In the space bordered by S.W. Bowne Hall , Hoyt-Bowne Hall, and the Learning Center addition to the Rose Memorial Library, lies a deep circular declivity. Though the precise geological origins of this declivity have not been labelled, the poet Wordsworth would probably have been moved to describe it as a "dell." As per the Oxford English Dictionary's definition, a dell is "A deep natural hollow or vale of no great extent, the sides usually clothed with trees or foliage."
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Early twentieth-century Theological students apparently bestowed President Tipple's name on this campus feature in allusion to Tipple's struggles with recurrent and severe allergies, according to John Cunningham, author of University in the Forest:
"President Tipple suffered so intensely from hay fever and asthma that each summer he journeyed afar seeking relief . . . Tipple's eyes ran constantly in hay fever season, a condition that evoked sympathy but prompted students to name a little pond near the gymnasium 'Tipple's Tears.'" (p. 139)
(Tipple, of course, can also mean strong drink, as well a place where things are 'tipped' or rolled.)
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