Gettysburg College - Spectrum Yearbook (Gettysburg, PA)

 - Class of 1912

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f - ' 2 . - t fi The various diversive activities of the community are running a healthful course. A means of further regulative oversight of social functions has been devised by identify- ing them more closely with college interests and by making them accessible to a larger number of students. Thus many opportunities are now afforded for the cultivation of disposition as well as acquisition. And this is important. Merely miscellaneous knowl- edge and mental training can never be the whole of a college education. Ignorance is blisters but stiff learning is icicles. ln the sphere of athletics also a new departure must be recorded. The Athletic Council was reconstituted to consist of three members, one representative each from the Faculty, the alumni, and the students. The management of all sports was placed in the hands of a graduate manager. This arrangement conforming to the best usage at other institutions has operated very satisfactorily. As all-year coach the services of Mr. Vail were continued again this year and the entire physical training of the students was offi- cially placed in his hands. We completed an unusually successful foot-ball season, triumphing brilliantly over our three rivals by dint of sheer stick-to-it-iveness, a quality that has come to be denominated the Yale-Gettysburg spirit . But Coach Vail's ideal for athletics is not limited to inter-collegiate victories, and his efforts are not confined to the college champions so that the vast majority of students must gain their physical educa- tion by proxy, but his constant aim is to lead every student to particpate in at least one branch of athletics. And clean, manly sportsmanship is everywhere insisted upon. To these ends the Athletic Council co-operates. Difficulties between the lower classes have been adjusted in a way that will prevent disgraceful conflicts. Daylight contests of brawn have been provided for under proper oversight and regulation. Thus the effervescence of youth has been provided with outlets calculated to prevent explosions, but in no case is proper college work relegated to the background or made a mere annex to athletic exhibitions. A number of other features distinguishing the present academic year might be dwelt upon at length if space permitted. The Y. M. C. A. work of the year has been above par and has helped in large measure to secure the present high tone of morality and Christian activity. A free course of Faculty lectures is under way. An additional in- structor was employed in the Preparatory Department. A Registrar was provided for the College. Class deans were appointed. The bonds of union with our constituency have been drawn tighter through multiform organizations. Commencement this year will be marked by the disappearance of the traditional ten speeches and the appearance of the academic robe on Faculty and Board. But above all mention must be made of that indescribable somewhat which has brooded over the entire academic year and which may best be defined as an all-pervading enthusiasm for Greater Gettysburg . And now the College starts upon a campaign for fl3300,000 additional endowment. More funds are asked for, not to invest in stone and marble monuments, not for pomp and circumstance, but to furnish ambitious young men of high spirits and lofty ideals with adequate opportunities for energetic expression and noble achievement, to provide more teachers and to make possible more efficient work in the training of sturdy manhood which shall be devoted to the high service of religion, state. and nation. Page Nineteen . l ff'

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l , f A-4 '?'Q: f 'A .-'A A--A:- i - 1.1.5-vi .. 4' ' ,- -. .H 1. 33 ' -'wi-.1..-1 ....... QL-f-H uw w 211. -12 .22-'g -JZ: 5 and with the beginning of the present year the enterprise was launched. The results have been most gratifying. The students at once assumed the serious responsibilities involved in the maintenance of College discipline and they have shown themselves entirely capable of carrying out their high purposes. The Student Council has evolved a code of by- laws which for completeness of detail and practical efficiency is perhaps without an equal in any other system of student self-government. Cases requiring discipline have been very few and trivial. A number of details affecting the general order, details which must have escaped the notice of the College authorities, have been dealt with wisely and well. The venture thus far has been a decided success and the effect upon the general student morale has been very wholesome. There is developing a keen sense of personal and individual responsibility for the maintenance of honor and order in the little commonwealth. This is a mighty factor in the ultimate of college training, for it must inevitably lead to that breadth of human sympathy and that generous attitude toward life which constitutes the best equipment for citizenship in the larger commonwealth of state and nation. Another important result of student self-government has been to relieve the Faculty of the burdensome necessity of performing constant police duty and frequent jury work- a task which from the very nature of the case always led to periodic unpleasantries and opened the way for mutual misunderstandings. The Faculty is free now to devote all its time and energy to the more weighty work of administration proper. Thus the ideal function of a successful college4a body of efficient teachers and an efficient body of students plus a proper relationship between the two-is more nearly fulfilled. For where the relations between students and faculty are vitally wholesome and sound no athletic disasters and no maladiministration can involve the college in ruin, but where those rela- tions are mutually formal and perfunctory no athletic triumphs and no heroic administra- tion can save the college from disintegration. The curriculum work of the various departments has been carried on this year again with that completeness of routine and that thoroughness of mastery which have character- ized our past and have achieved our brilliant record. The various college diversions have not been allowed to become too diverting. The extraneous courses have not been permitted to swamp the college curriculum. A number of accommodations in course have been made to meet the special needs of some of the students. As hitherto, faithful application to the prescribed studies has been insisted upon, and in general assiduous effort has been secured and contagious scholarly enthusiasm has been aroused. The spontaneous literary activities of the students have been more numerous than cver. And this is a faithful index to the academic temperature. ln the literary societies a perceptible increase of interest may be noted, due no doubt to the concerted effort this year to reserve the Friday evenings free from other functions, athletic or social. And while these societies have not by any means recovered their pristine vigor, this may be ac- counted for in part by the fact that more writing and speaking is required by the English department and by the fact that the oratorical and debating contests have come to enlist the efforts of a wide circle. For these are numerous, preliminaries and contests, inter-class, inter-society, inter-collegiate. This year a far larger number have participated than ever before. Page Eighteen S 6. pl . .



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