Earlham College - Sargasso Yearbook (Richmond, IN)

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THE SARGASSO 1914 [ tion by the liquidation of the building ' debt and the increasing ol the endowment. Within about five years no less than $280,000 in cash or the equivalent has been handed over to the College by its loyal friends. The plant of the college is now worth well nigh a half-million, while the endowment, productive and improductive, has gone quite bevond the half million mark. Today nur greatest need in the way of material equipment is a iiKKlern and liberally proportioned gymnasium, for Earlham has always stood for the development of the body as well as the mind and spirit. It is to be hoped that the promoters of the preserii Sargasso will give this movement such initial momentum that th- college historian of the next Sargasso may add a bright new chap- ter to the story of Earlham ' s progress, by recounting the steps in the materialization of our present gymnasium ideals. ROP.ERT LINCOLX KELLY.

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THE SARGASSO 1914 islation it is because the Earlham faculty is a progressive Ijoily of men and women, holding- to the good in the old but willing to dis- cover the good in the new. Earlham has always stood for sound morality as well as snunti scholarship and has held the view that really jound morality can be obtained only in conjunction with the religious life. The col- lege has stood from the first therefore for po •itivc religious ex- perience as a factor of the highest type of personality. So neces- sary has this been in the estimation of the management that the discipline of the Church under whose auspices the college is con- ducted, has been the guide in matters of amusements as well as in the deeper things of the spirit. The college has been loyal to its ideals in this respect also, and it finds its ultimate jus- tification in the men and women, who, with this training, have gone forth to bless humanity. Material expansion has gone hand and hand with the expan- sion of Earlham ' s fundamental ideals. There have been two building eras since the erection of the original building — Earlham Hall. The first was in 1887 when Lindley Hall and Parry Hal! were erected: the second in 1907 when Bundy Hall, the Library, and the Heating Plant were placed on the campus. .Since that time the energies of the management have been expended in rais- ing the standard of scholarship and life so that Earlham, meas- ured by any of the modern standards, will be second to none in the field of college work; and in improving the financial condi-

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