Pro!' Bmce Fink, PH.D. Prof. Alfred Horatio Upham, A.M.
Prof. Fred Campbell Whitcomb, R c.
Mr;. Carr;r Putnam Herndon, Ph.M. Prof. Raymond Hugh Burkr, B.Se. lJ THE MIAMI S T E). ~. :E N·T OCTOBER, 19Q6.
CHANGES IN THE FACULTY. Every year the University draws nearer The Greater Miami. In no way is the growth more marked than in the addition of new men to the faculty; and this is as it should be, for a university is its faculty. The erection of new chairs and the increased number of teachers will enable Miami to do. a greater work than ever before. Professor Hoke is in Europe on leave of absence for the year. He will travel in Europe and Asia, st.udying geograp~y and kindred subjects. at first hand, and at the universities. D'uring his absence his department will be in charge of Professor Raymond Burke. At the beginning of the second term the department will be divided and part of t4e work will be under the direction of Professor Benjamin M. Davis, who will come to Miami from Chico, California. Professor Parker is also absent on leave. He is doing work in the Department of Education at Columbia University. Professor Warren Darst will carry forward the work of Professor Parkyr during the present school year. Director Davis of the Normal training classes has resigned, and his work will be taken up by Professor Fred C. W~itcomb. • Professor Lee Ora Lantis, Principal of the Academy, has resigr~erl, and Professor Fred L. Hadsel has been appointed to succeed him. Other new members of the faculty are: Bruce Fink, Ph.D. . , Pro· fessor of Botany and Bacteriology ; Raymond V. Phelan, Ph.D., Assist ant Professor of Economics and Sociology ; 0 ven Konn Boring, Inst(tlc· tor in Spanish ; Mrs. Carrie H erndon, P h.M., Instructor in Normal HIs tory; William F. Luebke, A . M., Assistant Professor of German; VVill iam Henry Whitcomb, M .S., Assistant · Professor of Chemistry: and Alfred Horatio Upham, A.M., Associate P rofessor of English. In this issue and in succeeding issues, will appear sketches of the' new members of the faculty , and some account of the new c,ourses now offered . .
THE NEW MEMBERS OF OUR FACULTY. PROFESSOR BRUCE FINK, PH.D. This year a new chair, Botany and Bacteriology, has been erected at Miami, and Professor Bruce Fink has been called from Iowa College to inaugurate the work in the new department. Professor Fink. w a<) born in Kane County, Illinois, and spent his youth in this and De Kalb counties. He received his early education in the country and city schools of these counties, and then entererl the University of Illinois, 3 from which he graduated in 1887 with the degree of Bachelor of Science. He received his Master's degree in science from the same institution in 1894. During 1894-5 Professor Fink did graduate work at Harvard University, and was appointed to the Townsend graduate scholarship. He received the degree of Master of Arts from Harvard in 1896. Pro fessor Fink was given his Ph.D degree for work at the University of Minnesota from 1896 to 1899. After spending several years in public school work he was called to the Professorship in Biology at Upper Iowa University where he continued from 1892 to 1903, being absent on leave part of the time for graduate work at Harvard. From 1903 to 1906 he was Professor of Botany at Iowa College . . In 1897 he was appointe:i lichenist to the Minnesota botanical survey, in which capacity he is still serving. Professor Fink has published a large number of papers in the botanical journals, in various other scientific journals, and in the pro ceedings of different scientific societies. Some of the paRers deal with plant embryology, pollination and taxonomy of fungi and flowering plants, but the larger part of his work has been in lichenology, the articles treating various features of this subject comprising about five hundred pages. He has now in preparation a book on lichenology, deal ing fully with the subject and finely illustrated. Professor Fink is recog nized as an authority on this group of plants. He has named a number ' of new species of lichens. The value of his work has been acknowledged by European botanists by giving the specific name of Finkii to several species. Professor Fink has distributed a large number of herbarium specimens in American and European universities, and his own collec tion of lichens is very likely the best private collection in America, and Harvard is probably the only institution which has a collection that is better. His library on the subjett is second only to that of Amherst College, and it is very doubtful if any person or institution has both an herbarium and a library equal to Professor Fink's. The library consists of 400 volumes, besides separates, and 450 photographs. There are 10,000 specim~ns in the herbarium and a great quantity of unmounted duplicates. . Professor Fink is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, member of the Botanical Society of America, member of the Central Society of Naturalists, and member of the Myco logical Society of America. He was president of the Iowa Academy of Sciences in 1903. . Miami is indeed fortunate to have at the head or her new depart ment a man of such strength, and with such standing in the scientific world, as Professor Fink. PROFESSOR ALFRED H ORATIO UPHAM, A.M. Professor Alfred Horatio Upham, A.M., Associate Professor of English adds one more to the list of Miami alumni who have been recalled to positions on the faculty of the University. Having prepared for college at the Eaton, Ohio High School, he was four years a. student at Miami, being graduated as honor man in the class of '97. He remained 4 in the institution the year following, having charge· of the Latin depart ment during the absence of Prof. Longsdorf. Private work in English Literature, carried on during the same winter, fulfilled the requirements for the Master's degree, which was granted him in 1898. Until 1900, Mr. Upham was employed as instructor in Latin and Greek in the Miami Preparatory School, and then entered the Harvard Graduate School where he did special work in English for two years under Professor . KittJ:edge, receiving the Harvard A.1!. in 1901. In 1902 he became Pro fessor of En.glish in the Agricultural College of Utah, serving in that capacity until last year, when he accepted an appointment as Columbia University Fellow in Comparative Literature. His year's work in Columbia, under the direction of Professors Fletcher and Spingarn, was chiefly given to the partial completion of a dissertation on The French Influence in English Literature from the Accession of Elizabeth to the Restoration. PROFESSOR FRED CAMPBELL WHITCOMB, B.Sc.
