Wesleyan University - Olla Podrida Yearbook (Middletown, CT)

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Since 1928 ALEXANDER THOMSON has taught in the History Department at Wesleyan. Previously he had spent two years on the faculty of N. Y. U. At Bowdoin, where he obtained his B. A. degree in 1921, Mr. Thomson played end on the football team and ran the hurdles in the spring. After spending an additional year at Cornell he went to England as a Rhodes Scholar, doing advanced work at Oxford. His Ph.D. came in 1932 from Cornell University. At Wesleyan he is frequently to be found on the handball court or engaged in a political discussion. SAMUEL HUGH BROCKUNIER first came to this hill in 1930 as Instructor in History and Government. At that time he was serving in the capacity of Assistant at Harvard, from which university he had received his B. A. in 1926, his M. A. in 1928, and was working on his Ph.D., which he received in 1936. At Wesleyan he spends much of his spare time playing squash in the winter and tennis in the warmer seasons. Whenever he finds the opportunity he pursues his favorite sport, mountain climbing. His class sections are centers of lively discussion aroused by the liberal ideas he advances to his group. WILLARD MOSHER WALLACE, Teaching Fellow in the department of Economics and Social Sciences, graduated from Wesleyan, where he was a member of Phi Nu Theta, with an A. B. in 1934. The next year he worked for his M. A. while acting as Assistant to the Dean of Freshmen. At the present time he is working for his Ph.D., the subject of his thesis concerning the career of Edwin Sandyn, parliamentarian. Before joining the Wesleyan faculty, lVlr. Wfallace was a graduate assistant at the University of Pennsylvania. For recreation he plays handball and also does a little fiction writing. MATHEMATICS BURTON HOWARD CAMP, a graduate of Wesleyan and a member of Phi Nu Theta, received his B. A. in 1901. Six years later he became a Harvard M. A. and received his Ph.D. degree from Yale in 1911. Starting at Wesleyan in 1905 he became a full professor in 1914. An authority in the field of statistics, he served last year as Vice-President of the American Statistical Association and President of the Institute of Mathematics and Statistics. 1291

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GOVERNMENT Our City Councilman, ELMER ERIC SCIIATT- SCHNEIDER tells his favorite class PoliticalcPart1es, HWS all in knowing the right people. Without the organization, I could never have won, 1S his modest reply to the cheers of his students. Schooled at the University of Wisconsin, where he received a B. A. in 1915, a M. A. from Pittsburgh in 1927, and in 1936, a Columbia Ph.D., he came here in 1930. Since then he has.become John E. Andrus Professor of Government. of the Fratres in Urben at the present time HISTORY GEORGE NIATTHEW DUTCHER, Hedding Professor of History, holds the record of longest service of all active faculty members. He received both his B. A. and Ph.D. degrees from Cornell and from this college his M. A. 1918-1921 saw. him as Wes- leyanis Vice-President. On alumni week-ends his classes are full of old gradsg his list of term paper topics is inexhaustableg and his annual talk on George Washington is classic. Hg 1S chief pleasures. i231 A graduate of our own alma mater is RALPH FREDERIC BISCHOFF who received his B. S. in 1927. From Harvard University he was awarded an LLB. in 1930, M. A. in 1931 and PhD In 1937 During '33-'34 Mr. Bischoff studied at the Hochschule fur PolIt1k in Berlin. After that he was an Instructor in Government at Wesleyan until 1938 when he was appointed an Assistant Professor While an undergraduate, he was a member of Phi Nu Theta and since then he has taken an active part in the alumni organization being head HERBERT CLIFIPORD FRANCIS BELL has absorbed History at To 1i?onto,hPennlsylvan1a, Paris, and Freiburg, pursued lt In Br1t1sh and fine are 1Vlf1S5 given It out at Wisconsin Bowdoin Wesleyan an ltefnP0jfa1'1lYl at Yale, Pennsylvania and Cornell His proudest ?n0Si:-iilellgtis thefdegree of LItt.D., conferred by Bowdoin 1n 1937 Solemn ig eEc?51ic01 Pas Lord Palmerston. He contributes to var1ou or less 1 d 3 S- ere and In Englandg and belongs to many mor earne societies In the two countries. He left the Episcopa Church. to become a Catholic in 19341. Now In his thirteenth yea here - . d , fldmg horses, ishlngi Camplng, and arguing for Wilsoman 1 emocracy are amo 11' '

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I Q In 1914 MALCOLM CECIL FOSTER received his degree of B. A. from Acadia University, at Wolfville, Nova Scotia. After the war he obtained a Ph.D. from Yale and a M. A. from Wesleyan. In 1927 he came to this campus as Associate Professor, while in 1931 he became a full Professor. His chief extra-curricular interests lie in two categories. One is the violin, which he enjoys playing and also making, a skill he has practiced since 1931. His other chief hobby is outdoor life, and his summers are generally spent in the Canadian woods, where he is not an ordinary sportsman, but a li- censed guide. 1 HERBERT ELI ARNOLD, who has been on sabbatical leave this past year, was graduated from Wesleyan in 1921, and received his M. A. in Mathematics two years later. Ever since he graduated he has been on the faculty, first as an instructor in Mathematics, then as Assistant Professor, and now as an Associate Professor. As an undergraduate he was a member of Delta Upsilon. ln 1928 he re- ceived his Ph.D. from Yale. 'Eor a number of summers he has worked in a boys? camp, besides playing tennis and dabbling in oil painting. , JOHN WILLIAM WRENCH, JR., received his B. A. from the Uni- versity of Buffalo in '33 and his M. A. in '34 while teaching as an Assistant in the Mathematics department of the same university. After Yale awarded him a Ph.D. in 1938, he came to Wesleyan as an instructor. He was graduated from Buffalo summa cum laude, an award which the University seldom gives. His particular depart- mental interest is the theory of numbers on which he occasionally lectures to a limited group. He also spends considerable time at his hobby of music. n 1 MUSIC ln 1929, JOSEPH SAMUEL DALTRY was appoint- ed Assistant Professor of music and at the end of that year attained his M.A. fad eundemj from this college. T he following year he was appointed Pro- fessor, the position he now holds. His broad knowl- edge -of music and his qualities of leadership in coaching college musical groups have enabled him to produced consistently good choi ' d l which have won New England chai'I11giiJns11iii3s.ClubS 1301