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

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BIBLE DEPARTMENT. Jt?e Bible Department. The Bible Department was organized in 1889. The purpose of the work is to give the student a thorough drill in exegesis, a clear compre- hension of Biblical Theology, and also a preparation for practical pulpit work. The Old and the New Testaments are studied in their original lan- guages. Close attention is given to the construction and the exact meaning of the writer is sought out. Beck ' s Glaubenslehre is read in German as a text-book on theology . f In Church History, Augustine ' s De Civitate Dei is read. This is supplemented by a course of lectures on Church History in general. The Homiletical exercises do not con- sist of a set of dry lectures but of the preparation and delivery before the class, of sermons. The sermons are then discussed and the principles of Homiletics applied. The instruction is given in such a way as not to make the student a rule bound machine, but to teach him to think and interpret for himself. The work may be elected at the beginning of the junior year. This enables the student to get along with his language and Theological train- ing. Next year the course will be extended to work exclusively graduate. There are now eleven graduates, ten Seniors and three Juniors taking the work. H. C. Garvin, Professor. 20

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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.

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ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE. English Language and Literature. HE purpose of English Literature in the schools is to lead the pupils to the field of literature in after years. In the elementary schools it should be tar more than it is, a course in the lighter classics, accompanied by a study of grammar and rhetoric for the sim- pler principles of literary expression. In our college work some attention is given to his- tory, but the main interest centers in a sys- tematic development of a knowledge of style and of literary art, with a view to the growth of that taste which enjoys and understands, and seeks converse with the masters. Harriet Noble, Professor. 21