Millikin University - Millidek Yearbook (Decatur, IL)

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Dorothy Giffin Calvert Welch Dyer Blanche Hillard A T A Secretary and Auditor Secretary to the Secretary to Auditor K 2 President A J A A B., Cumberland Univer- sity. James Millikin LTniversity. Mabel Dunlap Professor of Textiles and Clothing B.S., A. M., Columbia Uni- versity. Dorothy Dillon Instructor in Physical Education for Women Southern Illinois State Nor- mal LTniversity; Chicago Normal School of Physi-

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William Wilberforce Smith Professor of Economics t B K A.B., A.M., LL.D., Lafayette College. Fern Kauffman Springer Instructor in Household Arts z t a, n m e B.S., James Millikin Uni- versity. Fred Delzell Townsley Professor of Physics A.B., Wabash College. A.M., LTniversity of Illinois, Amy Rebecca Woller Instructor in Fine and Applied Arts n a e, a ? a Ph.B., A.M. in History of Art, University of Chi- cago. William Ernest Young Professor of Public Speaking 4 J P, B K, K t K A.B., Bates; University of Michigan. Charline Fender Wood Associate Professor of Rhetoric A.B., Western College; A.M. Columbia University ; University of Chicago. [ 22 ]

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Classes A tall blue shadow came forward from Darkness; it held a candle, un- lighted. The Shadow blew upon the candle — a pointed golden flame ap- peared, and spread a circle of warm light. The gold swayed like tapestry of yellow velvet ; then it smoothed into a flat disk-like surface. Along the outer edge of this disk were many figures; among them were girls wearing blue skirts with white sweaters, winding in and out among other figures that stood erect upon tiers of bleachers and chanted Fight ' em — fight ' em — . The air vibrated with the snappings of a huge bonfire; a band suddenly crashed out a chord of music, and they rose, clamorous. The golden flame flickered low, so that the disk of light vanished for a moment and then came back. Figures were still visible on it, but they seemed to differ from those who had been there before. Manv of them were standing about a long table, where a tall girl poured tea from a silver pot, and passed tiny green mints in a cut-glass bowl. The disk of light revolved slowly about the candle, and as these figures faded another group appeared on the flat surface. A deep hush sur- rounded them; they were writing in black leather notebooks with coral pens; sketches from their writing detached themselves, and formed dim, majestic shapes— tall thoughts of philosophers, bright orchid shadows that were the ponderings of scientists, the pale opal of poetry. . . . From the distance came the soft leathery thud of a ball against a board, and then the triumphant shriek of a whistle. A calm followed, and as the flame half sank, many figures, in a blurred brilliance of dress, slowly walked toward a hazy towered shadow. . . . Black caps and gowns; a window of rose and purple that scattered flecks of pink and pale mauve into the cool depths of darkness : a silence, echoing with the low song of a violin, winging against the silence with wave after wave of sound The figures wearing the caps and gowns rose; they held small b ue. candles, and as they approached the golden flame, the candles grew larger, so that when they were lighted them seemed much taller than the figures themselves and spread about them a glow similar to that of the large cen- tral light. Slowly the figures came to the edge of the disk ; they stepped from it, and the glow from their own candles held them uprierht. And men the darkness about them lightened, so that tired people hidden m the dusk turned their faces forward, flecks of mauve and pink light swayed out into distant corners and made the greyness vivid and beautiful, and the poignant vibrations of a violin changed dull rooms and dull thoughts into loveliness. The Shadow looked about at the straight blue candles spreading their glow freely in the darkness ;— then it leaned forward again, and, blowing gently, made the glow of the white central light spread even farther. More figures had appeared on the disk of light ;— figures wearing blue skirts and white sweaters and standing upon tiers of bleachers. — Joyce Coffee. [ 24 ]