Greencastle Herald, Greencastle, Putnam County, 2 January 1928 — Page 7

GREENCASTLE HERALD PAGfe THREE

DEPAUW CLOSES NINETIETH YEAR WITH OPTIMISM

NEXT TWELVE MONTHS MOST PROMISINO IN THE HISTORY OF UNIVERSITY—MORE THAN $1.OOOOOO INVESTED IN PAST YEAR

When the old college clock at DePauw University rang out the old «r it closed ninety years of service d progress. It rang in a year filled ith more promise than any year in the school’s history. More than $1,000,000 has been invested, during the last year, in new buildings and equipment. Much needed improvement has been m^de, including additions to the staff and equipment of the home economics department, a $60,000 addition to the university heating plant, remodeling and extension of the music school and remodeling of classroom buildings. The largest portion of the above sum was spent in new housing quarters for

three of the houses. The Italian villa style used by the Kappa Phi Sigma fraternity is probably the most unique. Another house used Georgia

colonial architecture.

The fall scholarship standards were raised at DePauw and candidates for entrance must have graduated in the upper two-thirds of their respective high school clasess. This, with the requirement made of Rector scholars, has greatly increastd schoK-

arship at the institution.

Among honors that have come to the school this year was the silver cup award by Sigma Delta Chi, international journalism fraternity, found ed at DePauw university in 1909, for having "the best chapter of Sigma Delta Chi in tht United States.” The DePauw unit of the R. O. T. C. was rated one of the twenty-nine “distinguished colleges” of the country by the United States War Department after its spring inspection of

all college military units.

An honor as Well a- a gift of $25,000 came to the university from Mi* Catherine Beveridge, when she sent the university a check for this as a Christmas gift, for the founding of n fellowship in DePauw university in American history. This is the first fellowship to be established in this small Methodist school. The gift, Mrs. Beveridge sa\ , really comes

students.

Most outstanding of the new build- ! f ron) }, er husband, the late Albert J. ings is Longden hall, opened this fall, Beveridge, ex-United States senator, at a cost of $260,000, which houses w f,o was graduated from DePauw

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Longden hall and Florence hall. Un- Mater, like the average dormitory for boys, Longden hall shows that equal attention has been given to attractiveness and comfort. In addition to the boys’ Bleeping and study rooms there are pressing rooms, trunk rooms, shower baths and two large recreational halls. Beautiful guest rooms and

W'hile the building of the new Methodist church in Greencastle is not a university project, there are hopes and plans for a new school of religious education, and a students’ laboratory in the new church. President Lemuel Murlin announced after a gift of ?.',000 worth of art

ed from the Carnegie Foundation of New York, that ho had plans to extend the art and music departments

of DePauw university.

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most attractive reception room keep teaching equipment had been recelv-

up a demand for the use of the hall for entertainment of guests and for various campus organization meetings. A baby grand piano, a $1,500 grandfather clock, gay red, brown and green leather overstuffed furniture, tapestry, occasional chairs, ferns, floor lamps, thick velvety rugs and harmonizing draperies make the reception room one in which the young men enjoy entertaining their

friends.

A similar dormitory for women students is being completed on the old site of the music school at a cost of $280,000, making a quadrangle of women’s residences on that part of the campus. Five new fraternity houses have been built this past year by the loyal DePauw alumni. These houses range In cost from $70,000 to $100,000. Old English architecture was used in

LIMA, Ohio., Dec. 31.—(INS)— Possibility that George Remus will he released from the State Asylum here after only a few months was voiced today by Dr. W. H. Vorbau, superin-

tendent of the institution.

Advised by International News Service yesterday that Remus had been ordered confined to the Asylum by Probate Judge William Lueders, of Cincinnati, Dr. Vorbau said that from three months to a year would be required for observation of Remus before he could possibly be dismissed

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