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

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Our Teachers HE art of living is :1 wonderful, but seldom uttninmL art To learn to live includes well nigh every phase and pnrpnsc nf our existence. It has been the goal of civilization, it is the end tnwmd which human society ,. Strivesetu learn tn 1 c. This has been the putpuse of nut edtlcetthm. XVith this aim, we have pared through hix'tury and literature investigated intu scientific truths, sought Hnal help in Christian faith. Perfection in the art at livinge indeed it is it high ideal. High though this ideal, there is still fl higher. Thuugh we might approach this summit, :1 Inftft-r luums up above it. Greater than to know is to teach. Chaucer has tersely characterized the true teacher, hAnd gladly wohie he leme, and gladly techc. hlnny there perhaps are who succeed in telemhly perfet'ting the art of themselves living fully, But are they not few who lead others onto the paths of Truth? Yet it is the influence of these who move the world. High ideas and high ideals set forth by men who have themselves reached a higher plane of life have teuidcd to lift mankind cvcr upward towards the Truth. Luftier is the aspiration to aid another in 1' to climb alune the heights of Truth. To have influenced one individual character fnr the hctter-is that not sufficient reward for the teacher? The Master Teacher considered the one of the hundred plentiful gain fur the anxiety and trouble endured. The student in the hands of the teacher is as clay in the hands of the putter. Sympathy with the learner admits the teacher into the studenths heart. That point gained, the pilot follows his Czlptainys orders. The influence may, it may not, he tunscinush' given or consciously received In either case it tells. As surely as the law of gravity causes the flow of water from :1 higher to a lower level, the flow of influence passes from teacher to student. Our teachers, we know, are true and their teaching for the best. How can we but love those who have foregone high pfnces and prominence, so-eulled, to give their best for us. Our teachers, we have experienced, are here because of firm convictiom that education without Christian learning is. not true education. Therefure they have been willing to sacrifice title and rank that they may develop in our hearts the :pirir of learning as they train our mental powers in form: of knowledge, Their reward is not visible, but it lives and will continue tn live in the hearts of the students of Augustnm mud in the life of the Christian American nation. ting than C0 NRAD B ERG ENDOFF.

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REV. CONRAD EMU. LINDBERG, D. D., LL. 13., R.N.O. Pr'afrmur 0f Syslrmmir lealrzyy, I-Iw-mx-nmrirx, Liturgius, xlpru'ogrfic: 'R mm! Church Polity Rm: NILS FORSANDER, D. D., R. N. O. Prufrxmr of Billfl'ml Thealagy, Chard! .Hijfwy, Symbaliri, Pajmmt' Tbmluyy mid Sii'vdfsfl Hnmih'tiw Kw. CARL AUGUST memlzx, PH. D. . Proft'xmr of chi't'u', '3 Old Tmmnu-nt Introduction, Propmvh-uiiu mu! Englixlt vaflt'ficx R EV. CARL JOHANNES SODERGREN, A. M. Prafm'xm- uf Philoxvpizj; erk NM? Tc'rtumml Exr'rlmfx, Arru' Tmrmm-nl Imrariudiwr. mu! Catrcbrlm