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 VOL. XIII NOVEMBER, I, 1914 NO. 6 
 
 Undergraduate Life 
 at Ohio Wesleyan 
 
 Described by Undergraduates 
 
 ISSUED BI-MONTHLY 
 
 Entered February 24, 1902, at Delaware, Ohio, as Second-Class Matter, undei 
 Acft of Congress, July 16, 1894. 
 
President Herbert Welch 
 
The Twenty-Second 
 
 H ELLO, there ! certainly glad to welcome you to Delaware ; especial- 
 ly to-day, for you will have a better opportunity to get a glimpse of 
 college life on February 22nd than at any other time, for Washing- 
 ton’s Birthday is, next to Commencement, the big day of the year, and you 
 will find Delaware crowded with alumni, who have made the holiday an 
 occasion for visiting their Alma Mater. 
 
 As we ride into town from the station in one of Delaware’s far- 
 famed one-man street cars, we get some idea of this city of 1 0,000 in which 
 Ohio Wesleyan is situated. A square or two from the station you will get, 
 across “Daffodil Run,’’ a hasty view of the women’s campus, of Monnett 
 Hall, which is the women’s dormitory, of the new Sanborn Hall (of 
 Music), and of the Art Hall; while on the hill above us, on the other side 
 of the line, is the Perkins Observatory, named after its donor, who retired 
 but recently from a half-century of service in Ohio Wesleyan University. 
 
 And now we are at the University proper, as we might infer not only 
 from the buildings but from the twelve-foot red-and-black Ohio Wesleyan 
 banner streaming beneath the stars and stripes from the flag-staff before us. 
 
 You may have studied the official catalogue and learned that the col- 
 lege has good things to offer in the way of curriculum. Here and now you 
 begin to sense another and a very important side of college life in which you 
 are vitally interested — the undergraduate experiences which may be yours 
 in these four most impressionable years of your entire life. So keep eyes and 
 ears alert during this brief visit to the college, which you may later choose 
 as your college. 
 
 Washington’s Birthday is Ohio Wesleyan’s “homecoming’’ day, when 
 alumni, faculty and students all gather about the big family festal board. 
 The festivities proper begin at noon, with a monster luncheon, at which 
 1 200 college people, together with a few favored prospective students, are 
 seated, while several hundred have to be satisfied to sit in the gallery as 
 spectators. 
 
 As it is almost noon, we had better be moving toward the Gymna- 
 sium where the luncheon is to be served. Before we seat ourselves, sup- 
 pose we go up onto the running track and look at the scene below. On 
 the main floor fifty snowy tables are being rapidly filled and the waitresses 
 are travelling back and forth like bees. The undergraduates are seated by 
 classes, and the Seniors in their somber caps and gowns are in severe and 
 impressive contrast to the gay colors all about them. At the faculty tables 
 
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may be seen gray-haired professors whose names have become traditions in 
 the college, and many old alumni who since graduation have become fam- 
 ous in public life. 
 
 The aroma of appetizing food warns us that we had better take our 
 places below, where we can gain a better view of the balcony and walls 
 festooned with class and college colors. Between the courses and before 
 you hear the speeches, you will enjoy the best specimens of undergraduate 
 wit and originality exhibited during the year. This takes the form of 
 “stunts,” which furnish a sort of passing review of the more humorous 
 elements of college life, each class competing against the others for the 
 prize. Interspersed with these, come selections by the Glee Club, Women’s 
 Choral Club, and the Varsity Quartet. The banquet is brought to a close 
 by speeches. The Senior class is represented by one of the young women; 
 then comes a Junior, and last the main address of the afternoon. Among 
 recent speakers have been Mayor Baker of Cleveland, President Sparks 
 of Pennsylvania State College, and Governor Willis. 
 
 Tonight you will get a glimpse of another kind of the good times 
 which characterize Ohio Wesleyan; — the great Gymnastic Carnival, or 
 athletic demonstration under the direction of the physical education de- 
 partment. As the crowd will approximate 2000 and fill the “Gym” to 
 its capacity, it behooves us to get there as early as possible. 
 
 As we enter, the college band is playing. Every member of the 
 band, including the leader, is an undergraduate, and practically the full 
 quota of music-producing instruments is represented. If you play on any 
 instrument, you must bring it with you when you come next year. The 
 University furnishes instruction and some of the instruments, and the 
 athletic association sees that the band is not only admitted to home games, 
 but is taken along on many of the big contests with neighboring colleges. 
 
 The Carnival proper opens with heavy apparatus work. It may 
 seem incredible that a college man should be able to perform the tricks of 
 a professional acrobat, but the execution of flip-flops, giant swings, and 
 other circus “thrillers” shows that the tricks of this trade may be mastered 
 even in college. Folk dances and intricate drills by the girls make a de- 
 lightful addition to the program and give an idea of the kind of work done 
 in the Women’s Physical Culture Department. 
 
