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INDIANAPOLIS 


Entered  as  second-class  matter  March  26,  1912,  at  the  post 
office  at  Indianapolis,  Ind.,  under  the  Act  of  March  3, 1879. 


CONTENTS 

THE  FOUNDERS'  DAY  ADDRESS         Dr.  Charles  H.  Judd 
DINNER  SPEECHES  Professor  Johnson  and  Dr.  Judd 

AN  EARLY  FOUNDER'S  DAY 

SONG  Lee  Burns 

ANCIENT  LIGHTS  Meredith  Nicholson 

TRIBUTE  TO  CATHARINE  MERRILL  Dr.  Harvey  W.  Wiley 
COLLEGE  NEWS— 

Editorial 

From  the  City  Office 

Athletics 

Butler  in  Chicago 

Butler  Publications 

Commencement  Program 

Faculty  Notes 

Alumni  Mention 

Marriages 

Births 

Deaths 

Our  Correspondence 


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Vol.  XIV    INDIANAPOLIS,  IND.,  APRIL,  1925        No.  1 


Founders'  Day 

THE  ADDRESS 
By  Charles  Hubbard  Judd 

Head   of   Department    of   Education,   University   of    CMcago. 

A  NEW  HUMANISM  SUITED  TO  MODERN  CONDITIONS 
There  is  a  passage  in  one  of  Walter  Page's  letters  which 
puts  very  vividly  the  theme  which  I  wish  to  discuss  today. 
Mr.  Page,  writing  as  the  American  ambassador  to  the  British 
Court,  describes  to  President  Wilson  a  royal  dinner  given  by 
England  to  the  King  of  Denmark  and  in  the  course  of  his 
description  comments  on  the  difference  between  the  American 
attitude  toward  ceremonial  and  the  attitude  of  the  typical 
Englishman. 

He  says: 

This  whole  royal  game  is  most  interesting.  Lloyd  George 
and  H.  H.  Asquith  and  John  Morley  were  there,  all  in  white 
knee  breeches  of  silk  and  swords  and  most  gaudy  coats — 
these  that  are  the  radicals  of  the  Kingdom,  in  literature  and  in 
action.  Veterans  of  Indian  and  South  African  wars  stood  on 
either  side  of  every  door  and  of  every  stairway,  dressed  as 
Sir  Walter  Raleigh  dressed,  like  so  many  statues,  never  blink- 
ing an  eye. 

Whether  it's  the  court,  or  the  honors  and  the  orders  and  all 
the  social  and  imperial  spoils  that  keep  the  illusion  up,  or 
whether  it  is  the  Old  World  inability  to  change  anything,  you 
can't  ever  quite  decide.  In  Defoe's  time  they  put  pots  of 
herbs  on  the  desks  of  every  court  in  London  to  keep  the  plague 
off.  The  pots  of  herbs  are  yet  put  on  every  desk  in  every 
court  room  in  London. 


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Do  they  keep  all  these  outworn  things  because  they  are  in- 
capable of  changing  anything,  or  do  these  outworn  burdens 
keep  them  from  becoming  able  to  change  anything?  I  dare- 
say it  works  both  ways.  Every  venerable  ruin,  every  outworn 
custom,  makes  the  King  more  secure;  and  the  King  gives 
veneration  to  every  ruin  and  keeps  respect  for  every  outworn 
custom. 

Praise  God  for  the  Atlantic  Ocean!  It  is  the  geographical 
foundation  of  our  liberties.  Yet,  as  I've  often  written,  there 
are  men  here,  real  men,  ruling  men,  mighty  men,  and  a  vigor- 
ous stock. 

There  are  not  lacking  on  this  side  of  the  Atlantic  those  who 
are  full  of  reverence  for  the  past  and  its  stately  inheritances. 
They  look  askance  on  the  innovations  which  have  come  with 
modern  life  and  think  of  our  busy  civilization  as  materialistic 
and  shallow.  There  are  those  who  would  have  us  hold  the 
schools  and[jj^|fl§^tgMet|fe^t|lji^^|rrt^^^j^gaditions  which 
came  to  us  from  Ji       ^'  "^'  -      '■• 


Greek  and  prai? 
tion.  tj(§pStJ^Mftl(5\JaetllS3  aRdrSJgMfe  JsOWKlJiatKMaracterized 
the  schools  of  1870  and  point  with  sorrow  to  the  flippant  atti- 
tude of  youth  in  our  own  day. 

Is  Walter  Page  right?  Is  the  Atlantic  Ocean  the  limit  be- 
yond which  the  Old  World  civilization  cannot  pass?  Are  we 
to  build  up  on  the  western  continent  a  new  type  of  life  and  a 
new  type  of  thought?  Certainly,  if  he  is  right,  it  behooves 
us  to  give  careful  heed  to  the  duty  of  erecting  this  new  kind  of 
liberty  in  thought  and  national  life. 

Let  us  consider  one  or  two  examples  of  American  modes  of 
life  which  are  completely  released  from  the  restraints  of 
European  historical  tradition.  Think,  if  you  will,  first,  of  the 
contrast  between  our  attitude  and  that  of  the  older  nations 
toward  the  matter  of  land  ownership.  In  Europe,  land  has 
been  traditionally  the  exclusive  possession  of  the  aristocracy. 
As  far  back  as  the  days  of  Roman  supremacy,  we  read  that 
the  freedmen  demanded  land  and  found  their  demands  refused 
by  the  aristocrats  who  held  all  the  land  there  was  by  right  of 


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prior  claim.  When  the  freedmen  became  too  insistent  the 
Romans  of  the  older  families  sent  them  away  to  regions  where 
barbarians  could  be  conquered  to  make  place  for  newcomers. 
The  freedmen  of  Rome,  following  the  example  against  which 
they  had  protested  in  Italy,  set  up  baronies  in  middle  Europe 
and  bound  the  serfs  to  the  soil.  Land  ownership  thus  came 
to  be  once  more  in  the  new  territories  conquered  by  the 
Romans — the  exclusive  privilege  of  the  few. 

It  is  not  in  place  here  to  trace  the  peasant  wars  and  the 
rebellions  of  the  serfs  by  which  human  nature  has  attempted 
again  and  again  to  break  the  chains  of  tradition.  The  history 
of  Europe  is  a  series  of  efforts  to  settle  disputes  about  who 
shall  own  the  soil.  Nor  are  the  struggles  over.  In  Russia 
and  in  Ireland  political  and  social  issues  center  around  the 
problem  of  land  ownership.  In  Middle  Europe  one  sees  the 
issues  emerge  in  the  demands  of  nations,  as  well  as  indi- 
viduals, that  they  shall  be  allowed  space  for  expansion — room 
in  the  sun. 

To  a  group  of  American  young  people  this  battle  for  space 
in  which  to  stand  is  well-nigh  incomprehensible.  They  have 
no  notion  of  a  crowded  continent.  The  broad  reaches  of  the 
public  domain  have  for  generations  offered  to  the  enterprising 
American  homesteader  opportunity  to  go  west  and  north  and 
south  and  take  enough  of  the  soil  to  absorb  all  of  the  fron- 
tiersman's energy  and  afford  the  frontiersman's  family  a  place 
in  the  sun.  Not  only  so,  but  vast  numbers  of  those  who  see 
the  hopelessness  of  the  struggle  in  Europe  have  come  to  this 
Western  World  where  land  is  plentiful  and  almost  free,  and 
have  made  of  the  Atlantic  Ocean  a  pathway  to  new  forms  of 
liberty  for  themselves  and  their  children. 

There  are  subtler  ways  in  which  Walter  Page's  geographical 
foundation  of  our  liberties  has  separated  us  from  Europe. 
The  American  student  who  went  to  a  German  University 
thirty  years  ago  adapted  himself  as  all  good  Americans  should 
to  the  customs  of  the  land  in  which  he  sojourned.  It  never 
seemed  quite  natural,  however,  to  take  off  one's  hat  in  solemn 


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formality  whenever  one  met  a  student  acquaintance.  This 
excess  of  courtesy  seemed  to  our  American  student,  at  least 
unnecessary.  I  recall  one  painful  occasion  when  an  untamed 
American,  quite  fresh  from  the  wilds  of  Michigan,  took  lib- 
erties with  an  assistant  in  one  of  the  laboratories  by  slapping 
him  on  the  back.  The  rest  of  us  held  a  conference  on  what 
was  to  be  done  about  this  breach,  not  only  of  manners  but  of 
all  friendly  relations.  I  was  delegated,  I  recall,  to  carry  out 
the  decision  of  that  conference,  and  I  went  and  brazenly  told 
the  slapped  assistant  that  American  students  regularly 
adopted  this  method  of  greeting  their  favorite  instructors. 
The  humor  of  the  situation  is  not  merely  that  we  were  able  to 
concoct  that  American  lie — the  greater  humor  is  that  the 
assistant  believed  it.  To  the  European  mind  almost  anything 
is  possible  after  one  crosses  the  Atlantic  foundation  of  our 
informal  liberties. 

If  we,  in  this  country,  have  learned  to  take  land  whenever 
we  want  it,  and,  if  we  take  off  our  hats  less  frequently  than 
do  the  Europeans,  it  still  remains  true  that  we  are  anchored 
to  the  past  in  many  ways.  We  owe  to  Europe,  modern  and 
ancient,  a  debt  of  which  every  generation  is  reminded  by  the 
necessity  of  learning  the  conjugation  of  amo  and  of  studying 
the  thrilling  story  of  the  French  Revolution.  During  the  last 
decade,  the  lesson  of  our  connection  with  the  swarming  civili- 
zations of  the  Old  World  has  been  branded  into  our  thinking 
so  deeply  that  we  shall  not  soon  forget  it. 

I  am  not  going  to  advocate  any  repudiation  of  our  debts  to 
Europe.  We  owe  much  to  the  thinking  of  Socrates  and  Euclid 
and  Descartes  and  Newton  and  Helmholtz.  We  have  drawn 
in  literature  a  priceless  inheritance  from  Virgil  and  Goethe 
and  Shakespeare.  I  might  name  a  host  of  others  in  art  and 
technical  invention  whose  names  and  works  fill  our  world  on 
both  sides  of  the  Atlantic.  I  make  full  and  unstinted  acknowl- 
edgment of  our  obligation  to  all  of  these  for  what  we  are  today 
in  our  intellectual  lives  and  in  our  economic  and  political 
institutions. 


Founders'  Day  7 

I  am  here  to  say  with  Walter  Page  that  on  this  side  of  the 
Atlantic  we  have  a  new  duty  in  education  and  in  life — the  duty 
of  organizing  an  absolutely  new  humanism.  But  is  not  my 
term  humanism  borrowed  from  Europe?  The  very  name  of 
that  which  I  am  discussing  betrays  my  dependence  on  the  past. 
This  is  doubtless  true,  but  I  mean  to  make  the  word  over 
before  I  am  through  with  it. 

In  order  to  make  perfectly  clear  what  this  new  type  of 
humanism  is,  I  shall,  of  course,  have  to  establish  a  relation- 
ship with  the  earlier  kinds  of  humanism.  You  remember  that 
the  word  was  coined  to  characterize  that  romantic  period  in 
the  world's  history  when  civilization  was  emerging  from  the 
dark  ages  and  was  moving  under  the  guidance  of  Greek  and 
Roman  examples  into  the  light  of  new  interest  in  man  and  his 
doings.  Just  before  the  period  of  the  first  humanism  men 
had  been  taught  that  human  life  is  something  worthless  and 
abject.  They  had  been  told  that  the  human  body  is  degraded 
and  a  millstone  pulling  the  soul  down  to  perdition.  They  had 
been  told  that  the  seeming  joys  of  life  are  delusions  and  snares 
of  the  evil  one.  From  this  period  of  abject  self  negation 
optimistic  human  nature  burst  forth  with  the  cry  of  exultant 
joy  in  life. 

H:  *  *  *  *  * 

Modern  life  is  very  much  in  need  of  a  humanism  which 
shall  emphasize  no  less  than  did  the  renaissance  the  need  of 
direct  and  clear-sighted  study  of  things  as  they  are.  I  am 
frank  to  say  that  I  am  not  altogether  sure  as  to  the  method 
by  which  this  kind  of  humanism  is  to  be  attained,  but,  I  think, 
we  can  make  progress  in  the  right  direction  if  we  think  of 
some  of  the  items  which  must  go  into  our  educational  scheme 
if  we  are  to  give  the  oncoming  generations  knowledge  suited 
to  their  times. 

The  fact  is  that  we  are  at  the  present  time  in  the  midst  of 
much  confusion  and  disagreement  about  the  nature  of  our 
human  life.  There  is  one  party  of  thinkers  who  are  over- 
whelmed by  the  newly  ascertained  facts  regarding  man's  rela- 


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tion  to  the  lower  forms  of  animal  life.  These  extreme  devotees 
of  the  biological  explanation  of  human  life  and  human  society 
tell  us  that  our  civilization  is  nothing  but  a  composite  of  in- 
stinctive tendencies.  Government,  they  say,  is  a  result  of 
gregariousness  in  the  mass.  Recognition  of  property  rights  is 
nothing  but  acquisitiveness  on  an  enlarged  scale.  Languages 
are  refined  emotional  outcries. 

Against  this  view  of  human  life  there  is  a  violent  protest 
on  the  part  of  the  common  people.  The  ordinary  man  looks 
at  the  lower  animals  and  sees  that  they  do  not  use  tools,  that 
they  have  no  language  and  no  commerce  and  he  refuses  to  be 
classified  with  them.  He  points  to  human  art  and  religion  as 
evidence  that  there  is  a  sharp  distinction  between  himself  and 
the  brutes. 

This  controversy  between  ordinary  belief  and  science  of  the 
strictly  mechanistic  type  is  one  of  the  live  intellectual  issues 
of  the  times.  There  are  many  who  are  greatly  disturbed  about 
these  problems  and  there  are  some  who  would  have  the  dis- 
cussion stopped  in  the  interest  of  this  or  that  solution. 

My  plea  is  for  a  new  humanism.  My  contention  is  that 
there  is  a  new  era  dawning  in  which  there  shall  be  a  fuller 
study  of  human  life  and  human  relations.  The  humanism 
which  I  am  advocating  for  our  schools  is  a  humanism  which 
grows  directly  out  of  this  new  concern  about  the  real  char- 
acter of  human  life.  I  look  forward  to  the  time  when  there 
shall  be  a  group  of  sciences  which  reveal  the  facts  of  human 
nature  with  the  same  completeness  that  chemistry  now  reveals 
the  character  of  molecules. 

The  earlier  humanism  was  characterized  by  an  interest  in 
real  human  beings  and  their  experiences.  The  earlier  human- 
ism was  a  revolt  against  formalism  and  speculation,  against 
vague  theories  and  unfounded  dogma.  The  new  humanism 
also  centers  attention  on  things  human,  but  its  revolt  is 
against  mere  materialism  and  against  the  use  of  scientific 
methods  merely  to  conquer  the  outer  world.  The  new  human- 
ism of  our  period  would  help  to  make  man  master  of  his 


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relations  with  his  fellow  men.  Above  all  the  new  humanism 
will  teach  that  men  live  by  co-operation  and  that  it  is  through 
co-operation  that  they  develop  the  highest  forms  of  intelligent 
adaptation  to  the  world. 

Perhaps  you  will  be  patient  enough  to  allow  me  to  elaborate 
what  I  mean  when  I  make  reference  to  the  scientific  under- 
standing of  human  relations. 

We  have  long  had  a  science  which  describes  human  nature 
and  classifies  its  traits — the  science  of  psychology.  This 
science  teaches  us  that  men  have  senses  which  keep  them  in- 
formed about  the  world  around  them.  They  have  organs  of 
behavior  by  means  of  which  they  respond  to  the  outer  realities 
which  are  reported  to  them  through  their  senses.  The  science 
of  psychology  also  tells  about  the  higher  reasoning  processes 
and  the  forms  of  memory  by  which  men  accumulate  experi- 
ences. 

This  science  has  also  in  recent  times  attempted  to  get  be- 
yond the  individual  and  to  show  how  individual  affects  indi- 
vidual in  that  larger  complex  which  we  call  society.  In  recent 
years  psychology  has  become  aware  of  the  growing  interest  in 
the  larger  problems  of  human  interrelations,  and  it  is  making 
an  effort  to  lay  the  foundations  for  a  thorough  scientific  treat- 
ment of  these  interrelations.  In  other  words,  psychology  has 
undertaken  to  contribute  to  the  new  humanism. 

Let  us  take  an  illustration  which  will  show  what  is  meant 
by  this  reference  to  the  broader  psychology  of  modern  times. 
Psychology  teaches  us  that  the  use  of  tools  is  a  unique  human 
trait.  Animals  do  not  typically  use  tools.  When  an  animal 
attacks  an  enemy  or  removes  an  obstacle  from  its  path,  be- 
havior is  of  a  simple,  direct  type.  So  it  was  with  primitive 
man.  He  used  his  hands  and  teeth  backed  by  his  personal 
strength.  He  did  not  think  as  modern  man  does  of  the  possi- 
bility of  utilizing  some  object  to  reinforce  his  personal 
strength.  This  latter  attitude  grew  up  very  gradually.  At 
first  useful  objects  such  as  sharp  stones  and  heavy  clubs  were 
discovered  by  accident  and  employed  without  serious  premedi- 


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tation.  Indeed,  it  would  seem  from  the  slow  progress  of  the 
mechanical  arts  that  man  did  not  realize  at  first  that  he  had 
started  on  a  new  path  of  life  leading  him  away  from  animal 
behavior.  Only  gradually  did  he  apprehend  the  significance 
of  his  accidental  discoveries ;  only  very  gradually  did  he  take 
up  the  new  mode  of  life  which  was  offered  to  him  by  the  help 
of  tools. 

The  limitations  of  animal  consciousness  and  the  slow  prog- 
ress of  human  technology  are  due  to  the  fact  that  the  use  of 
tools  requires  a  broader  attention  than  that  of  which  the 
lower  levels  of  intelligence  are  capable. 

The  following  experiment  shows  how  limited  is  the  range 
of  attention  even  in  the  higher  animals.  A  monkey  was  fas- 
tened in  his  cage  and  a  banana  was  placed  just  out  of  his 
reach.  He  extended  himself  in  every  possible  way  in  the 
effort  to  secure  the  food,  but  failed  to  reach  it.  After  a  time 
he  was  shown  a  stick  and  given  a  demonstration  of  the  way 
in  which  the  stick  could  be  used  to  lengthen  his  reach. 
Monkey-fashion  he  became  interested  in  the  stick.  But  while 
this  new  object  of  attention  was  in  the  focus  of  consciousness, 
the  banana  had  no  place.  The  monkey  could  not  deal  at  the 
same  time  with  both  banana  and  stick.  He  never  put  the  two 
together,  that  is,  he  never  learned  to  use  the  tool  as  his  range 
of  attention  could  include  only  a  single  object. 

There  are  numerous  occasions  when  human  consciousness  is 
of  this  unifocal  type.  For  example,  when  one  tries  to  catch 
a  companion  in  play,  there  is  only  one  all-absorbing  center  of 
attention.  It  is  to  be  noted  that  such  a  situation  is  psycholog- 
ically veiy  simple  and  we  recognize  it  as  making  very  little 
draft  on  intelligence.  The  moment  play  rises  to  a  level  which 
involves  the  use  of  some  implement,  the  demands  on  skill  and 
on  consciousness  become  more  exacting  and  require  a  wider 
range  of  attention. 

Let  us  consider  how  the  broader  attention  of  man  which  we 
see  exhibited  in  the  use  of  tools  operated  at  the  time  that  the 
first  tool  was  discovered.     The  term  "discovered"  rather  than 


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the  term  "invented"  is  used  advisedly  in  describing  the  facts. 
The  first  club,  for  example,  was  nothing  but  a  gnarled  root 
picked  up  in  the  forest  or  the  bone  of  some  animal,  used  to 
reinforce  the  blow  of  the  arm.  The  first  knife  was  a  sharp 
stone  or  the  tooth  or  talon  of  some  animal.  It  is  not  as  simple 
as  it  seems  to  pick  up  one  of  these  tools  provided  by  nature. 
The  complexity  of  the  performance  lies  in  the  fact  that  the 
natural  object  must  be  taken  out  of  the  setting  in  which  it  is 
presented  to  experience  and  must  be  put  into  another  setting 
by  the  active  imagination  of  an  intelligent  being.  Animals 
have  been  cut  by  sharp  stones  from  the  beginnings  of  time, 
but  the  relation  of  the  animal  to  the  stone  has  always  con- 
tinued to  be  the  relation  set  up  by  nature.  The  animal  has 
snarled  at  the  stone  that  cut  its  foot  and  has  gone  on  its  way. 
Man  had  the  genius  to  see  the  sharp  stone  in  a  new  setting. 
If  it  cuts  him,  he  may  take  it  in  his  hand  and  make  it  cut  his 
enemies,  or  serve  him  in  other  ways.  An  active  inventive 
imagination  has  its  seat  in  the  higher  nervous  centers.  In 
these  centers  the  stimulus  which  led  the  animal  to  the  simple 
act  of  growling  and  passing  on  can  be  combined  with  other 
stimulations  and  a  new  and  elaborate  preparation  for  behavior 
can  be  worked  out  with  the  result  that  human  action  is  of  a 
new  type. 

The  first  tool  not  only  called  into  play  the  imagination  of 
the  individual,  but  it  created  a  new  kind  of  world  in  which 
man  lives.  The  tool  led  to  the  specialization  of  the  artisan, 
to  the  division  of  labor,  to  the  establishment  of  systems  of 
trade,  to  institutions  where  instruction  is  given  in  the  use  of 
tools.  In  short,  if  we  come  rapidly  down  to  modern  times,  the 
use  of  tools  led  to  the  organized  machine  industry  which  con- 
trols the  life  of  modern  society. 

Such  a  sketch  of  the  psychology  of  social  institutions,  brief 
and  lacking  in  detail  as  it  is,  ought  to  suggest  the  important 
part  which  mind  plays  in  making  the  environment  in  which 
we  live.  The  study  of  the  present-day  world  becomes  under 
this  suggestion  a  world  made  up  in  part  of  the  things  sup- 


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plied  by  nature  and  in  larger  part  of  the  things  erected  by 
human  genius. 

The  new  humanism  which  thus  sees  in  the  world  a  realiza- 
tion of  human  imaginations  is  a  fulfillment  of  the  spirit  of  the 
older  realism  of  the  renaissance,  but  it  contains  an  element 
which  that  earlier  realism  did  not  include.  In  that  earlier 
day  men  found  their  inspiration  for  a  study  of  reality  in  the 
revival  of  ancient  literature  and  ancient  art.  They  went  back 
to  the  Greek  and  Roman  writings  for  such  insights  as  they 
needed  to  carry  them  beyond  the  dogma  and  superstition  of 
their  times.  There  are  some  in  our  own  times  who  believe 
that  humanism  can  base  itself  in  the  twentieth  century,  as  in 
the  thirteenth,  only  on  the  literature  of  the  Greeks  and 
Romans. 

My  contention  is  that  the  modern  realism  has  by  virtue  of 
the  evolution  of  science  a  broader  and  more  inspiring  outlook 
than  can  be  derived  by  a  backward  look  into  antiquity.  We 
study  the  human  mind  and  the  relations  which  it  develops, 
and  our  humanism  looks  forward  to  the  proper  maturing 
through  scientific  study  of  the  relations  which  make  up  mod- 
ern society. 

I  am  quite  willing  to  propose  this  kind  of  humanism  as  a 
cure  for  at  least  two  of  our  modern  problems.  In  the  first 
place,  I  find  in  my  psychology  of  tools  and  of  language  and  of 
laws  and  customs  a  solution  of  the  conflict  between  biology 
of  the  mechanistic  type  and  the  anxiety  of  the  common  man 
to  escape  classification  with  the  animals.  Evolution  has 
brought  forth  mind,  and  mind  has  created  its  own  world.  It 
has  through  co-operation  changed  the  world  of  nature  to  suit 
man's  needs.  Man  found  climate  in  the  world  and  he  invented 
for  himself  shelter  and  clothes.  He  found  sound  and  he 
learned  to  modulate  the  tones  produced  by  his  vocal  chords, 
until  now  he  has  a  name  for  each  of  his  most  subtle  ideas. 
In  short,  man  has  risen  out  of  the  world  and  in  so  doing  has 
made  for  himself  a  new  world.     Thus  our  humanism  becomes 


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the  dominant  interest  of  anyone  who  would  understand  the 
world  of  today. 

The  second  problem  for  which  the  view  that  I  have  been 
sketching  furnishes  a  solution  is  the  problem  of  education. 
The  schools  have  sometimes  thought  of  their  duty  as  that  of 
introducing  children  to  the  world  of  plants  and  stones.  This 
is  a  very  minor  part  of  their  duty.  The  school  is  primarily 
a  place  where  the  new  generation  is  taught  to  share  in  the 
institutions  by  which  men  have  transformed  the  world.  Be- 
cause the  Arabs  or  the  Hindus  invented  a  superior  system  of 
counting  and  calculation  our  children  must  go  to  school  and 
learn  to  use  Arabic  numerals.  These  numerals  have  trans- 
formed the  world.  They  have  made  exact  comparisons  pos- 
sible in  trade  and  science.  They  are  a  human  invention. 
They  are  infinitely  superior  for  purposes  of  exact  expression 
to  anything  ever  possessed  by  antiquity. 

In  like  fashion  the  new  generation  is  instructed  in  political 
institutions  which  antiquity  never  possessed.  Truly  repre- 
sentative government  which  will  not  tolerate  human  slavery, 
human  laws  and  respect  for  property  and  human  life — these 
are  modern  acquisitions  of  a  society  which  has  been  slowly 
mastering  itself.  When  a  child  of  this  generation  learns  to 
share  in  the  common  ideas  of  democracy  he  is  finding  a  place 
in  the  new  world  which  human  minds  have  created.  This  is 
the  humanism  of  the  present  day ;  it  is  like  the  old  in  motive, 
but  unique  and  modern  in  its  methods  and  content. 

THE  DINNER 

PROFESSOR  E.  N.  JOHNSON.  President  Aley  and  Friends : 
At  last !  All  things  come  round  to  him  who  will  but  wait. 
I  have  been  attending  Founders'  Day  banquets  for  years;  I 
have  believed  in  them  and  have  encouraged  them.  I  have 
always  come  early,  tried  to  find  a  place  in  the  front  of  the 
procession  to  the  dining  room,  and  have  listened  to  the 
speeches  quietly  and  attentively.  I  have  smiled  at  them, 
looked  grave,  or  let  a  teardrop  fall,  as  occasion  offered.     I 


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have  applauded  as  loudly  as  any  when  the  speakers  were 
through,  and  then  after  it  was  all  over  I  have  congratulated 
the  committee  on  the  success  of  the  occasion.  But  all  these 
hints  were  unheeded.  My  diplomacy  availed  me  nothing,  for 
never  until  this  year  have  I  been  invited  to  sit  at  the  speakers' 
table.  But  you  remember  some  three  or  four  years  ago  our 
Board  of  Dirctors  promised  bigger,  better  and  greater  things 
for  Butler.  I  trust  that  tonight  I  may  come  up  to  their  highest 
expectations. 

When  I  received  this  invitation  I  re-read  Emerson's  essay 
on  Compensation.  It  would  seem  that  he  looked  fourscore 
years  into  the  future  when  he  wrote,  "The  whole  world  looks 
like  a  mathematical  equation,  and  for  every  disappointment 
there  is  a  pleasure."  Perhaps  it  would  have  suited  this  occa- 
sion a  little  better  if  he  had  said,  "After  twenty  or  more  years 
of  continuous  waiting  and  disappointment,  a  ten-minute 
pleasure  will  come."'  It  may  relieve  some  of  the  other  mem- 
bers of  the  Butler  Faculty,  and  encourage  them  to  continue 
attending  the  banquets  as  faithfully  as  I  have,  if  I  suggest 
that  perhaps  after  twenty  years,  or  it  may  be  forty,  you  will 
have  the  honor  to  stand  where  I  stand  now. 

Doubtless  you  wonder  why  I  have  not  appeared  as  a  speaker 
every  year.  I  can  well  understand  your  state  of  mind,  but  I 
want  to  make  a  special  request  of  you — bear  no  ill  will  toward 
the  program  committee.  You  must  remember  that  until  re- 
cently their  funds  have  been  limited.  So  let  us  cherish  no 
ill  will  toward  them,  but  rather  "with  malice  toward  none  and 
charity  for  all,"  let  us  in  the  words  of  Oliver  Wendell  Holmes, 
"Leave  the  low-vaulted  past" — and  return  to  my  subject. 

Tonight  I  am  to  discuss  "Our  Faculty",  and  I  might  say 
that  I  am  glad  to  have  been  assigned  this  subject.  It  gives 
me  an  opportunity  to  say  in  public  some  things  that  I  might 
not  dare  say  to  them  in  private. 

If  I  made  no  mistake  in  the  count,  there  are  sixty  teaching 
members  on  our  staff.  Fifty-two  of  these  give  their  full  time, 
and  eight  part  time.     These  together  with  the  President  and 


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the  Registrar,  who  attend  our  Faculty  meetings,  make  sixty- 
two  who  are  eligible  to  vote. 

In  spirit,  in  purpose  and  in  conduct  the  Butler  Faculty  is  a 
unit;  but  in  policies  and  methods  we  do  not  always  agree, 
— each  thinks  for  himself.  Sometimes  opinion  is  quite  evenly 
divided,  and  occasionally — although  I  blush  to  say  it — occa- 
sionally sixty-one  are  on  the  wrong  side.  But  of  this  it  is  not 
mine  to  speak.  Some  2,000  years  ago,  I  believe  it  was  Cato 
who  said,  "The  lirst  virtue  is  to  restrain  the  tongue,  he  ap- 
proaches nearest  heaven  who  can  keep  silent  even  though  he 
knows  he  is  in  the  right."  So  in  the  words  of  Henry  Clay,  "I 
would  rather  be  right  than  be  President",  although  I  would 
go  farther  and  say  that  I  would  rather  be  right  than  be  Presi- 
dent, or  Registrar,  or  Dean  of  the  Faculty,  or  Latin  Professor, 
or  Professor  of  Philosophy,  or  professor  in  any  other  depart- 
ment of  Butler  College. 

I  know  statistics  are  not  always  reliable,  but  in  so  far  as 
they  can  be  trusted,  no  member  of  our  Faculty  is  a  millionaire, 
but  four  or  five  of  them  do  ride  around  in  their  own  Fords,  and 
others  look  as  if  they  had  been  accustomed  to  three  meals  a 
day.  Some  own  their  own  homes,  and  others  plan  to  meet  the 
first  instalment  next  June;  still  others  are  confronted  with 
that  awful  dilemma  of  "pay  up  the  back  rent  or  move  out." 

These  sixty-two  members  of  our  Faculty  have  taken  their 
undergraduate  work  in  about  forty  American  colleges  and  uni- 
versities. Two  of  them  took  their  undergraduate  work  in  for- 
eign institutions — one  in  Canada  and  one  in  France.  They 
come  to  us  as  representatives  of  the  north,  east,  central  and 
western  United  States,  but  unless  we  call  Missouri  and  Mary- 
land south,  I  believe  we  have  none  from  the  southland. 
Graduate  work  has  been  done  in  twenty-three  of  the  American 
universities,  and  two  have  taken  their  graduate  degrees  in 
foreign  universities,  one  in  Germany,  the  other  in  France. 
Among  the  universities  in  which  graduate  work  has  been  done, 
I  might  mention  these  two  after  Pennsylvania,  Harvard,  Yale, 
Columbia,  Princeton,  Pennsylvania,  Ohio  State,  University  of 


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Michigan,  University  of  Chicago,  Northwestern,  Wisconsin, 
Illinois,  Indiana,  Missouri,  Iowa,  Drake,  Kansas,  California, 
Leland  Stanford,  and  perhaps  there  are  others  that  I  do  not 
now  recall.  But  from  whatever  institution  they  come,  we 
have  met  at  Butler  and  we  trust  we  bring  with  us  the  true 
college  spirit. 

By  this  I  do  not  mean  the  ability  to  yell  the  loudest  at  an 
intercollegiate  contest ;  nor  do  I  mean  the  daring,  which  at  the 
risk  of  life  and  limb,  at  the  midnight  hour,  would  climb  to  the 
top  of  the  college  tower  to  tear  down  the  opposing  class  colors 
and  place  their  own;  nor  do  I  mean  the  tendency  to  carouse 
until  the  wee  sma'  hours  of  morning.  The  Faculty  may  well 
leave  those  college  necessities  to  the  younger  and  gayer  student 
body — in  which  they  will  do  their  full  duty,  and  even  more 
than  the  Faculty  ask  or  expect  of  them.  But  rather  by  "col- 
lege Spirit"  do  I  mean  the  proper  attitude  toward  our  profes- 
sion, toward  our  fellow  teachers,  toward  our  students,  toward 
our  mission  in  life,  toward  faith  in  religion,  and  toward  the 
life  beyond. 

Our  attitude  toward  our  profession  may  be  expressed  in  the 
old  proverb :  "With  only  rice  to  eat,  water  to  drink,  and  his 
curved  elbow  for  a  pillow,  the  true  teacher  may  take  pleasure 
in  the  search  for  truth  and  the  knowledge  of  his  own 
integrity." 

The  attitude  toward  our  fellow  teachers  may  be  expressed  in 
the  lines  of  Henry  Van  Dyke :  "We  have  learned  not  only  that 
a  friend  in  need  is  a  friend  indeed,  but  the  inner  meaning  of 
that  simple  rhyme,  that  a  friend  is  what  the  heart  needs  all 
the  time." 

Toward  our  students  our  attitude  may  be  expressed  by: 
"Give  time,  give  thoughts,  give  deeds,  give  love,  give  prayers, 
give  tears,  and  give  thyself.  Give,  give,  be  always  giving. 
Who  gives  not  is  not  living.  The  more  we  give  the  more  we 
live." 

The  attitude  toward  our  mission  in  life  may  be  expressed 
by  the  words  of  William  Penn:     "To  know  the  true  end  of 


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life  is  to  know  that  life  never  ends." 
Toward  our  faith  in  God : 

"I  need  not  shout  my  faith.     Thrice  eloquent 
Are  quiet  trees  and  the  green,  listening  sod ; 
Hushed  are  the  stars,  whose  power  is  never  spent ; 
The  hills  are  mute :     Yet  how  they  speak  of  God!" 

Toward  the  life  beyond:  "Then  when  Death's  tocsin  shall 
sound  its  call  for  thee,  step  fearless  forth,  into  the  •  Great 
Unknown,  serenely  confident  that,  having  built  well  here,  the 
greater  Heaven  will  welcome  back  its  own." 

There  is  a  little  poem,  by  Arthur  Guiterman  which  first  ap- 
peared in  the  Saturday  Evening  Post,  and  since  then  has  been 
published  in  a  number  of  college  and  educational  journals,  and 
which  presents  a  thought  that  may  well  be  remembered.  I 
believe  I  will  give  a  part  of  it. 

"Mark  Hopkins  sat  on  one  end  of  a  log, 

And  a  farm  boy  sat  on  the  other. 

Mark  Hopkins  came  as  a  pedagogue. 

And  taught  as  an  elder  brother. 

"I  care  not  what  Mark  Hopkins  taught, 

Though  his  Latin  was  small 
And  his  Greek  was  naught. 
For  the  farmer's  boy  he  thought,  thought  he, 

All  through  lecture  time  and  quiz, 
'The  kind  of  a  man  I  mean  to  be 

Is  the  kind  of  a  man  Mark  Hopkins  is.' 

"No  printed  page  nor  spoken  plea 
May  teach  young  hearts  what  men  should  be — 
Not  all  the  books  on  all  the  shelves, 
But  what  the  teachers  are  themselves. 

For  education  is ;  Making  men ; 
So  is  it  now,  so  was  it  when 


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Mark  Hopkins  sat  on  one  end  of  a  log 
And  a  farmer  boy  sat  on  the  other." 

DR.  CHARLES  H.  JUDD.  President  Aley,  Ladies  and  Gen- 
tlemen : 

I  thought  I  had  said  enough  this  morning  so  that  I 
might  have  a  good  time  the  rest  of  the  day,  but  I  was  alarmed 
when  I  came  here  this'  evening.  I  looked  at  the  program 
hoping  to  see  my  name  near  the  top,  and  here  I  have  listened 
to  all  this  oratory,  listened  to  all  these  felicitations,'  and  have 
not  had  an  opportunity  to  say  a  word  for  Illinois.  Now  Illinois 
is  a  great  State  I  We  have  some  good  things — well,  I  do  not 
have  the  statistics  with  me — I  did  not  prepare  to  go  up  against 
the  Secretary  of  State.  The  only  thing  I  know  about  the 
Secretary  of  State  is  that  he  takes  a  certain  sum  of  money 
from  me  each  year  and  issues  me  a  license  to  drive  over 
hard-surfaced  roads  that  our  Governor  lays  down.  Anybody 
who  wants  to  compete  in  the  matter  of  hard  roads — let  him 
come  to  Illinois  and  we  will  give  him  a  show-down.  We  have 
plenty — all  we  can  take  care  of. 

Now  I  have  to  discharge  my  duty — No,  I'm  going  to  tell 
you  one  more  story.  This  is  to  felicitate  you  on  the  length 
of  my  address  tonight.  I  hope  you  do  not  have  the  attitude 
of  my  friend.  You  know  faculty  families  become  very  inti- 
mately acquainted ;  we  see  a  great  deal  of  each  other. 
In  fact,  we  are  rather  ostracized  by  the  rest  of  society — they 
look  on  us  as  curiosities — so  we  see  a  great  deal  of  each 
other.  The  students  do  not  know  us  at  all.  In  fact,  there 
are  many  things  the  students  do  not  know.  I  remember 
taking  a  walk  with  one  of  my  friends  on  one  of  the  faculties — 
before  I  was  discharged  from  that  institution.  We  had  been 
out  on  a  long  ramble  and  as  we  came  near  home  he  said,  "Are 
you  going  to  that  dinner  tonight?"  "Yes."  "Do  I  have  to  see 
you  again  tonight?"  1  can  imagine  the  attitude  of  many  of 
you.  I  suppose  you  did  not  know  I  was  at  the  end  of  the 
program  and  looked  forward  to  hearing  the  Secretary  of  State. 


Founders'  Day  19 

You  should  have  let  me  speak  early.  I  came  loaded  with 
things  to  say  about  Indiana.  I  wanted  to  congratulate  you  on 
living  in  Indiana.  We  have  a  very  good  man  we  got  from 
Indiana — we  probably  will  send  him  back.  But  you  Hoosiers 
are  readily  identified.  One  can  tell  as  he  looks  around  in  a 
gathering  of  this  kind — you  look  like  Indiana.  I  do  not  know 
what  you  look  like — but  that  is  what  you  are.  But  over  in 
Illinois  we  do  not  allow  Faculty  members  to  talk  outside  of 
their  subject.  Over  here  a  mathematician  can  get  up  and 
talk  in  a  humorous  way.  In  our  State  mathematicians  are 
supposed  to  stick  to  their  business.  I  remember  when  I  was 
an  undergraduate  at  New  Haven  that  in  the  mathematical 
sciences  we  had  Professor  Gibbs.  Gibbs  was  a  great  mathe- 
matician; he  had  respect  for  mathematics.  He  used  to  draw 
lines  through  space,  and  we  undergraduates  used  to  go  to 
those  meetings  of  the  mathematical  association.  Why?  Be- 
cause when  Gibbs  got  those  lines  drawn  through  space  he 
would  respect  those  lines  and  step  around  them — not  walk 
over  them.  That  is  what  a  mathematician  should  do — he 
should  stay  in  his  own  line. 

Trying  to  identify  myself  to  this  young  lady  this  evening 
when  she  asked  me  what  my  line  was,  I  said,  "I  am  an  educa- 
tor. My  department  is  the  department  of  education."  But 
really  there  are  three  serious  things  to  be  said  here  tonight. 
We  have  one  common  problem — it  is  a  problem  in  your  State 
as  well  as  ours.  It  is  the  problem  of  discharging  a  new  Amer- 
ican obligation.  You  know  we  used  to  borrow  very  freely  from 
the  older  civilizations  of  Europe.  If  we  wanted  dyes  for  the 
purpose  of  decorating  ourselves,  what  did  we  do?  We  went 
to  a  country  where  they  were  willing  to  work  out  patiently 
those  processes  of  chemical  refinement  that  will  produce  pure 
dyes.  If  our  physicians  wanted  the  latest  devices  in  medicine 
and  surgery,  after  they  had  acquainted  themselves  with  Amer- 
ican practice  what  did  they  do  ?  They  went  to  the  older  civili- 
zations of  Europe.  And  so  it  was  in  many  other  lines — we 
borrowed  from  Europe.    It  seemed  proper  that  as  one  of  the 


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younger  civilizations  we  should  go  to  an  older  civilization  for 
all  these  refinements,  and  we  did  it.  There  are  many  of  us 
who  acknowledge  a  debt  of  obligation  for  materials  we  have 
been  using  in  our  investigations  in  this  country — we  have  a 
recollection  of  what  that  older  civilization  taught  us.  But  do 
you  know  what  has  happened?  There  is  no  blame  on  the 
United  States,  but  what  has  happened?  That  stream  of  bor- 
rowing from  Europe  has  dried  up.  Those  of  us  who  work  in 
scientific  fields  know  there  do  not  come  across  the  Atlantic,  as 
there  did  fifteen  years  ago,  supplies  of  scientific  literature. 
We  used  to  look  to  middle  Europe  for  translations  and  sum- 
maries of  practically  all  of  the  works  of  science.  But  that  has 
stopped.  I  do  not  believe  we  realize  the  seriousness  of  the 
situation.  The  men  who  used  to  maintain  the  intellectual  life 
of  Europe  are  subjects  of  American  charity  now,  unable  to 
support  their  families;  and  the  inducements  that  used  to  be 
given  in  Europe  to  follow  the  academic  profession  are  with- 
drawn. The  academic  profession  used  to  be  the  prize — the 
highest;  but  the  young  men  of  this  generation  find  it  is  an 
economic  impossibility  to  go  into  that  profession.  The  Great 
War  not  only  carried  off  the  most  of  this  generation,  but  it 
dried  up  the  sources  of  scientific  help  for  today,  and  tomorrow 
and  for  coming  decades. 

What  is  the  meaning  of  that  statement  to  us?  There  is 
just  one  country  in  the  world  where  economic  and  social  con- 
ditions are  such  as  to  give  promise  for  the  upbuilding  and 
maintenance  of  that  type  of  knowledge  which  is  the  founda- 
tion of  civilization,  and  you  and  I  live  in  the  midst  of  that 
land.  Only  here  are  economic  and  social  conditions  favorable 
to  the  higher  intellectual  life.  Those  of  us  who  are  connected 
with  our  educational  institutions,  upon  whose  shoulders  falls 
the  great  responsibility  of  maintaining  and  developing  the  in- 
tellectual life,  must  see  to  it  that  the  students  with  whom  we 
associate,  that  our  fellow  citizens,  realize  the  fact  that  with 
economic  conditions  favorable  to  general  life  there  must  be 
assumed  the  obligation  of  maintaining  the  science  which  is 


Founders'  Day  21 

the  foundation,  which  is  the  fundamental  business  of  this 
civilization.  The  United  States  has  an  obligation  which  we 
must  recognize;  it  is  the  responsibility  you  represent  when 
you  appeal  to  your  municipality  for  support  in  building  a  great 
educational  institution — a  responsibility  in  connection  with 
the  building  up  and  developing  of  a  science  which  shall  be  for 
the  improvement  of  tomorrow  and  the  coming  decades.  This 
North  American  continent  is  looked  to  as  the  source  of  the 
science  and  letters  that  shall  maintain  a  civilization  that  has 
almost  crumbled  across  the  Atlantic,  and  we  must  make  that 
clear  outside  of  the  institutions  that  we  enjoy  that  privilege. 
Students  we  have  coming  to  our  colleges  and  universities  in 
such  numbers  that  we  can  hardly  carry  the  burden  of  our 
student  obligations;  and  in  addition  to  this  we  have  the  ne- 
cessity of  providing  for  research  work,  the  source  of  which  is 
something  rather  abstract.  But  if  we  can  make  it  clear  to 
those  who  are  working  in  the  practical  fields  of  industrial 
and  social  life  that  tomorrow's  successes  depend  upon  the 
sources  of  scientific  material  of  the  sort  we  have  been  borrow- 
ing, then  I  think  we  can  create,  industrially  and  commercially, 
some  appreciation — the  same  appreciation  we  have  for  the 
sources  and  the  value  of  this  material. 

This  is  the  great  new  obligation  that  rests  upon  the  young- 
est civilization  which,  because  of  favorable  conditions,  has 
come  to  be  and  is  today  the  representative  civilization  of  the 
world. 

Other  speakers  were:  Victor  Twitty,  of  the  Senior  class; 
John  Spiegel,  ex-'lO,  president  of  the  Butler  Men's  Club ;  Mrs. 
Walter  Greenough,  bearing  the  felicitations  of  Indiana  Uni- 
versity ;  President  Good,  of  the  Indiana  Central  College ;  Fred- 
erick E.  Schortemier,  '12,  Secretary  of  State. 

Before  closing  President  Aley  read  the  message  from  India 
given  in  the  last  issue  of  the  QUARTERLY  and  intended  for 
a  FOUNDERS'  DAY  greeting.  The  names,  Tom  Hill,  '17; 
Elma  Alexander  Hill,  '16;  Annie  V.  Mullin,  '19;  Mary  Hov/- 
ard  McGavran,  '22;  Donald  A.  McGavran,  '20;  Virginia  W. 


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Young,  '21,  brought  forth  a  volume  of  applause. 

On  such  occasions  the  choir  invisible  seems  surrounding. 
Be  assured,  you  who  somewhere  are  doing  faithful  work,  that 
your  remembrances  are  appreciated  and  that  you  are  never 
forgotten. 

A  Founder's  Day  Dinner 

"Forest  Home,  February  4th,  1871. 
Bro.  J.  Q.  Thomas 
Indianapolis 

The  members  of  the  Board  of  Directors  and  the  Faculty  of 
the  University  will  take  supper  at  my  house  at  7  o'clock  P.  M. 
of  Tuesday  the  7th  inst. 

I  would  be  pleased  to  see  you  here  then. 

Yours  truly, 

Ovid  Butler." 

The  above  invitation  to  an  instructor  on  the  faculty  has 
recently  fallen  into  the  hands  of  the  editor.  Penned  neatly 
by  Mr.  Ovid  Butler,  it  indicates  an  early  celebration  of  Foun- 
der's Day — perhaps  the  first  dinner;  at  all  events,  it  shows  a 
close  association  between  Mr.  Butler,  the  officers  of  the  Old 
University  and  the  Seventh  of  February. 

There  are  scenes  which  survive.  There  are  pictures  which 
neither  time  nor  distance  can  dim,  among  them  Forest  Home 
with  its  hospitality,  its  cheer,  its  graciousness,  its  dignity. 


A  Song  of  Butler 

By  Lee  Burns 
Oh  Butler!  where  thousands  before  us, 

With  wisdom  were  guided  and  taught, 
Your  children  all  join  in  the  chorus, 

Of  praise  for  the  good  you  have  wrought. 
For  you  it  shall  be  our  ambition 

To  give  of  our  best  for  a  space, 
Then  hand  on  your  lofty  tradition 

To  those  who  shall  come  in  our  place. 

Wherever  the  future  may  take  us, 

We  cherish  those  days  of  our  youth, 
When  you  taught,  what  shall  never  forsake  us, 

To  seek  after  beauty  and  truth. 
So  now  with  the  utmost  affection 

We  offer  our  tribute  of  praise. 
For  treasured  in  our  recollection 

Is  love  for  the  old  college  days. 

Ancient  Lights 

By  Meredith  Nicholson 

In  those  few  years  now  becoming  remote,  when  I  read  a 
a  little  at  the  law,  I  found  legal  phraseology  so  fascinating 
that  much  of  it  has  remained  with  me.  And  in  thinking  of 
late  upon  the  battle  that  is  now  going  on  between  the  old  and 
the  new,  and  the  melancholy  complaints  and  warnings  of  many 
honest  men  and  women  over  what  seems  to  be  the  obscuration 
of  things  once  highly  valued  but  neglected  now,  I  have  re- 
curred to  the  doctrine  of  "ancient  light." 

The  application  of  my  text  is,  obviously,  that  there  is  not 
much  use  in  mourning  over  the  loss  of  the  old  outlook;  that 
it  is  incumbent  upon  us  not  to  croak  and  bewail  and  denounce, 
but  to  accommodate  ourselves  here  in  America  to  the  broader 
vision  afforded  by  the  wider  sweep  from  the  greater  height. 

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Life  is  largely  a  matter  of  readjustment  and  accommoda- 
tion. I  think  we  are  becoming  a  little  impatient  of  the  sad 
philosophers  who  mourn  for  the  good  old  times.  Our  great 
business  just  now  is  to  make  the  present  worthy  to  be  remem- 
bered as  a  golden  age  by  the  succeeding  generations.  There 
are  a  lot  of  things  we  can't  possibly  bring  back  and  the  num- 
ber of  those  who  would  cling  to  the  past  is  fortunately  not 
overpowering. 

There  are  matters  which  it  is  just  as  well  to  meet  frankly 
and  honestly,  and  first  of  all  I  would  speak  of  American  edu- 
cation and  of  culture  as  the  word  has  so  long  been  used  to 
describe  a  serious  concern  with  the  arts,  with  literature,  with 
the  humanities  as  that  word  is  employed  by  scholars.  A  great 
deal  has  been  expected  of  popular  education  in  this  particu- 
lar. Within  my  own  recollection  there  were  many  hopeful 
souls  who  saw  a  future  of  America  in  which  the  many  and  not 
the  few  would  be  devoutly  preoccupied  with  beautiful  things, 
with  the  great  world  of  literature  and  with  art  and  music. 
The  results  have  not  met  those  large  expectations.  It  is  re- 
grettable that  a  love  of  the  beautiful  can  not  be  put  into  every 
soul.  As  to  these  things  it  is  true,  indeed,  that  many  are  called 
and  few  chosen.  But  the  effort  everywhere  is  earnest  and 
praiseworthy,  and  the  proportion  of  Americans  who  are  inter- 
ested in  the  best  literature,  and  in  sculpture  and  painting, 
and  in  great  music,  is  immeasurably  larger  than  it  ever  was 
before. 

I  am  strong  for  the  present ;  for  these  changing  years  when 
events  pass  so  rapidly;  when  what  we  read  as  news  at  the 
breakfast  table  is  old  and  thrust  into  the  back  packages  of 
the  evening  papers,  so  fast  does  the  world  move.  But  we 
have  got  to  look  at  a  lot  of  things  differently  if  we  would  truly 
adjust  ourselves  to  the  times,  and  meet  responsibilities  whose 
nature  is  likely  to  change  overnight.  First  of  all  we  must 
escape  from  the  idea  that  in  industry  and  commerce  there  is 
anything  vulgar  and  contemptible.  Because  Venice  of  old 
was  friendly  to  the  arts  need  not  bind  us  to  the  fact  that  its 


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commerce  reached  all  the  known  world.  And  away  back  yon- 
der Solomon  in  all  his  glory  and  with  all  his  wisdom  was  not 
above  welcoming  the  ships  of  Tarshish  that  brought  ivory, 
apes  and  peacocks  for  his  delight.  Men  must  labor ;  men  must 
go  down  to  the  sea  in  ships  and  carry  merchandise  for  barter 
and  sale.  Nothing  ignoble  in  this ;  nothing  to  justify  the  sneer 
of  the  lords  of  the  high  and  scornful  brow !  Horace  wouldn't 
have  had  leisure  to  write  his  odes  if  he  hadn't  had  Maceneas 
to  pay  his  bills.    Somebody's  got  to  v/ork ! 

Symphony  orchestras  and  art  collections  cost  money.  If  the 
tired  business  man  in  his  weariness  prefers  the  "Follies"  to 
Ibsen,  I  sympathize  with  the  feeling.  No  man  of  any  spirit 
who  has  spent  a  day  managing  a  vexatious  and  exacting  busi- 
ness is  likely  to  find  rest  listening  to  a  dialogue  between  a  few 
neurotics  who  finally  give  it  up  and  go  out  and  jump  in  the 
well.  And  so  many  American  business  men  do  find  joy  in  the 
arts  and  give  generously  of  their  money  to  indulge  their  tastes 
that  any  sweeping  arraignment  of  them  as  a  Philistine  class 
is  preposterous.  I  once  had  the  pleasure  of  meeting  a  gentle- 
man who  had  made  a  fortune  manufacturing  stoves.  He  made 
himself  one  of  the  great  world  authorities  on  ceramics.  He 
knew  all  the  distinguished  painters  of  his  time,  and  his  col- 
lection of  Whistler's  work,  now  in  Washington,  is  a  most  val- 
uable item  of  our  national  art  treasure. 

The  old  assumption  that  between  science  and  culture  there 
is  an  inevitable  antagonism  exists  only  in  the  minds  of  back- 
ward-looking folk.  There  is  no  reason  why  these  two  forces 
should  not  respect  and  assist  each  other.  It's  as  fine  a  thing 
to  make  a  city  beautiful  and  perfect  its  sanitation  and  mini- 
mize its  poverty  as  it  is  to  paint  a  picture  or  write  a  noble 
poem.  The  arts  that  used  to  be  for  the  few  are  now  within 
the  reach  of  the  many  throughout  the  length  and  breadth  of 
America.  The  books  that  were  once  chained  to  a  shelf  in  some 
obscure  place  are  now  happily  free  to  millions.  Public  and 
private  generosity  have  democratized  the  arts. 

It  is  foolish  to  attempt  any  comparison  between  America 


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and  the  glory  that  was  Greece  and  the  grandeur  that  was 
Rome.  American  genius  in  invention  and  manufacture  has 
outstripped  American  achievements  in  the  fine  arts,  but  I  am 
not  of  those  who  speak  of  this  apologetically  and  regretfully. 
In  one  art  at  least — I  refer  to  architecture — science  and  art 
are  meeting  and  working  together  harmoniously  with  results 
that  challenge  our  admiration.  We  are  finding  that  a  sky- 
scraper can  be  made  as  beautiful  and  distinguished  as  a  Greek 
temple.  It  is  obvious,  and  history  supports  the  idea,  that  a 
nation  must  follow  its  own  special  genius.  There  lies  its 
greatest  hope  of  success  in  leaving  enduring  landmarks  on  the 
long  highway  of  time. 

x^merican  sculpture  and  painting  must  interpret  America 
and  we  find  them  doing  so.  It  is  a  difficult  thing  for  the  arts 
to  break  with  tradition.  Literature  is  responding  quite  nobly, 
but  we  still  wait  for  a  novelist  of  an  Aeschylean  imaginative 
range  to  picture  and  interpret  the  gigantic  industrial  labors 
of  a  city  like  ours.  I  used  to  watch  from  Mackinac  island 
through  the  long  summer  the  passage  southward  of  the  great 
barges  bearing  ore  to  be  transmuted  into  great  instruments  of 
power.  And  it  seemed  to  me  that  there  was  something  very 
fine  in  those  argosies ;  something  that  swung  wide  the  doors  of 
the  imagination.  And  fine,  too,  the  sight  of  vast  mills  and 
manufactories  with  their  titanic  laborers  fashioning  steel  into 
implements  of  power  and  service.  The  legends  vitalized  and 
glorified  in  Wagner's  operas  are  not  nobler  than  the  miracles 
of  steel.  And  one  day  American  Beethovens  and  Wagners  will 
interpret  these  things  for  us  in  majestic  symphonies  and  music 
dramas. 

The  great  difficulty  that  confronts  American  literature  and 
art  is  that  the  scale  of  things  with  us  is  so  vast.  Our  artists 
are  cramped  by  the  old  standards,  but  an  increasingly  large 
number  in  every  field  are  striking  out  boldly  to  do  the  Ameri- 
can thing  in  a  new  way — in  an  American  way. 

When  I  travel  through  the  west  and  see  what  Cleveland, 
Cincinnati,  Chicago,  Minneapolis  and  Kansas  City  are  doing 


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and  what  has  been  so  splendidly  accomplished  in  my  own  city 
to  elevate  the  popular  taste  in  all  the  arts,  I  am  content  to 
leave  these  matters  to  the  sincere  and  devoted  men  and  women 
who  are  so  earnestly  spreading  the  gospel  of  "sweetness  and 
light." 

There  is,  however,  another  matter,  far  more  important  to 
America  and  to  all  the  world  that  we  must  not  overlook.  This 
is  indeed  the  most  important  thing  of  all,  and  one  that  vitally 
concerns  every  American — and  that  is  a  higher  conception  of 
our  politics  than  is  now  discernible.  Here  we  are  justified  in 
challenging  popular  education  for  its  failure  to  meet  a  great 
responsibility.  There  is  something  wrong  when  only  half  the 
electorate  take  the  trouble  to  vote.  And  much  more  serious  is 
the  apparent  contentment  of  the  people  with  second  and  third- 
rate  men  in  important  offices.  Cultural  movements  to  stimu- 
late interest  in  the  arts  are  moving  forward  satisfactorily,  but 
how  to  arouse  interest  in  government,  dissociated  from  parti- 
sanship and  seeking  a  more  perfect  realization  of  the  promise 
of  democracy,  calls  for  many  stimulating  and  courageous 
voices. 

It  is  a  singular  thing  that  with  all  the  stress  laid  upon 
efficiency  in  industry  and  commerce  we  should  so  meekly  sub- 
mit to  the  second-rate  in  government.  A  democracy  presup- 
poses of  the  citizen  a  serious  concern  for  the  intelligent  and 
honest  administration  of  public  affairs.  It's  not  a  failure  to 
appreciate  the  Fifth  Symphony  or  the  beauty  of  Keats,  Shelley 
and  Wordsworth,  or  the  Winged  Victory  that  threatens  our 
national  security,  but  the  indifference  of  a  vast  host  of  our 
people  to  the  problems  of  self-government.  I  do  not  believe 
the  schools  and  colleges  are  doing  their  duty  in  this  matter. 
There  is  something  lacking  here.  The  usual  college  courses  in 
history  and  politics  are  somehow  inadequate.  Our  young  men 
and  women  are  not  bringing  home  from  the  colleges  and  uni- 
versities any  high  sense  of  their  responsibilities  as  citizens. 
Possibly  the  reason  lies  in  the  fact  that  the  teaching  is  too 
academic.    The  average  college  professor  is  timid  about  ven- 


28  Butler  Alumnal  Quarterly 

turing  opinions  that  may  be  suspected  of  party  bias.  To  meet 
this  situation  I  suggest  lectureships  to  be  filled  by  men  who 
know  practical  politics.  I  would  not  scruple  to  introduce  to 
the  students  men  known  as  party  bosses  and  have  them  tell 
how  they  do  the  job.  And  the  political  idealists  should  have  a 
chance  to  disclose  the  faith  that  is  in  them.  The  whole  aim 
would  be  to  quicken  the  interest,  to  arouse  in  every  student  a 
strong  sense  of  personal  responsibility. 

We  have  in  America  conditions  of  life  superior  to  anything 
ever  dreamed  of  by  our  grandfathers.  We  have  witnessed  an 
amazing  prolongation  of  human  life;  there  is  more  comfort 
here  than  the  world  ever  knew  before,  and  more  agencies  are 
at  work  to  destroy  misery  and  promote  human  happiness  than 
ever  before  engaged  the  interest  of  mankind.  The  achieve- 
ments of  science  constitute  the  greatest  romance  in  the  v/orld. 
What  has  been  won  for  the  comfort  and  protection  of  men 
certainly  is  not  to  be  spoken  of  disparagingly  in  comparison 
with  what  has  been  achieved  in  the  fine  arts.  In  old  times 
when  we  visited  a  strange  city  we  were  introduced  as  a  special 
favor  to  the  leading  lawyer,  possibly  to  a  judge  or  to  the  most 
eloquent  minister,  but  it  is  now  the  brilliant  surgeon  or  the 
children's  specialist  who  is  produced  for  our  special  admira- 
tion. To  create  the  likeness  of  a  man  in  bronze  or  marble  is 
splendid,  but  to  take  a  bruised  and  broken  man  and  heal  and 
restore  him  to  health  and  usefulness  is  a  finer  and  nobler 
thing.  There  are  diversities  of  gifts,  said  Saint  Paul,  all  hav- 
ing the  same  spirit! 

There  is  complaint  that  in  morality  and  religion  darkness 
has  fallen  upon  us,  but  here  I  think  we  are  attributing  too 
great  importance  to  an  ephemeral  phase  of  society.  One  thing 
is  certain,  those  old  windows  with  their  narrow  outlook  on 
religion  have  got  to  be  abandoned.  We  must  go  up  higher 
and  look  further  as  to  things  spiritual  just  as  we  are  obliged 
to  do  in  every  other  department  of  life.  Bigotry  and  intol- 
erance have  no  place  in  Twentieth  Century  America.  The 
trouble  is  not  that  Christianity  is  dying,  but  that  it  needs  the 


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sunlight  and  more  air!  It  must  be  translated  into  terms  of 
modern  life.  A  million  books  have  been  written  to  explain 
Jesus,  but  He  remains  His  own  best  interpreter.  And  wher- 
ever there  is  a  hospital,  or  a  home  for  the  unfortunate,  or 
some  individual  alone  is  visiting  the  sick  and  needy  there  the 
work  of  Jesus  Christ  is  being  done. 

That  was  the  greatest  day  in  the  history  of  the  world  when 
He  went  down  to  the  fords  of  the  Jordan  and  offered  a  new 
hope  to  the  children  of  men.  And  His  spirit  still  broods  over 
us.  He  walks  the  street  of  the  modern  city  just  as  He  walked 
through  the  villages  and  along  the  roads  of  Syria,  and  many 
who  know  not  His  name  follow  and  serve  Him.  Wherever 
there  is  generosity  and  kindness  and  helpfulness;  wherever 
mercy  and  justice  and  love  and  peace  are  manifest  He  is  there. 
The  highest  aspirations  of  mankind  are  derived  from  Him; 
and  in  all  our  labors  to  make  the  world  a  more  beautiful  and 
happier  place  He  is  the  unseen  leader  bearing  the  Light  that 
lightens  all  the  world. 

What  Women  Have  Done  for  Me 

By  Dr.  Harvey  W.  Wiley. 
There  is  one  more  incident  where  a  woman's  influence  has 
made  a  great  impression  on  me  and  my  career.  At  the  time  I 
was  teaching  Latin  at  Butler  College,  there  was  added  to  the 
faculty  a  woman  of  the  highest  character  and  ability.  Miss 
Catharine  Merrill.  She  belonged  to  one  of  the  leading  families 
of  Indianapolis,  had  a  high  social  position,  and  was  recognized 
as  a  woman  of  superior  character  and  ability.  It  was  my  good 
fortune  to  be  associated  with  her  for  a  period  of  three  years. 
She  continued  as  a  professor  in  Butler  College  for  many  years 
thereafter  and  achieved  notable  success.  Catharine  Merrill 
was  a  woman  of  quiet  habits,  serious  nature,  and  positive  pur- 
pose. Her  ambition  was  to  do  her  work  in  the  best  possible 
way,  in  so  far  as  instruction  was  concerned,  but  particularly 
to  mold  the  character  of  the  girls  and  young  ladies  who  came 


30  Butler  Alumnal  Quarterly 

under  her  supervision.     She  was  Dean  of  Women  at  Butler 
College. 

Without  any  effort  on  her  part,  however,  her  influence  on 
the  members  of  the  faculty  and  the  young  men  of  the  Insti- 
tution became  very  real.  No  one  can  describe  the  exact  char- 
acter of  the  impression  which  she  made.  To  me,  it  was  one  of 
the  most  salutary  influences,  save  that  of  my  mother  and  sis- 
ter, that  I  had  ever  come  under.  No  one  in  the  presence  of 
Miss  Merrill  could  entertain  any  idea  of  action  which  was  not 
wholly  ethical  and  religious  in  its  nature.  It  was  not  so  much 
her  teaching  that  made  her  a  power,  as  her  silent  influence. 
Her  very  presence  was  a  benediction.  I  owe  much  to  Miss 
Merrill  in  my  early  career.  I  have  always  cherished  a  deep 
veneration  for  her  and  the  most  delightful  recollections  of  my 
association  with  her. 

