Otterbein University - Sibyl Yearbook (Westerville, OH)

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.3477 ': 'Ew2E'N 6-5 PHYSICS AND ASTRONOMY Those earthly god-fathers of heaven's lights, That give a name to every fixed star. --Love's Labor Lost. WILLINGTON ORLANDO MILLS, A. M. Professor of Physics and Astronomy Prof. Mills is the center of specific gravityg and yet, in spite of this fact, he frequently plays a joke on his classes by saying, There won't be any class today, l'm not feeling very well. The students in return, surprise him every now and then by preparing their lessons. lt is pleasant when such congeniality exists between professor and students, for through their combined efforts crooked paths are sure to be made straight. BIOLOGY AND GEOLOGY To him who in the love of nature holds communion with her visible forms, she speaks a various language. -Bryant. EDWARD WALDO EMERSON SHEAR, A. B. Professor of Biology and Geology Here is a man who spends his time smashing stones in search of fossils and cutting open stray pups in order to find out how much of their brains must be removed to make their tails stop wagging. But we'll have more to say about that later on, as it were. Prof. Shear is a deep thinker and a firm believer in hard work for his classes. Anything else would be hollow mockery. LATIN A hne volley of words, gentlemen, and quickly shot off. -Shakespeare. RUDOLPH H. WAGONER, A. M. Principal of Martin Boehm Academy Instructor in Latin and Mathematics. Rudy has a way of leading the preps through the downfall of Troy, over the stormy seas around Sicily, past Scylla and Charybdis, into the dark realms of Hades and back again without making them feel the exertion. The many trips he has made in this same circuit have endowed him with a wonderful flow of language, the like of which has never been discovered. ENGLISH HISTORY AND CIVICS A sunbeam, a sunbeam, l'Il be a sunbeam for him. JAMES PORTER WEST, A. M. English History and Civics. Prof. West is a big man with a stationary grin. There are three things in particular, which he can do perfectly-talk with his voice pitched in high C, intro- duce public speakers, and lead chapel exercises. lf the faculty editors were more poetic, we might have eulogized this Master of Arts in verse form. But, taking into consideration, his love for gems along this line, we have decided to have mercy on his poetic soul and to try our prose abilities.

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ll I4 U ' Q 'f2fE'N I VM' ,ew-fs. nvf FRENCH On perd tout Ie temps qu'on peut mieux employer. ALZO PIERRE ROSSELOT, A. IVI. Professor of French Here is a man who lives up to his convictions. I-Ie believes that by giving long, hard lessons, and by requiring perfect mastery of them, he receives the stu- dent's deepest appreciation. One thing, however, we do hope, and that is that Rossy will have an inspiration some day to publish a perfect French text book, for so many of the present authors don't know their business. In spite of his long examinations and of his well-known declaration, I'm not satisfied with your work, he has some traits which lead us to believe that he has a heart as far as thatls concerned. GERMAN AIte soll man ehren, junge soll man bekehren, Weise soll man fragen, Narren vertragenf' ALMA GUITNER, A. M. Professor of German It certainly is surprising that such a small, patient, and gentle lady is the but mistress of such a language so big, troublesome, and overpowering, as German, Miss Guitner considers the Wort-foIges and the ncleklinationsn as mere play and as the Ieast of all her troubles. Not a long time ago our dainty little fraulein was very much exercised over the loss of one of her overshoes. After all the mis- chievous members of her various classes were duly arraigned and tried for rob- bery, it was discovered that the lost article had slipped through a crack in the floor, and had dropped unceremoniously into the room below. PUBLIC SPEAKING Come, sit down, every mother's son, and rehearse your parts, - Shakespeare. HARRY j. HELLTMAN, B. S. Professor of Public Speaking Prof. I-Ieltman is worse than a woman when it comes to having the last word. It is merely wasted energy for anyone to try to beat him in an argument, for he always has a ready answer. That he should do this is perfectly natural, since it is his business to teach us how to speak and to speak as much as we con- veniently can without working total destruction to our vocal chords. . CHEMISTRY Science is, like virtue, its own exceeding great reward. Louis Auousrus WINELAND, A. M. Professor of Chemistry Prof, Louie holds a number of exalted positions in Otterbein University, among which are, secretary of the faculty, oIIiciaI tester of all Cochran I-IaII food supplies, and head boss of the Science I-Iall. In this last capacity he has won much popularity by his jovial nature, and even by his dry sarcasm, that he would make any one who should try to usurp his place look like a lead penny.

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'3'3 I - H a 1 - . 'l 'l lE ilibf INV- ZTTEZZEIEI - MATHEMATICS Marriage is a world-without-end bargain. i I..ove's Labor Lost. SAMUEL JACOB KIEI-II.., A.B. Assistant Professor of Mathematics. We can scarcely realize what we have lost since- Dodger has accepted a position elsewhere. I-Ie will be greatly missed, for he is a good scout and was a student himself so recently that he can sympathize so much the more with those who get into trouble. We shall not mention any incidents or practical jokes with which this mathematician has been personally connected, but 'let it suffije ao . . . . t say that Samuel jacob will buy his chickens hereafter, since he as entere e state of matrimony. MUSIC Music do I hear? I-Ia! Ha! keep time. I-low sour sweet music is when time is broke, and no proportion. -Shakespeare. GLENN GRANT GRABILL. Director of the Conservatory of Music MUSIC Such songs have power to quiet The restless pulse of care. -Longfellow. FRANK JORDAN RESLER, PH. B. Instructor in Voice. Daddy deserves to be written up with great eclat, for he has a hard life. I'Ie is compelled to listen to scales and exercises from morning until night, and is supposed to create singing qualities in persons who cannot carry a tune even if it is put in a paper sack. With it all, he and Mother bear up bravely under the strain. If in any of Daddy's musical organizations, there is a member who is not prompt in attendance, the same member will be kindly but emphatically in- vited not to return. MUSIC Softly her lingers wandered o'er, The yielding planks of ivory floor. -Taylor. LULU MAY BAKER, A.B. Prof. Grabill is a trained musician, but not of the vaudeville variety. He is . . noted for a number of things, and especially for his chewing habit-spearmint Instructor m Plano' preferred,-and for his frankness in dealing with his pupils. If he should acci- Miss Baker, after a year's study in Germany, has come back to us without dentally let slip a word of, praise, the victim is sure to be doubly repaid in criti- any visible influence of the traditional beer and pretzels. She is all the more cism before the praise is allowed to turn his head. Prof. CrabiIl's favorite com- efficient in her work here since her return, even though her class in the History of ment on a fairly decent lesson is, That's bad enough. Music is still three lessons behindlu