Profess.or Fred Campbell Whitcomb, B.Sc., Director of Arts and Crafts and Professor of Manual Training, is a native of Indiana. He was prepared for college in the public schools of the state and graduated from Franklin College in 1900 with the. degree of B.Sc. He did one year's graduate work in the Indiana State University and one year in Columbia, graduating from the latter in 1904, pursuing the special prep aration for Manual Training in Teachers' College. While at Columbia University he held a graduate scholarship and pursued later special courses in Mechanical Drawing at Pratt Institute. His experience as a public school teacher and superintendent guar antees for his work a complete understanding of the problems and needs of the public schools. From 1890 to 1891 he taught in the district schools, and from 1893 to 1895 in the graded schools of I~diana. He was principal of the high schools at Delphi and Tipto'n froni 1900 to 1903, and he was superintendent of the Bluffton public schools. For the year of 1904-5 he was Director of Arts and Crafts and Professor of Man ual Training in Howard University, Washington, D. C. Charles N. Richards, Director of Manual Training Department, Teachers' College, Columbia University, writes regarding him: "His record was a most exceptionally high one, and he impressed, all of his instructors as a man of ~xceptional ability and character." Professor Whitcomb comes to Ohio to work out for the teachers of the state the new problem of manual training in the public schools. MRS. CARRIE PUTNAM HERNDON, Ph.M.
Mrs. Carrie Putnam Herndon, A.B., Ph.M., comes into the Normal faculty as In~tructor of History. Mrs. Herndon is a native of Illinois, and her early education was received in the elementary and secondary schools of that state, having graduated from the Rossville High School. The various types of institutions in which she received her collegiate education especially adapt her for the work to which she is called. In 1891 she graduated with the honors of her class from the Illi?ois State onnal University, one of the first and most thoroughly organIzed normal schools of the West, having been established in 1857. In 1901 she received from the University of Chicago the degree of Bachelor of Philosophy with honorable mention. In 1906 she received from the University of Chicago the degree of Master of P hilosophy. She has had a successful experience in teaching, both in the public schools and in a college. She taught six years in the grades of the public schools. She was, for two years, superintendent of Morgan Park Schools one of the best suburbs of Chicago. She resigned this place to pursue advanced work in History in the University of Chicago. From 1902 to 1905 she was principal of the Normal Department and Professor of His tory in Southwestern Kansas College, Winfield, Kan., which position she resigned again to do more advanced work in her department·in the University of Chicago. Mrs. Herndon has had wide experience in teachers' institute work and comes with the testimonials of some of the most prominent school men of the country. She has assumed her duties under favorable aus pices and with great promise. PROFESSOR RAYMOND HUGH BURKE, B.Sc. Raymond Hugh Burke, B.S., Instructor in Geography and Nature Study, was from 1902 to 1905 a student at Oberlin College. After exten sive travels in the Southwestern United States for purposes of study, he returned to the University of Chicago, where he studied last year and last summer. The greater part of his work was done in the Departments of Geology and Geography under Professor Rollen D. Salisbury and Professor J. Paul Good. Chicago granted him B. S. last June and dur ing the past summer term he supplied Professor Hoke's place at Miami. He graduated with "Honorable Mention for Excellence of Work in Sen ior College." Professor Burke is a member of The Geographic Soc:iety of Chicago. An experience as teacher in the country schools adds a valu able element to his equipment for work in our Normal College. THE FLAG RUSH. The annual rush between the Freshmen and Sophomores occurred on Tuesday rr:orning, October the third. The contesting classes were bound by a set of rules essentially the same as those governing the con test of last year. The Freshman flag was raised at midnight, and at five the Freshmen rang the University bell which announced the beginning of the fight. The flag was composed of sixteen folds of heavy canvas sewed firmly together. It was spiked !o the pole which had been erected just west of the south Dormitory. The Sophomores practiced their plan of action on the upper campus for some time before making their first charge upon the enemy. At about six o'clock, however, the first charge was made. The Sophomores formed into a solid wedge, and clasping each other firmly, with Booth in the lead, moved slowly toward the pole and attempted to remove the Freshmen one by one. The first few assaults were fruitless, but after giving their head man a generous appli- 6 ~ation of la."d they began' to be more successful, and after each attack, the big Sophomore elephant backed out with one or more frightened Freshmen struggling in its trunk. After the Freshmen forces had been reduced by about twelve men, both classes broke ranks and engaged in a general mix up. The next half hour witnessed one of the most deter mined fights that has ever occurred at a Miami class rush. At the end of that time the pole was sufficiently free to allow Gaddis to ascend, but before reaching the flag he encountered a Freshman, who, by accident or otherwise, struck the advancing Sophomore upon the head with his foot. As this act was contrary to the rules, the Sophomores were declared victors. After considerable difficulty the flag of 1910 was removed and ~he Orange and Black banner of the class of 1909 was hoisted in its place. The entire contest was over by nine o'clock. The girls of the classes did good service in the commissary departmerit, but it is to their credit that they were less in evidence than in previous years. This year's rush may have lacked some of the old time fierceness, but it was no less dyter mined and interesting than the contests of the "good old days," which were fought out under a system of "Laissez-faire." . THE· M. U. PRIMER. (For use in the Freshman Class.) LESSON I. AN INTRODUCTION. Here you are, Dear children, everyone of you. It is real nice'of you to come to our school. Do you know what School this is? Yes, it is Miami University at Oxford. Oxford is a Town. Is it a Real Town? No, Oxford is not a Real Town. It is a Dry Town. It is also a Classic Town. What nice new ~ook is that you have, my child? Oh, it is a Trig onometry. Be careful with it, My Dear, you may need it again Next Year. W~at is that big nice building with the pretty Flags on it? That is the Main Euilding. It is the His.tw and play in the Gymnasium a little while, but you must be careful and not get Hurt. When you are a Senior you can not go to the Gymnasium, but then you can go to Hepburn Hall. Don't you know what a Senior is? If you will study Real Hard and be a real Nice Boy for three years, maybe you will Find Out. You "an tell a Senior from 'a Professor because his Salary is not as Big· -Co!yrot, rqcb !Jy E. 7. S 7 VAGRANT THOUGHTS ON VARIOUS TOPICS. L ON BEING A FRESHMAN. There are several important days in the history of a boy. It is an important day when he puts on his first pair of trousers, jams his hands to the very bottom of the pockets and speculates on their wonderful possibilities, or spraddles his short legs to the point of splitting, experi menting on the increased length of stride which the new harness per mits. It is an important day when he shoulders his strap of books, hears the "Be a good boy, Johnny, or the teacher will whip you," and marches off to school to learn-heaven only knows what all. It is an important day when he earns his first dollar, when he sees his first circus, when he smokes his first cigar, when he discovers the first idol of his heart. How vividly each of these events stand out in the memory of the later man! But after all is said, the most important day of all important days -the day to be marked with a white stone-is the day when he enters the Freshman year of his college life. How he did work for that matric ulation card! Of course, he entered two units short, but he could no~ lie to the registrar just to enter full fledged. Whoever heard of a Fresh man lying! That does not come until the second year, and is really not done artistically until the fourth year. Wh~t a llew world opens up before the Freshman! Could he, with the vision of the prophet, foresee all that lies in store for him during these four years, we wonder if he would face it so bravely. How would he weigh the joys against the sorrows, the triumphs against the defeats, the praise against the scoffing? After all, it is just as well that he knows no more of the future than he does. The gift of foresight could be only a curse, robbing life of the spur of expectation. The Freshman enters his new "\ orId in the supreme confidence born of the knmyledge of his own importance. He ~nows the world is his for the conquering, and he intends to conquer it. Did not his teacher say that he expected him "to star," and did not his mother say, when she kissed him goodby, that she expected him to be President some day? With such faith as that, conquering worlds is a very easy task, indeed. And so the Fresh man is given neither to speculation nor dreamings.