Coe College - Acorn Yearbook (Cedar Rapids, IA)

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With so large a range of possibility it is small wonder that interest attaches to the college as it exists today. It may be said with confidence that Coe is a substantial and vigorous fact which must be considered in a just estimate of higher education in the middle west. It is an influential factor in the educational situation. lVIoreover, it is a permanent factor. Its existence is so inevitable that, if it did not exist, it would be invented. Cedar Rapids is a growing center of culture, commerce, and industry. A well nurtured college in such a center is quite inevitable. The de- velopment of strong institutions in such centers is one of the outstanding tendencies of the times. Denominationally Coe is Presbyterian. The Presbyterian church gives it special support be- cause it is Christian. It is not sectarian. The by-laws of the articles of incorporation require trustees to declare allegiance to the Christian faith. Coe appeals to, is attended and supported by people of all denominations. It co-operates with all Christian churches. It is not a prose- lytizer for any denomination. Coe is of and for the United States of America. Trustees are required to declare allegiance to the Constitution of the United States. The sympathies and services of Coe girdle the earth, students from many foreign countries attend Coe and are welcome. VVe believe in the leader- ship of the United States among the nations and are glad to serve all peoples. VVe believe that a Christian citizen loyal to his own country is the best national and international servant. Coe is a large college. A college having one thousand regularly enroilled candidates for the bachelor's degree plus several hundred enrolled in extension and other courses conducted on the campus is not small. To think of Coe in terms of the traditional small college is a mis- apprehension of the facts. Numbers are quite unimportant. But it is important to know that the addition or subtraction of one or two hundred students is not a vital factor in determining college policy. Coe is a co-educational four-year liberal arts college. It could easily be developed as a first class college for men or women and thereby many problems would be simplihed. It will re- main co-educational. Its courses of instruction might be developed to serve those wishing only two years of college work. It might but it does not make the junior college emphasis. It em- phasizes the four-year college course. It might emphasize special training and technical courses. In fact as a liberal arts college it aims at 'fthe harmonious growth of the whole being. It aims to send into business and professional life and into the home and state, men and women who have the capacity for growth and friendship, the sense of values, the feeling of being at home in the world, and other qualities that distinguish a liberally educated person. Coe has faculty participation in student life. The campus is a lively place. The college paper this year lists eighty different sources of news. Many of these news sources are repre- sented in the ACORN which by word and photograph gives a very accurate picture of Coe's life. For all normal student activities Coe provides professional leadership by faculty mem- bers. VVe seek to avoid the dangers of repression. Our faith in Coe's ability to make the right impressions is great. Vile also have a large measure of faith in the original expression of stu- dent life in which faculty members participate as coaches, directors, leaders and companions. Coe has student participation in college government for which faculty and trustees are ul- timately responsible. Authority in Coe is friendly and is in intimate and sympathetic contact with student life and sentiment. Coe has definite academic requirements. A student must be prepared to enter Coe. He must do good work or he cannot stay in Coe. Academic requirements are more severe than they were. They are not as severe as they are going to be. The granting of four grade points for A plus and three grade points for A, etc., and the requirements for graduation of as many grade points as one has credits will require good work in all subjects or very excellent work in some. The new designation of courses as elementary and advanced offers and requires progres- sively diflicult work as one moves from freshman to senior year. Coe has new academic opportunities. Requirements are good. Opportunities are better. Stu- dents who have intellectual ambition and ability are offered major courses and will be given opportunity to do intensive work in the majors chosen. Graduates who merely pass, get by, will hereafter be clearly distinguished from those who achieve general or Major Honors. Coe is our college. We all love it and are loyal to it. Ours is the best college because it is ours. That may not be logical. But it is the way we feel. To have that feeling and to be pos- sessed by the Coe Spirit makes Coe the worth while college that it is. HARRY Moiuzi-rouse GAGE 1' 'li l e a za-an-..-.' .1,sa:,e, ,r f ,F7:Ffii'l f Trigg ff'7J'1 Jef ,Mtg fl ., pee? ff. so ' Page 19

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