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Bridgewater College BC Digital Commons College Life College Publications 11-1911 Volume 12 Number 5 | November 1911 Bridgewater College Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.bridgewater.edu/college_life Recommended Citation Bridgewater College, "Volume 12 Number 5 | November 1911" (1911). College Life. 51. https://digitalcommons.bridgewater.edu/college_life/51 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the College Publications at BC Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in College Life by an authorized administrator of BC Digital Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. B IDGE ATER C LLEGE FACULTY FOR 1911=12. "VVe nn,sr educate, ive must educate. "-Beecher. JOHN S. FLORY, A. M., Ph. D., President. S. MARIE MYERS. B. Lit., Mt. Morris College; B. A. an_d M._ A., B�idgew�ter Graduate student of Howard L. Benson; Teacher of Piano Bridgewater, Virginia, November, 1911, No. 5. College; Student, Ohio Northern Urnve�·s1!y; Assistant 111 Maryland Collegiate Institute; Student, Peabody ' Englist, Literature, University of V1rg1111a; Ph. D., Conservatory of Music. of nghsh and University of Virginia; Professor � Piano. Opening Day, German and vice-president of Bndgewater Prof. C. W. Roller sang a solo which was well College; Author. CHARLES W. RONK, B. When Wednesday morning dawned on College received. English Language and Literature. Student, Mount Morris College ; Graduate, ill a new atrposphere spread over the campus President Flory presided and concluded the JOHN C. MYERS, B. A., M. A. College. ot wholly different from that of years gone by. meeting with a few appropriate remarks, Bookkeeping and Commercial Law. B. A. and M.A., Bridgewater College; Graduate student at arly in the day activities began and students O<::::>O University of Virginia, two years; Instructor an� Pro ere arriving at all hours. The teachers who PEARLE Geological Discoveries. fessor in Bridgewater College; Secretary of Boa1d of E. SKEGGS. ad charge of the registration of students were Managers, Bridgewater College. To the many interesting geological discoveries Graduate, National B11siness College, Roanoke. ept busy matriculating all forenoon, and by Mathematics and Chemistry. Shorthand and Typewriting-. of the Valley of Virginia, there has lately been oon a most encouraging number of promising added one of unusual occurrence in this part ALLAN B. BICKNELL, A. M., Ph. D. of the MRS. REBECCA BOWMAN. oung people had reported at the office for en country. A. B. and A. M., Brown University ; Instru�tor _in Latin, ollment. Brown University ; Ph.D., Brown Umvers1ty; Student, Special Art School, Harrisonburg; Special Student, Thru the interests and efforts of the geological Professor of Latin, 'vVest Jersey Academy; Miss Jessie Fnnklwuser, Harrisonburg. In the afternoon the stude11ts,faculty and n.1any department of the college, four exposures of vol Professor of Languages, Wenonah Painting and Drawing. riends of the College assembled in chapel for the canic rock have been discovered and explored. Military Academy. rst time during the College year. Two promi Mbdern Languages. MICHAEL A. GOOD. They are rocks which, while in a molten state ent alumni had been secured to deliver addresses were intruded into narrow cracks across the beds JOHN M. COFFMAN, B. A. Student, Washington and Lee University ; Professor n the occasion of the opening of the thirty-first Elizabethtown Colleg·e. of sedimentary rocks. The rock is black, crystal Princip l High School, ssion, former Professor Justus B. Ciine, A. M., B. A., Bridgewater College ; � , NormR.l Work and Field Representation. line, and heavy, and weathers to a dull red color, Jennings, La., and Welsh, La., Prmc1pal, \VeRt f Stuarts Draft and Dr. John VV. '1/Va y land of the Central Academy. strikingly in contrast with the formation which English and Physics. EMMA C. GLICK. tate Normal School at Harrisonburg. The au it penetrates. Student, Bridgewater College; Student, Columbia ience suffered a disappointment when it was Heretofore, only three such formations have WILLIAM T. SANGER, B. A., M. A. of Expression, Chicago. arned that Mr. Cline, owing to an important been known to exist in this part of the state. B. A., B ridgewater College; M. A._, Indiana Univ�rsity; Elocution and Physical Culture. usiness engagement, could not be present. Graduate student, Columbia University, summer sess10n. The largest of these is near Doe Hill where the Professor Wayland, as usual ) gave a discourse outcrop is twenty feet History and Philosophy. ERNEST M. WAMPLER, B. E. wide but has been traced f unusual interest and value. He chose as his only a few yards. There are two more small SAMUEL N. McCANN, B. E. B. E., Bridgewater College; Special Student of Dr, bject ''The House on the Mountain.'' He and Professor Bates, Chicago. outcrops in the same