Keuka College - Kiondaga Yearbook (Keuka Park, NY)

Text from Pages 1 - 92 of the 1909 volume:

OHWF.ftSHV OF P s vonujaE iv. OMBHt? in. THE ( OLLEQE PeCORD JOINT STUDENT AND INFORMATION NUMBER. KEUKA PARK, N. Y. JANUARY, 1909. Published Bi-Monthly by Keuka College, and Entered at the Post Office at Keuka Park, New York, as Second-Class Matter. THE COLLEGE RECORD. ANNOUNCEMENTS OF KEUKA INSTITUTE. AND OF KEUKA COLLEGE JOINT STUDENT AND INFORMATION NUMBER. KEUKA PARK, NEW YORK. THE COLLEGE RECORD. COLLEGE CALENDAR. 1908. September 28 — Registration. September 29— Fall Term begins. December 18 — Fall Term ends. December 18 to January 5— Holiday vacation. 1909. January 5 — Winter Term begins. March 26 — Winter Term ends. March 26 to April 6 — Spring vacation. April 6 — Spring Term begins. June 16 — Annual Meeting of Board of Trustees. June 20 — Baccalaureate Sermon. June 21 — Athenaeum Literary Society Anniversary. June 22 — Annual Commencement. THE COLLEGE RECORD. COLLEGE FACULTY. ZEPHANIAH A. SPACE, A. M., D. D., President. lowell c. Mcpherson, a. m., vice-president. CARL CHURCHILL, Ph. B., Dean. ABBIE E. WEEKS, A. M., Dean of the Women. Professor of English. GEORGE W. EDDY, A. M., Professor of Philosophy and History. LEROY M. COFFIN, B. S., Professor of Mathematics. LESTER D. BEERS, B. S., Professor of Science. ALICE A. MENDENHALL, A. B., Professor of Latin and Greek Language and Literature. ABELS. WOOD., A. M., Professor of Oratory. lowell c. Mcpherson, a. m., CLARA BRUCH-McPHERSON, A. B., Sacred Literature. FRANCES S. ROSE, Ph. B., Professor of German. NELLIE GRIFFIN CHURCHILL. Instructor in French. ROSE CHRISTINE CUMINS-GRIFFITH, Director of the Department of Music. Instructor in Piano and Organ. HEINRICH JACOBSEN. Voice and Chorus. THE COLLEGE RECORD. INSTITUTE CALENDAR, 1908-1909. September 1. — Fall Terra begins. November 6. — Fall Term ends. November 9. — First Winter Term begins. December 18. — January 5. — Holiday vacation. January 25-29 — Regents' Examinations. January 29. — First Winter Term ends. February 1. — Second Winter Term begins. March 26. — April 6. — Spring vacation. April 16. — Second Winter Term ends. April 19. — Spring Term begins. June 14-18. — Regents' Examinations. June 16-22. — Anniversary Week. June 17. — Oympic Anniversary. June 18. — Theta Psi Anniversary. June 19. — Graduating Exercises. June 20. — Baccalaureate Sermon. THE COLLEGE RECORD. INSTITUTE FACULTY. ZEPHANIAH A. SPACE, A. M., D. D., President. CARL CHURCHILL, Ph. B., Principal, Ancient History, English III, Bookkeeping. ABBIE E. WEEKS, A. M., Preceptress, English IV. DORA GOODALE JUDD, B. S., EnglisJi Iy English II, English History, Botany. FRANCES S. ROSE, Ph. B., German, Latin I, Cossar. LESTER D. BEERS, B. S., Physics, Chemistry. LEROY M. COFFIN, B. S., Algebra, Geometry. ALICE A. MENDENHALL, A. B., Cicero, Vergil. NELLIE GRIFFIN-CHURCHILL, French. MARY LYNNE SPACE, A. B., Preliminary Subjects, Drawing. BERTHA A. BALL HUNT, Stenography i Typewriting. THE COLLEGE RECORD. TRUSTEES. Term Expires in 1909. FRANK C. BALL Muncie, Ind, JOHN H. JOHNSON Penn Yan, N. Y. H. J. OWENS Bluff Point, N. Y. T. A. STEVENS Keuka Park, N. Y. A.M.TAYLOR Keuka Park, N. Y. WILLIAM R. WOOD .Fairport, N. Y. HENRY HURLBUT Keuka Park, N. Y. C. S. PENDLETON Oneonta, N. Y. Terra Expires in 1910. JULIA A. BALL Keuka Park, N. Y, ROBERT STEWART Rochester, N. Y. M. C. MINER West Oneonta, N. Y. C. W KIMBALL Penn Yan, N. Y. L. M. HUNT Springfield, Mass. WALTER B. TOWER Penn Yan, N. Y. WILLIAM McLATCHY Keuka Park, N. Y. H. R. SAUNDERS North Scriba, N. Y. Term Expires In 1911. Mrs. A. C. McKOON Keuka Park, N. Y. N. B. JACKSON Keuka Park, N. Y. WILLIAM W. BEANE Keuka Park, N. Y. LOWELL C. MCPHERSON Keuka Park, N. Y. W. H. JUDD • Keuka Perk, N. Y. Z. A. SPACE Keuka Park, N. Y. JOSEPH A. SERENA Syracuse, N. Y. ALBERT CROSBY Keuka Park, N. Y, THE COLLEGE RECORD. OFFICERS OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES. Z. A. SPACE President l. c. Mcpherson, vice-president W. H. JUDD Secretary and Treasurer EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. Z. A. SPACE, Chairman. W. H. JUDD, SEC. T. A. STEVENS. H. W. HURLBUT. ALBERT CROSBY. lowell c. Mcpherson. joseph a. serena. HONORARY BOARD OF TRUSTEES. No person shall be eligible for membership in this Board until active service has been rendered on the Board of Trustees for a period often years. GEORGE R. HOLT, D. D., PHINEAS FORD, Jackson, Mich. Rochester, N. Y. A. W. GATES, ESQ., L. W. RAYMOND, Thompson,; Pa. East Extan, Maine. Mrs. A. M. PENDLETON, Oneonta, N. Y. THE COLLEGE RECORD. ' I 'HIS number of the College Record presents a consider- able amount of material prepared by students. All matter under Athletics has been prepared by them, and in ad- dition they have presented several exercises written in the regular course of work, an article on the advantages of Keuka College, and the work of the Athenaeum Society. THE COLLEGE RECORD. 11 KKUKA COLLEGE. TJOW many times we have heard the Psalmist's remark - ■ - - changed to express the thought of some enthusiast re- garding the location of Keuka College, Beautiful for situation is Keuka College. It is a most attractive place, and is rapidly becoming a popu- lar summer resort, as well as a very desirable center for the education of young men and women who in all probability would be denied the privileges of higher education were it not for the opportunities here given. Dean Churchill has issued a folder containing the following statement : Keuka College and Institute is for those who have $190, or even a little less, for a year's school. When you can get a college education at a cost of $800 it will pay you to borrow the money, if necessary. By comparing the earnings of edu- cated and of uneducated men in Massachusetts, the cash value of every day in upper schools is found to be $10. A day at • Keuka College costs about $1.00. The profit is about 900 per cent. Add to this the profit in character and possibilities and I am sure you will think more seriously of Keuka College than ever before as a place to educate young people of limited means. But not only is the College a place for the class just men- tioned, but a most wholesome place for young people of all classes, irrespective of means or intellectual qualifications, ex- cept that they be prepared to do academic work. Parents and guardians, who are concerned about the relig- ious life of their children and wards, should write the College and ascertain what is now being done, from the Christian standpoint, to interest and direct the thought of all who attend school here. A special Bible department, under the management and in- struction of Mrs. E. C. McPherson, A. B., is organized, and begins its work with the opening of the winter term. 12 THE COLLEGE RECORD. AN OPEN LETTER. TT gives us pleasure to report that Keuka College, which has • ■ cost us so much time, energy, and sacrifice, appears to be entering on a new period of development. The Disciples of Christ have joined with us, and are entering heartily into the work of raising funds for its development and equipment. Some of us have always felt that to be thoroughly prepared for teaching or preaching the Gospel, our workers should be educated in our colleges. Candidates for our pulpits appeal to us more strongly if they have been educated at Hillsdale or Bates than if they have been trained elsewhere. Then, too, Keuka College, is more than a college where the word of God is taught. It is a place where Christian union, Which we have so beautifully preached, is being exemplified. In order to interest a large number of people and give them an opportunity in sharing in the dividends of joy and success that are sure to come, we are organizing a Keuka College Association. ' ' Any person may become a member by the payment of one dollar per year. No other funds or dues will be required. Let it be clearly understood that the membership is to be renewed annually. If not, the member simply loses his place in the Association, and his name will be cancelled from the enrollment. The members of the Association are expected to maintain a lively interest in the prosperity and Christian influence of the college. Everybody's business is nobody's business, so this is being delegated to consecrated women lest it come to naught. Will you take the matter up and talk it up in your church and community ? Get as many members as you can ? Give every one an opportunity to share in this great enterprise ? If you can not, kindly write us, giving a list of brethren and sisters in your church whom you think we might interest. We shall be glad to send you any literature of the College that you may desire, and help you in every way that we can. Of course many appeals are made to your church and peo- ple, but here is one that ought not to be overlooked, and in which we have a common interest. THE COLLEGE RECORD. 13 Will you do what you can, now, and thus help in doing what will ultimately prove to be a timely and beneficent work, and add greatly to our efficiency and usefulness as a people ? Sincerely, Mrs. L. C. McPherson, Mrs. Z. A. Space, President. See. and Treas. T WHY KKUKA COLLEGE IS A WISE CHOICE. 4 ' With all thy getting , get understanding. ' ' HE college bred man or woman is the one capable of the widest understanding. He shows his superiority in every calling of life. He succeeds better in the learned pro- fesssions than the person who takes up these vocations with merely a high school experience, because his foundation is broader and deeper ; because he has received the seeds of a wider life, and because he knows more of men. The business man who has taken a college course is the one who has the most executive power and the greatest possibilities of success. The mind is cultivated, and wrong tendency is pruned away by a college education in the same manner that a grape vine, fertilized and pruned, is fitted to bear more fruit. Some people rise above their surroundings ; the majority do not. Therefore in selecting a college it is well to take thought concerning its location and environment. A more picturesque spot could hardly be found than Keuka Lake. A more ideal location for a college could certainly not be chosen than the site of Keuka. Removed from the noise, excitement, and attractions of a great city, the college has an air of repose which tends to promote concentrated study. Yet it is not isolated, for its connection with a flourishing town by both trolley and steamboat affords ample opportunity for necessary busines's or pleasure. The beautiful in nature appeals to every one of us, especially during our formative years, when that part of our knowledge obtained from text-books is being accumulated. Every student of Keuka learns to love the lake, the hills. If he is in the least romantic, he takes great pleasure in the variety of indescribable sunsets. 14 THE COLLEGE RECORD. The physical side of education is not neglected at Keuka. The campus is supplied with tennis courts. The basket ball team has done splendid work already this year, for it has won a majority of the games played with other schools. There is also a base ball team. When the lake freezes, as it does every winter, the skating is fine. In the spring the lake is used for swimming and boating. The climber finds an abundance of hills. To most persons the expense of a college course is an item of considerable importance. An education is supposed to be costly, and, therefore, out of the reach of many capable, bright young people. If they could find a school where the expenses were light, or where they could partly earn their way, they would enter without the slightest hesitation. Keuka is within the reach of every ambitious young ma n or young woman. It is well, also, for people who have plenty of money to practice economy, when such a school as Keuka is accessible, and to save their surplus income for use in after life. It is not wise for the young person with means un- necessarily to exhaust his resources during his college years. He should save as large a proportion as possible for starting himself in his chosen profession, or for establishing his life work. Every one should take a general college course as a founda- tion before he specializes in any direction. In the physical w7orld disproportioned growth is called deformity. In the mental world specialization without a sufficiently broad foun- dation results in narrow-mindedness. Daniel Coit Gilman, the first President of Johns Hopkins University, said : If the drift of university work in this country is toward prema- ture and excessive specialization, many a mariner is doomed to shipwreck on that rock. In Germany, where specializa- tion has been favored, the cry is, tl Too many specialists! Happy and fortunate is the specialist who knows something about everything, and everything about some one thing. Keuka College affords every opportunity for a broad and comprehensive education. It offers Classical, Scientific, Busi- ness, and Biblical courses. All its diplomas are granted under the seal of the University of the State of New York. The THE COLLEGE RECORD. 15 State Board of Regents says that Keuka is among the best of the small colleges in the State. Splendid advantages in both vocal and instrumental music are offered. A special feature of the vocal department is the large chorus class, which is enjoyed by all its members. A concert was given be- fore the Christmas holidays, and preparations are in progress now for another, to be given at the end of the next college term. There is a religious influence about Keuka too important to be passed over lightly. Keuka is not a denominational col- lege, but it is a Christian college. A deplorable tendency toward atheism prevails at the present day among college stu- dents. This is the result of the neglect of proper moral training while striving for intellectual attainments. The two should go hand in hand. Then the result will be graduates cultured in the highest sense of the word. Of the graduates of Keuka, a large percentage are men and women engaged in Christian work, and in educational work. Only a strong fac- ulty and energetic, ambitious students could make such a record. Keuka proves that the quality of the men, rather than large endowments, make a college. One of the most attractive things about Keuka is that it is a co-educational school. In the West, where so many pro- gressive schools and universities are coming to the front on account of excellence of scholarship, co-education is not a question. It is a settled fact. Experience has proven that the highest grade of work is done, and the best results are reaped when young men and women are educated in the same college. Boys and girls are together in the home and in their early school life. After they are out in the world they are thrown together. Why should they be separated during their college life ? Men's ideals of womanhood is raised by contact with the college bred girl. Men who have definite views for life wield a valuable influence over young women whose tendency is to act on caprice. The students at Keuka are enthusiastic about the social life of the school. Every Saturday evening, when there is no basket ball game, some kind of entertainment is planned. These gatherings seem to be enjoyed by both teachers and pupils. The Y. W. C A. and Y. M. C. A. are active organi- 16 THE COLLEGE RECORD . zations in the machinery of the college. In the literary society, college credit is given for the work done. It is true that Keuka is a small college, but the arguments brought forward in favor of large institutions are overwhelmed by the advantages of small schools. In great colleges the student of ability loses his identity. He has no individuality. Only the occasional genius receives proper personal atten- tion. Students come into contact with their professors merely in the class room. They do not have sufficient opportunity for recitation, for the classes are too large. In Keuka each student has his own particular place, as in the home. Are not the advantages of Keuka College very evident ? The location is ideal, the environments clean and sweet. The expenses are so low that the school is open to everyone. A general college education is necessary before specializing, and Keuka offers a broad, splendid course. The Christian atmos- phere is wholesome, and the social life is pleasant. Keuka College is a college where are learned the lessons of true living, that living which produces ideal homes, honest busi- ness, and ultimate success. Keuka Institute. —M. M., 'op. THE ATHENAEUM SOCIETY. r I 'HE Athenaeum Literary Society occupies a spacious and ■ ■ attractive room on the fourth floor. It was designed especially for the society, and is furnished with seats, oak chairs, and table, and a new upright piano. Sash curtains at the windows, and a large hanging lamp add much to the attractiveness of the room. The object of this Society is the improvement of its mem- bers in parliamentary law, the art of public speaking, and literary composition. The student feels the need of these things, the first two of which cannot be acquired in the class- room. In order to make the work interesting and definite, this last term the Society has been studying the main features of China, and will continue to do so as long as the work is profitable. At the commencement of the program the devotional exer- are onducted by the Chaplain. The programs are made THE COLLEGE RERORD. 