Lake Forest College - Forester Yearbook (Lake Forest, IL)

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uf? The University Club 1 I907-8 JOHN SCI-IOLTE NOLLEN . . . President VVM. MATI-IER LEWIS . Vice-President MISS MABLE POWELL . . Secretary G. A. FERGUSON ..... Treasurer EXECUTIVE COMMITTE john M. Clapp fChairmanJ, Miss C. Brown fI'Iouse Committeej, with Miss Carrie Ripley fMusic Committeej. PROGRAMME November 7, Professor I-I. W. Wright November ZI, Professor Alexander Smith December I2, Christmas Party january I6, Mrs. Theodore Thomas Music by Vilini Trio February I3, Rev. Z. B. T. Phillips February 27, Mr. D. C. Crawford March IZ, Professor Edward Baillot March l9, Lois Durand Hall Glee Club---Cantata April I6, Professor Toffteen May I4, Professor Paul Shorey The Bross Lectures for I907 By the terms of a fund established in l879 by the late William Bross, Lieutenant- Cnovernor of Illinois in I866-1879, the Trustees are enabled to appoint distinguished men from time to time to deliver courses of lectures on the connection, relation and mutual bearing of any practical science, the history of our race, or the facts in any department of knowledge, with and upon the Christian Religion. The first series of Bross Lectures was given in l904 by President Francis L. Patton, of the Princeton Theological Seminary, on Obligatory Morality. The second series was given in l904 by Professor Marcus Dodds, D. D., of Edinburgh, on The Bible, it's Origin and Nature. The Bross Lecturer for 1907 was Professor Arthur Thomson, an eminent British naturalist, noted for poetic imagination and charm of style as well as erudition in the field of biology. A His live Bross Lectures were upon The Wonder of the World. The Order and Progress of Nature, The Method of Animate Evolution, Man's Place in Nature. and The Spirit of Nature. I-Ie also delivered two popular lectures -one upon 'LThe Biology of the Seasons, the other upon the subject, Some Wonders of Bird Life in Great Britain. 20

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'sau I'1i The World Around E Lael Lake Forest is now represented on every one of the world's great divisions except South America. By chance the letters printed below are chiefly from various quarters of Asia and Africa, but Europe might have been represented by Macl-Iattan, '95, pastor of the American Church in Leipzig, Australia by Elizabeth Smith Greenlees,, '90. Of course the largest number by far of our expatriates are missionaries, and these letters indicate what useful purpose they serve in the spread of civilization and Christianity. A number, some of whom have now returned, have served as teachers in the Philippines, and Linebarger, '93, won distinction there as a judge. One graduate, Bergen, '83, is president of a college: Irwin, '92, has returned to his former home in Irland. The class of '95 has furnished the largest number of dwellers abroad, as well as the champion globe-trotter, Coulter. But one of the some 35 expatriates has died: W. S. Faris, '92, after a useful and honored life in China. The College Diploma Applied It is a great pleasure to be remembered and to be asked to write a message for the Forester.'i I understand you want a testimony to the worth of our diploma and how it stands the wear and tear of life, so I will acknowledge my debt of gratitude. Logarithms may have no direct connection with housekeeping for a family of nine, but they certainly spur oneis courage to attempt the solution of any problem. Languages are a necessity, when, at our New Year's reception, twelve nationalities are represented and one gets so mixed that he even greets an Englishman with Bon jour. The list of Sciences in our curriculum seems incredible here, where one is asked with awe if he has read Geography. History is a bulwark to us among a people who confound Miriam, the sister of Moses, with Mary the mother of Jesus, and there is pleasure in planting Uchest- nutsn in virgin soil, e. g., telling of the mother of the Gracchi to a new audience. Rhetoric is a useful act where one must use the introduction conciliatory in discourse and resort to every form of argument and illustration. Civil Government and Constitutional History are but studies of principles on a large scale, which apply also to the ever-recurring decisions in law and executions of justice a mother has to make, especially when a small boy, the youngest of the family, is inclined to be an autocrat. The same principles apply also to the government of a club of turbulent boys, who would like to use knock-down arguments in debate. Best of all the outfit given by our Alma Mater is the Bible training. Dr. Gregory's Why Four Gospels suggested the practical question: Wlrich Gospel is best suited to the Moslem? and, following his arguments, I have found Matthew especially appropriate and convincing. However different the circumstances and needs of one's life work, I believe in the all- round culture of a college education, and so, after a test of twenty-six years, I would give it the recommendation of a genuine Persian rug - Its colors are fast. ANNIE Rl-IEA CMRS. S. GJ WILSON, '8I. Tabriz, Persia. 0 A