West Virginia Wesleyan College - Murmurmontis Yearbook (Buckhannon, WV)

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John C. Shreve and Alfred F. Gregory are partners at law in Chicago. Their business is so extensive that they employ 27 secretaries who are constantly busy corresponding and making records of their proceedings. Colonel Shreve only two years ago resigned his position as Chief Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court. At the present time he is employed by the Government for the purpose of testing the constitutionality of the Federal incorporation laws, the Supreme Court not being com- petent. Gregory has already served with great distinction as Secretary of State during the presidency of Wilfollette. Three weeks ago he was chosen by F.ngland and Germany to settle a dispute between these two powers concerning an air-line which has recently been established from the south pole to the north pole. He has already been mentioned as a presidential candi- date for 1944. It gives me extreme delight to even mention the name of Wilford L. McCutcheon. He is an evangelist and an ex- pounder of the Bible without equal in all the history of mankind. He has just recently closed a meeting in Tokio, Japan, which resulted in the conversion of 61,098 Japanese. Since his evangelistic services began five years ago, he has converted to Christianity 22.739,854 people. Mabel Gay — who has not heard the name of this lady? Her fame as a reader is unbounded. On the 27th of last month I attended her entertainment at Boston, and, though I have heard many noted readers of both hemispheres, I have yet to find her peer. The audience numbered 35.229, of whom 8, 1 I 5 came by special steamer from England. Miss Gay will tour the world next year, and it is needless to say that she will be overwhelmingly successful, for she reads with ease in seventeen languages. After a most thorough education in one of our Eastern colleges, Ethel Snodgrass has deservedly become president of the National W. C. T. U. Some time ago I read an article contributed by her to the Chicago Tribune in which she said, I have found my elocution, in which I was instructed at Buckhannon. very useful in my work. (No doubt you have heard that she once won first prize — a gold medal — in an elocution contest in the Buckhannon High School). She is uni- versally acknowledged to be far superior to all former presidents of this organization. I infer from your letter that you have some knowledge of my occupation, but in addition I think that I can truly add that on account of my prodigious labors, a nation-wide prohibition victory is assured in the coming election. Trusting that these statistics may fully meet your wants with reference to the members of the 1914 class of West Virginia Wesleyan College, I remain. Very truly your friend, J. Forest Witten, A. M., F. R. S.

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BASCOM TAYLOR TREVEY, MoUNDS iLLE, W. Va. Classical Academy ' 09; Athletic Director; President Junior Class; Treasurer Y. M. C. A. ' 1 1 - ' 1 2 ; Oratorical Association ' 1 1 - ' 1 2 ; Excelsior. Stat magni nominis umbra. Tr GRACE TAMBLYN, BUCKHANNON, W. Va. Literary; Academy ' 09; Music 10; Junior Class; Chrestomathean. Mutare vel timere sperno. ' Vi: Preside 32