Wilson College - Conococheague Yearbook (Chambersburg, PA)

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Ethelbert D Warfield, D.D., LL.D., Litt.D. President many have labored long. I have in The Presidents Message HE stood outside of the Collffgff gateway, peering in, and asll approached he said: l see this iS Wilson College: it is Certainly gn attractive place. Do You live h9f9? With reasonable caution I replied: Well, I call myself a soiourner. One never knows how deeply' l'1iS TOOTS have struck into the soil. YeS, yes, he said, we hear too much these days of 'academic freedom' and 'professional tenure' -may' I ask where Wilson College gets its name? Not from Woodrow Wilson, it is plainly too well seated for that: nor Vice-President I-Ienry, it is too far south for that, nor yet from him whom we used to call Christopher North. No, I replied, from a nearer and a dearer than these. From a simple country woman who knew little of formal education, and longed to do what she could to give the girls of the future what she had missed in her youth. Aha! he cried, as he rattled his cane on the flagstone, it's this Youth Movement again. Cne hears it everywhere. Right, I replied, and what is so beautiful as youth and so lovable-unless it be age. May I ask you to enter the gate and let me show you how those with the achievements of ,years have de- lighted to provide for the hopes of youth? I-Ie shook his head and, saying that his time was short, was about to be off, when I said: Even the casual visitor may take a little with him, the gleaning of the eye where my hand just off the press, a beautiful volume in which is pictured much that gives Wilson College its charm. We call it 'I'hehConococheague, from the stream which flows from yonder moun- 1323313 kilt e-tilllrlmitable ocean. t I often delight to find in it a parable of human Hats i Eve tarried a little within these grounds. I ho O el ook and we parted like ships that pass in the night. some reg? CES 9 turns the Dgges, he will gain, as will you, gentle reader, cmd bookiza ion of the love and labor which went to the making of the College Pray, learn the lesson as you wo ld h ' of G true education. L1 ave others learn it, of the Worth ' Ethelbert D. Warfield.