University of North Dakota - Dacotah Yearbook (Grand Forks, ND)

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the third floor. Here various strange sounds and noises would greet their ears, to analyze 0r distinguish which but little time was given to the prep, for to rush him from the head of the stairs across the hall, open the door of the room from which came the wildest noises, thrust him in head Iirst, and slam the door again, was the work of but an instant for his masculine and skillful conductor The prep is now in the Bull Pen and his education has begun. To record oneetenth of the impressions produced on his mind and body here would require a whole Junior Annual. The reader must be content with one or two typi- cal incidents of the new students life, and may, if he likes, draw on his imagination for the rest. But from what follows it will be plainly seen how beautifully the theory of opposition of forces worked in practice and how lamentable it is that it has been abandoned in modern times. When the writer was an inmate of the Bull Pen, there was one student there who suffered from the not uncom- mon delusion that he was a great orator in embryo. In and out of season he would jump on one of the two big pine tables and harangue the crowd. At first his outbursts met with applause, but as they grew more and more frequent and Violent, sometimes occurring in the middle of the night, they came to be regarded as a public nuisance by the rest of us, and were, in fact, declared to be such, at a formal meet- ing of the inmates, with but one dissenting vote, that of the Victim of the delusion. To pass the resolution was easy enough; to abate the nuisance was a different matter. Argu- ment, persuasion, threats, corporal punishment, were all tried in vain. The case grew steadily worse. Now, what would the faculty, operating directly, have been able to do in this instance? We now set ourselves to study this case closely, and it was observed that the patient always jumped on one of the tables, never on the other. That table must be de- stroyed; and it was so decreed. Accordingly, the next time That gave us a hint as to the proper remedy. the ravings of our poor companion disturbed our slumbers we all jumped out of bed. and rushing simultaneously to- ward the table, precipitated ourselves upon it with all our combined forces, and smashed it to pieces, the orator tumbling down, like a defeated politician, amid the ruins 219 H 570:1; in Rnceiovs. 1 - w K Peel: Ah: 1 l .0 i Ikeg Chem I. El; wun , , F Vows One ell. eruiS fmges :tkwllw mi: - Jami 0' 25? bee s DW'WM 1-15th ex w E Aqesr Qy+iST

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b 1HamItg. ALL DEPARTMENTS EXCEPT THAT OF LAW. HORACE B. WOODWORTH, B. A. vuomsson 0F HISTORY. Professor Woodworth is a native of Vermont, and spent the Ih'st thirty-nine years of his life in New England, living on a farm. His early school- ing was strictly rural, and When he first began teaching, at the age of seventeen, his only educa- tion was such as he had gained for himself on the farm, supplemented by three months in the dis- trict school. He graduated from Thetford Acad- emy in 1850 and from Dartmouth College in 1854, after Which he served successively as Principal of Glilmanton Academy, N. H., Associate Principal of Thetford Academy, and Principal of Chelsea Academy, Vt. He graduated from Hartford Theo- logical Seminary, Conn, in 1861, and subsequently served as pastor of a number of Congregational churches. He then went to live on a farm in South Dakota. until 1885, when he began his work at the University of North Dakota. JOHN MACNIE, M. A. PROFESSOR ms THE FRENCH Axn SPANISH LAN- GUAGES AND LITERATURES, AND SECRETARY OF THE FACULTY. Professor Macnie was born in Scotland in 1844. He received his education in various schools in England and on the Continent, and graduated from the University of Glasgow. After coming to the United States in 1867, he taught Greek and Latin for a number of years. in a well known Preparatory School in Newburg, N. Y., and was afterwards Principal of an endowed academy in Connecticut. He came to this University in 1885, and until last year was Professor of both the French and the German Languages. He has pub- lished a Treatise upon the Theory of Algebraic Equations, and a text-book 0n Elementary Geometry, the latter being used very extensively in High Schools and Colleges.