Springfield College - Massasoit Yearbook (Springfield, MA)

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You know Mr. Affleck is wiser on ventilation, heatin’ and such than ninety-nine out of a hundred of these fellers in the buildin’ business. Say, you ever done any reportin’, or been a stynogafer anywheres? Well, then, you won’t get by with him, ’cause they do say you ' ve got to have at least three years practice writin’ for speed and endurance, or you ain’t nowheres in his classes. An’ I’ve heard folks tell as how all his money’s invested in the paper business, and they sort o’ guess he wants to boost his dividends. But if that’s so, he certainly don’t watch his business much, for he takes ’bout all the time he don’t have to work to hike off to the woods or the water somewheres. He and Perfessor Cheney both live a good spell of the time in the wild parts and somehow it seems to make ’em even more human than them that stay among folks all the time. You don’t know Perfessor Cheney, yet, do you? Well, you’ll like him. Big, friendly sort of a fellow, and when he’s told you about anything you don ' t forgit it as soon as he’s quit talkin’. Well, there’s Doctor Doggett. I reckon now’s your chance to get him. I’m mighty glad to’ve seen you, son. You’ll like the place here, and you’ll like the Perfessors too. Taint often you find a bunch of such men in one place. RECENT MEMBERS OF THE FACULTY Christopher Zimmer Smith Gertrude Marilla Cheney Jean Johnson

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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

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Instructors MISS I. A. RICHARDSON Assistant Treasurer Ass ' t Business Manager Association Seminar l ns! rue tor in Assc tciation B x tkkeej ting Special course The University of Chicago, 1910 International Young Men ' s Christian Associa- tion College, Office Secretary, 1905 — . MRS. CAROLYN D. DOGGETT, M. A. nstructor in English Literature A B., Oberlin College, 1890. M. A., Wellesley College, 1893. Lcipsic University, graduate work in English, 1894-05. Instructor in Greek and gen- eral history, Pike Seminary, Pike, N. V , 1885-88. Principal Women’s Department and professor Eng- lish Literature and English History, Washburn College, Topeka, Kans., 1893-94. Instructor English literature, International Young Men’s Christian Association College, 1898 Instructor MacDuffie School, 1906-09