Calvin College - Prism Yearbook (Grand Rapids, MI)

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palgn C3 This campaign was an achievement in organization. Many are to be con- gratulated for their help and the whole denomination is to be thanked for its generous response, I UK The students did their share by pledg ing 536,341.00 during the campaign

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our permanent campaign nited in Faithnxmotto of the two-million dollar Calvin Expansion Cam- paign, is a phrase we have all heard a great deal of this year. But Calvin College also has another sort of expansion campaign-a permanent campaign-a campaign which began with its birth, which has grown steadily until the present, and which must continue, with your help and mine, until it has fully achieved the goals of its tremendous vision. s foundation for this comprehensive vision the founding fathers of Calvin established principles-fcertain spiritual and intellectual principles. They said that spiritually Calvin was to be different. They said that among the shifting sands of the modern world Calvin was to be founded on the Roclc of Life. They said that among the turbulent slceptical minds of a world at sea Calvin was to loolf upon the Christ and walk upon the waves. hey said more. They said that Calvin was not to be a place to get rid of parents' supervision and conduct a nightly curfew battle with the dor- mitory matron, They said it was not to be a place for playboys. Rather, they said it was to be a place for training leaders. Well they lcnew that goals could not be achieved with fumbling hands and muddled heads. Well they lcnew that intelligence consists mainly of hard worlc. Therefore they gave us professorssprofessors to train us in the hard art of thinking, professors to guide us to that gleam of comprehensive wisdom. hese things, then, constitute the foundation of Calvin's great expansion campaign. These two principlesfspiritual and intellectual-form the spirit, the atmosphere, of the education which you here receive, hat is that school spirit of Calvin? It is, naturally, a good many things to a good many different people. But if there is anything at all for all of us together it is the atmosphere of trained bodies, saved hearts, and educated heads in which all of us together live. his, then, is the permanent expansion campaign of Calvin College. Why expansion campaign? Because that is precisely the aim of the education which Calvin offerswexpansion: Expansion of the student spiritually by deepening his faith in the Christ. Expansion of the student intellectually by deepening his insight into truth.

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