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

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C ditor 6 foreword C NATURE IS A VOLUME of which God is the author. Look- ing at this work of God, one can see all the glory of creation un- folding before him in four eternal chapters. Year after year through summer, winter, spring, and fall the process occurs and reoccurs. A soft breeze blows. The leaves of a tree swish their silvery skirts while swaying to the wind ' s tune. The heat of summer be- comes the cool crispness of fall. Slowly the silvery dresses are ex- changed for those of gold, brown, red, or yellow. One day a leaf quietly detaches itself and in a faint breeze flutters silently to the ground. Almost with an air of relief, without a struggle, others follow faster and faster. Soon the ground is covered. One night a wind, a little harder than usual, and carrying perhaps the drops of a cold rain, comes. The show is over. Naked and bare the tree stands stark against the sky. As diverse in kind and character as the leaves of Nature ' s trees, is man, God ' s greatest creation. Coming into the world tender and unprotected as the bud on the branch, flowering into youth, hover- ing in maturity, and withering in old age, he attempts with the fury of the storm and the intenseness of the summer heat to fulfill each innate desire. In the process of learning to channel his desires and to prepare for the storm of life, the boy goes to kindergarten, the youth to high school, and the young man to college. The older and more mature attempt to aid him in the conquest of the unknown, not realizing that part of the secret lies in the patience, wisdom, order, balance, quietness, simplicity, and interrelatedness of Nature, the aged pedagogue. But man, despite all his earthly knowledge, falls at the touch of death like a withering leaf or a lifeless branch. Realizing that the college education is a dominant factor in the life of modern man, even though in physical form he is a transitory character in the volume of God, this book reviews a year of the adventures and experiences of the students of Elizabethtown College. tent A omen Faculty 8 Activities 112 Student Body .... 32 Sports 160 Advertisements . . 176