Coe College - Acorn Yearbook (Cedar Rapids, IA)

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DEAN GF WOMEN As you Turn The pages oT This yearbook, you may someTime Tind yourselT dreaming abouT The Coe oT The TuTure. While you dream, imagine The Good Fairy suddenly appears To you, and gives you Three wishes Tor The TuTure OT Coe College. I wonder whaT your wishes would be. Your TirsT wish mighT be Tor more spacious and luxurious oTTices Tor The ACCRN and Cosmos. For The second, you mighT ask Tor a new Fine ArTs building, which would include an adeguaTe TheaTre and drama workeshop. WiTh iusT one wish remaining iT would be diTTiculT To decide beTween a menls quadrangle and a Tine sTadium, or, beTTer yeT, ThaT Ten million dollars be added To our endowmenT. When we Think oT The Coe OT The TuTure, iT may well be wishTul Thinking, Tor some day our wishes will be realized. However, neiTher The TrusTees nor The adminisTraTion has a magic Tormula Tor making dreams come True. Such addiTions and improvemenTs will Take Time, buT wiTh The presenT Tine group oT sTudenTs, alerT, keen, and sincere, and oThers like Them To Tollow, we shall evenTually see The TulTillmenT oT our hopes. ATTer all, iT is The caliber oT The sTudenTs who choose Coe which is oT greaTer con- cern Than buildings and exTenT oT campus. I am minded To repeaT here The words oT Thomas Huxley, when he was giving an address in T876 aT The opening oT The medical school oT Johns Hopkins UniversiTy. ATTer admiring The resources and poTenTialiTies oT This counTry, he said in closing: Size is noT grandeur, and TerriTory does noT make a naTion. The greaT issue, abouT which hangs a True sublimiTy, and The Terror oT over- hanging TaTe, is whaT are you going To do wiTh all These Things? WhaT is To be The end To which These are To be The means? The one condiTion OT success, your sole saTe-- guard, is The moral worTh and inTellecTual clearness OT The individual ciTizen. Like- wise, upon The worTh oT The individual sTudenT depends The greaTness oT any college. EducaTion cannoT give moral worTh nor inTellecTual clearness, buT iT can cherish Them and bring Them To The TronT. The colleges oughT To be, and may be, The TorTresses oT The higher liTe oT The naTion. May your dreams Tor The Coe oT The TuTure, and also your dreams Tor yourselves, come True! MARY S. BELL l?lT

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DEAN OF COLLEGE For some years pasT, The success oT The colleges in eTTecTing really desirable changes in The lives oT young men and women has been seriously called in guesTion by some very compeTenT observers. The response oT The colleges To This criTicism has been, in The main, a digniTied silence, or The re-sTaTemenT oT cerTain Time hallowed obiecTives which have Tully demonsTraTed Their worTh. There is some evidence, also, ThaT cerTain Torward looking insTiTuTions are seTTing up new purposes and obiecTives, which if pchieved only in parT, would iusTiTy The exisTence oT The college as an agenT oT higher earning. A shorT sTaTemenT, The auThor of which is unlcnown To me, emphasizes an addiTional value oT The years spenT in college-a value which, l believe, is being recognized by an ever increasing number oT sincere sTudenTs each year, and who are giving To iT an appropriaTe place wiTh The oTher beneTiTs derived Trom Their liTe on a college campus. The sTaTemenT is, as l have indicaTed, very brief, buT I believe ThaT pasT and presenT generaTions oT college sTudenTs will approve The senTimenT iT expresses, and will agree ThaT iT reveals one oT The really worTh-while conTribuTions oT The college To The incli- vidual man or woman. WhaT more excellenT purpose oT The college could be achieved in The liTe oT a person Than This: l Tincl no place ThaT does noT breaThe some gracious memory oT a Triend. ls iT unreasonable To asserT ThaT The college, which aTTords an opporTuniTy Tor The developmenT oT lasTing and precious Triendships, has made an imporTanT con- TribuTion To The ioy and richness oT living? Or, who can say ThaT The experiences oT college have been unproTiTable To ThaT person who, aTTer The lapse oT years, Treasures The gracious memory oT a Triend ? All college experiences are noT equally proTiTable7 nor are They all equally pleasanT. BuT who can deny The increased richness oT liTe oT ThaT sTudenT who reTurns To The campus and is able To say, l Tind no place ThaT does noT breaThe some gracious memory oT a Triend. C. HARVE GEIGER l20l

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BOARD OF TRUSTEES Refer E. Buril, D.D. . Waller L. Cherry . Sulherland C. Dows , James E. l-lamillon George Laird . . . Roberf R. Lillie, D. D. . ll. Col. C, B. Robbins . Jacob J. Sharnbaugh -ll'TOU'TBS R. Warriner . Glenn M. Averill . John S. Broelcsrnil . Charles F. Clark . . Roy E. Curray . . . Marion R. Drury, D.D. George W. Emerson, D. Frederick G. Murray, M. lsaac B. Srnilh . . Roberl W. Slewarf . . R. Bruce Wesl' . Joseph Bren, D.D. George E. Boolh . John M. Dinwiddie , Mrs. George B. Douglas John S. Ely . . . John Hanson . . . l-larry Kremers, D.D. . Arlhur Poe . . Roberf Sinclair . . Jacob l-l. Yaggy, D. D, DA. D. S. N. HARRIS I935 I936 I937 . Sioux Cily . Chicago, lll, . Cedar Rapids . Cedar Rapids . Cedar Rapids . Cedar Rapids . Cedar Rapids . Des Moines . Cedar Rapids . Cedar Rapids . Chicago, Ill. . Cedar Rapids . Cedar Rapids Ponce, Porlo Rico . . Gladbroolc . Cedar Rapids . Cedar Rapids . Chicago, III. . Davenporl' . Cedar Rapids . Chicago, Ill. . Cedar Rapids . Cedar Rapids . Cedar Rapids . . Waierloo . Cedar Rapids . Cedar Rapids . Cedar Rapids . . Toledo l22