Hope College - Milestone Yearbook (Holland, MI)

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L- rx Alumni Song of '87 Hy Dk. ll. lf. Duslitik, '76 Ultl lltipef Thy mm aruunil thee stznitling Now raife thy hztnner high ztliurfs. 'lin thee Z1 sung they sing, 'lin thee their trihute hring, .X trihnte of prztiae :Intl uf ltwe. CQIIUVIIJ- Shttnt 11 sliintt, suit: uf lltipc, like ri hu Alina Mater acinpiternzt sit! Sing in jnlly college lays Uf nur golden college days .Xnil the merry. merry life of the past. Ye hmt uf :tncient clz1ssiC wtnrtliiew gle li txt' XYlimn we liwetl ur hzttctl with il will, Your lure is half furgut, lint ywur ilieiiitwy is mit. lim' your ghosts :trc liaunting is sti ll. 1 .NN htws wc tlreznnerl uf clrtys heftire us, t tf za tliatzmt Itnigctl-fm' hy and hy 2 lint now, itniitl the strife I lf a noisy carping life, XYQ- lntwk at the past zmil we sigh, Many :1 fine is xilc-nt at the 1'tmll-Call- Never niurc thcfll cheer ns un the xi lint mir litre fur them will last ltith the tncinurics uf the past, Hf our cztrclesn :incl bright cwllcgc In the pmt we ltwerl utir Alina Mater, ln the preQc-nt tlti we love her still: Xml wt- make ll solemn vow, .Ns we sing thix lyric now, That our Imp nur places shall till! 'ay 1 days

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The greater the span of years is that separates us from the day upon which we received our diplomas and bid farewell to our Alma Mater the greater be- comes our appreciation of all that Hope gave us. Is this mere sentiment? Hardly. :Xs our years and ex- periences multiply we more and more learn tu dis- criminate between the things that are of value in life and those that are not. In our day the students were no more inclined to make the best use of their oppor- tunities than the students of the present generation- and no less so. NYG had our fun and did our w-irk. lYe criticized and we grumbied. Xlfith it all each of us got a fair amount of what the curriculum offered. That, however was not the most valuable nor the must lasting part of our training. Youth is a time of spiritual questioning and of a seeking after the true meaning of life. This does not always appear on the surface. Yet it is there none the less. To help its students to find a satisfying answer to these ques- tionings has ever been a strong feature of Hope. The emphasis laid upon religious faith and upon re- ligious activities has inspired ideals that have left their impress upon the world. The inspiration to rt- ligious LIFE and religious SERVICE stand nut in my memory as the greatest achievements of Hope. the tjliurcli. Rev. JOHN VAN Ess, D. D., '99 Baxralz, TlIt'5f'fnIu111it7. ldv Il L. Ri'n.n. .-X. Nl Wi X . . 'tmi1.n1ll'i, Infant. Because Hope College claims til he Vln'islian I judge it by its missionary fintput. both in ninnbt s and quality. Its missionaries may remain at lioine s ministers. or layinen or lay women, or come and jc Lls at the front, but they must he missionaries, se under a mandate. A soldier can desert and risk the uoiisernieiices but he cannot politely resign nnrler tire, and get away with it. America refused the inanda e in er Armenia. but a Christian or a Christian c-illeee V cannot so easily dispose ot the Divine mandate. It s up tn the students -if Hnpe College thus In challenge Ilzgt .Yi

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