College of Emporia - Alla Rah Yearbook (Emporia, KS)

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PHILOLOCIC HALL

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MA THONIAN HALL

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ANOTHER NIILESTONE E. are approaching another milestone. Majestically the gleam of its shining shaft looms up by the side ' ' of the road. Its presence strikes us anew with reflections . it f 4--4 ...L -ar---.-- X 5 ' il. 1 t ,il of responsibility and more serious contemplation of our burdens. The car of time passes ahead in pitiless haste, denying to us the meagre pleasure of pondering for an in- stant the mysteries of change. Yet we will here loosen our tight grip on the reins long enough briefly to observe the region in which we find this milestone-the twenty- seventh in the life of the College of Emporia. The first glance enlivens our hopes. We are in a fairer clime than we have yet known. No paradise, to be sure, but the air seems purer, the rocks less rugged, and the prospect toward the hills more vivid and more inspiring. This milestone is on higher ground than any other has been. The way stretches darkly behind usp there is no gleam ahead which denotes lesser labors, but from this point wec see the hills green afar off. Now for the retrospect. Our rise during this year has not been so meteoric as last. Then we flashed from comparative obscurity into the bright light of a new day, and the suddenness of the change appealed to the most optimistic anticipations within us. But this year the change in the growing brightness has not been so sharply marked, owing to the intensity which already existed. Our hopes of last year have by no means been attained, yet the uplift has been so steady and so productive that we do not hesitate to set it down in glowing terms. The year opened with a greatly increased enrollment. The achievements of last year, coupled with a wide-spread advertising policy, and assisted by a thorough canvass of the state during the summer, brought a host of new students. The enrollment in the freshmen class and in the academy is the largest in the history of the school, while the seniors exceed in numbers any class previously graduated. Changes in the faculty have relieved the teaching force from the severity of its work, and have allowed a wider range of subjects to be handled in the curriculum. The offering of the pre-medical and pre-engineering courses speaks well for the up-to-date policy of the school. An athletic director has been procured, and this marks an improvement in a department where is was long needed. In scholarship there has been advancement. The many distracting interests of the school life last year brought down the general average of the students' grading. But this year faculty and students have worked in greater harmony, and the good results have been shown in the grades. Under this heading, we will mention the fact that this year has made the fourth time in five years that College of Emporia has received highest honors in thought and composition in the state oratorical contest, receiving second place in the only year which broke the perfect record. As actions speak louder than words, so do such achievements prove better than by professions of mouth, the thorough excellence of scholastic training given in this school. it i nl n ,., , l l kv 15