Hillsdale College - Winona Yearbook (Hillsdale, MI)

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rounds him with every facility for encouraging him in the develop- ment of his individuality in lines by which it seems most probable he will succeed. lt recognizes individual tastes and heredityg it discountenances the idea of trying to use a single mold in shaping the human mind: it seeks to intelligently dirvrf rather than to load the student. The old method brought the student face to face with a man 3 the new brings him face to face with the Great Teacher-God. W'ere a time limit to be placed upon these periods in the col- lege, it would be approximately correct to say the first period ended with the last administration of Dr. Graham, the period of transition began with that of Dr. Durgin, and that the new method has been steadily growing under the presidency of Dr. Mosher, until it has become the prevailing method. ' The list of the college alumni includes the names of many able men and women in missionary service, in the ministry, in. literature. teaching, law, medicine and politics. XYill Carleton and Rose Hart- wick Thorpe are not unknown to fame. Congressman Hopkins, of lllionois, is a man of intluence in national affairs. -ludge Moore. of the Michigan Supreme Court, finds worthy colleagues in ,fudge .ll T. Hoke, of Yirginia, and -ludge M. B. Koon, of Minneapolis. ln teaching, says the secretary of the college in an article in the Morning Star, nearly fifty have occupied professorships in leada ing colleges and universities in more than a dozen states, and several have been presidents of such institutions. Joseph XY. Mauck, LL. D., '75, is now president of South Dakota University, and Rev. Ll. R. H. Latchaw, D. D., '81, was for years president of Findlay Col- lege, of Findlay. O. The lamented Hiram Collier, LL. D., '64, was professor in colleges at Hillsdale and Indiana. Pa.. and at his death in the state university at Lincoln, Neb. Bela P. Maclioon, A. Ma '64, was professor for years in Cornell University. Vliilliam XV. Payne, Ph. D., '63, is professor of mathematics and astronomy, and director of the Goodsell Observatory in Carleton College, at North- neld, Minn. -lohn F. Downey. A. M., C. E., i7O, is professor of mathematics and astronomy in the University of Minnesota, and Arthur E. Haynes, M. Ph., 375, is assistant professor of mathematics in the same institution. Twelve have been invited from first to last 24

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now in the State University of Minnesota, designates as the period of 'fold methods, the transition period, and the period of new methodsf' By the old method, Writes Prof. Haynes, is meant that method by which each student was required to take the same course of study, and in which there were no electives permitted and no laboratory work required, or at least but very little-the course was a sort of Procrustean bedstead, and the teaching, however corn- mendable in many instances, gave little scope for the development ofthe individual student in the direction in which he might be most ff, . 5 1 . K ,A-liQ5',e,,f' . ' ' ' A A? f.erQ'S4 - ,. A . X f J.4lh5fll.5ifliif 'if - A f V ':f.g,.:.-125121 lla fl 2- ws: fv'...11f I A A -WMV ,,,,t:'L5fgi,gs afpqpg piggy' jc ff egg, aqz-' UIQ 37:51. 3 'g ::,1. ,512 In , lg'-, :Vi g 'A if +15 ' v:4:EL.y A 'A ,.fEV:V:fa. sfctl- -,-T-lie? V 94 2911 X: ' if. .J if? .5 :Vw ,Z 51. A1-,-41 VL, l'TX.:,i P1-EE N 4: -XR , Y -. x A ' -'- f ,T -' if, V- '. as'-. V- Vf,'-.L:te.-- 'Lil I ,a.S,- f tg -,J 'ag ,, ' ,' 7, f:L. .e f-,ff-' ,gafg-f'i'ifie A, Vm f- .fx--53Ri.f X- ' fy- ,' ,-fzL'-.,::- 341, A' ' 'A .M 'i' f Ak ,Y p f ,,VqV- V, ,Vg .41 ,, .. ts -- ,Vw , 1 .V 9 . -, A . 1-'s , ,, . -i-- f 'V 1 s W 1 ' ' ' 'L 43 .lf , T -, M. A,:x.,.. Q -',, 1,Aq:3'-V-1 -' ,., , V., 3, , ,g3.A- A, .,'-if I m5rff-'-A- '-- Vis' 'ww .l ff ,A . was , , iV,.,,'gf . .fs.,v.,..x. ., . s . M .V . .1 VV AR A fWV1'+, f g-' Fug 1- 3 If iff: f Vs in .,,, ,gi , .N i jt! ' ',A'- AV -V EP Viz 1423215 i .,,. 5 ziisce ' f i A- .., t - -'ei A - 1 .. fi ' A A ,ww- Q1 s-V -- ago.. M y 2 W t w .Vw aku: vw .4i'1f1V V' . V. V n..--. -V ,. A favs., ,-Ms.-i., 43 :g V., V+ 23-Z9 -,-.xjzg :P V Qs 3,134 fm-.i iw ':- , V,:, .E.V- r A V 4221-f A fa, Eiga Q ,:I.ts.,1 V -RQ COLLEGE CHURCH. ' successful. But the educators of those days did noble work in spite of these handicaps, and impressed upon their pupils their splendid personality in a degree hardly possible with the present methods. However, the progress of science and the demands of the times have revolutionized both our methods and means of instruction. This new or modern method may be aptly termed the laboratory method. It seeks to make every student an investigator, and sur- 23

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to remain in the faculty of their alum 111c1lv1', several of whom have been called to more lucrative positions elsewhere. Rev. I. S. Copp. D. D.. '69, S. XY. Norton, A. M., '82, and Chas. H. Gurney, A. M., '73, have been successfully nominated hy the alumni and elected by the trustees alumni professor of helles-lettres in Hillsdale Col- lege. Manifestly the details of the history of the college are not called for here. lt regards its chief call to exist to he the need of offering facilities of a first-class liberal education, not only under Christian auspices, but on terms that should hring such an education within the means of every willing and industrious boy and girl. lts courses of instruction include worlc in the preparatory, academic, theolog- ical, musical, art, elocutionary and military departments. In the academic department classical, scientific, literary and pedagogical courses are offered. Investigation is encouraged, not only by sug- gesting its own rewards, but by offering prizes in literature, mathe- matics, and French. The college l1as only just begun to make its history. lt expects to he several hundred :years in completing it. ln all its departments the college aims at doing conscientious and efficient work. Teachers' training classes are a specialty. Young people wanting preparation for the practical worlc of life are cordially invited to Hillsdale, with eonhdence that they may get value received. 5 Qalehakal