Goshen College - Maple Leaf Yearbook (Goshen, IN)

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THE .MAIM.E LEAF task iiioi ' e ardiKius of the office of Preceptress. This duty, w itli its iiiaiiy |)rol)- lenis, devolved upon Miss I lary Hooley who did full justice to the claims and never lost her pleasant smile. The last change to note in the faculty role came in the Husiness school. To direct its work came Mr. Homer Sehrock who administered affairs with char- acteristic business manner. Not theoretical only were his preeejjts, for the Business Office of the school was also in his char re. Material changes M-ere also witnessed. So gradually under the workman ' s skill wa.s brought to perfection the beautiful and commodious new Science Hall. Its well-shaped cornerstone had been placed down a year ago. And ever since workmen in nundiers large or small have busily plied their tools on same until now it stands a fitting monument of able jilans and skillful labor. What I ' lnids of knowledge cannot be dispensed witliin its spacious halls. ' Wliat mysteries of science and domestic art will not lie here revealed? For from its topmost he ight to its basement floors its room and laboratories are all devoted to science. So on the upper floor Chemistry and l hysies will find their home. Then de- scending to the next, the arts of domestic economy will hold ' their sway. While lower still and level with the ground, the halls are at tlic ser ice of the sciences that deal witii life in aiiinud and phuit. And last of all tile coiiUHodious liase- nient rooms, will lie devoted to the wealth producing sciences of Agriculture and Dairying. Thus housed wit ' un these new bricl walls, tlie sciences will henceforth lind ample room to reveal their facts to iutiu ' c geiici-afions of eager investigators. Within the old Administration building. pi ' ogT-ess was also made. For man. - Page Eight

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THE ilAPLE LEAF Thus first to mention, into the department of Psyehology and Education came for ninteen sixteen, Mr. George D. Bivin. His ability as a student of mind-stuff soon won him a place among the student body. His practical knowledge of the profession of teaching was readily imbibed by the young ped- agogs to be. His broad genial smile and fine (|ualities of sociability did not make him seem at all a stranger but the reverse. To Goshen, his stay will be one long to be remembered. To the work of Biologic Sciences came i Ir. Samuel Witmer. For the first time he undertook to direct the niinds of college students into the facts which underlie living tissue. However his seriousness of (nirpose, his quiet dispo- sition and his careful systematic- methods of instruction and observation led ihe way to many vital truths of life aud revealed many phases of tiiis interest- ing science to both eager and less observant pupil. As to nuisie. ilr. Gustav Dunkelberger, a real genius at the keys, was the choice for the acancy that had occurred in the Piano department. Though modest and retiring by disposition, his devotion to his chosen art and his abil- itj- in interpreting the soul of nuisic to audiences whom he always pleased, made him many v, arm and loyal friends among students and with the entire college community. But not alone in music are his claims. As evidence to his spirit of progress and efficiency, and through his hearty cooperation the equipment of the School of IMusie has been increased by a handsome Grand piano of highest merit and excellent musical tone. A fourth one .joined our ranks. A woman gentle and demure. F ' or knowl- edge famed and excellent in judgment. Her happy lot it was to lead the youth- ful minds into the beauties of the poet ' s art and also guide their pens into the oratorio l ights of younger rhetoricians. But also to her sphere there fell the Page Seven

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THE MAIM.K l.KAF years the constantly increasing number of diligent seekers after truth had found themselves more or less crowde d and cramped within the confines of the Reading Room. This year abatement came, when by removing the Busi- ness School to quarters on the third floor, the space of the Reading Room was increased by exactly half its size. This double space now provides a spacious room, well equipped in every manner to serve the busy students. Properly supplied with light, both natural and artificial. Its walls are decorated with pleasing tints and restful to the e.ye. This new and pleasant Library Room has been one of the great advantages to the students of this year and will confiinic so to be. Other minor changes, too, ' ere made in file Iniilding. All of them to add greater usefulness or increased beauty to the individual halls concrrned. But not all the changes have come within the buildings. The ciiiniuis has also put on a different npiiearancc. Tlinugb still in an unfinisbrd state, i|uit(! obvious changes have been going on. Tlie first to note is that the western por- tion of it, so long a desolate field, has now been carefully prepared fur a beauti- ful lawn and already begins to show forth its sod of beautilul green. Hence- forth it will be well-kejit and beautiful. Designs for beautifying uth plants and shrubbery have been drawn for it by a landscape gardener and accepte! by the institution. The aim henceforth will be to de e!op aciordiug to a sys- tematic scheme. Tlicugh this will of necessity recjuire time and money ta complete, it is the proper beginning of a system that might long ago have been pursued. So as the years go by, the visiting alumni Mill from time to time lie greeted by additional marks of progress on the campus that will tend to en- dear their Alma Plater to them. In order to get a clear field for this i)lan necessitated at least one radical