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THE FUTURE OF ELMHURST COLLEGE Elmhurst College has begun its career as a four year college of liberal arts at an auspicious moment. Never before has the small college been in such favor among educators and students as it is today and never has the demand for col- legiate education been greater. One of the most striking characteristics of the decade which has followed on the outbreak of the great war is the increased de- mand for education. High School enrollments have increased two and three hundred percent in many states. The well established colleges have been crowded by students and new colleges are being organized everywhere to meet the demand for higher education. The growth of Elmhurst Junior College in 1919 and of the Senior College in 1922-24 out of the old Proseminary are a part of this general movement in education and are, it must be assumed, the result of the demand within the constituency of this school for better educational facilities. The proportion of high school and college students in the Evangelical Synod, which Elmhurst College serves, has increased even more rapidly, it appears, than the proportion of such students in America in general. Moreover, the ability of the church to provide for its single college of liberal arts has kept pace with the increased demand. Under these circumstances Elmhurst College may look forward to an era of considerable expansion. The plans of the seminary board for the provision of an endowment of a million dollars and for the erection of buildings adequate for the housing and instruction of four hundred students represent a minimum rather than a maximum program of development. This goal can easily be realized by 1935. It would be rather surprising if it were not passed long before the expira- tion of the ten-year period. The tradition of -service during half a century which Elmhurst has established and its promise to continue that service to youth and the church in an ever more adequate manner as well as to a larger number en- titles it to the benevolent consideration of those who believe that an investment in human life is the best investment any man can make and that a Christian education is the best way in which such an investment can be made. Elmhurst needs friends who have gained this conviction, and it is assured that such friends will find it. The special contribution which Elmhurst College can make to the church which supports it and to the nation is not different in character from the con- tribution which it has made in the past. In the first place, that contribution is the education of leaders in the church and in civic life in general. The education which Elmhurst has sought to give and which it will continue to seek to give is a Christian education, — a thorough acquaintance with contemporary culture, a love of truth, an ability to deal independently with the problems of individual and social life in the light of thorough knowledge, and all of this shot through with the ideal of Jesus; for Elmhurst men share the conviction so widely expressed that the most urgent need of the present generation of men is light and warmth, the light of knowledge and the warmth of high idealism. A second contribution which Elmhurst College hopes to continue to make to its students and through them to an ever widening circle is the transmission of the best elements in that culture which its founders brought to America. German science, German literature, German philosophy, German music, and German re- ligious thought may fructify the soil of America as other national cultures have fructified it. While there is no doubt that the culture of America has been arid will remain dominantly English, the specific contribution which America will eventually make to history will arise out of the combination here of the various old-world ideals and appreciations which have been brought hither by the chil- dren of the nations. Elmhurst College will seek, therefore, to be ever more Amer- ican and to introduce its students to the contemporary life and science of the nation in which they live, but it will also seek to make its own specific contri- bution to that national culture by its transmission of the heritage it received from its fathers. 16
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