Elmhurst College - Elms Yearbook (Elmhurst, IL)

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FOREWORD 11 ill his life seems to be acli one of us, if he has wislies, ill some measure at The comietion whicli ; that ill various waya The goal of a person M ' ho has any ])ur|)ose at a a life which is both iiielusiAe and meaningful. K become aware of tlie responsibilities of lifi least, to live fully, completely, and e(fecti cly underlies the (■oiitiiiuatioii of Klmliurst ( ' olleg( college life will equijj young men and ' omen toward reacliing this goal. At the close of each school year a volume is com])iled whicli serves as a record of campus life during the ])ast year. In an attempt to present the various aspects of college life in their true relationships through analogy, the Elms has found a genuine similarity between the life and development of an artist and life of a college student. The artist has a goal — the successful liandling of his tools and the per- fection of liis technique will result in an e ])ression on canvas of his convictions aljout what he sees. This is no sudden accomjilishment. The artist must not only have command of his tools, but he must also know the broad fields of knowledge intimately, he must know ])eoplc, and he must know life in order that there may be vitality and meaning in his work. This knowledge is not gained in a day, and it is gained fully by only the greatest of the great. Xeither does the college student reach his goal during the four A ' ears he spends in college. He is given the fundamental tools by his ]»rofessors, he is introduced into the major fields of knowledge by his variety of courses, he is given the o]3portunity of learning to know ])cople through the experiences of his common life on the camjms, and he is offered a clue to the meaning of life in the religion of class and chapel and in his own reflection and meditat ion. All of the above is only preparation for the real living which each student must undertake when he accepts the responsibilities of active life. The pages which follow will outline, on the basis of this single college year, the various divisions of that preparation as they correspond to tlie ])reparation of an artist to express himself effec- tively through the medium of liis bruslies and his paints.

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