1910 June Acropolis

Whittier College Wardman Library Poet Commons Acropolis (Yearbook) Archives and Special Collections 6-1910 1910 June Acropolis Whittier College Follow this and additional works at: https://poetcommons.whittier.edu/acropolis - f- I I i. e~ k~ I; I li~ THE ACROPOLIS Studio Established 1900 j Buy your College Hats, Caps Ramsey's Studio and Sweaters at Home For Artistic Portraits 109 1-2 S. Greenleaf Ave. Tennis Rac,ets Foot Balls DIR. G. 1111. FLANDE1RS DENTIST Football Supplies }OME PHONE 13 11RRY B.LoCI Everything for 4t,6letics ENTERPRISE GROCERY M. H. MILLS, Proprietor We are Agents for the Victor line of Basket balls, Tennis Rackets and Baseball Best Goods—Lowest Prices 107 S. Greenleaf Ave. Supplies. Phone 103 Go to Buckmaster's Whittier Hardware Co. for Shoes and Repairs 1 14-I 16 S. Greenleaf Ave. i o6 S. Greenleaf Avenue 2 THE ACROPOLIS BLACK, Artistic Photographer We Carry Sporting Geods Always makes a special reduction to college students See Him All work guaranteed Guns, Amunition M. J. Kaliher Pocket Cutlery, Scissors eweIcr and Optician Full line of Jewelry and Optical Goods and Shaving Outfits Repairing promptly done El ODA EIS Eastman's Agency Developing and Printing Farmers Hardware Company 105-107 N. Greenleaf Ave. Books Stationery Whittier Shining Parlor Polishes shoes with the very best polishes GEO. A HOWE Shoe strings and polishes for sale 1 17 S. Greenleaf Ave. Come and see us ACRQFOLI £TH E el ressed e,njle wear oodward & xrien Crossett &Voes THE FASHION STABLES and Charming Young Ladies wear Good turnouts, fir - ass . ; -mo.ations Queen Quality Oxfords We buy, we eIl—comë aiid see us. Stables 128 N. Greenleaf Ave. }hone, Home iii Whittier Grocery Company J. N. WOODARD, Pres. The Whittier Pharmacy J. R. Newberry Co.'s Bread a Specialty Is the Drug Store H e p o e .8i 119 E. Philadelphia St 17 a full line of College Books, Bibles, Sta- tioner, fine Perfumes, Toilet Articles, Imported and Shoe Iepair Shop 2nestic Soaps, etc. E FRAZIER, Prop. / J. T I I S - -- - - Repairing neatly done and the best of material used AlMaA hi1adlph 1t / / i 2PP Phone 44. 113½ S. Greenleaf Ave. THE ACROPOLIS WHITTIER COLLEGE Four year courses in Letters, in Social Science, in Natural Science, in Bible Study. These rourses equal the standard of the highest Colleges and Universities. Whittier College Academy Four year Courses meeting the usual college entrance requirements. The student has the advantage of college atmosphere, of associating with advanced students and college instructors. AIM—to give a thorough college training under influences that develop noble character. FACULTY—chosen for University training and Christian character. EQUIPMENT—Buildings, Hall of Letters, Gymnasium, Dormitories, Laboratories, Chemical, Physical, Biological. Library. Athletic Field. LOCATION—Beautiful cairpus. Healthful surroundings. Removed from the temptatoins of a great city yet near enough for its educational advantages. The college is now enjoying its most prosperous year with increased enrollment, additional buildings, strength- encd faculty. Correspondence solicited. Visitors welcome. THOMAS NEWLIN, President, Whittier, California. The Acropolis Commencement Number Whittier, California June, 1910 *//0, 1h hhed t%'e ,1U'eYeJ4 itiáy d/e/ 14,67171, iechde Jh. 0b11 6 THE ACROPOLIS ACROPOLIS STAFF. Cora Scheurer, '10, Exchange Ed. Will J. Blount, '11, Business Mgr.; Frances Williams, '11, Associations; Bailey Howard, '13, Asst. Business Mgr.; Courtenay Henderson, '15, Athletics; Claire M. Edwards, '11, Ast. Ed.; Harold Costello, '15, Cottage and Drm Ed.; Anna Arnold, '14, Joke Ed.; Albert L. Marshburn, '11, Editor-in-Chief; Mildred Albertson, '14, Society Ed. THE ACROPOLIS 7 Published Monthly by the Student Body of Whittier College Entered as Second Class Mail Matter at the Post Office in Whittier, California Terms 75c per year. Whittier, Cal., June 1, 1910. Commencement Numbers This numbEr of the "Acropolis" is the last one issued Phases of our college activities. by the present staff. It is with a feeling of regret and pride The very atmosphere reminds us that we are again ap- that we lock back on the year's work—regrets for the short- proaching commencement and vacation time. comings and pride in the realization that we have done our These pages have been prepared under the pressure which heat. inevitably attends examinations and the closing of the scho- We have been handicapped by lack of funds but we have lastic year. tried to make the paper faithfully represent the various We desire to express appreciation for the interest and help Sturgeon has cooked foods, milk, cream, buttermilk, etc. 8 THE ACROPOLIS received from faculty members and the contributors who The Physics Laboratory has received another addition in have helped us during the year. an X-Ray tube which will be of great service in experi- In a few days we separate