1916 Cedrus Yearbook

19 The Summer School 16 T HE Cedarville College Summer School startled the world wearied with ennui by springing full-armored from the head of Professor Wright in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and fifteen. It was really the first event in the administration of the new President, Dr. McChesney, and a most auspicious beginning it constituted, proving conclusively the consummate tact and ability of the new executive of the institution. Elaborate preparations for the opening of the summer term had been carefully made. Professor Wright had compiled a list of four hundred and seventeen rooms, all at seventy-five cents per week, "including light, care, and parlor privileges!" The Dean, becoming excited over the overwhelming hordes of summer schoolers whom he saw rushing in (in his vivid imagination), sent out an emergency call asking for eight hundred more instructors. Only ten teachers responded to the offers of munificent salary held out, and appeared upon the scene of their future conflict, prepared to conquer or to give up in the attempt. And such a bunch! There was Waits, the soldier, the lawyer, the orator, the philosopher, the scholar, the educator, the argufier, and there was Byron Lytle, the famous athlete, the enthusiastic "booster." Damon and Pythias, David and Jonathan, Laelius and Scipio, never so exemplified the principles of true friendship as did these two, Lytle and Waits! Then there was Miss Clarke, the beautiful, the accomplished, the breaker of hearts, and of long established "cases." Next came Miss Wolf, the Student; Miss McCance,the prima donna; Miss Jackson, the classical scholar; Mahaffey, the singist; Wheeler, whose merits called forth the encomium from one of the fairest of the fair(who by the way,had failed to get a beau), "There's only one man up there that I'd have, and he's married!" Neff, the Silent, the distinguished historian, and Josh Billings, the great humoristfrom Adams County,conclude the list of the Cedarville Immortals.. But what life and spirit this upper Ten put into Cedarville's first summer session can never be told until the veil of mystery and death is unrolled on the other side of the Great River—Massie's Creek. Time indeed would fail us to tell of many another whose wise and witty say- ings and deeds of bravado •and renown, at chicken roasts, marshmallow toasts, receptions, parties, watermelon rollings, spreads, picnics, and all sorts of doings, • added spice to the long days of labor and hard nights of study. Their name is Legion, and their rewards do follow them. And in spite of all the mischief and fun, what loads of work were done and safely stored away in the barns and corner• • • ce it to say that in many a breast the prospect of another is all that keeps hope alive! Fond memories cling to the summer past. All hail to the summer yet to be! PROF. ALLEN '49