University of Wisconsin Madison - Badger Yearbook (Madison, WI)

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Utllll EEUU lltttllllll Mllllltlll Every September the Octopus used to run a picture of a com- pletely sinister and devilish appearing old man who seemed quite ready to bite babies and kick widows out in the snow. Underneath was the caption, Gentlemen, Meet the Dean. In a school the size of Wfisconsin there must be many Qtoo many. it you ask himj, who never get beyond that stage in knowing Dean Goodnight. So it is to the gentlemen who have met the Dean that we must turn for our appraisal. And they have no little to say. They may not know, for instance, that he's the national president of Phi Eta Sigma, but they do know lie's a hunter and a Hsherman. They may not even know he's con- sidered one of the best in his Held, but they End out in a minute that he's remarkably easy to talk to, even easier to know. So for those who know a real fellow when they see one, the Dean of Men's ofhce holds no terror. Instead there's something almost unexplainable about sitting across the desk from the man and his pipe, and being understood. ..15..

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lllltSUHll time Hll j ull l Together, Clarence Addison Dykstra told the first freshman class to come under him, Uwe shall see new vistas, discover new truthsf' So did Wiscoiisi11's eleventh president begin his first year. But in that year it has been he who has shown new vistas, dis- covered new truths. His associates came to know these things hrst, for they found from the beginning a man thoroughly undisturbed by their factions and their differences of opinion. Something in his deep set eyes and forceful manner echoed what they had heard, that with shirt-sleeves rolled he stood unafraid of their highly publicized graveyard I But by nearly eleven thousand students is he best understood. They see much of the man in the Dyke who walks, not rides, up and down the hill, in the prexy whose familiar smile is both a verity and a symbol. 'ff - it--115 ff-bf' l ,J 'l 'if

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hlust as a Dean of Men should he a tyrant and a hear, so, accord- ing to legend, must the Dean of W'onien be something cold and austere. But that's legend and not, as any VVisconsinite will testify, Dean Greeley. .N description of her would always he inadequateg she's some- thing full ol life. so much so that she seems to have time for everything. She's an efficient educator, her reputation as a Dean is not a small one. Sha-'s complex: she'd have to he as Dean, wife, amateur hotanist, sportswonian, funster, and friend. She's something else, though, something that makes everyone that meets her think of a human dynamo, hut a dynamo with 21 smile. Hut ahoye all, she's clever. Out of her ofhee comes much that makes XYiseonsin tick, for it's really quite a job, taking care of all the routine and extra problems that Come before her. And with all that, she's one thing in eyeryhody's language, charming. 'l'hat's why she's clever. UNH I Ulllll llllltll Ellttttt ..17..