Elmhurst College - Elms Yearbook (Elmhurst, IL)

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Football Seated: J. Bollens, E. Kowitz, P. Schaeffek, G. Sonneborn, V. Newmax. A. Geknand, J. Schneider. R. Heim. Standing: N Schultz, Ed. Koch. A. Btzek. K. Kindt. O. Meyer. T. Mehl, E. Mauek. Basketball Seated: N. Schultz, P. Schaeffer. .1. Boij.ens. O. Meyer. A. Gernand, K. Kindt. Standing: W- Schwemmer. E. Kowitz. E. Btsekros. T. INIehi.. R. Kiem.e. Page 30

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The Junior College PeOTESSOR J. E. SCHMALE, A. B. Elmhurst is feeling the urge of expansion. For some time a demand has been ripe for additional studies at our institution, but lack of time forbade any enlargement of the curriculum. The cry was always: more work is impossible, because there is not enough time to do justice to all the subjects now required. Now we hope to add time. The Elmhurst course is to comprise six years instead of five. All plans are still tentative. Last year our Year Book published a plan embodying the prospects as we then saw them. Now that plan no longer satisfies our aspirations. Last year ' s plan clung to the old system of prescribed studies; the plans now under consideration introduce the elective principal. Besides, we are no longer content to plan for the next year only; we now are deliberating on a schedule which will provide for a progressive expansion that will require several years for completion. The Elmhurst of the future is not to be merely a preparatory school for Eden Theological Seminary, but is intended to offer, in addition to the equivalent of a first class high school course, all the training that any first class college offers in the first two years of its program. Elmhurst prefers to become a Junior College rather than a full college because it recognizes the fact that the value of an A.B. degree varies in accordance with the institution from which it is obtained. We wish to give our graduates a diploma which will be recognized by the gr eat universities of the country; Harvard, Yale, Chicago, Wash- ington, Princeton or any State University, as equivalent to two years of university training in the Department of Arts and Sciences; so that two years ' study at any one of the big universities shall entitle an Elmhurst graduate to his batchelor degree. Nego- tiations are already in progress with Washington University at St. Louis to get their endorsement of our plan, so that possibly an arrangement can be made that our graduates who enter Eden Seminary can, by taking some extra subjects at Washington University, receive their degree of Bachelor of Arts at Washington University at the same time that they get their diploma at Eden; and students not entering Eden may get their A. B. at any big university they desire. These are as yet only hopes and aspirations, but our goal is fixed and we feel confident that, within a reasonable time, it can be reached. There is a rival plan, originating outside of official circles which aims at making Elmhurst a full college, entitled to grant an A. B. degree on its own authority. Whether this plan anticipates that Eden will raise its entrance requirements until only Bachelors of Art will be admitted to the course at Eden, or whether Elmhurst Students will be given an opportunity to enter Eden after the completion of two years of college work, thus forfeiting their A.B. degree for the sake of Theology, has not bean set forth. In either case, we hope to increase our equipment. We hope to remodel and re-equip our Administration Building. We hope to get more classrooms and to provide each classroom with better furnishings and more complete teaching facilities. We hope to find some way of providing new dormitories. We hope to provide less crowded and better furnished study rooms. Tjibrary facilities ought to be increased and many other changes made. In short, we want an up-to-date institution, worthy of an ardent student-body and a devoted body of supporters. Page 32