—Reprinted  from  GOOD  HOUSEKEEPING,  February,  1925. 

BUTLER  ALUMNAL  QUARTERLY 

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Officers  of  the  Alumni  Association — President,  Dr.  D.  W.  Layman,  '93; 
First  Vice-President,  Clarence  L.  Goodwin,  ex-'80;  Second  Vice-Pres- 
ident, Corinne  Welling.  '12;  Treasurer,  John  I.  Kautz,  '22.  Appointees, 
Edwin  E.  Thompson,  '00,  and  Lee  Bums,  ex-'93. 

Secretary  and  Editor  of  the  Butler  Alumnal  Quarterly — Katharine  M. 
Graydon,  '78. 

Editorial 

The  possible  value  of  Alumni  Funds  for  the  support  of  many 
colleges  is  reflected  in  the  alumni  activities  in  this  direction 
at  Yale  and  Dartmouth.  In  a  little  over  thirty  years,  the 
Yale  alumni,  beginning  with  an  annual  contribution  of 
$11,000,  have  gradually  increased  their  interest  in  Alma  Mater 
to  a  point  where  over  a  quarter  of  a  million  is  contributed 
annually  to  the  service  of  the  University.     Dartmouth  Col- 


Editorial  31 

lege,  with  an  operation  of  about  eighteen  years,  shows  an 
increase  of  graduate  interest  by  a  comparison  of  the  first 
year's  alumni  gifts  of  $5,100  with  the  last  year's  contribution 
of  $80,579,  with  a  very  steady  increase  in  the  number  of  par- 
ticipants. 

This  method  is  not  patented,  and  there  are  many  colleges 
in  which  similar  plans  are  furnishing  the  colleges  with  funds 
for  enlarged  activities. 

At  a  recent  college  dinner  in  New  York  this  sentiment  was 
expressed :  "A  college  which  admitted  that  it  had  no  need  for 
funds  would  be  in  a  moribund  condition.  ALL  FIRST  CLASS 
COLLEGES  ARE  SEEKING  FUNDS." 

Butler  College  is  no  exception  to  this  classification.  The 
alumni  of  Yale  and  Dartmouth  and  many  other  colleges  have 
no  greater  obligation  to  their  institutions  than  have  our  own. 

The  year  1924-1925  is  seeing  a  new  operation  in  alumni 
activities.  Every  alumnus  of  the  institution  has  been  in- 
formed of  the  Class  Secretary  Association  the  object  being  to 
place  in  the  hands  of  a  class  secretary  the  responsibility  of 
the  alumni  activities  of  that  class  and  its  relationship  to  the 
College,  the  Association  in  nowise  to  supplant  the  general 
Alumni  Association,  but  to  be  one  unit  of  activity  through 
which  that  Association  functions. 

Our  Association  of  Class  Secretaries  has  voted  to  support 
one  Alumni  Scholarship,  more  if  possible,  and  to  bestow  two 
honor  medals  upon  the  man  and  the  woman  whose  influence 
for  the  College  during  the  year  has  been  worthy  of  recogni- 
tion. It  is  hoped  that  every  alumnus  will  through  his  class 
secretary  or  the  general  Alumni  Secretary  make  some  con- 
tribution to  this  worthy  cause — any  amount,  from  one  dollar 
up  to  many  dollars.  Many  classes  have  responded  quickly 
and  generously.     Others  are  slow  in  answering. 

Many  forms  of  accomplishment  are  under  discussion  of  an 
enthusiastic  executive  committee  of  the  Alumni  Association, 
all  showing  attractive  and  vital  opportunity  for  usefulness. 
The  Association  needs  your  help  in  suggestion,  in  contribution, 


32  Butler  Alumnal  Quarterly 

however  small — anything  which  will  show  that  wherever  you 
are  you  still  carry  remembrance  of  the  Old  School,  and  that 
you  are  still  a  responsible  son  or  daughter. 

So,  if  you  have  not  answered  the  letter  sent  to  you  by  your 
class  secretary,  do  so  without  delay — send  in  the  card  enclosed 
and  your  contribution. 

To  facilitate  memory,  your  class  secretary  m.ay  be  addressed 
at  Butler  College. 

The  Directory  of  Class  Secretaries 

1879.  Demarchus  C.  Brown,  State  Library,  Indianapolis. 

1880.  Mrs.  Flora  Frazier  Dill,  3344  Park  Avenue.  Indian- 

apolis. 

1881.  Mrs.  Myron  R.  Williams,  137  West  28th  Street,  In- 

dianapolis. 
1882. 

1883.  Robert  L.  Dorsey,  Tucker  &  Dorsey,  Indianapolis. 

1884.  Mrs.  Grace  Julian  Clarke,  115  South  Audubon  Road, 

Indianapolis. 

1885.  Arthur  V.  Brown,  Union  Trust  Co.,  Indianapolis. 
1886. 

1887.  Jane  Graydon,  303  Downey  Avenue,  Indianapolis. 

1888.  Hugh  Th.  Miller,  Columbus,  Ind. 
1889. 

1890.  Mrs.  Vida  T.  Cottman,  336  N.  Ritter  Avenue,  In- 

dianapolis. 

1891.  Mrs.  Mary  Brouse  Schmuck,  5808  East  Washington 

St.,  Indianapolis. 

1892.  Mrs.  John  S.  Wright,  3730  N.  Pennsylvania  Street, 

Indianapolis. 

1893.  Dr.  D.  W.  Layman,  Medical  Arts  Building,  N.  Penn- 

sylvania Street,  Indianapolis. 

1894.  Mrs.  Willis  K.  Miller,  312  Downey  Avenue,  Indian- 

apolis. 

1895.  Mrs.  Mansur  Oakes,  2121  N.  Alabama  Street,  In- 

dianapolis. 


Directory  of  Class  Secretaries  33 

1896. 

1897.  Mabel  Tibbott,  336  N.  Ritter  Avenue,  Indianapolis. 

1898. 

1899.  Emily  Helming,  552  N.  Central  Court,  Indianapolis. 

1900.  Esther  Fay  Shover,  2057  Broadway,  Indianapolis. 

1901.  May  Cunningham,  2327  N.  Meridian  St.,  Indianap- 

olis. 

1902.  Emmett  S.  Huggins,  5451  Julian  Avenue,  Indianap- 

olis. 
1903. 

1904.  Katherine  Quinn,  722  Fairfield  Avenue,  Indianapolis. 

1905.  Mrs.  Edith  D.  Hughes,  1728  Cross  Drive,  Woodruff 

Place,  Indianapolis. 

1906.  Mrs.  Gem  Craig  Reasoner,  920  Campbell  Street,  In- 

dianapolis. 

1907.  Mrs.   Mary   Clark   Parker,   Spink-Arms   Hotel,   In- 

dianapolis. 

1908.  Mrs.  John  Wallace,  246  Hampton  Drive,  Indianap- 

olis. 

1909.  Mrs.  Elizabeth  Bogert  Schofield,  2625  E.  Washing- 

ton Street,  Indianapolis. 

1910.  Herbert  Hyman,  3445  Birchwood  Avenue,  Indianap- 

olis. 

1911.  Maud  Russell,  60  N.  Ritter  Avenue,  Indianapolis. 

1912.  Corinne  Welling,  5202  Washington  Boulevard,  In- 

dianapolis. 

1913.  Mrs.  Jessie  Breadheft  Chalifour,  2131  East  Tenth 

Street,  Indianapolis. 

1914.  Mrs.  Ellen  Graham  George,  2802  Cornell  Avenue, 

Indianapolis. 

1915.  Justus  W.  Paul,  Butler  College,  Indianapolis. 

1916.  Francis  W.  Payne,  261  Burgess  Avenue,  Indianap- 

olis. 

1917.  Urith  Dailey,  279  S.  Ritter  Avenue,  Indianapolis. 

1918.  Virginia  Kingsbury,  317  Downey  Avenue,  Indianap- 

olis. 


34  Butler  Alumnal  Quarterly 

1919.  Jean    Brown,    5087    East   Washington    Street,    In- 

dianapolis. 

1920.  Gladys  Banes,  1556  Brookside  Avenue,  Indianapolis. 

1921.  Dr.  Paul  Draper,  31  N.  Gladstone  Avenue,  Indianap- 

olis. 

1922.  Mrs.  Dale  Hodges,  5345  East  Washington  Street, 

Indianapolis. 

1923.  Scot  Clifford,  124  Downey  Avenue,  Indianapolis. 

1924.  Gwendolen  Dorey,  4602  N.  Pennsylvania  Street,  In- 

dianapolis. 

From  The  City  Office 
By  John  W.  Atherton 

The  offer  of  $300,000  to  the  Butler  building  fund,  made  by 
William  G.  Irwin  and  his  sister,  Mrs.  Z.  T.  Sweeney,  of 
Columbus,  has  been  the  outstanding  event  of  the  Butler  cam- 
paign for  the  first  quarter  of  the  year.  Mr.  Irwin  and  Mrs. 
Sweeney  made  a  condition  that  $700,000  additional  must  be 
raised  by  the  end  of  the  year.  It  is  felt  that  this  condition  is 
no  more  than  fair.  If  these  two  friends  of  the  college,  who 
do  not  live  in  Indianapolis,  are  willing  to  give  approximately 
one-third  of  a  $1,000,000  building  fund,  surely  the  rest  of  the 
alumni  and  friends  ought  to  be  able  to  give  the  other  two- 
thirds. 

Since  the  days  of  Joseph  I.  Irwin,  father  of  the  two  donors 
to  this  new  fund,  the  college  has  been  indebted  to  the  Irwin 
family.  Joseph  I.  Irwin  gave  liberally  to  the  institution  at  a 
time  when  financial  assistance  was  necessary  to  keep  the  col- 
lege from  closing  its  doors.  His  son  and  daughter  now  are 
following  in  his  footsteps  and  with  their  latest  offer  the  total 
gifts  from  the  Irwin  family  reach  $600,000. 

Inspired  by  the  challenge  to  the  community  some  generous 
gifts  have  been  coming  into  the  building  fund.  J.  J.  Appel 
and  Arthur  Baxter  have  given  $15,000  each.  Other  gifts  are 
anticipated  and  some  smaller  amounts  have  been  received 


From  the  City  Office  35 

from  time  to  time.  An  inspiring  example  was  given  by  Robert 
R.  Batton,  an  attorney  of  Marion.  He  sent  his  check  for 
$1,000  to  the  building  fund  and  is  now  engaged  in  raising 
money  for  the  college  at  Marion.  He  attended  Butler  three 
years,  and  later  was  graduated  from  another  school  but  in 
connection  with  his  gift  he  said :  "Personally,  as  you  perhaps 
already  know,  I  came  to  Butler  with  less  than  $20  as  a  sum 
total  of  my  financial  resources  and  received  three  years  of 
liberal  arts  education  at  her  hands  in  addition  to  much  other 
invaluable  training.  And  I  have  always  felt  that  any  success 
I  have  made  or  may  hereafter  make,  I  ov/e  largely  to  that 
education  and  training.  So  that  from  a  purelj''  personal 
standpoint,  I  am  much  gratified  to  find  myself  in  a  position  to 
make  this  contribution." 

If  other  members  of  the  alumni  and  former  students  look 
at  Butler  in  the  same  way  there  will  be  no  difficulty  experi- 
enced in  pledging  enough  to  permit  the  board  to  take  advan- 
tage of  the  offer  of  Mr.  Irwin  and  Mrs.  Sweeney.  Mr.  Irwin 
is  now  in  Europe  and  will  be  gone  for  some  time.  He  will  be 
missed  in  planning  additional  details  for  this  year's  campaign. 

"We  are  prouder  of  Will  Irwin  than  ever,"  said  Emsley  W. 
Johnson,  one  of  the  members  of  the  Board.  "We  have  been 
proud  of  him  as  an  example  of  successful  Butler  graduate  but 
we  have  a  feeling  of  deeper  pride  in  the  realization  that  he  and 
his  sister  have  great  affection  for  the  school  and  that  they 
are  now  hopeful  that  it  can  be  made  an  institution  of  sufficient 
size  and  equipment  that  it  will  be  of  service  to  hundreds  and 
thousands  in  the  future.  Mr.  Irwin's  advice  as  chairman  of 
the  general  committee  has  been  priceless.  The  least  that  we 
can  do,  since  his  generous  offer  was  made,  is  to  meet  the  con- 
ditions, accept  the  challenge  and  go  about  the  work  of  pledging 
the  remaining  $700,000  needed  to  complete  the  $1,000,000 
building  fund." 

The  dominant  thought,  at  the  moment,  is  that  of  meeting 
the  challenge.  Butler  has  been  offered  $300,000  if  a  little 
more  than  twice  that  sum  can  be  obtained  from  any  source. 


36  Butler  Alumnal  Quarterly 

Butler  never  has  permitted  such  an  opportunitj^  to  go  by  be- 
fore and  we  are  confident  that  graduates  and  former  students 
of  the  school  will  not  be  found  wanting  in  this  emergency. 

Athletics 

Basketball,  Track  and  Baseball 
Captain  Hal  Griggs  and  his  basket  shooters  brought  the 
winter  season  to  a  close  in  a  blaze  of  glory.  Down  at  Franklin 
the  wonder  five  were  put  to  rout  by  a  29  to  16  Bulldog  victory. 
The  game  as  played  was  more  convincing  than  the  previous 
year  when  the  Baptists  were  crocked  36  to  22  after  a  long 
string  of  victories.  The  passing  of  Franklin  has  left  Wabash 
at  the  top  of  the  State  quintets.  Their  honors  were  rightly 
deserved  with  15  straight  victories  over  the  best  in  the  middle 
west.  Just  one  thing  denied  our  basket  bailers  of  the  state 
title  and  that  was  lack  of  a  home  gymnasium,  where  a  little 
basket  shooting  luck  is  needed.  The  value  of  a  few  free 
throws  was  emphasized  when  Wabash  and  Butler  each  scored 
7  field  goals  at  Tomlinson  hall  and  at  Crawfordsville,  Butler 
shot  11  to  Wabash's  10  field  goals,  but  lost  on  the  almighty 
foul  toss.  High  lights  of  the  indoor  season  were  the  Four 
Western  Conference  victories  and  double  wins  over  Notre 
Dame,  DePauw  and  Vanderbilt.  Butler  didn't  enter  the  Na- 
tional A.  A.  U.  tourney  to  uphold  its  1924  title  as  the  squad 
couldn't  afford  to  miss  class  work. 

The  personnel  of  the  team  included  two  seniors;  Capt. 
Griggs,  the  best  all  around  athlete  in  Hoosierland,  who  was 
handicapped  with  football  injuries  but  turned  in  wonderful 
games  at  Franklin  and  Wabash,  while  Gene  Colway,  of  Mun- 
cie,  was  brilliant  throughout  the  season  in  his  guarding,  being 
given  all  star  mention. 

Juniors  who  came  across  were  Bop  Nipper,  Captain-elect 
for  1926,  a  beautiful  floor  man.  Jim  Keach,  a  heavy  driver 
who  has  the  punch.  Jerry  Strole,  of  Kentland,  a  comer  in  the 
back   guard   field.     Dave   Konold,   of   Elwood,   a   steady  all 


Athletics  37 

around  man,  and  Al  Harker,  Butler's  regular  back  guard  of 
1924,  whose  luck  was  against  his  playing  regularly  due  to 
injuries  just  before  the  season  opened. 

Sophomores  who  made  good  their  first  year  on  the  Varsity 
were  Christopher  of  Greencastle,  the  University  free  throwing 
gold  medal  winner.  Bob  Wakefield,  of  Ben  Davis,  who  has  a 
fine  future  as  a  goal  shooter,  Nail  of  St.  Paul,  Daubenspeck  of 
Broad  Ripple,  McGuire  of  Lebanon.  The  future  has  much  in 
store  for  the  blue  and  white  with  a  fine  group  of  Freshmen 
being  developed  by  Coach  Hinkle.  Men  who  will  be  seen  next 
year  are  Capt.  Chadd  of  Bainbridge,  Holz  of  Frankfort,  Col- 
lier of  Wilkinson,  Summers  of  Manual,  Jackman  of  Broad 
Ripple,  Zell,  Meek,  Collyer,  Tudor,  Thornton,  Eck,  Ball  and 
others. 

Eight  Varsity  letters  and  twelve  numeral  awards  were  made 
at  the  annual  chicken  dinner  given  at  Page's  country  place. 

The  Track  and  Field  men  are  now  under  way  with  Glen 
Gray  as  Captain.  Butler  lacks  in  number  of  men.  Last  sea- 
son eight  Butler  men  landed  honors  next  to  Notre  Dame  in  the 
State  Meet.  The  indoor  season  saw  our  relay  runners  on  top. 
Gray,  Caraway,  Ham  and  Phillips  set  a  new  one  mile  record 
at  the  Illinois  Relay  Carnival  at  3.28  1/5.  While  at  Cleveland 
the  best  in  Ohio  were  defeated.  At  the  Cincinnati  and  Louis- 
ville A.  A.  U.  Championships  Butler  scored  many  points. 

The  outdoor  season  includes  many  interesting  trips  for  the 
men.  The  Texas  relays,  Kansas  and  Drake  are  the  high 
spots.  While  dual  meets  with  Ohio  Wesleyan  State  Normal 
at  Michigan,  DePauw,  Franklin,  and  Earlham  with  the  State 
meet  at  Lafayette,  the  Western  Intercollegiates  at  Columbus, 
Ohio  and  the  National  collegiates  at  Chicago  should  furnish 
keen  competition  for  the  following  men,  small  in  numbers, 
but  mighty:  Glen  Gray,  sprints;  Nig  Woods,  hurdles  and 
jumps;  Hal  Griggs,  weights;  H.  Phillips,  middle  distances;  S. 
Ham,  low  hurdles;  H.  Caraway,  half  miler;  D.  Kilgore, 
quarter  mile;  B.  Graham,  pole  vault;  Wm.  Robinson  and  J. 
Wales,  distance  runs. 


38  Butler  Alumnal  Quarterly 

Butler  will  have  a  new  baseball  team  since  eight  good  men 
have  graduated.  Coach  Hinkle  has  a  big  job  on  his  hands  to 
uphold  the  blue  and  white  record  of  the  past.  A  southern 
training  trip  will  be  made  during  spring  vacation  week.  Two 
Western  Conference  games  are  carded  at  Ohio  State  and  Uni- 
versity of  Chicago.  Twenty  college  games  are  slated  with  the 
season  closing  against  the  alumni  on  Irwin  Field,  June  13th. 
The  leading  candidates  include  Buck  Ewing  and  H.  Woodling 
pitchers,  Art  Queisser  and  Carl  Cecil  catchers,  Jerry  Strole 
and  Dave  Konold  on  1st  base,  Bop  Nipper  at  2nd,  Mills  on 
short,  Woolgar  on  3rd,  Keach,  Griggs,  Phillips,  Morris,  Roby 
in  the  outfield. 

Since  Otto  Strohmeier,  Freshman  coach,  has  gone  east  to 
enter  the  clothing  business,  H.  W.  Middlesworth  has  been 
engaged  to  coach  the  Freshman  baseball  men  and  assist  in 
spring  football  practice  which  will  be  held  through  the  month 
of  April.  "Wally"  has  a  fine  reputation  in  middle  western 
athletic  circles,  having  competed  in  three  major  sports  for 
Butler  during  the  past  four  years.  His  greatest  achievement 
was  in  captaining  the  National  A.  A.  U.  basketball  champs 
last  year. 

Coach  Page  is  always  looking  into  the  future.  The  time 
has  come  when  Butler  needs  to  capitalize  its  athletic  boom. 
We  have  outgrown  our  athletic  field  and  gjrmnasium,  our  men 
have  gained  National  reputation.  It's  a  hard  job  to  uphold 
these  honors.  It  takes  co-operation  on  all  sides.  Butler  is 
proud  of  a  fine  scholastic  reputation  also.  During  the  past 
semester  many  promising  freshman  athletes  fell  by  the  way- 
side in  their  all  important  study.  The  bulldog  coaches  have 
sent  out  a  call  for  more  red  blooded  men  to  carry  on  the  bril- 
liant work  started.  A  wonderful  football  schedule  for  next 
autumn  is  in  store:  Earlham,  DePauw,  Illinois,  Franklin, 
Wabash,  Rose  Poly,  Minnesota,  Dayton,  and  Centenary  at 
Shreveport,  Louisiana. 


Athletics  89 

Butler  Spring  Baseball  Schedule  1925 

April  1-  2       Cumberland  University  at  Lebanon,  Tenn. 

"  3       Vanderbilt  University  at  Nashville,  Tenn. 

"  4  *  University  of  Louisville  at  Louisville,  Ky. 

"      7-8  Practice  game  here. 

"  11  *Ohio  State  University  at  Columbus,  Ohio. 

"  14       Practice  game  here. 

"  17       University  of  Louisville  here. 

"  18  *  Dayton  University  at  Dayton,  Ohio. 

"         24       Hanover  College  here. 

25  *Game. 

28       Franklin  College  here. 

May  2  *Wabash  College  here. 

"  5       State  Normal  at  Terre  Haute. 

"  6  Practice  game  here. 

"  9  *University  of  Chicago  at  Chicago. 

"         12      DePauw  at  Greencastle. 

"         15      State  Normal  here. 

"         16  *Hanover  College  at  Hanover. 

"  19       Franklin  College  at  Franklin. 

"         22       DePauw  University  here. 

"         23  *  University  of  Dayton  here. 

"         26      Practice  game. 

"  29       State  Normal  at  Kalamazoo,  Mich. 

"  30  *Michigan  Aggies  at  East  Lansing. 

June         2      Wabash  at  Crawfordsville. 

"  12       B  Men's  Association  Banquet. 

"  13  *Annual  Alumni  game  here. 

Note:     Midweek  games  on  Irwin  Field  will  begin  at  3:30 
p.  m. 

*  Saturday  games  at  3 :30  p.  m. 


40 


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Butler  Track  and  Field  Schedule  1925 

Illinois  Athletic  Club  games  at  Chicago. 

Kansas  City  games  at  Kansas  City,  Mo. 

Illinois  Relays  at  Urbana. 

National  A.  A.  U.  Championships  at  Louis- 
ville. 

Relay  games  at  Cleveland,  Ohio. 

Ohio  A.  A.  U.  games  at  Cincinnati. 

University  of  Texas  Relays  at  Austin. 

Rice  Institute  Relays  at  Houston. 

Ohio  Wesleyan  Dual  at  Delaware. 

Kansas  Relays  at  Lawrence  or 

Ohio  Relays  at  Columbus. 

Pennsy  or  Drake  Relays  at  Des  Moines,  la. 

DePauw  dual  meet  at  Greencastle. 

Interclass  Track  meet,  Irwin  Field. 

Freshman  Triangular  meet,  Irwin  Field. 

Earlham,  Franklin,  Butler  Triangular  meet 
at  Richmond. 

Collegiate  Championship  at  Richmond. 

State  Meet  at  Lafayette. 

Freshman  dual  meet. 

Kalamazoo  State  Normal  dual  meet  at  Kal- 
amazoo, Mich. 

Western  Conference  meet  at  Columbus,  0. 

National  Collegiate  at  Chicago. 


Butler  In  Chicago 

BUTLER  IN  INDIA  announced  in  the  last  issue  is  followed 
by  the  pleasant  news  of  a  BUTLER  IN  CHICAGO.  Congrat- 
ulations of  the  QUARTERLY  go  out  to  those  loyal  alumni 
workers  near  home  as  well  as  to  those  around  the  world.  Much 
good,  it  is  believed,  will  be  the  result  of  those  interested  in  the 
Alma  Mater  organized  into  some  congenial  form.  It  is  hoped 
this  step  will  be  repeated  in  every  community  where  even  two 
or  three  may  be  gathered  together. 

On  Saturday,  March  7,  was  held  in  the  Narcissus  Room  of 
Marshall  Field's  in  Chicago,  a  gathering  of  eighteen  Butler 
alumni  for  luncheon.  Little  formal  business  was  done  other 
than  to  pass  the  motion  to  organize  the  Butler  Alumni  Asso- 
ciation of  Chicago,  followed  by  an  election  of  officers,  which 
resulted  as  follows:  President,  Lawrence  W.  Bridge,  '14; 
vice-president,  F.  R.  Davidson,  '14;  secretary-treasurer,  Mrs. 
Mable  Felt  Browder,  '15.  It  was  voted  to  have  four  quarterly 
luncheons,  the  next  to  be  held  on  May  2. 

Those  present  were:  Lawrence  W.  Bridge,  Clifford  H. 
Browder,  Mrs.  Mable  Felt  Browder,  Mrs.  Frances  Hill  Arms, 
Mrs.  Lesley  Clay  Keach,  Mrs.  Cornelia  Thornton  Morrison, 
Mrs.  Gwyneth  Harry  Meyer,  F.  E.  Davison,  Flora  Naylor  Hay, 
Charles  F.  McElroy  and  Mrs.  McElroy,  Mrs.  Edith  Habbe 
Marx,  Mrs.  Myrtella  Sewell  Whitsell,  Sterling  G.  Rothermel, 
Verl  A.  Wise,  Milton  0.  Naramore,  H.  N.  Rogers,  Dr.  Earl 
McRoberts. 

Butler  Publications 

Paul  L.  Haworth,  head  of  the  history  department,  has  just 
put  out  through  the  Bobbs-Merrill  Company  a  new  volume, 
GEORGE  WASHINGTON— Country  Gentleman.  The  vol- 
ume combines  narrative  interest  with  recorded  fact,  and  will 
give  pleasure  to  those  interested  in  early  history  and  in  coun- 
try life  of  the  colonial  days, 

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42  Butler  Alumnal  Quarterly 

Announcement  is  made  of  the  recent  appearance  through 
the  National  Research  Council  of  New  York,  of  a  volume  titled 
MARINE  STRUCTURES— Their  Deterioration  and  Preser- 
vation— by  William  G.  Atwood  and  A.  A.  Johnson.  The  book 
is  a  Survey  of  Water  Conditions  and  the  Behavior  of  Con- 
struction Materials  in  all  the  Important  Harbors  of  the 
United  States,  Caribbean  and  Pacific  Islands,  and  the  West 
Coast  of  Mexico.  The  data  reported  from  over  three  hundred 
test  stations  are  of  vital  importance  to  those  concerned  with 
maritime  construction. 

The  London  publication  ENGINEERING  says :  "The  ma- 
terials on  which  their  reports  are  founded  represent  not  only 
the  work  of  the  Committee,  but  embrace  the  views  of  engineers 
and  experts  best  qualified  to  express  an  opinion.  They  con- 
tain a  wealth  of  information  and  taken  in  connection  with  the 
extensive  bibliography  provide  a  survey  of  the  whole  range 
of  the  destructive  work  of  marine  organisms  and  the  prob- 
lem of  the  durability  of  maritime  structure." 

The  book  has  been  cordially  received  and  reviewed  at  length 
in  the  more  important  engineering  magazines,  English  as 
well  as  American. 

The  QUARTERLY  congratulates  Mr.  Johnson,  of  the  class 
of  '95,  and  wishes  him  well  in  all  his  ways.  He  and  Mrs. 
Johnson,  '95,  are  living  in  New  York  City. 

Professor  Ratti  has  just  completed  arrangements  for  the 
publication  by  Alfred  A.  Knopf,  of  New  York,  of  his  new  text 
book  entitled,  "A  Progressive  Course  in  French  Composition 
and  Conversation."  The  book  embodies  an  entirely  new  method 
of  teaching  advanced  French  composition  and  conversation, 
and  is  the  result  of  many  years  of  experience  with  classes  in 
French  in  both  colleges  and  universities  in  America.  It  makes 
use  of  several  new  but  pedagogically  sound  devices  in  order  to 
develop  in  the  student  the  ability  to  write  original  composi- 
tions in  French,  without  having  to  resort  to  the  unsatisfactory 
method  of  making  the  student  translate  an  English  passage 


Butler  Publications  43 

into  French.  One  of  these  devices  is  a  modification  of  what 
Professor  Ratti  had  occasion  to  observe  directly  in  the  classes 
for  French  and  Italian  students  at  the  University  of  Grenoble, 
during  a  previous  sojourn  abroad. 

The  text  book  is  intended  for  use  in  third-year  and  fourth- 
year  college  classes,  but  it  can  be  used  to  advantage  in  ad- 
vanced high  school  classes  as  well. 

Professor  Ratti  hopes  that  the  book  will  be  on  the  market 
in  time  for  its  adoption  for  classes  next  semester.  The  extra 
work  involved  in  its  publication,  coupled  with  that  incidental 
to  his  trip  abroad,  leads  us  to  agree  with  him  when  he  says 
that  he  will  be  quite  busy  between  now  and  June  20th,  the 
day  on  which  the  family  expects  to  sail. 

THE  IOWA  HEALTH  BULLETIN  his  just  issued  a  pam- 
phlet containing  an  article  on  "Water  S  pplies  for  Schools" 
by  Jack  J.  Hinman,  Jr.  The  author,  who  graduated  from  But- 
ler with  the  class  of  1911,  is  chief  of  the  water  laboratory 
division  of  the  laboratories  for  the  Iowa  State  Board  of  Health 
and  associate  professor  of  sanitation,  State  L^niversity  of 
Iowa. 

Commencement 

The  program  for  the  seventieth  annual  Commencement  will 
open  with  the  Phi  Kappa  Phi  banquet  on  the  evening  of  June 
12,  followed  by  the  Class  Day  the  morning  of  the  13th,  the 
Alumni  Reunion  the  evening  of  the  13th,  the  Baccalaureate 
Address  on  Sunday  afternoon,  the  14th,  and  Commencement 
the  morning  of  the  15th.  Details  of  the  week  will  be  made 
known  later. 


Class  Anniversaries 

The  Golden  Anniversary  falls  to  the  class  of  '75,  whose 
living  members  are  Rev.  W.  T.  Sellers  of  Indianapolis  and 
Rev.  Samuel  J.  Tomlinson  of  Fairland,  Indiana. 

The  Silver  Jubilee  will  be  observed  by  the  class  of  1900, 
whose  members  are:  Emily  Adams  (Mrs.  Samuel  Emison), 
Elizabeth  Anne  Butler  (Mrs.  Carlos  Recker),  John  W.  Ather- 
ton,  John  R.  Carr,  Anne  Edgeworth,  Cora  Emrich,  Grace  F. 
Gookin  (Mrs.  W.  J.  Karslake),  Mary  Charlotte  Graham  (Mrs. 
Alfred  Place),  Mary  Charlotte  Griggs  (Mrs.  W.  D.  Van  Voor- 
his),  Mabel  Hauk  (Mrs.  Thundere),  Emsley  W.  Johnson, 
Penelope  V.  Kern,  Blanche  P.  Noel,  Clara  Overhiser  (Mrs.  I. 
L.  Frye),  A.  L.  Portteus,  Ethel  B.  Roberts  (Mrs.  Carl  Loop), 
Esther  Fay  Shover,  Raymond  A.  Smith,  Edwin  E.  Thompson, 
Shelley  D.  Watts. 

The  class  of  1915  will  observe  its  Tenth  anniversary.  Of 
this  class  the  living  membership  is :  Alta  E.  Barmf uhrer 
(Mrs.  R.  H.  Kane),  Beth  Barr,  Gladys  Bowser  (Mrs.  Wm. 
CofRn),  Muriel  Bruner  (Mrs.  H.  L.  Schwalzried),  Howard  C. 
Caldwell,  Lucille  Carter,  Ruth  B.  Carter,  Margaret  E.  Choate 
(Mrs.  Chas.  E.  Smith),  Elton  R.  Clarke,  Ruth  Elizabeth  Cun- 
ningham (Mrs.  L.  N.  Kirkhoff),  Ruth  E.  Densford,  Earl  S. 
Farmer,  Mabel  M.  Felt  (Mrs.  Clifford  Browder),  Charlotte 
Ferguson  (Mrs.  C.  M.  Zink),  Jeanette  W.  Gawne,  Margaret 
L.  Griffith,  Cecil  C.  Griggs,  Bernice  Hall  (Mrs.  F.  Elbert 
Glass),  Marjorie  Hall  (Mrs.  Walter  Montgomery),  Harry  F. 
Lett,  B.  W.  Lewis,  Ruth  Miles  (Mrs.  R.  L.  Wise),  Maude  E. 
Nesbit,  Motosaburo  Oiwa,  C.  E.  Oldham,  Justus  W.  Paul,  Mary 
L.  Peacock  (Mrs.  Edward  Lewis),  Edward  Ploenges,  Rexford 
M.  Pruitt,  Hugh  Shields,  Grace  0.  Small  (Mrs.  J.  C.  Walton), 
Ferris  J.  Stephens,  Elizabeth  F.  Stephenson  (Mrs.  Leonard  I. 
Kercheval),  Frank  W.  Sumner,  Roy  W.  Townsend,  Albert  R. 
Tucker,  Elizabeth  Vawter,  Beth  Wilson,  Mary  L.  Winks  (Mrs. 
Albert  H.  Russell),  Verl  A.  Wise,  Modeste  P.  Capiel,  Narcie 
Pollitt,  Remberto  A.  Hernandez. 

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Faculty  Notes 

President  Aley's  lengthy  program  of  addresses  for  this 
spring  indiides  the  following  announcements : 

March  6,  Federation  of  Parent  Teachers'  Club  of  Indian- 
apolis— address:  Good  Citizenship. 

March  13,  Beech  Grove  High  School — address:  Why  Get  An 
Education  ? 

March  14,  Matinee  Musical  Society — address:  Music  and 
Colleges. 

April  13,  Indianapolis  Literary  Club — address :  Experiences 
of  a  College  Executive. 

April  15,  Fifth  District  Indiana  Federation  of  Clubs,  Clin- 
ton, Indiana — Women  and  Good  Citizenship. 

Commencement  addresses  in  Indiana :  Manila,  Greenwood, 
Boonville,  Princeton,  Edinburg,  South  Bend,  and  Kiwana,  111. 

Mr.  Irving  Allen  of  the  Department  of  Economics  is  doing 
some  very  creditable  work  as  a  book  reviewer.  For  The  In- 
dianapolis News,  he  has  reviewed  particularly  The  Principles 
of  Psychology,  Volume  I,  by  J.  R.  Kantor,  and  in  addition 
Fruit  of  the  Family  Tree,  by  A.  E.  Wiggam,  and  Tales  of 
Hearsay,  by  Joseph  Conrad.  For  Mr.  Percy  Beach's  Book- 
notes,  he  has  reviewed  The  Green  Hat,  by  Michael  Arlen. 

Professor  H.  E.  Birdsong,  of  the  Department  of  Journal- 
ism, conducts  a  department  Criticism  of  High  School  Papers 
in  the  Scholastic  Editor,  a  monthly  publication  issued  by  the 
Department  of  Journalism,  University  of  Wisconsin,  as  an 
aid  to  high  school  teachers  of  journalism  and  the  publication 
staffs.  Professor  H.  E.  Birdsong  addressed  the  staffs  of  the 
high  school  paper  and  high  school  annual  at  Rushville  Feb- 
ruary 12. 

Miss  Evelyn  Butler  and  Mrs.  W.  L.  Richardson  attended  the 
annual  meeting  of  the  National  Association  of  Deans  of  Wom- 
en, February  26,  27,  28. 

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Miss  Evelyn  Butler  will  attend  the  annual  convention  of  the 
Association  of  Deans  of  Women  and  Advisors  of  Girls  of  In- 
diana, which  meets  in  Muncie,  April  18.  Miss  Butler  as  presi- 
dent of  the  organization  will  have  charge  of  the  programs  of 
the  meetings.  A  number  of  our  Butler  students  will  appear 
on  the  programs.  Miss  Catherine  Burton  and  Miss  Corya  will 
give  talks. 

Professor  G.  H.  Shadinger,  head  of  the  Department  of 
Chemistry,  published  a  text,  Laboratory  Manual  in  General 
Inorganic  Chemistry,  that  is  used  in  the  first  year  chemistry 
course.  He  will  attend  the  semi-annual  convention  of  the 
American  Chemical  Society  to  be  held  in  Baltimore,  and  at 
Johns  Hopkins  University  April  6  to  April  10.  Professor 
Shadinger  spoke  on  Recent  Practical  and  Theoretical  Develop- 
ments in  Chemistry,  before  the  Men's  Club  of  the  Irvington 
Presbyterian  Church,  Saturday  evening,  March  10. 

Miss  Katharine  M.  Graydon  will  attend  the  annual  meeting 
of  Alumni  Secretaries  to  be  held  April  23,  24,  25,  at  Bethle- 
hem, Pa.,  where  the  Association  will  be  guests  of  Lehigh  Uni- 
versity. 

Butler  College  regrets  the  departure  of  Professor  and  Mrs. 
R.  A.  Tallcott,  but  rejoices  in  their  promising  future.  Mr. 
Tallcott  will  become  the  dean  of  the  Williams  School  of  Ex- 
pression and  Dramatic  Art  in  Ithaca,  New  York,  a  unit  of  the 
Ithaca  University  of  Fine  Arts,  an  institution  now  being 
formed.  Mrs.  Tallcott  will  become  a  professor  in  the  Depart- 
ment of  English  in  the  school. 

Associate-Professor  T.  G.  Wesenberg,  who  has  been  at  Har- 
vard University  during  the  college  year,  will  resume  his  work 
at  Butler  at  the  beginning  of  the  summer  session  during  which 
he  will  have  charge  of  the  work  in  Romance  Languages. 
Professor  Wesenberg  will  be  acting  head  of  the  department 
for  the  academic  year  of  1925-1926,  during  the  absence  of 
Professor  Ratti. 


Faculty  Notes  47 

Those  who  have  made  the  acquaintance  of  Professor  Joseph 
G.  Fucilla  during  his  two  years  of  service  as  Assistant-Pro- 
fessor of  Romance  Languages,  will  be  pleased  to  learn  of  his 
engagement  to  Miss  Reba  Ann  South  of  Neoga,  Illinois.  The 
announcement  was  formally  made  at  a  Valentine's  Day  party 
given  in  honor  of  Miss  South.  The  marriage  will  probably 
take  place  during  the  latter  part  of  the  summer. 

Mr.  M.  B.  Baumgartner,  head  of  the  Department  of  Ger- 
man, is  president  of  the  Association  of  Indiana  College  Teach- 
ers of  German,  which  holds  its  semi-annual  meeting  in  In- 
dianapolis, March  21 

Among  the  most  important  bits  of  constructive  work  done 
by  Butler  College  during  the  past  few  years  is  the  establish- 
ment of  the  principle  of  allowing  professors  to  go  abroad  on 
sabbatical  leaves  of  absence.  This  is  in  keeping  with  the  cus- 
tom of  all  the  best  colleges  and  universities  in  the  country,  as 
it  is  beneficial  to  both  the  institution  granting  the  leave  and 
to  the  professor  availing  himself  of  it. 

Professor  Harrison,  head  of  the  Department  of  English, 
who  was  granted  a  leave  of  absence  for  the  year  1924-1925, 
is  now  in  Europe  with  his  family.  For  the  year  1925-1926 
two  full  professors  have  been  given  the  same  privilege: 
Professor  Anna  Weaver,  of  the  Department  of  Greek  and 
Professor  Gina  A.  Ratti,  head  of  the  Department  of  Romance 
Languages. 

Miss  Weaver  will  travel  extensively  in  Europe  during  the 
summer,  before  going  to  the  American  School  in  Athens, 
where  she  intends  to  spend  a  large  part  of  the  college  year. 

Professor  Ratti  and  his  family  will  spend  the  year  in 
Europe,  also  going  to  Florence,  Italy,  by  way  of  England, 
Belgium,  France  and  Switzerland.  He  will  study  there,  both 
at  the  University  of  Florence  and  at  the  Institut  Francais 
which  is  conducted  jointly  by  the  University  of  Grenoble, 
France,  and  the  Italian  government.  Mrs.  Ratti,  too,  will  take 
courses  at  the  University  of  Florence  summer  session  and  also 


48  Butler  Alumnal  Quarterly 

during  the  academic  year.  The  spring  semester  will  find 
them  in  Paris  where  Professor  Ratti  plans  to  do  some  work 
at  the  College  de  France  and  at  the  Sorbonne,  both  of  them 
branches  of  the  University  of  Paris.  However,  the  libraries 
of  Paris  and  Florence  will  be  his  chief  attraction,  as  his  main 
object  in  going  abroad  is  to  carry  on  research  work  along  lines 
of  comparative  literature  which  the  limitations  of  our  own 
libraries  will  not  permit. 

Alumni  Mention 

Congratulations  to  Mayor  Chauncy  Butler,  '69,  of  Inter- 
lachen,  Florida. 

William  G.  Invin,  '89,  sailed  on  March  21  for  several  weeks 
in  Europe. 

Hilton  U.  Brown,  '80,  and  Mrs.  Brown  will  sail  on  April  25 
for  a  two  months'  tour  abroad. 

Mrs.  Edith  S.  Berry,  '24,  directs  the  Woman's  Department 
in  Indianapolis  of  the  John  Hancock  Mutual  Life  Insurance 
Company. 

Miss  Urith  Dailey,  '17,  has  returned  to  Irvington  after 
spending  several  weeks  in  Orlando,  Florida,  with  her  parents. 

The  words  of  the  new  College  Song  were  written  by  Lee 
Bums ;  the  music  composed  by  Ernest  G.  Hesser.  The  college 
welcomes  to  its  repertoire  this  latest  addition. 

Law  offices  of  McElroy  and  Huddleston  are  located  at  110 
South  Dearborn  Street,  Chicago.  Charles  F.  McElroy  was  a 
member  of  the  class  of  '04. 

Announcement  has  been  made  by  Alpha  Chi  Omega  of  the 
installation  of  Alpha  Chi  Chapter  at  Butler  University  of 
February  28.  The  Chapter  House  is  at  4912  East  Washing- 
ton Street. 


Alumni  Mention  49 

Mrs.  Mable  Gant  Murphy,  '12,  read  a  paper  on  VERGIL  AS 
A  PROPAGANDIST  at  the  Sixth  Annual  Meeting  of  the 
Classical  Association  of  the  Atlantic  States  held  in  Washing- 
ton, D.  C.  on  November  29,  1924. 

Mail  addressed  to  Dr.  William  Eugarde  Phillips,  '96, 
Granby,  Massachusetts,  has  been  returned  bearing  the  word 
"deceased".  Information  concerning  this  fact  will  be  grate- 
fully received  by  the  Alumni  Secretary,  Butler  College. 

Mrs.  Roy  Metzger,  of  Lebanon,  Ind.,  sang  at  the  Founders' 
Day  dinner.  Other  musical  numbers  of  the  Day  were  from 
the  Metropolitan  School  of  Music.  Mr.  Hesser,  director  of 
Music  in  the  Indianapolis  Public  Schools,  was  also  vocalist. 

Clayton  Hamilton,  of  Columbia  University,  delighted  a  col- 
lege audience  as  he  spoke  in  chapel  on  the  morning  of  Feb- 
ruary 9  upon  the  subject  of  RICHARD  BRINSLEY  SHER- 
IDAN. Miss  Welling  of  the  English  department  entertained 
at  luncheon  in  honor  of  Mr.  Hamilton. 

Miss  Katharine  M.  Graydon.  '78,  and  her  sisters,  Miss  Ellen 
D.  Graydon,  '81,  and  Mrs.  Alexander  Jameson,  '90,  will  sail  on 
May  23  for  a  summer  abroad.  It  is  their  plan  to  visit  France, 
Italy,  Switzerland,  spending  the  most  of  their  time  motoring 
through  England. 

Hon.  Merrill  Moores,  ex-congressman  of  the  Seventh  Dis- 
trict, has  many  times  shown  his  loyalty  to  Butler  College. 
His  latest  gift  is  a  valuable  collection  of  books  gathered  while 
in  Washington.  Mr.  Moores  has  returned  to  Indianapolis  and 
has  opened  law  offices  at  1606  National  City  Bank  Building. 

The  engagement  is  announced  of  Miss  Georgia  P.  McElroy, 
ex-'04,  dean  of  girls  at  Central  High  School,  Superior,  Wis- 
consin, to  Arthur  C.  Hunt,  of  Salem,  Massachusetts.  The 
wedding  will  take  place  July  15,  1925,  at  the  home  of  the 
bride's  brother,  Charles  F.  McElroy,  '04,  at  Ravinia,  Illinois, 
near  Chicago. 


50  Butler  Alumnal  Quarterly 

E.  J.  Iddings,  student  '99-'02,  is  dean  and  director  of  the 
College  of  Agriculture  of  the  University  of  Idaho.  Mr.  Idd- 
ings remembers  Butler  pleasantly,  as  the  College  remembers 
him  and  is  happy  in  his  prosperity. 

Mrs.  W.  D.  Van  Voorhis  (May  Griggs,  '00)  lives  at  Mor- 
gantown.  West  Virginia,  where  her  husband  is  pastor  of  the 
Spruce  Street  Christian  Church.  Her  oldest  son  is  married  and 
living  in  Findlay,  Ohio ;  her  oldest  daughter  is  senior  in  Hiram 
College;  the  next  daughter  a  junior  in  the  University  of  Mor- 
gantown;  the  second  son  a  junior  in  the  high  school,  while  the 
youngest  boy  is  in  the  grades.  It  is  long  since  Mrs.  Van 
Voorhis  has  visited  her  Alma  Mater  and  it  is  hoped  she  may 
soon  be  able  to  return  to  the  campus. 

Some  of  the  members  of  '87  have  joined  that  class  of  citizens 
who  enjoy  spending  their  winters  in  the  Sunny  South.  Mr. 
Omar  Wilson,  of  Paonia,  Colorado,  spent  January  and  Feb- 
ruary around  Los  Angeles,  visiting  his  daughter,  Mrs.  T.  W. 
Eastin,  and  his  sister,  Mrs.  J.  Challen  Smith.  Mr.  E.  P.  Wise, 
of  North  Canton,  Ohio,  spent  Christmas  and  the  weeks  fol- 
lowing with  his  daughter  in  Fort  Worth,  Texas.  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  B.  F.  Dailey,  of  Irvington,  went  to  Orlando,  Florida,  for 
February.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  E.  W.  Gans,  of  Hagerstown,  Mary- 
land, made  the  trip  to  Southern  California  and  from  there 
sailed  to  Honolulu  to  enjoy  that  balmy  tropic  air. 

Marriages 

Hoover-Kroenke. — Lyman  Hoover,  '22,  and  Miss  Helen 
Ernestine  Kroenke  were  married  on  February  7,  in  Meriden, 
Connecticut.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Hoover  are  living  in  New  Haven, 
where  Mr.  Hoover  is  doing  graduate  work  in  Yale  University. 

Brown-Stanley. — Mr.  Paul  Van  Dyke  Brown,  '24,  and 
Miss  Mary  Florence  Stanley,  '22,  were  married  on  March  21 
in  Indianapolis.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Brown  are  at  home  in  Indi- 
anapolis. 


Births 

Baird. — To  Mr.  Edward  L.  Baird,  '09,  and  Mrs.  Baird,  on 
March  18,  in  Shelbyville,  Indiana,  a  daughter— Adah  Irene. 

Browning. — To  Mr.  Henry  L.  Browning,  '20,  and  Mrs. 
Browning  (Charity  Hendren,  '18),  in  Indianapolis,  on  March 
22,  a  son — Robert. 

Hill.— To  Mr.  Herbert  R.  Hill,  '22,  and  Mrs.  Hill  (Goldie 
Billman,  '22),  in  Indianapolis,  on  March  23,  a  son — Richard 
Meredith. 

Putnam. — To  Mr.  Russell  C.  Putnam,  '19,  and  Mrs.  Put- 
nam, in  Schenectady,  New  York,  on  February  19,  a  daughter 
— Shirley  Pauline. 

Sexton. — To  Dr.  and  Mrs.  Marshall  Cullen  Sexton  (Lela 
Kennedy,  '18)  in  Rushville,  Indiana,  on  February  27,  a  daugh- 
ter— Maiy  Frances. 

Stitt.— To  Mr.  Stitt  and  Mrs.  Stitt  (Gail  Baker)  on  March 
26,  in  Indianapolios,  a  son — Robert  Baker. 

Deaths 

The  Quarterly  announces  with  deep  regret  the  death  on 
February  the  eleventh  of  Dr.  David  Owen  Thomas  at  his  home, 
520  Ridgewood  Avenue,  Minneapolis,  Minn.  His  illness, 
pneumonia,  came  suddenly  just  following  the  Doctor's  discov- 
ery^ of  the  fact  that  he  was  the  victim  of  heretofore  unsus- 
pected heart  disease.  Mrs.  Thomas  was  at  the  time  in  India, 
she  having  joined  Dr.  Willett's  party  for  a  winter  tour  around 
the  world.  Dr.  Thomas  intended  meeting  her  in  London  this 
spring  and  they  were  to  spend  the  summer  visiting  in  Pem- 
brokeshire, Wales,  where  Dr.  Thomas  v/as  born.  The  Satur- 
day before  his  death,  a  letter  from  him  to  Indianapolis  rela- 
tives of  Mrs.  Thomas  gave  these  plans  together  with  the  ex- 
pression of  the  hope  that  "sea-bathing  and  running  around  the 
old  home"  would  do  him  good  and  remove  his  disability. 

Dr.  Thomas  was  a  son-in-law  of  Ovid  Butler,  having  mar- 

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ried  in  1885  Anne  E.  Butler.  The  wedding  took  place  at 
Forest  Home,  the  Ovid  Butler  homestead  at  Park  Avenue  and 
13th  Street,  and  was  the  last  of  many  notable  gatherings  in 
that  beautiful  old  home.  Dr.  Thomas  came  to  this  country 
from  Wales  at  the  age  of  nineteen.  He  attended  Bethany 
College,  West  Virginia,  taking  his  A.  B.  degree  there  in  1878. 
Later  he  won  degrees  in  medicine  and  surgery  from  the  Indi- 
ana Medical  College,  from  the  College  of  Physicians  and 
Surgeons  in  New  York  City  and  from  the  Royal  College  of 
Physicians  and  Surgeons  in  London.  His  life  as  a  practising 
physician  was  spent  in  Minneapolis  where  Dr.  and  Mrs. 
Thomas  have  always  made  their  home.  He  was  a  man  of 
notably  high  and  fine  character,  beloved  as  physician  and 
friend,  a  man  with  remarkable  ardor  for  befriending  and 
helping  mankind  and  with  intense  interest  in  spiritual  things. 
His  manuscript  for  a  book  on  the  historj'-  and  significance  of 
the  Lord's  Supper  was  completed  except  for  its  final  chapter. 
The  funeral  took  place  in  the  Portland  Avenue  Christian 
Church,  of  which  he  had  been  a  member  during  all  his  life  in 
Minneapolis.  The  body  was  brought  to  Indianapolis,  where 
final  interment  was  made  in  Crown  Hill.  Mrs.  Thomas  started 
on  her  long,  sad  journey  of  return  from  India  immediately  on 
receipt  of  the  cable  and  reached  Boston  on  March  24th.  She 
came  at  once  to  the  home  of  Scot  Butler,  her  brother. 

Fletcher. — Horace  Hines  Fletcher  died  in  Indianapolis  on 
February  18  and  was  buried  in  Crown  Hill  cemetery. 

The  Indianapolis  press  paid  tribute  to  Horace  H.  Fletcher, 
the  good  man  and  useful  citizen.  It  is  perhaps  fitting  that  all 
who  knew  him  well  during  his  life  take  kindly  note  of  Horace 
H.  Fletcher,  the  boy  and  youth. 

He  Avas  proud  to  claim  Butler  College  as  his  Alma  Mater. 
He  was  a  Sigma  Chi,  but  his  friendships  were  not  confined  to 
his  fraternity.  Among  his  special  companions  were  Quincy 
A.  Meyers,  Merrill  Moores  and  Henry  Barr.  He  did  not  com- 
plete his  college  course,  but  he  loved  the  institution,  and  he 


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loved  the  picturesque  building-  of  the  North  Western  Christian 
University.  In  the  early  sixties  a  school  was  established  in 
that  building  for  the  little  folks  of  College  Corner,  an  ideal 
school  for  children,  which  Horace  attended.  Thus  the  child- 
hood and  later  the  developing  youth  were  largely  influenced 
by  that  institution  of  learning. 

Horace  Fletcher  was  always  manly  and  industrious  and 
fond  of  athletics.  He  and  his  friends  had  to  satisfy  them- 
selves with  baseball,  in  which  game  Professor  Harvey  W. 
Wiley  was  often  their  leader, 

Mr.  Fletcher  was  of  a  deeply  religious  nature,  faithful  in 
friendship,  diligent  in  business;  but  his  home  was  his  chief 
object  and  happiness. 

One  who  knew  him  well  offers  this  in  affectionate  remem- 
brance. 


In  loving  remembrance  of  Madge  Oherholtzer ,  ex.  '18,  ivho 
died  at  her  home  in  Irvington  on  April  14-  Pleasant  in 
friendship,  faithful  in  duty,  of  fine  Christian  character 


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Our  Correspondence 

HORACE  M.  RUSSELL,  '05,  Amarillo,  Texas:  "It  is 
hardly  likely  that  I  shall  ever  attend  a  Founders'  Day  dinner, 
but  it  is  certain  that  I  shall  never  get  over  my  keen  desire  to 
do  so.  Many  thanks  for  the  invitation.  I  hear  very  little  of 
Butler,  but  all  that  I  do  hear  is  good — very  good.  You  are 
coming  to  a  remarkable  fulfillment  of  the  Founders'  dreams." 

MRS.  FLORENCE  HOSBROOK  WALLACE,  '08 :  "I  want 
to  thank  you  for  asking  me  to  be  secretary  of  my  class,  for 
such  good  letters  have  come  in  reply  to  those  I  have  sent  out. 
I  feel  more  than  repaid  for  any  effort  it  took,  and  again  thank 
you  for  letting  me  do  the  work." 

DR.  PAUL  A.  DRAPER,  '21 :  "As  I  work  among  the  chil- 
dren of  the  beautiful  new  Riley  Hospital  I  am  often  reminded 
of  the  teachings  of  our  beloved  Dr.  Jabez  Hall,  hoping  I  may 
thus  be  helped  in  providing  the  highest  type  of  healing  for  my 
patients.  I  find,  contrary  to  the  irrational  opinion  of  many, 
that  to  be  most  scientific — intelligent  of  nature's  laws — is  to 
be  most  God-like,  and  that  all  the  quackeries  and  cults  are  due 
mainly  to  plain  ignorance. 

Best  wishes  for  another  happy  and  successful  year  at 
Butler." 

HERBERT  R.  HYMAN,  '10:  "I  am  sorry  that  my  work 
is  of  such  a  character  that  I  can  not  devote  more  time  to  the 
Old  School.  My  heart's  in  the  right  place,  but  I  simply  can 
not  arrange  my  affairs  so  that  I  can  give  the  time  to  further- 
ing the  cause  of  Butler  as  I  know  I  should.  Let  me  know  if  I 
can  be  of  further  help." 


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CONTENTS 


Commencement  Address  by  Hon.  Simeon  D.  Fess 

Address  of  President  Aley 

The  Commencement 

List  of  Graduates 

Katherine  Merrill  Graydon 

Spring  in  Indiana 

A  Song 

The  School  of  Music 

The  Art  School 

The  College  of  Religion 

The  College  of  Missions 

College  News — 

From  the  City  Office 

Class  Day 

The  Alumni  Reunion 

Class  Reunions 

Class  News 

Athletics 

Honor  Day 

May  Day 

Around  the  College 

Faculty  Notes 

Personal  Mention 

Marriages 

Births 

Deaths 


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VoL  XIV  JULY.  1925     -  No.  2 


SEVENTIETH  ANNUAL  COMMENCEMENT 
JUNE,  1925 

THE  ADDRESS 

:  By  Honorable  Simeon  D.  Fess 

United  States  Senator  from  Ohio 

Members  of  the  Faculty,  Members  of  the  Graduating  Class  and 
Their  Friends: 

It  is  needless  for  me  to  express  my  appreciation  of  my  good 
friend,  your  great  President,  because  you  know  that  if  I  did  not 
appreciate  him  I  Avould  not  have  accepted  the  only  invitation  to 
make  a  commencement  address  this  year  outside  of  my  own  state. 

I  have  known  your  President  for  many  years  and  most  favor- 
ably, and  also  members  of  the  faculty,  and  especially  the  work 
they  have  all  done  in  this  institution  about  which  I  have  heard  a 
great  deal.  For  fifteen  years,  over  in  the  State  of  Ohio,  I  was 
identified  as  a  professor  of  history,  and  had  pretty  close  relation- 
ship with  the  work  of  the  President,  belonging,  as  well  as  others 
of  his  faculty,  to  the  same  religious  institution  that  established 
this  school.  And  for  that  reason  I  have  had  more  or  less  interest 
in  the  success  of  this  particular  college.  And  I  now  express  great 
hope  and  congratulations  upon  the  exceptional  future  that  is 
yours.  Most  every  graduate  feels  concerned  about  the  prospects 
of  his  Alma  Mater. 

I  come  to  you  specifically  not  so  much  as  an  educator  as  one  in 
public  life  to  give  a  viewpoint  of  what  will  be  demanded  from 
the  graduates — the  young  men  and  women  who  are  graduating  in 
all  colleges. 


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I  heard  a  great  fundamentalist  say  that  the  dominant  note  of 
the  17th  and  18th  centuries  was  that  of  authority — the  one  thing 
that  ruled  was  command  from  either  church  or  state  or  both,  and 
there  was  little  independent  thinking.  Then  in  the  19th  century, 
we  noted  the  supplanting  of  authority  and  the  introduction  of 
opinion  and  the  expression  of  independent  opinion,  and  for  many 
years  we  were  dominated  by  it.  We  now  would  note  independent 
thought.  The  opinion  and  independence  of  the  19th  century — the 
first  part  of  it — gave  way  in  the  latter  part  of  that  century  and 
in  the  present,  to  the  dominant  note  of  achievement  and  accom- 
plishment. Whatever  may  have  been  the  leading  note  of  other 
days,  the  one  that  dominates  the  world  today  is,  ''What  is  the  in- 
dividual able  to  accomplish?  What  will  he  be  able  to  achieve?" 
No  longer  does  anyone  ask,  ' '  Whence  did  you  come  1  Whither  are 
you  traveling?"  But  rather,  "What  are  you  going  to  do  while 
you  are  here?"  For  that  is  the  measure  that  the  present  century 
places  upon  the  individual. 

Not  long  ago  a  member  of  a  small  club  that  is  limited  to  only 
fourteen,  was  called  upon  to  address  that  small  group  on  its  outing 
where  they  spent  three  weeks  of  recreation.  It  has  always  been 
the  custom  of  that  club  of  fourteen  men  to  meet  and  during  the 
meeting  some  one  will  be  called  upon  to  do  some  original  thing. 
It  is  either  to  tell  an  original  story,  or  to  criticize  a  book,  or  to 
offer  an  essay,  or  to  make  a  speech,  and  the  time  that  I  have  in 
mind  was  when  a  former  governor  of  one  of  the  northwestern  states 
came  to  perform  his  duty,  for  it  was  his  time  to  do  the  original 
thing,  and  he  chose  to  make  a  speech,  and  in  that  speech  he  made 
this  remarkable  statement.  I  want  every  graduate  and  his  friends 
to  hearken  to  this  statement.  "The  little  town  of  Concord,  Massa- 
chusetts, is  of  greater  importance  to  the  civilization  of  our  day 
than  are  the  cities  of  New  York  and  Chicago."  What  is  Concord? 
A  little  toA^Ti  of  less  than  seven  thousand  people.  What  is  New 
York?  Nobody  knows.  Nobody  can  tell.  Anything  that  has  yet 
been  accomplished  might  be  witnessed  in  that  metropolis.  What 
could  be  said  of  New  York  could  be  said  of  Chicago. 

I  recall  in  the  days  when  I  was  reading  the  articles  of  various 


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newspapers  from  Chicago,  I  read  of  nineteen  different  things  in 
which  Chicago  stands  first  of  all  the  cities  in  the  world.  And  yet 
here  comes  a  barrister,  a  commercial  figure,  a  lawyer,  the  repre- 
sentative of  a  great  trunk  line  of  transportation,  a  former  governor, 
breathing  the  very  commercialism  of  our  day,  fully  cognizant  of 
the  power  of  our  modern  times  in  business,  and  he  says  that  the 
little  sleepy  town  of  seven  thousand  population  is  more  significant 
to  the  civilization  of  today  than  the  combined  cities  of  the  metropo- 
lis and  the  metropolis  of  the  middle  west.  Now,  what  can  be  the 
explanation  of  such  a  strange  statement?  He  explains  that  Con- 
cord gave  to  the  world  Emerson  and  Hawthorne  and  that  there 
began  the  seed  of  the  republic  and  that  there  was  created  the 
Concord  school — Concord,  the  little  town  consecrated  for  American 
service,  where  mind  and  heart  were  bent  upon  what  is  worth  while 
in  individual  service. 

Now,  whether  that  judgment  is  a  correct  one  or  not,  it  puts  the 
emphasis  upon  the  things  that  I  think  Americans  appreciate.  In 
other  words,  I  think  it  was  a  Greek  philosopher  who  had  as  a 
guiding  principle,  "Nothing  great  on  earth  but  man.  Nothing 
great  in  man  but  mind."  If  that  be  true,  then  the  emphasis  is 
placed  upon  the  work  that  is  being  done  in  the  American  college 
and  university.  These  are  the  birth  places  of  ideals,  and  nothing 
is  so  powerful  as  ideals.  They  promote  ideals  and  nothing  is  so 
far  reaching  in  influence  as  ideals,  and  therefore  it  is  worth  while 
to  have  some  appreciation  of  the  work  that  is  being  done  in  the 
colleges  and  various  institutions  of  higher  learning. 

As  vast  sums  are  expended  in  America  today  to  educate  in  the 
higher  institutions  of  learning  the  almost  half  a  million  of  our 
youth,  they  must  pay  back  in  some  valuable  measure  to  justify  such 
a  tremendous  outlay  of  the  treasures  of  the  country.  The  question 
now  is,  what  is  the  college  to  look  to  in  this  day — in  this  day  of 
great  problems,  problems  of  state,  problems  of  the  church,  prob- 
lems of  the  school,  problems  of  social  and  industrial  life,  problems 
of  our  generation  and  day.  In  a  word,  we  look  to  the  colleges  for 
leadership.  That  is  a  trite  statement,  just  such  a  statement  as  you 
would  expect  me  to  make.    Leadership,  wise  leadership,  sound  and 


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sane  leadership  is  more  demanded  in  a  government  where  a  republic 
rules  than  in  any  other  kind  of  a  country — or  any  other  kind  of 
a  government,  I  should  have  said. 

In  America  we  boast  of  certain  fundamental  principles.  These 
principles  are  at  the  very  foundation  of  our  institution.  One  of 
them  is  freedom.  That  is  what  is  fundamental  in  Thomas  Jeffer- 
son's  treatise.  The  major  intent  of  that  treatise  was  liberty.  He 
believed  that  no  soul  could  reach  its  highest  peak  in  any  country 
that  was  unnecessarily  hindered  or  restricted,  and  therefore  the 
fundamental  element  of  liberty  was  freedom.  In  order  that  we 
might  have  liberty  and  at  the  same  time  have  law  and  order,  we 
wrote  in  our  laws  the  Bill  of  Eights,  and  in  the  First  Amendment 
to  the  State  Constitution  is  a  clause  forbidding  the  government 
from  making  any  law  that  will  interfere  with,  First — Freedom  of 
Speech;  Second,  Freedom  of  the  Press;  Third,  The  right  to  peti- 
tion the  government  for  redress  of  grievances ;  and,  again,  freedom 
of  religion  in  order  that  you  might  worship  according  to  your  own 
dictate,  or  as  your  conscience  dictates.  These  are  fundamental  and 
at  the  very  foundation  of  the  nation  that  puts  the  emphasis  upon 
doing  things,  achieving  something,  not  any  certain  individual,  but 
for  the  time  in  which  the  individual  lives. 

