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Dean Davenport and the Student Body

Streator, Illinois

Abstract

My first recollection of Dean Davenport as he appeared to the student body dates back to the spring of 1912, when I was about to graduate from college. The dean had been ill for several months, and had been seen very little on the campus during that school year. One day it was noised around the Agricultural Building that Dean Davenport would be there that afternoon to speak to juniors and seniors in agriculture. By the time he was to start speaking the room was filled, every upper-classman who could possibly get away from other engagements being present. It was always that way when he spoke to students. Convocations were usually more or less irksome to students, but not so to "Ag" students when Dean Davenport spoke. What were the reasons for the hold he had on the student body?

A Simple but Forceful Style

In the first place Dean Davenport always had something worth while to say.