Cedarville University - Miracle / Cedrus Yearbook (Cedarville, OH)

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We are passing through a modern era of harmonious music. There are two distinct factors contributing to its establishment: first, the Church's need for intelligible chorus and choir music; and second, the rise of the opera, which contains much solo work, not complete without harmonic accom- paniment. M u s i c has advanved through the years from the monoton- ous chant of the ancient Greeks, through the raspy two-stringed music- bcx, the soft tinkle of the harpsichord, the dreamy lull of the harp, to the glowing splendors of our symphonic orchestras, and our wonderful three and four-manual organs, found in our large cities of today. Imagine, if you will, a week, el- even a day, without music of any kind. No chapel songs, nothing but speeches and advertising over the radio, no tunes to hum as you go here and there with your work. You would find it a mighty monotonous world. Because of this seemingly magic power and charm of music, which manifests itself in the human consciousness, it becomes one of the greatest sustaining forces in mortal existence. Its ameliora- tion of those oppressing influences in our environment, which would otherwise become unendurable, places it high in the scale of aes- thetic value, and gives it its indispensible position in the full, well- rounded life. —Eleanor Bull. DOROTHY ANGKVINK I) -»» of Women: Profemor of Rnglidi. French, and Latin: A. II.. Dcnitoi» University: A. M.. Ohio State University. Literature Literature in its various forms portrays the results of race peculiarities, or of diverse individual temperaments when put into story and verse form. Since man feels before he reasons, poetry generally precedes prose. Hence sacred books and war songs are everywhere the earliest literary monuments, and both are essen- tially poteic compositions which have received religious sanction. All literature, generally speaking, is imitative. To illus- trate this, we know of no earlier beginnings of literary art than in Greece in the days of Plato. From this time on, literature has sur- vived war, pestilence, and even the “dark ages” when it was thought that all in the literary field was doomed, and we have imitated the writings of Greece, Rome, France, Spain, and finally of the great playwright, William Shakespeare. Unfortunately for literature, the rhetorical expression of feel- ing is rarely on a level with its emotional intensity. This accounts for the inferiority of national hymns, which, as a rule, are not of VIOLA HAKHAUG1I Tippecanoe City. Ohio Student body Officer t: Cln». OUlcer 3. 4: Y. W. C. A. l re l- deni 4: Glee Club 1. 2. 3: Mock Wedding Hride 4: Literary 1. 2. 3. 4: Bible Rending Contest. Winner 2: Clo » Play 4. WILLIS GOKMLEY Ccdarville. Ohio Y. M. C. A.; Literary: Class Play 4. Page Sixteen

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CHAPTER TWO Literature and Music ERASMUS Desiderius Erasmus, a Dutch scholar of the Renaissance, was one of the promoters of Humanism in Western Europe and England. The great service he rendered was in fighting the battle of sound learning and plain common sense against unenlightenment, and in emphasizing the sovereign place of reason as the ultimntc guide in all questions, re ligious and political not excepted. This portrait of Erasmus is by the famous German master of the early sixteenth century, Hans Hobcin. WKKam M £ CJ2 fee BH as we understand it, expresses itself in the inter-action of three elements rhythm, melody and harmony. The first two are obviously as ancient as human con- sciousness itself. Without the third, a musical art of permanent value and intelligibility bas not been known to attain independent existence. With harmony, music assumes the existence of a kind of space in three dimens ons n°ne of which can subsist without at least implying the others. When we hear an unaccompanied melody we cannot help interpreting it in the light of its most probable harmonies. Thus, when it does not imply consistent harmonies it seems to us quaint and strange; because, unless it is very remote from our harmonic conception, it at least implies at any given moment some simple har- mony which in the next moment it contradicts. Music is a mode of motion and is usually thought of as a pleasure-evoking emotion, which has become aesthetic. It is purely human, hence, the cound once set in motion. we are at liberty to dream, to thrill, to weep, to sigh, with all the moods induced by the director. Music is the youngest of the arts, but it has advanced into popularity far more rapid- is than many of the older arts. Much of the musical development of the twelfth and irteenth centuries was centered in Paris. The troubadours, the jongleurs, and the minne- singers, who cultivated poetry and music, played no small partin the advancement of the art. ’‘oat Fifteen

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CEDRUS STAFF Fir it row—Cultlcc. Cordon. Vo t. Stcvcnm n. Hull: Second row -Spcnccr. Kilpatrick. Kuchrmann, Free, Donald- Third roar—II. Murray. Richard . Hutchison, lk-.t. Ciirlouyh. high order from the point of view of literature. The patriotism of men must needs supply an in- spiration which the words themselves lack. Poetry has received the approval of the generations. Between the distinctly great pieces which all men competent to judge would accept without hesitation, and the distinctly inferior pieces which these same persons would as summarily reject, there lies a vast body of verse, the appeal of which depends on individual choice. In the colleges of this land we have tried to keep literature at the top of our appre- ciation list. More and more we are giving our attentions to the so-called developments and movements in literature, which gives us an adequate realization of historical background and perspective. In the universities all over our nation and in foreign lands, we have stressed the requirements of a literary course before graduation. Many of the topics studied by advanced students of literature likewise connect closely with questions of economic and social development. The rapid growth in circulation of magazines suggests that literature is becoming more and more the chief source of pleasure of the masses. To maintain this position of prominence, literature must contrive to adapt itself to new conditions, and reveal itself in new forms. Through this metamorphosis will evolve an ever higher, more meaningful klorknck McLaughlin Salem, Illinois Sterling College. Kama . 1. 2. 3: Mixed Choru . Glee Club. Qujirtett. Mock Wedding Minist- er. Clan» Floy, •«. style of literary expression. —Arthur Donaldson. Miss Angevine In the fall of 1920, all new and former students of Cedarville College had their attentions fixed on the opening of the new year. Special attention was usually attracted to the new additions to the faculty row. Among this body in ’29 was Miss Dorothy Angevine, the new head of the English and Latin Departments. She was the little member of the “big three” who lived at Mrs. Oglesbee’s, for the personal chapronage of the Misses Eloise McLaughlin and Sarah Margaret Chance. Miss Angevine amused Fogr. Seventeen