Ohio Wesleyan University - Le Bijou Yearbook (Delaware, OH)

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ll T 3 'Q ls fl' F' THE COLLEGE The supreme function of a college is to develop through knowledge and discipline that condition of life known as Culture-not merely to the end that its stu- dents may learn how to do the world's work, but that they may be able to do it with satisfaction to themselves, and with distinction. The college seeks, therefore, not primarily to give information, but enlightenment through informationg not first to train in technical skill, but to discover to the student the power to acquire and organ- ize knowledge for the great as well as the lesser issues of life. It directs itself to the quickening of the faculties of the mind and their discipline in accordance with the laws of reason. But it likewise discharges a higher duty in the strengthening and purification of the powers of feeling and imagination, to the end that experience he- comes refined and enriched, and life is rendered more worth living. 20

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'1llwl.l ' The New Wesleyan T GLANCE backward over the last twenty-five years at Ohio Wesleyan shows great advances. The endowment has increased from about E two hundred thousand dollars to a milliong the value of the grounds and buildings has more than trebledg the expense of running the college has increased in about the same proportiong the Faculty is more than twice as largeg the enrollment of students in the College of Liberal Arts has arisen from less than five hundred to over a thousand. The University now has recognition in the various educational lists as standing in the first rank. We are more interested, however, in looking forward than in looking backward. The big thing appearing just now above the horizon of the future is the Diamond Jubilee. This means new buildings. The plans being worked out for the development of our college properties and the erection of new buildings promise a campus that will be beautiful and impressive, and an athletic field on the Odevene property that will be really worth while. The Diamond Jubilee means a larger endowmentg and that will mean, among other things, an increased teaching staff, and an extension of our courses. The Dia- mond Jubilee means-is already beginning to mean-a deepened interest among our alumni and more enthusiastic support than we have ever had. And the Diamond Jubilee means a great gathering at the Commencement of 1919, at which every present student should be already planning to be present, and to have the time of his life! -Herbert Welch. 19

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--lililtlll Phi Beta Kappa RICHARD PARSONS Professor of Greek A.B. and A.M. Ohio Wesleyan Universityg President Normal Department, Hope College: Supt. Schools of Plymouth, O., Member of American Philosophical Association: American Archaeological Society, School masters' Club, CColumbusj, American Geographical Society, Shakespeare Club, etc., Tutor in Greek O.W.U. 1875, Editor Bebes Tabula, Translator Iphigeneia in Taurs, Author Did Paul Preach img84Mar's Hill? etc. Present position since Phi Psi, Phi Beta Kappa WILLIAM WALTER DAVIES Professor of German A.B. Ohio Wesleyan 18725 A.M. 1875: B.D. Drew Theological Seminary, 1874, A.M. and Ph.D. University of Halle 18773 Editor Dept. of Archeology and Biblical Research Methodist Review, 1884: Member Victorian Institute Author's Club CLondonD etc: Author, Universal Bible Encyclopedia, Codes of Hammurabi and Moses. Instructor Hebrew and Modern Lan- guage 1879-'83, adj. professor Hebrew and German 1883-'45 Professor Hebrew and German since 1884. .. Phi Beta Kappa, Delta Tau Delta C YRUS BROOKS AUSTIN Dean of Women, Professor of Mathematics and Astronomy B. A. and M. A. Ohio Wesleyan University: D. D. Miami University and Ohio Northern: Member West Ohio Conferenceg Professor of Math. since 18793 Professor of Math. and Astronomy since 1906. Phi Beta Kappa GRACE STANLEY Associate Professor of Latin A. B. 18855 A. M., 1892, Ohio Wesleyan Universityg Teacher in Central Female Col- lege, Lexington, Mo. '86-'89g Present position since 1889. 21