Temple University - Templar Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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Seel has been an active student in Temple since 1902. Me is a graduate of Temple Preparatory School. The Phi Alpha and the Y. M. C. A. laid claim to Seel to good advantage. Me was a member of Tub Owl Board 1906-08, of the Cerclc Francois and the Student Volunteer Movement for Foreign Missions. He will continue as a student of Theology at Union. Residence, 2153 Uber Street. Oscar Dean Thomas, B.S. ‘‘My deepest pleasure is to read German.” Thomas, another teacher of the “young idea.” is a graduate of the Central Manual Training School, the Central High School and the School of Pedagogy. He entered Temple in 1905. Me is a member of the Schoolman's Club, the Philadelphia Teachers' Association, and the Keystone Troop. Me lives at Folcroft, Pa. John Tison Thomson, B.S. , Wc have a doughty scientist. And Thomson is his name, If you want to know bacteria He’s one to teach the same. Our Bacteriologist was a student at the C. M. S. and later at the Medico Chirurgical College. Me entered Temple in 1906 and intends to improve his time in Physiological Gtemistry and Medicine. His home is at 1127 S. 46th Street. Furman Buck Willis, A.B. Sahitatoriaii. “Our representative from the mosquito state, New Jersey.” When Willis graduated from the Ocean City High School he looked around and selected Temple as a suitable place to prepare for his future work in Law; as a result he entered in 1906. He is associated with the A. and Nr. Debating Society, the Phi Alpha, the Y. M. C. A., The Owl Staff and the Athletic Association. Me lives in Ocean City, N. J.

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Norton when he left the C. H. S. came to Temple to learn business methods, acting for a time as the Office Assistant to the Dean. He entered College in 1905 and will occupy his time as a journalist, in the U. S. Service and in securing an M.A. He is a member of the Phi Alpha. V. M. C. A., Athletic Association, The Owl Board 1905-09, Walking Club, Student Volunteer Movement for Foreign .Missions. Address; 1530 Diamond Street. Louise Franklin PerRing, B.S. The desire of knowledge, like the thirst for riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it Sttrne. Miss Perring. a Supervising Principal, prepared at the Philadelphia Girl's Normal School and entered Temple in 1905. A Ph.D. is her next ambition. 4829 Haver ford Ave. is her home. George Washington Rieger, Jr., B.S. Our Piscatorial Enthusiast.” Rieger, who delights to teach the young how to shoot, is a graduate of the Central High School and the School of Pedagogy. He entered Temple in 1905. He is a member of the National Geographic Society, the Geographical Society of Philadelphia, and Philadelphia Teachers' Association. 1855 X. Marvine Street is his present address. Emily Robison, A.B. The rational (?) contradictinarian.” Miss Robison docs not seem to have exhausted her energy at the Bloomsburg State Normal, for she has worker! like a Trojan ever since she came to Temple in 1906. In addition to her school duties she acted as College Librarian. She is a member of the Phi Alpha and the Bloomsburg S. X. Philogia. Libraries will occupy her future hours. Espy. Columbia Co. is her address. Wji.liam Moore Seel. .B. Class Prophet. In exalting the faculties oi the soul, we annihilate to a great degree the delusion of the senses.” 13

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QnlUujr Jltritnru 1905-1909 Hamilton Wright Mabic says of Chaucer: “One of the most interesting facts about Chaucer is that when we think of him. we instantly see about him a group of men and women; like Shakespeare, he stands out-of-doors with all kinds of people in his company.” Just so, when we think of Temple University we see instantly a man whose influence enters into the personal lives of men in every clime and degree of civilization. Nay, more; we see these very ones struggling for an education as for a forlorn hope and coming out triumphant through the influence and leadership of this man, Dr. Russell H. Conwell. Reared in stern New England and trained in military, legal and pastoral duties, we see him thinking and feeling for others, and teaching, as early as 1886. a few energetic students. The school was not then a university nor even a college, but a Bible school. As time passed and the work progressed, it gradually became a college, ami into this college came in Scpteml er, 1905, a new flock for this scholastic shepherd. Some did not sojourn long with us, but others have remained until the present time, and arc now approaching the end of their College Journey. Let us, therefore, take a few glances at the history of these wanderers as they have journeyed along these four happy years. The first year of our wanderings, like that of all similar pilgrims, had a very dull beginning. Unknown to most of our schoolmates, and not knowing the various nooks and comers of the college, we quite frequently entered wrong class-rooms or made other curious mistakes, which alone broke the humdrum, every-day tone of our lives. But soon, a light shone in the darkness; there was a summons sent forth by the elder Pilgrims—High and Mighty Phi Alphans, as they were called—to assemble in Kennard Hall early one Friday afternoon in October. Here we were introduced to our prospective instructors, whom we had met only peremptorily in the class-room. The more experienced wanderers also instructed us concerning the various rules and maxims proper for Freshics, as we were called, to know. There was to Ik- extreme moderation in our dress and head-gear, bows were to be made to the wise Sophomores, noble Juniors and lordly SENIORS; and, finally, the most drastic measures were laid upon us for the reduction of Our supposed swelled heads and “high school” conceit. In a short time these Freshmen received an invitation to join the mystic circle of the Majestic Phi Alphans. All except Mr. Seel acceded to the wishes of our I ords and Overlords, while Mr. Norton being a special” was scarcely permitted to look into the faces of these benev- olent despots. By the time of the Christmas holidays, we had become very good friends, even if we did sometimes object to the apparent feudal suzerainty of the the three Higher Classes. By this time we had learned to lisp the names of our stately Phi Alpha Officers: IS