DePauw University - Mirage Yearbook (Greencastle, IN)

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jnrzhanrh This book is the result of a purpose. How well the pur- pose has been attained is not for us, but for you to determine. We have had but one aim and that aim was to truly mirror DePauw-to picture, in its true perspective, every activity and interest-to somehow crowd between these leather covers everything that is of DePauw, and finally, if possible, to catch a little of that indehnable something that we call Our Spiritv-that thing that is more than buildings, more than campus, more than anyone thing, but the sum and substance of all things, at DePauw. To this end we have utilized the best of materials and workmanship and surely the best of our effort, misguided as it may have been. We sincerely hope that The Purpose has been attained and that the IOZO Mirage pleases DePauw today, and that Tomorrow it may serve to make this year at DePauw live again. 10

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DEDICATION ................ THE UNIVERSITY-IIS History . . . . THE UNIVERSITY1NCW Projects CAMPUS ............A......... FACULTY .. ATHLETICS ...... CO-ED ATHLETICS .... UNIVERSITY .... The Press . . Dramatics .........,. Debate ..,....,....... Honorary Fraternities .... Departmental Clubs . . . Co-ed Organizations . . . Religious Activities , . The Greeks .,...,,. Festivities ....... Student Body . . Music School . . . R. O. T. C. ... JOKES .......... ADVERTISEMENTS . . . 4 9 II I2 17 33 63 93 99 1o1 IO7 IIS 119 IZQ 137 143 153 191 199 270 289 297 395

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OLD ASBURY HALL The Uflnihersitp : : I :Kits Ziaistnrp Eighty-three years ago the corner stone of Asbury Hall was lowered into place, and the first building of what is now DePauw University was begun. Five years before, in 1832, the Indiana Conference of the Methodist Epis- copal Church had determined to found a school of higher learning in this state. From then on, until 1837, the work of securing funds and deciding on location for the school progressed. By that date, Greencastle had been chosen for the seat of the school and the erection of buildings begun. The school opened the following year under the corporate title of Indiana Asbury University in honor of the great pioneer bishop, Francis Asbury. Its first president was Bishop Mathew Simpson. The Civil war stripped the college of its men, and the financial troubles of 1883 threatened to close the school. It was then that Washington C. DePauw made the first of a series of gifts to the University, which averted the disaster. In recognition of these gifts, the name of the school was changed, in 1884, to DePauw University. Having passed through some of the most trying periods of the country's his- tory, and at one time faced with financial failure, DePauw University now stands with an equipment of more than a million dollars in buildings and land, and an endowment of upward of two millions, perhaps more than that possessed by other than state schools in this section of the country. 11