Bethany College - Bethanian Yearbook (Bethany, WV)

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What is college, anyway? You might expect that it is something more than a four-year education-grabbing marathon, and it is. To be sure, education is, or should be, the object of the whole thing, but even the ones who barely scrape by with a two-point are aware of a change, a slow but consistent path upward to self- realization. It is apparent that other forces are in existence, forces which urge one away from education aimed toward the development only of certain skills which, when mastered, will insure an income. True, money is essential, but most colleges feel the responsibility of providing a thought-provoking, intellectually stimulating atmos- phere which helps one to learn to reason for himself. Bethany is such an institution. On the following pages, Bethany can be seen both macroscopic- ally and microscopically. Through pictures and copy, we, the staff of Bethanian 1968, hope to describe Bethany as it really is, and to bring you, the reader, closer to the things which other- wise would have gone unnoticed. The camera records only what it sees, and therefore is the most objective tool with which to tell a story, the story of our year at Bethany College, 1967-1968. Bill Landrum editor, photographer nii iV.