Whitman College - Waiilatpu Yearbook (Walla Walla, WA)

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fl- ' fk d i erwizlfes , F a s 1 e X ' . it X , al Q 1 Professor James Walton Cooper The Department of French under Professor Cooper is an especially strong one. It offers excellent opportunities for il student to become familiar and conversant with the French lim- guage. Professor Cooper is a very competent and eliicient instructor, being favored by a broad education and a Wide experience. He has received an A.B. degree from Doane College, and an A.M. degree from Columbia University, and has studied for some time at the University of Chicago. Aside from this, he has traveled and studied extensively in France and Germany. This experience has given him a broad conception of modern languages and their influence on modern life, which he aims to transmit to his pupils. Professor Cooper is a very thorough and conscientious teacher. I-Ie endeavors to give an insight into French customs and manners, as well as to train the student for a proper and fluent use of the language. His object is also to make them familiar with the best in French Literature. . Professor Samuel Kroesch Many times, when a new professor takes his place iD the ranks of the members of the Faculty who are tested and well known by the students, considerable friction ensuesg annoyance on the part of the teacher and dissatis- faction for the students, especially if the professor requires closer attention than his predecessors. It is a tribute to Mr. Kroesch's personality and ability as an instructor that the work has gone so smoothly and so elfectively, since he has taken charge of the Department of German. Humorous, alert, and enthusiastic, he makes the language interesting and at the same time requires honest work and thorough prepnrtion. Mr. Krnesch is an entire master of the language and has had good experience in teaching. He graduated with the degree of A.B. from the Missouri State University in 1901. Then he taught in the High School at Lathrup, Missouri, until 1903, and was Superintendent of Schools during 1903-04 at Douiphan. From 1904 to 1907 he was head of the Department of Modern Languages of the Central State Normal School at Edmond, Oklahoma. In 1908 he received the degree of Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. 23

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Til 'Q Q'S'6 3 Q 5 6'6 6'9-'45 Q' rma utrumque n no, ' Grain? ui rtmu.-5 ab orii Professor Edward E. Ruby The Latin Department is to be congratulated because its leader is a man in full accord with therspirit of the work, Professor Edward E. Ruby. In 1897 Mr. Ruby graduated from Indiana University, and four years later took his Master's Degree at the same college. He has held various professorships in the Middle West, and in 1903 became head of the Latin Department at Whitman. 7. Mr. Ruby is broadminded and sympathetic. His work is not confined by the narrow channel of dead form and philological research. He grounds the student thoroughly in the grammar and syntax of the language, but 'what he lays special stress upon is literary apprecia- tion, and a broad insight into the .motives and great principles working for the civilization and decay of ancient Rome. The student who takes a course under Mr. Ruby may be assured that it will be interesting as well as instructive and altogether worth while. 22

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Professor Norman F. Coleman Professor Coleman was grad- uated from the University of Toronto in 1900 as gold-medallist in English and Natural Science. He was junior instructor in mis- cellaneous branches in the High School at Spokane, 1900-02, where he was head of the Eng- lish Department from 1901 to 1905. In 1906 he received the degree of A.M. from Harvard. He was appointed Professor of Rhetoric in Whitman in this year, and, since Mr. Hendrick has been engaged in the Greater Whitmarl Movement, he has been head of the English Department. Mr. Coleman has made a wide and deep study of English, and, in teaching it, attempts to show its practical application to human life, as well as its growth and development. His sympathies are broad, and his principles are founded in granite with the Golden Rule as his motto. It is largely due to his influence and ability that the English Department is one of the strongest and most popular departments in the college. Professor H. G. Merriam Professor Merriam spent two years at the University of VVyoming, taking a special course. In 1904, with junior standing, he was elected as VVyoming's first Rhodes Scholar. In june, 1905, after one year's work at Oxford, he received the degree of B.A. from the University of Wyoining. In June, 1907, he received the degree of B.A. from the University of Oxford, England, where he worked for more than two years, exclusively in English Language and Literature. In September, 1908, he came to Whitman as an instructor in English. Professor Merriam has made a very thorough and systematic study of the English language and has done a large amount of original investigation in the literature of the present age. He conducts his classes with the utmost thoroughness and efficiency, and his students soon realize that if they do not receive many benefits from his courses 24 it is entirely their own fault. -