Elizabethtown College - Conestogan / Etonian Yearbook (Elizabethtown, PA)

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THE 19 3 1 ki Sv ci N JACOB IRA BAUGHER, A.M.; Ph.D. Secretary and Professor of Education EZRA WENGER, A.M. Dean of Men and Professor of Social Science and Economics REBEKAH S. SHEAFFER, A.M. Dean of Women and Professor of English and Ex- pression MARTHA MARTIN, A.B. Registrar and Instructor in Bible Page Twenty-six

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E T O N I A A Message to the Student Body THE purpose of a college is to transform ugly ducklings into swans. The ugliness is not moral in nature, if it were then the reformatory rather than the college should be called into action. The ugly duckling is rather like the block of marble from the quarry. With a chisel and a mallet the sculptor fashions the crude product into an animated statue. In like manner the duck- ling is transformed from the raw material into an animated character full of grace and truth. Practically every small town has in recent years developed its place known as a beauty partor. The proprietors of these establishments advertise widely and boldly as dispensers of the much sought after product called beauty. Shakespeare said, beauty doth varnish age. Not much more ' than this can be said in behalf of these beauty artificers. The French people say — beauty without virtue L like a flower without perfume. The greatest of German poets said, the ideal of beauty is simplicity and tranquility. To bring about such a transformation is the first great purpose underlying a real college education. The second purpose of a college is to get people to move in a spiral motion rather than in a circle. Too many people pass their days and years in monotony. Some one has aptly stated this idea in saying that the trouble with a merry- go-round is that we have to get off at the same place at which we got on. We get nowhere. We go round and round. People who have to live day by day in a merry-go-round fashion have to drudge their way through life. They speak wearily of the daily rounds. A college education should help us take the grind out of life. Each day may bring the same tasks before us, but if we live our days in spiral fashion then each day we face the problems from a different angle because of our new elevated position gained each day. Long- fellow expresses the thought beautifully when he said: P.ut to act, that each tomorrow Find us farther than today. To create rather than imitate is the third purpose of an education. Be not like dumb driven cattle, lie a hero in the strife. To measure the electric charge of an electron, or to determine the diameter of P etelgeuse, or to syn- thesize rubber from the golden rod calls for more than mere imitation. It calls for real intellectual adventure. Creative thinking and creative intelligence and effort are the vital needs of the day. Gigantic problems of industry and international relationships demand solution. Great causes need to be champ- ioned, and profound truths should be upheld. These invite the creative genius and confound the imitator. The intellectual satellite can easilv be kept in ruts, if not by persuasion then by fear and bribery. But the Lincolns, the Edisons, the Pauls and the Lindberghs, strike out over new routes. Thev are not content to follow the proverbial beaten path. They make new oaths. They set new standards, make new records and create a philosophy and reading material for a millenium. A college education should develop a creative intelligence and indomitable courage. The e are the values to be derived from a college educa- tion by a youth vibrant with energy and buoyant with hope. Sincerely. A. C. Baugher. L e. Page Twenty-five

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ETONIAN T. K. MUSICK, D.C.S. Professor of Commercial Methods and Accounting LAVINIA ROOP WENGER, A.M. Associate Professor of History and Education GUY R. SAYLOR, A.M. Associate Professor of Modern Languages DANIEL E. MYERS, A.M. Associate Professor of Physics and Mathematics Page Twenty-seven