Now  growing  out  of  this  freedom  comes  a  great  problem,  espe- 
cially a  problem  of  government.  How  far  should  freedom  of 
speech  go  ?  How  much  freedom  of  the  press  should  be  permitted  ? 
Is  freedom  of  language  equal  to  license  of  utterance?  Is  freedom 
of  religion  or  freedom  of  the  press  and  of  speech  to  go  to  the  ex- 
tent of  licentiousness  of  language  or  to  the  point  of  attacking  the 
fundamental  principles  which  produce  that  freedom?  It  is  one  of 
the  great  and  leading  problems  of  our  present  time. 

The  colleges  are  looked  to,  to  furnish  the  leadership,  to  safely 
guide  American  civilization,  to  protect  these  fundamental  princi- 
ples and  at  the  same  time  not  undermine  the  government  which 
sustains  the  principles.  One  of  the  great  difficulties  of  all  the  prob- 
lems that  the  legislator  is  called  upon  to  deal  with  is,  "How  can 
we  protect  American  institutions  as  against  those  foreign  people 


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who  feel  under  this  freedom  the  right  to  assault  the  institutions 
of  the  country." 

May  I  say  frankly  to  you,  that  problem  is  not  so  much  the  prob- 
lem of  the  legislator.  It  is  rather  the  problem  of  the  educator.  Too 
much  are  we  traveling  toward  the  dogma  that  all  that  is  necessary 
now  to  cure  an  evil  is  to  have  Congress  pass  a  law.  I  don't  need 
to  state  to  educated  young  people  that  that  is  a  wrong  trend.  It 
is  a  most  common  thing  when  I  get  home  or  speak  to  some  particu- 
lar friend,  for  him  to  say  to  me,  ''Well,  Senator,  what  are  you 
going  to  do  next  session  in  Congress  for  the  people?"  The  com- 
monest question  is,  "What  is  Congress  going  to  do  for  the  people 
of  the  country  ? "  As  if  Congress  could  do  anything  for  the  people 
of  the  country  that  the  people  themselves  would  not  be  able  to  do 
for  themselves! 

If  the  farm  situation  seems  out  of  joint.  Congress  must  take  care 
of  it.  If  some  people  under  speculation  have  borrowed  too  much 
money  and  are  not  now  able  to  meet  their  obligations.  Congress  is 
called  upon.  Let  me  say  to  you  that  there  is  a  great  danger  that 
comes  out  of  that,  and  nobody  will  see  it  quicker  than  the  edu- 
cated young  people.  If  you  create  a  belief  among  the  people  that 
Congress  can  give  relief  of  economic  ills  instead  of  the  ills  being 
remedied  by  economic  remedies,  when  Congress  undertakes  it  and 
it  doesn't  come  out  right,  as  it  usually  won't,  then  the  very  people 
who  did  it  are  disappointed  and  the  result  is  to  further  attack 
the  government. 

That  is  the  most  dangerous  move  in  America — the  movement  to 
assault  our  government  because  it  does  not  do  and  cannot  do  all 
of  the  things  many  people  think  ought  to  be  done.  It  is  that  very 
sort  of  citizen  that  sets  these  various  things  to  moving,  that  is  dan- 
gerous to  our  civilization.  That  does  not  mean  that  people  are 
not  to  be  independent  in  thinking.  Certainly  not.  It  means  that 
the  thinker  must  be  able  to  reach  a  conclusion  through  an  effect 
and  not  be  mislead  to  believe  that  legislation  can  cure  when  it  is  a 
matter  of  economic  measure  and  not  a  legislative  measure. 

Now  and  then  there  are  outbreaks  from  people  who  are  foreign 
in  their  interests  and  expression.    We  have  asked  what  can  be  done 


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with  that  sort  of  a  person.  Well,  Congress  can  handle  that  in  a 
way  by  resorting  to  the  remedy  of  deportation,  and  we  have  done 
it.  But  you  cannot  do  that  with  the  un-American  American  for 
he  cannot  be  deported.  He  is  here  and  this  is  his  place  and  the  only 
way  that  that  problem  can  be  solved  is  not  by  passing  laws  but 
on  the  other  hand  by  educating  to  change  the  attitude  of  mind. 

Ladies  and  gentlemen,  it  is  the  college  of  the  United  States  that 
is  primarily  devoted  to  the  teaching  of  right  thinking,  and  there 
ought  to  be  students  of  colleges  as  leaders  in  the  nation.  But  their 
problems  are  not  confined  to  domestic  matters.  They  extend  to 
foreign  matters.  I  speak  of  this  because  I  want  this  group  of 
graduates  to  realize  the  position  that  they  occupy  in  their  commu- 
nity because  they  are  trained.  Each  one  will  have  put  upon  him 
or  her  a  great  confidence  and  great  burden  by  those  who  are  not 
trained,  and  I  am  now  advising  the  trained  that  much  will  be 
expected  of  you  in  the  day  and  generation  in  which  you  live. 

I  think  that  the  present  hour  is  a  great  time  for  the  leadership  of 
America,  and  yet  success  in  leadership  must  be  determined  by  the 
helpful  public  opinion  that  backs  it  and  that  helpful  public  opinion 
must  be  led  by  thinking  people  who  can  think  through,  straight 
through,  the  problems  that  confront  us.  I  don't  want  to  say  any- 
thing that  would  be  reflecting  upon  the  general  kind  of  public 
opinion  but  I  must  say  on  an  occasion  like  this  that  it  is  rare  for 
the  public  at  large  to  think  independently  and  straight  through 
the  problems  of  the  day.  The  public  at  large  depends  upon  others 
to  do  the  thinking,  to  lead  them. 

The  humor  of  America  is  rather  to  follow  than  to  lead,  and  in  a 
country  of  public  control,  dependent  upon  universal  education,  the 
leaders  will  be  few  while  the  followers  will  be  many.  While  that 
may  seem  to  be  a  reflection,  I  don't  mean  it  that  way.  But  as  I 
said,  the  leaders  will  be  few  and  these  few  leaders  will  come  neces- 
sarily out  of  the  trained,  young  men  and  women  who  have  been 
trained  to  think.  For  that  reason  if  I  say  anything  about  the 
leadership  of  American  today  and  in  the  future,  I  must  impress 
it  upon  the  educated  young  people  in  our  institutions. 

Now  I  regard  America's  position  in  the  world  as  an  unusually 


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promising-  one,  largely  because  of  the  location  and  largely  because 
of  the  prestige  America  has  won.  Settled  originally  by  the  picked 
people  of  Europe,  started  originally  upon  sound  fundamental  prin- 
ciples, built  originally  upon  a  tripod — a  free  state,  a  free  church, 
a  free  school — upon  that  tripod  has  been  erected  in  less  than  one 
hundred  fifty  years  the  most  marvelous  achievement  since  the 
morning  stars  sang  together,  the  American  system  of  govern- 
ment. Separated  as  we  are  from  the  Old  World  and  possessing  as 
we  do  choice  sections  of  the  earth's  surface,  and  blessed  as  we  are 
by  wonderful  resources,  I  wonder  whether  the  average  college 
graduate  realizes  the  advantage  he  possesses  as  he  enters  now  iipon 
his  career.    It  is  difficult  for  any  of  us  to  properly  estimate. 

Some  time  ago  one  of  the  greatest  statisticians  in  America  made 
a  statement  that  was  so  startling  that  I  wrote  him  and  asked  him 
whether  the  statement  was  rhetoric  or  fact  and  he  wrote  that  it 
was  fact.  He  stated  that  the  United  States,  since  the  close  of  the 
Civil  War,  has  accumulated  more  wealth  than  had  been  accumu- 
lated by  all  the  nations  of  the  whole  earth  in  forty  centuries  before 
the  Civil  War.  Think  what  that  means.  And  I  wrote  this  man  to 
know  whether  there  was  a  basis  for  that  statement,  and  he  gave 
me  the  figures  to  demonstrate  the  statement. 

Take  Great  Britain,  the  next  greatest  countiy  on  earth.  Take 
all  the  home  owners,  rich  and  poor,  big  and  little,  and  compare 
them  to  the  home  owners  in  the  United  States.  We  can  show  that 
among  our  laboring  men  we  have  three  and  a  half  times  the  home 
owners  that  all  of  Great  Britain  has  of  all  classes. 

There  are  thirty  million  depositors  in  the  savings  banks  of  the 
United  States,  that  is  of  the  small  depositors.  They  have  in  the 
deposits  seven  and  a  half  times  the  total  capitalization  of  all  the 
national  banks,  all  the  state  banks  and  all  the  trust  companies  in 
the  United  States  combined. 

Today  in  the  city  of  Cleveland  will  be  buried  my  warm  friend 
Warren  Stone,  the  head  of  one  of  the  foremost  brotherhoods  of 
railroad  men.  AVhat  has  he  accomplished?  Sixty-five!  He  died 
day  before  yesterday  known  as  a  labor  leader  and  laboring  man, 
yet  not  only  the  head  of  one  of  the  most  important  organizations  of 


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America,  but  he  was  the  president  of  a  great  bank  in  the  city  of 
Cleveland  and  the  foster  director  of  fourteen  other  banks  located 
in  other  parts  of  the  country,  and  he,  as  a  labor  leader,  was  one  of 
the  powers  against  the  Bolshevism  move  that  is  sweeping  America. 
That  is  America.    It  shows  what  can  be  done. 

A  very  similar  instance  is  that  of  Henry  Ford.  Thirty  years  ago 
he  wasn't  any  more  important  in  his  financial  transactions  than 
I  am,  and  the  Lord  knows  that  is  not  very  important.  What  is  he 
today?  If  he  put  his  inventory  on  the  basis  that  Dodge  Brothers 
did  recently,  he  would  be  worth  eight  hundred  ninety  millions  of 
dollars.  That  is  a  great  deal,  too  much.  Who  did  it  ?  His  brain. 
How  long?  Thirty  years.  How?  He  said,  ''I  have  an  accomplish- 
ment to  make.  I  want  to  make  a  'Tin  Lizzie'  so  cheap  that  every- 
body who  wants  to  ride  can  afford  to  ride. ' '  Then  he  said, ' '  I  have 
another  aim.  I  want  every  farmer  who  should  own  a  team  to  own 
a  tractor  instead  if  he  prefers."  That  is  a  simple  outline  of  pur- 
pose, and  he  is  still  living.    He  did  it  all  in  America. 

Thomas  Edison  is  still  living.  He  is  somewhat  deaf  and  some- 
body spoke  to  him  deploring  the  fact  that  he  was  deaf,  and  he  said, 
' '  My  conscience,  think  of  what  I  do  not  need  to  hear. ' '  His  inven- 
tions applied  to  modern  business  through  electricity,  amount 
today  to  sixteen  billion  dollars.  That  is  more  than  the  wealth  of 
the  United  States  before  the  war,  Edison  will  tell  you  that  when 
he  was  a  boy,  just  having  finished  his  course  in  getting  ready  to 
he  a  telegraph  operator,  he  appeared  in  a  city  and  asked  to  be  em- 
ployed, and  the  man  in  charge  had  a  way  of  getting  rid  of  appli*- 
cants.  I  wish  I  knew  a  way.  His  way  was  to  seat  the  applicant 
at  a  table  and  give  the  word  to  an  operator  in  another  room  to 
give  the  messages  so  fast  that  the  applicant  could  not  take  them. 
He  did  this  with  Edison.  After  sending  the  first  message,  the  ques- 
tion came,  "Did  you  get  it?"  The  answer  came  back,  "Yes." 
Then  the  message  was  sent  faster,  and  when  the  question  came, 
"Did  you  get  it?",  he  said,  "I  did."  Then  the  operator  sent  a 
more  complicated  message  and  faster,  and  said,  "Did  you  get 
it?"  and  when  the  answer  came,  "I  did",  he  said,  "Who  in  the 


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world  is  on  the  other  end  of  the  wire?"    That  is  Thomas  Edison. 
That  is  America. 

I  sat  at  a  banquet  table  in  the  city  of  Pittsburgh,  when  someone 
to  my  left,  I  think  it  was  the  chairman,  said,  "Do  you  know  that 
to  your  right  sits  one  of  the  three  richest  men  of  the  world  ? "  It 
startled  me  to  realize  I  was  so  close  to  that  sort  of  a  fellow 
and  I  began  to  edge  off  and  look  at  him.  I  saw  he  looked  no  dif- 
ferent from  the  rest  of  us,  and  I  determined  to  ask  him  a  question. 
I  said,  ' '  Were  you  well  born  ? "  I  saw  in  a  second  that  I  had  made 
a  mistake.  I  corrected  it  before  he  could  even  give  expression  to 
his  disgust  and  said,  "I  mean,  were  your  parents  wealthy?"  He 
said,  "No,  but  I  was  well  born.  I  had  a  good  father  and  mother, 
and  the  best  thing  about  them  was  that  they  had  sense  enough  to 
make  me  work  and  look  out  for  myself."  I  said,  "Answer  this 
question.  Does  the  young  man  of  today  have  the  same  opportunity 
that  the  young  man  of  your  day  had?"  He  came  back  with  a 
flash,  "Ten  times  better  opportunity  than  I  had."  That  is  so.  That  is 
what  I  want  the  graduates  here  to  realize.  But  please  note  this, 
that  while  your  ambition  in  going  in  the  direction  of  this  channel 
or  that  one,  the  great  thing  that  America  wants  today  is  a  young 
man  or  young  woman  full  of  promise  based  upon  a  good  character 
and  good  reputation.  That  after  all  is  the  big  thing.  What  is  the 
greatest  possession  of  America?  It  is  not  in  our  farms,  although 
we  are  first.  It  is  not  in  our  transportation,  although  we  are  first. 
It  is  not  in  our  manufacturing  and  mining,  although  we  are  first. 
It  is  not  in  our  banking  resources,  although  we  have  more  than 
can  be  found  in  the  rest  of  the  world.  It  is  not  in  our  ability  in 
farming.  It  is  not  in  our  skill  or  labor,  although  first.  It  is  not 
in  our  w^ealth,  although  we  are  first  in  the  world.  It  is  not  in  the 
number  of  people  we  have,  for  China  has  more.  It  is  not  in  th« 
amount  of  territory  we  have,  for  Russia  has  far  more.  It  is  no^ 
in  fertility  of  soil,  for  we  do  not  compare  with  Mexico.  What  is 
it?  It  is  in  the  type  of  men  and  women  of  particularly  great  char- 
acter, which  is  at  the  very  foundation  of  what  America  is  today, 
and  these  appreciate  the  government  and  opportunity  which  is^ 
theirs.    That  is  the  type  of  leadership  that  the  nation  now  wants.  1 


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There  are  two  things  in  Europe  that  appeal  to  us.  First,  will 
France  be  able  to  balance  her  budget,  reorganize  her  taxation  sys- 
tem, hold  up  a  burden  as  heavy  as  we  ourselves  pay,  and  be  in  a 
position  to  reimburse  all  obligations  and  restore  her  credit 
in  the  world?  If  she  does,  France  has  a  future  in  which 
she  can  reduce  her  large  standing  army  and  again  become  the  leader 
in  the  old  world.  But  not  unless  France  does  take  steps  to  reduce 
her  army,  for  no  nation  can  continue  to  live  and  maintain  an  army 
five  times  as  large  as  ours  although  having  only  one-third  of  the 
population,  and  her  debt  is  eighty-five  per  cent  of  her  wealth  while 
ours  is  only  five  per  cent.  She  must  reduce  the  army  to  balance 
the  budget. 

What  will  be  the  policy  of  the  new  president  of  Germany  ?  Will 
it  be  a  backward  step  1  Will  it  be  the  continuance  of  a  republic  or 
Avill  it  be  a  monarchy?  Will  it  be  a  disregard  for  the  American 
Commission  Plan?  I  think  not.  I  cannot  conceive  of  any  respon- 
sible leader  who  would  willingly  suffer  any  kind  of  pressure  at 
home  that  would  lead  him  to  thrust  the  whole  country  into  chaos. 
Von  Hindenburg  will  surely  respect  the  constitution  of  his  govern- 
ment and  continue  to  be  the  president  of  a  republic  rather  than  the 
emperor  of  a  monarchy,  and  will  surely  respect  its  obligations.  If 
he  does,  he  will  strengthen  Germany  at  home  and  at  large.  He 
will  strengthen  the  republic.  He  will  allay  the  distrust  in  the 
minds  of  other  countries  and  do  a  great  work  for  the  country. 
That  is  the  only  way  that  he  certainly  can  take  and  will  take. 

If  that  is  true,  then  under  the  leadership  of  such  a  government 
Ls  Great  Britain  has,  the  Quadruple  Pact  upon  which  we  are 
working,  would  be  assured,  which  secures  France  from  invasion 
of  Germany  and  secures  Germany  against  invasion  of  France.  But 
that  must  be  furthered  under  the  leadership  of  a  great  country, 
and  that  is  here  in  America.  I  think  our  leadership  is  most  im- 
portant. America,  I  think,  now  has  one  great  step  that  she  ought 
to  take,  and  I  am  not  justified  in  standing  here  if  I  did  not  say  so. 
r  think  the  immediate  step  that  the  Senate  ought  to  endorse  is  to 
favor  morally,  and  financially  the  movement  to  establish  a  method 


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by  which  wars  might  be  averted  so  that  we  can  adjust  our  inter- 
national differences  by  a  judiciary  process  rather  than  by  war. 

That,  my  friends,  is,  in  my  judgment,  the  one  immediate  step 
that  we  ought  to  take. 

Now  I  well  Imow  that  the  best  friends  I  have  in  the  Senate  and 
out,  courageous  men,  big  hearted  men,  honest  as  I  am,  sincere  as 
any  man  dare  be,  do  not  favor  our  course  in  that  direction.  But 
I  do.  I  think  it  is  right  and  I  want  to  say  to  this  group  of  intelli- 
gent people  who  are  going  to  exert  a  tremendous  influence  in  the 
next  few  years  on  public  opinion,  I  want  to  say  that  to  the  very 
limit  of  my  influence  I  propose  to  do  what  can  be  done  to  induce 
America  to  take  the  step  to  establish  the  International  Court  of 
Justice  in  which  we  may  take  our  differences;  with  the  promise 
that  France  will  restore  her  credit,  with  the  promise  that  Germany 
will  not  take  a  backward  step,  with  the  promise  that  stability  can 
be  maintained  by  a  quadruple  pact  of  Europe,  comprising  Great 
Britain,  Belgium,  France  and  Germany,  with  the  promise  that 
America  should  take  her  proper  financial  place  in  the  business  of 
the  world.  I  regard  the  future  not  unpleasant  and  unpromising, 
but  the  future  internationally  speaking,  has  great  opportunities  and 
is  most  promising. 

To  you  today,  I  extend  not  only  the  best  wishes  for  your  success, 
but  the  heartiest  congratulations  for  your  opportunity  here  in 
America,  for  the  greatest  privilege  that  can  ever  come  to  a 
human  soul,  as  I  see  it,  is  to  be  educated  and  trained  to  live  under 
the  banner  of  America,  promulgated  by  the  Constitution  of  the 
United  States. 


ADDRESS  OF  PRESIDENT  ALEY 
TO  THE  GRADUATING  CLASS 

It  is  a  pleasure  to  greet  you  as  children  of  Butler.  You  have 
earned  this  fine  relationship  by  constant  and  persistent  effort.  You 
have  endeared  yourselves  to  this  institution.  We  trust  that  the 
institution  may  ever  hold  a  warm  place  in  your  love.    Your  Alma 


78  Butler  Alumnal  Quarterly 

Mater  will  always  be  interested  in  your  achievements.  We  will 
follow  your  growth  Avith  the  same  loving  interest  that  a  mother 
shows  in  the  activities  of  her  child.  You  have  it  in  your  power 
to  reflect  honor  and  glory  on  Butler,  for  Butler  lives  in  the  lives, 
activities  and  accomplishments  of  her  children.  Whatever  you 
may  do  that  is  worthy  will  redound  to  her  glory. 

You  are  stepping  out  into  a  ncAv  world  today.  Specifications  and 
qualifications  of  yesterday  are  of  little  use  today.  You  must  be 
able  to  keep  up  with  the  activities  or  you  will  be  left  behind.  He 
that  does  not  keep  with  the  procession  is  passed  by  and  seems  to 
be  going  backward. 

Any  advice  or  suggestion  at  this  hour  is  gratuitous.  Custom 
and  tradition  make  it  proper  to  call  attention  to  a  few  things  that 
we  have  a  right  to  expect  of  you. 

Unless  the  efforts  of  the  institution  have  been  in  vain,  you  have 
learned  to  think  for  yourselves.  You  have  no  other  asset  so  valu- 
able as  this  power.  There  are  those  who  would  like  to  direct  your 
thinking  or  modify  it.  These  you  should  meet  with  proper  respect 
and  courtesy  but  all  the  time  continue  to  think  for  yourself. 

In  your  progress  of  learning  to  think,  you  have  learned  the 
value  of  an  open  mind.  If  you  are  to  continue  to  grow  and  pay 
back  the  investment  that  has  been  made  in  you,  you  must  keep  an 
open  mind.  The  authorities  in  business  and  professions  are  in  ab- 
solute agreement  that  there  is  great  need  for  dependable  men.  If 
you  can  be  relied  upon  to  think  clearly  and  fairly,  you  will  be  in 
demand.  If  you  always  earn  more  than  you  are  paid,  promotion 
will  come.  In  the  great  matters  of  life  there  are  no  short  days  and 
forty-eight  hour  weeks.  Hard  work  and  long  hours  are  the  in- 
fallible rule.  Learn  to  love  the  truth,  as  it  is  reflected  in  the  simple 
tilings  of  life.  Authorities  say  that  these  features  are  but  the 
attributes  of  God.  They  find  their  authority  in  Him.  Let  me 
commend  you,  therefore,  to  a  clearer  acquaintance  with  God  and  a 
great  reliance  upon  Him.  Try  to  know  the  man  whom  nobody 
knows  and  find  in  Him  reflection  of  truth  and  life. 


THE  COMMENCEMENT 

At  ten  o'clock  the  academic  procession  moved  from  the  main 
building  to  the  special  seats  that  had  been  built  under  the  trees 
in  front  of  the  college  residence.  The  invocation  was  given  by 
the  Reverend  J.  D.  Armistead. 

A  piano  duet  was  rendered  by  the  Misses  Lorene  Whitham  and 
Rosemary  Smith  while  the  members  of  the  graduating  class,  fol- 
lowed by  the  faculty,  marched  to  their  seats.  After  the  invocation 
a  trio  composed  of  Miss  Marguerite  Billo,  \aolinist,  Miss  Marcene 
Campbell,  cellist,  and  Miss  Florence  Keepers,  pianist,  from  the 
School  of  Music,  rendered  Mendelssohn's  D  Minor  Trio. 

After  the  address  by  Senator  Fess  the  following  candidates  for 
degrees  were  presented  by  Dean  James  W.  Putnam: 


BACHELOR  OF  ARTS 


Esther  Flora  Adams 
Wilhelmina  Patience  Adams 
Agnes  Agnew  Andrews 
Hester  Billman  Baker 
Harold  Moody  Barclay 
Eda  Margaret  Barnes 
Dorothy   Barrett 
Jerome  Keel  Bash 
Georgia  B.  Bateman 
Ruth   Edwards  Bates 
Amy  Beatty 
Helen  Lucile  Bedell 
Blanche  Bernstein 
Goldie  Irene  Bernstein 
Elizabeth  G.  Bertermann 
William  Ralph  Bockstahler 
Mary  Virginia  Book 
Kathryn   M.   Brown 
Esther  Elizabeth  Bussard 
Harry  Raymond  Campbell 
Mary  Patia   Carver 
Catherine  Cavins 
Edith  Marie  Christian 
Eugene  H.  Colway 


Eleanor  Marian  Coryell 
Dorothy  Vernon  Dale 
Rebecca  E.  Daugherty 
Charles  Samuel  Davis 
Josephine  Eastman  Day 
Helen  Louise  Dodds 
Florence  Mareta  Douglas 
Mae  Roseland  Dugan 
Robert  Todd  Duncan 
Solomon  Edmund  Edwards 
Albert  William   Ewbank 
Helen  Adelaide  Foley 
Constance  Forsyth 
Mildred  Evelyn   Fox  worthy 
Franklin  E.  Frey 
Anna  C.  Gardner 
Susanna  Elizabeth  Goepper 
Edna  Louise  Grares 
Anne  Greenberg 
Scott  Ham 

Susie  E.  Mae  Harmon 
Ilene  Harryman 
Fleeta  Louise  Heinz 
Oliver  Earl  Hinshaw 


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Helen  Hester  Hoover 
Maxwell  Everett  Hosea 
Hillis  Langhorne  Howie 
Charlotte  Faye  Huber 
Harriet  Jaehne 
Maurine  E.  Jaquith 
Ruth  McCormick  Jones 
Dema  Elizabeth  Kennedy 
Eleanor   Meely  King 
Hugh  C.  Kivett 
Margaret  Florentine  Kluger 
Irving  Lawrence  Kurzrok 
Georgia  Hensley  Lacey 
Helen  Marie  Lavelle 
Katherine  Margaret  Lennox 
Josephine  Gertrude  Likely 
George  Amos  Luckey 
Edythe  Eloise  Luzader 
Doris  Louisa  Lynn 
Alice  E  mo  jean  McDaniel 
Verna  Hittle  McDaniel 
Lillian  Josephine  Martin 
Mildred  Laura  Medlam 
John  Metzger 
Theta  Leota  Miller 
Helen  Catherine  Moffett 
Eleanor  Bos  Mueller 
Alice  Young  Mullen 
L.  Doyle  Mullen 
Henry  George  Nester 
Georgia  Kathryn  Osborn 
Louise  Helen  Padou 
Helen  Elizabeth  Palenius 
Opal  Irene  Perrin 
Marion  Albert  Pike 
Anna  Pollack 


Dorothy  Mae  Powell 
Edna  Aceneth  Pyle 
Jack  William  Quaid 
Oscar  Christian  Ries 
Margaret  Elizabeth  Robinson 
Marian  Rose 
William  H.  Rowlands 
Zerelda  Halleen  Rubush 
Martin  Luther  Ruth 
Wayne  Eugene  Salisbury 
Anna  Agnes  Schmidt 
Margaret  Elizabeth  Schooner 
Daisy  Florence  Schulz 
George  Alexander  Schumacher 
Irene  Louise  Seuel 
Samuella  Henryetta  Shearer 
Marguerite  Chance  Sherwood 
Ralph  Wadsworth  Snyder 
Pearl  Soltau 
Mildred  Lucile  Stilz 
Mildred  Elizabeth  Stockdale 
Mary  Stokes 
Elma  Ann  Sullivan 
Albert  Banker  Thompson 
Ruel  E.  Thomberry 
James  Spence  Tipton 
Frank  Clarence  Trost 
Lucile  Evelyn  Tyner 
Floyd  Wilmer  Umbenhower 
Dorothea   Lea  Varntz 
Espie  L.  Walton 
Constance  Pauline  West 
Dwight  Frazee  Whitmire 
Dorothy  Bailey  Wilson 
Lois  Esther  Wishard 
Nellie  Wurtz 
John  August  Young 


BACHELOR  OF  SCIENCE 


Rilus  Eastman  Doolittle 
George  Stults  Gamble 


Leona  Mae  Kaley 
Victor  Chandler  Twitty 


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IN    BUSINESS    ADMINISTRATION 


Culver  Crane  Godfrey  George  Curryer  McCandless 

Raymond  Henry  Grapperhaus  Paul  Darold  McNorton 

Paul  Stephen  Habbe  Maurice  Kinnick  Miller 

Paul  Grandison  Hill  Reuben  Henry  Orner 

Ray  Richardson  Strickland 


The  following  candidates  for  the  degrees  of  Master  of  Arts  were  presented 
by  the  chairman  of  the  committee  on  grade  studies,  Dr.  Henry  Lane  Bruner: 

Ethel  M.  Hightower  Ellen  Katherine  Ocker 

Pao  Heng  Mao  La  lit   Kumar    Shah 

Toyozo    Wada   Nakarai 


President  Aley: 

My  friends,  upon  the  recommendation  of  the  faculty  and  by  the 
authority  of  the  Board  of  Directors  of  Butler  University,  I  hereby 
confer  upon  each  one  of  you  the  decree  of  Master  of  Arts  with  all 
the  rights  and  privileges  pertaining  thereto.  As  evidence  I  will 
now  place  in  your  hands  a  diploma  under  proper  signature  and 
seal. 

Butler  College  is  one  of  many  educational  institutions  which  is 
doing  what  it  can  to  bring  back  into  the  notice  of  the  public  the 
principle  of  superior  intellectual  work.  We  have,  therefore,  ar- 
ranged work  of  higher  grade  for  which  students  of  great  ability 
may  enter  as  candidates  for  the  high  honor  of  ynagna  cum  laiide. 
I  now  have  the  great  pleasure  of  announcing  the  names  of  three 
members  of  the  class  who  have  won  this  high  honor.  I  think  you 
would  be  interested  in  seeing  them.  I  shall  ask  them  to  stand  when 
1  read  their  names.    They  are : 

Ralph  Wadsworth  Snyder,  in  Greek. 

Mary  Stokes,  in  Mathematics. 

Floyd  Wilmer  Umbenhower,  in  History. 

The  highest  standing  for  Seniors  who  have  made  as  many  as 
ninety  semester  hours  in  Butler,  but  who  are  not  candidates  for 


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magna  cum  laude,  with  the  exception  of  Ralph  AVadsworth  Sny- 
der, are : 

Ralph  Wadsworth  Snyder. 

Pearl  Soltau. 

Leona  Mae  Kaley. 

Those  who  have  won  senior  scholarships  with  free  tuition,  are 
Shailer  Linwood  Bass,  and  with  half  tuition,  Rebecca  Estelle  Pitts 
and  Thomas  Clarence  Jaleski. 

Alumni  scholarships  have  been  earned  by  Ernest  Paul  Fink, 
senior,  and  Anna  Margaret  Conway,  sophomore. 

I  shall  now  ask  Reverend  Winders  to  pronounce  the  benediction. 

Rev.  C.  H.  Winders: 

We  now  commend  you  to  God,  and  to  His  grace,  which  is  able 
to  bear  you  up  and  to  bring  you  faultless  before  His  throne. 

And  may  the  Lord  bless  you  and  keep  you,  may  the  Lord  make 
His  face  to  shine  upon  you  and  be  gracious  to  you,  may  the  Lord 
lift  up  His  countenance  upon  you  and  give  you  peace.  Through 
Jesus  Christ,  our  Saviour.    Amen. 

The  Misses  Whitham  and  Smith  played  the  recessional,  while  the 
seniors  marched  from  their  places  to  the  space  in  front  of  the  Ad- 
ministration building,  where  they  were  greeted  by  their  many 
friends. 

BACCALAUREATE  SERVICE 

Baccalaureate  services  were  held  in  the  college  chapel  at  4  p.  m. 
on  Sunday,  June  14.  The  Reverend  Frederick  Doyle  Kershner, 
dean  of  the  College  of  Religion,  made  the  baccalaureate  address. 
The  Reverend  W.  L.  Ewing,  pastor  of  the  Irvington  Methodist 
Church,  pronounced  the  invocation  and  the  Reverend  Oswald  J. 
Grainger,  of  the  College  of  Missions,  the  benediction. 


TO  KATHARINE  MERRILL  GRAYDON 

Five  years  ago  through  a  visit  which  Miss  Graydon,  the  editor 
of  The  Quarterly,  made  to  Hawaii,  we  were  given  an  opportunity 
to  do  her  honor.  Again  at  the  present  time  through  a  tour  that 
she  is  making  of  Europe,  comes  to  us  a  similar  opportunity.  As 
before,  we  lay  at  her  feet  our  highest  esteem  and  deepest  love.  Five 
years  have  only  served  to  continue  that  esteem  and  love,  which  are 
co-existent  with  the  life  of  Butler  College  itself,  indeed  even  in 
part  the  breath  of  that  life. 

Again  we  pay  honor  to  noble  womanhood  in  all  of  its  kindliness 
and  charm  and  idealism,  and  in  its  infinite  capacity  for  long  suf- 
fering and  patience  with  the  foibles  and  failings  of  loved  ones. 

Again  we  remember  the  true  teacher  devoted  to  her  subject  and 
her  students,  and  incarnating  the  soul  of  her  beautiful  teachings  in 
her  own  personality. 

Again  we  rejoice  in  the  comradeship  of  one  always  alert  and 
devoted  to  the  best  interests  of  the  faculty  and  students,  al- 
ways loyal  to  the  administration,  and  always  bearing  her  full  share 
and  more  of  the  burdens  that  fall  to  a  faculty. 

Again  we  happily  acknowledge  the  shepherd  or  more  truly  the 
mother  of  us  alumni,  who  gathered  us  into  a  family  consciousness; 
who  keeps  the  records  of  our  lives ;  who  follows  us  in  our  griefs  and 
joys  throughout  the  world ;  and  who  holds  the  ties  that  bind  us  to 
our  Alma  Mater. 

We  pray  for  her  the  fullest  measure  of  joy  on  her  present  jour- 
ney, and  a  safe  return  home,  bearing  the  satisfaction  of  "dreams 
come  true"  to  us  who  love  her. 


"God    wove   a   web   of    loveliness. 
Of  clouds  and  stars  and  birds, 
But  made  not  any  thing  at   all 
So   beautiful   as   words. 

They  are  as  fair  as  bloom  or  air, 

They    shine   like    any   star, 
And  I  am  rich  who  learned  from  her 
How    beautiful    they    are." 
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SPRING  IN  INDIANA 

THOSE  WHO  READ  THE  DESCRIPTION  OF  AUTUMN  IN  INDIANA  IN 

THE   QUARTERLY  OF   OCTOBER,   1923,   WILL  WELCOME   THIS 

ARTICLE  BY  THE  SAME  AUTHOR 

To  all  appearances  it  was  spring  when  we  left  the  city  for  our 
home  by  the  lake,  but  winter  was  only  hiding  around  the  corner 
and  in  a  day  or  two  slipped  out  and  lashed  us  with  cold  winds, 
threw  snow  in  our  faces,  and  so  frightened  the  asparagus  it  re- 
fused any  longer  to  appear  above  ground. 

The  water  was  wind  bitten,  frothy  and  gray  as  the  sky  above  it, 
and  a  few  gulls,  that  the  north  wind  had  flung  down  from  Lake 
Michigan,  wheeled  back  and  forth  over  the  lake,  their  spread  of 
wing  looking  disproportionately  broad  over  our  small  body  of 
water. 

However,  the  fireside  was  cheerful  and  comfortable  and  the 
burning  logs  released  the  odors  of  the  woods  and  sang  us  songs  of 
summer.  The  weather  soon  moderated  but  the  cold  had  made  the 
garden  backward — it  is  true  we  had  radishes,  but  one  can  not  live 
by  radishes  alone. 

The  advent  of  Spring  is  not  governed  by  any  arbitrary  date  of 
the  calendar.  March  may  come  in  under  the  guise  of  May,  and 
April  snatch  up  the  cast  off  garments  of  December.  But  in  spite 
of  contradictory  aerial  messages,  some  underground  urge  sends 
the  sap  upwards,  quickening  the  bark,  expanding  the  buds,  and 
creating  an  etherial  haze  over  wood  and  hillside,  that  day  by  day 
grows  stronger  and  more  definite,  until  the  earth  is  clad  in  robes 
of  solid  green. 

A  few  days  of  sun  will  bring  out  the  green  and  gold  and  garnet 
blossoms  of  the  willow  and  alder  and  swamp  maple,  with  stores  of 
pollen  for  the  first  roving  bee.  As  the  days  lengthen  and  the  sun 
strengthens,  the  wild  flowers  appear — cautiously  at  first,  then  with 
great  abandon — whitlow  grass,  bloodroot,  hepatica,  anemone,  violets, 
followed  in  quick  succession  by  trillium,  phlox,  columbine,  crane's 
bill  and  all  the  other  blooming  things  that  make  every  hour  of 
spring  time  a  joy. 

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During  those  first  warm  days  one  even  looks  indulgently  into 
the  smiling  face  of  the  sunny  dandelion  that  crouches  meekly  by  the 
south  wall.  But  as  soon  as  your  back  is  turned  it  hastily  elongates 
its  stem,  bows  a  treacherous  and  hoary  head  to  the  wind,  and  brings 
disaster  on  your  cherished  lawn. 

The  warm  week  in  April  had  seemed  to  hint  to  vegetation  of  a 
need  of  haste  and  when  we  arrived  the  narcissi  had  mostly  bloomed 
themselves  out;  the  shad  bush  was  out  of  flower  and  in  leaf;  the 
fruit  trees  were  smothered  in  blossom;  and  the  budding  oaks  in 
their  pinks  and  bronzes  and  pearly  grays  were  quite  as  beautiful 
as  the  orchards,  creating  a  colorful  haze  all  around  the  lake.  The 
meadow  rue,  closely  resembling  the  maiden  hair  fern  that  so 
beautifully  clothes  my  hillside,  had  not  only  blossomed  but  seeded 
and  was  being  overtopped  by  the  wild  columbine. 

In  some  undefined  way  the  birds  receive  warning  of  the  retreat 
of  winter.  The  winter  birds  forsake  their  secluded  places,  the 
song  sparrow  carols  his  pleasing  notes — the  red  bird  whistles  his 
clarion  call  and  the  blue  jay  screams  defiance  on  every  side.  Then 
one  frosty  morning  we  hear  the  shout  of  the  robin  and  the  plain- 
tive call  of  the  phoebe  and  we  know  the  summons  has  gone  out  to 
the  uttermost  parts  of  the  earth,  to  return  over  the  "trackless 
track. ' ' 

Day  by  day  the  feathered  tribes  arrive  in  increasing  numbers, 
some  coming  boldly  by  day,  others  slipping  in  as  pilgrims  of  the 
night,  while  others  still,  in  stately  flocks,  pass  far  over  head  and 
simply  honk  a  greeting  as  they  fly,  in  modern  traffic  style.  Before 
the  migrants  have  all  disappeared  the  pennanent  residents  are 
busy  with  nest  building,  facing  blithely  not  only  the  fret  and  jam 
of  family  life,  but  the  many  dangers  that  menace  from  without. 
Not  all  birds  lead  an  upright  life  and  many  a  nest  comes  to  grief 
by  an  enemy's  beak.  Snakes,  foes  in  fur,  and  wayward  weather 
also  take  their  toll. 

Of  eleven  varieties  that  nested  in  my  grounds  in  1924,  not  one 
brought  out  a  fledgling  from  the  first  clutch  of  eggs.  The  nimble 
cat  lies  in  wait  for  the  unwary  young.  Not  only  is  the  tramp  cat 
a  menace,  but  the  pampered  tabby  of  the  household — no  matter 


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what  her  character  at  home,  is  a  savage  abroad.  It  has  been  truth- 
fully said,  ''Some  men  and  all  eats  lead  double  lives." 

Nevertheless,  the  birds  pursue  their  various  ways  undismayed. 
Groups  of  colloquial  gold  finches  chatter  along  the  roadsides — bob- 
olinks drip  melody  over  the  meadows.  Swifts  and  swallows  and 
night  hawks,  with  varying  notes,  are  gathering  insects  in  the  upper 
air.  Bobwhites  fearlessly  dispute  with  you  the  right  to  the  open 
road,  and  an  occasional  ring-necked  pheasant  slips  into  the  under- 
brush at  your  approach.  Wrens,  meadow  larks,  plovers,  orioles, 
tanagers,  grossbeaks,  thrushes,  vireoes  and  others  have  a  part  in 
the  marvelous  bird  chorus  of  the  spring,  though  varying  greatly 
in  musical  value.  Yesterday,  with  ear  bent  to  catch  the  muffled 
song  of  the  veery,  I  greatly  resented  the  incessant  patter  of  half 
a  dozen  wrens. 

Have  you  ever  noticed  how  illusive,  how  untamable,  how  full  of 
gipsy  blood  the  wild  flowers  are?  One  season  they  abound  in  one 
locality,  the  next  they  have  well-nigh  disappeared,  sometimes  after 
many  seasons  to  reappear.  One  by  one  I  am  losing  the  spots  of 
wildflower  pilgrimage  that  have  been  such  a  delight  to  me  here. 
Various  things,  drainage,  pasturage,  cultivation,  vandalism,  besides 
the  vagrant  character  of  the  flowers  themselves,  are  responsible  for 
the  wild  flower  famine  that  is  creeping  over  the  land. 

The  yellow  lady  slippers  sheep  have  devoured.  Woods  that 
sheltered  hundreds  of  trillium  grandiflorum,  as  well  as  nodding 
trillium,  have  been  cleared  and  pastured.  The  home  of  the  mocca- 
sin flower  has  been  drained  and  ploughed,  and  places  that  once  were 
blue  with  lupines  have  become  sand  wastes. 

The  blue  fringed  gentian  has  abandoned  field  and  swamp  with- 
out cause,  as  has  the  showy  orchis.  Transplanting  is  a  dishearten- 
ing process,  for  duplicate  conditions  as  well  as  you  may,  the  little 
wild  things  will  seldom  accept  adoption.  The  crowning  glory  of 
our  wild  flower  season  is  our  broad  rose  mallow  swamp — but  even 
that  is  showing  signs  of  contraction. 

The  later  things  are  sturdier  and  less  sensitive,  but  more  colorful, 
and  by  midsummer  mullein,  mints  and  milkweeds  and  that  vast 
family  of  composite  will  be  decorating  all  unoccupied  places — 


Spring  in  Indiana  87 

probably  the  very  fact  that  they  are  arbitrarily  dubbed  weeds, 
saves  them.    Do  you  recall  Louise  Driscoll's  lines  on  ''Weeds"? 

I  look  at  your  garden  fair 

With  flowers  in  tidy  rows 

And  my  wild  little  seed  heart  knows 

It  could  never  be  happy  there. 

My  mother  was  gypsy  born 
My  father  a  roving  bee. 
There  is  vagabond  blood  in  me 
I  am  not  to  be  trained  and  shorn. 

I  am  poor  and  mean  indeed 
But  I  make  the  waste  place  glad, 
And  the  wayside  color-mad, 
When  there  is  room  for  a  weed. 

Wild  flower  nomenclature  is  a  puzzling  thing.  As  to  Latin 
names,  most  of  us  left  them  behind  with  our  youth,  and  common 
names  are  so  curious  and  unrelated. 

' '  I  have  brought  you  a  bouquet, ' '  said  a  flower  enthusiast,  to  an 
aunt  housebound  by  infirmities — ' '  See,  this  is  crane 's  bill,  and  this 
is  dogtooth  violet,  and  this  is  mouse  ear  chickweed,  and  this  is 
lion's  foot,  and  this  a  leaf  of  skunk  cabbage,  and  this" — "that's 
not  a  bouquet,"  retorted  the  aunt,  "it's  a  menagerie."  And,  had 
one  a  bit  of  magic,  a  weird  hitherto  unknown  animal  might  be 
created  out  of  the  bodily  parts  gathered  during  a  morning's  ramble. 

While  still  busy  contemplating  these  ever  changing  processes  of 
spring,  one  is  suddenly  aware  that  there  is  a  pause  in  the  rhythm 
of  nature's  life — that  the  summit  of  creation  has  been  reached.  The 
trees  are  full  leaved,  all  gray  and  vacant  places  have  been  clothed, 
an  invisible  line  has  been  passed  and  one  has  slipped  into  Summer. 
How  true  the  adage  on  the  old  English  sundial.  "Time  passes, 
but  memories  remain." 

Conrad  speaks  of  the  "Shadow  Line"  as  marking  the  "change 
from  youth,  care  free  and  fervent,  to  the  more  self-conscious  and 
more  poignant  period  of  mature  life."    I  have  wondered  if  later 


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as  years  accumulate,  we  do  not  pass  another  "Shadow  Line"  and 
reach  a  period  where  we  are  possibly  less  sure  as  to  the  solution  of 
the  day's  problems,  but  a  little  less  critical  of  life's  weaknesses,  less 
fearful  of  its  dangers,  with  a  little  more  courage  for  its  unexpected 
emptiness,  its  uncomforted  spaces.  I  lay  Conrad  down  with  re- 
luctance and  turn  to  anyone  else  with  hesitation. 


A  SONG 

When  all  the  world  is  gay,  my  dear, 

With  Springtime's  glad  refrain. 

When  on  the  hill  the  hawthorn  blooms 

And  redbud  lights  the  lane. 

When  green  and  gold  the  willows  show 

Against  a  sky  of  blue. 

When  youth  and  beauty  hold  me  thrall, 

'Tis  then  I  think  of  you. 

When  all  the  world  is  grey,  my  dear, 

And  all  of  joy  has  fled. 

When  round  the  hill  a  chill  wind  mourns 

For  blossoms  long  since  dead. 

When  prisoned  by  the  fire  I  sit, 

And  in  my  dreams  review 

The  memories  of  fairer  days, 

'Tis  then  I  think  of  you. 


THE  SCHOOL  OF  MUSIC 

The  Metropolitan  School  of  ]\Iusic,  which  is  affiliated  with  Butler, 
celebrated  its  thirtieth  annual  commencement  Friday  evening, 
June  19.  Dr.  Henry  Noble  Sherwood,  state  superintendent  of 
Public  Instruction,  addressed  the  graduating-  class  and  presented 
the  diplomas.  There  were  thirteen  graduates.  A  musical  program 
preceded  Dr.  Sherwood's  address.  Miss  Charlotte  Brown,  gradu- 
ating in  dramatic  art,  gave  a  reading,  "  Willamilla ",  by  Tarking- 
ton;  Miss  Lorinda  Cottingham,  Miss  Martha  Marie  Haworth  and 
Mrs.  Alma  Miller  Lentz,  violinists,  each  played  solos ;  Miss  Florence 
Keepers,  pianist,  played  a  piano  concerto  with  string  quartet  ac- 
companiment, and  two  trios  were  played  in  which  ensembles  were 
included  by  Miss  Florence  Sherwood  and  Miss  Laura  Doerflin, 
pianists.  Other  members  of  the  graduating  class  were  Miss  Mildred 
George,  Miss  Norma  Justice  and  Miss  Thelma  Peterson,  in  dramat- 
ic art,  and  Misses  Mildred  Casey,  Agnes  Holland  and  Myrtle 
Kathryne  Klover  in  Public  School  Music. 

Dr.  Sherwood's  address  emphasized  the  need  in  this  day  of 
materiality  of  cultivating  the  fine  arts  in  order  to  balance  the 
spiritual  and  material  needs.  Of  these  he  credited  music  with 
having  the  greatest  power. 


THE  ART  SCHOOL 

The  John  Herron  Art  Institute,  now  affiliated  with  Butler  Col- 
lege, observed  its  1925  Commencement  with  a  pageant,  the  evening 
of  June  10;  and  with  an  exhibition  of  the  work  of  the  school  for 
1924-25.  The  pageant,  "The  Feast  of  Tirmont,"  portrayed  the 
Middle  Ages  through  a  story  of  church  and  state.  It  was  present- 
ed in  four  parts :  A — The  Court  A  ssembles ;  B — The  Legend  of  the 
Gifts;  C — Interlude,  and  D — Masque  of  the  Complement.  The 
entire  production,  from  mechanics  to  acting,  was  the  work  of  the 
school. 

Mr.  J.  A.  MacLean,  Director  of  the  Art  Association,  gave  an  ad- 

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dress  of  greeting;  Mr.  Evans  Woollen,  President  of  the  Art  Asso- 
ciation, awarded  the  scholarship  and  prizes;  and  Mrs.  J.  W. 
Fesler,  Chairman  of  the  School,  spoke  on  The  Art  School. 

The  exhibition  of  the  school  is  in  Gallery  I  of  the  Museum  and 
the  Court.  All  departments  of  both  divisions  of  the  school,  the 
Junior  and  Adult,  are  represented.  The  exhibition  was  of  spe- 
cial interest  to  the  National  Education  Association,  in  session  in 
Indianapolis  this  month. 


THE  COLLEGE  OF  RELIGION 

A  significant  portent  of  the  realization  of  "the  greater  Butler" 
appeared  this  spring  in  the  publication,  for  the  first  year,  1925-26^ 
of  "The  Bulletin"  of  the  College  of  Religion.  Mr.  Thomas  Hib- 
ben's  drawing  of  the  new  building  that  will  house  the  college  on 
the  Fairview  campus  is  used  as  the  frontispiece.  The  information 
which  follows  is  very  comprehensive,  thorough  and  well  arranged. 

Of  special  interest  is  the  announcement  of  a  faculty  of  five  mem- 
bers already  teaching  in  the  college,  who  are  supplemented  by  seven 
members  in  the  university  faculty  who  offer  courses  in  the  college ; 
and  by  eleven  instructors  in  schools  aifiliated  with  the  university 
who  also  offer  courses  in  the  college.  The  faculty  of  the  college  con- 
sists of: 

FACULTY  OF  THE  COLLEGE  OF  RELIGION 

Robert  Judson  Aley,  Ph.  D.,  LL,  D.,  President  of  Butler  Uni- 
versity. 

Frederick  D.  Kershner,  M.  A.,  LL.  D.,  Dean  and  Professor  of 
Christian  Doctrine. 

Bruce  L.  Kershner,  M.  A.,  Professor  of  New  Testament  and 
Church  History, 

Guy  L.  Hoover,  M.  A.,  B.  D.,  Professor  of  Practical  Theology. 

Hugh  W.  Ghormley,  M.  A.,  B.  D.,  Secretary  of  the  College  of 
Religion  and  Associate  Professor  of  Old  Testament. 


The  College  of  Religion  91 

H.  Parr  Armstrong,  M.  A.,  Associate  Professor  of  Practical 
Theology. 

Besides  the  teaching  staff  ten  lecturers  are  announced: 

ADDITIONAL   LECTURERS    IN   THE   DEPARTMENTS   OF 
PRACTICAL  THEOLOGY  AND  CHURCH  HISTORY 

Zachary  T.  Sweeney,  LL.  D.,  Epochs  and  Crises  in  Restoration 
History. 

Thomas  W.  Grafton,  LL.  D.,  Practical  Ministries. 
O.  Leslie  Hull,  M.  A.,  B.  D.,  The  Christian  Ordinances. 
W.  E.  M.  Hackleman,  The  Fine  Arts  and  the  Church. 
Edna  Malott,  Church  Organization. 

SPECIAL  LECTURERS  FOR  THE  SESSION  OF  1925-1926 

A.  T.  Robertson,  M.  A.,  D.  D.,  LL.  D.,  Litt.  D.,  Professor  of 
New  Testament  Interpretation,  Southern  Baptist  Theological  Semi- 
nary, Louisville,  Kentucky. 

Kirby  Page,  Author  of  "The  Sword  or  the  Cross,"  "War,  Its 
Causes,  Consequences  and  Cure,"  "Incentives  in  Modem  Life," 
etc. 

Henry  H.  Halley,  of  Chicago,  Illinois. 

Rufus  M.  Jones,  M.  A.,  Litt.  D.,  Professor  of  Philosophy,  Haver- 
ford  College,  Haverford,  Pennsylvania, 

Arthur  Holmes,  Ph.  D.,  Professor  of  Psychology  in  the  Univer- 
sity of  Pennsylvania. 

Courses  are  offered  in  five  departments : 

Department  of  the  Old  Testament. 

Department  of  the  New  Testament. 

Department  of  Church  History. 

Department  of  Christian  Doctrine. 

Department  of  Practical  Theology: 

1.  Homiletics  and  Practical  Ministries. 

2.  Religious  Education. 

3.  The  Fine  Arts  in  Religion. 

4.  Secretarial  Training. 


COMMENCEMENT  OF  THE  COLLEGE  OF 
MISSIONS 

Commencement  of  the  College  of  Missions  took  place  Wednesday, 
June  10.  The  annual  pageant  this  year,  entitled  The  Temple  of 
Heaven,  dealt  with  the  religious  history  of  China.  The  Commence- 
ment address  was  delivered  by  Dr.  A.  W.  Fortune,  formerly  pro- 
fessor of  biblical  theology  in  Transylvania  College,  now  pastor  of 
the  Central  Christian  Church,  of  Lexington,  Kentucky. 

The  list  of  graduates  and  the  countries  to  which  they  will  be 
sent  is  as  follows : 

Africa  (Belgian  Congo) — Roger  Thomas  Clarke,  Virginia  Maltby 
Clarke,  George  Emry  Eecles,  Lulu  Moffitt  Eccles,  Mary  Sue  McDon- 
ald Havens,  Lewis  Albert  Hurt,  Gertrude  Mae  Shoemaker,  Esther 
Wachnitz  Snipes. 

South  America  (Argentina  or  Paraguay) — Reuben  Wesley  Cole- 
man, Marie  McMillan  Coleman,  Lora  Aleta  Garrett,  Hallie  Ruth 
Strange. 

Mexico — Sarah  Rozella  Charles,  Ivan  Hobart  Grigsby,  Delia 
Georgia  Grigsby. 

China — Charles  Samuel  Heininger,  Rex  DeVern  Hopper,  Ida 
Tobin  Hopper,  Pae  Heng  Mao,  Ruth  Imogene  Oberlies,  Russell 
Gordon  Osgood,  Chester  Wayne  Sorrell,  Alice  Gadd  Sorrell. 

India — Anna  Elizabeth  Farra,  Frank  Emery  Harnar,  Blanch 
May  Harnar,  Herman  Marion  Reynolds,  Mildred  Pritchett  Reyn- 
olds, Lalit  Kumar  Shah,  Hazel  Oral  Wood. 

Jamaica — ^Myrle  Olive  Ward. 

Japan — Toyozo  Wala  Nakarai. 

The  following  will  receive  the  degree  of  Master  of  Arts:  Roger 
Thomas  Clarke,  George  Emry  Eccles,  Lora  Aleta  Garrett,  Mary 
Sue  McDonald  Havens,  Charles  Samuel  Heininger,  Rex  DeVern 
Hopper,  Ida  Tobin  Hopper,  Lewis  Albert  Hurt,  Gertrude  Mae 
Shoemaker,  Esther  Wachnitz  Snipes,  Hallie  Ruth  Strange,  Chester 
Wayne  Sorrell. 

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BUTLER  ALUMNAL  QUARTERLY 

ISSUED  JANUARY,  APRIL,  JULY,  OCTOBER 

Published  by  the  Alumni  Association  of  Butler  College,  Indianajwlis. 

Subscription  price,  two  dollars  per  year. 

Entered  as  second-class  matter,  March  26,  1912,  at  thei  post  office  at  Indi- 
anapolis, Indiana,  under  the  Act  of  March  3,  1879. 

Officers  of  the  Alumni  Association — President,  Edwin  E.  Thompson,  '00;  First 
Vice-President,  Elizabeth  Bogert  Schofield,  '09;  Second  Vice-President, 
Myron  Hughel,  '17;  Treasurer,  John  I.  Kautz,  '22. 

Secretary  and  Editor  of  the  Butler  Alumnal  Quarterly — Katharine  M. 
Graydon,  '78. 


NEWS  FROM  THE  CITY  OFFICE 

Principal  gifts  to  the  college  since  the  last  report  from  the  city- 
office  to  the  Quarterly  were  made  by  Edwin  E.  Thompson,  of 
Indianapolis  and  the  Real  Silk  Hosiery  Mills,  also  of  Indianapolis. 
Mr.  Thompson,  who  was  graduated  from  Butler  with  the  class  of 
1900,  gave  $10,000,  to  be  applied  on  the  building  funds.  An- 
nouncement of  his  donation  was  made  at  a  reunion  of  his  class  at 
FairvieAv  park.  It  developed,  in  talking  over  old  times,  that  Emsley 
W.  Johnson,  now  a  Butler  director,  and  Mr.  Thompson,  wished  to 
take  two  young  women  friends  to  Fairview  during  commencement 
week,  twenty-five  years  ago,  and  have  a  picnic.  As  Mr.  Thompson 
was  working  his  way  through  school  and  the  college  year  was  clos- 
ing he  found  himself  without  any  money  whatever.  lie  applied 
to  his  friend,  Mr.  Johnson,  for  a  loan.  Mr.  Johnson's  total  cash  on 
hand  amounted  to  $1.50.  He  loaned  half  of  this  to  Mr.  Thompson 
and  the  picnic  was  a  success.  Twenty-five  years  later,  at  the  same 
place,  Mr.  Thompson  gave  his  alma  mater  $10,000.  He  explained 
that  he  looked  upon  the  gift  as  something  in  the  nature  of  interest 
on  the  original  seventy -five  cent  loan  and  that  whatever  he  had  been 
able  to  do  in  business  could  be  traced  largely  to  the  Butler  in- 
fluence during  his  early  years. 

The  Real  Silk  Hosiery  Mills'  gift  of  $15,000  also  will  be  applied 
on  building  expenses  and  will  be  used  in  helping  defray  the  ex- 
pense of  a  new  school  of  commerce.    The  Real  Silk  Mills  manage- 

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ment  is  particularly  interested  in  corporate  distribution  and  will 
give  a  prize  of  $100  each  year  to  the  student  in  the  school  of  com- 
merce who  writes  the  best  essay  dealing  with  that  subject.  This 
firm  now  has  between  4,000  and  5,000  college  students  enrolled 
throughout  the  country  as  salesmen  and  is  giving  assistance  to  busi- 
ness courses  in  about  150  colleges  and  universities.  Although  its 
product  is  not  sold  exclusively  in  Indiana,  it  is  anxious  to  be  of 
service  to  the  home  school. 

The  city  office  recently  received  a  letter  from  Clarence  L.  Good- 
win, of  Greensburg,  Pa.,  who  gave  Butler  $35,000  some  time  ago, 
in  which  he  called  attention  to  the  liberality  of  Pittsburgh  in  con- 
nection with  a  campaign  to  raise  money  for  the  university  there. 

During  the  spring  months  a  freshman  drive  was  conducted  at 
Butler  for  additional  funds.  The  campaign  was  well  organized  and 
conducted  with  enthusiasm.  The  totals  have  not  yet  been  checked 
but  it  is  known  that  a  substantial  sum  was  pledged  and  that  this 
may  be  increased  subsequently.  One  of  the  first  contributions  in 
this  drive  was  $1,000  from  Mrs.  Edna  Christian,  of  Indianapolis, 
who  is  a  special  student  at  Butler. 

The  city  of  Indianapolis  has  started  work  on  grading  for  the 
boulevard  system  that  will  surround  the  college  grounds  at  Fair- 
view.  This  improvement  is  now  well  under  way  and  the  campus 
will  be  put  in  shape,  particularly  from  the  standpoint  of  adequate 
approaches  from  all  directions. 

General  progress  has  been  made  not  only  with  the  financial  cam- 
paign but  in  other  lines  and  the  future  for  Butler  looks  brighter 
than  ever  before.  The  $700,000  needed  by  the  end  of  the  year  to 
meet  the  conditions  of  William  G.  Irwin  and  his  sister,  Mrs.  Z.  T. 
Sweeney,  who  offered  $300,000  to  the  building  fund,  has  not  yet 
been  raised.  We  are  working  hard  to  that  end,  however,  and  are 
confident  that  December  31  will  see  the  needed  amount  pledged. 


Class  Day  95 


CLASS  DAY 

The  annual  senior  class-day  exercises  were  held  in  the  college 
chapel  by  the  class  of  1925  at  ten  o'clock  on  the  morning  of  June 
13th.  A  large  number  of  friends  and  relatives  of  the  members  of 
the  class  were  present. 

The  program  opened  with  a  short  musical  and  dancing  act  pre- 
sented by  a  number  of  the  senior  co-eds  of  the  college.  Students  of 
yesterday,  today  and  the  future  were  depicted. 

Officers,  previously  elected  by  the  class  then  took  over  the  re- 
mainder of  the  program.  Constance  Forsyth  gave  a  history  of 
the  graduates,  recalling  many  serious  and  amusing  incidents  of 
the  past  four  years.  Irene  Seuel,  prophet  of  the  class,  predicted 
many  great  and  minor  occasions  for  her  classmates.  Eugene  H. 
Colway,  in  the  capacity  of  will-maker,  bequeathed  many  possessions 
of  great  value  upon  the  students  who  were  to  remain  at  the  college. 

The  exercises  were  concluded  by  George  A.  Schumacher,  giftori- 
an,  who  generously  bestowed  comical  gifts  upon  many  who  were 
present.  As  a  final  act  he  presented  to  the  college  in  behalf  of  the 
class,  a  beautiful  sun-dial,  which  is  expected  to  find  a  worthy  place 
on  the  new  campus  at  Fairview.  In  behalf  of  the  college,  Miss  Co- 
rinne  Welling,  sponsor  of  the  class,  accepted  the  gift. 


THE  ALUMNI  REUNION 

The  Butler  College  Alumni  Association  held  its  annual  meeting 
and  picnic  in  the  athletic  building  of  Butler  College,  Saturday, 
evening,  June  13,  1925,  the  President,  Dr.  D.  A.  Layman,  presiding. 

The  report  of  the  Treasurer,  Mr.  John  Kautz,  showed  a  balance 
of  $321.00  in  the  treasury,  with  one  issue  of  the  Quarterly  to  be 
paid  for.    On  motion,  duly  seconded,  the  report  was  accepted. 

In  the  absence  of  Miss  Katharine  M.  Graydon,  the  report  of  the 
Secretary  was  read  by  Miss  Jane  Graydon.  On  motion,  duly  sec- 
onded, this  report  was  accepted. 


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secretary's  report 

The  Alumni  Association  has  been  unusually  active  during  the 
past  year.  As  announced  one  year  ago  and  made  known  by  letter 
sent  to  all  alumni  through  the  Class  Secretaries,  the  Association  has 
furnished  two  scholarships — to  a  senior,  Miss  Hester  Baker,  and 
to  a  freshman,  Miss  Anna  Conway.  This  accomplishment  has  been 
brought  about  by  interested  and  energetic  secretaries.  The  amount 
raised  has  been  $333.45.  By  no  means  have  all  alumni  contributed 
to  this  worthy  fund,  nor  have  all  classes  been  upon  the  list  of  con- 
tributors. When  the  annual  letter  is  sent  next  fall,  it  is  hoped  there 
may  be  a  100  per  cent  response.  Were  it  possible  to  see  the  relief 
and  joy  these  scholarships  afford  there  would  be  no  delay  in  making 
immediate  reply.  We  are  not  averse  to  large  gifts,  but  the  request 
is  for  a  cheerful  response  from  every  alumnus  of  a  small  contribu- 
tion to  help  some  one  else  enjoy  what  he  has  had  from  our  Alma 
Mater. 

It  was  also  voted  a  year  ago  to  bestow  two  medals  at  Commence- 
ment— to  a  man  and  to  a  woman — as  recognition  of  conspicuous 
service  to  the  College ;  but  the  motion  was  withdrawn  when  not 
sufficient  money  was  collected  to  support  the  scholarships  and  to 
bestow  the  medals. 

The  Butler  Men's  Club,  John  E.  Spiegel,  president,  has  met 
monthly  for  the  purpose  of  stimulating  interest  in  the  College  and 
its  activities.  They  have  raised  $700.00  for  the  College  band  with 
which  they  have  purchased  several  instruments  and  expect  by  au- 
tumn to  have  the  musicians  in  proper  uniform.  They  have  enter- 
tained the  Football  team,  the  Basketball  team  and  the  Relay  team. 
Praise  is  due  this  Club. 

The  alumni  must  take  pride  in  the  successes  of  the  athletic 
teams.  A  victorious  record  has  followed  in  their  steps  throughout 
the  year.  Not  less  successful,  though  less  widely  heralded,  have 
been  the  successes  in  the  academic  departments  of  our  school. 

