Goshen College - Maple Leaf Yearbook (Goshen, IN)

Text from Pages 1 - 62 of the 1904 volume:

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A P .f-,f:-- .ff ,ffl ,-fkfxx . -- 5 659' -riwv'--:T Q:.:g2tt ':,3 '+' -4-nf2T4iT'1 1.1 ' ',.5YE1:4j11,Q-'Q-fg?', X' eff L1 P- ., F . - ' '--1 1TIff1 fE '- Q -gig-fi-:fi--1 Q-gl, U!, T1,f' - --if.i,., V 1 , ' I if -'--' - ei Nl -'biiei ,lhgfffrifgri-f5f'-' -3-.f 'xiii' Q - -- 1 ' 4 fsfi- , ' iii T Rf1 --lgg V' i'-J '-' ., NE -gp 'aw f ww Xa NOAH Ii. BYERS. A. C. HENRX'SB1l'FH,A. M., English and History EPHRAIM J. Zoma, Ph. B., Greek and Latin JONATHAN M. KUR'1'Z, Science and German joNAs S. I'I,-XRTZLER, Bible ANN.A H. IQAUFFBIAN, B. Pd., Normal Wbrl: XYELLINGTON K. JACOBS, Cwmmercial illarnlig M., Mathematics and Philosophy ALICE NIAUD LANDIS. Shorthand and Typewriting BRENDA FISCHER, Piano , .ANNA E. XVODER, Elocution DAVIIJ B. Zoom-i, German FRANK S. EBERSOLE, Mathematics FANNIE H. COFFMAN, English Qllaum nf 19114 Motto: Culture for Service. Class Colors: White and Dark Red' Class Flower: White Rose OFFICERS President H. F. Reist Vice-President-F. S. libersole Secretary-Fannie Coffmam TreasurerKlXl. C. Lehman Historian-Nancy Kulp Class Professor-C. HENRX' SMITH COMMITTEES X F. S. lilnersole f G. H. Hutt S M. C Lehman Frneram - Fannie Coffman Music - Nancy Kulp Social - Lulu Greenwalt ' I A. is. Rutt lj. E. Hai-mer lli.-I. Run CLASS ROLL Fannie Elizabeth Coffman Lulu May G11 enwalt Franklin S. Iibersole Christian Eclwarcl Bender Guy Henry Rutt Henry Frank Reist Albert Benjamin Rutt Nancy Bell Kulp Anna H. liauffntan Martin Clifford Lehman john Ellsworth Hartzler Eli jacob Rutt C. E. Bender Fannie Colfman A. B. Rutn LU1l1UrI'99I1XVll1D G. H. Rum H. F. Reist Annu Kauffman E. J. Rutt M. C Lehman F. S. Ebersole Nancy Kulp J. E. Hartzler CLASS OF 1904 Zluninr Ullman Motto: Nosce te. Class Colors: Royal Purple and Old Gold OFFICERS csiclcnt--F. Ii. Herr Secretary-Lyclia Lcichty Vicc.Prcsiclcnt - R. R. Ebcrsolc Treasurer-J. S. Yoder I lx. Horn' -I. S R. R. Ebcrsolc Class Pl'OfL'SSOl'-'L M. KUR'1'Z EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE P. Ii. XVhiLll'lCl' J. F. Ifbcrsolc Jesse Stutzmzm CLASS ROLL P. E. XYhitmcr . XVOLICI' -Ics sc Stutzman Lydia Leichty -I. F. Ebersole A ROOM IN THE LADIES' DORMITORY Arahrmg Swninrz Motto: By Labor and the Help of God We Conquer. Class Colors: Royal Purple and White OFFICERS rcsiduntf A. l'. Hcss AHCC-PI'CSlClCllt-' Lydia Kurtz Sccrctaryflilla Kulp 'LI'C8.SL1l'Cl'-'CE1tl1E1l'll1C Blosser Class Prof:-asm'-fN. E. BYER5 COMMITTEE l A. C. Rainseycr Prngmni - Lydia Kurtz l Czitlmrinc Hlusser CLASS ROLL Abram P. Hcss Lydia A. Kurtz Alvin C. Ramscyci' Catharine Blosser john XVCIIQCI' Loo P. Beers Sadie Yoder Charlcs R. VV0lilfo1'd Lcttie Cripu Delia Pralil Lennie Cripe S, R. Wohlford Lydia Kurtz Leo Beers Catharine Blosser J. E. Wenger Ella Kulp Delia Prahl A. C. Ramsayer N. E. Byers A. P. Hess Sadie Yoder ACADEMY SENIORS A. P. Hess M. C. Lehman Lydia Kurtz R. R. Ebersole H. F. Reist F. S. Ebersole Lydia Leichty G. H. Rutt J. E. Hartzler Y. P. C. A. CABINET OFFICERS rcsiclcnt-H. F. Rcist V-President--M. C. Lehman Secretary--Lydia Kurtz Treasurer-Lydia Leichty CHAIRMEN I Bible Study--I. Ii. Hartzlcr Devotional Meetings-F. S. Ebersole Missionary-R. R. Ebersole Finance-Lydia Leichty Social-G. H. Rutt Membership-A. P. Hess v Presiclcnthkl. C. Lehman vJiCC-Pl'CSi,llCI1t-C. Ii. Bench-1' , '0rclingScCrctary-NancyKulp Cu.. 'poncling Sc:c'y-lflla Kulp STUDENTS' LIBRARY ASSOCIATIONR OFFICERS k1 I'L'HSlll'LTI'-AAL C. RHll1S2l5'L'I' LiIJ1'2ll'iHl1+I:2ll1llik' CuHman Chzlirman Bmwk Cuxmnittvvf . C. H. Smith VESPERIAN SOCIETY ' OFFICERS Prcsiclcntn-Amannla Elnersole Vice-PrcsiclcntfAnna Christopldel SCCl'C'fE11'j'f1l1C'Z Milbourne Trczxsurcr Lulu Grccnwalt CriticfLyclia Kurtz Usher-Ecla Albrecht Attorneyfmanche Brenneman ' COMMITTEES S Blanche Brenneman v S Catharine Blosser . Annafjhristophel Prugraxn V LyCllZl Lewhty BIUSIC Inez Mllbourne lXqC1HlJC'l'Sl1l1J hcla Albrecht l A. Ellen Schertz -ELOLUSC-lCIlllC1' Amanda Flohr AURORA SOCIETY QJFFICERS PresiclentAS. E. Zook Vicc-President YJ. F. Ebersnlc Sccrctaryff5, T. Milly-1' Trcasurcr-L. C. Schcrtz AttorneyfA. P. Hess Criticf' A. B. Rutt USl1L'l '1'1. XV. Grccnwalt Cm1M1T'1'E1ss S I. Bylcr ' S -IZ Ruft Program M. H. Hostetler Mcmbcrshlp- N. It. Mlllcr lc. Ie. Bender I P R. sem-U AVON LITERARY SOCIETY Motto: Esse Quam Videref' OFFICERS President-Lydia Schcrtz Vice-President-Mary Krabill Secretaryflxttie Yoder Treasurerg Attorney - Anna Yoder Critic-Eva Strunk Usher-Fanny Stoltzfus COMMITTEES Proffram .N ROSSIC Hostetler Music -1 Della Berkeyv Membership Anna Autenrelth lf' Q lzlla Musselman 1 Barbara Allgy er Minerva Kessler ri C. M. A. LITERARY SOCIETY Motto: We learn to do bv doing. OFFICERS President--Rudy Scugcr Vice-Prcsiclcnt--D, E. Stutzman Sucrctary-J. IC. Hartzlcr Trcasurcr-D. B. Smuckcr Attorney-M. C. Lehman Critic--P. Ii. XVhitmcr Ushcr-XY. C Iibcrsolc COMMITTEES g C. H. Blosser S M. C. Lehman Program - H. H. Reid Soliciting XV. Shank I S. Yoder Q jcssc Stutzman Presiclcnt--Fannie Coffman Assistant Secretary-N LADIES CHORAL SOCIETY 1 OFFICERS Vice-Prc-siclent-Lavona Berkcy Secretary-Alice Landis ancy Kulp Treasurer-Lydia Kurtz BIUSICAL D1R12CT0R C. HENRY SMITH SUNSHINE MALE CHORUS OFFICERS President Y-J. M. Kurtz Sccrctaryf M. C. Lclmmzm Vice-President -5 A. P. Huber TrcasurcrffA. C. IQHINSCYCI MUSICAL D1REc'mRf XV. K. jAco1s5 Athlrtir 2-Xsznriatinn OFFICERS President-G. H. Rutt ' Secretary--I. E. Hartzlcr Treasurer-M. E. Hess. Gymnasium Director-J. Ii. Hartzler Captain Base Ball Team-G. H. Rutt Captain Track Team-R. R. Iibersolc Zn' Qrutidye Berein 265 Motto! ,,S'mme1: Teuticbf' Qi: Sffigiercz SBrdiibent-SD. 23. 3ooE Gefretiirzicbagmeifter-Qyannie Cioffman CS. 6. 'Smith ilirogramm Gommitreei Qlnna Gbriftopbel I Ella 9J2uffeIman Evnniz Aasnriatinn ' OFFICERS President--I. M. Kurtz Secretary-J. If. Hartzler Treasurer-H. F. Reist Superintendent-C. H. Smith Uhr Elkhart Elnatitutv Alumni Ananriaiinn OFFICERS President-Orie C. Yoder Vice President-Guy H. Rutt Treasurer-Frank S. Ebersole Recording Secretary-Lulu Greenwait Corresponding SecretaryAFannie Cotfman BOARD TERM EXPIRES 1904 TERM EXPIRES 1905 TERM EXPIRES 1906 Orie C. Yoder Frank S. Fbersole , Guy H. Rutt Solomon F. Gingerich Isaiah XY. Royer Bessie Landis john S. Umble jonathan M. Kurtz David B. Zook EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Orie C. Yoder Guy H. Rutt jonathan M. Kurtz Frank S. Ebersole Fannie E. Colfman iBiHinnz1rg Diameter - Something straight across something round. --I. S. H. D0rmit0ryfA place from which boys are eradicated at 10:00 P. M. Executive Committee-An office created for the spe- cial beneht of the slighted juniors. An Orator--UA. C. Ramseyer, the most ghastly, yell- ing fellow you ever heard. -M. E. H. Field-glass-A machine to getia good view of Sun- day-afternoon-birds. --E. Z. Flunke A failure in rising above 'C' level. Reading-room- A good place to have a 'blowout'. - 11. A. G. A Gear-Strong butter. Your Den-The best place to be about IOZOO P. M. Pie--A noun, fobsoletey. In earlier times used as a luxurv. but now is verv seldom seen at the College. Freight-trains- Good things to give us a rest in the English class. Oats- The thing that makes horses in the country and students at the College. The Oetavea-Eight boys rooming at the Kauffman homeg not to be superseded in any respect, espe- cially in philosophy, taffy, sleighrides, ice cream and new hats. The Woods-A school established for the study of nature . Office ofthe Preceptress-An elegant place for two' of a kind to alleviate heart aches. SALUTATORY ADDRESS BY I-I. F. REIST I I I N the midst of the daily activities and ceaseless demands of life, we as students and friends have assembled on this A occasion. And surely there never was a time when we were