Springfield College - Massasoit Yearbook (Springfield, MA)

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SDur .faculty «r Well, boy! What are you doin’ here! Thot you were still back on the farm. Got that social service fever, eh ' I ’lowed you wasn’t cut out just to hoe potaters. Well, you come to the right place anyhow. Glad to see you. Doctor Dodge-it ? You mean Doctor Doggett. He’s round here somewhere. Went by a spell ago aimin’ towards the library with a couple of the other perfessors. Oh you’ll know him all right when you see him. He’s always smilin’ at the feller he’s talkin’ with, and most likely he’ll be talkin’ money, big figgers mebbe; but then, you can’t go by that altogether, ’cause he might be talkin’ on the price of green cheese in Australia, or anything else under the sun. Never saw anybody who was so up on everything that is or ever happened, or is likclyor unlikely to. A feller talkin’ to a hairy ycllcr dog? That wan’t Doctor Doggett, boy. That dog’s Brownie. Everybody round here ’lows that that ’ere dog knows morc’n any freshman and full as much as most of the other fellers. Yes, Doctor Seerley is generally smilin’. Once in a while he might try to give you the idee that he thinks stoodents is just a kind o’ necessary evil, as they say, but don’t you believe it — he’s just tryin’ to keep you from thinkin’ you’re the hull show. There ain’t any on ’em who think more of everyone of the boys than Doctor Seerley does. But Doctor Doggett — well, he’s got a little, what they call a “goaty” beard. Yes, there is one of the others who’s fixed up that way too — that’s Doctor Ballantine. But you won’t mix ’em up once you know ’em. Doctor Ballantine’s a kind of a every-day lookin’ sort of a man, ’cept you’ll see when you look at him that he knows considerable more’n he could tell a feller in one sittin’. Per level headed common sense, they ain’t no equal to him. There they come now; you get Doctor Doggett, don’t you ' The oldish man? With the Muffler on? Muffler! Johnson’s the man who keeps his muffler on. Why I been here year in and year out and hain’t heard that man say more’n four words — or mebbe six at topmost. He’s got a lot in him, but mighty onusual for a Westerner he’s all-fired conservative about euttin’ it loose. But Perfessor Bowne — it’s him you mean - ’taint his muffler troubles him; if anything, it’s his carburetor. But you can’t expect him to be a 1913 model. D’ye know he’s bin here since long before any of these here buildin’s went 27 “Pop” Garfield

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II. S. SMITH, B.H. Pr( nnotion Secretary ¥ Curry Business College, St. John, N. B., 1901. Busi- ness, 1901-03. Assistant secretary Young Men’s Christian Association, Portland, Ale., 1902-03. B. H., International Young Men ' s Christian Association College, 1900. General secretary Young Men’s Christian Association, Bristol, R. I., 1906-07. General secretary Young Men’s Christian Association, Hornell, N. Y., 1907-12. Field and financial secretary, Inter- national Young Men’s Chris- tian Association College, 1912 L. C. SCHROEDER, B.P.E. Instructor in Senior Indoor Practice Junior Indoor Practice and Theory, Soccer, Football and Ice Hockey Track and Field: Freshman, Junior and Senior Coach Varsity Second Football ( General Administration ¥ In business, 1905-08. Chairman gymnastic com- mittee Metropolitan section A.A.U., 1907-08. Super- visor Winnipeg playgrounds, 1912 — . Assistant physical director high schools Springfield, 1909- 10. B P. E., International Young Men’s Christian Association College, 1912. Instructor College, 1912 26

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up Fact is. a lon while ago, when this hull place was just heaps of sand and scrub pines it was him that dreamed the vision of what it is here now, and he just set to work to make it come true. And you sec lie ' s done it. Why that last buildin’ there, the library, lie’s just built himself into that. And he got most of the books together too. I’ve heard folks say it’s the best col- lection in the world on physical culture. You notice too he wears more specks than will com- fortably sit on his nose; well, he’s worn his eyes all out studyin’ books and such. An’ then he’s studied a lot about how our ancestors lived when they were savage, an’ lie’s collected a lot of relies too. Most remarkable feller that way. Know the perfessors some. 1 ' Well I reckon I ought to, just a little mite. I’ve worked with ’em thru many a year. And some mighty strenuous happenin’s there has been at times. Who’s the one going into the gate? You mean the man in the flannel shirt ' That’s Doctor McCurdy. The boys call him Doctor Mac, but don’t you think fer a minute that he’s just a football coach. He knows pretty near all there is to know on most any old athletic stunt and all about everything pertainin ' to it too; whether it’s good fer you, or not, and just how much of it is good fer you to eat at a time. He’s one fer sizin’ a feller up too, an’ I tell you, he can make a feller what he ought to be. He ain’t much given to talk, but when he tells you a thing you can just calculate on its being so, an’ if he tells you you’re doin’ good work, you can know he ain’t just humorin’ you. That feller with him, they call Louie, is Mr. Sehroedcr. lie’s the Doctor’s right hand man. You know Perfessor Berry’s gone to Germany, an’ they got this German feller to take his place. Look out there, son! That mud-guard ’most hit you in the middle of the week. Oh, that’s Perfessor Burr drivin’. Several on ’em’s got the fever. He had it bad, but I guess he’s convalescing some. No, you’re off there. He ain’t just a crank on automobiles. You know he’s wrote quite a lot of books, an’ 1 guess ’twill take more’n one more to tell all he knows about history, and men. and cities and such. You know he’s a great so-ei-ol Socialist! No, no, boy! He’s a law abidin’ citizen. ’Bout the only lawless one we got here is Perfessor Hyde. He’ s got no use for law in anything. If he wants a law for anything he makes it on the spot. I seen a Prep feller the- other day with six whoppin’ big books that he said was the lessons the Perfessor had give him for the next mornin’, said he’d got to get ’em all down and digested by next day. Poor feller! If he didn ' t die of indigestion over night, I bet the Perfessor scared him to death in class the next mornin’. But he can cram more into a feller than I could with a force pump. He’s the onlv feller I ever seen that could talk first and think afterwards, and be savin’ something actually worth listenin ' to. And he’s got more music in him than he can get out if he lives to be twice as old as I am. Here’s Mr. Simons. He wants to talk with me, I reckon. - You know that man I was just talkin’ with can worry a contractor into puttin’ up such a buildin’ as he never did before, and never will again without Mr. Simons after him. Now he don ' t have to worry the stoodents for the Damage Fund, he can give all his time to the contractors, and we ' ll be gettin’ even better buildin’s. He was tellin’ me as how Perfessor Affleck put one over on the architect. 88