DePauw University - Mirage Yearbook (Greencastle, IN)

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The sixth annual Pan Hellenic Banquet held in February was in every way a complete success. The Pan Hellenic spirit is becoming more and more prevalent, and never before were inter-fraternity relations more harmonious than at present. We note with pleasure the increased interest taken in L arcs y duction of a series of inter-fraternity ball games has proved valuable in bringing out talent for the University ' ' ' h t l . t it and teams. The Athletic Association has recently been reolganized on a basis that does muc o e eva e Atll t' b ' both students and Faculty. The intro- plaee it above factional strife. With these brief explanations and a deep solioitude for the continued welfare of the University we leave you to the tender mercies of THE MIRAGE. l9l 96521535 4465-gasses

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Platform of the Mirage. HE class of '93, in convention assembled, looks back with pride upon the work which has been accom- plished bv those who in the past have advocated through the MIRAGE, the principles of progress and reform. lnspired by the progressive spirit of the times, marching under the banner of reason and keeping step to the music of free-thought, before their attacks, shams and relics of antiquity have given way, institutions out of harmony with present conditions have been relegated to the rear, blinded bigotry and pompous pretense have been put to ignominious flight. Within a few years a revolution has taken place in the administrative policy of the university. Reason and tolerance have succeeded arbitrary power and blind worship of exploded su- perstitions of the past. Judgment and candor, not stubborn and acetic will, now grace the presidential chair. In departments of instruction, which were once a huge joke on education, magic-lantern exhibitions and automatic reeitations from text-books have given place to original research and independent thought. Com- pulsory chapel speeehes, obnoxious Junior performances, the grade system, together with a score of other petty rules and practices better suited to the kindergarten than to a great University, are now things of the past. The old iron-clad curriculum has been modified to suit the needs ofthe modern student, opportunities for concentration on a certain line are now given, and the new DePauw, so long a creature of the imagination, is now an accomplished fact. We congratulate the University upon these signs of present prosperity and indications of future success. We welcome these changes representing, as they do, substantial growth. We greet the new men who have come into our faculty, men, broad, brainy, young, progressive, liberal, men who fairly represent modern thought, men, wide awake and fully abreast of the times, men who possess not merely knowledge of their own particular departments but power to think and ability to inspire thought in their students. Pitching our tents upon the heights of progressive thought, with faces turned toward the rising sun, with charity for all and malice toward none, we pledge ourselves to the support of those principles of Justice and Reason and Eternal Truth the promotion of which has ever been the guiding purpose of the MIRAGE. While congratulat- ing ourselves upon the substantial victories of the past, we cannot ignore the fact that wrongs still exist, that much remains to be done before DePauw will completely conform to the standard of a broad and liberal in- stitution, unhampered by tradition and free from prejudice and bigotry. - Applying those general ideas which form the basis of our belief to existing conditions we present the fol- lowing platform of principles and policies. ' 1. We hold that the University can never accomplish its true purpose until it discovers and defines its true relation to the church organization which supervises and controls its affairs. Creeds and dogmas have ever been the enemies of education. Every victory of thought, every triumph of science, every achievement an r