Muhlenberg College - Ciarla Yearbook (Allentown, PA)

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FOREWORD EAR of those higher up limits us in the material we can use in the sketches ol the pro- lessors and the other records in this section ol our hook. We hope that the reader will read between the lines.

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Page Twelve THE DORMITORIES

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Rev. John A. W. Haas, D.D., LL.D. President; and Professor of Religion and Philosophy Born at Philadelphia, Pa., Aug. 31, 1862. Prepared at Parochial School Zion’s Church and Protestant Episcopal Academy. A. B. University of Pennsylvania 1884. Mt. Airy Theological Seminary, Ordained 1887. A. M. and B. D. University of Pennsylvania 1887. Phi Beta Kappa. University of Leipsic 1887-88. D. D. Thiel College 1902. Fourth President of Muhlenberg 1904. LL. D. University of Pennsylvania 1914. Doctor Haas has done wonderful work as President of our Alma Mater in bringing it to the position it occupies in the collegiate world. Being inducted into the presidency just as the college moved to its present site, he has seen it grow in all respects — number of buildings, men on the faculty, and number of students — until the present equipment is stretched to the breaking point. He has now turned his energy to arousing the friends of Muhlenberg to the needs of the institution and will make a speech anywhere and anytime that is likely to aid his hobby, the making of a Greater Muhlenberg. We students know him best when in the office he becomes one of “us fellows” and shows a deep interest in all things close to a college man’s heart. Many are the arguments which occur in “Bernie’s” office during the wait for the afternoon mail. Doctor Haas usually upholds one side and the rest of us the opposite side. When announcement is made that Doctor Haas will speak in chapel, most of the students attend for they know something is going to happen. His subjects range from dancing to the undesireability of certain kinds of students. We know our president best not as the preacher, not as the lecturer, but as the little fun-loving man who pants when he becomes excited. Page Fourteen