Muhlenberg College - Ciarla Yearbook (Allentown, PA)

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THE DORMS

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opportunity for advanced work in the college. The English department plans intensive advance- ment, and the library will be more extensively employed and put into better serviceableness. In C hemistry and Physics and in Biology new courses are projected. There will be a forward movement all along the line. For some years the work of the literary societies has not progressed, but it is planned next year, under the supervision of the English department, to give it new impetus and make it of high service to all students. Plans to this end are now being shaped. There is equal prospect that the religious work among the students shall be still better ad- vanced and more effectively organized than in the entire period of experiment of the past few years. 1 here are two directions in which the student-body shall be called upon to consider ad- vance. One is such a modification of the new student rules in student government and such a change in the activity of the Student Council as to effect a greater sense of independence in moral issues, and a greater fearlessness in combatting evils of student life. Not self-determined action but wise co-operation with the Faculty which is the governing body must work this de- velopment. The Student Council must be the strong exponent of high moral ideals. The other direction in which advance must come, whatever may be the method, is a larger and more con- stant application of the sense of honor in the students’ individual work and in his stand for the college. Due to mistaken notions of temporary success, which is one of the evils of Americans to-day, the average student body in our colleges is not willing and ready to apply the highest sense of honesty and honor to its work and life. Muhlenberg students must learn to strive for better things than the average. They must attempt to exhibit such a spirit and atmosphere in the college, that low ideals cannot exist in it. This can only be done if a large number of men are willing to catch the vision and to co-operate in earnest with the ideals of the Faculty and Board. There is a work which only the student body can do, and such work is the striving for high ideals. The force of such ideals is gained, finally, not through the earthly but through heavenly vision. Let us strive for the best and highest things, the noblest aims, the purest and most honest life, the helpfulness of high courage, the bracing strength of virtue, sympathy, and the constant services of true religion. Page T en

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HENRY MELCHIOR MUHLENBERG