Whittier College Wardman Library Poet Commons Acropolis (Yearbook) Archives and Special Collections 1929 1929 Acropolis Whittier College Follow this and additional works at: https://poetcommons.whittier.edu/acropolis Recommended Citation Whittier College, "1929 Acropolis" (1929). Acropolis (Yearbook). 98. https://poetcommons.whittier.edu/acropolis/98 This Yearbook is brought to you for free and open access by the Archives and Special Collections at Poet Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Acropolis (Yearbook) by an authorized administrator of Poet Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. EX LII3RLJ' Qo)lpyPll(GllWr -I I ([J) /...'(9) 0 HAROLD DYER, Editor DWIGHT WILLIAMS, Bus. Mgr. PUBLISHED BY THE JUNIOR CLASS OF WHITTIER COLLEGE To represent the true excellence of Whittier •• • that is the aimof the 1929 Acropolis Toutpnts ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES ATHLETIC ABSURDITY MRS. HERBERT HOOVER To Mrs. Herbert Hoover, in appreciation of the honor she accoideci Whittier College, we dedicate this book. —CLASS OF 1930. WHITTIER COLLEGE had its beginning in 1891 as a little Friends academy. But even as early as 1887 the idea of an educational institution had become the dream of several public-spirited Friends. They obtained a grant of land, known as Reservoir Hill, and plans were drawn up for several buildings. But due to lack of funds, the pro- ject failed. It was not abandoned however, and on Sep- tember 23, 1891, the academy was opened on east Philadelphia street. There were two fine teachers, John Chawner and William Coffin, who offered their services to the new enterprise. The first student body had only thirteen members. The growth of the school was very slow, but, in 1893 the student body numbered one hundred and ten. The school was at this time given a gift of fourteen acres, part of the present campus, by Washington Hadley. In 1901 under the able leadership of Charles Tebbetts the academy became a college. The preparatory work was retained, however, for several years as a part of the College curriculum. In 1903 Whittier College gave its first degrees. In 1907 President Tebbetts resigned and Thomas Newlin became the head of the college. With President Newlin origin- ated the slogan "Greater Whittier College." He at once began a campaign for more money and more buildings. The old Girls Dormitory, now the library, was built in 1910. In 1915 Absalom Rosenberger succeeded Dr. Newlin as president. He was president of the college through the difficult years of the World War. For three years work was practically at a standstill. Eighty-four men left the campus to fight for America. Two of them gave their lives in service. In 1918 Harry M. Wright became president. "Greater Whittier College" became the goal of the college community and the town of Whittier. Naylor Hall, built in 1918, was the cornerstone on which the enlarged institution was to be founded. In 1924, with the coming of Walter F. Dexter, "Greater Whittier College" began to be a fact instead of merely a goal. The growth of the college in the last few years has been phenomenal. In 1924-25 Aubrey Wardman presented Whittier with two new buildings, a gym- nasium and a men's dormitory. 1927-28 was a year of great achievement. Whittier was at last recognized by the Association of American Universities and by the State University of California. The State Board of Education conferred its approval upon the teach- er's training course of the college. Platner Hall, a dormitory for women, was built in 1928. Whittier has not ceased advancing. Every year sees greater growth in the student body, the faculty, and the campus. The college is even now gaining promi- nence, and in a few years will be one of the most out- standing of American universities and colleges. •.•,- .1fII-L. ;.i'•ri.. Ic . Faculty -ifA cropolis'- WALTER FRIAR DEXTER President Ed. D., Harvard University A.M., Columbia University Page Sixteen -€f A cro P lis}- PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE WHITTIER COLLEGE is organized and maintained for the purpose of creat- ive, Christian thinking. It is the means through which knowledge in a formal way is passed from one generation to another. It stands in mod- ern life as an expression of good-will, for it is the product of the efforts of pioneers who were interested only in the best possible adjustment between the individual and society. The Junior Class, through the medium of the Acropolis, has the privilege of carrying the story of this year's work, which, in the final analysis, has proved to be one in which a large amount of purposeful thinking has been done. This accomplishment is one of the highest when