17 up of papers, short talks, abstracts, and stories on China, the last to brighten the programs. They are also made more attractive by a few musical numbers, which are given by the members and friends of the Society. Entire control and management is in the hands of its mem- bers, who are led by the President and assisted by the Vice-Presi- dent. The Vice-President, with the committee of President, Secretary, and Musical Director, plan and assign the work. All the members are very much interested in the welfare of the Society, and willingly take all the assignments. They also take an active part in the business meetings which follow the literary program. With a pleasant Society room and a sum of money in the treasury for the purpose of furnishing the room better than at present, certainly the Athenaeums should be inspired to do good work, as they have done in the past years, and they are in hopes to make it even more profitable in the near future. — The Preside?it. JOHN RUSKIN'S TEACHING AND INFLUENCE. JOHN RUSKIN was born in London in 1819. His father was a wine merchant, who had grown wealthy in his trade. His mother was a woman of cultivated tastes ; a strict disciplinarian, vitally interested in the education and moral training of her son. Both parents were lovers of good pictures and good books. The boy read daily with his mother ; the Bible was the book most read, the influence of which is shown everywhere in his writings. By frequent excursions into the country with his family, the boy learned to love the flowers and the charms of landscape. On account of ill health he was kept under a private tutor until he entered Christ College, Oxford, at the age of seventeen. He was not an especially brilliant student, and was compelled to leave his college work after two years, on account of his health. In 1842, however, he received his degree. His parents intended him for the Church, but the narrcwness of the ministry and the shams of the people did not appeal to him, so he decided to give his life to art study and criticism, H e married a girl who later be- 18 THE COLLEGE RECORD. came infatuated with Millais, the artist. This was a deep sor- row to Ruskin, but he bore it nobly, even allowing her to re- ceive a divorce from him, and he gave her away at the mar- riage alter. This sermon of forgiveness, together with many others he gave to the world, although they were not delivered from the pulpit ; and his influence is being felt in nations which he never expected to influence. Ruskin was a realist. The people up to this time had been looking into the past for the beautiful, but Ruskin believed that there was enough beauty in nature itself. The artist learned from him to study nature as it is, and not to idealize nature. He believed that one must be willing to see the beau- tiful, and by beauty he meant, to show sympathy to men, to be willing and glad to work for the joy of doing work well, and above all to keep clear our sight of the real mysteries and and nobility of life. He believed that there is enough in nature around one for inspection, if only one will see and study to understand it. The arts must be the true representation of the character of the people of the times, said Ruskin. One cannot truly con- ceive anything truly fine until one's character is right. The truly beautiful arts must come from the innermost thoughts of a sincere people. He believed that one's character was framed, to a great extent, by surroundings, and that pleasant surround- ings must be had if the people were to be raised from their lowly places. He was very practical in his ideas, and he did not believe in talking high ideals to a man who was hungry and cold. He believed that all humanity must be made com- fortable physically before they can be elevated morally. He realized keenly with what the working class had to contend. He knew that the great mass of men, and even women and children, were working with all their strength to keep the wolf from the door. This is all they were doing and all they could do, so something must be done for them. There were plenty of people who were playing with their horses and gowns who might a great deal better spend money on some useful thing, that is, something useful to humanity, and for these Ruskin had his advice. At the death of his father, Ruskin was left a large fortune, THE COLLEGE RECORD. 19 almost the whole amount of which was spent in some charit- able way. He set an example in making parks. He re- modeled or tore down or re-built many tenement houses, so that a few might have more comfortable homes ; he brought to the doors of the poor his treasuries of art, science, litera- ture, and poetry ; he founded and endowed museums ; he offered these costly and precious collections to the people ; he wore out his life in teaching them the elements of art ; he gave his money and his life for the sake of humanity ; he showed the working man how to use his tools, and how to be happy by doing his best in the place God had put him. He showed girls why they should read and how this read- ing should be done ; he tried to make them realize how much importance was placed upon them in this life ; he taught them how they should be educated in order to know great teachers and men of the past ; he laid great emphasis on the place that girls and women hold in the world ; they can make or spoil it. He taught them the duties of the home and the home life. He put forth an idea almost entirely new in his time, that women might enter any profession with benefit to the profession and the world. He showed them what a broad field lay open be- fore them. At the time Ruskin put forth all these ideas the world called him somewhat impractical, but let us see what the world is do- ing to-day along these same lines. Perhaps the world is not directly influenced by him, but its reforms follow very closely the ideals which he set forth. To-day we have public parks ; now there are many more public museums than- in Ruskin' s time. Slowly the ugly, tumbled down tenement houses are baing re-built, with a view to beauty and comfort. Many busi- ness men are making the men under them more comfortable by providing for them a place where they may rest during the noon hour. The smoke of the cities is being done away with, and even in New York City unnecessary noise is being quieted. Women are being educated, with great benefit to the home and the business world. They are beginning to realize their duties and are rising to the opportunities. She openeth her mouth with wisdom, and on her tongue is the law of kind- ness. 20 THE COLLEGE RECORD. Ruskin said, Whatever our station in life may be, at this crisis, those of us who mean to fulfill our duty ought first to live on as little as we can, and secondly, to do all the whole- some work for it we can, and to spend all we can spare in doing all the sure good we can. This he did ; this is the summary of his life. Class Exercise. — C. B. L. 'op WOMAN'S SUFFRAGE. A 7 OMEN -should have the right to vote, first, because V they are men's equals. They are morally better. In the reports of prisons, reformatories, etc., men's and boys' names appear more often than girls' and women's. Women, time and time again, have been admitted to have firm reason, endurance, foresight, skill, patience, temperate will and strength. Are not these the qualifications so greatly needed in the councils of the republic ? Where then, does the legiti- macy of soverignty lie ? With the thousands who have the power without these qualifications, or with the other thou- sands who have the qualifications but are forcibly excluded from the power ? In education women are men's equals. Con- sult the statistics of the Common and High Schools. You find that there are more among the girls who graduate than there are among the boys. Then there are women who have a higher education. Are not teachers, business women, lawyers, college graduates, nurses and doctors as intelligent, yes, more intelligent, than most voters? Surely women with such edu- cation are more capable of voting than many men who do vote. But the political system of to-day renders all women, no matter how well born, how rich, how intelligent, how servicable to the state, the political inferiors of all men, no matter how basely born, how poverty stricken, how ignorant, how vicious, how brutal. The pauper in the almshouse may vote ; the lady who devotes herself to getting the almshouse made habitable can not. Communities are agitated and legislatures convulsed to devise means to secure the right of suffrage to any illiterate voter, while well-educated women in the state are left in silence, obliterated behind this cloud of often besotted ignor- ance. THE COLLEGE RECORD. 2 1 All people are familiar with the great axiom of our govern- ment, Taxation without representation is tyranny. We have been taught that in union there is strength. Have we a true union, have we a representative government when one-half of the people have no voice in it ? Are not women taxed without representation ? When a woman has stock in a business deal she can vote in its direction, why not for her taxes ? There is in this Union State to-day over a billion dol- lars' worth of property owned by women. Ought they to have no vote in the government when they pay taxes ? Women ask that the government mold a constitution for our State consis- tent with its profession ; that our government be no more false to its trust, and that justice be henceforth enthroned as law. Woman should be allowed to vote because of her great in- fluence on politics. Observe what great good woman has done in school betterment in the last twenty-eight years. She has made the schools more sanitary, the teachers more efficient, the methods of instruction better. Even the lowest people de- sire to have their children's condition bettered, therefore if women had a voice in the government they would endeavor to pass law's for their children's betterment. If mothers knew politics better they could instruct their children in politics, thus making the citizens of the next generation better politicians. For years campaign speeches, of different political parties, have been remarkably free from vulgarity. Why ? Because the stump speakers have suddenly become chaste ? No, not at all. But because fully one-half of the listeners have been women. Can you not see in this a prophecy ? When you give women the ballot for a lever they will help you to level up, rather than down, the political status. Ruskin advises us when in doubt to seek great men's opin- ions. One of Plato's wisest sayings is that, in the administra- tion of a State, neither a woman as a woman, or a man as a man, has any special functions, but the gitts are equally dif- fused in both sexes. Woman should be allowed to vote because she would be the w7orking- woman's protection. Ought she not to be protected ? Consider her economic value. The suffrage as a right and a privilege for woman is urged for the protection and advance- 22 THE COLLEGE RECORD. merit of our industrial and self-supporting homes. The gov- ernmental stamp of unequality extends to governmental pay, and women receive invariably lower salaries for equal service with men. Avenues for woman's employment are over- crowded ; from sheer necessity they have been forced to fight against prejudice and to invade men's departments. Men can can not, or will, not represent the working- woman. Men repre- sent only the ordinary interests of life, while women would, if the chance were given them, represent the interests of home. Men never have, of their own volition, granted a right to wo- man. It had only been after persistent efforts, on the part of women themselves, that any point has been gained. Take, for instance, the bills concerning woman's right of disposal of her own children and right to her own property. This shows that one class cannot represent another without doing injustice to the class represented. Women should be allowed to vote because debarring them is against the Constitution. The preamble of that noble in- strument declares that, we the people of the State of New York, grateful to Almighty God for our freedom, in order to secure its blessings do establish this Constitution. It will scarcely be denied that women are people. Women are counted in the basis of representation. What absurdity has been made of language, by the use of of words utterly without meaning, so long as women are disfranchised. Of course, the people of New York State did not establish this Constitution — only a portion of them. The opening paragraph of that grand first article of the Con- stitution, which is, in reality, our bill of rights, contains the • words : Section i. No member of this State shall be disfran- chised or deprived of any rights or privileges secured to any citizen, unless by law of the land or judgment of his peers. What does this mean ? Women are members of the United States and of the State in which they live. They have been declared so by the XIV amendment of the National Constitu- tion and by Section 1492 of the United States. Women are Still disfranchised. On what ground? Not by the judgment of their peers— that they never had in any court, nor can the words law of the land be held as disfranchising women, for THE COLLEGE RECORD. 23 the most careful interpreters of the Constitution in Art. i have declared that : These words do not mean a statute passed by the Legislature for the purpose of working wrong. The mean- ing is that no member of this State shall be disfranchised or deprived of any right or privilege, unless the matter shall be adjudged against him upon trial under course of law. By per- mitting all the people of this State, women as well as men, to elect officers who shall make and enact laws under which we must all live, for the first time the actualities of government will coincide with the Constitution. REFUTATION. The argument that women should not vote because they cannot bear arms is useless. Is not the work done by nurses such as Florence Nightingale, in Crimea, and Clara Barton, the founder of the Red Cross Society, equal to the work of the common soldier ? When women have shouldered the musket it has been to as much advantage as when men did. Consider the noble records of women who have enlisted and served as men. Take the services rendered by Jeanne D'Arc, who buckled on her sword and led her countrymen to victory. But America is a peaceful country, and if war should ari.se there are sufficient numbers of men soldiers. It is an absurd argument that it is women's place to stay at home and care for children and home. It would take the wo- man no longer to vote than it does the man. If woman's place is at home, man's is in the field or office. It is said that woman sufferage wilt destroy the homes of the State and obliterate the womanliness of the women. But this is not true. The State will have better homes and better women because it enlarges the sphere of the sex. The ballot will not unsex woman, because the constitution of women, physical and men- tal, is governed by a law as old as the universe. Women will be women, with or without ballot. The theory that not all women desire to vote is preposterous. It is not compulsory that all men vote. Why should the law be different for women ? It is a foolish argument that women should not vote because 24 THE COLLEGE RECORD. they never have. Should the right of voting be denied the boys on their reaching the age of twenty-one years ? The argument that the illiterate would be predominant is not true. There are one hundred thousand women who have an education to counterbalance twenty thousand illiterate women. conclusion. Therefore, since women are men's equals, since they are taxed without representation, since they have a great effect on politics, and since it is not contrary to or against the Constitu- tion, women be allowed the right to vote. — M. S. Keuka Institute, ipop. Class exercise in argumentation. THE COLLEGE SEAL. r PHE College officers have felt for some time the need of a ■ ■ new seal. The one in use up to this time has not been felt to adequately express the spirit that prevades this institu- tion. Therefore an entirely new seal, both in form and motto, has been adopted, and appears for the first time with this num- ber of The College Record. We hope the device for this new seal has been adopted in a spirit of true prophecy. If it has been so chosen, it means that not only from warm summer breezes of refreshment, and rich sunshine of prosperity shall come grace and growth and beauty, but that every winter gale that twists its branches, and every storm that thunders round its head and strains at its roots, shall only bend it into curves of strength, and send its roots to seek their holding and their nourishment deeper down, to spread their fibres in a soil where neither drouth nor flood can come. The class of 1909, Keuka College, has requested to be allow- ed to present to the College the press for the new seal, and the College wishes to express its pleasure in the spirit of loyalty and helpfulness indicated by this class gift. THE COLLEGE RECORD. 