Nebraska Wesleyan University - Plainsman Yearbook (Lincoln, NE)

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At Home, At School. by DELMAR Have you ever wondered how the professors keep that youth- ful twinkle in their eyes when, (lay after day, they have to lis- ten to moronic wisecracks from our campus wits? Here ' s the miracle in a nutshell— or maybe two nutshells. When Dean Talley wants to find relief from the worries of administration, he takes his trusty paddle and seeks the Y. M. C. A. room and a good pin -pong player. He guards his pinK-poni! paddle as a mother f;uarfls her f;ivorite child, and it has given long and faith- ful service. He also spends a great deal of time reading a magazine — The Parent ' s Maga- zine - - I Could drinking coffee be called a pastime? .A.t least there are no grounds for calling it so. But Professor Miller ' s half-milk, half-coffee, has irked the waiters and waitresses of a dozen dif- ferent states. Next to her coffee she likes to keep house best, bake cakes and tasty meat dishes in pyrex, and to arrange spur-of-the-moment parties at any outlandish time of the day or night. Mrs. Loder likes to bowl, ride horseback, and swim. Her aesthetic appreciation is highly developed and she enjoys organ music and violin, — candles and incense. Miss Klahn fits ino the speech department well, for she delights in picnics and impromptu parties. . direct- ress, she is, having directed In- dian children in creative work, civic theatres and even a circus! 14 Dean . labaster — now I ' m not going to say a word about his tombstone collection. — I mean his collection of epitaphs — pulls a mean trigger, that is to say, is a nimble nimrod with a taste for duck and pheasant. He also plays with bait and tackle- 1 He ' s finny that way! And that epitaph collection, which I wasn ' t going to say anything about, would slay you. PlAINSM.AN

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Deeply engraved in the hearf of the farmbelt, In a setting of prairie and sod. Are the small towns that nestle down close to the earth In the wide-open-spaces of Cod. With their little white churches where country folk prey And their main streets where country-folk meet. They hold what is best in the ways of the world. As they picture a life made complete. For strong is the handcasp of men of the soil, There ' s strength in the fields that they tiil. And bless ' d are the towns that grow on the sod In the strength of the Master ' s will. Minnie Klemme. Autumn, 1937 13

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At Play NUETZMAN It doesn ' t seem odd to find th.; English instructors interested in books and reading. Miss Hal- bert specializes in the short story, as well as being absorbed in fancy-work and needlecraft. Miss Booth reads the current literary magazines, and likes to drive a Ford. Miss Hopper likes to travel, to keep house, and to write. His native native state, New York, attracts Dr. Dolson in his travels, and he finds great enjoyment in hiking, climbing, and fishing while there. It ' s nothing unsual to find Dr. Barringer atop a ladder with paint brush waving wildly in the air, or with teeth biting mer- cilessly into a half-dozen nails while his fingers skip nimbly from under the hammer ' s blows. The string bean, the carrot, the potato cast a spell over Dr. Barringer when the warm zephyrs and spring sunshine be- gin to thaw the ground. One might think Mrs. Hatch was a devotee of chicken-raising, but she didn ' t indulge her acti- vities along that line. She has done, however, some work in leather, which might possibly have been inspired by the ac- tions of naughty urchins in the kindergarten. ■When Dean McProud steps up and prepares to swing at the little white ball lying on the ground, the boy carrying his clubs always wonders, Caddy do it? And he generally does — long and high — so that you might almost say that Dean McProud was especially fond of hiking. And when the mallards are flying, he will probably be found among the lakeside grasses — decoy fellow. Hobbies come and go with Professor Rosentrater. . t one time he was deeply interested in mathematics as a hobby — at an- other time he concentrated on the study of languages in his spare moments. He writes poetry, but does not keep it or let anvone else see it. . UTUMN, 1937 IS