Oberlin College - Hi-O-Hi Yearbook (Oberlin, OH)

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TO CHARLES HENRY ADAMS WAGER. On the twentieth of December, 1869, in the little town of Cohoes, New York, Charles Henry Adams Wager was born. At the age of seventeen he entered Colgate Academy, Hamilton, New York. Completing his prepara- tory work in two years he entered Colgate University in '88, During his college course he was a member of tl1e Delta Upsilon and Phi Beta Kappa fraternities, and upon receiving his A. B. in '92 his knowledge and pro- ficiency in the department of languages was so well recognized that he was immediately appointed instructor in Latin in Colgate University, with en- tire charge of the department. The following year, however, he entered the Graduate School of Yale, and for two years pursued advanced studies in English under the direction of Professor Albert S. Cook. The summer of 1894 was spent in England with Professor Cook, visiting especially places associated with the early history of the church and of education. In the winter of 1895 he delivered a course of lectures on The Begin- nings of Culture in England to graduate students of Yale, and the follow- ing June received the degree of Ph. D. from that institution. From 1895-97 he occupied the chair of Professor of English in Centre College, Danville, Kentucky. Ill 1896 he was married to Miss Annie Apple- gate, of Red Bank, New Jersey. The following year, 1897, he was appointed Professor of English in Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio, which place he held until he was called to Oberlin in 1900. At Kenyon College he was a great favorite among the students and was familiarly known as Foxy' ' Wager. In 1899 Professor Wager published an edition, with introduction and glossaries, of The Seege of Troye from a manuscript in the British Museum, a Middle English metrical romance based on a French original. ' The summer of 1899 was spent in England, ehiefiy in the British Museum, collecting material from two published and four unpublished manuscripts, for an edition of certain Latin-Old English glosses. In the fall of 1900 Mr. Wager came to Oberlin to occupy the chair of Professor of English left vacant by the death of Professor Cressey. To say that the students of Oberlin College are pleased and well-satisfied with their new professor is small praise indeed. From the first meeting of his first class the popularity of his courses has become so general that he has found it necessary to limit the membership of certain classes in order to secure work of sufficient merit to satisfy his high standard of excellence. Aside from his popularity as a teacher, his ever-pleasant smile and genial manner, together with his marked individuality and strong character as a man, have won for him a warm place in the heart of every student knowing him as teacher, or personal friend, or both. As members of his first class in Oberlin, it is with peculiar pleasure that the Junior Class dedicate to him the Annual of 1902. I

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SAINT VALENTINE'S EVE. Now busy studente taketh tyme To cultivate the tender ryme. The paineful taske at lengthe is donne, Ile wot that this be sorric foun, Escapcth now a sudden sygh- What if sche think the verses drygh? The midnight chimes begin to toll, He laycth down his fevered poll, Booteth him naught swete slepe to woo, For sehe doth all his court cschiew. Pittic the endc of mad studente, Wlio would make ryme agaynst his bente. I-I. C. Tracy FROM THE STAIR. To F. W. A Triolct. She nodded from the stair, Arch, graceful, smiling, sweet, Bright in her shining hair, She nodded from the stair. Knowing the trick unfair- Since I was at her feet- She nodded from the stair, Arch, graceful, smiling, sweet. R. M. 10