Cotner University - Croaker Yearbook (Bethany, NE)

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Department of English The classes in English are planned to aid in real cultureg to be helpful to the student on ordinary occasions as well as in the emergency. Classes in literature aim to train in the interpretation of characters of literature in terms of personal experi- enceg to lead students to know and ap- preciate ideal characteristics and to ern- body them in their own lives. Here, also, matter and manner of literary and so-called literary productions are com- pared and judged to enable the student to know what is of permanent, and what is of temporary value, thus pre- paring him for the responsibility of text-book selection, and for the judg- JOSIE Y. OSTERHOUT ment on home and school libraries. ' Through the courses in oratory and debating opportunity is given for the preparation of logical and artistic composition and for expression before the public. Other classes in constructive English deal with the elements and structure of all common forms of composition, informal, formal, and artistic. ummm---V V. H ,L . IQZZ -L-,---V-----I--1,-,,, J,-HID . Pa ge Twenty

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i' H ' ' ' ' C Wu lf THE BULL DOG Philosophy Philosophy! The bubble before the intellect. Ravishingly beautifulg tan- talizingly elusive, oppressively real, and flittingly phantasmagoric. Philoso- phy! The stimulant and the narcotic of nations, the maker and breaker of peoples. Somewhiles God inclusive, otherwhiles God exclusive. Gnostic and agnostic. Optimistic one period, pessi- mistic the next. Reverent in one life, arrogantly bhasphemous in another Yet all the while arbiter of men's des- tinies. For as men think so they act. For more than two millenniums In- dia has wailed and waited because she has thought tears and fatalism. Greece thought harmony. That thought is re- flected today in the world's poetry, music, sculpture, and architecture. Rome's conception of power gave to the world her bloody militarism. Lock's denial of innate ideas led to the French Revolution, the Prussian Empire, American Independence, and the religious movement known as the Disciples of Christ. The revival of the Vedanta philosophy and Zoroastrianism in Schopenhauer and Nietzsche turned the world backwards, drenched uncounted millions in blood and sorrow, and plunged nations into a grave of pessimism. Yes. As a few men have thought the multitudes have acted. Jesus Christ offers Himself as the world's saviour. To become such He must change men's thinking. It is rational then that Repentance should be the basic element in all his work. To act differently one must think dif- ferently. Philosophy thus becomes the handmaid of religion, and con- tributes vitally to the world's life. Right thinking is fundamental to right acting. Cotner's idea of teaching philosophy is not only to trace the thinking of ages past, but to relate the thought of Jesus Christ to the life of today. For when the last word has been said, Freedom- salvation still remains philosophy's biggest and ever perennial problem. J. K. SHELLENBERGER 1922 'A 'ff MM' - ' . . ' 1 - gi N' -1 - 'aw :ni 1

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. THE BULL DOG 1. VlN7.g-,gg..-H.----g.i11.1i?3H11- Q Department of Education JAMES FLOYD DUNCAN LUCY G- MOSS Kmderrgarrten Department Education in the true sense makes for the salvation of the individualg the saving of the nation and the progress of the world. The onward sweep of civilization, the development of its institutions and the growth of democracy depend on the leavening influence of education. The power of the eye extends but a short distance, aided by a tele- scope it can reach the farthest starg supplemented by a microscope and the universe of the unseen is laid before it. Likewise the mind, awak- ened by education, expands its vision in ever widening circles and makes thc mysteries of the shadowy distance the playthings of today. Educa- tion has ever been the force that has moved man to explore the realms of the unknown and to make himself the master of his discoveries. Ever since the morning of time, when man stood in awe at rustling of the leaves or murmurings of the wind in the forest, education has been a prompter and guide to man in his struggle upwards from darkness, fear, and superstition into the light of the present day. f .- , ,... ,i'Wesgee.i4.g,, :pro 1922 1.,r4-,,A,..,,--,-,JAW-, .44 Page Twenty