Cornell College - Royal Purple Yearbook (Mount Vernon, IA)

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MA.RroN VIR'G'INLTA VPEIRCE., .Department of Romance Languages V- PEIRGE, ProfeSsQr It is the of the Clepartneent toffamiliarlze the student with the technical prossiloilities and structure of languages and to, acquaint him with -Certain periods of itslllterature, tl1r11sufslerVin.g bo-th practice al and aesthetic purposes. In aceorclaencgelwlth now prevalent methodis. of language ins'truetion,. pronouneiwation is ltalgtghte first with .a View to pliysiological phonetics. Rapitl eonversatilonal drill is given and the student is required to attain a fC'615TJ2,fTl profLcie'ney the prrae-tical use of the French. l H' S2PAeNIsH. One year of .Sepalaish is- offered and the methods are approx- imately t1ue,eSame,. being rnoeliielcl more or less as the exigeneies of the case seem to: make Ht. A somewhat. wider scope is here ,given 'te histogriceal linguistics, :owing to the more apparent relation of this language to the Latin. if the eyes of the average stublenit. Modern Spanish novels and plays. are read the spring term. . p CLUB. A-'fel-ubl has been :organized-Ato supplement the eolnverslatiolnal Work of the French Classes- This meets in a social Way with a formal program. It aims to Qaltorcl the members .al special opportunity for the cultivation of eolloquial Freneh and to give them EL, 1Cl0S-QT and more pathetie Ul1Cl6fS'b2Jl1CllI'Lg,h of Frenelm life and character..

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GEORGE H-ERBERT BErTs,, Ph. M. Department of Psychology and Education G. HETTS, Professor' I Je E. STOUT, Professor in Education 'H. FREER, Lecturer in Education This departntlent, as it exists to-day, is one of the youngest in the crolleogees, having been organized just four years ago.. In the fall. of 1902, psychology was separated from one of the older departments, and education from another, the two being united in one chair to which Professor George H. Betts was called as head of the departrnent. Both sgubjects had been long and successfully tatlght in the institution prior to this, time, and neither had lost in value or popularity under the new nlana-gjement. -The Work of the departrnent is entirely elective, yet, during the 'term just closed, fully one-third of the entire number of students in the college were registered its classes. The teachers of the department at the presentrtirne, are Professors George Betts., Freer, and J. E. Stout. A lenowledge of psychology has come to be recognized as fundamental to the study of all subjects which treat of mcm+such as history, literature, sociology, education, political economy, medicine, law and theology. To form a proper basis. for the prosecution of these studies, a course in .elelnentary psychology and ethics has been made elective in the fresh- man year, and a large proportion of the freshnuan class take the Work. In the senior year, a more advanced course is offered, whieh affords opporJ