Wittenberg University - Witt Yearbook (Springfield, OH)

Page 20 text:

ON FERNCLIFF STEPS ON MYERS MALL STEPS c llma SWater cWittenbcrg, dear cWittenberg, Once a get in to thee cWe, thy grateful children, pledge J£ove and loyalty. De shall always love thy groues, c9lnd thy classic halls: ZJVicm'ry, like the ivy, twines ’{Round thy hallowed walls. cWittcnberg, dear cWittcnbcrg, ime flies fast away Soon our happy college days ‘Will be gone for aye; fBut in all life's storm and stress, cWhat e'er we may do, ‘Too our dPllma c Mater dear cWe'll be ever true. — ?. H. Hiller. $9 f 1927 WITTENBERGER 1 I Page Sixteen J

Page 19 text:

otic of the foremost baritones of America, but we have never heard of his making another public appearance as a flutist. Once Dr. Ort was called out of his seminary class for a long-distance call. One member of the class, to relieve a long wait, went to the front of the room and imitated Dr. Ort’s peculiarly heavy speech, telling the class that they would now have some gymnastic exercises, lie opened all the win- dows and went back to the professor's place, where he started the exercises by standing on his head on the desk. Dr. Ort came back sooner than was an- ticipated and found him in this inverted position. He, fold- ing his arms, and regarding him for a moment. FERNCLIFF HALL Wittenberg' new modern dor- mitory for women. I the most popular place on the campus during the early part of every evening. while the rest of the class broke out in one mighty roar, said: Well, are you getting top-heavy? Sherwood Anderson, famous Xew York novelist, is proud to claim Wittenberg for his Alma Mater. He was here only a year, but he took a taxi across New York City to tell a friend that Wittenberg had won a football game. That's loyalty! Last year he came back to the old school. His identity was un- known until Dr. John Philip Schneider discovered him down town selecting Wittenberg cards to send to his friends. In the extreme northwest corner of the campus, that corner bounded by Plum and Cecil streets, was once a cemetery. There, several people of the immediate community were buried, but the bodies were afterwards removed to other burial places. Bicycles used to be in vogue on Wittenberg campus. They weren't the modern kind, either; instead, there was a large wheel in iront and a tiny one in the rear. Students had a special aptitude tor them, but not only students were guilty, for even the most dignified professors rode them and thought they were at the pinnacle of celerity, and fewer of them were late to classes than they are now. Wittenberg's first dean of women came here in 1921. The Home Economics department was estab- lished here the same year. Under the regime of such an able leader as Dr. Tulloss, the Zimmerman Library has been doubled in si e. a $100.000 football stadium has been built, a new laboratories building is being constructed, and a new education building. Plans call for a new chapel, gymnasium, fine att building, and several dormitories. Back of all the side lights of Wittenberg College, whether it be humorous or serious, is the sentiment: But in all life's storm and stress. Whate’er we may do. To our Alma Mater dear, We will e’er be true.” KELLER HALL Where the men of the seminary eat. sleep, and study. Is only a few steps from Hamma Hall. To the rear is their athletic field. f 1927 WITTENBERGER 1 L Page Fifteen J

Page 21 text:

 Stern and seemingly unrelenting, as if a driving force impels them, to give to the slow and uncertain, unmeasured quantities of woe and suffering, that make the college a place of learning, that keep the frivolous hound by rules, that hope that from the student bodij, men might arise that will he true and mighty; that watch with ever growing interest the idiosyncrasies of the people that gather under the leafy foliage and talk and talk, yet not of lessons. FACULTY