DePauw University - Mirage Yearbook (Greencastle, IN)

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winning the state championship in base ball last year, and defeating also some of the strongest teams of Ohio and Illinois. In the field of oratory, De Pauw, as usual, has carried off the banner of victory. Her debate team won a hard fought battle with Earlham College last spring, and on January 21st, in the State Oratorical Contest, Thomas W. Nadal carried off the first honors and represents Indiana this year at the Interstate Contest to be held in May. This year a new college paper was founded-The Palladium. Mr. Charles Beard, the editor, has succeeded in giving the student body one of the best papers published in the University for years. The moral tone of the University and the high standard of scholar- ship continue to be its best advertisement to an intelligent public, and, with a proud history to point to, with a great and Wealthy patronage to trust in, and with an administration wise and aggressive, De Pauw Uni- versity continues to occupy a place of exalted standing among the univer- sities of the West. nrrqf ,S - L -xg. ,257 T -'lf' ! fl G QQ!!! Milf!

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Some changes have occurred in the faculty. Instructor Melville T. Cook has been made full professor of biology. Miss Ida Weave1', class of '93, who has since graduation continued her studies in Paris and has given some time to travel, has been elected instructor of French. Miss Bessie Smith takes tl1e place of Miss Melissa B. George in the A1't School. Misses Sawyers and Dietrichson have been added to the faculty of the School of Music. Lieut. H. P. McIntosh has been elected instructor in mathematics. O. P. Hoover, class of '94, is the new instructor in Greek in the Academy. Last year, upon the resignation of Dr. T. J. Bassett as principal of the Academy, Rev. B. A. May was elected his successor. Dr. Bassett, who for twenty years had been connected with the institution, was, at the last session of the Northwest Indiana Conference, appointed by Bishop Walden to the pastorate of St. Paul's M. E. Church, Lafayette, one of the best pulpits of Indiana Methodism. Prof. May is an alumnus of Syracuse University and was formerly principal of De Pauw College, New Albany, Ind. He has entered upon his new work with the advantage of experience, and has already Won recognition as a man well fitted for this position. Upon the removal of Lieut. Vestal, Lieut. Ham was ap- pointed by tl1e War Department of the United States as commandant of the De Pauw Corps Cadets. The strict military discipline which Lieut. Ham has enforced has won for the department a high standing. At the meeting of the trustees of the University last spring, Dr. W. H. Hickman, of Terre Haute, was elected vice-chancellor with the view to raising the endowment of the institution to an amount sufiicient to provide for the thorough equipment of every department. His efforts have met with very encouraging success, and already several thousands of dollars have been secured. . More recent years have witnessed the almost complete breaking down of factional prejudices and the growth of a more fraternal spirit throughout the entire student body. College enthusiasm has been crystallized about a common center-the welfare of the institution, and there doubtless was never a time when students and faculty were so united in aim and effort. In athletics, De Pauw has kept well apace with the best institutions of the West, making a creditable showing in state field-day exercises,

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Tr 1' rn Began 1880 1881 1883 1887 1887 1888 1888 1889 1892 1893 1894 1894 1894 1895 1896 1896 1896 1896 1896 1896 1896 1896 Corporation WILLIAM NEWKIRIC, . . HON. CLEM STUDEDAKEE, . . HON. GRANVILLE C. MOORE, A. M., HON. RICHARD S. TENNANT, A. M., . NEWLAND T. DE Plxuw, A. M., JOHN E. IGLEHART, A. M., . HON. JONATHAN BIRCH, A. M., C. W. DEPAUW, .... REV. H. J. TALBOTT, A. M., D. D., REV. J. H. DODDRIDGE, A. M., D. D., CHAS. G. HUDSON, D. D., . . REV. W. D. PAEE, A. M., D. D., . REV. GEO. L. CURTISS, A. M., D. D., REV. E. B. RAwLs, A. M., D. D., HON. J. F. ELLIO'1'r, A. M., . REV. M. M. MENDENHALL, D. D., IION. HUGH DAUGHERTY, . . JOHN T. ELLIo'r'1', . . . REV. C. E. BACON, A. M., D. D., . HON. C. W. SMITH, A. M., . REV. D. M. WOOD, A. M., D. D., . REV. W. H. HIOKMAN, A. M., D. D., . 'Crueteee Connersville, South Bend, Greencastle, Terre Haute, New Albany, Evansville, Greencastle, New Albany, Evansville, Bloomington, Elkhart, Kokomo, Columbus, Indianapolis, Kokomo, Union City, Bluffton, Logansport, Indianapolis, Indianapolis, Lebanon, Greencastle, 7?1'1n Expires 1898 1899 1898 1899 1899 1898 1898 1898 1898 1898 1898 1898 1898 1899 1898 1899 1898 1899 1898 1898 1899 1899