Hiram College - Spider Web Yearbook (Hiram, OH)

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7. i oy PHE SPIDER WEI KENNETH IRVING BROWN A.B., University of Rochester; A.M., Harvard University; Ph.D., Harvard University The President Minds or Men (By Kenneth Irving Brown) American education is facing today the question, Is it the function of a college to educate minds or men? In the past it has been the predominant thought that the responsibility of a college began and ended at the threshold of a college classroom. If local conditions made dormitory facilities necessary, the college might build dormitories, but its sole obligation was to see that the students did not wantonly destroy college property or too seriously endanger their lives. Many educators today, however, are demanding that the college assume a responsibility not merely for the awakening of the student’s mind, but indeed for the awakening of the entire man. Those who speak for this group say education must assist the student to sound physical, social, moral, and spiritual, as well as mental growth. Hiram College has for decades taken this second position; its concern is, to be sure, to train minds, but in addition to offer the students who come to this Hill such an environment as may contain the fullest opportunities for self-education, for the maturity which will enable a man or woman to be an intelligent, responsible individual. 19

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“Sometimes we remember kisses, Remember the dear heart-leap when they came: The kindness, the dumbness, the good flame Of laughter and farewell.”

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Administration PAUL HENRY FALL Acting Dean HowArp W. JONES Assistant to the President LAWRENCE C, UNDERWOOD Registrar a a Administrative heads for the past year were Professor Paul H. Fall, acting dean, and Mrs. Marguerite B. Keller, dean cf women. Mr. Fall continued as chemistry professor, but will engage in research at Williams College next year. This is the first year at Hiram for Mrs. Keller, who is an Oberlin graduate. Other members of the administration were Howard W. Jones, assistant to the president and a Hiram alumnus; Lawrence C. Underwood, registrar, like- wise serving his Alma Mater; James Woodruff Richardson, secretary and treas- urer and Miss Jessie J. Smith, librarian. Miss Smith attended Hiram College and Chautauqua School fer Librarians and conducts a library training class for student assistants. Enrollment for the past year was 345 and 337 for the first and second sem- esters, respectively. An addition to present student aid was the establishment of four alumni scholarships of one hundred dollars each. Hiram College is a member of the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools and is on the approved list of the Association of American Universities. The college endowment, increased during the year by the $100,- 000 Wilson bequest, is over one and a fifth millions and the property is worth $850,000. Hiram has 203 acres of land, worth $32,000, for a lake project and addition to the campus. 20