Earlham College - Sargasso Yearbook (Richmond, IN)

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.pu 1' 1 51 Xs at teacher. I say with Thomas Dreier, I lizive only one desire-to fill you with of the sun itself. I want every thought. every word. every act of mine to make you feel that you are receiving into your ody. into your mind, into your soul, the zicrefl spirit that changes clay into men incl men into goclsf' tire, to pour into you the distilled essence W W To the Class of 1938: It has been my privilege, I feel, to have been rather closely associated with you, the class of 1938. I remember the enthusi- asm with which you entered Earlham. I have watched you grow and develop these last four years. I have had much pleasure in your accomplishments. You may not know these things, but I hope you feel with me that a friendship has grown up between us which will always continue-a friendship which will stand us both in good stead, especially in time of need. MJWQQ 4f':.'

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EARLHAM COLLEGE EDUCATION AND DEMOCRACY DUCATION and democracy are inseparable and indivisible. Robert Lowe ended a spectacular and losing struggle in the British Parliament against popularizing the franchise with the prophetic exclamation, We must educate our masters. What is education? Its foundation is character. Ability to think is the motive power erected on this foundation. This. in turn, must be harnessed to some useful work. The development of right thinking, straight thinking, and useful thinking is the educational process. This process requires freedom. Freedom implies mistakes. The ability to think straight means learning by trial and error. to recognize and avoid muddled thinking on one's own part, and on the part of others, The ability to follow a proposition to its logical conclusion can best be developed in a student who has listened not only to men who can think things through but to men who think with their feelings. Ulysses may have gotten by the sirens success- fully once by stopping the ears of his sailors with wax. Orpheus knew his followers would pass that way again and he laid the foundation of present and future safety by an appeal to music which the sirens could not match. He knew that to rely upon repression is as futile in practice as it is wrong in principle. Freedom has its limits: they are not mathematicalg they must always be in dispute. Many will exceed them in both directions, but the common sense of most will in the long run hold both America and the world in awe, and save freedom, which is necessary for education, and thereby education. which is necessary for democracy, and democracy which makes both freedom and education possible. -1

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FACULTY RUTH BACHMANN BATT 119291 Instructor in Piano and Theory Music Mus. B., A, B., Oberlin College. WILLIAM BURBANCK 119361 Instructor in Biology A. B.. Earlham College: M, S., Hav- erford College. 'J , 9 ., E '+ 'Ux- QQ L . NVILLIABI E. BERRY 1193153 'li VIRGIL F. BIN!-'ORD 119281 Business Mzznuger A Ph. B.. Univursity nl' Clm-113,01 A. M Prujvssor of Crock. Acting Profes- Sor of Relrgfzon A. B.. A. M., Penn Cullegeg A. M.. Harvard Uuivcrsityg Ph. D., Uni- versity ul Clxiczmgu. ARTHUR M. CHARLES. 119041 Professor of Illmlern LUIIQIIIIQCS B, S., Enrlham Collegeg A. M., Haw erford College. Columbia UI1lX'E1l'hllj'. ,,-. .,,.rF1gl ......J' . .4 R- .A ff' ag ' ,-. Af - -fx. -R. JOHN A. CLARK 119353 .-lsszstant Prnfessm' uf Plzzlusnplzy A. B.. Amherst College-. A. M., Ph D., Han'vu1'd Univcrsity.