Hiram College - Spider Web Yearbook (Hiram, OH)

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be instructed in the art by poor Margaret i11 Richard Ill. 'K Compare dead happiness with living woe. Philip Nolan, Edward Everett Hale's Man Without a Country, seems to us much more an object of pity than he otherwise would, simply because he once had a country and lost it. So, we believe, the man who once had college ties and has lost them is to be commiserated above him who never saw a college. XVe confess our inability to understand how any individual who has enjoyed all the benefits of a college can lose all interest in it when connnencement day is over. A college graduate with no warm spot in his heart for his college is an anomaly. The same instinct that prompts us to take a loving, loyal interest in home, and friends, and native land, though separated fro1n them by many miles, should constrain us ever to remember with affectionate regard our bountiful Alma Mater. Every institution of learning should be able to rely upon its alumni for hearty support and sym- pathy. lts interests should be theirs. We trust that no student of old Hiram will ever become a man with- out a college. XVe earnestly hope that no alumnus will ever so far forget himself as to become worthy of repudiation by his 'K fostering mother? In after years, when we who now tread these classic halls, with sheep-skin in hand, turn our faces away from Hiram, let us cherish in our hearts the tender memories of by-gone days. And as we go may we say with Holmes: XVe leave, like those volcanic stones, our precious Alma Mater, But will keep dropping in again to see the dear old crater. I-1

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professor 6500. LT. peckbum, G. 111. HE class of '94 counts it no small honor to be able to claim G. A. Peckham as its class professor. The interest he manifests in the juniors, and the pride with which he declares himself a member of '94, clearly indicate that the professor is as well pleased as is the class. For thirteen years Prof. Peckham has been a member of the faculty of Hiram College. As such he has performed his work to the satisfaction and gratification of all. Born at Akron, O., o11 the seventeenth of July, 1851, the future linguist was reared in that city, and there received his early education in the public schools. One term of the year '69-'70 he spent at Hiram as a student. The year of '71-'72 was passed at Bethany College. The following year he entered Buchtel College, which is situated in his native city, and there continued until he completed his college education. He graduated in the classical course with the class of '75. Upon graduating he received the degree of A. B., and later the college granted him that of A. M. He spent two years with his Alma Mater as a tutor of Ancient Languages, and two more as a professor in the same department. Although his chief work has always been in the class room, Prof. Peckham is also a minister of the Gospel. In the Disciple Church, at Doylestown, O., attended by the thoughts and feelings that are usually present with a young man on such an occasion, he preached his first ser1non. That was in February, 1375. Two years later, in the fall of l77, he was ordained as a regular minister. The ordination services were held in the church at Granger, O. I6