Gettysburg College - Spectrum Yearbook (Gettysburg, PA)

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'SFQQB CLYDE BELL STovER, M.A., Assistant Professor in Chemistry. A.B., Pennsylvania College, 18945 Graduate work, Johns Hopkins University, 1894-95, Instructor in Chem- istry, Pennsylvania College, IS96-l9I5, A.M., Pennsylvania College, I9l2g Assistant Professor in Chem- istry, Pennsylvania College, l9l5g Member, Philomathean Literary Society. JAMES ALLEN DICKSON, A.B., A.M., Instructor in Chemistry. A.B., Pennsylvania College, l905g graduate work at University of Pennsylvania and at Pennsylvania College: Assistant in Chemistry, Pennsylvania College, I907-15, Instructor in Chemistry, Pennsylvania College, l9l 5-g Member of the 2 X Fraternity. FRED GALLAGHER TROXELL, A.B., A.M., Instructor in Mathematics. A.B., Pennsylvania College, l908g A.M., Pennsylvania College, 1909: Assistant in Mathematics, Pennsyl- vania College, 1908-15, Instructor in Mathematics, Pennsylvania College, I9l5-g Member of the Phrena- lcosmian Literary Society. PAUL SNYDER CREAGER, A.B., Instructor in Physics. A.B., Pennsylvania College, l9I 35 Assistant in Physics, Pennsylvania College, l9l3-I5g Graduate work at I Pennsylvania College ancl at Cornell Universityg Instructor in Physics, Pennsylvania College, l9I5-g Mem- ber of the Phrenakosmian Literary Society. SPURGEON MILTON KEENY, A.B., Instructor in English. A.B., Pennsylvania College, l9I4g Instructor in English and History, Gettysburg Academy, I9l4-I5g Gradu- ate work at Pennsylvania College and at University of Chicago: Instructor in English, Pennsylvania College, l9I5-g Elected Rhodes Scholar from Pennsylvania, l9l5g Member of the Penn and Sword Honorary So- ciety and of the Phrenalcosmian Literary Society. CARL HEINZ BE!-ILE, A.B., Assistant in Modern Languages. Graduated from the Oberrealschule at Bochum and Hagen-Westf.g Graduate work at University of Berlin, Uni- versity of Bonn, and at the University of Commercial Sciences at Cologneg traveled through Europe: taught at the Burdon School of Languages, St. Louis Mo., I9l4-155 Assistant in Modern Languages, Pennsylvania College, I9I5-. GEORGE LLOYD REINERT, B.S., Assistant in Engineerirg. B.S., Civil Engineering Course, Pennsylvania State College, l9l5g Assistant in Engineering, Pennsylvania Col- lege, l9l5-g Member of the 21 fb E Fraternity andthe Civil Engineering Society of Pennsylvania State Col- lege. ' CHARLES PAUL CESSNA, A.B., Assistant in Physics. A.B., Pennsylvania College, I9l 53 Post-graduate work at Pennsylvania College, Assistant in Physics, Penn- sylvania College, 1915-g Member of the Phrenakosmian Literary Society, and of the Druid Fraternity. GEORGE W. WRITING, A.B., A.M., Assistant in English. A.B., West Virginia University, I908g taught at Preparatory Branch, West Virginia University, 1908-l2g Graduate work, Harvard, l9lZ-I4, A.M., Harvard, l9I3g taught at Normal School, Shepherdstown, W. Va., I9I 4-l 6g Assistant in English, Pennsylvania College, I9l 6-. Page Seventeen

