Erskine College - Arrow Yearbook (Due West, SC)

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principal thing. Of this we may, without boasting, say what President VVilson said of Princeton: She has always been a school of religion and no one of her sons who has really lived her life has escaped that steadying touch which has made her a school of duty. A God of truth is no mean prompter to the en- lightened service of mankindg and the character formed as if in His eye has always a liber and sanction such as you shall not easily obtain from the mild prornptings of philosophy. Erskine has made known this Godg has built such characterg has given such equipment for service. Her chief glory is the char- acter and work of her sons. ggi gikbb . ' 10 luv- L Sf

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Erskine College-A Characterization Nm MAG ' 92 1? Q 9 ni 6' REV. G. G. PARKINSON. D. D. of a century of lift and service According to the purpose of the foundeis that service has been iendeicd in large measure to and thiough a Church the Associate Reformed Synod. And in this way doubtless the largest possible service has QYTZ Sffq' OR Erskine 'College the present year rounds out three quarters 'YH wr' A -' i - ' 1 E ' ' V Q, W . , -. , a - , V cies: tw-S5 been rendered to the world. For, like most of the older colleges of our country. Erskine was founded to meet the need of Christian education within a denomination, and. more specifically, to provide for that denomination a trained and loyal ministry. Erskine has lived up to the ideals of her founders. Her quest has been for men: her finished product men fitted to serve. She has believed that service is a matter of the heart as well as of the head, of character as well as of culture. The means she has used have been a faculty and a curriculum that have not blinked one half of man's nature and one whole realm of truth. Her motto is, Knowledge and Character in Union. In cultivating this field Erskine has not offered an education that is narrow and sectarian. The type of culture that is demanded for a Presbyterian min- istry is suited to all. And yet, in pursuing her ends, the work of Erskine has been intensive rather than extensive. Many courses could not be offered. but rather thorough culture through one or two. To be a small college doing a great work-such has been the aim. To accomplish this. material equipment is necessary: and there are buildings and libraries and laboratories. But these are sufficient rather than showy. There must be a facultyg but this has never been large-save in character and scholar- ship. Its men have never been of the cloistered type that would rather discover a dead fact than a living soul. There must be students: several thousands have enrolled, eight hundred have graduated. llut there have never been more than two hundred at any one time, and some of the best work has been done in years when the graduates could be counted on the fingers of one hand. There have been six administrations, but such a unity and continuity of spirit and aim as have made the college ever the same. There have been struggles-with poverty. on account of the results of war. llut Erskine has used what she has had and has developed character by what she has lacked. It might be well, perhaps, to give a catalogue of facts :-founded in IS3o. the second, if not the first, denominational college in the South: first building erected in 18433 burned and rebuilt. 1892: to call the roll of presidents: ljressly. Grier, Patton, Grier. Pressly, Moffatt: to speak of endowments and of dis- tinguished alumni. But this is much like giving a physical description of a man -it does not reveal the inner spirit. .Xnd with Erskine the spirit has been the 9

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Editorial FTER a lapse of three years the class of '14 has undertaken sincerely hope that it will meet with the approval of all. Herein will be found the work of no genius, but only the work of amateurs. attempting to show our college life as the 'ik gi' to give to the public another volume of the ERSIQINIANA. Nlfe aggfg student sees it. Characteristics ofmembers of the faculty and students alike have been portrayed, but in no case is ill will intended and the remarks are but a record of the friendly raillery constantly indulged in. VVe know that we have made mistakes, and we trust, gentle readers. that you will pass lightly over all such blunders. May this annual be to our readers a reminder of the old scenes and associa- tions, long after the passing years have taken the realities from them: and may it permit them in spirit to live again those glorious days of long ago. THE Enrrons. 11