Indiana University - Arbutus Yearbook (Bloomington, IN)

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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.

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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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Horace Addison Hoffman, Professor of Greek and Dean of the Departments of Lib- eral Arts. A. B., Indiana University, 1881; A. M., Har- vard University, 1884; Instruc- tor in Latin and Greek, Indiana University, 1881-83; graduate stu dent in Classical Philology, Harvard University, 1883-85; traveled and studied in Greece, Sicily and Italy, 1890; Professor of Greek, Indiana University, from 1885 Mabel Banta, Instructor in Greek. A. B., Indiana University, 1SS5; A. M., 1891; teacher of Latin, High School, Frank- in, Ind., 1887-91; graduate stu- dent, Cornell University, 1891-92; Senior Fellow in Latin, Chi- cago University, 1892-93: In- structor in Greek, from 1894. William Dennis Bar- tle, Bartle, Ind.