Coe College - Acorn Yearbook (Cedar Rapids, IA)

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THE PRESIDENT HARRY MOREHOUSE GAGE Page 19

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I 932 GREETINGS TO ACORN READERS FROM President H. M. Gage Most readers of the Acorn are youth. To them upward and onward are watchwords. When told, There is plenty of room at the top, youth replies, Yes, but it is awfully crowded down here and down here is where I am, So undaunted youth starts the toilsome journey from down here to up there where a fellow will have a better chance. Progress exactly expresses what every youth wants and believes. The idea of progress is not only appropriate to the period of youth but also to the period of depression in which we live. Here we all are. down here in the pit of despondency. A fine fat chance for a boy getting ready for his job that does not exist! What a topsy-turvy world it is! Youth is told to go to school not to prepare for a job but so that he will not stay out of school and get a job that some other person needs. What one is to do when he finally gets out of school the wise men do not say. In this situation at the bottom of a dark pit it is youth who will see the stars. Happily, darkness makes the stars visible. So irrepressibly progressive youth will build wagons of whatever material lies about and will hitch their wagons to the stars. In the name of progress from depression I salute on-coming youth, the hope of the world, and say, Behold this dreamer cometh, Welcome to you. If you were not coming up this world would be going down at a great rate. Of course this hard world will give you a rough hazing, a bit rougher than youth in other times have had. But it will be salutary. The harsh discipline will drive all the conceit out of you and leave you nothing but your dreams. Praises be, nothing can drive self-confidence out of youth. So no depression can hold the world down. So in the name and for the sake of progress go on dreaming. Study the events of the world and their significance. Then dream of a better self and a better world. Even if you seem a bit queer as did that boy who wore a coat of many colors, go on dreaming. When the famine was sore in the land, it was that young dreamer to whom the poor in all the lands owed their lives. It is now time for my annual joke, but I have none. However, what I have written may add to your stock of durable satisfaction in years to come. He laughs best whose laugh lasts. Page 18

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DEAN OF COLLEGE COE-OPERATION If there is one characteristic of our college Hfe here at Coe that stands out above all others, I think it is that which is suggested by the above caption, Coe-operation. A great industrial plant whose purpose is to furnish a product or set of products for the markets of the world must be perfectly organized, and there must be complete subordination of individual will and initiative to one master mind, the head of the organization. The ideal of a college is precisely the antithesis of that of a factory or an army. The college aims at no standardized product. On the contrary it seeks to develop individuality, independence, initiative, self-control. It would turn out men and women of character. The only standardization it seeks is a uniform and unswerving sense of loyalty to honor and duty. The organization of Coe College functions well for its purpose which is to afford an environment where young men and women may develop themselves through the exercise of all their powers of mind and body. It is fully as im- portant that provision should be made for the self-e.xpression of the students as that there should be provision for leadership and the teaching function of the faculty. To develop power as individuals and to learn co-operation with other individuals for great and worthwhile ends is of the essense of education. The writer is proud to be a product of Coe-operation and happy to be a Coe- operator. S. W, Stookey. I n tf It :■ II I I II n tp N H I rn-irft ' r- Page 20