The  necrology  of  the  year  has  been  heavy:  A.  B.  Kirkpatrick, 
'78;  Horace  H.  Fletcher,  ex- '75;  Dr.  A.  B.  Philputt,  trustee  of  the 
College;   Emerson  W.  Matthews,    '91;   Wallace  W.  Knapp,    '94; 


The  Alumni  Reunion  97 

Editha  Newsom,  ex- '17;  Clay  Trusty,  '08;  George  W.  Henry,  '05; 
Helen  Lenore  VanSickle,  '03. 

This  evening  the  Association  is  to  admit  into  its  membership  the 
class  of  '25,  a  fine  class  of  173  members.  We  congratulate  them, 
we  congratulate  ourselves.  We  look  to  them  for  continued  loyalty 
in  furthering  the  large  interests  of  their  Alma  Mater,  and  bespeak 
for  them  that  same  splendid  activity  which  has  characterized  them 
as  undergraduates  through  their  four  years. 

It  is  a  great  pleasure  to  have  in  our  midst  for  this  occasion  many 
of  the  out-of-town  alumni.  The  Association  values  you  and  hopes 
you  will  more  often  visit  the  campus.  It  welcomes  you  of  the  long 
ago  and  you  of  more  recent  times. 

Katharine  M.  Graydon,  Alumni  Secretary. 

It  was  moved  by  Miss  Evelyn  Butler  that  a  vote  of  appreciation 
and  gratitude  be  put  on  record  by  this  Association  to  Miss  Katha- 
rine M.  Graydon  for  her  unusual  services  to  the  Association.  Mo- 
tion seconded  by  Mr.  D.  C.  Brown  and  carried  by  rising  vote. 

The  Nominating  Committee  submitted  the  following  report: 
President,  EdAvin  E.  Thompson,  Class  of  1900. 
First  Vice-President,  Mrs.  Elizabeth  Bogert  Schofield,  Class  of 
1909. 

Second  Vice-President,  Myron  Hughel,  Class  of  1917, 
Treasurer,  John  I.  Kautz,  Class  of  1922. 

Secretary  and  Editor  of  the  Butler  Alumnal  Quarterly,  Miss 
Katharine  ]\I.  Graydon,  Class  of  1878. 

Miss  Graydon  has  always  had  two  assistants.  We  thought  it 
best  that  she  choose  her  own  appointees. 

P.  H.  Clifford, 
Georgia  Galvin  Oakes, 
Urith  Dailey. 

On  motion,  this  report  was  accepted  and  the  above  officers  de- 
clared elected. 
It  was  moved  by  Mr.  H.  S,  Schell  that  the  Class  of  1925  be  ad- 


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mitted  into  membership  of  the  Bntler  Alumni  Association.    Motion 
seconded  and  carried. 

Mr,  George  Schumacher,  the  class  representative,  said:  "Mr. 
President,  and  Members  of  the  Alumni  Association :  On  behalf  of 
the  Class  of  1925  I  wish  to  accept  this  honor  that  you  have  bestowed 
upon  us.  We  feel  that  in  going  out  into  our  respective  paths  of 
endeavor  we  have  a  duty  to  perform  to  the  College  as  never  before. 
We  are  leaving  the  College,  that  is  true,  but  that  is  no  sign  our 
task  is  ended.  We  hope  in  the  future  to  help  in  some  way  to  bring 
fame  and  glory  to  Butler  College. ' ' 

Mr.  Edwin  E.  Thompson,  the  incoming  President,  responded 
to  his  election  with  the  following  remarks :  ' '  This  is  the  first  time 
I  was  ever  elected  to  office,  but  I  will  serve  to  the  best  of  my  ability. 
I  am  glad  to  be  a  member  of  the  Class  of  1900,  and  as  a  member 
of  that  class  to  be  here  as  its  representative. 

I  have  this  thought  about  the  College.  When  I  came  here  to 
school  I  was  distressingly  poor — not  that  I  have  entirely  gotten 
away  from  that  state  yet,  but  I  used  to  ride  my  bicycle  to  the 
end  of  the  street  car  line,  and  sometimes  the  matter  of  the  nickel 
car  fare  was  a  problem.  But  I  hope  the  Alumni  Association,  and 
the  professors  and  everybody  else  connected  with  this  institution 
will  make  it  a  point  to  try  to  get  in  touch  with  and  make  things 
comfortable  around  Butler  for  the  poor  boys  and  girls  that  come 
here.  I  recall  when  we  used  to  ride  on  the  old  street  cars,  the 
many  kind  words  and  smiles  I  had  from  Mrs.  Brown — she  used  to 
be  Miss  Christian — and  it  comes  to  me  now  that  we  never  were 
formally  introduced.  But  I  really  wish  that  every  student  of  the 
College  would  take  it  upon  himself  or  herself  to  be  cordial  to  the 
poor  students  who  may  come  here.  I  did  not  belong  to  any  fra- 
ternity— I  could  not  have  belonged — and  I  think  perhaps  that  was 
the  reason  I  was  never  spiked — ^they  knew  I  would  not  be  able  to 
accept. 

I  will  do  the  best  I  can  to  fulfill  the  duties  of  this  office.  I  am 
pretty  busy  most  of  the  time,  so  I'  shall  rely  upon  some  of  you 
folks  to  help  me  along.    One  man  cannot  do  it — you  must  all  help." 


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On  motion,  duly  seconded,  a  vote  of  thanks  was  tendered  the 
Treasurer,  John  I.  Kautz,  for  his  services. 

The  President  then  called  on  President  Aley,  who  made  a  short 
address  revieMdng  the  progress  of  the  college  during  the  past  year 
with  which  the  alumni  are  already  familiar  through  the  pages  of 
The  Quarterly. 

Dr.  D.  W.  Layman  followed  with  the  annual  President's  address: 

THE    president's    ADDRESS 

This  is  the  first  opportunity  I  have  had  to  thank  the  alumni  for 
the  honor  they  conferred  upon  me  by  electing  me  president  of  the 
Butler  Alumni  Association  at  their  annual  meeting  one  year  ago. 

Alumni  Day  should  be  a  significant  day  in  the  life  of  every 
Butler  man  and  woman.  It  is  a  day  when  the  alumni  gather  to- 
gether to  renew  old  friendships,  and  even  more  important,  it  now 
affords  an  opportunity  for  them  to  learn  of  the  new  and  bigger 
Butler  and  of  the  enlarged  student  body,  carrying  forward  more 
splendidly  than  ever,  the  traditions  of  the  College. 

The  Alumni  Association  of  Butler  College  is  an  organization 
which  needs  and  deserves  the  support  of  every  alumnus.  Butler 
College  is  interested  in  its  alumni  and  Butler  College  is  hoping 
that  the  alumni  will  become  increasingly  more  interested  in  the 
progress  and  future  activities  of  Butler. 

We,  the  alumni,  are  the  stockholders,  so  to  speak,  of  a  great  in- 
stitution. A  majority  of  the  directors  of  this  institution  are  ap- 
pointed from  our  number.  Another  alumnus,  Mr.  John  W.  Ather- 
ton,  is  Financial  Secretary  of  the  Building  and  Endowment  Fund 
of  Butler  College.  From  this,  and  other  data,  I  maintain  that  of 
the  three  large  groups,  the  faculty,  student  body  and  alumni, 
which  make  up  an  institution  of  learning,  the  Alumni  group  is  the 
most  important.  Of  course,  this  is  open  to  argniment.  I  will  leave 
it  to  the  other  two  groups  to  fight  it  out  for  second  place. 

The  officers  of  the  Alumni  Association  have  been  active  during 
the  past  year.  At  the  several  meetings  held  since  last  June,  we 
have  discussed  matters  concerning  the  future  welfare  of  the  Asso- 
ciation and  Butler  College. 


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The  officers,  acting  for  the  Alumni  Association,  desire  to  recog- 
nize and  put  their  seal  of  approval  on  certain  activities: 

1.  We  congratulate  the  Board  of  Directors  and  the  Financial 
Secretary  on  the  success  they  have  attained  in  the  campaign  con- 
ducted for  funds  for  the  new  and  bigger  Butler. 

2.  We  wish  to  congratulate  Dr.  Aley  and  the  Faculty  upon  the 
excellent  manner  in  which  they  have  handled  the  enlarged  student 
body  within  such  limited  quarters. 

3.  We  commend  the  Butler  Men's  Club  and  congratulate  the 
Club  upon  the  excellent  service  rendered,  in  interesting  not  only 
the  alumni  and  former  students,  but  the  public  as  well,  in  Butler 
affairs,  especially  the  affairs  pertaining  to  athletics. 

4.  We  wish  to  congratulate  the  Director  of  Athletics,  Mr.  Page; 
Coach  Hinkle  and  other  assistants  on  the  wonderful  success  they 
have  achieved  this  year  in  the  Athletic  Department.  I  must  re- 
mind the  Association  that  it  was  through  the  efforts  of  our  own 
alumni,  Frank  Davidson  and  John  W.  Atherton  that  Mr.  Page 
was  secured. 

5.  We  approve  of  the  Class  Secretary  Association.  This  is  a 
unit  of  activity  whereby  one  member  of  each  class  keeps  in  touch 
with  the  other  members.  Through  this  Association  the  alumni  have 
contributed  to  the  support  of  two  Alumni  Scholarships.  This  is 
just  a  beginning.  The  Association  hopes  for  bigger  things  along  this 
line.  Like  a  great  many  other  things,  we  are  indebted  to  Miss 
Katharine  Graydon  for  suggesting  and  establishing  the  class  Secre- 
tary Association. 

Now  that  we  have  congratulated  the  College  and  the  alumni, 
more  or  less,  it  would  show  a  non-progressive  attitude  to  sit  back 
perfectly  satisfied;  we  wish  to  make  a  few  recommendations: 

1.  We  recommend  that  Butler  College  consider  the  adoption  of 
student  managership  for  the  athletic  teams.  This  system  once 
prevailed  for  years  at  Butler  and  we  believe  it  has  many  advan- 
tages. 

2.  We  believe  that  the  Alumni  Association  should  have  at  least 
two    alumni    athletic    representatives,    appointed    either    by    the 


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President  of  this  Association  or  by  the  Board  of  Directors.  The 
Representatives  to  serve  in  an  advisory  capacity. 

3.  We  recommend  for  consideration  that  the  date  of  Founders' 
Day  be  changed  to  the  first  Saturday  in  November.  Butler  College 
opened  its  doors  November  1st,  1855,  at  the  old  University  grounds 
on  College  Avenue  and  Home  Avenue,  now  East  Thirteenth  Street. 
Combine  Founders'  Day  in  November  with  the  Home  Coming  Day, 
and  it  will  become  a  significant  day  to  celebrate  annually  on  the 
new  Fairview  site. 

In  conclusion,  I  wish  to  urge  that  every  alumnus,  former  stu- 
dent and  friend  lend  their  moral  and  financial  support  to  the  Build- 
ing Fund  Campaign. 

I  feel  that  the  Financial  Secretary  and  his  Committee  in  charge 
of  the  campaign,  deserve  the  united  support  and  co-operation  of  all 
Butlerites. 

ADDRESS  OF  JOSEPH  B.  KEALING 

I  do  not  believe  an  alumni  meeting  is  the  place  for  a  serious 
speech  so  I  am  not  going  to  make  one.  It  is  an  occasion  for  the  re- 
newal of  old  friendships  and  to  do  honor  to  the  University  from 
which  we  graduated. 

I  received  my  diploma  from  Butler  University  in  June,  1879, 
forty-six  years  ago  almost  to  a  day  and  at  all  times  since  I  have 
been  proud  of  it.  The  class  of  1879  consisted  of  nineteen  members, 
three  women  and  sixteen  men.  It  was  the  largest  class  graduated 
up  to  that  time. 

I  have  seen  our  Alma  Mater  grow  steadily  from  year  to  year, 
until  now  it  is  a  nationally  known  institution.  I  recall  the  day 
when  the  University,  then  known  as  the  Northwestern  Christian 
University,  moved  to  Irvington  and  took  the  name  of  Butler  Uni- 
versity. I  now  see  it  going  to  its  new  location  and  each  time  it 
has  moved  it  has  grown  bigger  and  better.  I  expect  to  live  to 
see  it  one  of  the  best  known  and  best  Universities  in  the  west. 

I  was  a  student  for  three  months  at  the  old  Northwestern  Chris- 
tian University.     I  remember  very  well  the  day  my  father  took 


102  Butler  Alumnal  Quarterly 

me  there.  I  was  then  only  a  young  lad.  We  called  on  President 
Burgess  who  put  his  hand  on  my  head  and  said,  "we  will  make 
a  man  of  this  lad."  "WTien  examination  came  I  failed  to  pass 
and  upon  investigation  it  was  found  that  I  did  not  pass  because 
I  had  played  "hookey"  most  of  the  time.  I  was  promptly  taken 
from  there  and  sent  to  the  Indianapolis  public  schools.  After 
graduating  at  the  Indianapolis  High  School  I  entered  Butler  and 
in  due  time  received  my  degree.  In  looking  back  to  the  day  I 
graduated  I  can  see  myself  going  to  commencement  in  a  new  Prince 
Albert  suit  on  a  hot  day,  of  course  it  being  my  first  one,  right 
through  this  campus  to  the  chapel.  The  subject  of  my  graduating 
address  was,  ' '  shall  a  lawyer  defend  a  guilty  client  ? "  Of  course  I 
took  the  view  at  that  time  that  he  should  not,  and  held  that  view 
imtil  I  began  to  practice  law  when  I  discovered  that  if  a  lawyer 
held  to  that  view,  he  would  have  very  few  clients. 

I  am  almost  ashamed  to  say  that  I  have  not  attended  an  alumni 
meeting  for  many  years,  but  if  you  and  I  survive  these  speeches 
I  promise  to  be  more  faithful  in  the  future. 

Meeting  here  in  this  beautiful  campus  where  we  used  to  play 
and  study  under  the  same  grand  old  trees  that  are  here  now,  brings 
back  very  pleasant  recollections  of  our  college  days  and  of  our 
college  chums.  It  is  while  in  college  that  the  warmest  and  sincerest 
friendships  are  often  made.  After  we  are  graduated  while  our 
paths  of  life  may  be  far  apart,  we  never  forget  our  classmates 
even  if  we  do  not  see  them  often. 

This  meeting  also  makes  us  think  of  our  professors  who  were 
largely  responsible  for  whatever  success  we  may  have  had  in  life. 
Patient  and  painstaking  with  us  we  have  come  to  love  and  revere 
them  and  their  memories.  We  appreciate  all  they  did  for  us  more 
than  we  did  while  in  college.  I  cannot  help  but  recall  that  grand 
old  man.  Prof.  A.  E.  Benton,  who  was  President  of  Butler  in  my 
day.  I  also  recall  with  pleasure  and  reverence  Prof.  Scot  Butler, 
our  Latin  teacher;  Prof.  Thrasher,  teacher  of  mathematics;  Miss 
Katharine  Merrill,  and  Miss  Harriet  Noble,  teachers  of  English 
literature.     Many  of  you  since  that  day  have  had  other  teachers 


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whom  I  do  not  know,  but  you  today  will  no  doubt  recall  them  and 
remember  your  associations  with  a  great  deal  of  pleasure. 

Many  of  the  alumni  of  Butler  have  made  names  for  themselves, 
very  few  of  them  have  disgraced  their  college.  Butler,  while  com- 
paratively small,  has  always  had  the  reputation  of  being  a  real 
school.  Many  of  us  doubtless  would  have  liked  to  attend  Yale, 
Harvard,  Princeton  or  other  famous  Universities,  but  I  doubt  in 
the  end  if  we  would  have  been  any  better  off  so  far  as  learning  is 
concerned.  My  opinion  is  that  the  alumni  of  Butler,  take  it  by 
and  large,  will  compare  favorably  with  the  alumni  of  larger  and 
more  widely  known  institutions.  After  all  it  is  up  to  the  student 
himself.  The  name  of  having  graduated  from  Yale,  Harvard, 
Princeton  or  some  other  famous  University  gets  you  nothing.  I 
have  had  professors  who  were  not  nationally  known  but  who  in 
fact  would  compare  favorably  with  the  professors  of  these  Uni- 
versities. In  my  day  we  came  to  Butler  to  study,  and  study  we 
did,  or  we  would  not  have  remained  there  very  long. 

Such  men  as  Addison  C.  Harris,  Harry  S.  New,  Dr.  Henry 
Jameson,  Dr.  A.  W.  Brayton,  Demarchus  Bro\\Ti,  Hilton  U.  Brown, 
Merrill  Moores,  Will  Irwin,  Emsley  Johnson,  Jack  Atherton,  Dr. 
Layman,  James  Lilly,  Crate  Bowen,  J.  P.  Frenzel,  Arthur  V. 
Brow^n,  Claris  Adams,  and  others  have  made  names  for  themselves 
in  their  respective  professions,  and  the  foundation  of  their  success 
was  laid  at  this  University.  I  could  name  many  others.  We  are 
proud  of  all  of  them. 

We  are  now  about  to  build  a  bigger  and  better  institution.  Great 
credit  should  be  given  to  those  who  have  labored  in  season  and 
out  of  season  and  who  have  freely  given  of  their  means  to  bring 
this  about.  The  alumni  have  played  no  small  part  in  this.  They 
have  given  very  liberally  and  they  will  give  more.  Let  us  all 
resolve  while  pleasant  memories  of  our  college  days  are  uppermost 
in  our  minds  that  we  will  do  everything  we  can  to  build  up  that 
institution  which  educated  us,  made  us  what  we  are,  and  of  which 
we  are  very  proud. 

Those  who  have  been  actively  engaged  in  the  work  have  selected 
a  splendid  site  for  the  University  and  the  boy  or  girl  who  will 


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have  the  privileg-e  of  attending  it  will  be  very  fortunate  indeed. 

Indiana  is  the  home  of  many  splendid  colleges.  It  is  in  a  way 
one  of  the  most  wonderful  States  of  the  Union.  How  proud  we 
will  be  in  the  future  to  have  it  known  as  the  home  of  the  greatest 
University  in  the  west.  Not  only  will  every  one  of  the  alumni  be 
proud  of  it,  but  all  our  citizens  will  rejoice  to  know  that  right  at 
home  there  will  be  a  splendid  college  where  they  can  send  their 
children  to  school  and  that  it  is  located  in  a  clean,  moral  city, 
fit  to  live  in. 

Your  chairman  has  asked  me  to  say  something  about  politics. 
It  is  such  a  big  subject  that  I  can  say  but  little.  I  am  glad,  how- 
ever, to  have  the  opportunity  of  suggesting  something  that  has 
been  on  my  mind  for  a  long  time.  I  think  that  not  only  our  own 
University  but  every  other  one  in  our  country  should  teach  its 
students  practical  politics.  Whatever  polities  I  know  I  learned 
from  experience.  When  I  left  college  I  loiew  nothing  about  pol- 
itics. I  could  have  and  should  have  been  taught  something  about 
it  while  in  school.  Did  you  ever  stop  to  think  that  politics  is  the 
one  subject  more  than  any  other  one,  that  is  discussed  in  our 
homes,  our  places  of  business,  on  the  street,  and  in  fact  wherever 
men  and  women  come  together. 

So  long  as  our  government  is  a  government  by  parties,  it  is 
important  that  students  should  be  taught  what  constitutes  a  party, 
how  it  is  formed  and  carried  on,  so  that  when  their  time  comes 
they  can  take  their  places  in  it  and  by  so  doing  not  only  help  to 
elevate  politics,  but  help  to  make  a  better  and  stronger  govern- 
ment. With  many  people  a  man  known  as  a  politician  is  subject 
to  ridicule  and  scorn.  A  party  boss  is  often  supposed  to  be  a  man 
with  horns  and  one  who  does  not  have  the  interest  of  his  country 
at  heart.  Nothing  is  farther  from  the  truth  than  this.  I  have 
had  many  years'  experience  in  local,  state  and  national  politics, 
and  I  know  that  some  of  the  best  and  most  loyal  men  in  the  country 
are  known  as  politicians. 

No  one  in  all  this  country  is  held  in  higher  esteem  and  has  the 
confidence  of  the  people  of  this  country  more  than  our  distinguished 
President,   Calvin  Coolidge.     From  the  time  he  graduated  from 


The  Alumni  Reunion  105 

college  he  was  a  practical  politician.  From  town  clerk  of  a  small 
town  to  the  greatest  office  in  the  gift  of  the  American  people,  is 
a  far  cry  and  yet  that  is  the  road  President  Coolidge  traveled.  As 
soon  as  he  left  college  he  took  up  polities — practical  politics  and 
was  a  practical  politician  for  more  than  twenty  years.  He  learned 
then  and  knows  now  the  value  of  organization  in  politics.  He  is 
now  a  leader  of  his  party  in  every  sense  of  the  word.  He  did  not 
get  his  education  in  politics  in  college  but  had  to  acquire  it  through 
experience.  He  is  one  in  many  who  has  traveled  his  own  road  to 
success.  He  was  practical  in  politics  and  is  practical  in  office. 
That  is  why  he  has  made  a  success  in  every  office  he  has  ever  held. 

I  do  not  mean  that  politics  should  be  taught  so  that  a  man  may 
get  an  office.  That  is  only  an  incident,  for  a  very  small  part  of 
the  people  of  our  country  ever  hold  office  or  want  to  hold  office. 
Many  of  the  ablest  men  in  our  country  have  been  men  who  cared 
nothing  for  office  but  only  became  active  in  politics  that  they  might 
tetter  help  their  country.  Why  then  should  not  young  men  and 
women  be  educated  in  politics  as  well  as  any  other  subject  ? 

I  believe  that  the  thought  is  worth  consideration.  If  that  is 
true  why  then  would  it  not  be  a  fine  thing  for  our  University 
to  be  a  pioneer  along  this  line?  It  will  not  only  be  advantageous 
to  the  student  when  he  goes  out  in  the  world  in  his  chosen  pro- 
fession but  it  will  tend  to  elevate  politics  and  will  help  to  make  a 
better  and  stronger  government.  The  better  and  stronger  the 
party  the  better  and  stronger  the  government  will  be. 

I  read  in  an  article  by  Meredith  Nicholson,  in  the  April  issue 
of  the  Butler  Quarterly  the  following : 

"It  is  a  singular  thing  that  with  all  the  stress  laid  upon  effi- 
ciency in  industry  and  commerce  we  should  so  meekly  submit  to 
the  second  rate  in  government.  A  democracy  presupposes  of  the 
citizen  a  serious  concern  for  the  intelligent  and  honest  adminis- 
tration of  public  affairs.  I  do  not  believe  the  schools  and  colleges 
are  doing  their  duty  in  this  matter.  There  is  something  lacking 
here.  The  usual  college  courses  in  history  and  politics  are  some- 
how inadequate.     Our  young  men  and  women  are  not  bringing 


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home  from  the  colleges  and  universities  any  high  sense  of  their 
responsibilities  as  citizens.  Possibly  the  reason  lies  in  the  fact 
that  the  teaching  is  too  academic.  The  average  college  professor 
is  timid  about  venturing  opinions  that  may  be  suspected  of  party 
bias.  To  meet  this  situation  I  suggest  lectureships  to  be  filled  by 
men  who  know  practical  politics.  I  would  not  scruple  to  introduce 
to  the  students  men  known  as  party  bosses  and  have  them  tell  how 
they  do  the  job.  And  the  political  idealists  should  have  a  chance 
to  disclose  the  faith  that  is  in  them.  The  whole  aim  would  be  to 
quicken  the  interest,  to  arouse  in  every  student  a  strong  sense  of 
personal  responsibility. ' ' 

I  would  go  farther  and  not  only  have  such  lectures  but  for  the 
reasons  I  have  given  I  would  have  a  department  of  politics. 

Mayor  Shank  was  then  introduced  by  Mr.  Atherton,  and  made 
a  short  speech,  extending  the  interest  and  co-operation  of  the  city 
administration  in  forwarding  the  development  of  Butler  University. 

Mr.  Claris  Adams  gave  a  brief  review  of  the  athletic  achieve- 
ments of  the  past  year, 

Mr.  Emsley  Johnson  was  introduced  as  the  Silver  Jubilee  class 
speaker.  He  said  in  part:  "Twenty-five  years  ago  our  class  left 
these  college  halls.  Recently  we  had  a  reunion  of  the  class  at 
which  ten  members  were  present.  We  are  proud  of  our  class. 
$41,000  of  the  money  subscribed  to  Butler  has  come  from  that 
class.  Just  the  other  day  Mr.  Thompson  gave  $10,000,  and  every 
member  of  the  class  has  contributed  liberally  to  the  success  of 
Butler. 

"I  cannot  help  saying  something  of  our  hopes  and  aspirations 
and  ambitions  for  the  future.  We  have  the  most  wonderful  site 
in  the  world  at  Fairview,  and  we  are  doing  the  best  we  can — but 
we  must  do  a  little  bit  more.  We  can  all  do  this,  not  by  giving 
large  sums  of  money,  but  we  can  preach  Butler  to  our  friends  and 
acquaintances,  we  can  uphold  Butler— we  have  many  things  to  be 
proud  of.  We  have  a  wonderful  student  body,  we  are  proud  of 
our  Faculty,  and  we  have  every  reason  to  believe  that  we  will  be 


Class  Reunions  107 

holding-  sessions  out  there  in  the  near  future.     We  will  put  up 
some  portables  to  tide  us  over  the  present,  but  we  are  sure  that  in 
the  future  Butler  College  will  take  its  place  in  the  first  rank." 
Following  the  address  by  Mr.  Johnson  the  meeting  adjourned. 


CLASS  REUNIONS 

1900 

Because  Blanche  Noel  was  sailing  for  France,  we  had  our  class 
meeting  one  week  in  advance  of  Butler  Alumni  night.  We  had  to 
postpone  our  inspection  of  the  new  Butler  Campus  till  next  year 
for  the  weather  man  decided  to  break  the  three-weeks  drought  by 
sending  a  heavy  rain.  Consequently  the  class  members,  their  fam- 
ilies, and  their  picnic  baskets  came  to  the  home  of  the  secretary. 
Butler  blue  and  white  with  yellow  coreopsis  combined  the  college 
with  class  colors  for  the  table  decorations.  The  lunch  baskets 
contained  both  the  substantial  picnic  foods  and  the  delicacies  of 
cake  and  ice  cream.  Clara  Overheiser  Fry  and  Mrs.  Edwin  Thomp- 
son each  baked  a  fine  big  cake. 

The  following  members  answered  to  the  class  roll:  (1)  John 
Atherton  with  Mrs.  Atherton  and  Hilton  Atherton;  (2)  John  R. 
Carr  (sickness  at  home  prevented  Mrs.  Carr  and  their  three  chil- 
dren from  coming)  ;  (3)  Cora  Emrich  who  arranged  the  table 
decorations;  (4)  Emsley  W.  Johnson  with  Mrs.  Johnson,  Emsley 
Johnson  Junior  and  his  sister;  (5)  Blanch  Noel;  (6)  Clara  Over- 
heiser Fry,  and  Mr.  Fry  (none  of  their  three  children  could  come)  ; 
(7)  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Anson  Leroy  Portteus  with  their  daughter,  Jean. 
(Their  son  is  an  interne  at  the  Riley  Hospital)  ;  (8)  Edwin  E. 
Thompson  and  Mrs.  Thompson;  (9)  Shelly  Diggs  Watts  who  is 
Assistant  Professor  in  the  Department  of  Economics  and  Sociology 
at  Indiana  University.  (Mrs.  Watts  and  daughter  could  not  come), 
and  (10)  your  Class  Secretary. 

During  the  roll  call  letters  from  the  following  were  read:  (1) 
Grace  Gookin  Koislake  who  spoke  of  Mr.  Koislake,  of  one  son 
graduated  from  Dartmouth,  of  another  son  who  is  a  junior  at 


108  Butler  Alumnal  Quarterly 

Michigan  and  of  a  daug^hter  who  enters  college  in  the  fall;  (2) 
Maiy  Graham  Place  who  wrote  of  her  husband  and  two  college 
sons  who  are  scoring  high  in  tennis;  (3)  May  Griggs  Van  Voorhis 
whose  husband  has  charge  of  the  Spruce  Street  Church  in  Morgan- 
town,  West  Virginia.  Their  family  of  five,  a  younger  one  of 
whom  graduates  from  Hiram  this  June,  and  active  church  work 
have  kept  them  busy.  (4)  Penelope  Kern  who  is  teaching  in  Great 
Barrington,  Massachusetts. 

Of  the  graduates  two  are  not  with  us;  Carl  Loop  who  died  in 
Sicily,  and  Ernest  Graham.  Mrs.  Hope  Graham  is  dean  of  Women 
in  a  Chicago  High  School.  One  son  will  soon  be  graduated  from 
law  school  at  the  University  of  Chicago.  The  younger  son  attends 
Northwestern. 

Besides  our  visiting,  renewing  old  acquaintances,  and  making 
new  ones  among  the  familj'  members,  we  laid  plans  to  meet  next 
year  on  the  new  Butler  Campus.  At  this  time  we  hope  for  better 
weather  and  for  the  opportunity  for  seeing  foundations  of  new 
buildings  well  under  way.  John  Atherton  and  Emsley  Johnson, 
who  have  done  so  much  toward  the  realization  of  a  new  Butler, 
explained  their  work  and  showed  plans  for  the  new  buildings.  In 
order  to  assure  next  year's  plans  a  postage  fund  was  established 
and  the  following  officers  elected:  Anson  Leroy  Portteus,  Presi- 
dent; Blanche  Noel,  Vice-President;  Cora  Emrich,  Treasurer,  and 
Esther  Pay  Shover,  Permanent  Secretary. 

By  far  the  outstanding  event  of  the  reunion  came  in  the  form 
of  a  gift  of  $10,000  made  by  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Edwin  E.  Thompson. 
That  this  gift  Avas  announced  on  the  day  of  our  Class  Reunion, 
gives  us  an  added  interest  in  our  class  and  in  our  College. 

Esther  Fay  Shover. 

1908 

The  Class  of  1908  met  for  their  eighteenth  annual  reunion  Class 
Day  Morning.  The  annual  breakfast  which  is  given  regularly  in 
Ellenberger  Woods,  this  year  on  account  of  rain  was  given  at  the 
home  of  Miss  Gretchen  Scotten.  Because  a  number  of  the  mem- 
bers could  not  attend  at  that  time,  the  class  held  a  picnic  the  fol- 


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lowing  Friday,  and  entertained  the  mothers  of  the  members  as 
special  guests.  The  members  of  the  class  who  were  present  are: 
Mrs.  Lettie  Lowe  Myers,  Mrs.  Alma  Hoover  Nedley,  Miss  Bessie 
Powers,  Miss  Gretchen  Scotten,  Mrs.  Daisy  McGowan  Turner,  and 
Mrs.  Florence  Hosbrook  Wallace. 

Since  the  annual  breakfast  often  interferes  with  other  activities 
of  Class  Day,  the  class  decided  hereafter  to  give  the  breakfast  on 
the  morning  following  Commencement  Day. 

Florence  Hosbrook  Wallace. 

1914 

The  Class  of  1914  voted  at  its  tenth  reunion  last  June  to  have  an 
annual  luncheon,  always  to  be  held  on  the  Saturday  before  Com- 
mencement at  the  Lincoln  Hotel.  This  plan  was  adopted  so  that 
every  member  would  always  know  the  time  and  place  of  the  annual 
reunions. 

This  year  those  of  the  Class  who  could  be  back  gathered  together 
in  the  Italian  room  of  the  Lincoln  Hotel.  There  were  the  Reverend 
Elvin  Daniels,  Mr.  Clarence  Burkhardt,  Miss  June  Brewer,  Miss 
Eda  Boos  Brewer,  and  Mrs.  Ellen  Graham  George. 

The  reunion  in  spite  of  the  fact  only  a  few  members  could  be 
present  was  enthusiastic  in  its  renewal  of  friendships,  and  in  its 
consideration  of  the  progress  of  the  college. 

Ellen  Graham  George. 

1917 

The  Class  of  1917  had  its  annual  supper  Sunday  evening,  June 
14th,  at  the  home  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Whitney  Spiegel,  4125  North 
Illinois  Street.  Those  present  were  Mr.  and  I\Irs.  Myron  Hughel, 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  John  Fuller,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Austin  Clifford,  Mr.  and 
]Mrs.  Wm.  Book,  J\Ir.  and  Mrs.  Whitney  Spiegel,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  John 
Paul  Ragsdale,  Miss  Hazel  Stanley,  Miss  Juna  Lutz,  Miss  Vaugil 
Davis,  Miss  Urith  Dailey,  Mrs.  Mildred  Dawson  Tribble,  and 
Earl  McRoberts. 

Earl  McRoberts  made  a  special  trip  down  from  Chicago  to 
be  with  the  Class  this  year.    All  of  the  members  eagerly  look  for- 


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ward   to   these   gatherings   of  the   ' '  Seventeeners ",   and  heartily 
recommend  annual  reunions  to  all  Butler  classes. 

Urith  Dailet. 
1920 

The  following  members  of  the  Class  of  1920  celebrated  their  fifth 
reunion  by  having  lunch  together  on  Saturday,  June  13th.  Those 
attending  included  Margaret  Rose,  Lucille  Sartor,  Nina  Keppel, 
Hazel  Stuart,  Merrill  Woods,  Kenneth  Fry  and  his  wife,  Mildred 
Clearwater  Fry;  Helen  Jaehne,  '19;  and  Gladys  Banes.  Miss 
Sarah  Cotton,  Registrar  of  Butler  College,  was  a  special  guest.  A 
telegram  was  received  from  Florence  Corya,  and  letters  were  re- 
ceived from  Dorothy  Frazee,  Herman  and  Lois  Sheedy,  Monta 
Hunter,  Louise  Stewart  Baker,  Marie  Hamilton  Miller,  Muriel  Fill- 
ingham,  Donald  McGavran,  and  Talitha  Gerlach. 

Gladys  Banes. 


CLASS  NEWS 

1890 

The  celebration  of  the  Class  of  1890  that  was  planned  to  have 
taken  place  this  year,  which  marks  the  thirty-fifth  anniversary  of 
graduation,  has  been  postponed  on  account  of  Mrs.  Alexander 
Jameson's  visit  to  Europe  and  will  take  place  next  year. 

The  secretary,  jVIiss  Vida  Cottman,  reports  the  following  news: 

Mr.  J.  F.  Findley,  now  a  resident  of  Boulder,  Colorado,  visited 
in  Irvington  recently. 

The  Rev.  Newton  and  Mrs.  Jessup  of  Lafayette,  Indiana,  at- 
tended Butler  Commencement. 

Mrs.  Henry  S.  Schell  (Romaine  Braden)  attended  the  inaugura- 
tion of  President  L.  H.  Murlin  of  DePauw  University  on  June 
9,  1925,  as  the  official  representative  of  the  University  of  California. 
Mrs.  Schell  received  the  degree  of  Master  of  Arts  from  the  Uni- 
versity of  California  in  1903. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Henry  S.  Schell  will  go  to  Oroville,  California, 


Class  News  111 

this  summer  to  visit  Mrs.  Schell's  sister  and  her  sister's  husband, 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  J.  L.  Brady,  both  of  the  class  of  '93. 

1900 

The  secretary,  Esther  Fay  Shover,  of  the  Class  of  1900,  reports 
the  following  news  of  the  class : 

Mrs.  Anne  Butler  Recker  has  gone  with  her  son  to  the  lakes  for 
the  summer. 

Mr.  Edward  Dougherty  has  returned  from  California  and  has 
charge  of  the  Christian  Church  in  Muncie,  Indiana. 

Miss  Anna  Edgeworth  is  teaching  in  Indianapolis. 

Miss  Mabel  Hauk  is  now  Mrs.  0.  D.  Thundere. 

Mrs.  Ethel  Roberts  Loop  has  returned  to  the  United  States  and 
is  living  in  the  east.  Her  daughter,  Mary,  is  in  school  near  Phila- 
delphia. 

Dr.  Raymond  A.  Smith  is  a  professor  in  the  Christian  University 
at  Fort  Worth,  Texas. 

1915 

The  celebration  that  the  Class  of  1915  has  been  preparing  for 
this  year,  their  tenth  anniversary  of  graduation,  has  been  post- 
poned until  next  year.  The  class  is  so  scattered  that  it  is  hard 
for  the  members  to  hold  a  reunion.  Five  of  the  class  attended 
the  alumni  supper :  Miss  IMargaret  Griffith,  Mr,  Howard  Caldwell 
and  Mrs.  Caldwell  (Elsie  Felt),  and  Mr.  Joseph  Ostrander  and 
Mrs.  Ostrander  (Genevieve  Ham). 

WELCOME  TO  THE  CLASS  OF  1925 

The  alumni  association,  composed  of  graduates  and  former  stu- 
dents of  Butler,  welcomes  the  Class  of  1925  as  new  members  in 
their  organization.  This  association  takes  part  in  every  activity 
of  the  college,  the  Home  Coming  and  Founders'  Day  celebrations 
being  two  of  the  more  important  occasions  of  the  school  year  under 
its  management.  Each  member  receives  the  Quarterly,  a  magazine 
that  carries  news  of  every  department  of  the  college.  The  dues 
are  but  $2.00  a  year. 


ATHLETICS 

BASEBALL 

Coach  Hinkle  had  a  hard  task  in  finding  enough  men  to  fill  out 
his  baseball  machine,  which  was  wrecked  last  year  by  the  gradua- 
tion of  Middlesworth,  Goett,  Staton,  Jones,  Blessing,  Welborn  and 
Slaughter.  Ewing  was  the  only  veteran  hurler.  Quisser,  a  sopho- 
more, got  the  receiving  job,  while  Woolgar,  who  was  here  in  1923, 
took  over  the  third  base  position.  Strole  and  Reichel  were  other 
new  men  in  the  regular  lineup.  Captain  Mills,  Nipper,  Keach, 
Griggs,  completed  the  nine,  and  very  few  changes  were  made  dur- 
ing the  season.  The  team  made  a  southern  trip  in  March  and 
gained  much  valuable  experience,  although  they  only  broke  even 
in  the  number  of  games  won  and  lost.  However,  after  returning 
home  and  starting  on  their  state  schedule,  the  team  ran  up  eleven 
straight  victories,  losing  the  twelfth  game  to  Wabash  at  the  end 
of  the  season.  This  record  gives  the  Bulldogs  a  clear  claim  to  the 
state  title.  Indiana  and  Purdue  were  both  defeated  twice  by 
Wabash,  Notre  Dame  lost  to  Purdue,  Avhile  Wabash  lost  to  Notre 
Dame  and  DePauw.  The  feature  of  the  season's  play  was  the 
hitting  of  the  team  as  a  whole  and  the  fine  mound  work  of  Ewing. 
Griggs,  who  recently  joined  the  White  Sox,  is  the  only  senior  on 
the  squad,  and  with  several  promising  men  on  the  yearling  team, 
prospects  are  bright  for  a  strong  team  next  spring. 

TENNIS 

Sagalowsky  and  Kurzrok,  Butler's  tennis  stars,  have  been  keep- 
ing pace  with  the  other  teams.  They  were  undefeated  in  a  long 
schedule  of  dual  meets  with  some  of  the  best  teams  in  the  middle 
west.  They  won  the  doubles  championship  in  the  State  Meet,  and 
at  the  same  affair,  Sagalowsky  won  the  singles  championship  from 
Kurzrok.  At  the  Big  Ten  meet,  the  Bulldog  entries  made  a  clean 
sweep  of  everything.  They  took  the  doubles  and  met  each  other 
in  the  finals  of  the  singles.  Kurzrok  finally  won  after  one  of  the 
most  brilliant  exhibitions  of  tennis  ever  seen  in  a  Conference  meet. 

112 


Athletics  113 

These  two  men  participated  at  the  National  Meet  in  Philadelphia 
late  in  June. 

SPRING   ATHLETICS 

During  the  past  few  months  Butler  athletic  teams  have  risen  to 
new  heights  in  spring  sports  and  the  baseball,  track,  and  tennis 
teams  have  taken  their  places  beside  the  basketball  and  football 
teams  which  have  gained  so  much  national  recognition  in  the  past 
few  years.  The  performances  of  Butler  athletes  this  spring  are  a 
monument  to  the  coaching  staff.  With  only  a  handful  of  men  in 
track,  Coach  Page  turned  out  the  best  relay  team  in  the  country 
and  with  only  six  men  entered  in  the  Indiana  State  Meet,  was  able 
to  place  second  to  Notre  Dame,  who  had  thirty-five  men  entered, 
of  whom  nineteen  placed. 

The  work  of  the  track  team,  especially  the  relay  group,  deserves 
special  mention.  Starting  at  the  University  of  Illinois  indoor 
games,  the  Butler  relay  team,  composed  of  Scott,  Ham,  Handley, 
Caraway,  Capt.  Glen  Gray,  David  Kilgore,  and  Herman  Phillips, 
set  record  after  record  in  the  half-mile,  the  mile,  and  the  medley 
relays.  At  the  Illinois  event,  the  Butler  boys  won  the  mile  in 
3 :28.4,  almost  three  full  seconds  better  than  the  previous  record. 
The  boys  also  competed  in  indoor  meets  at  Kansas  City,  Cleveland, 
Louisville,  and  Cincinnati,  and  in  every  meet  came  out  with  addi- 
tional honors.  The  indoor  season  was  strenuous  but  the  training 
obtained  was  of  untold  value  in  the  outdoor  season  which  followed. 

The  first  big  outdoor  events  of  the  year  were  the  Texas  relays, 
held  at  Austin,  and  the  Southwest  relays,  at  Houston,  on  March 
27th  and  28th.  Practically  all  of  the  State  Universities  of  the 
Southwest  were  competing,  in  addition  to  Notre  Dame,  Illinois, 
and  other  northern  schools.  At  Texas,  the  Bulldogs  made  a  clean 
sweep,  winning  the  quarter,  the  half,  and  the  mile  events  and  set- 
ting new  carnival  records  in  all  three  events.  On  the  following 
day  the  Butler  men  came  through  at  Houston  with  a  victory  in  the 
mile  and  a  tie  for  first  with  Illinois  in  the  half  mile.  It  was  here 
that  Nig  Woods,  star  football  player,  made  his  record  broad  jump 
of  24  feet,  li/^  inches.    The  total  "spoils"  taken  on  this  trip  con- 


114  Butler  Alumnal  Quarterly 

sisted  'of  six  cups  for  the  trophy  room,  wliich  we  hope  to  have  at 
Fairview,  and  twenty-one  gold  watches  for  the  individual  com- 
petitors. 

A  few  weeks  later  the  Butler  team  competed  in  the  Kansas  relays, 
at  Lawrence,  Kansas,  and  again  came  through  with  several  re- 
markable performances.  Running  in  the  university  class,  the  But- 
ler boys  traveled  the  quarter  mile  distance  in  :42.4  seconds,  just  a 
scant  four-tenths  of  a  second  behind  the  University  of  Kansas 
team,  which  set  a  new  world's  record  on  their  home  track.  On 
the  following  day,  the  boys  took  the  track  by  storm  and  set  new 
carnival  records  in  the  half-mile  and  the  mile  events.  Challenge 
cups,  on  which  Butler  had  won  one  leg  in  1923,  and  which  Occi- 
dental College  of  California  won  in  1924,  came  back  to  Irvington 
for  the  present  year.  One  more  victory  will  place  them  perma- 
nently in  the  future  trophy  room. 

On  the  following  week  end,  April  24th  and  25th,  the  relay 
team  reached  top  form.  Competing  in  the  Drake  relays,  which  for 
the  past  few  years  has  brought  together  the  greatest  group  of  track 
luminaries  ever  assembled  in  one  meet,  the  Butler  team  turned  in 
three  victories  and  ran  second  to  Kansas  in  the  University  quarter- 
mile.  Our  team  set  a  new  carnival  record  in  the  half-mile  and  the 
mile,  and  hung  up  a  new  American  record  in  the  medley.  The 
time  for  the  mile  Avas  3  :1 8.2,  which  stands  as  the  best  record  for 
this  event  made  in  the  country  this  year.  On  the  same  day,  Nig 
Woods  journeyed  over  to  Philadelphia  and  won  the  broad  jump 
at  the  Pennsylvania  games,  again  going  over  24  feet.  He  also 
placed  third  in  the  high  hurdles  in  an  international  field.  These 
events  brought  to  a  close  the  specialized  work  of  the  relay  team. 
The  Butler  team  was  universally  recognized  as  the  best  combina- 
tion in  the  country. 

Following  the  relay  season,  the  track  squad  engaged  in  several 
dual  meets.  DePauw  and  Ohio  Wesleyan  were  defeated  by  close 
scores,  due  largely  to  the  work  of  the  same  men  who  composed 
the  relay  squad.  Gray  in  the  dashes,  Phillips  in  the  distances, 
Caraway  and  Kilgore  in  the  middles  distances,  Ham  in  the  hurdles, 
and  Griggs  in  the  weights  accounted  for  most  of  Butler's  points. 


Athletics  115 

A  triangular  meet  with  Earlham  and  Franklin  was  taken  by  a 
large  score.  Following  this  event  came  the  state  college  meet. 
Due  to  injuries  to  Phillips  and  the  fact  that  Woods  finished  his 
competition,  Butler  was  able  to  finish  no  higher  than  third,  DePauw 
and  Wabash  taking  first  and  second.  On  the  next  Saturday,  how- 
ever, the  Bulldogs  came  back  strong  and  scored  thirty-four  and  a 
fraction  points  in  the  state  championship,  which  Notre  Dame  won. 
Purdue,  DePauw,  Wabash,  and  the  other  Indiana  schools  trailed. 
Butler  men  took  six  first  places.  Ham  setting  a  new  record  in  the 
low  hurdles.  If  the  Butler  squad  had  had  a  few  more  men  who 
could  have  cut  into  Notre  Dame's  second  and  third  places,  the 
state  championship  would  undoubtedly  have  rested  in  Irvington. 
Although  this  event  brought  to  a  close  the  regular  track  season, 
Phillips  and  Capt.  Gray  were  kept  in  active  training  and  competed 
in  the  Western  Conference  and  the  National  Intercollegiate  Meets. 

In  the  Big  Ten  Meet,  Capt.  Gray  took  second  place  in  the  220 
and  fourth  in  the  100.  Phillips  took  first  in  the  440.  This  gave 
Butler  a  total  of  11  points,  and  gave  us  the  highest  standing  of 
any  of  the  Indiana  schools.  It  is  seldom  that  an  outside  team 
scores  so  many  points  in  the  Conference  games.  On  June  13th, 
at  the  National  Meet  at  Chicago,  Gray  and  Phillips  brought  to 
Butler  the  highest  honors  of  the  season.  Competing  against  teams 
from  the  Pacific  Coast,  the  South  and  the  East,  in  addition  to  the 
Middle  Western  competitors,  these  two  men  won  firsts  in  two  events 
and  placed  Butler  in  seventh  place  in  the  national  ranking.  Gray 
won  the  220,  easily  defeating  the  man  to  Avhom  he  had  lost  the 
previous  week  at  Columbus.  Phillips  piled  up  a  five-yard  lead  in 
the  quarter-mile  and  was  never  headed.  These  performances 
stamp  the  tAvo  Butler  runners  as  among  the  best  in  the  country. 

A  large  squad  of  Freshmen  track  men  worked  faithfully  all 
spring  and  it  is  expected  that  Butler  will  have  a  larger  squad  of 
Varsity  men  next  spring.  Ham,  Caraway,  Griggs  and  Woods, 
will  be  lost  by  graduation. 


116  Butler  Alumnal  Quarterly 

"b"  men's  banquet 

On  June  12th,  the  annual  "B"  Men's  Banquet  was  held  at  the 
Indianapolis  Athletic  Club.  All  the  men  who  have  won  letters  or 
numerals  were  present,  as  well  as  some  of  the  old-timers.  Spring 
awards  were  made  at  this  time.  In  addition  to  the  regular  sweater 
awards  given  to  track,  baseball,  and  tennis  men,  gold  basketballs 
were  given  to  the  basketball  men  who  played  in  the  four  Western 
Conference  games  which  resulted  in  Butler  victories.  Gold  base- 
balls, emblematic  of  the  state  championship,  were  presented  to  the 
baseball  team.  Senior  blankets  Avere  given  to  Griggs,  Woods,  Ham, 
Caraway,  Colway  and  Kurzrok.  Hal  Griggs,  with  fourteen  letters 
to  his  credit,  tops  the  list  of  athletes  in  varied  competition.  In 
addition  to  these  regular  awards,  the  students  presented  Woods, 
Griggs,  Ham,  Caraway,  Kilgore,  Gray  and  Phillips  with  cups  in 
recognition  of  their  fine  achievements  in  track  this  spring. 


FOOTBALL  SCHEDULE— 1925 

Sept.  26 — Earlham  College. 

Oct.  3 — DePauw  University — "Indianapolis  Day". 

Oct.  10 — University  of  Illinois,  at  Urbana. 

Oct.  17 — Franklin  College — "Homecoming". 

Oct.  24— Wabash  College. 

Oct.  31 — Rose  Polytechnic. 

Nov.  7 — University  of  Minnesota,  at  Minneapolis. 

Nov.  14 — University  of  Dayton. 

Nov.  21 — Centenary  College,  at  Shreveport,  La, 


HONOR  DAY 

On  May  7,  1925,  Butler  College  observed  its  second  annual  Honor 
Day,  a  day  set  aside  for  the  recognition  of  scholastic  achievement. 
The  celebration  consisted  of  an  academic  processional,  a  program 
of  music  by  the  Metropolitan  School  of  Music,  the  announcement 
of  awards  of  honors  and  prizes,  an  address  by  Dr.  David  j\I.  Ed- 
wards, President  of  Earlham  College,  and  the  initiation  of  newly 
elected  members  of  the  honorary  scholastic  society  of  Phi  Kap- 
pa Phi. 

Dr.  Edwards'  address  dealt  with  the  commensurate  relationship 
between  scholarship  and  achievement  in  life.  "The  increase  in 
attendance  in  American  colleges,"  said  Dr.  Edwards,  "has  placed 
scholarship  in  jeopardy.  Every  student  must  face  the  problem  of 
choosing  between  college  life  and  scholastic  honors.  How  can  one 
be  educated  for  leadership  and  citizenship  of  the  kind  we  need  if 
scholarehip,  is  slurred  over?  Statistics  show  that  the  highest 
fourth,  in  point  of  scholarship,  of  college  graduates,  furnishes  the 
men  who  attain  to  distinction  in  the  business  and  professional 
worlds. ' ' 

Dean  J.  W.  Putnam  announced  the  honors  and  awards  of  prizes : 

Dr.  Edwards,  a  true  scholar  and  the  president  of  a  long  re- 
spected neighbor  college,  was  elected  to  honorary  membership  in 
Phi  Kappa  Phi.  Four  members  of  the  faculty  were  elected  to 
membership :  Ida  B.  Wilhite,  Assistant  Professor  of  Home  Eco- 
nomics; Joseph  G.  Fucilla,  Assistant  Professor  of  Romance  Lan- 
guages; Pleasant  R.  Hightower,  Assistant  Professor  of  Education, 
and  Paul  Leland  Haworth,  Professor  of  History  and  Political 
Science.  Twenty-four  seniors  were  elected:  Ralph  Snyder,  Pearl 
Soltau,  Leona  Kayley,  Floyd  Umbenhower,  Mary  Stokes,  Hester 
Baker,  Margaret  Kluger,  Victor  Twitty,  Frank  Libkings,  Mildred 
Medlam,  Esther  Adams,  Mary  Book,  Irene  Seuel,  Lillian  Martin, 
Chester  Fuchtman,  Helen  Hoover,  Anna  Pollak,  Lena  Weitknecht, 
Mildred  Stilz,  Louise  Padou,  Ethel  McDaniels,  Dema  Kennedy, 
Daisy  Schulz.  Three  seniors,  Ralph  Snyder,  Mary  Stokes  and 
Floyd  Umbenhower  were  granted  the  degree,  magna  cum  laude. 

117 


118  BUTLEB   AlUMNAL   QUARTERLY 

Six  seniors  had  been  granted  scholarships:  Esther  Adams,  Uni- 
versity of  Missouri ;  Clarence  Jaleski,  Cold  Springs  Harbor ;  Henry 
Nestor,  Indiana  University,  Louise  Padou,  University  of  Wiscon- 
sin j  George  Schumacher,  University  of  Virginia;  Victor  Twitty, 
Yale  University.  Pauline  Pierce  received  the  scholarship  which 
Scarlet  Quill  offers  annually  to  the  sophomore  girl  with  the  highest 
average. 

Gertrude  Schmidt,  by  her  story  "The  Golden  Mirror",  won  a 
prize  in  the  short  story  contest.  Lester  Budd  won  the  first  award 
in  the  argumentation  contest;  Louise  Frisbie  received  second,  and 
Daisy  Schulz  received  honorable  mention  for  her  brief.  Margaret 
Jenkins  and  Robert  Hutchinson  were  winners  in  the  oratorical 
contest.  Miss  Jenkins  first  and  Mr.  Hutchinson  second.  Lewis 
Wilson  won  first  place  in  the  extemporaneous  contest,  and  Jane 
Ogborne  won  second. 

In  the  afternoon  Phi  Kappa  Phi  initiation  was  held  in  the  Li- 
brary. Professor  Johnson,  President  of  Phi  Kappa  Phi,  was  in 
charge  of  the  ceremony.  Dr.  Aley  made  a  short  address  on  the 
three  accomplishments  of  the  true  scholar:  "First,"  he  said, 
"the  true  scholar  never  wearies  of  learning  truths.  Because  he 
desires  to  know  more,  he  steeps  his  mind  with  the  invaluable  dis- 
coveries of  those  who  have  gone  before  him.  He  realizes  that  he 
can  never  know  too  much — that  the  scope  of  knowledge  is  un- 
limited. Secondly,  the  attitude  of  the  scholar  must  be  an  unselfish 
one — he  should  seek  to  disseminate  that  which  he  has  learned.  The 
learning  that  has  been  acquired  should  be  of  use  to  all.  If  its 
truths  cannot  be  made  known  to  others  it  cannot  be  of  lasting 
endurance.  Thirdly,  the  learner  of  truths  pushes  ahead  into  new 
things.  He  should  ever  strive  to  discover  new  truths  and  thus  add 
to  the  store  of  learning.  Before  him  are  stretched  unexplored 
fields  of  knowledge  which  afford  excellent  opportunities  for  skilled 
and  far-reaching  research."  As  a  reminder  of  these  scholastic 
aims  the  new  members  were  presented  with  the  Phi  Kappa  Phi 
ribbons.  Louise  Padou. 


MAY  DAY 

The  students  and  friends  of  the  College  were  entertained  on 
Saturday,  May  2'3,  with  the  annual  May  Day  celebration,  sponsored 
by  the  Woman's  League.  The  festivities  began  at  eleven  o'clock 
with  the  May  Day  Breakfast.  About  three  hundred  guests  were 
served  at  small  tables  out  under  the  trees  near  the  residence. 

The  observance  especially  accorded  to  May  followed  at  two- 
thirty  in  the  presentation  of  a  beautiful  pageant  symbolizing  the 
change  of  seasons  through  the  ancient  myth,  "The  Rape  of  Perseph- 
one." The  scene  was  the  garden  of  Persephone  for  which  the 
campus  was  a  beautiful  natural  setting.  Here,  as  the  pageant 
portrayed,  played  Persephone  and  her  maidens,  here  Pluto  saw, 
and  loved,  and  stole  the  lovely  maiden;  here  Ceres  mourned  for 
her  daughter,  and  sent  Famine  and  Pestilence,  and  Death  over 
the  earth;  and  here  through  the  influence  of  a  magic  girdle,  was 
Persephone  restored  to  her  mother,  and  crowned  Queen  of  the 
May. 

The  pageant  was  particularly  beautiful  in  the  graceful  dances 
of  the  Flowers  and  Butterflies;  of  the  Maidens  with  the  Daisy 
Chain;  of  the  Nymphs  with  the  Magic  Girdles;  of  Famine,  Pes- 
tilence, and  Death ;  and  of  the  Winds  with  delicately  colored  scarfs. 

Miss  Marjorie  Chiles  wrote  and  directed  the  pageant.  The  part 
of  Demeter  was  played  by  Kathryn  Bowlby;  and  that  of  Perseph- 
one and  the  Queen  of  May  by  Miss  Helena  Sciloff.  The  dances 
were  arranged  and  directed  by  Miss  Louise  Schulmeyer,  Instructor 
in  Physical  Education.  Immediately  following  the  pageant  was 
held  the  installation  of  officers  for  1925- '26  of  the  Woman's 
League.  Miss  Patia  Carver,  the  retiring  president  presided  and 
conducted  the  ceremonies.  Miss  Virginia  Curtis  was  installed  as 
president ;  Miss  Kathryn  Bowlby,  vice-president ;  Miss  Alice  Young, 
secretary,  and  Miss  Sarah  Francis  Downs,  treasurer. 

Dean  Evelyn  Butler  gave  a  short  address  on  the  purpose  and 
accomplishments  of  the  league,  and  a  word  of  greeting  to  the 
friends  of  the  college. 

Miss  Catherine  Adams,  Dean  of  Women  at  Beloit  College,  w&a 

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a  guest  of  honor,  the  official  representative  of  the  American  Asso- 
ciation of  University  Women. 

The  May  Day  Celebration  closed  with  an  informal  dance  at 
the  Claypool  Hotel  in  the  evening. 

The  establishment  of  the  celebration  of  May  Day  is  already 
an  important  element  in  our  college  life  that  is  contributing  much 
to  the  general  sociability  and  culture  of  the  college.  Dean  Butler 
is  to  be  congratulated  on  its  success. 

Katherine  Lennox. 


THE  DRIFT 

The  1925  Drift  which  was  issued  early  in  June  is  in  the  estima- 
tion of  many  the  best  book  of  its  kind  that  has  ever  been  published. 
The  opening  bears  a  dedication  to  the  co-eds  of  the  school.  There 
are  the  usual  number  of  photos  of  choice  spots  on  the  campus, 
write-ups  of  all  campus  activities  and  organizations,  individual 
pictures  of  the  two  upper  classes,  the  athletic  section  and  other 
interesting  features. 

The  Drift  was  compiled  by  a  small  staff  under  the  direction  of 
Thomas  F.  Smith,  editor,  and  Virgil  V.  Roby,  business  manager. 
The  Drift  has  been  entered  in  a  national  contest  in  Chicago  where 
it  is  expected  it  will  receive  some  distinction. 


AROUND  THE  COLLEGE 

THE  SELLECK  SCHOLARSHIP  FUND 

Last  October  it  was  proposed  by  Miss  Roda  E.  Selleck,  whose 
remarkable  work  as  a  teacher  will  long  be  remembered,  to  establish 
a  scholarship  at  Butler  College  for  students  from  Shortridge  High 
School.  The  death  of  IMiss  Selleck  came  before  the  fund  could  be 
started,  but  a  group  of  her  friends  have  proposed  to  go  ahead  with 
the  project,  calling  it  the  Roda  E.  Selleck  Memorial  Scholarship. 

To  establish  this  fund  will  require  $2,500.00.  Subscriptions  that 
have  already  been  received,  ranging  from  $5.00  to  $150.00  each, 
and  amounting  to  about  $1,500.00  in  all,  have  come  from  all  parts 
of  the  country.  But  $1,000.00  more  is  needed  and  it  is  hoped  to 
complete  the  fund  at  once  so  that  the  first  award  can  be  made  to 
a  member  of  this  year's  graduating  class.  Subscriptions  should  be 
sent  to  Donald  S.  Morris,  Treasurer,  care  Fletcher  Savings  and 
Trust  Co.,  Indianapolis. 

THE  SENIOR  BANQUET 

The  senior  class  held  their  banquet  at  the  Kappa  Kappa  Gamma 
house  on  the  evening  of  June  1.  A  delightful  four-course  meal  was 
served  by  the  new  pledges  of  Scarlet  Quill. 

Scott  Ham,  president  of  the  class  was  master  of  ceremonies.  He 
capably  served  as  toastmaster.  Speeches  were  made  by  several 
members  of  the  faculty  and  of  the  class.  Miss  Lena  Weitkneckt 
sang,  "The  Old  Refrain",  and  Mrs.  Ethel  Hadley  gave  several 
recitations  in  her  charming  manner. 

Oscar  Ries  spoke  briefly  of  the  class  and  the  new  era  it  had 
ushered  into  the  school  in  all  activities;  Louise  Padou  mentioned 
the  passing  of  school  days  and  the  good  times  that  all  had  enjoyed ; 
Assistant  Professor  Harry  T.  Mercer,  of  the  English  department, 
wished  every  member  of  the  class  success  in  his  or  her  under- 
takings; Agnes  Andrews  contributed  a  number  of  humorous  re- 
marks about  events  of  the  past  four  years. 

Assistant  Professor  Corinne  Welling,  sponsor  of  the  class  ex- 

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pressed  many  of  the  sentiments  of  love  and  good  faith  that  were 
passing  in  the  minds  of  all  who  were  present.  George  A.  Schu- 
macher pointed  out  the  great  advantages  that  all  present  had  been 
endowed  with  and  stressed  the  greatest  future  duty  of  all  was  in 
being  loyal  and  devoted  citizens  of  the  United  States  and  a  sincere 
performance  of  righteous  service  to  the  nation.  The  program  was 
concluded  with  the  singing  of  the  "Butler  War  Song". 

THE  NEW  SONG  BOOK 

"Songs  of  Butler"  is  the  title  of  an  attractive  song  book, 
published  this  June  by  the  Butler  College  Woman's  League.  In 
addition  to  fraternity  and  sorority  favorites  such  as  "Delta  Shel- 
ter", "My  Little  Kappa  Lady",  and  "Sweetheart  of  Sigma  Chi", 
a  good  many  of  the  old  college  songs  such  as  "In  the  Gallery  of 
Memory",  by  Fred  Wolff,  and  "Alma  Mater",  by  Laurel  Cissna, 
and  the  Butler  "War  Song",  by  John  Heiney,  have  been  collected. 
There  has  never  been  a  Butler  song  book  before  including  so  many 
of  the  earlier  songs. 

There  are  a  number  of  these  song  books  for  sale  at  the  college. 
They  are  bound  in  Butler  blue,  with  the  title  and  seal  in  the 
white,  and  sell  for  one  dollar  and  a  half.  Alumni  who  wish  books 
can  order  them  from  the  Butler  Songs  Committee,  Butler  College. 

Butler  College  rejoices  in  the  honor  that  has  come  to  the  College 
of  Missions  in  the  selection  of  Dr.  Paul  by  the  University  of  Mich- 
igan as  the  organizer  of  the  new  school  of  religion  that  opens  in 
the  university  next  year.  For  this  work  Dr.  Paul  has  been  granted 
a  year's  leave  of  absence  from  the  College  of  Missions.  The  stu- 
dents and  faculty  of  Butler  will  miss  this  good  neighbor.  We  wish 
him  Godspeed  in  this  great  work. 

Phi  Kappa  Phi,  national  honorary  scholastic  society,  held  its  an- 
nual banquet  at  the  University  Club,  Friday  night,  June  12.  Pro- 
fessor W.  L.  Richardson,  vice-president  of  the  Butler  Chapter,  was 
toastmaster.     Vocal  solos  were  given  by  Mary  S.  McBride,  1914, 


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and  readings  by  Louise  H.  Padou,  192'5.  Toasts  were  given  by 
Corinne  Welling,  1912;  Ralph  W.  Snyder,  1925;  Mary  Sue  Mc- 
Donald Havens,  1922 ;  Guy  H,  Shadinger,  head  of  the  Department 
of  Chemistry  of  Butler  College,  and  Robert  Hall,  1891.  Profes- 
sor Johnson  presented  the  newly  elected  seniors  with  diplomas  of 
the  organization. 

