Wabash College - Wabash Yearbook (Crawfordsville, IN)

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? 1 i The Trustees' Room in Yandes Library Hall

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A Start on Our Second Hundred Years by James lnsley Osborne Coauthor with Theodore Gregory Gronerl: of Wabash College, The First Hundred Years Four years ago, on October 29, 30, and 31, 1932, XV2abash College celebrated its Centennial. On the first of the three days, a Saturday, there was a foot- ball game, and in the evening a reception in the Masonic Temple. The game was with Miami, one of our parent institutions. Our team was beaten, rather badly, but nobody was at all depressed by the result, because, that year at least, Miami was obviously quite out of our class. The most interesting feature of the reception was the skilful presentation' by the Scarlet Masque of a play of something near a hundred years ago, entitled The Drunkard: or The Fallen Saved. On Sunday the Centennial Sermon was preached in the Chapel by Dr. Henry Sloane Coflin, of New York, President of Union Theological Seminary. In the evening there was a concert by the college orchestra, playing with sixteen members of the Symphony Orchestra of Cincinnati. Carroll Ragan was there, and led the combined musicians in the playing of his two great songs, The Alumni Songil and '4Old XVabash . On Monday morning came the Centennial Academic Assembly, with addresses by Presidents Angell, Hopkins. and Upham of Yale, Dartmouth, and Miami, the three institutions which had most to do with the training and inspiration of the founders of NVabash. There were distinguished representa- tives present from the sister colleges and universities of Indiana, and of a number of institutions outside the state. And our own trustees and faculty were out in full regalia. There was more high academic garb on the campus than had ever been seen there before. All in all it was a good show, the Centennial, and when it was over our administrative officers, who had toiled for months over the plans for it, heaved a high of relief and returned cheerfully to the management of the routine business of the college. The members of this year's graduating class are the only students now in college who were here when the Centennial was celebrated. They were freshmen then, next year they will be alumni, and of the students in college, from top to bottom, there will be none who were here within the Erst hundred years. So rapid are the changes in undergraduate personnel. Not so rapid the changes in the administration, the board of trustees, the faculty. Vile have now quite the same administration-older and wiser, possibly-and almost the same board and faculty as in 1932. On the Board there are John J. Coss, of New York, and Mark Brown, of Chicago, in place of Harold Taylor, deceased, and Clair MeTurnan, both of Indianapolis. On the Faculty there has been, as there always is, a little going and coming of young instructors. But in the more responsible positions there have been but few changes. Willis Johnson, certainly a prominent figure on the NVabash campus from the day he joined the freshman class in 1921, accepted a call from Stanford University in 1935. His place as professor of Zoology has been taken by Dr. John Paul Scott, of the University of XVyoming, Oxford, and the University of Chicago. And Dr. Smithson, second man in the department of chemistry for a number of years, iContinued on Page 425 ' Page ten