Goshen College - Maple Leaf Yearbook (Goshen, IN)

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1910 GOSHEN COLLEGE RECORD. 169 FIRST IMPRESSIONS. QThe following are reminiscences of a student upon his first visit to Go- shen College. They are inserted here in order to shlow the usual frank and intelligent attitude of persons who areplaced in circumstances which are entirely new. The natural dialect is 'preserved in order to portray his na- tive characteristic as he relates his ex- 'periencesj 1.-4 VVell sir, today I chanced upon a most adrmiring discovery. It's some- things so different from anything we Montana peoplels been used to that I lfeel jist like telling everybody about it. As I was goin tio say, it happen- ed like this: I was riding on one of them new sort of cars called interur- ansue and just as we come in sight of Goshen the cfonductor yelled out, Go- shen College, next stop! Maybe you think I w'asn't surprised for I'd been hearing so much talk about col- leges and was just hlankering to know what they did at such places. They had been telling me it was for educa- tion. VVell I don't go much on this educating business so far as I can see it, but yet when a fellerls been livin out there among tihem Mfontana mountains all his days, he's mighty glad for and interesting change. So when that feller bawled out about Go- shen College, I begin to grab my things and to make a quick rush for the door, I don't have time to tell y'ou all about the appearance of things but I must say ift's a purty nice looking dis- riict out there. There's a purty little meadow or campus fthe college folks call itl right in front between the v buildings like and the grass is kept all nice and smooth. Thereis a round bus- iness in the middle that's always spouting up water and there's some Hower beds or something such-like scattered round at different places. The Howers are nice enough but there's one thing about it I never could Egger out and that's this :-Some of them beds is chuck full of scrub bushes, buck-brush and the like. I said to myself when I seen it, Let em come to my home out in the moun- tains and I'll show 'em all the buck- bruslh they want to see already plant- ed and growed up itself. Then as I Hrst come up the middle walk along about six oiclock there was la bell being rung on one of the porches and in a minute I saw people strinlging in from every direction. Some came from the buildings, some from down the road and some from the back pasture and every which way. And there was all sizes from liittle bits of boys and girls to big growed up folks all laughing and talk- ing as happy as you please. XVell sir, I must say, in spite of all my criticising on colleges and educa- tion I had to fall in with them people and enjoy myself like the rest. It's al- together different when a feller's right almong things than when heis off look- ing on and hearing about them. A fel- ler will learn new ideas now and then and I guess Itm no exception to the rule. in I want to give a couple of my observ- ances at one of the classes in this col- lege. It was a class in history of some 'kind and the teacher was a midling big gentleman-looking fellow. By the way,

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168 GOSHEN COLLEGE RECORD. JUNE Mr. I. F. Ebersole gave a short vis- it to Goshen College recently. He re- ports that he is enjoying his graduate Work at Chicago University. 95939259-95. Vlford has been received from J. S. Hartzler and I. S. Shoemaker that they arrived in New York and were abou-t ready to sail enroute for Eng- land on Saturday afternoon. 93 95 924 93 The College Juniors recently enter- tained the Seniors in Mayfield's woods beyond the Elkhart river. The gen- eral sentiment of the Seniors is that it was the most enjoyable event of its kind during this school year. 926 93 93 995 Revl I. B. Smith, A, B, of West Lib- erty, Ohio, who has recently been ap- -pointed a member of the faculty at Hesston Academy delivered the bac- calaurete sermon on Sunday evening, june 12. 95 995 92 98 One of the most interesting and in- spiring religious meetings held by the girls this term, was a Vesper service held in the woods near the river. Miss Elsie Byler led the meeting and drew many beautiful lessons from nature. 935 92 95 95 Miss Ella DeCamp gave a piano re- cital to her friends at Goshen College, Tuesday afternoon, June '7 at four o'clock. The program consisting of well chosen numlbers from three mod- ern composers, was almost entirely played from memory. The aibility to retain in memory so great a number of large compositions and play them creditably is quite a worthy accom- plishment. Miss DeCamp showed to -her friends that she is able to give an hour of real pleasurable entertain- ment. V 95959593 On the evening orf May 24 the Or- pheon Club gave a musical program to a large and appreciative audience at Topeka, Ind. The singers are high- ly pleased with the success of their Work because this was the first pro- gram given slince the organization of the clufb. Aside from the twelve members who took part in the whole program, Miss Ella DeCamp assisted at the piano. The program' consisted of choruses, quartettes, solos and readings. It is hoped that the club will begin work early next season in order to give more pnograms of a similar nature. K 92959395 Missionary Day, May 29, was ex- ceptionally interestinig this year. The morning sermon by Bishop I. Shoe- maker was a strong appeal for in- creased interes-t in supplying the need of wforkers and funds for the mission field. The afternoon program composed of talk by Mrs. Dr. Esch, Mrs. I, R. Detweiler, Miss Ellen Schertz and Miss Fannie Rufpp, was full of valua- ble thought and vivid portrayal of conditions on the Held. In the even'- ing Dr. C. D. Esfch gave an excellent talk regarding the work of a medical missionarly and was followed by re- marks ofa similar nature by Dr. Page. The remainder off the service was given to farewell talks by I. S. Hartzler and I S, Shoemaker. All of these meetings were intensely inter- esting and impressive. The day's program was a fitting climax to the missionary interests of the College during this school year.

