DePauw University - Mirage Yearbook (Greencastle, IN)

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A Bachelor Reverie I. . II. III. A Twas an evening in midwinter: A picture that carried me lzaclc again l forgot the strain of my lausiness life All outdoor 'twas cold and drear, To a time of long ago- And that I ever was 3 man,- men I sat me clown in my cozy den A l'-ace that hrought up memories hright I was simply a happy student For a smolce, with no one near. joys that I used to lcnow. Built on the Student Plan, . As I smolced alone i-n silence. And I saw the room grow dimmer with an awfrlll lgt of good times. ln the wreathing cloud each curl And l let myself forget with bills that Wguld grow big, Seemed to frame the shadow picture All hut the N haze of student days M And with always the some old quegfign Ot- the features of a girl. That is round alaout me yet. would I P355 in Dutch or 'fl-ig? IV, V. Wien the highest aim laefore me Ms, in Spring., to malce the team, And the greatest thing to l'-ret me- That small to some might seem- Vfas the ever illusive, teasing sprite, With smile or frown divine, The same small, yet large. question marlc, That Old School Case of mine. Even the frat. and all the fellows., Feasts and rough-house lay the score Gave way there laefore her picture As nought ever hefore. Andl lived in the same old feeling- Whose strength can not he told- Of the N rare old, fair old. College claysu The happy days of old. E. N.,'05

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Tepczrimeni of Hisiory PROFESSOR ANDREW STEPHENSON. Ph. D. EDGAR O'DANIEL. Assistant The Historical Department. as we lcnow lt. bears little resemblance to that of 1852. when. as the records show. history was hrst taught at old Asbury. Or for that matter it is far different from that of a quarter of a century ago when Dr. Rldpath taught English Literature and Normal Instruction with History included in the latter. Not until the close ot- his worlc do we notice the coming in of the more modern methods. Indeed. historical study in the past t-ew years has developed so rapidly and such vast changes have talcen place that it seems more of a revolutionary movement than a natural evolution. The tendency ot-'late has been to throw off the old methods which bound one down to'certain dehnite lines and conclusions and to cast out. untrammeled by any obsolete system. and unlntluenced by any vfriter or schools of writers. The time when some text boolc was talcen as source and some one man as an infallible authority has passed away and every historical proposition must now be proved not by the statement of some individual but by facts as they actually existed and as they are to be found in the original manuscripts and sources. At the same time the worlc ot' other men is not disregarded but all is carefully studied and weighed in the balance. This is the kind of worlc being done today at DePauw and it is the hind of worlc approved ot- and followed by all progressive schools of the country. qln connection with the lecture room is the semlnarfum containing about 1.000 volumes. many of them. copies and translations of old manuscripts. This number is constantly:growing and being made better so that for most purposes the student Ends it not only convenient to talce advantage of the vacant hours in the morning. but also to do the most ot- his worlc here. In addition to these boolcs there are about 5.000 volumes ot. history in the General Library. so that I Depauw is as well. if not better. equipped along this line than any school in the state. Dr. '-'-A vlhli ' h Stephenson. the present head of the department. was elected to the Chair of History in 1894. He graduated at Depauw. then Asbury. ln 1882. afterwards taking his Doctor's degree at Johns Hopkins. Thus trained in one of the foremost graduate schools in the country. pro- gressive in every way. under his leadership the department has lcept in touch with the most modern methods of worlc. At the same time he possesses unbounded enthusiasm for his Alma Mater. taking an active interest in:all the elements of college life. 1 V I