Ursinus College - Ruby Yearbook (Collegeville, PA)

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C. Ernijst Djkchant, a. h , Principal of the Acad- my and Instructor in Mathematics. A. lb. Princeton University, 1S95: Teacher, Public Schools. 1SS3 87 ; Instructor, Palatinate College, 1887-88; Principal of Schools, Berwick, 18SS-90 : Instructor in Mathematics. Slate Normal School. Trenton, N. J., 1.895-1900; Ursinus College, 1900. The work of tli • Academy includes courses in the ancient and modern languages, mathematics. sciences, penmanship, and drawing; bookkeeping, stenography, and typewriting; music and art. This department aims to prepare students for any of the colleges or technical schools, and to furnish a broad and thorough foundation for good citizenship. The plan of organization includes some original features. The subject is made the basis of grading, each being independent of others so far as the content will permit, while the students’ interests arc not sacrificed to preserve a system of Organization. An organized system of tutoring aids and encourages the backward student, and inspires bis highest efforts. By a combination of the individual and the class system students are advanced in each subject as rapidly as is consistent with thoroughness. AmtLaide Rankin, Instructor in Public Speaking and Drawing. Student Philadelphia School of Design for Women; Student portraiture, landscape and china, 1SS9-93; Student National School of Elocution, JS90; Student Neff College of Oratoiy, 1893, B. E. ; B. O , 1S95 ; Graduate Student Neff College of Oratory, 1897, 1901 ; Taught in Miss Baldwin’s School. Bryn Mawr, 1891-93; Departments of Art, Elocution and Physical Culture at Brooke Hall, Media, 1894 ; Taught in Neff College of Oratory, 1895; Opened Private Studio in Philadelphia, 1896; Ursi mis College. 1902. The aim in this department is to do away with fatal, artificial and mechanical forms, i. e., taught tones, inflections, and gestures; to encourage students to put their own knowledge, experience, sympathy, imagination, and personality into the work, and to let the expression of voice, and action, lie the spontaneous outcome of the emotions aroused within themselves by the written thoughts of others, or by their own original thought. 22

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—---— -----77------- Ikvillk Charles Le Compte, A. B., Professor of the English Language and Literature. A. B., Wesleyan University, i S97 ; Graduate Student at Columbia University, 1S99-1900; Instructor in English in the Barnard School, New York City, 1897-1900; Ursinus College, 1900 ; Member of the Modern Language Association ; 1 B K The aim of the English Department is two-fold : to enable a student to acquire ease, accuracy, and grace of expression ; to give him a knowledge of English literary history and a direct acquaintance with its important epochs. During the first two years the emphasis is upon the former aim. The work of the third and fourth years is confined to the study of particular periods of literature and the early form of the English language. The endeavor throughout the course, is to make the student familiar with the lx-st that has been thought and said. George Leslie Omwakk, A. M., B. I)., Lee hurt on Education. A. B., Ursinus College, 1898, and A. M., 1901 ; B. D , Yale University, 1901 ; Licensed 1901 ; Ursinus College, 1901. The courses in Education have been established to meet an actual need. College-trained teachers are in demand everywhere for the higher positions in public education. In consequence, men and women are coining into the college with a view to making education their life work. The courses in Education arc designed to afford such professional training as will lit for positions of leadership in the field of education. These courses are open to third and fourth year students in all the groups. 21

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JL'I.IA THERESA WILSON, Director of Department of Music and Instructor it: Piano. Student, Broad Street Conservatory, Philadelphia, 1897-1901 ; Graduate, 1901 ; Instructor, Broad Street Conservatory 1899-1900; Ursimis College, 1900. The Department of Music affords superior advantages for the study of music in all its branches. Miss Wilson is the instructor in piano, grand organ, and theory, while Miss McCain instructs in violin, voice, and mandolin. An extensive course of study has been prepared, after an exhaustive examination of the comparative merits of the best systems employed in this country and abroad. It is not the aim merely to give the students a showy repertoire, but to make them true musicians. This must be achieved by thorough technical training and theoretical work To become broadly educated musically one must be well versed in harmony and theory, and be conversant with the history of music. To this end special instruction is given in these branches. Editiie Overhoet McCain, Instructor in Vio'in, Mandolin, and Voice Student, Van Gelder School Philadelphia, 1897-1900; Student, Voice and Violin, Paris, France, 1902 ; Ursinus College, 1900. 23