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L70 GOSHEN COLLEGE RECORD. JUNE I'd got a introducition to him before tizme and so says he just take that front seat, and he gave me a book. There was four ,girls inj that class and about ten boys. It was purty quick after dinner and they sure took a plen ty of time to get in there. They'd come meandering in one after another, some few big blustering fellfows and from that on down to a couple of short dried up lookin' lads. But say, talk about learnin! That professor can just start in on any- thing you're mind to give him and make it come out history. They'd try to get him cornered on something along the line of politics in Genmany. I-Ie'd sort of symore around in his chair, pu't his hands over his head for a minute and then he sure would ex- pound that thing about right. And you could see the histfory connection of it just as plain as day, too. Then they -got up some question albout religion in Germany and you'd be surprised how anybody but a man particular versed in bible could make religious questions clear up and every time it wfould come out history too. Now I alwalys had the idea that history was mostly bloody battles and all kinds of fighting but there wasn't a thing said about war that day. I guess maybe that professor's dfown on iight- ing and cuts out all that kind of read- ing. But the firing question wasn't all one way neither. Maiybe he didn't shoot some hard-ones back at them! Apparently so anyhow, because I couldn't see what he was driving at and the fellow he proposed it tlo didn't seem to know much more about it than I did. You could see, thfo that the boy was a doing his best to think of it, and the proifessor haint no un- reasonable man neither, so he just sort of sat there for awhile and wait- ed. I-Ie did get a little riled onct tho and got off of his chair, shoved up a couple of winders, pulled down a map as they had up there and dis- cussed some on it. The thing wals mighty impressive too, the way he had it wrote on the blackboard and the whole class looked purty much interested in what he had done. I-Ie sure is a dignified, independent looking man, when he ,gets his spirits up a little. Makes the fellers in his class look like they didn't know noth- ing when he tackles the point they're tryin' to explain. I-Ie surprised me tho when he quit. It was mighty in- teresting and he was just explaining something twixt Russia and the Turks when the bell rung. He d'idn't hesitate a minute about stopping. One of the fellers was a watchin' for it I guess, for he appeared to be ready with a book and in less than no time the next lesson was all Hxed up and the profes- sor said excused just as composed like as if there hadn't been no mix-up. There's some kind of learning I dion't care nothin' about but if I ever can do it, I'm going off for a year or two sometime and get his-tory by heart like that pr1ofessor's got it. l....4 'Ilhere's one other thing I'd like to speak of, but it's so queer like, I hard- ly kno-w how to put it, It was the next day after I come in the evening and I had quit noticin the classes and was just gaing out for astroll and as I was going to say, I heard some of the bloys talking about playing ketchf