 With the conclusion of these gymnastic numbers comes the basket-ball 
 game, heralded by the yells and cheers of the crowd. As the red and 
 black team comes on the floor each member is greeted with a cheer, and 
 throughout the entire game there is a running fire of encouragement on the 
 part of the enthusiastic “rooters.” But despite the fact of the enormous 
 crowd, you will note the spirit of fair play, which recognizes the courtesy 
 due to a visiting team, and causes the crowd to refrain from cheering dur- 
 ing the throwing of fouls. 
 
 The referee’s whistle blows and Carnival and game are over. Wes- 
 
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 The Campus after Chapel. Cray Chapel in the center. The Library and Sturges Hall to right. Science Hall to left 
 
leyan has won. “There will be a big celebration at Monnett,” yells the 
 cheer leader and everybody makes a break for the door. We follow the 
 crowd. Monnett Hall, the home of the girls, is but a fifteen minute walk 
 from the Gym, and when we get there the preparations are well under 
 way. Three or four wagons, whisked mysteriously from some alley, rum- 
 ble up, piled high with boxes and barrels. Mounted insecurely upon the 
 top is the directing spirit, who is shouting orders to the half-score of men 
 who furnish the motive power below. The hill is achieved with a rush, 
 and almost before the wagons are backed into place the boxes are un- 
 loaded and a match applied. The band, which has been straggling along 
 playing something to the effect that “The gang’s all here,’’ strikes up an 
 impromptu air, and by the time a roaring blaze lights up the scene, we find 
 ourselves on the inside of a surging, gleeful circle, which is kept by the vigor 
 of the bonfire at a respectful distance. 
 
 The yell leader mounts a rickety box, and calls for a few yells to 
 start the ball rolling. After the crowd has paid a vociferous tribute to 
 the men who won the game, the leader calls them out from the crowd 
 and they are pushed forward into the limelight for speeches. That inde- 
 scribable feeling of mixed loyalty and pride which thrills the hero who is 
 suddenly the center of the jollification, lingers ineffaceably in his memory. 
 Some day you will perhaps stand in his place, and then you will realize 
 what it means. Between songs, “Prexy’’ and the coaches are called upon 
 for short speeches. From their vantage points on the big porch, the steps 
 and the surrounding windows, the girls are now singing some of their songs. 
 With the dying out of the bonfire comes the realization that almost an hour 
 has passed, and in the sinuous and hilarious snake dance now forming we 
 make our retreat. 
 
 Such occasions make a college life rich in memories, and something 
 is gained there which will long remain. But, since you are to remain over 
 tomorrow, to get a glimpse of the everyday routine of college life, we must 
 get some sleep, so that we may be up in plenty of time in the morning. 
 
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Edwards Gymnasium 
 
 Perkins Observatory 
 
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Monnett Hall 
 
 M ON NETT HALL is as much a part of Ohio Wesleyan as is the 
 Gym. You must see it, but no mere man would venture into that 
 domain alone; so we take on one of the girls as a pilot. Let her 
 be guide and protector as well as friend. 
 
 At the celebration bonfire last night we saw the dim outlines of Mon- 
 nett Hall, a long shadowy building with a multitude of blazing windows, 
 the white porch crowded with girls whose faces were glowing in the firelight. 
 There it is by daylight, their irregular, romantic old “Sem,” festooned with 
 woodbine and shadowed by oaks and maples growing as Nature planted 
 them. 
 
 You should see the campus on Monnett Day, when the girls form one 
 long white procession, winding among the trees to the music of the “Spring 
 Song.” Then comes the crowning of the May Queen, the fantastic festive 
 dances, the pageant, the play and the May-pole. As we stand here at 
 the front gate, can you not imagine all the color and gaiety of that day? 
 
 As we approach the campus we see on our right Lyon Hall with its 
 round gray stone tower. It accomodates the School of Fine Arts, in which, 
 besides regular courses in drawing and painting, a special study is made of 
 home decoration. The rear of the building contains the new laboratories 
 for the courses in Home Economics. On our left is Sanborn Hall, a model 
 of classical beauty within and without. It is the home of the School of 
 Music, and contains, besides rooms for administration, instruction and prac- 
 tice, an exquisite little auditorium where concerts and lectures are given. 
 
 Now we follow the broad walk leading from the gate to Monnett 
 porch. We pass through tangles of girls bidding adieu to the gallant es- 
 corts who have carried their books, and enter the main corridor. The door 
 to your left is that of Mrs. Newberry, Associate Dean of Women. In 
 other days it was the door of awe and mystery, behind which many an un- 
 happy culprit faced her trial and met her punishment. 
 
 But now the halls have student government, under which the girls 
 make their own laws and fix their own punishments. Says our guide, “A 
 committee made up of undergraduates elected from each class, with a 
 Senior for presiding officer, is the chief means of preserving order among 
 the three hundred girls in Monnett Hall and the larger cottages in town. 
 Each corridor in the Hall and each cottage elects a Proctor, whose business 
 it is to see that we are in our rooms by nine-thirty and turn our lights out 
 by ten. Seniors and Juniors have what we call two ‘nights out’ a week, 
 
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Canoe Race on the Olentaney 
 
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and Sophomores have one, but everybody has to register where she is going 
 in the little black student government book that lies on the Hall table. Of 
 course every one is permitted to attend all college affairs, unless she is ‘on 
 probation’ for abuse of privileges. Aside from the fact that we get into 
 trouble if we attempt to evade these more or less simple rules, college 
 spirit demands that this organization have the loyal support of every girl 
 in college.” 
 
