Wesleyan University - Olla Podrida Yearbook (Middletown, CT)

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S PAETH PAU LI PUSEY WILLIAMSON VVARE o'1.EARY FISHER LONG CLASSICS TIIE Classics department, hard-hit by the successive losses of renowned Professors Hewitt, Harrington, Nicolson, and Heidel, and the general trend away from the traditional classical education, has taken definite steps back to its former position, including the resumption of the study of elementary Latin. A Haverford man, class of 1917, John William Spaeth joined Wesleyan's faculty in 1930. He holds the degree of Ph.D. from Princeton, and has also pursued advanced studies at the University of Pennsylvania. A member of the Council of the American Classical Association, and secre- tary-treasurer of the New England Classical Society, he has published numerous articles on the classics during the past year, as well as kept up with his growing family. Adolph Frederick Pauli graduated from Illinois in 1916, and received his Ph.D. from there in 1921. He is associate editor of the Classical Journal and also bibliographical adviser in Olin Library. His hobby is the history and photo- graphing of early Connecticut churches. Nathan Marsh Pusey joined the faculty this year as an assistant professor, coming to Wesleyan from Scripps Col- lege in California. He graduated from Harvard in 1928 and has since received his M.A. and Ph.D. there. During 1934-35 he pursued advanced studies in Athens, Greece. ECONOMICS I-FIIE Economics department, one of the largest on campus, has curtailed its quota of majors from nearly fifty to eighteen this past year by stiffening its comp, Kossuth Mayer Williamson graduated from the Uni- versity of Alabama in 1913 and received a Ph.D. from Harvard. He is an expert on taxes. Last fall at a meeting of the National Tax Association in N. Y. C. he discussed papers on federal Hscal policy in relation to recovery and defense. Receiving a Duke B.A. in 191 1, Clyde Olin Fisher is a public utilities authority. During the past year he has served as chairman of the Connecticut State Board of Mediation and Arbitration. Labor expert Norman Joseph Ware received a B.A. from McMaster in 1908. A specialist for the Social Security Board, he served in the Canadian Army from 1914 to 1918. Clarence Dickinson Long, Jr., with a Ph.D. from Prince- ton, has just published his book on the business cycle theory. He has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship to write a history of unemployment. James John O'Leary graduated from Wesleyan in 1936. While here he was an Olin Scholar, a Phi Bete,', and a three-sport athlete. 'f22l t

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BIOLOGY THE Biology department at Wesleyan has long been recog- nized as one of the outstanding in its field. Shanklin Labora- tory is equipped with the latest improvements for conduct- ing experiments in almost all biological lines, including physiology and bacteriology. The department is under the able management of Professors Schneider and Goodrich, Assistant Professor Hunter and Dr. Gortner. Dr. Edward Christian Schneider started his work in Colorado and did research there in physiology before com- ing to Wesleyan. Called to serve overseas during the World War, he continued here his work on the effects of high altitudes on the human body. Today he is rated as one of the foremost physiologists of the world. Dr. Hubert Baker Goodrich, department chairman, came to us from Amherst. He spends his summers at Woods Hole Biological Station, and has been vice-president of the Amer- ican Society of Zoologists. Professor George William Hunter, a Knox College grad- uate, came to Wesleyan in 1929 and is now engaged in research work on the reactions of the host to the parasite, and is preparing a general biological book for publication in 1942. Dr. Ross Aiken Gortner graduated from the University of Minnesota in 1933. Being an instructor in biochemistry, he ties up the chemistry and biology departments. CHEMISTRY THE Wesleyan Chemistry department has long been one of the most famous on campus due to its reputation early established by Professor Atwater and others. The American Chemical Society has named Wesleyan as an accredited university, it was among the first of its type to be so honored. Of the members of the department, Charles Ruglas Hoover, Nye Professor of Chemistry, a graduate of Penn College, Harvard, and Haverford, is one of the most famous. During his undergraduate days he was star baseball and basketball player. He is a research consultant on the Com- mittee for National Defense. In charge of the draft registration at Wesleyan last fall, George Albert Hill, Chemistry Professor, was graduated from Worcester Polytechnic Institute in ,I3. He spent last summer revising his textbook. Assistant Professor in the department, Mortimer Gilbert Burford is a Wesleyan man, class of '3Q. He has spent sum- mers climbing and taking pictures in the Grand Teuton Mountains. Richard Guthrie Clarke, Alpha Sigma at Allegheny Col- lege, came to Wesleyan in ,3Q. He taught this year from his own textbook. -1121? SCHNEIDER GOODRICH HUNTER GORTNER HILL IIOOVER BURFORD CLARKE

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ENGLISH BY way of passing judgment on the English department, more Wesleyan students elect English 13-14 than any other course in college. Chairman of the English department is Professor Homer Edwards Woodbridge, who has been teaching here for the past twenty years. He is one of those barnstorming Crusaders who wander about the land teach- ing at various summer schools, including in his experiences, Colorado, Northwestern, Michigan, Maine, Harvard, Oregon, Indiana, and New Hampshire. Professor Carey Herbert Conley has also been at Wes- leyan for many years, twenty-eight to be exact. He is well known, at least in name, to all English 1-2 students, for they are required to use his textbook. The poet of the class is Professor Wilbert Snow, who was in the class of ,O7 at Bowdoin. This year his sixth volume of poetry, Maine Tides, was received very com- mendably by the critics as well as the public. Dr. Fred Benjamin Millett has been at Wesleyan for three years, and it looks as though he will have the op- portunity to be here for many more. His book, Contem- porary American Authors, published last year, has received favorable criticisms. - - Associate Professor Roland Mitchell Smith is a Wesleyan man, class of '18, Just before war broke out in Europe, he spent a summer studying in England and Ireland. Assistant Professor Alexander Cowie is the man with the distinctive mustache. His school days were spent at the University of Minnesota. In 1930 he received his Ph.D. from Yale University. It was there that he married Wes- leyan Dean Nicolsonls daughter, getting more from college than just an education. Assistant Professor Theodore Howard Banks is engaged in the study of Milton of whom he is considered an expert. He spent two years in the U. S. Navy during the World War and later commanded a gunboat on the Yangtze River. Assistant Professor Joseph Morgan Stokes is the public- speaking man at Wesleyan. His experiences come from the Presbyterian College of South Carolina, post-graduate work at Yale, and a night club in New Haven where he was a host. Mr. Ralph Darlington Pendleton is the dramatist of the group. First gaining distinction in this field in the Paint and Powder Club here, he has continued to even greater triumphs. His recent appearance as Polonius in Hamlet was received with gusto by Hartford and New York critics. -I2 3 WOODBRIDGE CONLEY SNOW MILLETT l SINIITH COWIE BANKS STOKES PENDLETON