- In fact, he has little leisure for either, even if he were inclined to such pleasant indulg ence. Even before he. is a Freshman, when he first alights from the steps of the car, he becomes aware of the interest that is taken in him. Groups of students (he knows they are students because he has studied catalogs of caps and gowns) crowd here and there in rivalry of effort to welcome the newcomers, and when he finds himself the center of a group of red-caps, he concludes that his fame has preceded him and he immediately adds one cubit to his stature. He has not heard of "rushers" and "rushing , or perhaps it might occur to him that. this unusual attention during the first few days is not altogether unselfish. He ~as read the c~talog of the college through twice, ~ut it gives him no hlOt of why thIS group or that group should be patting him on the back and telling him what a fine lot of fellows they are, and what an . 8 honor it will be to him to join them, and how unfortunate it will be for him if he does not do so. He may be told these things in a very casual and indifferent way, in fact, the rushers may be humility itself, but he wonders if it would not be just as proper if he were allowed to find it out for himself. He is not aware how anxious they are that he shall make no mistake, and how fe~rful they are that that is the very thing that will happen to him if he does not hearken to their pleadings. These first days are days of many questions and much work. Fitst of all, there is the question of a lodging place, and the weary chase from door to door. Needy landladies assure him that they "will be a mother to him," and independent ones haughtily give him the unnecessary information that he can "do as he pleases about taking the room." There are the high priced rooms up town, and the cheap rooms on the side street, and th~ bare rooms in the dormitory. He is neither a prince nor a pauper, and his pride compromises with his purse by taking a room in the dormitory and furnishing it rather better than he is able. The little luxury in furnishing is his revenge for being compelled to take a cheap room in a crowde~, noisy dormitory. And then getting settled in his new home! Only one who has been a Freshman knows what that means. The thousand and one little details, the quarrels with delivery men, the repeated trips to the business streets-.no wonder the ' pave ment is so thin; he wopders that there is a piece left when he reflects on the number' qf Freshmen that have made the s'ame number of trips for the last seventy-five years-he is sure the pavement is that old, at least. And when did he ever buy toweling and sheets and pillow cases and rugs and all the rest? Are chenille portieres better than leather? Should his drugget be light or dark? Are the walls light or dark? He has never thought of that. What is the size of his room? He doesn't know. Is the price high, or is it, as the clerk says, a decided bargain? Shall his bed be iron with brass trimmings, or pqlished walnut? Iron, by all means, advises the clerk; the bugs will not harbor in it as they will in wood. Should he have a rocker or a Morris or a colonial arm chair? And about it all he changes his mind so often that it is no wonder that the, salesman forgets and addresses him as "Madam." It is the first time he has ever been shopping. It seems like some sort of a prelim inary experience for the purchases for a more important day . in the future. He is half minded to purchase a crib-just to make his room look homelike. Already, college life has begun to prepare him for the • great duties of the future. . But the end, even of a Freshman's "settling," comes at last. With bruised fingers and aching back he settles himself on the couch, and, like Robinson Crusoe, surveys his new habitation with satisfaction. "Well done thou good and faithful servant, enter thou"-but what is the matter with Sir Galahad and his n'oble charger? Standing on their heads to be sure. And the curtain-it does not seem q~ite right to havt: the borders next to the casement. Then he must have been cheated in that cover lid; it falls far short of reaching from the foot to the head of the bed, although it seems plentiful enough at the sides. And then it -occurs to him that the door of his wardrobe will not open for the simple 9 reason that he has placed his bed against it. In sheer desperation he closes his eyes and rushes 'from the room. Every day the Freshman makes new discoveries. First of all, h.e finds that there are some things denied to a Freshman. He cannot ~lt in the front seats at chapel, nor in the gallery. The tennis court is his- after the others are done with it. He is not even allowed to work :.is nard as he wishes. Sixteen hours.is mere child's play, and he feels that he is being treated as a child. He knows that he is competent to deat with Philosophy 3, but he must postpone his acquaintance with Kant and Spinoza until h{s third year, and in his pique, he reads Owen Wis.., ter's Philosophy Four in private: He lets it be known that at home he is the champion of the diamond and the gridiron, and guarantees certain \ ;ctory for his college during the next four years, but for some reason his offer does not meet with the grateful acceptance he expects. He is astonished to discover how many champions there are in the Freshman class. Every other man has a recor4. Not the least of the important discoveries that the Freshman makes is, that it is not necessary' to work so hard at his studies. One of the upper class men from his own town kindly assures him, in all seri ousness, tliat he is a fool for digging in the way he does. Ponies are cheap and note books and drawings can be bought or hired. There are always a few studious fools who never learn what college is for, who can be depended upon to help one over the hard places. It is only neces sary to certify that you have neither given nor received help in the examination. I t makes the Freshman open his eyes. He has always believed honor and truthfulness too. precious to be trifled with, but they do not count in exams. It is inevitable that the Freshman should be "initiated." He has heard of these "initiations," and he realizes how irredeemably the honor of the school would be lost if he failed to "get his." If the anci~nt and . noble rite of hazing were abolished, students would certainly cease com ing to the 'institution. So he is not sitrprised when one night there appears at his door a group of stalwarts armed with canes, paddles, ropes and various ingenious devices, and clad in the regalia of the devil. It seems to him rather more serious than it had at home at a distance of two hundred miles, and he is inclined to resist, but' he doesn't. Some of the "stunts" he is called upon to perform appear childish, even ridiculous, but the e fill his audience with the greatest glee. Some things seem unnecessarily cruel and barbaric, but he is assured that it will make a man of him. It is the only cure for the pride, the "butting in," the · ','peaching" the self-importance and the hundred and one other sins of the Freshman. He is not informed just what his particular offence has been, but he is a Freshman and it is safe to assume, on general principles that he needs the treatment. And so he must suffer the indignities put upon him, and atone for the sin of being a Freshman., He knows now ;vhat must be the feelings 'of the little dog with the tin can tied to his tail. The year rolls on and the experience of the Freshman widens with the process of the suns. He passes through the great battle between 10 the Sophs and Freshies, and wears his victory with becoming modesty, or en.dures his defeat with the resignation of the martyr. He judiciously falls in love with the hobby which the professor calls his specialty, and wins his way to A and A minus. He takes his larks by night, his 'sleep by day, and his study-only he can say when. He is chivalrous to the girls, deferential to the faculty, respectful to the upper c1assmen, and subservient to the janitors and night watchman. In him the future Sophomores, J uniors~ and Seniors have their being, and to him will pass the rich heritage of the accumulated wisdom of the university. All in all, he fits so ~ccurately his own niche that it is evident that he was destined from the beginning of things to be a Freshman.
