Milton College - Fides Yearbook (Milton, WI)

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VIOLIN Instructor: Mrs. Ellen Crandall Place, ttMrs. Place. $M$HE violin, whose intricate construction and mysterious powers were perfected as long ago as three hundred years, is akin to the human T voice in its quality of tone, and because of its response to the un- zangz conscious sentiments of the player, is more intimate than that of any other instrument. To perfect its mastery requires the highest type of ability, mental, moral, and physical, but it returns dividends for honest endeavor more quickly than others in that it is less common. Anyone of but everyday talent may learn to play the violin to the extent of fulfilling his innate requirement. Simple melodies from the violin give pleasure because of its pleasing quality and of its rarityeMrs. Ellen Place. PIANO AND THEORY OF MUSIC Instructor: Miss Alberta Crandall, Miss Albertaf Principal of the School of Music. That music is of great value in the training of the mind was the belief of Gladstone, who said, HMusic is one of the most forcible instruments for train- ing, for arousing and for governing the mind and the spirit of man? Yet of greater value is its power to speak a universal language which binds all peoples together in peace and harmony, and in the words of Henry Ward Beecher, ltMusic cleanses the understanding, inspires it and lifts it into a realm which it would not reach if it were left to itself? It is the aim of the Music Department to give its students an intelligent understanding of the intricacies of harmonic structure and form of music, and to prepare them for usefulness as artists and teacherseMiss Alberta Crandall. ORGAN Instructor: Mrs. Kathryn Bliss Rogers, ttMrs. Rogers? llThe organ is the most complex of all instruments; it is the most harmon- ious of all; it is the grandest of all. It stands transcententally not only above every other instrument, but above every other combination of instruments. No orchestra ever existed that has the breadth; majesty and grandeur that belong to this Prince of instruments.l'eHenry Ward Beecher. Chief Engineer: Martine M. Lanphere, ttJan, B. A., Milton College. Matron of Goodrich Hall: Mrs. May 0rdway Maxson, ttAunty Mae. Page Thirty

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VOICE CULTURE Instructor: Leman H. Stringer, B. A., Milton College. ISQ4f'7g5NUTED musician from Europe recently said, HAmerican orchestras are the best in the world. That statement is significant and brings A joy to our hearts. For several decades our slogan has been Make America Musical. But it cannot be said that America has the best tame singers in the world. True it is that we have the best operaehthe most expensive operaU;hut our opera singers for the most part come from Europe. But a new day is dawning. we have many of the best teachers of voice in the world who are turning out great numbers of artistic singers, and thesee with their charming recital programseare carrying the idea of better tone production into every city and V1llage of our country. Another decade and it may he said that nAmerica has the best singers in the world. 111 Milton, we hope we have our own little part in this great work.$l4. H. Stringer. MATHEMATICS Professor: Alfred E. Whitford, Sc. D., Alfred University. Instructcr: Carroll F. Oakley, B. A., Milton College. G. Stanley Hall said, ltMathelnatics is the ideal and norm of all careful thinking. In a college of liberal arts where straight thinking is one of the goals of learning, mathematics is naturally an essential department of study. Mathematics has been an intrinsic element in human progress. All scientific progress rests on the predicting power and the exactness of mathematical reasoning. Again lttnathematics is the very embodiment of truth. This study then has ethical value as well as educational value, and has an important place in the building of character. A. E. thitfortl. GREEK Professor: Walter D. Thomas, M. A., Milton College. The chief types of poetry, epic, lyric, and dramatic and the chief styles of prose, historical, philosophical, and oratorical grew one by one with the devel- opment of the mental and social life of the Greek race. The Creek was a thinker and an artist, and he touched all he did with the perfection of his art. In Greek literature we have, then, not only what is very interesting in itself, but what is the very fountain-head of all literatureeW. D. Thomas. PSYCHOLOGY Professor: J. Frederick Whitford, M. A., Milton College. Psychology, the newest of the sciences, has recently made advances which challenge the attention of every thinking person. Objective, subjective, and hehavioristie phases of research have caused this nScientific Sth-Clliltlv to be adopted into the family of sciences. Persons of every walk of life are turning to psychology for assistance in solving their problems. The new psychology aims to adapt the individual to his environment needeeJ. F. VVhitford. Page Tlu'rty-two