Duke University - Chanticleer Yearbook (Durham, NC)

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♦ FOREWORD . CP he decorative theme for the Qhanticleer has been taken from the art of classic Qreece. In that land and age were conceived the ideals of political democracy and intellectual liberty, and the belief that divine powers are not jealous of the hitman mind; that knouiedge and goodness are the goals of mortal endeavor, and that men may reaso7 ably hope, and should unceasingly strive, to attain them. On these principles our education rests, and Qreek designs appear Ivith true significance in pages that reflect a university. .y .y . . - . or us of T)uke there is a more particular suggestion. In early days Qreece was a land of little luxury or grandiose achievement, poor and crude in comparison with the contemporary East, yet it was Qreece; and even in the richest and inost brilliant of the later centuries there ivas little debt to any alien source, and reverence for the simple nobility of the ances- tral age was never lacking. So, as Ive look forward Ivith proud hope to the enviable fortune and great accomplishment of IDuke University, we realize luell that this is still trinity Qollege; the splendor of our future only increases our loyalty to the S lma abater which Ive have known and loved. . . . . . .

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IrarajHfHJiiHja THE CHANTICLEER • 1 9 2S ' RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED to DR. WILLIAM HANE WANNAMAKER, Dean Whose keen insight into character, earnest devotion to pro ilcnis of student life, broad- minded tolerance of human frailties, loyal friendship to the deserving, and unselfish zecd for the advancement of our University, command our affection, admiration, and esteem. As a teacher, thorough, thoughtful, inspiring, sympathetic; as an ofhcial, firm yet fair, cour- teous and considerate; as a friend, appreciative, dependali ' e and constant; as a citizen, a vital factor in the life of the community and a needed link between the ' town and the Gown, ' the city and the community. H. E. Spence, 1907. He taught. Once near him, we never have lost our wholesome respect for the keen flash of his eye. And those who have been privileged to sit in his classroom can vouch for his impatience wit h anything shoddy. If heartening men to high endeavor and introduction to a passion for the beauty of the world as it is and as it can be made to be, — if this is excellence, here is testi- mony grateful and unreserved to a prince among teachers. Gii.mer Siler, 1909. For myself, I prefer to think of the Dean not as a Dean but as a young professor of German under whose tutelage one caught visions of a new and beautitful culture, and before whose hearthfire of winter evenings one made good talk about life and manners and philosophies and other things foreign to a liberal education. As one who learned from him about Faust, who bor- rowed his guide books, who was pointed by him to interesting paths and dear curiosities, I hereby gladly heave away at the bushel under which he hides his light. All the more lustih ' do I do so because in the perspective of seventeen sped years the warmth and (juality of this teacher ' s person- ality have not diminished, and because in ma- turity I have preserved for him the same respect and affection that he inspired in me in my youth. Louis I. Jaffe, 1911. I am one of many who cannot think back to undergraduate days without instantly coming again under the spell of the inspiration, the in- fluence which was Wannamaker. . . Many of us owe to him in largest measure vhatever con- tact life has given us with culture, thought, beau- tiful letters. He had an inspirational capacity all his own, which propelled his students with zest and rian on to other radiant realms aside from and beyond the scope of his own field of German language and literature. ... He did not merely teach us letters. He introduced us to humanity, its storm and stress, its romance and its H ' eltscli- mertz, its joys and its sorrows, its illusions and its disillusionments, above all its eternal striving, and its E-zuig-lf- ' cibliche which draws us on. Sidney S. Alderman, 191 3. With the passing of years the memories of men who have played a part in our lives stand out ever more clearly. They hold firm places in our affections. l ' he are our friends. Hundreds of graduates and students will join me in saying of Dean Wannamaker, ' He is my friend ' . W. Nev Evans, 1920. It may be that my pleasant recollections of the Dean persist because of his high sense of jus- tice. And it was more than cold justice. I saw- Dean Wannamaker at Plattsburg, soldiering and sitting about the barracks cleaning rifles with the boys. He didn ' t cramp their style, either. I saw him again at college commanding the re- spect of the same ones with whom he had been a good fellow at camp. That takes breadth of sympathy and a sincere desire to understand and to help. J. Earl Gilbreath, 1920. . . .a scholar who loves literature and lan- guage and who draws therefrom a personal and inspiring philosophy of life ; and a teacher who induces students to accomplish arduous work with patience, enthusiasm, and effect, and whose influ- ence and friendship they prize in all later times— Wesley Taylor, 1920. As a teacher, he increased the size of the uni- verse for most of his students, and for some of them his teaching opened up new worlds which they had not guessed were in existence. With him, those in his seminar courses went adven- turing with Siegfried, rode with the Valkyries, sought for the Rhine gold, fought with Hagen. ' Literature, ' he once wrote in a copy of T ic Nihcluni rnlied for me, ' provides the Seven League Boots. ' . . But most of all I loved his gentle cynicism which I found to be but a cloak for a warm and sympathetic heart. R. P. Harriss, 1926.