Friends University - Talisman Yearbook (Wichita, KS)

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THE TALISMAN 17 Her Voice Was Ever Soft U, i As Mrs. Barrett is with us only a part of the time the students outside of her classes in elocution and physical culture are not well acquainted with her. We know her only as a very charming woman whom we are convinced it would be a Very great pleasure to know personally. On the few occasions when we are permitted to hear her read during the year, her numbers are among the most delightful on the program. The university feels that it has a right to be proud of her St'l1Cl611f.S who are highly commended .for their superior work wherever they go. llI1'S.-Bi1.1'1'Gl'l1 has been instructor in eloeutiou and girls' physical training at the university for four years. The greater part of her study was done with Mable Powers, Rochester, New York.

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16 THE TALlSMAN He 'Thinks T00 Much. This gentleman with the ex- tremely learned appearance does not belie his looks. He is the proud possessor of four de- grees which were earned in the good old times when these desir- able appendages were not flung about promiscuously as they are today. He sadly bemoans the fact that in these latter days scholarship is 1'a.pidly giving way in ilnportanee to things :Far niore trivial and iminaterial. However, there is one produc- tion of modern times of which he thoroughly approves and rarely loses an opportunity to advocate-sirnplitied spelling. Dr. Pearson took his A. R. fle- gree at Earlham. Following this he was principal of Fair- mount College, Indiana. In 1881 he attended the Princeton Theo- logical Seminary where he was awarded the Hebrew scholar- ship. The following year an A. M. was awarded him at Princeton University. For two years he made a special study of the Semitic languages at University of Berlin, then went to University of Leipsie, where he wrote his book on the Prophecy of Joel for which he received his doctorate. For four years he occupied the chair of modern languages at Penn College and from '91 to '96 was head of the Biblical department there. In 1906 he came to Friends Where he occupies the chair of Bibliology. You will find Dr. Pearson 's name in Who's Wlio in America, an honor not conferred upon mere local celebrities.

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18 THE TALISMAN Hyperion Curls, a From' Like jove Himsebff' Professors of mathematics and astronomy are not usually w very of the earth, earthy, but i11 spite of his love for loga- rithms and speetroheliographs, Professor Vilheeler is really quite hinnan. He is quite young. and this, together with the fact that he has lovely curly hair, makes him a great favorite among the girls, of whom, by il'-' the way, he is the abject slave. His habits of blushing and look- ing eoyly out of the corner of his eye are also very fetching. The 'boys admire him because when with them he has the happy faculty of being a pal among them, even while main- taining his professional dignity. 'Professor Vifheeler received his A. B. from the University of Indiana in 190-L. 'llhe follow- ing year he taught in the High School at Bloomington. Since 1906 he has occupied the chair of Mathematics at Friends University. We will have to get along Without Professor Wlieelei' next year. I-Ie is going to work for his Master's degree, probably in the University of Chicago, though some say there will be a strong attraction for him at K. U. VVe sincerely hope that he 'll not prolong his furlough after he has bagged his degree.