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With this issue THE MIAMI STUDENT begins its twenty I,.troductorg sixth year. The present editoral board comes to its work with a full appreciation of the standing which THE STUDENT has attained among the college journals of the state, and of the fame it has won even beyond state boundaries. It shall be their earnest endeavor to maintain the high standard set by their predecessors, that the journal may continue to merit the praise that it has received, Thus, while the editors shall be ever mindful of the traditions of the past, it is hoped that they shall not permit this conversatism to blind them to opportunities for improvement. .The co-operation of every student and <;If eery member of the faculty is. earnestly invited. THE STUDENT is, in a very particular sense, the o~gan of the stud~nts. It expresses their wishes and their will, and should reflect their dpinions on matters of interest to themselves and to the institution. Just as the university exists, not to afford positions for professors but for the good it can do those who claim its privileges, so THE STUDENT exists, not to afford positions of honor for anyone, but for the service it can' render the students. And being thus intimately the students' affair, it should' be equally their concern that it prosper. Its success or. failure will depend, in no small measure, upon the loyalty of the student body. The students have two very effective means of expressing their loyalty-by their subscriptions, and by their contributions to its columns. At the time of the last election of the editor and business Ezpl.,..tor, manager of THE STUDENT, a vote was taken recommend ing more frequent issues of the journal. In response to this petition the management made an earnest effort to provide for a semi-monthly issue. The board of ' editors were ready to do their part, :2 ~nd an abundance of interesting material was in sight to justify the . departure. But twice the present number of issues means practically twice the present cost of publication, and the prospective income of THE STUDENT does not warrant any great increase in the cost of publishing. As with all ' other magazines the income from subscriptions to THE STUDEN'l' does not pay the cost of product,ion. Periodical \ publications nowadays must depend largely upon the income from advertisements, and th<: amount received from this source is determined, to a great extent, by the circulation of the paper. Necessarily, THE STUDENT cannot have a great income from this source, although it might receive more if it were able to show a longer subscription list. We feel that this explanatiot:l is due the students in order that they may understand why their request for more frequent issues has not been. complied with, and to indicate to them how they may set about to secure the desired improvement in their college jo.urnal. Perhaps the chief gains to be derived from a more frequent publi cation of THE S'fUDENT would be in the more timeliness of the news fea tures, and in the greater number of news notes and general articles that could be published. It was not intended that THE STUDENT should de generate into a mere news and gossip sheet. The paper should always con tinue the dignified magazine character with which we are familiar, and which has endeared it to generations of students. In a college com munity of the size of ours, it can hardly be pretended that news items are of much value as 11ews. All events of any importance are usually known by all the students long before even a weekly issue could reach them. The results of a game, the report of an entertainment, changes in university rractice, etc., are common knowledge, and so when we take up our "Student" those pages are usually the last ones we read. Their chief value lies in the fact that they form a permanent record of events, which we are glad to have for future reading. The only thing that could pretend to real timeliness would be a daily college newspaper. An ideal arrangement would be a college daily devoted principally to news and announcements, and a monthly journal that should express the more serious thoughts of the student body. When one journal must combine these functions, in so far as may be possible, it gives rise to some perplexing questions ' regarding frequency of issue, relative allot ments of space, and many others.
Th. J'tacf.nt No student movement of recent years is more deserving Coancil of ardent support than that of the organization of The Student Council. Organized under a constitution which IS a marvel of adaptation and completeness, it J>ids fair to, become the long sought solution of a number of vexatious questions which have troubled alike faculty and students. All interests are represented, the plan is just to all concerned, and it is workable. It is a larger measure or self-government for the students, to deserve which they should put forth their noblest efforts towards making the work a success. It is difficult to see how the committee coufd have improved upon its work. The several interests have responded. by selecting their best men. to rep- 13 resent them in the ~ouncil. Too much.. praise cannot be accorde~ to those who have originated and carried forward this reform. We beheve that time will demonstrate that they have builded better than they knew. Next month we hope to be able to give a complete account of the movement.
