DePauw University - Mirage Yearbook (Greencastle, IN)

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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.

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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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DEPARTMENT OF GERMAN HENRY B. LONGDON, A. M., Professor. It has been said that a dead language is the everlasting storehouse of a dead nation's thoughts. The living language can make these thoughts its own and add a new storehouse of original thoughts. No language has accomplished this more than the German. This department is presided over by Instructor Minna Kern and Prof. Henry B. Longdon. Miss Kern graduated from Hillsdale College in 1888 and spent the years '91 to '93 in study in Germany. On her return she taught in the Rockford High School until coming to De Pauw in 1895. The Work under her, which occupies the Freshman year, consists of a thorough study of the principles of grammar and the acquisition of a vocabulary. The study of the grammar is first substituted by a reader and then by prose composition. With the second year's Work the student passes under the super- vision of the Herr Professor. He is an alumnus of De Pauvv of the class of '81, and received his master's degree here in '84, He pursued post- graduate studies in the Universities of Giittingen and Leipsic in 1890-91, and at Munich in 1897. He has been connected with De Pauw in various capacities ever since his graduation. In the second year, Schiller's Jzmgfraa von Orleans, Wilhclim, Tell and Ilfaria St1r,av't, with Freytagls Soll fwnrl Habea, are studied in class, and six recent minor classics are required as collateral reading. Less and less attention is paid to translation in the hope that early in the course it may be entirely discarded and a large part of the time and attention devoted to the philological and literary phases of the Work. By the third year the student begins to enter into the enjoyment of the language. Ample opportunity for this is afforded by the study of Lessing's life and infiuence and his Mvlnna von Barnhclfm, Amelia Galotti, and Nathan der Weiss. The spring term is devoted to Goethe's Faust. What shall be studied the fourth year is left largely to the desire of the majority of the students wishing to take the course. The work in Faust is continued during the first term, but for the remainder of the