The  list  of  seniors  elected  has  been  given  in  the  account  of  Honor 
Day  in  this  issue.  The  alumni  who  attended  are:  Miss  Ruth 
Bales,  '24 ;  Miss  Evelyn  Butler,  '93 ;  Mr.  Scot  Clifford,  '23 ;  Misa 
Rebecca  Dixon,  '24;  Mr.  Edgar  Forsyth,  '95;  Miss  Hazel  Funk, 
'24;  Miss  Jane  Graydon,  '87;  Mr.  Robert  Hall,  '91;  Mrs.  Mary 
Sue  McDonald  Havens,  '22 ;  Miss  Emily  Helming,  '99 ;  Miss  Mary 
Kincaid,  '13 ;  Miss  Alice  Koehne,  '23 ;  Miss  Florence  Lupton,  '24 ; 
Miss  Juna  Lutz,  '17 ;  Miss  Mary  McBride,  '12 ;  Miss  Julia  Miller, 
'22 ;  Miss  Mary  Pavey,  '12 ;  Miss  Jean  Patterson,  '23 ;  Miss  Frances 
Perry,  '91;  Miss  Gretchen  Scotten,  '08;  Miss  Bertha  Thormyer, 
'92 ;  Miss  Corinne  Welling,  '12,  and  Mrs.  Hattie  Winslow,  '23. 

The  Woman's  League,  through  the  Matinee  Talks,  has  brought 
a  series  of  well  known  and  interesting  speakers  to  the  college  this 
year.  Mrs.  Oliver  Willard  Pierce,  Mr.  Ernest  G.  Hesser,  Mrs. 
Samuel  E.  Perkins,  Miss  Frances  Beik,  Mrs.  Ethel  P.  Clark,  Mrs. 
William  S.  Gardner,  Mr.  William  Forsyth,  Mr.  Herbert  Jennings, 
and  Mr.  William  Herschell. 

Mr.  Pearl  H.  Robey,  son  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  A.  C.  Robey,  a  fresh- 
man at  Butler  College  this  year,  won  the  Seventh  District  appoint- 
ment to  the  United  States  Military  Academy  at  West  Point,  and 
reported  for  duty  at  West  Point,  June  1. 

Summer  school  opened  at  Butler  with  an  enrollment  of  394  stu- 
dents. Instruction  is  given  in  all  of  the  regular  departments  of 
the  university.  Andrew  Leitch,  of  the  class  of  1911,  a  member  of 
the  faculty  of  Bethany  College,  is  added  to  the  summer  teaching 
staff  of  our  faculty.    He  gives  courses  in  educational  psychology. 


FACULTY  NOTES 

President  and  Mrs.  Aley  will  spend  the  latter  part  of  the  summer 
at  Riverside,  Connecticut,  with  their  son  and  his  family. 

Mr.  Irving  Allen  has  been  granted  a  year's  leave  of  absence  and 
will  study  in  Columbia  University  this  year. 

Miss  Gladys  Banes  is  studying  in  the  summer  school  of  Harvard 
University. 

Mr.  Stanley  Cain  accompanied  a  group  of  members  of  the  Butler 
Y.  M.  C.  A.  who  are  attending  the  summer  camp  at  Lake  Geneva, 
Wisconsin. 

Mr.  Chester  Camp  and  JMiss  Barbara  Schafer  were  married  in 
Indianapolis,  June  20,  1925. 

Mr.  G.  Nelson  Graham  is  attending  the  summer  session  at  the 
University  of  Chicago. 

Professor  Katharine  Graydon,  as  the  readers  of  The  Quarterly 
already  know,  is  traveling  this  summer  in  Europe  with  two  of  her 
sisters,  Mrs.  Alexander  Jameson  and  Miss  Ellen  Graydon. 

Professor  J.  S.  Harrison  and  family  will  return  in  July  from 
Europe  to  their  summer  home  in  Maine,  and  will  come  to  Indianap- 
olis early  in  September. 

Miss  Mildred  Jessup,  instructor  in  English  in  the  college  this 
past  year,  filling  the  vacancy  caused  by  the  leave  of  absence  of  Mrs. 
Wesenberg,  has  accepted  a  position  in  the  English  Department  of 
Drake  University. 

Miss  Harriet  Johnston  is  studjnng  in  the  summer  school  of  the 
University  of  Missouri. 

Professor  Gino  Ratti  has  been  granted  a  year's  leave  of  absence 
which  he  and  his  family  will  spend  abroad.  He  intends  studying 
half  a  year  in  the  University  of  Chartes  in  France. 

Professor  William  li.  Richardson  is  giving  courses  in  Education 
in  the  summer  school  of  the  Athletic  Union  at  Camp  Brosius,  Elk- 
hart Lake,  Wisconsin. 

Professor  Rollo  Tallcott  has  resigned  from  the  Butler  faculty 
and  has  accepted  the  presidency  of  the  Williams  School  of  Expres- 
sion and  Dramatics  at  Ithaca,  New  York.     The  coUege  regrets  the 

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Faculty  Notes  125 

departure  of  Professor  and  ]\Irs.  Tallcott,  who  have  had  an  im- 
portant share  in  our  academic  life. 

Mr.  Wood  Unger  is  studying  in  the  summer  school  of  the  Uni- 
versity of  California. 

Professor  Anna  Weaver  has  been  granted  a  year's  leave  of 
absence,  which  she  is  spending  in  Europe.  This  summer  she  will  be 
in  the  Scandinavian  countries  and  next  winter  in  Greece,  studying 
in  the  American  Academy. 

Professor  T.  Griffith  Wesenberg  and  Mrs.  Wesenberg  have  re- 
turned from  their  year's  stay  in  Cambridge,  Massachusetts.  Pro- 
fessor Wesenberg  received  the  degree  of  Doctor  of  Philosophy  from 
Harvard  University,  and  Mrs.  Wesenberg  (Assistant  Professor 
Alice  Bidwell  Wesenberg)  was  a  graduate  student  in  Radcliffe 
College. 

Mrs.  Ida  B.  Wilhite  is  studying  in  Columbia  University  this 
summer. 

On  May  19  the  faculty  enjoyed  a  picnic  at  the  country  estate  of 
Professor  and  Mrs.  Paul  Leland  Haworth.  near  West  Newton,  Indi- 
ana. There  was  a  baseball  game,  a  steak  roast  at  which  President 
Aley  served  as  chef  and  successfully  fed  the  large  faculty  family, 
and  a  program  of  readings  by  Mrs.  Eugene  Fife  and  Professor 
Rollo  Tallcott. 

PERSONAL  MENTION 

Mrs.  Hope  Graham,  '10,  dean  of  girls  of  Lake  View  High  School, 
Chicago,  spoke  before  the  Woman's  League  of  Butler  College  at 
the  April  meeting. 

Mr.  Lee  Swails,  a  graduate  of  Indiana  State  Normal  College, 
and  a  former  graduate  student  of  Butler  College,  has  been  elected 
for  a  second  term  of  four  years  as  Superintendent  of  Instruction 
in  Marion  County,  Indiana. 

Mrs.  Harold  Lewis  (Mrs.  Genevieve  Hughel  Lewis,  ex- '19)  was 
graduated  this  June  from  the  New  York  Institute  of  Music.  She 
received  the  faculty  scholarship  for  achieving  the  highest  musician- 


126  Butler  Alumnal  Quarterly 

ship  honors  in  her  class.    She  has  recently  completed  a  composition 
for  piano  that  has  been  accepted  for  publication. 

Miss  Virginia  Moorhead,  '22,  is  spending  the  summer  abroad 
with  Mrs.  R.  F.  Davidson,  '94,  and  Miss  Katherine  Davidson. 

Mr.  Thomas  Hill  and  Mrs.  Hill  (Elva  Alexander,  '16)  and  little 
daughter,  are  in  the  United  States  on  furlough  from  India.  They 
visited  Butler  College  and  the  College  of  Missions  commencement 
week. 

Miss  Katherine  Burton,  '18,  is  dean  of  girls  in  the  Martinsville 
High  School. 

Mr.  Andrew  Leitch,  '11,  head  of  the  department  of  education  at 
Bethany  College,  is  teaching  courses  in  education  in  the  Butler 
Summer  School. 

Miss  lielen  Jackson,  '18,  is  teaching  in  the  State  Normal  School 
at  Muncie,  Indiana. 

Miss  Hazel  Warren,  '15,  is  traveling  for  the  Public  Library  Com- 
mission. I 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Lee  Burns  had  the  interesting  experience  in  May 
of  visiting  Cyrus  McKenzie,  the  great-grandson  of  Jacob  Wetzel, 
who  cut  the  first  trace  through  the  forest  from  the  Whitewater 
Valley  to  central  Indiana.  Mr.  McKenzie,  now  seventy-three  years 
old,  who  was  at  one  time  a  student  at  Butler,  lives  in  the  old  home 
established  by  his  great-grandfather  at  Waverly,  Indiana. 

Miss  Cleon  Colvin,  ex.- '19,  represented  Indiana  in  the  Great 
Lakes  district  contest  for  young  artists  conducted  by  the  Federa- 
tion of  Music  Clubs.  Miss  Colvin  is  a  member  of  the  faculty  of 
the  College  of  Music  and  Fine  Arts. 

Mrs.  Opal  Burkhart  Banks,  '18,  and  husband,  Dr.  Gabriel  Banks, 
have  moved  to  Falmouth,  Kentucky,  where  Dr.  Banks  has  accepted 
a  pastorate. 


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JVIr.  Austin  V.  Clifford,  '17,  has  been  elected  president  of  the 
Shortridge  High  School  Alumni  Association. 

Miss  Edna  Cooper,  '09,  has  been  teaching  the  past  year  in  Long 
Beach,  California. 

Miss  Edith  Cooper,  '16,  is  making  her  home  in  Long  Beach,  Cali- 
fornia. 

Mr.  Hilton  U.  Brown,  president  of  the  Board  of  Directors,  and 
Mrs.  Brown,  '89;  Mr.  Will  Irwin,  '89,  and  Mr.  Thomas  Hibben, 
ex- '14,  have  just  returned  from  a  visit  in  Europe  where  they  made 
a  study  of  college  architecture. 

Miss  Josephine  Pollitt,  '17,  and  Miss  Laurel  Cissna,  '22,  received 
the  degree  of  Master  of  Arts  from  Columbia  University  this  June. 

Mrs.  Raymond  Smith  (Mrs.  Grace  Clifford,  '01)  returned  this 
spring  for  a  visit  with  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Perry  Clifford. 

Miss  Prances  M.  Perry,  '91,  was  one  of  our  guests  of  honor  at 
the  Commencement  Exercises.  This  past  year  Miss  Perry  has  been 
teaching  in  AVellesley  College  on  a  Sabbatical  leave-of-absence  from 
the  University  of  Arizona,  where  she  holds  a  professorship  in  Eng- 
lish Composition.  This  summer  she  is  giving  courses  in  the  Univer- 
sity of  Southern  California. 

During  Commencement  week  the  college  rejoiced  to  Avelcome 
back  to  the  campus  Mrs.  Fred  Jacobs  (Catharine  Martin,  '12)  who 
paid  a  short  visit  to  Indiana ;  Mr.  Ira  Clarke,  '12,  and  family  who 
is  now  living  in  Washington,  D.  C. ;  Mr.  Harvy  Lett,  '14,  and  Mrs. 
Lett  (Ethel  Bennett,  '13)  ;  the  Rev.  Elvin  Daniels,  '16;  Mr.  Clar- 
ence Burkhardt,  '13;  Miss  Jane  Brewer,  '14;  Mr.  Herman  Hosier, 
'20,  and  his  two  sons ;  Miss  Frances  Perry,  '91 ;  Miss  Mary  Pavey, 
'12;  Mr.  Leland  S.  Barkley,  '21,  and  Mrs.  Barkley,  who  are  now 
living  in  Bloomfield,  Indiana;  Mr.  J.  F.  Findley,  '90,  who  now 
lives  in  Boulder,  Colorado,  and  the  Rev.  Newton  Jessup  and  Mrs. 
Jessup  of  Lafayette,  Indiana. 


128  Butler  Alumnal  Quarterly 

Miss  Helen  Hoover,  '25,  has  been  appointed  secretary  to  Dean 
Putnam. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Dale  S.  Young  (Mary  Padou,  '18)  will  study  at 
Columbia  University  this  winter. 

Mrs.  Melissa  Seward  Newlin,  '12,  and  sons,  of  Clinton,  Iowa,  are 
visiting  Mrs.  Newlin 's  mother,  Mrs.  J.  A.  Seward,  in  Irvington. 

Miss  Jane  Brewer,  '14,  has  been  paying  a  visit  to  the  college  and 
the  College  of  Missions,  the  guest  of  Dean  and  Mrs.  Putnam.  Miss 
Brewer  will  resume  her  work  in  Mexico  in  August.  She  will  be 
located  at  the  Patosino  Christian  Mission,  San  Luis  Potosi,  Mexico. 

The  Rev.  Roderick  MacLeod,  '14,  and  Mrs.  MacLeod,  who  have 
been  on  a  furlough  from  Tibet,  expect  to  return  to  their  work 
this  fall. 

Russell  C.  Putnam,  '19,  and  B.  S.  in  Electrical  Engineering  at 
University  of  Colorado,  '23,  has  been  granted  a  leave  of  absence 
from  the  General  Electric  Company,  Schenectady,  New  York,  for 
a  year,  beginning  July  1,  and  will  teach  Electrical  Engineering  at 
Case  School  of  Applied  Science  at  Cleveland,  giving  courses  in 
Photometry  and  Illumination, 

Miss  Nina  Keppel,  '20,  will  spend  next  year  in  Albany,  New 
York,  attending  the  Library  School. 

The  Alumni  extend  sympathy  to  Miss  Barcus  Tichenor,  '10,  and 
Miss  Helen  Tichenor,  '13,  in  their  great  sorrow  in  the  death  of  their 
father. 

Mr.  James  Layman  Schell,  ex- '22,  and  Mrs.  Schell  (Katharine 
Turman,  '24)  are  living  in  Indianapolis  this  summer. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Christopher  B.  Coleman  and  daughter,  Constance, 
attended  the  alumni  reunion.  It  is  a  great  pleasure  to  have  them 
near  enough  to  be  a  part  of  the  college  life  again. 

Among  the  alumni  who  are  studying  in  Universities  this  sum- 
mer are :  Miss  Helen  Jaehne,  '19,  at  the  University  of  Racine,  Wis- 


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eonsin ;  Mr.  Herman  Hosier,  '20,  and  Miss  Ida  Hart,  '19,  at  Chica- 
go University,  and  Miss  Katherine  Burton,  '18,  at  Columbia  Uni- 
versity. 

MARRIAGES 

On  May  15,  1925,  were  married  in  Greenwood,  Indiana,  Dr.  Carl 
Ekermeyer  and  Miss  Ruth  Craig,  '23.  Dr.  and  Mrs.  Ekermeyer 
will  live  in  New  Bremen,  Ohio. 

On  May  23,  1925,  were  married  in  Indianapolis  Mr.  Edwin 
Whitaker,  ex- '19,  and  Miss  Julia  Ade.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Whitaker 
will  live  in  Indianapolis. 

On  April  22,  1925,  were  married  in  Indianapolis,  Mr.  Walter 
Shirley  and  Miss  Gladys  Lucile  Sudbroek,  '24.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Shir- 
ley are  at  home  in  Indianapolis. 

On  June  6,  1925,  were  married  in  Indianapolis,  Mr.  Joseph 
Moore  and  Miss  Elizabeth  Harris,  '23.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Moore  are 
living  in  Irvington. 

On  June  16,  1925,  were  married  in  Indianapolis,  Mr.  Merritt  L. 
Thompson,  ex- '26,  and  Miss  Dorothy  Bowser,  '16.  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Thompson  are  living  in  Indianapolis. 

On  May  2,  1925,  were  married  in  Alexandria,  Virginia,  Mr.  Fes- 
ler  Lance  and  Miss  Dorothy  Shoemaker,  ex- '26.  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Lance  will  live  in  Washington,  D.  C, 

On  June  6,  1925,  were  married  in  Indianapolis,  Mr.  Walter  A. 
Zartman  and  Miss  Alma  Fort,  ex- '24.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Zartman  will 
live  in  Greentown. 

On  June  24,  1925,  were  married  in  Denver,  Colorado,  Mr.  Virgil 
Mientker  Lundy  and  Miss  India  Wilson,  '20.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Lundy 
will  live  in  Oakland,  California, 

On  June  20,  1925,  were  married  in  Indianapolis,  Mr.  John  G. 
Holmes  and  Miss  Anne  Lochhead,  ex- '22. 


130  Butler  Alumnal  Quarterly 

On  June  20,  1925,  were  married  in  Indianapolis,  Mr.  Matthew 
Farson  and  Miss  Rachel  Campbell,  '24. 

On  January  7,  1925,  were  married  in  Indianapolis,  Mr.  Emory 
Baxter  and  Miss  Ruth  Fromm,  ex- '25. 

On  June  26,  1925,  were  married  in  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  Mr.  Daniel 
MeKinney,  '24,  and  Miss  Marjorie  Struble. 

On  June  10,  1925,  were  married  in  Indianapolis,  Mr.  Alfred 
Hurst,  ex- '24,  and  Miss  Charlotte  Clark,  ex- '26. 

On  June  21,  1925,  were  married  in  Anderson,  Indiana,  Mr. 
Franklin  Frey,  '25,  and  Miss  Inez  Leighton,  '26. 

On  June  17,  1925,  were  married  in  Carbondale,  Illinois,  Mr. 
Leslie  Sanders  ex- '23,  and  Miss  Laura  Mary  Henderson,  '23.  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Sanders  will  live  in  Marion,  Illinois. 

BIRTHS 

Peterson. — To  Mr.  Raymond  Peterson,  '21,  and  Mrs.  Peterson 
(Georgia  Fillmore,  '16)  in  Batang,  West  China,  on  February  3,  a 
daughter — Mary  Ida. 

ScHULTZ. — To  Mr.  Arthur  Schultz  and  Mrs.  Schultz  (Helen 
Lewis,  ex- '17)  in  Indianapolis,  on  May  1,  a  daughter — Marjorie. 

Brewer. — To  Mr.  Scot  Brewer  and  Mrs.  Brewer  (Eda  Boos,  '14) 
in  Indianapolis,  on  April  12,  a  son,  Robert  George. 

MuLLANE. — To  Mr.  Daniel  Mullane,  '13,  and  Mrs.  Mullane,  in 
Pittsburg,  May  31,  a  daughter — Harriet  Goodwin. 

OsBORN. — To  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Frank  Osborn  (Mary  Belle  Haynes, 
'22)  in  Indianapolis,  June  16,  a  daughter — ^Marian  Haynes. 

Beatty. — To  Norman  Beatty  and  Mrs.  Beatty  (Edith  Jackson, 
ex- '23)  in  Indianapolis,  June  17,  a  son — Norman  Jackson. 

Browder. — To  Mr.  Clifford  Browder,  '12,  and  Mrs.  Browder 
(Mabel  Felt,  '15)  in  Indianapolis,  June  25,  a  son — David  Felt 
Browder. 


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DEATHS 

Mrs.  Jessie  May  Brayton,  wife  of  Dr.  A.  W.  Brayton,  who  died 
at  her  home  in  Indianapolis  on  April  22nd,  was  connected  in  many 
ways  with  Butler  College  throughout  the  greater  part  of  her  long 
and  useful  life.  After  they  were  married,  and  had  moved  from 
Chicago  to  Indianapolis,  Dr.  Brayton  studied  at  Butler,  graduating 
with  the  class  of  1878,  and  eight  of  their  children  went  to  Butler. 

Mrs,  Brayton  was  a  lover  of  nature  and  in  her  early  years  took 
a  prominent  part  in  the  work  of  a  group  of  naturalists  connected 
with  the  college,  including  her  husband.  Dr.  and  Mrs.  David  Starr 
Jordan,  Barton  W.  Everman  and  Edward  Nelson.  In  this  field  of 
activity  she  assisted  in  the  preparation  of  several  books  of  nature 
study  and  at  one  time  mounted  a  large  collection  of  birds. 

Her  botanical  studies  and  love  of  out-of-doors  was  given  expres- 
sion in  her  later  years  through  her  enjoyment  of  flower  and  plant 
cultivation  at  the  summer  cottage  of  the  family  in  Brown  county. 
The  Brown  county  house  as  well  as  the  Indianapolis  home  was  a 
rendezvous  for  naturalists  and  her  many  friends  in  the  state.  Promi- 
nent men  and  women  from  many  parts  of  the  countiy  were  pres- 
ent last  June  when  Dr.  and  Mrs.  Brayton  celebrated  their  golden 
wedding  anniversary. 

James  W.  Lilly,  aged  sixty-two ;  died  at  his  home  in  Indianapolis 
on  June  22.  Mr.  Lilly,  who  was  born  in  Lafayette,  came  to  Indian- 
apolis as  a  young  man.  He  attended  Butler  College  for  a  year  and 
then  began  the  business  career  of  which  he  made  so  marked  a  suc- 
cess. Throughout  his  life  he  was  a  leader  in  civic  affairs  and  a 
helpful  worker  in  many  fields  of  philanthropy.  His  death  is  a 
distinct  loss  to  the  college  and  the  community. 

Carey  E.  Morgan,  of  the  Class  of  1883,  died  in  Nashville,  Ten- 
nessee, on  Sunday,  May  10,  1925.  The  class  numbered  nine  mem- 
bers and  this  is  the  second  death  in  the  intervening  forty -two  years, 
the  other  having  been  that  of  Miss  Margaret  Husted. 

Perhaps  no  graduate  of  this  college  has  cast  greater  lustre  on 
the  name  of  Butler  than  has  this  son  whose  home  has  been  beyond 


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the  borders  of  Indiana  for  more  than  thirty  years  but  whose  in- 
terest in  his  Alma  Mater  has  never  waned. 

Dr.  Morgan  was  born  near  Franklin,  Indiana,  in  August,  1860, 
the  family  removing  to  Irvington  about  1880  in  order  that  he  and 
his  sisters  might  receive  a  college  education.  He  was  granted  an 
A.  B.  degTee  in  1883  and  in  the  following  year  an  A.  M.  degree. 
He  married  Miss  May  Dailey  of  the  Class  of  1884  and  three  chil- 
dred  were  bom  to  them — Carey  E.  Morgan,  Jr.,  of  New  York  City, 
a  well-known  writer  of  songs,  at  present  associated  with  the  L.  C. 
Smith  Typewriter  Co.;  Walter  D.  Morgan,  of  London,  England, 
Managing  Director  of  the  Royal  Typewriting  Company  of  Great 
Britain,  and  Mrs.  Fielding  Gordon,  of  Nashville. 

After  teaching  school  for  several  years  Dr.  Morgan  entered  the 
ministry  of  the  Disciples'  church  in  1886,  his  first  service  being  a 
joint  charge  in  Arcadia  and  Atlanta.  He  preached  for  several 
years  in  Wabash  before  going  to  the  Portland  Avenue  church  in 
Minneapolis  in  1894.  After  five  years  there  he  accepted  a  call  to 
the  Seventh  Church  of  Richmond,  Va.,  and  from  1903  to  1911  was 
pastor  of  the  Christian  Church  of  Paris,  Ky.  He  had  been  in 
charge  of  the  Vine  Street  Church  in  Nashville  for  the  past  fourteen 
years.  In  all  of  these  places  his  influence  was  enlarging  and  uplift- 
ing in  a  very  real  sense  and  was  by  no  means  confined  to  his  OAvn 
congregation.  He  was  a  trustee  of  Butler  College  for  several  years, 
also  of  the  George  Peabody  College  for  Teachers,  a  curator  of 
Transylvania  University,  president  of  the  American  Christian 
Missionary  Society,  and  of  the  Kentucky  Christian  ]\Iissionary 
Society,  vice-president  of  the  Commission  on  Christian  Unity,  a 
Rotarian,  a  Knight  Templar  IMason,  a  32nd  degree  Scottish  Rite 
Mason,  a  member  of  the  Society  for  the  promotion  of  Broader  Edu- 
cation in  America,  and  since  1918  has  been  a  lecturer  on  pastoral 
theology  in  Vanderbilt  University. 

The  tributes  paid  Dr.  Morgan  since  his  death  demonstrate  his 
strong  hold  not  only  on  his  own  particular  church  but  throughout 
Nashville.  He  touched  life  at  many  points,  and  always  helpfully 
because  always  in  a  spirit  of  kindliness  and  sympathy.  He  was 
first  of  all  a  gentleman,  high-minded  and  self-respecting.  He  put 
into  every  task  the  best  of  which  he  was  capable.    While  constantly 


Deaths  133 

aspiring"  and  working  towards  better  things,  he  was  always  ready 
to  lend  a  hand  to  a  less  successful  fellow.  He  knew  how  to  he  a 
friend. 

Dr.  Morgan  served  with  the  Y.  M,  C.  A.  in  France,  and  his  ac- 
counts of  that  service  were  most  edifying. 

The  sports  editor  of  one  of  Nashville's  newspapers  declared  that 
Dr.  Morgan  was  the  most  widely  known  and  widely  loved  man  in 
Nashville.  Baseball  players  Avent  to  hear  him  preach.  He  went 
to  see  them  play. 

He  had  performed  more  than  two  thousand  marriage  ceremonies 
during  his  Nashville  pastorate,  and  it  was  his  custom  to  preach 
one  Sunday  in  the  year  to  the  couples  whom  he  had  thus  united. 
From  far  and  near  they  came,  often  with  their  families,  and  it  was 
a  service  appreciated  by  all  who  were  so  fortunate  as  to  attend  the 
Vine  Street  church  on  that  day.  He  also  devoted  one  Sunday 
service  each  year  to  the  firemen  of  the  city  and  v/as  chaplain  of 
the  Firemen's  Benefit  Association.  He  was  in  constant  demand 
to  address  labor  and  other  organizations,  and  at  the  time  he  was 
stricken  he  had  just  finished  an  outline  for  a  talk  to  be  given  on 
Sunday  afternoon  at  a  Mothers'  Day  service  conducted  by  the 
Order  of  Eagles.  Catholics  as  well  as  Protestants  felt  his  kindly 
interest,  and  Rabbi  Stern,  of  the  Jewish  synagogue,  nearby,  spoke 
ieelingly  of  him  at  the  iNIen  's  Bible  Class  of  the  Vine  Street  church 
a  few  hours  after  his  death. 

At  the  funeral,  attended  by  more  than  six  thousand,  and  held 
in  the  Ryman  Auditorium  because  no  church  could  accommodate 
the  throngs,  Dr.  Morgan's  qualities  were  clearly  set  forth — his 
high  and  unfaltering  faith,  his  broad  sympathies,  his  unfailing  good 
cheer,  and  his  genius  for  friendship. 

Grace  Julian  Clarke. 

Reverend  Allan  Bearden  Philputt  died  Sunday,  April  19, 
1925,  at  his  home  in  Indianapolis.  Funeral  services  were  held  in 
Central  Christian  Church,  Indianapolis,  and  at  the  First  Christian 
Church,  Bloominoton,  Indiana.  Addresses  were  made  at  the  serv- 
ices by  William  Lovfe  Bryan,  president  of  Indiana  University; 
-Robert  Judson  Aley,  president  of  Butler  College;  Reverend  Mat- 


134  Butler  Alumnal  Quarterly 

thias  L.  Haines,  pastor  emeritus  of  the  First  Presbyterian  Church, 
Indianapolis;  Reverend  Frederick  H.  Burnham,  president  of  the 
United  Christian  Missionary  Society  of  the  Disciples  of  Christ, 
and  Reverend  Charles  H.  Winders,  pastor  of  the  Northwood  Chris- 
tian Church,  Indianapolis. 

Dr.  Philputt  was  born  May  6,  1856,  in  Bradford  County,  Tennes- 
see. In  1867  he  moved,  with  his  father,  mother,  two  brothers,  and 
two  sisters,  to  Washington  County,  Indiana.  In  1880  he  received 
the  degree  of  Bachelor  of  Arts  from  Indiana  University.  In  1879, 
while  still  a  student  in  the  university,  he  was  ordained  in  the  min- 
istry of  the  Brotherhood  of  the  Disciples  of  Christ,  and  accepted 
the  pastorate  of  the  First  Christian  Church  of  Bloomington,  which 
he  held  until  1886.  In  1886  he  received  the  degree  of  Master  of 
Arts  from  Indiana  University,  and  continued  graduate  study  in 
Harvard  University  as  the  recipient  of  the  Morgan  Fellowship. 
From  1887  to  1898  Dr.  Philputt  served  as  pastor  of  the  First 
Christian  Church,  Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania.  On  May  5,  1898, 
he  became  the  pastor  of  the  Central  Christian  Church  of  Indianap- 
olis, Indiana,  and  continued  in  this  capacity  for  twenty-six  years, 
until  his  death  on  April  19,  1925. 

In  1880  Dr.  Philputt  married  Miss  Anna  Maxwell,  of  Blooming- 
ton.  Two  daughters  were  born  to  them :  Louise,  who  died  in  1898, 
and  Grace  Philputt  Young,  at  the  present  time  Assistant  Dean  of 
Women  of  Indiana  University. 

Dr.  Philputt  was  a  member  of  the  Phi  Beta  Kappa,  honorary 
scholastic  fraternity,  and  of  the  Phi  Gamma  Delta,  college  frater- 
nity, of  the  Masonic  Order,  and  the  Scottish  Rite,  and  the  Sons  of 
the  American  Revolution.  He  served  in  the  Alumni  Counsel  of  In- 
diana Univei-sity,  on  the  Board  of  Managers  of  the  United  Chris- 
tian Missionary  Society,  on  the  Board  of  Directors  of  Education  of 
the  Christian  Church,  on  the  Board  of  Trustees  of  the  United  Socie- 
ty of  Christian  Endeavor,  and  on  our  Board  of  Directors  of  Butler 
College. 

In  1897  Dr.  Philputt  received  the  degree  of  Doctor  of  Divinity 
from  Temple  University,  Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania,  and  in  1920 
the  degree  of  Doctor  of  Law  from  Drake  University,  Des  Moines, 
Iowa. 


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This  factual  record  stands  as  eternal  proof  of  a  great  life  spent 
in  the  service  of  humanity — a  far-reaching  stride  in  the  establish- 
ment of  the  Kingdom  of  Heaven  on  earth.  Whatever  we  may  say 
seems  insignificant  beside  that  proof,  and  yet  we  linger  in  the  con- 
templation of  this  man  who  was  the  friend — in  most  instances  the 
personal  friend — of  all  of  us  who  read  this  account.  In  him  we 
saw  the  scholar  with  equipment  far  surpassing  that  usually  expected 
of  a  minister,  and  with  learning  that  extended  into  many  fields, 
particularly  those  of  philology,  history,  and  literature.  In  him  we 
saw  a  devoted  servant  of  the  Christian  Church,  holding  three  great 
pastorates,  the  third  one  continuing  twenty-six  years,  and  serving 
the  great  Brotherhood  of  the  Disciples  of  Christ  in  every  field  of 
their  activity.  In  him  we  saw  a  man  of  God  whose  religion  ex- 
tended beyond  the  bounds  of  sectarianism,  who  was  the  friend  and 
co-worker  in  all  civic  interests — particularly  those  of  charity — 
of  Dr.  Haines  of  the  Presbyterian  Church,  of  the  Reverend  Gavisk 
of  the  Catholic  Church,  and  of  Rabbi  Feuerlicht  of  the  Hebrew 
Congregation.  In  him  we  saw  a  man,  as  Dr.  Haines  stated,  whose 
goodness  exceeded  his  greatness ;  and  herein  lay  the  secret  of  his 
great  ability.  He  understood  men  of  all  classes  under  all  circum- 
stances, and  freely  ministered  to  them.  He  met  their  needs,  what- 
ever they  were.  He  loved  them  all,  and  drew  them  all  to  him  into 
a  great  church  that  brought  them  all  into  the  harmony  of  the  love 
of  God.  He  had  faith  in  men  and  he  had  great  patience  with  them. 
I  have  heard  him  say  that  if  he  waited  long  enough  he  was  seldom 
disappointed  in  them.  As  President  Bryan  of  Indiana  University 
said,  ''Dr.  Philputt  could  afford  to  wait,  for  he  was  no  propagandist 
with  a  temporal  objective  but  a  builder  of  the  Kingdom  of  God 
which  is  in  us  now,  in  a  certain  measure,  a  brotherhood  of  souls — " 
As  our  own  President  Aley  said,  "Dr.  Philputt  loved  so  much 
that  there  was  no  place  for  hate  in  his  soul. ' ' 

Immediately  we  feel  the  loss  of  this  leader  who  left  us  suddenly 
yet  beautifully  in  the  midst  of  his  work.  His  influence  cannot  be 
measured.  It  extends,  we  know,  through  the  nation  and  the  world. 
But  we  of  Indianapolis,  of  the  Disciples  of  Christ,  of  Indiana  Uni- 
versity, and  of  Butler  College  suffer  the  loss  most  keenly.     We 


136  BuTiiER  Alumnal  Quarterly 

lack  his  help,  his  friendship,  his  wise  and  kindly  counsels.  We 
all  cry  out  with  Dr.  Winders,  ' '  Know  ye  not  that  this  day  a  Prince, 
a  great  man  has  fallen  in  Israel?"  We  thank  God  for  this  life 
unfolded  so  nobly  in  the  Image  of  God,  and  we  pray  that  his  in- 
fluence followed  by  his  death  shall  continue  to  guide  us. 

We  say  softly  the  beautiful  verse  that  Dr.  Philputt  asked  to  be 
read  at  the  funeral  services. 

"Father,  into  Thy  gracious  keeping 
Leave  we  now  our  loved  one  sleeping." 

Philip  Spong. — In  the  death  of  Philip  Spong,  May  21,  1925,  the 
University  has  lost  one  of  its  most  promising  alumni.  I  have  never 
known  anyone  to  exhibit  as  a  student  so  much  of  the  spirit  of  the 
explorer  advancing  into  new  fields  of  knowledge,  the  spirit  of 
investigation  and  intellectual  curiosity  that  is  characteristic  of  the 
true  scientist  as  was  shown  by  Mr.  Spong  while  an  undergraduate 
student.  He  was  awarded  the  Woods  Hole  scholarship  in  Zoology 
from  Butler  and  later  acted  as  assistant  in  the  departments  of 
Zoology  and  Botany. 

Upon  graduation  in  1922  he  was  awarded  a  graduate  assistantship 
in  the  department  of  Zoology  at  Iowa  State  Teachers'  College 
where  he  completed  his  work  for  the  Master's  degree  in  1923  and 
was  elected  to  membership  in  the  honor  society  of  Phi  Kappa  Phi. 
During  the  same  year  he  was  elected  Professor  of  Biology  at  the 
State  Teachers'  College  in  Wayne,  Nebraska,  which  position  he  held 
until  the  time  of  his  death. 

His  scientific  ability  and  enthusiasm  is  evidenced  in  his  unusual 
success  as  a  teacher,  in  the  fact  he  was  privileged  to  aid  Dr. 
Blatchley  by  contributing  species  and  identification  to  the  latter 's 
work  on  the  Beetles  of  Indiana,  and  in  the  fact  that  he  left  two 
unfinished  manuscripts  at  the  time  of  his  death.  He  was  a  memi- 
ber  of  the  Indiana  Academy  of  Science  and  of  the  Iowa  Academy 
of  Science.  Science  has  indeed  lost  one  of  her  most  promising 
younger  workers. 

He  was  married  to  Rosalie  Baker,  ex- '23,  in  December,  1923. 

Ray  C.  Friesner. 


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CONTENTS 

Frontispiece Thomas  E.  Hibben 

The  Bible — A  Book  For  Today Howard  E.  Jensen 

A  European  Week-End John  S.  Harrison 

LoRA  C.  Hoss — An  Appreciation H.  U.  Brown 

A  Poem — Alumna 
College  News — 

Around  the  Campus 

From  the  City  Office 

Athletics 

The  Band 

Special  Honors 

Butler  College  Scholarships 

Butler  College  Clubs 

Teachers'  Luncheon 

A  Notice 

Faculty  Notes 

Personal  Mention 

Marriages 

Births 

Deaths 

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Vol.  XIV  OCTOBER,  1925  No.  3 


THE  BIBLE,  A  BOOK  FOR  TODAY* 

By  Howard  E.  Jensen,  Ph.  D. 
Professor  of  Sociology 

The  members  of  the  faculty  of  Butler  College  who  are  members 
of  this  congregation  present  this  volume  to  the  Downey  Avenue 
Christian  Church.  It  is  a  copy  of  the  Sacred  Scriptures,  which 
we  dedicate  to  the  memory  of  Dr.  Jabez  Hall,  whom  we  delight 
this  day  to  honor.  In  matters  religious  he  was  our  spiritual  father ; 
in  matters  educational  he  was  our  collaborator ;  in  matters  broadly 
human  he  was  our  friend.  What  better  memorial  could  we 
leave  here  to  this  spiritual  father,  this  collaborator  and  friend  of 
ours,  than  a  copy  of  the  Book  whose  message  lived  in  him?  It 
lived  in  the  clarity  of  his  moral  judgments ;  it  lived  in  the  chastity 
of  his  speech,  the  gentleness  of  his  conduct,  the  winsome  charm  of 
his  personality.  Reverently  do  we  place  here  the  volume  that  con- 
tains the  secret  of  his  spiritual  charm — the  volume  that  he  studied 
so  intensively  and  lived  so  sincerely. 

It  is  the  Book  of  humanity's  yesterdays.  Around  it  there  cluster 
the  fondest  memories  of  the  race.  Into  its  writing  there  has  been 
poured  the  life  blood  of  seers  and  prophets.  Into  its  preservation 
there  has  gone  the  agony  of  saints  and  martyrs.  Upon  its  inter- 
pretation there  has  been  expended  the  patient  toil  of  reverent 
scholars,  of  whom  our  friend  was  not  the  least.  It  is  a  volume 
that  has  come  down  to  us  through  centuries  of  persecution  as  the 
Church's  most  priceless  heritage.  Many  inspiring  stories  have  been 
handed  down  in  tradition  from  the  days  of  Imperial  Rome, — 

*  On  the  birthday  of  Dr.  Hall,  October  4,  1925,  members  of  the  Butler  College 
faculty  being  members  of  the  Downey  Avenue  Christian  Church  made  a  memorial  gift 
in  the  form  of  a  pulpit  Bible  to  the  Church.  The  presentation  address  was  made  by  Dr. 
Howard  E.  Jensen,  extracts  of  which  are  here  given. 


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stories  of  devoted  men  and  women  who  met  death  by  the  most 
agonizing  torture  rather  than  surrender  to  destruction  their  copies 
of  the  Scriptures,  which  the  emperor  had  placed  under  the  ban. 
The  story  of  Euplus  is  typical  of  them  all.  By  an  imperial  edict 
of  February  24,  303,  the  Emperor  Diocletian  had  ordered  the 
burning  of  all  copies  of  the  Christian  Scriptures,  but  Euplus,  who 
was  then  a  deacon  of  the  Church  at  Catania  in  Sicily,  daily  read 
from  the  book  he  loved  until  one  day  the  Imperial  officers  broke 
in  upon  his  devotions.  He  was  immediately  arrested  and  hailed 
before  the  judge.  But  undaunted  he  read,  ''Blessed  are  they  that 
are  persecuted  for  righteousness  sake,  for  theirs  is  the  kingdom 
of  heaven."  Again  he  read,  "He  that  doth  not  take  up  his  cross 
daily  and  follow  me  cannot  be  my  disciple." 

"Why  did  you  not  surrender  the  copy  of  the  book  which  the 
Emperor  forbade,"  queried  the  judge. 

"Because  I  am  a  Christian,"  Euplus  answered,  "and  it  is  not 
loyal  to  surrender.  It  is  better  to  die  than  surrender."  And  so 
his  beloved  Bible  was  hanged  about  his  neck  and  he  was  led  forth 
to  execution. 

Euplus  was  but  one  of  thousands  of  unnamed  ones,  who  in  those 
far  off  centuries  suffered  unmentionable  agonies  rather  than  sur- 
render this  priceless  heritage  of  faith.  It  is  therefore  not  strange 
that  the  Bible,  having  thus  survived  its  baptism  of  blood  and  fire, 
became  a  civilizing  force  when  once  the  Church  was  victorious  over 
the  Empire.  It  set  its  stamp  upon  the  laws  of  the  Empire  and  was 
appealed  to  by  the  Emperors  themselves  as  legal  authority.  It  gave 
impetus  to  architecture  until  Europe  was  dotted  with  those  mag- 
nificent cathedrals  in  whose  sweeping  arches,  lofty  transepts,  and 
towering  spires  men  tried  to  sing  to  God  in  stone  the  aspirations 
to  which  the  Bible  had  inspired  their  hearts.  It  gave  impetus  to 
literature,  so  that  the  beginnings  of  French,  German,  and  English 
literature  bear  the  indelible  marks  of  its  influence.  It  inspired 
men  to  that  struggle  for  spiritual  and  intellectual  liberty  which 
found  its  seeding  time  in  the  Protestant  Eeformation  and  the 
Italian  Kenaissance,  its  flowering  time  in  the  world  wide  sweep  of 


The  Bible,  A  Book  For  Today  149 

democracy  in  our  age,  and  what  its  ultimate  outcome  shall  be  only 
the  future  can  reveal. 

What  debt  of  gratitude  we  owe  this  book !  It  is  in  veriest  truth 
the  book  of  humanity's  yesterdays.  To  it  and  to  its  influence  we 
owe  the  things  in  our  civilization  that  are  finest  and  best.  It  has 
tempered  our  laws  with  justice  and  our  judgments  with  mercy. 
It  has  given  impetus  to  art,  architecture,  literature,  music.  It  has 
inspired  religious  leaders  and  social  reformers.  Wherever  its  teach- 
ings have  gone  they  have  brought  liberty  to  life,  enlargement  to 
heart,  and  development  to  soul. 

''A  glory  gilds  the  sacred  page, 
Kesplendent  like  the  sun. 
It  gives  it  light  to  every  age. 
It  gives,  but  borrows  none." 

It  still  stands  today  like  the  Tree  of  Life  in  the  midst  of  the 
world,  bearing  its  fruit  eternally,  and  its  leaves  are  for  the  healing 
of  the  nations.  How  fearfully  do  the  wounds  of  earth's  peoples 
burn  because  they  have  not  yet  learned  how  to  apply  its  healing 
balm! 

It  is  the  Book  of  our  yesterdays;  around  it  fond  memories 
cluster ;  but  it  is  a  Book  for  today  as  well.  It  is  a  Book  for  todaj'' 
because  it  contains  a  message  of  truth  that  is  as  old  as  the  world, 
yet  truth  that  is  at  the  same  time  ever  fresh  and  new.  It  is  like 
the  sunrise  that  is  as  old  as  the  world,  but  the  sunrise  of  this 
morning  was  as  beautiful  as  the  first  sunrise  of  creation.  It  is  like 
the  sleep  that  has  refreshed  man  since  he  first  appeared  upon  the 
earth,  but  last  night's  sleep  was  as  refreshing  as  man's  first  sleep 
in  Eden.  It  is  like  the  food  that  has  nourished  us  all  our  days  and 
still  today  gives  us  strength  as  in  all  our  yesterdays.  The  Bible 
lives  on  in  perpetual  youth,  strength,  and  beauty,  because  it  deals 
with  truths  that  are  primal  and  eternal.  The  fact  of  sin  and  of 
the  moral  lapse,  the  joy  of  repentence,  the  peace  of  forgiveness, 
and  the  victory  that  comes  through  spiritual  struggle — these  are 
its  eternal  verities.  It  is  for  this  reason  that  the  Bible  has  survived 
the  rash  claims  of  its  friends,  as  well  as  the  hostile  criticisms  of  its 


150  Butler  Alumnal  Quarterly 

enemies.  It  is  the  rock  upon  which  the  hammer  of  hostile  enemies 
beats  in  vain. 

But  not  for  a  moment  would  I  cause  you  to  forget  the  darker 
side  of  this  truth.  I  would  not  obscure  the  way  in  which  rash 
partisans  have  attempted  to  use  the  Bible  as  a  means  of  stifling 
human  thought  and  thwarting  human  reason.  I  would  not  obscure 
the  way  in  which  those  who  first  taught  that  the  earth  is  round 
were  persecuted  on  scriptural  ground  as  atheists;  nor  how  the 
Bible  has  been  appealed  to  in  order  to  justify  slavery  and  persecu- 
tion for  witchcraft  and  heresy ;  nor  how  every  form  of  superstitious 
cruelty  and  torture  have  been  sanctified  by  a  literal  appeal  to  the 
text  of  Sacred  Scripture.  How  apt  in  the  light  of  history  are 
Cowper's  lines: 

''And  of  all  arts  sagacious  dupes  invent, 
To  cheat  themselves  and   gain  the  world's  assent, 
The  worst  is  Scripture,  warped  from  its  intent." 

But  happily  we  live  in  freer  times.  More  and  more  is  the  Church 
abandoning  the  crass  literalism  and  creedal  dogmatism  of  the  past 
and  giving  increasing  respect  to  that  patient  and  reverent  scholar- 
ship from  which  true  appreciation  and  love  for  the  Bible  has 
everything  to  gain  and  nothing  at  all  to  lose. 

The  Bible  is  a  book  for  today  because  it  contains  the  revelation 
of  the  possibilities  of  human  nature.  We  have  heard  much  of  its 
revelation  concerning  the  nature  of  God,  but  little  of  its  revelation 
concerning  the  nature  of  man.  And  does  not  our  age  need  the 
latter  revelation  quite  as  much  as  the  former?  These  are  days  of 
our  waning  faith  in  man.  But  a  few  short  years  ago  we  entered 
into  a  world  war  asking  nothing  for  ourselves  that  we  did  not 
ask  for  all  mankind.  It  was  to  be  a  war  to  end  war,  to  make  the 
world  safe  for  democracy,  to  guarantee  the  freedom  of  the  seas, 
the  inviolability  of  treaties,  the  integrity  of  territories,  and  the  free- 
dom and  self-determination  of  minorities,  whether  racial,  national- 
istic, or  religious.  Then  came  peace  and  this  moral  idealism  col- 
lapsed about  us  like  a  house  of  cards.  Those  of  us  who  had  hoped 
that  the  discord  of  war  would  resolve  itself-  into  an  angel  chorus 


The  Bible,  A  Book  For  Today  151 

have  been  most  sadly  disillusioned.  Tennyson's  prophetic  vision  in 
"Locksley  Hall"  is  still  unrealized.  The  war  drums  still  throb. 
The  battle  flags  are  not  yet  furled.  The  Parliament  of  Man,  Fed- 
eration of  the  World,  still  wait  to  be  achieved.  The  rifts  within 
humanity  have  been  deepened.  The  gulfs  of  misunderstanding  have 
been  widened.  Conflicts  have  been  intensified.  The  old  battle  cries 
of  race  and  nationality,  of  creed  and  clan  are  still  with  us  and  are 
shouted  more  passionately  than  ever.  Humanity  is  still  composed 
of  ''pagan  souls  who  put  their  trust  in  reeking  tube  and  iron 
shard."  In  times  of  crisis  our  ultimate  reliance  is  still  not  upon 
moral  principles,  but  upon  force  and  violence. 

This  post  war  collapse  of  idealism  is  the  profoundest  moral 
tragedy  of  our  times.  It  raises  for  men  of  religious  spirit,  for 
men  of  faith  and  good  will,  some  very  serious  questions.  Is  man, 
after  all,  at  heart  a  beast  of  prey?  Is  self-interest  the  only  motive 
capable  of  urging  him  to  sustained  action  ?  Were  Buddha,  Jesus  and 
St.  Francis  only  lovable  lunatics  in  a  world  where  practical  men 
must  ever  enter  into  ruthless  conflict  for  place  and  power?  In 
our  moments  of  devotion  we  confess  our  faith  in  glowing  words: 
"Bear  ye  one  another's  burdens,  and  so  fulfill  the  law  of  Christ." 
These  high  words  of  faith  are  beautiful  to  adorn  an  altar,  but 
men  do  not  spend  their  lives  before  altars  but  upon  battlefields. 
Do  these  high  words  of  faith  have  a  meaning  for  the  great  game 
of  life  where  men  play  intensively  for  the  high  stakes  of  business, 
politics,  and  diplomacy?  Did  man  emerge  from  the  jungle  with 
the  nature  of  the  jungle  stamped  upon  him,  and  the  methods  of 
the  jungle  forever  clinging  to  him?  These  are  the  real  questions 
for  religion  in  our  time, — ^not  the  nature  of  the  Trinity  nor  the 
technique  of  inspiration,  but  these:  Is  man  after  all  a  beast  of 
prey?  Is  self-interest  his  only  motive?  Are  force  and  violence  his 
only  method?  Do  we  only  lull  humanity  into  a  false  sleep  of 
security  with  our  insistence  upon  the  Christian  virtues  of  love  and 
forgiveness  and  thus  merely  turn  the  keen  edge  of  our  fighting 
spirit  ? 

When  questions  such  as  these  disturb  us  and  our  faith  in  the 
possibilities  of  human  nature  wavers,  we  need  to  look  at  man  in 


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the  light  of  biblical  teaching.  We  need  to  strengthen  our  own  faith 
in  man  through  associations  with  the  faith  of  Jesus,  who  saw  be- 
neath the  rough  exterior  of  his  fellows  the  possibilities  of  unlim- 
ited spiritual  growth.  He  saw  in  John,  whom  all  men  called  a  Son  of 
Thunder,  the  possibilities  of  John,  the  Apostle  of  gentleness.  He 
saw  in  James,  that  other  Son  of  Thunder,  the  possibilities  of  James, 
the  pillar  of  the  Jerusalem  Church ;  and  in  Saul  of  Tarsus,  breath- 
ing hatred  and  persecution,  the  possibilities  of  Paul,  the  Apostle 
to  the  Gentiles  from  whose  soul  was  born  the  Corinthian  hymn  of 
love.  Surely  in  these  days  of  our  disillusioned  faith  in  man  there 
is  no  more  needful  message  than  this  revelation  as  to  the  possi- 
bilities of  human  nature.  We  dedicate,  then,  in  memory  of  our 
friend,  this  volume — the  book  of  our  yesterdays,  the  book  for  today. 
We  dedicate  it  in  the  fond  hope  that  it  will  ever  be  interpreted 
in  this  congregation  in  the  spirit  of  him  in  whose  memory  it  is 
given,  with  a  scholar's  mind,  a  prophet's  passion  and  an  artist's 
touch. 

These  were  matters  about  which  Dr.  Hall  felt  very  grave  con- 
cern. He  was  engaged  with  us  upon  the  twin-born  spiritual  enter- 
prise of  education  and  religion.  He  earnestly  desired  that  the 
school  and  the  church  should  be  collaborators  in  building  a  fairer 
civilization  than  any  the  world  has  knoAvn.  To  this  end  he  brought 
to  the  interpretation  of  the  Scriptures  a  scholar 's  mind.  He  realized 
that  there  are  constantly  emerging  from  the  laboratory  of  the 
scientist  and  the  study  of  the  scholar  new  revelations  as  to  the 
nature  of  the  universe  and  of  man.  But  he  could  not  conceive  of 
this  new  revelation  of  God  in  nature  as  being  inconsistent  with  the 
old  revelation  of  God  in  human  history  which  the  Bible  records. 
He  believed  that  religion  must  constantly  be  reinterpreted  in  the 
light  of  man's  enlarging  experiences  and  expanding  knowledge. 
He  was  alert  with  the  mind  of  youth.  Intellectually  he  dwelt  upon 
the  frontier  of  human  thought,  eager  to  greet  new  truth  at  dawn. 

But  for  him  the  scholar's  mind  was  not  enough.  To  it  he  added 
the  prophet's  passion.  He  realized  that  man's  spiritual  life  cannot 
be  nourished  upon  the  husks  of  knowledge  alone,  but  that  it  re- 
quires also  the  warmth  and  passion  of  human  interest  and  human 


The  Bible,  A  Book  For  Today  153 

friendship.  He  was  the  earnest  lover  of  his  kind,  as  every  prophet 
must  be.  He  entered  into  the  struggles,  the  defeats,  and  the  vic- 
tories of  his  fellows  as  if  they  were  his  own.  His  interpretations 
of  the  Scriptures  were  aglow  with  knowledge  and  warm  with  sym- 
pathy. There  was  tragedy  and  pathos  in  them,  but  also  courage, 
and  strength,  and  cheer. 

With  the  scholar's  mind  and  the  prophet's  passion  he  combined 
the  artist's  touch.  He  realized  that  the  eternal  verities  of  faith 
transcend  any  formulation  of  words ;  that  the  language  of  religion 
is  essentially  the  language  of  art,  of  imagination,  of  poetry  and 
of  symbol.  It  deals  with  the  things  of  man's  spirit  that  lie  too  deep 
for  words.  We  may  be  fluent  in  the  shallower  waters  of  human 
experience,  but  in  its  depths  we  are  dumb. 

How  alluring  the  spiritual  life  becomes  when  it  is  illuminated 
by  the  mind  of  the  scholar,  warmed  by  the  passion  of  the  prophet, 
and  portrayed  with  the  imagination,  the  symbolism,  and  the  poetry 
of  an  artist.  We  dedicate  this  volume  as  a  memorial  to  Dr.  Hall, 
with  the  fervent  prayer  that  it  may  always  be  interpreted  in  his 
spirit  in  the  church  he  loved. 


A  EUROPEAN  WEEK-END 

By  John  S.  Harrison,  Ph.  D. 

Head  of  English  Departynent 

In  responding  to  the  request  of  the  Editor  of  the  Alumnal 
Quarterly  to  give  an  account  of  my  year  of  residence  abroad  I 
am  forced  by  the  very  nature  of  my  experiences  to  limit  myself  to 
the  strict  requirements  of  a  Quarterly  article.  My  year  was  filled 
from  beginning  to  ending  with  good  things;  and  the  old  Europe 
I  saw  was  more  wonderful  than  any  dream  of  it  I  had  dreamed. 
So  many  were  the  points  of  contact  with  the  life  of  antiquity — 
Greek,  Roman,  Medieval  and  Renaissance  and  with  the  life  of  the 
post-war  peoples  in  Scotland,  England,  France,  and  Italy  that  I 
feel  renewed  in  spirit  and  more  than  ever  before  homesick  for 
those  cultural  backgrounds  that  come  to  mind  daily  in  my  work 
in  the  field  of  English  literature.  But  of  all  this  I  must  forego  an 
account  and  content  myself  with  detailing  only  one  episode,  trust- 
ing in  its  representative  character  to  convey  a  sense  of  how  I 
spent  my  days  in  Europe. 

It  is  a  trip  that  I  took  during  my  stay  at  Grenoble,  France.  It 
extended  from  Friday  noon  until  Sunday  night,  and  took  in  Mt. 
Blanc  from  Chamonix.  The  schedule  of  train  service  was  so  ac- 
commodating that  I  was  able  to  see  three  towns  on  the  way— 
Chambery,  Aix-le-Bains,  and  Annecy.  It  was  a  cheap  trip,  costing 
me  only  five  dollars  in  all.  We  had  bad  weather — rain  and  fog — 
to  begin  with,  but  after  leaving  Annecy  we  ascended  above  all 
this  and  came  out  into  glorious  mountain  weather — blue  distant 
sky,  warm  sunshine  and  brilliant  light.  It  was  so  mild  that  as  we 
went  up  the  road  to  Chamonix,  we  had  the  windows  open  in  an 
electric  train;  and  that  in  January.  The  people  told  us  that  they 
never  had  fog  in  Chamonix — perhaps,  an  overstatement  born  of 
local  pride — at  any  rate  the  specimen  of  weather  that  Chamonix 
provided  for  us  left  nothing  to  be  desired. 

Mt.  Blanc,  the  King  of  Mountains,  still  lives  in  my  imagination. 
Its  bulk  and  distant  height  still  persist  in  my  vision  of  it.    We 

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A  European  Week-End  155 

had  it  in  view  for  an  hour  or  more  and  after  we  left  it,  soaring  in 
majesty  above  its  neighboring  summits,  framed  in  by  a  dark  border 
of  Alpine  mountain  pines,  it  seemed  to  dwarf  all  the  other  peaks 
in  its  own  quiet  but  overwhelming  way.  Over  its  summit  moved 
the  winds,  for  we  could  see  a  sort  of  phantasmal  whiteness  in 
movement — the  dry  snow  apparently  shifting  in  lone  mountain 
play  quite  above  the  little  world  of  mortals.  In  comparison,  the 
mountains  about  Grenoble  seem  merely  graceful,  though  I  shall 
always  remember  them,  so  familiar  to  every  day  sight  they  have 
been. 

The  town  of  Chamonix  was  quiet,  due  to  the  absence  of  snow. 
A  little  film  of  it  covered  the  streets  and  permitted  the  hotels  to 
run  their  sleds  to  the  station.  A  few  ski-ers  were  enjoying  their 
sport  on  a  gentle  slope  outside  the  village.  A  stray  foreigner 
with  haughty,  aristocratic  aloofness,  walked  the  streets.  But  on 
the  whole,  things  were  very  quiet.  The  hotel  managers  must  have 
lost  money  in  such  unexceptional,  marvelous  weather.  We  had  a 
hasty  lunch  in  a  pleasant,  expensive  hotel  and  then  departed  for 
a  ride  farther  up  the  valley  and  then  the  return  to  Annecy.  We  did 
not  get  a  sight  of  the  Mer  de  Glace  but  the  Glacier  of  Boissons  let 
us  see  what  a  glacier  looks  like.  It  reminded  me  of  those  conical 
shields  used  to  tunnel  under  the  East  and  Hudson  Rivers.  I  refer 
to  the  "head"  of  the  glacier,  a  solid  mass  of  greenish  blue  ice 
protruding  from  its  worn  channel  and  seeming  ready  to  plunge 
into  the  valley.  Up  the  side  of  the  mountain  we  could  see  its 
rugged  course,  crevasse  after  crevasse,  a  vast  trail  of  crumpled 
snow  and  ice. 

The  towns  of  Chambery  and  Annecy  were  pleasant  places  to 
visit.  We  lingered  in  the  older  portion  of  these  towns,  with  their 
narrow,  winding  streets  and  arcaded  side  walks.  These  arcades 
are  not  as  those  in  Chester,  England,  for  the  preini&r  Stage  of  the 
house  formed  the  roof  of  the  arcade,  there  being  only  one  walk 
(not  two  walks,  as  in  Chester),  off  which  opened  the  many 
little  shops.  The  arcades  were  of  masonry  and  under  their  heavy 
arches  many  venders  had  displayed  their  wares.  Cheeses  seemed 
to  abound.    Externally  they  were  far  from  tempting,  green  and 


156  Butler  Alumnal  Quarterly 

livid;  but  the  heart  of  the  cheese  is  the  thing.  One  cheese  was  as 
large  as  a  cart  wheel  and  was  trundled  through  the  narrow  streets 
on  a  barrow, 

Annecy  is  on  a  beautiful  lake  and  is  a  lovely  summer  place,  with 
a  spacious  park  bordering  the  lake  and  wide  avenues  under  over- 
arching trees.  Lovely  mountains  frame  the  picture  and  an  old 
chateau  dominates  the  scene.  But  the  distinctive  feature  is  the 
canals  that  lead  into  the  city  from  the  lake  and  along  the  sides 
of  which  the  many  stone  buildings  rise.  Frequent  bridges  span 
these  canals  and  at  certain  points  numerous  washing  stations  form 
picturesque  spots.  These  stations  are  made  up  of  a  series  of  simple 
boards,  like  spring  boards  such  as  the  country  boy  builds  on  the 
edge  of  a  pond  for  his  swimming.  On  these  boards  the  w^omen  of 
the  town  kneel  at  their  hard  labor  of  washing  the  family  clothes. 
The  lot  of  the  woman  in  France  is  a  hard  one.  Perhaps  the  most 
interesting  buildings  whose  sides  are  washed  by  the  water  of  these 
canals  is  the  old  prison.  Only  a  portion  remains,  shaped  like  a 
spur.  Its  dungeon,  its  chapel,  its  courtyard,  and  certain  rooms 
where  the  prisoners  were  chained  to  their  hard  bed,  a  rough,  raised 
platform  with  one  end,  the  head  end,  raised  a  little — such  are  the 
features  of  the  place.  It  must  have  been  a  wretched  place  to  spend 
the  time  in.  The  heavy  oak  grating  in  the  doors  of  the  prison  is 
all  worn  smooth  by  the  hands  of  the  unfortunates,  who  evidently 
spent  some  of  their  time  gazing  out  into  the  world  of  freedom. 
Two  things  especially  touched  my  imagination,  a  small  door  lead- 
ing out  from  the  court  of  the  prison  to  the  canal ;  and  a  dark  hole, 
the  entrance  to  a  subterranean  passage  leading  to  the  chateau,  on 
the  hill  above.  Many  must  have  been  the  poor  wretches  conveyed 
secretly  through  this  doorway  and  this  secret  passageway  to  their 
doom. 

In  fact,  I  found  these  two  little  towns  of  Annecy  and  Chambery 
richly  suggestive.  As  I  rambled  about,  I  was  more  than  once  re- 
minded of  Stevenson  and  his  romances.  The  places  lacked  the 
grandeur  and  the  importance  of  those  spots  made  famous  by  the 
romances  of  Scott  or  Dumas ;  they  were  on  a  smaller  scale,  such  as 
Stevenson  found  to  his  taste.    In  Chambery,  the  narrow  streets, 


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with  a  lone  lantern,  with  dark,  sombre  doorways  and  little  iron 
barred  window  slits  high  above  the  level  of  the  street,  were  just 
the  settings  that  Stevenson  loved.  And  then  again  there  were 
wider  streets  with  numberless  balconies  on  the  premier  Stage  that 
seemed  fairly  to  cry  for  banners  and  waving  tapestry  to  adorn 
them  as  they  must  have  been  adorned  on  fete  days  long  ago,  when 
brilliant  processions  moved  through  them  up  to  the  chateau. 

In  Annecy  there  is  a  museum  of  much  interest,  though  in  no 
way  imposing.  It  is  rich  in  local  treasures  dating  back  to  Roman 
times.  As  I  sauntered  through  the  many,  cold  rooms,  I  thought 
what  a  wealth  of  display  illustrating  the  manners  of  the  ages  long 
past,  was  at  hand  for  the  historical  novelist  to  build  into  a  romance 
of  the  place.  Dresses,  furniture,  armor,  portraits,  broken  frag- 
ments of  old  Roman  tombs,  Roman  mill-stones,  Roman  columns; 
weapons  fished  up  from  the  bottom  of  the  lake;  groups  of  little 
dolls  dressed  in  the  fashion  of  Haute-Savoie,  all  were  here  as  mate- 
rial for  the  imaginative  artist.  And  then  the  lake  and  the  moun- 
tains would  form  the  setting  for  his  romance.  There  is  much  in 
this  old  Europe  still  unexploited. 

Just  to  show  you  how  the  visit  to  this  little  provincial  museum 
enriched  me,  let  me  explain  the  pleasure  I  had  Sunday  morning 
when  I  entered  a  little  cafe  under  one  of  those  arched  passage- 
ways, of  which  I  have  written.  I  had  had  my  jyetit  dejeuner  there 
the  day  before  and  had  noted  nothing  remarkable  in  the  young 
woman  who  waited  on  me,  excepting  that  she  was  a  quiet,  modest 
sort  of  young  person.  But  on  Sunday  morning,  after  my  visit  to 
the  museum  where  I  had  seen  old  portraits  and  old  costumes  of 
long  ago,  I  saw  in  this  young  woman,  a  very  handsome  type  of 
Savoyard,  dressed  in  black  velvet,  with  an  apron — a  glorious  array 
of  color — with  black  hair  neatly  and  snugly  arranged  close  to  the 
head  and  framing  a  rounded  face  of  high  coloring  of  a  type  not 
commonly  found  in  France.  She  was  in  Sunday  dress  and  though 
the  flesh  tinted  stockings  and  the  black  velvet  slippers  with  high 
heels  placed  her  in  the  twentieth  century,  she  was  for  all  that  a 
daughter  of  her  race  and  harked  back  to  a  distant  past.    She  fur- 


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nished  us  delicious  chocolate  and  warm  brioche,  which  with  butter 
and  sugar,  cost  2.75  francs. 