25 - THE PROGRAM OF PRESENTATION. Invocation. Keuka College without a Seal, Miss Ball. Music. History of the Seal, Mr. Colelli. 11 E Glande Quercura Kducimus, Miss L,ockhart. Music. Presentation of Seal, Mr. Maynard, Class President. Response, President Space. 26 THE COLLEGE RECORD. BASEBALL. T3 ASEBALL at Keuka has no rival as a school sport. As — strong a team is maintained as possible, and a reason- able number of games are played. The base ball team of 1908 was probably the fastest that ever represented this school, and it is with considerable pride that their schedule of games played is presented. OPPOSING TEAM. KEUKA. OPPONENTS. Pulteney 9 o Starkey Seminary 9 o Lyons (Ontario League) (11 innings . . 1 2 Cook Academy o 2 Lima Seminary 17 o Empire Bridge Co., Elmira 1 o Mansfield State Normal 3 5 Rochester Business Institute 11 o Lima Seminary 10 2 Rochester Business Institute 3 1 Cook Academy jo o Mansfield State Normal 8 4 Canandaigua (Y. M. C. A.) 12 4 Willard State Hospital 9 2 Canandaigua (Y. M. C. A.) 9 3 SUMMARY. Games Won 12 dames Lost 3 Total 15 Kcuka's total score 112 Opponent's total score 25 Although several members of last year's team have left j te II w it -m% fc -sh m « - i W6B • ■ • Mir iJir 5i- -■ few vji m , 28 THE COLLEGE RECORD. school, we are anticipating placing the fastest team in the field that has ever represented the school. Several games are already scheduled for 1909 with the lead- ing teams of Western new York. — Glenn L. Judd, Mgr. TENNIS. TT'IFTEEN ALL. That is the cry which you can in- ■ variably hear when you are within hearing distance of our tennis courts. Of course, the day must be favorable for tennis, but then at Keuka, we get more than our share of fine tennis days, in the fall and spring terms. We have two of the finest courts in our section of the country. In that, we have something to be thankful for. They are clay courts, and the only drawback is this, that when you attempt to play soon after rain, you have the pleas- ure of carrying nearly one-half of the clay on the court about your feet. Tennis is undisputedly one of the foremost of American sports, both in popularity and in health-giving. By the way, have you ever played at tennis ? No? Well, you don't know what you've missed. No more charming and fascinating game ever existed. It is its fascination that has made the game so popular. Indeed, so attractive is tennis to Keuka' s lady stu- dents, that even when the mercury in the thermometer hovers near 250, they persist in going out to play. Everyone at our College is directly or indirectly inter- ested in tennis. Young ladies, young men, professors and their wives, and even their children, one and all, have contributed their efforts toward making this game popular. Efforts will be put forth this coming spring to develop a tennis team to represent Keuka College. There is certainly enough material available, but it must be developed. Efforts will be made also, to get every girl at Keuka interested in tennis. One court will be for their exclusive use. It is the hope of the management that a Girls Tennis Club will be or- ganized, to look after their own interests on the courts. The tennis courts will be gotten in shape as early as possi- ble in the spring. We ask for the earnest support of each stu- THE COLLEGE RECORD. 29 dent interested, to make this department of our Athletic sports a success, as well as a means of developing College spirit and good fellowship among loyal Keukians. We hope to make the tennis season of the spring of 1909 so attractive, that each student, professor, or officer of the College will wish to own a tennis racket before spring is over. — Ralph Cerreta, Mgr. BASKET BALL. TDASKET BALL at Keuka College carries with it a wide - — interest among the student body. It affords our only athletic sport for fall and winter, and although we do not boast of our strength in this line, we are able to cope success- fully with all the schools and Y. M. C. A.'s in our. vicinity. The team of '07 and '08 was especially strong. They played a schedule of 22 of the best games that could be arranged, winning 16 games out of the number. Our team this year, although somewhat weaker at the beginning of the season, is developing into a strong well bal- anced team. They have played, with satisfactory results, the smaller part of their schedule, and are working hard to be able to make it interesting for the teams which they are to meet during the remainder of the season. The Athletic Association supports two teams, giving the second team from 4 to 6 matched games with second teams of the neighboring schools. — Will R. Whitmarsh, Mgr. THE QUESTION OF COST. T OR the great majority of young men and women, where they shall go to college, and often, whether they go at all, is a matter of dollars. Few are so situated that they can consider only the advantages of each college in equipment, location, and courses, and treat the question of cost as inciden- tal. And perhaps this is well enough after all, for many of the best students that come to Keuka College are those who have to count the cost most carefully. The very fact that educa- tion is hard to secure seems to make it doubly precious. 30 THE COLLEGE RECORD. Keuka College was founded as a school for poor boys and girls. The dream of those that started this work was that through this institution the benefits of education might be placed within the reach of those to whom they would be other- wise be denied. And this dream has, in a great measure, become a reality. Many students have passed through this school who have not been poor, but the aim of the founders has never been lost sight of. The rates of tuition and other school charges have remained low ; and most of the work about the institution has been done by students. Of course the number of students who can work through any institution is sharply limited. But by keeping all school charges at the lowest possible point the school is reaching those to whom it was meant to minister. The tuition at Keuka College is only $36 per year. The rooms, most of which are unusually large for dormitory rooms, rent from $22.00 to $28.00 per year. A room on the east side, looking out over one of the most beautiful of lakes, costs but $26.00 per student when shared by a room-mate. The board- ing hall is under the charge of the college. An abundance of plain, nourishing food is furnished, and the rates are but $2.50 per week. Books cost from $5.00 to $15.00 per year. The laundry is run by a student and the rates are very low. As the school is situated in the country, few calls for money arise for other than school expenses. Altogether it might be called the school where the dollar goes farthest. The question may be asked : How can a good school be run with such low fees ? The answer is : On account of the sacri- fice of many generous men and women, who are giving the money necessary to make up the difference between what students can pay and what good teachers cost. Do you wish to help ? You can, with money, or by sending a student, or by coming yourself as a student. If you desire to know about the quality of the work here, there are some in- teresting points that any officer of the school will be glad to present. THE COLLEGE RECORD. 31 ADMISSION. r [ 'HE requirements for admission to the Freshman College - ■ class are practically those for the new college entrance diploma, now issued by the Education Department of the State of New York. For 1909, however, these requirements will be slightly modified as regards the Science course (leading to the degree B. S. ), in that 10 counts, or two years' work, will be required in foreign language instead of 20. The re- quirements for admission, as in effect for 1909, are given be- low. In estimating work done in schools not under the Regents of the State of New York, five counts will be allowed for each subject studied forty weeks, with five recitations per week, and satisfactorily passed in examination. Subjects studied less than a year will usually receive credit in propor- tion to the time. In all cases the New York State Regents' Syllabus will be taken as the standard in estimating the value of work done. Students who offer subjects for entrance which have not been passed in Regents' examinations must present a proper certificate of their completion. This must be made by the principal or other properly qualified officer of the school in which the work completed. Blanks for this purpose may be obtained from the College. In the Institute or Preparatory Department, work done in other schools will be credited toward graduation when certified to as above, or when it has been passed in Regents' exami- nations. The school reserves the right to refuse credit to credentials from any school which is clearly below the standard required by the Regents' Department of New York State. REQUIREMENTS FOR ADMISSION TO FRESHMAN CLASS I909. A. B. Course. B S. Course. English 13 English 13 Algebra 7 Algebra 7 Plane Geometry 5 Plane Geometry 5 Latin 20 Foreign Language 10 Second Foreign Language 10 Physics 5 History 5 History 5 Elective 10 Elective 25 70 70 32 THE COLLEGE RECORD. SPRING REVIEW. ' I 'HERE has always been more or less call for spring - ■ courses at Keuka Institute. Especially, teachers from other States where many elementary schools close in April, have wished to come here for the remainder of our school year. The school has never been in position to meet this demand in a fully satisfactory manner. To offer special spring courses would require a considerably larger force of teachers, and the present high school courses of study hardly admit of short time subjects. For the present year, however, the class work in all full year subjects has been planned with a view to the completion of all advanced work about the middle of April. Consequent- ly these classes will begin reviewing at that time, and as the whole of each subject will be rapidly gone over in review, a course can be had in almost any regular subject. This affords an opportunity for teachers and others who wish to freshen their knowledge in some line of school work to do so quickly, and at very moderate expense. Even one or two new subjects might be taken in this way by teachers, as their experience in teaching and study would enable them to cover the work more rapidly than less mature students. The cost of such a course is very small, tuition being but $9 for the term and board $2.50 per week. A room in the Dor- mitory would cost from $6 to $7 for the entire term. Teachers who are ambitious to broaden their teaching range should certainly investigate this plan. Surely no pleasanter or more profitable way of spending the months of May and June could be found. Information regarding the courses available will be fur- nished upon request. COURSE LEADING TO TtfE A. B. COURSE. FRESHMAN YEAR. FAI.L TERM. Latin. 5 fGreek. 4 TFrench, 5 tGertnan. 5 Rhetoric. 4 Advanced Algebra. 5 Literary Society. 1 WINTER TERM. SPRING TERM. Latin. 5 tGreek. 4 tFrench. 5 tGerman. 5 Rhetoric. 4 Solid Geometry. 5 Literary Society. Latin. 5 tGreek. 4 tFrench. 5 tGerman. 5 Rhetoric. 4 Trigonometry. 5 Literary Society. 1 SOPHOMORE YEAR. Latin. 4 Latin. 4 Latin. 4 tGreek. 4 tGreek. 4 tGreek. 4 tFrench. 3 tFrench. 3 tFrench. 3 tGerman. 3 tGerman. 3 tGerman. 3 History of Literature. 3 Hist, of Literature. 3 Hist, of Literature 3 Sacred Literature. 1 Sacred Literature. 1 Sacred Literature, 1 Am Constitutional and Am. Constitutional and Am. Constitutional and Political History. 3 Political History. 3 Political History. 3 Physics. 5 Physics. 5 Physics, 5 Analytic Geometry. 5 Differential Calculus 5 Integral Calculus. 5 Argumentation. 2 Argumentation. 2 Argumentation. 2 Literary Society. 1 Literary Society. 1 Literary Society. 1 JUNIOR YEAR. Hist. German Lit. 3 Hist. German Lit. 3 German Lyrics. 3 Hist French. 3 Hist. French L it. 3 French Lyrics. 3 Epic Poetry. 3 Lyric Poetry. 3 Dramatic Poetry. 3 Mediaeval History. 5 Mod. European Hist. 5 Mod. European Hist. 5 Hist. of Education. 5 Hist. of Education and Methods and Observa- Am. Literature. 2 Methods. 5 tion. 5 Chemistry. 4 Am. Literature. 2 Am. Literature. 2 Biology. 5 Chemistry. 4 Chemistry. 4 tLiterary Society. 1 Biology. 5 Biology. 5 Literary Society. 1 Literary Society. 1 SENIOR YEAR. Psych. Applied. 2 Applied Pcychology. 2 Ethics. 5 Psych. General. 3 Psychology, General 3. English Prose. 3 English Prose. 3 English Prose. 3 Sociology, 5 Economics. 5 Logic. 5 Shakespeare. 2 Shakespeare 2 Shakespeare. 2 Astronomy. 2 Astronomy. 2 Astronomy, 2 Goethe's Faust 2 Mod. German Writers 2 Goethe's Faust. 2 Literary Society. 1 Literary Society. 1 Literary Society. 1 Geology. 3 Geology, 3 Geology 3 ♦Elective fOne required 34 THE COLLEGE RECORD. COURSE LEADING TO TJ4E B. S. DEGREE. FRESHMAN YEAR. FALL TERM. WINTER TERM. SPRING TERM. tFrench or German. 5 Rhetoric. 4 Advanced Algebra. 5 Chem istry. 4 Literary Society. 1 tFrench or German. 5 Rhetoric. 4 Solid Geometry. 5 Chemistry. 4 Literary Society. 1 tFrench or German. 5 Rhetoric. 4. Trigonometry. 5 Chemistry. 4 Literary Society. 1 SOPHOMORE YEAR. tFrench or German. 5 Hist, of Literature. 3 Physics. 5 Analytic Geometry. 5 Sacred Literature. 1 Am. Constitutional and Political History. 3 Literary Society. 1 tFrench or German. 5 History of Literature. 3 Physics. 5 Differential Calculus. 5 Sacred Literature. 1 Am. Constitutional and Political History. 3 Literary Society. 1 tGerman or French. 5 History of Literature. 3 Physics. 5 Integral Calculus. 5 Sacred Literature. 1 Am Constitutional and Political History. 3 Literary Society. 1 JUNIOR YEAR. Hist. German Lit. 3 Hist. Germmau Lit. 3 German Lyrics. 3 Hist, French Lit. 3 Hist. French Lit. 3 French Lyrics. 3 Epic Poetry. 3 Lyric Poetry. 3 Dramatic Poetry. 3 Mediaeval Hist. 5 Modern Europ. Hist. 5 Mod. Europ. Hist. 5 Biology. 5 Biology. 5 Biology. 5 -American Literature 2 American Literature 2 American Literature. 2 Literary Society. 1 Literary Society. 1 Literary Society. 1 SENIOR YEAR. Psychology Applied. 2 Psychology, Applied. 2 Ethics. 5 Psychology, General. 3 Psychology, General. 3 Astronomy. 2 Astronomy. 2 Astronomy. 2 Geology. 3 Geology. 3 Geology. 3 English Prose. 3 English Prose. 3 xEng. Prose. 3 Economics. 5 Logic. 5 'Sociology. 5 Shakespeare. 2 x'Shakespeare. 2 Shakespeare. 2 Mod Germ. Writers. 2 Goethe's Faust. 2 x Goethe's Faust. 2 ' Literary Society. 1 'Literary Society. 1 x Literary Society. 1 tivc. rOlIC r'-'|iiircd The figures after each study indicate the number of class periods per week. The rut ire- course required 2,400 class periods. 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CD U III Year. cient. Year. glish. rithme Year. 1., and Dgraph gq D a = w 6013 13 00 glish, gebra. tin. eek. story, tany. glish, tin. eek. story, ysiolo vance glish, tin. eek ometr; ysics. glish, tin. eek. story, :. Alg emisti ysical G — (« -•- o G CS l. •- J- T3 G CS V _C G CS - •- .G J3 W JOKP9 w,joEfc W JOOPh WhJOK CJPU 5 •HV3A XSHIH •MV3A ONODHS 'HV3A aaiHi HV3A HXaflOJ 36 THE COLLEGE RECORD. LOCATION OF KEUKA COLLEGE. 3 0112 105655333 VT .«p' VOLUME V. DUMBER l. THE UNfV£I TY QP ILLlNni fUTdqi ncH. ( OLLEQE PeCORD COMMENCEMENT NUMBER. KEUKA PARK, N. Y. JULY, 1909. Entered as Second-Class Matter, February 22, 1909, at the Post Office at Kenka Park, New York, under the Act of July 16, 1894. •;•■.'