Lebanon Valley College - Quittapahilla Yearbook (Annville, PA)

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prouder than ever of Lebanon Valley ' s purpose, which is, first, to give spiritual, moral, and scholastic training to ministers for the United Brethren in Christ Church. For this have most gifts been given to her and most prayers said for her. Second, to give spiritual, moral, and scholastic training for every type of professional service. Her halls and classrooms have rung with echoes and reechoes of service to mankind, which President Lowell, in his last annual report to the trustees of Harvard University, says is no longer the first con ' sideration of many of Harvard ' s present students. This he deplores, and urges all the members of the faculty to help to reinspire this great aim in Harvard men, as the first true aim of life and of education. Granted the necessary buildings and means to carry on at Lebanon Valley, her real success depends on how well her leaders lead on, according to her purposes as just stated. Lebanon Valley ' s standing at our universities throughout the country has been high for the past forty years and more, and her present faculty and students may be proud of the records of the older grads, as we lovingly dub them. Most of the courses of study were fully modernized and ably taught by distinguished university graduates from the time of President Roop on, and during his administration and that of President Keister, an out- standing theologian of the church, the present excellent scientific laboratories were equipped. Most of the present buildings were built twenty- five years ago, during President Roop ' s administration. The Quittapahilla salutes the past with pride and rejoices happily in the prosperous present of old L. V. C. The two Lebanon Valley men whose work ap- proaches that of genius are John Wesley Etter, of the Class of ' 72, preacher, author, scholar, teacher — as bright a light as ever shone in the church of the United Brethren in Christ, and once a member of the College faculty. The Quittapahilla salutes the other, Horace S. Kephart, Esq., of the Class of 1879, still living at Bryson City, North Carolina, author of Our South- ern Highlanders, a masterpiece of American history and literature. The work of these men shows that Lebanon Valley ' s light, though smaller than now, was very bright long, long ago. With the new songs Lebanon Valley ' s sons will sing, let them not forget to sing her old songs, warm with the heartbeats of genuine learning and of love. I close with a stanza from my own Alumnal Ode, in which I have tried to express the ideals of Lebanon Valley. Be men and women far too proud To wear the darksome shroud Of cowardice and treason to your day. Exalt the life ' tis yours to live, Forbear, forewarn, forgive, And grace no station where you may not pray. For every heart that leaves its King Doth starve for truth and thirst for reasoning. Page twenty-three

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