 As we walk along the main corridor, on the walls of which are photo- 
 graphs of the world’s great pictures, we pass the big parlor where quiet 
 self-conscious couples sit in conspicuous isolation from each other. A 
 little further on is the Y. W. C. A., whose members will give the new 
 girls a cordial welcome when they come to stay next year. Practically 
 every Monnett girl belongs to the Christian Association. Our conduc- 
 tor again takes up the story: 
 
 ‘‘This Association is the conserver of the idealisms of fine living and 
 high thinking among the girls. How I wish you could go with me to one of 
 the Sunday night meetings, where a couple of hundred girls come rever- 
 ently together for worship in the soft evening twilight, and talk over to- 
 gether in one big family all the things that concern our college activities, 
 informing the whole with true Christian spirit. From the minute the new 
 girl enters the college circle she feels this protecting Christian atmosphere. 
 The Association not only gives inspiration for finer living, but also through 
 its various committees affords opportunity for practical Christian service. 
 The Association publishes the college calendar, and from the proceeds sends 
 eighteen or twenty girls to the big summer conference at Eaglesmere, where, 
 along with girls from eighty other colleges, they spend the most profitable 
 and delightful two weeks imaginable. 
 
 ‘‘Further cn we enter the loggia, an exquisite nook where some of our 
 art treasures are kept. There too is the silver cup which was given to the 
 girls for a basket-ball trophy. Upon it are engraved the names of the 
 victorious classes in that most exciting event, the girls’ annual basket-ball 
 tournament. On this occasion each class presents its team and mascot in 
 picturesque parade, and some stunt vibrant with the spice of college life. 
 They put almost as much effort into outsinging and outyelling each other 
 as into winning the games. 
 
 ‘‘Tennis, too, is a popular game at Monnett, especially in the cool 
 spring mornings. Besides instruction in outdoor sports and in the teaching 
 of games for playground work, our women’s physical culture department 
 affords training with wand, dumb-bell and club, with particular emphasis 
 upon folk-dancing, such as you saw at the Carnival. 
 
 ‘‘We shall have time to go upstairs before dinner. I wish you to 
 see the halls of the literary Societies, because we are proud, both of their 
 artistic decorations and their noble history. The girls have three societies 
 and there is considerable rivalry between them. And then there is the big 
 
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Lyon Art Hall 
 
 Sanborn Hall of Music 
 
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study-hall on the third floor, where we have a generous part of the college 
 library, and long tables where we can work unmolested. 
 
 “And here we are at our cozy suite with its gay pennants and pictures 
 and cushions. Doesn’t its very atmosphere make you think of jolly songs 
 and sumptuous feeds, and masquerade parties of every kind? On Hallow 
 e’en the whole house has a masquerade — a ghost party down in the dim. 
 spooky, interminable basement. 
 
 “And now the bell rings for dinner and we must hurry in order to be 
 in on time. Did you ever see such a flock of girls? They fairly overflow 
 stairway and corridor. More than three hundred of us sit down together 
 in this big dining room every day. One of our most memorable occasions 
 is the breakfast on Easter Morning, when we come from the sunrise prayer 
 meeting, all in white, two by two into the dining room. The tables are gay 
 with ferns and daffodils and at each place is a card of greeting from the 
 
 Y. W. C. A. 
 
 “I wish I had time to take you all over the house and let you see the 
 girls as they live, — making fudge in the “Curling Room,’’ ironing party 
 dresses on the coffin box, trimming hats and crocheting lace, all between 
 quizzes and themes and collateral. Then you would see the primary pur- 
 pose of Monnett Hall and its activities, the making of noble friendships 
 that shall be an inspiration all our lives.’’ 
 
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the Firelight at Monnett Hall 
 
On the Campus 
 
 T HE Twenty Second has gone into history and today the college goes 
 back to its ordinary routine. You notice as you enter the campus 
 at 8:35, converging lines of students hurrying from all parts of the 
 town to the morning chapel service. As we cross the new stone plaza, with 
 its broad flat seats, to the base of the flight of stairs leading to the main en- 
 trance of Gray Chapel, we jostle our way through the gay crowd coming 
 from the first hour classes. 
 
 For the best view of the chapel we go to the balcony of the big chapel 
 proper. The room is an immense quarter-circle with a colored glass dome 
 surmounting the arch of the ceiling, from which hangs a large American 
 flag. A balcony extends along the circumference; the platform, also a 
 quarter-circle, extends out into the main body of the auditorium, while 
 directly behind it is the immense organ. Below us are the students, grouped 
 by classes, the Seniors in the center, the Freshmen on their right and the 
 Juniors and Sophomores on their left. 
 