more in need of a brief respite in some chosen refuge, some h inviolate sanctuary, from the cares and anxieties of our daily existence, than at this hour, when a moment in life 181 Q meaneth so much. We need a little breathing space occasionally to rest from our anxious thoughts, to free our minds - from the perplexities and solicitudes of a strenuous life. Here we may best hope to find that quietude which we are seeking. This is an age characterized by material progress. It seems as if nothing were left undisturbed in this steady advance. Even this college building with its immediate surroundings, which is dear to us because of its pleasant associations, is not yet free from disturbing iuiiuences. A comparatively short time ago we were anxiously looking forward to the erection of this building. Week after week until the weeks became months we cried to those who stood upon the walls: VVatchmen, what of the night! They answered again and again: The dawn is breaking,-it will soon be day. But night seemed to be gathering around us darker than before. At last we asked no more tidings of the watchmen, for all about us the signs of victory were bursting forth. ln the midst of these activities and changes we, the Class of 190-1, welcome you to these, the graduating exercises of the iirst class to complete the college course as offered by this institution. We have looked forward to this event with pleasant anticipation, not with the thought of having successfully finished a prescribed course of study, but as an event which indicates our entrance into a broader and more useful avenue of life. Our ideals and visions of life advance and widen with greater rapidity than we are able to realize them. New fields of labor and need constantly appear upon our horizon. The little we have accomplished sinks into insignificance compared with that which lies before us. We are thus spurred on towards nobler and grander achievements in life. We glory, not because we have ideals, but that we are from time to time getting higher ideals. And the efforts of realization will cause us much happi- ness and inspiration. Tonight we are gathered together as students, as graduates, as alumni, as instructors, as friends, but above all we are all assembled as American citizens. Welcome then, yea thrice welcome, fellow students, who have shared the trials and pleasures of school life with us. Welcome ye, instructors who guided us in the acquisition of knowledge, and presented to us visions of life beautiful. Welcome ye, who preach service as well as obedience, remembering that the Prince of Life came also to minister. Welcome ye, who are training the youths, to whom our country looks as its future guardians. Welcome ye, who in the various other walks of life are contributing towards the progress and welfare of humanity. In behalf of the Class of 1904, I greet you with a most hearty welcome. Svrntimrnt Iliull H. F. REIST-Sow good servicesg sweet remembranees will grow from them. NANCY IQULP-Slllilll in stature, but not so in mind. F. S. .PQISERSOLE--Ill thy face I see the map of honor, truth and loyalty. LULU GREENWALT-They say she knew much that she never told. M. C. LEHMAN- I've made up my mind to clo great things. FANNIE E. COFFMAN-Age cannot wither her, nor cus- tom change her infinite variety. J. E. HARTZLER-LifS'5 greatest results move slowly. G. H. RUTT-With graceful step he walks the streets And smiles at all the girls he meets. C. E. BENDER-I don't know what I'll beg I guess I had better wait till I see. E. RUTT--I wish to be known as a philosopher. ANNA H. KAUFFMAN-ThC noblest life is the one spent for others. A. B. RUTT-A truer, nobler, trustier heart, More loving or more loyal never beat Within a human breast. DINING HALL T 1 A .24 1 7- fg CND Us 1,11 N CLASS HISTORY BY IVI. C. LEHMAN September 25 1903 the class of 1904 began its existence. For one year we have worked our way together through a few ofthe peiplexing problems of a college course and have enjoyed together a few of tl1e ordinary pleasantries of college hfe After June U and the graduating eteuises in the assembly hall the class ot 1904 will At first Olll class numbered only eleven, but Anna H Kaufman soon decided to yoin our ranks PPllHSWllAll11 at the 19Qll9St of our plesident Miss Ixauifman decided to teach in the normal department ,., , . gf., M ,V v V ' W - X' V X, - ' 'Y V W 537133592557 even dozen of half-fledged college graduates. After completing the course of the Millersville State Frank S. Ebersrile, another member of the class hails from the west. After living for a while in Nebraska he be no more. and so we are an Normal School of of Goshen College. moved to Sterling, Illinois, and later graduated from the Latin Scientific course of the Elkhart Institute. Returning home he taught school but last fall decided to complete the course in Goshen College. lnaddition to his work as a student he has served as assistant teacher of mathe- matics. l'. Edward Bender, one of our eastern boys, has taught school in Maryland, and completed the normal course of the Elkhart Institute. After completing the COIIFSQ he1'e he takes up a principalship in his home village. Nancy B. Kulp formerly lived in Illinois, but after moving to Elkhart. Ind., she completed the High school course in that city and later took up work in the Elkhart Institute near her home on Prairie street. A botanist would perhaps ascribe in Nebraska and later in Illinois. In Goshen. Guy H. Rutt completed the Albert B. Ruttf after graduating from the city of Vhicago. Eli J. Rutt has also taken work at the Elkhart Institute and after spending some time in Nebraska entered Goshen College. the steady growth of our class to the preponderance of Rutts. The Rutt brothers formerly lived 1901 they, with their parents, moved to Elkhart, Ind., and last summer followed the school to academic course of the Elkhart Institute and immediately took up work in Goshen College. the Elkhart Institute, spent some time in different western states and then took up mission work in Fannie ffoffinan, secretary of our class and matron at the ladies dormitory, formerly lived in Virginia, and afterward with her parents moved on a farm near Elkhart. At present her home is on Garfield avenue in the same city. Henry F. Reist, another of our eastern boys and president of the class, has attended High school in historical Lancaster county, Pennsylvania. Allured by the educational advantages of the middle west he took up the academic and later the college course of Goshen College. His past career has been one of those peaceful yet strenuous courses of steady development, marked by no momentous events, except a little ripple now and then to disturb the ordinarily placid waters of a calm self-possessed disposition. John E. Hartzler can not deny that he is a Missourian. He was born in Indiana but moved to Missouri when about three years old. The diierent environment has so told on him that he can no longer be identified as an eastern man. After going through the various experiences of farming, stock raising and threshing he deeided to devote his life to pursuits more strictly educational and has now completed the course in'Goshen College. As to the class historian little need be said. It will suiiice to say that his home is in Ohio where he has played the part of a farmer, High school student and country school perlagogue. As a class we are the first to graduate from the course offered by Goshen Vollege. l ormer classes have had to content themselves with an academic course. Tl1e ocurses of study we have been pursuing are such as to make us able to cope with the ordinary prob- lems of life. How we shall use the culture of these few years in actual service for the world reamins to be seen. XVe have simply put some of our own latent energy into such a fO1'lll that it may be used for