Grinnell College - Cyclone Yearbook (Grinnell, IA)

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not simply turned out by a great university as a product of the factory system. The men we have had in our faculty would have saved Sodom, and if they get their just deserts, they will at least be shown up front into the orchestra chairs of heaven. And if after visiting most of the great seats of learning on both sides of the sea, I were now told that I could go back and live over my college days, I would not stop to get my hat. Whom God loves, he gives a home in Grinnell, which is, quality considered, the fairest, friendliest little city in that state of the wide horizon, or in any other, and secures the whipped cream of lowa's young people. Our college, tracing her providential growth from a manger birth, over which the glory cloud .has hovered from the beginning, no longer reckoned among the smaller colleges in point of numbers, has throughout all her shining annals occupied just the right position on the map in that garden state of our land. ' ' It lies not East nor West, Q But like a scroll unfurled Where the hand of God hath hung it Down the middle of the world. '07 Class on Library Steps A l rv 'r W l l l F 1 i 4 4 lv 14 1, vi l s i it M li l 5 me 17 I 12- .wif -.41 I i l l

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- 1 qwva 'V what lowa College Means l'o an Alumnus By Rev. James L. Hill, D. D. + i , There is a saying credited to Dr. Lyman Beecher, that The best people in the world are Yankees enlarged . In a finer, purer, higher degree than any other place on this hemisphere, Grinnell is typical of these persons at their best, and is vitalized by their heroism, toil, and aspiration. Iowa College could come smoothly up to the requirements of an institution of higher learning and still not supply her students with that peculiar im- manent gist, which is the secret of her incontestable popularity. To lay on the .hands of her wondrous anointing, just as one is getting on the finding it could be made happy where they have experienced so much joy. l 1 2 harness for the work of life, confers a benefit that is better than a legacy. Its value cannot be computedg There is not money enough in the world. l Graduates on revisiting the place where they rubbed their backs against I these college walls, feeling the inspiration of the haloed spot, wish that . they could drop a purse, like the Duke of Buckingham, so that someone 4 The theory of the Japanese is that their victory and their wonderful recent i development have been won for this little Daybreak Kingdom, not by things seen in looking around, but by the inner spirit of Japan. Iowa College means to an alumnus, an infusion of the Grinnell spirit., In the looser life of a great university, there is no such close contact and no such comaraderie, and the process of separation and disintergration of the student body, caused by specialties, so prevails that, at Harvard, a committee appointed to in- vestigate the matter reported, it threatens to destroy all college spirit . Iowa College means to an alumnus the place of his second birth. She is the m-other of his mind. She touched the master-springs of his whole in- tellectual nature, w.hich now turns to any item of information just as college 'boys take their last look at a geometrical formula before going into an examination. No other four years in a person's life contributes so much to his mental making. They endow the mind with another sense. Having become a thorough paced Iowa College man, he lifts the prayer that he may never lose the tone and color of his college life. He makes almost a religion of his love and devotion to that institution and sings her praise, world wit.hout end. It is-one of the purest of emotions. Iowa College means to an alumnus a peculiar imprint. The maker's name is on the handle. The student at Grinnell is hand-made and is

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