Indiana University - Arbutus Yearbook (Bloomington, IN)

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Greek Latin Romance Languages Germanic Languages English History and Political Science Economics and Social Science Philosophy Pedagogy Mathematics Mechanics and Astronomy Physics Chemistry Geology Zoology Botany Fine Arts School of Law

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same year he began the practice of law in Franklin, Indiana. He filled many offices of trust and also edited a newspaper and wrote for publication. In 1870 he was elected Judge of the Twenty-eighth Circuit, and in 1877 was appointed a member of the Board of Trustees of Indiana University, serving eleven years, seven of which he was President. In 1889 he was appointed Dean of the Law School of Indiana University, which position he held at his death. GEORGE GROVER WRIGHT, born in Bloomington, Indiana, March 24, 1820, died January, 1897; graduated with Class of ' 39; practiced law at Rockville, Indiana; elected Prosecuting Attorney for Van Buren County, 1847; elected State Senator, 1848; elected Chief Justice of State Supreme Court, 1855; elected United States Senator, 1870; established Law School, Des Moines, Iowa, 1865, afterwards becoming a part of State University; degree of LL. D. conferred, 1866. JAMES DARWIN MAXWELL, bom at Hanover, Indiana, May 19, 1815, died September 30, 1892. He graduated from Indiana University with Class of ' 33; was Tutor of Latin in Indiana University, 1834; Professor of Latin in Mississippi State College, 1836- ' 37; attended Transylvania Medical College, Lexington, Kentucky, 1840-41; graduated Jefferson Medical College, 1844, after which he practiced medicine in Bloomington, Indiana; from 1838- ' 55 he served as Secretary of Board of Trustees of Indiana University, and from lS60- ' 92 as Trustee. JOSEPH LAFAYETTE RAWLINS, Mill Creek, Utah, born March 28, 1S50; studied University of Utah; completed Classical Course, Indiana University, 1872; Professor of Latin and Greek, University of Utah; practiced law, Salt Lake City; Delegate to Fifty-third Congress from Utah; Delegate to National Democratic Convention at Chicago, 1896; elected United States Senator, 1897. GEORGE W. COOPER, Columbus, Indiana, born May 21, 1851; graduated in Class of 1872; practiced law in Columbus, Indiana; elected Prosecuting Attorney for Bartholomew County, 1872; elected Mayor of Columbus, 1877; elected City Attorney of Columbus; elected to Fifty-first, Fifty-second and Fifty-third Congresses; practicing law, Columbus, Indiana.

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(Sveek The isles of Greece The isles of Greece Where burning Sappho loved and sung, Where grew the arts of war and peace, Where Delos rose and Phoebus sprung. — Byron. JN ancient times it was believed that our own little planet was the center of the universe, and all other heavenly bodies revolved around and depended upon it. 80 to-day most students think their own department is the central figure of the University, and all others are merely satellites. The Greek Department of Indiana University is well equipped with every facility for interesting and profitable investigation, and, together with the Latin Department, offers the royal road to a purely classical course of study. The instruction is thorough and careful, and the student of Greek can not fail to become fascinated with his work, if he has any taste either for the study of language or antiquities. In this department he obtains a knowledge of the most perfect and most beautiful language of the world. He is introduced to a life and civilization unsurpassed by anything in antiquity. It furnishes him an opportunity to study the development of an unbroken line of language and civilization from the age of Homer to the present time. Through it he gets an idea of the early stages of epic and dramatic poetry, and becomes acquainted with a system of religion and philosophy, that has influenced the life and thought of the modern civilized world. The development of sculpture and architecture from a rude beginning to a high state of perfection is within his reach. The study of poetry, oratory, philosophy, government and history is at his hand if he will only lay hold of it. There is no student who is not made both wiser and better by having studied the epics of Homer, the songs of Sappho, the oratory of Demosthenes, the wisdom of Plato and Aristotle, the laws of Solon and Lycurgus, or the histories of Herodotus and Xenophon. In short, Greek life represents almost every phase of the life of the world ; and the study of it may well be called the study of the world in miniature.