William Jewell College - Tatler Yearbook (Liberty, MO)

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G'One of the oldest schools in the American heartland, the college has established over 127 years a tradition of excellencef' 1 . EEE into tl hobno those uninte doings an 1 2 i

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1 feel , as 6. I ' 47' r ff:.!h4' , ye ' we A :LV t might mean. There was the telephone. I had been in college but a few weeks when my father asked me to go with him and my brother to the Centennial Exposition of 1876. President of the college Bugbee . . . was heartily in favor of my going. I went, and when I returned, Professor Tingley's first question was, Did you see the telephone? I hadn't even heard of it .... Professor Tingley was greatly disappointed, and I did not understand why until a few weeks later he called the student body together to explain and illustrate the telephone by a homemade instrument. You'll talk to your homes from these A' hi 9? rooms one dayf, he told us. New York will talk to Boston. He didn't suggest Chicago. Dreamed, the boys said. . . . Life at college was lightened by my discovery Ccon't p. 115

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V-f .isa l f the Boy. Incredible as it seems . . . I had come to college at eighteen without ever having dared to look fully into the face of any boy of my age .... My brother and his friends, my father and his friends, these I had always hobnobbed withg but those who naturally should have been my companions, I shunned. I was unable to take part in those things that brought the young people of the day together. I did not dance .... I was incredibly stupid and uninterested in games .... I had no easy companionable ways, was too shy to attempt them .... But the daily association in the classroom, . . . the mutual interests, . . . the continual procession of college doings which in the nature of things Ccon't p. 125 iv a as? Y - Ax- -,,, A , f , V ., t 1 ' '. 2 prrffgg' r ,lf QI. M 1 -Ri? , f - ff V, rv V , Q J iginsvxis - .. Q WI , -q V , . 'aj 1 L.:-1 , t