considered in terms of social progress. I am sure that every member of the college community will appreciate this volume of the Acropolis. The class is to be congratulated upon its production. Page Seventeen A crop o JOSEPH HERSHEL COFFIN Dean and Professor of Philosophy ES., Penn College; Ph.D., Cornell University Page Eighteen -f A cro p o 1 is DEAN'S MESSAGE DISTINCTIVENESS is, in these days, one of the hardest qualities to achieve. Houses, automobiles, radios, jewelry and breakfast foods are each manu- factured after its kind upon a single pattern. So, too, many of our ideas and mental attitudes are fashioned after some pattern or other. Mencheri and Babson, for example, might represent extremes in the possibilities of idea patterns. In the field of education, too, we are subject to the same tendency to become so standardized as to be precisely like everybody else. Each institution tends to measure itself by comparison with other institutions rather than in terms of actual achievement in making personality in the lives of its students. At Whittier College those in charge have undertaken to measure the institution and its members by the measuring rod of idealism. Our ques- tion is: "What is right?" rather than, "What is customary?" Our desire is to achieve distinctiveness in scholarship, in teaching-content, in method, in administration, and in moral tone. This is part of what we have meant by "The Whittier Idea." To be sold on the principle of making and maintaining Whittier College a distinctive institution is the essence of loyalty to the college. In these days of mass production in the field of education, distinctiveness would seem to be one reason, if not the only one, for maintaining a small college. So those who sponsor Whittier College are seeking faculty mem- bers and students who are sufficiently independent to stand for procedures which may sometimes be unconventional but which express the kind of educational philosophy that animates our efforts. Loyalty to those things for which this philosophy stands is the lead- ing educational virtue to which any of our members can aspire. Page Nineteen A ciofols -- ALMA M. ANDERSON Professor of Spanish A. B. Colorado College A. M. Univ. of California HERBERT E. HARRIS Professor of English A. B. Penn College A. M. Penn College PAUL S. SMITH Professor of History A. B. Eariham College A. M., Ph.D. Univ. of Wisconsin MARY A. HILL Professor of English A. B. Vassar Ph.D. Stanford CLARENCE G. McLN Professor of Religion A. B. Penn College A. M. Univ. of Chicago EMILY KNOX Instructor in Art A. B. Whittier MARCUS SKARSTEDT Professor of Mathematics A.B., M. A., Augustana College B.L. S. Univ. of Illinois M. S. Univ. of Iowa Ph.D. Univ. of California Page Twenty -fA cr0 P lis}- JOHN R. WILKE Professor of Classical Language A.B. Center College A.M., B.D. Princeton ANNA L. TOMLINSON Librarian A.B., Whittier College JANE W. McKEE Director of Teaching and Methods A.B., A.M., U. S. C. HARRIET HENDERSON Instructor in Music B.A., Simpson College CARL E. STREM Professor of Physics A.B. Whittier College M.S., U. S..C. ESTHER C. ANDREWS Professor of Languages A.B., Whittier College A.M., Stanford Univ. MAY GIBSON SHUCK Professor of English A.B., Univ. of Iowa A.M., Univ. of Iowa Page Twenty-one --0A c r o p o Ii s HOWARD L. HOCKETT Professor of Voice B.S., Penn College JOSEPH T. WILLIAMS Professor of Education A.B., Washington Univ. A.M., Columbia Univ. EUGENE KNOX Instructor in Public Speaking M.A., College of Puget Sound GUSTAF E. OSTROM Professor of Chemistry A.B., M.S., Augustana College VERA BARSTOW Instructor in Violin MARJORIE HOYER Instructor in Mathematics B.S., Central State Teachers College, Okla. ARTHUR HITCHCOCK Professor of Piano B.M., Univ. of Rochester Page Twenty-two -€f A c V o p o 11 s ARTHUR WATSON Professor of Biology A.B., Friends Univ. M.S., Kansas State Agricultural College Ph.D., Ohio State Univ. DOROTHY MEAD Instructor in French A.B., Univ. of Chicago A.M., Stanford Univ. ANTOINETTE TUCKER Instructor in English and Psychology A.B., Louisiana State Univ. A.M., Tulane Univ. MARY MENDENHALL Dean of Women and Professor of English A.B., Guilford College and Univ. of Colorado IRENE PALMER Director of Physical Education for Women B.E., U. C. L. A. A.M., Teachers College, Columbia University Page Twenty-three --A crop o Walter S. Cummings George W. Anderson Whittier Mission, Texas Science Social Science Basketball 1, 2, 4, Capt. Pres. Senior C I a s s Franklin Society 1, Pres. Joint Council; 2, 3, 4, Vice-Critc 2, Treas. of F. M. C. A.; Treas. 3, Sect 3, Pres. Franklin Society; Cos- 4; Manager of Stag mopolitan Club; Phil- Follies 3, Stag Follies osophy C 1 u b ; Men's 2, 3 ; Vice-Pros.