UNIVERSITY NOTES. President Benton spent the greater part of the summer vacation in Europe. He sailed on the "Cedric" of the White Star line from New York to Liverpool on the twenty-eighth of July, spending a week in London and the greater part of a week in Paris. He spent most of his time in inspecting the va~ious university systems, visiting the Sorboune and the Universities of Oxford, Edinburgh, and Glasgow. Side trips were taken to Windsor Castle, Stoke Pogis, Stratford-an-Avon, Old Chester and various other points of interest. . Prof. Fred L. Hadsel has resumed his work in the university after a year's absence at Yale, where he held a fellowship in Latin and Greek. Prof. Hadsel has been elected Principal of the Academy to fill the vacancy caused by Prof. Lantis' removal to Columbus. Extensive improvements have been made about the university , buildings during the summer. Both the men's dormitories were entirely refloored and the interiors painted. All the rooms are now furnished by the university and roomers are more comfortable in the old Dorm than they have ever been before. Several changes have been made in Brice Hall to accommodate the new department of Botany and Bacteri ology. Extensive improvements have also been made in the Gymnasium to provide the young ladies with dressing rooms, and with private means of entrance to the Gymnasium floors. Work is progressing rapidly on the new heating plant. It prob· ably will be completed by the first of the year. I t is located in the southeastern part of the lower campus near Spri.ng street. Dr. and Mrs. Culler spent the summer visiting points of interest in England and Scotland. The annual Night Shirt Parade occurred on Friday night, October fifth, in spite of the rainstorm. The usual round was made, calling at Oxford College, Hepburn Hall Lewis Place, and The Western. The annual reception of the Y. M. C. A. was given in the gymna sium on the evening of September twenty-second. It was the usual infor mal reception tendered the new men at t~e beginning of each year. After an hour of general mixing and tag introductions, Mr. Morris, -President of the Association called the students to order, and after a few remarks . introduced Doctor Benton for a talk. He welcomed the new and 'old students, spoke of the good work of the Y. M. C. A., and prophesied yet better things for the future. 14 Professor Stone and Mr. Parmalee spoke encouragingly of the athletic outlook for the year. They appealed to the men to turn out for practice, and give Miami the best football team she has ever had.
After th~ speaking, a "Teutonic" lunch was served, consisting of sandwiches, apples and coffee. The University Orchestra rendered a number of excellent selections during the evening. . The total enrollment of students to date is 432, divided as follows: Seniors ...... 40 YU'niors ...... 37 Sophomores ...... 56 F.reshmen ...... 82 Special ...... 16
Liberal Arts TotaL ...... : ...... 231 Normal College ...... t •••••••••••••••••••• 105 Academy...... 96 The present Senior class is, with one exception, the largest in the history of the institution. The class of 1858 numbered 43. The Junior, Sophomore, and Freshman classes of the College of Liberal Arts have organized as follows: Junior' President ...... Taylor Borradaile Vice President ., ...... '... Roi Risinger , '. Secretary ...... Edna Unzicker Sophomore President ...... L. O. Potterf Vice President . :...... N ellie Wood Secretary '...... W. R. Timberman Freshman President ...... S. J. Daley Vice President ...... G. E. Tebbs Secretary ...... M. G. Haverfield
LIBERAL ARTS CLUB. The work of the Liberal Arts Club has begun with much real earn estness on the part of both officers and members. The staff of officers for the school year is as follows: Addie H. Elliott, President; Mary B~lle Marti~, Vice President; Armitlta Baughman, Secretary; Reigh Brandenberg, Treasurer, and Gertrude Litt, Sergeant-at-Arms. The opening meeting was held October 5, 1906 in the parlors of Hepburn Hall Dr. Benton gave us an informal talk on his trip abroad, which we all enjoyed very much. As guests we were privileged to wel come Mrs. S. R. Williams, Dean Hamilton and Misses Bishop and McSurely. 15 ERODELPHIAN. At the first meeting of the term, which was well attended, the fol lowing officers were elected: President, Taylor Borradaile; Vice Presi dent, Robert Meeks; Chaplain, Murray Sheehan; Secretary, H. D. Fitz gerald; Treasurer, E. F. Colbor~; Critic, R. E. Pye; Sergeant-at-Arms, C. ]. Dunzweiler. Th~se officers will no doubt discharge their respon sibilities in such a manner as to promote the best" interests of Old Ero delphian, an institution which has in it the possibilites of meaning as much to those who interest themselves in its activities as any phase of the college man's work, whether it be that in the class room or outside. At the second meeting, after the new officers had been installed, and the President had deli vered his inaugural address, Prof. Upham gave a splendid talk to the society, which had for its guests on this occasion the members of Miami Union. We trust that we may have the pleasure of frequent visits from Prof. Upham. The society extends a cordial invitation to students new and old,. who are interested in literary work, in debate, in oratory, and in parlia mentary law to attend these meetings which are held every Friday even-· ing at 7:30 in the Erodelphian Hall on the third floor of the Main build ing. MIAMI UNION. The year has opened with very bright prospects for good work ill the Miami Union Literary Society. All meetings thus far have had a good ,attendance. At the first meeting the organization for the fall term was effected as follows: President, A. R. Mead; Vice President, H. C. Brill; Secretary, C. V. Zimmerman; Critic.! H. R. Crauder; Treasurer, G. C. Shaffer; Sergeant-at-Arms, F. A. Reidel. A goodly number of new names have already been added to our membership roll. Visitors are welcome at any and all of our meetings. The men of the University are urged to grasp the opportunity for self-development by joining with us in the work of the society.
