DePauw University - Mirage Yearbook (Greencastle, IN)

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ally from organized society, yet, for the sake of clearness, the theory of state is studied before sociology, the latter, being more complex and indefinite, demands mo1'e intellectual maturity. Then follow the special phases of political science, viz.: those of law and economics. None of these subjects are divorced from ethics, and although history forms a distinct department, all social theory and philosophy must be tested by historical data properly interpreted. No special text-books are required. Particularly in sociological sub- jects the laboratory method has proven its superiority. Students are co-laborers With the instructor in the investigation of certain subjects. Syllabuses, when practicable, are utilized to supply bibliography and unify class work. A departmental library, containing the best literature of tl1e subjects taught, is placed at the fullest disposition of the student. Individual problems are assigned for special research, and co-operation in acquisition is utilized in class reports and theses. The courses are arranged as follows: Theory of state in general, sociology-principles and applications 3 socialism-history and philosophy 3 law--elements of jurisprudence, international law and diplomacy, eco- nomics-principles and applicationsg money and banking, history of economic theory 3 S0'WI.?'7lC!7'2 ll'77t in political science. DEPARTMENT OF GREEK REV. W. F. SWAHLEN, Ph. D., Professor. Human languages are great buildings 3 while they are used, the life of a living nation throbs within them g when fallen into disuse, they are the everlasting storehouses of the dead nation's thoughts. To the Greeks, the unequaled architects of all the ages past, belongs not alone the glory of having excelled in the construction of buildings of marble, but also to have excelled in the creation of a language, unrivaled in accuracy, matchless in beauty. If you would learn more about this Greek language, visit the genial D1'. Swahlen in his recitation room. Dr. Swahlen is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, of the class of '63. The following year he was chosen professor of Greek and

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The third year is given to qualitative analysis. At first the time is devoted to the theory of tl1e balance, methods of weighing, estimation of the capacity of measuring vessels and the preparation of standard solu- tions g afterwards to such problems-as, determining the quantity of acids, alkalies, oxidizable and reducible bodies in a substance. The other courses offered are : Determinative mineralogy, which is intended to present the most prominent physical and chemical characters of rocks and minerals as a basis for iield work. Crystallography and descriptive mineralogy. Physiological chemistry. This offers' an opportunity to study the normal and diseased tissues of the human body, the problem of digestion and the detection and eifect of poisons. ' DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL SCIENCE Cor.. JAMES R. XVEAVER, A. M., B. D., Professor. Col. James Riley Weaver, the head of this department, has had great experience in this line by reason of his long consular service. He is a graduate of Allegheny College of the class of '63, and also obtained the degree of S. T. B. from Garrett Biblical Institute in 1866. After a few years' teaching-first as principal of the Dixon QI1l.j Seminary, and then as professor of mathematics i11 West Virginia University-he was ap- pointed United States consul to Italy in 1869. The following year he was transferred to Antwerp, and looked after the United States interests here for nine years. From 1879 to 1885 he ably filled the important office of co11sul-general to Vienna. Since his return he has occupied his present chair at De Pauw, and has published several syllabuses in political econ- omy as guides to students. This department embraces specifically the science and philosophy of the state or society politically organized. But as this depends so essen- tially on organized society in general, the science and philosophy of society fall naturally Witl1i11 its scope. Although the state springs logic-

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German in McKendrie College, L6bZLl1011, Ill., which position he occupied for twenty years. In 1883 his faithful services were rewarded by his election to the presidency of the college in which he so long had taught. During the year 1886-87, he was president of the Kansas Wesleyan Uni- versity. In the autumn of 1887 he became the professor of the Greek department in De Pauw. The student entering Dr. Swahlen's class for the first time must previously have had two years' Greek. During the first term, selections from Homer's Odyssey are read. The second and third terms are spent in reading selections from the attractive Greek historians, Herodotus and Thucydides. On each Friday throughout the year, a love feast is held-subject, Exercises in Greek Syntax. The object of this feast is to secure to the student a thorough working knowledge of Greek gram- mar, which he is supposed to make a K1-Efml-9 dt-I Demosthenes' Orations against Philip are read during the first term of tl1e second year. No living language has power to tell the excellencies of these peerless pieces of oratory, a11d few men have intellects to appreciate the oratorical masterpieces that e'ach one is within itself. The next term is spent in reading Xenophon's delightful Remifnfiseerzees of Socrates. And the last term of the year is spe11t in a study of Plato's Apology of Socrates and Crito. The third year is spent in a careful study of some of the master- pieces of the Greek drama. The first two terms are devoted to the Greek tragedy during which Pr-ometlziezlts Bon-nd by Aeschylus, Aleestis by Euripi- des, and Oedipus Tyrmmus by Sophocles are read. To the student who has gotten carefully a11d well his former year's Greek, this year's work is a real delight. Aristophanes' comedy, The C'Iouds, is the closing drama of the year. The last year of the student's college course in Greek is spent in read- ing selections f1'om Aristotle, Aeschines, and Demosthenes On the Crown. The student is now supposed to be a man in thought, to have outgrown the needs of a Greek love feast 3 to have some time since poured forth, and successfully too, his most persuasive oratory before some almost per- suaded maideng to have grown tired of the drama and the stage where