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

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SNAPS OF PROFESSORS

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A Tribute to our Professors E. S. NICHOLSON. HANKS to whom thanks is due and who more than you, dear professors, deserve our heartfelt thanks? Four years of what to us was future when we arrived at Augustana have revealeti to us her sources of true enjnyment. We have explored her. inner glories and have to our jov found pleasures which no one can appreciate until taught by that faithful teacher, experience. Whatever misconceptions of a college career we might have Imcl. whatever false glnmor there might have been, these have been swept away. Now :15 we are about to turn away we would pause and luck back over these years to search what has made bur stay here so pleasant and profitable. True there are many things which have aided. We could enumerate scores of pleasant happy times but what we want is that which will endure when all other things are only faintly seen in the dim past or have passed into the realm at the forgotten. In everything. it makes no tliFierencc to what sphere it belongs, then: is a central point around which all others cluster. We may look in the humhlest thing or the grandest and this is true. The arch has its keystone which shattered. causes the whole to fall, the grandest pucm has its central theme which destroyed. destroys the whole. Augustana has her professors whose memory blotted from :mr mind and whose inHu- ence destrayed in us Would he the undoing of our college days. This is the fact which has been sluwhr and steadily impressed upon us throughout these years. We well remember the first day we entered the class-toom, strangers to the professor. Day by day that strangeness passed away and we became friends. And more and more we began to look up to him with the inward feeling that we might be men like him. Who is there who has not looked upon a man of strength and longed to be such a man? As we sat time after time listening to his instruction the subject under disctmion 'tuok on new interest. Was it because of the text we 1.1st or of the nature nf the Subject? These, but more, it was the spirit of the man who taught it that inspired us. It was the spirit hack of the thought that quickencd us. Mure deeply impressed upon our hearts and longer to be remembered arc the things we learned in the classroom than those we found in our texts. Firm hxczl in our minds and deep rooted in nLII beings are the personal characteristics of each pro- fessor which made it worth while to know him, respect him and love him. This shall be our long remembered joy, little words, little phrases, life giving thoughts, shall, times without number, recall to us our professors and crown our life with joy. Then, thanks to ydu, whom we honor and revere for the beauties of life you have given by your awn example, your patience and your love. And as we have been influenced may we so live that your work shall not have been in vain hut bear fruit an hundred fold.