the betterment of our fellows. After the exercises of this evening instead of the class of 190-L there will be twelve alumni of Goshen College eager to begin work for themselves. This will necessarily lead us into different fields of labor. Ten years hcnce we may he scattered to the four corners of the earth each chasing his favorite phantom, and pause for a moment to think of the class of 19414. Sonic of its members we have probably not seen since the day of graduation. We wonder if each is making a success of his chosen profession, and with it all will come a deep sense of the debt we owe our fellowmen for the training received at Goshen College. As we are thus restrospectively viewing our few years of college life, how may we denne the time spent in college? ln one sense this question must be answered by each individual. In another sense we may say the work has had some characteristics shared by all alike. We have seen times when work has loomed up in such a way as to defy all effort toward its accomplishment. There have been times when we thought our instructors must certainly have more confidence in us than we ourselves. After Greek, Logic or Ethics examinations, however, we have sometimes felt ourselves monarchs or all we surveyed. But what cares the world for what we have done here! The question of vital importance just now is what will we do. In all probability we are not the brightest class that has ever graduated from a two years college course. lt is altogether within the realm of probability that we are not the strongest intellectually of all those students graduating from colleges in the year 1904. But we shall do our share in coping with the problems confronting the twentieth century. The law of the conservation of energy holds true in the moral world as well as in the physical. Six years of training implies a life time of expenditure in service. Our service while in school will be only more strongly expressed in real benefit to the world after we leave school. The connnunity. the church, and the state expect something of us and they do so justly. Classmates, how shall we reply to all this? Considering the duty we owe ourselves, each other as a class, and our fellowmen, but one answer can be given, thus: We shall endeavor by the most strenuous etfort we are able to put forth, and by the help of a God of love and power to do something to bless mankind e'er we die. Tonight the thought of parting and leaving not only each other, but fellow students, instructors and friends as well, is all but pleasant. With our minds and hearts bent on this resolution our efforts shall tend in the same direction and toward the same ideal. May the time speedily come when a history of the class of 1904 may be written not as so many data- prior to and including a college course, but as so much service impressed indellibly on the lives of our fellowmen. May the class ot 1904 be true to self, true to mankind, true to God. Glalenh October I7-Part of the Faculty were out boating. October 30-Ladies of the Dormitory gave a free mt seum exhibit. November 2- Yony slept in Psychology class. November 3f Rudy slept in Psychology class. November 4- Davy slept in Psyclmlogy class. November 5Y XYhitnier slept in Psychology class. 1- November 6f- Youy , Rudy . Davy and XYhitmer D slept in Isychology class. i FEB. 20, SATURDAY, IO P. M. 211' November 26-Moore was late coming to the Lecture. December 24AEditor-in-chief took a flying trip to Uhio. January 5-Upening of the winter term. Psychology changed from 1:OO to 2:50 P. M. February 5-The Octave took sleigh-ride to Elkhart. February 15-Prof. Smith learned to skate. February 15-Preceptress called down the northwest corner of the Octave , February 26-F. E. Herr was out skating till after midnight. March 5-Seniors had a social. March SAB. D. Smucker took a sleigh-ride. March I3-AL. C. Schertz swept the walk with his new bicycle. March 277A. B. Rutt. XY. C. Ebersole and A. P. Huber, besieged in the music room, stormed with marbles. April Ifibi. C. Ramseyer called on S. Eighth street by appointment. 4 April 2- RLllJE'l staid at dormitory till after midnight. April 22-The Octave enjoyed a Htaffy-pull . May I-XVhitmer and Hartzler had pie in the sub-cellar. May I6-The Octave appeared in new Panamas. May I7-The other fellows in new white hats. May 2IfThe Seniors were entertained at the home of President Byers. I A VIEW OF THE CAMPUS ...L October I7- October 30- seum e: November 2 November 3 November A November g November 6 slept in X W, L.. 5 'ITVH DNINICI 3031109 31-1.1. 44 READING ROOM IN CHAINS ' BY A. B. RUTT ITH the birth of every soul there begins a struggle for freedomg a reaching out towards heights of perfectiong a casting aside of weightsg and a breaking of chains. The exuberance of the cl1ild's vitality breaks forth into action, and its whole being becomes a bundle of activities. While this is true of the child we may lay equal stress upon it in animal life. Scarcely has the little bird burst the shell in which it was confined when there comes from within au impulse to put its wings into action. Day after day it struggles for a freedom that shall take it beyond the limits of the straw-built nest. Each week that comes and goes Ends its pinions a little stronger. At last the day arrives when it takes wing and soa1's high into the vaulted skies. liven in plant life there seems to be a struggle. The acorn has within it a latent force that tends to push itself outward and upward until it has spread itself into the mighty oak of the forest. The poet feels the life of the clod when he says:- Eve1'y clod feels a stir of might, And groping blindly above if for light, An instinct within it that reaches and towers, Climbs to a soul in grass and flowers. No matter where we choose to lookg whether it be the life of the child, the life of the bird, or the life of the plant, every where We see a struggle for freedom. The path of man from his state of savagery until he has reached his highest degree of civilization, has been a continual struggle. But man today has won for himself physical freedom. Contrast primitive man with the man of today in the cultivation of the soil. The one gathered a few sticks as tools to aid him in sowing his handful of seedsg the other by the aid of modern implements tills his acres. To the one harvest meant going forth with the sickle and bringing in a few sheavesg to the other it means going forth with the harvester and gathering in thousands of bushels of golden grain. For primitive man the bow and arrow was the chief weapon of defense. But since the invention of gun-powder, the bow and arrow have given place to the rifie and cannon. For many years the ocean fixed the limit of man 's dominion. Even in 1492, when Columbus discovered the new world, the success of his adventure depended on favorable winds. Today we have our large ocean steamers that sail upon mid-ocean unhindered by tempest or storm. In the days of Washington, the best available means for traveling was the horse and saddleg today We have our mighty systems of railroads that form a net work over the entire globe. Let us imagine the city of Chicago deprived of electricity for one day. No street cars to convey passengers from one portion of the city to the otherg no power to set into motion the elevators of our large oflice buildingsg no electric lights to illuminate the dark night. In our struggle for physical freedom, we have so modified the heat of summer and the cold of winter that we may live as com- fortably under the hot rays of India as under the cold waves of Alaska. The day has come when the chains that l.ind the physical man have been broken and we are free to go to the uttermost parts of the earth.'l In this, our struggle for freedom, let us bear in mind a higher freedomg 0119 that gives us a lzroader vision of truth: