Olivet Nazarene University - Aurora Yearbook (Bourbonnais, IL)

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A class studying soils, under the direction of John Paschke, soil scientist from the U. S. Department of Soil Conservation, observe their subject as they absorb the lectures. -; ' JtPl : l S ;- ' tMi •:. .. ;-mi A class studying contour farming is able to observe good practices. Field Biology comes to life when the class studies real specimens in natural habitat. 21

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. - With its stately elms and spacious lawn, Olivet provides an attractive setting for a summer session of school. The summer session is designed to serve students who wish to accelerate their academic programs. Summer School . . . Accelerated Study By adjusting the period lengths, the college offers regular semester credit courses under the same teachers who teach courses during the regular school years. Here, on the lawn, Dr. Snowharger instructs a course in Political Science. 1 4 ■ - I - . iJ V ' ' - ' l i:«r

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European Study Tour . . . three months of adventure Twenty members of the Olivet European tour group sailed from New York on June 3 on the Dutch student ship, S.S. Groote Beer, along with about seven hundred other American college students and teachers. One night was spent at a manor house near Stratford-on-Avon. Students are boarding chartered coach to go to see Shake- speare ' s Twelfth Night. England Of striking interest to the newly-arrived Olivet students was the imposing west front of Wells Cathedral, built in the thirteenth century. The students reported that the course in Fine Arts was particularly helpful in preparing them for the trip. 22 Under the direction of Dr. Carl Bangs, Olivet launched its first European Study Tour in the summer of 1958. Twenty-one students, professors, alumni, and friends spent sixty- seven days in England, Scotland, The Nether- lands, Belgium, France, Switzerland, Italy, Austria, and Germany. They travelled an esti- mated forty-five hundred miles within Europe itself on six busses, ten ships and boats, and five trains and aerial tramways. The tour in- cluded places of historical and architectural interest (fifty-five cathedrals and churches, according to the weary travelers), museums, major cities, schools and universities, and places of scenic beauty. The group visited Nazarene ministers and laymen in Bristol, Bolton, and London, England, in Glasgow and Edinburgh, Scotland, in Frankfort, Ger- many, and in Florence, Italy. In Bolton and Glasgow they were entertained in the homes of church members. At points of major interest, local guides, mostly graduate students or professors in European universities, lectured on items of local importance. Experts in history, art, poli- tics, literature, and music made their services available to the students. Dr. Bangs provided general lectures and guidance.