Susquehanna University - Lanthorn Yearbook (Selinsgrove, PA)

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THE PRESENT SCHOOL YEAR USQUEHANNA has entered a new era in her history as an institution. The additions in buildings and equipment during the past few year- have added ma- terially to her efficiency, and have given to he r an opportunity for greater work. The Fall Term opened with the largest enrollment of students that our insti- tution has ever known. The college classes alone, almost reach the one hundred mark, besides an increase in our Preparatory, Business, Music, and Theological Departments. Not only have we increased in numbers but the quality of our student body has kept pace with the quantity. Most of our students are here to work and to make the best possible preparation for life ' s activities. We have very few failures and the class aver- ages are usually high. It is also gratifying to notice that many improvements have been made in all lines of our college activities. We have changed the old monthly Susquehanna. that was too antiquated to meet our needs, to a four-page weekly with all the up-to-date news of college life. The Editorial Staff is to be commended on this venture — to publish a week- ly paper full of up-to-date news is no mean task. This is but another step toward that Greater Susquehanna — the dream and desire of every true and loyal alumnus and friend. Athletics have more than kept apace with the other progressive movements at Sus- quehanna. By a majority vote of the student body football was again introduced after a lapse of four years, and under the excellent leadership of Captain Swoope and the efficient training of Coach Kelchner. the team made a creditable showing in all the six games of their initial season. The basketball season was successful, though some very close games were lost by our team. The victories over Bucknell and Gettysburg were the crowning events of the season, while the spectacular playing of tie Alumni at times thrilled the specta- tors and at other times tilled them with merriment. Manager Harpster arranged for a strong schedule for the baseball team, and con- sidering numerous handicaps during the early part of the season, the team worked well for Susquehanna on the diamond. The most encouraging feature of our athletics is the absence of professionalism. Our athletes are all bona fide students in regular standing, who play for the love of the game and the honor of their Alma Mater. That Susquehanna is gaining advanced standing in the world of sports was proven to the student body when George M. Graham, Sporting Editor of the Philadelphia North American, after witnessing the defeat of Lafayette ' s speedy quintet, lectured to a capacity house in Seibert Hall on the subject of Sport ' s Science. Our Young Men ' s and Young Women ' s Christian Associations are large and flour- ishing organizations, and have aided very materially in the spiritual uplift of our student body. The One-Day-Campaign-For-$500 for the equipment of the new Y. M. C. A. rooms was indeed an accomplishment of which any student, friend, or Alumnus of Susque- hanna can justly feel proud. It places Susquehanna in a class of her own among the smaller colleges of the State. The evangelistic campaign by the Y. M. and Y. W. C. A. infused a new spiritual life into the entire student body. Our honored President, Dr. Aikens, reports that numerous contributions have been received and asserts that the erection of a new Boys ' Dormitory is near at hand. Tin- various concerts, recitals, lectures, social receptions, and plays have very ad- mirably met our social needs, and every student has had sufficient opportunity to de- velop the social side of his life. In every way Susquehanna has entered into larger things. A new life has been injected into our college activities and a strong devotion to our Alma Mater grips the heart of every loyal student. Susquehanna truly looks into the future with hopefulness. Her visions have been enlarged and her usefulness extended. With a location second to none in Pennsylvania, in beauty, in healthfullness, and in convenience; with build- ings well equipped with modern scientific and artistic appliances: with a student body that is loyal and true; — our Alma Mater can hope for unequalled possibilities in the near future. L ' ilL ' C Ti-ti

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tution. It was during these early years of his professorship at Susquehanna that the now abandoned Chemical and Physical laboratory was erected. His was the guiding hand in the arrangement and equipment of the building. Each year brought with it advanced steps and improvement in the various courses of the University, but nowhere has there been a fuller development than in the Department of Natural Sciences. The laboratory soon became crowded and inadequate to meet the increasing needs of the department; for years, although handicapped and over-crowded, the work was carried on until in 1912, when with the dedication of the new Charles Steele Science Hall, even brighter and larger fields were opened to this department. This building stands not only as a monument to those, who, through their generosity, made it possible, but to him who with unceasing toil and sacrifice has ever labored to make the study of the Sciences of the greatest possible benefit to the students. Dr. Fisher has been Curator of the Museum of Susquehanna University since 1896; has been President of the Society of Natural Sciences since 1898; Superintendent of Trinity Lutheran Sunday School for the past fourteen years ; he has served on the Board of Health of Selinsgrove, and also other noteworthy positions have been filled very capably by him. That there is more in this life than mere fame or wealth has truly been manifested by his devotion and loyalty to his Alma Mater, for notwithstand- ing the flattering offers he has received from time to time, chief of which was the one received during the past year to become the head of the Department of Sciences of Pennsylvania College at Gettysburg, he has declined all of these, preferring rather to remain with us, much to the gratification of the students, Faculty, Alumni and friends of Susquehanna. A man of the finest Christian type, he lives his life among the students — where day by day there goes out from him that something which cannot do other than influence those who come into personal contact with him, to live for those things which tend to develop true Christian manhood. May Dr. Fisher live many years and thus be enabled to carry on his noble work among the students of Susquehanna — the institution he has served so faithfully, loyally and unselfishly during the past years. The above sketch would not be complete should we fail to mention an im- portant event in Dr. Fisher ' s life. — His marriage on December the 29th, 1898, to Miss Lilly L. Yale, of Slattington, Pa. Tage Nine

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