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

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Se e f C1-ie: - 1912i FoResTe-:R :J '5mUgQ Suum Cuique Lines suggested by recent criticism of educators and education I. We of the world are prone to do and get With small regard to ends: for self we strive- At best for nearest king the clearest fret We finger on life's viol sounds alive A note of gain: the rule of life we set ls good returns and works that richly thrive: And life's scant blood we freely give That we at ease may sometime live. II. Ere you were tainted by ideals of trade To you i-n youth the thought of service came: To mould the thought, ideals, of youth, then made A calling higher than success of fame. Though hope of gain were lost, that call obeyed, Your lives threw off their narrow ends: took name Of servant: 'iWho will greatest be, Will serve, said Christ of Galilee. Ill. ln after years the lessons that we learned May be forgot, in dollars fail to count: But rightly used, those years we spent all earned A right to be if they but helped us mount As you have done-above yourselves, who turned Your minds to help or guide some life: if fount Of honest thought of life it opeld To help young hearts which error coped. IV. ls yours a life-work we can do without? Some spen-d their days in trade: mechanic art Some ply, inventions prove which put to rout Discomfort of our bodies: but the part Of min'st'ring to the mincl to furnish out A man horizoned broader than his mart, Will this belittled be at last? ls man machine for piece-work cast? V. ln thoughtless years we vaguely felt your worth, Yet not for long thy thought for us was lost: In later years we sadly feel the dearth Of men so true: thy pains have left embossed On striving souls impress that things of earth Not all of life contains: we feel the cost Gf service, know the world will rate The nam-e of earnest Teacher great! -RICHARD HARVEY CURTIS 00 14

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-+17 gi 02' f: CHQ - 1912 - Foieesreie The Alumni in 1910-11 vgfs- H-' 2 i ' Q-.AJ The number of the living Alumni has been swelled tT W . 'T ' fi'- Qi ff. to four hundred and sixty-three during the past year by V the addition of the twenty-six members of the class of I9I0, and happily not reduced by even one, as at this writing no alumnus has died since the last Forester was issued. It is in this connection, perhaps worthy of men- tion, that this year for the first time more new students came to the College through the recommendation of Alumni than through any other agency, including even the undergraduates. A little reflection suggests three of four new and noticeable phases in the life of the Alumni corporate. The first of these is the return to Lake Forest of an unusual number of graduates and former students, both as individuals and in connection with class reunions. A special feature of the winner has been the presence on the campus and on the chapel platform of the two sur- viving members of '79, the first class graduated, Messrs. Chapman and Mills, as well as that of other visitors like Paul Bergen, '80: Graham Lee, '89g and George W. Wright, '92, Again, the Commencement of I9I0 was declared by those experienced in Lake 15