Elizabethtown College - Conestogan / Etonian Yearbook (Elizabethtown, PA)

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THE EDUCATED MAX Recently a group of scientists had a meeting at which time they made a list of the things ■ ' ■ which in their minds count for most in the life and work of a scientific man. The first of this list is education. The narrow definition of the term is not implied, rather the broadest possible meaning of the word. This kind of an education is not given to students, it is the product or an attitude, a wisdom, which results from an intelligent corporation of purpose, factual knowledge, and character. To be educated means that ignor- ance and provincialism have given way to thorough training and a universal outlook; that crudities are replaced by refinement and that discipline is substituted for dissipation. The second essential selected was that of health. No mind can do its best in an unsound body. Many a great man lived in an afflicted body, but the world would undoubtedly be richer had the same man enjoyed health. Pasteur laid the foundation of bacteriology and vaccination against small pox while confined to his bed by paralysis. Voltaire said, The fate of a nation has often depended on the good or bad digestion of a prime minister. How true! For efficiency, sweetness, joy of work, we need health. As a third, income was selected. Every man who is willing to contribute his honest share of effort has a right to a living wage. Anyone who has the ability, ambition, and ingenuity to do a thing better than the average has a right to exact more than the minimum wage. No scientist, engineer, doctor, preacher, teacher, or mother can do his or her best with the wolf ' s shadow on the door. All he wants is freedom from worry to make ends meet. This is all that any truly educated man wants. Social responsibility was the fourth essential selected. Regardless of the amount of tech- nical training and skill, or health, or how large an income, no educated man lives unto him- self. Elizabethtown College aims to train her young men and women not to live compla- cently in a house by the side of the road, but to get out into the procession and help guide the onward march of civilization in paths of progress. Fifth, and most important of all. these scientific men placed spirituality. Wisdom, health, wealth, and social service are transient. They last but for life. We do not think of death, the closing even of our activity on this planet, as the end of it all. It is but the beginning, the birth into a new world. Indeed, the consistently trained man will not neglect, in his thirst for truth and facts, that corner of his mental life where he may reach beyond the farthest horizon of facts through the media of faith and hope. The educated man believes in sound training, undergirded with a sound bodv and an income commensurate with his creative genius. His time and his energy are not his own, but the entire human race shall enjoy the labor of his hand. He is ever a man of faith, hope, reverence, and moral and intellectual integrity. This is the truly educated man. DEAN A. C. BAUGHER. if-M 1 Twenty fow

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Pd.B., Elizabethtown College. 1918; A.B., Eliza- hethtown College, 1922; A.M., University of Penn- sylvania, 1929; Bethany Bible School, summers of 1919 and 1921; Columbia University, summer 1929; Dean of Men, Elizabethtown College, 1916-1921; Instructor in Bible and Religious Education, 1922- 1923; Supervising Principal, Public Schools of Dela- ware, 1924-1929; Professor Sociology. Elizabethtown College, 1929. V EPHRAIM GIBBEL MEYER, A.B., A.M. Professor of Voice and Director of Music Pd.B., Elizabethtown College, 1919; A.B.. Eliza- bethtown College, 1924; Assistant in Music, 1919 and 1920; Graduate, Music Teachers ' Course, 1921; Voice Culture, 1921; Student, American Conserva- tory of Music, Chicago, 1921; A.M., Columbia Uni- versity, 1930; Professor of Voice, 1921- wenty-m