Goshen College - Maple Leaf Yearbook (Goshen, IN)

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27 GOSHEN COLLEGE RECORD. Our interest now centers in another of our classmates who we reniemher for his ealm deliberation. C. li, Shank af- ter a year's work in Manual 'llraining at Purdue 'University eomes lmaek to take his degree with the t'lass ot' 1914. lt is his purpose to devote his energy to the industrial reforms ot' lndia's middle and lower classes. We lielieve that his disposition as well as his train- ing has peculiarly fitted him for his ehoseu profession. NVe will very prob- alnly in the near future hear of his appointment hy the Mennonite lloard of Missions to the tield in CW-ntral Pro- vinees, lndia. At' first' sight you would eonelude that the plaee this member of our elass fills in the world must, necessarily he a small one. We need, however, hear him speak hut a tew times at our week- ly devotional meetings until we eon- elude that it is another illustration of the faet that things in this material world are not always just like they seem. Vtle are l'ully eoutident that WV. li. VVeaver's position as instructor in the History department of our College will be well tilled. Along with his teaehing he will eontiuue his work in the nearby ehurehes. Several years ago when EX-President Byers was assigning seats for chapel exereises, Sylvia Johnson 'found his name listed with the girls. lllr. John- son has proven to us sinee that it was lmeeause ot' nothing more than the mere sound of his name. ln gymnasium, on the tennis eourt, and in. the elass room he has proven himself a man of eftfiei- eney. YVe remember him ehietly for his optimism. 'l'he eoming years will find him working for the development oi' the raee along lines directly physi- eal His genial temperament together with his determination to make a. sne- eess of anything he undertakes insure for him a sueeesstful medical eareer. Our attention at last eenters in our valedictorian. While in College she has proven h erselt' a. hard worker which has won for her marked intelligence. Her seemingly inexhaustible store of optimism and good lunnor have made her a great favorite among those who have learned to konw her. Future years will tind her teaching liatin and llistory to High School pupils. lt is the expeetation ol' her classmates to some time read in the head lines of the t'hic-ago Reeord Herald, Nola Banta, sneeessor to Ella Flagg Young as Su- preintendent ol' Sehools ot' Uhieago. Little need he said about the remin- ing member ol' the elass. She will proli- alnly eontinue her work in teaehing and hopes to find a 'field of activity to which she feels herself more favorably adapt- ed than to that of a Historian and Prophetess. NVhether these plans of the individu- als of our elass and are only air elastles like those of our ltlreslunan years or the real fundamental plans of our life work. the One who holds the destiny of futures alone can reveal. As we look far into the distant fu- ture we express our hopes and fears in the words ot' llrowning. 'tflrow old along with nie! 'l'he lmest is yet to be, PX: if: 2? SG 36 Youth shows hut halfg 'Frust God: See all ,nor he afraid.

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GOSHEN COLLEGE RECORD. 26 WILLIAM B. WIEAVER, A.B. Major Subject: Philosophy LAGRANGE, INDIANA. XVill is a lloosier in the fullest sense of the term. Born, reared and trained in the immediate environs. Small of stature- short, lean: why! indeed he can't weigh cver a hundred weight and thirty pounds. And if this were allg 'twere a sad story in- deed. But it isn't. For Will's get enough potential, intellectual and spiritual energy stored away to win a lot down on Faculty Row. The professors are beckon- ing that way, and Will says, I comeu. Of course you never can tell. Auyhow XVill's doing post graduate work now in hischosen iield of history. In brief:-lVlr .Wfeaver is small and eiect, witty and tolerant, keen and incisive, abottnding in experience and protouiul in conviction, an optimist and en- thusiast, a teacher and a preacher. Such a cgmbination as will prove a heritage to humanity. Education for Efficiency William li. VVeaver DUCATTON is the fountain head olf all national, progress for it is the agency oi' social culture and social efficiency. It is America is most pres- sing problem today, for in one aspect or another it touches every luunan in- terest. It is the niost important fac- tor in the lite of every individual. lt is the most. universal concern of man- kind. ln America society itself has set up educational aims and then has estab- lished schools to realize them. It has constructed an education ladder from the door ol? the hovel and the door of the palaccg from the kindergarten to the university, Without a missing round, up which every child may climb as far he has the capacity and time. The elementary and secondary schools today are fitting the common man to meet. his every day problems of li'I'c and to lift him to a higher plane of efficiency, service. and happiness. Edu- cation is a very general term and includes everything' from the general education received, by experience alone to the most narrow phase of edu- cation such as technical or professional. For our purpose tonight, l, should pre- ter to limit education only to college education, such as is had in an institu- tion like ours and second to limit it to that kind ot' a.n education that shall make for efficiency. Let us consider then the education of those who have climbed the educational ladder from the elementary and sec- ondary schools and have entered the colleges oi' our country, ln this np- Ward climbing only about tive percent ever reach the round of the ladder

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28 GOSHEN COLLEGE RECORD. called the college. This fact should bring to the college man and woman with all seriousness a keen sense of re- sponsibility for the ninety-five per- cent. lt should make them conscious of the great need of proper training. so that they might become efficient men and women of their communities. The college then in its training for efficiency, is not dealing with a body of adults in the heat and ardor of life 's struggles, nor of common youths as they walk our streets, but choice niaterial destined for exalted ends. Nearly every village and country com- munity selects, unconsciously perhaps, its most promising young men and women and sends them to college to train them for lifc's best work. The colleges today are training the excep- tional men and women of their society. They are the Helitel' of mankind. The college trained man or woman then, becomes a leader, at constructive, aggressive force in society. lt is to this body of men and women that the world looks for leadership. lt is they who will make society march forward. As a leader of society the college graduate must be efficient, for the true test of leadership is efficiency. Wlizitt is Efficiency? What do We imply when we speak of an efficient man? Efficiency, says Dr. Eliot, is effective power for service during an active life. The phase 'power for service' suggests another very essential question. ls the college graduate, to be a man of service or what ought to be his relation to society? These ques- tions mnst be answered before we can consider the education which will make for efficiency. Man is a social being and as a social being he either becomes a help or hindrance to society. The man of greatest benefit to society is he who loses his life in service to his fellow- men, One of the essential qualities of this man of service is efficiency. Effi- ciency means more than goodness. A man to be efficient, must be more than good. He must be good for something. A man may have an excellent char- acter and yet be wholly inefficient for his life work. Being a good man does not excuse a physician or dentist, who does poor work and is inefficient. He must he a prepared, trained, efficient man. A man must know how to do as well as to be. The modern Diogenes does not go about with a lantern seek- ing goodness. Ile seeks for efficiency which implies goodness. lint if Dio- genes should seek for men of etficiency, whereshallheseek? Where shall these men of fitness and capacity to perform come from U? Theqnestion must be an- swered by the colleges of our land. lt is true that in times past, the great leaders have not come from our col- leges. ln fact some of them were often failures in college life. Our colleges of times past have not given the in- struction which has developed leader- ship. Society was on a lower plane of civilization. Men who half a century ago were considered great and efficient. leaders would be considered today as ordinary and mediocre men. The coin- plaint of the the modern business man is often well founded when he says that the high school or college gradu- ate is often utterly helpless. lle con- not work out any problems by himselt He does not know how to get the in- formation needed for its solution. The school life of this individual has been characterized by conformity of direc- tions, learning so far as required what was put before him, but uninspired to