Wesleyan University - Olla Podrida Yearbook (Middletown, CT)

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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

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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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SCUDDER KEPPEL CIIANTER PEOPLES ETHICS THE Ethics and Religion department under the tutelage of Professors Chanter and Scudder, guiding lights of the Chris- tian Association, is one of the smallest on campus. William George Chanter, whose resignation takes effect this June, is Pastor of the College Church, and a former Dean of Wesleyan. He graduated from here in 1914, Presi- dent of his class, a member of Phi Nu Theta, with one of the highest scholastic records ever attained at Wesleyan. He holds a theological degree from Boston University and is famous for his stock of big-league baseball lore. Delton Lewis Scudder, Assistant Professor, Reader of the Benediction, graduated from Wesleyan in 1927 and received a Ph.D. from Yale in 1939. As an undergraduate he was a member of the Commons Club, which is now Sigma Chi, and manager of the Glee Club. The scope of the department is fairlybbroad, running from an intensive study of the Bible to a course on the problems of war, the latter being taught by members of the History, Economics, and Government departments. Both men naturally devote a large part of their time to the Christian Association and the pastorate of the College Church. These organizations, with their widespread mem- bership, conduct the most varied and time-consuming program of all Wesleyan extra-curricular activities. GEOLOGY WESl.EYAN,S Geology department is housed in Judd Hall, the oldest scientific college building in the country. The department has recently acquired a grinding outfit, in part from the income of the Wise Fund. The two professors have this year conducted a short course in meteorology for stu- dents who are taking the civil aeronautics training. Head of the department is Joe Webb Peoples, who was a Sigma Chi at Vanderbilt in 1928. Recently he was ap- pointed to the committee on geographical education of the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers. Before coming to Wesleyan, he taught at Vanderbilt, North- western, Lehigh, and Princeton. The Associate Professor of Geology has spent past summers looking for chromite deposits in the Bear Tooth Mountains of Montana. During the year his hobby is taking countless pictures of his year- old son. A member of the lightweight crew and cross-country team while at Columbia University, David Keppel grad- uated in 1932 and became a Teaching Fellow in the Geology department at Wesleyan five years later. A son of the presi- dent of the Carnegie Corporation, he is now an Instructor. Dr. Keppel received the degree of Ph.D. from Columbia University in June 1940. 4241'-