Roanoke College - Rawenoch Yearbook (Salem, VA)

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W QQ The 1931 Q 'gf 9 qiawenoclv 0 crap it V I The lprcsiitllcimtps Nlcsssage It is a pleasure once again to greet the students of Roanoke College through this page of the 1931 Rau-wcnoch. The year which has just closed witnessed the greatest economic upheaval within the experi- ence of the present generation. This disturbance was not local but world-wide. Its effects have been felt not only in the realm of business and industry but also in changed experiences in the lives of even the youngest, the simplest, and the humblest among us. College life has presented new problems to teacher and student alike. A Am I able to continue my college course? Am I strong enough to curtail even temporarily my college expenditures so as to keep within my present resources? Can I find means of sup- plementing these waning resources by additional hours of labour? Am I courageous or a quitter under the fire of new clitliculties? ls a college education worth the time and the cost which are required? VVith both ideas and things tumbling down about me, can I discover anything stable to which I may attach my hopes for a profitable and useful career? Is my primary obligation that of preparing 'myself to live in the future or that of assisting my family to live measurably well now? These are some of the questions which many a college student has had to answer and which he must answer all over again when the colleges open next September. In the midst of these conditions I ask Roanoke men to prove themselves, to answer the chal- lenge intelligently and mightily, to fall back upon that sanity of judgment and that fundamental soundness of character which is the business of the college to superinduce. Believing in the mission of the college and believing in the fineness of the spirit of the average Roanoke student, I salute each one of you affectionately and bid you go forward with high courage' CHAS. J. SM1'rH, President of the College. 7 i

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The Administration Building From The Rear Campus

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a ge The 1931 i -' 55 c c 4 QI Q qiawenocb The Dcaumis Message I have just finished reading Charles Mills Gayley's Idols of Our Education, in which he points out some of the fallacies in our current systems of education. Mr. Gayley's educational experience has taught him that the idols of Quick Results and Incidental Issues are among the most common and irrelevant of all of our educational idols, The idol of Quick Results, he continues, causes too many of us to accept the fallacy of utili- tarian purpose, to agree that a profession must be chosen prematurely and immaturely entered. And the idol of Incidental Issues drives thousands of our young people into the fallacy that the gauge of studentship is popularity, that popularity during academic years is to he won by hasty achievement, the babbling strenuous life, and hy allegiance to a perverted image of the Alma Maier. My message to the young men and women of our campus is that the world of learning was never better worth preparing for. And in your preparation, I urge that you beware of the idols of Quick Results and Incidental Issues and make your training for usefulness in a busy world thorough and unmistakable. Learn to speak as the common people speak, but think as wise men think. C. R. BROWN, Dum of lim College 20 fa R597