Denison University - Adytum Yearbook (Granville, OH)

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members of the class the beautiful hand-carved casket was low- ered into the grave during the singing of the funeral hymn writ- ten especially for the occasion. Our senior y ear began quietly, peacefully and with dignity. We have all survived Psychology and Prof. Williams ' English plus senior essays and orations. The pleasure, fear, excitement and pain of our first appearance in caps and gowns is past and we have now but to wait for whatever the remainder of the year may bring forth. And now, my children, may you be spared the stress and sorrow which it has been ours to know, but may you taste, as we have done, of the honey of perfect happiness during your col- lege life. Marjorie Holden. The Parting Our home. ' Tis here. How hard the parting is. Here we have grown. Here we ourselves became. Around thy hearthstone have we studied long With friend and brother here who strangers came. The bell about to strike. It is the hour When out into the world we make our way. The classes done, the courses checked up passed. Now longer tasks steal on us day by day. Fair Denison, our home, our hearts, alive With purest love, shall always turn to thee ; We pledge our faith to all that thou hast taught And shall stand true thro ' all eternity. F. M. D. Oh, Denison, our hearts, aglow for thee. See not the sorrow or the bitter hour. For love builds only in sweet memory And leaves no token save a radiant bower. Beneath the bower? — ah, what matters that? Enough that tears and blood and sweat are there. To make the soil alive and cause to bloom For aye the fairest flower, nor leaf to sear. 16

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W. Henry Cutler, A. B., Franklin Y. M. C. A. Cabinet, ' 09- ' 1 1 ; Treas., Chapl., V. Pre s., Franklin; Local Mgr. Debating Team, ' 10; Ch. Ady. Calendar Com., ' II; Pres. Minis. Ass ' n. ; Franklin Play, ' 09- ' II ; W. B. Com. When I think of Bill ' s t xudiis, the words of the old gypsy when he buried his caravan hoss, come back to me, We ' ll never see his likes again. I can almost feel the temperature go down when I think of Bill ' s smile setting over the horizon of Granville. He possesses an originality that defies imitation, and wdien Bill gets up to speak, you can depend upon him for a good laugh. The trouble is, he is a preacher, and what in the A orld he will do when he has a funeral sermon on his hands, we refrain from predicting. Strength to your elbow, old man. Jennie Grace Tracy, A. B., Philo. Shep, Prep., ' 08; B, B. T., ' 09- ' 1 2 ; Mgr. B. B. T., ' 1 1- ' 12 Pros. Atty. Philo, Fall, 1911. A sage once asked a conundrum, ' ' What would Denison have done if the Eev. Eobert Tracy had not been a Baptist preacher? Despite her handicap of birth, Jennie ' s record has not been colorless. One flaw, however, is percei tible — she shows preference to a particular color. Jennie came to Denison a dear little prep. Now she looks from above her specs in as dignified a manner as the most learned of the Twelvers. Her chosen pro- fession is politics and her friends may all expect io greet her in the White House — if not, in the Brown House. Frederick Milton Derwacter, A. B., A. N. 2., E . B. K., B. Rh., Calliope. Sec ' y Language Ass ' n, ' 09- ' 12; Corr. Sec ' y, Critic, V. Pres., Calliope; Ady. Board; Boosters Club; Press Club; Class Poet; Editor Den- isonian, I I - ' I 2. Dr. Derwacter Avould be a n ornament to any college, but his name has ruined his chances; it takes too long to learn it. When for convenience you call him Freddie, you do him a great injustice. Doctor just seems to fit him. There are not many men who go through Denison with as good a scholastic record as the subject of this biography, and he is just as modest as he can be about it. You might predict a professorship for him, but you err; he expects to preach and some day we expect to hear him. Joseph Hayes Cory, A. A. T., B. K. Sup ' t of Schools, Deer Creek Twp-, Madison Co., O., ' 06- ' 08; Prof, of English, D. A., ' 08. To do any task of life is honorable, to do it well is magnificent. Joe is one of those men who must do a thing well; if he didn ' t he could not sleep at night He won his (p. B. K. key as easily as some of us will lose it, and it did not take his undivided attention either. During intervals he found time to keep house and teach preps., and either job is a task in itself. 18