DePauw University - Mirage Yearbook (Greencastle, IN)

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Integral port of a campus and an educational institution are the classroom buildings. Build- ings at DePouw lie in radial Formation with East College at the hub. Oldest structure and survivor of Old Indiana Asbury, it holds classes in language and ohilosophy, houses chapel programs, and sends walks radiating to all other buildings. To the west, forming one Side otthe proposed quodrangle,stondsAsbury Hall, where a large part of the school,s courses, including English and the social sciences, are taught. Facing Asbury is two-yeor-old Horri- son Hall, with lecture rooms and laboratories For the natural sciences and psychology. Physics, chemistry, and mathematics are the Men We Learn, 0f Cabbages and Kings exclusive charges of Minsholl Laboratory, thirty seconds down College Street. East Colleges southeastern walk leads to another oldster, Music School. Moved by engineering genius from the present site of Lucy Rowland Hell, it roosts over voice, piano, violin recitations and classes in music theory and appreciation. Beside it stand Bowman Gymnasium and the Home Economics House. On the northern periphery of the campus stands white-stuccoed Speech Hall, once 0 church, now speech students' temple and home of the Little Theatre. On the opposite border lies the rambling cream Frame Art Building, Termite Terrace to its friends, holding classes in creative art and art history

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Adding pages to Our College LiFe c uh V117 71! 534 h 141le Of Mice and Inseporoble friend of the student is his leother-bound brain, his notebook. It has been said that by losing his notebook he loses also his education. The use of the notebook as c: library of lecture notes for future reference is proof of the assertion.

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In some a passive member, in some a partic- ipant, in others the sole performer, the matricu- lating DePauw student encounters a wide variety of classes Students in lecture classes are primarily passive, conFining their eHorts to translating the spoken into the written word, asking occasional questions, and mentally digesting Iectu re notes before periodic quizzes. Seminars are popular because they have out- grown examinations Meeting one ohernoon or evening a week, upper-closs members discuss a project or paper of one of their number. uring the afternoons onolytically-minded science devotees follow directed lines of research in the laboratories. Under less rigid supervision and allowing For greater Freedom and originality is the art lab. Here potential Van Gogh's and less talented crafts- men work side by side. Characteristic of classes in Bowman Gym- nasium are perspiration and sore muscles, particularly, as older male students lament, in 359, where potential soldiers get 0 whiFF 0F army discipline. And in 0 class all their own are those of Music School, where students cause the air to vibrate ceaselessly with the sound of voice 0nd of musical instruments in extended practice. 28