Monmouth College - Ravelings Yearbook (Monmouth, IL)

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SchoE r t™ Lowef WofH. President: Colors: URING the past year the Preparatory Department of the College has seemed to all observers to be rather lifeless ; indeed it has been slightly minus in more respects than as to president and colors only. But there is method in our madness and we can assure our well- wishers that in this same apparent lethargy a motive lies. We are only gathering energy for next year, when we will appear in the radiant glory of the class of 1903. There is every prospect for a brilliant history before us ; and that we may be able to know how to rightly conduct ourselves when we have grad- uated from Prepdom, we have loaned several of our number to the present Freshman class, but we hope to reclaim them next year. We also hope that they will be profited by their experience of the past year. But sometimes, in spite of all our encouragement, when we look upon the reverend Senior, and realize to what heights we will have to climb, the thought overcomes us and in our despair we exclaim: O! what are the prizes we perish to win, To the first little shiner we caught with a pin? No soil upon earth is so dear to our eyes, As the soil we first stirred in terrestrial pies. Nellie Davidson.

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OCir Altirrjrji. HE NOBLEST eulogy a mother ever had is in the lives of noble sons and daughters. The deepest satis- faction that can fill a mother ' s heart is the knowledge that her sons and daughters are living worthily. Such satisfaction belongs, in no stinted measure, to our beloved College, as she looks back on the record of her alumni. They fill places in all of the learned professions, adorning private as well as public life with the homely virtues which bless the world. First, in point of numbers, are the clergymen. They exceed those in any other one class. Our students come from Christian homes. In many of these homes there is a son who, by an inward voice and by the prayers of godly parents, has been set apart to the Gospel ministry. Our colleg ' e has always attracted such men. Such parents have always had faith in our colleg ' e. So from Maine to California, in Egypt and in India, these men are living epistles of Christ, known and read of all men. They are found in the quiet country churches where they are moulding the lives that help change the moral orbit of the world. They stand in the city pulpits where, because of the character of our cities in ' so many aspects of life, their courage and fidelity must be of the heroic order. They fill president ' s and professor ' s chairs in our seminaries and colleges, and wherever they are they are known by the quality of their lives and work. In point of numbers the teachers in all probability come next. From the primary departments of our public schools to the city superintendencies and college and seminary professorships, they fill responsible places worthily. Lawyers and physicians are many. The quiet country doctors, whose coming brings light to many a home in hours of trouble and darkness, and the specialist in the city hospital and medical school ; the lawyer, known only within a limited circle, and yet holding a most responsible place ; the judge on the bench, a man of far-reaching influence ; these are the classes and the qualities of men who reflect honor on their Alma Mater. Of those engaged in special lines of work, the same story can be writ- ten. Business men who are successful in a large way, managers of rail- roads, with one of national reputation and authority along ' lines of prison management. Such is the story of the men ami women who have gone forth from these college halls and are to-day serving their generation. Such is the record of the lives that are most conspicuous among those who are helping shape the destinies of States and individuals. There are 28