Anderson University - Echoes Yearbook (Anderson, IN)

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DEAN The students who go out at this commencement time are educated only in that degree to which college faculty, activities, and general atmosphere have succeeded in drawing out what was poten¬ tially within. The older notion of education was that of pouring in knowledge. That conception has been completely displaced by that one which falls in line with the Latin root, educo. Education, then, is not the assimilation of facts, but the acquisition of skills, techniques, and tools. It is not the memorizing of data, but the acquiring of methods of attack of a problem. It is not the arriving at set goals, but the appropriating of right patterns of thinking. It is the earnest hope of the institution that those whom she honors with the seal of her highest recommendation will, because of their training, be able to dream new dreams and see new visions, push backward the set horizons, arrive at higher goals, and in reality be Christian revolutionists— life and world changers. By such accomplishment is an alma mater best honored and repaid. -—Russell Olt

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PRESIDENT President Glen Frank of the University of Wisconsin says, There are no educated men. There never have been. There never will be. The men we may most justifiably call educated are simply the men who have never stopped their pursuit of the flying goals of information and insight.” A lamentable day it is in any man’s life when he decides that he has arrived educationally, that he has completed the task of learning and may sit down with folded hands and closed mind. Learning is not a course of study. Learning is a lifetime process. It enrolls men at the cradle and graduates them when they die. Recent psychology has rendered a fine service to education in announcing that the adult mind can learn quite as readily as can the mind of youth. This theory fills in better with a common sense view of life. It does seem that we should be able to learn better with a background of life experiences. So this season is commencement season in a real and genuine sense. Those who graduate are going forth to begin the great process of building an educated life. May they be successful. ■— J. A. Morrison

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DEAN OF WOMEN It is the aim of Anderson College and Theological Seminary to promote a program which will mean for her graduates a balanced life and a well-rounded personality. It is to be hoped that during the four or six years of residence here members of the outgoing class have not only sensed this aim but have made it an objective of their personal living. In this way will they be able to render highest service, for we serve best when we ourselves are best developed. Life, many-sided and complex, will be the material with which most of them will work in the years to come. To be able to touch this life and influence it at many points will require not only a keen intellect but a sensitive spirit; not only a strong physique but a radiant soul. As you leave us, class of 1935, we trust that for you life as it is lived outside the gray walls of Anderson College will challenge the best in you, and will continue to draw from you the noblest in terms of personal living and high endeavor. —Amy K. Lopez