Augustana College - Rockety I Yearbook (Rock Island, IL)

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ROCKETY-I THE 14

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THE'tROCKETY-i' 13 nitiznns. It liJls om- lJllijJiiS with nhie preachers nmi gives the churrh faithful nmstxn's whose lives are devoted to the cure of thc iim-k. It builds homes halving godly parents and obedient. sclfvrespecting children. It semis efficient servant into all prochsions and cuilings of life, and supplies society with clean and honorable men and womt-n. A11 ngenty that performs such :1 work must he :1 powl-r 0E cimlization whose infhmncu extends to the enc'l5 of the earth. 3' H: is H. power of beauty, The present: age is rzimi'ncturizetl by a nmtel'iuliziiig tendency Tho cmnmcrciai aspect of education is often unduly uiiiplansizvrh as if the dollar was its chief unit 01' T211110. Others again make the scientific habit everything in education; the eager, persistent: study of phenomena, the search 1701' fat 1.4 the tliiiilllllol'tmlt thing. In earlier days they used ta deity mints mni herucv now we :leil'y mutter. Once Plato gave laws for thought and conduct; now Pinto is the lawgivor. But this is not true education; true culture means more than the him at money. more than the knowledge of facts and phenomena. Thu.- hest: education i: spiritual and :Psthctic. 1t. rechgnizes and exalts hcuuty in nature and alt as :L pnu-ei- nt' civiliza- tion, and seeks to cultivate the msthetic l'aL-ultics of the souli it mines the beautiful in the world far its own sake and for the sake of its influence upon human life. It appreciate! the softening, rotining, humanizing inliuenms of the fine arts as the proper interpreters of homily and the host means for cultivating a i-etined iastm If we know only facts, phenomena, material values, we are only half educated, We are Phiiistines, we are barbarians still. Augustanu College stands for :1 glwiritual and aesthetic culture. It encourages the training at the avstiietic powers of the soul, well as the intellectual and moral. It shapes its poiiuy according to the ideal of new education. The spirit of the new education is that of iDTgClJCSS, the full and symmetrical development of the whole psychic nature, enlargement and enrichment at 50111 life, strengthening and beauti- fying of personal character. To accomplish these ends the institution has i Conservatory of Music, its Art department, its School of Exp: :Sirm: and its courae in Aesthetics in the College depnl'hnmlt. d. It is a power of social life, Augusfmm Coiiege i$ a school family united hy a strong hand of sympathy. and actuated by the spirit of mutual helpl'uhmss. This in: a conspiruous feature DE 0111' institution and 2111 clumvnt of strength. It seeks to build up :1 harmonious. mutually supporting satiety, in which each individual. the weakest as well as the strongest: h his place anti performs his Diiice. Them is here no kind of caste. 110 spirit of aristoei'ut-vh there is only an uouommodnting democracy of congenial spirits, in whiL-h each for the ether lives and in which is realized the service of the best, for the good of all. An institution whose life is dominated hy such a spirit must he a power of civilization whose worth to nur country and to mankind cannot he estimated.

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THE'hROCKETY-I'h 15 Some Italian Reminiscences. BY PHOF. L. W. KLIXIL T was the nineteenth of June, 1.911. Arts? speeding with but fmv interrup- tions fer twentydline hours, the overland River from Paris was reuching the curl of its journey. Dusty fcllow-Imssongers were tlcarl ' expecting soon to loam their narrow compm-f'ments. A lmrh- German adjustml once more his sandy lrmstuchm The JI'LUIIOJ'OLES knnpsm-hs hclonging: to his party r-nmc flown from the racks above our hands. Surely tlleSe Gmnun tuurists :n'e strenuous as well as s. :temnfim An ngecl priest folded his newspaper and removed his h-nveling cap. Groups of pmsengcl's wore painting out various objects of interest that were Hyjng pasL in :1 bewildering n 120. Here :1 line of giluntwlnnking aqueducts appeared; soon the t-ifj' u'alls rose into view; pres- ently could he soon a group 01' statues perched on ihc roof of n lnny edifice. Could that be St. Pel'er'h? But the train lmcl shipped and the wel- c'nme cry of Hiumn h heard :11: last. It has been truly lid that the mast trying por- tion of oneas first nslt to :1 forc'm city is the first half hour. X01: that it is diHu-ult to reach any desired point, but the question presents itself as to what point shall he - chcd, In Italy the ques- tion assumes this form. s'Where run I find :1 901117 Immtivcly Heailess abode? Smll it he a hotel or a pension, that happy compromise hetweeu :1 hotel and a hnm'ding house? Happy ynu are if, 12mm 'T; W. Rum. AM. 011 arriving in an Italian c-ipv. you are encumbered hSenior Class Guardian: with only :1 modest amount nf haggage: doubly happv, if you possess a copy of Baodekc s Guide- hook, even ii its red covers bctl'n. 01:. at once as a stranger: and thrice happy, if some friend in the home countu has rec'onunendcd 501110 place to stay which he has found congenial. is; hnggnge is not nhmwtl in street cars the usual method of going to 01' from a railroad station is by cah. Rates are so reasonable in Italy that even an impocnnious professor L-rm nme'd 1he occasional luxury of :1 hip in 21 taxi. As you issue forth from the terminal station in the Eternal! C'ityn-the only one, by the way, within the city properiyon find yourself in :1 unuro? embellished with a handsome fountain, but lacking 11m usual Eirvypfian ohcli. 9 outlines