Coe College - Acorn Yearbook (Cedar Rapids, IA)

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DEAN OF WOMEN Recently, while reading a biography of Henry Van Dyke, about mid-way of the booU came College, his alma mater. ,■ • , lj. typical of the objective in his work. ■■Literature is that e™ ef the arts which work, with th. least costi, of • - ' t ™ »■ ™;, j » -a; -fL= ' ti™tLT;p:c.ll 5eoo™f:r does not die Is the well-chosen word whose soul is the well-born thought. ,.ei-So trf r;pi E ;ti:tea;t r ■ ' • .?c-o;;r„t °o £ rwtr,oT;ii°Kt - j ttrrorTo oJ ofA f ou rp::i;rh: p ' v ' cdle, ;.;! fso ' flired w1,h Jot. ,nd -Mo-™ . ™y ,o. so how alw.ys find place (or the cultivation of an appreciation for the world s best literature. ' MARY S. BELL Page 23

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V DEAN OF COLLEGE Education has been defined as the sum total result of all the influences of life from the cradle to the grave, in the school-room and out of it. True education, then, includes more than attending school and being present in classes for a certain period of years. Education is not wholly confined to the school. Primitive peoples educated their young although they had no schools. Children were taught by requiring them to do things. Education means entering into activities, doing, responding. It is the first principle of sound learning. All activity results in some form of education — if it is well directed activity it is good education. As you examine this volume of the ACORN it will be seen that Coe College is a place of many and varied activities, and this book a complete record of the ways in which college students spend a part of their time. And the activities represented are essential parts of a well-rounded educational experience. Attendance at classes and lectures constitute one phase only of the learning of a student in college. The much derided book learning is Imperative, certainly, but not of sufficient impor- tance, may we say, to warrant the student excluding from his life on the campus, many forms of social and recreational experiences which should have an important place in the total program of the college. And there are activities to suit the needs and interests of every student. There are projects to work out, programs to organize, publications to edit, speeches to make, plays to be produced, lectures and musicals to enjoy, and sports of many kinds. It is all this — the work, the pleasures, the contacts and friendships, that give added value and meaning to life and experience on a college campus. And it is all these that the yearbook brings together as evidence that not all of education is drawn from a book. But the real value of this ACORN does not lie in the printed pages alone. It is what each student can read into it for himself. Each picture should be a reminder of the years spent at Coe. If the memory of honest work, pleasant associations, good times, and real friendships can, in a measure, be preserved in this book, the Editors will, I believe, feel their purpose has been fulfilled. C. HARVE GEIGER Page 22

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BOARD OF TRUSTEES S. N. HARRIS 1936 GLENN M. AVERILL Cedar Rapids JOHN S. BROEKSMIT Chicago, Illinois CHARLES F. CLARK Cedar Rapids ROY E. CURRAY Cedar Rapids MARION R. DRURY, D. D Ponce, Porto Rico GEORGE W. EMERSON, D. D Des Moines FREDRICK G. MURRAY, M. D Cedar Rapids ISAAC B. SMITH Cedar Rapids ROBERT W. STEWART Chicago, Illinois R. BRUCE WEST Davenport 1937 JOSEPH BREN, D. D Cedar Rapids GEORGE E. BOOTH Chicago, Illinois JOHN M. DINWIDDIE Cedar Rapids MRS. GEORGE B. DOUGLAS Cedar Rapids JOHN S. ELY Cedar Rapids JOHN HANSON Waterloo HARRY KREMERS, D.D Cedar Rapids ARTHUR POE Cedar Rapids ROBERT S. SINCLAIR Indianapolis, Indiana JACOB H. YAGGY, D.D Toledo 1938 WALTER L. CHERRY Chicago, Illinois SUTHERLAND C. DOWS Cedar Rapids ARTHUR W. ERSKINE, M.D Cedar Rapids JAMES E. HAMILTON Cedar Rapids GEORGE LAIRD Cedar Rapids ROBERT R. LITTLE, D.D Cedar Rapids ALFRED S. NICKLESS, D.D Davenport CHARLES B. ROBBINS, Lt. Col Cedar Rapids JACOB J. SHAMBAUGH Des Moines THOMAS R. WARRINER Cedar Rapids Page 24