 On the platform sits the Faculty, ranging from the gray-haired, — nay, 
 even bald-headed, professors in the front rows to the young instructors in 
 the rear. As Prexy enters the platform from the door at the rear, the 
 final bell rings, the janitors close the doors, the prelude on the organ ceases 
 and the noise of the assemblage dies away. After the Doxology comes 
 the reading of the notices of the day — club meetings, department notices, 
 athletic announcements, and a hundred and one items which are of interest 
 to the students and faculty. The last notice calls for a “mass meeting of 
 students and faculty after Chapel.’’ After this comes the devotional exer- 
 cises with a short talk by Prexy. 
 
 To the student who daily faces the chapel platform no keener en- 
 joyment comes than from watching the familiar figure of Prexy. Around 
 his personality centers the entire spirit of the whole service, which without 
 him loses much of its value and interest. His earnestness and kindliness 
 make the students feel that not only is he their friend, but that through 
 him they have somehow entered into membership in the body of Ohio 
 Wesleyan folk which comprises faculty and alumni as well as under- 
 graduates. 
 
 Dr. Welch is eminent as an executive, a scholar, and a speaker. 
 The Methodist Church has made him President of the Educational Board 
 of the National Freedmen’s Aid Society, and he is also at the head of 
 the Ohio Association of Charities and Correction. Under his direction the 
 endowment was recently increased a half-million dollars, and now that a 
 
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Sturges Hall — For Chemistry 
 
goal of an additional $600,000.00 has been set, he has started out in 
 his characteristic way to attain it before the Diamond Jubilee in 1919, — the 
 Seventy-Fifth Anniversary of the founding of the College. 
 
 Very often President Welch is quoted in the newspapers. Recently 
 he issued a series of letters to the alumni on “The Five Assets of a College’’ 
 which attracted considerable favorable comment. The Ohio State Journal 
 has the following to say about one of them: 
 
 “We have before us a circular signed by President Herbert Welch, 
 of Ohio Wesleyan University, and addressed ‘to the sons and daughters 
 from the alma mater.’ To show its import and purpose we quote a para- 
 graph or two from it as follows : 
 
 “ ‘More important than wealth, inviting campus, stately and commod- 
 ious buildings, and all other material equipment, is the faculty. Its mem- 
 bers are to be in continual and (it is to be hoped) intimate contact with 
 the students. 
 
 “ ‘The faculty should be composed of people who possess not only 
 scholarship, but a real enthusiasm for learning. They should have teach- 
 ing skill ; they should be of vigorous and attractive personality, sound 
 character, wise habits, and a sincere interest in young people and in their 
 moral and religious, as well as their intellectual welfare.’ 
 
 “This message of President Welch is like a fresh breeze across the 
 educational field. It speaks well for his university, and to all thoughtful 
 educators it should prove an inspiration and a hope. A man ought to want 
 his boy or girl to get within the sphere of such an influence.’’ 
 
 The devotional exercises over, the mass meeting begins. The Presi- 
 dent of the student body leaves his seat in the Senior section, and takes 
 the place of Prexy behind the desk on the platform. The student band, 
 seated in the far corner of the balcony, strikes up the strains of “Delaware, 
 the Beautiful,’’ and the song leader joins his classmate on the platform. 
 
 It is the day before the big basket-ball game with Denison, and the 
 meeting has been called to prepare for this biggest home game of the season ; 
 — the game which, if won, will bring the red and black to the front as a 
 contender for the State Championship. The cheerleader also jumps upon the 
 platform and by his athletic gyrations directs the cheering of the students, 
 while Professor Dixon, head of the Physical Education Department, and 
 Coach of the basket-ball team, steps forward to make a speech. He is 
 followed by the members of the team, who are cheered again and again. 
 The meeting ends with the singing of “Ohio Wesleyan,’’ for the chapel 
 bell announces that the next recitation starts in ten minutes. 
 
 As we descend the steps to the main floor of Gray Chapel, a song, 
 “My Girl’s Too Good For You, She’s From O. W. U.,’’ begins some- 
 where in the corridor below and at once hundreds of voices take up the 
 tune. Yells and more songs seem to spring up from nowhere in particular 
 
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The Debate Team which won against Colgate. One of five teams engaged in inter- 
 collegiate debate this year 
 
 The Band 
 
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and continue until the good-natured and fast dissolving mass has scattered 
 in all directions to class-room duties. 
 
 Student Government is developed about as far at Ohio Wesleyan as 
 at any college in the country, and yet each year finds the students taking 
 over some additional phase of administration. The entire student body 
 elects a President, who takes charge of all student meetings and confers 
 with the Faculty authorities on matters of common interest. The student 
 body has legislative functions and the Honor Court is the judicial body 
 which attends to all violations of the Honor Code. You see, the Honor 
 System is in vogue here. In examinations the instructors leave the room 
 and the student is placed entirely upon his honor. 
 
 Election to almost all offices, including the managerships of teams, 
 etc., are held the first week in May, and a primary system, with printed 
 ballots, makes the elections very much like those of civic life. 
 
 A recent innovation which seems very successful is the Budget System, 
 whereby a fee of $5.00 per year is paid into a general fund, and admission 
 to all games, debates, etc. is made open to all. The plan is much cheaper 
 in the long run, and promotes good attendance at games. It is possible that 
 gradually the Budget will be broadened to include many other student 
 activities. 
 
