s usual home-going enthusiasm bubbles over. Dec. 19 The Powers that Be announce that one is to leave before Friday noon. Dec. 20 — Holiday recess begins at noon. Now for life and love. JANUARY, 1908 Jan. 6 — Holiday recess ends at noon. Now for work and war. Jan. 7 — Prof. ' Brumback starts the new year with a new coat. Jan. 8 — One of the secondary clocks keep time for two hours in the fore- noon. Jan. 9 — Discomfort causes Nellie A. to hold an interview with the shoemaker. The latter charges her ten cents to point out the fact that the tongue of her shoe had taken up its position in the toe of the shoe. Jan. 10. Laii guage asso ci a tioii meets. Jan. II Denison, 39; Mutes, 16. Leather makes a touchdown. Jan. 12 — Miss Ruth Lovering Jones is delighted by a visit from her gen- tlemen friend of Columbus. Jan. 13 — Adair recovers from a sHght attack of the Grippe. Tan. 14 — Alexander goes to sleep in law class. Jan. I-, — The Director comes out — ' Vale does good pi luting. The Granville Bank Co. Our board of directors is made up of some of the most successful business men of the town. They give the affairs of the bank the same care which they bestow upon their private business. If a patron of ours, your interests receive their careful attention. R I SIEGLE Dealer in FRESH AND SALT MEATS Phone orders given prompt attention and immediate delivery GRANVILLE, OHIO J. W. Ackley ' s PHARMACY FOR Drugs Toilet Articles Cigars Fine Candies — Delicious Soda WE ARE UP-TO-DATE GRANVILLE, OHIO fan. iG — Da - of solemnity — ' 08 funeral takes place after chapel. Jan. 17 — Philo-Euterpe contest. Experience is a dear teacher. Nobody bets. Jan. 18 — Sophomores spend three hours in the speak easy writing history notes. Jan. 19 — Sunday and Dr. Baldwin. Jan. 20 — First Senior show announcerl by Junior posters. Jan. 21 — Senior Circus. Color-line drawn in Granville. Poor White Trash onlv allowed to attend. Jan. 22 Young Bunny makes his first announcement in chapel. Jan. 23 — Day of Prayer. Jan. 24 — Miss Brakeman gets a letter from Rochester. Jan. 25 Judge Lindsay — Snitch on the square. Proctors take heed. Jan. 26 — Dr. Hunt leads Y. M. C. A. Jan. 27 — Senior-Prep. game. Jan. 28 — Calender Committee meets. Jan. 29 — Sink or swim, live or die. survive or perish, I give my head and my heart to exam ' s. Jan. 30 — Grand Finale, exeunt omnes. Ernest Cornell, Secretary to Hon. William A. Aslibrook of the 17th Ohio District, received his business training at Bliss College. Upon his graduation from Denison University in June, 1907, he entered Bliss College antl there pur- sued the study of shorthand and typewriting until November, when he left to assume his duties in Washington. He has this to say of Bliss College: I regard Bliss College of Newark, Ohio, as one of the best institutions of its kind in the country. It is a thorough, systematic school of business, conducted upon business principles. Here the student has an advantage which a larger institution cannot give. In Bliss College the student comes into intimate touch with instructors of a higher type than are found in the larger ordinary business schools, where less individual attention is paid to each student. I regard the personal affiliation of instructor and student the greatest triumph of Bliss College. To the young man or woman who is contemp- lating a course of business study, I could advise no better school. ERNEST CORNELL NEWARK, OHIO We ask the lady students of Granville to make our store their headquarters when in Newark shopping. Clouse Schauweker Dealers in Fine Millinery 42 Third Street Agents for Phipps Hats With new large instrument, and other improved facil- ities, 1 am better than ever prepared to do fine photo- graphic work in all styles and sizes. Large photo- graphs a specialty — groups, etc. Students, don ' t for- get you want to exchange photos, and this is the place to get good ones. TRESIZE