■ •• • -V )% c THE vn ° COLLEGE RECQj ' COMMENCEMENT ADDRESS, KEUKA COLLEGE. life's illusions. Rev. Joseph A. Serena. T T is a pleasant task that you have asked me to perform this ■ ■ evening, that of delivering the commencement address upon the occasion of your graduating from our College. You are the first class to go forth from this institution since the people with whom I am identified have come into the respon- sibility of co-operating in its maintenance. We are trusting that in time to come this may be to you a great honor, for it is with the hope that this step spells larger opportunity and greater service for your Alma Mater that a great brotherhood assumes the task. To night there are four classes or interests looking this way in hope : i. Your loved ones and friends, through whose sacrifice, devotion, and encouragement it has been possible for you to be here. 2. The College constituency, both old and new, through whose generosity and unselfish interest the work here has been maintained. 3. The world at large, to which you are debtors, a world to be enriched by your active participation in its affairs. 4. The Master, whose we are and whom we serve. To Him this institution is dedicated, to Him we trust your lives may be dedicated in service. And my message on this occasion has to do with the illu- sions of life. Not that it is my purpose to hope to disillusion you, if such were possible. (And this is doubtful.) The world, with its selfishness and wrong, its failures and distress, Z THE COLLEGE RECORD. will all too soon do that for you. Rather will it be my pur- pose to point out the definite, positive things that the experi- ence of the race has tried and found true. The title pf one of the very best books of poems that James Whitcomb Riley has written, a volume, by the way, dedicated to his mother, is (t The Afterwhiles, and its proem sings of the allurements of the days to be. Possibly it is because youth seems so rich in time that it becomes prodigal of its use. There is no fault more prevalent than procrastination. Too apt is youth to emphasize what it is to be rather than what is. Spalding says let the old tell what they have done, the young what they are doing, and fools what they in- tend to do. But if illusions, built upon the untrue, deceive, the cultiva- tion of the imagination discovers the best in and for us. Only by giving it free play can you hope to rise above the merely animal and enter the intellectual sphere. The imagination takes this prosaic matter-of-fact world and makes it for us a place in which it is fit for kings to live. Without it neither poetry, music, nor art would be possible. It is only when it is cultivated, and its beckonings followed, that genius is led to discover and correlate those laws of nature, which, understood, do the bidding of man. To Newton the fall of an apple sug- gested gravitation. Franklin harnessed the power of the air with a boy's kite. Watt, musing by the fire over which hung a boiling kettle, noticed the rise and fall of the lid, and the steam engine, like a fairy from another world, was born. A child, carelessly playing with the glasses that lay on the table of a spectacle-maker, gave the clew to the invention of the telescope. Drifting plants, of a strange species, whispered to Columbus of a continent that lay across the Atlantic. Our own Wright brothers noted the sailing of birds through the air, and lo, the aeroplane. A wise observer has said, The three primary requisites of genius : An eye that can see nature ; a heart that can feel nature ; and a boldness that can follow nature. Closely interwoven with the power to build upon the foun- dation of things seen, the things eye cannot see, must go that steady purpose of heart and life that has some definite goal. THE COLLEGE RECORD. 6 It would be unfortunate indeed if all of you have not formed some definite plan for the immediate future. Without it all the training you have received will be of little avail. Seneca says no wind is fair for the ship without a port. In our day only the ship that is equipped with the receiving apparatus re- ceives the message from the wireless instrument on shore, even though the air that surrounds it be surcharged with its mes- sages of love or its warnings of impending danger. The secret of education lies in the words of Jesus, He that hath eyes to see, let him see ; he that hath ears to hear, let him hear. Young people you have persevered in the pursuit of knowl- edge and virtue, and to-day are declared worthy to receive the highest honor Keuka College can confer. The deepest and best thing in us is faith in reason, for when we look closely we perceive that faith in God, in good, in freedom, in truth, is faith in reason. Individuals, nations, the whole race wander in a maze of errors. The world of the senses is apparent and illusive, that of pure thought vague and shadowy. Science touches but the form and surface ; speculation is swallowed up in abysses and disperses itself; ignorance darkens, passion blinds the mind ; the truth of one age becomes the error of the next ; opinions change from continent to continent, and from century to century. The more we learn, the less we know, and what we most of all desire to know eludes our grasp. But, nevertheless, our faith in reason is unshaken, and holding to this faith we hold to God, to good, to freedom, and to truth. There come times in our lives when the serious purpose of living crowds in upon us as the incoming tide covers the sand by the sea. Then we catch glimpses of that which is, not that which happens to be, and in honor to ourselves we answer the call of the true. This is the disillusionment that each is in need of. You are to be congratulated upon having chosen a small college. There may come a time when in the flush of new surroundings you will speak of it with apology. I trust it may never be. But of one thing you will finally be sure, when long after you will appraise the value of the contributing causes to your life work, that these years spent here have given you that poise and outlook necessary for the real conflict. The small 4 THE COLLEGE RECORD. college here in America has not seen its day, nor will the larger and better equipped institution, endowed by wealthy in- dividuals or by State funds, supplant it. There are certain signs which seem to point in the direction of a proper appreci- ation of the smaller institution among us. Scattered through- out the length and breath of our land they are among the most democratic institutions it contains. Such colleges need proper endowment to permit securing the best men and women as teachers. Buildings and apparatus there must be, but not until these supplement a teaching force fired with a definite purpose and ideal. The glory of the small college is in the close contact of the teacher and student. It, of all institutions, should have a body of teachers carefully selected for their personal fitness. The schools of Plato and Aristotle or the disciples of Jesus are striking illustrations of men of purpose leaving indelibly -upon the world the impress of their minds. Was it not our own Garfield who described a liberal education as Mark Hopkins on the other end of the log ? Nothing can supplement the living, loving, illumined human being who has a deep faith in the power of education and a real desire to bring it upon those who are entrusted to him. Too great stress is often laid upon the mere mechanical side of the teacher's life, his knowledge of history, or science, or literature instead of upon his character. What the teacher is, not what he utters, is the important thing. The life he lives and the way in which that life gets into the students ; his un- conscious acts, even ; above all what his inmost soul hopes, believes, and loves, have far deeper and more potent influences than mere lessons ever can have. In materialistic America, not merely the cradle of liberty but the birth-place of inven- tions, we are inclined to the belief that machinery can doevery- thing. It can do much, and much well. How wonderful are its achievements— our means of transportation, of communica- tion, of manufacture — we read, we eat by artifical means. But machinery cannot create life, nor can it promote vital pro- Ami education is a vital process. Therefore any mechanical means by which our educational institutions seek to manufa ture scholarship is of little avail. And it does not a seer to perceive that this is one of the weaknesses of our THE COLLEGE RECORD. 5 larger institutions. Scholarship we must have, but only as a means to an end. The end of this, as of every other college, is not to train automatons but men and women, imparting to them the life purpose and ideals through intimate contact with the teacher. And this our school can do as well as any in the country. It is more than having covered the required curriculum that will make you worthy representatives of this college. There are here in this atmosphere ideals and principles distinctive of this institution. We denominate it the spirit of the college. It is as distinctive as are the habits and characteristics of each individual life. Founded by men and women who love the liberty that is in Christ, its foundation is laid deep in the prin- ciples which His matchless life has revealed. This is a Chris- tian College, and if you leave its walls without having a finer appreciation of His character either your teachers have been recreant or your life barren to the seed sown. Another contribution of the College by the lake side to the lives of its students is its emphasis on plain living. Here ex- travagance in every form is eschewed. Every catalogue bear- ing its stamp tells the news that it offers, its opportunities at a minimum cost. It is a school for the young person of limited means, not a place for either the aristocrat spendthrift nor the begging mendicant. Over its portals might well be inscribed, All who enter here work. There are some institutions in our country that publish, from time to time, certified state- ments that students actually manage to get through on $400 per year. This College would need such a statement to prove that any here paid that much ! Aside, however, from the saving while in college, the selec- tion of a school of moderate costs is invaluable in after life. To know how to live simply and frugally is one of the best assets in modern life. My observation has led me to believe that one of the worst aspects of many of our larger institu- tions is the tendency towards extravagance. The social and fraternity life foster a taste for living that, in most instances, is difficult to maintain on the modest salary that the average graduate is able to command. And in this period of readjust- ment the folly of such a system is borne in on one. It is an easy 6 THE COLLEGE RECORD. matter to adjust one's self to the scale of living when it is going up, but I know of no harder lot that befalls one than to have to come down to plain living after having once been used to better. To teach one to work, to live temperately, and to spend moderately is, in itself, an education worth while. The small college fosters democracy. Nowhere is there such an opportunity, the public school alone excepted, as here. And it is a question if even that institution should be excepted, for here, in the intimacy of long association together, is afforded the soil from which the bulwark of our nation springs. Here are brought to light those latent talents which are so valued. The restricted number has the same effect as does intensive cultiva- tion in agriculture. The very utmost of productivity is the result. Not the least of the immediate benefits accruing to every young man and woman is the loss of self in the greater world into which they have been initiated. One of the peculiar joys life presents is the cultivating of friendships, as we pass along the way. Scarce time have we in busy life for more than the most formal salutation. If you would have a friend, says Elbert Hubbard, be one. We may not agree with this Philistine's theology nor his views on marriage, but we cannot but agree with his orthodox defi- nition of friendship. Man is a social being and his very nature demands the settlement and the city. The recluse or hermit is such an exception that we marvel at him as he passes along the road. But the mere herding together of human beings will scarce suffice. There must grow up that most intimate understanding, perhaps not even voiced, whereby kindred souls are knit together. Affinities is the word I want. No- where are we more apt to be led by a will-'o-the-wisp than in the choice of friends. Have you ever stopped to ask yourself of that first impression your best friend made. Sometimes we are drawn instinctively, but more frequently friendship is a growth from a wee, small seed. Perhaps you can't recall the time of your first meeting — but now the eccentricities are lost sight of and, instead, we see only the beautiful in our friend's face and character. This acquaintanceship has narrowed into friendship, with its multiplied joys and divided sorrows, and one's life ifi enriched beyond the possibility of computation in THE COLLEGE RECORD. 7 terms of wealth. And the joy of friendship belongs to the small College. We may have speaking acquaintance with a larger number in the University, with its thousands of stu- dents, but we know many in the small College. Human re- lationships seem to increase in inverse ratio with increased population. To Wadsworth, fresh and rugged from his lake home, London was always a wilderness — a place of loneliness. These are only some of the rights the small college may justly lay claim to. They are its own peculiar property and, as such, should be passed to the front. Let us not forget that the large American Universities have yet to make good. This Commencement season has heard some strongly conflict- ing statements from Presidents Lowell, of Harvard ; Shurman, of Cornell, and Patton, of Princeton. In Academic circles of Europe the right to call any American institution a ' ' Univer- sity is questioned. We shall probably define anew that term for the world; perhaps a University Americanized as an institution of several departments or professional schools. But even this is not the only thing the American University must do, it must justify the product. By their fruits ye shall know them was the Master's test. The College bred men and women of the present gener- ation are from the small college. Rockefeller's Chicago Uni- versity, Mrs. Leland Stanford's California institution, and a score or more State institutions are the products of the last twenty years. Within that time many of our largest institu- tions have begun to number their students by the thousands. The Harvard of Roosevelts, or the Yale of Tafts, are far dif- ferent than those institutions we have to-day. Oxford and Cambridge are merely clustered small colleges — Magdeline, Jesus', Emanuel, Baloil, Christ's. Such are the names that greet one visiting these classic centers, and were he to enquire for the University he would be pointed out one small assembly hall, in which the convocation, general assem- blies, and commencement occur. The corporation is merely an association of representatives from the various colleges. These colleges are, in many instances, no larger in point of enrollment than Keuka, places where students get close to- gether and come near to their favorite teachers. 8 THE COLLEGE RECORD. Either some men of wealth are needed to rise with a pur- pose of giving substantial aid to the small college of America, or a multitude of friends of moderate means are needed to sur- round each of these institutions, and by their gifts care for their just needs. But most of all is wanted that loyalty upon the part of the Alumni, students, and friends that will plead the cause until the illusion of decadent small college shall vanish forever from our sight, and in its stead a virile, live, and character producing institution shall take its place. And after College, with its restraining forces, the Univer- sity. If anything has been said that has seemed to detract from that institution, for specialization, it has been said merely in defense of an institution too little appreciated and too often forgotten. The average youth is unfitted to be turned loose in a gradu- ate school until the period of college work has been finished. Truth for truth's sake is the motto there, and if the foun- dation be not firmly laid on the solid rock, faith and life are liable to be lost. We must welcome light from whatever source it comes, and scholarship to-day is doing yeoman service in dispelling the errors and superstition of bygone ages. If our religion, gov- ernment, and social life will not stand the test of sound criti- cism we ought to exchange them for some that will. This is the service the University is rendering in our time. It offers the cup of learning to your lips, young man and woman ; if you enter unprepared into its life what otherwise might be to you a nectar will prove a deadly poison. The University for you by all means, if possible, the best on the continent. I am sure your life here has fitted you for the test you then endure. Ours is an age of great wealth and untold possibilities for accruing more. I know that sometimes we are told that the day for amassing great fortunes is fast passing away, yet while we speak greater fortunes than ever before are being accumu- lated. Within the last ten years Niagara has been harnessed and the promoters of its saved power have been made im- mensely wealthy. And we believe that for many of the 011- ( oming generation there is in store the accumulation of im- mense fortunes. THE COLLEGE RECORD. 