that brings us into closer touch w'itl1 nature, and makes the physical subservient to itself. Such is the intellectual freedom. Do we suppose that poverty and incessant drudgery can chain the man who is intellectually free? Can a physical misfortune seal the lips of a poet? Can a 'financial e1nl.ar1'assn1ent chain the hand of an artist 'J History records the names of Lock, Burns, Bunyan, Milton, and scores of others who were physically bound but intellectually free. Lock, banished as a traitor, wrote his essay on the Human Understanding, hiding in a Dutch garret. Milton was not 1'ich or at ease, even deprived of sight, when he wrote Paradise Lost. Cervantes finished his work a maimed soldier in prison. Aranczina, which Spain acknowledges as her Epic, was written without the aid of paper, on lits of leather. Bunyan, deprived of physical freedom, while in Bedford jail, brings into existence Pilgrim 's Progress. Let us mount up to heights where we can win for ourselves an intellectual freedom: a freedom that makes us master of our situa' tion and totally olilivious to our physical servitude. The educated man, the man intellectually free, moves about in society with grace and ease: he is himself whe1'ever he is found. The boy who once looked at the great world of thought as something objective, far beyond his powers, now thinks the thoughts and makes the former something subjective. Vilhere once the warrior, the hero, and the statesman stirred up within him a feeling of awe, of reverence, and of worship, now he associates with them as friend with friend. He finds within himself the same powers: he thinks their thoughts: he lives their life. He who is intellectually free, wills and does. He has 11ot a broken but a strengthened will. XVhenever problems confront him he takes hold of them, deliberates and then decides. He has developed the ability of distinguishing between the good and the lad: the right and the wrongg the true and the false. The developed mind touches the hearts and lives of the multitudes. Quoting Daniel Wel3ster's own words, There was one thing I could not do: I could not speak before a school: I could not make a declamation. But he purposed, willed. and acted. VVith a strong iniative he set out to reach the top-most 1'ou11d. He struggled until he became master of his situation. It was then that he won for himself prominence at the bar: it was then that Vongress recognized the newly developed powers of the New Hampshire boyg it was then and then only that he won for himself the name of being the greatest of American orators. Physical and intellectual freedom though good as they be, are not sufficient for the highest happiness and usefulness in life. There is at higher freedom: one that satisfies the craving of the soul: a freedom that brings the self in complete harmony with its environment and makes life full of meaning: the freedom for living. Coming into possession of such a freedom we make life for life 's sake worth living. Many think of life as only a preparation and were it not for some future existence the preparation would be worse than worthless. Away with wrong conception of life. Away with the pessimist for he only casts about him a shadow of gloom. But all honor and glorv to the optimist who has the real essence for a life of usefulness and true lif1'n-iness. Bryon was in possession of both phvsical and intellectual freedom, but he lacked the freedom for living. His poems give expression to the mighty discord within the soul. It was only the mighty, the fearful and the destructive in nature that seemed to flow in harmony with his inner life. He was niiserableg he was constantly revolting against societv as he found it, because he had failed to secure for himself a freedom for living. He was unable to lead men up to his ideals because he failed to find the proper relationship to his fellows. And most deplorable of all, he lacked the true essential for living-harmony between the self and the laws within the self. The state places the thief behind prison walls. It says you have broken my laws. therfore I will deorive you of your freedom. But suppose the state fails to find the thief. is he any less in bondage? The thief so long as he is a thief is in bondage for he has broken a law within himself that accuses him day and night, and haunts him in his dreams. Such a man is in chains wherever he goes. But he who has not broken the laws within the self is a free man. The state may lay its hands upon him: it may cast him into prison but it cannot deprive him of freedom. He is not struggung to keep his life in haromny with the laws of the state but he- is struggling to keep his lite in harmony with the laws that lie Wlflllll his own being. There is a battle ground where no human eye has pierced, Where great battles have been fought and victories won. A battle ground hid deep within the human soul, 'Tis there we tight on Gettysburgs and Waterloos. Let us picture to our imagination the Austrian phalamt, a living wall of human wood, a mighty bulwark, an impenetrable- column. Un yonder side among his fellows we see approaching the unheard of Arnold Winklerede. ln their advance each step is accompamed with a stronger heart heat. The sight of the outstretched spears in the phalanx increase their bravery. The bright blood in their arteries pulses forth in rapid succession. Faster and faster beats the heart. Quicker and quicker follow the steps, when, suddenly Arnold rushes ahead of 'his fellows, grasping the spears within his reach and thrusting them into his own body, breaks the phalanx and falls beneath his comrades feet. liiunan eye has looked upon this struggle and because of his self-sacrificing spirit we have made the name of Arnold Winklerede' immortal. But we umst not forget that within his heroic heart was fought a far greater battle when iirst a complete harmony was brought about between the life and the self-sacrilicing law within that life. Law is not written upon tables of stone but within the human heart. The soul is constantly reaching out for truth, purity and a sweet emotional life. On the one side force and vitality, strength and, power: on the other the laws that govern the expressions of these forces. The obJect is at war with itself. The true and higher self is struggling to gain the mastery over the selfish and low self. He that Iindeth his life, this selfish life, shall lose itg but he that. loses his lite, shall 'rind it: the true and higher life. We cannot think of the soul, when turned on it 's upward path for truth, right and beauty, so Tompkins says as having a hfe long struggle with the deadly serpent of sin. Plant and animal life move to their realization without plan or purpose. But it is tar thtferent with the soulg it distinguishes between the realized and unrealized selfg. it moves forward with a plan and a purpose. Thus while we are struggling for freedom we must remember that man is free to fashion his own life. We may carry the dead weights or cast them aside. We may remain in chains or break the fetters that bind, us. We may live the low selfish life instead or the true and higher life. The poet says: Men may rise on stepping stones Of their dead selves to higher things. l' The soul that is longing for a complete harmony between the life and the laws within: that is longing for fullness of life, fullness. of beauty and fullness of joy must bring itself into touch with a higher Selfg a Self that is overflowing with loveg a Self that is a perfect embodiment of beautyg a Self that is emhosomed in purity: and lastly a Self that has for it 's motto usefulness, truth and power. Let the soul come into touch with the Divine Self and then it will have power to come into possession of physical, intellectual and spiritual freedom. 