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.t Elf C U? L ...-: :':A:, f 1',-'. 1 ' ' -' ' '1.4: STEPHEN REMINGTON WING, B.S., M.E., Professor of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering. B.S., Haverford College, l908g Assistant Instructor in Physics, Cornell, 1909-10g M.E., Cornell, I9l0g In- structor in Mechanical Engineering, Cornell, I9I0-145 Professor of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering, Pennsylvania College, I9I4-g Member of the Society for the Promotion of Engineering Education, E E So- ciety, Acacia Fraternity, and Associate Member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers CHESTER ALLEN, B.S., C.E., Burton lc. Blough Professor of Civil Engineering. B.S., Civil Engineering Course, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, I905g Bridge Inspector and Instrument- man on grade reduction work, Cairo Division of the Big Four R. R., 1905-07g Assistant Resident Engineer on the double tracking of the B. F. R. R. from Indianapolis to St. Louis, 1907-08, Assistant Engineer of Main- tenance of Way, Cincinnati to Chicago line of the B. F. R. R., 1908-09g Designer in oflice of Chief Engineer, Monongahela R. R., 1909-l0g in charge of erection of paper mill for Crane 6: Co., Pittsfield, Mass.g taught in Civil Engineer Department, Pennsylvania State' College, 191 1-1 54 Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering, Pennsylvania State College, 1913-15, Professor of Civil Engineering, Pennsylvania College, 1915-g JOHN H. ASHWORTH, PI-l.D., Professor of Economics and Political Science. A.B., Emery and Henry College, 1906: Principal, Wise School, 1906-07, Principal, Norton School, 1907- II 9 Field Agent, Martha Washington College, 1907-1 1 g Secretary C190SJ, and President 119095, of the Principals' Conference of the Virginia State Teachers' Associationg Fellow in Political Economy, Johns Hop- kins University, 1912-1 3: Ph.D., Johns Hopkins, 1914, Instructor in Economics, Pennsylvania State College, 1914-153 Professor of Economics and Political Science, Pennsylvania College, 1915-g Author of various Economic Studies of Virginia People appearing in the South Atlantic Monthly: Member of the American Eco- nomic Association, and of the fb B K Honorary Society. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN SCHAPPELLE, A.M., Acting Professor of the Romance Languages and Literatures. A.B., Dickinson College, 1908, A.M., for Graduate work done at the Universities of Pennsylvania QU. S. A.J, Berlin and Heidelberg fGermanyJ, Lausanne fSwitzerlandJ, Poitiers fFranceJ, 1910, also studied pri- vately at Lugano fCant. Tessin, Switzerlandl and at Barcelona fSpainJg Acting Head of the German De- partment, Dickinson, 1910-1 lg Instructor in French, Pennsylvania College, 1911-125 Acting Professor of the Romance Languages and Literatures, Pennsylvania College, 1912-g Member of the Modern Language Association of America, the A X P Fraternity, A. H. in the Philologischer Verein Heidelberg fNaum- burger Kartelljg Graduate work, University of California, summer of 1915. ALBERT BILLHEIMER, A.M., Acting Professor of the Greek Language and Literature. A.B., Pennsylvania College, l906g Tutor, Stevens Hall, 1904-06g Graduate study, University of Penn- sylvania, 1906-07, Princeton University, 1907-10:A.M., Princeton, 19105 Acting Professor of the Greek Language and Literature, Pennsylvania College, 1910-g Member of the Phrenakosmian Literary Society and the E X Fraternity. JOHN THOMAS ERWIN, A.M., Acting Professor of Mathematics. Student at Trinity College, 1890-93, Principal of Jefferson QN. CJ Academy, 1893-94, A.B., Vanderbilt University, 1894, taught Mathematics at Rutherford College: A.M., Vanderbilt University, 1904, Fellow and Assistant in Mathematics, Vanderbilt Universityg Assistant Headmaster, Vlfofford College Fitting Schoolg Principal, Martinsville fVa.J City Schoolsg Instructor of Mathematics, University of Alabamag Professor of Mathematics and Astronomy, Millsaps Collegeg Acting Professor of Mathematics, Pennsylvania College, 191 6-. Page Sixteen

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I 4 ':'Af :'f 5 vAAf41 .- ,-.f- Xf - -lfi 5 W2 1 .. 'ff 'A 1','4'-' i f ff ' ' f ' V History of Pennsylvania College BY REV. C. F. SANDERS, A.M., D.D. ENNSYLVANIA COLLEGE was founded by the Lutheran Church. Her leading pa- 'trons have been Lutherans. Their primary purpose was to furnish and maintain an insti- tution of advanced education for the young people of the Church. At the beginning this 9 meant preparation for the direct service of the Church, the ministry. With the advance in general culture the mission and program of the College gradually expanded to meet the needs of all who were seeking advanced academic instruction. This expansion did not involve any change in purpose or mission, simply the normal differentiation of function. The spirit of the Lutheran Church has constantly given direction and tone to the expressed mission of the College. This mission has been twofold: on the one hand the College has aimed to give thorough academic training to the sons of her constituency, and on the other to contribute to our total civilization the influence of the Lutheran spirit through the men who should thus come under her training. The Christian Church has been the educational pioneer throughout the whole of our western civilization. When the civilizations of antiquity were hopelessly disintegrating, Christianity furnished the inspiration and motive for a new civilization which arose, Phoenix-like, from the ruins of the old. Education, through the offices of the Church and the school, was the instrument of regeneration and reconstruction. Religion furnished the adequate motive. The rapid expansion of knowledge following the renaissance, together with the conservatism of the Church, led to the founding of independent Classical and Scientific schools. The Church eventually recognized the mission of science and incorporated the scientific branches in her educa- tional program. The religious controversies, involving the vexed question of the relation of Church and State, as well as the problem of the method of authority in relation to the method of scientific induction, led to the founding of separate schools devoted to the purely secular interests of the state and of society. This movement in some cses involved the repudiation of the Church in the admin- istration of things educational. Many of the schools which owed their origin to the Church adopted the policy of the independent schools and repudiated the Church. Pennsylvania College has re- capitulated the general line of advanced educational development. She has incorporated the field of science. She has not repudiated the Church. l-ler problem still remains the same, viz., expanding her curriculum to meet the growing demands of science on the one hand, and permeating all her work with the spirit and ethics of Christianity on the other. l-ler future is in the hands of her patrons. We are writing history, not prophecy. The Gettysburg Classical Preparatory School, out of which Pennsylvania College originated, was founded in 1827 for the purpose Hof supplying the needs of a Classical Sohool to prepare young men for theological study. ln ISZ9 a scientific department was added and the School re- named, Gettysburg Ciymnasium. The College Charter was granted in 1832 and the formal organ- ization took place on the fourth of July of the same year. These two lines of study, the Classical and the Scientific, expanding as rapidly as the means provided permitted, represent the educational history of the College to the close of President lVlcKnight's administration in l904. During the twenty years of Dr. Mclfnightis Presidency the endowment was increased, the department of Chem- Page Eighteen