Alfred University - Kanakadea Yearbook (Alfred, NY)

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Our Alma Mater When the idea of establishing a school in the Allegheny hills of Western New York was first discussed, Alfred was a small settlement, consisting of a few rude huts set in primitive clearings. Men and women of splendid spirit and pioneer courage tenanted these homes. Twenty years after the village was incorporated, a select school, held in an upper room of a private resi- dence, had its beginning. Thus, one teacher with thirty-seven pupils laid the foundation for the future Alfred University. The story of the growth of the college during the following eighty-eight years of its history, has been told over and over. Each year on Founders Day, the students pause a moment, in the busy press and hurry of their lives to review the noble Christian work of those men who were instrumental in build- ing a greater Alfred. They organized first the Alfred Academy and then chartered the University. With little pay and few endowments but possessing infinite faith and philosophic cheerfulness, they wrested light and learning from their meagre collections of books and lifted high the ideals of purity in manhood and womanhood forthe advancement of future generations. These are high lights of superb, sacrificing service. ' Gradually the University struggled up to superior heights of learning. Each epoch maytbe measured, materially, by additional buildings, the exten- sion of the campus acres and the gradual reclamation of the beauties of the campus from the virgin forest. Morally,.spiritually, who can gage the growth - who ,can measure the cost? ' Today, Alfred is rising 'to a place of prominence in the collegiate world. Old in song and story, numbered among the class A colleges, she boasts an execllent equipment- and a faculty -of rare ability. Like Kenyon and Allen and Main, The gallantyoung leader we honor today, supported by friends of the University, is effecting tremendous changes in the outward appearance of the school, What ,influence he has exercised on inner lives will never be fully comprehended. But Alfred does not exist merely for the past, nor for the present. She has before her a future as glorious as the present is brilliant and the past is exalted. There are those who are working faithfully for the development of the college, now. And the class at the end of the quarter of this century, remembering bygone years, carefully lay their monumental stone in the edifice of A1fred's past, and visioning the magnificence of the completed structure, cry out to those who come after, the motto of Alfred University, Fiat Lux. E181

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