Beloit College - Codex Yearbook (Beloit, WI)

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TEA FOREWORD It is a genuine pleasure for me to give this Foreword for the 1933 edition of “The Gold”. ‘“The Gold” is entirely a student project. I regard the regular ap- pearance of this book as an important factor in the recording of Beloit’s history, for the true history of Beloit can be understood only when we are given a picture of the experiences, contacts and achievements of succeeding generations of Beloit stu- dents. The students and teachers in a school like Beloit are apt to take each other so much for granted that the years pass without our availing ourselves sufficiently of our opportunities to express to one another our high sense of regard and admiration for each other. This Foreword gives me the opportunity to say that the Adminis- tration and the Faculty, as well as the Board of Trustees at Beloit are tremendously proud of our student body. We believe that students at Beloit are succeeding in discovering the genuine pleasures of life as being connected with things which are of intellectual interest and intellectual importance. The students who have been working at Beloit this year will realize that they have been going to college at a tremendously important time in the history of civilization. Themselves a product of a post-war generation, having passed through a profound spiritual and economic transition, they have had the opportunity of working at the task of learning at a time when there has been a great demand made upon everyone interested in intellectual pursuits for appraisal, for orientation, and for interpretation. The year opened with tragic emphasis upon the resources which always lie in human fellowship in times of trial. The death of a number of our own students brought us much closer together than ever before in that common fellowship of suffering which is so revealing. I think that this experience, costly as it has been, has made its stamp upon our life this year. We have been living more closely together than usual and there has existed mutual understanding which has been most invigorating. We have enjoyed our athletic relations with other colleges, have seen good teams of ours beaten, and have enjoyed with them their victories, feeling throughout a pride in the high quality of our athletic personnel. We have felt to an unusual degree this year that the men on the Beloit teams are typical Beloit men and are thoroughly representative of the interests and ideals of the Beloit student body. Never before have all of us shared so fully together the feeling that the future of the college, as far as its success in securing the right quality of student personnel is concerned, is to be determined by this mutual sharing of responsibilities between the Administration and the Faculty on the one hand and the students on the other hand. In Debating and Oratory we have seen a revival of interest. In our Round Table there has been an increased emphasis upon original expression of student opinion. The work in our college library has been unusually tense this year. These facts show an increased interest on the part of st udents in the matters which will always be of deep concern, namely, the carrying on of studies. Through all this year, whatever opportunity I have had to speak to the students at Vespers has been used by me in the effort to give genuine, clear approaches to the religious life. Personally, I should like to see a revival of interest on the part of the students of religious movements which are entirely of student initiative. We have been surprised and touched to have Vice-President Louis Edward Holden tender his resignation from the position of Vice-President of the college. The record of Dr. Holden’s achievement at Beloit is a notable one and affords a fine climax to what has been a distinguished career in American education. In ‘““The Gold” you will find a fine picture of life at Beloit in 1933. But many things cannot be told in print, and among these are the continuous, the multi- tudinous contacts between the President and his students on many occasions. It is this informality and intimacy which helps to make the college life rich and rewarding. Let us all work together for a greater Beloit, for each year ought to see a greater college than the year before. President Maurer TT

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