'fBuild thee more stately mansions, O my soul. As the swift seasons roll! Leave thy low vaulted past! Let each new temple nobler than the last, Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast, Till thou at length art free, Leaving thine out-grown shell by life 's uuresting seal Seiten wnnhvrz I. It's a wonder that the person who put his hand II. II I. into the newly laid cement, did not get his foot into it also. It's a wonder that J. S. Yoder does not get over the idea of single blessedness after having studied Social Unity in ethics. It's a wonder that there are no rules formulated which would render it unnecessary for the Presi- dent to call down members of the faculty be- cause of disorder in the hall. IV. V. VI. lt's a wonder to all the students what is being done with the money that was collected during the year by means of the 55.00 P11165 imposed for every scratch on the furniture of the College. It's a wonder Prof. Smith did not use several more boxes of witch-hazel in order to get his arm in better shape for the Senior-Faculty ball game. It's awonder Prof. Zook does not abandon his profession as a language teacher and give lectures in the class-room on birds. VII. lt's a wonder that the .luniors do not let us know that they exist. POVVER QF IMAGINATION BY J. E. I-IARTZLER RI LY has it been said that ideals lead the world3 but .... 1 wp' most truly may it be said that they do not rule the world. There is a hidden power that over-rules the ideals and actions of every individualg I do not mean that power which rules the universe: I do not mean the power of kings and queens, I do not mean the power of a Herculesg but I mean that far superior, imperceptible power which controls every human thought and action: that power which generates our idealsg that power which determines our destinies lzoth as a -nation and as individualsg I mean the power of the imagination. You may question 1ny first proposition that the imagination rules the world. You may say that the will is the motive power of all human actiong but is it-Z Napolean spent his nights in lighting his battles in his imagination and only the next day when he had gathered sufficient will power did he make his victories a reality. The greatest poet enjoys his production to transfer it upon paper. The greatest artist sees his picture through his imagination long before he is able to vass. The greatest musician enjoyed the harmonious strains of the Messiah long before he could make them a great celestial reservoir of music flooded his imaginative soul faster tionablv -1 Great amount of those hearenlv strains were never brought into audible or visible form because of long before he is able place it upon the can- reality. It seems that the stares and unques- the lack of secondar than he was able to arrange the music upon . ra .. c y powers to make them a reality. To Columbus the New World was a pleasant reality long before 1492. As he sat alone on the ware-beaten shores of Spain and casting his anxious eyes across the the west which was richer and iiowing with more silvery streams than the new world become a reality to others. No scientist attempts the formulated and imagined in his own mind. No philosopher attempts proved satisfactory in his own imagination. No mechanic attempts watery waste, there was formed in his imagination a. country to the old worldg but not until enough will power was gathered did search for a law which has not already to a great extent been the formation of his theory of existence or reality before it has the construction of a machine until it is perfect in his imagination. Watt s steam engine was working for years in his mind before it worked materially in his shop. Not until it has been perfected in the imagination of its inventors will the air-ship liecome a perfect reality. And so it is as Mr. Hillis has said. The imagination work- ing on i1'on and steel organizes engines, working on colors beautiful pictures are painted, working marble, statues are carved and erected, working on wood and stone cathedrals are reared, working on sound symphonies are created, working on ideals, intellectual systems are fashioned, working on morals ethical principles are constructed, working toward immortality it bids all cooling streams, lgeautiful trees. sweet sounds, all noble friendships report themselves beyond the grave. 'I Upon the imagination then we may conclude -depends all our progress as a human family in the poetical, artistic, musical, inventive, political and religious realnisg in all scientiiie and philosophical research. Furthermore, the imagination is the architect of character, he that good or bad. The mind, we may say, is the character, for as a man thinketh so is lie. Man 's soul is a great city with which the creator communicates through the mind. It serves the soul just as a telescope serves an observatory. The secret of life lies with the imagination. It forms all our ideals be they good or bad. Does any man own mo1'e farms than the young plow boy? Does any one aspire to greater achievement than the school boy? What books he writesg what machines the young mechanic Constructs: what speches the ambitious young orator delivers and what audiences he swaysg what ideals of life the young man and woman setq all these are the forerunners of character and destiny of life. It matters not how good a man or woman may be, how high their ideals may he set there still hangs above them ideals of better and nobler things still possible toward which this hidden power is still urging them. The heroes of the past have not been sustained by Sll'0ll.g' speeches nor writings, armies nor swords, but by the sight and realization of this invisible power, and our noblest characters are huilt in no diierent way because progress in the formation of character is nothing less than the following and realizing of the visions and ideals of the imagination. . But it is equally true that if visions of purity and beauty exalt, visions of vice will degrade. lt is not what a man does outwardly but what visions he has inwardly, that determines his character. No greater evil can be committed against the Creator than the abuse of this most important power. Could all the human imagination be pictured upon a canvass very few would be the murderers, very few would be the deceivers, very few would be the ravaging, deleterious wolves that destroy the purity and prosperity of society. Not until the 'individuals free themselves of the impure thought and take upon themselves the cloak of pure and sincere imagination can we expect as individuals, as a society, and as a nation to attain to the ideal. Let our poets sing of the ideal, let our artists paint their esthetic beauties of nature, let our statesmen present their ideal political reforms, let our divines preach their religious idealisins, but let you and I teach this hidden and most sacred power, the imagination, as the all powerful element in the advancement of civilization, in the -development of a pure ideal society, development of a noble individual character, and in the preparation of a highway which will lead ithe soul to immortal glory. ROBERT BURNS Bu' c., E. BENDER HE year 1759 may well be called a memorable year for'Great Britain. During this year she saw some or her greatest triumphs. It was the year when she routed the French army of Mendeng when she destroyed the French fleet at Quiberong when Wolfe died as a victor on the heights of Abraham, and the dream of French supremacy upon the American continent vanished forever: when Robert Clive founded the British empire in lndia, and Col. George Washington had planted the British tlag on the Held of Braddock ls defeat in America. Not only was the genius of Great Britian displayed in politics and war during this yea1'. James Watt was testing the force of steamy Hargreaves was inventing the spinning jenny. ln this year Garrick was the tirst of