Gettysburg College - Spectrum Yearbook (Gettysburg, PA)

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, .' .- '-,1f V - J3r5f.'i - 4 ' 1 ,,, L, ,,,,,L, have you become a resident of our campus. Ever since your election as President of Pennsylvania College, we have been eagerly looking forward to the time when you should assume the duties of that office and we should have the pleasure of making your acquaint- ance. The student body places great confidence in your administration. ln athletics, literary, editorial and religious works there has been sounded a deeper keynote-that of a pure, unselfish devotion to our college, with a determination to strive for a Greater Gettysburg. We give you as our President, our pledge of support. We are united in a common cause to promote the welfare of our college and in all things, whose motive is her advancement, we promise our hearty co-operation. May she advance under your administration as she never has before advanced in her history . . ,.wH7'ra1f'iJ1z7 '1 rr.'fv:r '14 sw 1 ,. .. v-1, -U s - v:-u: f:.- ' q -mfs., 1 vis- 'f fwmz- ff:-nw., at-1:4 A f 31: 3 , - .51 .311 s-r:fJr.ae t1f5,. :,1.tJ'.s: asia .f 1,4 .ss 1,1 -,, t 41 251' 4 -f: aaa.mvga:z l it gi. is flisl lf? .L ' ,.....a . J' K1 v 4 vm mir' -A A-':'1Si,'f,iW F-P'iz?,3'f71 wgwfwmrr- '1+ ptywnw vw-: 'flflf 4,-.4 L if if :...5.,. H-in-'v.s,f. , v-:'wr'f,t-. , A.-V A--.- - .1 . J .. -V 'L ..' -4 g4,,:,,,L.fd31L:JQeLL.....f v.-'-.u's'Haa.'Zl-'Q' X535 '- '-3 7. isllcrlf. .Ja da an 6ci1t:',lfsf.:f-' .1 Next in order was the inaugural address by Dr. Granville: The efficiency of a college, like the efficiency of a man, depends, not on the number of things it tries to do. but on the number of things it does well. I am for the improvement of our courses and for progress along all lines, but I believe it should be a progress of evolution rather than a revolution. Let us hold fast to all the old that has served us so well and with open minds examine and test the new, The foundations here have been laid broad and deep, and it is for us to build on them wisely and well. ln the realm of higher education there are two important questions now under special consideration. One has to do with the training of engineers and the other has reference to the so-called denominational school. As we offer no engineering courses here most of the young men from our constituency who wish to take up engineering go elsewhere for part or all of their college work. Shall we increase the number of our courses in order to be able to educate such young men here where they naturally belong, or shall we continue our work as outlined? There are four general plans to choose from. Page Fourteen 5

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WS Tj-it Sttttarrri M12 Having recerved the Charter Seal and Keys Dr Granville took the oath of ofhce Thereupon the students sang Domrne Salvum Pac Praesrdem Nostrum The next event was the presentation of the Honorable Delegates and Guests in at tendance followed by greetings from the Honorable Delegates the Faculty the Alumni and the Students In presentrng the greetings from the Honorable Delegates Secretary Anson Phelp Stokes of Yale delivered an address which called forth the approbatron and admrratron of all He said rn part I congratulate you most heartrly upon the selection of Dr Granville for your President and on hrs acceptance of the hrgh trust There are two fundamental things upon which the success of hrs admrnrstratron must de pend The first is the emphasis on the hrgh st standards and the second rs the sprrrt of co operation You will get all of the students that you need as soon as your standards are the hrghest and large numbers of themselv s will nex er attract one single student that is worth while l ask you to emphasize co ooeratron co operation of sprrrt rn standing be hind your President to help hrm to decide upon the wrsest course rn each emergency and when the decision has been reached co operate gladly and heartrly with hrm rn executing the plans of the College In presenting the greetings from the faculty Dr l-limes said None of us can claim a long acquaintance wrth you personally but your reputation as a scholar and Gentleman precede you and thrs with our few months experience of your fair mrndedness leads us to offer you our hands rn hearty congratulatron You have bestowed gratifying words of prarse upon smaller colleges This we understand will not interfere with the endeavor to make our own greater and stronger. It will however prevent the struggle for mere numbers an opening of our doors to an untrained mob in non-academic courses whose low ideals make an atmosphere of culture impossible. With the fullest confidence in your ability and purpose we clasp hands with you in the forward movement accepting your familiar motto with the change of but one word. For God for Country and for-Gettysburg . Following Dr. l-limes, Prof. Smith, of U. of P., expressed the greetings of the alumni: ln the name of my fellows, I offer our hearty felicitations, our cordial sym- pathies, and our willingness to co-operate in the work before you. We ask that you preserve the sturdy traditions of our alma materg that you continue to instill the prin- ciple of sound Christian manhood and womanhood unto our boys and girlsg that you teach them the littleness of superficial polish and the true greatness of honest effort, that they may look beyond the outer adornment to the inner soulg that you instruct them to the end that they realize and value their privileges of citizenship in the great American republic which owes its preservation to the happy outcome of Gettysburg's battleg that you infuse them with the idea that four years of college life do not complete education, but that all life is given us for fuller, wider learning . Representing the student body Mr. Bowman voiced the sentiments of all with the words: To every student it is a source of extreme satisfaction to welcome you, and Page Thirteen 'W ,. ., 4. - A - ' , J V - r

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1 VW THE 5Pttt'Rtrs H V ff- 1. Iliiiiittqf First plan Clfer four year courses rn engineering to which students prepared rrr a first class high school shall be admitted Second plan Offer three year courses rn engineering to which only college graduates having taken a screntrfrc course shall be admitted Third plan Offer frve or six year courses rn engineering to which students prepared rn a good high school shall be admitted l-ourth plan Offer no engineering courses but prepare the student for hrs engineering studies by grvrng hrm a college education rn which mathe matics and sciences play important roles The student rs then to go to some technical school for hrs purely engineering education We now come to the second subyect of my address namely What rs meant br a denominational college3 The denominational college of to day rs a college more or less closely allilrated with some general church body to whose constituency rt looks for rts main financial support and from which rt draws a large portion of rts students This rs a Christian country and the only moral standards under which rt can thrive are Chris tran standards But we cannot remain a Christian nation vtrthout Christian leaders and where do our Christian leaders come from rf not from denominational colleges5 I vrew of this fact the refusal of the Carnegie Foundation to pension the retiring professors of denominational colleges rs very difficult to explain No one believes this to be the purpose of the founder and rt rs to be hoped that lVlr Carnegie will soon change the pro vrsrons of this trust so that denominational colleges may also share rn rts benefits The inaugural ceremonies were concluded by the conferring of degrees a hymn and benediction by William Gerhardt D.D. class 4I the oldest alumnus present. After the completion of the above exercises the ladies of Gettysburg served a colla- tion in Recitation Hall which was enjoyed by over four hundred guests. Among the speakers was a number of our distinguished visitors. ln the afternoon the Honorable Delegates and Guests were given an opportunity to View the battlefield. Our football team showed the Gettysburg Spirit by winning from Lebanon Valley by a score of 24-O. A reception by Dr. and Mrs. Granville brought the occasion to a fitting close. l-lere was no discord. The brilliancy and success of the event were heightened by per- fect harmony and unanimity. And as the guests departed, their countenances revealed their assurance that Pennsylvania College had launched forth into a future more service- able and more glorious than all her past achievements. .- g Page Fifteen . f '