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Video: A Ben Rogge Lecture on the Free Market
Chapel Through Wabash History
Big Ed Was Fast on His Feet
Cook ‘66: Seven Ways to Find Bliss at Wabash
You went where?!
Robert Harvey’s Narration of J. D. Salinger Short Story
Fun in Crawfordsville
Philly Marathon: A Brotherhood Event
David Blix, “That Was Then, This is Now”
In this video from the Foundation for Economic Education, legendary Wabash Professor Benjamin Rogge lectures on “the concepts of Competition and Monopoly.”
Did you have Professor Rogge? What are some of the stories you have or have heard from others?
During my tenure at Wabash, we had to attend compulsory Chapel twice weekly. We were allowed ten “cuts” a semester. Chapel attendance was strictly enforced by monitors who dutifully registered the attendance of all Wabash students who were required to sit in assigned seats. And woe to the student who exceeded his ten cuts.
In this picture, Dick Shelain, Wabash ’65, has been bricked in to his dorm room by several of his dorm mates. It was time for Chapel and he already had his quota of ten cuts …
I remember a hot spring morning when the windows were open to keep down the heat — this was before air conditioning. Big Ed was doing a demonstration where two glass cups separated parts of a liquid. One was pink and included an indicator. He was about to remove the cups and let the fluid mix (thus causing the color to disappear). He reached in and as he pulled the glass cups out, there was a large clap of thunder very nearby. Most turned to look at the windows. Un-phased, Dr. Haenisch said “and that, gentlemen, shows you the power of chemistry.”
As an eighteen year old making a college decision a lot crosses your mind. For the typical eighteen year old guy the most important thing is young women. Following closely behind would be: the food, how good are the sports teams, and how many years can I go before I have to graduate. Which is why when I told my friends I would be attending Wabash they just looked at me like they didn’t get it.
In a recent issue of Wabash Magazine, I saw a picture of Robert Harvey’s daughter. I regret that I never told Mr. Harvey how much I enjoyed his class and his reading of that Salinger story. It would please me if his daughter would see this memory and read what a lasting impression her father made on one 18-year old kid. Mr. Harvey’s love of literature, his teaching style, his authoritative bearing, his voice–all contributed to an enjoyable and entertaining semester of English and a lifelong love of books.
