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

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- teiLclent 6 Me66(ia(L Making Life Coimt TT ' OL R years in college constitute the most significant years of a young person ' s • • life. During this period of time one should receive a balanced training in the art of living. It should result in building a vigorous body, a wholesome social outlook, and a sound spiritual insiglit. To make life count one must know the basic facts of the world in wiiicii he lives. Without such knowledge judgments will be formed that have no relation to practical living. To make a contribution to the solution of the problems of any age one must be acquainted witli many fields of human interest and iiave an integrated knowledge of tiiese fields. One must be a knower. The social order can be promoted, however, only as one puts knowledge into practice. Because of the varied tasks the world offers, it is e ident that there is work for all to do. But to each there is a specific task for which one is best fitted. In the selection of one ' s work, native aptitudes should be carefully considered so that work may be done in the most efficient manner. To do work that is necessary, and to labor in a project for which one has special fitness, is to be happy. One must be a doer. But life is not counting for the most to those who are not guided by high moral values. Our pleasures, our tasks, our leisure, our studies — everything must be evaluated by the best standards to bring about a better world order. Life becomes ricli only in proportion as one has learned to appreciate the best that art, litera- ture, music, and science has to offer. One must be an appreciator. To know, to do, to appreciate represents the symmetrical life. College affords the supreme opportunity to youth to develop this type of life. It is hoped that every student of Elizabethtown College may go forth determined to make life count. To be or not to be That ' s the question. R. W. SCHLOSSER Page 9

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RALPH WIEST SCHLOSSER, Lift D. President The President RALPH WIEST SCHLOSSER, Litt.D. President and Professor of English and Philosophy Pd.B., Elizabethtown College. 1907 A.B., Ursinus College, 1911 A.M., Ursinus College, 1912 Litt.D., Ursinus College, 1932 A.M., Columbia University, 1922 Completed Ph.D. Requirements at Columbia L ni- versity, 1929-1930 Graduate Student, University of Pennsylvania, 1934-1935 Instructor, preparatory studies, Elizabethtown Col- lege, 1908 1911 Professor of English, Spanish and French, 1911-1918 Professor of English, 1922 Dean and Professor of English, 1922-1927 Page 8

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BOARD OF TRUSTEES OFFICERS R. P. BucHER, Presideitl J. E. Trimmer, Vice-Presidenl A. C. Baugher, Secretary J. Z. Herr, Treasurer TRUSTEES R. P. BucHER, Quarry -ille, Pa. J. E. Trimmer, Carlisle, Pa. A. C. Baugher, Elizabethtown, Pa. F. S. Carper, Palmyra, Pa. Joseph W. Kettering, Elizabethtown, Pa. G. Howard Banner, Abbottstown, Pa. Joseph N. Cassel, Fairview Village, Pa. C. E. Grapes, Chambersburg, Pa. R. P. Royer, Denver, Pa. Michael Kurtz, Richland, Pa. Rufus K. Ehy, Palmyra, Pa. A. P. Wenger, Ephrata, Pa. Walter A. Keeney, Gettysburg, Pa. Page 10