Keuka College - Kiondaga Yearbook (Keuka Park, NY)

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0 KEUKA COLLEGE FACULTY, 1912-1913. JOSEPH ARCHIBALD SERENA, A. B., Prksid Professor of Sacred Literature. MARY ETHEL SHIPMAN, A. M., I'rofessor of KnylUih literature. ROWLEY MONROE BARRUS, A. M., Professor of Science and Mathematics. ROLLA JAMES BENNETT, A. M., B. D., Professor of Philosophy and History : PHILETUS COOLEY BANKSON, A. B., Professor of Ancient Lanyuayes. PAUL RUSSELL BAIRD, A. B., Professor of Modern Lanyuayes. CHARLES D. BEAN, L. L. D., Professor of Law. ABELS. WOOD., A. M., Professor of Oratory. HENRY EDMUND MOZEALOUS, Professor of Music. KEUKA INSTITUTE FACULTY. 1912-1913. JOSEPH ARCHIBALD SERENA, A. B., President. DUDLEY CHAPIN BARRUS, B. S., Principal. Professor of Science and History. FRANCES SARAH ROSE, Ph. B., German and Latin. ANN ROBERTSON MELDRUM, Commercial Subjects. ROY BLAKE GRAVES, Mathematics. FLORENCE HANNA EVANS, Enylish. GRACE H. YOUNGS, Preliminary Subjects. EVA BELLE TAYLOR, Librarian.

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OFFICERS. JOSEPH A. SERENA, President of Board of Trustees. H. W. HURLBUT, Vice-President of Board of Trustees. CHAS. A. DOWDELL, Secretary and Treasurer. CHAS. S. EMERSON, Special Field Secretary EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. JOSEPH A. SERENA. C. W. KIMBALL. H. W. HURLBUT. W. T. MORRIS. E. R. TAYLOR. Z. A. SPACE. Z. F. GRIFFIN. TRUSTEES. Terra Expires in 1915. FRANK C. BALL Muncie, Ind. HENRY HURLBUT Keuka Park, N. Y. Dr. ELI H. LONG Buffalo, N. Y. CHAS. G. MONSER Buffalo, N. Y. C. E. VAN ZANDT Troy, N. Y. Z.T.SWEENEY New York, N. Y, CALVIN J. HUSON Penn Yan, N. Y. C. E. GUILE Penn Yan, N. Y. Term Expires in 1914- Mrs, A. C. McKOON Keuka Park, N. Y. C. H. BEACH Wolcott, N. Y. LOWELL C. MCPHERSON Keuka Park, N. Y. W. H. JUDD Rochester, N. Y. Z. A. SPACE Keuka Park, N. Y JOSEPH A. SERENA Keuka Park, N. Y. Z. F. GRIFFIN Keuka Park, N.Y. W. T. MORRIS Penn Yan, N. Y. Term Expires in 1913. ELLA BALL Keuka Park, N. Y. C, S. EMERSON Keuka Park, N. Y. C. W. KIMBALL Penn Yan, N. Y. WALTER B. TOWER Penn Yan, N. Y. JULIA A. BALL Keuka Park, N. Y, WENDELL T. BUSH New York, N. Y. H. R. SAUNDERS North Scriba, N. Y. E. R. TAYLOR Penn Yan, N. Y.

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THE MODERN SPIRIT IN EDUCATION. AN ADDRESS DELIVERED AT THE CONVOCATION EXERCISES, SEPTEMBER SEVENTEENTH, BY DR. WENDELL T. BUSH. T YERYBODY knows that there is in the air a disposition J — ' to be radical. To be radical is to be discontented with something and to try to get rid of it. It is a negative attitude. We are all, I suppose, more or less radical, at least about the high cost of living and the low price of grapes. This new spirit or the spirit of seeking what is new and dif- ferent is to be found everywhere. Not everybody likes it. Some people call it the the spirit of progress, others call it anarchy and scepticism. I happen to like it, and I am going to speak up for it. It is called by different names in different places. In American politics we call it insurgent or Progressive; art, the field where new ideas are apt to get expressed first, has known this spirit for 100 years under the label of Roman- ticism. But call it what you like, the old sense of security in eternal verities, the habit of standing pat in a standpat universe has given way to a sense of movement of experi- ment and adventure. This interest in the new and the different appears also in theories and methods of education; and because education is a thing of such immense consequence, radicalism here ought not to be the merely negative attitude that it frequent- ly is. If the new spirit is really to spell progress in the field of education, we must know what we want and why we want it. Tben, if wTe are reasonable and fortunate, we may in some measure, be able to get it. I wish I might be able to say something worth while on this point. It would not be worth while to try to define ed- ucation, or progress, or the radical spirit. We all know what those things are. We live in the same part of the world, and feel the same great currents of public interest. So I will not try to be complete or orderly, or systematic. We are more likely to hit upon something if we just dump on the table whatever ideas we have, and then see what there is. The spirit is new because conditions are new; something