Taylor University - Ilium / Gem Yearbook (Upland, IN)

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ROBERT WILLIAMS, A.B. Bob . Greek. Mr. Williams hails from the city of Columbus, Ohio, where he grad- uated from the East High School. He is noted as a canvasser. He has served as president of the Thalo- nian Literary Society and the Eulo- gonian Debating Club. It is better to fight for the good than rail at the ill. Senior Class Poem A STEP. A step into the mist of life! The future lies before, An endless chain of seething strife For life, for food — no more. The world lies waiting, vast and new, A region unexplored; The vision widens at our view To greater than before. RUTH COPLEY. A. B. Ruth . Philosophy and Education. Miss Copley ' s home is in Sharon, Kansas. She is a graduate of the High School at Medicine Lodge, Kansas. She has been secretary of the Thalonian Literary Society, and treasurer of the Senior Class. Next to love, quietness. GLEN ASPLIN. A.B. Glen . Philosophy and Education. Mr. Asplin comes to us from North Dover, Ohio, where he grad- uated from High School. He is a graduate of Baldwin-Wallace Acad- emy. Pie is also known as a can- vasser and general business man. I chatter, chatter, as I go. The changeless centuries lie behind Revealed on history ' s page: The large creations of the mind, The deeds of every age. To us the task to recreate The work of those who ' ve gone; And still we stand and hesitate; Time flees, and work is long. The world has many things to give; The gate wide open lies: A step, and we commence to live, To seek the longed-for prize. Our college days forever past, Out into life we go, To rise, to sink, to win at last The boon of those who know. A step into the mist of life ! A step into the blue, Into the world of unknown strife, To watch, and work, and do. W. F. P. 14

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BERTHA LONERGAN, A.B. Lonnie . Philosophy and Education. Miss Lonergan comes to us from Decatur, Illinois, where she grad- uated from High School. She is also a graduate of the Chicago Evangelistic Institute. During the past year she has served as sec- retary for the Senior Class. There may be worship without words. FLOYD BARNETT, A.B. Shorty . Chemistry. Mr. Barnett ' s home is in Lima, Ohio. He is a graduate of the Waynesfield, O., High School. He is our class scientist and has been the successful manager of the T. U. laundry. He won the tennis cham- pionship in 1916. He has served as vice-president of the Philale- thean Literary Society. A little learning is a dangerous thing. CLINTON J. BUSHEY, A.B. Clint . Chemistry. Mr. Bushey is our far westerner, from Everett, Washington. He graduated from the Taylor Uni- versity Academy in 1914. He is vice-president of the Senior Class. ' Tis as easy now for the heart to be true, As for grass to be green or skies to be blue. ' Tis the natural way of living. HELEN SMITH, A.B. Prof. English. Miss Smith comes to us from Frankton, Indiana, where she grad- uated from High School. She is the athlete among the girls of the Senior Class, having always been prominent in girls ' basket ball. This past year she was captain of the Thalonian Team. It is a comely fashion to be glad. LESLIE BROOKE, A.B. Brooksie . German. Mr. Brooke resides in Lanark, Illinois, and is a graduate of Tay- lor University Academy, Class of 1914. His vocation in life is that of a student, his avocation that of a barber. A man is known by the company he keeps. BEAUTRIX GRAVES, A.B. Trix . History. Miss Graves is a native of Up- land, Indiana, and is a graduate of the Upland High School, class of 1913. She is also a graduate of the Scientific Department of Mar- ion Normal, class of 1916. She has served as president of the Soange- taha Debating Club. A woman of few words; yet she says them often. 13

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Senior Class History Everything must have a beginning; otherwise it would not be any- thing — classes and class histories included. Our class had a history somewhere, I reckon. It is going to have an ending, and I suppose it must have begun. So that is settled; it began. Through the course of its four years of history it has evoluted considerably. Far be it from us to say that the Freshman class of 1914 was composed of monkeys, though probably it was; possibly it was not, but the scientific fact remains — we have evoluted. From what into what we do not know, but we have evoluted. Only three atoms of the original life germs of the Freshman class have survived the changing vicissitudes of the rocking billows of learning ' s deep blue sea. Much learning is a weariness of the flesh, and many have fallen by the wayside. But through the dim roar of the class room, the smoke and flame of examinations, and the murky mist and mud of the green carpet, Beautrix Graves, Bob Williams and N. E. Hanson have hopefully and smilingly survived and pressed on to the goal. N. E. Hanson was born. That is self-evident, but that did not make him famous. His offices as class president and Gem business manager have set him upon the top round of the ladder of academic fame. As a parting gift to the school, we, the Senior class, shall leave his statue, calm, cool and majestic, fair fat and — ty, reposing on the steps of Sickler dorm looking toward the McGrew barn and the Swallow-Robin dormitory — a veritable modern Janus. Miss Beautrix Graves was born in America. She has traveled quite extensively, having made one trip to Gas City, one to Jonesboro (not the one in South Africa,) one to Matthews; and once when a very litle girl, she went with her papa to Hartfoi-d City. At this place in the East she acquired the habit of slurring her r ' s. Her charac- teristic phrase since early childhood has been: Well, let ' s go ahead and do it. Robert Williams, son of an eminent lawyer, has been gifted from youth with a cross between a John Bullish and a mulish desire to rebut everything he hears. He will go without meals and sleep to convince anybody that everything is going wrong and that it should go right. He also was born in the U. S. A. Helen Smith: Strictly Anti-Suffrage has been her motto for years. She won first prize in a baby beauty contest in 1889. Now she is known chiefly for likability. Glen Asplin has made his motto of life, Never believe anything you can not thoroughly understand. Meanwhile he keeps right on talking about everything as if he understood. Keep on; you will get somewhere sometime. Born in Jerusalem. Ruth Copley always speaks when she is spoken to if she can think of anything to say. She was born in Kansas. Nationality unknown. Floyd Barnett comes from Ohio. He has been a life-long lover of the girls, always one in particular and all in general. Destiny: matri- mony. fatal destiny! We can not remember when he was born; but it was somewhere between 1903 and 1912 — nearer 1912! P. B. Smith ' s favorite motto is, Never let your studies interfere with your regular college work. He says: In all my vicissitudes of school life, which have been many, my grades have never been below 25 r r. Strictly Anti- Suffragette. Clinton J. Bushey: Born in 1776; wintered at Valley Forge with Washington; fought at Bull Run and Gettysburg. He says, I am going to quit my life of strife and warfare and marry — and rest. Gladys Miller is so calm, and steady, and settled that she must have been born in 1492. She was well acquainted wtih Columbus. She came to the States in the Mayflower. Her favorite fruit is the pickle. Warner F. Patterson, pseudo Frenchman and Editor: All his life he has regularly attended to his meals — except breakfast, when he is attending to his sleep. His motto has been, Live to eat and do not eat to live. He was born in 1911 or thereabouts. Leslie Brooke is famous for being so emotional and talkative that he is bombastic; he is also self-assertive to a degree. His destiny — Whitehouse, with a Belle attached. He was born some time in the 80 ' s Miss Lonergan is our fair secretary from the far West. She was born in the U. S. A. Nationality unknown — not so her destiny. Her only claim to fame is in having served as secretary to the illustrious and iconoclastic class of 1917. HISTORIAN. ir.