actors and Sir Joshua Reynolds of painters. Giblgon began the history of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empiref, ln short, it was a year of decisive events in the course of history, and of men whose fame is an illustrious national possession. But among those events none is more memorable than the birth of a son in the humblest of Scotch homes, and of all that renowned and resplendent throng of statesmen, soldiers and inventors, of philosophers, poets and historians, whose fame filled the world with praise, not one is more fondly and gratefully remem- bered than the Scotch plow-man, Robert Burns. This was the blended poet and man-one of the most considerable British men of the eigtheenth century. Today this great bene- factor of the humble class represents in the minds of men, the great armed uprising of this class against the armed and privileged minorities-that uprising which worked out politically in the American and French Revolutions, and which not in government so much as in education and social order, has changed the world. Burns' sentiments were absolute freedom. His muse and teaching was common sense, joyful, aggressive, and irresistable. Born in an age the most prosaic Britian had yet seen, and under conditions the most disadvantageous, where the mind of Burns accomplished aught under the pressure of continual bodily toil, nay, of penury and desponding apprehension of the worst evils. he sinks not under all these impedimentsg through the fog and darkness of that obscure region, his lynx eye discerns the true relations of the world and human Lifeg he grows into intellectual strength and trains himself into intellectual expertness. lmpelled by the ex- pansive movement of his own irrespressible soul, he struggles forward into the arena and with haughty modesty lays before us as the fruit of his labor a gift, which time has now pronounced imperishable. Though Burns lacked means to take a college training, he seized every opportunity to learn. He ate his dinner with a fork in one hand and a book in the other. He carried a few small volumes in his pocket to study in spare moments in the fields. He pored over his collection of songs while driving his cart or walking to labor, carefully noting the true, tender, sublime. He lingered over his ballads in his cold room by mghtg by day, whilst whistling at the plow, he conceived new forms and was inspired by new ideas. His genius flows over all living and lifeless things with a sympathy that finds nothing mean or insignificant. Ari uprooted daisy becomes in his pages an enduring emblem of the fate of artless maid and simple bard. He disturbs the nest of a mouse and finds in the timerous beastie a fellow mortal doomed like himself to Hthole the winter 's sleety dribble, and draws his oft repeated moral. He walks abroad, and, in a verse that glows with light of its own rising sun, describes the melodies of a summer Sunday' morn. He loiters by Afton water and Hmurmers by running brook, a music sweeter than its own. He stands by a rootless tower, where the owlet mourns in her dewy bower, sets the wild echoes dying, and adds to a perfect picture of the scene his famous vision of Libertie. No poet, whatever his race or age, has by his songs, so completely won the atfection and admiration of his country-men as Robert Burns. For more than a century his name has been a household word, and his sentiments a powerful reality. His songs have passed into the air we breathe, they are so real that they seem living beings rather than words. They have touched all hearts, because they are the breath of his owng not polished cadences, but utterances as spontaneous as laughter or tears. Song gushed from his heart, as rain from the clouds of summer, as tears from the eyelids start. There is the march of veterans, the vehemence of battle, the wail of woeg there is the snule of greeting and the tear of parting friendsg there is the gurgle of streams, the rustle of barley rigs, the roar of the wind through the pines. the thunder in the hills-in short, all Scotland is in his verse. How kind and warm a soul-so full of inoorn riches, of love to all living and lifeless things. How true a poet was he. How his heart Hows out in sympathy over universal nature, and in her bleakest providence discerns a beauty and a meaning. Not great, like Goethe in the stars, but in the homely landscape which the poor see around them-bleak leagues of pasture and stubble, ice, sleet, rain and snow choked brooks, birds, hares, field mice, thistles, daisies and heather, which he daily knew. Hc has given voice to nearly all 'the experiences of common life. He has endeared the farm house and cottage. Both England and Scotland have given birth to few men, who, in point of truthfulness and sincerity, brilliancy and genius are the superiors of Robert Burns. Thomas Carlyle truthfully says: His iridisputable air of truth and sincerity is easily recognized in his poetry. Here are no fabulous woes or joysg no wire drawn retinings, either in thought or feeling: the passion that is traced before us has glowed in a living hearty the opinion he utters has risen in his own understanding, and been a light to his own steps. He does not Write from hearsay, but from sight and experienceg it is the scenes in which he has lived and labored that he describes. These scenes, rude and humble as they are, have kindled beautiful emotions in his soul, noble thoughts, and definite resolvesg and he speaks forth what is in him, not from any outward call of vanity or interest, but because his heart is too full to be silent. He speaks it with such melody and modulation as he can, in homely rustic jingle, but it is his own, and genuine., This is the grand secret for 'finding read- ers and retaining them. Let him who would move and convince others be Hrst moved and convinced himself. Burns was a gift bestowed on us by Nature. She gave him the power of making man 's life more venerable, but alas, he lacked that of wisely guiding his own. The spirit which might have soared, could it but have walked. soon sank to the dust, its glorious faculties trodden under foot, in the blossom, and died, we may almost say, without ever having lived. Time and means were not allowed him for writing a tragedy, but through life he enacted one of the deepest tI'3.gE'I'l1ES. The world ihas since not witnessed so utterly sad a scene, Napoleon, himself, left to brawl, and perish on his rock, amid the melancholy main does not present to the redecting mind such a spectacle of pitv and and fear, as did this intrinsically nobler, gentler, and perhaps greater soul, wasting itself away in a hopeless struggle with base entanglements, which coiled closer and closer around him till only death opened him an outlet. And now pitying admiration, he lies enshrined in all our hearts in a far nobler mausoleum than that one of marble. O thou cherished poet, your mantle fell when you were in conflict with the enemy of freedom, and thousands since inliamed with your spirit will protect the freedom in her last asylum, and never desert that cause which you so ardently defended and sustained by your labors. You began your career with a pathetic plea for universal brotherhood and charity, and your whole life was an arduous. incessant, never ending struggle, which left you broken hearted. And we can do nothing for you now but commemorate your lofty ideals of liberty, equality, and justice, and your earnest and courageous fidelity with which you contended for them, so genuine in your -sincerity, so single-minded in your zeal, so heroic in your devotion. CLASS PROPI-I ECY BY FANNIE E. COFFIXIAN l 'l'EH graduating from Goshen College in 190-L, I decided to take up the nursing profession. I was engaged in Chicago until the year 1910 when an epidemic broke out in the Hawaiian Islands and there was a great