Butler University - Carillon / Drift Yearbook (Indianapolis, IN)

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J ] the Butler Moves North (By Marjoric McElroy) REATER Butler, the achievement of years of activity, through all stages of failure and success, emerges as one of the leading universities of the United States. When little red school house in historic Irving- HiLTON U. Brown ton became inadequate, when the ever-increasing enrollment necessitated immediate action, that splendid group of men, the Board of Directors, formulated a plan of action. Thus, in May 1920, was inaugurated the movement towards Greater Butler. Because of these men Butler is today one of America ' s outstanding universities. In Novem- ber 1922 the present location, with all of its natural beauty, was chosen by the site com- mittee, which was composed of Will Irwin, Arthur V. Brown, Emsley W. Johnson, and Lee Burns. An option was secured from the Indianapolis Street Railway Company on 246 acres. Plans for the construction of new buildings were next in order. The coffers were empty, sad to say, and a building-up of funds was necessary. The link between plans and actuality was supplied by the hard work of John W. Ather- ton, financial secretary of the city office of the university. To him, unlimited praise is due for the untold effort which he has expended. The generosity of Arthur Jordan, board member, financier, and philan- thropist, must be accorded a full measure of credit. The million dollar gift of Mr. Jordan in 1927, making possible the Memorial Hall which, as a fitting tribute, bears his name, represents one of the greatest services which the univer- sity has ever enjoyed. I. Arthur Jordan, Emsley W. Johnson, R. A. Long, Mrs. Z. T. Sweeney, Lee Burns, John E. Canaday, Hugh Th. Miller. II. Arthur V. Brown, Crate Bowen, William C. Smith, Albert G. Snider, William G. Irwin. Clarence L. Goodwin. J. W. Atherton. III. Henry Kahn, Thomas W. Grafton, Scot Butler, Peter C. Reilly. Perry H. Clifford, James L. Clark. r r %g - j sm E s m '

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ARTHUR JORDAN Whose generosity enabled Butler College of Wvington to become Butler University of Fairview The School

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■S:5; =L ©g Et nr- ss.S« iS Handwriting on the Wall N the following pages, gentle reader (you are gentle, aren ' t you?), will be found, in sixteen easy lessons, an attempt to save the world via a reformed and rationalized educational system. But do not be too ready to laugh at these adolescent sermons, you wise ones. For surely you will admit, even the most learned and mature among you. that colleges today are not all. not nearly all. that they might be. When a student is able, while in college, to have dates every other night, to engage in all sorts of ex- tracurricular activities, and to carry outside work besides, and still receive a degree at the end of his fourth year, it does seem, doesn ' t it, that degrees don ' t mean much anymore, and that colleges perhaps aren ' t as much to their students as they should be? The persons in whose hands the destinies of the colleges of this country rest should begin to realize, one of these days, that unless colleges leave the paths they are now following, they will, before long, be institutions without purpose and without meaning. Mr. Aley Whistling in the Dark People used to actually believe that after dying they would ascend to Heaven, and there, reclining upon the banks of a crystal stream, pluck harps and sing with the angels forever and ever. But now science has come along and shown how ridiculous such beliefs arc: and those who had expected a pleasant and rest- ful eternity find themselves facing the dark. Disillusionment always causes bitter despair; and everywhere now are to be heard scoffers, who jeeringly term religion whistling in the dark. To many persons, that is all it is: they arc afraid, and are trying to keep up their courage. So if religion and churches are to endure, they must reestablish themselves on something more real than the superstitions which have been jerked from under them, superstitions which even the most zealous religious leaders of today will admit have caused untold misery in the world. Mr. Kershner