Monmouth College - Ravelings Yearbook (Monmouth, IL)

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1915 RAVELING d H

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1915 RAVELI NGST of the treasurer ' s office, open the catalogue and study the courses of instruction; note the advance along all these lines and the bright promise for the future. Monmouth ' s ideal is the high grade small college. To the question, What is education?, Monmouth ' s answer from the first has been, a three-fold development of body, mind and spirit. Physical and mental culture equal to any, with distinct em- phasis on the development of the moral sense and conscience. The doctrine of first things first is accepted as holding true in education as in other things. In Monmouth ' s creed it is boldly written Character first, The highest culture for man ' s hightest na- ture. Not ashamed of the title, Christian College Monmouth will not change, blot out or in any way conceal that title. It is literally true that the sun never sets on the graduates of Monmouth College. In the states, from New York to California, in Japan, China, India, Egypt and the Sudan, there, as elsewhere, you find them. They are found in most of the pro- fessions and businesses of life. Many are leaders in high poistions. But whether in exalted or humble stations in life the children of Monmouth College reflect honor on their Alma Mater. Fifteen hundred and thirty-one have graduated and fifteen thous- and in all have been students for a longer or shorter period. The recent reorganiza- tion of the Alumni and ex-students promises more efficient support than heretofore. Behold the college of the future, strong mother of a mighty race, rejoicing in the power of maturity and in the blessing of a mighty offspring. A m

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1915 RAVELI NGST Class History. SENIOR PRESIDENTS. First Semester. Ralph McLaughlin. Second Semester. Robert Ross. TT H E time is almost come when we must pass through the rites of Commencement ill week and thus come into a new relation to Monmouth College, no longer that of mother and child, but rather that of mother and child grown to manhood ' s stature. Ours has been a stormy time here in college. We entered in a year filled with portentous events. We came in the year of the dark and secret operations of the High Tribunal, in the year of Procs. and Meetings. But standing out in bold re- lief to the rest of our experiences is the famous night of the Twenty-second of Febru- ary. We honor ourselves in telling that we were the only class that ever had the lock-out used against us. Our reinstatement pledges are among our dearest memen- toes. We also rise to remark that we won our pole-fight in the Freshman year and made a strong resistance, though out-numbered during our Sophomore year. But through our numerous misfortunes our class seemed to fall away as the years rolled on. In our Sophomore year we were small, in our Junior year, much smaller. In spite of such handicaps we put on a good class play, dealing with Miles Standish and his Pilgrim band and put out a distinctly novel Annual. We are glad to fay that we actually put out the Annual without going in debt. This year it is worse than ever so far as numbers is concerned. We were only twenty-nine when the year started. But we are glad to say that we have since added a few derelicts such as Beckett, Pauline Parr, Snak ey Wasson and John Taggart MacBane. So we feel rath- er chesty. We always have put some basketball team in the field and also boast of such celebrities as McCrery Pierce, Gillis, Person and Yaddy Barnes. We ' re some class when you come to figure it out. The only remaining title to fame which we claim before corking the ink bottle and thus ending these Annals is that we are the most married class that ever went through Monmouth. Selah Selah. - 1 m