Monmouth College - Ravelings Yearbook (Monmouth, IL)

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RAVELINGS NINETEEN ELEVEN McMICHAEL SCIENCE HALL The leading engineers of a former gen- eration were men of mental training but their technical skill came from the school of experience. In that day Monmouth College gave the necessary mental training. To-day the engineer coming into the activities of his profession and hoping for a leading po- sition must have the mental training as be- fore, but he is very much handicapped if in getting this mental training he has not ob- tained a wide acquaintance with scientific things. As is the case with the engineer, so it is with the other professions and with the leading positions in the industrial world. And there is the purely cultural side, too, for a knowledge of physics, chemistry, biol- ogy, astronomy and the other sciences is an essential element in the education of one who proposes to become cultured. These are the living, working, everywhere-present things which touch the activities of our lives, and to be cultured one must know of these things. It has come to be the opinion of the lead- ers in higher education in our country that a student in his college course should learn much of some one subject and something of many subjects. Not all students will become scientists, nor will they enter those professions which preeminently call for a scientific training, but all students should know the methods of science. They should come in contact with the facts of science and with the processes of science in dealing with these facts. They should get a view of the history and hopes of science and the scientific method of pro- cedure in trying to realize these hopes. To attain such ideals is the purpose of our new Science Hall. Not that these ideas are new, but for the first time in the history of the college has she been able to offer the material equipment which would lend itself to the carry- ing out of these ideas. It remains for us who teach science to plan such courses and to do such teaching as will bring about these results. The friends of Monmouth College are justly proud of her new buildings. They rejoice in the excellent laboratories provided for the work in science. The hundreds who have given money that these buildings might be, take pleasure in seeing the results of their efforts. ' Wallace Hall is a beautiful building and one eminently fitted for the work carried on in it. McMichael Hall while making no outward display, is wonderfully well arranged for the work to be done there. Said a bookman who visits educational institutions all over the central west, I have not seen a laboratory in any college or uni- versity which excels your laboratory. The name McMichael Hall recalls to our memories the sterling qualities of that great hearted servant of Monmouth College, who for a score of years gave unstintedlv of his own life that the college might have more abundant