DePauw University - Mirage Yearbook (Greencastle, IN)

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COLLEGE OF 1 ,1 BER . ARTS HISTORY ' POLIT- ICAL SCIENCE GREEK ' ENGLISH GERMAN - LATIN ORATORY ' BIB ICAL LITERAT- LITEBATURE URE ' PHYSICS CH EMIS TRY PHYSICAL. CULT- MATHEMATICS URE . BIOLOGY

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A Bachelor Reverie I. h Twas an evening in midWinter: All Outdoor htwas cold and Jrear. III. A picture that carried me hack again I forgot the strain of my business life To' a time of long agoa And that I ever was a marge When I sat me down in my cozy den A face that brought up memories bright I was simply a happy student For atemoke. With no one near. As I smokecl alone in silence. In the wreathing cloud each curl Of joys that I usecl to know. And I saw the room grow dimmer With an awful lot of gooa times, And I let myself forget Built on the student plan. With hills that would grow big. Seemed to frame the shadow pictuge All hut the haze of student Jays And with always the same 01:1 question Of the features of a girl. ,' Iv. When the highest aim before me Was. In Spring. to make the team. And the greatest thing to fret me- That small to some might seem- Was the ever illusive. teasing spritea With smile or frown divine. The same small. yet large. question mark. That 01:1 School Case of mine. That is round about me yet. Woulcl I pass in Dutch or Trig? V Even the frat. anJ all the fellows. Feasts and rough-house By the score. Gave way there before her picture As nought ever Aid Before. Anal lived in the same 011.1 feelinge Whose atrength can not he toM-e Of the rare old. fair oldt College days! The happy Jays of old. E. N.SOS

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GDepartment of History PROFESSOR ANDREW STEPHENSON, Ph. D. EDGAR OtDANIEL. Assistant O The Historical Department. as we know it. hears little resemblance to that of 1852. when. as the records show. history was first taught at old-Ashury. Or for that matter it is far different from that of a quarter of a century ago When Dr. Ridpath x1:31.1gh't: English Literature and Normal Instruction with History included 'in the latter. Not until the close of his work Jo we notice the coming in of the more modern methocls. Indeei historical stutly in the past few years has developed so rapicuy and such vast changes have taken place that it seems more of a revolutionary movement than a natural evolution. The tendency of late has been to throw off the old methods Which hound one down to certain aehnite lines and conclusions and to cast out. untrammelecl by any ohsolete system. and unintluenced by any writer or schools of writers; The time when some text hook was taken as source and some one man as an infallible authority has passed away and every historical proposition must now he proved not lay the statement of some indiviclual but by facts as they actually existed and as they are to he found in the original manuscripts and sources. At the same time the work of other men ;, is not clisregarded but all is carefully studied ancl Weighed in the balance. This is the himl of work heing done today at Depauw and it is the kind of work approvecl of ancl followed hy allh progressive schools of the country. CLIn connection with the lecture room is the seminarium containing about 1.000 volumes, many of them, copies and translations of OM manuscripts. This number is constantly growing and being made hetter so that for most purposes the stuclent anls it not only convenient to take aJvantage of the vacant hours in the morning. but also to 3.0 the most of his work here. In addition to these books there are about 5,000 volumes of history in the General Library. so that DePauw is as well. if not better. equipped along this line than any school int the state. Dr. Stephensont the present head of the Aepartment. was elected to the Chair of History in 1894. He graduatecl at DePauw. then Old Ashury. in 1882. afterwards taking his Doctorhs degree at Johns Hopkins. Thus trained in one of the foremost graduate schools in the country pro- gressive in every way. under his leaclership the department has kept in touch With the most gm moaern methocls of work. At the same time he possesses unhouncleA enthusiasm for; is Alma Mater, taking an active interest inZall the elements of college life. .4 .4 9