Hanover College - Revonah Yearbook (Hanover, IN)

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Hanover, a Colleg( T ' HERE are two types of institutions in the field of higher education, the College and the University. These differ with reference to objects and method. The University seeks to make an expert, a specialist, an authority. It proposes to take the individual into some depart- ment of thought, invention, discovery, or practice, and make him a master in that province. The key-word in university education is the training of special ability: Specialization. The College, on the other hand, seeks above all else to make a man of the individual. It proposes to gi ve him such general training as will send him out into life with developed and well balanced powers, with right ideals, and wholesome enthusiasms. The University is chiefly con- cerned with what he can do; the College with what he is. The College recog- nizes the demand for efficiency, but believes that ultimately real efficiency can be secured only upon the basis of the broad general training which the College gives. It recognizes that the man must be trained to make a living, but insists that he must also be trained to live a life. The College endeavors, from the standpoint of the individual, to do two things : First, to give the student that larger general scholarship and culture which make him the peer of the best men in the highest stations of life. It seeks to give him a firm grasp of the larger principles and of the boundaries and values of the various fields of knowledge and activity. It trains him to think clearly and to express himself adequately and with eloquence. It en- deavors to ground him in a system of thought which will give him intellectual anchorage, and to give him those finer feelings, those ideals of life, which will lift the man up to his better levels. Secondly, the College seeks to help the individual to discover himself. Both in the studies pursued and the method of instruction, it is the purpose of the College to reveal to the student his strength and his weakness, his apti- tudes, in order that he may rationally choose his place in life. And, having discovered his place, the College seeks to give a thorovigh grounding in the ■sciences and arts underlying the calling to which his aptitudes point, and fire him with a consuming enthusiasm for his chosen field of life. From the standpoint of Social Welfare the great service which the College may render, and which no other agency can render so effectively, is the training of the Directive Class for a righteous and elective leadership, and the cultiva- tion of wholesome independence and wisdom in the choice of leadership on the part of those who are disposed by nature to be followers. Hanover conforms closely to the College Type. It purposes the training of men and women for wise, effective leadership ; to assist the student to find himself ; to fire him with enthusiasm for noble ideals ; to give him that species of well balanced mental training and that grounding in general scholarship which will admit him to the company of the best men on equal terms. It seeks by graduation to have introduced the student to some acquaintance with that ■culture which has come down largely as a heritage from the past, and for which a broad s cholarship alone can prepare him. At the same time its instruction is organized in such a way as to prepare for a subsequent study of law, medi- cine, theology, engineering, commerce, administration, and for teaching, for business, and for other like pursuits. 13