Elmhurst College - Elms Yearbook (Elmhurst, IL)

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A Word from the PreslderLt THE E i s fulfills a dual purpose. First of all it is a vivid picture ot the past tor students recalling happy incidents, important aftan ' s and winsome persons. It becomes a treasure trove to he cherished more with each year. Then, too, it becomes a little journey to those who are inter- ested en(jugh to turn the pages but who do not know Elmhurst intimately. We hope that it will give them some idea ot this re- markable school. For one who spent four of his youthful years here and returned much later to join the staff, it is an amazing college. It stands for scjund scholarship. It has grown to niatunt ' . It has an indefinable something called character due largely to the quality of teachers and students. This distinctiveness may be reflected dimly in the activities pictured here and in the faces shown. It is something that no book can capture. It will be writ in the next half century in life itself. We feel confident it will be an epic. To old friends and new we say — here ' s Elmhurst College — God love her. .oiiitaiMiaeniii Jp fm nil m sssi

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We Came Here to Work . . . ES, we knew when we entered college that it would demand plenty ot work on our part. After all, this venture ot becoming educated is no easy task. Although we may have telt rebuffed at times when our professors expected work of us, we had only to remind ourselves that classes and homework are the jiiw qua }ion of college life. This phase of Elmhurst College is our ccjncern in Chapter I, while the other important side ot our life here, the social, is relived in Chapter II. The setting for our learning, Elmhurst College, reveals itself to us in two ways. It is first of all, a cluster of buildings and lawns. But even a casual observer is not long in discovering the deeper significance of Elmhurst — its administration, faculty and students. Our picture of Elmhurst in this chapter, then, includes impressions of the familiar buildings, as well as of our capable administration and faculty. The learning process does not only take place in our classroom relations with the faculty members. Seven clubs, therefore, we designate as curricular, for they extend and augment class lectures. Here students of psychology, education, philosophy, sociology, German, Hungarian and Spanish meet informally to discover new aspects of their fields of interest. Last ot all, we talk about (jurselves -freshmen, sophomores, juniors and seniors. These are the ingredients of our venture of learning. itfObUmOiinili jiP 1 11 ifiil MfflSiisi