Friends University - Talisman Yearbook (Wichita, KS)

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20 THE TALISMAN O, Full of Careful Business. Beyond the limits of her own region Miss Crandall is not very well known. Only the commer- cial students have the privilege of more than passing notice from her. From reports of spreads and parties which arise from the business department, some of us are strongly tempted to take bookkeeping or some- thing which will give us an en- trance to the crowd of which she seems to be the moving spirit. She does mingle with us enough, however. so that we wish she would do it oittener. Miss Crandall is a, graduate of the Salt City Business Col- lege, and from the Wicliita, Commercial College. She has had charge of the Commercial Department of the University since 1907. Wliexiever one of the college students wants anything' typewrittcn in a hurry, he takes it to Miss Crandall. No matter how busy she is, no matter how big a job it is, no matter how long he has procrastinated about bringing in his copy-and college students are about as adept at the art of procrastination as the next fellow-all these considerations weigh as nothingg it's got to be done right away. And yet she smiles. .

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THE TALISMAN 19 He Sits High in All the Peoples Heads. In mere physical size this professor is perhaps the short- est 1l1C111lJC1' of our faculty, but when it comes down to cold, hard knowledge he certainly is there with the goods, so to speak. On the latest nebular hypothesis or on Greek litera- ture of 2000 B. C. he can hold forth with equal ease. He doesn't look like a man who would be likely to have hobbies but you ean't always tell. for if love of bees and the primary meanings of Latin and Greek words constitute a horse he rides hard and fast. This is his own confession. In 1885 Professor Jones re- ceived an A. B. degree from Haverford and in 1890 an A. M. was awarded him. He spent part of the years '94 and '95 in Chicago University and for five years was principal of a High School in Maine. In 1907 he eanie to Friends as head of the Ancient Language department. VVhen Professor Jones is on the progrrani for a chapel talk it ought to be announced on the bulletin boards Cwhen we get some new onesl. Then every- body' would be sure to be present. For Jones' chapel talks are in a class by themselves. They cover such subjects as, Bee Culture. t'How to Hate, Tiddlebindo, and Magrnetisn1. VVe're going to get a shorthand student to report them for The Talisman next year.

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THE TALISMAN 21 Alas for Those Who Never Sing. .llc loves bugs and dotes on snakes and lizzards, so we would not advise any timid person to attempt to approach him in his own particular sanctuin. But anyone who wishes to run the gauntlet of small, slimy, creeping thingsl' will find at its end a person well worth know- ing. His chief characteristic and his greatest pride is his in' nate stubhornness, and he takes the greatest care to inform his classes that he will not yield one inch in anything. But it is our private opinion that this is merely assumed, as is his dis- taste for music, which he affects to despise. However, whether because of this or ill spite of it, his classes are always exceed- ingly interesting. Professor Harvey was award- ed his A. B. in '94 and his A. M. in '95 from Haverford College. For two and a half years he attended the School of Philosophy in the University of l'ennsylvania. Before coming here he was principal of the Friends Select School at XVhittier, Iowa. Since 1905 he has occupied the chair of Biology at F. U. Wie regret. to chronicle the fact that Professor Harvey will not be with ns after this year. The Call of the Soil has been sounding in his ears for some time. and he has decided that it is time to heed it. He will go south and raise oranges.