1918-1919 Academic Catalog

ORATORY, PHILOSOPHY, PHYSICS, POLITICAL SCIENCE One lesson a week for one semester constitutes the work required for one credit. Students electing music must pay the usual fees for les– sons in music in addition to their regular collegiate tuition fees. See the Department of Music for the nature of the work offered. ORATORY PROFESSOR McCHESNEY 88. PRINCIPLES OF PUBLIC SPEAKING-The fundamentals of effective speaking, principles of breathing, voice-production, enuncia– tion, and action; delivery of extracts from the works of writers and speakers. Text: Phillips. Required. Three hours a week, first semester. 89. ORATORY-The distinctive characteristics of oratorical style; the masterpieces of representative orators are analyzed, and the prin– ciples thus discovered applied in the writing and delivery of original orations. Text: Phillips. Required. Three hours a week, second semester. 90. ADVANCED ORATORY-Open to all who have had some foundation work in oratory. Text: vVinans. Three hours a week, one semester. PHILOSOPHY PROFESSOR McCHESNEY 91. INTRODUCTION TO PHILOSOPHY-The nature of philosophi– cal thought, the main problems of philosophy, the more important types of philosophical doctrine, the value of the study of philosophy and the spirit and method of its study. Text : Fullerton. Elective. Three hours a week, one semester. 92. HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY-Greek, mediaeval, and modern philosophy from 600 B. C. to the present. Text : Weber. Elective. Three hours a week, one semester. 93. PROBLEMS OF PHILOSOPHY-The persistent problems of modern philosophy from Descartes to the present day. Text: Calkins. Elective. Three hours a week, one semester. ·94. OUTLINES OF METAPHYSICS- The nature of metaphysics, the subjectivity of sensation, space, time, God, and idealism. Text: Snowden. Elective. Three hours a week, one semester. 95. LOGIC- Terms, propositions, syllogisms, fallacies. Text: Jevons-Hill. Required. Three hours a week, one semester. 96. ETHICS- Theoretical and practical ethics. Virtue, freedom, duty, and individual and social obligations. Texts: Gregory and Drake. Required. Three hours a week, one semester. PHYSICS PROFESSOR BAUMAN 97. GENERAL PHYSICS- Mechanics, heat, electricity, sound, and light. Text: Kimball. Elective. Four hours a week throughout the year. POLITICAL SCIENCE PROFESSOR ALLEN 98. AMER! AN GOVERNMENT-A study of the evolution of the Am rican gov rnment and politics, and of the forms and activities of 37