9 We are not to lightly esteem money, nor shun the responsi- bilities involved in its stewardship. Money is merely a means to an end. In economics we denominate it as a medium. It is to be coveted for its power as such. We are told that in the long ago when men first began to barter and trade they lugged whatever they had to exchange before the parties to the deal. The cunning hunter brought his slain animal and traded it to the worker in stone for his new fashioned blunt instrument. The fisherman would bring his fish and lay them at the feet of the drier of gourds in exchange for a drinking cup. But over these arose a genius who thought of a common denominator of value, a precious stone, then metal, until finally they evolved a sort of crude money. And to-day we have only that, noth- ing more, to show for our labor or abstinence or what not. Money, in itself, is merely so much stored up energy. It is a mere apology for labor or skill or cunning. And the wrong of money is in our coveting its power. We may be as poor as the street beggar and be guilty of craving for the power money might put in our hands. The love of money is the root of all evil, says the apostle. For it men will sell their honor, wo- men barter their virtue. The danger to you will come, not so much from this low level, but in believing it will buy office, or a good name, or true happiness. It will do none of these things. Nor will it produce justice in the courts or love in the homes. Money will bring to you joy only when it buys for you and yours, and the race, to which you are dedicate, more of life. May I merely point out one other illusion that warps and mars our lives. It is that all too common temptation of per- mitting the best in and for ourselves to be lost in building too much for the future. If there is one thing our newer theology has given us it is a Christian view of the future, or rather it teaches us to empha- size it only as Jesus did. We no longer spend our lives in get- ting ready to die and preparing to go to heaven, but in living and bringing heaven to earth. Yet in our daily lives we are too apt to live as though an eternity were to be given to us in which to make amends for the little thoughtless acts, or want of acts, of ours. 10 THE COLLEGE RECORD. In that shadowy distant time we mean to speak every kind word, do every deed, right evrey wrong, only someday to awak- en to find that the cumulative law of God's universe has placed an obligation upon us which no human beings can discharge. Life gets its value from the fact that each of us is born to die. The pall and shadow cast by the dread event brings out the best that is in us. Character is formed by effort, resistance and patience. As necessity is the mother of invention, no suf- fering is the mother of high moods and great thoughts. It is out of a background of poverty, or p hysical suffering, or heart- sorrow that the really great poets have brought forth the songs of their souls. Wisdom is the child of suffering, as beauty is the child of love. In the old, soft sweet days, before men knew death, says the legend of Jubal, when all that was known of it was a single black spot in the memory of Cain, his descendents lived in gladsome idleness ; they played, they sang, they loved, they danced in a life that had no gravity and no greatness ; but when the second death came and men saw that there had come to one of their race a sleep from which there was no awaken- ing, a new meaning stole into life. The horizon which limited it defined it, and made it great: Time took a new value ; af- fection, by growing more serious, became nobler ; men thought of themselves more worthily and of their deeds more truly when they saw that a night came when no man could work. Friends and families lived in a tenderer light when the sun was known to shine but for a season ; earth became lovelier when they thought the place which knew them would know them no more. The limit set to time drove their thoughts towards eternity. The idea of death, which was to claim them, bade them live in earnest, made them feel that there was something greater than play ; for death had breathed into life the spirit out of which all tragic and heroic things come. Young friends, let not the mirage of the morrow lure you on, forgetful of this day's privileges and obligations. Spend your time in doing rather than in planning. You are not to commence to live, you are and have been living a life as real .is any life that lias been lived. I have been pleading this THE COLLEGE RECORD. 11 evening for but one thing, yet a thing of prime importance to the successful life. Perhaps all that has been said would bet- ter be forgotten if you will take these words of the greatest living poet of everyday America, when he sings to us of the Afterwhiles : AFTERWHILES. Where are they — the Afterwhiles — Luring us the lengthening miles Of our lives ? Where is the dawn With the dew across the lawn Stroked with eager feet the far Way hills and valleys are? Where the sun that smites the frown Of the eastward— gazer down ? Where the rifled wreaths of mist O'er us, tinged with amethyst, Round the mountain's steep defiles ? Where are all the afterwhiles ? Afterwhile and we will go Thither, yon, and to and fro — From the stifling city streets To the country's cool retreats — From the riot to the rest Where the heart beats placidest : Afterwhile, and we will fall Under breezy trees, and loll In the shade, with thirsty sight Drinking deep the blue delight Of the skies that will beguile Us, as children - afterwhile. Afterwhile— and one intends To be gentler to his friends — To walk with them, in the hush Of still evenings, o'er the plush Of home— leading fields, and stand Long at parting, hand in hand : One, in time, will joy to take New resolves for some one's sake, And wear then the look that lies Clear and pure in other eyes — He will soothe and reconcile His own conscience — afterwhile. Afterwhile — we have in view A far scene to journey to — 12 THE COLLEGE RECORD. Where the old home is, and where The old mother waits us there, Peering, as the time grows late, Down the old path to the gate. How we'll click the gate that locks In the pinks and hollyhocks, And leap up the path once more Where she waits us at the door — How we'll greet the dear old smile, And the warm tears afterwhile. Ah, the endless afterwhiles — Leagues on leagues, and miles on miles, In the distance far withdrawn, Stretching on, and on, and on, Till the fancy is footsore And faints in the dust before The last milestone's granite face, Hacked with : Here beginneth Space. O far glimmering worlds and wings, Mystic smiles and beckonings, Lead us through the shadowy aisle, Out into the afterwhiles. CULTURE AND CHARACTER. Address Delivered at the Graduation Exercises of Keuka Institute by Vice-President Loivell C. McPherson. n HE Greatest Teacher of All said to the greatest perverter - - of truth : Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God — by every source afforded him by his Creator and Father, because man is more than material. Man is intended to be a Cosmopolite — a citizen of every- where, because everything is placed at his disposal ; all things are his. The universe may contribute to his welfare, if he have the culture and character to claim and appropriate the illimitable heritage intended for him. Such is his Maker's purpose for him. Endowed with the qualities of the physical, intellectual, social, commercial, moral, and spiritual being, what consum- mate folly and internal loss to him to try to cultivate any of these at the expense of any one, or all, of the others ! For THE COLLEGE RECORD. 13 all these cultivated in proportion to the relative importance of each are essential to one's true culture and highest character. Not only whatsoever a man sows that shall he reap, but also wherever a man sows there shall he reap. If he sows all to the flesh — that which is only for time — he will reap corrup- tion. If he sows to the spirit — that which is both for time and eternity — he will reap rewards eternal. If he sow all to the flesh, he may become either a John L. Sullivan or a debauchee. If he sow all to the intellectual he may become as impractical as the would-be inventor of perpetual motion. If he sow all to the social he may become a driveling dude. If he sow all to the commercial he may become a monumental example of covetousness. If he try to sow all to the moral he may presume to thank God he is not like other men. If he try to sow all to the spiritual he may want to leave this world before his time, having been of no practical use to it. If he is a truly religious man, which means that he takes no step without taking God into account, he becomes an all-round cultured man with a character making for righteousness like unto his Master's — the Great Teacher. Non-use or no-culti- vation results in atrophy. For example, if nothing is sown in the spiritual, n othing shall possibly be reaped there. What folly and ruin ! Out of the heart are the issues of life. Our highest culture — salvation — means the attainment of pure hearts, or sources of thought, love, and volition. Character is made up of consecutive thoughts and acts, or one's habits. Hence, it seems that the saving of mere entity is not the summum bonum of man, but rather the culture of character like unto the only perfect One that ever was on this earth. Health of body is its normal condition. Disease of body is some alteration in its structure or functions. Sin means missing the mark — a disturbance of the uniform development of any or every nature of man. As the blood is the physical life of man, so thought is his soul life. So out of the physical heart are the physical issues, and out of the soul the moral and spiritual issues of life. •'To the pure all things are pure, but to them that are defiled 14 THE COLLEGE RECORD. and unbelieving nothing is pure, but both their mind and their conscience are defiled. As a man thinketh so is he. We project our thoughts out on the world, and each man creates his own world. The forest, field, valley, flood, mountains, sky, sea : Are they the same to all? The noble river to one is an emblem of eternity, and he thinks of God. To another it is merely a means of traffic. To one the world is but an arena for self-seeking. To another it is a place for noble heroism. Our moods change the world every day to us. If trifling, all things seem so. If serious — not necessarily sad — things about us have to us their relative and essential importance. The bird-song, rainfall, thunder clap, church bell, children's sport, speak to us the language of our passing moods. Our souls spread their hue over the world about us. I once knew a young woman dressed in white satin while she stood at the marriage altar- in the presence of a happy company. Twenty months after she lay in her casket, robed in the same pure wnite satin dress, and in the presence of a sad and bereaved company of friends. The same robe was not the same on both occasions. Some go through life complaining, murmuring. Their troubles and pains and aches are theirs and everybody's else, if their possessors can make them so. To them the whole creation groaneth and travaLleth in pain until now. Not God's world, but theirs, is dull and blank and wrong. Others can truly say : I am God's child, and this is His world and mine for me to use for His glory and honor and praise and service. One great soul nearly two thousand years ago said : I have learned, in whatever state I am, therewith to be content. It was because that same great soul was drawing from all sources whence God intended for him that he was the greatest religious philosopher of all time, except the Master of Men. He could say that all things are for God's child, and from an experiential knowledge of God. A perfect tree partakes, on all sides, of sun and rain and dew and breeze. It is not lopsided. Specialists too often are fanatics and cranks because they THE COLLEGE RECORD. 15 are not roundly cultured. A college education affords one a knowledge of material and tools, and how to use them. Wis- dom is the right use of such knowledge. Culture and charac- ter depend more on wisdom than on education. No wise per- son is self-satisfied. Some educated people are satisfied, and always try to impress you that that they know something you do not know. Wisdom never permits such lack of culture nor defect of character, however educated one may be. So there is a difference between education and true culture. Wisdom provides contentment, but never satisfaction. Did the cultured Apostle Paul take into consideration his opposi- tions, thwartings, humiliations, overthrows, mortifications, stingings of pride and vanity when he said : I am content? He did, because no man's experiential, spiritual horizon has been wider than his. i. Then culture begets contentment, not satisfaction. As for me I will behold Thy face in righteousness. I shall be satisfied. A man lost in a deep, dark, damp marsh and wood sees a flimsy, flickering light, follows it to its source, and gladly takes lodgment in a miserable cabin. He is content, and thankful for deliverance, spite of bad air, liquor, oaths, and obscenity. He need not partake of these. His thought is beyond and above them. Yet he can be content to do service among them that they might cease to be. Garfield on the towpath and Lincoln in the wroods were not satisfied, but contented at an opportunity for pressing for- ward. Satisfaction there would have forever cheated the world out of these two great characters. Contentment afforded them. At the zenith of their early greatness they were no more satisfied than when in obscurity, because they had hitched their wagons to stars of righteousness. The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, All that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await alike the inevitable hour, The paths of (earthly, timely,) glory lead but to the grave. 2. Contentment is not indifference either of place or station. Some are of so little moral feeling as to be insensible, obliv- 16 THE COLLEGE RECORD. ious to conditions only as their groveling ambitions may be satisfied. They soon have their reward. A prodigal once became discontented at home, but when he came to himself, as God would have him, he sought content- ment back in that home, not as a paupered son, but as a menial servant. He had received his reward of what the world could afford him. A greater reward now comes to him out of a position despised by the world, namely, that of a servant. 3. Nor is contentment supineness or indolence. I am content in whatsoever state I am. The author of this senti- ment was a positive, aggressive, forceful factor in human pro- gress, giving it an impetus of accelerating increase for nine- teen centuries, and for all time and eternity to come. There is a species of intellectualism, or dignity, so called, which withholds activity from such public and personal service to maukind as is a true test of its sincerity and merit — its value, unselfishness, and courage. And its withholding of such service casts doubt on its genuineness. Such a doubtful attitude to daily duty may come of indolence, fear of man, Pharisaical aloofness, narrowness of spiritual vision, or some other kind of selfishness. 4. Wholesome contentment comes of honest, transparent purpose. A poser of intellectuality and learning, without genuine spiritual activity and service and moral courage of effort is about as useful to society as was the gotten-rich-quick woman who bought dummy books with which to fill her new mahogany bookcase. She amuses, while the intellectual defaulter disgusts. To be satisfied at getting credit for intel- lectual attainments and public service for the sake of conspic- uousness designed for self, and at the expense of others, or not, is most reprehensible, and some day, somehow, will receive its reward. To be vainly proud of one's specialty is belittling. It shows the lack of all round culture, and denotes defective character. Beware of students with quirks. They are different from the honest hearted, innocent mischief makers. Dishonesty in Students too often sticks through life. It may assume the magnitude of criminality. Attempts at deceiving teachers at THE COLLEGE RECORD. 