Granville, Ohio FEBRUARY, 1908 Feb. I — Vacation stunts — Snitch party in Burton — Pop-corn party in King. Ella Stewart and Coe pop in the basement. Feb. 4 — Illinois Club enjoys its first banquet. Feb. 5 — Juniors have little difficulty in w inning the game. Sophomores vs. Juniors. Feb. 6 — Bull recites in Philosophy. Feb. 7 — Van Kirk gives us the rest of our quarter ' s worth. Feb. 8 — Helen Hunt and Josephine Carver take lessons in courting. Feb. 9 — What ever happened in Granville on Sunday ? Feb. lo — John Swartz comes to chapel. Feb. II — Lowery to Prexy : What will we do while you are gone? Prexy : I wouldn ' t undertake to guarantee. Feb. 12 — Miss Conley : What a change it is to go from the study oif Philosophy to the Ladies ' Home Journal. Feb. 13 — Patrick shows Prof. McKibbon his card on which is scheduled eleven hours of English. P atrick, isn ' t this premature specialization? Feb. 14 — Preps give a Valentine stunt. They match valentines and display their infantile skill in archery. Feb. 15 — The girls are trying to teach Betty Fetzer slang. Betty: What does ' game ' mean? Ruth: It means sort of ' on the bum ' . Betty: Then if I sav my room-mate is on the bum, does that mean I have a game room-mate ? Feb. 16 — Brinev barely escapes taking a header down the aisle on Sunday morning. Feb. 17 — Prof. Roberts has visitors in Freshman English. Question: What two kinds of discourses are there? Parker: Correct and incorrect. Feb. 18 — Heater hears good news from Bucyrus in regard to t he Washington Banquet. Feb. 19 — Borrowed suits begin to arrive from Newark and Columbus. Feb. 20 — Bad luck pursues Holloway in his vain attempts to renew his youth. The toboggan and its fair occupants lose connections on the first trip. Feb. 21 — Granville ' s Byg Show. Mather, Mitchell and Neyman pursued to Orcutt ' s by Miss Jones. sportsmen ' s and Athletic Headquarters BASE BALL, FOOT BALL, TRACK, TENNIS, AND GENERAL SPORTSMAN S SUPPLIES WE SELL SPORTING GOODS ONLY Make our store yotir home when in Columbus THE COLUMBUS SPORTING GOODS CO. 235 North High Street COLUMBUS, OHIO Kampmann Costume Works Theatrical Co umers And Dealers in Favors and Novelties Dressing College and High School Plays is our Specialty 69-7 1 East State Street, Columbus, Ohio Feb. 22 — Doane, 37; Zanesville, 23. The De an allows prep, girls only twenty minutes at the Zanesville reception. Mary Louise Chamberlin : Dr. Hunt, if you ask Miss Barker, I ' m sure she ' ll let us stay longer. Dr. Hunt: i couldn ' t — I ' m afraid she would campus me. Feb. 23 — Taylor gets up in time to go to Y. M. C. A. Feb. 24 Winter is reported for coming in late nights and smashing up furni- ture in West Dorm. Feb. 25 Prexy: Give me an illustration of that. McArthur: There ' s that crude illustration you gave us the other day. Feb. 26 — Y. M. C. A. Benetit Concert. Grand success. Feb. 27 — Glee Club makes a hit at Mt. Gilead. Thomas proves himself a popular leader. Feb. 28 — Song books disappear from chapel. Students favored by a selection from the Faculty. Encores. Feb. 29 — Get out your paints and powders, girls, for this day comes but once in four years. Harry Burkham PROPRIETOR (Buxton House Bam) LIVERY, FEED AND SALE STABLE All Rigs in First Class Condition Special Attention Given to Boarders East Broadway ™E 102 GRANVILLE. 