Hiram College - Spider Web Yearbook (Hiram, OH)

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be instructed in the art by poor Margaret i11 Richard Ill. 'K Compare dead happiness with living woe. Philip Nolan, Edward Everett Hale's Man Without a Country, seems to us much more an object of pity than he otherwise would, simply because he once had a country and lost it. So, we believe, the man who once had college ties and has lost them is to be commiserated above him who never saw a college. XVe confess our inability to understand how any individual who has enjoyed all the benefits of a college can lose all interest in it when connnencement day is over. A college graduate with no warm spot in his heart for his college is an anomaly. The same instinct that prompts us to take a loving, loyal interest in home, and friends, and native land, though separated fro1n them by many miles, should constrain us ever to remember with affectionate regard our bountiful Alma Mater. Every institution of learning should be able to rely upon its alumni for hearty support and sym- pathy. lts interests should be theirs. We trust that no student of old Hiram will ever become a man with- out a college. XVe earnestly hope that no alumnus will ever so far forget himself as to become worthy of repudiation by his 'K fostering mother? In after years, when we who now tread these classic halls, with sheep-skin in hand, turn our faces away from Hiram, let us cherish in our hearts the tender memories of by-gone days. And as we go may we say with Holmes: XVe leave, like those volcanic stones, our precious Alma Mater, But will keep dropping in again to see the dear old crater. I-1

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authority. The mind was trained, the body was developed, but the heart was left uncultivated. Another demand was made on our colleges. There was no complaint of the culture so far as it went, but it stopped short of the proper goal. The call was for men of brain, and muscle, and kcarf. The College Y. M. C. A., with all its splendid influence for good, came to meet the want and make such men possible. It tool: the student and developed his spiritual nature as the class room did his mental, and the gymnasium his physical. From that day it has been no disgrace for a college man to be a Christian. From that day the best institutions of the land have given the world men who have been morally, mentally, and physically trained. The class room and lecture hall, the gymnasium and athletic grounds, tl1e Y. M. C. A. and Y. W. C. A.,-these are the agencies that have united to produce both men and women of the highest type. Keeping pace with all plans for strengthening the curriculum of Hiram College are found projects for increased facilities for physical and spiritual education. We see with pride the ever growing interest in college athletics among us. We behold with joy the healthful, active, Christian spirit that reigns in our institution. Our professors and students alike rejoice in pro- claiming Hiram's ideal to be nothing less than the thorough cultivation of mind, and body, and spirit. He who had riches and has lost them is poorer than he who never pos- sessed wealth. It is by contrasting our present with our former condition that we are made to rejoice or are saddened. If you would learn to curse, 13

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Q 'S . ' I Q N fs - 2-rq Xssf Y s X X '+ D: ! x EQ ESE 'Viv r B ' RQ ' 'N W X, Rs xx Zfinctgzgolun HE music swept across the keys as sweet As though the singing of a wild wood bird Must voice each joyous, gushing thought in word The bright, gay song of early days so fleet. The music slower grew with steady beat, But sometimes bursts of harmony were heard, And all the depths of happy thought were stirred And then the melody seemed quite complete. The music swells again in grander straing A hint of unknown sadness rifting o'er Now strikes a minor chord untouched of yore, While mingling ever is a glad refrain That yet one year these college days remain To sing their changing chords to Ninety-Four. I5