Coe College - Acorn Yearbook (Cedar Rapids, IA)

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Page 20 HARRY MOREHOUSE GAGE President of the College

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BOARD OF TRUSTEES ROBERT S. SLNCLAIR .... President C. G. GREENE . Vice President JOHN S. ELY .... . Secretary J. lXfI. DINWIDDLE .... Treasurer S. N. HARRIS Business A-Ianager and Assistant Treas. 1923 GEORGE T. HEDCES, Real Estate, Cedar Rapids COL. VVILLIAM G. Dows, Railway President and Capitalist, Cedar Rapids P. C. FRICK, Banker, Cedar Rapids S. G. ARBISTRONG, Clothier and Capitalist, Cedar Rapids SUTHERLAND C. Dows, Railway Director, Cedar Rapids C. E. TUTTLE, Real Estate, Cedar Rapids JOHN A. INIARQUIS, D. D., Secretary Board of Home Missioiis, New York City TVIAJOR C. B. ROBBINS, Attorney, Cedar Rapids ' JACOB J. SHAMBAUGH, Real Estate, Booneville 1924 F. G. INIURRAY, TVI. D., Physician, Cedar Rapids C. J. DEACON, ESQ., Attorney, Cedar Rapids ISAAC B. SNIITH, Railway Director, Cedar Rapids GEORGE E. CRAWFORD, M. D., Physician, Cedar Rapids GLENN IVI. AVERILL, Banker and Capitalist, Cedar Rapids JOHN S. BROEKSMIT, Banker, Chicago, Illinois M. R. DRURY, D. D., Clergyman, Cedar Rapids CHARLES E. CLARK, Attorney, Cedar Rapids ROBERT STEWART, Standard Oil Co. of Indiana, Chicago, JOSEPH BREN, Clergyman, Cedar Rapids 1925 JOHN S. ELY, Capitalist, Cedar Rapids A. E. MAGARY, D. D., Clergyman, Cedar Rapids J. M. DINWIDDIE,. Banker, Cedar Rapids E. E. HASTINGS, D. D., Clergyman, Joliet, Illinois REV. H. DEAL, Clergyrnan, Amboy, lVIinnesota ROBERT S. SINCLAIR, Meat Packer, Cedar Rapids C. G. GREENE, Insurance, Cedar Rapids HON. JAMES W. GOOD, Attorney, Chicago, Illinois REV. G. W. EMERSON, Clergyman, Cedar Rapids Illinois Page I9

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PRESIDENTS MESSAGE To THE STUDENTS or Coe: This is my fourth annual message to the students of Coe. It is addressed to those who are and to those who will become students. So I feel that I am writing to a large group which includes thousands who have been in attendance and still belong to us, for the Coe stamp is indelible. The Coe spirit is inalienable. Once in Coe always in Coe. One cannot be rid of the Coe Spirit and besides it is catching . Several hundred new boys and girls come to Coe each year, catch the spirit, and thereafter are destined to become Coe men and women. To all of these this letter is addressed. The ACORN is an ideal vehicle to carry a message to students. It is a quite adequate picture of college life. It probably reveals the spirit of a college more adequately than the catalogue. The very fact that colleges are standardized makes one college catalogue much like another. But Junior Annuals have no such sameness. It is true that students in colleges have many similar activities. just so persons here and there live in the prevailing fashion. But personali-1 ties are different. And a college has something akin to personality. It has individuality. This it is which is revealed so well in the ACORN. From its pages you may gain a rather intimate acquaintance with the Coe Spirit-the ways and doings of students in Coe College. If one should proceed to intelligently plan life in Coe, it would be well to base the plan on the opportunities and requirements of both the catalogue and the annual. The activities of lecture room, laboratory and library should be adapted to those rof the campus. Student life should be a just balance between the activities of the campus and curriculum. Neither activity should be sacrificed to the other. When this is done the result is a life which is out of balance. Students should know that teachers and college officers are prepared to cooperate with them to the end that a really balanced life may be lived on the campus. The student who seriously tackles the problem of organizing himself will find numerous, allur- ing and bewildering appeals to his time and energy. The catalogue contains courses which would require all the years of his working life to complete. A few of these courses must be taken, others make no appeal to one's interest. The remaining courses are likeable but are so numerous that selection must be made. The problem becomes similar to that of remembering which is a matter of deciding what to forget. And so it is with the large number of campus activities which are pictured and otherwise described in this book. To actively participate in all of them is impossible. But to know about and to appreciate all is possible, and to participate with excellence in a few is a wise course for each student to pursue. Do not get the idea that the college will and should prepare you for life as poultrymen prepare birds for market by stuffing them full of fattening foods. The game cock is a better ideal. He gets enough to eat and then he has something to do. He must match his wit and strength against other birds in competition. This illustration when applied to students is in some respects unhappy. But it is useful with respect to the fact that a student's life, it is a true life, is a life of action in which wit, strength, and enthusiasm are in action in all sorts of competitions and human contacts. A student who studies this book will find in it a revelation of what others are doing and also a revelation of his own ability to act both in cooperation and in competition with other folks. It will be a revelation, ..too, of the types of activity that appeal to one and in which one may excel. ' Finally, allow me to express for myself and for my fellow faculty members our appreciation of the students of Coe College. VVe approve their activities. We are sometimes amazed at the zeal and energy displayed in carrying them on. VVe appreciate their willingness to cofiperate with us where cooperation is required. And most of all we admire their ability to manage their own affairs. Greetings and good wishes to all of you. Very sincerely yours, HARRY Momzrrouse GAGE. Page 21