McPherson College - Quadrangle Yearbook (McPherson, KS)

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PM milit ia? -ruuaiir s g Y Our Alma Mater You're more than bricks and stones and walls And rooms and endless winding ha'lls3 You are the light that guides our bark, That leads us from the boundless dark, To carry on the light. You point to us the way to go, You shelter us in joy or woeg To us you give the best of you, May we to this our trust be true, To carry on the light. Teach us thy truths that we may be A help to all humanity, That we may to some soul in need Be kind in every Word and deed, And carry on the light. And when for us the race is run He kindly says, Thy work's well done, When journ'ing far to distant lands We'll give the torch to other hands, To carry on the light. -Iva Studebaker. Eleven

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uuii i gc SHOVVING NEED OF A NEXV CHAPEL first elected by the adjoining state districts of the church. The depart- ments of agriculture and domestic science were added at this time. The greatest period in the history of McPherson College is dated 1914- 1920-and the future. Our be'loved Dr. Kurtz, B.D., D.D., took the presi- dential chair in the fall of 1914. Since that time a. phenomenal growth of the college in all its phases has taken place. Several thousand dollars worth of indebtedness were soon lifted, a new heating plant was built in 1'915Q and a new enthusiasm and religious atmosphere gripped the school. Every department was strengthened by new additions to the faculty. Students began to pour in from both near and distant states. In 1916 Arnold Hall was completedg yet the two dormitories would not contain the increasing number of students. In 1917 an endowment campaign raised S225,000. This year another dormitory was built and still the three dormitories and many private homes on college hill are hardly suffi- cient to accommodate our students. Plans for the future are big and bright. In the next five years 51,200,000 will be raised. S700,000 will be used for new buildings and equipment, and S500,000 will be added to our permanent endowment. Dr. Kurtz, when interviewed about the future of the school recently, said, It is my ideal not to have a University here, but a College, second to none in the state, equipped for one thousand students in all departments, and to add to the faculty men of scholarship and clean Christian character. We plan to increase the superior position of McPherson College by increasing her religious activities, and make her the leading school of religion and missions in the middle west. We will also place due emphasis upon the other departments of the college. Taking the word of the leading educators of the state, we can now say that McPherson College is the lead- ing church school of the state. Our college is known all over the land. There is no reason why it should not become the 'Oberlin of the West. With Dr. Kurtz at the helm, McPherson College surely never had a brighter outlook. T611

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