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

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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

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The World as l Have Seen It No specific antidote has been discovered which will eradicate the germs of Wander'- lust. Since leaving Lake Forest in '95, I have spent most of the time in foreign lands. I have operated as a mining engineer and in commercial pursuits in al- most every State of the Union and in Mexico, japan, China, Manchuria, Korea, Siberia, Malay, Burmah, India, the South Sea Islands, Africa, Con- tinental Europe and the British Isles. Within the past two Arthur D. Coulter in China months' I Completed my thirty- eighth voyage. No other land offers the bounteous opportunities which are olfered by our own glorious country. The American expatriate who earns a fortune in a foreign field does so at the expense of sacrificing the best that life may hold for him. One who is not imbued with the missionary spirit may find favorable fields for monetary gain by taking advantage of the unfavorable conditions of the laborer in other lands. It has given me, however, far greater satisfaction to pay for one day's work of eight hours to an American Workman in the mines than to pay a Chinese Coolie for a month's work of thirty days of twelve hours each. There are splendid commercial opportunities abroad, but the occupancy of the Philippines by our government, and the exclusion of their products from our markets offers the E.. D. of my argument. There is no country in the world, save certain countries of South America, notably Argentine and Brazil, whose inhabitants do not regard America as the country of blessed privilege and of golden opportunity. The experience of an expatriate should cause his patriotism to multiply and grow by geometrical ratio: especially so if his expatriation be diversified, Do you stop to think that discontent is the most potent factor of progress? One 15 so prone to desire that which the other fellow has, but does not in reality want. If my present plans do not prove abortive, l shall, during the coming twelve months, travel from here to Boston and return, then sail north to Alaska, navigate the Yukon river 2,300 miles and return via the Pacific, and then sail for a trip through Peru and Bolivia. This will necessitate I8,000 miles of travel. Do some of my alumni brothers or sisters envy me? Did you ever hear of the little boy who undertook to eat a barrel of sugar? I-le came to a place where it was not sweet. It is all in the game. Stay at home Be a good American. ARTHUR D. COULTER, '95. Seattle, Washington.