 On the big 1 5-foot bulletin board in the corridor is a humorous figure 
 in gorgeous colors announcing the play to be given by the Histronic Club. 
 The players are trained by the intructors in the Department of Oratory, 
 and the popular plays which the Club annually produces are often said to 
 rival those of professional companies. 
 
 Nor is this the only student activity which the Department of Oratory 
 fosters, for the records of the debate teams, for eighteen years undefeated 
 on the home floor, show the quality of its coaching. Counting debates on 
 foreign floors as well, Wesleyan has a record of 31 victories out of 44 de- 
 bates, a record which will help you to understand how so many graduates 
 of Ohio Wesleyan have become famous as orators in pulpit, court room and 
 legislature. 
 
 Then there is the Science Club, the Philosophical Club, the Oxford 
 Club for prospective ministers. The three honorary fraternities. Delta 
 Sigma Rho, Gamma Phi and Pi Delta Epsilon, are organized to keep up 
 the standard of oratory, gymnastics and journalism respectively. 
 
 I suppose you have heard of the famous Sulphur Spring. The senti- 
 ment and historical tradition centering around the spring have made it a 
 shrine to Wesleyan people, and at alumni gatherings hundreds of miles 
 away a jug of water from the old spring will grace the banquet board. 
 Because of its healthful properties the old Mansion house, later to be the 
 home of the new college, first came into existence as a health resort back in 
 the Forties. From the beginning its “flowing bowl’’ has been the theme of 
 song and story, and it is whispered that many who have found their life 
 
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Junior Basket Ball Team 
 
 Freshman Class Football Team 
 
 Class teams in the different sports give opportunity for many to participate in athletics 
 
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companions here in college days have plighted their troth beside its bubbling 
 tide. 
 
 Around the spring, too, centers much of the strenuous rivalry exhibited 
 at the beginning of the year between the two lower classes. Its bowl has 
 been the impromptu bathing place of many a struggling Freshman or Soph- 
 omore, for it is known as the official ducking place. Hazing, as often 
 described, does not exist here, but there is naturally a traditional antagonism 
 between the lower classes which the spring sometimes has been called 
 upon to cool. 
 
 It is the eventful first few weeks of the college year to which most of 
 the interclass hostilities are confined. Guerilla warfare, following the 
 tyrannous mandates of the Sophomores, who impose numerous indignities 
 upon the incoming class, (orders which are faithfully disobeyed), is prev- 
 alent in many guises for the first few days. In order to bring affairs to a 
 head, a series of interclass contests are arranged for the second and third 
 Saturdays of the school year. On the second Saturday come the Tug-of- 
 war and swimming contests in the morning and the famous pole rush in the 
 afternoon, while the track meet on the next Saturday is the final event of the 
 series. 
 
 The pole rush is a distinctive Ohio Wesleyan feature, and if you 
 were here at that time you would catch the tense excitement which holds 
 the big crowd assembled to watch the melee. An eighteen-foot pole with 
 six twenty-foot ropes on each side, is placed in the center of the main foot- 
 ball field. The men of the two classes, drawn up fifty feet from the pole, 
 rush toward it from opposite directions at the crack of the gun. Every- 
 thing becomes a chaos of sounds and forms. The first thud of impact set- 
 tles into a continuous roar, as each class tries to drag the pole to its goal. 
 Countless personal interviews in the form of wrestling matches begin to de- 
 tach themselves from the great mixup. Good-natured rivalry is the rule 
 and no ungentlemanly conduct is tolerated by the upper-class officials in 
 charge. Only old clothes go and the ripping off of one’s shirt often 
 necessitates a hasty exit from the rush. 
 
 In the track meet the next week another kind of prowess is exhibited. 
 A few years ago the Sophomores won it by a single point, and in so doing 
 won a majority of points in the entire series. The women of the classes 
 are as much interested as the men, and to show their appreciation of this fact 
 the victorious class frequently celebrates the victory with a noisy parade 
 in naive attire, always terminating at the “Sem,” as Monnett Hall is called. 
 
 The round black hats with numerals in front, which form a large part 
 of the masculine head-gear seen on the campus, are the Freshman hats, 
 which are worn until Spring Vacation by the first year men. Besides being 
 especially convenient, they are a distinctive help to new men in becoming ac- 
 quainted with each other. At a fixed date in the Spring the men have the 
 privilege of burning these head-pieces with traditional ceremonies. 
 
 Those little round silver buttons on the lapel of the men’s coats are 
 
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The Sulphur Spring 
 
 The Spring located the Mansion House, now Elliott Hall, which later became the first 
 building of the University 
 
“W” buttons, which every student who has been in attendance one semester 
 has the right to wear, thus proclaiming to the world in general that he hails 
 from Ohio Wesleyan. 
 
 The red and black button of the same design, which you have prob- 
 ably also noticed at home, is another unique Wesleyan feature. It is a 
 “pledge” button, which may be worn by any one who expects to come to 
 Ohio Wesleyan University. As a prospective Wesleyan student, you will 
 want to stop at the Registrar’s office and secure one, for you will be con- 
 stantly meeting prominent graduates of the school with whom you will be 
 glad to become acquainted. 
 
