Valparaiso University - Beacon / Record Yearbook (Valparaiso, IN)

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THE REEDRD ISIS HARRISON N. CARVER, A. M. Dean Classic Depgrtment

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I THE EEEURU - 1 15w; 3E l

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x in' . THE 15151; EDREI l :5 HE Classical Department was organized in the eighth year of the University. As stated in the catalogue of the school at the time, its purpose was to bring within the reach of young people those matters and things and views of life that have always been neces sary for the truest efficiency in work and the highest enjoyment of good things of life. It has never aimed to make scholars. of its members, t to put them in the way of making scholars of themselves so far as capacity opportunity make that desirable. It has insisted upon the necessity of Hrying 0n the work begun here, of keeping up the intellectual life and the grmation 0f habits of Wide reading. It has placed emphasis on the value of ogic, Grammar, and Rhetoric as aids in reading. While not claiming for erature anything more than it most willingly grants to Science and the raetical arts, it has always-claimed for Literature an equal importance in the ' mation of any high type of manhood and womanhood for one Whotries t0 ' , ke his world a home and not a den. I think this summarizes completely What the department has alweys ed at. . H. N. CARVER. 19