Franklin College - Almanack Yearbook (Franklin, IN)

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Department of Philosophy LEAR, consistent, independent thinking is one of the best achievenients of any student. T o assist hini in this, one line of intellectual train- ing is pursued through the year, the first terin being given to psychology, the second to logic, and the third to the history of philosophy. The other line consists of a study of Ethics the first terin, Political Economy the second, and ZEsthetics the third. More stress is put upon the inastery of the subject than upon the niere text. Supplementary reading is required on all these subjects in so far as our libraries furnish the literature. The class-rooni discussions are considered indispensable to a liberal view of the particular subject in hand. Recitations are daily throughout the year. No one who enters these classes can fail to see that, after all, inere reason is very feeble, and back of all is the guiding hand of Hini who niade the very laws of Ethics and created the wonderful reasoning power of inan. . Sonietiines a student will enter a class in this department, feeling that he has inastered all that great niinds have thought ont, but when the professor assigns soine outside reading and says you inay have to read it over fourteen tiines before you begin to understand it,7' he is inade to realize that a great big senior U est nihilf' VV. T. Stott, D. D., L. L. D., has been at the head of our beloved college for over thirty years. There are few churches in this State which have not felt his influence. His life is being lived in many parts of the world by those who learned not only the text which he teaches, but the things which inade hini the grand Christian nian that he is. As professor in the Department of Philosophy, Dr. Stott is next to none in this part of the country. He was born in Jennings County, near Vernon, May 22, 18336. He spent his boyhood on the farin, and while there learned the lessons which gave hini the foundation for his genuine character and true Christian nianhood. He entered Franklin College in 1857, and was graduated with the fanious class of 1861. .-Xt this tinie the whole country was lost in the thought of war. Dr. Stott was one of the Franklin students who becaine 'L a boy in blue. He was mustered out in 186-1 with the rank of Captain. The three years following the war he spent in the Theological Senii- nary at Rochester, N. Y. He labored as a pastor for one year and then becanie a teacher in the college. In 1872 he was elected president of the college, and has filled that place ever since. He is a ineinber of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity.

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Dr. XV. T. Stott . Prof . Prof. Prof. R. J. Thompson D. A. Owen . M. E. Crowell Prof. Jean ette Zeppenfeld Prof. C. H. Hall . Prof, F. W. Brown . Prof. E. Si. Gardiner Prof. A. E. Bestor . Mrs. Minnie Bruner The Faculty Departmen! of Philosophy Mafheznaiiral Dejba1'z'me1zzf Deparffzzent of Biolngy Cfzefzzislry and Physics Jkforlezfn Languages Depariuzem' of Greek Deparfment of Lafin English Depaffimezzz' Hisfory Deparzfmezzz' Deparzfvzem' of Music

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DR. W. T. STOTT