DePauw University - Mirage Yearbook (Greencastle, IN)

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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

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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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life is but an imitation g and now to be ready to grapple with the hard- headed facts of right and wrong, and with the principles of give and take which the actual world presents. So the Greek of this year comes down from the Clouds of the Junior and walks upon the common earth speak- ing of the simple yet vital principles that fill out the ordinary lives of men. DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS Josmfn P. NAYLOR, M. S., Professor of Physics. B. F. SIMoNsoN, Assistant. Undergraduate instruction in the department of physics is comprised in ten courses. The first year Work consists of general lectures, accom- panied by laboratory work, on the subjects of dynamics, heat, electricity, sound and light. The second year work regularly consists of flj a course in absolute electrical measurementsg Q2j a course in physical optics, and CSD a course in advanced laboratory studies, varied from year to year. The third year work is a somewhat extended course in mathemat- ical physics. The subject-matter of this course is also varied to meet special requirements of students. Throughout the entire work in physics it is sought so to combine rhetorical and mathematical study with laboratory instruction and prac- tice to give the student a broad knowledge of its principles and of the methods of scientific investigation. This plan of study, it is believed, best equips those who elect to make a life-work of science, a11d also has the highest disciplinary value for those who make physics only one branch of study in a liberal education. Prof. Naylor, who formerly occupied the chair of physics in Indiana University, is eminently successful in his methods of work. The phys- ical laboratory is now well fitted for ca1'eful scientific work, and the department this year is overcrowded with students.