At  Chambery  the  historical  associations  were  of  a  different  kind. 
Our  main  object  was  to  visit  Rousseau's  house,  Les  Charmettes, 
where  he  lived,  happily  so  he  tells  us,  with  Madame  de  Warens. 
We  walked  out  to  the  spot  outside  the  town,  but  the  place  was 
closed.  We  hunted  up  the  concierge  and  were  soon  let  in  to  the  place 
where  we  were  at  leisure  to  examine  the  house,  living  room,  dining 
room,  bed  chambers,  oratory  with  the  authentic  furniture  and  with 
the  wall  paper  of  the  eighteenth  century  still  on  the  walls.  The 
view  from  the  windows  was  very  pretty  and  I  can  well  understand 
how  Rousseau  loved  the  spot.  A  fine  statue  of  Rousseau  crowns  a 
central  hill  in  the  city  of  Chambery  and  it  represents  him  slim 
but  sturdy,  with  book  in  hand,  walking  out  into  the  country  about 
Charmettes.  His  face  is  keen  and  refined  and  he  appears  in  full 
flush  of  his  manhood. 

Speaking  of  statues,  at  Annecy  there  is  a  very  noble  specimen 
of  French  sculpture,  a  statue  of  St.  Frangois  de  Sales;  probably 
the  outstanding  figure  in  the  history  of  the  place.  It  is  the  statue 
of  a  seated  dignitary  in  rich  ample  vestments  of  his  office,  with 
large  tomes  beside  his  chair,  and  one  outspread  on  his  knees.  But 
the  face  is  the  finest  feature,  a  noble,  gracious  countenance,  one 
of  the  finest  French  faces  I  have  seen.  He  is  the  writer  of  a  book 
of  devotions  still  read  in  France.  In  fact  M.  Lamy,  with  whom 
we  were  staying  in  Grenoble,  was  reading  in  this  book  the  day  of 
my  return. 

At  Aix-les-Bains,  we  had  only  a  few  minutes,  but  we  saw  enough 
of  the  place  to  make  it  stand  out  in  our  memory  of  the  trip.  Hotels, 
hotels,  baths,  baths.  In  season  it  must  be  an  interesting  social 
centre  where  ailing  aristocracy  comes  to  spend  its  money  and  regain 
wasted  health  for  future  dissipation.  After  admiring  a  bronze 
statue  of  Ganymede  carried  to  heaven  on  the  back  of  an  eagle, 
one  of  whose  talons  clasped  the  leg  of  the  youth;  after  noting 
the  remains  of  a  Roman  arch,  suggesting  Roman  provincial  splen- 
dor ;  and  after  sipping  a  little  hot,  sulphurated  water  flowing  from 
a  public  fountain  I  was  ready  to  take  the  train  home  to  Grenoble. 


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But  while  on  the  hill  at  Aix-les-Bains,  I  caught  glimpses  of  a  large 
lake,  Lake  Bourget,  which  adds  beauty  to  this  spot. 

Such  in  brief  is  the  kind  of  excursion  that  any  traveler  in 
Europe  can  make  over  the  week-end  for  what  seems  to  an  Ameri- 
can a  trivial  expense.  Europe  is  rich  in  cultural  backgrounds ;  and 
one  American  at  least  is  loath  to  exact  from  her  the  other  kind  of 
gold  that  she  can  ill  afford  to  pay. 


LORA  C.  HOSS— AN  APPRECIATION 

At  the  funeral  service  of  Mr.  Lor  a  C.  Hoss,  held  at  his  home  in 
Kokomo  on  Tuesday  morning,  October  20,  Mr.  H.  U.  Brown  pref- 
aced the  expression  of  the  Board  of  Directors  of  Butler  College 
with  the  following  words  of  his  own : 

"Fifty  years  ago  a  blue-eyed  boy  with  ruddy  cheeks  and  silken 
hair  that  fell  over  high  forehead,  enrolled  for  instruction  in  the 
fitting  school  then  operated  in  connection  with  the  old  North- 
western Christian  University.  His  eager,  smiling  face  and  his 
genial  manners  immediately  led  to  friendships  which  have  lasted 
through  all  these  years.  He  loved  learning  and  truth,  and  a  sym- 
pathetic faculty  soon  marked  him  for  their  own.  His  instructors 
included  such  men  as  Samuel  K.  Hoshour,  the  author  of  "Altison- 
ant Letters, ' '  a  book  that  revealed  a  depth  of  linguistic  knowledge ; 
Catharine  Merrill  who  has  impressed  three  generations  with  a  love 
of  literature  and  light ;  Allen  R.  Benton,  a  gentleman  and  a  scholar 
whose  memory  all  his  old  pupils  revere,  and  Scot  Butler,  teacher 
of  Latin,  who  went  from  a  cultured  and  luxuriant  home  as  a  pri- 
vate in  the  Civil  War,  served  throughout  the  war  and  returned  to 
become  a  college  president.  There  were  others  no  doubt,  but  these 
I  recall  instantly.  All  have  gone  to  the  Great  Beyond  where  the 
blue-eyed  boy  now^  joins  them, — all  but  Scot  Butler,  "the  master 
of  English  prose,"  the  brave,  sincere  exemplar,  lone  survivor  of 
that  teaching  corps. 

"With  such  an  environment  it  is  not  strange  that  one  who  fell 
under  the  influence  of  such  teachers  should  absorb  their  qualities. 
In  this  sense  there  is  immortality  even  on  earth,  with  the  lives  of 
the  good  and  true  renewed  in  the  careers  of  those  whom  they  have 
influenced.  Evil,  alone,  is  not  perpetuated.  And  so  the  friend  of 
our  youth  became  a  life-long  friend  and  the  friend  of  the  in- 
stitution that  gave  him  his  inspiration.  He  took  a  full  share  in 
the  honors  of  his  college  course,  was  chosen  as  one  of  the  directors 
of  Butler  College  and  showered  his  resources  upon  it,  material  and 
spiritual.    This  is  he  whose  life  is  ended  and  whom  we  commem- 

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LoRA  C.  Hoss — An  Appreciation  161 

orate  today, — a  true  and  loving  friend  of  learning  and  of  his 
f  ellowmen. ' ' 

The  tribute  of  the  Directorate  follows : 

*'Lora  C.  Hoss,  always  present  and  always  informed,  will  no 
longer  respond  when  his  name  is  called  at  the  meetings  of  the 
Board  of  Directors  of  Butler  College.  A  faithful,  loyal,  alert  and 
generous  associate  has  been  withdrawn  from  the  roll  by  a  voice 
to  which  there  is  no  answer  but  obedience.  He  was  a  true  son  of 
his  Alma  Mater.  Nurtured  in  a  collegiate  atmosphere  he  grew  u]> 
as  a  lover  of  his  country  and  its  institutions,  his  church  and  his  city. 

''He  was  modest  and  tolerant  but  as  firm  as  steel  where  right 
and  conscience  were  involved.  His  was  the  meekness  that  inherits 
the  earth,  "dreadmg  praise,  not  blame,"  but  always  in  the  front 
line  of  those  who  stood  for  duty.  He  wore  loyalty  as  a  shining 
garment,  impenetrable  to  all  assaults.  Yet  he  was  considerate  of 
all  men  and  all  views  and  shrank  from  injustice  or  harsh  criti- 
cism. He  would  go  to  extreme  lengths  to  make  clear  his  attitude 
and  to  avoid  misunderstandings  that  might  cause  pain. 

'*As  he  lies  here  unanswering,  far  be  it  from  any  to  speak  all 
that  is  in  our  hearts,  for  as  in  life  he  shrank  from  laudation  so 
now  we  may  imagine  his  spirit  recoiling  from  the  praise  that  his 
life  so  richly  merits.  Yet  it  would  be  unjust  to  fall  short  in  making 
record  of  the  virtues  of  so  good  and  true  a  man. 

''We  follow  the  footsteps  of  Mr.  Hoss  through  the  preparatory 
school,  through  four  years  of  college,  through  a  struggling  and 
finally  triumphant  business  career,  through  his  wise  years  as  coun- 
sellor on  the  board  of  directors,  through  his  intense  yearning  for 
the  success  of  the  great  new  enterprise  on  which  the  college  has 
embarked,  through  his  faithful  attendance  on  every  duty  that  fell 
to  him  and  finally  through  his  patient  struggle  with  an  unconquer- 
able illness. 

"  'For  scarcely  for  a  righteous  man  will  one  die;  yet  perad- 
venture  for  a  good  man  some  would  even  dare  to  die. '  That  is  the 
measure  of  the  quality  of  him  of  whom  we  speak.  His  righteousness 
was  not  cold  and  legalistic,  but  glorified  with  a  wealth  of  Christian 


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charity  that  warmed  the  hearts  of  men  and  led  them  to  call  him 
'  friend. ' 

"After  sixty-six  years  among  mortals,  he  has  passed  through 
the  portals,  whither  sooner  or  later,  we  all  go.  There  could  be  no 
terrors  beyond  for  him,  and  here  he  left  loving  wife  and  children, 
and  'troops  of  friends'  to  testify  that  this  is  a  better  and  brighter 
world  for  his  having  passed  this  way." 


SISTERS 

There  in  the  nursery  and  under  the  stair 

And  back  of  the  cupboard  door, 
We  played  at  church  and  store  and  fair. 

We  builded  our  doll-houses  everywhere, 
We  romped  and  frolicked  as  much  as  we  dare. 

For  we  were  sisters  four. 

In  homes  of   our  own  we   find  life   anew. 

For  such  is  the  stern  law   of  fate, 
The  youngest  and  fairest  so  sweet  and  true 

Has  gone  away  from  the  sight  of  you 
But  lives  for  aye  in  the  love  of  us  few, 

Three  sisters  who  hope  and  wait. 

But  who  is  my  sister  in  God's  pure  sight? 

Is  it  only  the  group  of  four? 
Methinks  I  see  her  here  at  my  right, 

Or  maybe  the  daughter  of  pure  delight, 
Or  the  one  who  fails  in  life's  hard  fight. 

And  so,  humbly  knocks  at  my  door, 

A  kinship  of  love  and  my  Father's  will 

Find  my  sister  in  every  land; 
Then  let  me  strive  to  reach  her  still, 

To  ease  her  burden,  to  cure  her  ill. 
Her  barren  life  with  love  to  fill 

And  cheer  with  the  clasp  of  a  hand. 

— Alumna 


BUTLER  ALUMNAL  QUARTERLY 

ISSUED  JANUARY,  APRIL,  JULY,  OCTOBER 

Published  by  the  Alumni  Association  of  Butler  College,  Indianapolis. 

Subscription  price,  two  dollars  per  year. 

Entered  as  second-class  matter,  March  26,  1912,  at  the  post  office  at  Indi- 
anapolis, Indiana,  under  the  Act  of  March  3,  1879. 

Officers  of  the  Alumni  Association — President,  Edwin  E.  Thompson,  '00;  First 
Vice-President,  Elizabeth  Bogert  Schofield,  '09;  Second  Vice-President, 
Myron  Hughel,  '17;  Treasurer,  Charles  W.  Wilson;  appointees,  Urith 
Dailey,  '17  and  Esther  Fay  Shover,  '00. 

Secretary  and  Editor  of  the  Butler  Alumnal  Quarterly — Katharine  M. 
Graydon,  '78. 


AROUND  THE  CAMPUS 

The  enrollment  to  date  has  been : 

On  the  campus 1506 

Teachers'  courses 740 

Total 2246 

The  program  for  Home-coming  Day  on  October  17  was  more 
quiet  than  for  several  years,  yet  many  old  grads  returned  and  a 
generally  good  time  was  indulged  in.  The  fraternity  houses  were 
thrown  open  at  noon  and  luncheons  as  formerly  were  drawing 
features.  At  1 :30  a  number  of  alumni  gathered  in  the  chapel  for 
hand-shake  and  reunion.  They  were  greeted  by  Edwin  E.  Thomp- 
son, '00,  president  of  the  Alumni  Association,  and  by  President 
Aley.  The  undergraduate  sons  and  daughters  of  alumni  were  in- 
troduced and  much  interest  expressed  in  the  repeating  history. 
Mr.  H.  U.  Brown  made  sad  announcement  of  the  death  that  morn- 
ing of  Lora  C.  Hoss,  '81,  member  of  the  board  of  directors,  and 
loyal  alumnus  and  friend  of  the  College. 

At  2 :30  the  game,  Franklin  vs.  Butler,  was  called  before  well- 
filled  bleachers.  The  score — 23  to  0 — was  quite  satisfactory  to  the 
Blue  and  White. 

In  the  evening  a  general  dance  was  enjoyed  in  the  Masonic  Hall 
of  Irvington. 

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Eighteen  of  the  fraternity  houses  entered  the  annual  competi- 
tion for  effective  decoration.  They  were  all  attractive  so  it  was 
difficult  to  come  to  a  decision,  but  the  judges  gave  first  prize  of 
the  fraternities  to  the  Phi  Delta  Thetas ;  second,  to  the  Sigma  Chis ; 
third,  to  the  Delta  Tau  Deltas.  Of  the  sorority  houses,  the  first 
award  was  granted  to  Alpha  Chi  Omegas;  second,  to  the  Delta 
Gammas ;  third,  to  the  Delta  Delta  Deltas.  The  prizes,  silver  cups 
offered  by  the  Scarlet  Quills  and  the  Skulls,  were  bestowed  upon 
the  winners  at  the  dance.  The  judging  committee  was  composed 
of  Mrs.  Fife,  chairman,  and  Professor  Jensen,  of  the  faculty,  and 
Mr.  Bums  of  the  board  of  directors. 

Attention  is  called  to  the  recommendations  made  at  the  annual 
meeting  of  the  Alumni  Association  last  June  by  the  out-going 
president,  Dr.  D.  W.  Layman,  '93.  They  were  published  in  the 
July  Quarterly,  but  we  repeat  one  of  them  and  call  for  expression 
of  the  alumni.  The  recommendation  reads:  We  recommend  for 
consideration  that  the  date  of  Founders'  Day  be  changed  to  the 
first  Saturday  in  November.  Butler  College  opened  its  doors  No- 
vember 1st,  1885,  at  the  old  University  grounds  on  College  Avenue 
and  Home  Avenue,  now  East  Thirteenth  Street.  Combine  Found- 
ers' Day  in  November  with  the  Home-coming  Day,  and  it  wiJl 
become  a  significant  day  to  celebrate  annually  on  the  new  Fair- 
view  site. 

Such  a  change  should  not  be  made  without  serious  consideration. 
It  is  a  matter  in  which  the  alumni  play  a  large  part.  Founders' 
Day  was  established  by  the  Board  of  Directors  in  1882,  and  the 
birthday  of  Mr.  Ovid  Butler  was  significantly  chosen  as  date  of 
observance.  For  forty  years  the  day  has  been  recognized  with 
special  exercises.  The  past  seventeen  years  have  seen  rich  pro- 
grams: scholarly  addresses  in  the  chapel  in  the  morning  attended 
chiefly  by  undergraduates  and  faculty;  in  the  evening  a  dinner  at 
the  Claypool  at  which  have  been  present  several  hundred  alumni 
and  friends.  And  yet  as  the  College  has  grown,  the  alumni  have 
not  increased  their  attendance. 


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There  are  those  who  would  like  to  see  Founders'  Day  placed 
on  the  first  Saturday  of  November — anniversary  of  the  opening 
of  the  College  in  1855 — when  the  best  game  would  be  played,  and 
Founders'  Day  and  Home-coming  would  be  united. 

There  are  two  sides  to  the  question.  The  editor  requests  that 
a  general  expression  be  made  for  the  next  issue.  Therefore,  send 
without  delay  your  opinion.  REMEMBER  THAT  FOUNDERS' 
DAY  IS  AN  ALUMNI  DAY. 


FROM  THE  CITY  OFFICE 

At  the  quarterly  meeting  of  the  board  of  directors  of  Butler 
University,  early  in  October,  the  financial  secretary  of  the  univer- 
sity, urged  that  the  board  do  its  utmost  to  give  impetus  to  the 
financial  campaign.  This  is  desired  to  the  end  that  building  opera- 
tions on  the  new  site,  at  Fairview  Park,  may  be  started  next  spring. 
Mr.  Atherton  pointed  out  the  importance  of  adopting  a  building 
program  to  erect  and  equip  buildings  to  house  adequately  2,000 
students  by  the  fall  of  1927.  The  plea  for  immediate  action  was 
made  not  only  because  present  accommodations  are  inadequate  and 
the  faculty  lacks  proper  equipment  and  room,  but  because  also 
of  a  general  demand  on  the  part  of  the  public  for  a  larger  univer- 
sity plant  in  Indianapolis.  The  campaign  committee  felt  that  a 
definite  announcement  of  the  board's  enthusiastic  approval  of  what 
had  been  done  would  put  new  life  into  the  alumni  and  former 
students,  and  the  people  who  favor  education  generally.  This,  in 
turn,  is  calculated  to  bring  about  a  quicker  response  to  the  univer- 
sity's many  needs.  The  committee  plans  to  launch  a  campaign 
during  the  autumn  and  early  winter  that  will  give  an  opportunity 
to  all  who  have  not  contributed  to  Butler  to  do  so.  It  was  pointed 
out  that  entirely  too  many  Butler  people  had  not  subscribed  to 
any  of  the  funds  raised  and  that  in  this  respect  the  school  spirit 
was  below  that  of  many  other  institutions.  The  board  gave  its 
cordial  and  unanimous  endorsement  to  what  has  been  accomplished 
in  the  campaign  for  a  greater  Butler  and  has  promised  to  stand 


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squarely  behind  the  final  drive  during  the  closing  months  of  the 
year. 

During  the  board  meeting,  Robert  Frost  Daggett  and  Thomas 
E.  Hibben,  architects  for  the  new  Butler  plant,  presented  draw- 
ings suggestive  of  what  might  be  done  to  solve  the  housing  problem 
for  fraternities  and  sororities.  The  tentative  plan  is  to  house  the 
Greek  letter  societies  in  units  of  six.  Each  organization  would 
have  its  individual  quarters  but  there  would  be  some  features  in 
common,  such  as  a  common  hall  for  entertainments  and  the  like. 
Construction  costs  to  the  individual  societies,  together  with  main- 
tenance charges,  would  be  reduced  greatly  by  the  adoption  of  the 
unit  plan.  Although  the  board  displayed  marked  interest  in  the 
suggestion  of  the  architects  relative  to  fraternity  houses,  no  def- 
inite action  was  taken.  These  matters,  affecting  the  fraternities 
and  sororities,  will  be  discussed  by  the  university  officials  with  the 
active  and  alumni  members  of  all  the  organizations.  On  the  motion 
of  Judge  Kirkpatrick,  the  board  unanimously  voted  to  instruct 
the  architects  to  have  drawings  for  the  main  university  buildings 
ready  during  the  early  portion  of  the  winter  so  the  board  may 
discuss  them  with  a  view  to  final  adoption.  Contracts  then  will  be 
let  with  the  idea  of  beginning  construction  in  the  spring. 

The  boulevard  around  the  new  Butler  campus  will  be  completed 
this  fall.  It  will  be  eighty  feet  wide  for  the  time  being  and  a  strip 
forty  feet  wide  is  being  paved.  Subsequently  the  boulevard  will 
be  from  120  to  300  feet  wide.  In  front  of  the  fraternity  and  soror- 
ity houses  the  width  of  the  boulevard  will  be  120  feet.  When 
completed  this  boulevard  will  be  a  part  of  the  Indianapolis  boule- 
vard system  and  will  be  maintained  by  the  city.  Forty-sixth,  Forty- 
ninth  and  Fifty-second  streets  are  to  be  widened.  Conser  avenue 
is  to  be  made  a  boulevard,  approaching  Fairview  from  tthe  south 
and  one  block  west  of  Sunset  avenue.  The  boulevard  system  around 
Fairview  will  join  with  the  Westfield  boulevard  on  the  north  and 
with  the  Thirty-eighth  street  boulevard  on  the  south.  Later  it  will 
be  extended  to  join  with  the  Northwestern  avenue  roadway.  These 
plans  promise  to  make  the  Butler  campus  unique  among  college 


From  the  City  Office    .  167 

grounds  in  this  country  and  will  give  the  new  university  location 
a  particularly  beautiful  and  attractive  setting. 

A  number  of  contributions  to  the  University  building,  and  other 
funds  have  been  made  during  the  summer.  An  important  gift  was 
that  of  $5,000  from  the  estate  of  Mrs.  Ruth  French,  of  Brookston. 
This  amount  is  made  available  for  deserving  girls  and  will  be  lent 
to  them  in  such  sums  as  may  be  necessary  to  enable  them  to  com- 
plete their  educations. 

Business  men  of  Indianapolis  are  manifesting  an  increasing  in- 
terest in  Butler's  plans  for  the  future.  They  recognize  that  in 
addition  to  the  cultural  value  of  the  school  to  the  community,  it 
will  have  a  direct  bearing  on  the  business  life  of  the  city. 

The  College  of  Religion  is  endeavoring  to  raise  $350,000  to  be 
used  in  constructing  its  own  building.  This  campaign  is  well  under 
way,  the  appeal  being  made  directly  to  members  of  the  Disciples 
of  Christ.  Several  counties  have  subscribed  their  quotas.  Leading 
in  the  work  thus  far  is  Rush  county,  with  subscriptions  amounting 
to  $13,000.  The  campaign  for  the  College  of  Religion  building  is 
in  charge  of  the  church  committee  of  the  board,  headed  by  the  Rev. 
Z.  T,  Sweeney,  of  Columbus. 

The  city  office  is  hearing  many  favorable  reports  relative  to 
Dean  Frederick  D.  Kershner,  of  the  College  of  Religion,  and  his 
colleagues. 

During  the  summer,  the  financial  secretary  made  a  trip  through 
Colorado  and  California  where  he  was  in  touch  with  many  former 
Butler  students.  He  was  encouraged  by  the  amount  of  interest  they 
are  taking  in  the  expansion  program  and  also  by  their  proffer  of 
substantial  assistance  before  the  campaign  is  concluded. 

Hilton  U.  Brown,  chairman  of  the  board  of  directors,  and  Wil- 
liam G.  Irwin,  a  director  and  chairman  of  the  general  campaign 
committee,  were  abroad  during  the  summer,  partly  in  the  interest 
of  the  university.  They  visited  several  colleges  and  universities  in 
England  and  on  the  continent.  They  were  particularly  impressed 
with  the  dignity  of  the  architecture  at  Oxford.  This  general  plan 
will  be  followed  in  the  new  Butler  buildings. 


168  Butler  Alumnal  Quarterly 

While  there  is  every  reason  to  believe  that  Butler's  financial 
needs  will  be  met  there  are  tremendous  obligations  remaining  to 
be  discharged.  William  G.  Irwin  and  his  sister,  Mrs.  Z.  T.  Sweeney, 
offered  the  building  fund  $300,000  if  an  additional  $700,000  is 
pledged  by  the  end  of  the  year.  The  campaign  committee  has  but 
little  over  two  months  left  in  which  to  meet  these  conditions.  The 
success  or  failure  of  the  entire  plan  for  a  greater  Butler,  on  a  new 
site,  will  depend  to  a  considerable  extent  upon  the  loyalty  of  the 
Butler  people  themselves.  Those  who  have  attended  the  school  or 
who  have  been  graduated  from  it  in  previous  years  are  counted 
upon  to  do  their  full  share.  Without  this  spirit  of  devotion  on  the 
part  of  those  who  have  been  intimately  associated  with  the  school, 
there  could  be  little  chance  of  appealing  to  the  general  public  in 
a  convincing  way.  The  need  of  unanimous  support  for  the  new 
movement  was  never  more  apparent  than  it  is  now. 


ATHLETICS 

September  8th  ushered  in  the  sixth  season  of  the  new  athletic 
regime.  The  football  season  got  under  way  with  a  bang.  Ten 
seniors,  fifteen  juniors,  and  twenty  sophomore  varsity  candidates 
reported  for  strenuous  duty  and  were  placed  under  the  direction 
of  Captain  Lou  Reichel,  who  has  been  considered  one  of  the  best 
centers,  not  only  in  this  state  but  of  the  middle  west.  The  opening 
game  saw  twenty-five  different  individuals  strutting  on  Irwin 
Pield,  indicating  that  the  blue  and  white  prospects  were  better 
than  ever  before.  The  early  season  climax  came  when  Butler 
turned  67  football  players  loose  in  Illinois'  new  stadium.  The  final 
:score  of  that  battle  was  13  to  16  in  favor  of  the  lUini,  headed  by 
the  All- American  ''Red"  Grange,  who  was  only  able  to  score  two 
touchdowns.  Butler  scored  two  touchdowns,  but  a  field  goal  kick 
by  our  most  worthy  opponents  gave  them  the  victory. 

In  the  opening  game  the  Quakers  from  Earlham  gave  us  a  clean 
cut  battle  and  the  final  score  was  Butler  28,  Earlham  0.  The  fol- 
lowing Saturday  in  a  sea  of  mud  our  Bulldogs  oozed  out  a  6  to  6 


Athletics  169 

tie  score  with  the  DePauw  Tigers.  Conditions  equalized  the  play, 
although  Butler  landed  nine  first  downs  to  our  opponents  three. 
The  starting  line-up  for  the  early  games  included  Gerry  Strole, 
Dave  Konold  and  Homer  Woodling  on  end ;  Carl  Cecil,  Bob  Keach, 
Francis  Fletcher  and  Hiram  Hensel  at  tackles;  Gunnar  Thaung, 
John  Southern,  Art  Black  and  George  Mulholland  at  guards ;  Lou 
Reichel  and  Melvin  Puett  at  center ;  Carter  Helton  and  Bob  Nipper 
at  quarterback ;  Canfield,  Collier,  Miller  and  Northam  at  halfback 
with  Gordon  Paul  and  Dave  Kilgore  at  fullback. 

The  most  pleasing  feature  of  the  season  has  been  the  sturdy 
group  of  freshmen  who  reported  to  Coach  Paul  D,  Hinkle.  The 
squad  was  cut  from  sixty  candidates  to  thirty.  These  men  will 
play  two  games  according  to  Indiana  Conference  rules,  meeting 
Culver  Military  on  Irwin  Field  on  November  7th  and  then  making 
a  Southern  trip  playing  the  University  of  Kentucky  at  Lexington. 
In  addition  the  most  likely  freshmen  candidates  were  guests  at  the 
University  of  Illinois  game  along  with  our  fifty-piece  band  which 
made  a  great  hit  under  the  leadership  of  Professor  Vandaworker. 

Two  most  important  state  games  are  now  at  hand.  Franklin 
Homecoming  this  week  should  be  a  masterpiece  since  the  Baptists 
have  a  veteran  outfit  and  have  gradually  grown  in  strength  so 
that  they  are  now  about  ready  to  break  our  chain  of  victory. 
With  the  score  10  to  7  last  year  we  held  them  on  the  four  yard  line. 
The  following  week  the  Little  Giants  from  Wabash  visit  our  capital 
city  and  a  thriller  is  assured.  Butler  has  carried  all  the  horseshoes 
the  past  three  years  and  has  edged  out  victories,  the  last  one 
being  a  margin  of  two  touchdowns.  Wabash  has  a  fine  victory 
over  Purdue  to  its  credit  this  year  and  is  favored  to  upset  the 
dope  bucket  and  break  the  Butler  jinx.  Following  these  games 
come  Rose  Poly  Engineers  to  Irwin  Field,  the  Culver-Freshmen 
game  and  then  Dayton  University,  the  Notre  Dame  of  Ohio  with 
a  brilliant  football  record,  and  a  battle  royal  is  expected  similar 
to  that  furnished  in  our  closing  game  by  the  Haskell  Indians  last 
year.  The  season  will  close  for  the  Varsity  with  two  fine  trips, 
the  University  of  Minnesota  being  met  at  Minneapolis  on  November 


170  Butler  Alumnal  Quarterly 

7th,  while  Centenary  will  be  matched  at  Shreveport,  Louisiana  on 
November  21st.  Butler  has  been  fortunate  in  having  Wally  Mid- 
dlesworth,  ex- '24,  assist  in  coaching  the  varsity  and  scouting 
opponents. 

Other  athletic  sports  are  well  under  way.  Herman  Phillips,  cap- 
tain of  the  track  team  has  a  promising  squad  of  track  runners 
working  out  dailj^  while  Al  Harker  is  looking  after  a  number 
of  the  basketball  squad  men  who  are  getting  into  condition  for  a 
busy  winter  schedule.  Our  athletics  are  being  well  conducted  under 
the  supervision  of  the  faculty  Athletic  Committee  comprising  the 
following  men :  Professor  H.  M.  Geltson,  Chairman ;  Professors 
Haworth,  Shadinger  and  Slifer,  H.  0.  Page,  Athletic  Director;  and 
Claris  Adams,  alumni  representative,  while  Arthur  V.  Brown  is 
chairman  of  the  trustees'  committee  on  athletics. 

Observation  has  been  made  that  when  Butler  held  the  Illini  to  a 
16-13  victory  in  the  Urbana  stadium,  the  Bulldogs  gained  the  dis- 
tinction of  being  the  only  team  to  score  against  the  Suckers  every 
game  during  the  last  four  seasons,  according  to  a  check  of  statistics 
covering  this  period. 

Butler  won  the  first  battle  between  the  two  schools  in  1922  when 
Hall  Griggs  enabled  the  Blue  and  White  to  nose  out  the  conference 
team  10  to  7.  Since  that  time  the  Blue  and  White  lost  all  three 
games,  but  final  scores  were  21  to  7,  40  to  10  and  16  to  13,  Butler 
scoring  at  least  one  touchdown  each  game. 

Nebraska  did  not  play  Illinois  in  1922,  but  in  the  last  three 
years  the  Cornhuskers  were  the  only  other  team  to  score  each 
game  against  Illinois.  The  Suckers  shut  out  Chicago  and  Ohio  in 
1923  and  last  season  Michigan  and  Iowa  were  whitewashed.  These 
four  teams  have  been  the  outstanding  opponents  of  Illinois  the 
past  four  years,  Wisconsin  and  Minnesota,  other  contestants,  were 
blanked  in  1922. 

A  summary  shows  that  Butler  counted  a  total  of  40  points  against 
the  Illini  in  four  years,  averaging  10  points  a  game.  Butler's 
closest  rival,  Nebraska,  counted  25  points  in  three  years,  an  av- 
erage of  8  points  a  game. 


Athletics  171 


SCORES  TO  DATE 


Butler  vs.  Earlham— 28  to  0 
Butler  vs.  DePauw — 6  to  6 
Butler  vs.  Illinois — 13  to  16 
Butler  vs.  Franklin — 23  to  0 
Butler  vs.  Wabash — 0  to  0 
Butler  vs.  Rose  Poly— 38  to  0 


THE  BAND 

Colleges  have  their  teams,  their  clubs,  their  activities — and  some 
have  their  bands.  A  few  years  ago  Butler  was  in  the  class  of  those 
withhout  a  band,  but  last  year  Mr.  Vandaworker  assembled  what 
talent  we  had,  and  created  and  presented  to  Butler  the  first  es- 
timable band  the  school  has  possessed.  Twice  a  week  Mr.  Vanda- 
worker worked  with  the  boys,  coached  them  as  football  men  are 
coached,  instructed  them  as  well  as  polished  them,  and  the  result 
was  that  an  excellent  band  of  fifty  men  was  presented  one  day 
at  chapel  and  the  whole  institution  was  surprised.  It  seemed  as  if 
it  had  sprung  up  over  night,  and  it  was  so  different  from  the 
"small  town"  bands  we  were  used  to  hearing  toot  their  discords 
out  over  the  football  field  that  we  all  were  extremely  pleased. 

A  band  can  lend  much  spirit  to  a  school.  To  hear  that  old  college 
song  floating  through  the  air  and  across  the  bleachers  and  to  listen 
to  Sousa's  best  marches  is  an  asset  to  any  institution. 

To  make  their  year  even  more  glorious,  the  whole  band  is  in 
uniform.  Cadet  blue  suits  and  leather  puttees  and  a  lyre  as  in- 
signia on  the  sleeves  make  an  impressive  appearance.  These  uni- 
forms are  the  fine  gift  of  the  Butler  Club  at  a  cost  of  $1900.  The 
Club  is  composed  of  alumni  of  the  city  and  is  accomplishing  grate- 
ful things  for  the  College. 


172  Butler  Alumnal  Quarterly 

SPECIAL  HONORS 

In  accordance  with  the  custom  of  many  colleges,  Butler  in  1924 
established  certain  regulations  whereby  students  may  earn  special 
honors,  which  are  conferred  at  the  time  of  graduation  and  which 
are  written  in  the  diploma. 

All  students  who  receive  an  average  grade  of  90%  in  their  work, 
will  receive  distinction  cum  laude,  such  students  may,  however, 
become  candidates  for  magna  cum  laude  by  doing  additional  work 
under  the  direction  of  their  major  professor. 

Members  of  the  class  of  '26  must  make  application  for  these 
honors  not  later  than  October  1,  of  this  year.  Hereafter,  by  a  new 
provision  of  the  faculty,  applicants  for  magna  cum  laude  must  an- 
nounce themselves  not  later  than  the  middle  of  their  junior  year. 
This  provision  will  give  candidates  a  longer  time  in  which  to  do 
the  required  work. 

The  following  Butler  graduates  received  magna  cum  laude  last 
year :  Ralph  Wadsworth  Snyder,  in  Greek ;  Mary  Stokes,  in  Math- 
ematics; Floyd  Wilmer  Umbenhower,  in  History,  There  were  no 
cum  laudes  given. 

BUTLER  COLLEGE  SCHOLARSHIPS 

The  executor  of  the  estate  of  Mrs.  Ruth  French  of  Brookston 
has  delivered  to  John  W.  Atherton,  financial  secretary,  a  check  for 
$5,000  with  which  will  be  created  the  Ruth  French  Scholarship  to 
be  used  for  girls.  The  principal  will  be  invested  and  the  interest 
lent  to  deserving  undergraduates.  Mrs.  French  left  an  equal  amount 
to  Purdue  University  for  the  use  of  boys. 

Last  year  the  College  received  by  the  will  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Ed- 
ward W.  Sawyer  of  Shelbyville,  Indiana,  the  bequest  of  $50,000. 
The  interest  of  this  principal  is  now  available  for  the  establishment 
of  scholar shhips. 

For  the  first  time  the  Roda  E.  Sellick  fund  of  $2500  is  offering 
a  scholarship  to  cover  tuition  fee  to  a  graduate  of  Shortridge  High 
School. 


Butler  College  Scholarships  173 

The  Alumni  Association  of  the  College  last  year  contributed  two 
scholarships  to  young  women  of  merit  deserving  the  recognition, 
and  this  year  it  is  hoped  the  Alumni  will  care  to  establish  more 
than  two  scholarships. 

Other  loan  funds  are  available,  as  the  Arthur  R.  Baxter  fund 
of  $1,000;  the  139th  Field  Artillery  of  $878.35;  the  Philo  F.  Ben- 
nett fund  of  $5,000 ;  the  Ministerial  fund  of  $11,000.  The  Chamber 
of  Commerce  of  Indianapolis  pays  tuition  fee  of  four  students; 
while  that  of  one  student  for  one  semester  is  paid  by  the  Scarlet 
Quill  Society. 

This  form  of  College  interest  and  generosity  is  most  desirable. 
We  commend  it  to  individuals,  to  classes,  to  clubs. 


BUTLER  COLLEGE  CLUBS 

The  first  meeting  of  the  Faculty  Club  was  held  at  The  Residence 
on  September  19  in  the  form  of  a  reception  to  the  new  members. 
The  new  president.  Professor  Friesnuer,  presided.  At  the  second 
meeting  on  October  10  Professor  Harrison  entertained  the  Club 
with  a  talk  on  ''Some  European  Backgrounds."  On  November  14 
Dean  Kershner  will  talk  upon  "Ideas  of  God  in  Recent  Thought." 

The  Butler  Alumnae  Literary  Club  held  its  first  autumn  meeting 
at  the  home  of  Mrs.  Edith  Gwartney  Butler,  '19,  on  University 
Avenue.  Full  membership  was  present,  and  a  delightful  luncheon 
was  served.  This  Club  meets  at  the  homes  of  its  members  on  the 
last  Saturday  afternoon  of  each  month.  The  topic  for  this  year's 
consideration  is  LIFE  AND  BOOKS  OF  TODAY.  The  officers 
are :  President,  Mrs.  James  H.  Butler,  '19 ;  Vice-president,  Mrs. 
L.  G.  Hughes,  '15 ;  Secretary,  Miss  Emrich,  '00 ;  Treasurer,  Miss 
Bachman,  '12;  Permanent  Secretary  of  Endowment  Fund,  Mrs. 
Samuel  M.  Meyers,  '08;  Delegate  to  Seventh  District  Federation, 
Mrs.  John  L.  Wallace,  '08;  Alternate,  Miss  Maude  Russell,  '11; 
Program  Committee,  Miss  Bachman,  '12,  Miss  Maude  Russell,  '11 ; 
Miss  Scotten,    '08.    The  next  hostess  on  October  24  will  be  Miss 


174  Butler  Alumnal  Quarterly 

Esther  Fay  Shover,  '00,  and  the  topic  for  consideration  will  be 
"Youth  and  the  Colleges."  On  the  program  will  be  Miss  June 
Lutz,  '17,  and  Miss  Corinne  Welling,  '12. 

The  Katharine  Merrill  Graydon  Club  held  its  first  meeting  of  the 
year  at  the  new  home  of  Mrs.  Eda  Boos  Brewer,  '14,  on  the  Spring 
Mill  Road.  A  full  attendance  and  good  program  made  a  delightful 
reunion  after  the  summer  months.  This  Club  meets  at  the  homes 
of  its  members  on  the  first  Tuesday  afternoon  of  each  month.  The 
study  continues  for  the  year  in  the  ENGLISH  DRAMA.  The  pro- 
gram, introduced  by  a  short  talk  by  Miss  Graydon,  was  given  by 
Mrs.  Irma  Weyerbacher  Van  Tassel,  '16,  Mrs.  Ellen  Graham 
George,  '14,  Mrs.  Dorothy  Hautz  Hamp,  '14.  The  hostess  for  the 
next  meeting  will  be  Mrs.  Walter  Montgomery,  '15,  and  the 
program  will  be  furnished  by  Mrs.  Howard  Pattison,  Miss  Annette 
Hedges,  '18,  Miss  Lola  B.  Conner,  '17.  The  officers  for  the  ensuing 
year  are :  President,  Mrs.  Irma  Weyerbacher  Van  Tassel,  '16  ;  Vice- 
president,  Mrs.  Nell  Reed  Offutt,  '11 ;  Secretary,  Mrs.  Margaret 
Moore  Book,  '18 ;  Treasurer,  Mrs.  Verna  Sweetman  Mendenhall, 
ex- '18;  Publicity  Chairman,  Mrs.  Bertha  Coughlen  Shelhorn,  '18; 
Program  Committee,  Miss  Urith  Dailey,  '17,  Mrs.  Mildred  Kuhn 
Rose,  ex- '16;  Mrs.  Louise  Hughel  Payne,  '16. 

The  Faculty  Woman's  Club  held  its  President's  Day  Luncheon 
on  October  14,  at  the  Propyleeum.  Miss  Evelyn  Butler,  the  new 
president,  presided.  The  program  consisted  of  talks  gleaned  from 
the  researches  and  experiences  of  the  faculty  members  who  par- 
ticipated. Mrs.  John  S.  Harrison  talked  on  "An  American  Boy  in 
a  French  School,"  Mrs.  Thor  G.  Wesenberg  on  "The  Radcliff  Mod- 
ernist," and  Miss  Katharine  Graydon  on  "High  Lights  of  a  Sum- 
mer in  Europe."  Those  present  were:  Mrs.  Robert  J.  Aley,  Mrs. 
T.  C.  Howe,  Miss  Katharine  Graydon,  Miss  Corinne  Welling,  Mrs. 
B.  L.  Kershner,  Mrs.  J.  W.  Putman,  Mrs.  H.  M.  Gelston,  Mrs.  J.  S. 
Harrison,  Mrs.  Richardson,  Mrs.  J.  G.  Fucilla,  Mrs.  Baumgartner, 
Miss  Evelyn  M.  Butler,  Miss  Allegra  Stewart,  Mrs.  Armstrong, 
and  Mrs.  Wood. 


Butler  College  Clubs  175 

The  readers  of  the  Quarterly  may  be  interested  to  know  that 
the  latest  movement  in  Butler  Clubdom  is  in  the  direction  of  an 
organization  of  the  children  in  College  of  alumni.  There  are  in 
attendance  about  thirty  sons  and  daughters  of  graduates.  This 
suggestion  has  come  entirely  from  the  minds  of  the  young  people 
and  is  most  commendable.   More  will  be  said  later  of  this  activity. 


TEACHERS'  LUNCHEON 

The  annual  luncheon  of  the  alumni  attending  the  State  Teach- 
ers' Association  in  Indianapolis  was  held  in  the  Spink- Arms  Hotel 
on  October  22.  There  were  present  sixty,  and  a  pleasant  reunion 
was  enjoyed.  President  Aley  presided.  Brief  talks  were  made  by 
Miss  Gladys  Lewis,  '20,  of  Martinsville ;  Professor  Johnson ;  Grover 
Van  Duyn,  '24,  of  Hancock  County;  Professor  Putnam;  Jackson 
Wales,  '26,  and  Professor  Bruner.  These  were  interspersed  with 
Butler  songs. 


NOTICE 

When  you  hear  from  your  class  secretary,  answer  without  delay. 
Why  not  ?  Do  you  treat  any  other  organization  in  which  you  hold 
membership  so  shabbily  as  never  to  reply  to  communication?  Of 
course  not.  Then  why  not  send  your  bit  to  your  association  to  help 
those  young  people  having  less  than  you?  That  is  what  we  are 
trying  again  to  do  this  year — to  offer  scholarships  to  those  deserving 
undergraduates  who  are  in  the  tug  of  war.  The  gratitude  of  those 
receiving  the  alumni  scholarships  is  compensation  enough  for  the 
gift  you  have  made.  There  is  nothing  like  the  light  and  hope 
which  come  into  a  student's  eyes  when  he  learns  he  may  still  come 
to  College  next  year,  notwithstanding  the  hostile  elements.  This 
is  what  you  are  doing,  alumni,  bringing  opportunity  and  strength 
and  high  joy  to  some  young  people  eager  and  hungry  for  academic 
privileges. 


176  Butler  Alumnal  Quarterly 

FACULTY  NOTES 

The  faculty  has  been  increased  by  the  following  ten  new 
members : 

H.  Parr  Armstrong,  A.  M.  Boston  University,  an  associate  pro- 
fessor in  the  College  of  Religion ; 

Charles  M.  Palmer,  A.  M.  Pennsylvania  State  College,  and  an 
instructor  there  for  two  years  in  Botany,  assistant  professor  in  the 
department  of  Botany ; 

Merwin  G.  Bridenstine,  B.  S.  University  of  Iowa  and  assistant 
there  in  the  School  of  Commerce,  an  instructor  in  Economics ; 

Elmer  Sayre  Clark,  A.  M.  University  of  Wisconsin  and  instructor 
in  Beloit  College  also  an  instructor  in  Economics ; 

Laurence  F.  Hawkins,  A.  B.  Butler  College ;  A.  M.  Northwestern 
University,  acting  instructor  in  Greek  in  the  absence  of  Miss 
Weaver  while  in  Greece; 

DeForest  O'Dell,  A.  B.  Butler  College  and  graduate  of  the  Co- 
lumbia University  School  of  Journalism,  an  instructor  in  the  de- 
partment of  Journalism ; 

Miss  Mabel  Arbuthnot,  A.  M.  University  of  Wisconsin  and  in- 
structor in  Ripon  College,  instructor  in  Latin; 

Clarke  Sifritt,  A.  M.  University  of  Michigan,  assistant  professor 
of  Public  Speaking; 

L.  E.  Dabney,  A.  M.  University  of  Texas  and  instructor  in  Uni- 
versity of  Texas  and  in  Rusk  Junior  College,  acting  assistant  pro- 
fessor in  French ; 

Russell  G.  Weber,  A.  M.  University  of  Iowa  and  assistant  in- 
structor in  Zoology  there,  instructor  in  Zoology. 

The  Quarterly  extends  its  sympathy  to  Miss  Cotton  in  the 
death  of  her  mother,  Mrs.  Rachel  Walker.  Mrs.  Walker  was  known 
to  many  of  the  faculty,  for  she  had  spent  several  winters  in  Irving- 
ton  with  her  daughter.  She  was  a  remarkable  woman  of  the  pioneer 
type — industrious,  frugal,  courageous  and  high-minded.  Her  life 
was  long,  useful,  beautiful.  She  was  a  faithful  member  of  the 
Christian  Church. 


Faculty  Notes  177 

Mrs.  Walker  died  at  her  home  in  Nineveh,  Indiana,  on  October  5. 
Her  funeral  was  held  from  the  Christian  Church,  services  being 
conducted  by  Rev.  G.  Frank  Powers,  '10,  on  the  7th.  Burial  was 
in  the  churchyard.  From  the  college  circle,  Mrs.  T.  C.  Howe,  Mrs. 
J.  W.  Putnam  and  seven  faculty  members  were  present. 

Dr.  Howard  E.  Jensen  and  Dean  Frederick  Kershner  attended 
the  National  Convention  of  the  Disciples  of  Christ  in  Oklahoma 
City.   Both  were  on  the  program. 

Dean  Putnam  delivered  an  address  at  the  Irvington  Methodist 
Church  on  October  25  upon  the  ''Problem  of  Youth  from  the  Col- 
lege Point  of  View."  His  talk  was  one  in  a  series  of  studies  on 
the  "Problems  of  Youth"  being  given  by  men  who  study  it  from 
different  points  of  view. 

A  daughter  came  into  the  home  of  Professor  and  Mrs.  Hugh  W. 
Ghormley  on  October  6  and  has  been  named  Mary  Margarita. 


PERSONAL  MENTION 

Mrs.  Noble  H.  Parker  (Mary  Clark,  '07)  is  spending  the  winter 
at  Miami  Beach,  Florida. 

Mrs.  Demarchus  C.  Brown  (Jessie  L.  Christian,  '97)  is  making 
an  extended  trip  in  Africa. 

Dr.  John  Nichols,   '90,  returned  to  old  scenes  for  the  Franklin- 
Butler  game  on  Home-coming  Day. 

Mrs.  Mary  Fletcher  Charlton,  '96,  and  daughter  Mary  Elisabeth 
were  recent  guests  in  Indianapolis. 

Miss  Katharine  Burton,   '18,  formerly  of  Martinsville,  is  dean 
of  girls  in  the  high  school  of  Marion,  Indiana. 

Allen  H.  Lloyd,  '12,  and  Mrs.  Lloyd  (Hazel  Collins,  '13)  have 
been  visiting  the  Pacific  Coast  from  Seattle  to  Victoria. 


178  Butler  Alumnal  Quarterly 

Kobert  M,  Mathews,  '06,  received  his  Doctorate  in  June  from 
the  University  of  Illinois  for  work  done  in  Mathematics. 

Dr.  and  Mrs.  Alexander  Jameson  (Julia  Graydon,  '90)  motored 
in  September  to  Maine  to  visit  Mr.  and  Mrs.  E.  F.  Tibbott. 

Miss  Mary  Graydon  Payne,  '23,  received  her  Master's  degree  in 
June  from  Cornell  University  for  work  done  in  the  biological 
department. 

It  was  very  pleasant  to  see  Rev.  Hally  Burkhart  of  Warren,  Ohio, 
about  the  College  halls  on  his  return  from  the  Oklahoma  convention. 

Dr.  Earl  S.  Roberts,  '17,  is  located  at  1003  Columbus  Memorial 
Building,  Chicago.  His  practice  is  limited  to  eye,  ear,  nose  and 
throat. 

David  Rioch,  '98,  and  Mrs.  Rioch,  after  a  two  years'  stay  in 
this  country,  have  started  on  their  return  to  their  missionary  field 
in  India. 

Mrs.  Charks  Stearns  (Tace  Meeker,  '90),  with  her  sister.  Miss 
Grace  Meeker,  and  daughter,  motored  from  Chicago  to  attend 
Home-coming  Day. 

Miss  Ruby  Perkins,  '20,  who  received  her  A.  M.  degree  from 
Radcliffe  College  last  June,  is  teaching  history  in  the  high  school 
of  Frankfort,  Indiana. 

Mrs.  Ralph  Stephenson  (Mildred  Hill,  '18)  has  returned  with 
her  chidren  from  Long  View,  Washington,  to  her  home  in  Irving- 
ton  for  a  month's  visit. 

Howard  Howe,  grandson  of  Mrs.  A.  M.  Atkinson,  '56,  who  grad- 
uated from  Yale  University  last  June  is  at  present  attending  the 
Johns  Hopkins  Medical  School. 

Will  D.  Howe,  '93,  of  New  York  City  represented  Butler  Uni- 
versity at  the  inauguration  of  President  John  Martin  Thomas  of 
Rutgers  College  on  October  14. 

Miss  Frances  Krieg,  '25,  is  traveling  in  Europe  with  her  parents. 
In  Rome  she  had  a  private  audience  with  the  Holy  Father  and 
also  heard  the  impressive  mass  of  the  Pope. 


Personal  Mention  179 

Mrs.  John  G,  Stevens  (Margaret  Davis,  ex- '14)  with  her  husband 
and  three  children,  after  seven  years  spent  in  Miraj,  India,  is  with 
her  parents  in  Indianapolis  on  a  year's  furlough. 

It  is  gratifying  to  learn  that  the  Butler  Drift  of  1925,  edited 
by  Thomas  F.  Smith,  was  awarded  first  place  in  the  annual  national 
contest  conducted  by  the  Art  Craft  Guild  of  Chicago. 

Miss  Grace  McGavran,  '19,  received  her  Master's  degree  for  work 
done  in  the  School  of  Eeligious  Education  of  Boston  University. 
"Art  in  Religious  Education"  was  the  theme  of  her  thesis. 

Miss  lone  Wilson,  '19,  was  one  of  the  pages  at  the  twenty-fifth 
anniversary  conference  of  the  Indiana  Society  of  the  Daughters 
of  the  American  Revolution,  held  in  Evansville,  October  13,  14,  15. 

The  Quarterly  offers  its  congratulations  to  the  Delta  Gamma 
Fraternity  in  its  installation  of  the  Alpha  Tau  chapter.  Open 
house  was  held  for  the  Chapter  at  the  Lincoln  Hotel  on  October  4. 

B.  Wallace  Lewis,  '15,  is  now  connected  with  The  Indianapolis 
News,  where  he  is  handling  the  promotion  work  for  the  circulation, 
advertising  and  editorial  departments.  ''It  is  not  journalism,"  he 
says,  "but  very  interesting." 

Henry  P.  Bruner,  '23,  son  of  Professor  Bruner,  graduated  in 
June  from  the  Harvard  School  of  Business  Administration  receiv- 
ing his  Master's  degree.  He  is  now  in  Chicago  with  the  Midland 
Utilities  Company  in  the  People's  Building. 

Requests  come  occasionally  for  "Butler  College  in  the  World 
War,"  the  latest  being  from  the  State  Library  of  Connecticut. 
There  still  remain  some  copies  which  alumni  may  have  upon  request 
to  the  College.  The  -National  War  Library  in  Paris  has  sent  for 
two  copies. 

Announcement  has  been  made  of  the  resignation  of  Charles  0. 
Lee,  '09,  as  superintendent  of  Flanner  House  and  associate  cam- 
paign secretary  of  the  Community  Fund.  Mr.  Lee  has  left  for 
Tulsa,  Oklahoma,  where  he  has  become  executive  secretary  of  the 
Tulsa  Community  Fund. 


180  Butler  Alumnal  Quarterly 

Roderick  A,  MacLeod,  '14,  Mrs.  MacLeod  and  three  children, 
after  one  year's  furlough  in  this  country  have  started  on  their 
return  trip  to  Tibet.  The  many  friends  of  the  MacLeods  regret 
to  see  them  depart  on  their  long  and  perilous  journey,  but  these 
courageous  souls  are  eager  to  resume  their  work  among  the  natives 
of  Tibet. 

Of  the  class  of  '25  the  following  received  scholarships  and  are 
pursuing  higher  studies:  George  A.  Schumacher,  English,  Univer- 
sity of  Virginia;  Louise  Padou,  Romance  Languages,  University 
of  Wisconsin;  Floyd  Hines,  Botany,  University  of  Washington; 
Marion  Pike,  Economics,  University  of  Oregon;  Victor  Twitty, 
Zoology,  Yale  University. 

The  executive  committee  of  the  Alumni  Association  is  composed 
of  the  officers  elected  in  June  by  members  present  at  the  annual 
meeting,  to  which  are  added  two  members  appointed,  one  each,  by 
the  president  of  the  College  and  by  the  president  of  the  Alumni 
Association.  The  present  appointees  are  Miss  Urith  Dailey,  '17,  and 
Miss  Esther  Fay  Shover.  '00. 

Dr.  Charles  Henry  Gilbert,  '79,  was  honored  last  May  with  a 
dinner  given  in  the  event  of  his  retirement  from  the  faculty  of 
Leland  Stanford  University  where  he  had  been  professor  of  zoology 
continuously  since  the  founding  of  that  institution  in  1891.  More 
than  two  hundred  of  Dr  Gilbert's  friends  and  associates  were 
present. 

Dr.  Anita  M.  Muehl,  ex-  '18,  specialist  in  psychiatry  with  special 
attention  directed  to  personality  disturbances  in  women  and  chil- 
dren, has  opened  an  office  at  512  Commonwealth  Building,  San 
Diego,  California.  Apropos  of  the  Loeb-Leopold  case.  Dr.  Muehl 
contributed  an  article  on  "Phantasy  Life  in  Superior  Children 
Produced  by  and  Producing  Conflicts"  to  a  recent  issue  of  the 
Journal  of  the  Indiana  State  Medical  Association. 

The  graves  of  Hilton  U.  Brown,  Jr.  ex-  '19,  and  Kenneth  V. 
Elliott,  ex- '20,  in  Romagne  cemetery,  were  visited  last  June  by 


Personal  Mention  181 

Miss  Graydon  and  her  sisters.  This  American  cemetery  where  lie 
14,004  American  boys  is  the  largest  of  France.  Here  on  the  gentle 
slope  of  a  hill  the  army  of  the  dead  is  spread  in  peaceful  and 
pathetic  array.  Over  them  wave  the  protecting  Stars  and  Stripes. 
No  sight  in  Europe  impressed  these  College  friends  more  than  the 
Battlefields  and  everywhere  the  War  Memorials. 

Robert  Frost  Daggett  announces  that  Thomas  E.  Hibben  is 
associated  with  him  for  the  practice  of  architecture  under  the  name 
of  Daggett  and  Hibben.  The  offices  of  the  firm  are  located  at  920 
Continental  Bank  Building.  Mr.  Hibben  is  devoting  himself  to  the 
plans  for  the  new  Butler  buildings.  He  has  recently  returned  from 
Europe  where  he  made  a  study  of  academic  buildings,  especially 
the  colleges  of  Oxford.  The  Quarterly  is  happy  to  present  as 
frontispiece  the  Laud  Window  of  St.  John's  College,  sketched 
while  he  was  there.  It  is  well  pleasing  that  Mr.  Hibben,  ancestrally 
associated  with  the  College,  has  been  chosen  with  his  skill,  art, 
affection,  to  plan  the  new  Butler  home. 

The  Quarterly  follows  with  great  interest  the  alumni  in  their 
accomplishment  in  the  world  of  art.  The  College  may  be  well 
pleased  with  the  attainment  of  some  of  her  sons  and  daughters, 
not  the  least  being  that  of  John  Stephenson,  ex-  '14.  Recently 
have  been  received  from  the  Silver,  Burdett  and  Company  in  ' '  The 
Pathway  to  Reading ' '  they  are  issuing  copies  of  The  Primer,  of  the 
First  Reader,  of  the  Second  Reader,  illustrated  by  Eunice  and 
John  Stephenson.  These  little  books  are  beautifully  made  and 
every  home  in  which  are  little  people  must  want  copies  of  them. 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Stephenson  are  living  at  Turn  of  the  River,  Stam- 
ford, Connecticut. 


182  Butler  Alumnal  Quarterly 

MARRIAGES 

Hunt-McElroy. — On  July  15  were  married  in  Ravinia,  Illinois, 
Mr.  Arthur  Chamberlain  Hunt  and  Miss  Georgia  Pearl  McElroy, 
ex-  '04.   Mr.  and  Mrs.  Hunt  are  at  home  in  Salem,  Massachusetts. 

Fisher-Keefauver. — In  August  were  married  in  Indianapolis 
Mr.  Lowell  Smith  Fisher  and  Miss  Ruby  May  Keefauver,  18.  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Fisher  are  at  home  in  Chicago. 

ScHAD-BuENTiNG. — On  August  4  were  married  in  Indianapolis 
Mr.  Ralph  L.  Schad,  '23,  and  Miss  Florence  Buenting,  '21.  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Schad  are  at  home  in  Indianapolis. 

Griggs-Gates. — On  August  25  were  married  in  Indianapolis  Mr. 
Haldane  Alfred  Griggs  and  Miss  Lydia  Cresswell  Bates,  '28.  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Griggs  are  at  home  in  Indianapolis. 

DuNKEL-OsBORN. — On  August  29  were  married  in  Indianapolis 
Mr.  Wilbur  D wight  Dunkel  and  Miss  Georgia  Kathryn  Osborn,  '25. 
Professor  and  Mrs.  Dunkel  are  at  home  in  Rochester,  New  York. 

Wamsley-Singleton. — On  September  4  were  married  in  Mar- 
tinsville, Indiana,  Mr.  John  Lewis  Wamsley,  ex-  '22,  and  Miss  Mary 
Singleton.     Mr.    and    Mrs.    Wamsley    are    at    home    in    Boston, 

Massachusetts. 

Ham-Ham. — On  September  5  were  married  in  Hollywood,  Flor- 
ida, Mr.  Scott  Ham,  '25,  and  Miss  June  Ham.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Ham 
are  at  home  in  Hollywood. 

Criswell-Pritchard. — On  September  12  were  married  in  Irving- 
ton  by  the  bride's  father,  Dr.  Harry  0.  Pritchard,  '02,  Mr.  Wilson 
D.  Criswell  and  Miss  Helen  Louise  Pritchard,  '26.  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Criswell  are  at  home  in  Cleveland,  Ohio. 

Richardson-Cavins. — On  September  16  were  married  in  Indian- 
apolis Mr.  Russell  I.  Richardson,  ex-  '23,  and  Miss  Catherine 
Cavins,  '25.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Richardson  are  at  home  in  Detroit, 
Michigan. 


Marriages  183 

Bates-Weir. — On  October  3  were  married  in  Indianapolis  Mr. 
Howard  Haywood  Bates,  and  Miss  Miriam  Somers  Weir,  '23.  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Bates  are  at  home  in  Indianapolis. 

Bastian-Stockdale. — On  October  10  were  married  in  Indian- 
apolis Mr.  Robert  E.  Bastian  and  Miss  Louise  Stockdale,  ex-  '23. 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Bastian  are  at  home  on  the  Allisonville  Road  near 
Indianapolis. 

Gill-Dailey. — On  October  24  were  married  in  Irvington  by  the 
bride 's  father,  Rev.  B.  F.  Dailey,  '87,  Mr.  George  Everett  Gill  and 
Miss  Urith  Catherine  Dailey,  '17.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Gill  are  at  home 
in  Irvington. 

BIRTHS 

Carpenter. — To  Mr.  James  Carpenter  and  Mrs.  Carpenter 
(Margaret  Higbee,  '23)  on  October  19,  in  Indianapolis,  a  daughter 
— Margaret  Jane. 

Clarke.— To  Dr.  Elton  R.  Clarke,  '15,  and  Mrs.  Clarke,  on 
August  27,  in  Burbank,  California,  a  daughter — Dorothy  Mae. 

GiLLMAN. — To  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Waide  Gillman  (Helen  Findley, 
'18)  on  September  29,  in  Indianapolis,  a  daughter — Mary  Anne. 

HiNMAN. — To  Mr.  Jack  J.  Hinman,  Jr.,  '11,  and  Mrs.  Hinman, 
on  October  7,  in  Iowa  City,  Iowa,  a  daughter — Frances  Ellen. 

McGavran. — To  Mr.  Donald  A.  McGavran,  '20,  and  Mrs.  Mc- 
Gavran  (Elma  Alexander,  '16)  on  June  6,  in  Naini  Tal,  India,  a 
daughter — Elizabeth  Jean. 

MoFFETT.— To  Mr.  -Lee  Moffett,  '12,  and  Mrs.  Moffett,  on  August 
29,  in  Bethesda,  Maryland,  a  son — Bertrand  Lee. 

Sourwine. — To  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Earl  Sourwine  (Eliza  Paramore, 
ex-  '18)  on  July  25,  in  Greencastle,  Indiana,  a  son — Earl  Philip. 

Ostrander. — To  Mr.  Joseph  Ostrander,  ex-  '15,  and  Mrs. 
Ostrander  (Guinevere  Ham,  ex-  '16)  in  Indianapolis,  on  October 
25,  a  daughter — Nancy. 


184  Butler  Alumnal  Quarterly 

DEATHS 

CoBBEY. — Charles  E.  Cobbey,  ex-  '08,  president  of  Cotner  Col- 
lege, Bethany,  Nebraska,  died  after  a  brief  illness,  on  September 
11.  He  was  buried  on  the  14th  from  the  family  home  in  Beatrice, 
Nebraska. 

Charles  E.  Cobbey  was  born  July  9,  1885,  at  Beatrice,  Nebraska, 
and  was  the  son  of  Judge  Joseph  E.  Cobbey.  At  the  age  of  seventeen 
he  went  to  Columbus,  Indiana,  to  assist  H.  H.  Harmon  who  was  pas- 
tor of  First  Church  there  and  ot  preach  in  a  small  mission  church. 
Dr.  Harmon  takes  great  joy  in  being  instrumental  in  getting  him 
into  the  ministry.  After  his  graduation  from  the  Columbus  High 
School,  he  attended  Butler  College  two  years  and  then  finished  at 
Cotner  where  he  was  granted  an  A.  B.  degree  in  1909. 

At  the  time  of  his  death  Dr.  Cobbey  was  regarded  as  one  of  the 
prominent  educators  in  his  section  of  the  country.  He  was  president 
of  the  College  Presidents  Club  of  the  State.  He  was  a  member  of  the 
Board  of  Education  of  the  Disciples  of  Christ  and  headed  one  of 
its  important  commissions. 

Messages  of  love,  regret  and  appreciation  for  this  good  man  and 
true  teacher  poured  in  from  all  parts  of  the  United  Sates.  Presi- 
dent Samuel  Avery,  Chancellor  of  the  University  of  Nebraska 
wired : 

''I  have  watched  with  admiration  the  progress  of  Cotner  under 
his  leadership.  Few  have  done  so  much  in  so  brief  a  time.  One 
feels  like  saying  that  he  had  only  just  begun ;  yet  one  may  rever- 
ently recall  that  a  ministry  of  only  three  years  once  became  the 
most  significant  influence  in  human  history." 

Harriman. — Job  Harriman,  a  student  of  the  College  in  the  early 
eighties,  died  on  October  26,  in  Sierra  Madre,  California. 

Mr.  Harriman  was  a  native  of  Indiana  and  lived  in  the  State 
until  mature  life.  After  leaving  Butler  College  he  studied  law  and 
was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  Colorado.  In  1900  he  went  to  California, 
where  his  home  has  since  been.  He  was  nationally  known  because 
of  his  participation  in  a  number  of  movements  for  social  betterment 


Deaths  185 

of  the  laboring  classes.  As  member  of  the  Socialist  party  he  had 
been  nominated  for  mayoralty  of  Los  Angeles,  for  vice-presidency 
of  the  Social  Democratic  party.  Though  polling  heavy  votes,  he 
had  failed  of  election. 

