Hanover College - Revonah Yearbook (Hanover, IN)

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NATURAL SCENERY 14

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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

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Picturesque Hanover To him who in the love of nature Holds communion with her visible forms She speaks a various language. For his gayer hours she has a voice of gladness And a smile and eloquence of beauty. To such a one Hanover extends a cordial invitation. Nature spreads for him here, a veritable feast. The variety she affords, and the harmonious adjust- ment of hill-slope and waterfall, of rugged ravine and sunlit valley, of forest expanse and river reach must satisfy the most aesthetic taste. The visitor, as a rule, little suspects the delights he is to experience. If he arrives by way of the climbing, circuitous highway from ] Iadison, he is apt to feel that the beauty of the region centers in that approach. If his com- ing be by the river, he decides that the Ohio is responsible for what he has heard of picturesque southern Indiana. The hills, rock-ribbed and ancient as the sun, opening or receding now and then to disclose a sheltered, fertile bit of lowland, have satisfied his ideas of pleasing river scenery. Distance, however, adds much to the effects of lights and shadows, and we would have him gain the College Point, for an enhanced view. From this five hundred feet of elevation and its river frontage, the Ohio takes on new beauties. A long stretch, then a sweeping bend, and still, and ere the stream disappears toward the south. To the northward, a shorter, sharper curve reveals historic IMadisoxi nestling snugly against the Indiana slope ; and to the eastward, rugged eleva- tions reach back toward the blue-grass of Kentucky. All this one sees from the College point, but more awaits discovery when he explores by way of the inviting forest paths. Native beech and oak and elm, tangles of vine and shrub, bird song from every tree top, the trickle of running water — all these attend his way as he follows an enthusiastic guide toward the various falls. Classic Crowe, pouring its modest volume some sixty feet between sheer perpendicular walls, invites him to dream upon a restful ledge overlooking a long stretch of ravine which discloses at its farther limit an enchanting little vista of the river. Butler and Chainmill are to be visited next, and he must climb to greater heights if he approach Butler from above. Its great rock ledges, over which the stream bre aks into spray, afford him a scene of rare beauty if he arrive when morning sunlight adds rainbow color to the mist. Chainmill must be approached from below. The way is precarious for here massive boulders testify that Jove operated his engines of war from the brink of the precipice above. When the beholder has gained his position at the foot of the fall, he looks with awe at the structure it rears ; the huge elevation invites, and he has a taste of real mountain climbing ere he -gains the level above. On to Heart ' s and Deadman ' s our journej lies, each of these with its, own story, its own suggestiveness, its own special features to challenge the observer ' s attention and admiration. At Clifty, the pride of all our nature ■enthusiasts, he finds in one splendid combination, novel forest, rugged ravine, bold rock ledges, magnificent waterfall. If the season be springtime, nature has added here a crown of rare and various flower creations, and a most won- derful variety of bird-life and song. The scene produces a spell one can scarcely break. The visitor would linger, but he has not yet seen all Hanover lias to offer. The long excursion through the circuit of the waterfalls may 15