DePauw University - Mirage Yearbook (Greencastle, IN)

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news could be more joyful than to learn that Professor llrumbangh had been retained. 3 The evangelistic eitorts of l'resident llughes and Doctor l-iendcrson, during February, were almost remarkable in their results. Indeed, we feel that the results now discernible are but the beginnings of grander things for future years. VVith the cabinets of the two Christian Associations we believe that these societies and not fraternities should regulate the social status of the University. To this period also belongs the full realization of the Carnegie Library lfund and the completion of the Campbell Sustaining liund. In these we surely have great cause to rejoice. Iloth to those who have labored so valiantly, and to those who have so grandly contributed toward the perfection of these enterprises we would express profounder appreciation than may be spelled out in these few words. Now the words of this editorial are without doubt the most serious words which we shall have said throughout all this little book. We set ourselves to this task with but two requisites in mind: that this article should be serious but fair to all concerned. lf we had filled it with gushing things you would have denounced it and called it not tit for an editorial. 'l'hings which are of wit. and perhaps more pleasing, we have placed in succeeding pages. Judge not Our lloolc entire from any part. Its message extends from cover to cover, and comes from hearts which ardently love the old school, and from hands which are already reaping a bountiful heritage from the living world and past traditions of Del'atiw. lts message is from a class which from the first has been peculiarly active and ever appreciative. It is the true foreword of a class with an unsurpassed record, and that record is yet but barely begun. To whom This Hook comes, we greet you in the princcly Spirit of The Class of 'o8. Q in-I '14 neu .Q ry' J. +'- v L. 1 V ' - V 1:-:I li. LQ M T T I v 'O' l.'.l ... . - 9 M 'nl K4 um I E yy 18

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tics are slowly strangling The lJel auw. themost valuable of all our college en- terprises. VVhere is a student council to rescue our paper from this shameful end? The president justly demands, lf so-and-so be the sentiment of the student body why has it not been expressed to mc? lleeause there is no council to convey the sentiment of the student' body. We would advise that this organization be revived and that its members be chosen in the general annual elections of the student body rather than by classes. , llefore going far in this editorial we wish to pause and pay tribute to the faithfulness of Vice-l'resident Gobin. He is. in every sense of t-he word, a true veteran in the cause of the old school. lt was he who stood at the helm when the waves of adversity rolled highest. and it was his hand which held a steady and unswerving course until a more friendly port was reached. Few Universities have a Student llody just like ours. ln spite of its constantly recurring phases of fraternity influence. and non-fraternity inlluenee, spikes, fac- tions, politics, athletics, class scraps and late wars, our student life maintains a most persistent equilibrium. Sometimes a student begins to feel that the old time Del'auw Spiritu has been laid away in the College Cemetery beside the Law School and School of 'l'heolog3'- or the Old Literary Society, or the various other realities, of former days, which lived, moved and had their being upon this campus. lint before the student has had time to don the proper garb of mourning. he is brought to with a jolt and Del'auw entlmsiasm breaks forth anew from some unlooked-for channel. VVe were sorry to see the Class Scrap have to go. lt was sent to thc cemetery and can scarcely be said to have died a natural death. VVe must admit that its own violent nature, exhibited during the last year of its existence, brought on its exe- cution. llut reforms might have been instituted. VVith the bones of the class scrap we have interred a mighty means for bringing together into closer companionship, and more congenial association, men of different fraternities. men of different fac- tions, fraternity men and non-fraternity men. Our athletics have, without doubt, seen a new era. The total score in our col- umn has not been so overwhelming, but after all, the victory has been ours. 'Ilut here are some reforms which yet must and will come. To many students the substantiated rumor that Professor Brnmbaugh is going from us this year brings keen regret and disappointment. The least we can say is, that in so brief a space of time, no one has served our University in a more com- mendable and earnest manner. To the students concerned in this department no 17

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Qlune DePauw University Its Special Calendar lglfll ....... August 25th .......... Sept. 16th to l8ll'l ..... September 19th ....... Nov. 28th to Dec. 2d. . . Dec. 16th to loth.. january lst to gd.. january 4th . . . .lanuarv 16th .. january goth February 2 ISK lllarelm ioth to March 24th to March 27th 'I une QI une 'I une tl une june June june 3d to 7th .... 8th ...... oth oth to llth. .. 9th ........ Ioth... Iltll .. 14th .... 26lQil .... 1906 Summer School begins. Summer School ends. Registration and lixamination of Candidates for Class Standing. I Class Work begins. 'lfliaiilcsgiviiig Recess. Term lfxaminations. 1907 Registration and lfixamination of Candidates for Class Standing. Second Term begins. liounders' and Ilenefactors' Day. Day of l'rayer for Colleges. Exercises in honor of VVashington's birthday. Term lfxaminations. Registration and lixamination of Candidates for Class Standing. Class VVork begins. Term lfxaminations. 'llaeealaureate Sermon and Annual Lecture. Meeting of the joint lloard of Trustees and Visitors. Exhibit of the School of Art. liestival of the School of Music. Literary Exercises and Reunion of the Society of the Alumni. Commencement Day. 19