Franklin College - Almanack Yearbook (Franklin, IN)

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Department T is the aim of this department to give the student a comprehensive view of the great movements in the worldls history, and to arouse a desire for further investigation. ln order to settle present problems, it is necessary to have a knowledge of past experience. So to understand past events that we may apply their principles to the problems of today, to get a true sense of proportion, to have a broad sympathy growing out of broad understanding, this is the purpose of the true student of history. The method of study can only be acquired by an emphasis upon movements not mere events, by careful reading and discriminating use of original material, and by constant outlining of the matter under discussion. The libraries of the college are well supplied with the material for investigation, the government docu- ments being especially valuable for the students of political science, and the Freeman Library contain- ing the best books of reference. The improvements contemplated in the department, such as cataloguing the library, purchasing new books and beautifying the room will tend to increase the interest of the students in this work. The chair of History has been filled during the past year by Arthur Eugene Bestor, a gradutte of the University of Chicago. Professor Bestor was of History born in Dixon, Illinois. He spent one year in Beloit College Academy at Beloit, Xlfisconsin, and four years at Vtfayland Academy, Beaver Dam, YX'isconsin. He took the highest honors of his class, which entitled him, upon graduation, to the Colby Scholar- ship, yielding three years' tuition in the University of Chicago. Here, in 1901, he took his A. B. degree and secured such high rank that he was one of the fifteen from his class of two hundred and ten to be elected to membership in the Phi Beta Kappa fraternity. His scholarship and standing in the university were recognized in many ways. He was elected to the presidency of the Senior Class, was leader of the Michigan and Columbia Debating teams: repre- sented the university in the Northern Gratorical League at Oberlin in lSElSl, where he won second place 5 was one of the editors of The Cap and Gown in l.90U, and at the Decennial Celebration of the university last spring gave the address in behalf of the students and alunmi. He is a member of the Delta Upsilon fraternity. Professor Bestor has the enthusiastic admiration and respect of all the students, and his influence as a teacher is doing much to strengthen and advance the interests of the college.

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PROF. E. S. GARDINER

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PROF. A. E, BESTOR