McKendree University - McKendrean Yearbook (Lebanon, IL)

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When President Mark Hopkins wa B ucof on, said A college is Mark Hoplc K But now Mark Hopkins has to hollow out the wfPflHP PIP PIHBiP BPPiP l orafed in modern tempera, and supplied with innumerable gadgets. And Mark has to get the money, rather than sit down face to face with a student. And a pity! Most presidents are of course glad to help get funds for brick and mortar, better educational facilities, and decent faculty salaries. However, so often such responsibility becomes their major occupation, and the stude nts, who after all are the only reason for a college, remain perfect strangers to them. The con- dition has not been true at McKendree, and it must never be allowed to come true. We hope the president will always be far more than the great money-getter, the caustic vetoer, the perfunctory diploma distributor to unknown seniors. Rather, may he always be a fellow student among students, a friend among mutual friends, and a true representative of all the best in learning, in the arts and in the good life. EDWIN EDGAR VOIGT President

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ADMINISTRATION AND FACULTY ' t LD MA. IN 850

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The door of opportunity is opened to young people of tfiis age tlirough higher education. This beginsinpersonalgrowth as one comes into vital contact with the great ideas of mankind. It continues as the college graduate moves into the professional and industrial life of a com- plex society. Opportunities at a lower level may be diminishing but at a higher level they are expanding rapidly. The future of our society requires large num- bers of able youth who are prepared to undertake demanding tasks. DR. WENDELL S. DYSINCER Academic Dean ADMINISTRATION . The value of on education is the sense ' of direction it gives to life. This para- • phrase of Plato may well describe the McKendree College spirit. Classrooms and laboratories offer exposure to new and often great ideas, together with a ; challenge to explore frontiers of under- :| standing. What takes place in the class- ' room, however, is not all there is to an ] educational venture. In a growing and ■ going McKendree a dynamic setting is being created in which interesting and exciting experiences are inherent. New understandings from the classroom put to work in student life activities emerge as new purposes for lif e and a sense of direction are born. DR. W. N. CRANDY Dean of Students