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

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PREPARATORY DEPARTMENT. PREPARATORY DEPARTMENT. ® HE Preparatory School has been separated from the college proper. This was made possib le by employing additional teachers and building Burgess Hall. This is a handsome building, costing about $25,000. Aside from cloak rooms and halls it has eleven large and well-lighted rooms. On the second floor are the library, reading room and music room. The chapel is on the third floor. The other rooms are for class recitations. The house is warmed by furnace. As its name indicates, the work in this department aims to prepare students for college. English, Latin and Mathematics are pursued through two years. Greek and German begin in the second year. General History and Physics require but one year for both. Each be- ginning language class recites five times a week. These classes and the mathematic classes do blackboard work every day. Thoroughness is valued above speed. Large classes are divided so that each pupil may recite once or more every day. The extra classes are taught by tutors. Omar Wilson, Miss Hall, Professors. 25

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MODERN LANGUAGES. uaq HE Department of Modern Languages now gives instruction in French and German. The Chair of Germanic Languages will be set apart on the return of Prof. Howe, from Berlin, in Septem- ber, 1892. At present a student may take five consecutive years of German, the first being in the preparatory school. The first year ' s read- ing in college is of easy narrative prose, the second is to include history and biography, the third comprises classics in verse and prose, while the fourth is a study of the literature as such. Prose composition runs through the course, and metrical English versions of German verse are required. Two years of French are given, the first being spent in acquiring a vocabulary and a knowledge of pronunciation and grammatical forms, and the second in rapid reading and composition. Practice in conversa- tion is given. H. T. Miller, Professor. 24

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THE MUSIC DEPARTMENT JVIusic Departtrjei t. HE Music Department of Butler University offers instruction in the study of piano, violin, organ, singing aud musical theory. The principal teachers of these branches are men who have had long years of training under the best European masters. Being- located so near Indianapolis, Butler has been able to secure better teachers for her Music Department than are connected with any similar institution in the country. The preparatory and intermediate pupils receive, under the supervision of the principals, instruction from assist- ant teachers. The tuition for such pupils is exceedingly low, $10 per term of twenty lessons. As the pupils become more advanced the value of the present arrangement will show itself to all. A glee club, a fine choir and a pipe organ in the Chapel are features which should be intro- duced as soon as possible. Clarence Forsyth, Director. 26