0. SUBSCRIBE FOR The Granville Times W. H. KUSSMAUL PROPRIETOR Granville, Ohio (IHIO CENTRAJ LINES TOLEDO FOSTORIA GRANVILLE COLUMBUS ATHENS FINDLAY MIDDLEPORT GALLIPOLIS For rates, time of trains and other particulars, call on J. B. TICHENOR, Agent, GRANVILLE, 0. Cotrell Leonard ALBANY, NEW YORK OFFICIAL MAKERS OF CAPS. GOWNS HOODS To the American Col- leges from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Reliable workmanship class con- tracts a specialty. F. D. RHODES DENTIST Offi ce : Wil son Building South Side Broadway Over King ' s Jewelry Store MARCH, 1908 March i — The old and new theologies meet. Dr. Colwell and Mr. Rose have a heated discussion in Sunday School. March 2 — Uncle Tom ' s Cabin. Eliza crosses the ice in the Opera House. ] jarch 3 — Juniors continue to be conspicuous by their absence from Senior circus. March 4 — Glee Club in Recital Hall. Wit and humor in song. March 5 — Franklins give The Rivals. March 6 — George Phillips makes an involuntary donation to the Geological Department. March 7 — Faith Kemper calls on Hope Lamb. March 8 — Spring Valley begins again to assume a place in student life. March 9 — Miss Brakeman : I believe I will scheme now whenever I get a chance. March 1 1 — Pat, according to arrangements, is to call on Ann. Ann waits the long afternoon thru, but Pat does not arrive. Why Go Hungry? When your wants can be supplied by Wright Wright The Leading Grocers Broadway Granville, Ohio Phone 36 You have all heard of the greatest soap on earth, The milled Grandpa ' s Wonder Soap by birth ; Made of the finest and purest pine tar, Mixed with cocoanut oil brought from afar. For coal-handler, painter, merchant and miner, Used in steamship, trolley, Pullman and diner; Five cents, ten cents each, in a paper box. With directions and uses and paper locks. It will cure chapped hands and keep the skin soft; No other will you want if you use it oft. Its for toilet, bath, laundry and shampoo; Tell your friends and they will use it too. Be sure the trade- mark says it ' s Grandpa ' s Wonder Soap, For there are lots of imitations, made of all kinds of dope. So now just you stop, and quit your debatin ' . And get the real thing, made only in Dayton. W rillen by a hoy iBieloe years old, whom it is hoped will some lime be an aspirant for honors at Denison. The Howell Provision Co. You will find is the place to buy your meats of all kinds. Our prices you know are always so fair. To serve and to please you is our aim. So remember the place and the name. Howell Provision Co. Phone 35 Prompt Delivery The College Man ' s Opportunity We offer the SUREST MEANS of finding the right place. Over 1500 good positions in busi- ness, teaching and technical work, not the ordinary soliciting or ap- prenticeship jobs, but positions offer- ing a future. We have 12 offices each with a department devoted to placing col- lege, university and technical school graduates. Write us today. HAPGOOD ' S (The National Organization of Brain Brokers) Williamson Building:, CLEVELAND, 0. March 12 — Prof. Goodell : A person may search for hquor without a warrant, at least it is often done. March 13 — Ringer spends tlie night in cHmbing trees on the campus. March 14 — Y. M. C. A. Reception — gUmpses of the hereafter. Earley is taken advantage of in the darkness. March 16 — Calender Committee meets. Pine comes, but is disappointed when Miss Edwards does not appear. March 17 — Packed house at Denison-Otterbein debate. March 18 — Miss Montgomery is forced to suspend the activities of learning long enough to put a young Graymalkin out of the window. March 19 — Essay contest. Seniors carry off the prizes. March 20 — Philo-extra. Tommy Sioui comments: It was the best Jesse James play I ever saw. March 21 — All roads lead to the sugar camp. Kemper takes a Granville visi- tor for a ride that she may see the surrounding beauties. March 23 — Exhibition at Doane Gym. The uninvited faculty pull for Alexan- dria. March 24 — D. D. D. — Somebody lied. March 25 — Prep contest. Cicero in evidence. March 26 — The system extended in order that vacation may not see a loss of control. March 27 — Spring recess begins at noon ' March 31 — Adytum goes to press. Calender Committee disbands. SPECIAL-To the Girls- BEFORE YOU GRAD UATE You will be interested in the new fabrics made especially for graduating garments. We would like to go into this matter with you. The following materials are prominently shown : Lustre Silks, Crepe de Ch mes, Tussah