Carthage College - Driftwood / Crimson Rambler Yearbook (Kenosha, WI)

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W mu Etontents THE COLLEGE THE FACULTY THE STUDEXT BODY THE CONSERVATORY ORGANIZATIONS ATHLETICS THE CALENDAR REVELRY ADVERTISING

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T H E P R O S P E C T U F T U M O R. R 0 W PRESIDENT Got'm 'Wletim' Writing for the first time in The Rambler and us the new president, it would well become us to record a Retrospect of Yesterday setting forth the achievements of the past. They have been many. They have involved and required the gran- est sacrifices and most consecrated service. If it were not tlloughtAto be egotistic. we should delight to present a Review of Todav. This academic year which this book endeavors to depict and to commit to history may be characterized as a year of transition. Some old things are passing away. and some new things are appearing. Some changes have been planned and put into execution; but a larger number will not go into elleet until the next academic year. Of these innovations. let others speak it they be so minded. One aspect of the program of the future is the strongest possible faculty. No school is any stronger than its: faculty. Great steps can be taken only by great men. Our ad 'zmeement is dependent wholly upon Our man power. In this regard, the standards of the past will not be lowered: they will be raised. With the se- curing of an increased endowment we shall be in a position to secure teachers who are well trained by advanced graduate study. who have the seltolzlrlf attitude, and who have ability as successful teacherst Coupled with scholarship must be spirituality. Hverr teacher in a college. such as Carthage, must be a pattern which the students may copy. Another phase of the development of the future will be an enriched currieulum. The college of tomorrow dare not have a curriculum of yesterday. A question which every college must answer is: ttShall we offer to all studentst whatever the field in which they wish eventually to specialize, work covering at least the Erst two college years? A college which wishes to remain of the cultural type has the burden of proof to show that courses in agriculture, business administration, engineering. journalism, etc, are less cultural than many of those at present listed in its curriculum. Again. ought a college cater to a selected few in a given community or territory? Is the college merely a preparatory school for the prod fessional school and university? Must not the college, thru its curriculum. show that it is in vital touch with the problems of life? The demand of the times is for an enriched curriculum. Carthage will strive to meet this demand. Our present building conditions and the program as sketched, naturally, require a dehnite building program. All efforts are being concentrated upon meeting the conditions of the Rockefeller Offer This is the supreme need of the hour at Carthage. Then the building program must follow. In carrying out this program two principles will guide us: economy and elhw cieney in service. No institution or organization which secures money from a constitutiency ought be careless in the expenditure of its funds. Most of such funds are theresult of the strictest sacrifice. A college must be willing to economize likewise. But economy must be accompanied by el'heiency. Every employe of the college must render the best possible service, not only to the college in its administration but also to the student in the elass-room. We believe few college faculties can equal our faculty in its earnestness and spirit of service. Comments on the part of students who have spent some time at Carthage and then have gone to other institutions abundantly support this conviction. This program with its underlying principles calls for the heartiest cooperation of both student body and alumni; Noemllege administration can succeed in any program, however grand and great. without such cooperation. Dr. Hoover. in his last Travelogue printed in the Alumnust dropped a thought which has been preeminent in my mind. HOur particular idea is that Carthage shall get there fin: and keep just one step ahead and so not only fulfil her functions as a college for the studentst but become and maintain a position of leadership in the educa- tional worlc. The above program plus the cooperation of all concerned will enable this idea to become actual in the realm of visual reality.