Case Western Reserve University - Lux / Differential Yearbook (Cleveland, OH)

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One of the significant features of American education is that certain great gifts have been made by those who have themselves not had the advantage of a college course. Amasa Stone, our own great benefactor, was not a graduateg Johns Hopkins was not a graduateg John D. Rocke- feller is not a graduate. But those who are graduates are in the near future to give large amounts to the American college. Professional men are not usually gifted with large fortunes. Therefore professional men are not able to increase the endowments of their colleges. But an increas- ing proportion, of the graduates of our colleges are entering business and therefore an increasing proportion of the graduates are to be able to make largegifts to colleges in the future. It is to be expected in Western Reserve, as the members of the out-going classes enter business and secure adequate returns from their business, that an increasing revenue will come to the college from those who are its sons. No gift, I am sure, can be more satisfactory both to the giver and to the receiver than a gift made by one, himself a loyal son of a college, to his own alma 77ZfZZ'6f', which has had the privilege of offering him a training for lifels highest service. g,? 7 ADELBERT COLLEGE. ' . I2

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petuity of the state. No one type need fully exclude the others and the three types are found existing in not a few of our commonswealths. Each of these types lays upon those who are interested in the devel- opment of a college belonging to that special type, peculiar and indi- vidual duties. The fact that VVestern Reserve rests rather upon the unorganized community and upon the individual, creates a special duty both for the students and for the graduates of the University. This duty is summed up in the word loyalty, Those who are students and those who have been students wish to do and can do much for the promotion of the interests of their alma wzfzfar. They cannot bring a zeal born of ecclesiastical propogandism. Neither can they cause the revenues of the state to flow into the collegiate coffers. Neither of these advantages is desired by the authorities of the college. Both students and graduates can, however, be loyal to the institution of which they are or have been an integral part. This loyalty should not be a blind one. A man should not say of his college My college, right or wrong He should always say, My college: if she is right, God bless her and let me help her further, if she is Wrong, may I be of service in trying to put her rightf, Enthusiastic loyalty should be founded upon sound judgment and common sense. Such loyalty Western Reserve is receiving from both students and graduates. It constitutes a powerful agency and is a heritage of increasing worth. I shall now refer to two and only two ways in which this loyalty may be indicated, First, by commending to the University in its various departments, students who are qualified to profit by the advantages which the University offers. Wfestern Reserve does not wish ill-qualified stu- dents. It does not desire students who are to spend a few months, and a few months only, within its walls. It desires students who are sound in body, sound in character and sound in mind, who aim to make the most of themselves and to secure the richest advantages from the University itself. Commending to XN7estern Reserve men and women of this charac- ter represents a most opportune condition for the manifesting of the loyalty which the student or the graduate holds. It is also to be said that loyalty should be manifested in the endeavor to improve the equipment of the University. A college, like a bicycle, cannot stand still without falling. It must go forward or backward if it is to stand at all, and of course Westei'n Reserve cannot retreat. Therefore the duty of a constant improvement of the equipment is laid upon the University authorities. The enlargement of the collections in the museums, the better furnishing of laboratories, the increase of the endowment through gifts large or small, represent opportunities in which the alleg- iance of students, present or former, may be indicated. i 1 r

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Crustees. CHARLES F. THVVING, D. D., LL. D., President, CLEVELAND. HIRAM C. I-IAYDN, D. D., LL. D., Vice-President, CLEVELAND WILLIAM H. UPSON, A. B., AKRON. EBENEZER BUSHNELL, D. D , CLEVELAND. TIMOTHY D. CROCKER, LL. B., CLEVELAND. JOHN HAY, LL. D., WASHINGTON, D. C. SAMUEL E. WILLIAMSON, LL. D., CLEVELAND. LIBERTY E. HOLDEN, A. M., CLEVELAND. EDVVIN R. PERKINS, A. B., CLEVELAND. SAMUEL MATHER, CLEVELAND. KIRKE CUSHING, M. D., LL. D., CLEVELAND. HOMER WADE, CLEVELAND. TWILLIAM H. BALDXVIN, A. B., YOUNGSTOWN. 'UOEL M. SEYMOUR, A. B., NORXVALK. WASHINGTON S. TYLER, CLEVELAND. NJOHN H. MCBRIDE, CLEVELAND. TEDVVARD P. XVILLIAMS, A. B., CLEVELAND. THENRY M. LADD, D. D., CLEVELAND. TCHARLES M. RUSSELL, A. B., MASSILLON. ERICHARD C. PARSONS, CLEVELAND. QDied Ian. 1899.3 EQHARRY A. GARFIELD, A. B., CLEVELAND. ACHARLES L. PACK, CLEVELAND. TMOSES G. WATTERSON, A. M., CLEVELAND. EIARVIS M. ADAMS, A. B., CLEVELAND. HERBERT A. HITCI-ICOCK, A. B., HUDSON. ALFRED A. POPE, CLEVELAND. ELOUIS H. SEVERANCE, CLEVELAND. HENRY R. HATCH, CLEVELAND. WORCESTER R. WARNER, CLEVELAND. LEWIS H. JONES, M. A., CLEVELAND. EBENEZER BUSHNELL, D. D., Secretary and Treaszzrer. OFFICE ADELBERT COLLEGE, CLEVELAND. B. F. WHITMAN, ESQ., Auditor, CLEVELAND. Trustees of the University only. 'i'TruSteeS of Adelberi College only. All others are Trustees of both Corporations. T3