 As we approach the central entrance to the campus, you note the 
 splendid memorial gateway, with its roomy stone seats on the Campus side, 
 the gift of the class of ’09. The arch gateway at the beginning of the 
 driveway to the Athletic field and the ticket office in the corner of the 
 Athletic field are the gifts respectively of the classes of ’08 and ’07. A 
 fund from the gifts of the classes of ’ 1 0 and ’ll is to provide another arch 
 gateway to be erected soon in compliance with the general plans which have 
 been drawn for the location of walks and new buildings. These and other 
 examples are the visible proofs of the affection which binds the alumni to 
 their Alma Mater. The Wesleyan spirit would be brought home even 
 more forcibly if you were in Delaware at Commencement time. Almost 
 a week is given over to it, beginning on Saturday with art and music ex- 
 hibits and ending only when after graduation day the trunk of the last wist- 
 ful ex-Senior is hauled away to the station. In the contagious joy of June 
 the Campus presents a far more beautiful appearance than this winter 
 scene, and you feel that the season and the place must have been created 
 just for such an occasion as this. 
 
 After Baccalaureate Sunday the three remaining days of Commence- 
 ment week follow as Undergraduate Day, Alumni Day, and Commence- 
 ment Day. Undergraduate Day would probably interest you the most. 
 There are the class day exercises and the baseball game in the afternoon, 
 the Shakespeare Play and the Literary Society receptions in the evening. 
 In the morning at the final Chapel, the big Auditorium is jammed to its 
 fullest capacity. It is Recognition Day. Undergraduates and their 
 friends and the alumni are waiting to hear who won the various honors 
 which are always announced at that time. There is breathless interest as 
 the list is read of the envied few who by excellence in scholarship have be- 
 come members of Phi Beta Kappa. The prizes and scholarships for merit 
 in various fields are awarded, and there is a steady procession of the vic- 
 tors who are called to the chapel platform to receive the laurels they have 
 won, — perhaps a medal for a record in the “Big Six” or a cup won in a 
 state oratorical contest. All of the “W” men are here also given the letter 
 which they are to have the privilege of wearing. 
 
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Gymnasium and Athletics 
 
 T HIS afternoon we will take time to inspect more closely the Edwards 
 Gymnasium, one of the finest buildings of its kind in the state, 
 and large enough to meet the demands of increased enrollment 
 for many years to come. With its walls of pressed brick and its red tiled 
 roof, it presents a pleasing appearance, not only to the youthful athlete, but 
 also to the lover of college buildings. As we enter we find ourselves in the 
 vestibule, from which open the stairs to the main floor, the doors to the 
 locker rooms and the corridor to the director’s office. The locker rooms 
 are large and equipped with sanitary steel lockers with combination locks. 
 Beyond the locker room are the boxing room and the shower-bath room, 
 while from the latter we can take the stairs to the swimming pool. The 
 pool is well appointed, and equipped with a sanitary filtration plant, by 
 which the water is at all times kept clean and inviting. 
 
 In the director’s offices, we will find (in cases and suspended from 
 the wall) the trophies of many athletic victories. It is interesting to note 
 that the first game of intercollegiate football was played in Ohio between 
 Wesleyan and Ohio State in 1892, and won by the former, who also won 
 the first college soccer game in Ohio in 1914, by defeating Ohio State. 
 
 Among the trophies you will find the pictures of the four teams who 
 have won football championships and three basketball champions. In 
 basketball, in recent years the red and black has broken even with Ohio 
 State, now a member of the Western Conference. Five championship 
 baseball teams are found between 1892 and 1914. Besides having won 
 the state relay championship three times in four years, Wesleyan holds the 
 state records in two events and won its class race in the mile relay race in 
 1913 at the U. of P. International Intercollegiate Track and Field Meet 
 in Philadelphia. 
 
 That great silver loving cup over there is the gift of an alumnus who 
 has requested that athletes who have won especial distinction for Ohio 
 Wesleyan shall have their names engraved upon it. One of the names 
 appearing on it is that of Willard Banks ’13, star hurdler and all-round 
 athlete, who almost broke up the Big Six Meet in his Senior year by 
 winning 21 1-4 points for Ohio Wesleyan. 
 
 Professor Dixon, Gymnasium Director and Head Coach, has a keen 
 insight into and a ready perception of boyish athletic natures, and is the per- 
 son around whom the athletic life of the college centers. He is already 
 known to the athletes of the high schools in the state through his successful 
 
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achievement in instituting the great High School Basketball Tournament for 
 the championship of the state. Through this tournament more has been done 
 to improve the quality of high school basketball and general sportsmanship 
 than through any other means. 
 
 While engaged in the upbuilding of the health of each individual 
 student by interclass and interfraternity athletics and class gymnastics, Pro- 
 efssor Dixon also acts as head coach of all of the athletic teams. In this he 
 is aided in each of the major sports by a sub-coach, directly responsible for 
 the upbuilding of the team. In choice of sub-coaches the purpose is always 
 to have men who are leaders in character, and who have been prominent as 
 athletes in their college days. 
 
