Juniata College - Alfarata Yearbook (Huntingdon, PA)

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The President Speaks The College Year Book is by no means a new invention. Perhaps it helped suggest the modern picturefnews magazine. If so, it must share responsibility for a development which is a doubtful indication of educational progress. Picturefreading belongs to a primitive rather than a cultivated society. Picturefreading does not require long training, although perfection in the art of photography is a recent development and the college year book has been the beneficiary of this progress. Perhaps our pleasure in perusing a picture book is a persistence into the adult years of our childhood delight in such presentation. If so it is not to be too seriously deprecated for the simplefhearted delights of childhood are too easily lost in the complexities of the adult years. So let us think of the pleasure which we anticipate in again perusing a Juniata year book, not as a throwfhack to the primitive, but as a ref living of that early delight which we had in a beautiful picture book as we glean in this happy manner our impressions of the year on College Hill. In the assurance therefore that nothing I can say about L'The Boy and Girl at Juniata will be as significant or interesting as the pictures themselves, I beg to express the hope that this may be a record not only of happy days but of Worthy living. Yours Very Sincerely, CHARLES C. ELLIS

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4.1 N x Our President

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Prqf.-the Boy's true friend ui' Costly buildin full lib gs, spacious halls, numerous classrooms, Wellfequipped laboratories rary shelves, and vvellfplanned athletic fields are not the real college. These are all very desirable and certainly add to any college, but these without appropriate activities centering in and around them have little place in our idea of a college. It is a place Where individuals join with other individuals in a search for truth. Tru from a test tube, from a text book, from great minds as recorded in literature, and from the experiences of those chosen to guide because of their having experienced more deeply than we ourselves. It is a place where we join together to play the game for the fun of the game, a place where We unite to achieve some special object. These all go to make our college, and Will make any college Worthfvvhile. The 1939 ALFARATA is one of these objects which has been achieved by the united effort of all the student body, and the special effort of the chosen staff. We congratulate you on this achievement, and feel certain that it will fully succeed in its purpose, to recall to you in later years, the events of one of the happiest and most profitable years of your life. I. CLYDE STAYBR th ll12ll