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

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' i T H li 1 9 1 0 F o R E s T E R Btntruhuntiun It would be well for every undergraduate to read and ponder the ten brief contri- butions which follow. They are written by alumni who are in the midst of the day's work, who have won a measure of real success, who bear among their friends the name of gentlemen, who are loyal to Lake Forest and eager that its students should conceive and maintain high ideals. The advice which they convey is, happily, implied rather than direct, but none the less emphatic. Whilst they are serious in tone, they also convey the note of the high joy of labor: there is not a pessimistic syllable in them all. They show that while a college course cannot give brains or habits of industry, it can give method and the power of judgment. Cpportunity comes not once, as John Ingalls has it in his brilliant sonnet, but many timesg but a college course is one of the greater and rarer opportunities. . Q Qt. lla 41' 9 Q ?g2gs'w?'c3P'i V D 7 A i' A se ' ' f ei 1 ' - il t ' P ' A , it t. i ..'i 5 ' I if ,-i. . I. 4 ' ,- f I5

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e -A ,V-,,-, 5,14 Rf an-. T H E I 9 1 0 r o R E s T E R ie,5 Alma Mater I. O Alma Mater, ever kind, Thy power is still prevailing: Thy children scattered far and near Proclaim thy love unfailing. Within thy walls, days bright and brief We loitered, spirits blending, And learned of wisdom, joy, and love, Nor feared the world's contending. CHORUS. Dear Alma Mater, noble, fair, Thy stately grace and beauty Binds all our loyal hearts to thee, Unites our life and duty. 2. Thy winding paths and wind-swept shores, Thy life poured out undoubting, Our spirits cheer, our souls revive, By mem'ries fond recounting. In busy mart, at sacred fane, Our hearts are onward pressing, Toward truth's far goal, where God reveals To each, His hidden blessing. CHORUS. 3. Through all the world we wave unfurled Thy banner brave and glorious, Our hearts al'lame, our hands upheld By faith and power victorious. All, all our crowns we gladly bring, And praises to thee render, For thou hast taught our eyes to see Cod's truth in all its splendor. CHORUS. CALVIN H. FRENCH, '88 I4

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T H E 1 9 I 0 F O R E S T E R The College Man in a Professorship. The College aims to reproduce itself and its atmosphere. When one of its loyal alumni becomes himself a teacher in another College he carries with him his Alma Mater's ideals. When he has charge of a class-room, his mem- ories go back to classrooms in his Alma Mater and he seeks to inspire his students as he was there inspired. When he asks students to his home, he thinks of the inspiration he received from close fellowship with some of the Profes- sors of olden days and he tries to make his per- sonal touch count for as much. When he watches the students in their athletic contests, he gives them all the encouragement he can, for he thinks of the time when he tried to uphold the good name of his Alma Mater. Again, when he is called upon as Dean to discipline some student for a College prank, he is helped to con- sider the question from the student's standpoint as well as the professor's, for he remembers some of those old pranks in which he had a part, of which the Faculty perhaps never heard. ' Then let a healthy, loyal, Christian spirit live in every College and let the College walls resound with the cheers of her true sons. Be assured that this spirit will go out to reproduce itself on many another College campus. A Wooster University MILTON VANCE, '96. Wooster, O. The College Man in Business. There has been a feeling that the successful business man, the so-called self made man, is one who started in as office boy at the age of twelve and worked day and night steadily for years, until, his youth and young manhood gone, he had in middle age estab- lished a business that enabled him to take things easy and enjoy life. There are many successful business men of this kind and a college career might not have improved them: might possibly, by giving them a taste for other things, have rendered them failures in the business world. On the other hand, I contend that the average man with a college education and training will outstrip the average man who has not enjoyed such advantages, in practically every business from real estate to groceries. A college man with determination and perseverence can learn more quickly because of a trained mind, will take more responsibility, and consequently can rise higher than the poorly educated man. He is usually a quicker thinker, has a better address and more originality. I6