Monmouth College - Ravelings Yearbook (Monmouth, IL)

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Administration

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■ Our First Lady WE haven ' t known you long, Mrs. McMichael, nor, with only one year of col- lege still ahead, can for us the pleasure of your acquaintance long continue. But we like you. Those first two years we spent in Monmouth ' s classrooms, we saw an unfilled post on Monmouth ' s campus. The first two years we knew our Doc , we saw an empty office in his household and a vacant chair beside his own. That ' s all righted now, though. We ' re glad you ' re with us, Mis. .McMichael. We have found it a pleasure to know your gracious presence and a blessing to feel your gentle influence. It is our ardent hope and heartfelt wish that you have found our campus a happy spot to know, a cheerful spot on which to dwell, and our friendship a not unvalued joy.

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DEAN J. S. CM-IAXD DEAN MARY ROSS POTTER i . M. MCMICHAEL, Happy are the people whose annals are brief. The annals of the year 1934-1935 at Monmouth are brief because the year has been undisturbed and uneventful — a year of quiet work with a good measure of success in study, sports, and other endeavors. We believe the year has been a happy one in spite of the hard times which still cast a shadow upon our ac- tivities and ambitions. We of the faculty hope that 1934-35 has been a time of progress and profit for all whose names and pictures ap- pear in this book, and we wish for all Mon- mouth students greater opportunities, larger tasks, and increasing happiness in the years ahead. J. S. CLELAND. For three years in this book 1 have been referring to the depression. This year I wish to speak of a product of the depression, the F. E. R. A. for college students. The help to some sixty-five students has been inestim- able. These students have accepted this work as work and not as a dole. Isn ' t this attitude 1 typical of the Monmouth student body? Let us maintain this position. H. M. McMICHAEL. Business Manager. True education is an operation performed on the whole man and not on an abstraction called his mind. says L. P. Jacks. We have had a good year. We have grown —in broader knowledge; in character noble and staunch; and, perhaps most fundamental of all, we should have grown in understanding and vision. Harry Emerson Fosdick compares the purpose of his church to that of a great electric plant, to supply heat, light, and power to the community ; so the college offers to every stu- dent the opportunity— perhaps his supreme op- portunity—to tap the sources of these blessings. With him rests the harvest. The poem hangs on the berry bush When comes the poet ' s eye; The street begins to masquerade When Shakespeare passes by. Cordial and confident good wishes to each and every one! . Pape Seventeen