Pongees, Satui Seranos, Cream Veihngs, and many light weight wool materials in the softer shades. Write for samples. THE GRIGGS STORE Newark, Ohio DIDN ' T UNDERSTAND. Mrs. ja_ ha vk — Son Isaac sez ' at he spent th ' evcnin ' with a couple o ' Ijeaches. I don ' t see where he ' d git peaches this time o ' year dew yew, Hiram? Mr. Jayhawd — Wall, th ' minister sed only last Sunday, ' at that there Denison wuz mitey fruitful, an ' 1 guess Isaac ' s smart ez any ov ' em. Nellie Mont. — (To ticket agent.) Would you please tell me what time the 3 o ' clock train leaves? Ticket Agent — I think it does. What was the largest island in the world before Australia was discovered? Give it up. ' Australia. Carl Paige Wood — A few moah hahmonies like that and one would be driven into outah dahkness where there shall be snitching and smashing of faces. Miss Montgomery (speaking of some great orator) — Somehow or other he doesn ' t hold me the way he formerly did. Esperanto, because it is condensed, concise and easily digested, has been defined as potted tongue. Until Edition is Exhausted Had of EARLEY, Business Manager The Bacon-Shakespeare controversy isn ' t in it with the Johnson-Holmes scrap. The reading pubHc is now generally willing to attribute to Prof. Johnny ' s FlUlIiy rSphs pen tehe following lines which Oliver Wendell Holmes claims : AESTIVATION. In candent ire the solar splendor flames, The poles, languescent, pend from arid rames, His humid front the ave, anhiling, wipes, And dreams of erring on ventiferous ripes. How dulce to vine occult to mortal eyes Down on the herb with none to supervise, Carp the suave berries from the cresent vine And bibe the flow from longicandate kine. To me also, no verdurous visions come Save you exiguous pools confervascum, — No concave vast repeats the tender line That laves my milk- jug with celestial blue. The wretched ! Let me curr to quercine shades ! Effund your albid hausts, lactiferous maids ! Oh ! might I vole to some umbrageous chumps, Depart, — be ofif, — excede, — evade, — erump ! There is a great diflierence of opinion, however, among the critics concern- ing the authorship of the following : Mingled aye with fragrant yearnings, Throbbing in the mellow glow. Glint the silvery spirit-burnings, Pearly blandishments of woe. Aye ! Forever and forever, Whilst the love-lorn answers sweep. Whilst the jasper winds dissever Amber-like the crystal deep. Adeline (who had been away from home on a short visit) — Have you noticed that my husband missed me very much while I was away, Bridget? Bridget — Well, I didn ' t notice it so much at first but yesterday he seemed to be in despair. Seen in the Alumni Column of the Denisonian : The editor will be pleased to hear of the deaths of any of the alumni. No doubt the old boys will oblige the editor from time to time. Wear King ' s Shoes They have the Style They have the Fit They have the Wear Exclusive Agents for Dunlap Hats BUSINESS ESTABLISHED 1830 The King Company Newark, Ohio PERRY ' S WOOD ' S BAZAAR Is the Place to buy your Goods Staple and Fancy Groceries Granville, Ohio Notions, Bric-a-Brac, Fancy Articles and School Supplies The Student Trade Desired Largest and Best Stock in Town Headquarters for FRESH GOODS LOW PRICES Fine Millinery FAIR TREATMENT You are invited to call and examine my goods and prices College Qirls Always W elcome Miss Henrietta Smith L. W. PERRY South Side of Broadway Granville, Ohio W. B. Storm, while strolling in the country leaned across a fence and watched a farmer ' s boy at work. Young man, your corn looks kind o ' yellow. Yes that ' s the kind we planted. Don ' t look as if you would get more than half a crop. We don ' t expect to. The landlord gets the other half. Billy was silenced for a moment but couldn ' t stand it very long so he again opened fire. Boy, there isn ' t much difference between you and a fool. Nope. Only the fence. Rumor