Butler University - Carillon / Drift Yearbook (Indianapolis, IN)

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DEPARTMENT OF LATIN. Department of Latin. ATIN is required of candidates for the degree of A. B. through the Freshman and Sophomore years. During the earlier part JXCjjlj of the course especial attention is given to form, constructions 4 and idioms. The reading of authors is accompanied by the solution of whatever grammatical questions the text may present. Latin prose composition is continued throughout the Freshman year as a most effective means for the acquisition of the grammatical knowledge aimed at. To the same end, and to promote facility in translating, such time as can profitably be spared from other exercises will be devoted to reading at sight. In the Sophomore year historical writers, mainly, are read. As a collateral branch, Roman History, together with the arch- aeology of Roman life, social and political, is studied. During the Junior year the history of Latin literature is made a chief object of study, to which end the critical reading of important authors is made to contribute, and at the same time the study is to be carried on systematically by means of text-book recitations, supplemented by lectures and discussions of special topics by the instructor, and by con- ferences on papers presented by members of the class. In the Senior year the rapid reading of a large amount of text is aimed at, and topics suggested in the course of the reading will be assigned to students, and papers thus prepared discussed before the class. Ministerial students, however, instead of the Junior and Senior years of the classical course are offered a course of reading in Patristic Latin, which it is thought will be valuable to them in their special line of work. Scot Butler, Professor. 18

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DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS. (X f Z Ef[ f Z ?5. fl ft HE course of study embraces Algebra, Geometry, Plane and Spherical Trigonom- etry, Land Measures and Leveling, with y H its application to roads and ditches; Ana- lytical Geometry, Plane and Solid, the Differentia] and Integral Calculus, Me- chanics with and without Calculus, Phys- ics, including Heat, Light, Sound, Elec- tricity and Magnetism, with a discussion of Ether Waves as a preliminary ; As- tronomy. During the later years of the undergraduate course and the post gradu- ate course the Algebraic work can be con- tinued in the General Theory and Equations in Todhunter or some equivalent ; the work of Geometry may be followed by Modern Geom- etry; the Calculus by Todhunters and Mechanics by extended works on Statics and Dynamics ; Astronomy by Celestial Mechanics. Determin- ants will be taught in connection with Algebraic Equations and Analyt- ics and Quaternions may be taken as elective work. Wm. M. Thrasher, Profexxor. MATHEMATICS. (2)

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BIOLOGY AND GEOLOGY an d — Fresh™ ! - -.— ' HE instruction of this department is given b y means of text- books, lectures, labo- ratory work and fre- quent examinations. The examinations are a popular feature of this department and are hailed with de- light. The sacred n ess and infallibility of text-books is not insisted on. Indeed the professor has endeavored to convince students that some valuable things may be learned without books; but he has found the job is a large one. Inherited tendencies and individual experiences impel the student to seek all mental pabulum in what has been written. The cruelty of wholly shutting him off from his visual source of nutrition would be unjustifiable. Raids are occasionally made into the surrounding regions, and fearful ravages perpetrated among the lower orders of life. Created things, from fresh water sponges up to non-ruminating artiodactyles, hie to their most secret haunts ; but the odors of the biological rooms testify to our prowess and their fate. O. P. Hay, Professor.