region. B.E., Juniata College; S�udent, ?0;1thern J:3aptist '_l'heologicai'_ Physical Education. arrated a story of two young brothers who, The fonr lately discovered dikes are between Seminary; Evangehst ; M1ss10nary 111 Indrn nme any years ago, erected a house on the northern years; Author. five an<l seven miles south of Bridgewater. The Biblical Literature and Theology. VIDA E. MILLER. nd of Massanutten Mountain. They were pious first is of an acid character and extends about St11dent, Bridgewater College; Student, University of Virgini en and their dwelling was a house of devotion and two miles. Near the east end it separates into B. A., M. A. FRANK J. WRIGHT, Snmrner School. editation far removed from the busy occupations two parts which diverge at a sma]l angle and B. A., Bridgewater College; Graduate Stu<l_en�, . University Assistant in Primary Branches. f the people in the valley below. Unfortunately soon disappear. Two hundred yards south of of Virginia; M.A., University of Vll'gmrn. e quiet musings of the inmates were suddenly Biology and Agriculture. this and parallel to it is a basic dike of much Geology, HARRY NEWTON GLICK, B. E. roken into by a company of government officials Laborn tory Physics. greater length. It extends one mile farther east EDWARD C. BIXLER, A. M., Ph. D. ho suspected these men of manufacturing whis and about five miles farther west than the former. A. B. and A. M., Western Maryland College; Graduate CHARLES E . SHULL. ey tmlawfnlly. Their house was pulled down Owing to the peculiar relations which these dikes Student, Johns Hopkins University; Profess01: of �an Laboratory Chemistry. nd was never rebuilt .but because of its ex bear to each other, they are called complemen o-trages Elizabethtown College; Ph. D., U111vers1ty eme prominence the point was resorted to by "' of Pennsylvania ; formerly president of Man tary. The basic dike extends from two miles MARY AGNES SHIPMAN, B. E. pies during the Civil VVar, while today the Peak chester College. Assistant in English. east of Milnesville to some distance west of Sang Ancient Languages. an object of travel for tourists. Thus it is that ersville. Two miles farther south is another SIDNEY L. BOWMAN, is elevated spot has been sought by three differ basic dike parallel to the former and ten miles CHARLES WILLIAM ROLLER. Secretary and Treasurer. t types of visitors with as many different pur- long, which crosses the western side of the valley C?ollege; Graduate in Music Teachers' Course, Bri�gewater oses. at Mt. Solon. To the south three hundred and Professor of Music, Maryland Collegiate Institute; MRS. CHARLES W. RONK. oo<ly nstitute, and Dr. Wayland then went on to show the value eighty-five yards, it Student, Peabody Institute, � � Matron. also has a complementary Oberlin Conservatory of Music ; Pnvate student f exalted vision, declaring that men of vision dike of about a mile and a quarter in length. of D. A. Clippinger and Fred. W. Root, re s All Chorus, Harmony and Organ. FRED P. MYERS, B. E. orely needed in every line of modern activity. these formations vary from ten to fifty feet Assistant Librarian. Where there is no vision people perish'' comes in width. WILLIAM Z. FLETCHER. us from high authority. Tennyson prophesied Until the last year and a half, these dikes were Y. Co1;1rse, HOWARD LEE ALI,E at the day would come when airships ,von1d be not known to exist as such. In 1910, H.N.Glick, Student, Verda College; Graduate ii: Music Teachers' Assistant Librarian. Bridgewater Course; Student, Wilcox Harmony Studio, ed. How true is this bit of prophetic ·vision? while pursuing a course in geology at the College, Fred W. Root's Voice Studio and Roanoke School of Music. J. PRICE BOWMAN. he speaker also referred to the Hebrew prophets suggested the existence of a dike on his father's Voice and Violin. Assistant Librarian. ho frequently sought the mountain top:o for farm, which, on investigation, was found to be of spiration and elevated thought. Even Christ volcanic character. During the past summer, state ce nded to the heights for meditation. geologist Dr.Watson of the University of Virginia 1 2 COLLEGE LIFE COLLEGE LIFE 3 assistant state geologist, Prof. J. H. Cline, and ings needed at Bulsaf as hdnies for rlatJ.ve shi• This Session. Athletics. Prof. F. Wright head of this department at dertts with families, The next day the student J. This year the College is fortunate in having he College, visited the sttpposed dike and found body also pledged itself for ah additionai The outlook for the present session was good, � bttiit1, someone to direct the various athletic interests. 1t one of rare and peculiar interest. They ex ing for the some purpose. It seems evident but no safe prediction before the opening could that Mr. E. M. ·wampler, who has had special work in plored it a short distance and-·took with them when real conditions in the field are well kno be made.