demand for trained nurses. I at once prepared to go to their assistance and in company with a number of others arrived at Honolulu in tin.e to relieve many a sufferer in that city. The people and climate pleased me so well that I concluded. to make my future home there. In 1925 I planned to take an extended journey for rest and recreation, and it occured to me that it would be just the- thing to visit all my old class mates of 'U4 of Goshen College. Naturally I would first visit Goshen Vollege, my alma mater. I knew I should find many changes there but hoped to iind many familiar spots which would rec-all pleasant memories. As I walked up Eighth street, I almost doubted that this was the place I once used to know. All the streets near around-were paved, the campus was dotted here and there with beautiful new buildings and even the old college building was almost covered with ivy. I had never heard that Anna Kauffman had left Goshen, so I concluded to stop at the place where she used to live and inquire about her. I rang the bell and she came to the door. After a few exelaznations of surprise and friendly greetings, I asked her if she still kept roomers and how many she had. t'Oh, she said, I keep only one now, and he is here to stay. He thinks it is not good for' woman to be alone. I walked over to the college campus and stopped at Oratory Hall for I had been told that I should find C. E. Bender here. Yes, here he was, the teacher of oratory and a lecturer of wide reputc. I took dinner that evening at his own home on College Avenue. Philadelphia was my next stopping place. Immediately upon my arrival, I hastened to the Curtis Publishing Co., for here I was to see Hr. Heist, the successor to Edward Bok, as editor of the Ladies Home Journal. While I was waiting in the ottice for him, I picked up one of the Journals and looking through it, I noticed a page devoted to Helpful Hints to Girls, edited by Violet. I wondered who this might be and concluded it must be some very modest person as the name signified. IVhen Mr. Reist came in, I asked him who this Violet might be. YVhy, he said, Didn't you know that Lulu is one of the' regular contributors to the Journal? She is living in Atlantic City. I suppose you will stop there next.'7 I certainly had a most delightful stay at Atlantic City and I did not wonder that Lulu could write such helpful articles after I saw her in her beautiful home and heard of her work among the factory girls of New York. She accompanied me to New York Where- I set sail for the western coast of Africa. Here I was to 'rind three members of our class. I traveled only a short distance inland until l came to a large mission compound. I was told by a missionary from another' station that this industrial mission had the reputation of being Well Rutted and grounded in the faith, and I though to myself, Well, why shouldn't it he, if Albert, Eli and Guy are all there? I found Albert engaged directly in evangelistic workg Eli, in superintending the industrial work and teaching part of the tinieg Guy was striving diligently to direct the musical abilities of those dark skinned people and was also general overseer of the whole compound. I must not forget to say that each had a faithful assistant in his work, and a happier group of missionaries I had never seen. I sailed around the southern coast of Africa and crossed- the Indian Ocean to Australia. I expected to tind Nancy here and was not disappointed. She had come here not long betore to gather material for a new hook she was writing. The setting was to be in Australia and she wished to be thoroughly acquainted with Australian life and scenes in order to make her work a success. I did not stay here long but hastened on to South Africa. Here, whom do you think I found! Yes, the president of the S. L. A. What was he doing? Raising coffee in Brazil. 'l'hat certainly seemed strange to me. I always thought he would continue in the teaching profession and he told me he thought so too at one time, but since he had occasion to visit Brazil on business and was so pleased with the country and climate that he concluded to buy a coffee plantation and make money. It may be that being class treasurer had something to do with giving him a love for money. The Lehinan coffee plantation is one of the most flourishing in that part of Brazil and the proprietor uses his wealth in aiding educational institutions wherever he sees one in need of assistance. It was largely his donation which built the new library at Goshen. les, and he supplies the College dining hall with coffee free of charge. Would that some one had been so generous twenty years ago. I had yet to visit J. E. Hartzler and F. S. lflhersole. I left Rio de Janerio and traveled along the coast north, then east through the Gulf of Mexico, and the recently completed Panama Canal to the Pacific Ocean. I continued my journey north to Oregon. Here I found a Worthy divine, a beloved pastor of a liourishing church in a small village. After I had been there a while, one iright have heard a female voice calling to the pastor who had not yet been informed of my arrival, HOh Frank, come ing we have a visitor whom I am sure you will be surprised to see. He was somewhat surprised but did not make much ado for that is not his way. Here I had one of those good old-fashioned talks about old times and hy-gone days that one can have only with those whom one has known well for a long while, and, since I had known both the pastor and his wife at Goshen College, I heartily enjoyed my stay with them. Going east to Missouri, I found J. E. Hartzler rounding up cattle on a large ranch. Everything around was up to date and in trim order. Nothing in his home that heart could desire was lacking. Mr. Hartzler seemed perfectly contented and happy. He had once aspired to the presidency of the United States but gave up the idea, saying that he believed he could feel more at home in Mis- souri than at Washington. I should have said that he paid a visit to Ohio before settling down in Missouri. 1 had now visited all the members of the class and even though I had enjoyed my journey very much, I was glad to return home again. As I sat in my room upon my return, I recalled our motto, Culture for Service. Were we not all living it? Yes, each in his own way was performing a noble service for mankind. The culture received at Goshen Vollege was bringing sweetness and light to many a weary burdened heart. HISTORX' OF GOSI-IEN COLLEGE HE Elkhart Institute, as a school controlled by a body of Christian people came into existence on the 16th day of May, 1895, when fifteen men, members of the Mennonite church, drew up and signed Articles of Association. Their purpose was briefiy expressed in the Preamble of the By-Laws which were adopted, for the promotion of the cause of education and for the furtherance of God's kingdom upon earth. Most prominent among these pioneers who thus launched a new enterprise in the Mennonite church were J. S. Coffman, - D. J. Johns, Jonathan Kurtz, H. A. Mumaw, Herman Yoder and J. S. Hartzler. To these leaders and their co-workers the coming generations will look with unc-easing gratitude as they more and more appreciate the importance of the work that was founded on that ltith day of May. Two of these men have been called to their reward-J. S. Coffman, who because of his large acquaintance and his Widespread reputa- tion as an evangelist, was able to do more than any one else in interesting thc Mennonite people in general in this new phase of church work, and Herman Yoder. a man of good business sense, who was very helpful in the financial affairs of the new venture. Another man who took an active pa1't in the work after he saw actual 1'esults that proved its worth, Lewis liulp, has also been taken from us. His interest and practical help aided much