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

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8. May 10, 1892 was the day of my dedication. His Excellency, Governor Ira T. Chase delivered the dedicatory address. Since thut day important personalities have spoken within my walls, including: Iames Whitcomh Riley, the late ex-presialent Taft, William Jennings Bryan, Rabbi Stephen 8. Wise, Eamon DeValem, Lew Wallave, George Washington Cable, Sena- tors john I. Blaine and John I. Ingles, and, in 1932, Lowell Thomas. Every day at nine oklack, excluding Saturday and Sunday, students gather in my auditorium for a chapel exercise. Occasionally the student body assembles as a unit. My lower fioors house the entire English department, art department, numerous language classes, and chives of the registrar. illHIHllllllllllllllllllllllll IIIIIIHIIHIIIIHIHUIIIIHIllllllllllllllHlIlllHIlllIHHlHIIHIHHIIII nHHIHHlllHHIIIHHIHHIHHHIHHIIIIHIIHIIIHIIHIHH HllllllllllHIIHIllHHHHIHIIIlllllHIllllllllllllllllllllllll

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IlllllHllllllll HillIHHHIIIIHIHHIHIHIIHHHHHHHH Nineteen hundred saw me fully grown up and admired by everyone. I continue to serve my public as the headquarters for the chemistry, physics, and pharmacy departments. My laboratories and lecture rooms have tor- mented thousands of individuals with strange odors and queer theories. Each day students attempt to solve the mysteries of the physical world in my laboratories. Frequently my professors are anxious to obtain answers for confusing formulas, intricate prohlems, and half-wit theories-why don? these teachers look this data 7th for themselves and remember it instead of inconveniencing the students? The students who labor within me hear names that can in many cases, he sneezed, hat I have learned to enjoy the odors as well as the struggling students. 6-9:... ., $4he. ; . . ,.. $a.4 .c .x o 9.300;

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IIIIHIHHIHIIHIIHIIIIIIIIllllHIllHIIHHIHIIHHIIHIIIllil HHIIIIIHHHIIHHIHHIHIllHHIHHHHIIIIIIIHIHHIII IIHIIIIHHHIHHHHIHIHHIIHIIIHIIIIIIHIIIHIIIHHIHH I was named after the Lemhke brothers who huilt me. I home a north and a south wing but am no angel. Men of the greenie class must make me their home. Each yetzr I witness good hnmorea' water, snowball, and fist I ghts. Uswlly after one of these escapades my occupants have a joint meeting with H . H . Knmnick, dean of students, with the result that several of my lodgers are literally imprisoned within my walls-the proctor: call it donned? On one of the first evenings of the fall term the sophomore: force my residents into rainbow-colored pajamas and parade the ludicmus combination throughout the city. About two hours later my he-pmldled inmates return with tom apparel, displaying additional colors of black and blue, but also another type of blue has disappeared because they have accepted another Valpo tradition.