Lebanon Valley College - Quittapahilla Yearbook (Annville, PA)

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doing advanced work under Prof. McMahon. He is so well known in this section of the country that it would seem useless to give any detailed account of his twenty 3 ' ears of work here. He has grown to be a part of the school. The students have always found in him a true friend and willing helper ; always more ready to serve others than himself ; obliging and kind almost to a fault. Kind and patient with an earnest student, but severe with the listless and indifferent, he is of a sunn} ' disposition when all goes well. He has decided opinions of his own, but gives in gracefully when you agree with him. He has a host of friends among the students and alumni of Lebanon Vallej ' College and he is respected and held in the kindest regard by all who know him. 1

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heated. His contact with sttuleuts and .student life created in him a de.sire for an education, therefore at the end of the j ' ear he asked permission to enroll as a student and earn his way by doing only part of the janitor work. The request was granted and at the age of eighteen he entered the preparatory clas.s of the college. His duties as janitor required him to rise at four o ' clock in the morning to start the fires, and at five he rang the rising bell, statements which might startle a Lebanon ' alley janitor of 1905. In his Junior year he laid down his broom and coal-sho -el and earned his way Ijy tutoring. He graduated in 1874 at the head of his class. The year after graduation he taught in the public schools of Schuylkill count) ' in the times when teachers boarded round. If his reputation as a teacher did not begin there, he made a name for himself as an old-time singing school teacher. For the following six years he was chief forfeiting and re-instating clerk in an insurance office in Lebanon. In the year 1S77 he was married to Miss Fisher from Hamburg, Pa. This acquaintance and courtship began while both were students at the college and was continued tnider greater diflrculties than similar college affairs of the present day, for the social life of the school was very different from the present. The men were not allowed to stop and talk to the ladies in the halls, or on the walks, nor call on them in the parlor, nor take walks to Lovers ' Retreat and other interesting spots. E ' en under those difficulties happy matches were made then as novw The duties of a clerkship, however, proved too monotonous tor him, and anxious to get into educational work he secured a position as teacher of Mathematics and Greek in Fostoria Academy, Ohio. He spent four very successful years there. In 1S85 he was elected to the chair of Mathematics in Western College, and to the Principalship of West Mrginia Academy, and to the head of the Preparatory department of Otterl ein University. He decided to accept the latter, and after two years of faithful service, he was called to his Alma Mater to fill the position he now holds — called to a professorship in the school which twent ears before he had entered as janitor. During the early years of his professorship he took a cour.se in higher Mathe- matics under Dr. Wm. Hoover, of Ohio vState ITniversity and later spent a summer at Cornell T ' niversitx ' ,

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IT he Bizarre Staff I Editor-in-Chief, C. E. Shenk. Literary Editor, Merle M. HooOer. Associate Literary Editor, Emanuel E. Snyder. Associate Editor, Ray G. Light. Assistant Editors, Ruth M. Hershey, Ora M. Harnish, J. C. Strayer, J. C. Rupp. Business Manager, Paul M. Spongier. Artists, R. B. Graybill. E. V. Hodges. Assistant Business Managers, J. B. Hambright, J. W. M. O. Snyder. C. A. Kaufmann, Fry.