has it that Storm moved on. Tom Wick — I don ' t believe money talks. I never heard it. Ferdy McC. — I have. My money keeps saying Good-bye all the time. Fifteen years from now at their annual reunion and several members of the Class of ' 08 were speaking of those of their number who were not able to be present. Let ' s see, said Holloway, What ever became of Ray Carman, the awful booze fighter? I suppose he ' s dead and buried this long time, replied Mrs. Huffman. Oh, no, responded Lowery, they merely poured him back into his bottle. At a recent party in King Hall they were playing a game in which the one who made the worst face won the prize. All endeavored strenuously to be vic- torious and Foote advanced saying: Miss Budde, I think you have won the prize. Oh, she said, I wasn ' t playing. Ashmore— Was it tea or coffee they threw over in the Boston Harbor? Adams — Tea, of course. Ashmore — Lm sorry it was tea, for if it had been coffee, they might have thrown an egg over afterwards and that would have settled it. Davies — If Theodore Johnson is Chamberlain ' s assistant with his clothes on, what is he when he ' s in the swimming pool? Whyte — Search me. Davies — Teddy Bare, of course. FIGURATIVELY SPEAKING. Lawyer — T can ' t get you a divorce without publicity for $500. Dorothy — How much more will it cost with publicity. Lowery — Yes they say he gave Ringer an awful lecture. Roberts — Well it was probably all done for Wilson ' s benefield. (And he teaches Freshman English too). One Corner of our Testing Laboratory Showing Switch Board. Weir and Weighing Tank Scientific Men APPRECIATE THE VALUE OF TESTS Every Pump We Build Is Thor- oughly Tested Before Shipment Brook ' s Centrifugals For All Liquids Containing Solids Dayton Series Turbines For High Lifts at High Efficiency The Dayton Hydraulic Machinery Co. Dayton, Ohio, U. S. A. The Powers- Miller Co. The Bon Marche Of Cental Ohio Exclusive Stales in Ladies ' Ready -to-W ear Gai merits specially Church St. Newark, O. SUMMER SESSIONS Byron W. King ' s School of Oratory, Elocution and Dramatic Culture Ashland, Ohio, June 25th to July 16th Orville, Ohio, July 17th to Aug:. 2nd Eight Courses of Studies in ARTS OF SPEECH Tuition : One-third of Regular Rates CLASSES AND PRIVATE LESSONS All work done at the Summer School is accredited on Regular Course. The Faculty and Trustees of Ashland College have placed all their buildings at our use for the special term. We can offer many advantages over other years. For detailed circulars, address King ' s School of Oratory Pittsburgh, Pa. Or Earl R. Bull, Granville, Ohio Uncle Billy — I wish you ' d invite that man of yours up here to-morrow night. Helen C. — Why, father, I thought you said you had no use for him. Uncle Billy — So I did last fall; but to-morrow I ' m going to put up the stove. McArthur had been off on a jolly toot. Returning on the 11:30 P. M. car, he was endeavoring to make his way to the post-office for his niail, when he stumbled and fell into the watering-trough. He wallowed about in an unsuc- cessful endeavor to extricate himself until Coddard was able to totter to his side and tried to help him out. But Mac ' s heroic nature asserted itself and between gasps and chokes he spluttered, Arright, Tuck, I kin (hie) save ' self (liic). You save women an ' children (hie). Professor Lauer (confidentially)— Dr. Hunt, there is something preying upon my mind. Prexy — It must be very hungry. Ted Erler — But I don ' t think I deserve an absolute zero. Bunny — No sir ; neither do I. But it is the lowest mark I am allowed to give. Good-day. The Sem girls claim that they are not as bad as they are painted. We Are Not Funnygraphs In the Curriculum But in a position to take care of wants in Hardware and Furniture. Our store is head- quarters for Athletic Goods. Give us a call. Jones VanVoorhis The Studen t ' s Store ALL TEXT BOOKS USED IN THE