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Caption: Book - Banks of the Boneyard (Charles Kiler)
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48 On the Banks of the Boneyard handed to me at our last meeting. It shows genius in its conception, a great knowledge of English in the choice of words, and as a matter of fact it is an inspired oration." As the Professor spoke George Huff was slumping lower and lower in his seat and Mickey Quinn was edging closer and closer to the door. Then the Professor rose to his full height and with great elocutionary effect read Webster's reply to Hayne—one of the oratorical masterpieces. When the class was dismissed Mickey went downstairs three steps at a time with George right after him; Mickey missed classes for a few days after this episode. Another member of the faculty with a striking personality was Col. Edward Snyder, Professor of German. Like Brownlee, he was a tall, well-built man with a distinct military bearing; brusque and guttural remnant War native German in his speech. been an with students. He made loans to students who would otherwise had to leave school in their senior vears and. together with his comfortable Frank G. Carnahan time getting interested enough in the German language any attention toward mastering it. At the very beginning Freshman year, Frank was asked to pronounce the simple sentence, "Ich habe nicht." He had been too busy with other things to study his lesson, and had paid no attention to pronunciation and this is ,, what he said: 'Itch habby nitscht. Professor Snyder grabbed his head and groaned: "My God, my God!" Dr. Burrill was one of the most famous scientists of his time, but you would have to learn this fact from an outside source; modest and unassuming he was always looking for new fields to conquer in his studies of the diseases of plants and trees. Like most of the faculty, he wore a beard with which he let nature take its course. He never took the street car when he went to Urbana or Champaign and, when I was fortunate enough to walk with him, wore me down with his speed. I took a course in Microscopy under Burrill just to listen to the words of wisdom he would give in his lectures; but of course I acquired a lot of information about — — m 9 and how to slice whatever I wanted to examine
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