 Now let us ascend to the main floor where the gymnasium proper 
 is located. Here the floor, with its three basketball courts, its gallery 
 running track, and its full equipment of apparatus, offers opportunity to 
 the entire male element of the college for recreation and sport. The floor 
 is long enough for the regulation 40-yard and is used for this and the 
 hurdle races, together with the field events in the indoor track meets. The 
 floor affords inspiring sights when all three basketball courts are full, or 
 when it is occupied by fifty or more men taking part in the classroom work, 
 moving in unison in the steps of athletic dances, or going through the more 
 strenuous motions of light apparatus work. Classes in heavy apparatus, 
 wrestling, fencing and boxing are also held. 
 
 From the east windows of the room we look out upon the covered 
 grandstand of the athletic field, so close to the building that it is but a 
 few feet from one to the other. A 1 00-yard straight-away stretches in front 
 of the grandstand, and a quarter-mile track encircles the football and base- 
 ball field. From another side may be seen the tennis courts which are con- 
 stantly in use, as tennis is a sport growing in favor with the students. The 
 basement of the building is fitted up with locker rooms for visiting teams, a 
 baseball cage, hand-ball courts and rubbing rooms. 
 
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On the Athletic Field: The Grand Stand and the Snake Dance of “rooters” during 
 
 intermission 
 
College Organizations 
 
 I F you were here on Friday, you would be impressed with the men’s meet- 
 ing held in the big Y. M. C. A. room on the first floor of Gray Chapel. 
 The Y. M. C. A. is the college man’s practical heart-to-heart way of 
 getting at the basis of his religion. Every new student attending for the 
 first time is amazed as he finds something entirely beyond his conception, — 
 several hundred men who are fairly eager to tell simply what Christianity 
 means to them. He is filled with a strange feeling, as he realizes that 
 such a meeting as this is to be his privilege every week of the year. Many 
 of the “Friday Nighters’’ are led by notable speakers who have come 
 hundreds of miles perhaps for the occasion. 
 
 The association has always taken an active part in the social and 
 everyday side of college life. A directory published each semester and a 
 handbook at the beginning of the year are supplied at cost. The first 
 “get together’’ for the new men is always the big stag reception held in 
 the Gym, where white collars are taboo, and the program consists of songs, 
 yells and short speeches by undergraduates and faculty members — all 
 tending to fill the new college man with the true idea of Wesleyan spirit. 
 The joint Y. M. C. A. and Y. W. C. A. reception, held a week or two 
 later, is another big affair where only an abnormal person can escape a 
 good time. Games, stunts and tricks are all entered into with an informal- 
 ity and abandon which soon enables the men and women to become ac- 
 quainted with each other. 
 
 The Y. M. C. A. Secretary is one of the college indispensables. He 
 is everybody’s friend; whether it is the time of the next train to Columbus 
 or advice on one’s life work which is sought, the little office in Gray Chapel 
 next door to Prexy’s, is the place to go. 
 
 With Wesleyan’s extraordinary record of graduates who have become 
 famous in the church as ministers and bishops, and in public life as presi- 
 dents of colleges, it may be easily seen that the tendency of the under- 
 graduate life is toward the development of the finer qualities and ideals of 
 Christian manhood. An opportunity for practice in Christian work is 
 afforded by the Gospel teams, composed of students who conduct relig- 
 ious meetings in various Ohio communities during the vacation periods. 
 
 The Volunteer Band, composed of prospective missionaries, is the 
 second largest in the world. Throughout the world men and women from 
 Ohio Wesleyan have gone out to spread the gospel. The undergraduates 
 take active part in the missionary propaganda by making annual contribu- 
 
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Varsity Track Team 
 
 Varsity Soccer Team 
 
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tions to support workers in the foreign mission field; — this year a teacher 
 in the Reid Christian College, Lucknow, India. 
 
 Since only ten per cent, of Wesleyan graduates go into direct forms 
 of religious work, many other undergraduate activities arise from a desire 
 on the part of the students to prepare for what may be their life work. 
 For example, experience in journalism is afforded to the interested ones by 
 the various undergraduate publications. Le Bijou , the College Annual, 
 issued by a staff elected from the Junior class, is a comprehensive review in 
 picture and type of the college life of the year. The Ohio Wesleyan 
 Transcript is an eight-page weekly. Its staff is elected by competition and 
 has entire charge of the paper, from securing the ads to writing “heads” 
 and “making up.” It gives opportunity to some twenty-five undergraduates 
 to get an idea of the demands of journalism, and maintains an office of its 
 own, equipped as nearly as possible like that of a city newspaper. 
 
 You have already doubtless come to the conclusion that Ohio Wes- 
 leyan is somewhat of a musical school. The chief exponent of singing 
 in college is the Glee Club, which during vacations and week-ends gives 
 entertainments throughout Ohio and neighboring states. Membership is 
 competitive and weekly training is given by a member of the faculty in the 
 school of music. The Choral Club is a similar organization among the 
 women, which gives an annual concert in Gray Chapel. The ’Varsity 
 Male Quartet also makes extended tours, and during the summer seasons 
 is sometimes booked for the Chautauqua circuit. 
 
