Olivet Nazarene University - Aurora Yearbook (Bourbonnais, IL)

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IS (Pit ft ft nun moiii ' i :)iiiii[iinii[:ni II miii[|)iiii[[iiiiik . through every crisis and will give thee a new birth of usefulness in the work of saving a guilty race. Such then is but a part of our vision for Olivet and the precious, precious young people of our great movement, for which it has been our privilege to give our whole being on the altar of a consum- ing sacrifice for over twenty years. ALUMNI AND STUDENTS ' FELLOWSHIP ASSOCIATION President - - Vice-President Secretary - - Treasurer - - Hugh C. Benner Ruth Buell Jesse Brown Lawrence Howe IN view of the fact that the number of our Alumni is small and also that there are many worthy students going out from our school each year who, for various reasons have finished no regular course, there has been organized an Alumni and Students ' Fellow- ship Association. This, as the name implies, includes both the graduates of all departments and our numerous student friends. This Association was organized temporarily on February 22, 1917, when a few of the Alumni met at a banquet held at Olivet, and formulated plans for a permanent organization. This was effected at a banquet held in the University dining hall on Thurs- day, May 31, 1917. At this banquet there were about 130 present, including several of our trustees and patrons. This is now a permanent organization in Olivet University and plans are being formulated to make this Association a helpful factor in the success and advancement of our institution. Page Twenty-one

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characters, quote whole chapters and epistles, and where they can become as familiar with the Book of Acts as they are with the twenty -third Psalm. The finished fabric of this department should be soaked, saturated, and packed brimfull and running over with both the letter and the spirit of the Word. Fifthly. — A University Standard of Scholarship. This, of course, means money and faculty, and both of them can be had in abundance. A high standard of scholarship must be obtained and retained, or we forfeit the right to call ourselves a university, for this name involves all that we have stated above. Olivet should be a great focal center for refinement, culture, and mental power. We would not be understood to mean that we would have these to the exclusion of other things, such as great spiritual tides, glorious revivals, salvation in chapel and classroom, and the mighty grace of God in evidence everywhere. But we would have all of these in addition to what a university stands for, namely, a higher education. Young men and women going out with a di- ploma from this institution should not only carry with them the stamp of deep piety and a strong, keen, positive personality, with which the world will have to reckon, but should be thoroughly conversant with all the branches of philosophy, art, literature, and science. Our faith should laugh at impossibilities, and cry, It shall be done. Our soul has long since caught the vision, not only for this institution, but for all the varied and multiplied interests of cur great work. We refuse to be content with the commonplace. We determine to be more than a settler, but a pioneer ; to do more than hold the fort, but march up the hill, sword in hand, scale the forti- fications of the enemy, bombard the citadels of iniquity, and spike the devil ' s guns, pull down the black flag of unbelief, and unfurl and fling out into the pure atmosphere of the cloudless sky of apostolic Christianity the white flag of full salvation forever! Twenty iiuiiMiinniiiM o o n in iv ■■) Mum Dear, dear Olivet, thy very name signifies peace, hope, and expectancy, for it was from thy sacred, sunny, southern slopes, O Olivet of long ago, that the dear feet of our blessed Lord last touched the earth that He died to redeem. From thy sun-kissed summit, while the world was in a shimmer of golden glory, our conquering Lord began to ascend the etherial stairway, back through the open portals, to take a seat at the right hand of the Father and become the crowned, diademed, and sceptered high priest of humanity forever . Olivet, we bid thee Godspeed in thy service in the cause of Holiness and in the saving and training of precious young lives. Your best days are ahead. We thank God for your past and greet your future with joy and expectancy. Martyrs ' blood stains your walls; and the blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church. Those who have faithfully and unself- ishly given their very lives for thee shall not have labored in vain. They shall reap their icward here and forever hereafter. Thou art the object of God ' s vigil care, O Olivet ! A thousand storms have gathered and broken over your head. Ten thousand perplexing problems have encompassed thee. Thy way has lead through the grinding winepresses of sorrow, but one has well said, Out of the presses of pain comes the soul ' s best wine. Thy sun is not setting but is coming up from behind the horizon, blazing forth a flood of glory on the fogged highway of an achieving future. The blessed One that painted the western horizon with the dying splendors of the setting sun, and gave the delicate tint to the blushing flowers, made the mighty ocean, and hung the tremb- ling dewdrop on the waving leaves of the forest, chiseled the creases cn the petal of the rose, that smooths the pillow of the dying child, that catches every sparrow that falls, that same blessed Omnipotent One will hear the heart cry of thousands of people in behalf of thee, O Olivet, and will bring thee triumphantly

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f ' ' ' ' •» I fyi J mi!) pilllllMiiiiDIi JlllllimiiKJ inn ■ )ll Winnie Schurman Assistant Editor Melza Brown Bible College Associate Etta Rumph College Associate Kathleen Willingham Art Editor Hazel Carlson Academy Associate Hugh C. Benner Editor-in-Chief R. J. Carroll Business Manager Raymond Hodges Assistant Sales Manager Lawrence Benner Music-Expression Associate J. C. Breuninger Sales Manager Iva Ernsberger Faculty Representative R. Wayne Gardner Assistant Business Manager Page Twenty-two