Franklin College - Almanack Yearbook (Franklin, IN)

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'ROIK Cao Glhvmiairg emit ighgnira M lCI.VIN IC. CRowELI,. A.M., Pr-ofr.v.w1' l.i-:ia li. Cnitns, Cmlrni-: C. Rno.xm':s. ll. l .nui Xvlnztzifzxicnev, ff.f.Yl..VflIlIf.Y Professor Melvin li. Crowell, NM., was elected to the chair of Chemistry and Physics in 1899. This department heeame separate from that of Biology in 1887 when Rev. A. B. Chaffee, A. M., who had heen instructor in Analytical Chemistry in the college since 1885 was called to the chair. Wellington B. johnson, A.M., succeeded him in 1889 and was at the head of the department until I898. 'l'he aim of this department is to give the student the hroadest and most practical view of the field of Physical Science. lt offers a course which will prepare lwoth the student who will go directly i11to prac- tical life, as well as the one who intends to pursue advanced work in higher institutions. 'l'o this end Professor Crowell has given his untiring efforts and has spent all his time making his department at- tractive and in adding to the apparatus. Professor Crowell is the inventor of the Crowell Apparatus for teaching Physics and the Author of the laboratory Manual for the same. Under his eflicient management this department has been completely revolutionized. Within the next few years a 11ew Science Hall will he erected and with the present excellent apparatus the student will have the very hest opportunity for work of the highest standard. Professor Crowell is a graduate of the Genesee Valley Seminary, Belfast, and the University of Rochester, N. Y. The year of 1885 was spent as an honorary scholar in the Johns Hopkins University. He is a memher of the llelta Upsilon and the .Phi Beta Kappa Fraternities. Recently the honorary cle- gree of A.M. was conferred upon him by DePauw University, Greencastle, lnd. Professor Crowell has had much experience as a teacher of Chemistry and Physics and has proven himself a master of his line. ll lf. Waggener, Claude Rhoades and l,ee Childs are assisting in this department. t2llj

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igiatnrg aah linlitiral Svrirnrr 1-ll1:R1uo'1 1' C. PALMIQR, A.1X'1.. l'm'fw.i-.vor R. D. C11A1iW1l'K, Wimm Wula.-x'l'1'i:.1xl- i', ,-1.1-.vi.vhm1.v 'l'he department of History and Political Science has always been a popular one in the college, at- tracting the students interested in social and political problems who are willing to work. History and Political Science, with its auxiliary sciences are those sciences which have to do with men and societies of men in the past, and, as they construct the political and social work of today. Their study covers, therefore, the study of God's nnal creation, many a study of him as he was, and as he is, a determining factor in the world's work. 'l'he leading thought in this department is to unfold to the stu- dent the fulness of the life of the past, to offer to him the opportunity to search for and to find the truth concerning the past, to interpret the present in the light of the past, and to see and to measure the present in the light of the discovered truth. It seeks to emphasize that the study of History is the search for truth and calls for the courage to recognize the truth when discovered, that the study of Political Science is the careful consideration and cool comparison of those institutions, political and social, theo- retical and practical, which are the result of man's work. This department was started in 1882 under Professor VV. Moncrief, A.M., as the department of History, and linglish Literature. ln 1895 Charles IC. Goodell, A. M., was elected to the chair. He was succeeded by A. R. 1-1 atton who was instructor in History until Arthur liugene Bestor, A.B., became head of the department in 1902. Charles N. Peak, A. B., held the chair of History and Political Science in Prior. PAi,M1crt 1904. ln 1905 William H. Allison, Ph.l5.. was elected to the chair. liast fall Herriott Clare Palmer, A.lVl'., became a member of the Faculty. ' Professor Palmer is a graduate of Franklin College. Her University education was procured in Huy-vgml and Columbia 'Universi- ties. She received her Master's degree at the close of the year 1905-06. She further studied in Columbia in the year 1906-7. Miss Palmer is well known as .1 teacher and as a member of various educational organizations. She is at present Secretary of the Indiana State '1'eacher's Association and is a member of the American l-listory Association. Miss Palmer is a member of the Pi Beta Phi Fraternity. no

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