Wabash College - Wabash Yearbook (Crawfordsville, IN)

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eh ,qw 11 lt 5' Q' WU1'lCl WSI' I and ll'lB TWE1'1llES Wabash took quick kllltl drastic steps to 111661 the needs of a global war. A Students' Arnly ilU1'l1N was S0011 established. Barracks to house the influx of trainees were erected where the Ulltilbtil now stands. In October of 1918, 525 111811 0211110 to thc l'?l111I1l1S to take the 0011111111041 lllllli2lI'y-2111141611110 training. A flue epidemic quickly struck the 1lPXYly-fO1'l11Qtl stlldellt body, Zlllll over 199 111911 were llospitalized. The Phi Delt house was turlled into a hospital for the 1llll'2l1l0Il of the crisis. 11110111 1919 to the deemphasis of athletics ill 1925 XVabash fielded top-notch atllletic TQHIHS. lll 1919 Wabash gl'I'1tlll91'S UV91'Wll0l1l16fl Butler by the top-lleavy score of 68-O. ln 1921 NVH- hash traveled to West Point. After a scoreless tirst half. Army conquered 21-O. The 1925 1021111 played Minnesota, lowa, Illinois, 211111 Pur- due. Of the six Pllftlllif games ill this period the Little Giants took illl'Q9 alld tied one. 1n 1919 a basketball floor was bllilt in the QYII1 replacing the old dirt floor. The 1920-21 bas- ketball 1621111 lost only tllree games ollt of twen- ty-tllree. .ln the 1924-25 season the Little Giants tasted defeat ollly once, by one point 3114, 1 I Swingin' at the Triad in 1931 Page Ten against Wisconsin. VVabash il'2lCliII1t'11 took the llittle State ill 1918, 1919, 211111 ill 1921. A tlUC11llDll?lSlS of athletics 0211116 to XV3l1?lSl1 ill 1925. A faculty report on atllletics suggested that the I1l'PSl?11t college athletic policy was making students hired gladiators for the ad- X'01'i1SGIl1QI1i of the college alld the HII1l1SQITlQ11ff of the sporting public. In 1926, President Mackintosh resigned, and liouis Bt?1'l1'2l1l1 Hopkins, then head of the per- sonnel Cl6D2i1'i'lI191'11 at NO1'ill1VGS1-6I'11, was select- ed president. Early in his administration, the l'llI'I'lClll11ll1 was agaill revamped tllltl placed in four divisions. Study camps lJQOH1l1Q 2111 import- ant part of xV2lllZ1Sl1 life ill the early thirties. lll 1932 Wabash College celebrated her 100th ?l1l111Vt-'1'SH1'j'. The tfollege had 6I1Cl111'6d lnany lean years 211111 enjoyed IIIHDY good ones. The campus had several excellent, buildings bllt needed IIIHID' lll01't'. The Collge had had many line faculty 111911111618 H1161 students but could not afford to rest on past records. The endow- ment was conlparatiyely large, bllt problems of finance could hardly be ignored ill the midst of a depression. The now defunct but time-honored method for wntrolling pledges'

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Thc Honey AIIISCUIll-IOCINGCI in Yandes Hall, this museum Contained prcldstoric relics of all description college-life-Pan Hel and Phi Beta Kappa. ln 1898 the affairs of the College were not going so Well. Critics could not agree on what was wrong-but were firmly convinced that Burroughs was responsible. He resigned in June, 1899. College morale was low, and enrollment had dropped to 165 when Dr. NVilliam Kane took over the presidency. By the time of his death in 1906, enrollment was up to 300. College spirit, too, was revived. In 1899 Ted Robinson and Carroll Reagan collaborated in producing a new song- Old VVabash. H Athletics became a more important part of Wabash life as sportswriters began to refer to the strong XVabash teams as the big little men, the good little menf' and tinally in 1904 as the Little Giants. One thread of controversy runs through the history of the Vollege from its foundation al- most to the present. VVabash. just as all schools founded in the early 19th Century, began with a heavy emphasis on classics. both in standards for entrance and in the curriculum. The his- tory of curriculum development is a history of decreasing emphasis on the classics. The change was gradual and marked by many long and bitter controversies. Despite this change. XVabash has never failed to place primary em- phasis on the liberal arts. Dr. George L. Mackintosh, a member of the faculty, was selected as president after the death of Dr. Kane. In the middle of the twenty-year Mackintosh presidency, the curri- cuhun was revamped by the adoption of the semester plan and the quality point system which are still used. Kane House, built as a home for the president during the early years of the century, became the Sigma Chi frater- nity house when the president moved to the newly donated Caleb Mills llouse. The present gymnasium was completed in 1918. The origi- nal plans provided for a swimming pool. but this feature was eliminated for a lack of funds. The student body was also active during this period. Un April 9. 1908. the first' Bachelor appeared. The paper, eleven by sixteen inches. was strikingly similar to the Bachelors of today. All was quiet on the home front during these years. The Student Council had started to function. Alumni organization was revamped. and The Bulletin began to appear. The College was undergoing a period of peaceful and solemn growth . . . then war. Page Nim-

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