Allegheny College - Kaldron Yearbook (Meadville, PA)

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0'Z57Ky' A 6- -be is ir - 0-- : ' 9. f . I6 fi . ff. a- sei N' 1 2 Q ' I A 'f f ' f fW Message From The President The pages of the Kaldron will indicate that the educational traditions of the college have been well sustained within the current year. There are some important facts bearing upo11 the work and life of the college community which we may be permitted to add in re-enforcement of this claim. Thirty-seven colleges and universities are represented in the faculty of the college. This is a strong protection against provincialism in its educational practices. The student community represents a cross section of thoroughly representa- tive American society. The enrollment has been restricted for several years and the entering classes are carefully selected with reference to intellectual capacity and character. Out of a total enrollment of five hundred the graduating classes. number around one hundred. This indicates a much smaller than average mortality as reported by American colleges. Twenty to twenty-tive per cent of the graduates enter professional and graduate schools. At one university where one hundred forty colleges are rep- resented, Allegheny men have won the highest honors four times since 1909. In another university, out of ten men who recently won highest honors, seven were Allegheny men. It is the purpose of the trustees to increase still further the vitality of the college. A committee has been appointed to formulate a ten-year plan of development which will include provision for additional professors, additional permanent endowment, a recitation and administration hall, a freshman dormitory for men, and an auditorium. Everyone who has been a student at the old college has a personal interest in the future position of their Alma Mater among the foremost of the older Amer- ican colleges. The steady development of this class of colleges is largely due to the steady accumulations of gifts left in wills. Legacies are the life of the private collegef' Reliance cannot be made upon sporadic iinancial efforts. The Work must continue systematically and regularly year by year. Here is one great, rich, and almost untouched field for Allegheny. Every alumnus should make it l1is business to see that the college is written into the wills of his friends of means. A decade of this kind of loyal cooperation will result in the greatest era of prosperity within the life of the college. f'Stand back of Alleghenyv is tl1e slogan of every son and daughter of the college. Hail, Allegheny, fair thy name shall be As light sent forth at morn o'er land and sea. Our truest and our best we pledge to thee, 0, Alma Mater, Beatissimaf' , Cordially, FRED. VV. HIXSON, President. 4 my .,.... ....., ...,....,,...,. A CD M Fifi 1'l'i 1