University of Delaware - Blue Hen Yearbook (Newark, DE)

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m ' BLUE HEN D The General Assembly has properly decided that the name college is not appropriate for a group of colleges and schools embracing general, technical, professional and graduate education for men and women ; and in changing the name to the University of Delaware has laid the broad foundation upon which the State may build by the addition in years to come of such new departments as the needs of the people of Delaware may require. The change which has been made is in a certain sense only a change of name. And yet it is, from another point of view, something more than that. We have the same group of schools and colleges and departments, but in the new name we experience a new sense of unity and are quickened by a fresh consciousness of growth and power and by the inspiration of a broader purpose. The new name lends an added dignity to the institution, and should prove a challenge — to faculty and students alike — to prove worthy of that added dignity; a challenge, to continue to cherish the honorable traditions of more than fourscore years as a college and to hold fast to the old ideals of sincerity and scholarship, and at the same time to strive to realize the larger vision and the wider outlook of the university. Dr. Walter Hullihen R. WALTER HULLIHEN was born in May, 1875, at Staunton, Vir- ginia. After graduating from Staunton Military Academy in 1893, he attended the University of Virginia and received the degrees of A. B. and A. M. in 1896. He took post-graduate work at the University of Virginia, 1896-97, continuing at Johns Hopkins University from 1897-1900, where the degree of Ph. D. was conferred upon him. At Johns Hopkins he was University Fellow, 1899-1900, and Fellow by Courtesy, 1900-1902. During 1903-1904 he was an instructor in Marston University School, Baltimore. He was Profe.ssor of Latin and Greek at the University of Chattanooga, Tennessee, from 1904 until 1907. From 1907 to 1908 he attended the Universities of Leipzig, Munich, and Rome. From 1909 to 1920 he sas Professor of Greek at the University of the South. He was also Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at this institution from 1912- 1920. He was director and owner of Camp Greenbrier Summer School, Allegheny Mountains, West Virginia, for several years. In the late war Dr. Hullihen had very varied experiences. He was commissioned Major of Infantry in August, 1918. Later he was made Adjutant of the 29th Brigade, and Assistant Chief of Operations and Training of the General Stafl of the l. th Division at Camp Logan, Texas. In March. 1919, he was commissioned Major of Infantry, Officers ' Reserve Corps, United States Army. Dr. Hullihen is fond of sports and outdoor life. He was faculty director of Athletics at the University of Chattanooga and at the Univer- sity of the South, and for several years served on the Executive Committee of the Southern Athletic Association. He also served for a time on the Executive Committee of the National Collegiate Athletic Association. He is the author of Antiquam and Priu.squam. He is a member of the American Philological Association, and the Delta Phi and Phi Beta Kappa Fraternities. Nine

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.afM. BLUE HEN- f ' i ' The Faculty If we had a mind to we could turn out a made to order eulogy upon the merits of our beloved faculty. We could garnish the com- position with the old familiar archaic phraseology. W ' e could even address our respected professors as sapi- ent pedagogues. But professor sa- vours of whiskers and a bald head. and pedagogue is only used to fill up space in the Encyclopaedia Brit- tanica. Furthermore, made to order poems are only produced by poet laureates and Walt Mason; they are not successful. ■hat a travesty upon our friend- ship for Gimpty and Bugs and Dinny and Froggy to place them, with one grand, dramatic gesture, upon the heights of Olympus! The transition would be too abrupt even for the most imaginative student among us ; furthermore, the sapient pedagogues themselves no doubt would be ill-content with exigencies of a lonely sojourn upon a classical and barren mountain-top. After all, the man ' s the man, and so we present them here ; the Faculty, our pals. Eleven