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The annual reception for men was hel~ on Friday, September twenty-first, in the Gymnasium. N early every man in school was there and all enjoyed a good time; a spirit of good fellowship pervaded the whole affair. . Three regular Sunday meetings have been held, and all have been well attended. The opening meeting of the year was led by J. B. Tarney of Chicago, Superintendent of the Student Department of the Y. M. C. A. of that city. J!is talk was very strong and impressive, dealing with the importance of every act of our lives in the building of character. His remarks were simple and to the point. The second meeting of the year was addressed by Dr. E. C. Hayes on the subject of the Bible. The reasons why men should study the Bfble were strongly set forth. Opportunity was given at the close of the meet- 16 ing to enroll in one of the Y. M. C: A. Bible classes. The following courses were announced: 1. HStudies in Life and Works of Jesus"-W. D. Murray. (This course is meant for men who have had but little Bible study, for Preparatory students particularly.) Leader-Arthur Parmelee. 2. "Studies in Life of Christ"-Bosworth. (Meant primarily for Freshmen in college;' a more advanced study than the first year study.) Leader-A. R. Mead. 3. "Studies in Acts and Epistles of Paul"-Bosworth. (Meant for Sophomores or for men who have had a course In the Life of Christ.) Leader-Dr. W. A. Eckles. 4 .. "Studies in the Teachings of J esus"-Bosworth. (Open to Juniors and Seniors, and to men who have had the foregoing courses.) Leader-Arthur Parmelee. Enrollment for these classes is still going on; those w,ishing to join will please see the leader of the class preferred. The third meeting of the year was led by Prof. Upham; the attend ance was very good and all felt well repaid for coming out, as the remarks made by Prof. Upham were of the sort that appeal to men who have ideals -and ambitiot:\s. Prof. Upham graduated from Miami only IQ few years ago and temembers what conditions obtain in student life, and so 'his t remarks were straight to the point. The association intends to organize some classes in the study of missions in a week or two; courses will be announced later. Y. W. C. A. Miami Y. W. C. A. was well represented at the Y. W. C. A. Sum mer Conference held at Lake Winona, Ind., August thirty-first to Sep tember tenth, our delegation holding third place in size ' among delega tions from seven different states. The Miami girls who occupied "BCl'ldwin" cottage were Blanche Greene, Mabel Briney, Bertha Miller, Gretchen Keener, Ethelwyn Por ter, Claire Forrey, Gertrude Lett, Mary Belle Martin, Mildred Law, Edith Huston, Mary Hossfeld, Florence Carter and Pearl Mahaffey, while Frances Lewis and Edna Robinson visited at the cottage. On "College Day" at the Conference the stunt of the Ohio girls was the crowning of our new State Secretary, Miss Inez Kinney, with a crown of goldenrod, while a song, written for the occasion, was sung. The reception for the new girls was held in the parlors of Hepburn . Hall Friday evening, September twenty-first. Each of the cabinet girls was introduced, and each told something of the work of her department. The opening meeting of the year,- a beautiful, impressive service, was led by the president, Blanche Greene. Her subject was "Keeping the Balance." The meeting on September thirty was led by · Marjorie Grant, when the work of the Bible Study Committee was presented. The mission study work was presep.ted October seventh in a meet ing led by Freda Bachman, Chairman o~ the Missionary Committee. 17 Prof. Marshall B. Davis will arrive in January, and will have charge of the new department of Elementary Agriculture. Prof. Davis has had wide experience in his work, having taught in the Los Angeles State Normal School, and later carried on investigation and agricultural experiments for the California State University and the State Agricul tural Department.
ATHIJETIOS. The season of 1906 starts with athletics, as usual,. hanging in the balance. It is true that there is much good material left from last season, and it. is to this material that Miami must look for her athletes for the ensuing year. For several years our university has been laboring against fate for athletic honors, and it seems that this year will again see Miami in her fit place among the best. But there is a 'new element of trouble this year in the rules drawn up last spring by the Ohio College Association. According to these rules, we will not be allowed to play Freshmen on any team, and this, in itself, is a big objection, for at present Miami is not large enough to put a winning team on the field without playing at least a few new men. The football team commences its work on the gridiron with a large squad of old men, and the prospects for a winning team haven't been brighter in years. . The five center men on the line are products of former years' train ing at Miami, and it is safe to say that they can more than hold their own with any line they will meet in their games this season. But it is not so much towards the center men that Coach Parmelee is directing his endeavors as it is towards the end men and backs. Radcliffe of last year's squad again appeared on the field and filled the position of right half-back. His work in the first game has proven his ability to retain his position. Then Stevenson and Jones appeared for the positions of full-back and left half, respectively, and the coach ceased to worry about his back field, for it seemed "that that question was settled satisfactorily for 1906. The ends were next to attract attention, and some very good men have appeared tc? contest for the positions. It narrowed down until Garrod, Blythe ~nd Markley appeared to be the men and so Captain Rupert decided to play Garrod and Blythe the first game, and give Markley a show the next game. . Both men put up a great game against Georgetown and demon strated their football ability. However, Blythe has since been ruled out on account of being a Freshman, and .it will be up to Markley to take that position.
MIAMI VS. GEORGETOWN. Georgetown again went down to defeat before the Miami eleven, by the decisive score of 16 to O. The" game was interesting throughout, although there were no particularly star plays. Line bucks and ntns 18 were the essential features and every effort on the part of Miami :resulted in several yards gain-only in very few instances was she forced .to punt. On the other hand, the Georgetown backs could do nothing with the stone wall line and they repeatedly attempted to kick in order "to pull themselves out of the hole, but this as a rule ended in partial f' if not complete failure, and they were continually forced back toward their goal. At no time did they make more than three J..ards' gaia. The showing of Miami on the gridiron was, as a whole, good. The ~oach is expecting a winning team for the entire season. Line up: Booth ...... Center Johnston ...... Right Guard Smith ...... Left Guard Coffman ...... Right Tackle Rupert (Captain) ...... Left Tackle Blythe ...... '.' ...... Right End Garrod ...... Left End Stephenson ...... Fullback Radcliffe ...... ! •••••••• Right Half Jones ...... Left Half Schlenk ...... Quarter Back Touchdowns, Stevenson, Jones and Radcliffe. Goal kicked by Johnston. Music by the Universit~ Band. Attendance, 500.
- SCHEDULE OF GAMES OF SEASON, 1906.
Sept. 29...... Georgetown ...... ~ .. At Oxford Oct. 6...... Open ...... ; .. . Oct. 13 ...... University of Cincinnati ~ ...... At Cincinnati Oct. 20 ...... Wittenberg ...... At Oxford Oct. 27."...... Central University ...... At Danville Nov. 3 ...... Marietta ...... At Oxford Nov. 10 ...... Open ...... Nov. 17 ...... Earlham ...... At Richmond Nov. 24 ...... De Pauw ...... At Greencastle Nov. 29...... Marshall ...... At Huntington
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DELTA KAPPA EPSILON. Brother F. C. VVilliams, 06, is attending Cincinnati Law SchooL Brother Shinkle, 06, is attending Miami Medical Schools at Cincinnati. Brother Kaye, '06, is studying and practicing law at Calmar,. Iowa. Brother unnamaker, '06, who is attending medical college at Johns. Hopkins this year, paid Kappa a brief visit recently. Brother Bing, 06 is now identified with the Selby Shoe Co., of Portsmouth, Ohio. Brothers Coulter, Shinkle Williams, Bing, Scudder and Ferguson have recently visited Kappa Chapter. Brother "Brandenburg has the department of history in Steele High School Dayton Ohio. Brother pham '97, has accepted a position as Associate Professor of En~li h at Miami. Our new fraternity house is nearing completion. Brother Boddin is at Harvard this year.
