DePauw University - Mirage Yearbook (Greencastle, IN)

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supreme motive and so have not always stood for the best things. And some, fail- ing in one or more of these high preparations, have not been genuine servants. But all such in their sincere moments will confess that their failure has been in spite of the influence of the Alma Mater, For to the ideal of scholarship, expression, motive and service our institution, whether as Asbury or as DePauw, has held for seven decades. ,ln the larger future she will write them yet more distinctly on her banners and seek to persuade her sons and daughters forward to the place of their fulfillment ! - l a EDWlN H. HUGHES. if kr of 'fe V t p32

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transmitterg and the model college is one that teaches man the supplementary arts of getting and of giving: the proper balancing of income and outgo. Therefore, if the first ideal of DePauw University has looked toward scholarship, the sgqongl has looked toward expression. The third ideal has related to motive. it does not suffice that a man should know and dog the burglar may meet these two conditions, and so may the dema- gogue. Alciabiades knew some things and probably expressed them well: but he has never been of credit to Socrates because his knowledge and skill were urged by a bad heart. Judas' failing was not an inability to receive the instruction of his Teacher, nor yet a lack of executive capacity: it was rather an unwillingness to surrender to the ideal motive. These illustrations show both what a school shouhl strive to do and what a school in some cases may be unable to do. The history of lDel'auw will prove that. notwithstanding some of her students or even gi-aqlimtcg have not responded to the supremest motives, there has been through all these sev- enty years a faithful effort to purify the sources of human life. This work has iJCCI1 done in genuine breadth. liorn and mothered of a par- ticular denomination, gladly confessing her obligation and mission within a cer- tain Church, Del'auw has opened generous doors to men of all faiths and of none. Many types of Protestants, Roman Catholics, jews. and representatives of the oriental religions have lived a free life here,-conscious that the atmosphere was persuasive like a gospel, but conscious, also, that the atmosphere did not suggest sectarian pressure. And yet the ceascless emphasis has been upon the point that out of the heart, the region of purposes, are the issues of life. Hence an ideal of Del'auw has been to furnish men with pure motives and high inspirations. The fourth ideal is that of service. lt comes inevitably out of the first three, just as when you bring certain chemical elements together they are sure to form a compound, so when you get scholarship, expression and motive in right order and right relations, service must come. NVe can gather it all into a sentence: Sclmlczrsliijv c'.1'jv1'vs.rrd 1llllfCl' flu' proper llIf0fI Z'C isszms in .t'Cl Z'I'L'C. The scholar with- out expression becomes a curious book-wormg the scholar without a proper mofivc becomes a refined rascal: but the scholar with wisdom in the expression of his life and goodness in the motive o ' ' ', Not all DePauw graduates have been mastered by these four ideals. Some f his heart becomes a good servant. have not been scholarly,-having barely made the per cent required for a parch- ment. Some have not learned how to express themselves effectively and have really lived in an intellectual cloister. Some.-greatev the pity !-have not yielded to the 31

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r THE FACULTY a Part of 'Em Caught Leaving East College at Noon a ,' The old .Arr Hall