Hiram College - Spider Web Yearbook (Hiram, OH)

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By Vachel Lindsay | have since 1912 spoken in every university in America, some of them seven times, and in nearly all the colleges, yet Hiram looms larger than them all in my eyes, merely because it is my own, and because one's eighteenth year can never come again. Yet | dream of a thousand better reasons. How can | express this affection? | have often asked myself in vain. By conviction | hold there is only one thing worth doing for a school; to speak the magic word that will make it an eternal creative force, and a school no longer. What is that word? Who will speak it? Some accidental Dante may say it yet. Hiram stands at the parting of the ways. Will it imitate other schools of the same size in duller regions, highly certified academic jails, or will it be the only school on American soil true to its unique and beautiful Hill? In twenty years will it be a place of pilgrimage for all the young, eager, creative artists of the world— or merely a Hill with a mellow unknown tradition? Will it keep its secret forever, or let it prevail over the world? A course in literature should make creative writers, (such as) Harriet Beecher Stowe (and) Willa Cather, or perish. A course in the drama should make dramatists as surprising as losen or Shaw, or perish. We need no more of Confucian routine. We do not need athletes—we need aviators and explorers, men like Lindbergh and Byrd. We do not want one more graduate in physics or chemistry. We want Benjamin Franklins and Marconis and Mme. Curies. We need no more bond salesmen. We want Johnny Appleseeds and Thoreaus. Edgar Poe is worth more to the world than all the English departments ever imagined. Who cares to invite such dreamers to the Hill?

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