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PROFESSOR W. H. WILCOX Brine, febleteh, INaeLel Ay it EaASiIEGLASS MUSKINGUM’S IZAAK WALTON
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To the guiding hands and the sterling personality of Professor Willis Hamel Wilcox who, as head of the department of English, for fourteen years formed and molded the creative and appreciative talents of those many students who sat under him. Godfather of Muskingum’s publications and creator of some of them, he actively led the way in the creative field of the written word. Historian of Muskingum’s verse, it was he who compiled, edited, and left to posterity a record of a century of student effort in poetry. As a teacher he was at his best when interpreting Shakespeare. So effectively did he instruct, and so popular did he make this course, that ‘‘Don’t miss Shakespeare’’ came to be a curricular byword. Like Phelps of Yale, he made literature live for his students. Known and loved the campus around as ‘’Pappy’’ Wilcox, the genial head of the depart- ment retired from a long and active service in June of 1939. There was sadness in the hearts of many students that day in Brown Chapel, when he made his final, retiring address. Too much were we reminded of the last scenes of Goodbye Mr. Chips. The love which his students had for him is perhaps the tribute which he would consider greatest of all. This Muscoljuan, then, is dedicated as lasting testimony of that love. It is our reply to his last farewell: “’Eqrewell,”” a bitter word That builds a wall twixt friend and friend; A wall whose hardness lasts Beyond the length of all our days! | will not say farewell. But stop a minute, stay; Consider well that good old Saxon word— “Farewell’’—to fare, to travel on, To press life’s journey to its final goal, To tread the path of life till sunset comes With all the glories of the closing day! And ‘‘well,’’ to travel well, To keep a smiling face, a steadfast heart, A faith in self, and man, and God; To see hope fail and courage rise, And life grow richer as it shorter grows— Is this farewell? Then farewell friends, A thousand thousand times farwell! W. H. Wilcox
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