Culver Military Academy - Roll Call Yearbook (Culver, IN)

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x The English Department Last fall the English Department de- serted their old post in the English Building to take a different residence in the newly constructed classrooms in the basement of the Memorial Library. Under the leader- ship of Colonel Charles C. Mather, the Eng- lish instructors are continually putting forth their best efforts to prepare cadets for future life, where more emphasis is con- stantly being put upon English. Mr. Plebe may have only a hypothetical knowledge of English upon entering Culver, but this isn't his misfortune when he walks through the Iron Gate. During a cadet's third and fourth class years, he is given an introduction into American literature and finds out what the various parts of speech are and when and how to use them. If you spot a first or second classman who looks like he is ready to tear someone apart, he has probably just left the Library. Not only is one of the main objectives of the English Department to give their students a good insight into the field of literature, but every instructor does his best to get cadets to form and express their own opinions. Even if it is a case of getting an individual a little mad. A gentfeman with ideas of his own, Captain Duff was one of those who guided First Classmen through the new senior English course. From the crags of Odysseus' Ithaca to Mark Twain's Mississippi we wandered. Even more extensive, at least in the geographical sense, were the globe-circling jaunts of Colonel Hodgkin's Geography sec- tion. One of Culver's academic innovations this year, the subject provsd hifihlv intere'tir'ig to the Fourth Classmen shown below.

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CuIver's Science Department Cn? of the lessons which, at the outset in the fall, a student of Biology must learn is to use the microscope properly. Under Captain Mira:le's direction, Barrett and Bard acquire this basic skill. Near the center of campus life. an Mini! A cJ.if.cuLt but fascinating course, Physics captured from the first the imagination of First Classmen. Here a group watches Major Benner as, early in the course, he demonstrates some of the fundamental properties of matter. Although none of the members of the Science Department were able to discover a means of perpetual motion, they were able to do the seemingly unbelievable before our eyes. Doctor Johnson's and his assistants' calmness was a blessingg for it wasn't a rarity that a young scientist began to rage over an experiment. Few of the occupants of Main Barracks will ever forget the ter- rific odor Which arose when we began hav- ing experiments involving sulfur. Neither will the first classmen ever forget how Col- onel Strait was able to hit a small falling tin can with a ball from a blowgun. Even though some of us thought our assignments in Physics were a little on the heavy side, by the end of the year, we all had a thorough knowledge of elementary Physicsg and Sci- entific Methodn echoed in our ears. The gen- eral procedure a cadet follows in his Science course is to take Biology either his third or fourth class year, Chemistry his second class year, and Physics his last year. All have contributed excitingly to our knowledge of the world. I9