PHI DELTA THETA. ;-, ine men of last vear's chapter returned to 1" ami this fall: Broth ers Jennings. Le lie Gee, Hartle Risinger, \\ m. Smith. Steohenson~ B )erstler Lloyd and Leist. 20 Brother Solon Carter of De Pauw will also be with us at Miami this year. Brothers Barnett and Southwick are attending Case Scientific School at Cleveland, Ohio. Brother DeMand is employed at engineering work in Milwaukee, Wis., and Brother Hildeboldt in Cincinnati, O. The pledge men returning to Miami are Stanley Daly, Arthur Gee, and John Gamble. The following new men are wearing the white and blue: Earl Smith, Dayton, 0 . ; Frederick E. Stiles, Grand Rapids, Mich.; Harold Hitchcock, Chicago, Ill. ; Campbell Johnson, Cincinnati, 0.; Garfield Gilgour, Cincinnati, 0.; Harvey Magil, Eaton, 0., and Doremus Piercy, Columbus, O. Brother Schell of Hamilton, 0 ., spent several days with the chap- ter last week. . I Alfred W elliver, pledged by Ohio Chapter, is attending Ohio State University this year. Brother P atten of De P auw spent Sunday, October seventh, at Miami. . Word was received from Brother DeMand stating that he will prob- ably be in school after Christmas. Many of the brothers are planning to go to \Vashington during Thanksgiving to attend the Annual Phi Delta Theta convention.
SIGMA CHI. Alpha is comfortably located in her new home on High street, where the chapter is at home to all her frIends. W e began the year with thirteen active men and three pledges from last year. The new men who are wearing the blue and gold are: Messrs. Fleming, Elliott, Filer, Taylor, Cussenborder, Michael, Munns an'd W hite. W e' are glad to have Brother W arner with us again after an absence of two years. Brother B. F. Riese, '06, has a position as chemist with Procter & Gamble of Cincinnati. . Brother Glenn, '06, is attending the Miami Medical College in Cin cinnati. Brother J. B. Tarney, Y. M. C. A. Secretary for Chicago, visited the chapter recently. Brother Tarney is a Sig from Indiana State Uni versity at Bloomington. Brother H. H. Eidemiller, ex-07, is attending law school at Ohio Stat~ University. Brother Egbert of Alpha Gamma Chapter at O. S. V., visited us during the first. week of school. Brother ·Stitt, ex-08, has entered the Cincinnati Medical College. The alumni of the chapter held a reunion here on Saturday, Sep tember twenty-ninth. We were glad also to welcome brothers from several other chapters. The active chapter gave a banquet at Hepburn 2! Hall in the evening to the visiting brothers, after which we repaired to the chapter house and enjoyed a general good time until a late hour. Those present at the banquet besides the active chapter and pledges, were: Brothers Ferris, McAvoy, Crisler, Kline, Evans, Reeder, Barrere, Munns, Fenton, Campbell, Gerber, Stubbs, McSurely, Robinson, Riese, Joyce, Egbert, Starlin, Lang, Parmelee, Hunt, Fogarty, Fisher and Stitt.
PHI TAU. Seven of last year's active chapter returned at the opening of school this year. On Friday evening, September twenty-eighth, Mary Belle Martin, Mary McSurely, Arminta Baughman, Florence Kerr, Majocie Grant, Daisy Minnich, Angeline Haworth, Helen Daniels and Lorena Beard were initiated into Phi Tau. Following the initiation a banquet was served in Hepburn Hall Ethel Goff, '05, Hildegarde Ballauf, '06, Lydia Wilgus, '04, Helen Howell, '04, Irma Fenton, '05, Emily Hochstrasser, '05 and Vema How land, ex-09, visited the chapter September twenty-eighth to thirtieth. Misses Kerr, Grant, McSurely, Baughman, Daniels and Beard spent Saturday, October sixth, in Cincinnati, the guests of Miss Marie Hirst. Hildegarde Ballauf, '06, visited us the first week of school. Arminta Baughman was in Greensburg, Ind., October third and fourth, attending the wedding of Miss Capitolia Meek. Bertha Miller and Grace Glasgow were in Hamilton, October sixth. Ethelwyn Porter, '06, Mary Belle Martin, Bertha Miller and Gret chen Keener report a very enjoyable ten days at the Y. W. C. A. confer ence at Winona Lake, Ind., August thirty-first to September eleventh. The sorority room is very pleasantly located this year at Mr. G. A. McSurely's on Walnut street.
DELTA RHO. r The following eight men of last year's chapter have returned for the coming year: F. S. Todd, Frank Dilley, Omen K. Boring, Clarence E. Pattison, H9race Ballinger, Lewis Rupert, Carl Shafer and J. S. Rodabaugh. , J. M. Gries was awarded a fellowship- in the department of Eco no'mics and Sociology in the University of Wisconsin. He is working for the Ph.D, degree in that university. M. D. Liming has accepted a position in Todd Seminary at W ood stock, 111., as instructor in history. C. D. Walden has been re-employed as superintendent of schools at Ludlow, Kentucky, Lewis Rupert was elected captain of the football team for the sea- son of 1906-7. James Cassil and R. C. Cloe 'are attending Kenyon College. . Ray Moomaw has been employed as teacher in Feljardo, Porto Rico . .1. M. Gries made the chapter a short visit before leaving for Wis- consin. . ,~ 22 NORMATJ NOTES.