17 examination by reading from cuffs and bottoms of hats — decep- tion of any kind to get credit dishonestly — is a dangerous de- gree cf crime. Once standing at the Port of Eubec, Maine, I saw great cribs of wood recently built out into the sea extend- ing from the shore. The structure cost much money. On asking a friend what it was for, he replied that an inventor had secured one hundred thousand dollars for stock from gullible people all over the country to share the profits of a great machine for extracting gold from sea water. The inventor extracted the gold, not from the sea water, but from the pockets of duped stockholders, and he had suddenly become a resident of Europe. He was a developed student deceiver of professors. Beware of professionalism. Meet life's duties as men and women, and be not guilty of a course of professionalism, whether that of doctor, lawyer, minister, or author, or any other kind. Do service to mankind out of hearts to help, and not merely out of professional hearts to gratify selfish yearnings for fees or fame or any such thing. Professionalism too often veers with public sentiment, and has an axe to grind. The abandonment of one's self for the public good brings a lasting and rich reward. Two great men once stood side by side to dedicate the battle- field of Gettysburg. Edward Everett was polished and famous, and lionized because he had glittered in the stress and style of an intellectual, rhetorical, and oratoiical gymnasium of the East. Abraham Lincoln, physically uncouth, intellect- ually rugged and humble and natural, and morally transparent, yearning for his best service to mankind and his highest honor to God. One evidently had in view his personal pres- tige. The other forgot himself for humanity's sake. One doubtless felt proud of his address, prepared with special care not to show a literary defect. The other, with the load of a great nation upon him, forgot the intellectual, or literary, for the moral and spiritual force of his remarks. One's intellect was placed paramount in his production. The other made subservient his intellect to the moral principle for which he stood, and which his great, unselfish personality incarnated. From the viewpoint of intellectual pride Everett was prepared, 18 THE COLLEGE RECORD. and Lincoln was not, for such a momentous occasion. Everett felt that he succeeded ; Lincoln, that he failed. You know the result. Everett's oration was for the occasion; Lincoln's, for all time. One wrought out of intellect a product artificial and as beautiful as the glittering cut granite placed in an imposing palace to pass away. The other wrought out of a great and unpretentious soul, moved by the very heart of God, a product as immortal as any literature imbued with the spirit of heaven — a classic whose principle is absolutely unal- loyed and untainted by human selfishness. A hero is not one on occasion, merely. He is always a hero at heart, and occasions may reveal his heroism to the world. That principle of contentment at seeing one's self decrease in the eyes of men for the sake of mankind, and, therefore, for the realization of a close likeness to God, is comparatively rare among the would-be conspicuous and powerful and great. Yet such a principle is the only genuine, eternally satisfying one. How different would read the relation between Jesus and John the Baptist if the latter had wished to increase instead of decreasing ! How does his record stand beside that of Judas ? One a noble martyr ; the other, an inglorious suicide. Self- seeking, self-centered characters eventually thus end — failures, and worse than failures, even if the world may call them successes. Young ladies and gentlemen, your greatest victories probably may never be known by the world, but are sure to be recorded where time is as nothing. The world has not yet learned to note those events in history that have made most for right- eousness, and hence, for progress. Victories of unselfishness are the greatest and the only ones worth while, whether of a man or a nation. Your supremacy comes of moral cou rage, spiritual fore- sight, of pure motive, of seeking nothing but the truth that makes free. Truth crushed to earth will rise again. The eternal years of God arc hers. But error wounded writhes in pain, And dies amid her worshippers. Right is might with God. THE COLLEGE RECORD. 19 GRADUATE RECITAL,. Department of Music. Ruth Elizabeth Space, Pianoforte. Friday Evening, June the Fourth. PROGRAM. Bach Prelude and Fugue in C Minor Beethoven Sonata in E Flat Op. 7 Molto allegro e con brio Largo con grand' expression e Allegro von Westerhout Gavotte in A Grieg An den Fruhling Chopin Waltz in E Minor Mendelssohn Concerto in G Minor Op. 25 Molto allegro con fuoco Andante Presto Molto allegro e vivace Orchestral Accompaniment on Second Pianoforte Mrs. Griffith ANNUAL PUBLIC RECITAL. June the Eighteenth. program. Arensky (a) Romance (b) Valse (From Suite for Two Pianofortes. Op 5) Miss Wright, Miss Ruth Space. Massenet Open Thy Blue Eyes Willeby Four Leaf Clover Miss Mack, Schumann (a) Warum? (b) Grillen (From Fantasiestucke, Op. 12) Miss Ruth Space. Oiordani Cara mio ben Guy d1 Hardelot J'avais mis mon coeur Mr. Collelli. Mozart Last Two Movements from Concerto in D Major Larghetto Allegretto Miss Helen Space. Orchestral Accompaniment on Second Pianoforte Mrs. Griffith 20 THE COLLEGE RECORD. KARISTHENIA PUBLIC. June the Seventeenth. Prize Speaking Contest. PROGRAM. Invocation President Space Piano Solo Miss Grady ' The Appeal to Arms Mr. Clarence Barkley Tonssaint I Ouverture . . Mr. Max Robson Liberty and Union '. Mr Charles Sayer •'Not Guilty Mr. Edwin Arthur Vocal Solo Mr. Vincent Colelli The Ride of Jennie McNeal Miss Gertrude Taylor Captain January Miss Maurine McPherson How He Saved St. Michaels Miss Maud Oswald Charlie Machriee . Miss Bessie Coates Cornet Solo Mr. Boyd Blatchley Decision of Judges. Awarding of Prizes. The prizes were contributed by Mr. Gardner W. Wood, New York City, and Mr. Elmer J. Collier, Canandaigua, N. Y. The judges were Judge Gilbert H. Baker, Penn Yan, N. Y.; Rev. Margaret A. Brennan, Branchport, N. Y., and Mr. Ellis A. Griffith, Esq., Geneva, N. Y. Two prizes of five dollars in gold were awarded in this contest. The girl's prize was won by Miss Maurine McPherson, and the boy's prize by Mr. Max Robson. KEUKA INSTITUTE GRADUATING EXERCISES. June the Nineteenth. PROGRAM. Offertoire in D Minor Batiste Rose Christine Cumins-Griffith. Invocation Rev. T. A. Stevens. Address Culture and Character Vice-President Lowell C. McPherson, M. A, - Vienne Schubert- Liszt Miss Julia Ball. I Qtatiotl of Diplomas Principal Carl Churchill. THE COLLEGE RECORD. 21 GRADUATES. Gertrude B. Taylor, Harry L Rider, Eva I. Hollister, Edwin I. Arthur, Nellie F. Grady, Benjamin F. Taylor, Lura E. Mack, William G. Grady, Maurine McPherson, Clarence H. Barkley, H. May Edith Schofield, John W. Tomer. ATHENAEUM SOCIETY BANQUET. Junk the Twenty- first. toasts. Dean Churchill, Toastmaster. The Alumni Vincent Colelli The Athenaeum of the Future Cecile B Lockhart The Coming College Hazel Brigham Alumni Letters The Old Athenaeum L,ouis M. Farrington, '04 The Personal Equation Guernsey B. Hubbard, '06 The Reverend Arthur Braden, President-elect of Keuka College, being called upon by the societies, spoke of the future of the College as he hopes to direct it. KEUKA COLLEGE COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES. June Twenty-second. PROGRAM, Invocation President Zephaniah A. Space. Duo for Piano and Organ— (a) Serenade Widor (b) Pastorale Ouilmanl Miss Julia Ball, Mrs. Griffith. Address— Life's Illusions Rev. Joseph A. Serena. Songs — (a) Vorrei Morir Tosti (b) The Spring is Come Maude Valerie White Mr. Badrig Guevchenian. Award of Freshman Mathematics Prize ...... . Presentation of Diplomas Dean Carl Churchill. GRADUATES. Genevieve Kinney Ball, Cecile Buckbee Lockhart, Vincent Othello Colelli, Bert Ellis Maynard, Ruth Elizabeth Space, in Music. The Freshman Mathematics prize was awarded to Miss Ruth Space. 22 THE COLLEGE RECORD. CLASS DAY EXERCISES OF KEUKA INSTITUTE. May the Nineteenth. PROGRAM. Music Orchestra Invocation President Z. A. Space President's Address Maurine McPherson Our Motto Gertrude B. Taylor Class Oration Edwin C Arthur Essay — Woman in the Musical World Lura E. Mack Vocal Solo Class Poem . . . H. May Edith Schofield Oration— Life of the Russian Peasant Nellie F. Grady Class Prophecy Harry L. Rider Oration — The Taming and Use of Electricity William Grady Piano Solo Helen M. Space Class History Benjamin F. Taylor Essay — Indian Life and Customs Eva Hollister Class Will Clarence Barkley Presentation of Sceptre John W. Tomer Junior Response. Vocal Solo. Orchestra. Class Motto— Lahore et Honore. Class Flower— White Rose. Class Col rs— Purple and White. COLLEGE ORATORICAL PRIZE CONTEST. Dean Carl Churchill Presiding. PROGRAM. Invocation Vocal Solo— 'Alpine Rose Gerritl Smith Lelia McLatchey. Shall We Grant Absolute Independence to the Philippines . Vincent Colelli. Piano Solo— The Chase Rheinberger Ruth Space. A College Education for the Farmer Boyd Blatchley. Vocal Solo— A May Morning Denza Lura Mack. The Mission of the Pioneer Glenn L. Judd. litation Morrison Orchestra. THE COLLEGE RECORD. 23 JUDGES OF THOUGHT AND COMPOSITION. Prof. John Edwin Wells, Hiram College. Rev, W. C. Bower, North Tonawanda. Rev. Arthur E. Cox, Poland. JUDGES OF DELIVERY. Thomas Carmody, Attoruey-at-law, Penn Yan. Everett S. Elwood, Principal of the Academy, Penn Yan. Spencer F. L incolu, Attorney at-law, Penn Yan. SUCCESSFUL CONTESTANTS. Lewis M. Farrington 1901 Frankie L. Griffin 1902 Benjamin R. Larrabee 1903 Richard E. Fish 1904 Carl Churchill 1905 William H. Judd 1906 Marion W. Beach 1907 Ralph Cerreta - . . 1908 Glenn L. Judd 1909 EXCERPTS FROM THE ANNUAL REPORT OF THE RETIRING PRESIDENT. If ever an institution was in the vale of despair that insti- tution was Keuka College at the time of its annual meeting in June, 1908. The next sixty days after the annual meeting were days of suspense while the shadows that enveloped our beloved school were thick and heavy. Keuka College, founded in a faith that was expressed in prayers and tears, was in jeopardy, and its mission of life and light seemed to be nearing its close. I need not discuss the causes, but hastily approach the report which will be given in the fewest possible words. The year was begun without any visible means of support. A subscription was started, and about three thousand dollars were pledged during the summer months for current expenses. On the fifth day of August a plan of co-operation for the maintenance and development of the College was entered into by the College corporation, and the Missionary Christian Con- vention of the State of New York. The plan involves the joint ownership of the institution and the raising of one hundred thousand dollars endowment. The 24 THE COLLEGE RECORD. plan of co-operation was ratified by the Central Association at its last session which was held at Unadilla Forks in August, 1908. At a subsequent meeting of the Board of College Trustees four representatives of the Disciples of Christ were elected to trusteeships, and Rev. Lowell C. McPherson was elected vice- president and field secretary. Rev. McPherson, at the time of his election to the above named offices, was pastor of the Dis- ciples of Christ Church in Wellsville, New York, and could not enter upon his work immediately. He moved to the Park on November first, then, by reason of a very urgent request, he supplied the Tabernacle Church of North Tonawanda for three months, coming into the real service of the College on February 1, 1909. Since then he has driven a lively campaign for funds, and has to his credit some thousands of dollars in cash and pledges. The Ball Brothers, in keeping with their promises to help the College if others could be interested to do so, especially if an arrangement could be made with the Disciples of Christ, have responded nobly and generously. They have forwarded during the year $3,000 (three thousand dollars). We were fortunate in choosing and securing a faculty. A vacancy occurred at the Christmas vacation, and a satisfac- tory man was secured before the students returned to again take up their studies. As President of the College, I have nothing but words of praise for each teacher in the faculty. In the office and business department of the work we have had a man, William H. Judd, who has been careful and painstaking, winning the unlimited confidence of us all. The executive committee has worked against great odds, and Forward, though it could not see, it neither guessed nor feared, but moved ahead, believing in the righteousness of its cause and the mission of its enterprise. The student body, numbering over one hundred young men and women, should be reported upon as having aided very materially in the discipline, efficiency, and reputation of the school. It lias maintained a Y. M. C. A. and a Y. W. C. A., and has been the dependable force in our Sunday evening meetings. THE COLLEGE RECORD. 25 [At this point in the report occurred the President's declina- tion to further serve the College in the capacity of President.] The present situation is encouraging. It has been a great thing to keep this school intact during the past two years and a half. However, it has been done. We have a capable faculty, a splendid student body, an encouraged constituency, and a largely increased number of people who are directly responsible for the future life and usefulness of the institu- tion. We are not wanting to-day for capable men to man this enterprise, nor for a field in which to drive a campaign for patronage and funds. There are at this time four factors iu this enterprise which ought to guarantee its success. The Free Baptists, the Dis- ciples of Christ, the Ball people, and the local public. There is also a field, which, like the Gospel field, is the wrorld. In this field is all that is outside the fields defined and includes the philanthropists and the Educational Committees which have to do with the disbursing of funds in the interests of culture and systematic education. Yes, we have made progress ! Now, have we the courage, the generosity, and the purpose of heart to improve upon our advantages and reach out our hands to a willing world and give it the service which it needs, and the service which we have pledged ourselves as Christian people to give it ? REPORT OF THE DEAN AND PRINCIPAL. To the Board of Trustees of Keuka College : The following is a summary of the work and conditions of the year iu which this office is concerned. The attendance for the school year which is closing has been somewhat smaller than it was during the past year. This was expected in view of the uncertainty which surrounded the future of the college at the closing of the last school year. The attendance has been, however, better than was anticipated at that time. The Record shows a total of 63 enrolled in the Institute depart- ment as compared with 80 names for last years. Of these 9 have been dropped for various reasons during the year, while last year 21 dropped out during the year. In the College the 26 THE COLLEGE RECORD. present enrollment is 28, of whom 3 have left school. Last year the College enrollment was 46, of whom 8 left before the end of the school year. The number of academic students, according to the State classification, in the Institute for the present year is 34, which is exactly the same number as was registered last year. The graduates for the present year num- ber 12 in the Institute and 4 in the College, as compared with 10 in the Institute and 5 in the College last year. It will be seen that in actual attendance the Institute is about equal to last year, while the College has fallen off considerably. This is probably due to the fact that no advertising was done last year, as it was quite commonly believed that the institution would be forced to suspend. The same conditions that affected student attendance also affected the matter of faculty. Last year 4 members of the faculty were lost, and it was with some difficulty that their places were filled, owing to the fact that the teachers had to be secured late in the year, and the salaries offered could not be large. Teachers were secured, however, after long corre- spondence, and although one change was made at the Christ- mas holidays, the new teachers have proved themselves to be very valuable additions to the working force of this school, and it is felt to be a great advantage for our work to have them already re-engaged for next year. The school has been indeed fortunate in securing such effective instructors under such unfavorable conditions. At the close of the last school year no steps had been made toward getting out the catalogue. This was immedirtely worked up during the early weeks of vacation, and printed as soon as possible. It was largely a reprint of the previous catalogue, and was very late in issuing, so that it was of very doubtful value throughout the year. It was planned imme- diately that the RECORD should issue 4 times during the year, something that had not occured for some time. The catalogue constituted the first number. The second number, which was entitled General Information Number, contained articles by President Space, Vice-President McPher- son, and other officers of the school. The information given was of a general character, and an attempt was made to make THE COLLEGE RECORD. 