Bethany College - Bethanian Yearbook (Bethany, WV)

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To Bethany Frienaa: In these days of radical shifts and change in the procedures in higher education it may be well to say a word to Bethany people regard- ing certain developments on this campus. It Is the belief of the faculty of Bethany College that we should continue to develop the program of guidance and personnel. Objective data need to be collected, filed, and interpreted for the benefit of the various members of the student body; hence, the plans for the com- ing year include a marked growth along these lines. As most people know, the college has been divided into the lower and upper divisions. In the upper division there is a rather notable change in the teaching procedure. Students are to receive more indi- vidual attention and be allowed greater freedom in their vjork. Lock- step methods are giving way to library and laboratory freedom which will throw the student upon his or her own resources, to be aided by conferences with the instructor. It is felt that more real assistance can be given in this way; at the same time the student will develop ability and zest in self-education. It is the aim at Bethany to not only keep aware of the changing emphases in higher education, but to use every facility that will im- prove the type of work done on the campus. New occasions must constantly teach us new duties. m I (U M - - UyJLh I ' af- ' o TwiMity-fivo

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CLOVU GOODNIGHT, A.M., D.D., LL.D. President of the College on the M. M. Coehran Foundation. A.B., A.M., Butler College; University of Chicago; D.D., University of Pitts- burgh; LL-.D., Butler University. ' 1 -H m m M ■■ «» ' V«f ' Page Twenty-four

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Dean r. K. troolcry A MESSAGE FROM THE DEAN One of the values of the liethan- ian is that it furnishes a permanent form for our experiences of the passing- year. An even greater vakie is that by seeing- ourselves as we are. we feel spurred on to remeasure the purposes which those experiences have g-iven us for the years ahead. We have man - string-s that tie our hearts to Bethany, and not the least of these is the joy of common work. The constant refresh- ment of viewpoint by exchange of knowledge and opinion between in- structors and students has characteriz- ed om- developing- educational philoso- phy in recent years. We realize, better than before, that what the student has had is not so important as what he has, and that the most desirable teaching in- cludes fellowship as well as scholarship. In the spirit of new, and ever strong- er, belief that virtues and graces must sway human careers, along- with fact and technicpie, I express a greeting to the students who will return next fall, and repeat the hail and farewell to the class of 1932 who leave us this June. W. KIRK WOOLERY Page Twent3 ' -six