Valparaiso University - Beacon / Record Yearbook (Valparaiso, IN)

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MASON L. WEEMS Everyone has taken sides regarding Professor Weems; he cannot he taken indifferently. He is disliked by as many as like him, but all feel strongly concerning him. There can be no doubt as to his efficiency as an instructor. The vision of a pencil poised threateningly over his record is enough to cow us all into being more or less studious, and a certain dry wit that finds most frequent expression in sarcasm is also of service in keepini ; us on the path of duty. Still, all of those who have had a really serious disagreement with Professor Weems assert that he is really likeable. Professor Weems completed the Scientific and Classic courses of Valparaiso, and, preparatory to teaching Physiology, took considerable work in the Chicago College of Medicine and Surgery.

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ROLLO A. TALCOTT Graduate of Cavenovia Seminary, 1904, and of Syracuse University, 1909. Has also attended the King ' s School of Oratory and the Summer courses at Syracuse University, and has studied with teachers from Cumnock School of ( )ratory, University of Alabama, Ohio Wesleyan Uni- versity, Emerson School of Oratory, and Chicago University. Mr. Tal- cott has also had the rare opportunity of studying with the three great- est teachers of public speech in America: J. L. Winter, of Harvard University, G. H. Clark of Chicago University and Arthur E. Philips of the Philips School of Oratory, Chicago. Mr. Talcott has been Professor of Public Speaking in Hiram Col- lege, Hiram, Ohio. Also at Mt. Union College, Alliance, Ohio. Instruc- tor of Public Speaking in Columbia University and Dean of Department of Public Speaking, Valparaiso University 1913 — . Further notice of Mr. Talcott will be given in his own department. 19

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MILO JESSE BOWMAN Who runs the hill? The Lawyers, and Dean M. Jesse Bow- man Jr., the little giant of the faculty of Valparaiso University runs the wild and woolly lawyers and teachers them Law and life. Madison, Indiana, produced our Law Dean in .July, 1874, and Hanover College, the University of Chicago, and the Indianapolis College of Law gave him his formal education. He taught school, practiced Law in Indianapolis, and was Assistant State Law Librarian before he was called in 1907 to assume control of the school of Law in this University. Dean Bowman knows himself and he knows his students. He is active in politics, fraternalism, and civic affairs, and he has a delightful fam- ily. He is a public speaker of great ability, a very successful teacher, and a profound thinker of great erudition. 21