27 the publication interesting to the reader, whether he was a student or not. A number of cuts were made for this number, and it proved to be a very attractive issue. 1200 were printed and distributed. The third number of the Record presented a large amount of student work. Nearly all the matter for this was prepared by students. Some of it was class exercises, and one article was the result of a prize competition. This number also proved to be very popular, especially with the students, who were much interested in seeing their own work in print. 1,000 copies of this Record were sent to schools in New York State and Pennsylvania, and accompanied by circular letters and blanks for the names of their graduates. In reply to these we have received about 5,000 names of students who finish school this June. To each one of these has been sent a circular letter, calling attention to this school, indicating some of its advantages, and asking any interested to open corre- spondence. About 100 replies have been received to these letters. Some of these have led to further correspondence, but it is too early to see very definite results yet. One great object has been attained irrespective of any question in stu- dent attendance, that is the placing of this school before that portion of the public which is most vitally interested. The fourth number of the Record, which is also the cata- logue number for next year, has involved a large amount of work. It was decided to thoroughly revise the whole book. Comparisons with catalogues of other schools showed that this school must make some quite sweeping changes, if it was to keep in line. In order to accomplish this an entirely new course of study was outlined for the College ; that is, a new course in electives, as the old required subjects were kept about the same. The teachers of the di fferent departments outlined additional courses, after thorough investigation and the consulting of other catalogues. The whole course was arranged and submitted to Albany. It was found necessary to have a personal interview with the Regents before this could be adopted, but it was finally put through and received the approval of the State Department. In conjunction with this new course a change in hours was made so that all recita- 28 THE COLLEGE RECORD. tions in the College will now be 60 minutes in length instead of 45, as formerly. This puts Keuka College squarely on the basis with other colleges, and the catalogue is in shape to bear comparison with the catalogues of any other school in the State. A new course of study has been arranged for the Institute, as the old course was adopted several years ago, and did not exactly lead to the credentials issued by the State Department. Special attention was given to the Business Course, which is now arranged so that one taking the full course will receive a diploma from the State. Great advancement has been made in the Department of Music by the employment of a voice teacher, who will be resi- dent at the College. This part of our work has suffered since we departed from the plan of hiring a voice teacher outright, as we have not been able to hold the teachers who were engaged merely to come here one or two days a week. The new arrangement puts the Music Department on a very strong basis. The routine work of the school this year has been pleasant, there having been only one serious case of discipline. The students have been uniformly well behaved and hard- working, and the new faculty has co-operated faithfully with the officers of the institution. It should be said that they have brought to us many new and valuable ideas from the schools with which they are familiar, and these have led to many improvements during the present year. They have also made suggestions which can be of use next year, and which will confer even greater benefits on the institution. In regard to next year there are three special needs that might, perhaps, properly be mentioned in this report, although these points are, no doubt, familiar to the Board. They are advertising, making the halls and recitation rooms more attractive, and an iron fire escape for the north end of the building. These need no emphasizing. They are obvious. Respectfully submitted, Carl Churchill. THE COLLEGE RECORD. 29 ANNUAL REPORT TO THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF KEUKA COLLEGE, FROM JUNE 12, 1908, TO JUNE 15, 1909. Disbursements. Receipts. Cash on hand June 12, 1908, $57 43 Annuity $108 00 Athletics, 31 11 1,863 96 829 00 242 15 89 13 91 II 138 56 Advertising, 356 09 Bills payable, 1,863 35 4,260 53 Bills receivable, . . 852 34 643 63 Boarding, 3. 960 17 4,632 96 Boat house rent, 20 00 Books and stationery, 458 44 374 94 Buildings and grounds, 39 15 Canvassing, 255 55 Cess pool, 63 85 Cement H. mortg , 203 00 College cleaning, 205 32 College Record, 102 36 Deposit and loan, 1,257 75 Doolittle law suit, 890 00 Endowment, Princ, . Endowment, Int , Expense, 401 76 Educational fund, 5 40 Freight and expense, 12 43 Farm, 94 Garden, 9 04 Gifts, Disciples, 857 45 Gifts, Free Baptists, 2,538 20 Gifts, general, 437 00 Gifts, Ball Bros., 3,oco 00 Heat and light, 1,863 96 60 05 Hotel, summer, 829 00 979 70 House rent, 393 65 Household supplies, 242 15 24 95 Insurance, Ice house, Interest, 138 56 2 50 Incidental fee, ..... 127 60 Janitor, 466 73 Keuka College Assc, 16 00 Keys, 4 10 3 60 Laboratory,- 58 29 15 26 Laundry, 48 42 3 43 Library, 141 63 103 00 3 00 943 61 35o 1,387 00 31 150 00 10 00 8oo oo 143 24 107 31 57 45 574 36 4 2 34 2 00 20 OO 30 THE COLLEGE RECORD. Lots Miscellaneous, Music, Order and repairs, Piano rent, 1906 bill, Pledges, Disciples, 3J44 71 Pledges, general. 350 00 Postage, 71 36 Room rent, College, 576 90 Room rent, Institute, 481 43 Salaries, 9, 186 71 Scholarships, 308 60 Specific Ace. Rec, 3,4D9 61 154 36 State Appropriations, 171 58 Tuition, College, 671 49 Tuition, Institute, 1,263 T3 Taxes, 72 92 9 79 Telephone, 75 45 Typewriter, 5 60 12 80 Waterworks, 288 01 72 50 William Preece, 85 05 Lecture course, 108 75 100 85 Total, 729,349 52 29,879 46 Cash in safe, 8 77 Cash in bank, 521 17 29,879 46 CURRENT ASSETS. Board bills due, J434 15 Bills Rec, now due, 473 68 Int. on bills Rec 82 75 Int. on endowment notes, 200 00 Boat house rent 45 00 Water rent, 97 00 Farm rent, 30 00 Term bills, 733 12 Old accounts, 190 27 Books on hand 164 30 Boarding club supplies, 30 00 Specific accounts Rec, 3.3J5 25 Subscriptions in pledges, 906 00 Cash on hand, 529 94 7.23i 46 31 THE COLLEGE RECORD. CURRENT LIABILITIES. Bills on file in office, $2,582 01 Salaries, 3,225 47 Bills payable, 2,547 18 $8,354 66 Amount due over current resources, 1,123 20 $8,354 66 PERMANENT ASSETS. Grounds, campus, $36,000 00 Building used by College, 105,000 00 Furniture, 4,000 00 Apparatus 3,000 00 Library, 3,650 00 Museum, 1,000 00 Real estate, farm, 15,000 00 Basket factory, 3, 000 00 Sprague house and lot, 3,000 00 Block house and lot, 1,600 00 Boat houses, 500 00 Water plant, 3,000 00 Albert Crosby, mortgage 1,000 00 Johnson memorial scholarship, 1,000 00 Endowment notes, 7,75i 00 Current assets, 7,231 46 $195,732 46 TOTAL LIABILITIES JUNE 12, I909. Ella and Julia Ball Note for two years, dated Feb. 24, 1908, . $6,000 00 Ball Bros'. Note, August 22, 1905, 2,000 00 Cornwell Bros'. Note, (for pianos), $50.00 due Jan. 1910, . . 160 00 F. W. Bush Note, (for two pianos), $100.00 due Jan io, 1910, . 350 00 Current Liabilities, 8.354 60 Total, ; $16,864 60 ACTUAL EXPENSES AND RECEIPTS FOR SCHOOL YEAR 1908 and 1909. This report is made by deducting from the Trustee's Report all old ac- counts received and all old bills paid, and by adding all accounts receiv- able and accounts payable June 15, 1909. EXPENSES. RECEIPTS. Annuity, $188 00 Athletics, 31 n Advertising 472 59 Boarding, 4,95° °2 $5,24o n 32 THE COLLEGE RECORD. Boat House Rental, Books and Stationery, 423 44 Building and Grounds, 39 15 Canvassing, 350 10 Sewer and Cesspool, 83 85 Cement House Mortgage, 203 00 College Cleaning, 205 32 College Record, 357 06 Doolittle Lawsuit, 890 00 Endowment Principal, Expense, . 140 21 Educational Fund, . . . 5 40 Freight and Express 12 43 Farm, 94 Gifts, Free Baptists, Gifts, Disciple of Christ, Gifts, General, Gifts, Ball Brothers, Heat and Light,1 . . . 1,646 22 Summer Hotel, 829 00 House Rent, Basket Factory Rent, Household Supplies, 86 56 Rent of Furniture, etc., Insurance, 118 55 Ice for Next Year, 91 1 1 Interest, 613 56 Incidental Fee, Janitor 421 06 Keuka College Association, - . . Keys, 1 30 Laboratory, 69 19 Laundry, 48 42 Library, 206 00 Lots. Sale of Miscellaneous,, 143 24 -Music, 46 95 Repairs on Building and Boiler, 98 96 Postage, 71 86 Salaries, 10,550 00 Scholarships, 308 60 ( ash from Maturing Pledges, State Appropriations Tuition, College, . Tuition, Institute, es, 72 92 40 00 439 24 100 00 150 00 135 00 2,538 20 857 45 437 00 3,000 00 979 70 160 00 no 00 20 95 2 50 127 60 16 00 3 60 3i 26 3 43 103 00 800 00 107 31 647 90 154 36 171 58 721 49 1 361 07 THE COLLEGE RECORD. 33 Typewriter, 75 60 42 80 Telephone, 75 45 Water Works, 153 98 80 00 Water Repairs, 134 03 Lecture Course, 108 75 100 85 Room Rent, College, • . 576 90 Room Rent, Institute, 481 43 Printing, Stationery, etc, 94 23 Totals f 24,343 46 $ 19,74 r 18 Amount of Expenses over Receipts, . . . £4,602 28 Amount of Pledges on hand, 3,679 08 Deficit for school year $923 20 W. H. Judd, Treasurer. 34 THE COLLEGE RECORD. ARTHUR BRADEN, PRESIDENT OF KEUKA COLLEGE. y RTHUR BRADEN was born May 29, 1881, at West- ■ bronewich, England. At the age of 7 years his parents moved to New Castle, Pa. It was here, that as a hoy, he received all of his public school education, with the eption of one year, spent in Covington, Ky. Mr. Braden graduated from tin- New Castle High School in 1900, and Ironi Hiram College in 1903. He was pastor for two years .it Deerfield, Ohio, and at Auburn for nearly four years. During his ministry at Auburn Mr. Braden pursued studies at tin- Auburn Theological Seminary, from which institution he was graduated in May. 1909. THE COLLEGE RECORD. 35 A SOCIOLOGICAL CENSUS. Prof. George W. Eddy. TN November, 1908, the students of the class in Sociology - ■ gathered data for a sociological study of Keuka Park. The aim of this census was two-fold ; to introduce the laboratory method in teaching sociology by the investiga- tion of a particular social field, and to collect certain soci- ological data that will remain in the permanent possession of the College, and will serve for further study of the given field. The work done was sufficiently successful to warrant making the taking and tabulating the census of a small dis- trict a part of the regular work of the course. As a different section will be taken each year, the College will have, after a number of years, an accurate description of the social con- ditions existing in this part of the State of New York. Some of the more important facts of general interest, taken from the census of 1908, are here given. The permanent population of Keuka Park was 124 — 49 males and 75 females. No adults were found to have been born in this district. Of the inhabitants, however, 12 were born in Keuka Park, 72 elsewhere in New York, 12 in Penn- sylvania and the rest, in order of numbers, in Indiana, Canada, Bulgaria, New Jersey, Ohio, Illinois, Michigan, Germany, New Hampshire, Massachusetts. Kansas, and England. The fathers of residents were born in New York (54), Pennsylvania (15), Canada (9), Germany (6), Ver- mont (7), England (5), Rhode Island (4), New Hampshire (3), Illinois (3), Bulgaria (3), Massachusetts (2), New Jersey, Kentucky, Ohio, North Carolina, and Scotland. The mothers of residents were born in New York (62), Pennsyl- vania (3), Canada (8), Vermont (6), Germany (6), England (5), Rhode Island (3), Illinois (3), Bulgaria (3), New Jersey (2), Maine, Massachusetts, Virginia, North Carolina, Ken- tucky, Ohio, and Scotland. Thus, 9 residents are foreign- born, 27 have foreign-born fathers, and 23 foreign-born mothers. Of this country, 9 States are represented by the residents, while the parents of some of them represent 6 other States. The number of residents who have been married is 71, 36 THE COLLEGE RECORD. representing 43 marriages. The number of children from these marriages is 126, or an average per marriage of 2.93. The number of births in the year 1908 is 2. There were no deaths. There were only 7 persons over 30 years and not married — 2 males and 5 females. The number of residents over 21 is 82—34 males and 48 females. There were 34 per- sons over 50 years of age and 3 over 80 years. The greatest length of residence of any individual was 20 years, and only 29 had lived at Keuka Park as long as 10 years. The number who settled here in 1908 is 15, which, with the births, makes an increase of 17, or 15.8 per cent., a very good showing. Of course, Keuka Park owes its settlement to Keuka Col- lege and Institute, and the greater number of present resi- dents came here on account of advantages afforded, directly or indirectly, by that institution. Some came, however, on account of the beauty and healthfulness of the situation. It seems a little strange that the statistics do not show that any came on account of the low price of real estate and the low cost of living. It is probable, however, that these facts were taken into consideration by those who came chiefly for other reasons, such as education of children or retirement. Those who came here simply for a home were doubtless influenced by these economic considerations. The statistics in regard to purpose of settlement, for heads of families only, are as follows : Business (13), Education of children (10), Retirement (7), Home (6), Teaching (4), College officers (2), health (2), Taking boarders (2), Education (1), and Keuka Assembly (1). The present occupations show an even wider range of in- terest. The servant girl problem has not entered this social group, as all the housekeepers do their own work. Housekeeping is thus the employment which occupies the time and thought of the largest number of individuals — 32 being thus engaged. Next to housekeeping is the life of the student 29 being reported as at school or college. The other occupations: Teaching (8), Farming (5), Electric railroad work (5), College officials (4), Store keeping (3), Post Office (2), Agency (2), Teaming (2), and Taking board- THE COLLEGE RECORD. 