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

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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

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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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The Straight and Narrow HE title dean used to carry with it evil connotations of one sort and another. A dean was a sort of grouchy and mor- bid, albeit powerful, individual who went around doing his or her best to make college students miserable. Young ladies who stayed out late at night were sure to hear from the dean of women, and young gentlemen who couldn ' t resist the joys of frequent dissipation knew that the dean of men would be on their trail. Goodness, how times have changed! Girls nowadays dance till two or three in the morn- Mr. Putnam ing, thinking nothing of it: and if they want to smoke and in other ways show their freedom, they do so. Boys tear around town at all hours of the night in their handsome roadsters, caring little what dad. or mother, or dean, or anybody else thinks of them. And the deans themselves — well, what on earth can they do but sit back helplessly and watch the inevitable: For what can even such mighty in- dividuals as they do when the young people supposedly under their jurisdiction have been taught ever since they were teachable that every human being has a right to get out of life just what he can, and that success of any sort is to be attained only by aggressiveness? For is not aggressiveness the virtue most sought after and applauded nowa- days? The football player who rips sensationally through the opposing line, or dashes madly around left end, straight-arming all players, is cheered madly by the crowd. Babe Ruth, Jack Dempsey. and Billy Sunday have more followers than Harriet Beecher Stowe ever dreamed of having. The salesman that forces the most contracts down his clients ' throats is banqueted and trophied by the home company. Deans, you are up against it! How are you going to tell a gay young crea- ture who speeds down Meridian street at sixty miles an hour in her baby blue roadster and fur coat, nonchalantly flicking ashes from her cigarette and complacently disregarding all stop signs, old people, children, and other hindrances, that she must obey certain rules and regulations? Somebody ' s got to get us out of this situa- tion. But who? How can even deans be ex- pected to inspire respect for order and law in boys and girls whose parents compete fiercely with their fellow men in the business world all day and then tune in eagerly on jazz music and prize fights at night ' Miss Buti.hr