Manchester College - Aurora Yearbook (North Manchester, IN)

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Dr. C. C. luiis pre senting the eharter of Manchester Col- lege to President F. SchAxahn. 21

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OUR DESIGNS FOR THE THE COLLEGE OF MY DREAMS The fine thing about a dream is that it releases the dreamer from his ordinary limi- tations so that he can do the impossible. A dream annihilates time and space limita- tions, overcomes insurmountable difficulties and gives miraculous powers to the dreamer. With this freedom, let us then produce the college of our dreams. Let us locate our college, then, in North Manchester, Indiana, a prosperous, growing city. The town should have an aggressive chamber of commerce, several new churches with brilliant and spiritual minded pastors, a daily paper, a fine theater that brings the best attractions to the city, a large public banquet hall, an excellent library, and one of the best school systems of the state. The town has several factories where students find part time employment ; and best of all, the town is proud of the college and takes pride in its growth and achievements, and contributes generously to its financial needs. The college should have an attendance during all ordinary times of approximately 600 students, so as to provide enough stu- dents for interesting association and stimu- lating competition but not enough to lose personal acquaintance and the intimate touch with teacher and fellow student. Entrance requirements beyond prelimi- nary academic training should consist of sin- cere and sustained desire for self improve- ment along lines in which the college ofifers help. The faculty should consist of well-trained ■ ' ' €i men and women — some young, ambitious and world-reforming and others whom the years have taught wisdom and patience and whose scholarship has grown rich and mel- low with the years. In this dream college there will be build- ings of harmonious architectural design, well distributed over a spacious campus consist- ing of an oak grove, the trees of which cast off all their leaves early in the fall. There would be on the staff of the college a phy- sician, a consulting psychologist, a director of religious activities and a dietician in ad- dition to the staff now usually found in a small college. The college would be endowed with $2,500,000, carefully invested so as to produce 5% on the investment (a dream col- lege indeed). Terms of settlement at the business office would be cash, but the college would have a system of scholarships, self- help and loans so as to make it possible for every serious student to go to college. The big word in the mind of the school shall be progress. Progress or growth shall be expected in the individual student. There shall be growth in the institution. A static thing is usually a dead thing. Faculty and students shall understand that there must be progress every year or else the college must die — and furthermore that that prog- ress can only come when there is coopera- tive effort between trustees, faculty and stu- dents. There are many other features of our dream college of which I cannot speak now. Perhaps another night we shall dream again. 20

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We hope this ta- ble of contents will unfold before your e3 ' es a more detailed picture of what Man- chester means to us.