37 ers, Engineering, Cooking, Printing, Typewriting, Build- ing, Dressmaking, Sewing, and Laboring (one each). Nine- teen residents have incomes from other sources than their immediate occupations. Nearly all the groceries and pro- visions are secured at the stores in Keuka Park and the re- mainder, with fuel, clothing, furniture, etc., at Penn Yan, three and one-half miles distant, with which place the Park is connected by an electric railway. Only 9 persons pur- chase any considerable amount of supplies from other places. It has been mentioned that some residents came here for their health. It is probable that no more healthful spot can be found anywhere in the United States. The United States Census of 1900 reports Yates County as practically free from tuberculosis. Several cases of that disease have been known to be cured at Keuka Park, one such instance having occurred during the winter of 1908-9. Only 9 cases of chronic disease were found in 1908, and four of these were rheumatism, There were only 12 cases of physical de- fects, of which 5 were defective eyesight; and only 4 cases of mental defects, usually accompanied by old age. Next to health, the educational facilities and attainments of the group make the best showing. With the district school, the Institute, and the College, we have a well articu- lated system of education, by which any boy or girl can pass from the first grade to the degree of Bachelor of Arts or of Science, and in addition acquire considerable proficiency in music and art. The student population is reported as follows : District School 14, Keuka Institute 11, Keuka College 3, University of Michigan 2, American School of Correspondence 1. There are 45 graduates of secondary schools, 15 of whom have received a second degree. The number of those who have studied music is 37 — instrumen- tal 27, and voice 10. Those who have studied art are : drawing 5, painting 10, industrial art 2. The subscriptions to periodicals are : Dailies, 33; other papers, 104, and magazines, 80 — total, 217. In addition, the College main- tains a free public library of over 5,000 volumes, and sub- scribes to 5 dailies, 5 other papers, and 46 magazines.] t 38 THE COLLEGE RECORD. Within Keuka Park there are a num ber of organizations which bring the people together. The Free Baptist is the only church at the Park, but only 30 residents were found to be members of this organization. There were 12 who were members of Free Baptist Churches elsewhere. The mem- bership in other local religious and temperance societies aggregates 69, and that of literary and social organizations, 17. Of course, all these organizations are augumented and, in fact, sustained by persons living in the surrounding dis- tricts. On the other hand, residents of the Park are inter- ested in societies and organizations elsewhere. The church membership outside the community is significant, and is as follows : Meshodist Episcopal, 14; Free Baptist, 12; Bap- tist, 7; Episcopal, 5; Disciples of Christ, 3; Lutheran, 3; Roman Catholic, 3; Presbyterian, 2; Friends, 1. The total church membership of Keuka Park is 80, of which 50 persons hold their membership elsewhere. Of the entire number 42 are Free Baptists, a big majority. A union of Free Baptists, Baptists, and Disciples would include 52, or about two-thirds of the church membership of the com- munity. Besides the church membership, 15 persons are members of secret orders, 9 hold insurance policies, and 15 are members of other societies. The facts thus far given refer only to the permanent popu- lation. A complete description of the community would in- clude also the body of students and teachers who are here during nine and ten months of the year. In November, 1908, there were in Keuka College and Institute, besides those already enumerated, 71 students, 37 male and 34 fe- male, from the following States : New York (53), Pennsyl- vania (9), Massachusetts (4), Porto Rico (2), New Jersey (1). Nebraska (1), and Italy (1). There were also six other tea hers, 2 male and 4 female, from New York (5), and Pennsylvania (1). One of these teachers sends two children to the district school. Adding these figures to the previous numbers, we have as our student population : District School, iu; Keuka College and Institute, 85 — total, 101. The total number engaged in teaching would be 14. The number i graduates of secondary schools would be 73 ; THE COLLEGE RECORD. 39 from college, with first degree, 21, and with second degree, 6. The entire population would then be 201, with almost 50 per cent, students, 36 per cent, prepared for college, and 10 per cent, college graduates. Keuka Park, July 8, 1909. THE WALTER B. TOWER FREE TUITION OFFER. °|N Friday morning, June 18th, Mr. Walter B. Tower, - the newly elected President of the Board of Trustees, spoke to the students at the chapel in the College, to en- courage them to work during the summer in an endeavor to to assist the school authorities in greatly increasing the attendance at Keuka College and Institute. Mr. Tower called attention to the fact that the building and the equip- ment of Keuka College are sufficient to care for 200 students, and has taken this number as his objective for the institu- tion. In order to induce the students to work for the school, Mr. Tower made the following offer : To the student who secures the enrollment of the largest number of new students for the coming year, Mr. Tower will give the amount of his tuition for the year ; to the student who has secured the en- rollment of the second largest number of new students, he he will give two-thirds of a year's tuition ; to the student who secures the enrollment of the third largest number, he will give one-third of a year's tuition. At a meeting held later the students were divided into two bodies, each under a captain, for the purpose of push- ing this campaign, and it is believed that through the efforts of these students and the active cam paign planned by the officers of the faculty of the school that Keuka bids fair to reach the 200 mark next year. A KEUKA COLLEGE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION. T the annual meeting of the Alumni Association, held June 23d, 1909, the following officers were elected : President, - - - - L. M. Farrington, '04. Vice-President, - - Dora Goodale Judd, '06. Secretary and Treasurer, - Chas. A. Dowdell, '02. 40 THE COLLEGE RECORD. The executive committee, the three above named officers: — Ex-Officio, Carl Churchill, '06, and Cecile B. Lockhart, '09. It is requested that all alumni inform the secretary of changes in address. RESOLUTIONS. A T the Alumni Meeting of June 23, 1909, the following - - resolutions were adopted : Whereas. By the death of Charles W. Finn the body of Alumni of Keuka College has been broken, and — Whereas, The unusual ability and personality of the deceased, to- gether with the fact that this loss is the first of this kind that the College has sustained, make this an occasion of more than ordinary affliction, be it- -Resotved, That it is the sense of this Association that in the loss of this member it has received a severe blow, and that the affliction extends to all those with whom the deceased's life would have brought him in con- tact, and be it further — Resolved, That the heartfelt sympathy of the Association is extended to the family of our late member, and that these resolutions be published in the next number of The College Record. By Committee. BASE BALL. r I HE baseball team played a schedule of twelve games. The usual difficulty was experienced in getting games with the larger schools. Although the manager took the matter up very early in the year, fe w games could be secured with other colleges of the State. The managers of athletics are being forced to the conclusion that size and age are be- ing considered more by some of the outside schools than is athletic strength. Two Universities, Alfred and St. Lawrence, gave us games of the grade that we are desirous of playing, and found Keuka fully qualified to meet them on the diamond. It is sincerely hoped that more of the colleges of this State may soon be found willing to consider Keuka in making up their schedules. It is hard to believe that any schools are being deterred from entering into athletic relations with this College from a fear of being defeated by a smaller school. Keuka is not a serious rival to the larger colleges, and the help that would come to her from wider athletic relations with these schools would work no injury to them. 42 THE COLLEGE RECORD. BASK BALL SCHEDULE 1909. KEUKA. OPPONENT. April 27. Keuka, Cook Academy, 1 5 May 3. Keuka, St. Lawrence University . 6 2 May 5. Keuka, Alfred University, .... 5 4 May 14. Keuka, L4mo Seminary, .... 10 o May 21. Keuka, Canandaigua, 2 o May 2 2. Keuka, Lima Seminary, 15 3 May 24. Keuka, Alfred University, .... 17 o May 28, Keuka, Mansfield Normal, ... 2 o June 4. Keuka, Mansfield Normal, ... 5 6 Tune 5. Keuka, Cook Academy, o 1 June 9. Keuka, Canandaigua, 1 2 June 12. Keuka, Willard State Hospital, .14 o Totals, 78 23 TEAM 1909. Rodney C. Bannatyne p. Earnest L. Matthews, . . p., 3d base. Charles Bunnell, c. James Brislin, 1st base. William Whitmarsh, 2d base. William Rittenmeyer, s. s. Ralph Ceretta, . . r. f. John Tomer, r. f. Glen Judd, 1. f. Boyd V. Blatchley c. f. John Demorest, sub. ATHLETIC FEES. A T a meeting of the students, held June 18th, the ques- ■ - tion of financing athletics was thoroughly discussed, and a motion was made and carried that all College students and all Institute students, in the third and fourth year classes, pay an annual fee, as stated below : Annual fee, payable at time of registration — For girls, $300 For boys, 5 00 The above payments entitle to a season ticket, good at all games, and membership in the Athletic Associrtion. Pay- ment Should be made to the College when other term bills are paid, and the money will be placed at the disposal of the irer Of the Athletic Association. THE COLLEGE RECORD. 43 KEUKA COLLEGE ALUMNI. Emily Valentine, 'oo, Allentown, N. Y. Nellie Heck, 'oo (Mrs. C. R. Crosby), Ithaca, N. Y. Evalena Ayers, '01, New York City, 146 West 104th St, Elsie Crosby, '01 (Mrs. J. W. Hollis), Woodhull, N. Y. Charles A. Dowdell, '02, Rogers, Peet Co., Broadway Warren, New York City Blanche Hawkes, '03 Keuka Park, N. Y. Rev. O. M. Demcott, '03, Paterson, N. J., 63 Paterson Ave. Frankie L. Griffin, '04, Winthrop, Mass., 15 Dolphin Ave. Peter Pulver, '04, Penn Yan, N Y. L M. Farrington, '04, Manhattan State Hospital, Ward's Island, New York City Harry N. Pratt, '04, Attica, N. Y. Charles Finn. '05 (deceased), Montrose, Pa. Dean Tiffany, '05, Hopbottom, Pa. Emogene Stone, '05, Port Washington, L. I. N. Y. Carl Churchill, '06, Keuka Park, N. Y. William H. Judd, '06, Keuka Park, N. Y. Eva Ambler, '06 Keuka Park, N. Y. Guernsey B. Hubbard, '06, I. C. S., Scranton, Pa. Milton M. Rector, '06, Richard Fish, '06, Waverly, N. Y. Dudley Barrus, '06, Locust Valley, L. I., N. Y. Robert Stevens, '06, Mohawk, N. Y. Llewellyn Gere, '06, Scranton, Pa., I. C. S. Dora Goodale, '06 (Mrs. W. H. Judd), Keuka Park, N. Y. Francis S. Rose, '07, Bluff Point, N. Y. Badrig Guevchenian, '07, Keuka Park, N. Y. Ruby Hall, '07, Hainsville, N. Y. Mrs. Winifred H. Durfee, '08, Belleville, N. Y. John Zimmerman, '08, Bradford, N. Y. Maud L. Barrus, '08 (Mrs. Robert Stevens), Mohawk, N. Y. Nina Coleman, '08 Rodeman, N. Y. Elizabeth Rose, '08, Bluff Point, N. Y. Fannie Bell, '08 Keuka Park, N. Y. Bert E. Maynard, '09, Brownville, N. Y. Vincent O. Colelli, '09, New York City Cecile B. Lockhart, '09, Lake George N. Y, Genevieve K. Ball, '09, Holden, Mass, All alumni should keep the College informed as to their correct addresses. 44 THE COLLEGE RECORD. GRADUATES OF KEUKA INSTITUTE. r I 'HE following list of graduates of Keuka Institute has • been made out, after considerable search among the records, official and unofficial, of the institution. For some reason, which can not now be ascertained, complete records were not kept or made of the graduate class in some years. For this reason there are some gaps, and probably many errors in the list printed below. The reason for its publica- tion in this incomplete and probably incorrect form is that before the lapse of any more time, as full a record as possi- ble may be made of the students who have gone out from this institution. If this is delayed much longer it will be impossible to have a complete list. ■ It is desired that all students who are Alumni of the In- stitute, should correspond with the College, giving their proper address and the names of their classmates, and year of graduation ; also any other information about their class mates. This should be done, even if the name appears correctly on this list, as many of these are listed at a ven- ture, and the institution desires to verify its records, especially in the matter of address, for all students, and in the matter of class membership for all classes before the class of 1902. It will not cost very much effort on the part of any one student to perform these services for the old school, and it will mean a great deal to have a perfect record. The institution should be notified immediately of any change in address of any old student. T his will enable the institution to keep the records filed up to date, and all publications of the College, which include the College Record, now issued quarterly, will be mailed to the addresses on the list. Let no old student to whom these issues go neglect to perform these services for his old school, as the faulty records of the early years have placed the in- stitution in a very embarrassing position. THE COLLEGE RECORD. 45 KEUKA INSTITUTE. 1893— FIRST COMMENCEMENT. Emily C. Valentine, Keuka Park Edgar S. Martin, Jerome D. Kennedy, Philadelphia, Pa. Dr. Lee B. Walton Gambier, Ohio Dean L Meyers, Keuka Park Rev. Arthur L. Densmore, Stanley William F. Crofoot, Lydia C. Hibbard (Mrs. Fred S, Camp) ... 96 Rosedale St., Rochester 1894. Lora A. Marsh, Locust Valley, L. L Edith Mae Wagstaff, Pulteney 1895. Mabel Mills (Mrs. Clinton Van Deusen), Peoria, 111. Elsie Crosby (Mrs. J. W. Hollis), Woodhull Alonzo Crosby, Philadelphis, Pa. Nellie Heck (Mrs C. R. Crosby), 152 Cascadilla PI , Ithaca 1896. 1897. 1898. Grace Bartholomew (Mrs. Gabriel) Odessa Clara Beane, Keuka Park Fannie Brooks, Fairport Blanche L. Hawkes, Keuka Park Lora J. Mills (Mrs. Ellis Gilbert) North Tonawanda Rev. Bruce E. Pierce, Potter John W. Sargent, Rochester 1899. Nellie G. Giiffin (Mrs. Carl Churchill) Keuka Park Harry V. Boyd, Syracuse Lora F. Keegan Ithaca George H. F. Carr (deceased), Rochester Frankie L. Griffin, 15 Dolphin St., Winthrop, Mass. T.A.Moore, 185 Lefferts PL, Brooklyn Alice L. Wood, Fairport 1900. Charles B. Ellis, Canandaigua Marie Goundry, Naples Benjamin G. Lafler, Potter H. Clay Lafler, Potter Frank Lafler, Potter Casper L. Rowe Ivona 46 THE COLLEGE RECORD. Florence Worden, 109 Cornell St., Ithaca John B. West, Groton Alexander D, Walker, West Regis Falls Jens Anderson, Cleveland, Ohio Walter B. Griffin . ... Gilbert H. Kirkpatrick, Hopewell Center Peter C. Pulver, Penn Yan Allen B Kline, Cleveland, Ohio Charles F. Baitsholts, Rensselaerville Frank A. L-egerwood, . Rushville Julian Deitzel, Wayland Clarence A. Dunning, Urbana Grace Goundry (Mrs Bruce E. Pierce), Potter Mrs Charlotte S. Tinney, Edna M. Bailey, Springwater Grace N. Van Houteu, • Penn Yan 1901. 1902. Eva Ruth Ambler , Keuka Park Ada M. Haskell White Plains Guernsey B. Hubbard, Scranton, Pa. Dudley C. Burus, Locust Valley, L,. I. Robert H Stevens, Mohawk Grace R. Goodrich (Mrs. Purdy Fowler), Pulteney Benjamin R. Larrabee, Auburn Theological Seminary, Auburn William H. Judd Keuka Park Ray C. Almy, Milton M. Rector, Rochester Lena V. Roff, Pulteney Lida M. Brinnan, Galen A. Wood, 1903- J. Clyde Hoover, Keuka May Perry, Pulteney Mary Poorman, Penn Yan Arthur W. Prescott, Lestershire Frances S. Rose, Bluff Point 1904. Rboda Gau, Mabel Gilbert Bluff Point Pred h. Griffin, Halls Prank Huntington, Spokane, Wash. William Larrabee, Corning Rhea McLatchy (Mrs. Prank Huntington), Spokane, Wash. Achsa Bailey, Binghamton THE COLLEGE RECORD. 47 Maud Barrus, (Mrs. R. H. Stevens), Mohawk Jason Botsford, .... Keuka Fred C. Donnelly, Naples Stella Ford, Pulteney Hazel E. Roff, Pulteney M. Elizabeth Rose Bluff Point Catherine E. Strong, Milo Loretta Townley, Corning John Zimmerman, Bradford 1905. Ethel Ford, Pulteney Oxley Goshorn, Buffalo C. Walter Hemingway, Bertha A. Ball Hunt, Branchport Mildred Lee, Pulteney Harriett Oswald, Keuka Park Clarence A. Purdy Bluff Point Clarissa Smallidge, Penn Yan, R. F. D. Mabel Taylor, Keuka Park Arthur E. Vail, Branchport Chauncy Williams, Pulteney Grace Helen Youngs, Penn Yan, R. F. D. 1906. John W. Stuart, Cameron Edith E. Washburn, Pulteney Bartlett Winans, Portlandville Grace Botsford, Keuka Lelia McLatchy, Keuka Park Arthur M. Richards, West Buxton, Me. Ira S. Sayer, Whallonsburg Welton P. Sheldon, . Lynn, Pa. Harriet L. Carr, Albany 1907. Lura B. Adams, Middlesex Janet Gardner, Jermyn Mary E. Stephens, South Apalachin George C. Sheldon, Ellenburg Depot Evelyn Hyatt, Pulteney 1908. Margaret Goodrich Pulteney Inez B. Wilder, Lycoming Ruth Space, Keuka Park Edith Owen, Bluff Point William R. Whitmarsh, Gelatt, Pa. Clarence Haight Keuka Park 48 THE COLLEGE RECORD. Fred Hart, Penn Yan Leon Beach, Keuka Park John Demorest Middlesex V. Boyd Blatchley, Kirkwood Glenn L. Judd Lester 1909. Harry L Rider, Apalachin Edwin I. Arthur, Booneville Benjamin F. Taylor, Stockertown, Pa. William G. Grady, Branchport Clarence H. Barkley, Bradford John W. Tomer, Savona Gertrude B. Taylor Keuka Park Eva I. Hollister, Branchport Nellie F. Grady, Branchport Lura E. Mack, Rushville Maurine McPherson, Keuka Park H. May Edith Schofield Keuka Park ;.vv -;: '-,,v s • ■ . . :.- .