Eastern Nazarene College - Nautilus Yearbook (Quincy, MA)

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NAUTILUS T H E N A U T I L U S HOWARD G. I-ll-:RRs1'H.xr'r, CH' 233, Editor M.mEl.1N1c N'0S'I'R.XNIl, Cf' 253 . Associate Editor NIRs. GEORCil.fK B.xlt.m'. 'l'R.' 22 . . Religious Editor RUSSELI. HARR1NGToN, CI' 214 . Literary Editor RFTH V. ROLLINS, A.. 211 . . Organizations D0Ro'rHY H. YV:-trrl-2, Cf 21- ....... . College Lde NIABEL Smcmt, C'.' 25, Art ER NEST fiROSSF1, Tl-l.' Q2 . Secretary Ft,h:'1'c'HER C'Hl1.ToN, CH' Q5 . . Business Manager LESLI11: SEARS, Af Q5 . . . Associate Manager CHARLES DI-:w.xRE, Af 24- . . Assistant Manager FACULTY ADYISHHS BRR'l'H,x Ml'NRo HVGH C. HENNER I8

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NAUTILUS EDITORIAL-The Nautilus HE students of Eastern Nazarene College are publishing a book-a book which is to represent them and their ideals. They have called it The Nautilus, choosing not a name romantic in associations or lovely in melody, but a name redolent of New England atmos- phere, aglow with the inspiration of noble purpose. Have you learned to know the mes- sage of the Nautilus? Let us study it awhile together. XYe are all pupils in a great school whose halls are as spacious as the reaches of the heavens. The master is God, and as a wise man instructing children, He teaches us by object lessons. He has planned and related every detail of His creation for the benefit of man, its crown, and is constantly showing us truth if we have eyes to see. The leaders of mankind have been responsive to these suggestions and have wrought them into noble thoughts to bless the world. The tree nourished by hidden waters, the snowflake less white than the purified heart, called forth David's songs of trust and worship. .-X lingering gaze at the tiny violet, a quick glance at the still tinier celandine were all XYordsworth needed as inspiration for the most tender lyrics. A gust of autumn wind sweeping away the withered leaves stirred Shelley in The Ode to the H'esf IVind to express once for all the strivings of an impetuous soul. So Oliver 'XYendell Holmes, our loved New England poet, once chanced to examine the shell of a small sea animal which had been washed ashore, and wrote his allegory, The Clzambvred Nautilus, famed for its beauty and its lyric sweep of aspiration. The poet first introduces us to the nautilus as a ship of pearl -you are all familiar with the lines-and then explains its habits of living. Each year the nautilus makes a new home: the First year it lives in a single shell: the second year it adds another chamber. Softly stepping through the shining archway, again it builds up a door, takes possession of the larger abode. and forgets the old. The application is self-evident: the peril of satis- faction with present attainment. As time swiftly passes by, we must leave behind us the past with all its successes and its failures and advance to better and nobler things. The trumpet call of the last stanza will forever serve as a challenge in the hours when we are truest to the heavenly vision: Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul, As the swift seasons roll ! The lesson of the nautilus, then, is the eternal necessity of growth: the living organism must develop and expand: the dead may stagnate and decay. XYe prove that we live only as we advance. History proves the value of the spirit of the nautilus. Humanity was given, to start with, only a small home, a circumscribed outlook. but from year to year it enlarged its hori- zon: for, like the nautilus, it possessed innately the material for building, the potentiality of development. As with our little sea builder, its home was new to it-it knew not whither it went. Had it not been for the instinctive desire for exploration in life, the nautilus never would have stirred from its single shell to give us the chambered spiral, nor would mankind have written in struggle and striving the more wonderful life story of the world. A well- known modern essayist has much to say of the fascination of the secret It is this con- tinual outreach toward the unknown that has brought the race from helpless infancy to the intelligence of a man full grown. 20