Bethel University - Spire Yearbook (St Paul, MN)

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A CORN STAFF 1917--1918

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THE ACORN 15 President’s Corner G. A. Hagstrom, D. D. Careful investigation has shown that the average boy who leaves school when he is 14 and goes to work, earns about $26,000 up to the time he is 65 years old. On the other hand the average boy who enters high school and remains till he graduates at 18, earns $665,000 up to the time he is G5 years old. The boy earns a little money during the four years when he should have been in high school, but by the time he reaches the age of 65 he has earned $40,000 less than if he had finished high school. In. other words the four years in high school would have been worth $10,000 a year to him. Hence, we are face to face with this question as seniors: Are we going out to be worth $40,000 more to the world than before we entered school? Are we as undergraduates going to continue studying in order that we may count for full value when we have completed our course? What of the future? is the question for the class of 1917 to answer. Are you preparing and planning to enter college or the seminary this coming fall? Do not for one moment consider your education completed. Can you stand the test that President Butler of Columbia University says your education must stand? Does it show these five evidences? Correctness and precision in the use of the mother tongue; refined and gentle manners; the habit of reflection; the power to grow; and the power to do. You do not always have to go to college to meet these five tests of an educated person. Master your Bible and Shakespeare and you will be correct and precise in the use of your mother tongue; learn refined and gentle manners and acquire the habit of reflection and the power to grow and to do. Even if you have been through college you are not educated unless you are refined and gentle in manners, given to reflection, and ever growing and doing something worth while. Pray earnestly, consider seriously, and plan definitely as to what your next step should be, if you have not already had clear light upon the way before you. Make it your life’s ambition to count for the most, the highest, the noblest in the work that demands of you the greatest sacrifice and opens the widest door to a career or usefulness and helpful uplift of mankind. In these serious times when much is needed and expected of us, let none fail to do his or her full part for God and home and native land. We want to welcome every undergraduate to return to Bethel Academy September 18, bringing other new students with you. We need, at least, one hundred new students next fall. A list of our other needs was published in the April number of the Acorn. To our Seniors we wish to say that we commend you to the guidance and care of a Kind Heavenly Father and wish you all the good which He has in store for his followers. We feel confident that you will always love your Alma Mater and accord her a warm place in your thoughts, plans and service. Bo ours to say: I want to give to others hope and faith. I want to do all that the Master saith, I want to live aright from day to day; 1 am sure, I shall not pass again this way.

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TI1E ACORN 17 The Acorn Entered os second class matter October 20tb, 1900, at the Post Office of St. P. , Minn., under the Act of March 3rd, 1879. Subscription Price 50c per Year All articles contributed to the Literary Department should be addressed to the Editor-in-chief, and all business' commu ...ations to the Business Manager. Bethel Academy St. Paul, Minn, STAFr Linus Johnson Fred Mohkko Agneta Sundfelt Arthur Nelson Emil Carlson Conrad Carlson David S ohero Swedish Dept. .. Editor-in-Chlcf Associate Editor ...Asst. Bus. Mgr. Circulation Mgr. Gertrude Ekman Gust Gustafson Esther Tanquist ( Personals. herbertii Peterson... Vivian Peterson Ruth Johnson Martin Hamlin ... f By the time this issue of the Acorn is distributed the school year of 1916-17 will be a thing of the past. This is the day we have looked forward to, the day which seemed so far off when we started in the fall, but which perhaps seemed too near as the final Exams approached. However, now it is here. To most of us it spells freedom, to many it means home, and to all a feeling of irresponsibility and ease, like the feeling a day laborer has when the whistle blows on Saturday night. But, like all joys, it is tempered with sadness. As we see our friends, whom we have learned to know and esteem during the year, get ready to leave, and see them depart one by one. perhaps never to cross our path again, we cannot help experiencing a loss of something in our own lives. Those eyes will never meet ours again and that voice will never again ring in our ears. Perhaps we had just recently learned to value rightly our fellow students and take that deeper interest in them, which only friendship knows; and now we must part. It is like the breaking up of a home. This year this is brought home to us stronger than ever. It is not only the Graduating Class who leave, but it is certain that many others also will never see Bethel again. Still, we know that whatever meets us, we are better prepared because of the year or years we have spent in Bethel. We have gained something which we did not possess before, not only in intellect, but in a thousand pleasant memories, which will reawaken in our coming days, to make many a melancholy hour cheerful and bright.