in making possible the extension of the work in recent years. The first plans of the founders were perhaps best stated in a proposition presented to the Century Club of Elkhart, in which the aim was stated as follows:- lt is the aim to establish an institution which shall rank with the leading denominational schools of the country, maintaining courses of study in the ancient and modern languages. the sciences, literature, history, philosophy, etc., as well as i11 religion and morals, and to raise in the next five years at least :F50,tNl0. for equipment and permanent endowment. But it is evident that they overestimated the liberality both of the Elkhart citizens and of the Mennonite people, since these plans which they hoped to carry out in five years have been delayed at least twice that length of time. The school, as first conducted, was almost exclusively a local commercial and normal school. The first decided change in the policy of the management went into effect in August, 1898, when for the first time a corps of instructors was secured that Worked in har- mony with the Board of Directors. The nature of the school was also changed, in that an attempt was made to develop a strong college preparatory department which would hold students for a more extended co1u'se of study. Because of the enthusiastic co-operation of all the teachers and a growing body of loyal students, rapid progress was made during the next few years. Up to this time the school was managed by a hoard of nine directors all of whom lived in Elkhart county, Indiana, and a significant change was made when the board was enlarged to the number of twenty-five so as to include representatives from all of the church districts in the United States and Canada. This board was elected on August 17, 1901, and under its direction plans were at once formu- lated for finding a more suitable location for enlarging the school into a college and Bible school. As a result Goshen College was opened on September 29, 1903. and began to do the work with an equipment which the founders had evidently hoped to supply five years earlier. While many unforeseen difficulties have delayed the progress of the work yet we have good reasons for praising a kind providence that has led us hitherto and gives us bright hopes for the future of Goshen College. CHRONICLE OF THE DORNIITORY , BY K. B. OW it so came to pass in the year 1903, on the 28th day of the month which is called the ninth month, on the second day of the week, that as the maidens did come to the City of Goshen to a place of wisdom and learning, that it was said unto them, Behold, we have built an house of habitation for thee, and a place for thy dwelling, wherein never man yet lived, wherein thou mayest abide. Wherefor the maidens also did rejoice and they did gather themselves together into the house of habitation by twos as they were commanded every one into their own rooms, and it came to pass that many days they did go in and out thereat. Furthermore, in this house of habitation lived one who did oversee the maidens and she did instruct them and communed with them of all that was in her heart of which theyshould do., Now, these are the things of which she said unto them, thou shalt do. Surely thou shalt ask my permission to enter into a room and abide with her with whom thou wilt abide, without my permission thou shalt not change. Furthermore, thou shalt furnish thine own linen, thine own towels, thine own soap and thine own napkins, thou shalt furnish every one her own. Furthermore, it has been decreed that for thine own rooms thou shalt care, every one of her own by twos as ye are gathered together. For any damage thou shalt do in this house of habitation thou shalt give an account' thereof, yea even for every nail thou shalt drive into the Wall thou shalt give an account thereof. Again it shall come to pass that in the evening of each day that every maiden shall te in her own room from the eighth to the tenth hour, where she shall gain knowledge and skill in all wisdom and learning, after which it shall be told them by her who has the over- sight of this house of habitation, surely thou shalt go to thy bed of rest, wherein thou shalt abide until the morning hour. Neither shall there be light any more until the morning hour. Again it hath been decreed that on the last day of the week which is called the seventh day, on the evening of that day, that thou mayest invite thy friends who ever they may be, into the room which hath been prepared for them. And behold it came to pass that as the young men did learn of this decree which had been made not many days after that many came into the house of habitation into the room which had been prepared and the maidens did meet them there and they did talk together of those things which had come to pass, and of those things which are and of those things which shall be. Now the rest of the acts of the maidens of this house of habitation are they not many? So many that if thou wouldst thou eouldst not enumerate them. I liearh in aiming Prof. Byers--- XYhen a student doffs his hat to a college professor, should the professor return the com- pliment? Frank Ebersole fassistant instructor in mathemat- icsl- Yes Prof. Byers-- He means arithmetic studentsf' Prof. Kurtz-- If you had lived in the Paleozoic era, what would have been your physical geography? XYhitmer-- Land would have been where water is now-er-ah-well, it's rather hard to tell, even geol- ogists don't know. Prof. Kurtz- VVhat causes a cellar to become im- pure? H. B. Reed- Strong butter. Prof.- The gravity of Jupiter being two and two- thirds times as great as that of the earth, what effect would it have on a horse if he were placed on jupiter? H. F. Reist- lt would make him hollow-backed. Prof. Byers- XVhen is a man not a man? E. Rutt- lVhen he is out of his universe. C. E. Bender Cin class-meetingl -- Mr. Chairman, haven't I got the floor? Prof.- XVhat is the result of a volcanic eruption when the mountain is covered with several hundred feet of snow? -I. E. Hartzler- It would blow the top off. l'151e Pages of this Book allbespeak an energetic, cultured and progressive student body, and a careful perusal cannot help but establish the conviction that in many ways Goshen College is an ideal place to obtain an education. Why? Here are ei Dozen Reasons: 1. Religious influences are strong. 7. 2. The College is well equipped and the buildings are 3 modern. 3. Well trained and experienced teachers. 9 4. The location is pleasant and healthful. 5. Students come into personal contact with instructors 11 of noble character. 12 6. Close associations of young people of high aspira- tions. 10. The literary societies are strong. Credits are accepted by the best Universities. Expenses are low and accommodations good. Many opportunities are given to earn expenses. Students are aided in getting positions. Opportunities for physical culture given to both ladies and gentlemen. If you are convinced that it is the school for you, it may also be for your friends. Can you convince them? Goshen College. Are Yeti Entirely Satisfied that the education you have is sufficient for a life of the best possible service? Nevv is the Tirne to Decide whether you need more training, and if you feel that you do, you should make plans at once to obtain it. The Courses offered by Goshen College are sufficiently varied to afford very material assistance no matter for what position in life you expect to prepare. Departndents of I nstruetien COLLEGE BIBLE COMMERCIAL MUSIC ART NORMAL ORATORY ACADEMY If you are undecided as to what course would bethe best for you, or if you desire a catalogue containing a full description of all the courses offered, we would be pleased to have you address Goshen Oellege, Goshen 2 : : Indiana. 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