Goshen College - Maple Leaf Yearbook (Goshen, IN)

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VERNON s. CULP, AB. Major. German Nappanee, Ind. Vernon S. Culp has Won great renown as a. student. He has majored in German, in which field he expects to do extensive Work in the future. He is a young man of quiet disposition, but never fails to let himself be heard at the opportune moment. His head is high above his shoulders, which bear out the reputation he has won for hav- ing high ideals and lofty thoughts. We have great confidence in our Vernie and expect great things from him in the future. WALTER T. NUNEMAKER, A.B. i Major. History La Junta, Colo. The high esteem in which We hold Mr. Nunemaker is shown by the distinction given him in our class organization. He is quiet and unassuming. 'Those who know him will say his quiet moments are spent in forming high ideals and noble purposes. He takes an intense interest in athletics, both on the field and in the gymnasium. So- cially, he is no respector of persons, but cultivates the friendship of all. Parting with Mr. Nunemaker is not easy. CRISSIE C. YODER, A.B. Major. Philosophy Creston, Ohio. After a few years in the school room, she returned to her friends at Goshen as a Junior. Her geniality, her enthusiasm and her ability to sucessfully adapt herself to the various phases of school life, have made her an ideal classmate. She has shown her efficiency in literary, social, class, and religious organizations, being the re- tiring president of the Y. C. A. Her agreeable disposition and joviality will win for her respect in her chosen field of work- the training of young minds in the school room. Her friends Wish her success.

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GOSI-IEN COLLEGE RECORD. 13 for life is not the mere activity of a mechanism which works with mathe- matical precision. It is living-adapt- ing ones self to humanity and having a part in the life of each and all. Certainly individuality is a necessary element of man and may never be sur- rendered. You must be yourself first- ly, lastly and always, for just as you are you have some quality, some value, a message, a mission, that is your own, and for which you must stand if you are to be anything. But though wc may never forget that a man must be true to his own individuality, this fact has been magnified until there is a ten- dency to center life around one 's own soul completely, forgetting the environ- ment. A fight is made to keep from being swept into the stream of ordin- ary human life lest we lose our own high ideals. There is an inevitable law of society which divides the human race into classes while still recognizing the maxim that all men are created equal. And so it comes about that there are divisions, each with its own important part to play, and its duty to perform in the history of mankind. Our environ- ment includes all classes and to all classes therefore, if we are truly to live, we must be able to adapt our- selves. Much as we may try to deny it our own college seems to cut the student off from ordinary human life. We live in a world apart, outside the busy, hurrying mass of men and women who are striving to get a living, succeeding and failing in the ordinary routine of daily life. True, we realize the need of cultivating a deep human sympathy and the ability to put one 's self in the place of another but it is so easy and so pleasant to keep in sympathy with no other methods of life than our own and with no other classes of society than our own. Too often we have our likes and dislikes of persons among our small number so pronounced that We acquire an attitude of exclusiveness, an air of superiority, which renders us half dead and inefficient even in our small community. We fail to adapt ourselves completely to our present environment, and more than this we fail in the same thing as we change our environment and not living our- selves, we cannot help others to live. lmbued with lofty sentiments, great principles, and nobility of purpose we fail to bring a heartfelt sympathy to those who expect and need it most, we fail to be just good folks. We try to gaze at the panorama of life from our higher point of vantage and before we realize it we have lost our own life. The superiority of the life of service is evident to all of us and though the life of service tends to coincide with living, they are by no means identical. The scientist who lets the world of nature obscure his interest in the living men and women about him is not alive. The historian who allows the life of past centuries to be more important than humanity on the earth at the present time ,is not alive.- And though such men may do some service, and though there may seem to be some of beauty and worth and attractiveness in this, it is to be dead to the best the hu- man soul may possess. ln the home, in college, in business, in charity work, in any walk of life there is this distniction of superiority and brotherhood, of shining down from above with high ideals and power and of sharing on a level, of reforming from the outside, or living on the inside of homely life just as it is. Deeper far

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