{"id":596,"date":"2011-05-12T13:17:19","date_gmt":"2011-05-12T17:17:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/dear-old-wabash\/?p=596"},"modified":"2011-05-12T13:17:19","modified_gmt":"2011-05-12T17:17:19","slug":"big-dogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/dearoldwabash\/2011\/05\/12\/big-dogs\/","title":{"rendered":"Big dogs&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It must be time for commencement as all of the buildings are getting a  face wash\u2026the tulips are gone from the corner replaced by red begonias  and all of a sudden I can park wherever I like\u2026While working in a folder  of pictures about commencement, I came across some other images that I  just have to share.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/dearoldwabash\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2011\/05\/Lo-resClass-of-1924-seniors-P-372.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/dearoldwabash\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2011\/05\/Lo-resClass-of-1924-seniors-P-372.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"219\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This picture is of the class of 1924 as freshmen. All gathered in  front of Center Hall for the group picture. Among this class is Pete  Thorn (the first and last 16 letter man), Irwin \u201cTiny\u201d Knee (mentioned  before on this blog <a href=\"..\/2011\/01\/05\/irvin-%e2%80%9ctiny-knee%e2%80%9d-w1923\/\">http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/dear-old-wabash\/2011\/01\/05\/irvin-%e2%80%9ctiny-knee%e2%80%9d-w1923\/<\/a>),  a constitutional scholar (Winfred Harbison), and one future president  of the Board of Trustees \u2013 John Collett. Also joining the newest class  at Wabash is a very large St. Bernard dog.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/dearoldwabash\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2011\/05\/Dog-Class-of-1924-Freshmen-P-3721.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/dearoldwabash\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2011\/05\/Dog-Class-of-1924-Freshmen-P-3721.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"281\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a>Here  is a zoom of the dog, note that he is sporting a freshman pot and seems  entirely in control of himself. I suppose that his composure might be  indicative of his having posed like this before. In another pic in the  same folder, I see this image:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/dearoldwabash\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2011\/05\/LO-resClass-of-1925-P-3721.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/dearoldwabash\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2011\/05\/LO-resClass-of-1925-P-3721.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"208\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is a photo of the men of the class of 1925 posing for class day  on the arboretum side of our campus.\u00a0 In this photo, the boys have grown  to men and there, right in the middle of it all\u2026the dog, now sporting a  man\u2019s hat. Again, a zoom of the dog and we can see his hat and his  devil may care attitude. Although I can&#8217;t be sure that this fellow is a  Phi Delt, that house has a long history of having a St. Bernard as their  house dog.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/dearoldwabash\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2011\/05\/Dog-Class-of-1925-P-3723.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/dearoldwabash\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2011\/05\/Dog-Class-of-1925-P-3723.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"274\" height=\"334\" \/><\/a>Most  of the houses had a house dog and years ago these dogs wandered into  and out of classes at their pleasure. Often times this was to the  delight of students, as they offered a break in the lecture for that  day. There are many dog stories here in the Archives, but few come with  such excellent pictures!<\/p>\n<p>Best,<\/p>\n<address>Beth Swift<\/address>\n<address>Archivist<\/address>\n<address>Wabash College<\/address>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It must be time for commencement as all of the buildings are getting a face wash\u2026the tulips are gone from the corner replaced by red begonias and all of a sudden I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"w_featured_image_url":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/dearoldwabash\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2011\/05\/Lo-resClass-of-1924-Freshmen-P-3721.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/dearoldwabash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/dearoldwabash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/dearoldwabash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/dearoldwabash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/dearoldwabash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/dearoldwabash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/dearoldwabash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/dearoldwabash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/dearoldwabash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}