Goshen College - Maple Leaf Yearbook (Goshen, IN)

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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

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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 MAPLE LEAP change. In former years when the first buildings were erected, and the pros- pects of the college were not so large, a smaller quadrangle had been planned. And thus it happened that the older dormitory, now known as East Hall had to be removed. So after due eousideratiou, it was consigned to a contractor to be deported to a new foundation. It soon began to prepare to make its trip Its foundations gi-adually were destroyed and its weight was rested upon the strong jack-.screw. And finally it was pronounced loaded . But alas, it l)roved a bulky load. Vainly did the cables strain to pull it from its er.stwhile resting place. They coaxed and wheedled it. But it refused to move. And stubbornly persisted until the winter made its will be law. Thus it gained a respite. But wlu ' ii the gentler zei)liyrs wokt-, a stronger force with al)ler hitch took it in tow. Now with a slow but steady speed she gradually went forward though jeluetantly. At last there came a day when her last inch had cleared the campus confines. And now this building first in time and most useful in its day, rests on a foundation all its own on the north side of College Avenue, op- posite and facing the campus. With this building removed, the campus will be graded, dri -eways will be laid out. walks be put down and the ground will be planted with trees and shrubbery. Sites for later buildings will be reserved. So in due course of time, there will therefore appear other and significant changes that will be the .signs of the material progress of the institution. Nor will, with these added advantages for usefulness, the element of beauty be wanting. As then we take this retrospective look and recount in these brief lines, the important changes %vrought in this short interval of time, we naturally wonder what the future has in store for Goshen College. In thought we can project ourselves into the future and see upon this same campus an institution larger in its physical content, increased in its facilities, and stronger in its departments of instruction. The empty spaces waiting for the new buildings will then be filled. Increasingly larger classes will issue forth from out its halls, to carry its ideals into life and its active pursuits. Its name and fame will reach to many places where it is now unknown. But in its prosperity we trust it will never lose sight of its ideals of sei ' vice for the good and kind, nor its loyalty and devotion to duty and truth. For the real institution is not the out- con- cretely expressed in buildings and stone, but is bound up in its ideals of the heart and to properly accomplish its end, these ideals must be interwoven into the finer fabric of heart, power and life. — D. S. Ct. Page Ten