Goshen College - Maple Leaf Yearbook (Goshen, IN)

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1910 GOSHEN COLLEGE RECORD. 147 Our First College Bachelors BY N. E. BYERS 'With the conferring of the A. B. de- gree upon the members of the Class of 1910, Goshen College becomes of age. Fifteen years ago upon the or- ganization of the Elkhart Institute the founders expressed their aim in the following statement- It 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, litera- 'ture, history and plhilosophy, as well as in religion and morals. But at that time no one had planned a course of study, no one was expect- ing to take a regular course and no faculty was ready or even. preparing to teach. However, at the end of six years a class had completed a four year course and three years later another had completed six years work, including two years of regular college work. And now at the end of six years more We have reached the goal set for us by the founders in 1895. Contrary to the practice of most be- ginning institutions we have follow- ed the plan of offering only as much as could be well given so that our credits would be accepted in full by standard institutions. These students wiho now receive the A. B. degree do so because we sincerely believe that they have faithfully done the work equival- ent to that required by the leading col leges. Our opinion is verified by the fact that among others the graduate school of Columbia University, ac- cepts the degree without qualifications. These, then, are the. first bachelors, that Goshen College has the honor of sending forth into the world.

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Svvninr Gllaaa Lbrganizatinn President . . . S. ALPHEUS ZooK Vice-President . JOSEPHUS W. SHANK Secretary . HARVEY L. STUMP Treasurer . WILLIAM W. OESCH ' MOTTO-Callus Servituti. COLORS-Walnut Brown and Fawn FLOWER-Daffodil YE? lgrngrammr Oration- An Educational Ideal . -S. ALPHEUS ZOOK Quartette-Gypsy Life . . . Schumann Misses Kulp and DeCamp Messrs. Brunk and Brunk Address- The Trend of Modern Civilization . . . . . . WILLIAM W. OESCH Oration- Prophets in Literature . JOSEPHUS W. SHANK Piano Solo-Sonata Op. 13 . . Beethoven Adagio Cantabile Allegro. Miss Sylvia Bontrager Oration- The Need of Originality HARVEY L. STUMP

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GOSHEN COLLEGE RECORD UNE AN EDUCATIONAL IDEAL S ALPHEUS ZOOK flVlaJor Subject Hxstory Iachcs and Gentlemen The class of 1910, wlnch has the honor and d1s t111ClI1Ol'1 of bemff the hrst class to grad uate from the four year course of Go shen College, lJ1dS you a hearty wel come to 1ts gI3.Cll1Elt11'1g exerc1ses A certam professor sald recently that every man before YCCCIVIHO' tl1e degree of Bachelor of Arts should be 1CqLl11'E3Cl to answer the followmg QLICSUOHQ Do you see anythmg to loxe 111 1 l1ttle ch1ldP XV1ll a lonely clog follow you Have you sympathy w1th all good causes? Do you bel1eve lendlng helplllg hand t weaker men? Do you bel1eve takmg advantage of the law when v u can t so? Do vo11 see anythmg 111 l1fe bes1des dollars a11d cents? Can you see as much beauty IH washmg chshes and hoemg corn as 1n playmfg golf O1 the p1ano? Can you see sunshme 1n a mud puddle? There 1S 11lOI'C than mere pleasantry 111 these proposed quest1ons 'lhey CO1lt3.111 much of common sense and suggest a w1se educat1ona1ph1loSopl1y fhe tendency of modern CClLlC3.t1011 15 to place ITIOIC and more C111pl1El.S1S up on what may be called the purely practrcal, v1oc t1onal profess1onal and ut1l1tar1an 'l1h1s 1S ev1nced by th great demand for manual trammg 111 tl1e l'l1gl'1 schwools and the establ1shment of techmcal and trade schools I deed tl1e great 1ncrease 1n attendance 111 11lSt1tLlt1OHS of a techmcal and wo cat1onal character 15 one of the mar velous facts 1n Amer1can educatlonal h1story of the last two decades And th1s has been brought about by the demands of our complex mdustrxal l1fe and the employment of sk1lled men 111 the unparalleled development of our 1nater1al resources Shops manu f8.CtLl1'111g plants, c1v1l 1HCCl'1Et111C?tl a11d electr1cal C1'1g11'lC6I'11'1g projects are demandmg as never before men tram ed to the lnghest 1JO1I'1lZ of Cf:HC161lCX 'lhen too the course of 11lClL1Stl'13'l de velofpment dur1ng the last half cen tury has be n suoh as pract1cally to destroy apprent1ces111p as an effect1ve vocat1onal preparatlon These are some of the reasons Vvhy so much em phas1s IS bemg placed upon the prac t1cal and ut1l1tar1an zn our present day eclucat1on A11Otl1C1 tendency toward SC1C1'1f1l:lC spec1al1zat1on Th1s too comes largely from the demands of our great SC16l1t1l:lC and mater1al1st1c development Invest1gat1on and re search can be successfully carr1ed out 148 k . J 1 . Q !.NV 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 . I Ia . , X . E.. .V Q - . . . C . X VN Q. X ' 1 1 n- 1 ' ' 7 '11 1 1 f, - ' , 1' N 1 Q -il . ' X X lc' - . . X - 3 1 Q 1 , 1 - ' . ' 1 - J W -9 V! s .. 1 u I . . ' ' . .X . fl W lb Q . . d 1 ', A' ' . ' C K , W. ' - 1' - 'l ' L, 3, ' ' . I Y . C .V . 0 I. 1 , 1 1 X il I ' n -, .X - 1 1 1 - i11 ' a ' 1 -o 1 ' A ' . ' in ' s 1 1 c l -c 4 ' I HO c lo . J . 4' is f . ' . 5 ' 1, ki X N . up Q I N l M X x V 1 . V