Otterbein University - Sibyl Yearbook (Westerville, OH)

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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

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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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3'-L? ': 'EW2E'N ' Q I 1-1 ' ' I MUSIC The hidden Soul of Harmony. -Chaucer. MAUDE. ALICE HANAWALT. Instructor in Piano. Ar the opening of every school year IVIiss I-Ianawalt is faced by some new student with the question, Are you a freshman? which is, of course, a hard blow to her dignity. Nevertheless she still maintains both her dignity and pro- ticiency as a teacher. She insists that her pupils relax the wrist and dig for tones until the most awkward of the aspiring musicians cannot help but apply both of her principles some of the time, and probably one of them all the time. MUSIC 'Tis strange how very like a duncef'-Shakespeare. LUCELLE E. GILBERT. Instructor in Violin and Band Instruments. Some people say that Prof. Gilbert uses his violin to beat the band, but we feel that he uses it to draw forth melody from the violin strings. Gil is of a happy hustling nature and has his hilarious moods as well as his sober ones, both of which reproduce themselves in his music. MUSIC Sang in tones of deep emotion, Songs of Iove and songs of longing. -Longfellow. GRACE EDITH DENTON. Instructor in Piano and Voice. It just makes me heart-sick that Miss Denton objects to having her favorite expression published, but since she fears that it will be plagiarized, we shall refrain from exposing it publicly. I-Iowever, if any one is especially eager to know it, he may have his desire by personal solicitation. Aside from her ability to entertain by her singing, this tall, willowly maiden is welcomed into all circles because of her love of fun. ART Art is nature made by man, To man the interpreter of God. -Meredith. BLANCHE E. BASCOM. Instructor in Water Color, Oil, Pencil, and Charcoal. IVIiss Bascom tells that she comes from Pratt Institute where artists make the colors sing. This lady is very devoted to her work, and exacts direct treatment from all her pupils.