for the summer vacation, some ments. The tube is the gift of Dr. L. D. Johnson of this never to return again in the capacity of students, but where- city and we wish to express the thanks of the science de- ever we go or whatever we do, let us keep in mind the ideals partment for the kindness. of our college life. Let us enter upon our vacation with the thought of gaining strength and vigor to make the coming year the best of our college life. The death of Allen Jay, occurring May 8, is felt as a great loss to Whittier College. While he was not directly con- Three short years ago Thomas Newlin came to Whittier nected with this institution he was a staunch friend of the College to take the president's chair. During that time' he college and one on whom we could rely for counsel and help. has built up the college and strengthened it in every way. Whittier joins her sister college, Earlham, in mourning And not only this, but he has worked himself into the hearts the loss of one of our greatest educators. and lives of the students, by his sympathy, kindly interest, and unfaltering cheer and courage. He is a man who enters heartily into the student's problems whether joys or sorrows, While feeling keenly the loss of the faculty members who whether victories or defeats. If ever a man had a loving, have resigned the Board of Trustees feel fortunate in se- unselfish, and self-sacrificing spirit, it is President Newlin. curing professors to fill their iplaces. Mrs. Mabel H. Douglas, a graduate of Bryn Mawr and a teacher in Pacific College, will be the instructor of German, The jubilee at Berkeley has been of much interest in educa- taking Prof. Matlock's place. tional circles. Pres. Hadley of Yale was presfint and gave Prof. Leslie C. Nanney, who has been an assistant at Earl- the main address. The procession composed of the student ham, will have charge of chemistry and physics. body, thousands of alumni, professors and faculty, leading Prof. Russell T. Wilson, also a graduate of Earlham and to the athletic field where the final jollification was held was an experienced teacher and engineer, will occupy the chair of special interest to the residents of Berkeley and com- of mathematics. munity. Characteristic floats and designs added greatly to W. R. Lewis comes from Friends University, Kansas, to the enthusiasm of the occasion. May our state university teach in the Biblical and Greek departments. Mr. Lewis have many jubilees expressive of as much growth and ad- has been superintendent of Christian Endeavor work in Kan- vancement as this one represented. sas' yearly meeting. We guarantee the fit at The Toggery. THE ACROPOL-IS 9 Criticism of Ryskifl Mary E. Gamrnac It is with a great deal of hesitation as well as qualmes of It seems to me that his works may be classed into two conscience that I attempt a criticism of ONE who has so very distinct styles or era's. The first of which, is very ably and in such a remarkable manner brought to our ornate, full of imagery, dramatic, vehement and rhetorical. minds, with a skill unequaled for diction and marvelous This phase is also especially artistic, his prose has the beauty, the vast importance of the study of nature; ONE true poet stamp, his style is novel and distinctly his own, who by his keenness of observatiin, rare knowledge and fa- he disregards the personal equation and does not reckon cility in description has displayed in all their marvelous with the spirit of the nineteenth century. Everything he settings the 'wonder-world" of clouds, skies, mountains, treated, whether it was right or wrong, he endued with such trees, grasses and water. Go up into our own Puente hills, an interest, by his strenuous personality, and extraordinary with a book of Ruskin for guide and the far-reaching ex- intensity, that it could not fail to attract the attention, and panses of iearth, sky and water, with that nameless, haunt- often win a disciple to his view of the matter. ing, unforgetable purply haze, hanging like a filament over The second style or phase was an attempt at simplicity all the mountains; with the valley lying like a huge checker- and a more ethical treatment of various causes, with which board at their feet, while off to the distant horizon, the be was in sympathy. This attempt towards simplicity was shining strand glimmers; and we feel as 'though the beauties almost impossible, as the rhythm and flow of sentences were of nature, a worship of things inanimate, have brought de- endless and limitless; his brilliancy in description and illus- lights unmeasured to "blind eyes that now see." tration and argument were exhaustless; his choice of lan- Ruskin's beauty was not sensuous, but wholesome and guage and selection of words with just the right shade of healthy, and his ideas are presented in such beauty of lan- meaning, matchless.

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