The Freshman class of the Normal College now numbers SS; the Sophomore 'class, 27. On Saturday, October ·thirteenth, Miss Logan attended the Teach ers' Association of Green, Fayette, Highland and Ross Counties, held at Sabina, O. . The Normal College .has been visited during the past month by Miss Lydia Wilgus of Franklin, Miss Laura Beals of Miamisburg, and Miss Emily Hochstrasser of Price Hill, Cincinnati. All are meeting with great success in their work as teachers. Very pleasant letters have been received from Miss Myrtle Palmer, who is teaching the first grade at Van Wert, and from Miss Ernstine Roudebush, of Farmersburg, . Miss Logan has received a delightful letter from Miss Myrtie McConnaughey of the class of '06, who .is teaching in Porto Rico.
I Mrs. Richard will lecture before the Crawford County Teachers' . Institute November third. A course in Observation and Practice in the Township Schools is to be offered to the students of the Township Teachers' Course. Miss Logan's last week of Institute work was spent in Springfield, 0., at the City Teachers' Institute. ' Her work was gteatly enjoyed by all the teachers. Prof. Feeney, as Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Southwestern Ohio Teachers' Association, has arranged an excellent program for the meeting to be held at Hamilton, October twenty-seventh. The English papers gave pleasing comments on Prof. Hoke's paper, . given before the British Association at Oxford, England, during the summer.
The Pier~an Literary Society held its first meeting Friday evening, September twenty-eighth, and had as its guests all the girls of the Nor mal College. Prof. Feeney gave an interesting talk, and Prof. Burke delighted all by his singing. . After the program, the society adjourned for a pleasant social hour. . Dr. Boone on October seventeenth will open a series of lectures to be given before the Normal College. Prof. Whitcomb of the Manual Training Department is arranging Saturday classes for the teachers in and about Oxford. Miss Isabelle McMillan is teaching Manual Training in the Indian Normal School at San Tee, Neb. 23 LOCALS. Skid. A "Prep" asked if the real Dr. I Can'd. Dippy's "Retreat" wasn't near Oxford, Hep, Hep, Hepburn Hall. 0 ., sophistry. Miami's Paradox, "K in g's a Extract from the "Sneer that made Queen." H. M. N. famous." -"The manager of this bum minstrel show has requested Gordon, sans m 0 u s t a c h e--has changed his disguise...... yes, Dean Cox, yes ..... "Why, you horrid thing; you know It can't be said that the Dekes I don't wear a blue hair ribbon." haven't kept open house lately. Society note~Vergil is again in our A dapper individual wearing glasses midst and will continue his social and a studious expression knocked and literary career. timidly at Griner's and said: "Beg Although lots of the Freshies pardon, but may I see the steward blamed the proverbial "midnight oil" ess,"-Dr. Munns says he will soon for being late to class a certain morn be convalescent. ing, the Sophs know they painted the A Freshie was seen wearing one of sidewalks exclusively in water color. the glass push pins from the bulletin Billy Keen's Indian won't stay on board as a collar button. the reservation. A "Prep" was looking at the Sig Bruce Lloyd i's complaining of ma Chi's Greek letters on It heir house Harsh treatment from Greenville. and asked: uWhat"s that 'ere M After the flag rush Dr. Hayes has turned sideways and that X mean?" decided to lecture on "My Personal 0, Sop olio, where is thy lustre, now? Difficulties with the Lard Industry." "My father's the richest man in Notice on the bulletin boara: Miss Georgetown." Robinson'S sketch class will meet at 11:30 p. m. Probably a shadow class. A Freshman slipped in the N ~rth Buster Brown: uShe was reading Dorm Hall, Lady Macbeth and I had the part of The floors were smooth and the Mr. Macbeth. Freshie was tall. 24 To Dr. Munn's-a "hurry up" call, Prof. Phelan (arguin" a point in Poor boy, he'd broken his - In History V): "1 don't believe I ever gersoll. underslood that to be just the case." Bowman: "Well, perhaps . you're From Pickerel's speech in the Freshman class it is supposed that ti~ht." he is pledged to the "so-called" Beta Bill Sheider was in Lockland Sun Alpha Rho Betas. day, September thirtieth. Lockland "Fat" Douglass is lecturing in the and Loveland sound the same to Bill. east on "How to Grow Thinj" or In view of the fact that some of "What Newbors' Herpicide Did for the upper classmen attracted too much Me." personal attention by rootin~ for and Oh, I'm so glad she has washed that coaching the Freshmen and Sopho chafing dish." mores in the scrimmage, it has been Oakley Kerr-"Oh yes, I know a officially agreed to put a clause in 'bunch' of swell College girls. There next year's rules forbidding any such 1S Miss Fetterly and--Miss Fetter act, or the intention of any such act, ly and Miss Fe--'scuse me a min on the part of anyone but those actu ute." ally engaged in the contest. Viola_ Benke reported to Marshall Ober tion of said rule will be punished by holtz the loss of a hat-in chapel. initiation into the "Gobblers." "You'll have to talk a little louder, In a lull in proceedings Winkleman I'm near sighted." left the pole to finish his toilet, sad One of the "Shinklets" isn't back to relate the Sophs heard of it, and this year. nailed him to the Dorm. "Fatty" Black (in the postoffice j) Dokter Powel uv Miama Univer "I want to get a locker." city has deklared himself tu be so N ext year the flag rush will con much in favor uv the nu orthografyaz sist of a ping-pong contest followed as to sa that the old method uv spell ,by a stirring round of "kiss the pil- ' ing was al noncence. However, it iz low." tu be noted that ther r stH sum mem The "night shirt"· parade will doubt bers uv our beloved faculty that hav less partake of the solemnity of a Chinese funeral if several of the par- . not formaly and openly rekognized ticipants have their way next year. Ruzevelt's matrimoneal policy az the No, the cultivator of horticulture, remidy for ceclusiveness, timidity, floriculture and vigorous manhood has faling hare and uther batcheler ale flown to pastures new. ments. "Miss Keener, this is Mr. Daley Daly did not need to call for volun talking"-bang. . teers on the Flag Committee. J. B. Tarney in his talk to the me.n Dean Hepburn would have it un said that he understood Miami men derstood that gentlemen are supposed "to be above certain things." Well to remove their hats in class. that statement without a doubt was sincere, but if Hank had uttered it Did you notice in the Mayor June there is a probability that he would issue, the account of the last election have been accused of looking for un of The Student officers? paid subscriptions.
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