DePauw University - Mirage Yearbook (Greencastle, IN)

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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

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Deparimeni of Political Science PROFESSOR JAMES RILEY WEAVER. A. M.. S. T. B. I URING the Iast two decades, few greater changes hoth in suhject matter and universities. In these a hroad IIIOFC CSCI! year. the P1'El.CtIC3.1 phase of degree. the formal and theoretical so unduIy versity. tremist SCICDCE In whiIe Iceeping pace with the generaI in either direction. Although one of is a noted example ot' conservative 1881 Dr. Ridpath. then tiIIing the chair in poIiticaI phiIosophy. hased on the text- VfooIseyqs International Law, which he In 1886 Professor Weaver was elected to the Languages. which he iiIIed till 1890. when hy of History and PoIiticaI Science. Then the introduced. heing among the first institutions University courses. In 1893 the chair was under Professor Stephenson. at which period institutions in society, if any, have shown and method, than have our American coIIeges and Iiheral culture has prevailed more and education has wisely suppIemented, in a marked prominent a few years ago. DePauw Uni- progressive movement. has not hecome an ex- recent growth. the Department of Political evolution in aII these respects. of History, introduced two eIective courses hooks of V7ayIand's Political Economy and taught until 1885, the period of his resignation. chair of PoIiticaI Philosophy and Modern a reassignment of work he was made Professor suhjects of Sociology and Socialism were in the United States to offer these suhjects as divided and History made a distinct department Professor Vxfeaver further expanded his department hy adding Jurisprudence, Evolution of Economic Theory, and one year of advance work in the Seminarium. The Department as now organized. comprises four distinct though somewhat cIoseIy correlated suhjects, viz: one year of Sociology and Socialism: one year of PoIiticaI Science proper. emhracing Theory of the State, Jurisprudence and International Law: one year of Economics, covering PoIiticaI Economy. Taxation. Money and Banking, and the EvoIution of the Economic Theory: and Iastly one year of advance worlc in the Seminarium, viz: The investigation of original and unsettled poIiticaI, social or economic prohlems. The unity of the departmental work is hased on the science and philosophy of organized society in general. on which depends the Science and Philosophy of the State. or society politicauy organized. Then foIIoWs the more specialized applications of economicaI subjects. it heing held hy the head of the department that the scientific-phiIosophic I undue empiricism on the one hand and ' the other. The purpose af the depart- titic method of investigation. to guard to provide a practical training for pro- N end the Iihrary or Iahoratory method suited to enahle the student to hecome Q method is the onIy safeguard against too great philosophical specuIation on ment is essentially to develop the scien- againstaone-sided, hiased judgment and fessional, puhlic or private Iife. To this has heen adopted. heing pre-eminentIy seIf-directive in thought and research. , . - A I .- .4 1 W I ' ' . mann.. .