Monmouth College - Ravelings Yearbook (Monmouth, IL)

Page 29 text:

Page Twenty-seven Herman J. Stegeman Director of Athletics Granville Love Assistant Librarian James H. C. Smith Assistant in Chemistry Russell W. Brooks Assistant in Chemistry Wallace Dougherty Assistant in Biology Philip McCuTCHEON Assistant in Biology NeLLE McKelvey Secretary to President Anna McCorKLE Assistant in Mathematics Sam Hamilton Superintendent of Buildings Mary Agnes Nesbit Instructor in China Painting Hazel Stewart Assistant in Latin Vera Paul .... Instructor Girls ' Athletics, Assistant in Expression Florence Davison Assistant in Latin

Page 28 text:

O ii ' v: 3fes«-«-A«v-r«»«M-- -i Page Twenty-! another tlie ability to read the foreign tongue, anotlier the art of translation, another the spoken language, still another the acquainting of the student with the literature of the people whose language he is studying, and so on almost indefinitely. Unquestionably the ideal course should do justice to all these values, but in practice it is necessary to sacrifice some of them in order to secure anything like satisfactory residts. Our department t f Modern Languages aim.s to teach German and French primarily as cultural subjects. Our definition of a cultural subject is one that broadens the horizon of the student, opens to him a new field of vision and inspiration, and contributes to counter- act the provicialism with which we are all hampered in spite of ourselves. The sympathetic understanding of a foreign people is from this point of view a distinct cultural asset. As the life of a people is always mirrored in its literature, and as no literature can be thoroughly understood and appreciated except in the original, we regard the language as the key to this sympathetic understanding. To secure this our first and most important aim, and with this always in view, we try to do as much justice as possible to conversation, grammar, and the other less important phases of language study. H. W. Church. PUBLIC ff Mffi m- SPEAKING ' ' ' , E. MARK WISDOM, Department ot Public Sjteakinp. The world wants men who can speak in puldic. The Lord said of Aaron: I know he can speak well lie shall be thy spokesman unto the people . The man who can express himself well is always in demand. Xo matter what line of work one engages in after leaving college, he needs to be able to speak. Other things being equal, the man who can make the best showing before a group of hearers is the man who will receive the great- est recognition. Tt is not by accident that men become good speakers. It is by liard work and con- sistent training. A man can no more speak well without training than he can perform any other skilled work without training. Recognizing these facts, the Department of Pub- lic Speaking believes that its work has an important place in the curriculum. It believes that its duty is to make those under its charge better able to use those powers of expression which nature has given them. Its aim is the building of character and the making of men and women. E. M. rk WisnoM.

Page 30 text:

ia»«3 . s-.™ s«s=a- :s;2SSw- ; Pa e Twenty-eight