Mr,  Harriman  leaves  one  sister,  Mrs.  Clarinda  Harriman  Pier, 
'79,  wife  of  Eev.  Lewis  A.  Pier,  '82,  residing  in  California. 

Hoss. — Lora  C.  Hoss,  '81,  died  on  October  17  at  Battle  Creek, 
Michigan,  and  was  buried  in  Kokomo,  Indiana,  on  the  20th.  To 
Mrs.  Hoss  and  her  daughter  Mrs.  Pauline  Hoss  Elliott,  the  Quar- 
terly extends  its  deep  sympathy. 

Lora  Corydon  Hoss  was  born  in  Marion  county,  Indiana,  January 
16,  1859,  the  son  of  Peter  E.  and  Sarah  R.  Hoss.  His  mother  died 
when  he  was  less  than  two  years  of  age  and  he  was  reared  by  his 
father's  parents.  In  1865  they  moved  from  Marion  county  to  How- 
ard county,  locating  on  a  farm  near  Fairfield.  In  1874  Mr.  Hoss 
entered  Butler  College,  Irvington,  studying  there  three  years  after 
which  he  spent  a  year  in  Kansas,  assisting  a  cousin  with  whom  he 
resided,  breaking  prairie  sod  in  the  summer,  and  teaching  a  country 
school  in  the  winter.  He  returned  to  Indiana  in  1878,  re-entered 
Butler  College  and  graduated  from  here  in  1881. 

Mr.  Hoss  went  to  Kokomo  on  July  25,  1881,  acquiring  a  half 
interest  in  the  Kokomo  Gazette.  Within  a  year  or  two  he  became 
sole  owner  of  the  paper.  So  successful  was  the  paper  that  soon  he 
changed  it  from  a  weekly  to  a  daily.  In  1884  the  Gazette  was  con- 
solidated with  the  Tribune  under  the  name  of  Gazette-Tribune. 
In  1886  Mr.  Hoss  retired  from  the  newspaper  field. 

After  disposing  of  his  newspaper  interests,  Mr.  Hoss  engaged  in 
the  shoe  business  for  a  few  years  and  spent  seven  years  in  farming, 
having  a  pleasant  country  place  northwest  of  the  city.  Twenty- 
three  years  ago  he  became  connected  with  the  Opalescent  Glass 
Company  of  which  company  he  was  president. 

Mr.  Hoss  was  a  member  of  the  Mp,in  Street  Christian  church  and 
for  many  years  was  superintendent  of  the  Sunday  School.  Next  to 
his  home  and  his  church,  his  devotion  was  for  his  alma  mater, 
Butler  College.    In  college  he  was  identified  with  all  student  ac- 


186  Butler  Alumnal  Quarterly 

tivities.  He  was  a  member  of  the  literary  societies  flourishing  in 
his  day,  and  was  a  membor  of  the  Phi  Delta  Theta  fraternity.  His 
daughter,  who  followed  in  his  footsteps  at  Butler,  was  graduated 
there  in  1914.  He  contributed  generously  to  every  appeal  from 
college  associates  and  recently  gave  $25,000  to  the  college  endow- 
ment fund. 

Mr.  Hoss  was  a  man  of  sterling  qualities,  highly  regarded  in 
business,  banking  and  charitable  circles.  He  was  a  director  in  two 
local  banking  institutions,  the  Farmers'  Trust  Company  and  the 
Citizens  National  Bank.  He  was  a  student  of  agriculture  and  horti- 
culture, a  good  practical  farmer,  and  diversified  in  all  his  interests. 
He  was  possessed  of  the  many  fine  qualities  which  make  for  citizen- 
ship in  its  truest  and  best  sense.  He  ever  had  at  heart  the  welfare 
of  the  community  and  gave  generously  of  his  time  and  energy  for 
the  betterment  of  humanity.  All  who  knew  him  admired  him  for 
his  nobility  of  character,  his  modesty  of  bearing  and  his  fine  in- 
tellectual powers. 

Sharritt. — Lucile  Y.  Sharritt,  '16,  died  at  the  Christian  Hos- 
pital, Indianapolis,  on  August  6  and  was  buried  from  her  home  on 
Emerson  Avenue  in  Memorial  Park  cemeterj\ 

Miss  Sharritt  was  born  in  Iowa  thirty  years  ago,  and  moved  with 
her  family  to  Irvington  at  an  early  age.  Her  mother  died  several 
years  ago,  and  she  and  her  father  were  the  only  surviving  members 
of  the  family. 

Miss  Sharritt  was  one  of  the  leaders  of  her  class  in  college  in 
scholarship  and  in  student  activities.  Always  interested  in  her 
work  and  her  play  she  was  at  times  tempted  to  go  beyond  her 
strength.  She  was  unfailingly  prepared  with  her  class  work.  She 
loved  her  athletics,  especially  tennis  and  golf.  She  was  cheerful, 
enthusiastic,  conscientious,  well-equipped  for  a  long  and  useful 
life.  In  the  Spring  she  was  stricken  with  influenza,  which  developed 
into  pneumonia.  A  nine-weeks'  fight  followed,  but  she  failed  to 
rally,  due  probably  to  reduction  of  vigor  by  her  arduous  public 
school  duties. 


Our  Correspondence  187 

OUR  CORRESPONDENCE 

Dr.  Jonas  Stewart,  September  24,  1925,  Anderson,  Indiana: 
' '  In  answer  to  your  letter  will  say  that  I  was  a  student  in  the  old 
Northwestern  Christian  University,  entering  it  early  in  March, 
1862,  for  the  Spring  term)  of  that  year.  I  boarded  in  the  family 
of  Philip  A.  Brown,  who  was  the  son  of  John  Brown,  who  was  one 
of  the  very  first  preachers  I  heard  in  my  childhood,  but  I  remember 
him  distinctly.  Soon  after  the  Spring  term,  August  28,  1862,  I 
left  to  enlist  in  the  Civil  War — Company  E,  44th  Ohio  Infantry. 
In  January  1864,  this  Regiment  re-enlisted  under  the  Veteran  Act 
and  was  afterwards  known  as  the  8th  Ohio  Veteran  Volunteer 
Cavalry.  I  remained  with  it  until  the  close  of  the  War.  I  was 
discharged  on  May  30,  1865,  by  reason  of  the  General  Order  of 
War  Department  to  discharge  all  who  had  less  than  a  year  to 
serve.   I  served  two  years,  nine  months  and  two  days. 

After  returning  from  the  War,  I  came  back  to  the  same  dear 
old  College  in  September,  1865,  and  spent  one  more  year,  finishing 
all  the  natural  sciences  as  then  taught  there  under  dear  old  Pro- 
fessor R.  T.  Brown,  and  mathematics  through  trigonometry  under 
Professor  G.  W.  Hoss.  I  still  think  "there  were  giants  in  those 
days. ' ' 

On  November  26,  1865,  I  was  baptized  in  the  baptistery  of  the 
little  old  Central  Christian  Church  at  the  corner  of  Delaware  and 
Ohio  streets,  by  the  then  pastor  Otis  A.  Burgess,  another  of  God's 
great  and  good  men.  But  at  the  end  of  this  College  year  my  money 
was  all  gone,  and  there  was  no  one  upon  whom  I  could  call,  my 
father  having  died  before  I  was  three  years  of  age.  So  I  am  not 
an  alumnus,  much  to  my  regret.  I  look  back  upon  the  time  spent 
in  the  old  College  up  on  College  Avenue  (then  far  out  of  the  city) 
as  the  happiest  days  "of  my  life. 

So  I  quit,  studied  medicine,  graduated  at  the  Long  Island  Col- 
lege Hospital,  New  York,  in  1870;  but  this  is  another  story,  in 
which  you  will  probably  have  not  interest." 

Virginia  W.  Young,  '21,  September  13,  1925,  Jubbulpore,  India : 
"The  Quarterly  comes.   I  read  it  from  cover  to  cover.   The  Com- 


188  Butler  Alumnal  Quarterly 

mencement  number  arrived  a  few  weeks  ago  and  I  spent  an  after- 
noon going  through  it.  I  do  not  see  how  you  gather  so  much  news 
about  so  many  people.  It  is  so  good  that  I  wish  it  were  a  monthly 
publication  instead  of  a  quarterly. 

Recently,  during  the  meetings  of  the  Mid-India  Christian  Coun- 
cil, all  of  the  Butlerites  who  are  at  present  in  our  Mission  were 
here  in  Jubbulpore,  the  McGavrans  and  Annie  Mullin.  The  Hills 
are  in  America  on  furlough,  and  the  Riochs  have  not  yet  returned 
to  India.  They  will  be  sailing  sometime  the  latter  part  of  October, 
I  suspect.  Juanita  Ragsdale  is  to  come  to  India  this  fall,  also,  but 
is  going  to  be  working  in  Madura,  under  the  Congregational  Board. 

With  a  party  of  missionaries  I  had  a  very  enjoyable  stay  in 
Darjeeling  during  May  and  June.  We  new  folks  had  to  get  away 
during  the  hot  weather,  and  some  of  the  others  arranged  their 
vacations  for  the  same  time,  to  spend  them  with  us.  There  was 
only  one  drawback  and  that  was  the  fact  that  it  rained  nearly 
every  day.  Usually,  though,  a  part  of  each  day  was  clear,  so  we 
could  go  down  to  the  bazaar  or  for  a  hike  in  the  mountains.  The 
scenery  was  beautiful,  especially  when  the  rain  cleared  away  and 
we  could  see  the  snow-eovered  range.  I  have  never  seen  anything 
quite  so  majestic.  One  of  the  peaks  is  Kinchinjunga,  over  28,000 
feet  high  and  second  only  to  Mt.  Everest.  It  is  forty-five  miles 
from  Darjeeling,  but  its  extreme  height  makes  it  look  close.  We 
went  twice  to  Tiger  Hill,  seven  miles  from  Darjeeling,  for  a  view 
of  Mt,  Everest  by  sunrise,  but  it  was  always  too  cloudy.  It  is  only 
a  small  view  at  best,  for  Everest  is  over  one  hundred  miles  away ; 
but  even  a  small  view  is  enough  to  lure  many  people  out  of  bed  at 
1 :30  or  2 :00  a.  m.  to  make  the  journey.  Some  go  on  horseback, 
some  in  rickshas,  and  many  on  foot. 

We  went  down  the  side  of  the  mountain  one  day  to  visit  a  tea 
estate,  and  had  the  privilege  of  seeing  the  whole  process  of  prep- 
aration of  the  tea,  from  the  time  the  green  leaves  were  brought  in 
in  baskets  on  the  backs  of  coolies  until  they  were  put  in  boxes  for 
export.  At  this  particular  place,  they  ship  out  160,000  pounds  of 
tea  a  year,  all  of  which  is  sent  to  England  for  the  purpose  of  mak- 
ing the  various  blends  which  are  sold  there. 


Our  Correspondence  189 

On  another  day  we  walked  four  miles  to  Ghum  to  see  the  Tibetan 
monastery.  While  there  we  saw  the  temple,  with  its  huge  idol  and 
the  smaller  figures,  and  the  hideous  pictures  which  were  painted 
on  the  walls  themselves.  Then  we  saw  an  old  blind  man  sitting  in 
the  comer  of  a  dark  and  stuffy  room,  monotonously  pulling  a  rope, 
which  caused  a  large  cylindrical  prayer  wheel  to  revolve.  The 
wheel  was  so  large  that  it  reached  nearly  to  the  ceiling,  and  inside 
of  it  were  prayers  written  on  paper.  Every  time  the  wheel  turned 
round,  the  prayers  were  supposed  to  be  repeated. 

I  am  still  working  on  the  language,  but  after  the  next  examina- 
tion, which  is  to  come  in  a  few  weeks,  I  hope  to  get  into  full-time 
work.    There  are  several  possibilities. 

Love  to  my  Butler  friends. 


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CONTENTS 

Butler  College  Hymn Alice  Bidwell  Wesenberg 

Anthony  Trollope Frederick  Rollin  Kautz 

Graduate  Study  as  Related  to  Butler  University 

CoRiNNE  Welling 

Growing  Interest  in  Ancient  Languages Henry  M.  Gelston 

Publications  Reviewed H.  E.  Jensen  and  E.  Jordan 

College  News — 

Alumni  Activities 

At  the  City  Office 

Athletics 

Luncheon  of  Butler  Club  in  Chicago 

Scholastic  Statistics 

Liberi 

Phi  Kappa  Phi 

The  Second  Hoosier  Salon  at  Chicago 

The  Butler  Drift 

Faculty  Notes 

Personal  Mention 

Marriages 

Births 

Deaths 

Our  Correspondence 


BUTLER  COLLEGE  HYMN 

(To  he  sung  to  mv^ic  of  Sailor's  Evening  Hymn.  Boston  Melodeon) 


To  Alma  Mater's  God 
We  lift  our  hymn  of  praise 
For  constant  blessings 
Throughout  our  college  days. 
Thou,  Wisdom,  still  inspire 
Young  minds  to  seek  for  Thee ; 
Set  our  hearts  on  fire 

With  Charity; 
Thou  who  art  Power  divine, 
Grant  strength  for  calm  control, 
Cleanse  us  from  all  impure  in  body,  in  mind,  and  soul. 

God  of  our  College. 
0  guide  our  learning  youth ; 
Bless  Alma  Mater, 

Spirit  of  Truth ! 


To  every  nation's  God 
We  lift  our  earnest  prayer 
For  continued  blessings. 
Enlightenment  and  care. 
Thou,  who  art  limitless, 
Keep  us  from  narrow  mind; 
Give  our  hearts  friendliness 

To  all  mankind. 
Thou,  marking  sparrow's  fall. 
Help  us  to  sympathize; 
May  we  be  just  to  all,  courageous,  devoted,  wise. 

God  of  our  College, 
0  guide  our  learning  youth ; 
Bless  Alma  Mater, 

Spirit  of  Truth ! 

— Alice  Bidwell  Wesenherg. 


BU1 LER  ALUMNAL  QUARTERLY 

Vol.  XIV  JANUARY,  1926  No.  4 


ANTHONY  TROLLOPE* 

By  Frederick  Rollin  Kautz,  '87 

When  Anthony  Trollope  was  a  lad  in  Harrow,  he  told  his  school 
fellows  that  when  William  the  Conqueror  arrived  in  England 
one  of  his  followers  killed  in  hunt  three  wolves.  The  king  dubbed 
him  therefor  "Troisloups".  This  appellation  was  in  time  changed 
until  it  reached  the  form  it  now  bears — "Trollope". 

The  biographers  cast  some  doubt  on  the  veracity  of  this  tale 
and  it  seems  likely  that  the  story  has  little  value  except  as  a  bit 
of  entertainment  for  a  group  of  school  boys  and  as  an  indication 
of  a  talent  for  invention  which  was  to  make  its  author  one  of 
the  foremost  writers  of  fiction  at  a  period  in  which  there  were 
many. 

Some  one  has  said  that  the  biographer  should  begin  his  narrative 
centuries  before  the  generation  of  his  subject.  Without  giving 
much  credence  to  the  tale  of  Troisloups,  it  might  be  remembered 
that  in  the  fifteenth  century  Andrew  Trollope  was  knighted.  In 
the  nineteenth,  Sir  John  Trollope  was  a  magnate  in  Lincolnshire, 
a  cousin  to  the  Anthony  of  our  narrative,  their  grandfather  having 
been  Sir  Thomas  Trollope.  Anthony  Trollope 's  father  was  Thomas 
Anthony  Trollope  and  his  mother  was  Frances  Milton,  a  contem- 
porary and  member  of  the  household  of  Jane  Austen. 

It  is  interesting  to  note  the  association  of  Trollope 's  mother  and 
Jane  Austen;  the  latter  was  the  first  great  exponent  of  the  school 
of  realism — "the  divine  Jane,"  Mr.  Howells  once  called  her.  Mrs. 
Trollope  was  herself  a  voluminous  writer  of  fiction  and  travel, 
never  approaching  the  greatness  of  Miss  Austen,  but  writing  for 


•  Abridged  from  k   paper  written   for   The  Indianapolis   Literary   Club. 


202  Butler  Alumnal  Quarterly 

a  more  popular  public  and  for  many  years  for  the  support  of  her. 
fainily. 

Thomas  Anthony  Trollope  was  one  of  those  men  who  think 
themselves  pursued  by  misfortune,  but  who  in  reality  are  the 
authors  of  their  own  calamities.  He  was  an  able  barrister  and 
entered  his  career  with  brightest  prospects,  but  found  himself 
after  a  short  period  without  briefs.  Then  followed  a  period  of 
gentleman-farming,  equally  unsuccessful ;  and  finally  a  flight  from 
creditors  to  Bruges.  Here  the  young  Anthony  was  for  a  time 
tutor  in  a  private  school.  Later,  he  obtained  in  London  a  post 
office  appointment.  Prior  to  this  time,  however,  the  Trollope  fam- 
ily had  become  interested  in  the  movement  of  Robert  Owen  to 
establish  a  communistic  settlement  on  the  banks  of  the  Wabash 
River  in  the  state  of  Indiana  in  the  United  States. 

Now,  during  years  of  comparative  prosperity,  the  Trollope  fam- 
ily made  many  trips  to  France  and  upon  one  of  these  visits  young 
Anthony  formed  a  friendship  with  General  LaFayette.  His  talk 
of  America  and  the  Owen  movement  turned  the  thoughts  of  the 
TroUopes  to  the  United  States  as  a  possible  place  in  which  to 
reclaim  the  family  fortunes.  One  of  the  family  conceived  the  idea 
of  opening  a  shop  in  an  inland  city  where  might  be  sold  some  of 
the  refinements  not  familiar  to  the  new  world.  There  was  to  be, 
also,  in  connection  with  the  shop  an  assembly  room  where  celebri- 
ties might  meet,  thereby  combining  shop  and  salon.  Cincinnati 
was  the  city  chosen  for  the  experiment. 

The  shop  was  soon  a  failure,  but  the  enterprise  had  one  favorable 
result — it  gave  Mrs.  Trollope  material  for  a  book  on  Domestic 
Manners  of  the  Americans,  published  soon  after  the  family's  re- 
turn to  Europe.  This  volume  was  followed  shortly  with  French 
Traits.  From  that  time  until  her  death  twenty-four  years  later 
Mrs.  Trollope  published  many  works  of  fiction  and  travel. 

The  success  of  his  mother  encouraged  and  inspired  young  An- 
thony to  a  literary  career.  After  his  experience  in  the  private 
school  at  Bruges  and  in  the  London  post  office,  he  obtained  a  more 
important  appointment  as  post  office  director  for  Ireland.    It  was 


Anthony  Trollope  203 

there  that  he  obtained  the  materials  for  his  first  two  novels,  The 
McDernwtts  of  Bally coran  and  TJie  Kelleys  and  the  O'Kelleys. 
Later  he  wrote  The  Three  Clerks  based  on  his  earlier  London  ex- 
periences. A  recent  biographer  instances  La  Vendee  as  having 
been  written  earlier  than  the  above,  but  published  later,  and  men- 
tions also  Niim  Balatka  and  Linda  Tressell  as  having  appeared 
earlier  than  any  in  Blactwood 's  Magazine  and  published  anony- 
mously. This  I  find  to  be  an  error,  as  Mr.  Trollope  gives  in 
the  Autobiography  the  dates  as  '66  and  '67.  These  three  were 
serious  historical  romances  of  no  mean  merit.  Once,  when  asked 
why  he  did  not  do  more  in  this  same  vein,  he  frankly  replied  that 
they  were  not  what  his  public  wanted. 

Trollope  was  the  most  prolific  writer  of  all  the  English  novelists 
in  his  own  class — too  prolific  certainly;  and  yet,  if  his  admirers 
should  vote  on  what  they  w^ould  have  had  him  leave  unwritten,  there 
would  have  been,  I  fancy,  much  difference  of  opinion.  It  has  been 
said  that  the  Autobiography  ought  never  to  have  been  written,  for 
in  it  he  says — even  boasts — that  he  wrote  without  effort  so  many 
words  before  breakfast,  so  much  manuscript  in  three  hours,  et 
cetera. 

A  popular  author  once  said  to  me  that  he  wrote  certain  novels 
called  "trivial"  by  his  critics  to  acquire  a  facility  of  expression. 
Unfortunately,  facility  does  not  always  travel  hand  in  hand  with 
felicity  and  we  could  wish  that  having  used  such  stories  for  such 
purpose  the  stories  might  not  have  been  given  to  the  world  because 
they  so  much  lower  the  average  of  the  author's  output.  But  when 
publishers  are  clamoring  for  copy,  perhaps  it  is  as  unreasonable 
to  expect  such  restraint  on  the  part  of  an  author  as  to  expect  a 
merchant  to  sell  only  that  merchandise  which  appeals  to  his  own 
taste. 

In  Mr.  Trollope 's  case,  his  facility  for  expression  and  the  fact 
that  he  himself  alluded  to  it,  has  had  the  effect  of  sometimes 
causing  his  readers  to  overlook  his  wonderful  art,  just  as  at  a 
play   the   audience   does   not   often   remark   that   the   play   goes 


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smoothly;  but  if  an  actor  is  prompted,  if  one  masks  another,  if  a 
wrong  curtain  cue  is  given,  these  things  are  noticed. 

Trollope  's  plots  are  of  the  slightest :  generally,  two  young  women 
and  one  lover,  or  two  lovers  and  one  young  woman — these  in  the 
middle  or  upper  classes  with  sometimes  a  sub-plot  in  the  servants' 
haD.  These  principal  characters  and  those  whom  they  touch  in 
their  daily  lives — that's  all,  generally;  but  the  story  is  done  with 
such  faithfulness,  such  attention  to  minutiae,  such  tenderness  and 
sympathy  that  the  reader's  interest  is  kept  throughout  the  long 
length  of  his  story. 

He  has  acquired  his  art,  combined  facility  with  felicity,  and  his 
reader  never  tires.  He  has  little  of  the  irony  of  Thackeray,  none 
of  the  propaganda  of  Dickens,  scarcely  any  of  George  Eliot's 
philosophy,  certainly  none  of  the  poetry  of  Turgenieff ;  yet  as  a 
narrator  of  stories  of  everyday  life,  as  a  realist  in  the  best  sense 
of  that  expression,  he  was  the  master  of  them  all.  One  story, 
perhaps,  may  be  excepted — George  Eliot's  Middleniarch,  which 
I  have  long  remembered  as  presenting  the  largest  canvas,  save 
that  of  Tolstoi's  War  and  Peace,  of  any  novel  I  have  yet  read. 
It  is  a  stupendous  work,  attention  is  given  to  every  detail  of  draw- 
ing and  color,  but  there  is  no  overcrowding  and  no  exaggeration. 
It  delights  the  mind  as  a  perfect  landscape  delights  the  eye. 

I  have  recently  come  across  a  volume  of  personal  reminiscences 
of  this  period  in  which  a  mutual  friend  of  George  Eliot  and  An- 
thony Trollope — a  Mr.  Escott,  frequently  at  the  Lewes'  house 
with  Mr.  Trollope,  who  says  that  George  Eliot  was  often  discour- 
aged with  Middleniarcli  and  thought  her  undertaking  too  great  for 
her  powers,  and  that  she  was  on  the  point  of  giving  it  up  when 
Trollope  urged  her  not  only  to  go  on  with  the  story,  but  gave 
advice  which  she  gladly  followed.  This  bit  of  evidence  furnishes 
pleasure  to  the  Trollope  devotee. 

One  is  impressed  with  the  great  kindness  of  the  novelist.  It 
is  apparent  on  every  page  he  has  written.  The  damsel  in  distress 
always  appeals  to  him.  He  is  unfailingly  sympathetic  to  injustice. 
In  this  he  reflects  his  own  character.     For  instance:    x\n  aspiring 


Anthony  Trollope  205 

young  author  went  to  him  for  advice.  ' '  Shall  I  write  such  and  such 
a  story?"  says  the  young  person.  His  ans^-er  was  to  ask  of  the 
author  whether  he  thought  about  the  story  all  day ;  whether,  when 
he  walked,  the  characters  were  in  his  mind;  whether  his  whole 
attention,  when  not  perforce  given  to  other  things,  was  devoted  to 
them  and  what  might  befall  them.  He  said  this  was^  the  only 
waj^  characters  could  be  made  to  live  in  the  pages  of  a  novel,  and 
this  was  his  own  method.  In  one  respect  his  personal  kindness 
differed  from  and  excelled  that  of  his  characters.  In  his  stories 
he  never  fails  to  punish  the  wrong-doer,  but  not  so  outside  the 
novel,  for  on  one  occasion  somebody  laid  claim  to  the  authorship 
of  one  of  his  anonymously  published  novels.  The  imposition  was 
soon  discovered  and  in  relating  the  incident  to  an  intimate  friend 
who  asked  him  his  feeling  about  it,  he  said  quite  simply  that  his 
chief  sensation  was  of  pity  for  the  culprit.  Such  a  misdemeanor 
on  the  part  of  one  of  his  characters  would  have  been  quite  properly 
punished. 

Anthony  Trollope  was  thirty-two  when  the  first  of  his  Irish 
novels  was  published.  It  may  be  called  a  failure,  but  while  the 
critics  would  have  none  of  it,  as  one  biographer  points  out,  it — 
like  Disraeli's  maiden  speech,  also  a  failure — portended  great 
things  for  its  author.  Mr.  Eseott  says  that  The  Dennotts  in  its 
closing  chapters  is  "not  without  the  strength  and  pathos  of  Dickens 
in  Oliver  Twist  and  at  some  points  touches  a  Shakespearean  level. ' ' 

To  attempt  to  comment  on  all  of  Trollope 's  novels  would  be  to 
extend  this  article  beyond  the  proper  limits.  I  must  mention,  how- 
ever, that  his  tale  of  the  French  Revolution — La  Vendee  in  1850 — 
antedated  both  Lytton's  Zanoni  and  Dickens'  Tale  of  Two  Cities. 
Then,  after  an  interval  of  five  years,  came  The  Warden,  thought 
by  many  to  be  his  best  single  work.  It  is  the  first  of  the  great 
Barsetshire  novels,  six  in  number,  written  over  a  period  of  twelve 
years,  with  frequent  interruptions,  during  which  other  stories 
appeared,  the  last  one  —  The  Last  Chronicle  of  Barset  —  having 
appeared  in  1865.  The  intervening  stories  were :  Barchester  Tow- 
ers, Dr.  Thorn,  The  Small  House  at  Allington,  Framley  Parsonage. 


206  Butler  Alumnal  Quarterly 

Anthony  Trollope  first  came  to  America  in  1861.  It  was  the 
avowed  purpose  of  this  visit  to  find  material  for  a  book  to  be 
called  A  History  of  North  America  and  it  was  so  called,  but  a 
fitter  title  might  have  been  chosen,  for  he  gives  much  more  atten- 
tion to  the  manners  and  customs  of  our  people  and  to  our  institu- 
tions than  he  does  to  the  historical  events  which  led  to  the  coun- 
try's development. 

The  period  following  Trollope 's  return  from  America  marks  his 
greatest  literary  activity.  The  Parliamentary  Series  was  published 
during  this  time.  These,  as  has  been  said,  were  six  in  number, 
the  most  notable  being,  perhaps,  Can  You  Forgive  Her  and 
Phineas  Finn,  with  its  sequel  Pliineas  Redux.  In  Phineas  Finn 
occurred  the  great  trial  scene  which  is  said  to  be  a  masterpiece 
from  the  legal  point  of  view  and  perhaps  excels  the  also  great 
trial  scene  of  Orley  Farm.  The  latter  story  was  of  a  group  called 
the  Manor  House  Series  of  which  Orley  Farm  is  the  best  known. 

Orley  Farm  was  my  own  introduction  to  Trollope,  and  I  am 
of  the  opinion  that  one  could  not  make  a  more  auspicious  begin- 
ning, if  one  has  a  liking  for  the  somewhat  slow-moving,  analytical, 
realistic  story ;  but  I  warn  such  an  one  that  he  is  probably  setting 
out  on  a  long  continued,  though  delightful  literary  debauch  in 
comparison  to  which  the  cross-word  puzzle  is  nil.  The  time  just 
prior  to  the  American  visit  and  the  two  years  following  it,  until 
Thackeray's  death,  marks  a  period  of  association  between  these 
two  on  the  Cornhill  Magazine.  Indeed,  the  triangular  friend- 
ship of  Thackeray,  Dickens  and  Trollope  is  quite  remarkable  and 
very  pleasing  to  contemplate,  considering  that  no  one  of  these 
authors  is  mentioned  in  the  way  of  literary  criticism  without  com- 
parison being  made  with  the  other  two.  They  themselves  must 
have  been  conscious  of  their  similarities  and  dissimilarities;  but  it 
has  not  been  mentioned  that  the  style  of  one  had  influence  upon 
that  of  another.  This  estimate  somewhere  met  my  eye:  "Thack- 
eray, though  he  describes  certain  sections  of  the  upper  classes  with 
far  more  delicacy  than  Trollope  ever  reached,  did  not  go  beyond 
these  sections.     Dickens,  with  all  of  his  great  and  splendid  gifts, 


Anthony  Trollope  207 

did  not  describe  the  society  he  lived  in.  His  personages  were  too 
startling  to  speak  and  act  and  think  like  the  men  and  women  of 
the  19th  century."  To  put  it  briefly,  let  me  say  that  Thackeray 
reached  higher  planes  than  did  Trollope  but  did  not  maintain  so 
high  an  average  level,  and  that  Dickens  would  give  a  foreigner  no 
correct  appreciation  or  understanding  of  English  life. 

Trollope,  like  Thackeray,  tried  for  a  seat  in  Parliament,  but  like 
Thackeray,  he  failed.  Dickens  was  urged  to  try,  but  refused. 
Thackeray  wrote  during  his  canvass  to  Dickens,  ''Not  more  than 
four  per  cent  of  the  people  here  (he  was  standing  for  the  Oxford 
district)  I  have  found  out  have  ever  heard  of  my  writings.  Perhaps 
as  many  as  six  per  cent  know  yours,  so  it  will  be  a  great  help  if 
.you  will  come  and  speak  for  me."  Trollope  failed,  but  this  experi- 
ence, like  everything  else  he  did,  furnished  him  copy. 

I  pass  over  much  interesting  material  of  this  period,  do  not  even 
mention  the  title  of  many  books  written  between  1862  and  1882. 

Trollope  had  many  literary  associates;  as  how,  indeed,  could  he 
have  helped  having?  These  associations  could  form  an  interesting 
chapter.  Besides  those  already  mentioned,  were  Kingsley.  Wilkie 
Collins,  Meredith  and  Henry  James,  to  mention  only  a  few  of 
the  novelists;  while  his  long  association  with  J.  E.  Millais,  the 
artist  and  his  own  illustrator  and  friend,  and  the  devotion  of  the 
Brownings  to  him  from  his  first  efforts,  are  so  engaging  as  to  be 
passed  with  much  regret. 

Trollope  died  in  1882  and  sleeps  in  Kensal  Green,  near  Thack- 
eray. He  left  one  unfinished  novel.  The  Land  Leaguers.  Thack- 
eray left  Denis  Duval  and  Dickens,  Edwin  Drood.  Is  it  not  strange  ? 

The  contemplation  of  his  death  causes  one  to  reflect  on  the 
literary  glory  of  the  period  of  which  this  event  was  about  the  close. 
In  America  Hawthorne  wrote  The  Scarlet  Letter  about  the  time 
The  Warden  was  published  in  England.  Oliver  Wendell  Holmes' 
dates  are  1809  to  1894.  Poe  was  born  in  the  same  year  as  Holmes 
but  lived  only  until  '49.  This  was  the  period  in  which  Harriet 
Beecher  Stowe  wrote  Uncle  Tom's  Cabin,  Louisa  M.  Alcott  was 
writing  her  children's  stories,  Donald  0.  Mitchell  published  Bev- 


208  Butler  Alumnal  Quarterly 

eries  of  a  Bachelor,  Aldrich  The  Stoi-y  of  a  Bad  Boy,  and  Howells 
was  coining  into  his  own  as  our  American  realist.  In  France,  in 
the  early  part  of  the  nineteenth  century  Balzac  wrote  and  influ- 
enced French  literature.  A  little  later  George  Sand,  Flaubert, 
Daudet,  Zola  and  Maupassant  delighted  the  world  with  their  mas- 
terpieces. 

In  Russia  Tolstoi  was  writing  Anna  Karervina  and  his  great  epic 
War  and  Peace.  Dostoyeffski  was  writing  his  powerful  Crime  and 
Punishment,  and  other  only  slightly  lesser  work — and  Turgenieff, 
the  great  prose  poet,  was  attracting  the  attention  of  readers  every- 
where.   Ah,  the  charm  that  was  Turgenieff's! 

The  English  contemporaries  have  been  several  times  referred  to, 
and  what  memories  they  evoke !  Thackeray — Becky  Sharp,  Colonel 
Newcomb,  Henry  Esmond,  Beatrix,  Laura,  Pendennis.  George 
Eliot — Daniel  Deronda  and  Gwendolen,  Adam  Bede,  Romola  and 
Savonarola.  And  Dickens — Sidney  Carton  and  The  Little  Dress- 
maker, Mr.  Micawber,  Uriah  Heep,  Little  Nell,  Tiny  Tim.  Tiny 
Tim — how  the  words  of  Riley  come  back : 

"  'God  bless  us  every  one',  prayed  Tiny  Tim, 
Crippled  and  dwarfed  of  body, 
Yet  so  tall  of  soul  we  tiptoe  earth 
To  look  on  him — high  towering  over  all." 

One  may  naturally  ask,  "Why  did  Trollope  find  so  little  popu- 
larity in  America?  Why,  during  the  forty  years  that  elapsed  be- 
tween his  beginnings  as  an  author  and  the  passage  of  the  inter- 
national copyright  law,  were  there  no  pirated  editions  of  his  works 
in  America  ?  Why  was  not  interest  aroused  ?  Other  novels  of  his 
period  were  freely  printed  in  this  country,  those  of  Dickens,  Thack- 
eray, Eliot,  and  a  host  of  others.  Ben-Hur  was  printed  in  England 
and  the  Colonies.  Longmans,  Green  and  Company  published 
Riley's  Old  Fashioned  Roses  in  England.  When  James  Bryce's 
The  American  Commonwealth  was  published,  the  United  States  was 
flooded  with  pirated  editions.    What  of  Trollope?" 

There  seem  two  things  which  contribute  to  the  answer  of  this 
question.    One  is  that  he  was  so  essentially"  English — so  much  more 


Anthony  Trollope  209 

English  than  any  of  his  English  contemporaries.  I  can  not  imag- 
ine anybody  not  already  versed  in  English  fiction  reading  Trollope. 
You  may  say  that  character  is  universal  and  that  what  would  be 
true  of  characters  in  England  would  be  true  elsewhere.  This  state- 
ment may  be  correct  so  far  as  it  goes,  but  people's  reactions  to  cir- 
cumstances and  to  other  people  are  largely  the  result  of  manners 
and  customs  and  traditions.  It  would  seem  that  the  lover  of  Trol- 
lope must  have  known  Jane  Austen  and  Thackeray  and  Dickens, 
at  least.  Richardson  and  the  Brontes  and  Disraeli  would  have 
helped.  The  ability  "to  get  into  the  skin  of  the  character"  (to 
borrow  an  expression  from  the  theater)  is  the  great  wonder  of 
Trollope.  He  depicted  the  parliamentarian  as  though  he  had  ex- 
perienced his  inmost  thoughts  and  understood  all  his  springs  of 
action,  and  had  sat  in  his  seat.  He  wrote  of  the  cathedral  close  as 
if  he  had  lived  all  his  life  in  its  confines,  and  neither  any  member 
of  the  Parliament  nor  any  member  of  the  clergy  has  successfully 
maintained  that  his  portraiture  was  ever  incorrect  or  exaggerated. 
In  the  purely  social  novels  on  the  other  hand,  one  feels  that  the 
delicate  maiden,  the  country  squire,  the  robust  fox  follower,  the 
villain  of  the  piece,  the  town  roysterer,  are  all  portrayed  with  the 
same  sympathy  and  understanding  and  the  same  fidelity  to  truth 
with  a  perfectly  uncanny  knowledge  of  what  every  character  would 
do  under  a  given  set  of  circumstances — and  this  was  his  art,  an  art 
which,  when  once  perfected,  was  applicable  to  every  set  of  circum- 
stances, and  this  fact  explains  at  once  his  wonderful  fecundity. 
My  proposition  after  all  this  meandering  is  that  Trollope  is — can 
be — only  appreciated  by  those  already  well  acquainted  with  English 
fiction. 

The  second  element  to  explain  the  lack  of  interest  in  him  in 
America  (and  elsewhere  during  the  period  following  his  death)  is 
the  publication  of  the  Autobiography.  Every  critic  refers  to  this 
circumstance.  It  has  already  been  intimated  that  the  publication 
was  a  mistake.  To  my  mind  the  book  is  delightful  reading,  but 
the  public  generally  seems  to  hug  its  stage  illusions  and  to  be 
offended  when  it  is  taken  behind  the  scenes  and  shown  the  tawdri- 


210  Butler  Alumnal,  Quarterly 

ness  and  makeshift  which  go  to  make  up  the  play.  Trollope  has 
no  reserves.  He  explains  with  utter  frankness  all  his  methods, 
boasts  of  his  fruitfulness,  belittles  his  art,  acknowledges  not  at  all 
the  long  years  of  labor  and  observation  which  went  into  the  devel- 
oping of  that  art,  and  declares  that  he  worked  for  money,  and 
quite  unblushingly  announces  that  the  English  people  over  a  period 
of  about  thirty-five  years  paid  him  some  $350,000  for  his  literary 
output. 

These  are  things  people  do  not  want  to  be  told  about  an  admired 
and  venerated  friend.  "No  man  is  a  hero  to  his  valet  de  ehambre. " 
Mr.  Trollope  disillusioned  his  public  and  his  public  thereupon 
would  have  none  of  him.  It  is  undeniable  that  his  star  suffered 
an  eclipse  immediately  upon  the  publication  of  this  book — and  this, 
almost  immediately  after  his  death  when  usually  there  is  a  revival 
of  interest  in  an  author's  work.  I  fancy  the  Autobiography  is 
little  read  now  and  that  it  has  taken  its  rightful  place  in  com- 
parative oblivion  with  a  few  of  the  lesser  novels. 

The  Trollope  star  has  again  returned  to  view  and  he  is  coming 
more  and  more — especially  in  this  country — to  be  appreciated. 
He  has  found  a  permanent  place  in  our  literature  and  his  novels 
will  give  a  continuing  joy  to  those  who  seek  for  truth  and  fidelity, 
for  realism  in  fiction. 


GRADUATE  STUDY  AS  RELATED  TO  BUTLER 

UNIVERSITY 

By  Corinne  Welling,  '12 
Assistant  Professor  in  Department  of  English 

From  the  founding  of  American  universities  in  the  Colonial 
Period  until  the  early  seventies,  graduate  study  was  far  from  the 
highly  organized  and  definitely  specified  field  of  work  that  it  is 
today.  It  was  rather  the  pursuance,  individually,  and  frequently 
independently,  of  a  subject  which  had  ranked  as  the  student's 
major  in  his  undergraduate  course.  The  student  did  not  roam: 
he  did  all  of  his  work  in  association  with  one  university.  The 
graduate  degree  generally  granted  was  that  of  Master  of  Arts, 
Science,  or  Philosophy.  It  was  bestowed  upon  an  alumnus,  three 
years  after  graduation,  in  recognition  of  advanced  study,  and 
of  evidence  of  usefulness  to  his  community. 

Butler  University,  through  the  fifties,  sixties  and  early  seven- 
ties, granted  about  seventy  graduate  degrees  on  this  basis.  One 
need  only  glance  at  the  Alumni  Directory  to  note  the  group  of 
splendid  men  and  women  who  received  these  degrees. 

In  1876,  with  the  establishment  of  Johns  Hopkins  University, 
graduate  study  leaped  into  the  interest  of  the  scholastic  world 
and  began  its  present  day  development.  It  won  for  itself  a  defi- 
nite division  within  the  university,  usually  referred  to  as  the 
graduate  school,  and  often  including  in  itself  a  number  of  profes- 
sional schools.  It  is  noAv  characterized  by  intensive,  advanced 
study  of  a  single  subject,  or  of  a  small  group  of  closely  allied  sub- 
jects; by  a  high  quality  of  scholarship,  usually  specified  as  that 
of  cum  laude  rating;  and  by  a  required  amount  of  time  spent  in 
the  study:  one  year  minimum  for  the  Master's  degree,  and  two 
years  minimum  for  the  Doctor's  degree. 

This  development  meets  two  needs :  preparation  of  teachers,  par- 
ticularly those  for  colleges  and  universities;  and  acquisition  to  the 
field  of  human  knowledge.  These  two  provisions  together  with 
the  work  of  the  undergraduate  course,  are  the  three  Sister  Graces 

211 


212  Butler  Alumnal,  Quarterly 

of  a  university :  first,  the  learning  of  established  truth ;  second, 
the  disseminating  of  the  truth  learned;  and  third,  the  discovery 
of  additional  truth. 

By  1900  most  universities  had  been  transformed  so  as  to  ac- 
complish these  three  purposes.  And  in  the  last  few  years,  espe- 
cially since  the  World  War,  the  movement  has  been  accelerated. 
An  agitation  has  arisen  to  bring  about  the  conversion  of  certain 
large  universities,  situated  in  widely  different  parts  of  the  country, 
into  graduate  schools  exclusively,  thereby  freeing  the  smaller  in- 
stitutions from  the  burden  of  providing  graduate  courses.  Far  in 
the  future,  this  plan  may  be  put  into  practice;  but  the  success 
of  the  three  purposes,  working  separately,  is  extremely  doubtful. 
The  three  seem  to  be  inseparable  for  the  complete  health  of  a 
universitj^:  each  is  a  stimulus  to  the  other  two. 

Butler  University  was  quick  to  respond  to  the  change  of  the 
late  seventies.  Indeed  the  continued  interest  that  has  existed 
throughout  the  history  of  the  university  is  proof  of  her  excellent 
academic  life.  From  1876  to  1924,  1,264  students  were  graduated. 
One  hundred  and  eighty-seven  of  these — a  goodly  proportion  the 
records  show — have  gone  on  into  graduate  work,  and  perhaps  also 
a  very  large  number  more  that  we  do  not  know.  Ninety-one  have 
studied  at  Yale,  Harvard,  Columbia,  Chicago,  Wisconsin,  Cali- 
fornia, and  other  large  universities.  Some  of  these  have  been 
granted  scholarships  and  fellowships,  and  have  received  other  high 
honors.  They  have  made  records  that  have  brought  honor  to  their 
Alma  Mater.  The  list  of  students  who  have  received  graduate 
honors  is  now  being  compiled  by  the  registrar.  Miss  Cotton,  who 
kindly  furnished  me  with  the  data  that  I  am  using  here.  Ninety-six, 
more  than  one-half  of  the  number,  have  done  their  graduate  work  at 
Butler  University.  Throughout  the  period,  from  1876  to  1924, 
Butler  has  steadily  granted  advanced  degrees,  usually  at  the  rate  of 
one  or  two  a  year,  but  with  some  outstanding  exceptions:  1885,  five 
advanced  degrees ;  1897,  seven ;  1904,  five,  and  1925,  five.  The  cus- 
tom through  the  eighties,  like  that  of  the  earlier  period,  was  for  the 
graduate  work  to  be  done  at  the  one  university ;  through  the  next 
twenty  years  the  trend  was  for  the  graduate  work  to  be  done  at 


Graduate  Study  213 

one  of  the  large  universities ;  now  the  trend  seems  to  he  the  division 
of  graduate  work,  the  Master's  work  being  done  at  the  same  uni- 
versity as  the  undergraduate  work,  and  the  Doctor's  work  being 
done  in  one  of  the  larger  graduate  schools.  In  the  last  fifteen 
years  Butler  has  granted  advanced  degrees  to  her  own  graduates, 
and  to  those  of  a  number  of  other  colleges.  Her  association  with 
the  College  of  Missions  has  brought  many  graduates  of  foreign 
universities  to  her  halls  for  study. 

The  greatest  demand  has  been  for  work  in  the  field  of  religion, 
which  is  now  adequately  provided  by  the  School  of  Religion.  The 
field  of  education  ranks  next.  The  Department  of  Education  is 
offering  sufficient  advanced  work  for  the  Master's  degree  now,  and 
is  rapidly  developing  its  facilities  for  further  graduate  work.  The 
demand  in  the  other  fields  is  about  equal. 

Most  universities  classify  their  curricula  into  (1)  undergraduate 
courses;  (2)  undergraduate  and  graduate  courses;  and  (3)  grad- 
uate courses.  So  far  at  Butler  very  few  graduate  courses  have 
been  offered.  The  candidate  usually  does  part  of  his  work  in 
courses  that  may  be  rated  as  those  of  the  second  class,  and  the  other 
part,  individually  under  the  supervision  of  the  head  of  the  de- 
partment in  which  he  is  doing  his  graduate  work.  But  the  demand 
for  complete  and  thorough  provision  for  graduate  study  is  press- 
ing. When  the  present  movement  of  expansion  is  completed,  this 
will  gradually  be  realized, — and  the  graduate  school  of  Butler 
University  will  come  into  existence.  The  university  will  then  be 
fulfilling  her  entire  obligation  to  humanity:  the  acquisition  of  es- 
tablished truth;  the  dissemination  of  truth  acquired;  and  the  dis- 
covery of  additional  truth. 


GROWING  INTEREST  IN  THE  ANCIENT  LAN- 

GUAGES  AND  ITS  REACTION  AT 

BUTLER  COLLEGE 

By  Henry  M.  Gelston 
Head  of  Latin  Department 

Scarcely  a  half  dozen  years  ago  the  trend  in  education  toward 
those  subjects  of  study  that  were  thought  to  have  an  immediate 
application  to  the  conditions  of  modern  life  and  so  to  possess 
greater  value  for  the  student  than  the  Classics  and  the  older  sub- 
jects of  the  curriculum,  was  especially  noticeable  in  school  and 
college.  The  older  cultural  subjects  were  losing  ground  or  barely 
holding  their  own.  Greek  had  disappeared  from  secondary  educa- 
tion and  was  struggling  to  survive  in  the  colleges.  Latin,  too, 
was  hard  pressed  and  there  were  many  who  predicted  its  early 
death  and  elimination  from  the  curriculum  of  the  public  school. 
But  a  remarkable  change  in  public  opinion  with  regard  to  the  value 
of  Latin,  and  to  a  less  extent  of  Greek,  as  instruments  of  education 
for  complex  modem  life,  is  now  in  progress  throughout  the  coun- 
try and  in  fact  in  many  other  parts  of  the  world. 

On  this  subject  much  reliable  and  interesting  infoi-mation  is 
furnished  by  the  first  volume  of  the  Classical  Investigation  which 
appeared  about  a  year  ago.  The  scope  and  thoroughness  of  this 
investigation  is  attested  not  only  by  the  personnel  of  the  investi- 
gating committee  of  well-known  educators  under  the  chairman- 
ship of  Dean  West  of  Princeton  University,  but  also  by  the  fact 
that  principals  and  teachers  of  Latin  in  10,000  secondary  schools 
in  the  United  States,  registrars  and  officers  in  practically  every 
college  in  America,  faculties  of  many  schools  of  education,  and  the 
United  States  Bureau  of  Education  co-operated  in  the  work. 

The  total  enrollment  in  Latin  in  the  secondary  schools  of  the 
country  for  the  year  1923-1924  is  estimated  at  940,000,  slightly 
in  excess  of  the  combined  enrollment  in  all  other  foreign  lan- 
guages. It  is  practically  30%  of  the  total  enrollment  of  all  pu- 
pils in  all  secondary  schools  of  the  usual  four-year  course.     The 

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enrollment  in  Greek  was  only  about  11,000,  but  there  were  signs 
of  increase.  Figures  for  the  current  year  indicate  that  1,000,000 
persons  within  the  country  are  now  engaged  in  the  study  of  the 
language  and  literature  of  ancient  Rome.  The  healthy  growth  in 
the  secondary  school,  despite  baseless  assertions  to  the  contrary, 
is  being  followed  by  very  considerable  increase  of  students  in  Latin 
and  Greek  in  college  and  university  in  every  section  of  the  land, 
so  that  many  institutions  have  recently  added  members  to  their 
classical  faculties  in  order  to  provide  adequately  for  larger  num- 
bers and  more  classes. 

To  these  changing  conditions  of  curriculum  Butler  College  does 
not  provide  an  exception.  The  increasing  number  of  students 
registering  for  Latin  has  resulted  in  a  demand  for  additional 
classes  and  for  new  courses  of  both  an  elementary  and  an  advanced 
character.  Consequently  at  the  beginning  of  the  present  academic 
year  another  full-time  instructor  was  added  to  the  staff.  Miss 
Mabel  Arbuthnot  was  brought  to  Butler  College  from  Milton  Col- 
lege, Wisconsin,  where  she  had  taught  very  successfully  after  re- 
ceiving her  Master's  degree  from  the  University  of  "Wisconsin. 
This  semester  a  number  of  courses  in  Latin  are  being  given^  for 
the  first  time  at  Butler.  It  is  a  satisfaction  to  note  that  the 
number  of  those  who  desire  work  of  an  advanced  character  as  well 
as  those  in  the  more  elementary  courses  is  considerably  larger  than 
formerly. 


PUBLICATIONS 

THE  LIFE  OF  THE  MIND 

By  E.  Jordan 
Head  of  Department  of  Philosophy 

When  modern  psychology  cut  the  leading  strings  that  had  hith- 
erto bound  it  to  philosophy  and  attempted  to  establish  itself  on  an 
independent  basis  as  an  empirical  science,  it  entered  upon  a  career 
that  threatens  to  end  in  theoretical  chaos  and  ethical  bankruptcy. 
An  extensive  examination  of  the  more  theoretical  literature  of 
"scientific"  psychology  with  a  view  to  determining  its  content  as 
conceived  by  its  leading  exponents  reveals  a  mass  of  material  on 
the  physiology  of  the  nervous  system,  together  with  another  body 
of  data  collected  from  the  fields  of  anthropology,  ethnology,  so- 
ciology, social  pathology,  etc.  Psychology  as  a  pure  science  has 
thus  become  an  attempt  to  discover  certain  physico-chemical  mech- 
anisms which  provide  the  groundwork  of  human  behavior  in  the 
organism,  together  with  the  data  of  the  external  world  which  pro- 
vide the  stimuli  to  which  the  mechanisms  respond,  while  as  an 
applied  science  it  has  been  chiefly  interested  in  the  correction  of 
abnormalities  of  personal  conduct,  and  in  the  control  of  normal 
individual  behavior  on  behalf  of  exploitative  economic  interests. 
Thus  we  have  been  deluged  with  such  psychic  panaceas  as  Freud- 
ianism,  Coueism,  endocrine  therapy,  New  Thought  and  Christian 
Science  in  the  field  of  individual  therapeutics,  and  while  in  the 
field  of  "social  control"  we  have  been  plagued  with  such  ethical 
monstrosities  as  vocational  psychology  and  the  psychology  of  ad- 
vertising and  salesmanship  through  which  the  devotee  seeks  an 
irresponsible  power  over  others  through  the  manipulation  on  be- 
half of  his  private  economic  interests  of  the  motives  that  issue  in 
action. 

Against  these  tendencies  of  modern  "scientific"  psychology  in 
both  theory  and  practice  Professor  Elijah  Jordan's  recent  volume, 
"The  Life  of  Mind"  is  an  uncompromising  protest.  It  is  a  revolt 
against  the  atomism  of  modem  science  in  general,  and  of  psy- 

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Publications  217 

chology  in  particular.  Reality,  holds  Professor  Jordan,  is  not  to 
be  found  by  means  of  the  search  for  simple  elements  which  is  the 
goal  of  laboratory  experimentation,  but  by  means  of  the  logical 
analysis  and  interpretation  of  wholes  which  is  the  function  of  the 
speculative  imagination.  This  viewpoint  does  not  imply,  as  is  so 
frequently  maintained,  that  the  search  for  simples  is  not,  in  its 
way,  valid,  nor  that  experimentation  is  not  an  essential  process 
in  our  attempt  to  understand  our  world.  Such  a  misinterpretation 
arises  from  the  fact  that  the  experimental  method  with  its  attempt 
to  reduce  reality  to  its  simplest  conceivable  terms  is  rather  taken 
as  implicit  in  an  argument  designed  to  prove  that  it  is  the  whole- 
ness that  is  alone  real,  that  the  terms  employed  as  ultimate  facts 
in  scientific  explanation  are  merely  abstractions  apart  from  the 
wholes  they  constitute,  that  they  are  logical  constructs  which  exist 
only  for  thought,  that  not  only  do  they  not  explain  the  whole,  but 
that  they  themselves  are  explicable  only  in  terms  of  the  whole 
which  is  the  objectively  real,  and  that  therefore  the  more  fun- 
damental problems  of  science  in  the  explanation  and  interpreta- 
tion of  reality  are  soluble,  not  by  the  technique  of  experimenta- 
tion, but  of  logic. 

The  main  emphasis  of  the  book  is  laid  on  the  unity  and  con- 
tinuity of  the  mental  life.  Indeed,  the  mind  is  itself  defined  as 
"the  principle  of  unity  and  order  in  experience,"  as  "the  sum 
of  those  processes  now  at  this  instant  operating  within  me  to  give 
significance  to  my  relations  to  things."  These  processes,  which 
are  for  modem  "scientific"  psychology  independent  entities  to  be 
studied  experimentally,  are  for  Professor  Jordan  but  aspects  of 
ordered  experience  or  mind,  to  be  analyzed  logically.  Conse- 
quently, instead  of  conventional  textbook  divisions  into  sections  on 
"attention",  "volition",  etc.,  we  have  here  such  headings  as  "Mind 
as  Attention",  "Mind  as  Action",  "Mind  as  Imagination",  etc. 

But  these  processes  are  not  ultimate.  They  are  in  turn  analyza- 
ble  into  further  processes.  Thus,  attention  as  an  aspect  of  mind,  is 
further  analyzable  into  various  processes,  one  of  which  is  percep- 
tion. But  perception,  in  turn,  is  not  a  psychological  simple,  but  is 
made  up  of  sensation  and  feeling.     But  these  feelings  and  sense 


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qualities  which  constitute  the  raw  stuff  of  fact  are  not  considered, 
as  by  conventional  psychology,  as  atoms  out  of  which  the  mind  con- 
structs percepts  as  a  brick  mason  a  wall.  They  are  rather  phases 
of  a  unitary  experience  of  the  organism  in  contact  with  objects, 
and  have  no  reality,  except  for  thought,  apart  from  the  total  situa- 
tion in  which  we  experience  them.  This  outline  of  the  treatment 
of  the  subject  of  attention  is  given,  in  lieu  of  an  analysis  of  the 
contents  of  the  entire  volume  which  space  forbids,  as  an  illustration 
of  the  consistent  way  in  which  emphasis  is  laid  throughout  upon  the 
wholeness  of  mental  life. 

A  treatment  of  the  life  of  mind  which  rests  as  heavily  upon  logic 
and  as  lightly  upon  experimentation  as  does  the  volume  under  dis- 
cussion usually  falls  into  the  mire  of  subjectivism  and  solipsism. 
This  pitfall  Professor  Jordan  avoids  by  his  emphasis  upon  the  ob- 
jectivity of  the  data  through  which  the  mind  is  known.  For  mind 
as  a  principle  of  unity  in  experience  can  not  be  known  directly,  for 
a  "thing"  can  not  become  an  object  to  itself.  It  can  be  known 
only  inferentially,  through  its  objective  embodiment  in  whatever 
unity,  order  and  organization  we  may  discover  in  the  practical  and 
cultural  life  through  which  the  mind  realizes  itself.  The  analysis 
of  the  practical  and  cultural  life  through  which  mind  is  inferen- 
tially known  as  constituting  the  proper  subject  matter  for  psychol- 
ogy, and  as  safeguarding  a  psychology  whose  method  is  logic  from 
the  futility  of  traditional  introspectionism  would  probably,  in  the 
judgment  of  the  author,  constitute  its  unique  value.  But  to  the 
reviewer  certain  points  which  the  author  does  not  dwell  upon,  but 
seems  to  take  for  granted  throughout  his  work,  are  of  fundamental 
importance  and  interest. 

1.  The  starting  point  for  psychology  is  not  a  fact  of  organic 
structure,  such  as  a  neurone  or  a  hormone,  nor  a  functional  organ- 
ization of  structural  elements,  such  as  a  reflex  or  instinct  that  ex- 
ists antecedent  to  experience,  but  a  content  in  consciousness  as  an 
ordered  unity  of  experience  which  appears  as  percept,  affect,  image 
or  idea. 

2.  Since  the  data  of  psychology  are  a  mind  content  that  is  ob- 
jective to  the  mind  itself,  it  follows  that  we  can  know  mental 


Publications  219 

processes,  such  as  attention,  affection,  perception,  memory,  volition, 
et  cetera,  only  inferentially,  from  a  study  of  the  mind  content  in 
its  dynamic,  changing  aspects.  Hence,  only  mind  as  content,  never 
mind  as  process,  appears  in  introspection. 

3.  To  the  reviewer,  most  interesting  of  all  is  the  use  of  the 
concept ' '  process ' ',  which  is  nowhere  defined  nor  discussed  directly. 
But  since  we  can  know  process  only  inferentially  from  a  study  of 
content  as  undergoing  change,  it  follows  that  process  is  itself  not 
the  abstraction  which  it  appears  in  so  much  recent  sociological 
writing,  but  an  aspect  of  reality  considered  as  the  principle  of 
continuity  and  order  in  change,  apart  from  the  concrete  content 
of  which  process  can  have  no  meaning.  In  other  words,  process 
is  not,  as  much  recent  writing  presumes,  merely  abstract  ordered 
change,  but  order  or  organization  as  manifested  in  the  changing 
parts  and  relationships  of  an  evolving  whole,  "a  vastly  different 
thing."  Howard  E.  Jensen. 


NATURE  AND  SPIRIT 

By  Edmund  H.  Hollands 

Head  of  Depm'tment  of  Philosophy  in  University  of  Kansas, 

formerly  in  Butler  College 

As  President  of  the  Western  Division  of  the  American  Philo- 
sophical Association,  which  met  at  the  University  of  Illinois  last 
year,  Professor  Edmund  H.  Hollands,  formerly  of  the  Department 
of  Philosophy  in  Butler  College  and  now  of  the  University  of  Kan- 
sas, delivered  an  address  on  ''Nature  and  Spirit."  The  address, 
which  is  published  in  The  International  Journal  of  Ethics  for  July, 
1925,  shows  the  deep  grasp  of  essentials  and  breadth  of  view,  to- 
gether with  the  keen  perception  of  the  meaning  and  value  of  hu- 
man relations  and  the  insight  into  experience,  which  made  him  so 
universally  respected  in  all  his  relations  at  Butler. 

Professor  Hollands  points  out  that,  among  early  cultured  peo- 
ples, there  is  an  identification  of  the  laws  and  principles,  not  yet  of 
course  fully  realized,  which  hold  within  their  own  inner  life  with 


220  Butler  Alumnal  Quarterly 

the  forces,  objects,  and  processes  of  nature.  Rather,  the  attitude 
is  hardly  to  be  called  an  identification,  for  the  analytic  motive  had 
not  induced  them  as  yet  to  recognize  a  possible  contrast  or  opposi- 
tion between  the  two.  This  felt  oneness  between  nature  and  hu- 
man nature  was  characteristic  of  the  Greeks,  as  also  of  the  medieval 
peoples,  with  the  exception  of  the  Christian  intensification  of  the 
conflict  between  flesh  and  spirit.  The  interest  of  these  peoples  was 
primarily  one  of  appreciation,  acceptance,  and  contemplation  of 
nature,  and  could  best  be  described  as  unconscious  recognition  of 
nature  as  forming  together  with  their  own  experiences  the  reality 
of  a  whole.  With  the  Renaissance  this  attitude  of  contemplative 
acceptance  of  the  world  gave  way  to  an  exaggeration  of  the  differ- 
ences between  nature  and  human  nature,  and  the  result  was  the 
development  ultimately  of  a  cynical  and  pessimistic  attitude  to 
nature,  and  throughout  of  a  strong  desire  to  control  nature  in  the 
interest  of  human  ends.  Consequently  this  technical  or  engineer- 
ing point  of  view  adopted  by  science  requires  the  development  of 
the  mathematical  and  mechanical  type  of  explanation,  and  it  is 
this  interest  in  control  which  has  dominated  all  the  special  sciences 
and  thus  tended  to  emphasize  the  reality  of  nature  as  against  the 
unreality  of  the  world  of  fancy  and  imagination.  Thus  it  has  come 
about  that  feeling  is  universally  supposed  to  represent  the  unreal 
and  the  subjective. 

But  the  unity  of  life  as  objective  must  be  sought  in  feeling, 
thought,  and  action.  This  unity  has  in  all  ages  been  realized  by 
the  mystic  in  a  "felt  apprehension  of  our  real  identity  with  ex- 
ternal Nature."  This  attitude,  dominated  by  feeling  and  convic- 
tion, "is  a  perfectly  normal  phase  of  experience,  not  to  be  ex- 
plained away,  of  which  any  adequate  philosophy  must  take  ac- 
count; and  that,  in  fact,  some  immediate  feeling,  assurance,  and 
decision  of  this  general  type  underlies  and  precedes  all  definite, 
organized  thinking,  including  that  kind  of  thinking  which  ends  by 
denying  it."  Any  complete  philosophy  must  take  account  of  "feel- 
ing" and  "intuition,"  since  elementary  feeling  quality  is  "meta- 
physically primary"  and  the  "ground  bass  of  all  our  varied  ex- 
perience."   This  fundamental  truth  all  the  great  constructive  sys: 


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terns,  Plato,  Plotinus,  Spinoza,  Hegel,  Bergson,  have  recognized 
and  adopted.  Identifying  the  basic  feeling  with  an  interest  in  the 
Good,  Professor  Hollands  shows  that  in  all  perception,  in  mathe- 
matics, and  in  science  itself,  indeed  in  all  forms  of  knowledge,  this 
interest  appears  in  the  form  of  a  selection  of  the  good  as  a  final 
value,  which  ' '  has  to  be  felt  before  it  is  judged, ' '  and  from  which 
the  ultimate  theory  is  deduced  "that  the  essence  of  the  reality  to 
be  known  is  present  in  some  degree  in  the  depths  of  our  own  inner 
life,  as  self-possessed  and  self-enjoyed,  so  that  in  the  end  we  are 
one  with  it. "  E.  Jordan. 


FORTY  YEARS  OF  SERVICE 

The  Quarterly  is  in  grateful  possession  of  a  brochure  sent  by 
the  D.  C.  Heath  and  Company  under  title  of  "Forty  Years  of 
Service,  1885-1925."  The  publication  appears  in  commemoration 
of  the  fortieth  anniversary  of  the  founding  of  this  house.  It  is 
dedicated  to  the  memory  of  "Daniel  Collamore  Heath,  practical 
idealist  and  maker  of  good  books ;  to  the  authors  whose  genius  and 
labor  have  made  the  Heath  imprint  a  guarantee  of  excellence;  to 
the  employees  who  during  four  decades  have  served  loyally  and 
faithfully  that  the  Company  might  fulfill  its  mission;  and  to  the 
millions  of  students  and  teachers  who  have  found  guidance  and 
inspiration  in  Heath  books." 

The  history  of  a  great  publishing  house  possesses  large  interest. 
It  is  the  story  of  one  superior  personality — the  lengthened  shadow 
of  one  man;  the  tale  of  authors  and  their  experiences  reaching 
out  in  numberless  directions.  It  suggests  that  tree  whose  leaves 
were  for  the  healing  of  the  nation. 

