The Facultyg a Reverie February 99, 1990, Now, while I ain speeding along toward Chicago, I wonder what I can reineinber of dear old Otter-bein. Yes. there it stands. the sanie old place. 'I'here's the old college build- ing, guarded, as it were. by the beautiful and stately trees standing in front ot it. Just to the right of the left entrance, is the oliice, where Dr. Scott used to hold court. Quite stormy, too. at tiniesg especially it there had been a push the night, before. For instance, that one the Freslnnen held in the doctor's reeitation room when we were Juniors. Didn't he storni. tho! They said his teeth fairly elattered when he saw the grease spots on the tloor. And I don't wonder at it either: for I reineniber how his ehin would quiver, when we forgot the present subjunctive of some Latin verb. And how it did please hi1n to get a joke ott on some one.a But some of his jokes seenied to have Latin points to thein: at least. they were some- what diflicult to see. Well. the inost of us liked the old Doctor real well. despite his rigid regime. And I believe he kept getting better nzitured year after year. Possibly this was due to the good intluenee that Mrs. Scott had upon hiin. She did not look as if she ever had been or ever could be angry. She had such a beaming countenance. I really believe the boys liked her better than any girl in college. I know she could enter- tain better than any one of theniq and I guess that very often is the best way to reach a boy's heart, even if it is not the psychological way. Now, that leads nie to think of Dr. Sanders and his Psychology class. How I did enjoy that class. I regretted very niuch that I did not sit on the front row, tor the Doctor did not call on those very often. They could sit and look out of the window and enjoy those beautiful spring' days, while the Doctor was trying to niake the rest, of us understand the difer- ence between nSCIlSi1lIl0l1i1llSllln and perc-eptionalisnif' Possibly, after all 15
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he would make a bottom for his chair either of his overcoat or of a lot of pamphlets. At last we did catch on to his system of cards, and one was about sure to be called on every other day. lf I had been in his place. I think I would have shutiled them a little oftener. And yet he quizzed us oftener than we were prepared for. His anecdotes and slowly enunciated jokes were the main feature of his courses of study. As he swung hack in his chair, telling them with an immohile expression on his face, he im- pressed me with his classical appearance. Now, while I think of classics, I ani reminded of Greek and of Pro- fessor Cornetet. And my recollections are very vivid, also. I can almost see the professor walking to class with that studious look on his face. And when he came to class. looking thus. the hoys, Chester Wise especially, knew trouble was hrewing. I-Iow he would lecture to them on those morn- ings. I always knew the professor was easily angered, hut I helieve. at times. his classes would try to anger him the more. I don't know how he did pass Wise that year. considering the many squahliles they had: hut possi- bly he looked hack over the historieity of the affair and concluded that Chester was not so had after all. Now. that word historicity. I wonder what Dr. Sherrick would have said about it. I am sure she would have found some fault with it. She always did with our compositions. How determined she was when she talked to those Seniors at times. And then how sarcastically she 'scored that unfortunate Junior whom she caught unprepared. The intricacies of the English language seemed to he made even yet more complex hy some of the texts which she chose. And how she did pronounce some words and names. But of course we undergrads never questioned the Doctors pro- nuneiations. However we all recognized one fact, that she had always 1'ead the authors which she criticised. and knew whereof she spoke. But now my thoughts stray from her stately presence to the more genial one of Miss Guitner. I yet feel some heart pangs on account of the way we acted toward her. Often we would go to class and trust to her kindness in helping us over the places we eould not translate at sight. The hest scheme of all was to ask her questions and get her to explain some- thing we knew all ahout. In this way we avoided some impending danger for which we were insufficiently prepared. But she knew German and knew it well. However, her work on me seems to have heen a failure for I seem to know less now than I did in my first year. But that is the way with a Good many things-tal'e, for instance, chemistry. What I know of chemistry is somewhere hut I don't know where. And C f . c- X 17
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