Ohio Wesleyan University - Le Bijou Yearbook (Delaware, OH)

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-% • ■ m -i»«l ON HILL OVERLOOKING SULFUR SPRING, STATELY MERRICK HALL HOUSES BOTANICAL - ZOOLOGICAL SANCTUARIES. ZOOLOGY The weaker sex wiggles and even the stronger sex squirms, when the first zoology class features their intro- duction to the bulging-eyed-beauties, the bullfrog. The scalpel and scissors, whose use is painfully apparent are tremulously grasped as Professor Hanhert begins an ex- planation of the fine art of dissection. Six weeks later sees competence and serenity in the wield- ers of the wicked scalpels upon the beautiful cadaver of the frog. Progress up the ladder of surveying science secrets the courses of heredity and evolution reveal. The feeling of satisfaction in mastering the formula that shows, red par- ents and white parents in the plant realm have pink off- spring come the third generation . . . it ' s amazing! ' Can this bedlam of bones be stately Homo Sapien , we ask? Yes, assembled it resembles your dieting roomie ' s sleek shape. 21

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nmmifiv ?■■■■ • ■: ? 1 1 ' ' 1 im j| H|un fcv ' ' » M0 ' K ' ta --s h I P mmT B f mmil ' ' ' H v .,:,.;iSBSii » ' T ' : . - Wm ife 4. ' ' •■ ' ► FrofcEEor Shatter proves weather prediction O.K., tliough fickle GEOLOGY AND HISTORY Given the earth and a curiosity for the natural phenomena that are latent in it and the social, economic, and political evolution and revolutions of the men who live upon it, the college student comes to a better understanding of the in- terrelatedness of the resources at man ' s disposal (or to which he must adjust) and of his use of them. The depart- ments of geology and history are necessarily seperated in the college curriculum to give opportunity to probe each more deeply. But the fact remains that the natural re- The lay u( Uie land scanned by surveyors-to-be . . . Squint here sources, the weather conditions, the time zones of the world, the terrain of various countries on the earth are the conditioning factors of much of men ' s actions. The explorations, the exploitations, the competitive or co- operative endeavors, the agricultural or industrial regions demands, the values of each nation — these are the directive forces of the action of nations, the justification or rational- ization of the ambitions of the people living therein. As their studies shed illuminating insight into the rise and domination of nations, the peculiarities and power of their leaders, the weakness that wrought destruction in their midst, they learn the lesson of this panorama of humanity; its foibles and fancies. Professors Van Sickle, Hubbart, and Eells of the History Dept. Idea is A Pound of Fact, an Ounce of Theory ; note that fact. 20

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THESE LINES AND ANGLES WITH AN ALPHABETICAL SLANT MAY SOUND SIMPLE TO SOLVE BUT YOU FIND YOU CANT Rufus Crane viewing the product of his hobby spread out here MATHEMATICS When a grueling day of work comes to a close, a day spent in drilling his navy-civilian math understudies in the com- plicated cousins of adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing. Professor Rufus Crane, the department of mathe- matics ' head trainer, packs away his slide rules and his headaches and turns toward home. Now sometimes, he is found engrossed in a good mystery novel or a session over the chess board, but on certain occasions you are sure to find him wrapped up in looking through his famous violet collection. As a result of 17 years of purposeful flower picking, Dr. Crane now has pressed and mounted most every form of ordinary flowering plant and fern. He began taking an interest in plant life back in his Middleburg College days in 1908, and his active interest lasted until after he came to Wesleyan as mathematics instructor. He claims his vari- eties to hail from New England, Kansas, Illinois, Wiscon- sin, and Ohio. Dr. Crane admits, I was once tempted to be a botanist, but turned it down in favor of something more practical. Thus the slide-rule and equations stepped in to claim his attention. From the aroma of violets to the angles and theorems of mathematics is a sizeable step but he still has the tangible remains of the resisted temptation to muse over in leisure hours. 22