The  ideals  of  the  Heath  House  are  thus  set  forth :  ' '  The  founder 
of  the  House  of  D.  C.  Heath  and  Company  was  a  man  of  high 
ideals  of  public  service ;  he  was  a  man  also  of  broad  ideas,  far  in 
advance  of  his  time  in  his  conception  of  what  education  should  be. 
He  believed  that  a  broader,  more  humane,  more  inspiring  type  of 
education  than  then  prevailed  was  necessary  for  the  social  and 


222  Butler  Alumnal  Quarterly 

political  stability  of  the  country.  He  believed  that  it  was  the 
duty  of  the  publisher  to  place  in  the  hands  of  the  teacher  books 
that  were  not  only  of  sound  quality,  but  books  that  looked  toward 
the  future,  books  that  livened  the  dead  routine  of  the  schools, 
books  that  would  bring  to  the  schools  the  larger  pui-poses  of  educa- 
tion and  of  life. 

"The  House  of  D.  C.  Heath  and  Company  has  consistently  en- 
deavored to  maintain  those  ideals  of  service  to  the  public  through 
the  publishing  of  books  that  would  exert  a  wholesome  influence 
on  the  youth  of  the  country.  It  has  endeavored  to  contribute  to 
the  progress  of  education  through  placing  in  the  hands  of  teachers 
the  books  that  would  keep  them  abreast  of  all  advances  in  educa- 
tional methods.  And  it  has  endeavored  so  to  conduct  its  own  busi- 
ness as  to  inspire  and  merit  the  confidence  of  the  great  educational 
public  in  its  high  ideals  and  purposes." 

In  the  history  of  the  company  and  in  the  gallery  of  the  direc- 
torate appears  the  name  of  Frank  F.  Hummel,  '93,  who  has  served 
as  secretary  since  1913.  Butler  College  is  proud  of  her  son  who 
has  given  such  service  in  such  form.  She  congratulates  him  upon 
his  opportunity  and  his  accomplishment,  and  wishes  him  well  in 
all  his  ways. 


BUTLER  ALUMNAL  QUARTERLY 

ISSUED  JANUARY,  APRIL,  JULY,  OCTOBER 

Published  by  the  Alumni  Association  of  Butler  College,  Indianapolis. 

Subscription  price,  two  dollars  per  year. 

Entered  as  second-class  matter,  March  26,  1912,  at  the  post  oflBce  at  Indi- 
anapolis, Indiana,  under  the  Act  of  March  3,  1879. 

Officers  of  the  Alumni  Association — President,  Edwin  E.  Thompson,  '00;  First 
Vice-President,  Elizabeth  Bogert  Schofield,  '09;  Second  Vice-President, 
Myron  Hughel,  '17;  Treasurer,  Charles  W.  Wilson;  appointees,  Urith 
Dailey,  '17  and  Esther  Fay  Shover,  '00. 

Secretary  and  Editor  of  the  Butler  Alumnal  Quarterly — Katharine  M. 
Graydon,  '78. 


FOUNDERS'  DAY 

Founders '  Day  occurs  on  Sunday,  the  seventh  of  February.  The 
annual  dinner  will  be  held  on  Saturday  evening,  the  sixth,  in  the 
Riley  room  of  the  Claypool  hotel.  The  address  will  be  made  in 
the  chapel  on  Sunday  afternoon  at  three  o'clock.  It  is  hoped  the 
alumni  and  friends  of  the  university  will  join  in  making  this  a 
rich,  glad  day  of  observance.  There  are  few  occasions  in  the  year 
when  our  alumni  are  free  during  the  day  to  attend  exercises  in 
the  old  chapel,  hence  it  is  hoped  there  will  be  an  unusually  large 
gathering  on  Sunday  afternoon. 


ALUMNI  ACTIVITIES 

The  alumni  activities  of  the  past  year  have  surpassed  those  of 
other  years  in  number  and  in  value.  The  Alumni  Association  has 
through  its  class  secretaries  brought  about  the  raising  of  two  schol- 
arships, and  again  for  the  year  1925-1926  is  repeating  the  good 
work. 

The  need  most  patent  at  present  is  a  larger  circulation  of  the 
Quarterly.  There  has  been  an  editorial  dream,  hope,  effort,  to 
have  in  the  name  of  the  College  a  worthy  connecting  link  between 
alumni  and  alma  mater,  a  periodical  of  high  tone  which  would  in- 

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terpret  the  activities  of  the  University  to  her  children,  a  news 
sheet  bristling  with  news. 

To  supply  material  for  the  magazine  and  at  the  same  time  to 
raise  funds  to  meet  its  existence,  have  been  in  no  wise  simple  or 
easy.  The  dream  has  not  yet  been  realized.  Renewed  effort,  how- 
ever, will  soon  be  made  in  the  desired  direction. 

The  readers  of  the  Quarterly  may  not  know  of  an  association 
known  as  The  Alumni  Magazines  Associated,  organized  for  assist- 
ance in  the  maintenance  of  alumni  magazines  by  furnishing  suffi- 
cient national  advertising  to  help  to  finance  the  college  periodical. 
It  would  be  well  if  the  Butler  Alumnal  Quarterly  could  become 
a  member  of  this  association  and  receive  possible  help.  But  to  avail 
itself  of  such  assistance  the  Quarterly  must  accede  to  certain  make- 
up changes  and  become  a  monthly  rather  than  a  quarterly  publica- 
tion. This  may  be  done,  if  the  alumni  are  willing.  The  great  diffi- 
culty lies  in  the  demand  of  a  minimum  subscription  list  of  1,000 
members.  Now  the  question  arises,  why  not  increase  our  paying  list 
from  about  400  to  1,000,  or  more?  The  assistance  given  through 
advertising  would  so  help  with  enlarging  and  improving  our  period- 
ical that  it  would  seem  to  create  a  demand  from  every  possible 
alumnus. 

Attention  is  called  to  the  sympathetic  reading  of  all  communica- 
tions on  this  subject  sent  out,  and  you  are  urged  to  take  a  personal 
interest  in  this  matter  and  to  help  raise  the  subscription  list  to  at 
least  1,000. 


Another  desired  activity  of  the  Alumni  Association  is  the  estab- 
lishment of  regional  Butler  clubs.  That  of  Chicago  is  entering 
upon  its  second  year  of  existence  and  is  proving  a  success.  In  this 
issue  will  be  found  the  secretary's  account  of  the  luncheon  held 
there  on  December  12. 

The  call  goes  out  to  every  vicinity  in  which  are  several  Butler 
students  of  other  days  to  organize  and  to  have  at  least  one  meeting 
a  year— more  are  better — when  interest  in  and  affection  for  the  Old 
School  may  find  delightful  expression.  Is  there  not  some  loyal 
alumnus  to  set  such  an  activity  in  motion  in  New  York  City,  in 


Alumni  Activities  225 

Washington,  in  the  towns  of  Indiana  ?    To  such  the  College  would 
gladly  lend  a  helpful  hand. 


Apropos  of  this  subject,  a  writer  in  the  Michigan  Alumnus  made 
some  suggestions  for  alumni  clubs  and  their  possible  usefulness 
that  may  be  equally  applicable  to  our  own  clubs,  so  we  pass  them 
on:  Why  is  an  alumni  club?  This  is  not  a  catch  question,  but  a 
concise  expression  of  the  most  vital  problem  which  confronts  the 
alumni  of  the  University.  What  we  need  is  a  hitching  post,  a 
program,  a  plan  of  action.  Human,  interest  is  the  one  keynote,  the 
subtle  bond  that  is  stronger  than  athletics  or  building  funds  or 
once-a-year  oratory.  To  make  a  beginning,  the  following  proposals 
are  laid  before  the  alumni,  and  it  is  hoped  that  other  and  even 
better  planks  will  be  built  into  the  platform  as  these  ideals  take 
more  definite  form. 

1.  A  club  survey  of  what  Michigan  men  and  women  are  doing 
and  their  achievements.  Few  clubs  really  know  their  own  men. 
Many  who  are  a  credit  to  the  institution  are  obscured  by  the  bril- 
liance of  those  fortunate  enough  to  be  in  the  public  eye.  The  big 
fellows  need  no  shouting.  We  want  to  bring  out  the'  submerged 
talent,  especially  in  our  younger  members.  We  need,  not  a  "Who's 
Who,"  but  a  ''What  is  he  doing?"  The  clubs  should  find  room 
on  their  meeting  programs  for  more  of  this  worthwhile  representa- 
tion even  at  the  sacrifice  of  Rt.  Hon.  So  and  So  or  Uncle  Joe's 
reminiscences.  A  greater  incentive  would  result  from  printing  ex- 
tracts of  addresses  in  the  Alumnus  for  permanent  record  by  the 
club. 

2.  Definite  programs  at  luncheons  and  dinners.  These  need 
thought  and  planning.  They  will  not  take  care  of  themselves,  ex- 
cept to  become  moribund.  A  graduate  group  needs  inspiration  as 
any  other.  Bring  out  your  men  of  achievement,  who  have  done 
things.  There  is  an  inexhaustible  supply  of  twenty-minute  lunch- 
eon talks  in  any  club  membership,  if  properly  canvassed.  Science 
and  the  arts,  educational,  civic,  technical,  political,  and  what  not. 
These  men  can  furnish  a  running  record  of  Michigan 's  accomplish- 
ments and  a  tremendous  inspiration  to  the  younger  element  and 


226  Butler  Alumnal  Quarterly 

the  newcomers.  Bring  out  the  younger  men,  too.  They  are  bash- 
ful, but  may  be  building  bridges  over  which  we  all  will  soon  pass 
to  better  things.  The  Rotary  Club  method  ought  to  teach  us  a 
lesson,  and  the  Boy  Scouts,  too. 

3.  Competitive  scholarships  among  high-school  boys.  Send  one 
or  more  each  year  to  Michigan,  tuition  free  or  transportation  free. 
This  will  equalize  Michigan  with  other  distant  universities.  The 
boys  to  be  chosen  on  all-around  merit  only,  not  alone  for  physical 
prowess.  It  should  not  be  merely  a  scramble  for  promising  ath- 
letes, as  has  happened.  Unless  the  competition  is  to  be  on  the  high- 
est plane — quality,  not  quantity — it  had  better  not  be  undertaken. 
These  boys'  experiences  will  be  a  continual  source  of  inspiration  to 
the  older  man. 


AT  THE  CITY  OFFICE 

Generous  support  was  given  the  Butler  University  financial  cam- 
paign during  the  closing  months  of  1925.  Among  the  larger  spe- 
cific donations  to  the  building  fund  were  $25,000  from  Judge  Lex 
J.  Kirkpatrick,  of  Kokomo ;  $15,000  from  Thomas  Taggart,  of  Indi- 
anapolis and  French  Lick,  and  $10,000  from  A.  M.  Rosenthal,  of 
Indianapolis.  In  addition  to  these  contributions  w-ere  received  at 
the  city  office  from  other  sources  amounting  to  $60,000.  Near 
the  end  of  the  year  a  check  for  $28,900  came  from  the  General 
Education  Board,  this  being  the  board's  current  payment  on  its 
pledge  to  the  Butler  endowment  fund. 

In  connection  with  this  gift,  Judge  Kirkpatrick  spoke  of  the 
importance  of  supporting  an  institution  that  was  built  upon  a 
safe  foundation  and  one  that  had  remained  true  to  its  ideals. 
Judge  Kirkpatrick  is  one  of  the  directors  of  Butler  and  formerly 
was  president  of  the  Indiana  State  Bar  Association.  His  interest 
in  the  study  of  the  federal  and  state  constitutions  has  led  him  to 
see  the  dangers  that  the  youth  of  the  land  are  facing  in  some  insti- 
tutions of  higher  learning.  He  is  proud  that  Butler  has  not 
been  swayed  by  any  false  notions  of  radicalism  and  that  the  school 


At  the  City  Office  227 

is  as  firmly  rooted  in  its  beliefs  now  as  it  was  when  it  was 
founded. 

Mr.  Taggart  expressed  pleasure  at  his  opportunity  to  be  one  of 
those  who  are  doing  something  for  the  new  Butler  in  a  material 
way.  He  looks  upon  the  plans  for  the  university  as  one  of  the 
most  important  things  that  will  happen  to  Indianapolis  for  many 
years  to  come  and  he  is  hopeful  that  the  people  generally  will  be 
liberal  in  their  support  of  the  movement.  Although  not  a  college 
man  himself,  Mr.  Taggart  sees  the  modern  necessity  for  trained 
men  and  women  and  he  believes  that  opportunities  for  such  train- 
ing should  be  enlarged  whenever  possible. 

Mr.  Rosenthal  spoke  of  the  challenge  to  Indianapolis  that  was 
contained  in  the  offer  of  $300,000  to  the  building  fund  by  William 
G.  Irwin  and  his  sister,  Mrs.  Z.  T.  Sweeney,  of  Columbus.  Mr. 
Rosenthal  believes  that  if  two  non-residents  of  Indianapolis  are 
willing  to  show  such  liberality  in  support  of  Butler,  then  Indi- 
anapolis should  not  lag  in  doing  its  share  of  what  is  needed  to 
make  the  school's  financial  goal  attainable. 

Work  of  raising  money  from  Disciples  of  Christ  churches  in 
different  parts  of  the  state,  to  make  possible  the  Butler  College  of 
Religion,  is  going  forward  satisfactorily.  Because  of  the  holiday 
season  the  campaign  was  interrupted  temporarily,  but  it  now  is 
to  be  carried  on  with  renewed  vigor. 

More  than  half  of  the  boulevard  around  the  new  campus  site  at 
Fairview  Park  has  been  graded  and  paved  by  the  city.  Had  not 
bad  weather  interfered  most  of  the  work  would  be  done  by  this 
time.  The  co-operation  of  the  city  authorities  has  been  most  help- 
ful in  every  way. 

Robert  Frost  Daggett  and  Thomas  Hibben,  associate  architects, 
are  completing  their  drawings  for  the  new  university  plant  and 
expected  to  have  the  plans  soon  finished. 

The  year  1925  was  the  most  successful  in  Butler's  history.  This 
is  true  from  various  standpoints.  Not  only  did  the  enrollment 
break  all  previous  records,  but  more  money  was  pledged  and  more 
collected  than  ever  before.  The  outlook  for  the  future  is  bright. 
John  W.  Atherton,  financial  secretary  of  Butler,  realizes  perhaps 


228  Butler  Alumnal,  Quarterly 

better  than  anyone  else  the  difficulties  that  must  be  encountered 
and  overcome  in  raising  all  of  the  money  vital  to  the  institution's 
needs,  but  he  is  confident  that  the  response  in  the  near  future  will 
be  greater  than  it  has  been  in  the  past  and  that  there  will  be  no 
faltering  in  Butler's  forward  march. 


ATHLETICS 

The  football  season  of  1925  came  to  a  close  in  the  sunny  South 
where  our  Bulldogs  not  only  enjoyed  Southern  hospitality  in 
Louisiana,  but  also  Centenary  hostility  on  the  gridiron.  Both  being 
overcome.  The  score  was  9  to  6.  ''Variety  is  the  spice  of  life": 
eight  above  zero  at  Minneapolis  to  sixty-eight  at  Shreveport  and 
all  the  rest  of  the  season  it  was  just  plain  mud — good  old  Indiana 
soil. 

Our  state  honors  were  never  submerged.  Five  victories,  two  tie 
games  and  glorious  big  league  defeats  by  Illinois  and  Minnesota. 
That's  the  record  of  Captain  Lou  Reichel's  Butler  team,  the  best 
in  history.  Twenty-one  Varsity  letters  were  awarded  to  following 
men: 

Captain  Lou  Reichel  David  Konold 

Carter  Helton  Melvin  Puett 

Hiram  Hensel  Harrison  Collier 

Carl  Cecil  Arthur  Black 

George  Mulholland  Gunnar  Thaung  .  . 

Eobert  Keach  John  Southern 

Robert  Nipper  Merle  Miller 

Gerald  Strole  John  Northam 

Gordon  Paul  Ralph  Hitch 

David  Kilgore  Francis  Fletcher 
Homer  Woodling 

Art  Black  was  elected  captain  for  1926- '27. 
The  Freshman  squad  had  a  fine  season  in  their  two  victories 
against  Culver  Military  19  to  0  and  Kentucky  State  20-0.     Red 


Athletics  229 

Fromuth  of  Ft.  Wayne  held  the  Captain 's  honors  f oUowing  the 
annual  Freshman-Sophomore  tie  game.  Twenty-two  Rhinies  were 
rewarded  with  numeral  sweaters.     They  are  as  follows: 

Alan  Fromuth,  Captain  Edmund  Jones 
Francis  Royse  Claude  Holcomb 
Lynn  Wood  Gilbert  Malone 
Marvin  Cochrane  Judson  Paul 
Harold  Meeker  Frank  Chamness 
Wm.  Newell  Robert  Hanna 
Herman  Geisert  John  McGaughey 
Frank  Hedden  William  Mussman 
Robert  Maney  David  Fately 
George  Ely  Edwin  Anderegg 
Clyde  King  Wm.  Bugg. 

Basketball  blues  hit  the  Irvington  campus  to  start  the  winter 
season.  Hal  Griggs,  Gene  Col  way  and  Christopher  of  last  year's 
winners,  were  out  of  school.  No  new  gymnasium  loomed  on  the 
horizon.  The  Winter  Garden  in  Irvington  was  disbanded  for  the 
Auto  Exposition  building  at  the  Fair  Grounds  and  Butler  opened 
its  home  season  with  a  bang  when  the  University  of  Missouri  short 
pass  team  came  North  for  a  three-game  series.  Butler's  37  to  15 
victory  on  paper  looked  considerably  better  than  Purdue's  and 
Michigan's  score  against  the  Missouri  Valley  tourists. 

Before  the  Christmas  holidays  Butler  made  the  annual  invasion 
of  the  state  universities  of  Illinois  and  Iowa.  Both  games  were 
thrillers.  Our  Bulldogs  losing  only  by  the  closest  of  margins  at 
Illinois  23  to  22,  at  Iowa  on  free  throws  26  to  24.  The  month  of 
January  will  see  Franklin,  Earlham  and  DePauw  playing  at  the 
Fair  Grounds  with  the  state  championship  title  in  the  balance. 
Wabash  will  close  Butler's  season  on  Friday,  February  26th  in  the 
big  game  at  the  Auto  Exposition  building.  In  the  meantime  our 
Bulldogs  will  invade  the  North,  playing  in  Michigan,  Wisconsin, 
and  the  University  of  Chicago. 

The  leading  Varsity  players,  who  have  proved  their  worth  in  the 
early  season  games  are  Capt.  Bob  Nipper,  Jim  Keach,  Al  Harker, 


230  Butler  Alumnal  Quaeterly 

Gerry  Strole,  Bob  Wakefield,  Archie  Chadd,  Harold  Holz,  Willis 
Jackman,  Bob  Woolgar,  Fletcher,  Meeks,  Summers,  Green  and 
Tudor.  Ex-Captain  Wally  Middlesworth  is  working  the  Varsity 
reserve  material  and  handling  interclass  games  which  are  becoming 
very  popular  during  the  long  winter  months.  Paul  Hinkle  is  again 
handling  the  Freshman  Varsity,  fifty  candidates  reported  for  trj'- 
outs  and  are  going  through  an  elimination  program.  The  Rhinies 
will  be  alloAved  four  outside  collegiate  games  through  the  month  of 
February. 


THE  BUTLER  ALUMNI  ASSOCIATION 
OF  CHICAGO 

The  third  meeting  of  the  Butler  Alumni  Association  of  Chicago 
was  held  in  Parlor  B  of  the  Morrison  Hotel,  on  Saturday,  Decem- 
ber 12,  at  12 :30  noon. 

Mr.  Lawrence  Bridge,  the  president,  acted  as  chairman  of  the 
meeting. 

Those  in  attendance  were : 

Frances  Hill  Arms  Hope  W.  Graham 

Lawrence  Bridge  Edith  Habbe  Marx 

Clifford  H.  Browder  Dr.  Earl  McRoberts 

Mable  Felt  Browder  Dr.  E.  T.  Murphy 

Henry  Bruner  M.  C.  Naramore 

Mr,  and  Mrs.  Horace  Ellis  Helen  Schell 
John  Weaver 

Mr.  E.  J.  F.  Marx,  husband  of  Edith  Habbe  Marx,  was  a  guest 
of  the  Association. 

Following  the  luncheon,  the  report  of  the  secretary-treasurer  was 
approved  and  a  letter  read  from  Miss  Graydon,  who  suggested  that 
the  club  plan  for  a  "Butler  Day"  in  connection  with  the  Salon  of 
Indiana  Artists,  to  be  held  at  Marshall  Field's  the  week  of  March 
8-13.  The  purpose  of  the  Salon  was  explained  in  an  interesting 
fashion  by  Mr.  John  Weaver.     It  was  then  voted  that  we  hold 


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231 


our  next  luncheon,  if  possible,  on  Saturday  of  the  week  of  the  Salon 
and  that  we  invite  as  our  guests,  Miss  Graydon  and  some  Indiana 
artist  connected  with  Butler.  The  name  of  Mr.  Forsyth  was 
suggested. 

Helen  Schell  and  Henry  Bruner  were  named  as  a  committee  to 
take  charge  of  the  March  luncheon. 

The  same  officers,  Mr.  Lawrence  Bridge,  president,  and  Mable 
Felt  Browder,  secretary-treasurer,  were  re-elected  for  the  ensuing 
year. 

Following  the  election  of  officers,  ''In  the  Shady  Winding  Paths 
of  Classic  Irvington"  was  sung,  and  with  Henry  Bruner  as  cheer 
leader,  several  yells  were  lustily  given. 

Mable  Felt  Browder,  Secretary. 


SCHOLASTIC  STATISTICS 

SECOND  SEMESTER  1924-1925 


Fraternities — 

Butler  Association 81.38 

Delta  Tau  Delta 73.62 

Delta  Phi  Sigma 73.36 

Lambda  Chi  Alpha 73.09 

Sigma  Chi 71.75 

Tau  Kappa  Tau 70.54 

Chi  Rho  Zeta 70.48 

Alpha  Rho  Delta 70.37 

Phi  Delta  Theta 70.02 

Entire  Student  Body 77.99 

Organizations — 

Men    72.89 

Women    82.50 


Sororities — 

Kappa  Alpha  Theta  __  84.30 

Pi  Beta  Phi 83.58 

Kappa  Kappa  Gamma.  83.46 

Delta  Gamma 83.41 

Alphi  Chi  Omega 83.02 

Zeta  Tau  Alpha 82.48 

Delta  Delta  Delta 82.13 

Alpha  Delta  Pi 82.11 

Alpha  Delta  Theta 81.29 

Delta  Zeta 74.34 


Unorganized  Students  _  77.71 


232  Butler  Alumnal.  Quarterly 


LIBERI 

The  above  appellation  is  the  name  chosen  by  undergraduates 
who,  upon  the  evening  of  December  8,  met  at  the  Delta  Tau  Delta 
House  and  organized  a  club  to  be  composed  of  children  of  alumni 
and  former  students  of  the  University,  Hence  the  appropriateness 
of  the  classical  name  for  Sons  and  Daughters.  The  officers  chosen 
were:  Dan  Armstrong,  president;  Mary  Ann  Huggins,  vice-presi- 
dent; Kathleen  Dyer,  secretary;  Harold  Hollingsworth,  treasurer; 
Kent  Dorman,  chairman  of  publicity ;  Miss  Katharine  M.  Graydon, 
sponsor. 

After  the  business  portion  of  the  program,  Mr.  Claris  Adams, 
ex- '10,  made  a  delightful  talk,  then  followed  a  social  period. 

The  charter  members  of  Liheri  are:  Dan  Armstrong,  son  of 
Howard  H.  Armstrong,  '06;  Marian  Barney,  daughter  of  Ennis 
Barney,  student  in  '91 ;  Brazier  and  Kent  Beecher,  grandsons  of 
"William  Jasper  Thompson,  student  in  '70 ;  Margaret  Bell,  daughter 
of  William  C.  Bell,  student  in  '99;  Mezzie  Dalton,  daughter  of 
Charles  Test  Dalton,  '97 ;  Kathleen  and  Rosemary  Dyer,  daughters 
of  John  A.  Dyer,  student  in  '97-  '98 ;  Richard  Kent  Dorman,  son  of 
Richard  Thomas  Dorman,  student  in  '66;  Elizabeth  and  Evelyn 
Carpenter,  granddaughters  of  J.  Q.  Thomas,  '71 ;  Katharine  Jane 
Fillmore,  daughter  of  Charles  M.  Fillmore,  '90 ;  Dorothy  C.  Foster, 
daughter  of  Guy  K.  Foster,  student  in  '98 ;  Harold  Hollingsworth, 
son  of  A.  A.  Hollingsworth,  student  in  '96- '98;  Mary  Ann  Hug- 
gins,  granddaughter  of  George  W.  Huggins,  student  in  '73-  '74,  and 
daughter  of  Emmett  S.  Huggins,  '03  and  Florence  Moore,  student 
in  '00-  '01 ;  Katharine  Reagan,  daughter  of  Myrtle  Van  Sickle,  '94 ; 
Janet  Rioch,  daughter  of  David  Rioch,  '98;  Allan  Shimer,  son  of 
James  T.  Shimer,  '91- '95;  Don  Sparks,  son  of  Pearl  Atchison, 
student  in  '96- '98 ;  Esther  Louise  Tilford,  daughter  of  Jessie  Louise 
Lockhart,  '97- '98;  Eugene  Taylor  Underwood,  son  of  Charles  E. 
Underwood,  '02 ;  Leef  e  Worth,  granddaughter  of  John  Young,  jfirst 
president  of  the  University. 


Phi  Kappa  Phi  Elections  23^ 


PHI  KAPPA  PHI  ELECTIONS 

It  is  the  custom  of  the  Phi  Kappa  Phi  National  Honorary  Society 
to  elect  members  twice  a  year — in  the  fall  and  again  in  the  spring. 
Accordingly,  the  Butler  Chapter  elected  in  November  the  following 
students  from  the  senior  class,  whose  credits  made  them  eligible. 
Edna  Mae  Thomas,  Janet  Rioch,  Shailer  Bass,  John  Perry,  Irma 
Ulrich,  Rebecca  Pitts,  Thomas  Jaleski,  Margaret  Pihl,  Paul  Ross, 
Florence  Hooper,  and  Paul  Fisk.  A  formal  announcement  of  their 
election  will  be  made  in  the  near  future  at  a  Junior  and  Senior 
chapel  exercise.  Their  initiation  will  not  take  place  until  in  the 
spring.  Meanwhile,  however,  they  will  be  granted  the  privilege  of 
wearing  the  official  badge. 

The  Alumni  Quarterly  felicitates  these  young  people  on  the 
high  standards  which  they  maintained  throughout  their  college 
courses,  and  which  insured  their  election  to  an  organization  of  the 
dignity  of  Phi  Kappa  Phi. 

The  biennial  convention  of  the  society  was  held  in  Kansas  City, 
December  31,  in  connection  with  the  convention  of  the  American 
Association  for  the  Advancement  of  Science,  with  which  it  is  affili- 
ated. Professor  Ray  C.  Friesner,  head  of  the  Botany  Department, 
acted  as  delegate  for  the  Butler  Chapter. 

The  granting  of  a  petition  for  a  chapter  at  Coe  College,  Cedar 
Rapids,  Iowa,  is  of  especial  interest  to  us  at  Butler  College  because 
one  of  our  own  members,  Maria  Leonard,  '06,  was  for  a  number  of 
years  Dean  of  Women  there.  The  installation  of  the  chapter  took 
place  on  December  17,  1925.  A  message  of  congratulation  was  sent 
from  the  Butler  Chapter. 


234  Butler  Alumnal  Quarterly 

THE  SECOND  HOOSIER  SALON  OF  THE  DAUGH- 
TERS OF  INDIANA 

Announcement  has  been  received  of  the  second  Hoosier  Salon  of 
the  Daughters  of  Indiana  to  be  held  in  the  Marshall  Field  Art 
Galleries,  Chicago,  March  8-20. 

The  Hoosier  Salon  was  the  result  of  a  desire  on  the  part  of  the 
Daughters  of  Indiana  of  Chicago  to  give  the  public  a  chance  to 
view  the  growth  of  Art  in  Indiana  during  the  past  twenty-five 
years.  It  seemed  time  for  the  high-class  and  worthwhile  character 
of  Indiana  art  to  be  brought  to  the  notice  of  a  large  appreciative 
public,  only  possible  in  a  city  like  Chicago. 

The  Daughters  of  Indiana  and  Earlham  Alumni  of  Chicago  acted 
as  sponsors.  The  works  of  one  hundred  fifty  artists  were  presented, 
and  in  addition  there  was  a  valuable  loan  collection  of  historical 
paintings,  portraits  of  famous  Hoosiers  and  cartoons  of  many 
celebrities. 

The  exhibit  was  opened  March  9,  1925,  with  an  evening  party  in 
the  Marshall  Field  and  Company  Picture  Galleries.  It  was  con- 
tinued through  March  19.  Crowds  viewed  the  pictures  every  day. 
Special  days  in  charge  of  the  Alumni  Associations  of  Indiana, 
Purdue,  DePauw  Universities  and  Earlham  College  were  featured. 

An  invitation  is  now  extended  to  all  the  artists  who  are  eligible 
to  prepare  work  for  the  next  exhibit,  March  8  to  20,  1926.  The 
Salon  will  be  sponsored  by  the  Daughters  of  Indiana,  members  of 
the  Indiana  Society  and  Alumni  Associations  of  the  University  of 
Indiana  and  Earlham  College. 

It  is  hoped  that  to  the  list  of  sponsoring  Alumni  Associations 
there  may  be  added  this  year  that  of  Butler  University.  It  is  also 
hoped  that  all  Butler  alumni  possible  will  show  their  appreciation 
of  this  movement  by  their  attendance. 

Communications  may  be  made  with  MRS.  C.  B.  KING,  3256 
Park  Avenue,  Chicago,  Chairman  of  Art  Committee,  Daughters  of 
Indiana.  Mrs.  Frank  F.  Hummel,  pleasantly  remembered  at  But- 
ler University,  is  also  member  of  this  committee. 


The  Butler  Drift  235' 

THE  BUTLER  DRIFT 

Butler's  1926  Drift  edited  by  Wilson  Daily  will  be  ready  for 
distribution  about  June  1.  This  year  book  has  several  sections 
reserved  for  alumni  news  and  pictures  in  addition  to  other  novel- 
ties. One  of  the  features  of  the  Drift  is  the  art  work.  Daily 
claims  that  many  unique  ideas  have  been  worked  in  the  art  of  his 
book.  Pictures  of  everyone  in  school  are  to  be  included  in  the 
annual  as  well  as  those  of  the  various  campus  activities.  Ralph 
Hitch  is  business  manager.  He  reports  that  the  Drifts  are  selling 
better  this  year  then  they  have  ever  sold  before. 


FACULTY  NOTES 

President  and  Mrs.  Aley  left  December  10  for  a  ten-weeks  visit 
to  California  and  Hawaii.  During  his  absence  Dr.  Aley  will  make 
addresses  at  several  teachers'  conventions. 

Mrs.  G.  H.  Shadinger  and  children  have  returned  home  after  a 
prolonged  stay  in  Colorado.  College  and  Irvington  friends  welcome 
them  heartily. 

National  conventions  during  the  holidays  were  attended  by  But- 
ler faculty  members  as  follows :  Professor  Friesner,  delegate  from 
the  Butler  chapter,  the  Phi  Kappa  Phi  meetings  at  Kansas  City; 
Dean  Evelyn  Butler,  the  Modern  Language  Association  in  Chicago ; 
Professor  J.  C.  Fucilla,  the  Romance  Language  Association  in  Chi- 
cago ;  Professor  G.  N.  Graham,  the  National  Association  of  Teachers 
of  Spanish  at  Columbus,  Ohio. 

Professor  H.  M.  Gelston,  head  of  Latin  Department,  was  elected 
president  of  the  Indiana  Inter-collegiate  conference  at  the  meeting 
of  that  organization  held  Saturday,  December  12,  at  the  Claypool 
hotel,  Indianapolis.  Twenty  colleges  were  represented  by  faculty 
members  and  coaches.  Mr.  Gelston  is  successor  to  Professor  Old- 
father  of  Wabash  College. 


236.  Butler  Alumnal  Quarterly 

Dean  and  Mrs.  J.  W.  Putnam  spent  the  Thanksgiving  recess  with 
their  son,  Russell  C.  Putnam,  '19,  and  family  at  Cleveland  where 
Mr.  Putnam  is  instructor  in  Electrical  Engineering  at  Case  School 
of  Applied  Science.  While  there  they  were  also  the  dinner  guests 
of  Professor  and  Mrs.  John  S.  Kenyon  of  Hiram  College  as  were 
also  Herman  Sheedy,  '20,  and  Lois  Blount  Sheedy,  '20.  Professor 
Kenyon  was  formerly  head  of  the  English  Department  of  Butler. 

Mrs.  Eugene  Fife  is  the  author  of  a  play.  We  Are  Thnee,  pub- 
lished in  The  Drama  in  October.  She  also  wrote  and  directed  the 
first  play,  What  Is  Wrong\f  to  be  produced  over  the  radio,  from 
Indianapolis.  Mrs.  Fife  supervised  the  production  of  a  pageant, 
based  on  Henry  Van  Dyke's  The  Other  Wise.  Man,  for  the  holiday 
program  of  the  Little  Theater  Society. 

In  The  New  Republic  of  December  30  appears  in  the  column 
of  '*  Correspondence "  a  communication  from  Alice  Bidwell  Wesen- 
berg  under  title  of  ''In  Justice  to  Mr.  Cummings."  The  writer 
of  the  article  sets  forth  in  clear  form  her  dissenting  reply  to  a 
criticism  in  a  former  issue  of  this  periodical  made  by  Walter  Kohn 
upon  the  recent  verse  of  E.  E.  Cummings. 

Mrs.  Wesenberg  is  a  keen  critic.  Her  opinions  are  worthy  of 
consideration  not  only  for  her  acquaintance  with  poetry,  but  also 
for  the  fact  that  she  herself  is  a  maker  of  verse. 

Miss  Anna  Weaver  of  the  Greek  department  is  spending  the  year 
at  the  American  School  of  Athens,  whence  she  writes  fascinating 
letters  to  her  friends  at  Butler.    Recently  she  has  said : 

"I  attend  lectures  in  German  every  Saturday  on  the  Acropolis 
and  Wednesday  at  the  German  School  by  Dr.  Doerpfeldt,  the  great- 
est living  excavator.  When  Dr.  Powers  introduced  him  as  such, 
he  replied,  'Ach  nein,  ich  habe  nur  das  Gliick  gehabt  zu  graben  wo 
etwas  war.' 

' '  Saturday  I  met  some  strangers  on  the  Acropolis  and  they  asked 
me  to  translate  something  a  Greek  workman  said.  One  of  the 
company  of  four  looked  strangely  familiar.  Later  I  was  delighted 
to  learn  that  they  were  the  United  States  Minister  to  Turkey  during  . 


Personal  Mention  237 

the  war,  his  wife,  and  Dr.  and  Mrs.  Harry  Emerson  Fosdick.  They, 
too,  were  going  to  Doerpfeldt's  lecture,  and  had  been  under  Mr. 
Miller's  escort.  Dean  Miller  asked  Dr.  Fosdick  to  preach  on  Mars 
Hill  to  the  members  of  the  school  and  he  graciously  consented;  so, 
beneath  the  oldest  cross  in  the  world  he  gave  one  of  the  best  ser- 
mons I  ever  heard — Creative  Force.  It  was  an  unforgettable  ex- 
perience, for  the  views  were  entrancing,  as  Hymettus  and  Pentel- 
icus  were  covered  with  the  first  snow  of  the  season,  and  there  was 
the  first  tang  of  the  cold  in  the  air.  Dean  Miller  read  the  17th 
chapter  of  The  Acts." 


PERSONAL  MENTION 

John  Metzger,  '25,  is  teaching  English  in  the  Senior  high  school 
of  Tampa,  Florida. 

Grover  J.  Little,  ex- '14,  is  secretary  of  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.,  of  the 
University  of  Illinois. 

Miss  Bessie  Power,  '08,  is  teaching  Latin  in  the  high  school  of 
Kendallville,  Indiana. 

B.  F.  Dailey,  '87,  and  Mrs.  Dailey  are  spending  the  winter  in 
San  Diego,  California. 

Miss  Vera  Morgan,   '19,  in  January  sailed  from  New  York  for 
a  tour  around  the  world. 

Mrs.  0.  O.  Carvin  (Corinne  T.  Thrasher,   '86)  has  returned  to 
Indianapolis  for  residence. 

Mrs.  Hope  W.  Graham,   '11,  is  teaching  English  in  the  Crane 
Junior  College  of  Chicago. 

Dr.  Earl  S.  McRoberts,  '17,  came  from  Chicago  to  be  with  his 
family  on  Christmas  Day. 

Henry  P.  Bruner,  '23,  now  located  in  Chicago,  spent  the  holidays 
with  his  parents  in  Irvington. 


238  Butler  Alumnal  Quarterly 

Gilbert  H.  Fern,  '12,  is  president  of  the  Missouri  Christian  Col- 
lege, Camden  Point,  Missouri. 

Mrs.  H.  L.  Schmalzried  (Muriel  Bniner,  15)  of  Wabash,  Indi- 
ana, recently  visited  the  College. 

Dr.  D.  W.  Layman,  '93,  after  a  prolonged  stay  in  Rochester,  Min- 
nesota, is  convalescing  in  Florida. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Robert  L.  Keiser  (Helen  M.  Reed.  '12)  are  located 
in  Cleveland  Park,  Washington,  D.  C. 

Mrs.  Maria  Frazee  Browning,  ex- '82,  is  spending  the  winter,  as 
for  several  years,  in  Orlando,  Florida. 

Miss  Esther  F.  Adams,  '25,  is  graduate  assistant  in  Botany  and 
Bacteriology  at  the  University  of  Missouri. 

Murray  Mathews,  '13,  is  located  at  Del  Monte,  California,  where 
he  is  auditor  of  the  noted  Hotel  Del  Monte. 

Miss  Blanche  Ryker,  '10,  during  the  autumn  has  been  confined 
to  her  home  in  Kokomo  on  account  of  illness. 

Philip  C.  Brown,  '23,  has  removed  to  Portland.  Oregon,  where 
he  is  secretary  of  the  Chamber  of  Commerce. 

Russell  C.  Putnam,  '19,  and  family  of  Cleveland,  Ohio,  spent  the 
Christmas  holidays  with  Dean  and  Mrs.  Putnam. 

Miss  Hazel  Harker,  '22,  is  at  her  home  in  Frankfort,  Indiana, 
on  a  year's  leave  of  absence  from  her  work  in  Japan. 

Mrs.  Charles  B.  Davis  ((Maude  Martin,  '12)  spent  the  holidays 
in  Miami,  Florida,  where  Mr.  Davis  is  now  located  in  business. 

Miss  Eleanor  P.  Wheeler,  a  former  student  of  Indianapolis,  is 
teaching  English  in  one  of  the  high  schools  of  New  York  City. 

Dean  J.  E.  Iddings,  head  of  the  School  of  Agriculture  of  the 
University  of  Idaho,  visited  old  Butler  College  friends  in  November. 

Mallie  J.  Murphy,  '08,  and  Mrs.  Murphy  (Mable  Gant,  '12)  and 
daughter  motored  from  Washington,  D.  C,  to  spend  the  holidays 
in  Indianapolis. 


Personal  Mention  239 

George  A.  Schumacher,  '25,  graduate  student  in  English  at  the 
University  of  Virginia,  spent  the  Christmas  holidays  at  his  home 
in  Indianapolis. 

Thomas  E.  Hibben  of  Daggett  and  Hibben,  architects  for  the 
new  College  buildings,  is  spending  the  winter  months  in  Santa 
Barbara,  California. 

Dana  H.  Richardson,  ex- '24,  has  resigned  his  pastorate  at  An- 
derson, Indiana,  and  taken  charge  of  the  Centenary  Christian 
Church  of  Indianapolis. 

Shelley  D.  Watts,  '00,  assistant  professor  of  Sociology  in  Indiana 
University,  has  been  transferred  to  Indianapolis  where  he  is  giving 
social  service  training  courses. 

Emmett  S.  Huggins,  '02,  and  Mrs.  Huggins  have  gone  to  St. 
Petersburg,  Florida,  for  the  winter  where  it  is  hoped  Mr.  Huggins' 
health  will  be  entirely  restored. 

Miss  Margaret  Bloor,  '19,  is  director  of  the  social  service  depart- 
ment of  the  City  Hospital  of  Indianapolis.  On  her  staff  of  co- 
workers is  Miss  Maurine  Jaquith,  '25. 

Miss  Cordelia  C.  Higgins,  '18,  is  connected  with  the  American 
Red  Cross  work  in  the  United  States  Veteran's  Hospital  located  at 
Castle  Point  on  the  Hudson  in  New  York. 

Miss  Maude  Nesbit,  '15,  who  since  graduation  has  been  in  the 
Indianapolis  Public  Library,  has  accepted  a  position  in  the  medical 
department  of  the  New  York  State  Library. 

Miss  Esther  Fay  Shover,  '00,  teacher  of  English  in  the  Arsenal 
Technical  high  school  of  Indianapolis,  has  been  out  of  school  since 
Thanksgiving  on  account  of  the  illness  of  her  mother. 

Miss  Agnes  Tilson,  '10,  is  spending  the  winter  at  Columbia 
University  where  she  is  working  upon  her  doctorate  in  education 
and  is  living  with  Miss  Lora  Hussey,  '10,  who  is  teaching  in  New 
York  City. 


240  Butler  Alumnal  Quarterly 

Dr.  Scott  R.  Edwards,  ex- '09,  is  director  of  the  Allison  Hospital 
of  North  Miami  Beach,  Florida.  This  medical  institution  was 
erected  by  James  A.  Allison,  of  Indianapolis,  at  the  cost  of 
$2,000,000. 

Miss  Ruth  V.  Hunter,  '23,  is  teaching  French  and  Italian  in  the 
Western  College  for  Women  of  Oxford,  Ohio.  Her  sister.  Miss 
Fern  L.  Hunter,  '23,  is  teaching  English  in  the  high  school  of  Sey- 
mour, Indiana. 

Miss  Clara  Mclntyre,  former  instructor  in  French  in  the  College 
but  now  of  the  English  Department  of  the  University  of  Wyoming, 
spent  the  holidays  with  Mr.  and  Mrs.  T.  C.  Howe,  '89,  and  other 
friends  in  Indianapolis. 

The  Katharine  Graydon  Club  was  entertained  at  luncheon  by 
Miss  Graydon  at  her  home  on  December  1.  For  the  annual  Christ- 
mas party  of  the  Butler  Alumnge  Club  Miss  Welling  was  hostess 
at  the  Propylaeum  on  December  26. 

Albert  R.  Tucker,  '15,  who  has  for  several  years  been  connected 
with  the  DuPont  Viscoloid  Company,  of  New  Jersey,  has  been  re- 
moved to  the  Indiana  territory  and  is  located  in  Noblesville,  In- 
diana, where  he  has  charge  of  the  Pyralin  Sheeting  Sales. 

Mrs.  Morton  M.  Milford  (Florence  B.  Moffet,  '17)  has  been 
elected  president  of  the  Kappa  Kappa  Gamma  Club  of  Miami, 
Florida,  Mrs.  A.  M.  Chamberlain  being  vice-president.  Mrs.  Tru- 
man T.  Felt  (Frances  Brubeck,  '23)  also  represents  Butler  College 
in  the  membership. 

A  playlet,  written  by  Miss  Grace  McGavran,  '19,  under  title  of 
''The  Shepherd  Who  Did  Not  Go,"  appeared  previous  to  the  Christ- 
mas season.  Miss  McGavran  took  her  Master 's  degree  last  June  in 
the  Department  of  Religious  Education  of  the  Boston  University, 
where  she  is  continuing  her  study. 

J.  Newton  Jessup,  '90,  of  Lafayette,  Indiana,  writes  that  plans 
on  a  largfe  scale  are  going  forward  for  the  thirty-sixth  anniversary 


Personal  Mention  241 

of  the  class  of  '90  at  the  commencemeiit  of  1926.  There  is  one 
unusual  thing  about  this  class  and  that  is  that  of  a  class  eighteen, 
all  are  living  at  the  present  time.  Correspondence  with  the  mem- 
bers of  the  class  will  begin  in  January  with  a  view  of  having  all 
present  in  June,  1926. 

Hilton  U.  Brown,  '80,  wrote  from  Shreveport,  Louisiana,  of  the 
Butler-Centenary  football  game  thus: 

Down  at  Shreveport  Butler  people  came  in  from  all  quarters. 
Lt.  Hez  McKellum,  U.  S.  Flying  Corps,  flew  over  from  San  Antonio 
to  the  game.  Baker,  from  somewhere  in  Arkansas,  who  used  to 
play  on  the  team,  came  down  as  full  of  youth  and  energy  as  ever. 
Talbert,  I  think,  teaches  in  the  Shreveport  schools.  Vandegriff, 
whose  home  is  on  Hemlock  avenue,  this  city,  and  who  is  in  the  oil 
business  in  Louisiana,  was  there  full  of  pep  and  loyalty.  Mark 
and  Arch  Brown  and  their  families  were  with  us,  and  several  of 
our  friends  were  sworn  in  as  allies  and  showed  all  the  zeal  of  con- 
verts. We  made  quite  a  respectable  showing,  all  having  seats  in- 
side the  field  and  beribboned.    Of  course,  also,  we  were  vociferous. 


MARRIAGES 

Lance-Shoemaker. — On  May  2,  1925,  were  married  in  Alexan- 
dria, Virginia,  Mr.  John  Fesler  Lance,  ex- '26,  and  Miss  Dorothy 
Shoemaker,  ex- '25.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Lance  are  living  in  Washington, 
D.  C. 

GiPSON-HiTCH. — In  August  were  married  Mr.  Henry  E.  Gipson, 
'24,  and  Miss  Doris  I.  Hitch,  '25.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Gipson  are  at 
home  in  Indianapolis. 

Dean-Scherer. — On  August  14  were  married  in  Indianapolis 
Mr.  Russell  Jennings  Dean,  '23,  and  Miss  Selma  Scherer.  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Dean  are  at  home  in  Indianapolis. 

Hall-Lucas. — On  November  4  were  married  in  Frankfort,  In- 
diana, Mr.  Robert  Hall,  son  of  Rev.  Thomas  A.  Hall,  '92,  and  Miss 
Martha  Lucas,  '24.    Mr.  and  Mrs.  Hall  are  at  home  in  Indianapolis. 


242  Butler  Alumnal  Quarterly 

Stephenson-Stockdale. — On  November  4  were  married  at  In- 
dianapolis Mr.  D.  M.  Stephenson  and  Miss  Mildred  E.  Stockdale, 
'25.    Mr.  and  Mrs.  Stephenson  are  at  home  in  Indianapolis. 

WooDS-BiNFORD. — On  November  16  were  married  in  Greenfield, 
Indiana,  Mr.  Gerald  E.  Woods,  '25,  and  Miss  Marjorie  B.  Binford. 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Woods  are  living  in  Florida. 

Eppert-Osborne — On  November  28  were  married  in  Indian- 
apolis Mr,  Marion  Randall  Eppert  and  Miss  Josephine  Osborne, 
'24.    Mr.  and  Mrs.  Eppert  are  at  home  in  Indianapolis. 

Dunbar-Dykes. — On  November  29,  were  married  in  North  Man- 
chester, Indiana,  Mr.  Willard  Parker  Dunbar  and  Miss  Irma 
Claire  Dykes,  '24.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Dunbar  are  at  home  in  Culver, 
Indiana. 

Shortridge-Painter. — On  November  30  were  married  in  Indian- 
apolis Mr.  Norman  Shortridge,  ex-  '21,  and  Miss  Lillian  M.  Painter, 
'22.    Mr.  and  Mrs.  Shortridge  are  at  home  in  Indianapolis. 

Steinfeld-McDonald. — On  December  24  were  married  in  Berke- 
ley, California,  Mr.  Lester  Albert  Steinfeld  and  Miss  Helen  Esther 
McDonald,  '21.    Mr.  and  Mrs.  Steinfeld  are  at  home  in  Berkeley. 

Manning- Wright. — On  December  29  were  married  in  Irvington 
Mr.  Frank  Leroy  Manning  and  Miss  Mabelle  Wright,  '20.  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Manning  are  at  home  in  Swedesboro,  New  Jersey. 


Births  243 

BIRTHS 

Badger. — To  Mr.  Everett  Badger,  ex- '15,  and  Mrs.  Badger,  on 
December  7,  in  Columbus,  Mississippi,  a  daughter — Joan. 

Barr. — To  Mr.  Albert  Kenneth  Barr,  '16,  and  Mrs.  Barr  in 
Chama,  New  Mexico,  on  June  6,  a  son — William  Edgar. 

Bass. — To  Mr.  Basil  N.  Bass,  '20,  and  Mrs.  Bass  in  New  York  on 
October  25,  a  son — Robert  Jordan. 

Buck. — To.  Dr.  Robert  W.  Buck,  '14,  and  Mrs.  Buck  in  Boston 
on  December  6,  a  daughter — Margaret  Anne. 

Elliott.— To  Mr.  Donald  F.  Elliott  and  Mrs.  Elliott  (Pauline 
Hoss,  '14)  on  January  13,  in  Kokomo,  Indiana,  a  daughter — Emily. 

Fry. — To.  Mr.  Kenneth  P.  Fry,  '20,  and  Mrs.  Fry,  in  Indian- 
apolis, on  January  3,  a  son — Byron  Famsworth. 

Johnson. — To  Mr.  and  Mrs.  William  Johnson  (Mary  Roy 
Thomson,  '19)  in  Indianapolis,  December  9,  a  daughter — Mary 
Sylvia. 

Lyda. — To  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Thomas  R.  Lyda  (Naomi  Baker,  '20)  in 
Indianapolis  on  November  28,  a  daughter — Joalyn  Rae. 

ERRATUM 

A  birth  announcement  in  the  last  issue  should  have  read: 
McGavran. — To.  Mr.  Donald  A.  McGavran,  '20,  and  Mrs.  McGav- 
ran  (Mary  Elizabeth  Howard  '22)  on  June  6  in  Naini  Tal,  India, 
a  daughter — Elizabeth  Jean. 


244  Butler  Alumnal  Quarterly 

DEATHS 

Clifford. — Miles  L.  Clifford,  '79,  died  at  his  home  in  Tacoma, 
Washington,  on  December  30,  and  was  buried  in  that  city  on 
January  2. 

The  above  announcement  has  been  made  at  the  College  as  the 
Quarterly  goes  to  press,  so  little  more  than  the  mere  fact  can 
be  reported  of  the  going  of  this  good  man. 

Judge  Clifford  was  a  brother  of  Vincent  Clifford  79,  of  Indian- 
apolis. Each  had  been  a  judge  of  the  superior  court  in  his  own 
state.  Vincent  Clift'ord,  younger  of  the  two,  died  several  years 
ago.  Members  of  his  family  still  are  living  in  Indianapolis.  There 
are  also  other  relatives,  including  Perry  H.  Clifford,  secretary- 
treasurer  of  the  Lesh  Paper  Company.  Miles  Clifford  was  born  in 
Rush  county  of  this  state  seventy-two  years  ago.  He  and  his 
brother  attended  Butler  College  and  were  graduated  there  in  1879 
in  the  class  of  Dr.  A.  W.  Brayton,  Demarchus  C.  Brown,  Joseph 
B.  Kealing  and  others.  After  his  graduation  he  read  law  in  this 
city  and  married  Miss  lona  Woollen.  Soon  thereafter  they  moved 
to  Tacoma,  where  they  have  lived  since.  More  than  twenty  year.^ 
ago  he  w^as  elected  judge  of  the  superior  court,  and  had  been  re- 
elected repeatedly,  serving  continuously  from  the  date  of  his  first 
election.  His  wife  and  two  sons,  both  of  whom  are  lawyers,  sur- 
vive him. 

A  letter  from  Mr.  Josephus  Peasley,  79,  classmate  of  Judge 
Clifford,  says:  *'It  will  surprise  you  to  learn  of  the  death  of  Miles 
Clifford,  of  Tacoma,  Washington.  Do  you  remember  him?  He  was 
in  most  of  your  classes,  especially  the  Greek  class  under  Professor 
John  0.  Hopkins,  other  members  being  yourself,  Mr.  Reynolds, 
Mr,  Thornton,  Miss  Janet  Moores,  Miss  Bizzanna  O'Connor  and 
myself,  if  I  remember  rightly. 

''Judge  Clifford  and  I  have  since  those  days  been  inseparable  in 
our  friendship,  and  his  departure  is  a  shock  to  me. 

"I  write  hurriedly  to  inform  you  and  trust  you  will  make  the  sad 
news  known  to  the  many  friends  who  loved  him  for  his  attain- 
ments and  sterling  character." 


Deaths  ^45 

DiTHMER. — Gertrude  Woodford  Dithmer,  ex-  '25,  died  on  Decem- 
ber 3  in  Indianapolis  after  a  brief  illness  and  was  buried  in  Crown 
Hill. 

Her  entire  life  had  been  spent  in  Indianapolis.  She  had  gradu- 
ated from  Public  School  No.  32  and  from  Shortridge  high  school. 
The  years  of  1923  and  1924  she  had  spent  at  Butler  College,  leav- 
ing to  take  up  the  study  of  law. 

Gertrude  loved  Butler  College,  holding  in  high  esteem  knowledge 
and  usefulness.  She  had  ideals  of  right  and  wrong,  was  fearless 
in  her  own  convictions,  conscientious  in  her  work,  and  in  nowise 
considerate  of  the  labor  she  placed  upon  that  work  so  that  it  be 
well  done.  Her  highest  desire  was  to  be  of  assistance  to  people  who 
had  been  given  less  than  she  had  been  given.  At  the  time  of  her 
death  she  was  assistant  to  Judge  William  Remy,  prosecutor  of 
Marion  County. 

Gilbert. — On  December  2  died  in  Oakland,  California,  Mrs.  Q. 
0.  Gilbert  (Margaret  Crockett,  ex- 17).  The  husband  and  a  six- 
year-old  son  survive. 

Little  has  been  known  at  College  of  Margaret  Crockett  since  she 
left  to  be  married — an  occasional  letter  telling  of  her  happiness,  a 
Christmas  card  expressing  a  loving  remembrance,  then  silence — 
now  the  Great  Silence.  She  was  a  beautiful  character  and  her 
memory  in  some  recitation  rooms  is  as  fragrant  as  violets.  She  wa>i 
needed  here;  her  taking  would  intimate  she  was  needed  more  else- 
where. 

Myers. — Rev.  John  Peter  Myers,  who  received  his  Master's  de- 
gree from  Butler  College  in  1903,  died  in  Lantana,  Florida,  on 
November  22.    He  is  survived  by  his  widow  and  four  children. 

Ryker. — Blanche  Avon  Ryker,  '10,  died  in  Kokomo,  Indiana,  on 
January  25,  and  was  buried  on  the  27th  in  the  cemetery  of  Nor- 
manda.    The  Quarterly  extends  its  tender  sympathy  to  the  mother 
and  sister.    With  Shakespeare's  stricken  king  it  too  cries, 
' '  Oh,.  Cordelia,  Cordelia !     Stay  a  little ! ' ' 

Born  and  reared  in  the  Normanda  neighborhood,  Miss  Ryker 
from  early  girlhood  revealed  a  mind  of  exceptional  quality  and 


246  Butler  Alumnal  Quarterly 

evihced  the  enthusiasm  of  the  boni  student.  Completing  her  work 
in  the  public  schools,  she  entered  Butler  College.  There  she  imme- 
diately became  an  outstanding  student,  her  work  being  marked  not 
only  by  conscientious  endeavor  but  real  brilliance. 

In  the  autumn  of  1910,  Miss  Ryker  began  service  in  the  English 
department  of  the  Kokomo  high  school.  The  period  of  her  con- 
nection with  the  school  was  fifteen  years.  For  the  last  ten  years 
she  had  been  the  head  of  the  department.  Of  the  quality  of  her 
work  only  praise  can  be  uttered.  Admirably  grounded  in  the  study 
in  which  she  specialized,  she  carried  forward  her  teaching  with 
an  ardent  love  for  it,  imparting  to  her  classes  something  of  her 
own  enthusiasm  and  maintaining  her  department  at  as  high  a 
standard  as  can  be  claimed  for  any  high  school  in  the  state. 

With  her  fine  mental  gifts  and  special  aptitude  for  teaching  was 
coupled  a  personality  that  was  at  once  gracious,  charming  and 
beautiful.  She  was  ever  a  radiant  presence,  a  lovable  figure.  No 
one  of  the  hundreds  of  young  men  and  women  who  caught  inspira- 
tion from  her  precept  and  example,  but  will  have  a  keen  sense  of 
personal  loss  in  the  knowledge  that  she  is  no  more.  Not  one  of 
them  but  will  carry  her  image  among  the  most  precious  of  mem- 
ory's keepsakes  as  long  as  life  shall  last. 

Something  of  the  zeal  of  Miss  Ryker  as  a  student  is  revealed  by 
the  fact  that  she  had  supplemented  her  fine  foundation  laid  in 
Butler  with  a  post-graduate  course  in  Columbia  university,  New 
York,  from  which  institution  she  received  a  Master  of  Arts  degree 
in  1923.  Two  years  ago  she  was  called  back  to  Butler  to  be  made 
a  member  of  the  Phi  Kappa  Phi  honorary  fraternity. 

The  above  excerpt  is  taken  from  the  Kokomo  Tribune  of  January 
25,  as  also  the  following  editorial  appreciation  in  which  sentiment 
the  class  of  1910  and  all  Butler  College  friends  feelingly  partici- 
pate: 

To  the  entire  high  school  circle  of  Kokomo  and  to  all  others  who 
knew  her,  the  death  of  Miss  Blanche  Ryker,  head  of  the  depart- 
ment of  English,  has  brought  the  shadow  of  a  great  sorrow  and  the 
pain  of  a  personal  bereavement. 


Deaths  247 

Stricken  four  months  ago  in  the  full  flower  of  her  fine  woman- 
hood, destined  to  the  anguish  of  a  torturing  illness,  failing  gradu- 
ally and  finally  falling,  her  passing  leaves  every  acquaintance  under 
the  bewilderment  of  a  dismaying  mystery. 

Why  should  such  an  one,  in  whom  there  was  so  much  of  the 
goodness  and  helpfulness  and  wisdom  and  worth  that  this  sad  old 
world  so  sorely  needs,  be  taken  so  early  in  her  usefulness  and 
through  so  agonizing  an  illness  ?  Before  the  query  we  stand  singu- 
larly puzzled,  hopelessly  perplexed.  No  philosophy  quite  serves  to 
clear  the  question. 

One  thing,  however,  we  know  well.  We  know  that  something  of 
the  superlative  fineness  of  her  character,  something  of  the  irresisti- 
ble winsomeness  of  her  womanhood,  something  of  the  inescapable 
charm  of  her  presence,  will  abide  with  all  with  whom  she  served  and 
with  all  to  whom  she  so  wisely  and  well  gave  guidance,  as  long  as 
memory  lasts.  The  influence  of  such  a  life  is  never  lost.  All  unsus- 
pectedly  it  will  flower  over  and  over  again  in  the  far  years  of  the 
future,  in  the  lives  of  those  whom  her  life  has  beautified  and 
blessed. 

As  for  the  rest  of  the  mystery,  we  can  only  await  its  unfolding 
beyond  the  portals  through  which  she  has  passed.  Right  well  it 
will  become  us  if  we  can  meet  the  issue,  whatever  it  may  be,  with 
as  fine  a  readiness,  as  beautiful  a  patience  and  as  serene  a  faith  as 
did  she. 

Sellers. — Rev.  William  Taylor  Sellers,  '75,  died  at  the  age  of 
seventy-six  years  at  his  home  in  Indianapolis  on  November  15,  and 
was  buried  in  Franklin,  Indiana.  He  is  survived  by  his  widow 
and  three  children,  six  brothers  and  three  sisters. 

Mr.  Sellers  was  widely  known  throughout  Indiana  in  the  circle 
of  the  Disciples  of  Christ  Church,  having  held  pastorates  in  Edin- 
burg,  Scottsburg,  Brazil,  as  well  as  several  in  Kansas. 


248  Butler  Alumnal  Quarterly 

OUR  CORRESPONDENCE 

In  the  last  issue  of  the  Quakterly  attention  of  the  alumni  was  called  to 
the  suggestion  made  last  June  of  changing  the  date  of  Founders'  Day  from 
February  7  to  November  1.  The  occasion  being  a  day  of  alumni  observance, 
it  was  thought  the  alumni  might  be  interested  in  the  movement,  and  expres- 
sion was  called  for  this  number.  One  reply  has  come  in  so  sanely  appreciative 
of  the  situation,  so  loyal  to  the  spirit  of  the  College,  that  it  is  herewith 
given. 

Irene  B.  Hunt.  '10: 

January  3,  1926,  Spokane,  Washington. 

The  last  Quarterly  urges  alumni  to  send  their  opinions  coneern- 
mg  the  proposed  change  of  Founders'  Day  date.  I  wish  to  give 
mine  for  what  it  is  worth. 

Founders'  Day,  whether  February  7  or  November  1,  should  pre- 
sent a  single  issue,  it  seems  to  me.  A  division  of  interests  on  either 
date  in  order  to  secure  larger  gatherings  can  but  weaken  the 
cause — to  keep  alight  the  flame  of  remembrance  of  the  founders. 
As  Thanksgiving  has  lost  some  of  its  significance  to  the  young  gen- 
eration, so  will  Founders'  Day  lose  some  measure  of  its  meaning 
in  years  to  come,  if  we  try  to  observe  in  one  day  two  distinct  reasons 
for  celebration.  Each  cauvse  is  so  worthy  in  itself,  why  weaken  both 
by  joining  them?  Shall  we  not  only  be  trying  to  achieve  unity 
of  thought  in  one  day  when  by  the  very  nature  of  the  two  ideas 
our  thoughts  are  divided?  The  idea  of  Founders'  Day  is  the 
honoring  of  those  now  gone  or  no  longer  active  in  the  life  of  Butler 
College;  that  of  Home-coming  Day  is  the  joyous  reunion  of  the 
living  and  the  rencAval  of  youthful  interests  in  that  most  thrilling 
sport — football.  Each  cause  is  sufficient  in  itself  to  justify  its 
own  particular  day.  Surely  a  great  institution  like  Butler  College 
can  have  two  annual  days  equally  worthy  of  observance ! 

I  realize  I  am  speaking  from  theory  more  than  those  may  who 
attend  one  or  both  days  each  year.  My  location  on  the  Pacific 
coast  makes  attendance  impossible ;  so,  really  those  Avho  can  and 
do  attend  should  decide  the  important  matter.  However,  I  feel 
that  we  should  think  of  the  future  attitude  of  the  younger  people 
toward  the  founders.     At  present  they  perhaps  hear,  sometimes, 


Our  Correspondence  249 

speakers  who  knew  personally  those  honored  by  the  day.  In  a 
few  years,  students  mil  hear  of  these  persons  only  by  tradition. 
If  they  hear  the  names  in  November  on  a  day  when  their  minds 
are  already  much  engaged  with  more  immediate  issues,  I  doubt 
if  they  feel  much  reality  attaching  to  Butler 's  roll  of  honor  of  early 
leaders.  I  love  football  games.  I  also  love  Founders'  Day  and 
am  thankful  that  I  learned  to  respect  the  idea  back  of  the  occasion 
made  year  after  year  so  beautiful  at  my  Alma  Mater.  But  I  do 
not  wish  to  see  the  two  occasions  united. ' ' 


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