Macalester College - Quid Nunc Yearbook (St Paul, MN)

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T H E .U .-1 C B I E N .Y I ,I I. Ciba ehitatinn O those members of the Macalester College faculty who have, for a quarter of a century or longer, guided and instructed its students, this book is re- spectfully and affectionately dedicated. Surely to no others could it be more properly inscribed. It is around them that the college has grown up, it is largely through their efforts that it has attained and held its present position. In his speech at the formal opening of Macalester as a Presbyterian college, in 1885, Dr. Edward Duffield Neill, its founder and first president, said: 'tThe college professor is not what the Greeks called a pedagogue. He is not a dull man, with a book in his hand, mechanically hearing a recitation, watching the boys like a detective. He is very different. He is a live man in the class room, and shows that he is a professor by scholarly instinct, and is not attracted by the emoluments of ofhce, and to gain the applause of fellows. His enthusiasm is imparted, the grand contagion spreads, and the college wins a name. These statements may be regarded, to all intents and purposes, as prophetic. Through our professors, the life, growth and work of the college have proved it to be magnificently true. There is not one student who has passed even the briefest time on this campus, but has felt their influence and has profited by it. For after all, as Dr. Neill implied, it is not the imparting of information to students, not the computation of facts learned or of mistakes made-not, in short, pedagogy which makes a teacher. It is rather the aliveness of men and women, the grand contagionf' the enthusiasm which spreads like fire throughout a student body no matter what activity may be en- gaging its attention. Who possesses this is a teacher. He is a teacher in the highest and truest sense of the word. What our professors know, we learn as best we can. What they are, we learn far better. Patient of our blunders, tolerant of our inexpericnce, kind, wise, and witty -what more can we wish? And what better can we learn than to emulate their ex- ample? Learning to live fully and well is thc true education, whatever auxiliary facts we may choose to acquire for our assistance in its accomplishment. This spirit has, since the founding of the college, pervaded it and grown with it. It is inevitable, inescapable. Students and faculty alike live and grow in it. As in a great unwritten constitution which grows with expanding need and new understanding, the thoughts and ways of life of these men and women have been fused together. There has grown up a unity, a unity of which we feel ourselves a part, though not understand- ing how it has come to pass. But that is life and here we are learning it, becoming it, with those who have seen more than we. Therefore, proud to be their pupils, we offer our Hrst professors, with heartfelt thanks, this record of two years of our Macalester life, hoping that it is no unworthy tribute. Page 6

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NINETEEN THIRTY-TWO 1 l l 9 l , il l 1 l 3 i i ll li 1 l l Andrew Work Anderson ROFESSC JR ANDREW' XYORK ANDERSON received his Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of XYooster in 1889. and his Master of Arts degree in 1892. Professor Anderson came to Macalester College from the A cadeniy at Poland, Ohio, in 1891 as professor ot philosophy and education. During the presidency of Dr. llodgenian he became Dean of the college. After performing the duties of this office for almost a decade, he then devoted his ettorts to the teaching of philosophy. There has been no Macalester graduate since that time who has not passed through his hands at least once, and many have been more than glad to return every year to the gentle councils of the philosophers as they are presented, pro- pounded, and interpreted from his desk. Prof Andyn is remembered affection- ately by all as one who has revealed to them thevast possibilities of speculation, of weighing values, and of exercising ethical judgments. Ile is one who has awakened many latent logicians, metaphysicians, and moralists to their own na- tures and to the inexhanstible pleasures of the mind. Ilis life is so interwoven with the history of the college that to know one is to know the other. No one really is intimate with Macalester until he has learned that t'Prof Andy was a boy in Ohio. Page 7 l l