DePauw University - Mirage Yearbook (Greencastle, IN)

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Knowledge: Come and Get It Depouw is the meeting place of the new and the old. In this Greencastellion institution the wise and hoary elements of age become re- conciled to the ductile and innocent elements of youth. A Harrison Hall springs up in green blackboards 0nd Fluorescent lights, but East College and Minsholl Laboratory are unime pressed. In September the campus blossoms with the despicable green of freshmen, but gnarled and weatheretempered faculty retain the customs and methods that are port of col- lege-OF DePauwt For in the life of 0 college classes come and go ropidly; but the academic routine For the stream of faces endlessly new remains relatively constant. The DePauw student Finds the original method of instruction, the lecture class, the most prev- alent. Whether his major lies in zoology or English composition the occoutrements are the some: professor and students, blackboard and chalk, and Chairs with arms For notebooks. Professors in Asbury Hall and East College clear their throats, explain that Napoleonis Continental Policy laid the seeds of the little emperors downfall and that a verb is used reHexiver in Spanish to express passive voice. Wcrds pursue Words as notebooks grow With outlines of municipal election procedures and diagrams of the frogs digestive system. Sooner or later the bell in East College sounds, pens Find their way to pocket and purse, and newly imported knowledge walks out, diffused in thirty directions. During the afternoon chemistry and physics students rediscover the lows of Boyle and New- ton within the ons of Minshall Laboratory. Experimenting Fingers adjust Bunsen burner and microscope and write their Findings on paper, and millimeter and centimeter take on gor- gontuon proportions as theories are subjected to Missourian inspection. Northon College Street the revolving door of the library swings throughout the day. Custom Fincls girls to the south, boys to the north, with rows of encyclopedias end eternally vigilant librarians looking on. Downstairs the freshmen scribble notes for the spring exposition; above them seniors read Emerson's ideas on trans- cendentclism. The upstairs windows oF the library iookdown on Speech Hall, where the sonorous voices of later Demosthenes, ring out through the day. Across the campus girls sweep the walks of the Home Management House, make beds and polish Furniture. Witely arts are further en- couraged in East College where red-noiled Fingers cut patterns and sew. DePouw is a university rather than a college by virtue of its school of music. The red brick building Flanking sorority row closes its mysteries during the Winter but throws itself open in warmer weather to release its burden of soprano voices and piano runs. Counterpoint and harmony, violin and Flute intrigue these worshippers of culture. 25