Earlham College - Sargasso Yearbook (Richmond, IN)

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r . PRESIDENT DENNIS A. B., Earlham College, 1896 A. B., Harvard University, 1897 A. M., 1898, LL. B., 1901 LL. D., Earlham College, 1911 LL. D., DePauw, 1937

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.11 -- A -hp' The faculty are our directors. From behind their desks they give the tactful guidance which leads to a successful season. By their quiet encouragement and inspiring leadership the bewildered students are safe- ly steered to the desired roles of the heroes and heroines. The directors are seen in all sets on the Earlham stageg they have played the roles of the pres- ent actors. They are preparing the young actors for the greater drama of life. L

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EARLHAM COLLEGE RICHMOND, INDIANA OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT Greetings to the Sargasso: From time to time throughout history the known world has been rocked and torn by the conflict of ideas and ideals. The known world today is geographic- ally larger and at the same time paradoxically it is intellectually and spiritual- ly smaller and more unified than it ever was before. For mankind are one in spirit, and an instinct bears along, Round the earth's electric circle, the swift flash of right or wrong. The religious controversy of Arius and Athanasius in the fourth century and the political and ideological warfare of the Guelpha and Ghibellines in the Italian city states of the thirteenth century, important as they appeared and as they were at the time, seem to us in retrospect tempests in a teapot as com- pared to the conflict between individualism and collectivism which divides our world today. But our problem after all is new in the instance rather than in principle, and the solution, it is believed, is as simple and as fundamental and as old as human greed and dogniatism and folly on the one hand and human self- sacrifice, wisdom and reason on the other. The solution lies in freedom rather than in repression, in moderation rather than in extreme viewpoints. in toler- ance rather than in indifference, and it is the high mission of the small. church-related, liberal arts, co-educational college to contribute by other forms of education make a self-respecting and a peaceful solution possible. Freedom and learning in the Middle Ages were largely kept alive in various institutions of the church. I believe that today they are being in large mea- sure preserved by the Christian college. X