UNIVERSITY Athletic and Sporting Goods Confectionery, Stationery and Fountain Pens DENISON EXCHANGE Morrow ' s Store Ladies ' Furnishings Men ' s Furnishings Trunks and Suit Cases College Stationery T ry Goods potions Let Us Know Your Wants S. E. Morrow Granville, Ohio A Good Laundry Nothing Torn Nothing Lost Special Rates to Students Newark Steam Laundry Newark, Ohio F. C. ORNDORF Livery, Feed and Sale Stable Reasonable Prices First-Class Turn-Outs Gentle Horses Handsome Office Ladies ' Toilet Room Granville, Ohio ' Phone 6 Speak to me she pleaded and looked into his deep brown eyes. Speak to me, she repeated and stroked his soft curly hair. And this he could not FunnVjfraohS resist. Bow-wow he said. Mary had a little waist Where waists were meant to grow, And everywhere the fashions went. Her waist was sure to go. — Ex. Priest — It was a case of love at first sight with me. Conley — Then why didn ' t }0u hitch up to her? Priest — I saw her again on several occasions. Shall the soul ' s delirious slumber. Sea-green vengeance of a hiss, Teach despairing crags to number Blue infinities of bliss. Have you seen the latest thing? asked his friend who had come along after he had been standing forty-five minutes on a subway platform. Yes, he said. Tm waiting for it now. I ' m married to it. — Ex. A centipede was happy quite. Until a frog in fun Said, Pray which leg comes after which ? This raised her mind to such a pitch, She lay distracted in the ditch Considering how to run. What ' s your hurry Professor? called a friend. I just bought my wife an Easter hat and I want to get it home before the styles change, replied the learned Dr. over his shoulder. The autumn leaves are falling fast. Are falling here and there. They ' re falling through the atmosphere And also through the air. Professor, said Lowery, the senior, trying to be pathetic at parting, I am indebted to you for all I know about history. Oh don ' t mention such a trifle, returned Goody. Query — What is that which makes Helen look shorter and Tuel look longer ? Answer — Helen ' s bicvcle skirt. What would you do if a Sem girl told you to run up the curtain? HAENSEL JONES Managers of Musical Artists 542 Fifth Ave., New York Announce for Season 1908-1909 EMIL SAUER The World ' s Distinguished Pianist ARTHUR HARTMANN The Wizard of the Violin GEORGE HAMLIN America ' s Distinguished Tenor THE OLIVE MEAD QUARTETTE The Greatest Women ' s String Quartette CLAUDE CUNNINGHAM The Distinguished American Baritone AND MANY OTHERS The Candy Kitchen Home Made Candy Delicious Brick and Bulk Ice Cream Fruit Ice and Sherbets CASE BROS.. Proprietors Granville, Ohio L. E. DA VIS DENTIST Office: Over IVright Wright ' s Grocery OFFICE HOURS: 8.00 A. M. to 12:00 M. 1 :00 to 4:30 ' P. M. The Meredith College Co. Zanesville, Ohio Incorporated Paid Up Capital $ 1 0,000.00 Owning and Operating The Zanesville Commercial School Zanesville, Ohio The Coshocton School of Business Coshocton, Ohio Gives instruction in the affairs of business and imparts that knowledge, skill, and self- reliance so necessary to a useful and success- ful life, especially to those who aspire to a commercial career. This work is of a high order, and in attendance, facilities, methods and results, this school ranks with the largest and best in the United States. Send for Catalog. It is mailed only on request. Address all communications to The Meredith College Co. Zanesville, Ohio WE BUY The very best materials for our vv ork of repairing Shoes, Boots, Suit Cases, Mandolin Cases, Guitar Cases, Ball Gloves, Base Balls, Foot Balls, Basket Ball, and all kinds of leather goods. WE GUARANTEE ALL OF OUR WORK D. U. Shoe Repair Co. A. P. READ, Manager Linden Tonsorial Parlors McCOY AND JOHNSON, Proprietors Good Hair Cutting Smooth Shaving Up-to-Date Shines Finest of Face Solutions and Hair Tonics Used A Fine Line of Cigars and Tobacco On the Corner Broadway I.