University of Massachusetts Amherst - Index Yearbook (Amherst, MA)

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Taken from over the Grounds Service Buildins, this panorama shows Memorial Hall and the Old Chapel with the Holyoke Range In the distance

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RTHUR N. Julia N DEDICATION A DIGNIFIED, professorial figure dismounts from an old wheel, stands it in a rack, and enters the Chapel. Then, his classroom filled with expectant undergraduate faces, he leans or sits on a table and mixes German verbs with stories of his days in Illinois or in the Dentschland of a generation ago. Arthur Nelson Julian ' s immediate forebears were Eng- lish — his mother a Midwestern teacher, his father a Cornish- man who migrated to Canada and then to Plato Center, Illinois, where Arthur was born November 22, 1885. Because most Plato Center citizens were German immigrants, he per- force spoke German. At nearby Elgin, a Scottish community, Arthur found his intellectual father, the Principal of Elgin Academy and a teacher of the classics. Should I major in Greek or German? he asked himself at Northwestern University. Deciding on German, he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and was graduated in 1907. After teaching German at Elgin Academy for two years, he trav- elled and studied in Germany for a year and a half. Returning to America in 1911, he became German instructor at State. In 1913 Arthur Julian married Helen Gaskill. At his home on the northern edge of campus he has lived a close family life with his four daughters and two sons, spending his spare time on his hobbies — photography and gardening. Then came World War I. Since the chemistry department lost men and German courses were cut short. Professor Julian was transferred to chemistry. From 1920, however, he has devoted full time to German. On campus he has also worked in both college honorary societies. As a teacher, Professor Julian is an enthusiast; as a human being, a friend to students; as a part of college life, a swell prof. Unhurried by the turmoil of modern living, he repre- sents one of the old guard; and his wheel— as he rides it home in the afternoon — symbolizes a cultured gentleman ' s peaceful way of life in a world gone mad.

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(Photograph by Sargent ) QG4ii p4 Ge4 ie Here is the hub of the campus — the chime tower and the war memorial next to it. The Old Chapel officially houses the Liberal Arts Department — class-rooms, cubby-hole offices, seminar room, and auditorium. The chimes in the Old Chapel tower punctuate the day ' s activities and will always be associated with Shake- speare, American government, and with the horrors of Public Speaking 29. Adjoining the Chapel is the more pro- saic Memorial Hall — the home of aim- less people, busy people, different and diffident people. . .It accommodates ves- pers, religion, the music department, the CoUe( ian, the 1941 Index, the Alumni Office, and even bowling alleys. Summer scene of students going to classes— taken from a Libe window