 You will not want to leave without having taken dinner at one of the 
 fraternity houses and we are to be the guests this evening of one of the 
 societies. There are one local and ten national fraternities, besides the 
 Ohio Wesleyan Union, which is composed of a number of non-fraternity 
 men. Each of the fraternities has its own house where its members live 
 during the four years of college life. Although the fraternities represent 
 only about half of the men of the student body, membership in them is not 
 valued so much as a distinction, as for the companionship and social life 
 afforded. Democracy is the keynote of the success of fraternity life at 
 Ohio Wesleyan, and as far as popularity and the attaining of college 
 offices is concerned, there is no sharply drawn line between fraternity and 
 non-fraternity men. The spirit of companionship which you notice in the 
 fraternity house means much in after years of life, for the friendships made 
 in these, the most impressionable years of one’s life, are among the most 
 lasting assets of college days. Under the system at Ohio Wesleyan men can 
 not be pledged until they have graduated from high school, nor be initiated 
 until they have passed their first semester of work in college. After the 
 strenuous rivalry of “rush week” the fraternities are very friendly towards 
 each other; in fact the unusual harmony existing has often been commented 
 upon by fraternity visitors from other schools. 
 
 As our hosts show us with pride over their home, pointing out the 
 trophies which they have won, or the portraits of men of distinction who 
 are brothers in the same bond with them and as the little circle gathers 
 
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 The Choral Club 
 
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around the grate fire in the “den” to sing, you will feel something grip 
 you with a desire to share in that thrill of companionship, and you wonder 
 which fraternity will become your fraternity. 
 
 However, you must not get the idea that all of Ohio Wesleyan’s social 
 life centers around the fraternities, for in addition to the Ohio Wesleyan 
 Union, composed of some fifty non-fraternity men, about half of the men 
 of the college are organized more or less loosely into boarding clubs. 
 Dinner parties are frequently given by the clubs, and the various groups 
 are represented in athletics by excellent baseball and basketball teams. 
 
 You ask, can a fellow work his way through college? At Ohio 
 Wesleyan, as in many other schools, there is usually a way where there is 
 a will. The University helps through the Y. M. C. A. Secretary by 
 conducting an employment bureau, and also by means of loans and scholar- 
 ships. The “hustlers” will be found making their way by every means 
 from cleaning furnaces, up through canvassing, to conducting business 
 establishments of their own. Many of the stories told read like fiction. 
 The President of the Student Body a few years ago is said to have entered 
 Ohio Wesleyan as a “prep” with a capital of fifty cents. A converted 
 Russian Jew came to this country ten years ago, almost penniless. In 
 sweat-shops, in lumber camps, and finally by conducting a business of his 
 own, he gained his entire education at Ohio Wesleyan, graduating a 
 prominent member of his class. 
 
 Ohio Wesleyan has long been noted for the democratic feeling which 
 prevails. Snobbishness does not thrive where one asks, “What can he do?” 
 instead of “Who is he?” The man who spoke for the undergraduates at 
 the banquet has paid for his whole education by running a boarding club. 
 Many a man whose name you hear most frequently upon the Campus is 
 absolutely self-supporting, and it is not unusual to find him the room-mate 
 of the son of a wealthy manufacturer or merchant. 
 
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Coming to the End 
 
 I NCREDIBLY short is the time which will be yours to enjoy, from the 
 date of your arrival in Delaware as an eager and inquisitive Freshman, 
 until the day when you regretfully crowd the souvenirs of your four 
 years of achievement into your trunk and take your last parting look at the 
 old campus and the many sights which are always to remain such a vivid 
 part of your life. College life anywhere is a great privilege, but it is the 
 medium-sized college especially, with its closer touch of companionship, 
 which furnishes a background of character for the practical things taught 
 in the class room. It is through the associations and traditions that become 
 a part of one’s personality, that Ohio Wesleyan has gained such a position 
 in the middle West. 
 
 You are debating perhaps the problem of how best to secure prepar- 
 ation for your life’s work. A bulletin which the college issues, shows how 
 every professional education must depend upon a liberal arts foundation. 
 That essential part is what Ohio Wesleyan emphasizes most, and yet in 
 addition she can offer work of recognized merit in Music. Art, Oratory, 
 Engineering, etc. The faculty as a whole in both qualifications and in 
 inclination to help inside and out of the class room, comes close to the 
 standard which President Welch has set for the ideal faculty. 
 
 In the first hurried visit to Ohio Wesleyan University, you have caught 
 a vision of many phases of college life. Next year you will undoubtedly 
 begin your own college career. The choice of your future college is the 
 most momentous problem which you are now facing. The impressions 
 which you have gained here are sure to be confused and vague, yet as you 
 think it over on your return, you will undoubtedly be impressed by many 
 things you have actually seen here. If you feel that the things you want 
 to find in your college are a good faculty under an efficient administration, 
 an equipment as good as that of most colleges of its size, a high moral 
 atmosphere, a loyal feeling of fellowship among its undergraduates and 
 alumni, and a high standing in its intercollegiate relations, you will un- 
 doubtedly consider Ohio Wesleyan in choosing your future Alma Mater. 
 
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